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Mantra Monday: A choose your own adventure

December 29, 2014 By Alana

Speak the words

These last few days of the year are typically loaded for me. I tend to feel haunted by everything left undone while full of hope and dreams for the new year. The feelings are less intense this year which I owe to regular energy clearings, a continuously shifting mindset and an ever deepening trust that I am exactly where I need to be. As I move through these next days, knowing that I can’t wrap up the year in a tidy bow and that 12:01 am January 1st doesn’t really change anything, I am picking and choosing the mantras that feel most helpful. I’m wondering what you most need right now too.

Maybe you need to remind yourself that it’s okay to press pause and ask yourself what you want, letting everyone else take care of themselves for a while.

Maybe you need permission to do what’s most fun, or a reminder to look for the magic or make one more brave move before the year is done.

Or maybe all you need is to slow down, breathe and remember that you are (always) enough.

However you choose to spend this week, I’m sending you love and reminding you that I’m here if you have a story to share, a stuck spot to unstick or need a soft place for your tears or your joy to land.

May the new year bring you what you need most.

Mantra Monday: What would love do?

December 8, 2014 By Alana

What woud Love do?

This is the question I ask myself when:

~ my feelings are hurt and I want to turn away.

~ I’m hoping that someone else will make the first move.

~ I’m driving somewhere (in a hurry) and am presented with a choice that would slow me down.

~ all I want is for my child to get ready for school/get ready for bed/do her homework/pick up her room/practice her piano/let me go to the bathroom alone…

~ one of my animals wants attention and I’m busy, busy, busy. (This sentence brought to you courtesy of the purring cat in my lap. Love wanted me to stop typing and pet him. This pleased kitty very much.)

Replace Love with something else if you want to. Trust. Peace. Compassion. Joy. Hope.

It seems a worthy companion in this season of emotional triggers, full parking lots, short tempers and long lines.

What would Love do in this moment? Now what will you do?

P.S. This is not to be used as a battering ram. If you can’t or don’t want to do what Love would do, then don’t. The simple act of asking the question puts space between the situation and your habitual reaction. Space creates awareness. Awareness brings consciousness. Taking conscious action (even if it’s not exactly what Love would do but it’s the best you can do) is a gift to yourself and the world.

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