After mid-February, my mind decided to kick me in the butt with judgment, and I allowed it to dominate my being when I woke up, during the day and into the evening and even into my sleep. One night I could not get out the dark self-deprecating area of my head (everything was wrong and I felt trapped) and went to bed angry at the world and ended up having a horrible end of world disaster dream that night. How awful! I generally don't have dreams like that. In fact, can probably count on one hand the number of dark dreams I've had (or remember). Essentially, this judgment engulfed my cells and now.....it's enough!
What do you do when you hit this kind of mindless mush?
You know it doesn't serve you well. It makes life even harder. We all have our stories, our lives that we are currently creating following our own paths based on what we currently are aware of consciously - maybe you're awake or not awake - meaning, maybe you are sleep walking to deal with the pace of daily life as it can be overwhelming OR you're somewhere in between questioning the madness and wanting something different.
So, you have to ask yourself this. How long am I going to torture myself and stay in the mush? My experience has been, I can see that life seems to be going on around me regardless of how I am behaving. The only one that is hurting myself is me in this picture. Oops!
For me, the mind has often been a trap. It often disconnects me from joy and from living from the light of my soul's deep, inner knowing, and trusting this (important!). The mind is essential, don't get me wrong, as it helps to facilitate action (for one), HOWEVER, I truly believe the body and soul is our most accurate guide to living a well-balanced, happy and purposeful life. It is your compass... IF WE LISTEN (and I don't mean with the ear all the time.... I mean with the sensations in your body and the gut feeling in your soul).
Our worldly predicament gets in the way of this connection to ourselves all the time because we have allowed to believe everyone else instead of the truth we each hold inside. When we STOP THE MIND, and reconnect to the joy of being in our body (turn on the music and move or be still to sense your breath move in and out) and to the vision, unconditional love, endless comfort and source of positive energy our soul provides, we can get ourselves out of the confines of the mindless mush!
Don't give your joy away and succumb to negativity. Your dreams are real. Use your body and soul connection to guide you there...and then your mind will kick in to take action to make it happen!!
GOOD-BYE MINDLESS MARCH MUSH! You've served your purpose.
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
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Eyes opened. Snug under covers. Slowly becoming aware of morning light.
Thoughts immediately arrive. Recognition of what day it is emerges.
Negativity of past pains swoom in, replaying over and over. Spinning me down. Anger.
Tried to clear head. Live in the present is thought. No prevail.
Read devotion squinting through pounding sinus headache.
Stress and fear sank to pit of stomach.
Got up.
Made coffee.
Put oatmeal in microwave. Hit button. Broke down.
Tears of frustration.
Tired. Relentless work. So hard. No results.
Giving too much. Why? Tired. Not happy. Stressed. Burdened.
Breakdown. Comforted. Not long enough. Defensive walls go up in a flash.
Argument prevails.
Nevermind! Leave! Just leave!
I can handle it. Always do! Came into this world alone. Will leave it alone.
Apologies. Hugs.
Alone again.
Sit down.
Eat oatmeal. Silence. Tears flow, dropping into oatmeal.
Conversations aloud with God, Higher Source, Angels, Spirit Guides
Anyone listening!
Just me. My oatmeal. Tears dry.
Get ready for work.
Out the door. In the car. On the road.
Tears in my oatmeal.
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
You're allowed to feel what you feel. Life is not always easy and you can't always hold up and keep the stiff upper lip. Letting it go is necessary. It helps to move through the reality of your feelings. It actually helps you NOT to get stuck. So, let the tears flow when you need too. It's okay. You'll feel better and realize you are not alone, the feelings will pass, and you will get back up on your feet. ? For pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay connected!!
Seriously. Why do we dance around the truth? Wouldn't it save time and alleviate the build up of stress and years of misdirected pain and suffering if we would just meet our issues straight on! Why yes.... I believe it would Dear Watson... ha!
Of course, if it were as easy as 1-2-3, we'd all be experts at this, but we are not. We humans are much more complex with emotions, past imprints of false assumptions that replay over and over in our present, and conditioning from our past that often we aren't prepared because we don't have or know what we need at that very moment to take a different road, so we do "the dance". We do "the dance of pain", "the dance of resentment", "the dance of bitterness", "the dance of anger", "the dance of self-loathing", "the dance of ignore", "the dance of finger-pointing", etc. In my silly mind and imagination, when I think about all these "dances" strung together in a beautifully choreographed piece, it cracks me up! But from another perspective, let's look at this. Maybe it is the "dance of truth" at that particular place in time - for you. And maybe...that's just, well...absolutely perfect.
You can only show up as you are at that very moment. We are continually developing and growing (if you remain open to change and realize you never know everything). But "truth"? What is that anyways? Is it "your truth" or are you influenced by the "truth of others"? Is it your truth right now based on what you currently know? Are you following your own truth or the truth of someone else lived through you?
What the heck! Stop it! Quit analyzing and just throw up your arms and start dancing....and let YOUR TRUTH unfold.
