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This morning I went for a swim in the sparkly turquoise ocean at Noosa… the beach was quiet and once out beyond the first set of crashing shore breaks the peace and stillness was stunning!  I had no head chatter; I was immersed in the subtle sounds of the ocean being the ocean… and it was bliss!

And it got me pondering how rarely I have this stillness inside my mind, and how often we think that we are everything we are thinking!!  Besides being in nature, those times of stillness and internal peace mostly come from two places for me… getting my Bars run (oh beautiful thing!!) and returning to sender all of the thoughts, feelings and emotions that are not mine (that would be 99.99999999% of the head chatter – gone - instantly!)

We have been trained to identify with all of these thoughts, feelings and emotions as if they are us… but what if they are simply clouds floating by that are nothing to do with who we truly be? 

What if we could allow them to float on through our minds without attaching any conclusions, any significance or any trauma and drama to any of it?  Would there be more peace, more stillness and more space to become aware of the bliss that is available to us in the moment?

So this week I’m returning to sender every thought, feeling or emotion that I am aware of that is not mine… what if we could have way more space in our minds?  Would this create the peace and awareness of possibilities we are so often looking for?

(In case you are wondering...'Return to Sender' is one of the many practical tools I use from Access Consciousness to create ease and joy in my daily living.)

(Image thanks to Pinterest)

 

Over the last few days I’ve had some really interesting experiences of how people perceive the energy of ease.  It seems a lot of people just aren’t willing to choose it!  Every time I see this it spins my head, turns my brain into fairy floss and creates a density in my body that allows me to know it is a lie for me. 

Last week I was talking to someone about a personal situation that has been rather interesting this year and I was quite excited to note that in two weeks I will have removed it from my life totally and that will allow all of the little bits of stuck energy still hanging about to be cleared with ease.  

This person proceeded to impel me with a whole lot of points of view about how I should delve deep into it so I could clear it.  They refused to hear that I could clear it with ease and that once it was done, I would be totally free of that situation… they refused to hear anything except their own limited (from my perspective!) point of view about how I should fix this, not to mention the big blast of judgments they shot at me.  They literally could not hear that ease is possible for me in this situation.  

I almost bought it but the density of the conversation showed me that while this may be true for this person, it is not a choice I would make for myself.  What if immersing ourselves in heavy energy does nothing but intensify it? That’s how it felt to me in the moment… and once I removed myself from that person’s space and points of view, I quickly regained the lightness and joy that I started the conversation with.

WOW!!   What else is possible here?  It was a gift to see how different I have become – by choosing awareness and consciousness rather than all the density of ‘feeling the feelings’ that many spiritual people like to immerse themselves in.  

What if we didn’t have to feel the intensity of things to clear them?  What if change could be feather light and come through like a cool spring breeze, bringing new possibilities and choices in an instant??  

Which brings me to the next fascinating situation… I wrote some copy for a client and included the words ‘with ease’ in a headline.  They asked me to remove it because no-one in their industry believes leadership can be done with ease!  When I look at the energy of that, there is a lot of fixed points of view and value vested in the idea of it being complex and complicated – and this is exactly what creates the exclusion and the limitations that stops the ease from showing up!  

Kinda funny really… what if we give up ‘struggling against’ and creating by force?  What if we could just ‘choose ease’? Could that create a different reality?

So how often do we give up our awareness and our capacity for letting go in an instant to make other people feel comfortable?  What can I say… it’s boring for me to hold onto stuff and wallow through it, hoping that if I stay there long enough I might come out the other side… in my universe it is way easier and way more joyful just to choose a new reality and create new possibilities!  Who said we have to suffer??

And what if we could change the ‘tough’ bits in an instant? The situation may still be there, but your response to it could be completely different… With the insight and love of my totally awesome friends, I have chosen to create ease in this personal situation about a thousand times this year…

So it wasn’t always easy – but in each situation I have been able to create greater ease than I would have if I wallowed in the distress of the situation for the entire time and made it all really significant and meaningful.  Sometimes you just gotta go – "that person is mean, nasty and insane, and nothing I do or be will change that – it’s simply their choice.  Cool… and what else is possible??"

