5. Day 6: Walk Without Thinking
My walk today was lovely. I walked without thought. For a confirmed thinker, this alone is new bliss. I realized I can “just walk” without thinking about walking. I know those reading this are giggling in your coffee (or tea) but there is very little I do without the awareness of thinking about what I am doing. Driving is a good example. I have to think of where all the other cars are in relation to me, I must calculate the odds of me getting distracted and plummeting to my death over the side of the bridge (or cliff edge if we are in the mountains). I have to spend the...
Read More4. Day 31: This Post Rated XXX
I think the biggest lesson I have experienced in extending love to letting go is seeing that I truly have everything I need in every moment. Not as in a platitude but in reality. I have everything I need because my heart is everything I need. In my heart are desires, guidance, delights and I need but follow them and I end up experiencing peace in the midst of whatever is going on. This past weekend we packed and were ready to drive to Los Angeles on business. We went out to the garage to get out my husband’s car and this is what we found: Whoa!! This rather makes it impossible to...
Read More4. Day 12: The Flow Of Letting Go; Can You Feel It?
Good Morning and welcome Holy Spirit! Thank you for the amazing flow of letting go during these weeks of visitors, trips, parties and momentous occasions. I was so conscious of the feeling letting to that when a withdrawing, tensing or annoyance came I would remember to let letting go free. I am tired, but not completely exhausted. I am ready to return the house to “normal” (or at least get the laundry done) even as I have loved having our family and friends stay here. Thank you for this practice of letting go (over and over and over again). What will I let go of today?...
Read More4. Day 5: Full Disclosure
I keep being shown over and over again just how much I HANG ON to everything; thoughts, habits, clothes, email, paperwork etc. Letting go sounds easy, like how hard would it be to let go of one thing each day? I am telling you this now. It makes me feel vulnerable, unprepared, lackadaisical, and like I am cheating somehow. It also feels really good. Yikes! How can these two groups of feeling integrate? I guess this is what my month of extending love to letting go is all about. I want to explain briefly how I do this blog. I have several friends who read and are a tad confused. For...
Read More3. Day 30: Veil Sale
Today is the last day of extending love to guilt for this month three of my Twelvemonth of Self Love project. What is exceedingly obvious now is that guilt is not the truth about me. It is but a story of “not-me” I believe for a while until I return to my right mind, or sanity or the awareness of God-is-Love’s Presence. I have learned I can drop the veil of guilt at any time and experience the truth of me in that moment by extending love to my thoughts and feelings even with, perhaps especially with, guilt. I can do this in bed, at the airport, washing dishes, taking a...
Read More3. Day 24: No Room At The Gym
I am beginning to realize that guilt feels bad because it is a contraction rather than an expansion. It is the contraction or constricting that feels bad, not the fact that guilt is the truth about me (which it isn’t). I had a wonderful guilt opportunity the other day when having tea with a friend. We were at Bella Bru, me sipping green tea, my friend sipping Diet Coke when our conversation got around to “We really should take a yoga class together!” We both have memberships at 24 Hr Fitness which is next door so we decided to go over and see when the yoga classes that...
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