Do You See Nature's Visual Cues for Action?

“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” —Zig Ziglar Are you basically a thankful person for both small and big things in your life? Are you constantly hustling and bustling to navigate your daily moments? When you stop and pause, there is so much to be thankful for from nature's abundant colorful gifts, the air we breathe and our close relationships. When you choose to be here now using your eyes, ears, nose, touch and taste senses, it is amazing how uplifted you will feel. When you embrace the attitude of including your total being in each of your available moments, you can fully savor each unique uplifting experience. Throughout the moments in your day, pause and express with gratitude all that you savor from your encounters wherever they are.

You have an abundance of 1,440 moments each day. Do you feel the prosperity in the morning. Who is driving your moments today? If you have left the driving to Auto - your end of day feeling will likely not be the same as when you started your day. Can you recall where you were each moment and how you spent the abundance of the 1,440 moments? When you are in a mind-set of lack of something such as time or money, it has a way of being contagious within yourself and shared with others around you. But, when you have a mind-set of abundance and can see things with a higher perspective, it can be a curiosity for others wanting to know what is going on as they will want some of what you have. Hire Pause for a day. You can bring more focus and clarity when you pilot your day with Pause. You will discover spaces available in your schedule to include ways that make your day flow better. This also encourages you to be more present as you access creativity, joy, gratitude and compassion. Teach Auto to Pause. Explore the benefits of having Auto Pilot your daily space of Being Back in a Moment.

“If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.” – Pam Stewart Use the sunflower as a big bright inspiring model for your life to grow and bloom. The sunflower is resilient and represents joyfulness. Stay focused on positive things you are facing and share your spirit as a warm heart with hope. There is a time, there is a plan there is abundant prosperity! Be inspired to keep your face turned towards the sun as it will uplift your moods. In designing your choice of demeanor, be inspired by the brightness of the yellow petals of the sunflower. As with the sunflower, stand tall, show all the world your unique special confident self. Embrace the energy of the light and abundance of sharing your love with simple spirit seeds of thought, vibes and abundance that planting good things can bring. When we drop seeds into the ground, we don't know how they will grow or what the outcome is for each seed. Nature provides light and nutrition for each seedling as a foundation to be. Look closely at the seeds around you and be in awe. They already know how to grow and bloom as they turn into a source of life feeding pollinators, song birds and other beings in their natural habitat. Sit for a moment in pure wonder. Colorful patterns of joyful expression burst in celebration from the bright face of the simple sunflower full of seeds of anticipation. Choose to be helping in the flow with the harmonic rhythms as you embrace each thought seed as it blooms and grows.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain… Vivian Greene Many great locations around the world have physical reflecting pools built by humans included within their physical environments. They come in many shapes and sizes. The ultimate importance of reflecting pools is to provide a space to embrace quiet contemplation that is separate but open to interact with the world. Do you find yourself being the chaotic disturbance that challenges any possibility of quiet contemplation either within yourself or from your outside influences? To be effective, your pool must be as still as possible. As you dance in the rain, stop and look deep into the pools of water gathering on the ground. These are Nature's abundant rain puddles or reflecting pools immediately available. When you look deep into the pools, you can experience Nature's Art from the sky above you as it reflects in the pool below. You can create your own reflecting pool so you can be practicing presence and fully embracing the benefits as often as you desire. Ideally, your pool should be reflecting what you want to look at and in a space that is not crowded. Today, we are exploring the basic concepts of reflecting pools and how to design your own useful reflecting pool.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. – John Lennon How often do you find yourself answering to the open invitation of nature to step outside and give your full attention to observe, listen, open all of your senses and be filled with awe? Expansive nonverbal language is born between ourselves and our immediate world when we connect with this simple invitation constantly being offered. The tendency is to be distracted and over react with impatient gestures, facial expressions, vocal tones, eye contact, body language and talking loudly with our hands. By being present, you can discover deep observation, deep inspiration and deep experience using nonverbal language. It is an experience you will hold close in your memories and you can recall it whenever you need a sense of awe and calm. There is no need to read between the lines of what you are picking up. It is an instant action and reaction and a full impression of the scene as it is truly being presented wherever you are. Open your arms and take a deep breath. It is already here and available.

It sounds very simple when we make a comment to choose to 'Just Be'. The request we are making in reality is a complex request. When we choose to become present 'here now', we are choosing to not be on autopilot. We begin our life adventure expanding ourselves beyond where we currently are. We start observing we are not where we think we should be. We can become overwhelmed with our constant mental gymnastics and beliefs about what we think we could be, should be or definitions of who we think we are. We are a collection of the stories we tell ourselves until we reach a point where our story has a new title and we have a new beautiful cover. We want to make a change. We realize we are no longer happy with what we are, who we are and what we are doing with our lives. We realize we are part of everything and yet we are nothing. When we make a statement to ourselves saying ;'I can, we allow ourselves to expand and embrace all of the possibilities of truly just being. This brief statement to ourselves of 'I can', opens our thought patterns to unlimited potential and removes the limiting boundaries that we have been experiencing. We are now a conscious creator stepping into the energetic flow, expanding and growing with intention and inspiration 'Just Being'. Lets Go!

Everything in life is vibration. Albert Einstein When you observe images of nature or read stories about people helping others, do you pick up on a higher vibe and uplifting feelings? Even if you do not totally understand the language of vibrations, you can feel them in your environment and directly from people around you. Everything vibrates at a different speed including trees, nature, and humans with our thoughts and emotions. When we choose to vibrate at a higher level, we feel lighter, have more hope, joy and happiness and are more at ease. When we are operating at this higher level, we can feel like we do not fit in or will not be getting the feelings of support of others who operate at a lower vibration. It takes a firm commitment to keep ourselves in the light and seeking ways to keep our light shining bright. Join us as we explore ways to ensure we are creating a vibration as the best we can for ourselves and to keep ourselves connected resonating this higher vibration.

“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.” ~ C.JoyBell C. How do you introduce yourself or greet someone you meet for the first time? Your response can be an energy downer and mixed if you are constantly bombarded with negative messages and images. Or your response can be a delightful energy uplift if it is shared from a solid positive foundation space you have designed within yourself. As you consider your various choices each day, start with self-care, self-respect and the ability to value yourself as a special being. You are on a self-treasure hunt. You can choose to have a loving relationship with yourself as a valuable whole being made up of lots of treasured pieces of yourself. As you put together your treasured pieces, it is like putting together a beautiful visual puzzle and solid foundation that will affect all of your relationships including with yourself. .

It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities. ~ Kristin Armstrong Do you find yourself asking But why? before you do anything. Do you take time to pause to listen to your internal response? Do you know what you really want and what you need to modify to get you there? It is easy to spend precious time and resources keeping busy planning and building systems around ourselves rather than taking action. Being more intentional and focused with things that matter in our day-to-day living activities allows us to bring about a shift in how we approach our daily moments. This might feel difficult as it does require a different attitude concerning short-term sacrifices and having to explain to others what you are doing. Pause and discover why we want to live more intentionally.

Take a moment to pause. Slowly take a breath in and hold. Then slowly breathe out and let it go. Activate your awareness and pay attention to what your internal senses are sharing. Balance your precious daily time being and doing without a list. This effort will help ignite your inner sparkle throughout your whole day. d Lee Do you find you are spending all of your time in focused pursuit of your endless listed to-do things? How do you feel when you have accomplished them? Do you also have an active listed to-be list made of things to pursue that make you feel connected, appreciative, happy and joy filled? There are many things we just pass by because we are disconnected and take things for granted as we focus on the multiple to do lists we keep. As you create your to-be list, it can help remind you to pause with a sense of gratitude for the small things that might have previously seemed unimportant. As you add things to your to-be list, you will find yourself more balanced and connected to your inner being. When you are more grounded, you can make better decisions and choose a better way be all day.