We Are Evolving
I am, you are, Concentric Balance is as well. I just had the thought this morning that my life looks NOTHING like it did a year ago. That doesn’t happen every year. Last year I was living on the east coast in my own house on 45 acres… this year I’m living on the west coast renting an apartment. Last year I was working really hard on my business…. this year I’m building community. Last year I had a partner… this year I have roommates. Last year I was clear about what I was doing… this year I’m clear about who I am being. Last year I was settled… this year I my stuff is spread coast to coast and in between. At this time last year… I never would have guessed.
My life now… A-MAZING. I always knew there was more. The life I was living before never felt big enough for me. I knew there were others that felt the same and that things were happening. I knew I wanted to be a part of it. The tribe is gathering worldwide to bring in a new way of life and of connecting to each other and to source.
I am not alone in massive shifts and evolution in the last year especially. I find common stories all around me everywhere I go. This time is different. There is a level of consciousness happening with all of the deconstructing of life as we know it. There is increased trust, intuition and knowing so it makes the difficult human stuff that comes up through this kind of transition bearable. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you probably aren’t even reading this… but if you are, just tune in… watch, listen, feel, because no doubt there is something happening for you too.
Life is about feeling the depth of human experience through the full spectrum of emotion, connected and supported by the expansion and love of the entire cosmos. Connected, anything is possible and anything is bearable. To realize our spaciousness, our light… that which we truly are… Did I just profess the meaning of life?
Last year I had a mantra… created out of necessity to make it through my deconstruction.
LET GO, SURRENDER, TRUST
I must have tuned into that a hundred times a day. I had no idea where I was going. I had some idea of why I was letting everything go but even so, I believe there are deeper reasons than what I was aware of at the time or even know now for that matter.
Getting to where I’m at was definitely a birth canal. I went through it consciously… knowing it would be challenging but knowing and trusting what I was creating in my life by making the choice to do it. I encourage all of you to make that leap… that call that thing that you just know and yet can avoid for some illusion of comfort and safety. Is it your time to let go, surrender and trust?
So, I told you my mantra of the year which, like I said, I created as an aftermath to get through… but my word of the year… what I started with… RADIANCE. Living radiantly has been my passion and my message for a long time. What I didn’t know was that I was going to be taking it to a whole new level by being as challenged as I was. That is what a word of the year really will inspire… mastery. So did I live radiantly through deconstruction? It depends on what your definitions of doing so would be. Nope, I didn’t eat and exercise amazingly through it. What I did do however was love myself through it all. That is where true radiance comes from.
Now what? Who knows really. It’s an evolution. I’m living day by day and watching how things unfold. It became very clear to me through my process last year that I was living my life with a lot of masculine energy which is what our society really values and what is very normal for how we function in life. I’m fully swinging into the other direction to swim in the feminine waters for a while and see how that feels. I learned how to let go quite well last year and this year my word is RECEIVE with my new mantra…
RELAX, RECEIVE, LOVE
And with that, I am living my somewhat integrated life, sharing my journey and walking on the path with you. I’m turning Concentric Balance over for now… to what feels right now. Radiant Evolution is about imperfect integration. Loving ourselves through our own evolution, full spectrum radiance through the self-care, spirituality, community, creativity, movement, nutrition, mama earth, bodywork and love. What happens here… will not stay here. We are the ripple of transformation for the world right now.
What time is it for you? Is it your time to let go surrender and trust… relax, receive and love… or something else? What do you profess is the meaning of life? Please let me know… we are in it together. I love you.
In tribute to the old… this is Concentric Balance as we have known it. More changes to come as we evolve.
One year ago….
It’s my birthday today (36!) and the 1 year anniversary of launching my website…. which I can’t believe was only a year ago! So much has happened this year that it blows my mind. My entire life has changed this year, many times in many ways. It has been wickedly challenging and amazingly beautiful.
I worked really hard on my business this year… too hard.
The paradox is that I could judge that as being what was wrong in my life but it has also brought me what is right in my life. Many of my online relationships have turned into in person meetings and deep friendships. I am now creating the community and life that I really want with them. The amount of time I spent online last year created a lifestyle that I have come to realize is not supportive of the day to day life that I am now choosing AND I also can not deny the power of social media and having an online platform for making those deep connections.