Can you imagine how excited I be that finally the situation will be resolved??? Woohoo!!  Look out world!!!   Would you be willing to have that much ease even under the most challenging of circumstances?  It’s just a choice… (and a little know-how!)

Yeah – I choose for my world to overflow with ease!  I reclaim my space of joy and ease... and I be the awesomeness of me...

And if you choose to - enjoy the 'with ease' conversation on Facebook too -  lots of great perspectives!

xox    Lisa

Image: Pinterest :)

This week I have been celebrating a ‘failure’ of rather epic proportions in my personal life.  After a year of challenges I’ve made some choices that on the outside look pretty crazy.  If I look at them logically they will cost me way too much money... pretty much everything I have worked for during the last 20 years.

You may be wondering… so what exactly is there to celebrate about ‘losing’ way too much money?  

These choices give me unprecedented freedom.  Despite the obvious financial loss, I am feeling more joy around these issues than I have felt in a very long time.  These choices are allowing me to be even more in the question of ‘What else I can change that would generate a phenomenal life for me?’
 
By removing a whole conglomeration of ‘stuff’ that has been joyless, I am actually opening at least a million other doors, filled with possibilities which are far more generative than what I have now!  Sometimes we have to be willing to lose if we are to create something we truly value.

So these choices allow me to move from emotional survival to high energy thrival – very quickly and with a lot of ease.  These choices allow me to live a joyful life that will contribute way more to my businesses energetically because I won’t be trying to resolve the irresolvable with a person who lives in a fog of insanity, lies and denial.  

I am celebrating being able to make these choices without caring about who is right or wrong. Without having to prove my rightness.  Without making myself wrong for any of it.  Without having to make the other person wrong.  These choices give all of me back to me. These choices give me back all of the energy that has been tied up in the insanities, despite my considerable talents in keeping this situation compartmentalized from the rest of my life.  I now have peace.  So how does it get even better than this?

If stuff isn’t working for us that sticky energy carries through into every other area of our lives, despite our best intentions.  For a while now I have been systematically removing everything that does not contribute to the energy I desire my life to be. 

These 'failures' have lead me to make the demand of me to BE more, to create more and to contribute more.  This is why I celebrate.That can’t show up with fullness, lusciousness and bliss when there are bits of my life that are ‘stuck’. 

So often we are unwilling to let go of ‘stuff’ we believe is important to us.  How much of that ‘stuff’ is how we prove we are right?  I would ask you to question everything in your life and look at what you truly desire to keep.  Look at what truly gives you joy.  Look at what truly delivers the capacity to BE you and change the world.  Look at what contributes to your living and what dissipates your energy… and then have the courage to make the changes that need to be made.

When we don’t have the life we desire it’s because we’re lying to ourselves about our capacity to be, do, have, create or generate.  We’re cutting off bits of ourselves to make the people around us happy, satisfied or comfortable.  And all the while the world misses out on the gift we truly be. In my heart I know that is the real failure I would crawl over broken glass to avoid. (In fact, the past 12 months has felt like that... as I have excavated the real me I have seen how squashed my spirit had become.)

When we remove the sticky bits that no longer serve us we create clarity, choice, change and greater possibilities.  I have come to a place where none of the sticky bits are significant to me. It's been an interesting journey...In the past few months I have tried out every emotion that exists... and then some! 

To change all of this, I recognised I need to choose a peaceful, blissful, joyful life where nothing and no-one can impact my joy. And oh how potent we are when our inner joy bubbles to the surface in the face of the greatest storms!  Make peace with your failures and celebrate them… they are but a passing storm.

So… now that I’ve stopped judging me for all of the ‘wrong’ choices that lead me to this place, I can see there’s really quite a lot to celebrate in this moment!  I also know through the essence of my being that money follows joy.  My joy is here, now.  So the money thing is not something to be concerned about… when we don’t make the ‘bad’ bits significant it can be a joyride all the way to the bank!  

