* Janet is currently on a 4500 mile motorcycle trip.
Early in a journey, you have wide open eyes
That survey the scenery and scan the horizon.
As that journey progresses, fatigue starts to set in,
And at times all you can think about is getting to your destination.
You fail to even look at the sights around you,
Focused instead straight ahead.
That is a handy analogy for life.
You all have your sites set on a particular goal,
A destination,
But as the fatigue of “life” starts to drag you down,
You loose out on all the beauty and wonder and miracles
that are right beside you.
And you overlook any signs along the way that are there
to ease the tediousness.
When on this ride, Janet starts to get tired and zone out,
She misses the wildlife, the waterfalls, the spectacular
Clouds and rainbows that are all around her.
Then she gets to her destination and realizes…so what!
“I’m here!
And in conversation after some rest, realizes what she missed.
Don’t let that happen with the bigger palette of your life.
Don’t zone out and miss what is all around you.
Enjoy the journey as much as the destinations,
For once your are “there”
You’ll wish you were on the road again!
This is a great time to examine your relationship to promises
Made in your life…to yourself.
“I promised myself I would never….”
Eat after midnight,
Date a man under 6ft tall,
Swim in dark water,
Leave the house without lipstick,
Wear shorts,
Get into debt,
Live in a cold/ hot climate,
Laugh again in church 😉
You get the picture.
Do these promises you make to yourself still serve you?
Some of them date back to such a different time and energy,
Some even back to childhood!
Sometimes very ernest promises we make to ourselves,
Turn hard and rigid,
They are born out of fear,
Of humiliation, or regret.
And they can hold you back.
They become a bad habit,
And because you call the a promise,
You WILL NOT BREAK THEM.
Please reconsider.
It is a new time and more importantly,
A new energy!
Keep the promises that move your life in the direction you desire,
And break all the rest,
And have fun doing it!
Slavery of the Soul
Always unintentional
But so easy to do!
You disregard the yearnings of your soul,
In favor of a “safe” existence.
Your master is your head and not your heart.
That is like walking thru life with shackles,
With leg irons so heavy that each step is tiring.
And THAT is a sure indication that your living
the life of an indentured servant,
subject to the wants and whims of others,
Losing site of your true nature, and what makes YOU happy.
When that happens, it gets harder to wake up in the mornings,
You are so tired all the time.
You feel the chains of the expectations of others
Weighing you down!
Break free!
Emancipate yourselves!
Break all the locks, remove the chains of living
Someone else’s life,
Slavery of your Soul is
Like a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
(written surrounded by the red rocks of Zion National Park)!
What we mean by this is that
Out in your world right now
there are some boiling,
roiling,
simmering,
emotions
held within a seemingly porcelain veneer.
This can be confusing.
You are much more comfortable when
the inside matches the outside,
especially in regards to emotions.
You are witnessing cracks in the delicate
but useful way that certain people have
been able to mask their emotions, and operate
In the world.
When someone who looks to all the world as if they have it all together,
Starts to hiss vitriol thru a smile,
or a person who up until recently has been very measured,
all of the sudden is quick to anger, even throwing things,
and looks to be having a “meltdown”,
THAT can be disconcerting…
For you
And for them.
The healthiest, way for your mind and body,
Is always to feel your emotions in the moment.
We do not mean being their victim,
Or being a slave to them.
The goal is to feel them as they come up.
If you do, they stay appropriate.
By that we mean, there is no
“Over reaction” because things have not built
up and boil over at something trivial.
As we are always saying,
When you see this Tempest in a Teapot
Practice compassion.
When the flowers on the porcelain fade,
And the simmering of all their emotions,
causes the pot to crack or overflow,
or break altogether,
Have compassion,
Even if it is you!
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