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It was the first day of 2011 and many inspirational messages were ‘arriving’ on my laptop; certain of them though were wrapping themselves around me in a powerful way … those messages that spoke of releasing old ways and making room for the new … messages like … “This is a new day at the start of a new year, and I choose a new way of being. I choose to be free of the limiting thoughts of the past and to not allow outworn habits or beliefs to control my life” and “Today is a day for freedom. Today is a day to be as the bird, singing and full of joy, leaving worries, troubles and regrets far behind.”
Usually on New Year’s day snow covers the ground here in Southern Ontario, but this year, instead, it was raining, and something was beckoning to me to walk in the warmth of this unusual day. Off I went, scarf triple wrapped around my neck, but not even thinking to take an umbrella. Well, it was all about washing away all that no longer served me anyway. Rain could only help.
I love the little park down the road. I am so grateful for the many times over the years this small patch of wilderness has brought me peace and solace. I have probably hugged at least half the trees there. Entering into the forest felt a little surreal … a carpet of beautiful golden autumn leaves, washed clear of snow, lay before me … no frozen-over crust of icy snow here.
I simply followed where my footsteps led … and then I saw it … glorious, but fallen … a beautiful large tree whose branches now graced the forest floor instead of the sky above. What was it that so attracted me to this amazing ‘work of art’ that lay before me? I knew it held a message.
Instinctively I bent down and lightly touched the large branch that had drawn my attention – its covering bark fell softly to the ground. What lay beneath took my breath away, for revealed under the surface was the golden glow of her wood … beauty that could never have been revealed to my eyes when this tree stood upright in the woods.
And so she had simply laid down upon the forest floor; she did not resist the new and attempt to right herself to an upright position again … her old familiar way. No, instead, she simply offered her beauty and her love in the present moment from the forest floor, and all was so very perfect.
My glance fell to the right of this beautiful tree only to see what lay beside her. It was a stone … and why might that be special? Special because it was in the shape of a heart. It was as if this tree had said to me, “You cannot take me with you, but, please take my heart … and let it remind you of our meeting and my message to you this day … if I had not released my gnarly blackened bark, you would never have come to know my true golden beauty hidden beneath.”
May 2011 be a blessed year for all … a year in which the awesome beauty hidden beneath our own ‘bark’ is revealed and shines brightly and joyfully into our World …
Shared with You with Love, Namaste, Beverly…
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I almost can’t wait for all of you to see my new site…new resources…my heart in the form of a website created especially for you.
As I have walked through the last six months, I realize that every moment is full of the love we are. Sometimes love looks like contrast, sometimes it looks like frustration, sometimes it looks like flow, and always it can be the Truth.
The one message I want everyone to know is you can feel good (and abundant) in who you are every day in every way in all that you do. In fact, anything that is taking you away from feeling good is taking you away from feeling God and feeling yourself as part of the infiniteness that created you.
Life is a game to be played full out. Here’s to playing the game of life!
Happy New Year!
On Christmas Day, I shared an idea with a friend. I thought of the idea several weeks ago and had enjoyed all that it meant since then.
The idea was this…There’s a place in the world for EVERYONE, just as they are, exactly as they are, in the love they are!
Not a new idea by any stretch, but my focus was on the new show, Oddities, which airs on the Discovery Channel. The show dives into the weird world of strange and extraordinary science artifacts through the eyes of the proprietors of Manhattan’s Obscura Antiques & Oddities.
Of course, you all know I’m FASCINATED by PEOPLE from all walks of life, so I found myself GLUED to the screen taking in this whole new world I had no idea even existed!
When I consulted with business owners to help them grow their firms, I would always tell them not to worry about all the people who were not their clients and focus on serving those who were.
Later when I started coaching with people on their various dreams, I would say the same thing. Looking for love? Focus on love, don’t worry about all the people who don’t love you.
As I watched Oddities, I saw this woman (the owner, Evan) who was absolutely in LOVE with oddities, antiques and artifacts. She married a guy who was also in LOVE with the same passion. Now, she serves her clients who are OBSESSED with oddities, antiques and artifacts.
Proof positive that you CAN be who you are and be the LOVE you are and do it in your OWN UNIQUE WAY that fills you with PASSION (not to mention profits) each and every day.
