These are our thoughts feelings and experiences. We accept responsibility for them. We understand your journey may be different. We honor and respect that. Wishing you effortless joy. Eloise and Jake
You don’t have to dream for dreams to come true, you simply have to be grateful.
That is pretty much all I have to say. I found myself saying this, and realized that I do not spend as much time daydreaming, and yet, it feels like more dreams are coming true.
What it feels like is: The more I feel grateful, (not just think or act grateful) but actually feel grateful, the more blessings come our way.
I put far more energy into the present moment, than I ever have, and feel good about that.
I guess I still dream, but my dreams are about today not about tomorrow. Today I want to make a difference, Today I want to feel peaceful, Today I want to have fun. And I do. And things just happen that make the future hopeful and exciting. I stumble upon a good travel deal or a good idea. That if it happens it’s great and if it doesn’t it is great because all things are exactly as they are suppose to be.
What it feels like is: I am feeling so overwhelmingly grateful for all I have and think I can’t possibly feel any better, and then universe, the angels, the guides, spirit, God says: “Well let me show you that I am so much more than that, so I am going to give you more”. I used to think that getting quiet once a day was the key to a good life. Now I am thinking that getting quiet is about emptying the cup of the negative; releasing the toxins and then filling it back up with love forgiveness and gratefulness.
So continue to have dreams, but instead of dreaming, be grateful, feel it from your toes to your nose.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
blinded by your sight
These are our thoughts feelings and experiences. We accept responsibility for them. We understand your journey may be different. We honor and respect that. Wishing you effortless joy. Eloise and JakeBlinded by your sight.
This weekend my daughter and I went to the DIALOGUE IN THE DARK EXHIBIT. In Atlanta Georgia.
It was a very moving life changing experience. You are ushered into a room with 10-12 strangers, and given a 5 minute introduction, and a cane. Then the lights slowly dim until you are sitting in complete darkness, with no sense of light anywhere. For the next hour you are then guided ()very loose description) through many rooms, by another blind person. Now by guided they mean “given some direction by.” What you are doing is actually using your senses and your cane to get from point a to point b and trying to observe information about the journey while you move. Now of course you are bumping into things and people , all while feeling a range of emotions. There is a grocery store, an out doors experience a boat ride, that included walking a ramp onto the boat, maneuvering through traffic, and finally ordering a drink and paying for it, with real money, (in the dark). (with no one holding your hand or helping you).
My daughter and I had quite different experiences. But the things we learned about ourselves was very intense. The way I handled this hour of complete darkness is much how I handle life. I was so determined to be successful fearlessly and get from point a to point b without feeling fear, I missed the actual experience. In the traffic situation , the sound of the traffic was so loud and I felt over stimulated, so I turned it all off To get to where I was going. (In real life, I would have been killed because I turned it all off.) I did not feel half the stuff in the nature room or the grocery story or other places. I was just trying to get to the place I was going to. The guide said that sometimes sighted people are blinded by their sight. They miss so much in life because they become so dependent on what they see, that they stop feeling and knowing and hearing, and stop using any of the other senses. I would like to do it again, and this time just go with the flow.
I think the healer in me gets so fixated on being a light, that I forget the balance and beauty of dark. When it is dark, you no longer can trust in the traditional. You have to trust in the unseen, the spiritual the energy of life, yourself.
My goal for the day and tomorrow and this week is to be fully present in my body. To be aware of what I see, what I hear, what I smell what I taste and what I feel, and mostly what I know to be true just because I am aware in that moment. I will be grateful for my sight, and periodically shut my eyes to see if what I am seeing is real! For more information on the exhibit: http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com
This weekend my daughter and I went to the DIALOGUE IN THE DARK EXHIBIT. In Atlanta Georgia.
It was a very moving life changing experience. You are ushered into a room with 10-12 strangers, and given a 5 minute introduction, and a cane. Then the lights slowly dim until you are sitting in complete darkness, with no sense of light anywhere. For the next hour you are then guided ()very loose description) through many rooms, by another blind person. Now by guided they mean “given some direction by.” What you are doing is actually using your senses and your cane to get from point a to point b and trying to observe information about the journey while you move. Now of course you are bumping into things and people , all while feeling a range of emotions. There is a grocery store, an out doors experience a boat ride, that included walking a ramp onto the boat, maneuvering through traffic, and finally ordering a drink and paying for it, with real money, (in the dark). (with no one holding your hand or helping you).
My daughter and I had quite different experiences. But the things we learned about ourselves was very intense. The way I handled this hour of complete darkness is much how I handle life. I was so determined to be successful fearlessly and get from point a to point b without feeling fear, I missed the actual experience. In the traffic situation , the sound of the traffic was so loud and I felt over stimulated, so I turned it all off To get to where I was going. (In real life, I would have been killed because I turned it all off.) I did not feel half the stuff in the nature room or the grocery story or other places. I was just trying to get to the place I was going to. The guide said that sometimes sighted people are blinded by their sight. They miss so much in life because they become so dependent on what they see, that they stop feeling and knowing and hearing, and stop using any of the other senses. I would like to do it again, and this time just go with the flow.
I think the healer in me gets so fixated on being a light, that I forget the balance and beauty of dark. When it is dark, you no longer can trust in the traditional. You have to trust in the unseen, the spiritual the energy of life, yourself.
My goal for the day and tomorrow and this week is to be fully present in my body. To be aware of what I see, what I hear, what I smell what I taste and what I feel, and mostly what I know to be true just because I am aware in that moment. I will be grateful for my sight, and periodically shut my eyes to see if what I am seeing is real! For more information on the exhibit: http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com
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