Our thoughts can be useful.
Our thoughts can be our suffering.
They are real but not true. You don't have to het hooked by them. You do not need to believe them. They are not your tyrant. They are your tool for doing and for waking up into being.
I'm learning to pause for discernment.
The pause can make sound into music and make movement into dance.
Your power, your liberation, your wisdom is in the pause.
Then you fly!
music: "Nsera", Fatoumata Diawara
Many of us have bought into the idea that we are not enough. We get this feeling when others judge us for not acting how they think we shoud or want us to.
So we tell ourselves the affirmation, "I am enough."
But this affirmation infers that we are measuring ourselves against some standard.
Whose standard? Why?
You are infinite. You are innately magnificent. There is no reason to measure yourself. You do not need to be validated.
You do not need to be better. You do not need to be different. You do not need to be anything for anyone, including yourself.
Simply be. Go about the world with curiosity. What choices feel like expansion? Sense from your body, what feels like freedom? What resonates with your inner song, not with all that external noise?
Self love and acceptance will ease your way to expressing all of who you are. You don't need "improve" & effort so much to be you.
Dance life from your body. From your soul. Not according to someone else's choreography.
You don't need to be enough. The world needs you to Be. <3
#iamenough #beyou #freedom #affirmations #timetoshine
Masters of Harmony:
Do as much as is called for
And as little as is needed
ππΏ
Awakening into spring's greening with birdsong and the rising sun. May your day be filled with sweet kindness and your unique, gorgeous presence π± β€οΈ
There are times when we lose our connection with joy and vitality. It's natural and it's okay. We may be grieving the loss of loved ones, a relationship, health, work, trust, an era, even our illusions.
Luckily, we've collected a sack of tools along the way that can help us stay engaged with the moment and move through cuz we know we've made it to the other side many times before. The trick is to select our tools mindfully. Not just grab at old patterns of survival that no longer serve us.
We know that losses make room for the new and learning and growth. That there can be clarity and healing on the other side of suffering when we do our work.
And man am I doing my inner work. I REALLY don't want to repeat this pattern again.
Along with the pain, this has also been a time of deep self-revelation, release, integration, and emergence. It feels like my world's been shattered and my brain is being rewired. There are times I vibrate with hope and the possibility of evolution. And there are times I just shake and sob with fear and grief.
My tools: meditation, exercise, friends & family, teachers (reading, youtube, wise ones,) counselors, nature, ritual, sobbing, EFT, yoga, prayer, dance, Reiki, acupuncture, communication, touch, changed how ate, was blessed to go on retreat... (pulling out all the aids for this one π )
Grateful for it all, even the sh*tty bits.
Here's a mantra I used today to ground and empower myself. You're welcome to it. Would love to hear one you make up for yourself. I'll take them all as medicine. π β π€² π
The past few weeks have been a thrash. But I am determined to live this chapter differently.
I choose peace. Freedom from the tyranny of my mind and the habitual reactions that mindlessly shape my life.
When negative emotions lash me, I am going to lean into them and take them as a signpost that I am out of alignment. A red flag that I need to do some inner work. A guidepost to point me away from being controlled by my mind or emotion and towards getting back into balance.
I don't need to name what's wrong, tell the story, take it home as a pet that I coddle and feed. I just need to STOP. To shift from being a reactor to a creator.
So when I'm in emotional pain, I now take a breath, or thousand, and recalibrate to the hum of the Cosmos. When I stand in my sovereignty, what goes on around me is others' business.
I will grieve loss. But it will not consume me or distort the shape of my experience.
My happiness my responsibility, alone. No one else is at fault or to blame for my pain.
How are you evolving? What's changing in your way of perceiving and being?
It's an exciting time. βοΈπ