UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Have you ever done all that you can to 'save' someone you loved? Have you ever wanted someone you care about to change, to heal, to grow, to love themselves? To love you? Let's be real, we ALL have been there one way or another. The need or DRIVE to 'INSPIRE' someone we cared about to change. We only want for them to be happy, RIGHT? Well, I have come to understand, for myself anyways, that you cannot, and I repeat cannot, 'Save' anyone, and you cannot make anyone change. They have to want change for themselves, I repeat, THEY have to want change for themselves.

PEOPLE DO THE BEST THEY CAN WITH WHAT THEY KNOW, BASED ON HOW PRESENT, CONSCIOUS, AND AWARE THEY ARE. 

But.. we can LOVE them. And I don't mean, the sort of love that causes us to want them to change, or to heal the shadow parts of themselves. I mean UNCONDITIONAL love. And by that I mean, NO CONDITIONS. And by no means does that mean you become a door mat, you do not even have to be around the person to love them UNCONDITIONALLY. All you have to do IS show up, whether you show up PHYSICALLY, or ENERGETICALLY, UNCONDITIONAL love knows no bounds, knows no obstacle. Send them love, and send them LIGHT. 


We all have those people who are apart of our Journeys, and yes they are there for a reason, but the truth's that, even though we may not understand them, or understand how they treat us, or maybe how they see the world, that's not about us. I repeat, for my own sake, THAT'S NOT ABOUT US. And we cannot take on the world all by ourselves, we have to understand that they too, have a path to follow, and though that path may be very bumpy path, or one you don't want to be on, can you love them anyway? Can you choose to see them for who they really are? When we place Judgement on others, we really place Judgement on ourselves. 

We often say that love UNCONDITIONALLY. I mean, I hear people say those terms a lot, and yet I see those same people, MYSELF INCLUDED, turn around and retreat that 'UNCONDITIONAL LOVE' the moment the present CONDITIONS don't match up to what they wanted.  

Are you even aware of the CONDITIONS you have placed on your RELATIONSHIPS, on the people you love the most, or the ones that are apart of your path whether you want them to be or not? I know that for me, I have become very aware of the CONDITIONS I have placed not only on others, but on myself as well. However, yesterday, I had a total wake up call, or as Oprah would say an 'Aha' moment. I had Robert Holden's awesome Hay House RADIO show on,  and as he talked to a very lovely woman, he spoke the most BEAUTIFUL words, and I knew they would change my outlook from here on out. 

'GOD HAS NEVER TRIED TO HEAL ME, HE ONLY LOVES ME'

'GOD DOESN'T SAY, TODAY I AM GOING TO HEAL YOU, HE SIMPLY LOVES ME'

HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT? Honestly? He only loves me. I heard those words and started to reflect on the CONDITIONS I have placed on those closest to me, my parents, etc, and how much I (ego) wanted to save them. How much I (ego) needed them to change, needed them to be on the same path as me, to understand me, to love themselves, to love me. Granted, these all sound pretty normal, but that's not my work, that's not for me to carry on my shoulders, or on my heart. All I need to do IS love them, love everyone, UNCONDITIONALLY, and only then can I love myself the same. If I choose to constantly place CONDITIONS on others, and choose to see what's 'wrong', I deny myself the very love I had yearned for all along, I deny myself the chance to see past the ILLUSION that we are separate. 

And don't get me wrong, to actually show up, and love someone UNCONDITIONALLY, well that's one hard lesson and maybe the most BEAUTIFUL and PROFOUND one we can learn. No matter how much someone may push your buttons, send them love. No matter how dark the path they have walked, send them LIGHT. No matter hurt you feel, send them love. Send them FORGIVENESS. Send them hope. To love someone UNCONDITIONALLY says to them, yourself, and to the world, 'You are perfect the way you are, because you are DIVINE love. You are enough, and you are loved, no matter what, and I'll show up for not only myself, but for you, because we are love.' 

Are we not all on the same Journey anyways, one way or another? Let's choose to love one another. Let's choose to love ourselves enough to let go and release all of those CONDITIONS we place on ourselves and on everyone else. They create walls, they create separateness, they create ILLUSION. Even when you feel you have to walk away from someone for your own WELL BEING, and chances are one day you'll have too. So walk away, head held HIGH, and pebbles of love at your feet for those who may one day need them. 

