22 Chi: April 2020

One Thought Away

You are one thought away from...

complete inner peace

deep authentic connection

your happy place

there to here

then to now

You are one thought away from the best moment you have ever had...

Think it, feel it, be it!

The power of our thoughts. I'm 41 years old and it still amazes me how what I think impacts me. Thoughts are powerful! We hear that all the time, and possibly even read books about how to change our thoughts so we can change our lives. And yet, we get stuck in a thinking pattern that holds us back.

Our language is not only a direct result of our thinking but it informs our thought process - like a reciprocal dialogue within self. My children and I were out for a walk with our two dogs. As we walked longingly past our apartment complex swimming pool we couldn't help but wish we could use it. It's truly an amazing pool, and right now the water so still, so clean, and it calls to us! The three of us stop at the fence overlooking the 'welcome center', which is currently closed, and we deeply sighed heavily as if to release our wish out onto the deep end. Just hoping that this summer we will get to enjoy that space again.

As we start to walk away, my son says "why are they doing that to us"?

"What?" I ask

"closing the pool. Why are they doing that to us?" he asks.

My reply, "they are doing it FOR us, not TO us".

He looks at me with a bit of a facial expression that actually resembles a question mark. Literally his eyes contorted and cheek bones raised just so and tilted that he looked like a question mark.

I tried to explain to him that it was for our protection. That the welcome center desperately wants to do its job and welcome. That the the apartment complex didn't close it to be mean, or try to take something away. They did it because it was the right thing to do. Sometimes the right thing to do isn't the easiest or most convenient. Sometimes protection comes with tough boundaries and closed fences.

But as we talked we began to feel into the statement 'they are doing it FOR us, not TO us'. The power of changing one word makes us see a bigger picture, helps us find the silver lining, helps us understand what might be behind or underneath, it helps ease the discomfort, it takes away the power struggle, it allows the allowing. And if we change a word, we change a thought, and if we change our thoughts we consciously change our words. And when we change our thoughts, we change our vibration, and we change our circumstance.

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So lately I've been doing some inner deep diving. Looking at who I am, how I show up, what I believe about myself and how that manifests in my life. I'm learning. I still have a lot to do. But today while out for my run I made myself turn off my music. I typically run with music playing -- it is motivating...but today I responded to a call to stop my music half way through my run to see what happened. To see where my thoughts went? To see what came to me. And so here it is ... I kept hearing the question "WHO IS THIS FOR?"

And what a great question. Not just who do I run for? but who do I live for? It's a great question to ask during this time when we have time to reflect on how we have been actively choosing to live. Who is it for? Because if it is for another, for a certain 'status', to earn respect, to feel valued, or to fit in,...then its not authentic. The who we do it for needs to be our soul self. That aspect of self is tied to the spiritual realm only by pure love and light. It's not trendy, its not fashion forward, its unconditional love that sees nothing but good. It isn't jaded by past decisions, it isn't conditional, it isn't based on appearance or what we gain from it. It simply is. So when I ask who is this run for I find my answer needs to be "me" but in the deepest most soulful sense of that word. I run for love - because it brings me more in alignment with my soul and moves unwanted energy through me in a way that opens me up to gratitude and good. I run for hope - because I am a soul who sees light in the dark, knowing that the afterlife is real. I run for good - because running helps me physically, emotionally, and spiritually if I focus on why I run and who it's for. I run for peace - because when I run time stops and despite moving I feel still.

There wasn't a time before now that I wouldn't say I run for me. I ran to have the body I thought would get me what I wanted. I ran to tell people just how far I went and how fast I did it. I ran because I didn't feel guilty about what i ate. I ran to see my fit bit steps increase. I ran for external validation. I ran because...I was running from myself. Today, I run towards me - my soul. I run because God/Universe/Spirit speaks to me when I do...and that is a place I want to be!

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Moments in the sun

After the rain we raise our arms up to greet the sun, but its the rain that raises our appreciation for the day that the sunshine returns. Without the rain (contrast), its difficult sometimes to understand. to really KNOW AND EMBRACE, the vibration of love and joy. The polarity of life, the duality, light and shadow, can - if we allow it to be a teacher and lean into it- can aid us in a clearer understanding. We must first seek to feel what these states are, because its in the feeling of those states that we integrate them into our human experience. If we weren't human we wouldn't need to do this - it would just be all love and light all day every day. BUT we are humans, on this physical Earth, this school of life, and well we will have contrast, we will have shadow, we will have pain, we will experience sorrow. To know these states is very different than just having them occur. To know them means you take time to reflect, feel, learn from, grow from, uncover, remember, and ultimately move through them in a way that doesn't define you or the future, but informs it. Allowing you to feel joy on a new level, feel happiness in a new way, to become more aware of what you want, to sift and shake out that doesn't serve you. Its a process, and the rain is a part of it, too. BUT MAN WAS I HAPPY TO SEE THE SUNSHINE THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!

So I went out into it. I walked the dogs for a few miles, then set out for a run...

