Here’s to happy
Posted on June 30, 2021 1 Comment
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon
Joy is our birthright.
Happiness is not a result, it’s a choice.
We don’t have to wait for it.
Consider this exercise:
- When __________ happens, I will be happy.
- As soon as __________, I will be happy.
- If __________ would only __________, I will be happy.
Then strike through the first clause, everything up to and including the comma.
Now embrace your new sentences:
- I will be happy.
- I will be happy.
- I will be happy.
How did you fill out the first part of the sentences?
How do you feel about that, now?
FUN is a spiritual practice
Posted on June 23, 2021 Leave a Comment
Wow. Just, wow.
Give this a seriously playful ten minutes, daily.
I dare you. You will find your own holy shift.
Beginnings, again
Posted on June 16, 2021 Leave a Comment
A scratch upon the blackboard of the universe, that tiny sliver of moon.
Inspired by Stacy Demarco, Queen of the Moon Oracle Cards
We are gifted regularly with new beginnings, with fresh starts.
Major life transits come to mind. Say, graduating. From any program of study, whether high school, post-secondary anything, even personal pursuits of learning. Or, moving house. Whether across town, across the state, or across the nation. And, there’s also changing jobs. Regardless of being within the same company or field, or switching it up to something else entirely.
Reverse engineering release
Posted on June 9, 2021 Leave a Comment
I’m very familiar with the idea of release as a letting go, a surrender. It’s honestly a great practice for me. (As in, I practice again and again and again…) This form of emptying is to me an allowing, a necessary stopping of something on my part. IF I do this, THEN I’ll feel that.
However, today I just learned of an additional way to practice release in my life. And this one is an action verb. (Oh, the irony.) I had this big AHA through reverse engineering. I feel THIS, here is WHY, this is WHAT I can do.
Raising my energy, calling my power — and then not releasing it, is what causes me to feel stagnant, stuck, and overwhelmed.
Read MoreJust laying here. Feeling beautiful.
Posted on June 2, 2021 Leave a Comment
In today’s A Course In Miracles for Badasses app by Pam Grout, I am reminded of a story I had once heard but since forgotten. And it totally turned my morning around:
Robert Holden is an amazing British author and A Course In Miracles teacher. He shares that when his daughter was four, he found her one day outside in the garden — gazing up toward the sky and smiling in huge joy.
“Hey, sweetheart,” he said as he joined her.
“Hi, Dad!” she responded.
“Whatcha doin’?”
“Just laying here. Feeling beautiful.”
In that moment, I realized I have been heading down a path of mental ick this morning. Absorbing external complaints disguised as conversation in order to keep a connection. Apprehensive about an upcoming meeting. Both thrilled for and envious of another’s situation, and not at all proud of the latter. Whew — confronting my shadow yet again is exhausting! Here I sit, swirling in the beginnings of a low-grade funk. And it’s not even time for breakfast.
“Just laying here. Feeling beautiful.”
Boom.
What if I can be that, instead? What if I can choose that, today? What if I can see my shadows, but not have to fix them? What if, instead, I can turn toward the things that do make me feel good, anyway? The parallel things I can be thankful for.
Not in blissful ignorance, but in conscious choice. The light, the dark, no difference.
Choosing first to feel good, for no darn reason, I then become flooded with reasons:
I have beautiful, fulfilling connection with loved ones. I adore creating my schedule and doing my work in the world. I know that creative energy is limitless, and I revel in where I am already supported. And now I have just become nourished.
Just laying here feeling beautiful, first. The rest now flows from there.
There’s no question of “What can you do to feel beautiful today,” or “How can you feel beautiful today?”
Simply pause here. And feel the beauty that you are.
Try it.
Boom.
gina drellack 