Another Ah Ha Moment

This morning while I was cleaning out my car I found a phone holder to assist in making videos. As I headed to the trash to throw it out I looked at it and had the thought, “Maybe I could just buy the piece that’s broken?” It was in that moment that I had an awareness. It is often in the most mundane circumstances that the awakenings occur. This is why awakening is a journey and not a destination. Awakening is done in the realm of the physical, in the human ordinary everyday experiences of daily life. If we seem to only become enlightened in our spiritual endeavors, only when we have lit the incense and when the crystal bowls chime, we miss the ability to be truly awake, alive and divine. 

So back to my awakened moment. I realized that I try to save things, way past their expiration date. I try to fix what’s sometimes broken beyond repair and often I try to repurpose what is useless. Initially I thought this was a good idea. What’s the old saying, “Waste not want not”?And yet this “not wasting” was clogging up my life and stifling the flow of abundance, creativity and freedom and left me wanting financially, creatively and flexibly. This moment gave me life. It gave me breath and it gave me energy, strength and courage. One moment of awareness can do that. We don’t need hours upon hours of meditation and spiritual immersion, classes and abstinence. We need to be able to appropriately ingest and navigate what we do intake as awakenings and utilize it to its fullest. 

This moment of clarity has inspired me to release lots of things and I feel free. I feel expansive and I feel excited for the first time in weeks. I feel excited to let go and be free. This letting go is a daily process of eliminating thoughts, behaviors and beliefs that no longer serve me. So it really doesn’t matter where I learned it or how long I’ve been doing it. All that matters is that I utilize the awareness to create change today and what I choose today will take care of tomorrow.

So my friend, let me ask you, what is it that you can let go of? What is it you’ve been trying to fix, repurpose or have kept way past its expiration date? Is it a belief, a relationship, a job, a habit? Feel free to borrow this awareness as your own now that you are reading it and let yourself be free.

Affirmation:

Today I give myself permission to let go of what has been holding me back, what has weighed me down and what has clogged the channels of creativity, abundance and freedom. I release my hold on it because I no longer hold onto what isn’t working, hasn’t worked or what is outdated and obsolete. I step into an irrevocable freedom and I celebrate all the good that flows as a result of my conscious choice. Amen. 

Room for Improvement

All around us the death toll rings during Covid 19. We hear of hundreds a day as the apex of this experience begins to crest. As metaphysicians let us seek to actively participate in this process through utilizing this experience for more Spiritual growth and enlightenment so that we emerge from this more improved, more open and loving, more free to love, be loved and know our inherent value and worth unattached to the trappings of external validation or approval. Let us morn the loss of our loved ones and celebrate the death of things that are no longer working in our-lives that we see as we

are sheltered in place. Today let us awaken to the decision to die to the lies that we have told ourselves about ourself and that which we have consciously and unconsciously eaten from others. The spoons filled with insecurities, plates of not-enough-ness and jam jars of self deprecating thoughts and behaviors.

When I was younger I used to live by the motto; good, better, best, may you never let it rest until your good gets better and your better is best. For years I lived this motto and it was a successful motivator in my life. Today on my morning “W’OG”, walk/jog, I had an awakening. My Good is good enough. I am good enough and my best is always unfolding. There is no, good, to get better and no better to make best. Good is good, and it is enough. 

I had a moment of clarity to break it down. Language is so limiting and yet it is something we rely on to communicate. In our subconscious minds it does not make distinctions. It is a factory of acceptance, so to say better implies that there is something wrong with what you have. It says there is something lacking and when we, you, I or anyone creates, thinks or makes something that is good then it is good, period. What is good can be improved upon and that means we take something that is working and make it improved in efficiency, or color, or application. We can improve upon something but if we make something better then invariably we see it as something that has something wrong with it. Can you follow this line of thinking? It is making sense to you?

So all the years I said I wanted to be better, it was in essence saying I was “bad,” unworthy, useless, not enough. Today I realize the absurdity of this and I am able to accept my inherent worth. I can say and mean it, I am good. I am enough. and I feed this to my subconscious mind which accepts this just as readily as she did it’s opposite. I can accept my good and know that what is good within me and about me can always be improved upon. That is evolution. I am in a constant state of evolving. The cycles of evolution, the stages of life can be seen all around us. The Good in us must increase because it is that which gives life. It must improve because it is that which evolves that creates more life. Life is that substance of God that lives in each of us that gives us life. 

You my dear, you and you and you, each of you are “gOod.” You are the evolution in action, love in motion, life unfolding, amazingly, brilliantly, you!