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Y4 – Day 53 – I am Enough

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Who I am is what I have to give.

Quite simply, I must remember that’s enough.

~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Here, is a meditative awareness with and for everything.

Let’s work on making this a great day and see what unfolds. Choose to matter and make every effort to be the best you can be. I may not be perfect, but I am whole, today.

What is it that you love?

I love my husband, kids, dog, friends and life.

This I must profess through actions not just words but even more importantly, I must love and take care of myself, now.

I always thought it was about thinking, doing for and serving others…but it is not that first. Before everything else, it is about how I feed, feel, respond and function as myself, my true self.

This is the first key: Acceptance of Self. Which begins and ends with forgiveness and compassion.

Here’s the second key: Know that I am Goddess embodied so I treat myself divinely. I am a reflection of Goddess with human flaws. I am the divine – a sacred being first and foremost.

Third key: I am enough. I choose to be happy, do what I love, be in every minute and exude the presence of something higher than self throughout the day, in human form or action.

 

 

 

Y4 – Day 52 – Territory

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Our dog, Cindi, barked at everyone who passed by when we were leisurely sitting on our saltillo tiled hotel patio in Avila Beach last summer. She is so territorial. I kind of like that about her actually because it gives me a false sense of security. I think she’s a lookout for me. I erroneously believe she would protect me and bite off someone’s leg if they came near me to harm me but all they would have to do is offer her a treat or a piece of meat and she would be putty in their hands.

Plus, she only weighs fifteen pounds.

Y4 – Day 50 – Extra Day

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An extra day, every Presidential Election Year – a coincidence – I think not.

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Certainly not during a campaign – where are the Yoga candidates when we need them? – oh, that’s right, you need a huuuuuuuuge EGO to run for office of any kind.

Maybe that’s why the wise ones, sages and seers are hardly ever heard. They are busy meditating, praying and praising on what is right in this world – And sending gratitude for this moment, leading by example, not by promotion.

Y4 – Day 48 – Willingness

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Willingness, Readiness vs. Resistance, Fear are states of being. I have learned the difference by watching how others react and live their lives, as well as my own self-observations and self-evaluations.

When I resist, problems still exist or even get worse. Nothing gets better.

When I am willing to be willing and I am ready to try something different and think outside my own box, solutions work, I get to experiment, I grow and become the glowing light inside me.

Bright lights and stars don’t resist glittering up the evening sky – they are prepared and eager to shine!!!

Y4 – Day 46 – How Do I Hear Thee?

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Sound and Music are essential to my life, yet I enjoy the utter silence when I write.

Walking and Yoga are prime ways I enjoy movement, yet I cherish the resting when I write.

Learning and Engaging with others is a treasure, yet I savor the solitude when I write.

Meditating and Inner Renewals are a requirement for my sanity, yet I need to express and give forth when I write.

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Y4 – Day 43 – Healing with Writing

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I read Louise de Salvo quite a bit and she is an expert on using writing as a healing tool.

According to de Salvo, the way to heal our wounds is not to just write about the event unemotionally nor to write out the emotions only without describing the event. It is the combination of placing yourself back in the situation emotionally while you depict the facts of what went on – together – that heals the soul.

I have used this method and it can be quite illuminating as it detaches you finally and brings you to a new place, a different perspective if you will, where you’re not all wounded. It is a moment of clarity while re-living the very thing you have been trying to avoid.

You re-create a scene or an emotion you are grappling with by allowing yourself to occupy the body of the person in the past.

This allows you to think it through rationally yet decisively.

Y4 – Day 41- More Rights

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To paraphrase Whitfield’s explanation of, and advocacy for boundaries: If we are rigid with them we would end up isolated and alone, if we are too loose, we end up letting others invade us, but with healthy boundaries, we can be flexible, open and appropriate, evolving into compassion and unconditional love, the highest forms of consciousness.

And last but not least, the next twelve rights.

I have the right to:

25. Be relaxed, playful and frivolous.

26. Be flexible and be comfortable with doing so.

27. Change and grow.

28. Be open to improve my communication skills so that I may be understood.

29. Make friends and be comfortable around people.

30. Be in a nonabusive environment.

31. Be healthier than those around me.

32. Take care of myself, no matter what.

33. Grieve over actual or threatened losses.

34. Trust others who earn my trust.

35. Forgive others and to forgive myself.

36. Give and to receive unconditional love.

OK – So which ones do we have to work on?