Brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?". Actually, who are up you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We are ALL meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in Everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people dot do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne Wiiliamson

Many of you have heard me read this quote in class. I find beautiful, inspiring and true.

Most of us go through our lives not really knowing how big our hearts, souls and ourselves really are. For many reasons, we play small. Somewhere along the way, we are taught that not being fully ourselves, fully authentic, fully present and not really asking for what we really want in our lives, on ANY level, will make others like us more. Many of us mold as best we can to "fit in". Some of us develop addictions that are ultimately to hide and drown out pain and fear and to keep us from fully showing up. Some of us start to self-sabotage ourselves, and our bodies, in many many other ways.

What would happen if we all really DID show up, all ways, always? What if we had the audacity to really ask for and create the body we want, the life we want...our biggest, greatest, most expansive goal? What would happen?! Can you imagine how luminous and wonderful our lives and our world would be?! Can you imagine how we would all be if we didn't have fear, if we didn't hold back, if we were always our biggest, brightest selves?! What then?! Wow. What an amazing world we would have. Wow.

I realized recently that pursuing what I thought was my biggest and greatest life dream and goal was actually keeping me small and in my box. Wow. What a shocker! Since having this realization, I am stepping more and more into my power. My power as myself. My power taking care of my body. My power as a woman. My power within my work. My power within my life. My power in the world. It's huge and it's not necessarily an EASY road, but it FEELS expansive and right within mySelf and in my Body. It's also amazing how things are just showing up, with ease and joy and grace, not with the force and difficulty that was dominating my life previously. It really is amazing what shows up if you simply embrace you, as you REALLY are, allow whoever you are, whatever you are supposed to do and who you are supposed to be. So what's stopping you? What's keeping you in fear? What's keeping you self-sabotaging? What's keeping you from TRULY shining and being big?

Ask yourself these questions. Listen to the answers. Feel for what feels big and expansive, real and light to you in your body. What have you got to lose, except whatever is holding you back? What have you got to gain? Everything.

Do u believe u have the power to change your body AND your life?

I read this post on Facebook recently and it rang so true for me.  So many people have beliefs that hold them back from being their biggest and fullest selves and living into their fullest human potential as well as TRULY owning their power.  I decided to take it a step further and share these things connected with the habits and body patterns I see in people that exemplify these beliefs on/in the physical plane.

Here are the top 10 ways people give away their power:

1. Asking others what they should do.

2. Thinking God decides who gets what.

3. Worrying about how their dream will come true.

4. Thinking they have dues to pay.

5. Attaching to unimportant details and outcomes.

6. Believing in soul mates.

7. Thinking karma or spiritual contracts are absolute.

8. Fear of anything, especially falling in love.

9. Waiting for their ducks to line up before acting.

10. Choosing to be unhappy.

Here are the ways we mirror the giving away of our power in our bodies:

1.  Not listening to what they truly want to do for movement and fitness but 

    only doing what they "think" they should do or someone else tells them they 

    should.

2.  Thinking their genetics are predetermined and they can't change anything.

3.  Worrying about doing the "best" workout, burning the most calories, 

       thinking they have to be perfect on their diet or none of it will do any good.

4.  Thinking they have to kill themselves to change their bodies.

5.  Always worrying they aren't doing it "right".

6.  Believing someone else knows better than them in regards to what they 

       need or want.

7.  Thinking they are stuck in whatever rut they are in and not taking the time 

      Or having the initiative to change it.

8.  Fear of just getting started.  Fear of failing, so they just don't take a 

       chance.

9.  Always waiting to start the workout program or diet tomorrow.

10.  Choosing to believe they will never change, their bodies will never change, 

        There is a right or wrong way to move your body and they don't know how 

         So they just stay stuck.

How do you stop yourself from being successful?  How does it show up in your body?  How does it show up in your life?

Be brave.  Take the first step.  Ask for help.  Listen to yourself.  Listen to your body.

Understand the truth, little bird, and you will soar.

Cleaning out the gunk

I've been doing a dietary cleanse for the last two weeks.  I just felt like my body was getting really heavy, was getting too full of gunk.  

I've had so much happening lately and I just felt like it was all sitting in my body, like my body was holding onto so much and something needed to change.  

I had been eating too much and drinking too much wine since Bella was diagnosed with Mass cells in a fatty tumor on her chest.  I have cut out wine, carbs, sugar, dairy and fat and I feel so amazing.  My body feels lighter and I am much more clear.  I am doing it for 3 weeks and I might do longer.  I will see how I feel in another week.

I am working on so much in my life, I have so much evolving and I feel like I am making decisions and choices from a very clear, all me place now.  I made the choice to make this time all about me, my business and my growth, which are actually all the same thing in different reflections.

What we do with and in our bodies effects and reflects in everything in our lives.  Take care of it, find your balance, listen to it, give it lots of movement in many different ways, pay attention to what your body is telling u.  

  

Everything is always a choice.  You choose.  You decide.  Make good choices for your health:  body, mind, emotions and spirit.

Love your Body.  Love yourSelf.  Love your Life.

What if you could choose to live in Joy and Appreciation in your Body?

What if it's ok to have a sense of peace and joy and appreciation with and in our bodies?  What makes us think and feel it's not ok?  What happened to us to make us not like ourSelves and our Bodies?  

We hold everything in our bodies.  EVERYTHING.  Everything that has HAPPENED in our lives, everything that is HAPPENING in our lives, everything that IS GOING TO happen in our lives.  Our bodies r simply the expression of & how we sense what our souls r doing.  

