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Super Grateful

11/22/2012

I'm brimming over with gratitude! I believe that gratitude is a CHOICE that is based on attitude, not life circumstances! {This is a whole hearted belief!}

I hope you're heart is grate-FULL, too! Happy Thanksgiving, brave heart!

Today I"m so full and overflowing with gratitude for:
~Days off from school--duh!
~Life's journey that twists unexpectedly
~Feeling peace deep into my bones
~Seeing one of my favorite authors, Anne Lamott, this week--still soaking in her honest wisdom
~Sam--who is already praying, "Thank you for Santa and his gifts he gives me!"
~A spirit of enoughness that is more than just material things
~Creativity that is always there, even if it's exhausted or dormant
~Crisp sunshiney days when I get to walk in the woods
~Christmas decorations--especially lights
~Christmas cookies that are waiting to be baked and devoured

Thank you seems so inadequate in the face of this one beautiful messy short and thrilling life I get!

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Seismic Shifts

11/11/2012

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Some courageous thoughts on life, just for you today:

Whenever I hear the words {seismic change} I think of the enormous, buildings falling down disasters. I seem to have forgotten than seismographs can measure the absolute smallest, barely detectable shifts, too. Today I'm not thinking so much about the catastrophic shifts, but rather those little bitty ones. The sort of shift that on the surface seems so small, we actually wonder if anything at all has changed.

In the past few weeks I've had both sorts of shifts in my life. There are walls that have come done and damage too painful to even assess, let alone fix. Life is marching on.

It's the microscopic internal changes that are really rocking my world. I know my life will never be the same again--I know there are small shifts occurring almost non-stop--I do not know what it all means, but I do know that I can never return to the place of not knowing or even denial.

So what do we do in the face of those teeny tiny movements?

1. We document

We journal or tell another person. It's easy to doubt or ignore those little changes. When we document them, it's a way to acknowledge that they really did happen. Who can you trust and tell?

2. We experience the ripples.

Movement of any sort does not happen in a vacuum. Physics 101 tells us that for every action there is a reaction. Where else can you witness the impact of this change?

3. We sit with it and breath.

I feel like I've grown to the point in my life that I don't have to rush to change everything at once. I can just sit and be and breath. Sometimes that is exactly what we need to do in order to really experience change.

These small shifts may be leading to bigger more radical change or they may just be all the change we need. Either way, I hope we can all experience the gifts of internal seismic movement--big and small.

What sort of shifts are you experiencing today?

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Starting New

11/3/2012

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Why does starting something new bring fear and insecurity right to the surface?

Please don't ever let that fear keep you from doing what you were intended to do!

This weekend I am starting a Yoga Teacher Training Program. I know that I'm supposed to be doing this more than I know much else right now.

But then all week I've been doubting. Am I good enough? I don't even have a consistent practice. I'm not a vegetarian. I wonder if I'm just going to look like a fool.

It got me to thinking about when I started marathoning with Team In Training back in 2004-2005. I had this picture in my head of these long, lean, muscular runners. I was not every going to be one of those. I doubted. I questioned. I met plenty of those amazing marathoners. And then I went on to finish 4 full marathons my way--walking with determination for all 26.2 miles.

The ripples of those amazing days and time of my life are being felt still. I believe any time we start something new is a great time to reflect on past victories--large and small. And then we just move into the unknown--fear and all.

When are you going to feel the fear AND DO IT ANYWAY?

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