How else might I choose to live my life, today? Such a simple question and yet – as one choice becomes the platform for the next – one that holds the power to profoundly transform our lives, our world and how we choose to engage that world!
In many places around the world, the end of one year brings with it traditions that invite us to ponder the new year to come. Often, these traditions have underpinnings of redefining how we might live; urging us to change our behaviors, that we might transform our lives; leading us to the notion of the dreaded New Year’s Resolution! In an often desperate effort, we promise ourselves (and others) that we will mend our ways and in doing so, mend lives… and ourselves.
Far more often than not, these best-of-intentions are quickly forgotten as one day flows into the next; and old habits of mind, body and behaviour rekindle our love affair with all the things that – not that long ago! – we were so determined to remove from our lives. In that moment, we come to realize that: “Unless and until I am willing to redefine who I AM, no amount of anything less will make the sustainable difference in my world!”
Today’s exploration is your invitation to make time for you to choose yourSelf. It is intended to create the Space, that will invite the Movement within you, that will permit the Flow of awakened daily living to be your call to reclaiming your own greatness. It is your invitation to come to better know the truth of who you are; of what’s meaningful to you; and how best to embrace a life that will reflect them both.
This is not a journey of the intellect but one that invites the body to lead.
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The following closing thoughts can be found at the end of:
Episode 43 of ‘Reclaiming Your Self: Women Unedited and Engaged!’ on the topic of ‘Clearing Space for New Beginnings’.
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As you sit quietly, allowing what moves inside you to bring you to a new state of awareness, consider the following from inside… where you live:
- How else do I choose to live my life, today? Can I trust that as I let go and allow the body to lead, each wave of new insight and discovery will take me further along the path of my own evolution? Am I willing to surrender my intellect to that much deeper knowing from within… trusting that I can be whole and well… and in that, I am better able to connect to mySelf and to others?
- Am I willing to invite and allow new thoughts… new insights… to enter into my way of being? As I soften my body and relax into that deeper, inner truth, I reconnect to the Signal from Self that has, for so long, been seeking to re-awaken me to its presence. With internal referencing as the guiding light that holds my uncertainty in a crucible of safety and curiosity, I choose to move forward with an increasing desire to live fully… and live out loud.
- And finally… as I seek to engage with those around me… am I willing to bear witness to the power of my presence as it touches those around me… without words, without direction and without the need to be other than the simple truth of my own experience? Am I able to allow the cloaks that I have worn to fall away… and come to be seen for the truth of who I know myself to be? It is in being willing to be authentically mySelf that I discover that the I AM, that I am, is all that is required to live a full and meaningfully sustainable life!
The idea of living authentically in some situations is terrifying because some situations, though secure in the physical, are constant emotionally triggers of trauma.
“You’ve over achieved,” I am told. Well! “Wasn’t that a mistake!” says my intellect. Ok, so change my situation and see what happens.
I’ve never been taught to focus. I’ve always just acted on impulse and landed in situations that ‘I thought’ worked out. But did they? Functional Depression is a clinical description, it sounds like an oxymorone but I’ve been labeled with it. There you go, beliefs values and attitudes, out the window. I’ve been sold down the river. What? All of us have been sold down the river?
“Believe it?Authenticity is where I can find real value?” Question is, can I focus on listening instead of acting on impulse.
Things haven’t worked out. Passion, sense of self, compassion for self and purpose escape me even when things feel right. “What happened? ”
Breathing, meditation, yoga, feels right as long as… but I need it to feel right now!
How do I get that Fucking feather to make it all the way down to the tail bone?
“Am I daring to choose without knowing?” Is it the fear that sends me back to the intellect, dissolving the feather in mid flight? Is it lack of focus?
Fear is an emotion, its just energy, and I choose the energy that I want to manifest. “Focus! Tell me again. I choose. I choose. I choose…ok, ok, let go.” The feather makes it to the bottom. “Do it again. Again.”
“Oh! That does feel good.” Feels like I’m just energy, expansive, flowing. “Well! let’s take this outside! No not there, let’s just try it over here first.” Not as many triggers. “Hmmm that worked out ok, I wonder if I can stay in this place?”
How can I stay in this authentic place? Must I overcome my lack of focus, or overcome fear? Or is fear an expression of my lack of focus, or is lack of focus an expression of fear?
Hi Ed,
Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective and experience.
I trust that I can speak with you a little differently because you know things. For me, it comes down to two specifics:
* No matter what the outcome, it will be the byproduct of a choice in the ‘now’. I can choose the story or I can choose QuantumTLC™. Personally? I always choose the latter.
* No matter what the question, the answer is always QuantumTLC. I encourage you to revisit that part of the Decloaking audio program; and revisit the book ‘Phoenix Rising: The Freeing of Human Potential’. It’s not enough to know it (in the sense of having memorized content knowledge). You have to choose to live it.
Breathing is good…..