The famous quote is:  "we don't have a body with a soul, we are a soul in a body...". I believe it is attributed the amazing Wayne Dyer.  I also sometimes refer to your Body as your Earthsuit.  As I understand it from "Conversations with God", we don't know y we experience & go thru what we go thru...we chose it for SOME learning, something we don't & may never understand.  We could have made an agreement in a past life, in the soul realm, unconsciously in this one...who knows...it is simply our job to learn with and from it.
We sense everything in our bodies.  We are wired to get it in our bodies first.   Our bodies are our greatest source of connection to Spirit, to other people, to the Earth...they give us so much...why are we so hard on them?

We are our bodies, most spiritual traditions have taught us that we are not.  We are also bigger than our bodies, souls are limitless and our bodies are contained within the bigger totality of us.  If we are limitless, why can't we decide what we want to create in our bodies as well?  

What if you could choose?  What if you could decide what you want to do with your body?  What if you could choose how you feel about your body?  What if you could release judgements, yours and others', and really live in joy and appreciation and SENSATION as we are designed to be and why we are given bodies to do it? 

What could you create and how much more would you love your life AND your body?  What else would be possible if you could just live, in your Body, 

Loving everything, simply being with everything, creating what you want and doing it all with Love and Appreciation for it ALL?  

Listen, hear, feel, know, love

I've had an incredibly intense last two, or three-I'm not even sure at this point, weeks and I'm feeling like I'm just now coming out of the darkness, back into myself and back into my body!

I woke up Saturday morning feeling very uncomfortable in my own skin.  My body felt heavy.  It felt like there was just too much stagnant and just sitting there...like something has to change.  Like I've been through a lot, have some things in my life that aren't fitting and it's time to let it and them go.

So then I danced, then I taught a second class and finally started feeling somewhat normal, myself.  I feel more myself when teaching Nia than anywhere else in my life...

Taking care of your body and yourSelf is a balance.  It's knowing when you need to change something, it's listening to what your body is telling you, what your sensations are, what your feelings are, what works for you, what doesn't.     It's eating what you're Hungry for, but knowing if it's just to numb or comfort yourself or if you really want it because you really want it for you!  It's knowing when you need to move and when you need to be still.  It's really listening, hearing, paying attention, loving and knowing...

We all hold everything in our bodies, I think I might have some old stuff, some stuff I need to release, some things I need to shift and change and let go of.  Thinking I might do a 3 week cleanse.  Thinking I want to feel more comfortable in my skin, which tells me there's something in my life and in mySelf I'm uncomfortable with.  It's time for a change.  

What do I need?   What is here for me?  What am I telling myself?  How am I going to honor all of it, all of me?  It's always a process.  We are all always learning and growing and changing and shifting.  It's simply about learning to know and trust and love.

Love your Body, Love yourSelf, Love your Life...

I am working on a "Love your Body.  Love yourSelf.  Love your Life." event.  I need your help!

Please answer these questions:

Body:

1)  how do u feel about your body?

2)  how do u take care of your body?

3) how do u see your body?

Self:

1) how do u feel about yourSelf?

2) how do u take care of u?

3) how do u express your unique self?

Life:

1) how do u feel about your life?

2) how do you create what u want & need in your life?

3) how do u express u within your life?

I so appreciate your input on my blog, my learning and my thought processes today!!

Love. Live. Risk! Y not?!

Ahhhhh....downtime.  How long has it been since I had & took real, true downtime?  Months?!  Probably.  I believe in living my life.  I believe in grabbing every opportunity to enJoy mySelf & my Life, so I tend to fill every moment as much as I possibly can.  "Do I want to go have fun with you?!  Hell yeah!  Let's go play!".   Life is too short & we never know how long we really have.

My brother is the same way.  We figured out why a few years ago...our mother died when I was 9 & 3/4 and he had just turned 5, five days before she passed.  We decided together that is why we always "fit one more thing" in.  That is why we savor and take advantage of EVERY moment we have.  Period.  We learned very early that we never really know how long we have, so live it, love it, be and experience everything.

I have been reminded of this again this week.  My 14 & 1/2 year old Soul-Mate, love of my life, Blonde Pomeranian mix, Bella, was diagnosed with a tumor on her chest.  It sent me reeling...she is healthy and energetic and lovely and loving and charming and gracious and EVERYBODY who meets Bella loves her.  You can't help it.  We got her bloodwork back and it is really good, especially for an aging dog...this news made me cry.  I have hope.  I can't lose her yet, she sustains me...so we will fight this unwanted invader and I will love her and she will take her amazing, strong, gracious self into this and we will come out the other side.   If you have a Soul-Mate dog, you understand this.  If you don't, it might sound a little melodramatic and you might think, "Really?!  It's a dog.". I'm ok with everyone putting their beliefs on whatever their interpretation is...this is my reality and we have a connection that is unexplainable.  She has saved my life over & over & I've literally saved hers twice.  We are a team...I could never put our connection & effect on each other into words.

I am once again reminded, one simply never knows what's going to happen...why waste even one second!?

I bought a little framed piece, before I got her actually, but I always think of her when I see it since she came into my life..."remind thyself that what thou lovest is mortal, that what thou lovest is not thine own, but is given to thee for the present, not irrevocably nor forever, but even as a fig, or a bunch of grapes, in it's appointed season of the year"

Love.  Live.  Risk...y not?!  What have you got to lose?!  Looking stupid?!  Getting hurt?!  Whatever.  In the end, it is the things we miss, the things we don't embrace, the fear that gets the best of us that we regret.  Live.  Love.  Risk.  You simply never know...