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Indian Elephant

In China, India and Africa, the elephant is a symbol for power, dignity, intelligence and peace.

The elephant is generally considered a symbol of good luck and the animal is a symbol of good fortune. Elephants in Asia are symbolizing a kind of divinity and benevolence and that is why in the recent Asia there are still religious ceremonies where offering is made to the elephants, they wash them and anoint them with special oils and pigments so that the community be blessed with good will. They also symbolize wisdom, loyalty, strength, fidelity and longevity. For more, see: http://www.animal-symbols.com/elephant-symbol.html

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Lotus Blossoms

The Lotus Blossom symbolizes the inseparability of the cause and effect, the provision and reality, and the source and manifestation of enlightenment.

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Pigeon Pose

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana - One-Legged King Pigeon Pose

- is an asana that is performed in the seated position. It is a backbend that causes the chest to puff up, therefore making the practitioner resemble a pigeon. The meaning of ‘Eka’ in Sanskrit is one, ‘pada’ is leg or foot, and ‘raja’ is king. The meaning of ‘kapota’ is dove or pigeon. 

Yoga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years, and currently, close to 11 million Americans are enjoying its health benefits. Most Westernized yoga classes focus on learning physical poses, which are called asanas. They also usually include some form of breathing technique and possibly a meditation technique as well. 

Some yoga classes are designed purely for relaxation. But there are styles of yoga that teach you how to move your body in new ways. Choosing one of these styles offers the greatest health benefits by enabling you to develop your flexibility, strength, and balance. For more, see: http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/the-health-benefits-of-yoga

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No Ordinary Love

No ordinary love, no ordinary card.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is an object suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices, especially clocks. Also commonly used in spiritual and divinatory pursuits.

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Tribal Buddha

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Give Peace A Chant

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The Beginning Is Here

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Ankh

The Ankh was, for the ancient Egyptians, the symbol of life but it is an enduring icon that remains with us even today as a Christian cross. It is one of the most potent symbols represented in Egyptian art. The ankh seems at least to be an evolved form of, or associated with the Egyptian glyph for magical protection, sa.

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You Are

And because of that, the world is already changed.

Happy New Year

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. 

-Oprah

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!

The more confusion I feel, the further away I am from myself.

The simpler and clearer things are, the closer I am to myself.

Quietude to hear and feel that subtle, gentle guidance is the way back.

Let's go.

It Can Happen Everyday

"It's Christmas Eve! It's... it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we... we... we smile a little easier, we... w-w-we... we... we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be!"

"....It can happen everyday. You just gotta want that feeling. And if you like it, and you want it, you'll get greedy for it! You'll want it everyday of your life... and it can happen to you. I believe in it now. I believe it's gonna happen to me now!  I'm ready for it! And, it's great."

"Have a Merry Christmas, everybody."

"...."God bless us, everyone."

Put a little love in your heart. Sing. :)

My Teacher, the Tree

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves.

-American Indian Proverb

Apparently, not everyone got the memo.

Now O'clock

I can't take you with me, but I can meet you there.

Look Over Here

In the midst of what seemed like chaos, I struggled, but managed to find a small piece of gratitude. I held it tightly in my hand. I focused on that tiny piece and before long found another one. Focusing on those pieces, I found even more to be grateful for. The magical cohesion of these small pieces kept me afloat. And, before I knew it, I had the power to find happiness in the midst of chaos.

Find your power.

Let Me See That

Along with the ability to reason comes the ability veer off my road. That is simply because my ability to reason is not dependent on truth.

In other words, despite the fact that I can come up with a multitude of reasons why I’ll never reach a certain goal, that does not mean that any of those reasons are absolutely true. I may somehow find, or create, what I need to get the job done, or even encounter a person or situation that will provide what I need to accomplish that very thing.

We can reason. Then we believe before we really question. Now, I take a much closer look and try to question before I choose to believe. This has changed my entire experience in this place.

See for yourself. :)

Come Out With Your Hands Up

Like a scary monster hiding in the shadows, fear looms in our peripherals. It seems unavoidable. It’s part of the ride of being human. It comes with the software. So, what’s a frontal lobe to do?

I have come to realize, more often than not, these demons are blocking the path to my highest good. Consequently, I have found myself on detours I didn’t expect to take, on my way to somewhere I didn’t want to go, doing things I didn’t want to do.

Nowadays, as often as possible, I reach out and grab the shadowy thing by the leg and drag it out into the light. Some take a little more work and courage than others, some throw their hands up and surrender immediately. The good news is, simply recognizing fear, a projected illusion, is sometimes all it takes to get your wings back.

Or, you may find the wings you never knew you had.

