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Its been a big year. Busy, exciting, challenging... filled with so much beauty and inspiration. I want to thank all of you out there in Blog World who have touched me, taught me, taken my breath away, with your courage, poetry, beauty, and hearts.
Many blessings for all of us in 2008!
e
I've started knitting...
In which we begin to stir from our slumber and the possibility of light begins to be birthed...
I have posted this quote before, but I need to post it again:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You
are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't
feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson from her book, "A Return to Love," p. 1655
Its a reminder that I need time and again. And as I prepare for my visioning circle this week, I have begun to really plant the seed within myself that it is time to truly commit to playing big as oppose to playing small in life. It serves no one to do this, and it continues to keep me from having more. More of life, of love, of art, of me.
This is my theme for this coming year, and beyond. In everything I engage in, how can I play bigger at it? How can I engage it more so that I am reaching my full potential in every given part of my life?
I am excited about applying these questions and this intention to all of it, but especially the mundane. How can I play bigger in managing my finances? How would someone that lives on a grand scale, in a completely empowered manner, live their financial management? How would I address, create and engage my art work if I were in complete alignment with the truth of my creative expression? What would my health be like if I took complete ownership of my body and practice of consciousness about it?
I truly believe that my playing small in my life depresses my health, my fire, my experience and my impact in the world. I am amazed right now at how much around me is supporting this message to play full big and YES in life, and I want to empower all of you to do the same. To the extent that we hold ourselves back, is to the extent that we lack vibrant, thriving health in our lives. I know this in my bones.
Tell me how you want to play big in your life. Tell us all.
Next week I will share my Vision Board with you all!
Be Well.
I got this note from the Universe today:
By the simple act of thinking, Elena, vortexes are created, invisible energies are applied, and circumstances begin creeping to make real what was previously just imagined. This supernatural pull of your thoughts continues long after you think them, whenever there follows intent, expectation and action; moving mountains, parting rivers, and doing the "impossible" until there is the inevitable manifestation.
This is how your "thoughts becoming things." How
they physically become things in a
dimension that already exists, with billions of players
and massive momentum. Not by appearing out of thin
air, but through a manipulation of such
forces in the unseen that literally begin shifting,
morphing, and arranging all of the elements in your
life so as to deliver to you the nearest equivalent of
what you've been thinking. In other words, the "law of
attraction."
"Thoughts becoming things" explains the law of attraction. It's why there is a law of attraction. And unlike any other 3 words in all the vocabularies of all the languages in the world, "thoughts become things" tells you exactly where you fit into the picture, as the thinker, the decision maker over what you will think about, revealing your power as a supernatural, all powerful, unlimited, CREATOR.
But, of course, many prefer not to think of themselves
as so phenomenally powerful.
The Universe
So as I'm preparing information packets for my upcoming Solstice Visioning Gathering, I want to encourage myself and all of you to dream big, think big, and let your intentioned thoughts become reality!
Things are busy. I've lost time all of a sudden and haven't attended to my blog reading, my walking, my writing... such a flurry of activity, chores, fun gatherings, organizing, creating. I'm overwhelmed almost to a point of dizziness, but its somehow good.
And yet I find that when I look around and am alone in a room, or find myself between one task and another, I just automatically stop and take a deep enhale. I relish every nanosecond of it as the air passes in through my nose, and I feel it light the way inward. And the exhale... it soothes me down to my toes.
Its like a mini meditation, a trip to a Wellness Healer, and a mini face to face with the Divine.
Give yourselves these moments to just stop. Inhale. Linger. Exhale. Repeat as often as you feel.
Remember yourselves this week as the activity levels increase exponentially.
Be Well.
This is what we unexpectedly woke up to at the cabin yesterday. I woke up and glanced above my head out the window, and saw white! I squealed, and we all promptly scrambled out of bed and headed outside. I wasn't prepared for the weather, although I had expected rain all weekend. What an amazing gift.
Tucker and I were the first to go outside. And while Tucker ran like a mad dog all over the place in shear ecstasy, I took in the moment. I am always so awed by the silence of snow. So much is happening, and yet not one sound. There is a softness, a stillness... a space between one thing and the next. It stilled me in my core and I just breathed. Deeply.
I'm in California... how much should that say about the weather? I have been so unhappy by our lengthening Summers and our dryness. I was looking forward to rain all weekend, or at least for a few hours, which is more realistic round these parts. But the short notice trip up to Idyllwild, and the blessing of snow...
A deep long bow of gratitude.
Jai Ma.
Hello Wellness Wednesdayers!
I am in a flurry of activity, but wanted to check in with you all and ask for some inspiration!
Part of Wellness for me is the act of Visioning for those things I want to bring into my life. Magical Manifestation, I like to call it!
I am putting together a Solstice Visioning Ritual for some of my Sisters and I, and wanted to know what some of your visioning techniques or rituals were? I am planning on having us all do a guided meditation to clear the debris from this previous year and carve a pathway for identifying and bringing in those things we want for 2008. After the meditation we will be enjoying yummy food and spending the evening creating our individual vision boards!
There are quite a few different types of vision boards that can be created. With all the fun visions of glue sticks, magazines, paints, music and sisterhood laughter in my head, I am a jumble and would love some of your ideas to help me coalesce our path for that evening. And! I'm just wanting to know what you do!
Thank you and Be Well!
e
I have been so far away from our little blogging world! I miss you all, and will be back soon. Things are going well and very busy, and I find myself longing for some time to sit and write and read and read and read! I am holding you all very close and sending you much love!
e
