Do Not Make Life About Stuff

                      

                         Poster is from an email from a friend.  It is a great saying!

Each year, starting in November, we are pushed to buy the biggest, the brightest, the most expensive presents for family and friends.  We are pushed to consume…. Stuff!  We fill our homes and work places and even our places of entertainment and relaxation with stuff.

The poster above says it all.  Do not collect stuff that will only serve your ego.  Collect friends, good meals together, go on outings, feed homeless or provide some sort of shelter and food  for animals. Make what you spend your money on, count for “something” that makes life better for you and for others.  Become mindful about how you are spending your time and your coin.  Mindfulness will help you see things that are inconsequential to life.

Many blessings,

Judy

The Purpose of Life

                                 

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” ― Mother Teresa

A client said to me the other day that they were wondering what the purpose of life was.  The person felt that they were on the correct path…school, university, degree, job, significant other… but that they felt not fulfilled.  

My response is that you do not feel fulfilled because you are not yet self actualized.  In self actualization, you feed your soul because you are doing the one thing that feels like joy, like you are doing what you are on earth to do, and you know that you are meant to be doing it right at that place and time. For many, self actualization means that they have reached a spiritual level that brings them peace and light and joy.  Not everyone finds that actualization on this life journey. And many give up looking for that special thing that makes their heart feel light. 

If you want to know more about self actualization, look up Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs.  This helps to explain how one gets to self actualization based on tasks and needs.  

Many blessings on your journey,

Judy

What Makes You Tremble?

 

       A violent hail storm in July of 2021 with lots of thunder, lightning, and wind. Picture by J. Hirst

            

I had a conversation with some friends about what makes a person tremble, and in particular, what made each of us in the group tremble.

The words that first came up were:

• cold 
• fear
• anger
• grief
• excitement
• exhaustion
• a hard run (which to me seems like exhaustion but which my friends agreed was different)
• awe

We moved on to the physical things that make us tremble like:

• earthquakes
• thunderstorms
• storms
• hurricanes
• typhoons

And then we moved to the intrinsic things that make us tremble.

• the sound of certain music that raises you outside yourself
• seeing an animal being born
• seeing the majesty of the sky at certain times of the year
• something deeply spiritual 
• sudden kindness from a stranger
• the trust of a baby – human or animal

We had so much fun with this.  What I needed to remember was that each of these items seemed to be a force of Nature interacting with us.

What would you add to this list?

Blessings,

Judy