Open Your Heart To The Blood Moon

There's a beauty WITHIN you, a LIFE FORCE so very present, that holds the power of the DIVINE. There's a STILLNESS that can ground you, that can open your heart to the coloured sky above you. There's a breathe you can rely on, that can return you to love, to your FIERY soul. Hold close to you, the part of you that knows only peace. Allow yourself to be warmed by the pure essence of who you are, a DIVINE BEING OF LIGHT AND LOVE. 

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Happy Blood Moon everyone!! Always remember to nurture yourselves and allow all of that energy to move through you. Open yourself up to how you feel so you may release what no longer serves you, and so that you may expand your awareness of your truth and your soul's purpose. 

LOVE + LIGHT

Hello, Thank You, and Goodbye

The water fell from the sky. 
I heard her say Hello,Thank you, and goodbye. 
I had searched for so much more than those few words. I had yearned to feel her love, I had hoped for her presence. To merely know we were somehow connected based on more than our blood, for her to see me, even once, even for a moment. 

Hello, Thank you, and goodbye, 
words I have heard all too often. A sense of defeat, a heart on the mend of broken. The softness of those words, I could have allowed them to swallow me whole, and stay oh so small. 

But I choose to see her ,then, now, even though she closes her eyes to me. I choose to see her. She's beauty beyond words, she's a star, and always has been. So strongly protected, so far from her truth, how could she see my soul, when she had turned away from her own. 

Tears had fallen down my face, and caressed my freckled cheeks. Sorrow from my past had become my present, I could be angry, I could feel let down. But what I saw was her sadness. What I saw was her own story. What I felt was love for the wondrous soul who brought me here. 

BE THE LIGHT, was what I heard through the tears. BE THE LIGHT. Open your heart to yourself, open your heart to her. Take down your own walls, see your own soul, and see past the walls she has created. 

Hello, Thank you, and goodbye. Words I had heard all too often, became new to me.  Hello to second chances. Hello to open hearts. Hello to FORGIVENESS and COMPASSION. Thank you to WHISPERS of profound words of love, and Thank you to moments of sorrow, moments so raw they break you open. 

And goodbye. Goodbye to the sad story I have told myself for far too long. Goodbye to the need for you to be anyone other than who you are. A soul, the same as me, on your own Journey of self-love and DISCOVERY. 

BE THE LIGHT, was what I heard through the tears, and so I shall be. FIERCELY, and fearlessly, I shall BE THE LIGHT for you, and for me. Here's to the day, both of our hearts, WILL LIGHT UP THE SKY. 

Namaste

Only Love's Real

Masks, who we feel we are supposed to be, and who everyone else wants us to be. The face we put on to make the rest of the world happy, the perfect person who only feels HAPPINESS. We have all been there, or we know someone who has. I know for me, personally, I have had to really go deep WITHIN myself and accept that I am enough exactly as I am. I have come to a place where I know the only way I can be truly happy, and at harmony's when I am my AUTHENTIC self. What does that mean?

For me, to be my AUTHENTIC self means to accept all parts of me. The good and the bad (or at least what we have been made to see as bad), the LIGHT and the dark. All of the energy and love that flows through me, and all of the sadness and sorrow I have to face so that I may heal. These are all parts of me, and they all make up who I am. The moment I allow myself to accept myself, fully, and completely, then I can allow the energy that does not serve me to pass through. 

I am a VIBRANT soul, a person who dreams of love and knows love can heal us all. A person who feels every EMOTION, and feels most at home when I am at peace WITHIN myself, and when I am surrounded by POSITIVE, wondrous, souls, and loved ones. But I have days when I feel sad, really sad, and days when I feel angry, and scared, and unsure. I know these are all an ILLUSION, that they are not real, because ONLY LOVE'S REAL. I know these EMOTIONS are there for a reason, that I feel them for a reason. To learn from, to accept, and move forward from. We are all a makeup of the energy we feel, and the energy we must release, so that we may grow and blossom. And yet we are taught that we are supposed to have IT ALL TOGETHER always.

Perhaps we are meant to feel, really feel how we feel, and feel the energy that comes up for us, so that we can LOVINGLY love all parts of ourselves, and trust that we are love. 

How can we get to the place of INNER peace and self-acceptance when we are so scared to AUTHENTICALLY be ourselves?

 To be real, completely honest, and own our struggles as much as we own our successes. The moment you accept your struggles, no matter how bad they may seem, as a BEAUTIFUL part of your path to ENLIGHTENMENT then you start to take the shame away. And all those ILLUSIONS that seem to keep us stuck, well they start to fade away more and more. At the end of the day we all go through what we are meant to go through, and the MAGICAL part's that we can take our power back, moment by moment, when accept ourselves fully. When we start to change what we see as good and bad, to STEPPING STONES to our truth, to our love. How can you start to be AUTHENTICALLY you now? Maybe when someone asks you how you feel, be honest, whether you feel truly happy and great, or maybe sad, or you have low energy, maybe that you are HEALING. There's so much beauty that comes from honesty. When we let go of the need to PAINT THE PERFECT PICTURE, and see that we are perfectly IMPERFECT the way that we are. 

