…or endlessly distracted?
Ask this often of your heart, mind, soul, and hands.
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…or endlessly distracted?
Ask this often of your heart, mind, soul, and hands.
Often times we wonder, sometimes even to the point of not being able to make a decision, about where we should go with our lives, our relationships, or our careers.
We create an endless domino train of “if-thens” and, in doing so, never take the first step into what could actually and beautifully be.
What if our indecision is actually a lack of understanding about the flavoring combos of life?
What if we started to layer our questions about the direction of our days with questions about the flavors, harmony, and experiences we are truly after in this life?
What if we started with the bass note of joy and from there bounced ideas of peace, friendships, rest, weather, culture, and art until we arrived at a wonderfully calibrated milieu that was uniquely fashioned for each of us?
The video below is from Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago. I’ll let you take this metaphor from here.
…is tuning up…
…and it’s tuning into the key of ‘see’.
This a wonderful waltz towards transfiguration as we, as a body, start to embody being a body.
The media and your lizard brain will convince you that it’s moving towards something that is unraveling and that the arc is bending towards chaos. And you will continue to see it that way if that’s what you want to see.
But if we truly want to understand this and see with the eyes of possibility, we’re going to need to invoke our imagination.
Think of what we have in common..hope, heart, blood, beauty, sorrow, and soul. And the list stretches endlessly longer than what is different about us.
Won’t you be my neighbor?
The power we all possess is universal.
This power is gentle, wide, and unlike most things we’ve been schooled into thinking and knowing as powerful.
It isn’t so much about your work as it is about your awakening.
It is well learned in the roots and layers of things.
It knows that a lot of instruments, timing, and tuning must take place for the music to happen.
And then there’s force.
Force isn’t our friend, even though it will do everything it can to make us think so.
Force knows nothing of possibility.
Force can’t imagine a place of paradox to be true.
Force wins the match of the day but loses at the game of life.
Force is the opposite of flow.
But power…
Power loves the process of all things.
Power pursues compassion.
Power includes, transcends, enlarges, and enlivens everything it touches.
Power knows the possibility that is packed into the unity that comes with both individual the and the collective whole.
Power is married to patience.
Power is vulnerable.
And your practice with this power that you behold is the gateway to unlimited joy and open-handed ease with your days.
Smile.
You just flexed the most powerful muscle you have…your soul.
Crossed paths with some great words of wisdom this week…
“A house built at a crossroads is a house built on fear.” Roger W. Thompson
“Be open to it being way better than you imagined.” Mike Foster
When it comes to our most cherished relationships, Solidarity > Solutions. Bell and Joel
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