Taking Time to Rest

The pause, breathe, stillness, etc., etc. I got a nice reminder today about the power of Rest. We all KNOW how important it is to Rest, but RARELY do we make it a priority in our lives. I KNOW I don't. This week I was even told by an accupuncturist that my chronically sore left shoulder is telling my body that I need rest, but I have heeded his advice yet? Not really. As my husband said to me, " If your doctor told you to stop smoking and drinking, but you kept drinking, you would not be following his advice."

I receive daily inspirational emails from a variety of sources, Yoga Journal, Daily OM, Bone Sigh Arts and Proverbs 31. Proverbs 31 email today is entitled, "Slow It Down." The message quotes the following Bible verse from Genesis,

“God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning…” Genesis 1:5 (NIV)

From the author's perspective God created night first, then morning. Rest is the priority, so we have the energy to greet the morning. Huh...could it be that simple?! Maybe?

I continue to receive MANY messages about my need to rest. I am the only one with the power to pay attention. One day at a time, one breath at a time....

Love to you!!

xoxo

When the Path is Blocked by Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo is absolutely brilliant!! The Divine's sense of timing is absolutely astounding!! The following is teh reading that showed up for me as I taught my classes today and it was quite powerful...

"We are each a mountain for the other to climb, and often our path to love is interrupted by a mishap or a problem or something unexpected that needs attending. We tend to call these unexpected things in life “obstacles.”

Often the thing in the way comes from another person; a stubbornness falls like a tree blocking where we want to go, or a sadness comes like a flash flood to muddy the road between us, or just as we go to rest in the clearing we have prepared, we are bitten by something hiding in the undergrowth. Thus, in daily ways, we have this constant choice: to see each other as the stubborn, muddy, biting thing that blocks our way, or to back up and take in the whole person as we would a mountain in its entirety, dizzy when looking up into its majesty.

When we are blocked in our closeness with one another, we have this constant opportunity: to raise our eyes and behold each other completely, then to kneel and lift the fallen tree, or cross the flooded path, or pluck and toss the biting thing. We have the chance to keep climbing, so we might cup the water that runs from each other, so we might quench our thirst as from a mountain stream, knowing that love like water comes softly through the hardest places."

BEHOLD EACH OTHER COMPLETELY...envisioning the power, the sacredness of the word BEHOLD allows me to stop and appreciate the sacredness and beauty that exists within all; it's just sometimes in the stubborness or sadness that we lose our way of "being" authentic in this world. We forget who we are.BEHOLD...when this word is used, it conjures up an image of something or someone so spectacular that it takes one's breath away. How would the world be if we were able to use this word more often?

Then having the faith of knowing that love like water comes softly through the hardest places. What a blessed and magnificent image. Can we believe that we are Truly and Divinely Loved, no matter what...in our hidden and open places...we are sooo LOVED. That is the miracle of living...the softening that occurs in one's life when you invite love in.:)

Peace and love,

Corinne

FORGIVENESS

"The word for today ... FORGIVENESS. Forgive the thoughts that say you are separate and alone. Forgive the thoughts that say you are not enough, or don't deserve love. Forgive the silent patterns that keep you in resistance or fear. Forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The entire day breathing forgiveness into yourself, into every situation, into the world."

WOW!! My friend posted this on her Facebook page today...Forgiveness is an on-going theme in my life over the past few months and it is sooo damn hard... gentle reminder of the call to live from the heart. Tomorrow I am going to try to breathe forgiveness; inhaling and exhaling forgiveness all day long...perhaps it will bring me closer...can't hurt..

Love to all!

xoxo