Monday Mindfulness

Cultivating Strength, Joy, Calm & Resilience


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Step outside predictable.

beginSpontaneity, not to be confused with impulsiveness, is the ability to allow your inner guidance system to lead you to take appropriate action without hesitation to achieve the greatest benefit for you and those around you, regardless of any set plan.  Step outside predictable.  Exercise your creativity and welcome the joy and fulfillment that comes with true and clear present moment awareness.


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When the Storm Rolls In

 

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When the storm rolls in, do you spread your branches and invite it in?

Do you tingle with anticipation as the wind presses against your skin?

As the sky darkens and clouds cluster, do you marvel at their majestic dance?

Do you breathe in the energy, feel the power, as it slowly builds its strength?

Do you know the humble quiet of just watching that storm grow?

Flashes of light, ripples of rumble, dewy droplets in the sky.

As it slowly wraps around you, can you hold peace in your heart and know your courage and your own might to welcome whatever it may bring?

There is the storm

and there is you.


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Inner Guidance

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How is it flowers know just what to do?  How to sprout leaves and open themselves up so unconditionally to the world?  Is it trust?  Courage? Or the lack of interference from fear and doubt as they engage their inner guidance system?  Imagine a world where everyone were as open and intuitive as a flower.

 


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Express Yourself

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Practice spontaneity…not reckless abandon…rather transfer the decision making to your higher self.  Let your intuition choose what comes next and experience the ultimate form and expression of your creativity.


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One Place

 

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What if I were you and you were me?

Would we live in harmony?

Would you love me unconditionally?

Would you let my heart and mind be free

In love and light and truth and peace?

What if the I in you was the you in me?

What if there was just one place – could it be?

Where we are one, where we both just be,

Existing in the space of eternity,

As light, as love, as truth, as peace?

If there is but one place, would you go there with me?


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Be Free

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Let humor lift you. The ability to laugh at the drama in our lives, to laugh at ourselves, to not dwell in the heaviness grants us the full freedom to aspire to a higher state of being, a more gentle space of receiving, and a more generous place of giving.

To laugh at ourselves clears emotions, deflates self-importance, brings us to common ground, and reminds us of our shared humanity.

Smile…laugh…really laugh…really, really laugh…be free.


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Peace in the Stillness

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There is a peace and beauty that comes with the icy cold stillness of winter, a space for slower breath and for watching.

The same space can be found in pain and suffering when we greet those moments with compassion and loving acceptance, knowing that this is simply where you are right now…and you are not alone.

The thaw of spring will come and with it a great renewal.


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The Plan

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Peace on Earth.  Goodwill to all.


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Just Be

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Happy is a frame of mind…Joy a state of being.


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Do More…Try Less

img_1032When I “try” I am saying “a part of this doesn’t resonate with me.”

When I am “trying” I enter a space of potential failure, guilt, or shame.

Trying creates a river of resistance.

Instead, I think I will simply choose to “do” – do what feels right, do what I can do, do what resonates as what I am supposed to do.

Do without resistance.