Comments on: Choose Your Life Mondays #32

By: pixie

pixie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:34:38 +0000

My focus for the month is overwhelming me. I’ve created more work for myself than I can healthfully accomplish. Time to step back and rest and mother myself through the rough bits.
Joy comes in when I am conscious enough to ask for what I need, and the universe provides it in some form. I ask for it to illuminate my life this week while I practice gratitude and self-care.
I’m being energized little by little by re-reading the Heroine’s Journey, soaking in the tub (which I haven’t done since Ivy was born five months ago), foregoing outings to stay in and recharge while Brandon takes the kids out.
I would like to call in allowing myself to REST this week, leaving guilty projects on hold until I feel I can pick them up energetically again.

Thank you for this exercise, Jen-it always helps to name these things! xo pix

By: Mahala Mazerov

Mahala Mazerov — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:05:05 +0000

Have walked this day with questions “What brings me energy? What brings me joy? What feeds me?”

Living, trying to heal from Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome makes these big questions at the moment.

Today even my usually bliss-inducing acupuncture blew every circuit. I spent an extra hour on the table trying to recover & asking myself why I couldn’t absorb all the kindness & healing energy that prevails there.

My beautiful, Compassion Goddess doctor explained how my deficient life force was not yet strong enough to hold these.

Into my mind came the words “You can’t fill the vessel if the walls are cracked.”

So, while I wish you joy, light and energy, I also wish you the kindness I am going to give myself. Which is to let myself work gently on the walls and not try to force the good feelings I know are just beyond.

By: Josiane

Josiane — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:29:02 +0000

“What brings me energy?” –> I love this question! So much more effective than my old “I’m so tired of never having enough energy”, or even “I wish I had more energy”.
I’ll play with it and notice what answers come up… and maybe even act on what I’ll have noticed, but my conditions of satisfaction are at the noticing level.
Thank you, Jen!

By: Hiro Boga

Hiro Boga — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:46:44 +0000

Jen, my intentions often take me on a journey far from the shore of my life, and into uncharted waters. This is their gift and power. It’s also the challenge they offer.

So, to fill the container of the wise questions you’ve posed:

My intention is supporting me by shaking loose the old structures/strictures that have defined my life. Oh.

Joy . . . when I’m in the middle of an unknown sea, joy is the wind in my sails. I will cultivate and gratefully receive all the joy that offers itself so abundantly.

My friends, my son, books and music, the beach below my house, this waning summer–all give me energy and blessing.

The qualities I’ll call on this week: Faith, Beauty, Buoyancy, Gratitude.

Thank you for this lovely prayer of entry into the week, Jen.

Love, Hiro