Y4 – Day 89 – Bliss

What does bliss feel like?

Where do you feel it?

When do you feel it?

For me, bliss feels momentous! It’s in the moment and then when I recognize it is bliss, it kinda loses its novelty and it becomes just a memory.

I love the feeling of bliss because it feels like pure, radiant confidence, healing and special all in one tied up pretty pink box with a chocolate bow in one split second.

It makes me believe I am the queen of my destiny and I can give and receive all at once.

It springs forth and feels free. It feels like purpose, availability and openness, like a great big blue wide sky.

It feels divine and I feel it in my cells, bones, tissues and heart.

I feel it when I am immersed in joy, tinkering, or besieged with gratefulness like sunny rays of light specks beaming into my very soul, awash with an overall connectedness to everything. I am one with it all.

Oh yes, it feels like all the stars are in alignment and my chakras are spiraling together like a kaleidoscope.

You ever get that feeling?

It’s called bliss. It’a a spiritual experience.

Y4 – Day 88 – Energize vs. Drain

Have you ever noticed that a great song on the radio will make you want to move and even sing along? I feel stronger and more alive when I am dancing to techno or ’80’s New Wave bouncy tunes. I get a kick out of bopping to uptempo “musique electronique”.

I am inspired when I start and tend a fire. I feel reflective and relaxed when I garden, write, meditate or decorate. These hobbies maintain my sanity and are as necessary as my breath to my very existence. God forbid I shouldn’t have pens and paper, paint and brushes, colorful makeup and markers, flowers outside in my garden and indoors in vases. Like food, my passions feed me and keep me balanced, so I tend to them, like little fires in the hearth.

On the other hand, have you ever known anyone who sucks the life out of you? Vampires really do exist and sometimes they are in the form of family members (no one reading this need be concerned).

What about a job that depletes you? I am exhausted after making a bed but love to wash dishes. I hate laundry duty but love ironing.

So, continuing with our inward journey in getting to know our authentic and unique selves; what puts a spring in your step? what interests make you lose all sense of time? AND also ask; What or whom or both makes your skin crawl or drains you? What tasks do you despise?

It’s good to know what we love but it’s also smart to know what we’re not fond of so we can avoid it or deal with later at a better time or place or delegate.

 

Y4 – Day 87 – Changing Priorities

A couple of days ago, I wrote about our four acts or seasons, give or take a few years of difference for each individual lifetime. Hopefully, you have had a few moments to spare and thought about this a little bit. Maybe even pondered the questions I put forth.

Here are more queries:

As you enter or are in the middle of a certain age group, how have your priorities changed?

What are past choices that do not appeal to you anymore? For example, in my case it would be – staying up late and all day concerts.

What options attract you now? For example, for me, – quiet time, nature walks, even more classical music, gardening, painting, coloring, watching period pieces or uplifting movies and as always, and very much still, strolling through museums.

Ok, now, it’s your turn.

 

 

 

Y4 – Day 86 – Writing as From Above

Witnessing yourself, observing your behavior as if you were an outsider, a fly on the wall if you will, is an excellent mode of acknowledging your faults, your talents and your delivery.

The same goes for writing. When you get enough distance between you and a painful memory, it’s easier to expound on in an objective way.

Writing about suffering and grief with detachment and in vivid detail is the stuff of great memoir, as I have learned by reading quite a few.

By the same token, writing about something simple and ordinary in an extraordinary way as if it was unique and special is the stuff of great memoir as well.

From practicing our art, reading, writing, observing and being inspired by basically everything, we hone our creative expression, whatever way that exudes from our soul.

Y 4 – Day 85 – Where are You?

We all have seasons in this life.

According to Carl Jung and his followers, there are four stages or Acts.

For me, I see the ages of 0-20, 21-40, 41-60 and 61 and beyond as those four acts, roughly, because even at 50 some of us are having grandchildren and others, just letting go of their chickadees. 

So the questions are:

Where are you chronologically?

What time period are you in?

What’s great about this time in your life?

As my daughter V once pointed out to me – every season has its benefits and downfalls.

Y4 – Day 74 – Bonnet Comedy

My husband is hilarious and ordered a small bonnet and bib and of course my daughters had to try it out on our furry family members. Please read the quote underneath the last picture.

In order of appearances:

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As I stumble through this life, help me to create more laughter than tears.
Never let me become so indifferent that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a child.
Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them forget,
at least momentarily, the unpleasantness in their lives.
And in my final moment, may I hear You whisper:
”When you made My people smile, you made Me smile.” 
 A Clown’s Prayer

Y4 -Day 70 – Daily Spiritual

Happy Sunday! Off to brunch with girls, dogs and rest of family – we are going to sooooo miss M and J and H.

And in continuation of yesterday’s Karma musings:

Reach out to others with love and compassion and don’t be concerned with what comes back to you.

We are stewards of this planet.

It is a privilege to be born and have life. Embrace it and live consciously. Hurt no one and learn your lessons well. 

Step into timelessness or be swallowed by time.

 

Y4 – Day 69 – Karma

Emotionally charged moments are an opportunity to shed your Karma through forgiveness.

You are perfect as you are just now at this moment where you are but the purpose of your life is to be of service and to alleviate suffering.

Celebrate your physical life by being your best spiritual self and have the courage and the wisdom to step into your destiny.

Less ego self, more giving of self because True generosity is invisible.

You are already where you want to be, simply experience it, now.

Reshape your life intentionally with the affirmation of your presence. It is elegantly simple. Just be you.

Make every moment rich, deep, extraordinary and exciting.

Love dissolves fear.

 

 

Y4 – Day 66 – Goals

What are your top 10 goals? Which of these brings you the biggest reward for the investment of your time and energy?

I read once that success = external action + internal focus.

I heard “success is doing the right thing at the right time” on Downton Abbey.

Change your radio station from Discouragement to Empowerment. Tune into your Potential.