Oh June! ~ Making Space for an Amazing life!

‘How do you listen to the universe’ he asked…..

In an interview by phone a few minutes ago with a writer for The Washington Post, the reporter asked…  ’how do you listen to the universe?’

And it occurred to me that it’s so easy that many people don’t give it the credit or the power it deserves!  Look,  it’s not new to many of us that we have ‘friends in high places’ and it’s not a far reach for people to imagine that they have ‘angels’ or that someone close to them who has passed is ‘watching over them’.

Listening to the universe is the same as listening to what wants to happen.  The thing is this…

These helpers will just sit around and do nothing if you don’t empower them to get out there and get you in the right place at the right time for what you want to happen.  It’s like if a mediocre life is okay with you then once you’re there, they can just sit back.  When YOU decide that you want to change and start moving in another direction or begin taking risk then they get engaged.  And when they’re engaged, what to do next becomes obvious.  You move in the direction of what wants to happen.   You listen from a different point of view, you look with your inner vision for a new perspective and you go with what is happening.  Full Speed Ahead… I might add!

Funny you should ask!  I’m always ‘working’ on something.

I can’t help it.  I know me.  If I don’t look at my life and what is going on inside me then how do I hope to change it and grow?  What chance have I got if I don’t propel myself further?  No one else is going to get me ‘there’.  So….  back to the original question…  What am I working on these days?  I am working on something that sounds so simple but if it was I would have mastered it years ago.  It’s to live in a reality where I don’t have to do anything to be validated.  I don’t have to try so hard to be loved.  I don’t have to be right all the time to be worthy.

Aha…. that last one is pretty tricky, actually.  I also don’t have to play myself down to be accepted.  I don’t have to pretend that I don’t have something awesome to contribute.  I don’t have to act goofy or over friendly when I’m really feeling like hanging back.  I don’t have to do anything.  I just have to be.  I just have to be me.  And what I have to offer right now, and where I am in my life, right now, is enough.  That is what I’m working on.  And you? …………….

A very long time ago I met a man who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer (he had an inoperable tumor in his spine).  He was given 6 months to live as his body began to deteriorate.  Once he knew that his time on planet earth was about up he told himself that he didn’t want to die wishing he would have…….. so anytime an opportunity came up that he might have said no to previous to his illness, he said yes to.  He went on to have some really funny and amazing experiences.  (Like meeting a zen monk sitting on a bar stool at a Club Med in Martinique!)  That was over 35 years ago and he is still alive today.

The moral of the story is…………You might as well HAVE FUN, TAKE RISKS, AND GO FOR IT!  Call it preventative medicine! So many times we talk ourselves out of doing what we really want to do for one reason or another and it’s a ridiculous formula to live by:

Have a desire – Find reasons why we can’t do it – Act like we’re trying to do it anyway -  Talk ourselves out of it – Feel bad for not having done it.
So, Now What?  Just Say Yes!  Take the risk of putting yourself into an uncomfortable situation and Fucking Go For IT!  Whatever IT is to you.  What’s the thing that’s been rolling around in your head for months or years, even?   That idea that follows you around every corner, lurking in the background, tempting you to move in a direction that you’ve talked yourself out of over and over again.    When you say Yes to that and you throw yourself into action around IT you’ll get what it feels like to make dreams come true.  Yes, even yours.

A few days ago my two sons were going skydiving and I had the chance to go with them.  Sidebar: — I have a fear of heights and I’m not kidding. — But when the time came, I said “June… when they come back and tell you how cool it was are you gonna wish you would have?… and the answer was YES!  So, as scared as I was and as hard as my heart was pounding, I did it!  I jumped out of a perfectly fine plane, just for the fun of it.  Did I almost talk myself out of it?  Yep.  Did I actually have to talk myself back into it?  Yep.  Do I get to feel the joy from having done it… YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!!
Now it’s your turn.  Take a deep breath, take a step back if you have to… then take a running leap!  Bring it on… LIfe!  Full speed ahead!  Desires are meant to be filled.