Nudges

I can easily find myself getting lost in the the constant ebb and flow of life that I find my focus becomes a bit…..

Blurry.
Scattered.
Random.
Askew.

Limited, not by life….but only by me.

At times it takes nothing more then the sweet, gentle caress of a passing breeze to nudge my inner spirit and re-awaken me to the path that is before me. Sometimes it takes a huge emotional catastrophe…..

Sometimes it just takes a broken car mirror.

I came outside my house last night on my way to the movies with friends…..and there it was smashed into a hundred and one fragments.

Jagged pieces of plastic strewn upon the street around my drivers side door. Random points in the darkness, illuminated by scattered reflections in the shards of mirror that lay motionless on the black asphalt.

All that remained attached to my drivers side door was a piece of dark black plastic that jutted about at a strange angle pointing slightly askew towards the road ahead of me.

Pointing me towards the road ahead of me.

I have gotten complacent in this journey recently…
Forgotten the path I stepped onto not so long ago…

Got lost in the minor details of wonder, simplicity and awe that is vibrantly painted upon this canvas of life with the colorful stokes of joy, happiness and well-being that oozes from the core of my being.

I had mistaken that in some way, shape and form that there was nothing more to be revealed.

Nothing more to pursue.
Nothing more to become.

I actually came to a place in which I felt satisfied..for a moment anyway.

And then the mirror……

Life speaks to me in ways that it knows I can comprehend. For some a broken mirror may be all they see, but for me I hear the voice from within that nudges me ever so lightly to tell me to keep moving forward…

There is more to be revealed…

More to learn…
More to see…
More to feel…
More to experience…

More to become…

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I found a new site the other day that offers prizes and money for online contests. If your a fan of games that involve using your mind, this may be the site for you! As a member of the site you have an unlimited amount of chances to solve each game, the first to do so then wins either a prize or cash, depending on the difficulty level of the game. For the cash payouts, obviously the games are more difficult and one has to use their brain an bit more.

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The Space Within

I got out of a long relationship a little over two years ago.

It was hard.
It was painful.
I cried a lot.
I hurt a lot.
I was angry with him.
I was angry at me.
I was extremely lonely at times.
I was jealous.

And then one day I was better… but not all at once.

It took time to heal those parts of my heart and my spirit that the relationship had harmed. It took time for me to begin to be able to take a realistic look at the men I would choose. I learned that for years and years and years, with all the men, all the relationships; Nothing had changed, they were all the same guy. One repeating the next, with the same characteristics, mannerisms, issues. Everything was the same……

The guy never changed…just his name did.

I didn’t jump into another relationship at the close of my last one.
There was no substitution.
No fill in…..

Just me and my feelings…exposed and raw.
Me alone with me, for the first time .

I did quite a bit of work on re-evaluating what I believed love to be; where my attraction stemmed from and what drew me to the same type of guy time and time again. I had to get to the root of who I was in order to weed out the point of attraction that compelled me, time and time again to the same type of guy that wasn’t right for me.

It took a long time.

I began to notice the change in me several months ago when the muscle head, macho guys just wouldn’t get me worked up inside the way they used to…in fact they became nothing of what I was attracted to. The truth is that no-one has caught my eye or my interest for a long, long, long time.

Until a little over a month ago.

I met him a few months back, but I never noticed him, never gave a thought towards him as being someone I would think of any further then a guy that hung around in the same circle of people I did.

But then something within me stirred and I saw him…really saw him

All I can say is that something shifted in me…
Something opened up…
Something within me became receptive to the idea of him.
Something within me started believing in the possibility of love again.

The truth be told, I stopped looking a long time ago. I finally came to a place within myself where I was okay with me and I felt I would be okay if I never found someone to share this experience of life with.

Talk about denial.

It has taken this to have me realize that the tumultuous relationships of my past had tarnished my perceptions on the ideas of love and relationships. I had settled for less then I was worth for so long that I began to believe that what I had experienced was all that there was…..

So I stopped thinking and believing that more might be revealed.

I stopped believing that one day I would find a person to love.
I stopped believing that I ever wanted children.
I stopped believing I would ever want to get married.
I stopped believing that there was any hope.
I stopped believing in the idea of love.

My heart which I have allowed to be open for so many years to the wrong people, became a commodity I hid away deep within myself….so deep that I forgot about the power of it.

I have found through my journey of self-discovery that many of the ideas, beliefs and notions that are centered in the idea of love and self-love all spring forth from the inner sparks of the spirit that just longs to connect to other people.

Longs to find the comfort, peace and serenity of it’s purpose that love is all that matters in whatever shape or form it manifests from within the infinite possibilities that exists within the space of the heart.

Life is about filling the spaces within……reserved for love.

…………………….

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The Spaces In-between

As a child, I had the freedom to wander upon the block that was in my neighborhood, much in the same way that the other kids who lived in the area did.

We had no such thing as “play dates”….we just knocked on each others doors and raided each others houses. Kids everywhere, in and out of homes and up and down the block we lived on.

Life was an adventure of sorts.

