11. Day 20: In Order To Form A More Perfect Union
I was really struck by a new definition of success in yesterday’s daily reading from Tama Kieves wonderful new book “A Year Without Fear” (of course I love this book;): “You don’t regret the past. You regret the present. You regret the past only when you’re not wildly in love with all you’re right now and all you are experiencing in this time. Change the moment before you, and you change how you feel about everything. You can’t be in the wrong life…..if you’re in the right moment. Today I am willing to do anything I need to do...
Read More10. Day 30: Like Butter In A Dish
Judgment is fear. Fear is judgment. Judgment says “This cannot be as is.” Fear says “This should not be as is.” Judgement and fear are saying the same thing: NO. No to what is, no to what was, no to what should or shouldn’t be. No to how I am feeling, No to how you are feeling. No, no, no, No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo. It is the energy signature of stop, off, close, hide, flee. What if, instead, we just noticed the fear or judgment (same energy, different clothes)? What if we just noticed we were experiencing fear or had entered into judgment? Nothing...
Read More10. Day 21: A-Z of Fear
Fear in all it’s glorious forms and colors is all that stands in our way from being aware of Love’s Divine Presence all the time. There is no need to fear fear itself. Fear is nothing more than a contraction, a sharp intake of breath, a collapsing of thought. The more I shine the light on my fears the more they just seem like different coloring crayons used for shading, drama and spark. Still. Fear usually feels like anything from mild unpleasantness to abject misery. Use this A-Z guide to see if there is something you might be experiencing that could use a little love...
Read More10. Day 5: Love Fear For Itself
Getting started with extending love to “fear itself” today and asked Holy Spirit where to start. HS: The best way way to deal with fear of fear itself is to love fear for itself and to let is guide you right back to your own loving heart. Notice and express the difficulty/ misstep/fear then be with it in awe and wonder. Extend a quality of love to this feeling of not-love. Me: Today I feel excited butterflies as we return to a work day. There is a feeling of resistance (“Oh, can’t I have one MORE day off…..”) and a feeling that wants to rush ahead (and...
Read More9. Day 5: Take Time For Joy
I recently came across a quote by Geneen Roth that said: “Enough isn’t an amount. It is a relationship with what you already have.”—Geneen Roth I believe she was using this in the context of eating, nourishment and awareness of the body but I think it is true in all things. I am just beginning my month of extending love to the fear of Living Joy. Joy has always been how I take my temperature. If I am feeling joy, life is good. When I do not feel joy, life is flat and charmless. I used to see joy as something I could find or get or lose. I could feel joy when...
Read More8. Day 30: Not-Knowing Is A Practice
It has been thirty days today since I began my month of extending love to Not-Knowing. Early on I realized that in order for my fear of Not-Knowing to evaporate I would have to see Not-Knowing as Friend, rather than impenetrable abyss for me to experience any degree of comfort or trust. One of the main things I have discovered is that Not-Knowing is a practice, rather than a thing, person or event. In the presence of Not-Knowing, all things actually are both possible and present. The practice of Not-Knowing is me moving into the spaciousness that is my birthright, in the middle of all...
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