That being said, I’m not willing to do it anymore. Not like I did. Not in isolation. Not without putting my life, health and community first. I know without a doubt, the less time I spend on my business the more I actually really have to offer (I might just be harder to find 
). This will have to be remedied by more help and more collaboration.
There are so many success principles that are about some level of sacrifice and perseverance. “We entrepreneur’s are willing to spend a few years of our life like most won’t, so that we can spend the rest of our lives like most can’t.” Honestly, I’m not willing to do it like that. Success to me is daily. It is not sacrificing the present for the future. It is living a life connected with what is real and true for you today.
I’m living in an odd universe right now where I am still undergoing deconstruction of my life and what the reconstruction looks like is still unknown. Certainly we always are living in the unknown with the illusion of a plan, and I don’t even have that right now. I suppose if I have a plan, it is a plan to take my brother and my nieces to the airport today where I will say goodbye to them for possibly a year…. I have a plan to go to Ali’s Farm and celebrate my birthday…. I have a plan to go to Burning Man. That’s it.
Reflecting on wins and celebrations this year, I am so grateful. I am grateful that even though it hasn’t always been easy, I see everything that has happened this year as a gift…
- Created Make it Real Make it Raw Detox Blast – A virtual raw food and yoga event with a dear friend Thomas Ratdke. Not only was the event a massive success and total blast… we couldn’t have had more fun doing it (working in partnership and collaboration works REALLY well for me!).
- I also launched the Love Letter to My Body project with the mission of raising awareness toward creating conscious relationships with our amazing temples that give us life. This project I will admit needs lots of promoting (please help – host a Love Letter to My Body party and send in your letters!)
- I worked with an amazing group of women in my Body, Food and Love program during which I had an awakening in my own body.
- I made really hard decisions to end my relationship, sell my land and house… give up the comfort, love, and security I had.
- Went through a very loving break-up in the name of truth so we could each follow our own paths, even though our path together was loving and supportive.
- Discovered intimacy to new depths.
- Speaking my truth, being open, vulnerable, real, raw, compassionate.
- Learning to receive love for who I am… shadows and all.
Intentions for this year…
- Continue to live in truth and follow my heart.
- Begin REconstruction… my life, values, business.
- Make a move based on community and lifestyle.
- Make meals with friends regularly (organic, local, farm fresh whole foods).
- Practice yoga in community regularly (no more isolation!).
- Collaborate and partner in business for fun and exceptional value.
- Work on how I show up for my family (ouch!).
- Community, connection, collaboration, creation, love, passion, intimacy, health, beauty, RADIANCE
Thank you all dearly for sharing this beautiful earth with me, for caring enough to stay tuned in through my massive shifts and for shining your light. The world needs you!
Awakenings – Living the Real and Raw
I don’t even know where to begin.
There are different kinds of awakenings people experience… and just to keep it really simple, an awakening is any time you wake up to something true for you. So we have all had awakenings of some kind at some point. I wanted to demystify this term to begin with (maybe because I’m afraid of freaking you out by using the term ).
I will admit, I have prided myself on being relatable, grounded, practical, non woowoo etc. so that I can easily bridge the spiritual world with our day to day realities. Well, lately, I’m not as good at being the bridge. I’m talking energy, shifts, transformations, awakenings and all kinds of stuff that feels like I’m speaking a foreign language to some people. I don’t like that because I do have resistance to being weird… but what the hell, I can’t deny it any longer. There’s a lot I can’t deny any longer.
If I could have brought myself to write, I feel like the last two months could be a book not a blog post… so we’ll see where this goes… I just knew I had to start writing again.
My last blog post was Real and Raw… all the beginnings were bubbling to the surface, yet at that moment, I had no idea what was to come and how fast it would all unfold. That is what happens when truth is recognized and honored. Warp speed.
So let me back up… what the in the *@$& has gone on in the last two months?
I was coaching with some amazing women in my Body, Food and Love program (and to be totally honest, I think I got more out of the program than the ladies in it… you teach what you need to learn right?? So DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!). So 1/2 way through the program I had an awakening… in my body. Unleashed was a deeper connection to my physical body through “source energy/ sexual energy/ creative life force energy” (see, I told you I’m spilling the beans on my alternate language). One of the realizations that I had from this body awakening was how I had shut sexy in the closet over 10 years ago.
