This simple sentence has been the crux of my life for the last week and a half.
"The Shortest distance between two points is a change in your perspective". -Donna Hummingbird
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Why is it that discomfort is actually a good thing to be experiencing?
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"The shortest distance between two points is a shift in perspective."

-Donna Hummingbird

As I'm facing a specific fear these days and I must shift my perspective from one of fear to one of trust. I have these moments of beautiful trust and then it feels like this fear gremlin takes over and I close even tighter.  It's this strange dance between open and closed, fear and trust. This is what my acting coach called a 'fusion'. A fusion is when you are shifting from one paradigm to another  in your internal approach to the world.  It's a place of "either/ or "and also this strange place of limbo where anything can happen.  I've gone through several of these fusions over these last few years and what I've come to know is: 1. when I'm having one 2. that it'll all even itself out in the end even if right now it's taking a lot of energy to hold the space open for what I want to come to me. Breaking habits take work. But  this work brings satisfaction in the end.
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Chaos. 09/23/2010
 
"The greater the chaos, the closer the solution".

-Chinese Proverb

I love the God Ganesh. I love what Ganesh represents: the placer and remover of obstacles. The only way to get Ganesh to remove an obstacle is to lay prostrate to the very obstacle that you feel buried by.  Great! So what does that mean? Well, if you're having a relationship problem ask what it is that you are afraid of happening and let the chaos in your mind and body go wild. Here is the challenging part: standing still and firm when your insides are telling you this problem is unsafe to be around. This is precisely when you give over and let your insides go wild and just feel it. It will subside: Ganesh will remove the craziness and you'll find the peace that you've been looking for.  So, when your significant other asks you to do something you don't like and you feel anger or frustration, ask yourself why you're feeling that way and watch the feelings going on inside your body and see what they tell you. You'll get some answers that will make this problem, not so much a problem next time.
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Conditions. 09/08/2010
 
"The novice uses conditions as their primary motivator. The genius is driven by vision." ~ Ryan Biddulph
Be clear about what you envision. Don't think about 'how' to accomplish it.  Then listen to your instincts and follow your impulses.  That is the road map through obstacles when you feel blind.
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Trust. 08/25/2010
 
"You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding your robes dry. Dive naked a thousand times deeper. Love flows there."     -Rumi

Trust then take that risk that you've been holding yourself safely away from: ask that person out, quit your job and start your own company, learn how to swim, etc.  This can be easier said than done, but the freedom that accompanies courage is always something worth striving towards.
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You. 08/11/2010
 
"The problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you ...more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself .. . it doesn't want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up." -A.H. Almaas

I had a hostile interaction with someone yesterday. I stepped on her toes by accident and she felt it her right to insult me on several points. I apologized and explained my intention to her, but she felt as if I had abused her and would hear nothing of my side. This is surely a situation where I could have chosen to 'react' and dish it right back at her, but instead I took a moment, centered myself, and I chose to suggest a compromise.  I did nothing wrong, she just had a different idea of how things were supposed to be. And here is where the lesson for me was: " to take care of myself". Had I flown off the handle I would have felt more awful than I already felt and had I not suggested a compromise I would have felt even more awful too. Though in the past I would have swung to either of these extremes and hated myself for both.  So this interaction was a road block, but I finally learned how to maneuver around the black with grace and that is just what 'you' wants.
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Balance. 07/28/2010
 
"To be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia

To make things work, balance is the key. It's easy to look at a quote like this and feel a bit overwhelmed by all that it requires, but if you check in with yourself you'll see that it's likely that you have some of these already integrated and really there is less work than you think. We balance things effortlessly everyday and we learn to put more into the balance by wanting more. We'd get awfully bored if there wasn't some kind of challenge waiting for us around the corner. It's a gift to know  that we can grow to fit our needs while continuing to keep things balanced.
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"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from the movie Six Degrees of Separation

I just love this.  I've had several visitors this month and my next one is coming in today. Each person brings a new perspective with new thoughts and experiences. I love that I can be granted entrance into each person's world cause they each feel different.  I think the 'feeling' you have with someone is the key to the terrain each person's world has. Some are bumpy and foreign, some are like sliding into a warm bath, some are explosive, some are dangerous. Noting how you feel around someone and what world they bring to your world can give you a clearer sense of who you are. It's really beautiful.
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Nuances. 06/30/2010
 
"Contrary to what society says, when you hear the whisper in the wind, see the words jump off of a page, feel a touch when no one is there, or smell that lost memory in an empty room... these things point to your sanity, not your insanity." - Katrina Mayer

Treasure those nuances and allow for them to grow into vibrant entities. Those are the things that make us human. If they weren't there, we'd be robots. Life can get so crazy sometimes that those nuances can get swept underneath the carpet and left there until they we forget that they exist. But they are always there. We just need to be reminded to pay attention.
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