Our lives revolved around the block we lived on and for the most part the rest of the world did not exist. We knew of the other kids that lived on the other streets in the area…but since we weren’t old enough to yet cross the street alone, we ran in packs restricted only by the cross streets that divided us.

Magic existed in the places we had not yet grew old enough to venture forth into….wonder danced with the space that existed in-between those places.

Behind my house was a development that was formed into a huge circle of homes. It was a restricted “zone” because technically the voices of our parents beckoning us home did not carry that far.

We didn’t heed the restrictions they tried to bound us with for our own safety. We would sneak to the next block by traveling behind the houses behind our own. Traveling from our block through the little space that was created between the fences where one persons property ended and the next persons began.

It became a doorway to another place, another world.

The summer sun would lazily filter through the slats of the fences, illuminating it ever so sightly. Weeds, fungi, grass clippings, mushrooms, fallen leaves and undergrowth filled this area leaving just enough room for us all to climb through the narrow dimness one by one.

We knew that we weren’t supposed to go off of our our block.
We knew we weren’t supposed to climb through the fence.
We knew…and we did it anyway.

The excitement and anticipation of our imminent discovery if we were spotted by a neighbor added a twist of fear to our adventure. We would step carefully, taking care to move branches and twigs that blocked our way. Whispering, giggling and pushing our way through, we would suddenly become still, freezing in place, eyes growing wide with a panic if we though we had been seen.

At the end of the space, one of us would volunteer to be the look out and would be the first to dash across the bright green of the lawn to find the safety in the cover of the bushes in the distance. One by one we would each be signaled to make the same mad dash across the open field, till finally we would all be sitting together again.

Hearts pounding.
Laughing.
Eyes smiling.
Breathless.
Alive.
Free.

Life is like that when I choose for it to be.

Those moments when I stop listening to the voices of the majority that instruct me to stay in line, to stay within reach, to stay within the safety of what is known. When I step out in the adventure and the excitement of what lies ahead of me in that unknown space that exists in-between the here and the there that is delicately etched within the framework of a lifetime.

From the many paths I have traveled; with every step of uncertainty, every step of fear, every moment of doubt I have taken in this journey of my life. I now have a greater depth of understanding of the paths that lie ahead.

Moment by moment as I follow this voice within, it lovingly guides me from the safety of what I have known allowing me to discover how ultimately I am being led closer to myself…….I am led back towards the person I truly am at the core of my being.

In those spaces that are dimly illuminated off the beaten path of life, I find myself much the way I was when I was little….

Heart pounding.
Laughing.
Eyes smiling.
Breathless.
Alive….

Free.

_________

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What if you woke up one morning to realize that everything you thought you knew about life was wrong?

Would you roll over and go back to bed or would you choose to stay awake?

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I have allowed myself to be formed by the ideas and beliefs of others for most of my life. The result was the confusion I floundered in for much of my life as I struggled to fit myself into the molds of conventional society.

Wandering half asleep, I lived according to set of rules that had been spoon fed to me, never once realizing that they held no validity in regards to me being who I was.

I learned that who I was…was not enough.

Then I woke up.
Then I made a decision.
Then I took my power back.

I choose to stay awake.

There are points in time when I forget that this process of life is one of constant change and any place I may find myself in is one that is only leading me to the next point in time.

If I choose to listen to the voice within.

Day by day.
Hour by hour.
Minute by minute.
Second by second.
Moment by moment.

As I break free from the beliefs that do not serve me, I choose to walk upon the cosmic stepping stones that lead me forward in this journey of self discovery. Each step allowing me to remember who it is I really am and who is is I no longer will settle in being.

Day by day.
Hour by hour.
Minute by minute.
Second by second.
Moment by moment.

I see myself ahead….

The little girl I abandoned so long ago, who has waited patiently for my return to self, to rediscover the magic that exists within.

The magic that exists within all of us.

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It takes courage.

I have lived a crazy life.
I don’t have tales of great love
I haven’t experienced much of the lighter side of life.
I don’t have stories of all the places in the world that I have traveled.

But I have run through the darkened depths of despair that is the streets of addiction and I have survived.

I can share stories of the insane lifestyle that is drug addiction.
I can share stories of my struggles of getting clean.
I can tell tales of the inept social welfare system.
I can share about the misfortunes of life that have helped form, shape and mold me into the woman I am today.

I can share of the courage it takes to be exactly who I am.

Of all the situations and circumstances I have walked upon and through in this path of my life, the common thread of experience that runs through them all is the struggle I encounter with allowing myself to be exactly who I am.

With no explanations.

Every time I think I have come to some level of acceptance of who I am…I discover that there is always more to be revealed in relation to the continued process of me becoming more.

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It came to me the other day that as much as I write I want to continue to change my life, it never occurred to me how open ended that statement was. Change is an abstract word that defines no particular course of action. Because in my experience I have the capacity to not only change for the better…….but to change for the worse.

So I need to redefine the terminology I myself use in order to clarify not only to those who read this but to myself…

My purpose in not just to change, but IMPROVE my life.

