Yesterday I decided to walk out my front door before I did anything else once I got up. It was an extraordinary experience to connect with Nature before doing anything else. Then I tore off the page on my Mary Englebreit Calendar to reveal the Daily Ditty and it was Must.Change.Attitude with a surly girl sitting there with her arms crossed.
I lit my pink candle that I have been burning for a while and I had cleaned the black soot off of the glass! What a difference it made! So this is what I wrote once I recognized what a difference that little action made.
All I needed to do is wash the glass to get the soot off the pink candle and now it’s like NEW! It’s the simple things in life. Really. But really what it is, is being present for life, being present for the joy to flow in. Open for life to really happen. Otherwise we impose on life, force life to conform with how we think it should happen. I had the the thought before turning my bedside light off last night, of being in the flow of life. Being present for what life brings. And how do I do that when there are so many things to DO. By just being present and allowing life. By letting go more. So I know life has amazing things in store for me, particularly right now. I have a pink candle, a fake fireplace and a brand new apartment on a busy street. I am loving the busy street thing (and I resisted it at first).
How to let it happen as opposed to making it happen. In my 20′s and even 30′s I was more able to let go. I remember Carly Woods commenting on how relaxed I was while skiing when I lived in Aspen and we were skiing together.
I’m already feeling the pressure of the day today. But what if… I just know it’s going to be a perfect day. From the seminar, “An Invented Life”, that I took last year with Landmark Education, I got the profound discovery that I am OK. Now I know that doesn’t sound like much, but when I really think about it, in the background of much that I DO, I am thinking I have to do something in order to be OK, to be acceptable to myself and to others. There is this constant angst that something is wrong… with me, with the world, and with me in the world. What if it was just all OK. What if I am always perfectly aligned with a perfect world? That was something that I came up with in David Friedman’s thought exchange one Monday evening. “
So I found this photo on line to express the thought:
“I am perfectly aligned with a perfect world”
