I believe it is said so well by Neale Donald Walsch today. "On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...that love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused.
If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. Do you see how the second approach will reveal to you what the searching never will?
Yet you cannot give love in order to get it. Doing so is ultimately saying you do not already have it. And that statement will, of course, be your reality. No, you must give love simply because you have it to give. In this way you will experience your own possession of it."
Finding that place of love as the lens to look at ourselves and others is much more freeing than blame, shame and judgment.
Here's to being the love that we each are,
Bonnie
As we enter into the season of fall, are you going to hold onto what you have done in the past or let go and flow with what's happening now? (Yes, fall finally showed up here in Florida.) I think it's so easy to miss the beauty of autumn when we stress about the upcoming holidays. I know it's only October but I already hear people talking about how the holidays are almost here with dread in their voices. We're also seeing some pretty scary stuff that's going on around us and in the world. However, despite what we may perceive as negative, there are emerging pockets of real change. If you stop for a minute and look around or pause to think about it, do you see them? I remind myself of that as I feel the cooler temperatures; you can see it in the changing colors of the leaves.
Things are changing and if we are more fluid and move with the waves of change we won't get pulled underneath, but float on top instead. Remember it's what you think and where you put your focus that matters. It's your choice!
"Have you been so focused on something that it seems to occupy your entire brain? Then there seems like there's no room in your head for any other ideas or thoughts? Are you feeling a bit uptight or worried about how to do what you need to do accomplish? Do these thoughts keep you up or wake you up at night? Do you find it's hard to concentrate on other things? You may even find yourself drifting off during other conversations. You're mind is full trying to figure out how to get what you need done, how to come up with ideas for a new project or how to arrange your fall schedule balancing work and the responsibilities of your family. If you said yes to most of these questions above you're being held hostage by your thoughts. When you are held hostage you don't have the freedom to explore other ideas and opportunities, only the same old ones that are right there in front of your face. So how do you break out of the cycle of repetitive thoughts or worries that keep you confined? As I have been very focused on expanding my business, I have noticed it has helped letting go of the worry about how it will totally unfold. Giving myself freedom from worry by taking breaks and focusing on other things has helped me notice and be aware of new ideas. This morning I realized I needed to write my ezine. Even though I wanted to start on it, I just didn't feel inspired. I noticed when I opened up my computer that the many icons on my desktop were blocking the picture on my screen. I took a short break from thinking about my ezine and re-arranged the ions and cleaned up the desktop. Next, I opened up my email and I took the time read the Daily Om (I don't always read them). The answer came to me quickly on what to write about! These short "breaks" from my brain in hostage-mode about the ezine gave me the perfect validation for how I had been working on my business and gave me idea for this blog.
In this Daily Om they suggest you give yourself a gift - you probably guessed it - to step away from your worry or project. Doing this "
I felt invisible forces around as I visited with friends and family during my time in New York while staying with my Mom as she was recuperating from surgery. I noticed certain people seemed to be controlled by something no one could see. Some people were very focused on what was "wrong". What was wrong with... you can name it: the church, politics, who was donating money to the wrong cause, what some friend's and family member's teenagers were doing (no, don't ask) and more! It was also fascinating to watch and listen to how each person reacted as the conversations continued. It may have seemed to a casual observer that some people were bystanders rather than being in the drama of the conversation. However, if you listened closely, those people were compassionate but had a lack of judgment. So what invisible force was leading them by the hand?
Why such a big difference in people's ability to perceive and react in such different ways? The obvious answer is: our beliefs. However, I was reminded about a question in a recent study group I attended. The question was: how are our beliefs influenced? Think about this for a moment. Have you ever been in a stadium when someone starts "the wave" and all of a sudden everyone in the stadium of thousands is moving? It's an energetic connection that happens as the person next to you starts moving. The same is true when you're on a project and everything just falls into place. There's an invisible connection that occurs from one person to the next, and it's not a thinking or talking experience once it has been set in motion. And it's not an accident or coincidence. The intentions and thoughts create an energetic field of connection between each person or event.
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