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Life’s beauty doesn’t only come in sunshine and warm weather

1/20/2013

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A joy-filled hello to you!

My friend Paul has been staying in Hawaii for awhile, after spending the summer and fall months on Martha’s Vineyard.  He is always sharing his surrounding beauty and joyous experiences with his many friends on facebook; and everyone, including me, seems to really appreciate and vicariously enjoy it. 

Life’s beauty doesn’t only come in sunshine and warm weather, though.  I know Paul knows this, too; but since he is my inspiration for this writing today, this is for you Paul, and I hope all my readers get to enjoy it, too.  I invite you to step inside my experience along with me, letting it fill your senses in whatever way happens for you.  Then sometime soon try the process I used and explain later for yourself, and find out how good it makes you feel!  


I wrote this on Thursday, Jan. 17th.


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It snowed yesterday, here in Massachusetts; and today it is gloriously sunny.  I drive 3 minutes from my home to Callahan State Park where I walk on a regular basis through the old forest. 

As I begin my walk, the crisp morning air is refreshingly cold on my face and smells so clean as I deeply breathe it in.  As I continue to walk, the feeling on my cheeks brings me back to feeling like a child playing outdoors in the snow with rosy, red, cold cheeks and not having a care other than the snow and me.





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The snow is still clinging fresh and white to every tree branch and along the trunks.  The contrast of dark bark and the white snow is striking and shows off the myriad patterns of branches reaching every which way and that, and the thick solid trunks anchored into the earth. I walk over and hug one, feeling its hugeness and strength and solidity and its tall reaching into the sky. The energy is magnificent and I take it with me.

Reminders of thriving abundance abound everywhere I look.  A dense forest of old trees and new ones making their way up.  What stories could these trees tell?



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Snow crystals and water droplets glisten everywhere in the trees and bushes and pine needles like an abundance of sparkling diamonds in the sun; the dripping, melting snow a reminder to enjoy this precious moment now and now and now.

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Nothing but me and the quiet of spirit surrounding and through me, interspersed with the crunching snow under my physical feet, the sound of the dripping snow, and occasional birds singing and calling.  Ahh.. but it’s all spirit, all one.





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As I articulate my thoughts and feelings to myself, it seems to enhance them, letting them linger and grow and flow into the next; building into an ever growing crescendo of feeling good energy.

By the end of my walk, I take my jacket off, so warmed by the invigorating energy flowing through me. 

It’s a good day.  Happy, thank you, more please!


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New Possibilities for You

  • I love to look around wherever I am, and see and sense the presence of beauty, of Spirit, if you like to think about it that way.  I sure do.  What simple ways can you do this?  Can you see it in the faces around you?  Out your window?  How can you hear it? In laughter? Energetic conversation? Music?  The wind?
  • Like I did, I highly recommend articulating your positive thoughts and feelings about this to yourself, as if you were going to write about it to a friend.  See for yourself if it will sharpen your focus and attention, raise your awareness, and deepen the felt experience.
  • Appreciate this flow state you’ve just created, and nurture it so it will continue into your next activity; and enjoy!  The point of being is joy, after all; and say, “Happy, thank you, more please!”

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