There is way more to this story – for another time… but to keep it brief, I stepped out on a limb by teaching an impromptu workshop I called “Bringing Sexy Back” at Eden Unplugged (an unbusiness retreat for evolutionary entrepreneurs). Teaching that taught me 1.) The power of goddess sisterhood 2.) My work needs to have more in person connection. 3.) Every time I evolve, what I teach gets so much juicier.
After returning home, my last blog post (nearly 2 months ago) described how I was questioning if I had my entire life set up was in alignment with what I realized to be true for me.
Matt and I began the conversations.
We decided to sell our beautiful house and our magical land. We decided to walk our own paths, dedicated to what we each are most drawn to and how we each want to express ourselves in the world… separately.
I wasn’t walking away from a life I was unhappy with. I actually had given gratitude every single day for Matt (who is an AMAZING person, my teacher, lover, my solid ground) my house, my land, my life… deep, deep gratitude. What I was doing was giving up all that I loved most in my life. (Do you think I’m crazy yet, because I do ). And what I know was there was truth and clarity in the decision. Yes, I was happy, comfortable, grateful… AND I had ways in which I was not being expressed. Ways that I now can not turn away from.
Community, connection, spirituality, intimacy, feeling the rainbow spectrum of human emotions. I realized I had shut down a lot of feeling in my life for fear of returning to depression. I had maintained a way of being that was… comfortable.
I packed up the car to head to Colorado for the summer. On my way, I went to Espanola, NM to go to the Kundalini Yoga gathering for summer solstice. I had been four times previous and hadn’t been in four years… I arrived feeling really, really raw, crying my way into New Mexico, releasing my losses and feeling the fear of being fully with myself again (and connected to source).
Landing on the sacred grounds was home coming for me. There is much more of a story to tell here too… but in short, I continually got affirmation that my decision was right. I experienced all that I was leaving my life as I knew it for… deep intimacy, community, connection, love, common paths, divinity.
Now, this isn’t a fairy tale… what I have been facing (and still am) is excruciating discomfort, fears, my shadows, and standing in the fire. And what I know to be true… love, compassion, a free and truly open heart are the result of being willing to face and then love all that we deem as “unlovable” in each of us.
New realities are emerging for me. I will take you with me if you are ready for the journey
Real and Raw…
Sometimes life bubbles up questions that stir the pot in unexpected ways. I knew going to Eden Unplugged was going to be an amazing experience of connecting with a like-minded community and was open to more. What I got was… indescribable agitation that shook me up in good ways and challenging ways AND the most amazing authentic relationships that speak to the CORE that we are in this life TOGETHER.
What shook me up? How I have my life structured right now, my business, my relationships…. is that enough or do you want more?
So, right now… I live on 45 acres in a great little house with my partner. It is 10 miles from town on a windy road meaning 20 minutes drive. My business… working from home, connecting online and over the phone. I travel a lot which gives me bursts of outside connectivity. But generally, my life is set up very isolated.
Now the question is how do I set up my life, business and relationships so that they reflect what I want? What do I need to give up in order to have a life that has community, connection and truth at its core? What do I need to structure and create to support that? Are my partner and I aligned? Do I need to move? Do I need to create something collective on our property? Do I need to do more of my business in person?
Restructuring life can be painful because with each new thing there is something you have to give up. It takes staying in truth to make decisions to change. And support. I am grateful to have coaches, friends and a new community to navigate new territories with!
How about you? Is your life resonating with the core of who you are? Are you at peace in you body? Do you honor your health? Are you happy with the food you eat, the way you look and the people in your life? Do you have the support you need? Can I help you? Contact me for a complimentary stepping powerfully into the life and health you really want strategy call with me!
I stand in truth.
I stand in integrity.
I stand in connection.
I stand in community.
I stand in love.
I stand in witnessing the breakdowns and the build ups.
Confession
I have to admit sometimes I wonder what I am doing having an internet based business. It’s hard to do a “launch” and continue putting myself out there so the people I can help can find me. I confessed to my new assistant, Stacey that it would be easy for me to drop the ball on marketing completely (which really is the reason I hired her). I know that I need help to continue moving forward when I get stuck. I know that having systems in place to support you is the only way to really make sure things are being done without the chaos and overwhelm (that goes for systems for your health and wellness too)!
