I'VE BEEN STUCK FOR SO LONG ...

It's funny how many blog posts run from my heart, through my head and then seem to dissipate into thin air.

I'm a Contemplative - I think, a lot. I reflect, assess, process, transfer information to varying sources and then apply it deeper with a focus that many reserve for work they are actually paid to do. I can't help myself - I'm convinced this behaviour is programmed into my DNA.

I like to think that it makes me a better person in the long run - albeit, my invisible contributions via a sound and balanced Presence doesn't go over well with those rooted firmly in the world as it exists in a practical, left-brained reality.

Which actually makes me quite frustrated with my own Self too - because I have a vital and dynamic left-brain that frowns regularly on the more Spiritual Self committed to Self Actualization at all costs.

I've been so stuck for so long.I have ideas - I even have visions of an Ideal Life I'd love to lead, contributing my gifts in service to fellow travellers on the path to connection, to wholeness and to rising above the living of life as we've been told it needs to be lived but instead, to live it in the way the more Spiritual amongst us tell us is possible; honouring our inner calling, bringing what we love to do into the world because the world needs more people who love what they do.

It's an interesting time right now - and people like us are possibly Pioneers to a more balanced and happy way of getting by each and every day ~ feeling blessed and grateful and content and not needing to be Rock Stars screaming out our existence and how we got here and how 'you can too' from platforms far and wide.

People like us - we can be the change we desire to see in the world. We can bring deep meaning and significance to ordinary acts that, when connected to other ordinary acts, can bring about a change that is so needed.

Do you feel that? Do you feel that a change is needed? I do. And I also feel that I can be instrumental in leading that change. And it is exactly HOW to do this that has kept me silent and away for so long. It's my Passage right now - and I'm learning and living the truth in the Garden Stone's wisdom depicted above: There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

I do things differently. I see things differently. And yet, I am me - so in that regard, it is difficult to recognize that what I do and what I see might be of any interest at all to others. I'll bet you've been there too - thinking you're all ordinary and not nearly as impressive as some of the voices out there - the ones going places with Followers galore and 'rocking it out' in the name of being anything OTHER than ordinary.

Something Different This Way Comes ... 

I'm about to introduce a series on this site that holds the intent of attracting kindred Spirits willing to engage in a meaningful process that honours this mantra I hold for my Self: Live Life Present and Awake with Clarity, Focus, Enchantment and Response-Ability.

I know that it is possible to go deep, to confront barriers and to practically explore Spiritual Concepts that are often presented in language and experience that seems impractical in the day-to-day realities we all experience. The magical and inspiring words of others can lift us while we read them - and then be forgotten once we've moved on to the next thing.

It doesn't have to be this way. It IS possible to have meaningful conversation about things that matter and to connect with others on a similar path for the mutual uplifting of us all. And in so doing, we make our individual worlds a better place - which then ripples out to Humanity as a whole.

Do you feel a similar pull to move toward something that will better align with who you sense yourself to be? Tell me about it - let's talk.

EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU JUST HAVE TO COME OUT FROM UNDER ...

I was driving in the car 30 minutes ago, on my way home from dropping one daughter off at her friend's house and getting back to pick up my other daughter and drive her to the place where her day would then unfold.
 

Feeling relatively happy, I turned on the radio just as the song featured in the video below came on. As I drove, I imagined myself dancing with abandon (one of my favourite things to do and something I don't do often enough, I am at my most 'connected' when lost in dance and song) ... and so unexpectedly, I filled up with intense emotion that cinched my heart, filled my eyes with stinging tears and left an impression like a vice grip was squeezing my throat.

"Where did THAT come from," I asked myself. Because it definitely comes from somewhere. Pain or yearnings or guidance is in us for the interpreting - waiting, patiently waiting for a portal to emerge through; a crack, an opening, a trigger of one kind or another that allows it to show up, full force, in a recognizable way.

So I traced back through the event, looking for clues. (You'll be happy to know that at this point, I'd already arrived home. I'm one of those people who are best not to Reflect and Drive at the same time.) And this passage that I read last July came to mind:

"Sometimes there's just too much to consider, too much to understand and analyze, too many consequences to play out in our mind, too many things to clean, unpack, or repair before we can go out and play.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so - just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up." (From The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo)

And therein lay my answer. The song itself did not impact me nearly so much as how, while listening to it, I imagined myself jumping up out of a chair, letting my hair down, and dancing, kicking, jiving, and jitter-bugging around a room full of happy, light-spirited people doing the same.

My Spirit emerged through the radio today to remind me that, every now and then, it's both healthy and necessary to give yourself permission to ease out from under every now and then - just walk out from under the roles you play, the responsibilities you carry, the challenges you face, the resolutions you seek; and allow your Self to be the Saxman playing like his soul is on fire.

Has this ever happened to you? Can you even remember the last time you put everything down and let your Spirit dance, sing, laugh, whatever makes you light up from the inside? Maybe you could carve out a little time today, or tomorrow, or even next week to heal and rejuvenate in this way. 

 

I AM SAILING ...

Welcome to Gentle Passage ~ a space for anyone and everyone moving through, under over or past something on the way to one place or another.  

Welcome Fellow Travellers, Journey Companions, Friends and Kindred Spirits.

Whether you are transitioning from one state of being to another, emptying of all that no longer serves you, elapsing into the flow of Life, seeking Inspired alternatives, all of the above or any combination of the above ~ stand with me here, at this point in our journeys where we have chanced to meet. 

Feel the gentle breeze reminding us that whatever we're facing is not all that there is.

Hear the sounds around us that desire us to know that as big as our challenges feel ~ we are bigger. And as big as we are, the Universe is bigger still. And in the grand scheme of all of it ~ birds still sing, leaves still rustle, children still laugh, rain still pings.

See that, in spite of how isolated we may be feeling ~ we're actually connected, so very connected; to each other, to alternative approaches, to compassion, to love.

Sail with me, through the passage of time ~ and together, let's create ourselves in whatever ways feel right, knowing that here, in this space at least - we are seen in all our Beauty, we are worthy of whatever healing awaits our attention and we are valued beyond measure.