Take a Bite, It's Delicious

I'm grateful for the time my first grade art teacher let me paint a mural on the wall. Today, I am an artist.

I’m grateful for the time we took the new girl into our little Jr. high school clique. She’s been my best friend ever since.

I’m grateful for all the jobs I never got, that led me back to school to acquire skills I never thought I’d have.

I’m grateful for all the times I followed my gut feeling. Especially when my thinking mind could make no logical sense of it. In retrospect, they were some of the best things I could have ever done for myself.

I’m grateful for the realization that I possess freedom of choice as to where I apply my focus, that dictates the quality of my experience here in this place.

I’m grateful for the ability to make a difference.

I’m grateful for all the times I recognize when I’m believing lies, such as thinking I’m not worthy of something or not good enough.

I’m grateful for the music that moves my soul to places I never want to leave.

I’m grateful for Tofurkey and....you guessed it.....chocolate. ;p

I’m grateful that I’m grateful for so many things that I’d never be able to list them all.

And, of course, I’m grateful for my cherished family, my beloved friends, and the people I don’t like, all without whom I would not have the ability to see myself.

Happy Thanksgiving. :)

Who Do You Think You Are?

My body is the vehicle and my thinking mind is the OS, operating system, or software that directs it. All was well and good when our software was being used to discover fire, create the wheel or bang out the first rhythmic beat.

It was when the operating system assigned itself an identity that things began to go awry. I realize in addition to self-discovery there was the cultivation of fear, outside of real fight or flight situations. It reminds me of one of those sci-fi movies where advanced technological intelligence "discovers itself" and suddenly begins a hostile takeover of the world and everything in it.

Even though this sounds a lot like what human beings have been doing these last few thousand years, there must also have been some people who were using their neocortex for "higher functions" or conscious thought. Hence the expansion of consciousness manifesting a new world.

The more I can remember that I am not my body or thinking mind, that these things are how that which I Am gets around in this place, the freer and better guided I am. In the meantime, I can have fun with the changing identities my thinking mind assigns. Today I'm feeling kind of cute and astute.

So, who do you think you are?

Realize

Repercussions in the morning sun

of many of the underlying fears.

Emptiness is on the run

from all the consequential years.

Systematically the winds blow

and turn us in directions unforeseen.

Tell me when you realize 

which is consciousness and which

of these are dreams. 

-G. 1991

I Spy With My Little Eye

When we are very young our world consists of only a few people and things. As we grow, our view and understanding of our world expands.

I can liken my expansion to looking at life through a straw. At first, I can make out a pebble, then maybe a blade of grass. I contemplate concepts like Life being a mirror to my thoughts or what I focus on I attract, and with each expansion of my consciousness, or the growth of my understanding of these ideas, my view widens. I can see several pebbles, grass and even a few flowers.

The more revelations I experience, or the more my consciousness is expanded, the greater, wider and more beautiful my view becomes. I can now see a panoramic scene that is grander than I expected. I suspect we are incapable of completely seeing "the big picture" while incarnate, and to me, this is understandable. The vastness of it all has to be inscrutable to the limitations of a frontal lobe.

I now understand the view I see through my straw-of-understanding is greatly affected by a couple of things. Acceptance, not condonation, of what is, awareness of the present moment, and not believing my own lies that do not serve me or the world, make all the difference. I also have the power to point my straw (my focus) on that which serves me and others.

If while here in this place I'm able to experience a small piece of the One, I'm going to make sure it's a good piece. A piece chock full of love, laughter, passion, my favorite Prince songs playing over and over and over again.....and, oh yes, you guessed it.....chocolate. ;)

What do you spy with your little eye?

Little Pieces

This place, we call life, is made of an infinity of little pieces. At least that's how it seems, as we can really only put our focus on one thing at a time, no matter what kind of black belt masters degree one might have in multi-tasking. So how do I take the little pieces of this place and create a mosaic of my best life? Focus. It's all about the focus.

Focus + choice = my life.

Today I choose to focus that which I Am, my consciousness, on some of my little pieces of heaven:

-Remembering the first time I could hear the music as I played it. Magical.

-The feeling that comes in a moment of conscious expansion, epiphany, realization, Ah-Ha.

-Dancing 'til it hurts so good.

-Being the portal of the creative flow.

-Hearing the song you love, over and over and over and over again. Ok, I've been told, threatened actually, about that, but hey, it's a little piece of heaven for me.

-Being so happy, you cry.

-And, oh yes, one of the things I came to this planet for.....the chocolate :)~~~

Focus + choice = your life.

.....so what's a little piece of heaven like for you?

A Hot Bag of What?