I was cruising through the world of the internet the other day searching for information in relation to setting goals and creating a plan of action for my life. What I found is the same thing being written in 50 different ways that I myself couldn’t relate to or apply to my life in any specific way. I’m not claiming the information wasn’t good or positive, it just wasn’t anything concrete my brain could wrap around in order to begin building a foundation upon for growth.

My experience with setting goals of any kind is that they all were based upon this idea of change. I never had a solidified goal because it was so loosely built upon changing and not improving. The definitions of these words do not reflect the same meaning and before I can set a goal of any kind I need to recognize that the words that my thoughts build themselves on have to be definitions that apply to the desired goal at hand.

Improvement is a term I can understand more then change.

It’s the little pieces of the bigger picture that I’m discovering make a world of difference in my own understanding of the universe at large. When I started this experiment the intention I released was based upon the concept of change…I wanted to know could I change my life? I found out that yes I could…but the results of his intended goal are blurry much like the original goal itself.

For someone like me I need to keep myself grounded in reality. In order to for me to set any particular goals I must first know what changes I can make that will improve the chances of me actually achieving a goal at hand. I need to discover where I am exactly in this moment in every area of my life and then I can decide upon a course of action that can begin to improve these areas.

I have broken myself down into a few parts (although there are many more that make me up) As a way to start seeing myself, for where I am……

• Mental- My thought process and how I think about the world around me.
• Emotional-My feelings and how they respond to the situations and circumstances of my life.
• Spiritual-My beliefs…inner and outer about the world as well as myself.
• Physical- the actions I display in my life that are a cumulative effect of the above three(mental, emotional & spiritual)

I think the reason setting goals for myself have been so difficult is because I was always so focused on the ends that I never took a moment to look at the “means” of which I was utilizing in order to achieve any particular goal. I have used the information about life that I have accumulated by default and ran with it; never stopping to see that the directions I was following were wrong.

All the aspects of myself are a reflection of what I believe. My life is a reflection of what I believe. In order to improve the outer conditions in my life, I must yet again dive within to discover the aspects of myself that are wired with the wrong information…….

But for this moment in time.........

I am a person in the process of improving a little at a time each and every day!

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The Spaces In-between

As a child, I had the freedom to wander upon the block that was in my neighborhood, much in the same way that the other kids who lived in the area did.

We had no such thing as “play dates”….we just knocked on each others doors and raided each others houses. Kids everywhere, in and out of homes and up and down the block we lived on.

Life was an adventure of sorts.

Our lives revolved around the block we lived on and for the most part the rest of the world did not exist. We knew of the other kids that lived on the other streets in the area…but since we weren’t old enough to yet cross the street alone, we ran in packs restricted only by the cross streets that divided us.

Magic existed in the places we had not yet grew old enough to venture forth into….wonder danced with the space that existed in-between those places.

Behind my house was a development that was formed into a huge circle of homes. It was a restricted “zone” because technically the voices of our parents beckoning us home did not carry that far.

We didn’t heed the restrictions they tried to bound us with for our own safety. We would sneak to the next block by traveling behind the houses behind our own. Traveling from our block through the little space that was created between the fences where one persons property ended and the next persons began.

It became a doorway to another place, another world.

The summer sun would lazily filter through the slats of the fences, illuminating it ever so sightly. Weeds, fungi, grass clippings, mushrooms, fallen leaves and undergrowth filled this area leaving just enough room for us all to climb through the narrow dimness one by one.

We knew that we weren’t supposed to go off of our our block.
We knew we weren’t supposed to climb through the fence.
We knew…and we did it anyway.

The excitement and anticipation of our imminent discovery if we were spotted by a neighbor added a twist of fear to our adventure. We would step carefully, taking care to move branches and twigs that blocked our way. Whispering, giggling and pushing our way through, we would suddenly become still, freezing in place, eyes growing wide with a panic if we though we had been seen.

At the end of the space, one of us would volunteer to be the look out and would be the first to dash across the bright green of the lawn to find the safety in the cover of the bushes in the distance. One by one we would each be signaled to make the same mad dash across the open field, till finally we would all be sitting together again.

Hearts pounding.
Laughing.
Eyes smiling.
Breathless.
Alive.
Free.

Life is like that when I choose for it to be.

Those moments when I stop listening to the voices of the majority that instruct me to stay in line, to stay within reach, to stay within the safety of what is known. When I step out in the adventure and the excitement of what lies ahead of me in that unknown space that exists in-between the here and the there that is delicately etched within the framework of a lifetime.

From the many paths I have traveled; with every step of uncertainty, every step of fear, every moment of doubt I have taken in this journey of my life. I now have a greater depth of understanding of the paths that lie ahead.

Moment by moment as I follow this voice within, it lovingly guides me from the safety of what I have known allowing me to discover how ultimately I am being led closer to myself…….I am led back towards the person I truly am at the core of my being.

In those spaces that are dimly illuminated off the beaten path of life, I find myself much the way I was when I was little….

Heart pounding.
Laughing.
Eyes smiling.
Breathless.
Alive….

Free.