Living Your Best Life… What Does That Mean? (Revised)

 

I have been absent for a long time because I have been working on myself. I have been digging deep and healing my past traumas, learning more about myself and the strength within me. I have expanded my capacity for compassion and love, and I can honestly say that this has led me to greater access to joy on a daily basis! Once I stopped filling my head with garbage from TV, and instead watching higher vibrational transmissions, I was able to raise my own energetic frequencies for longer periods of time. It’s both easy and challenging! Once you’re able to catch personal judgements and shift them in the moment, you’re on your road to personal mastery. It’s a freeing practice, too! Most of the time (not always!) I’m able to accept and move through negative thoughts and emotions more quickly and with more grace. Outer circumstances don’t upset me like they used to. It’s the type of freedom I have always craved for myself! I will have easier days and more challenging days, for sure. However, it’s much easier for me to dig for the lessons in the negative experiences, allowing me to move through them with positivity. 

When I was living in California, I was working in construction, making good money, with the ability to travel, pay for nice vacations and treat my friends & family to little trips, too. But I was working over 40 hours a week, and fatigued on the weekends, and I was pulsing with this feeling that there was more to life than living for the weekends. I could hear my soul calling to me, telling me that I needed to move to the east coast. Long story short, once I’d made the decision to do that, everything fell into place. True that my family and friends thought I was having a midlife crisis. True they maybe thought I was making a huge mistake. But it didn’t matter to me, because there was an internal voice speaking to me, and that voice was more insistent and held more power than any other voice outside of me. I’m realizing, some 15 years later, that my winding, weaving, convoluted path through my life is the journey I was meant to take. All the lessons in it were for my growth and expansion. I needed to learn A LOT! I still don’t know where my path is taking me, but it really doesn’t matter when you understand the most important truth: NOW is all we have to experience. NOW is when all things happen, so when we choose to learn and experience and grow in this now moment, we are living as closely as we can to our soul. And when we listen to the whispers of our higher self, our soul, then we are continually moving towards our best life. 

P.S. I posted this before I had completed it, and am reposting it as it was intended to be. Sorry! 😂 

There's Beauty in a Sunset...

What comes to mind when someone says "sunset?" When I think of them, aside from the wondrous array of colors that I imagine, I also think... 

• The end of the day
• The cowboy riding into the sunset after his story is done
• The end of an epic journey
• An old couple living their final years together
• well, basically, I guess I think "The End!"

Okay, I'm being a little too much to my point. If I'm to be honest, I also think of 

• Hawaii (where I saw sooo many beautiful sunsets)
• The time I sat with Keith and two of his friends during my first week in Bethlehem, outside a sushi restaurant where we met for dinner, and were lucky enough to see the most beautiful sunset I think I've ever seen outside of Hawaii! And this, my friends, was a BEGINNING.
• Driving around California looking for the best place to watch the sun go down while I lived in Fremont
• Days spent at the beaches in Northern California, sitting on the sand until the sun crashed down into the Pacific
• Also, countless sunsets viewed from Sunset Beach, Cape May, New Jersey, where our family spends a week every summer

Sunsets definitely mark an end of a period, most of the times. They mark the end of a day, which, if you've had a tough one, is felt as a positive thing. If you're having a great one, then maybe it's bittersweet. But if you learn to enjoy the beauty of it, then its arrival is always amazing... and this is where I come to my point. In my 50s now, I finally see the true beauty of The Sunset. I have learned so much about who I am. I have painstakingly created the Me that I love. I feel a sense of satisfaction and joy with what I have been through, experienced, learned... to the point that as I reach that bend in the road that leads me towards my body's expiration date, I also welcome what awaits in that final sunset. I understand why physical immortality isn't needed. 

We ARE immortal, my friends. I hope you know this. Physics tells us that nothing can be destroyed, only changed or transmuted. We are energy and energy never dies! That is the miracle of Life that we seem to forget. Our soul and spirit continue as we return to God/The Universe/Ether... however you wish to see it. Many feel that we close our eyes in our used up bodies and then wink out of existence. That would be a true miracle! lol Because that would defy the laws of physics!! No, my dear ones... I can't explain how I KNOW this. I know it like I know my own face. We don't go into nothingness. For proof, listen to the stories from people who have returned from their death to tell the tale. Near Death Experiences are not actually "Near death" as many actually WERE dead for many minutes. Their bodies literally had stopped working. The definition of death. But they came back because they were given a choice sometimes, or they were told they weren't done here on Earth, and were sent back to their bodies. And they came back with stories. I've heard so many of them, and the similarities are stunning. Not to mention that I had my own experience that changed my view of the afterlife. More on that in another post. 

Let me just say that this is not all there is. There is SOOOOOOOOO much more, and folks, when you experience your own, it will outshine any sunset anywhere, because it will be like you were shot straight into those rays of the sun, except it's not hot... it's brilliant, yes, but it's like looking into a gorgeous diamond up close with the sun shining and all the refractions of rainbows and more spectrums of light than you have ever been able to see with your human eyes, plus ALL the love in the universe suffusing every molecule, merging with you.... and you will sigh with your soul and you'll say: I AM HOME. You will remember that THIS is you. You are again one with Divine Source Energy. You are and always have been one with God. You just forgot.

Blessings and Love xoxo