I was thinking about what I call "the Pearl in the Bag of Poop." This refers to finding the gem of wisdom, the gift, epiphany, the Ah-Ha moment of any "problem". We've all had those moments when all we can do is look up in desperation and blurt out, "Whyyyy is this happening to me!?" Precisely the question.

I do believe if I don't get the gift out of the "bad situation" then that little pearl lovingly and patiently just moves along into another situation hoping I will find it there. And on and on it goes. This is the recipe for patterns in my life.

I then realized maybe there could be more than just one one.....hec, who knows how many pearls there could be in any one bag! I quickly decided that the bigger the "problem", the more and the bigger the pearls there are in it!

I can now see that this seems like no more than a logical deduction. But I have to tell you, when you find yourself holding a hot bag of stank, the gratitude that this little realization brings goes a long way.

It makes you want to get your hands dirty.

Beep! Beep! First Stop: The End

The law of attraction seemed straightforward enough for me to comprehend. I closed and squinted up my eyes, like a child making an enormous wish, and imagined the very things I wanted in all the magnificent detail I could muster up.

Voila! There's the four leaf clover I was trying to attract while testing my new manifestation wings. There it was, in a small basket on the counter of the book store, staring up at me in all it's laminated beauty. There you go!

That was over two years ago. So when the hec is George Clooney going to pull up in my new Lamborghini? I began to suspect I was missing something.

The body is undeniably a barometer. It melts into a peaceful relaxation when I think thoughts that serve me and contrarily stiffens and contorts when preceded by thoughts that do not serve me, or thoughts that are not true for me.

In addition, I now understand that the car, the house, the promotion, is not the thing one is really after. It's the feeling you'll feel from having those things. Big difference.

Ah Ha! My realization deduced that the magnetism that creates the actual magic of attraction is not so much in my painstakingly detailed head, but in my body.

I now begin at the end with identifying the feeling I want, say security, success, excitement, whatever. I formulate a thought that produces that feeling. Immediately I feel my body do the melting butter thing. Ahhh. Once my body holds that feeling, I'm magnetized. That's it. I've given myself the very thing I've longed for. The very thing I thought had to be gotten from manifesting George Clooney in my new Lamborghini. .....What a relief.

Pass Me The Roller

If I am a piece of Source energy, then my potential must go so far beyond the grasp of my thinking mind. My mind reasons it possible, being that tiny piece of the omnipotent Source, that it's well within my ability to have created my total life experience. This would include everything, everything in my experience here in this world. I am the projector.

It is my disassociation in finding a sense of self in the thinking mind that leads me to discover I am the Awareness behind it all. This of course makes all the difference between being unconscious in my world and being awake in it.

If I believe that I am even the tiniest spec of Source, or God, and that I am indeed the projector of all that I experience here, then this affords me the sense of the vastness of my potential. Being fully present in the moment will lead me to the best use of that potential.

I am the paint, the brush and the canvas. And I am painting my own pictures on this canvas of infinite possibilities.

Infinite Possibilities

I Knew It

We are already whole and complete. This is an eye-opening statement. It lends itself to the concept that we can't find what we are looking for outside of ourselves. I understand this. I felt I went beyond the analytical understanding of it. Then I wondered why on earth, if I am already whole and complete, would I come into this world of form. I was having trouble coming up with an answer that resonated.

I was discussing this with an evolved and cherished friend who helped me to put this perplexing and deeply complex question into perspective by asking me one simple question. She asked, "Isn't a brownie delicious?" And with that I exclaimed, "I knew chocolate had something to do with this!"

What am I doing here? Among other things, as my dear friend reminded me, it's simply for the experience of it. The pleasure. The fun. The happiness. The joy.

The chocolate.

Who's Driving This Thing Anyway?

"Life is living me." To put my understanding of that (and by understanding it I mean coming to know it as my truth) into words would be to say that Life - or that which I am - is "doing" what it does in addition to being what it is. Living. Life, that which I am, is living. It's being. And in that, it is guiding, or steering the ship, or driving the car that the identity I've come to think I am believes it is controlling. Hence the struggle of controlling our experiences here.

In this life I'd call it "me." That's not who I really am. I am not my body. I am not my mind. I am not the identity I have assigned to myself. I Am. I am Life itself.

And Life is living "me."

Ah, There You Are

Living a day in this life entails focusing on this small space, right here, inside myself. That's where it all is. There isn't anything else. I get that if I can't make it work right here, right now, in this space I call myself, then I'm not going to make it work anywhere else. There is no where else. This is it.

Sometimes I reach deep down into that rabbit hole to grasp a tiny piece of the joy that I'm made of and drag it back into this dream. There is no where else to get it from. I get it. Peace and joy can not be gotten outside of myself. I have to go inward, touch that which I am, and bring a piece of it back to this place, this place we call life. I am the well. I am the source of this dream. I am the projector of this movie.