My gratitude for coming through this storm with grace and ease is immense.  Woohoo!! It is my time to drink champagne and dance with this wild and precious life.  Anything is possible when we unleash our potency on the world!  So what contribution can all of this be to my phenomenal life?  I'll give you an update in a few months :)

xox
Lisa

If you enjoyed this post, my Mum's blog post on Success and Fear, channelled from the Akashic Records at Life Whispering may interest you :)  This topic offers much to explore as we move past the restrictions and limitations of how this reality sees many of these current issues.

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I watched Limitless last night because I was intrigued to see what Hollywood could do with the idea of having total awareness.  The eye candy was SO worth it (YEAH!!), but oh my, they should have called the movie Limited!!  Imagine having total knowing of everything, in effect, total consciousness... and then only choosing to make a heap of money on Wall Street and then run for President with your new found fame!  Please!!!  What else is possible here???

I was astonished by the incredibly limited view of 'success' presented.  It is no wonder we all make ourselves so pathetic, small and limited when that is all that we have to aspire to!!  For many people I know, targets like that are so uninspiring that it would be more fun to stay in bed!

I am hugely grateful that the movie did get me thinking though... and the question I've been asking myself this morning is... if my life were totally unlimited, what could it look like?  Actually, I'm going to write my own (somewhat more creative!) movie script around this, because I KNOW so much more is possible!!

On the weekend I finished reading Jacqueline Novogratz's memoir "The Blue Sweater" her story about bringing new and different perspectives to eradicating poverty and enabling philanthropy to make a measurable difference.  Ms Novogratz is a wonderful real life example of being unlimited, asking a whole lot of questions and seeing what else could be possible!      Would you be willing to start searching out role models who have a totally different perspective on living and what is possible?

So my question for you today is... if money wasn't the issue, what would you choose to create, change and generate in the world?  When more of us look at the possibilities that are outside of what is presented as 'the answer'  and outside of what this reality sees as valuable, we can start to change what is....

So what do you KNOW inside of you that if you created it could totally change the world?  Yes folks, this does go beyond a vision board of stuff that other people think is the ants pants -  we are looking for your BIG vision!  What could create bliss in this world that doesn't yet exist???

A moment of convergence today.  This glorious song by Jackson Browne reminded me that if I could be anywhere in time and change the outcome... it would have to be now.  Every day I wake up astonished at how much possibility is before us... never before has there been such massive transformation so fast - we live in truly interesting times and what an adventure and a gift it is to be alive right now!

We can see the natural changes as disasters, or we can see them as wake-up calls to make more conscious choices.  My next moments of inspiration were seeing variations on this question in about three different places this week (yep, there is definitely a message here for me!): 

"What difference would you make to the world if you had unlimited resources?"

What I loved about this question was realising I would still choose to do exactly what I'm doing, but on a much larger scale.  I am on a journey of bliss and joy... just need to widen the road and get a helicopter and a few collaborators involved so I can get a whole lot more happening!!

And then I started to muse about what else is possible now, that I've been putting off because of "lack of resources..." hmmm it seems I could choose a whole lot more than I have been!!  So my new choice is to do whatever IS possible... and to keep asking for new possibilities to show up with ease and joy... 

Feels like flow ;-)

So what is possible for you today?  What unfulfilled dream could you unlimit and let fly?
x Lisa

 ‘What are the simple things we can do to be more authentic in our day?’ an innocent question on Twitter from @RobinDickinson. “Express ourselves with integrity rather than fitting in with the expectations of others, breathe into our heart and just BE!” I tweeted back, knowing in my heart that the question deserves way more than 140 characters in response!

I was tempted to write you a list of ways to be more authentic but making a list just doesn’t feel very exploratory today! It feels like cheating.  Here’s why:  

The question of BEing more authentic is connected very closely with my recent experiments around BEing and DOing which you can read about in my Facebook note and on last week's Monday Muse.  When we BE first and DO second, we will always be in authentic expression of who we truly BE.  

When I put the DOing before the BEing I find myself wasting my life doing a whole lot of stuff that isn’t core to my authentic self.  (Like, how much more time can I spend reading other people’s blogs rather than writing my own? Note to self: it’s time to stop. Now!!)

In all of that exploration, I discovered something simple.  When I lavish attention on blissing up my energy in every 10 seconds, it’s a pretty good shortcut to BEing.  Anytime I am not feeling deliciously, decadently, joyfully ME, I recalibrate – quickly!

