Saying Yes To Life

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing." ~ e. e. cummings

What does it mean to say "Yes!" to Life?

Think about it! How many rules to we bog ourselves down with? You must sit very neatly, with your legs crossed just so. Good girls "don't." (Don't what? I am sure that I could imagine all sorts of things!) Don't eat finger food in public. Don't laugh too loudly in public. Don't wear short skirts. Don't forget the tights with the dress. Don't speak honestly and directly (be delicate). Don't wear heavy eye liner. Don't mix skin care lines and products. Don't wear big prints on a small frame. don't, Don't, DON'T! (Okay, so I made up some of those rules...I think most of us can get the point!)

Oh, please!

It is time to break all those old rules! What good are they anyway? They are all just stopping me from living a wild, honest, joyful, loud and HAPPY life.

If I want to say "Yes!" to me and "Yes!" to life, it is time to let go of all those silly, nonsensical old rules. Rules that my parents gave me (meaning to help me when I was little--and it did up to a point), rules that church gave me, that school gave me, that I picked up from fashion mags, my friends and society at large. And all for what? So that I can fit in? Fit in with what? So that somebody else can control me? So that somebody else can tell me how to live my life and what makes me happy, what makes me successful, what makes me ME?

Uh, hello? Does this really make any kind of sense?

So, it is time to practice this whole saying yes thing. I say yes to ME. I say yes to my friend Steve. I say yes to having new yoga experiences. I say yes to living creatively and simply. I say yes to living a much more honest, simple and down-to-earth life that is a true reflection of me. I say yes to owning my intuitive and healing abilities. (Yikes!)

Yes, it is time to "come out of the closet."

How many old rules do you still carry around? How many old rules do you still follow?

Is it time to give them up yet? Let it be a Sacred Offering to Life.

Dare to Live. Dance it! Sing it! BE IT!

Saying Yes to Me

I have been spending some time inside myself, attempting to just allow my feelings to be. It has been an interesting few days. I took my issues with me to a yoga class, taught by a wonderful young man...he gives the best visualizations during class and wonderful guidance. (Thank you, Billy, for making my first yoga experiences so cool!) He touched my back during a pose and I had the sudden awareness of what was stuck inside me. I released it during class...I cried! (I will say this, though...just make sure your practice top fits well! LOL)

I have chosen to be really honest here...mostly as an experiment. It has been a means of coming to terms with my humanness. The things that I may sometimes not like. Maybe somethings that I would like to hide. The stuff that just happens because I have a life and messy emotions and learning moments.

I had been feeling like being human, exposing my humanness and allowing all the messes, the learning and the life events would make me less the juicy, passionate, radiant embodiment of the Goddess that I am choosing to embrace in my life.

I no longer believe this to be true.

I have found much joy and encouragement from reading books by Sark. Reading these books has helped me to see that some of the juiciest moments of my life are the messy, human moments. There is nothing wrong with those moments. In fact, those moments are to be embraced, I think.

These are just part of my evolving thoughts...it is my intent to explore this stuff--the juicy~ness of life. To take it on, to embrace it and to have fun with all of it.

I only get this one moment...so I choose to make it a good one. :) And those moments, the more I appreciate them and embrace them, the better they get!