44 moments in the sun:
1. grateful for waking up this morning
2. grateful for breath of life
3. ... for shelter
4. ...food to eat and water to drink
5. my children
6. SUNSHINE
7. rain
8. my legs agreeing with my head to get outside and exercise
9. the oracle card I drew for myself - NEW LIFE
10. my run
11. my neighbor smiling at me
12. a man telling me the truth to my question: "How are you?" reply: "I'm going stir crazy. Today I am not so good"
13. flying grasshoppers
14. flowers blooming in places I've never seen before
15. the sound of flowing water - a small waterfall near the back gate of my apartment complex
16. The #44 EVERYWHERE
17. the two runners headed in the opposite direction who moved into the street and both smiled saying, "I can see the cars better"
18. the countless waves from people who were out enjoying the LIGHT
19. the tree I hugged
20. the man pushing a stroller with what I assume was his daughter in it, saying "I'll try to get that spreadsheet to you soon (sounded like a work call), but I am taking care of other things right now (walking his daughter in the stroller! YES!)
21. the music playing while I run
22. the chills I get when Spirit is speaking to me!
23. sweating out the old stuff
24. a road work ahead sign and my moment of thinking about how roads are changing. How paths are more like we what we will be headed down - possibly unpaved, leading to new unknown places, adventure of the unknown awaits, and how paths tend to be less 'stuck in stone' - a freedom to try new things and just see where it goes
25. my running shoes and the money in my bank account to replace them
26. the hills around my home
27. the three hawks circling
28. the dragonfly that flew next to me for a bit
29. the woman who threw her hands up with me as we shouted "sunshine"
30. the hope I felt about where things are headed
31. the runners high I was getting
32. the two doves sitting together, having a moment, and when I asked if they had anything to say to me, I heard "FLY"
33. the small still voice of spirit saying to me "All things are possible"
34. seeing the same fedex worker who I've seen seen several times out in a about the past few weeks all in different places
35. stopping to make a video of what I was experiencing - being less caught up in what others might think of me or the fact that my heart rate might go down and I'll burn less calories
36. a feeling of deep inner peace and being completely present
37. the downhill I was on
38.the neighbor who I've had some 'not so pleasant' moments with waving and me waving back
39.all the birds chirping, flying, and dancing on the wind
40.the smell of fresh cut grass reminding me of playing soccer as a child in Texas
41. the pure movement of running - moving energy through and out of my body - not stagnant
42.a horn and a wave between a driver and a person walking on the sidewalk
43. did I mention SUNSHINE!!!
44. The run being over but wanting to go again!

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I am a Spirit Having a Human Experience

Now more than ever I believe we are waking up to this ... We are confined to 'home', which ultimately home is our deepest part of ourselves. Our soul is our true home! We can choose to wake up and rediscover our soul self, or we can do more of the same and seek external validation for Who we are. This is a time, although perceived to be one of little choice, of great decision. we have choice. The decisions we make during this time hold great promise for our future.

When you get uncomfortable... closed in?... stuck... or feel restricted, what do you do? Who do you become? This is a time of great pause, of great reflection, of great envisioning.... We get to decide how we move forward, individually and collectively. We get to co-create a new Earth, a new society, a new way of 'being' in our physical world. That's is AMAZING! It comes with human felt pain, human sorrow, human restriction, but it is met with spirit filled possibility, with spirit surrounding love, with spirit creating hope, with spiritual big jobs (Thanks Gemstone Tarot for that one!) that lead to love infused and light directed evolution!

We have built upon creations and systems that once served us. They had their place and they did their job. They advanced us to new ways of doing things, new ways of understanding our human existence, and now we must continue building but with a new type of block, perhaps a block we can't see or touch in the same way our human eyes and hands have done so in the past. This time reminds me of building and getting creative with my kids. We use anything and everything we can find in the house, including items for building like legos, wooden blocks, and others, but our building isn't held together because we only use one material, or only one type of building medium...it's held together by tape, glue, strings, and whatever else we can find. Our lego cities aren't constricted by just plastic color coded hole fitting pieces, oh no! There is doll furniture, homemade cardboard pieces, plastic, hot wheels tracks, and whatever else our imagination can come up with. All in all, this is a time for looking at how we 'build', how we create, and what we use. Its a time to see a bigger picture and how many pieces can come together to complete the puzzle. It's about the proverbial saying 'the sum is greater than its parts', Its about opening our minds to new ways of doing, of thinking, and allowing others to show us how they've been creating; It's about a global call to a better humanity; It's about a home that is solid because first you feel at home in yourself; It's about what you have to offer being appreciated; It's about things being turned upside down and inside out so that authenticity is about WHO we are on the inside and not the ego we try to present on the outside; It's about showing up, growing up, and rising up!

May today you realize that You are a Soul having a Human EXPERIENCE and you are here to get closer to love. How will you choose to use this time -- a deep dive into who/what you are or a surface swim where all that matters is if you have perfect form and the fastest time?

How will you wake up? Will you choose fear or will you choose love?

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