I take inventory of the ISness of my life. The good, the bad and the ugly. And it is what it is, not the meaning my mind assigns to it. Truth. My body melts into relaxation in the acknowledgment of Truth, being the barometer that is is. It feels good. The truth, the acknowledgement without judgement of the ISness of something, good, bad or ugly, feels so much better than trying to change any of it from the outside. The freedom of acknowledgment without judgement teaches me the Truth is not the thing I should fear. It's the key.

I realize that I can't drink from anywhere else but my own well. And that the reflection that I see, in all that I call this life, is my own.

Come On Out

Thinking outside the box is an understatement.

You've Got a Little Something, Right There

Isn't it funny how we are the last place that we look. We're always trying to change the projected, rather than clear the projector.

-Byron Katie, Author

Weeeeeee!

Sometimes it's hard to just let go and be part of the ride. To remind myself how to get back there I remember how I felt on that roller coaster. I had the biggest, giggliest, let loose, oh-my-God, weeeeeee feeling that I'd ever had! It was all because inside of myself I let go. I allowed myself to experience these twists and turns (no drops on this roller coaster!!) with reckless abandon of control. For me, not one to experience joy from amusement park rides, this was huge fun. Big, let's-go-on-again fun!

I remember this to remind myself how to live in the moment. No thinking necessary. It's like building a muscle. A little everyday, until you are living it. A little everyday, until you can let go and be part of the ride.

Hey, Did You Hear That?

As often as I can, I watch this Life like a movie...anticipating what the Universe will show me next......staying awake. When I slide right into the groove of it, I watch with not only an excitement, but with knowledge that no matter what the next moment looks like, it is indeed FOR me. It’s all for me. Nothing happens TO me.

To live in open acceptance of what is, even if at first you can only stay present with it for moments at a time, is how to live your best life. My awareness is heightened and my mind is quiet. It’s like when someone says to you, “Hey...did you hear that?” You freeze, and just listen. In that moment you are.......well, you just are. It is in this state you can hear the Universe. Listen.

Authenticity

Authenticity is about enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who we really are - ourselves, natural, and without a mask in our relationships, our work and our life. 

-Mike Robbins, Author

Come to the Edge

"Come to the edge, " he said.

They said, "But we're afraid."

"Come to the edge, " he said.

They came.

He pushed them.

And they flew..... 

-Guillaume Apollinaire

My Back Burners

Mulling seems to be a very beneficial practice. Unconscious mulling, that is. Well, conscious unconscious mulling. You know, mulling on purpose. The project, problem, or plan at hand is stewing in unconscious juices while you are driving, cooking, and even sleeping. While your thinking mind is involved with other things, the subconscious mind is popping stuff into our conscious inboxes. If you’re lucky, you'll be listening. 

Apparently, all being “lucky” takes is to just stop. To just let go. To let. To expect this box of miscellany to come back to you when it has arranged itself into something workable. Go learn Algebra, bungee jump, meditate, laugh with a friend, or go to sleep. Don’t worry about the deadline or any other thoughts of pressure to press on. Trust. Trust that while your front burners are on, your back burners are cooking things up too, and these pots never boil over because you are not watching them.   

Then, when you least expect it, an idea pops into your head! Wow, that’s a great idea! It’s such a great idea that your conscious mind immediately jumps up to take credit for it. It quickly begins to scavenge around for the “how” it came to such a great solution. That’s fine. Bravo, thinking mind, bravo! You did a great job! You were smart enough to keep your eyes off that boiling pot and let it cook on it’s own. 

With that, the thinking mind, with a suspect countenance, mutters, “thanks". ;)

Right in the Eye

We are each a tiny piece of the omnipotent Source. We can choose joy and peace right here, right now. There is one thing that can veer you off your road to nirvana. Fear. Yes, that’s it, fear. A tiny four-letter word that locks the gate to the portal of the joy that is our natural state of being.

So, today, let's be aware of all the decisions we make, based on fear. Maybe you love those shoes, but you wore the other pair today because you were afraid people would think your original choice was too flashy. You'd be afraid they would think you were too.....whatever. So now you're wearing a pair of shoes that don't make you feel as good as the one's you love. Why? Oh, that's right, fear.

It's not about other people. Not at all. It never is. It's about our concepts. And there are no good reasons to deprive ourselves. Unless, of course, that's what you'd like to experience here in this place we call life. What's in, is out. So, for today, let's become aware of when or if we do, or don't do, something out of fear. Big, little, or in between fear, it doesn't matter. And remember, today you don't have to do anything about it. Today, all you have to do is look it right in the eye.