Marketing isn’t easy for me (in fact it makes me want to vomit sometimes, sorry to be graphic) and the thing that moves me forward is that without it, I can’t help more people.
Touching lives keeps me going.
I wanted to do my business online so I could help more people and not just more people, the right people. It’s easier to find your tribe online in many ways. I’ve connected with countless amazing people through facebook and twitter. The rewards are deep but don’t come without coming up against walls.
It’s an evolution and a path we are all on. Each of us sharing our gifts even through the challenges we have. I said to my mastermind at our last meeting “As leaders our struggles are what make us human and it is what we have overcome that make us an inspiration” (my first famous quote, or at least that I can remember .
Thank you for being a part of my community through all of the evolution – yours and mine!
Besides my confession, I also made a big mistake in the s.p..a.m department in an email I sent out the other day which means a HUGE percentage of my list didn’t get the email because it bounced all because I used the word f…r. e* e without periods and * , yes that is why every time you see that word it is dressed up funny. S. p a..m filters just chuck the email back at ya. Boomerang baby.
So here’s the deal. Because it was the email that had the recording of my encore call as well as had announced my bring a friend for F. R…*E. *E offer… and because baby, I want to serve as many people as possible RIGHT now… I’m bringing back the offer this weekend.
There are no good excuses. Grab a buddy, buckle up and take a really fun – powerful – and transformative ride with me through wonderland to create a relationship with your body that you love, feel freedom from your struggle with food and create vibrant health with ease. I promise not to bite, not you anyway. www.bodyfoodandlove.com
Creating Deep and Lasting Change
Ok, change sucks sometimes right? It feels hard to get where we want to be and sometimes even impossible because our old patterns seem to control us. Skepticism comes in to tell us that it’s not really ever going to work… and optimism can come to say ok, this time I’m doing it right only to feel the disappointment of failure again. If you’ve failed many times on the promises you’ve made to yourself, I’m here to say… congratulations! “One fails forward toward success.” ~Charles F. Kettering
The saddest thing to me is when someone stops trying. That is the only way to truly fail. If there’s that part of you that finds the inspiration to make the New Year Resolution or what ever it is, to create what you really want… to continue the inspiration and belief in yourself is a beautiful thing.
I was in a relationship with an unhealthy dynamic where every time I decided I wanted to make a change I would express my intentions then fell off the wagon and would get criticism that I was “all talk and no action”. Hmmm well, what am I supposed to do… not believe in myself at all?
Well I’m here to say after years of struggling to change… there are still changes I’d like to make that I haven’t AND there are A LOT that I have (including losing nearly 40 pounds). I’m getting better and better at knowing how I work and what I have to do in order to make changes. I’ve gotten a lot of support through the years and have realized that we are meant to be interconnected and not independent warriors on the quest to perfection all on our own. We can learn our strengths and weaknesses and then learn how to work with them and get support where we need it. In my own life, I have realized trying to be good at everything and do everything myself is a waste of my time.
Creating deep and lasting change comes down to this…
- Getting Clear on what you REALLY want.
- Knowing what actions you need to take to get what you want.
- Associating joy and love with those actions. In other words you have to align your mindsets and feelings (how you do something) with the practical actions (what you do).
- Take action (what you do) inspired by love (how you do it).
- Always make your life an exploratory, sensational, inquisitive journey and be present for the ride.
- Surrounding yourself around people who believe in you and support you.
My GIFT for you today is a tool I created for myself that is in my Body, Food and Love program. It is what I call my Daily Divinity (Click Here to download pdf) and it is my “scheduling” tool of sorts. Since organization and schedules are not my talents… I had to dig deeper into my creative and transformational wisdom to design a system that worked for me. It is based on the foundation above which comes down to “what you do and how you do it” which is where success comes from.
Body, Food and Love which is structured in these foundational principles starts THIS MONDAY! Don’t wait, create inspired action now and get support from me all along the path to success. Join Body, Food and Love today!
Do You Need a Big Fat OVERRIDE Button?
Here, I have one for you 
It happens to all of us. A loud “I don’t feel like it!”, well then what? Sometimes it’s okay to retreat, indulge, take a break and sometimes you need a BIG FAT OVERRIDE BUTTON (Yep, so I made you one… two actually, I got a little carried away).
So when do we need the override button?
