Yes With Joy

So many of us are stuck in what we don’t have that we focus on the negative and forget to build dreams. Fortunately, what we focus on is what we get.  We get to choose.  If you want to focus on the mundane, everyday responsibilities that bog you down and very often lead to a bad case of the blahs, you can.  Or you can turn the blahs into ahs and focus on what you want.  The first step is to dream.

What feelings do you want to have?  Do you want to feel happy, successful, challenged, loved or rested?  What do you want to do?  What if there were no limits?  What if you had all the money, time, energy, and health you could ever want?  Then what?  What do you want out of life?  What if…?

As you think of everything, write it down.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a list, a mind map or even a collage of pictures and words.  The important thing is to expand your thinking.  Expand the possibilities.  The act of writing it down gives it validity and tells the universe, “This is what I want.”

Do you want a diamond ring?  Do you want your neighbors to talk with you?  Do you want people to stop fighting?  Do you want to visit all seven continents? Do you want a better relationship? Do you want to learn five different languages? Do you want to ride a horse?  Do you want to improve the educational system?

Don’t worry about how it will get done.  The how will actually show up if you let go of chasing it.  The purpose of this exercise is to just imagine all that is possible.  It’s that simple.

I did this yesterday and then again today.  Already I feel more excited for life.  I watched less TV (as in none).  I went to the beach and enjoyed an hour of sunshine with a friend and my dog. Yesterday, I ran into a cousin of mine and as we were talking, something he said created an aha moment for me and I got a really great idea.  Today, I woke up dreaming about something that inspired me, which coincidentally was related to the aha moment from yesterday.

For right now, I don’t have to do anything other than dream build on the idea.  The action will come.  But for now the action is dream building.  I’m moving to the ahs.

(Hey did you notice how close ahs sounds to Oz?  Maybe that’s what L. Frank Baum was writing about in The Wizard of Oz.  Interesting thought.)

A former client’s husband saw a rainbow. I’m sure you are asking why this is such a big deal. But, what you don’t know is the backstory.

Last summer, this man’s wife was dying and I was playing with her energy to help her be more comfortable. As so often happened, we started talking. One time, it was about her impending death. I asked her to come up with a sign that would let her husband know when she is around after her death. They decided on three different signs – white roses, his keychain, and rainbows. The idea was to have a touch point to help him.

Well about a month later (after she had died), he texted me: “Not sure if u remember the rainbow discussion, but I saw the most magnificent rainbow this morning as I turned onto the Edens [a highway]. And then when I looked to follow the rainbow to the other end, I saw a United jet flying thru the center of it.”

This gave me chills. Not only was his former wife “appearing” thru the rainbow, but she had worked for United Airlines. He felt connected. He felt her love. He felt “over the rainbow.”

Cartoon Thinking

I’m officially weird.  During a massage, I would have a thought or a visual image come to mind. I said them out loud and the points released more easily. (Even the therapist said this was helping.)  That by itself isn’t weird.  In fact, if muscles hold memories then when the muscles are stimulated as with touch, the memories can be released, which is another way of saying the memories are given recognition and permission to move.

The weird part was how much I think in cartoon form. Some of today’s cartoons were very creative.  While the massage therapist was working on my left shoulder in the front, I thought of a bakery with cakes lining the walls.  Then “4 a.m.” popped into my mind. I sat with it for a while and didn’t try to analyze it.  It just was.  Then an image of a white mountain of ice cream appeared.  I was skiing by myself down the mountain around moguls of nuts and chocolate chunks.  At the bottom of the mountain was a lake of hot chocolate.  I could actually see the steam rising.  I got the giggles at how silly this was.  But then I asked myself, “Who is with me?”  I saw myself sitting in a wooden Adirondack chair sipping a steaming mug of hot chocolate and looking at the lake.  In the chair next to me was my mate I have yet to meet.  We were quiet and just enjoying the moment.  The shoulder released as soon as I saw who was with me in the visual.  Very cool.

The arch of my left foot produced an even weirder image.  The thought that came to me was a money purse, like a big coin purse with a twisty clasp on the top.  It didn’t feel free moving, so I looked underneath.  A thick-silver chain was attached to the bottom of the purse and was pulled taught, attached to something below.  I went looking for whatever was holding the other end.  A jolly little man was sitting Indian style holding the chain and laughing.  It was almost as if he was just holding on until I noticed.  I greased the chain with some of Mother Mary’s blue goo and Archangel Michaels’s violet fire of transformation. The tension in my foot eased immediately.

I love when my creative thoughts just flow and images come to mind…and I feel even better as a result of it.  It’s fun to be weird.