Category | Life

Every living thing has "survival wiring" encoded into its genetics.For humans, that wiring began as a necessary means of fight, flight or freeze in a world fraught with natural dangers that could easily wipe us out. Survival wiring is designed to keep us SAFE and ALIVE.It's one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) instinct in the body! As we've evolved and our dangers have changed, our survival wiring has adapted the best it could to envision what "SAFE" means to us NOW.We once ALL met our basic needs in similar ways which allowed us to more easily understand another person's survival...

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HELP!! I NEED YOUR STORY! I'm working on a project...one in which I hope will make it easier to access valuable opportunities for growth for EVERYONE, despite age and income. (Most young people cannot afford the workshops that could make the most change in their lives, for example) I often hear from people that they wished they'd learned something earlier in life....(like the energy body, the benefit of yoga, how to meditate, the power of music and sound for healing, how to center themselves, more about crystals and rocks...etc) NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE RIGHT NOW...If you have EVER been to a workshop...

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These days, we all seem to be digging deeper into ourselves in an effort to REALLY start re-creating the life we want. We've been purging, clearing, re-organizing, shifting...purging again...getting clearer and clearer about who we are and what we want....OR ARE WE? We've got this idea in our heads that if we strip away all that no longer serves us...if we purge the relationships, jobs and perspectives that we don't want....that we will just automatically appear on the other side of it with this perfectly formed picture of it all...our Divine Life in technicolor...just waiting for us to walk...

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We are like snakes. We grow, we expand. ...and we often need to shed our skin because it simply doesn't fit us anymore. The awareness that what once served us, and protected us. ..must now go, is often scary, painful and unpleasant at best. .. but trying to stay in that old skin doesn't work well either. Sometimes you just have to plow through the process of grief at the loss, uncertainty and vulnerability of the unknown new skin and keep wiggling. Just keep wiggling. Sometimes, abrasion is JUST what is needed! So try, try really hard, to remain grateful for those things that are tough...

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I am listening and appreciate your convictions even if I disagree. You do not have to convince me or change my opinion in order for me to hear you. That is your illusion. I am pacing differently these days. You do not need to keep up with me in order to be "included", neither do I need to slow down or keep up with you, to remain connected to you. The depth of a connection is felt...not measured in distance. I am adjusting some boundaries...because honestly, life changes...wants and needs change...and it only makes sense to adjust as the flow of life adjusts. It does not mean i am dodging...

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So much change has been going on in the World these days. Yes, the outside World...but I'm not talking about that World. I've been watching the The INNER World. The intricate workings of the Human Being. Everything seems to be in full shifting mode and for most people, some form of identity issue has arisen. It's been both beautiful and sad, to watch people work with the changes that a new vibration seems to warrant. Some people started several years ago making their changes a piece at a time and others are just now...and all at once... purging rules and beliefs that they had accumulated along...

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Should. Shouldn't. Supposed to. NOT supposed to. The "right" thing. The "wrong" thing. Good. Bad. (sigh) Depending upon whom you ask, the acts that constitute these concepts will vary greatly. As a child, new again to the human plane, dependent upon the care of others, you begin your journey into a world of "Should & Shouldn't". Rules of behavior designed by others with the concept that following these rules will keep you safe. Help you fit in. Keep you obedient and out of trouble. Keep you from creating conflict. Right from the beginning though, they keep you from THINKING...

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This morning, I'm deep in thought about FEAR and all of it's painful consequences. At what point are we going to start teaching our children differently? Fear is one of MANY emotions a child can and will have in their learning process...but must we promote it? Must we let fear continue to control our own navigation too?? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...try and really LOOK at what you're doing and why you're doing it and look for the MOTIVATION ENERGY that fuels your actions. Is it Fear? Guilt? Shame? If so, the first thing you have to decide is if you REALLY want to feel those feelings. You might WANT...

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I can genuinely care about how you feel and NOT let it effect how I CHOOSE to act. This is incomprehensible to most people...but by doing this I get to: 1. Jump up and down like a 4 year old when I'm happy, clapping my hands and REALLY emote my joy. I'm 43...this shocks most people...first they judge, then they laugh, and then they wish THEY had something to jump about. Hint: YOU DO have things to jump about...just DO IT!2. Laugh until I cry and can't catch my breath and nearly pee myself...also in public. People judge this too....too loud, too out of control, too embarrassing...but when...

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Twice this week someone has asked me about the TEARS that come when one is moving energy or in extreme joy...and what to "DO" about them, if anything. The questions were almost identical...so again, I thought I'd share some of the written response I gave to one of them in case any of you had a similar question: "Well, in my experience there have been several reasons for tears. Sometimes they stand alone, and sometimes they combine. Truth resonates in the body, and that energy movement OFTEN produces tears. High energy movement in the system usually brings tears, as most fluids are the vehicle...

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