Release…
It is to breathe.
It is to relax and believe that there is a way out, or a different way, or a better life out there, for you.
It is to know that it won’t happen all at once. What is correct for you, true to you and your spirit and your desires, is still present within you and will resurface. All that is not you, you will let go of. Sometimes as peacefully as a snake sheds its’ old skin. Other times with you actively chipping away at calcified hurts and thoughts like a sculptor removing the rock that covers a masterpiece. It will happen in stages- with each stage allowing you to breathe deeper and experience expansive and freeing love within you longer.
The true you has always been with you- now is the time to stop and listen. Make this your most passionate drive. Stay dedicated to this for at least a few years, anything less is just like peering out of a window and never stepping outside. Put this process, and your faith in guidance, before everything else.
Be open to sensing what you enjoy and what you are drawn to, not what is drawn to you. Stored in your body and higher self is the knowledge of you- your callings and desires. It is up to you to hand guidance over to this side of you. Release what you think is “your” hold on life- and let the truer you begin to lead.
And trust that this unfolding has already begun.
I wrote this to myself years ago when I was in the midst of big challenges, change, and a lot of uncertainty. I just found this again today and it stills rings so true. My life now is a dream- because it fits me. Because I have been true to me I experience so much peacefulness, calm, joy, and inspiration. My outer life is an expression of my inner happiness and acceptance.
March 9th, 2011 | filed in Inspiration, Musings
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Every day and in every way spirit is guiding me back to myself.
Alicia
The world doesn’t need what you do, it needs your energy of aliveness, of joy. The world needs people who are alive. So look within, come alive and live your joy. Be who you are and be amazed at how this harmoniously serves the whole.
June 4th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Uncategorized
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I heard a quote while watching The National Parks: Americas Best Idea
“Gentlemen, why in heaven’s name this haste? You have time enough. [...] Ages and ages lie before you. Why sacrifice the present to the future, fancying that you will be happier when your fields teem with wealth and your cities with people? In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours, and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid nature, who first lifted up their axes upon these tall trees, and lined these waters with busy wharves. Why, then, seek to complete in a few decades what the other nations of the world took thousands of years over in the older continents? [...] Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? [...] Why hasten the advent of that threatening day when the vacant spaces of the continent shall all have been filled, and the poverty or discontent of the older States shall find no outlet? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. Your work is great and noble; it is done for a future longer and vaster than our conceptions can embrace. Why not make its outlines and beginnings worthy of these destinies, the thought of which gilds your hopes and elevates your purposes?”
The full text is below in context of the whole chapter.
chapter 121: The Temper of the West – Viscount James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, vol. 2 [1888]
March 24th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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I love kirtan. And I especially love Krishna Das’s kirtans. So this last December I sought out and experienced the joining of many blisses- Maui, kirtan, and Krishna Das. Maui is on its own so healing, so when I combined Maui’s atmosphere of total embrace with Krishna Das’s kirtan in Haiku, Maui I experienced one of the most joyful times in my life.
When we do kirtan, the practice of what in India is called “chanting the Divine Name” over the course of a few hours, we are letting go of our “stories” and offering ourselves into the moment over and over again. Chanting is a way of deepening the moment, of deepening our connection with ourselves, the world around us, and other beings. The Sanskrit chants that we sing come from a place deep within each of us, so they have the power to draw us back within. If we go deep enough, we will all arrive at the same place, our deepest Being.
Krishna Das, Chants of a Lifetime
February 9th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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Is your ability to do things in the world enhanced or hindered when you are happy?
Sadhguru, Founder of the Isha Foundation
The world doesn’t need what you do, it needs your energy of aliveness, of joy. The world needs people who are alive. So look within, come alive and live your joy. Be who you are and be amazed at how this harmoniously serves the whole.
February 7th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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January 13th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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Our body is listening and watching all of the time- every image we have in our
mind releases a chemical or chemicals in our body.
Put your mind in a place that feels good and the body feels good.
Dr. Christiane Northrup (click name for more)
October 19th, 2009 | filed in Inspiration, Uncategorized
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I spent a few, as always, magical days in the Eastern Sierra this last week. As I arrived a front was passing through and a strong wind and light dusting of snow welcomed my arrival. The next morning I awoke to crisp and calm brilliant blue skies. I then headed out with my man and my pup, Toots…. After hiking all day in the John Muir Wilderness in the Cottonwood Lakes area I stopped to read John Muir’s words at the trailhead.
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out
till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
Needless to say, nature therapy is priceless. Later in Bishop I met up with some wonderful locals and learned the meaning of Inyo (the magnificent Inyo County of the Eastern Sierra)- dwelling place of the great spirit.
October 10th, 2009 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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So I was listening to a John Lennon song the other night on Pandora when I heard a very familiar phrase. In his song “Beautiful Boy” John Lennon quotes Emile Coue, one of the early pioneers of hypnosis. In the song he sings the wonderful suggestion and famous Coueism,
Every day,… in every way,… it’s getting better and better.
Yep, flourishing souls nourish themselves with great thoughts and vibrations.
September 7th, 2009 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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After first sitting in Tiyoweh, I have never regretted not doing something I didn’t want to do.
Alicia Allison
August 8th, 2009 | filed in Inspiration
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