Signs of Guidance

After the amazing weekend I experienced, I was thinking about how we create our reality…daily, and how powerful our words and images are, how they paint the picture of who we think we are and hence what we think we can do, or be or get.
What does your running dialogue sound like, feel like, look like? Empowering? Kind? Supportive?

During the gym class I was in, the instructor began to talk about accessing more strength within your body by changing the words you use to describe yourself, and the thought instantly gave me more strength and I knew I’d just gotten validation.

As I was cutting into a strawberry this morning, it hit me how blessed I was. The sun poured through the window of my beautiful kitchen, the vibrant red of the fruit dazzled me, the fruit that was here for my pleasure and health, that had come out of the ground, flowered and been picked, offered up in abundance because it can’t not. And I too can’t not. If I’m not growing I’m dying. That’s the nature of this beast, this experience.
I have a three by five card with five things listed there that I’m happy and grateful for:

That I am living in joy, vitality, health and wealth every day

That I am enjoying the relationships of my dreams

That I am coaching my clients with ease and grace and they are getting extreme value

That I am attracting the best and brightest clients, friends and colleagues

That I live first class in all ways

Putting this on paper and visiting this card daily is a powerful experience that brings results. Now I just have to learn to swim in all that is streaming my way. Instead of fighting the steady stream, I learn to bathe in it, immerse myself in it, and float deliciously with the flow.

This morning when I woke up I started my mantra: Thank You God, I Love You God, Thank You God, I Love You God, over and over…it’s a practice that feels so good. Then I got to thinking about the words and how just saying Thank You and I Love You would carry such beautiful energy even by themselves. I am getting more and more clear on the tremendous power of words. Then throw in God, and that takes me to my Source, to the bigger picture of who I am and where I am.Then the rush of joy and gratitude for being alive, today, here, feeling the warmth of the covers, the yumminess of a good sleep, and then I starting thinking about all the people too that have come before and all that they have contributed, so I can have this life I have on so many levels, including all the thoughts and learning, the emotions available, the sheets and house and glass, and plants outside my window…my friends and clients and colleagues and teachers…it’s endless, really.

Quirky how quickly things can manifest. How often people come in at just the right time with ’just what I needed’ to move me out of a mind set or remind me that I’m feeling in a way that’s not serving me or give me encouragement or love or…fill in the blank. I just love confirmation!Indeed opportunities are all around. As are answers and guidance. Remain open. Because the Universe is a friendly place. And it all starts within me, my inner Universe. And it’s is sooo much friendlier in there now too! That just came to me. No wonder things are flowing…

 A smile is so powerful.

I was walking up the street yesterday and passed a neighbor. Our eyes met for a moment, we exchanged our greetings, I smiled as I went by, Comet setting the pace. It felt too short.

The next person I came in contact with was a maid going to work. She was coming down the street towards me. It was a beautiful morning, the pear trees in bloom. As we connected we both smiled, said hello, then ‘good morning’ with the full gratitude of it in our voices. Her face lit up as she smiled this huge smile at me. It seemed as if everything froze, the white petals falling around us, Comet on her mission, the green green grass and blue sky. It was a perfect moment of just being alive and being at one. It stayed with me all day. So simple and yet so big.

The thing is to keep going. Even when things don’t look the way I thought they would, or turn out the way I had planned, or the way they were ’supposed’ to. Just keep going, knowing that the Universe is conspiring to help me fulfill my Divine Potential. And I can’t always know the best way to do that. So maybe I need a little more practice here, or a little more clarity, or honesty, or charity, or time, or learning, or compassion.  It’s all in Divine Order and that keeps me smiling, especially when I let my self enjoy whatever is up at the moment. And when I keep going the momentum builds and the bumps are easier to fly over…kind of like moguls when skiing…much easier than going up and down and getting stuck in the middle. Fun really…once I get the hang of it!!!

Today’s sign for me is that “Love is in the air…” I am being made aware that I am love, that my breath is life, that Love is in the air, 24/7. One way to block it is the habit of looking for it, analyzing it, measuring it, in a particular way with particular limits (sometimes called definitions, judgements, opinions) and hoops ‘it’ has to jump through. What is that with me? I have experienced the Truth of myself as Love, as everyone as Love. That’s it. Just keep re-member-ing. I know (and it feels soooo good) that I do love my life. And that I can love freely…and still accept that I might not want something or someone in my life…and that’s ok. Saying ‘no’ doesn’t shut off everything and everyone…it just makes the ‘yes’ that much more meaningful.

Today I can honestly say that I am living my life from gratitude…and it feels so different. It is full, happy, exciting, and precious. It feels easier. Things arise, come to me and I can say yes or no. It feels so much more free and expansive and authentic. I really get how I create my day. It’s sinking in and it is amazing.

Everything works so smoothly when I am listening to my inner voice. Even if what is ’suggested’ doesn’t seem to be important, there is something there for me.This morning I was led to look through a stack of magazines that I’ve been saving. Most of them are out of date, but there was one lovely one that a friend had sent me, over a month ago.

I got to take my time and read through it all, including a heartfelt article she had written. It was a beautiful way to start the day, affirming the creativity in all of us, the innate drive to grow and process and understand, expand our awareness and share with others. I got to feel a connection with a friend that I haven’t had contact with for awhile and that felt good. Thank you for your gifts.

 The most amazing thing is how my life continues to expand and deepen. Things that I’ve read before have new meaning, things that I’ve looked at before show me new aspects, feelings, layers of life, all centered around abundance and diversity and how these are tied together and tell the endless tale of infinite choice, infinite expression, infinite opportunity, infinite…fill in the blank.

Example: I was walking Comet yesterday morning and was taken by the sight of the trees up the street. They looked so beautiful against the sky, their branches denuded and visible. It struck me how much I love trees and I was thanking them for being there, for how expansive it feels to take in the whole experience. Then I noticed that the branch structure and configuration of each tree was different, even though they are all liquid amber trees…no two alike, all unique in their expression. Perfect in their offering.

How often I’d looked at them before and never noticed their particular individuality, and how incredible it is.