Decide on 80/20 rule. That means that 80% of the time you are taking care of yourself, your life, your business in a way that meets your big picture and 20% of the time you indulge, relax your standards and sin! If your rocking it – up it to 90/10!
This doesn’t necessarily mean the override button is being pushed 80-90% of the time because I would guess there is a large percentage of the time that you are feeling great about living up to your big picture, eating healthy etc. (if not maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your big picture or have some coaching to find out how you can be feeling great about your choices). So it’s really asking the question in the moment what percentage you are operating at and making the choice from that whether it is time for the override button or time to sin!
Here’s what I mean by all of this…
Have you noticed, when you start “behaving badly” it’s easy to slip into worse and worse and the next thing you know you’ve totally slipped into habits that aren’t supporting your big picture (whether it’s being healthy, losing weight, getting life and work balanced).
On the other hand when you are totally rigid with yourself and your goals you can burn yourself out, be too hard on yourself and lose the focus on enjoyment.
Be honest with yourself – it’s easier to look at one day at a time. What did I eat, did I get movement in, did I stay focused on what I needed to with work, did I take time for myself? Whatever the big picture is that drives you and see what are your percentages. Do you need to give yourself a break or do you need the big fat override button to get out of your own way and into your dreams?
PS – Do you need help with what your “big picture” is? Check out my post on What are your Deepest Desires and there is a FREE download of a worksheet to help you out! If you need more help let me know - I’m taking a few private clients right now.
PSS – I wasn’t kidding I made these OVERRIDE buttons for you (okay, well for me too)… feel free to snag off the site or if you want a bigger version to print out and have handy for those times of internal war, let me know and I’ll send ya one!
What Happens When You Hate Yourself?
I was irritated… not all day but once I was, it felt like it had been all day. Then, I watched a video of a colleague of mine who was talking about her total transformation and how amazing her life is today.
I noticed a bitter, “well, I’ve had these amazing transformations, realizations, and life shifts and here I am grouchy, irritated and now I’m judging and comparing myself on top of it. Way to go, don’t you know better than THIS by now? How competent are you if you’re not perfect, living the perfect life to help others?”
Bitter, bitter, blah, blah, blah. It was time for yoga. I didn’t want to go. I forced myself anyway thinking, I’ll feel better if I do.
Then, I was there doing yoga and hating it. I thought hmmm, I thought I was going to feel better but maybe not, maybe I’ll just hate myself fully right now. Get down and dirty and hate. So I hated the room, the people, myself, my practice, my thoughts, yep lets just do it and do it well.
Of course, what happens when you stop fighting the feelings, fully allow them and exaggerate them? It becomes ridiculous. And fun actually. I allowed this play of all of my negative thoughts and feelings to come out in my head. Instead of struggling to feel better. Instead of hiding or ignoring… come out and play.
People may say, “well you don’t want to do that you are attracting what you think about”. Here’s the deal. To go deeper into the thoughts and feelings can be very revealing. To exaggerate them allows you to feel what is present for you in the moment and opens you up to the possibility of truth and how you really feel which, deep down hatred and negativity aren’t feelings of truth.
They are feelings of fear and resistance. Fear you won’t be enough and resistance to your greatness. The truth is, you are enough and you are great.
Now this was in radical contrast to an experience I had a few weeks about in yoga. I walked in, sat down and presence filled me up. An awareness of the whole inside and out side of my body. It was effortless to be 100% present and in love with my body and my movements for the entire class.
There was intention and it was easy. I thought, “why don’t we do this all the time, everyone should experience this, it is amazing”.
Embodied beauty, presence, light, connection, truth. Wow.
Well, had I just written about that experience at that time, as amazing and truthful as that was, I’m glad I hadn’t gotten around to it. Because here, now, I can present the opposite ends of the spectrum, a class where I filled myself with love and one with hate. They both, oddly enough, brought me to truth.
Note on the hate thing: Give yourself a time limit . Allow all icky, sticky, messy, junkie, pukey thoughts and feelings to come out to their fullest and beyond (all in your head, don’t go around creating mass destruction). Permission to feel more and more until your head starts saying, now wait a minute this is totally not even true. The key is for you to tell yourself how long you are allowed to be there (15 minutes, a yoga class, a shower, an hour) and hopefully your thoughts have naturally shifted and there is no need for the limit. BUT if you’re still grouchy and pissy, it’s time to bring in the compassion comrades, inspiration invaders and wisdom wizards as there is nothing productive about stewing in your meanness indefinitely. Who and/or what are your compassion comrades, inspiration invaders, and wisdom wizards? You better know BEFORE you need them! Love to you. You are enough. You are great. Just as you are.