• Where is my attention (on what’s possible, what’s improbable or what’s driving me nuts)?  
• What does my body require to be comfortable and happy?  
• What can I change in my environment that will feel luscious and inviting?
• What can I read or listen to that will inspire me?
• What would be fun for me right now?

I have been asking these questions as a priority – above work, my bliss-lines, cooking and cleaning… everything!  And I take immediate action when I perceive I need to change something. Not in 10 minutes - the power is NOW! Yesterday it was as simple as a few funky YouTube tunes to get me back in the bliss energy I love and adore!

When I align and surround myself with bliss energy, I am in a space where I can start to BE authentic.  Until then, I’m overwhelmed, confused and not even sure who I BE!!  When I don’t know who I BE, I can’t deliver the authenticity that is central to both of my businesses.  When I see my life like that my priorities are so simple!

BEing more authentic each day is a choice you make when you have high awareness of your energy state in any moment, and you keep your energy joyful by expressing your sense of authentic self through choosing your actions with care. It will look a little different for all of us, but you can start with…  

• Connecting with people that adore you and your passions.  
• Keeping your mind out of the gutters of life…  shine your star brightly ;-)
• Nurturing your body. Managing your emotions.

And one more little hint:  BEing YOU is not the same as doing nothing (or saying nothing) because you are paralysed with fear.  Fear is claustrophobic.  BEing is expansive, light and joyful.

(Today's Monday Muse has been inspired by... Robin Dickinson, Andrea Hess and the many gorgeous blogs on authenticity I have read in the past couple of weeks.  Magical connecting of dots here!!)

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Joy joy joy.... bliss bliss bliss... that is the essence of me (and YOU!)
x
Lisa

For some time now I’ve understood that to have what I desire, I need to BE the energy of it.  Like attracts like.  It’s that simple!  The challenge was, mostly I never really felt that energy.  It was an intellectual understanding and the energy always felt limited by what I thought wasn’t possible.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been exploring the energy of BEing (instead of constant DOing!) and that journey has generated a totally new possibility with all of this!  I feel the essence of BEing in every cell of my body and beyond!

I’ve tried to capture this new experience in words so it can be shared here… not so easy!  So please just breathe deeply into your belly when you read this and ask to experience what I’m talking about, for YOU!!

When I am BEing, I am totally the energy of ALL That IS.  Everything is possible.  The energy of ALL That IS includes everything my heart desires…. And then some!!  Every possibility is available to me.

Experiencing the energy of ALL That Is is actually experiencing the essence of me.  When I allow that energy to flood my BEing (rather than squashing it out of existence by constantly DOing) there is no space for lack, failure or unhappiness. There is only the bliss of KNOWing deep within that everything is perfect and everything I desire is possible.  In that energy, true ease of creation is possible.

In BEing this bliss and joy, I am one with the highest of vibrations.  When my essence is BEing I can step back from the details with ease, see the whole, and the wholeness and KNOW everything.

When I make choices from that space everything is clear and I KNOW where to contribute my energy and time.  There is no need for the busyness of DOing, there are no ‘have-to’s’, there are no should’s, must’s or ought-to’s… there is just BEing the energy that is required for my desires to come to fruition here and now.

So what do I KNOW?
I know that nothing has ever failed and I have never failed.
I know that the time for choosing is now.
I know that all of the past conclusions and judgments I have come to around any of my projects no longer exist.
I know that no energy has more significance than another (the energy of money is just energy!!)
I know there is no lack, except for a lack of BEing.
I know I can have everything I choose… and then some!!
I know there is never anything to do except BE in the energy of that which will gift me joy and bliss right now.

(Monday Muse has been inspired by the delicious Dr Dain Heer, the magical Madonna Chapman and the awesome Anne Aleckson... thank you all for your very tangible contributions to my insights and awareness on this journey over the past few months!)

Comment Bliss - What energy are you BEing?
What are your experiences and challenges around BEing instead of DOing?  Share your blissalicious insights below please!

Joy joy joy.... bliss bliss bliss... that is the essence of me (and YOU!)
x
Lisa