Afternoon frolic at the beach

Where does anyone go when they want to clear their head, feel the elements, and hold eternity in a grain of sand? The deserted beach, where I spent a windswept yesterday afternoon.

I reached down and touched where the ocean caressed the sand– my eyes stayed by how the sun’s fire glinted off grainy earth, flowing water, and my silver starstuff rings.

My senses livened, I turned to face the strong north winds, and ran to the end of the beach with a smile I couldn’t keep from my face. At the end, sandblasted and sweating, I threw my hands up and plunked down for a spontaneous meditation. When my eyes opened, I wrote my name in the sand.

Freedom to delight in nature is our birthright. Claim yours, and do it often. Besides instant upliftment, answers you’ve sought spontaneously arrive, and a smile will get hold of your face and not let go.

I threw a kiss to the sky before saying goodbye.

Stargazing for Love

I was talking with an inspiring person and the topic of love was at hand. As was stargazing on a perfectly still night. I was reminded of all the nights I’d look up into eternity and with hope bursting in my heart wish for the love of my life to arrive and nestle in and stay. And I’d always get back an answer, immediate and full, that I was already loved wildly beyond my comprehension. Comforted then, no matter where I stood on the face of this great earth, I felt connected to the stream of timeless Universal Love.

We think love comes from us, but it seems to me larger than any one of us. It’s a force that animates and stills each of us, powers our existence, and we ride it all through our lives. We can be open and aware of it, or closed and ignorant of it, but it’s always pulsing, always at hand for us to turn our awareness on.

Love is always shining so bright from within and without that spending a few minutes in meditation, on focused openness to it, can bring spontaneous healing and unbounded overflowing joy. Tapping into the current of Universal Love, your bliss will unfold like the petals of a lotus flower, and the fragrance will be so divine you’ll attract in all the people and circumstances that will nurture your bliss all the more.

Feeling Love without having a physical form giving it–someone in the here and now– is one of the most positively transforming experiences you can have on earth.

I can tell you from experience, the upward spiral that ensues is everything and more than you’ve ever hoped for.

The stars smile sweetly on us and our dreams, for they know of timeless truths that we cannot yet see.

Love surprised me in my woodpile.

 

Green Tea

At present, I can think of no better way for most people to break into a healthier beverage cycle than beginning a new addiction to green tea.

Green tea is one of my key factors to maintaining a youthful and happy body. For years now, I awake and immediately get the kettle whistling and steep up a green cup. I enjoy a few cups throughout my mornings, and sometimes into early afternoon. And each day I feel the sublime ancient leaves channel their wise antioxidant powers into my being, enlivening my mind as well as my body.

Zen Buddhist monks drink green tea before they sit down to meditate. It helps them focus their minds to keep from falling asleep during their long sitting meditations. And while it helps them meditate, the green tea is also sweeping out free radicals from their bodies, keeping them sitting more comfortably for years to come. Green tea sweeps cobwebs out of mind and body for them, and it will for you too.

If you don’t already have green tea at home, you can buy it at any grocery store, and most other stores as well. You can buy organic, decaffeinated, and blends of green with jasmine, mint, lemon, and more.

I recommend drinking it freshly steeped and warm with no sweeteners. The aromatic depth should be drank straight up, no calories required for its enjoyment.

I raise my tea to your green tea addiction–Cheers, to lifelong health and happiness!

Leap Year Planning

So it’s leap year day, an extra day in the calendar! I decided to take advantage of this bonus day to do some extra planning for my blog, my biz, and set myself more firmly on the track to my goals.

On this last and extra day of February, I look back to see a month where I didn’t do any real planning, and I didn’t get anything really done, either–funny how that correlated!

What better gift to give myself on this bonus day, than a couple hours of concentrated, structured thought to help me achieve what I really want to do. And write down a daily action plan to get there. And then importantly, commit myself to it!!

If you are feeling similarly, gift yourself thirty or more uninterrupted minutes to do the same. Anything you’re itching to do or achieve should make it on the list. If you find you need more direction than this, go directly to the library, and find yourself in the self-improvement and biz sections. You’ll find your goal-writing/productivity gurus there. The library is full of people who write for their love of humanity and want to help us learn and grow. I’m a big fan of libraries.

I spent this whole month rather off the internet. And am I alone when I say, happily so? Except for posting a few thoughts or poems from an app on my phone, I did nothing for my blog. (A day hasn’t gone by that I didn’t think of you, though)!

But I’ve gotta say, the trade-off to spending ample time away from the internet was profound: I cartwheeled through Texas, got bit by a zebra while on a golf cart safari, enjoyed long conversation and adventure with loved ones, and read a variety of books that took me on journeys through time, place, and space, from authors I admire profoundly. And I rock n rollerbladed my heart out!

In closing, I am grateful for my technically nonproductive February, for the gifts of the spirit, heart, and mind it has given me. But I am ready again for action. Who’s with me?

Love

Feel Love coming at you today from all directions.

Laughing

When I’m a hundred, I want only laugh lines on my face.

A Hug from the Universe- Meditation

You’re an integral part of it — the Universe. All the stuff of the stars came together to create you. And here you sit, gloriously human.

It doesn’t always feel that way. Glorious to be human. We forget how infinitely important we are to that from which we came. And to make matters worse, when we let our minds settle in on the negativities of life, our emotions seem to take over. Depression can be the result, in its myriad of forms and symptoms. And that’s not you.

Call yourself back into your true nature with meditation. Meditating can have a profound impact on your mental state. Good things happen to those who sit with themselves.

What is it, and how can I do that, you ask?

Feeling connected to creation and your place in it is what meditation is for. If you haven’t tried meditating yet, you can begin. Whoever you are you can benefit from the effects of meditation: feeling more comfortable in your body, mind, in this life, and on this planet.

Sitting there comfortably, lengthen your spine up and relax your shoulders down.

Begin to deepen your breath, bringing it all the way down into your core.

Breathe deeply through your nose, continuing to feel how breathing is becoming your total focus.

Now let go of your eyes and close them.

Stay in it as long as your focus allows. Go with your inner flow of breath and when it returns you to reading this again, you will have meditated.

Every time you meditate it’s like getting a hug from the universe. A hug from the Big U. From your source, your home.

Step right up and get your Hug. Meditate today. Do it again tomorrow. Keep it up, you’ll feel the inner revival become you.

Remember who you are! You are glorious creation itself.