Friends,
Here’s the AUDIO for today’s Transformation Tuesday.
The other day, my sweetheart and I visited some friends at their delightful new home in almost rural Marin County, north of San Francisco. As I sat in a coffee shop, waiting for my cup of tea, a very elderly, very lively woman approached me.
She declared loudly: I love your HAIR!
I smiled and thanked her, then we talked for a moment. She asked why she’d never seen me before in what must be her everyday stomping grounds. Then, selling me hard on this little beautiful village, she pointed out her home on the top of a nearby hill and lovingly described the decades of her life that she’d spent in it.
As we parted ways, she said:
“I HAVE A MOTTO.”
*Insert mischievous eye gleam here.*
“DO WHAT YOU CAN WHILE YOU CAN!”
She nodded her head once, definitively, then took off.
This woman was aligned with the flow of life.
Her “do what you can” was all about adventure, and even our little interaction showed it, in a tiny little way.
She was saying: Say what you feel. Take risks. Talk to people you don’t know. Be generous with compliments, giving and receiving. Have adventures. Dive into life. Focus on what you CAN do now, versus allowing your consciousness to dwell on lack or shortage, on what you can’t.
(Side note: It’s hard not to think about something you’re trying not to think about. But by DOING—by diving into something you would love to do and can actually do now—you can change the subject from lack to abundance without even having to work too hard.)
And her “while you can” could be construed by some as a life-is-short-time-is-scarce comment. But that wasn’t the spirit behind it at all. As she spoke it, that comment was a little life lesson about the value of this present moment.
It was a lesson to inhabit this moment and this life fully.
Inhabiting life fully involves fully expressing yourself and creating what feels alive for you. It involves full inhales and exhales, alternating between rest and activity, giving and receiving.
Inhabiting life fully requires releasing constriction and restriction, and being wholehearted in how we live. Not perfect, not even trying to be. Just wholehearted.
Inhabiting life fully involves cycles of experiences that expand our capacity, if we look for the expansion and receive it.
Inhabiting life fully involves inserting yourself more and more fully into what Victoria Castle calls the Cycle of Abundance, not by forcing or hard effort but by simply aligning with the natural, prosperous flow and energy of this Universe.
It involves releasing past stories and past traumas, releasing whatever you might have long been hiding from or holding onto, and moving forward in life: gently and easefully, without judging yourself or rushing the process.
Today, reflect on or write about this: With all of this context, what do the following 3 statements mean for your life or inspire in your spirit?
- Do what you can while you can.
- Inhabit life fully.
- Aligning > (is greater than) forcing.
Head up + heart out,
TNN
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