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
Ready to rediscover 'YOUR DANCE" of truth? For more information about "funky"pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com
or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay
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This is the power that is in YOU. That's why
it is so important to take care of yourself by becoming very in tune
with who you are which includes what you are "putting out there". By
taking the time to move, explore and discover pathways to
support your body, mind and soul, life will respond well to YOU. Now,
that is awesome. I am so grateful we have the ability to take
responsibility for our own self. Do the work to unravel the mysteries of you to become your personal best - from the inside out. It is all about you, but in a good way. You are in control. Take the reigns and free being a "victim". Now, that is powerful.... not to mention nurturing and comforting all at the same time. xo
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
Ready to take your power back? For more information about pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay connected!! I offer coaching programs to help you move forward on your path of discovering YOU. To request a FREE 30min Discovery Session via telephone, sign up here. For find out where I'm teaching the Nia Technique, HoopnoticaFitDance or holding a workshop, visit my Event Calendar.
BUSY,
BUSY, BUSY! Most of us fall prey to these words given the pace at
which our lives move and it's not to say it is not real. It's very real.
However, as a receiver of these words, it can hurt if I'm longing for a
different outcome that would bring the love and warmth of connection I
long for in my heart of hearts. As a giver of these words, no doubt,
I've disappointed or saddened others as well.
Or... it may not be about a relationship, but that I've been in denial
about something more important that I need to take care of. Just
noticing as we move into 2014 that perhaps if we took pause a little
more this year without making ourselves so "busy, busy, busy" that we
would attend to what needs our attention most. Healing a wounded
relationship, nurturing artistic expression, having fun vs. work work
work, getting finances in order, etc. If you are using "busy" to numb
or avoid a situation that needs some fix'n....just notice...and do what
you need to do. Only you know....... be true to YOU. xo
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLCwww.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
Time to prioritize your "busy"? For more information about pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay connected!! I offer coaching programs to help you move forward on your path of discovering YOU. To request a FREE 30min Discovery Session via telephone, sign up here. For find out where I'm teaching the Nia Technique, HoopnoticaFitDance or holding a workshop, visit my Event Calendar.
The holidays are not always easy for everyone. It
can bring up the not so perfect parts of memories or the feeling of
inadequacy because your life doesn't fit that perfect picture this time
of year makes you feel like you must have. Silly, I know! But human
emotions can go deep and if there is still healing to occur, this
dysfunctional sensation can still be there. Nothing
is perfect. Not by any means. And when you think someone else has your
version of perfect... think again. In fact... don't think about it
all....JUST GET FUNKY... and get your own groove on! Why live someone
else's life anyway? Why let the media dictate how you are supposed to
feel and what your supposed to buy and how your supposed to celebrate.
YOU KNOW YOU! So just turn that internal groove back on and get down!!!
Life is to celebrate. To enjoy. To help one another through the hot
and not so hot times. We are all in it together and as soon as we let
down our formalities and stuffy conformed ways of being and realize that
we all are quite fun, unique and rather funky cool people... the better
off we will all be. SO GET YOUR FUNKY ON TODAY BY CELEBRATING YOU AND
YOUR TALENTED SOULFUL SPIRIT! Shake your groove thing! xo
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
Ready to let your hair down and get "funky"? For more information about "funky"pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay connected!! I offer coaching programs to help you move forward on your path of discovering YOU. To request a FREE 30min Discovery Session via telephone, sign up here. For find out where I'm teaching the Nia Technique, HoopnoticaFitDance or holding a workshop, visit my Event Calendar.
Love
this about Compassion. HeartMath sent this out in their Holiday email.
For me, the word "compassion" by itself immediately melts tension away
and removes all underlying currents of negativity that can emerge from
old thought patterns, past pains and softens my own anger brought about
by my perceived ideas of what is right and wrong in this world.
COMPASSION has the ability to wipe that slate clean - a kind of warm blanket that has the ability to
seep inbetween the grooves and smooth out those jagged edges (a sort of
pepto bismal affect on your inner being - ha!) and open up to a bigger
heart of understanding so you can breathe again. Compassion is expansive
rather than restrictive. Expansion gives room to breath and allows
movement in positive directions. So grateful humans are wired to
possess compassion. Now, if we could all practice nurturing this. I'm in
for COMPASSION. How about you?
Below is from HeartMath's founder, Doc Childre:
"At the core of our hearts I feel that we all care for each other and compassion is one of the highest ways to express our care. During this holiday season and unpredictable times, let’s remember to have compassion for those who are enduring hardships.
Compassion is a most powerful and intelligent frequency within the love
spectrum. As we unconditionally express compassion, it intuitively
chooses its own way to administer its care – based on a sensitive
attunement to the higher need of the whole. When pure compassion is not
tethered to our agendas it weaves its magic, sometimes visibly yet often
unseen, but never wasted as it nurtures all within its radiance.
True compassion allows for the highest-good to manifest, which in many
cases is not what our personality would project, understand or try to
control. Unconditional love, acceptance and allowance are the
underpinnings of compassion in its higher vibration of effectiveness. As
our human intelligence spirals to the next station of enlightenment,
then collective compassion will become the baseline for the new
authentic expression of ‘who we truly are.’ Compassion is love and care
manifesting in the most ripened state of effectiveness for the whole."
For more about HeartMath,visit: http://www.heartmath.org/
To your soulistic adventure,
Linda Parker
Creator & Founder
Soulistic Adventures, LLC
www.SoulisticAdventures.com
Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com
Time for some relief? For more information about pathways to move, explore and discover YOU, visit my website at www.SoulisticAdventures.com or join my mailing list below or Facebook link above to stay connected!! I offer coaching programs to help you move forward on your path of discovering YOU. To request a FREE 30min Discovery Session via telephone, sign up here. For find out where I'm teaching the Nia Technique, HoopnoticaFitDance or holding a workshop, visit my Event Calendar.
