Nourish Your Soul

Who do you spend the most time with?  Do they nourish your soul?  Who surrounds you? Do they make you hungry for life?  Do the people you hang out with touch your heart?  Do they lift you up or drag you down?  Who we spend our time with is very important.  It is a choice.  When the choice gets difficult it is okay to take some time to be gentle with yourself, meditate on direction and make choices that are empowering.

Being Normal

In our home saying that someone is weird is considered a compliment.  Normal is over-rated.  This quote says it just right.  Be yourself.  Sometimes the road less travelled is the way to go. What would you do if you knew no one would judge you?

Letting Go To Know

Sometimes it may seem impossible or at least agonizing to live with not knowing what's next, or what to do or what if.  Letting go of that can seem like a feat beyond our understanding.  How do you let go?  Willingness is the first step.  Being willing or at least being willing to be willing will help us to  move in that direction.  If we are not willing we can ask ourselves what is keeping me from being willing to let go of the need to know?

The answer to that question is usually some form of fear and it often shows up as the need to control.  Some part of us knows we really can't control all outcomes, but we like to think we can at least try!  The truth is the more we can let go and listen to our inner guidance system the more peace we will experience in the process and the "answers" can come to us as we are now peaceful enough to hear them.

"But I can't let go! It keeps whirling around in my head no matter what I do!"  Then let it whirl and focus your attention on the next thing in front of you.  The answers will come, they always do.

Unfold

Someone once shared with me that when we are feeling the urge to control something we could just wait and see what happens instead. This does not mean we can't take action. It simply means that we can respond by listening to our heart instead of reacting from a feeling of fear.

It reminds me a little of a time out. Taking just a little time to step back from the situation. Maybe we just need time to breathe. Maybe we just need time to think. Maybe we just need time to clear our head. Whatever it is, it is much easier to respond once we've taken this little bit of time.

In this way we allow our lives to unfold. We take action in a more peaceful serene way and our lives begin to look like what we had hoped for all along.

Bloom Where You Are Planted

My mom taught me this quote many years ago.  I am truly grateful.  It has been a quote that has been close to my heart since then.  Daisies always remind me of my mom and this quote.  They were her favorite flowers.

Over the years I have had more than one time to meditate on this quote.  Over the years it has helped me to find inner peace, joy and serenity in the good times, the not so good times and the down right not at all good times.

Sometimes it was not easy for me to bloom where I was planted and I would even catch myself thinking, I can't bloom here. I began to realize I can also plant myself were I can bloom. This was super helpful and I would make a conscious choice to "plant myself where I can bloom in the first place."  Other times I would find no way to "plant" myself where I could bloom.  Like the Jerry McGuire quote, "Show me the money," I would yell out, "Show me the beauty!!"  Even when I thought there was no beauty to be shown - it worked.

I pass this helpful tool from my mom to you.