Take down the mask, let go of the person you feel you are supposed to be, the person someone wants you to be, and open your  heart to who you are, to the love that you are. There are days we all need rest, days we need a hand to help us through, and then there are days that we SHINE, that our souls RADIATE. Maybe we can learn to accept that together, accept that we are awesome, even when we cannot see past all the other B.S. Accept that when we are AUTHENTICALLY ourselves we learn to truly love ourselves, and when we truly love ourselves, we come back home, come back to that peaceful place where we know and feel that only loves real. 

The art of FORGIVENESS

It was not that long ago that I truly thought that to FORGIVE someone was weakness on my part, that that somehow reflected onto me as not strong enough. I thought that to forgive someone was for them, that the purpose was to let them off the hook for however you may have felt wronged. 

When I started my Journey, or as the awesome Brene Brown would say, my breakdown spiritual awakening, I learnt that to FORGIVE was about my Inner peace and my peace only. I learnt that the art of forgiveness allowed me the chance to move past LIMITING BELIEFS and become whole. Somewhere along our paths, we start to harness a whole lot of resentment, anger, and overall sorrow. We tend to hold grudges, and replay over and over why we are 'mad' or how awful that person was to us.

If I could go back, I would tell myself to let go, to forgive. To hang on to all that sorrow, you really only hang onto stagnant energy that does not serve you, that actually does a whole lot of harm to you and your soul, to your true essence. 
The art of forgiveness does not let the other person off the hook, you let yourself off the hook. You allow yourself to move forward, to put forth your energy towards your true heart's DESIRES. You bestow upon yourself a MIRACULOUS GIFT.

And the real beauty comes when we choose to surrender to forgiveness, and we actually forgive ourselves, for whatever the reasons may be. That's when the beauty of true self acceptance starts to play, and eventually peace and wholeness starts to dance at our feet. For me, personally, the moment I forgave those I felt had wronged me, so much old energy was released and I had created space for growth, for a fresh start. I took back my power. 

I chose to no longer attach myself to my past. And my sorrow no longer had an RSVP and a plus one to my future. I knew I had a story to tell, and I wanted that story to be my truth,and the only way to my truth was to release all that no longer served me. It has not always been easy, and I have to remember the exact words that I type here day to day. That's why we PRACTICE. 

So, maybe, when you come across an event that would normally cause you to harness anger or sadness or even fear, send love and LIGHT to yourself, and to whomever was apart of the event. Take a deep breathe, and ask yourself whether that energy serves you, whether your peace's worth that resentment. ALL we have to do's be WILLING. Show up, and say to yourself or even out loud, 

I am ready to FORGIVE, I am open to FORGIVENESS, I am at peace. 

Take a deep breathe, and allow your INNER GUIDANCE to take care of you. 

An open letter to yoga

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Dear Yoga,

Had I known all you would do for me, I would have started my practice years and years ago. You have taught me to breathe, I mean truly breathe,somewhere along the way we forget how. You taught me how to release. How to release all that does not serve me anymore. You allowed a sense of peace to wash over me and allowed me to reconnect to my soul. Yoga, long story short, you saved me.

I could have never dreamt of the peace you allow me to feel. The oneness you have brought my way. Every downward dog to every swan pose, I learn more and more about myself and who I am meant to be. You have taught me that the moment I want to release the pose, to keep my breathe and push through, because as soon as you push through you conquer all that has held you back.

You have taught me to love my body. No matter how I look, I can rock a yoga pose, and feel damn good about that. I now love curves I sought to change for years. I love the sweat that falls down my face as I know I am on a path to change. A path to self-love and connected to my truth. Yoga, I was wrong about you, I once thought you were a fad, a trend. I thought you were all about Lululemon and how the ‘cool’ people passed the day away. Oh how I was wrong. You are so much more than I could have ever known, yet so simple at your core. You have taught me to breathe, to love oneself, to love all others, to release, and to know when to push through.

You have brought me teachers who have changed my world, who have allowed me to see myself through brand new eyes. Thank you. I owe you more than I could ever say. Much love.

Breathe as you push through your walls and breathe as you release them.

Namaste

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