“Who are you leaving the lights on for?” She sang melodiously, into my ear.
As I walked along a pathway that meanders through tall trees and flooded land, I began to reflect on the people I hold out hope for. Maybe they will make a change, magically do the thing I want. But my intuition already knows they aren’t meant to ride this journey with me.
So why do I hold out hope for them?
They will come – I keep reminding myself. The soul aligned relationships. The world of make believe. But maybe what I think I want is different from the reality. I know how it feels to be radiantly full with myself, can I feel that with others?
Surrendering to my vibration or sensation more than the figments of my imagination. I keep reminding myself this is the secret. The way of magnetizing, simply by being an embodiment of the sensation. And everything that manifests is an unnecessary delight to the depths of contentment I already have.
I remind myself I am a walking embodiment of that sensation I desire to feel when I’m with others, when I’m in my creative flow, when I’m seeing money deposit in like rain drops, falling from the sky. All I have to do is walk. Centered with my breath, aligned with my heart, grounded in my roots.
That is what I’ve been practicing lately.
Coming back to home, to me. Within a moment of being here I notice my body and mind reach for something that used to give me pleasure. Because it wants more. But more is in every breath of inhale and every release of exhale. I can instead slow down and ride this sensation of pure presence.
Be here now.
It feels like the lesson of life.
Be HERE now.
Take a breath with me.
Straighten your back,
relax your jaw
focus only on the vertical movement of your body as you inhale… and exhale, gently.
A flash of inspiration comes,
be here now.
We can’t capture or capitalize the experience of life, it is always fleeting.
So … be here now.
Close your eyes gently.
Notice what images or sensations arise.
It comes and it goes, like breath, it is flowing through, circulating around.
I’m so grateful I get to simply experience, this sensation.
“Slow down mija” I hear a voice say,
“It’s all here” She motions to the heart.
“everything is here”.
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~ Erika
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