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Living Out Loud!by Diane Michele |
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I love this time of year, school is almost out and there is a deep inner sigh palpable in the air, summer at last! Flowers and herbs are beginning to make their delicious scent and presence known. Colors are abounding outside, windows are open, people are walking/jogging, barbequing, washing windows, planting, going to the park and mowing lawns and I love the smell of newly mown grass. This is the time to take our morning coffee to the park and feed the ducks or read our newspaper, outside, in the fresh air, What turns you on? What do you really like to do, perhaps it is painting, writing, singing, sculpting, beading or sewing? What is it that you just can’t wait to have some time for, swinging in the hammock, reading your favorite book (the new Harry Potter book is out this month, can’t wait!), sipping your favorite drink, feeling the gentle breezes glide by, listening to the trees rustle and birds sing? Oh, this is a gloriously sensory month. This is the time Mother Nature is re-awakening our own inner talents and abilities and asking us to step outside of our comfort zone and create on the physical level. Gaia is creating everywhere you look – trees, shrubs, flowers, grass, birds, blossoming, growing, blooming, living out loud! OK, now it is our turn to create. What have you always wanted to do, let’s let our imagination soar, what creative juices are waiting to flow? Birthing is going on all around us. We’ve been creatively pregnant for a long time, now it’s time to deliver! Let’s check out some ABC’s of this juicy process. A. Absolutely we need to be who we are. Let’s stop trying to impress other people and be ourselves. Let’s wear cloths and colors that we like and stop polling others on “how does this make me look?” We need to decide if we like it. Julia Roberts in the Runaway Bride didn’t know what kind of eggs she liked, because she liked whatever kind her latest fiance’ was having. What do you like? B. Let’s be good to ourselves and stop waiting for others to do it. If someone isn’t treating us well, then we need to treat our self well. We need to be the kind of vibration that we hope to attract. C. Color! What colors do you like? Wear them, paint them on our walls, our fingernails/toenails, our hair! Yes, we need to be bold, create color schemes that work for us, instead of what the color wheel says. D. Deepen our playful attitude. We need to lighten up and not take everything so seriously. Let’s delightfully strut our stuff, take up space and live in the moment. E. Exit away from people, places or things that don’t bring us joy. F. Feel a new attitude of fun brewing. Be right here, right now. Forgive and let go of anything from the past that doesn’t serve. Stay here, be playful, we need to erase the “V” for victim on our forehead. G. Go for it! What do you want to do, rollerblade, motorcycle, mountain bike, paint, write a book, go to a concert, sing in a concert, go. H. Highlight your creative nature, what makes you, you. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. J. Whatever you want to do, make a start, “Just Do It!” K. Kindness, we need to show ourselves some. Smile at yourself in the morning. Don’t say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t say to your boss. L. Laugh, giggle, whoop and holler, let that inner child out. Be silly, practice laughing, all kinds of laughs. When I was young, my mom and I used to make “goon” faces in the mirror and crack up. She is now 76 and I’m 49 and we still have fun making goofy faces. M. Marry yourself first, promise never to leave. N. New. Let’s put some newness in our life, new attitudes, ideas and thoughts. O. Open. Let’s be open to the “sea of all possibilities” as Deepak Chopra, MD so eloquently puts it. Let’s not lock ourselves in a cell of “it can’t or will never happen.” P. Play. How do you play? Do you like cards and board games, I love Monopoly, Pinnacle, Scrabble, Cribbage, Canasta, Samba and Trivial Pursuit, to name a few. What outside play do you like? Gardening, baseball, tennis, dancing, sailing, canoeing, making things, oh I love my hot glue gun. There are so many ways to play. Q. Quit doing things you don’t like, because you think you “should, ought to, are supposed to or have to do them.” Evaluate those “shoulds” with the help of your Inner Guide. What “should” stay and what you can let go. R. Remind yourself daily that you are a magnificent Child of the Universe. You matter, there are no ifs ands or buts about it. You are terrific because you were created from God. T. Thankfulness is a must. If we are not thankful for what we have, we are coming from a sense of lack. If that is our consciousness, then we are in for more of the same. An Attitude of Gratitude is essential. U. Undo old programming that is no longer beneficial for you. That means, letting go with love, old thoughts, ideas and beliefs that do not bring us joy. V. Value yourself. If we don’t value who we are, no one else will. Like attracts like. In valuing our self, we respect and honor this incarnation, this time around. Be bright, be bold, be beautiful. X. “X” marks the day on the calendar that we promise to do something wholesome, healthy, creative and fun for ourselves. Y. YES, we are worth it. We deserve goodness, happiness, abundance, love and joy. Yes, our worth and value are already established, we don’t have to wait for anyone to tell us we are OK, we are OK. Z. Zip it. Zip your lips if you don’t have anything good to say about ourselves. We promise to stop channeling our “mother, grandmother, father” whomever was around that told us negative things and now, even though they aren’t here, we still run those old program on ourselves. Zap those negative thoughtforms.
Diane Michele, PhD is a psychotherapist, teacher, trainer in Birmingham She has an MA in Counseling and a PhD in Metaphysics. She is a National Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Hypnotherapy a Certified Social Worker/Licensed Professional Counselor and a student of A Course In Miracles. Diane can be reached at (248) 375-3642. |
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