No matter how slowly a duck or even an insect moves on a pond, ripples will still be made.  Movement other than that which is created by the mover will happen.  The water cannot help but to react to what ever is moving through it.

So it is with life.

No matter how quietly we may feel we move through life, what we do [and don't do] ripples far beyond the immediate spot we fill.  Tiny waves of energy emanate from our movements, meeting with energy that has originated from others to create new movement that neither may ever know about.

We may feel we live a non eventful life, that we achieve nothing spectacular, historic or dramatic during our day or our time here on earth.  Yet the energy which flows from us is powerful.  It continues to reverberate long after we are gone in a physical sense.

The life we lead and our attitude to our time is precious and powerful.  Use it wisely; send forth good energies – for they live on after we have finished with them.  They continue to create when we no longer can in a physical sense.

photo by Dawn via Flickr cc

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Some other postings:

Life is in the doing not the having

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle

In the silence are all the answers you seek

20 ways to make life harder

Earlier this week I was reading a post on a blog by a lovely lady called Andie which is 101 things in 1001 days.  Andie has 101 goals to accomplish and one of those goals is to list 100 things that make her happy.  I thought that was a great idea and it inspired me to pen my own 100 things.   So later that day I sat down and began to write type, all the while picturing myself feeling happy and listing all the pictures and feelings that came into my mind.  One hundred of them flowed out pretty easily – there was a bit of a pause around the #28 mark when I looked at the number wondered if I would get to 100.  I didn’t try to list big or ‘deep’ things as I believe it is in the small that our lives are lived, moment by moment.  Happiness is felt in the now and I wrote the list from the place of what gives me happiness as it happens not so much what makes me happy over the longer term, though a few of them crept in as well.

My list was varied and I shan’t bore you will the complete 100 but shall give a few snippets to give you the gist.

#24 having a computer

#25 the internet

#96 travelling and holidays

#26 watching a good movie

#5 being me *flicks hair over shoulder*

#87 eating sushi in one of those places where it revolves around [love this]

#72 all the possibilities that are ahead of me

#88 warmth from the sun

#17 when I achieve a life time goal

#4 feeling loved

#36 going to sleep

Making the list reminded me how much happiness I have in my life [thanks Andie].  A lot of the things on my list cost nothing; they are gifted to me – like love or warmth from the sun.  Happiness is truly in the way we view things.  If we look for the goodness in all things that is what we shall find and being grateful for what we currently have in our lives instantly makes our life great.  Life is good if we decide it is good, similarly if we decide everything in our life is crap then a crap life is what we will get.

Whether we currently feel we have a little or a lot [especially in a material sense] if we look at all that makes us happy we instantly have a lot, we instantly live a rich life.  When you go shopping do you bother looking at the stuff to don’t like?

~ You might like to do your own list of 100 things that make you happy or even share some in the comments section below.  Either way it is focusing you on what is good and great in your life.  Sending the signal out to the universe that this is your life, your happy life.  What you focus on expands as they say, so focus on the happiness in your life and watch it grow.

Enjoy

above photo by renaissancechambara via Flickr [cc]

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Some other postings you might like:

Happiness, fulfilment – what’s stopping you?

Life is in the doing not the having

Allow your inner voice to speak

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#101 my ‘official’ two cups of morning coffee always makes me happy

photo by ballistik coffee boy via Flickr [cc]

Last week was haute couture fashion week in Paris.  Pieces were shown which can be beautifully tailored to the specific requirements of the client with workmanship so exquisite that in itself, is an art form worthy of praise and wonderment.  Not everyone can afford such things yet we all are afforded the experience of having something which is made especially for us.  For each of us, by our very nature, is a unique article; perfectly tailored to the task at hand [our life] with exquisite workmanship and attention to detail of the most intricate kind.

We are all one offs – totally unique.

I am a one off just as you are a one off.  Although, as in the different levels of fashion, the fundamental construction techniques are the same for all of us, it is in the finer details where we turn from being ‘off the rack’ to becoming something which is finely tuned to the sensibilities of the client [us].  It is these refinements which move us from being a basic model to being top of the range.  As humans, we cannot be anything but top of the range and unique, for that is how we are made.  Human beings only come in one style – original.

When we are true to that which makes us unique we honour our existence, our reason for being here.  By listening to and manifesting our uniqueness, we add an energy to the world which brings the universe closer to its optimum vibration.  All too often people deny their own originality in favour of appearing like all others, to be one of the crowd.  Yet that is precisely why we often feel downhearted or lost, for we are not living as we were intended to live.  Marianne Williamson said it best in her lovely poem Our Deepest Fear -

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you

You are not responsible for how others feel.  You are only responsible for how you feel and how your life is lived.  Do not deny your ‘haute couture’ aspects, they are what makes you You.  They are why you are here, why you are the way you are.  It would be like getting a Chanel suit made specifically for you and never wearing it, putting it in the back of the wardrobe and only peaking at it every now and then, scared in case you damage it.  What a shame it would be to not enjoy that which was made especially for you and no other.

