Imagine This Dream

"My dream is to be a part of a movement of being kind to ourselves and to others and witness a generation of young people that no longer waste years of precious life on self-loathing like I have because they think they are un-beautiful."~ Jade Beall Photography Picture the day when the negative self-talk ends for all. Imagine the possibilities, the power, the joy and the beauty. Imagine the different way the world would appreciate, honor and operate. It is possible, especially since I know ANYTHING is possible.

How do we begin this? How do we create this new and exciting trend? How do we make it the next best thing, the must have, and the topic of every conversation? How do we make self-loathing and negative self-talk a thing of the past; soooooo yesterday?

We have to start with ourselves. We have to not just talk about it, but BE it. We have to model it, support it, celebrate it, encourage it and honor it. We have to cherish and require it. It can be what saves us. It will be what empowers. It should bring peace. Imagine!

The precious energies will no longer be wasted and instead flow into the positive realms, the healing realms, the growing and evolving realms. These barriers of good enough, pretty enough, thin enough, tall enough, small enough…these barriers would fall and instead we would see each others attributes that matter and have effective impact on our lives and on the lives of others. We would witness the compassion of others, the generosity, the grace, the authenticity … imagine! Imagine being so kind to ourselves and to others that negativity is hard to recall and instead we see the power in each soul, the beauty in each face and the joy in each body. Imagine!

Blessings ~ Lisa Meade

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

You Were Not Born To Struggle

You were not born to struggle. You were not born to live a life where the moments of joy are few and far between. You were not born to toil in your work five days a week, with fleeting moments of happiness on weekends. You were not born to live with limited energy, feeling exhausted at the end of each day. You were not born to worry or be afraid. You were not born to suffer. What would be the point of your life? You are meant to experience life to its fullest and have everything you want and, at the same time, be filled with joy, health, vitality, excitement, and love, because that is an amazing life. — Rhonda Byrne Can you accept that this is Truth. Not a truth for just some, but for all! A truth for you! So how can you embrace this truth? How do you make it your reality? How do you embrace this truth when our society plays by different rules.

Begin close to you, to home, to your heart. Find things that truly invigorate you, bring you bliss, joy, delight and when you are in the moment with these things, these people, these opportunities, your soul sings! Now commit. Commit to yourself that you will invite these into your life on a regular basis. Start with one a day. What could it be? A power dance? A long walk in nature? A chant sung as you beat a drum or shake a rattle? A quiet moment with a friend prone in the grass gazing at the stars? What would delight your soul?

Why should we struggle to find our happiness? Why should we suffer, worry and fear? We know our thoughts are so powerful. Why not make these thoughts be of wonder, peace, joy, love, or hope? If the power of these thoughts were sought as regularly as we spend our time in worry and fret, perhaps, just maybe things would shift.

Life is meant to be beautiful, amazing and astounding. We trap ourselves into a place of boredom, ugly loss, and pain. And it is not an energy that our soul resonates with, so it tries to reject it. It tries to avoid it, to turn away from it and to denounce it. And so we become uncomfortable, unhappy and restricted. The only way out of this discomfort is to either become numb to it or to replace it. It is a powerful choice we can make. It may not be a choice that is always easy, but it is there. Choose to live the life of wondrous grace, abundant beauty and vibrant energies.

Blessings ~ Lisa Meade ©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

The Essence Balance

Living a spiritual life is sometimes a matter of balance. It is often recognition of where we are placing our focus. It usually provides us with opportunities to check in with our intentions. For example, which force do we serve? Are we looking to give or to receive? Are we seeking approval and praise, or service and grace? One cannot serve both the ego and Spirit. When we are trying to maintain our spiritual life with grace and with service we find that a peace and a love surrounds us. This is not to say that we will not struggle or falter. It is not to say we won’t stumble or need to pause. But if we continue to keep our Self in balance and if we continue to look to our world for its beauty and love, the more and more we find alignment with Source and those around us begin to respond.

Our minds sometimes like to analyze things and if we are placing an unbalanced amount of energy and time pondering the places, situations, and people in our life that are not in alignment with our efforts, beliefs or practices we spend that energy. It no longer is available to us to use on what is in alignment. It becomes a choice. It becomes a distraction sometimes from the work we need to be doing or are being called to be in service to.

If we focus our attention on maintaining our balance we find a positive energy begins to flow through and around us and we want to be a part of it, more and more frequently. People will begin to recognize the difference in our being, our attitude and our actions. We begin to BE beauty, to BE love, and to BE peace. It is our very essence.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

Redefining Success

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” ~ David Orr How do we define success? And why are we seekers of it? Perhaps if we were to change our definition, then the seeking of it would become more expansive, soulful and of heart. A world ruled by power, money and its existing definition of success does not serve the majority very well, it does not take into account the other earthly beings, and it cannot even consider the spiritual aspect of all. And so we continue on the revolving globe spinning out of control in our effort to achieve success.

How different it would be if instead of success we sought our passions, our longings or our callings? How different life would be if all were applauded for this rather than their economic stature or bank account or degree or title? What if were appreciated for who we were being rather than what we were achieving? I have to wonder.

Perhaps we are to change our definition of success to be one of a state of being our true natural beautiful soul being, living in a life that ripples out with our presence and unique essence so that those who were in need of our gifts and offerings would be impacted positively, freely and with honor. What if we were to honor and cherish those who heal and teach, those who create offerings of love and peace, or those who restore and replenish and bring great integrity to the relationships of all. What if we shifted the success factor from power, control and money to gentleness, love, healing and offerings. How different would the world then be?

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade