My goodness, it's been months since I've written. Where on earth has time time gone? In my "Great Realignment" post I spoke about my experience of a huge shift in perspective, belief, ability to see, way of being and moving in the world. Little did I know that it wasn't over.
Have you ever had those experiences of not knowing what's going to happen? Maybe because of a significant life event, maybe because of internal changes, for whatever reason you are moving forward without any concrete idea of what was coming?
I've been swimming in those waters for months now and part of me is just praying this ride is almost over. Another part of me is in an endless "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" As in, isn't life so amazing, so incredible, so always-changing that the only true certainty is whatever we're experiencing in *this* moment.
Because that's all we really have, you know? Let's be honest, the future is not guaranteed for any of us. We don't know how many breaths we have in this life, we don't know how long Mother Earth is going to let us keep up with this nonsense that we're inflicting on her, we don't know if our jobs are secure, or where the heck we'll be in 1 year, 5 years, 20 years from now.
Heck, in 100 years, everyone who is on this planet today will no longer be here. How's that for perspective?
Never fear, my dear wild hearted friends, I haven't gone off the deep end or anything like that. I am inviting us to look at life with a different perspective though. The perspective of:
Life. Is. So. Freakin'. Precious.
Like, we get to live this life? On this planet? With all these other amazing beings, animals, birds, living growing plants and bushes and flowers and trees that are hundreds of years old? Breathing air, our bodies metabolizing food, healing themselves, allowing us to feel, speak, smell, hear, taste, and LOVE?
Beyond incredible.
And yet we go about our lives most times thinking things are pretty ordinary, dull even, at times. Going through the motions, day in and day out.
I'm here to say: Life is aaaa-maaaaaazzzzzzing. A HUMAN LIFE IS SUPER-AMAZING. An incredible experience. It is bizarre and wonderful and an amazing miracle. What a gift we get to live one for a while, right?
The truth is that our lives are connected to everything. The air we breathe once was breathed by someone else, or a tree or a plant. What we eat comes from the earth, or is some product of the earth. Our thoughts affect our health and our mental and emotional states. Our beliefs affect how we see, experience and move through the world.
The shirt you're wearing right now likely came from somewhere thousands of miles away, made by people who you'll never meet with lives that you may never understand. The fabric comes from something that was grown on this planet, woven and created by machines designed by some people you'll never know into something you'll wear in what we call the year 2013. Brought to your country by some mode of transportation -- likely ship, then truck, maybe even a train in there somewhere -- all powered by substances generated and extracted from our planet. You wash that shirt in a machine created by the ingenuity of many people you'll never know, with soap that comes from somewhere (you probably don't know where it comes from, where it's made, or what it's made from -- I certainly don't even when I read the label!). And when you are done with that shirt, it will go somewhere else. Maybe to another human. Maybe into a landfill or the ocean with a bunch of other garbage. Maybe incinerated, with the byproducts going somewhere. There is no "away," it's always still there, just in a different form.
Phew, and that's only a few moments thinking about a shirt!
The truth is simple, we are all connected. Everything is connected. There is no escaping that. The air, the water, the land, what we take into our bodies, it's all swirling, mixing, mingling, no beginnings or endings, all together, the parts affecting other parts, all. the. time.
What a crazy, beautiful way of looking at it.
I'm here today to tell you that I LOVE life. I love our planet. I'm working on loving all living beings. That's a big one.
But what is love, anyway? It's a word people use a lot, and as best I can tell the common definitions are grotesquely limited, it's worth terribly undervalued, and the feeling and energy of it under-used -- given what us humans are truly capable of.
Next I'll write a little more about LOVE....and an experiment that I'd like you to join me in....
Lots of love,
Lisa
Have you ever had those experiences of not knowing what's going to happen? Maybe because of a significant life event, maybe because of internal changes, for whatever reason you are moving forward without any concrete idea of what was coming?
I've been swimming in those waters for months now and part of me is just praying this ride is almost over. Another part of me is in an endless "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" As in, isn't life so amazing, so incredible, so always-changing that the only true certainty is whatever we're experiencing in *this* moment.
Because that's all we really have, you know? Let's be honest, the future is not guaranteed for any of us. We don't know how many breaths we have in this life, we don't know how long Mother Earth is going to let us keep up with this nonsense that we're inflicting on her, we don't know if our jobs are secure, or where the heck we'll be in 1 year, 5 years, 20 years from now.
Heck, in 100 years, everyone who is on this planet today will no longer be here. How's that for perspective?
Never fear, my dear wild hearted friends, I haven't gone off the deep end or anything like that. I am inviting us to look at life with a different perspective though. The perspective of:
Life. Is. So. Freakin'. Precious.
Like, we get to live this life? On this planet? With all these other amazing beings, animals, birds, living growing plants and bushes and flowers and trees that are hundreds of years old? Breathing air, our bodies metabolizing food, healing themselves, allowing us to feel, speak, smell, hear, taste, and LOVE?
Beyond incredible.
And yet we go about our lives most times thinking things are pretty ordinary, dull even, at times. Going through the motions, day in and day out.
I'm here to say: Life is aaaa-maaaaaazzzzzzing. A HUMAN LIFE IS SUPER-AMAZING. An incredible experience. It is bizarre and wonderful and an amazing miracle. What a gift we get to live one for a while, right?
The truth is that our lives are connected to everything. The air we breathe once was breathed by someone else, or a tree or a plant. What we eat comes from the earth, or is some product of the earth. Our thoughts affect our health and our mental and emotional states. Our beliefs affect how we see, experience and move through the world.
The shirt you're wearing right now likely came from somewhere thousands of miles away, made by people who you'll never meet with lives that you may never understand. The fabric comes from something that was grown on this planet, woven and created by machines designed by some people you'll never know into something you'll wear in what we call the year 2013. Brought to your country by some mode of transportation -- likely ship, then truck, maybe even a train in there somewhere -- all powered by substances generated and extracted from our planet. You wash that shirt in a machine created by the ingenuity of many people you'll never know, with soap that comes from somewhere (you probably don't know where it comes from, where it's made, or what it's made from -- I certainly don't even when I read the label!). And when you are done with that shirt, it will go somewhere else. Maybe to another human. Maybe into a landfill or the ocean with a bunch of other garbage. Maybe incinerated, with the byproducts going somewhere. There is no "away," it's always still there, just in a different form.
Phew, and that's only a few moments thinking about a shirt!
The truth is simple, we are all connected. Everything is connected. There is no escaping that. The air, the water, the land, what we take into our bodies, it's all swirling, mixing, mingling, no beginnings or endings, all together, the parts affecting other parts, all. the. time.
What a crazy, beautiful way of looking at it.
I'm here today to tell you that I LOVE life. I love our planet. I'm working on loving all living beings. That's a big one.
But what is love, anyway? It's a word people use a lot, and as best I can tell the common definitions are grotesquely limited, it's worth terribly undervalued, and the feeling and energy of it under-used -- given what us humans are truly capable of.
Next I'll write a little more about LOVE....and an experiment that I'd like you to join me in....
Lots of love,
Lisa
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