Care for yourself, for you are a marvel.  Tailored so specifically for you that you are priceless; so precious that you are  gifted to yourself in the form of who you truly are.  A wondrous and luxurious construction which by your very presence is more valuable than the most exquisitely created garment.  You bring to this world something which no other can.  You add an energy to the collective vibration which no one else is able to do.  Be yourself, live according to your unique gifts; thoroughly enjoy the one off masterpiece that is You.

Enjoy

~~ This post was inspired by an exchange of tweets between @Sunnie1sotrue and myself.  Inspiration is all around if we listen closely

Other postings you might like to read:

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle

In the silence are all the answers you seek

20 ways to make life harder

Both photos from State Library of Queensland collection via The Commons

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After extensive reasearch a.k.a my life thus far …… here are a few attitudes and habits to adopt if you would like to make your life a bit harder, less simple.  If you choose not to make it that way just do the opposite of the list – as always your life is what you choose it to be.

THE LIST:

1.  Get rid of your weekly plan – and especially your daily, yearly and 5 yearly one

2.  Always think about the past

3.  Always focus on what doesn’t really matter – sweat the small stuff

4.  Keep all irrelevant pieces of paper

5.  Always let stress get the better of you

6.  Always accept interruptions when you work

7.  Procrastinate all things

8.  Don’t have lists for anything — this one doesn’t count

9.  Let the day free flow – don’t schedule anything

10.  Do lots of things at the same time

11.  Never feel proud of yourself for accomplishing anything you do

12.  Don’t have any goals

13.  If someone asks you to do something always say yes – their stuff is more important than yours

14.  Rush through everything you do

15.  Do not prioritise

16.  Have as many useless possessions as possible

17.  Do everything yourself – don’t delegate to anyone

18.  Always keep your desk and work surfaces messy and cluttered

19.  Never believe you will do anything

20.  Surround yourself with friends who do not support and encourage you

Enjoy

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Other postings you might like to read:

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle

Unburden yourself here – it’s free & freeing

In the silence are all the answers you seek

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We are living in extraordinary times.

We have a chance to change things for a more unified future

where all things integrate homogeneously.

Where we each play a unique note in the universe’s tune

- a tune which is not complete if we do not add our own part

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We are as much a part of the world as anything else

we are each equally important

- as is our contribution, our song

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We know the song we each need to sing, we just have to admit it to our selves

pretty soon,

as more people begin to live their own song, their own vibration

a harmony will begin.

All our unique songs will band together in unison

like a dawn chorus.

Wonderful in variety yet beautiful in the way each compliments all others

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Enjoy

Those who wish to sing always find a song ~ Swedish proverb

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photo by: minicooper93402

Other postings you might like to read:

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle

In the silence are all the answers you seek

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Expectations are slippery characters.  In themselves they are fine but it is how we attach ourselves to them; or them to us, which imbues them with a power which can be hazardous.   In one way they can be good in another not so good.  The good way with expectations is not to hold on to them too tightly, not to incorporate them too deeply into the part of us which resides in the physical world.  Savour an expectation, feel it arise  within and visualise its outcome, let the  mind know this is how we would like things to be.  Expect good things of our self – to be and do all that we believe is possible [and then some]……. then set the expectation free.

What we expect is usually what we get, though sometimes not in the form we expected.  If we do not get what we expect then we must not be disappointed or downhearted.  Expectations send out a message to the universe that this is what we want or think we deserve; yet if we do not let go of them, they cannot go forth to do their work.  They will not come back to us for they never left to be fulfilled.  However, by fearing our expectations will not be fulfilled we doom them to failure by not  letting go of them.

Expectations must be taken on board then released, that is their way, the way.  Expectations are powerful and can have a positive effect on our life, yet if we do not set that power free it turns inward.  It builds in us and consumes us as the weight of increasing unfulfilled expectations are pilled higher and higher upon ourselves, by ourselves and our inability to release them.   They are made to move, to be free and to wander – their energy doing its work in freedom.  They do not operate when caged; they are inhabitants of the open.  They only like to rest upon our thoughts momentarily before taking flight again to spread their goodness.

~~ So by all means enjoy your expectations and have high ones but remember you do not own them, they will do you the most good by letting them go.  They are like a summer breeze, touching you for a moment so you can shape how they flow but always and ever they are free flowing.

Enjoy

Photo by: lucyfrench123

You might like reading another post I wrote on expectations

Great Expectations?

Some other postings:

Happiness, fulfilment – what’s stopping you?

Life is in the doing not the having

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Don’t allow trivial matters to aggravate you

if the milk spills, wipe it up and move on to something  which deserves your energy

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Enjoy all you do

this is the only time you will live this moment so make the best of it

Enjoy

Other postings you might like:

You don’t have to save the world

Do you live a quantity or quality life?

Honouring your core values

The benefits of a neutral colour scheme

Last Monday’s post was my most successful yet – comments and hits wise that is and possibly one of the most  successful in a helpful way too – unfortunately that doesn’t come up on the analytics .  I would like to thank everyone who released emotions which they no longer wished to carry the full weight of and trust that in some small way it has made you feel lighter and added to your inner growth.