By the way, just a reminder in case you’re feeling down about having bad thoughts… you aren’t your thoughts anyway 
The Legacy of a Radiant Heart
My Dad with his Grandbabies (Ooops I meant big girls!)
I have a personal story to share with you today. My brother and his family which include my 2 and 4 year old nieces are moving out of the country this week. While this is very exciting for them to go live on a tropical island and enjoy a very different lifestyle than they are used to, it has been very hard and sad for myself and for my parents especially. They have been a significant part of the girls lives on a daily basis since they where born.
When I was home over Christmas my mom, dad and I went on a walk and talked about how they are dealing with the transition. My dad, who has been the absolute most amazing grandpa, playful, patient, teaching them everything from skiing to riding their bikes, was in protection mode. His heart broken from the thought of not being in their daily lives.
I told him that his open heart is his legacy. To remain open even when it’s painful is to put the vibration out that those little girls will feel and remember no matter the distance. The reason I say this with certainly is because that was what I experienced with my Grandpa Fred.
He was from South Africa and said my name with a particular accent I will never forget. He was the kind of man whose smile lit up a room… we all have encountered someone like that. Someone who has an open heart, positive attitude, and a kindness for everyone they encounter. Someone with a radiant heart.
The impact my Grandpa had on me was so strong that I choke up every time I tell the story of seeing his blue eyes for the last time. I was 13 years old and he was in the hospital after a stroke. He wasn’t doing well and yet I sat by his bed side and he looked at me and the twinkle still shone through. Amazing really.
This was a quote given to me by my grandpa which really was what he lived by,
“A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive it, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is to poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature’s best antidote for trouble. Yet, it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile as much as he who has no more to give.” -Anonymous Author
My parents are wonderful people, awesome parents, and spectacular grandparents. Grandparents are golden and to shine your light on those little ones will mean way more than you will ever know.
Sending my love to my parents, the biggest hugs ever to my nieces, and the most awesome life change for Ryan and Bridgette.
Happy People Aren’t Mean
Isn’t that true? When you feel truly good are you putting people down? I’m not faulting unhappy people, actually the opposite.
Have compassion. This truth, that happy people aren’t mean is liberating because you realize their behavior is not a personal act against you. Then you can recognize that compassion is actually a healthy response toward someone who is “being mean”.
Gulp. Compassion to someone being mean to me?? Do you feel the resistance? The righteousness of your justified conviction that they are wrong and mean and therefore you have a right to be mad or mean back. Or maybe just hurt and victimized. Either way, you’re reacting.
Whew, I’m really handing it out to you aren’t I? Self responsibility 101, stand up, take ownership of how you feel… no one can make you feel anything.
I remember when I first heard that in a psychology class in college. We argued with the teacher endlessly about how other people COULD hurt us.
A couple years later, through The Work of Byron Katie... I finally got it. We are 100% responsible for our own reactions. The world does what it does and we always have a choice on how we meet it.
Where did this post come from anyway? At my local yoga studio after class the other day, I had a fabulous talk with two lovely ladies and was being enlightened to the ways of the mean world out there (I live in my own little world of generally very nice people). We live in a University town and these women were talking about some pretty shocking behaviors of some of the students.
Closing my mouth after noticing my jaw had dropped, I collected myself and said “happy people aren’t mean, so just know they are suffering and have compassion”.
As I said, I live in a bubble of sorts, which I have no problem with. People can criticize this and I know that the truth really is that we do create our realities. So people can say (and they have many times, after all I grew up in Aspen, CO) “you don’t live in the real world”.
The real world to me is real people. Truth, compassion, awareness, love through all of our ups and downs. This is the reality I live in and in my opinion it is far better than living in the world consumed with hate, fear and unconscious behaviors which so many people refer to as the real world.
Instead, creating your world and being a happy person requires compassion. As soon as you’re reacting with anger, hurt, or otherwise, you have become an unhappy person too. First there was one and now there are two unhappy people.
When you respond with your compassion, you are creating one happy and possibly that will ripple effect into the two… and three and more.
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