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We went to a friend’s concert a few weeks ago (they’re awesome, btw, you should check them out…Chatham County Line). It was outside at a local Greenway, lots of families, lots of kids running around, we had a great time. One of the best things about it was watching the kids dance!! They were movin around, jumping up and down, running this way and that, takin off their clothes (love that about little kids!) and just having a BLAST moving to the sound of the music! And they didn’t care what it looked like (especially the younger ones). They were just moving for the joy of it.
Moving our bodies is so important. Not just to develop muscles and keep in shape (which is good too;), but because it gets us out of our head! And when we try new movements and just LET GO of trying to do it “right”, we actually create new neural pathways. It does even more than that…it loosens up the energy in the body and mind, it allows new possibilities in, it gets you used to letting go of set patterns. It really SHAKES IT ALL LOOSE!!!
This is a great example of non-habitual movement. The Omelette Dance! We love Modern Family…
When I was younger, my brother and I did a morning dance every morning (well, we weren’t THAT young…it was not too long ago!). We just got silly and danced around in weird ways. It felt so good! These days, my honey and I have a dance party every morning for 5 minutes. I put on different kinds of music each day and we just mooooove to it. We have so much fun!!! I purposely do things sometimes that look goofy or weird or uncoordinated.
I like doing it in the morning because it gets me energized and excited for the day. It has a way of cranking up a childlike enthusiasm that makes me ready to go and jump into life.
Try it out! Put on some music and just run around, jump up and down, crawl, make faces, act like a monkey, try out some sweet dance moves…whatever gets you moving. And if you’re tired or have a physical disability, do some facial ballet. Or finger dancing. Whatever works, just get that energy going!
Oh yeah, when I was looking for Luke’s Omelette Dance, I ran across these guys who made up their OWN Omelette Dance years before the Modern Family episode…awesomeness!!
What does YOUR omelette dance look like?
As Ready for Florence as we can be…
I’ve spoken to several friends over the past few days who have called, concerned about us here in North and South Carolina. And the best way I’ve known to describe the experience is that it feels like one of those darkly comic scenes of a man standing in the middle of a road yelling “nooooooo!!!!!” with a steam roller coming towards him at 1 mph. There’s a big part of me that’s just like “hit us already!!!”
Anyway, here south of Charlotte, we’ve already had lots of wind and rain and it’s only the beginning. And while there are certainly a lot of hardships for a lot of people, there’s also a part of me that weirdly enjoys the excitement and opportunities this kind of thing creates to become a closer-knit community. I’ve lived in the south off and on my whole life, so hurricanes are not a new thing. And there has always been that feeling for me. You find yourself talking to strangers in the grocery store, at the gas station, and communicating with people online whom you wouldn’t have spoken to otherwise.
Of course, I don’t want to ignore the fact that a lot of people are going to experience what we think of as loss. And I’ve actually been thinking about grieving a lot lately. Some dear dear friends of mine just experienced what we all think of as a devastating loss recently. Their son transitioned at his own hands.
When we experience loss as spiritually aware people, we know on the one hand that it’s not really a loss. We know that that person is still very much present and available to us. And that they are Pure Positive Energy now. At the same time, it really doesn’t help to try to JUMP to living in that place right away or to try to push down all those feelings.
We talk a lot here at Living From Inspiration about FEEEEEELING your feelings. Grief is one of the feelings we can sometimes resist the most even though allowing yourself to fully feel it is one of the most healing things you can do. The key is to ALLOW yourself to feel that grief. Not to resist it. Put on a brave face if you need to around other people (or don’t), but make sure you give yourself the time to really feel those feelings. And you know what? It takes as long as it takes! My mother transitioned unexpectedly several years ago and I can say with complete understanding that it took me a good 3 years to move through it. Now…at that point I wasn’t really allowing myself to FEEEEEEEL the grief, so it could possibly have taken less time than that, but that’s not the point. It takes as long as it takes and that’s okay.
The things we find (well, really that find us) on the other side of grief are so beneficial and really just…beautiful. Peace. Understanding. Such an incredible love for the other person. For the situation. And for ourselves.
And many times once all those emotions have moved through and the energy has shifted, we actually end up freeing up parts of ourselves that may have been “stuck” before. It’s quite interesting that way!
So if you’re experiencing or have experienced something you would consider to be a “loss,” please soften around yourself and your feelings. Give yourself permission to feel everything you’re feeling. Be so so very kind to yourself. And know that you are being taken care of and soothed by Source/Universe/God.
Always.
I’ll let you know how it’s going here…we’re having some nice big wind gusts right now and I can still hear the cooing of a dove. Oh! And we have these crazy yellow butterflies that fly around our yard in wild patterns when there are no storms (we call them “drunk butterflies”) and yesterday those crazy suckers were trying to fly around in all the wind we had yesterday!
My honey and a friend of his are heading to Harleyfest in Milwaukee today (yes indeed, we like to ride motorcycles! Well...right now he drives...I ride;). The drive is 14 hours from here in SC/NC, so I made m'Honey and his friend some meals and snacks to take on their drive up and back. I always so appreciate having nutritious food on the road instead of eating stuff that makes me feel crappy. So I go super easy for the meals. Boiled eggs, crispy bacon, pimento cheese (I'll share this recipe at some point) on coconut flour bread (will also share that recipe) with some romaine lettuce, bagged spinach and pre-cooked snausages (wow, I had to *un* autocorrect that one five times!).
One of the snacks...I've been promising several of you this specific delicious and nutritious snack recipe for awhile now...I'm sorry it's taken awhile!
Guess what it is???
CHOCOLATE!!