I will take a guess here and surmise that for some of you a fear had to be overcome to place a comment  and I wanted you who did over come a fear to know that last Monday I had a fear too.  It wasn’t in writing the post as only I was seeing it, yet as I went to push the publish button I hesitated, I doubted myself and quavered.  My last  post was different from my usual Monday sort, a move away from my comfort zone.  I could feel the build up inside me, I was a bit scared and put it down to maybe it wasn’t a good time to do a post like this  – what if I offend someone, what if no one comments, what if this and what if that…

As I sat there thinking whether ‘to publish or not to publish’ I began to wonder if maybe the feeling was just plain old fear; fear of doing something differently, of expanding, of growing.  Which one was it?  Then I remembered a piece I read in a magazine about a woman who had come through an experience of cancer.  When asked what positive had come out of her experience she said she would no longer waste another day not feeling totally liberated to be whoever she wanted to be.  Then I thought of all those people who have done great things in their life and often when asked, they too, say that they had to over come personal fear.

I decided then it was just plain old fear so proceeded with finishing off the post.  All the while the feeling kept chipping away, but I pressed on reminding myself not to succumb to it for it was only trying to keep me living a ’small life’.   By the time I had finished doing all the extra bits like picking the picture etc it was too late for fear to grip me fully.  I had walked through it and was already on the other side with enough inner oomph to push the publish button.

~~ When I feel fear rising within I usually picture it as a wall of sheer muslin type curtains [hence the above picture], don’t ask me why, it’s just how it appears to me.   Obscuring what I want to see, do and be yet at the same time powerless to hold me back if I choose to move forward.  The curtains offer the illusion of resistance but really there is none for it is all self imposed.  So I picture myself walking through them and feeling the fear/curtains gently waft over me as I pass through.  No harm can be done as the fear is weightless  in comparison to the motion of me moving forward – both physically and mentally.  The fear becomes insignificant.  Only not moving forward stops me from being all I can be as only not moving forward stops you from being all you can be.

Which of your fears will you walk through?

Enjoy

Photo by independentman

Other postings you might like to read:

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle

In the silence are all the answers you seek

Is there something you carry around within yourself that weighs you down? That has become a burden  because you feel you cannot ‘let it out’?  Is there something you wish you would have said to another or not said?

This post is for release. Release from what ever it is you no longer wish to carry the full weight of within.  It may help to unburden you a lot or just a little.  You may think it will not help at all but decide to release it in a comment below anyway.

‘A burden shared is a burden halved’ as the old saying goes

By placing your comment below, the energy of those thoughts or feelings you hold within are moved.  A part of them shifts from within you into something else.

Tell a something you no longer wish to carry the full burden of, whether big or small.   Something you hold the regret of not doing or saying to another or your self, something you haven’t been, felt or accomplished.  What ever you feel is holding you back from being all you can be, forgive yourself for it.

You are more than welcome to comment anonymously, use a nom de plume or your real name; what ever you feel comfortable with.  An email address is not required to comment.   I will accept your comment in the spirit in which it is written then let it go; the energy of which now free to flow elsewhere.  In the process  sending good energies back to you and trust you will send good energies to those whose comments resonate with you.

~~ If no one comments that is okay.  Often it can be hard to let go of internal burdens which we have gotten used to carrying; any comment left is a step closer to a more enlightened life, but each walks that journey at their own pace.  Be well.

Enjoy

(cc) photo credit: alancleaver_2000

Other posting you might like:

Our choices make our life

Take at least a small step each day

Where is the energy taking you?

Happiness, fulfilment – what’s stopping you?

Oil and sugar scrub for your hands

We use our hands a lot during the day and they often take quite the battering.  They are one of our major gateways to experience the physical world and our usual mode for greeting others with waves, handshakes, hugs etc.

Following on in the theme of a previous post entitled Being productive and mindful – 20 one minute to dos I thought I would share with you this wonderful hand treatment which I learnt about a decade ago from a hand model.  It is very quick and easy and can be done anytime.   It is another great way to use those spare moments in the kitchen when you are waiting for something to boil or for the microwave to go ding.

The task:

1. Get the sugar and oil out; any sort of each will do though for obvious reason sugar lumps are not the way to go  …..and if I have it handy I prefer to use olive oil.

2. Either get a bowl of warm water or start the tap running slowly with water that is just warm [I understand it is important to conserve water but it is really hard to turn the tap on with the oil and sugar grit on your hands]

3. Put a teaspoon of sugar in the palm of one hand then a small blob of oil.

4. Rub together, massaging the mixture in – and don’t forget the cuticle area around the nail.

5. Do this for a minute or so and rinse in your water then dry.

This is a wonderful nurturing treatment for your hands and can also be used on your feet [sitting on the side of the bath is best].  Not only does it make your hands feel silky, it costs very little and is a great mindfully productive habit to get into.

Enjoy

(cc) Photo credit: FranUlloa

A few other posts you might like to peruse:

Delight in all the turns of your life

Simplicity Thursday – 5 things to do whilst boiling the kettle