Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Or as I heard it put so well on the radio: "What's not to love about a made-up holiday about food?" Whether made up or not, I love Thanksgiving. Yes, I love food. And this holiday used to be about food, family, friends. And it still is.

Fade to black. lights up. A few days later...

I started this blog on the actual Thanksgiving Day.  I actually had some pretty inspiring words to share. But true to the moment, that was then, and this is now.

On Thanksgiving Day, I was in the midst of a flu that as of Saturday, I'm now on the other side of. But I still felt grateful. I still felt that even spending the first half of our Bahamian vacation gargling with salt water, tripping out on vertigo due to ear congestion, and sleeping whenever I saw an available cushy spot to get prone, was well worth everything it took me to get here. No, not to the Bahamas!!! Well, ok, that too... :-)   But to get HERE in this life where I am less and less concerned with what others think of me, and other things that used to make me stress out and worry, and more interested in asking myself what i Really want, who I Really am, and what I'm Really doing here. Besides stocking up on Vitamin D, eating fresh fish, and washing cold medicine down with Pina Coladas. Ok, not the Pina Coladas part. But I would if I thought it would help!

I have a really long list of shout outs, but for now let me hold you all in my heart, hold you with the closeness of One who Knows and Is, and bathe us in the light of gratitude. And if you are wondering whether or not I'm grateful for you, I am. 

Am I doing enough?

How to decide if you are doing enough? Play the worst case scenario and ask yourself- "could I live with myself if X happened and I had done nothing or didn't do what I thought I should do? When we act from a place of no attachment, we are acting not expecting outcomes to be according to our personal plans. There may be a bigger picture that we have no control of. So focus on doing what you need to do so you don't drown in guilt later. Cuz a drowning person is just one more thing that "needs saving." Save yourself so someone else can spend their energy saving their own ass. When you are deciding what is your next "right action" from a place of center, you are not attaching to outcomes, just doing what you personally need to do in order to look at yourself without judgement, remorse, guilt, or other. 

What exactly is "Toxic?"

Toxic - it may not be what you think.

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Listen and Learn

Listening is being willing to digest what is being said and growing. Listening is not about showing up in a room and not talking. Just because a person isn't talking doesn't mean they are listening.    More listening please. 

Am I willing to be the one that doesn't have an immediate response? Am I willing to be Ok with my own digestive timeline? Am I willing to commit and listen from center as I hear what is being said from the sides?

How to be a Spiritual Gangsta

How to be a Spiritual Gangsta.

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Be more than a fashion statement. 

Psychic Centrifuge

In this psychic centrifuge of life, we churn. We churn to mix, to digest. We also churn to separate, discern, to differentiate so we can see what's in there.

I know that as the speed of this centrifuge has kicked up, it has been humbling as well as awe-inpiring to see what has been buried inside. We get an opportunity to see where our glitches and buttons and unresolved material lay dormant (aka our karmas). Also, we can see the past karmas (thoughts, glitches, buttons, material) and how they've digested. What I mean by "digestion" is that we have worked with the material until there is no longer an emotional hot button attached to the issue, and we are able to actually see the perfection of the situation. And when we can see our digested past, we can be less reactive in the present.

Because we have gone through the process of having and digesting judgmental thoughts, thoughts of hatred and rage, thoughts of victim and dominator, thoughts of greif, sorrow, doubt, we are able to better understand others when they have similar thoughts or mind-sets. We can actually see ourselves in others. Not from a place of greater than or less than, but from a place of understanding how they must be feeling/thinking, and we remember that we had to go through our own unique process to get where we are now. In this way, digestion helps us build our capacity to see a bigger picture.

And when that centrifuge kicks up, instead of freaking out, I've learned to get curious and start asking "why" until I find an answer that pulls me out of my little s self, and helps me see the Bigger Picture and perfection.

Why do you think what you think?
Help me understand
So I can better understand instead of undermine
So I can how I fit into
To the Wholeness of our situation

Churn to learn
As we learn, we churn
Yes, we may burn
But there is also water in the mix
As we create a solution

Churn to Learn

Churning is rajasic (rajas loosely means "movement" or "activity"). Rajas moves from a state of inertia (tamas) to either a state of increased tamas, or to a state of sattwa (loosely means illumined clarity).

Can we say YES to the rajasic nature of this time of change and use it to help separate ourselves so that we can see the Whole more clearly? So that by witnessing separation, we can understand the Whole organism? So that we can see ourselves as part of this Whole? That understanding, in my world, would be a state of illumined clarity and to me, that is well worth upsetting the apple cart for.