Awww, nuts. You probably already guessed that from the caption. It's worth it! As far as sweetener, I leave that up to you. We all have different tastes. I like my chocolate super bitter without a whole lot of sweetener, m'Honey likes it with...you guessed it...a l'il bit of Honey;) Test it out for you. I've tried using sugar alcohols (xylitol, erythritol, etc), stevia, monk fruit, and my body just doesn't like any of them. So we stick with very small amounts of natural sweeteners. You do what works for you! You can also play around with the coconut oil-to-cacao (or cocoa) ratio to find what works for you.
I love to add a dash of cayenne pepper and cinnamon. You can also experiment with lavender, banana, coconut extract, nuts...lots of options!
How did it go for you? What are your preferences? Let us know!
I love creating. Love everything about it. I've been spending more time welding fantabulous creatures and very VERY large metal flowers, and playing in junkyards. (You can take a look at some of them here). I also love everything about the process of finding the parts and pieces. I've never really known anything about how cars work, but now that I've been taking them apart to use the parts (actually if I'm lucky, they've already been taken apart for me;), I just can't believe how intricate and incredible they are! It's one of those (many) things we take for granted. And once you look under the hood, wow. Just boggles my mind that all these moving parts work together in perfect harmony to create motion and safety and functionality. From the engine to the moving windows to the brakes and wheels.
One of the other many many things that I love about the process is the people. It's so much fun to share what I'm doing with car mechanics, junkyard managers, etc. and to see the interest and excitement in their eyes as well. They are eager to help me find the best pieces, the most interesting things, and to describe what the pieces are and how they work in the machine. It's become a beautiful collaboration.
So...LFI theme for August is to get out there and do something totally new, even if it's just...going to a junkyard and looking at all the interesting pieces. Or go take one Aerial Yoga class. Or take a welding class. And do it with the openness of a child. It's all about the experience.
Big love,
Lorrie
We have so very many fun things going on here! Including the launch of the new site. I'm having fun learning new things every day, especially about how to bring you more and more inspiration. New meditations, new courses, and new products! For this month, I suggest trying something new...just for the fun of it. See what happens:)
Big love,
Lorrie
*If you want to get right down to it, scroll to the bottom of the post for the recordings*
So much of our experience here in this realm is related to our BODIES. At the same time, so many spiritual teachings neglect the body. Dating to waaaaay back, there are many teachings that the body, the physical, should be ignored or even rejected.
And I say...*back up!* Reassess. Not only are these bodies assets, they are to be enjoyed (more yumminess on that in other posts). They are to be...well...emBODY-ed. That means developing a loving, feeling, symbiotic relationship with your body. And I can tell you from serious experience that until you really accept and get into your body, you're going limit your expansion. On all levels. You and your spirit...essence...soul...higher self...source...god..."Big 'S' Self" (a friend of mine and I made that one up and it makes us laugh every time)...whatever you want to call it...are not separate from your body. Source is flowing through your body at all times. Your body IS source. Which is not only a really beautiful thing, but also a really good thing. Because that means you don't have to remind your heart to beat. Or remind yourself to inhale and exhale. You don't have to prod your liver to work. You don't have to remind your stomach to digest.
Now...you may have had some...not-so-good-feeling experiences with your body. Anyone, anyone? I say this in jest, cuz, well, yeah...we all have! I'm happy to share my own experience, many of you are familiar with it (you can take a look at it here). And I find that lots of times when we experience negative feelings we can disassociate from our bodies. Whether those feelings are physical or emotional...well, we want OUT. Which is totally understandable! We just...disconnect.
We set up this experience perfectly before we came here. We wanted to have bodies. We wanted to be deeply connected with them. Because we wanted to have a way to *know* how we feel about things. We wanted a way to know when we are on track with our truth, with our desires, with our knowing...and when we're off track. Other reasons too and we'll get into those at another time;)
When you can FEEL your body...when you can FEEL your feelings in your body...you are so much more able to shift those feelings (physical and emotional) and to let them move through. In fact, they will move on their own when you allow yourself to be with them! If you try to ignore them or change them right away, you're doing yourself a disservice. Because those feelings are there for a reason.
Before we get down to it, I'll give you some backstory about this particular Living From Inspiration Meditation. It's a super duper sweet story and one of my favorites, because it involves my gorgeous nieces.
A few years ago, I was staying with my brother and his family in Albuquerque, NM. They have this beauuuutiful big house with a casita in the back. Every morning, I wake up and do my meditation, workout and then go to the main house and have breakfast with the family and always sit next to, you guessed it, my lovely niece, "A". She's about 3 or 4 at this point (I'm so bad with ages, but I'm pretty sure). So sweet, so beautiful. I sit down on a bar stool/breakfast stool and help her up to the bar stool/breakfast stool next to me. And she puts her sweet hand on my arm and says...
"Auntie Lala...I love your eyes...and I love your face...and I love your arms...and I love your legs...and I love your shoulders...and I love your hair...and I love your shirt...and I love your nose...and I love your fingers.........."
And she keeps going on. And on. And on. For about 3 minutes straight. Which is a looooong time for a 3-4 year old. Just loving, loving, loving everything about me. And oh! I try to interrupt! And say "I love your face...and your arms...and your legs..." She will have none of it. She just keeps going...and going. My only choice is to sit...and let it all in. Which I finally do.
It was so sweet. So much love. And I have never forgotten it. *That* is how we can feel at all times. Because Source is always flowing all that love to every single part of us.
This meditation will help you get connected to your body and establish a loving relationship with it. The first recording goes through instructions. The second recording is the actual meditation.
In the instructions, you'll learn that as you're going through the meditation, if when you get to a certain body part you notice any pain, tightness, or resistance of any kind, pause the recording and take some time to just BE with the sensation. Without trying to figure it out, without judging...just be with it. Embrace it. And when you're ready, start the recording again and keep going.
So get comfortable, close your eyes, and melt into this.
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