As I shared this story and remarked at how wonderfully divine the Universe is and how abundant we are to be able to be fully expressed no matter what – if we only dare – I found myself going on and on about the people I had seen on the show. At one point, I felt I was really going OVERBOARD since I had left my original point – we can be the love we are exactly as we are. I had drifted over into the territory of talking about the people on the show.
At one critical moment, another part of me said, “What are you creating here? What is your focus?”
I noticed this thought came as I went on and on about this one particular person who was searching for a monkey skull (really!), and I stopped myself and moved on to another subject.
The next morning, I puttered around in my office, and Mark walked in rather hesitantly. And said, “Wow, this is so weird…” He said it in the exact same way I kept talking about the monkey skull. I asked him, “What’s weird?”
Then he showed me this photo and said, “This was outside by the back door underneath the swing.”
He went on to say, “What’s even weirder is how did it get there? We have a 12-foot high fence!”
I looked at the photo and all of what I’ve shared here came back to me…that moment when another part of me was asking, “What are you creating?” And, here it is…my manifestation. It’s not a monkey skull, but it is definitely a match!
We all know to ‘watch our words’…it’s Manifesting 101. And, yet, as we move toward the New Year, it’s always a good time to review the basics! YOU are powerful…your words to God’s ear as they say. Be sure to whisper the ones you want to see in your life!
Watch your words…and thoughts…consider, with each one…What are you focusing on? What are you creating? Would you like for it to show up at your back door?
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I am so amazed with myself that I have held off as long as I have on this post. I am also amazed that this movie didn’t do better than it did at the box office. Months ago, as I watched the clips and previews, I wondered if knowing the entire ‘story’ would affect attendance. I mean, who wants to shell out cash to go see a movie they ‘think’ they already know the beginning, the middle and the end?
I wondered about this myself since after the PR circuit, I knew the ‘story’ and knew the horse won the triple crown for the first time in umpteen years.
Yet somehow, this movie pulled me in and lured me to go see it opening week. Though I might be a tad bit more sensitive than the average bird, I am not the only one who felt the call to this movie. Nearly every person in my current program went to see it opening week. My mom did, too (and she only goes ‘to’ the movies once or twice a year!)
Here’s my two cents. GO SEE IT!!! It’s one of those movies you really want to experience on the big screen. Really. Mom and I are even planning to go see it AGAIN on the big screen. I can’t even remember the last time I did that – the original Rocky and Grease come to mind. That was a LONG time ago!
Mom and I talked about this movie for an HOUR about the nuances of the events that led to Secretariat’s moment (and all of those involved in his historical place in time).
My point?
It’s not about the triple crown win.
This movie is about being a winner as my mom put it. It’s about following your heart. About listening to your gut when everyone and everything around you says not to. About grabbing life by the handle and hanging on. About being mighty and humble when everything inside of you wants to lash out. About doing things even when they are inconvenient. About being the wrong gender at the wrong time in the wrong industry and finding yourself triumphant – not because you are difference, but because you are. It’s a big-time movie about second chances.
And, for those of you who have read my many posts on horse spirit (just search horse spirit on my site to find them), this movie is about horse spirit and the energy of being allowed to be yourself – even if that isn’t ‘acceptable’ to others.
I could go on and on about the performances, but I won’t because the performances delivered these messages in such a powerful way.
For those of you who have families and who try to keep your kids from ingesting violence, this is a keeper.
Secretariat so captured our imaginations that we did some research about him and found out that he had an abnormally LARGE HEART – 22 POUNDS! That’s the heart of a winner!
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Last Saturday, as I shared with you all, I went to the Oprah, OWN Your Show tryouts. I didn’t get a callback, but as I mentioned, got SO many gifts for my participation!
When I woke the next morning, I had the juiciest dream about my mother. It was amazing! I’m going to share it with you here.
That night, I dreamt of my mother. I saw her in these 70s clothes with orange and pink and white swirls on the blouse (kind of like these here) – it had the bigger arms and the body was like a tunic (I’m sure you know the style – very Laugh In). Then, she was wearing orange leggings. Her hair was LONG and platinum blonde (her hair has always been blonde, but she used to get it frosted). She had it pulled up I Dream of Jeanie style and she looked BEAUTIFUL. Oh, and she was sooo slender and looked so YOUNG.
In my dream, we met at a restaurant to eat dinner and then she turned around and her legging style pants were ripped up the middle (kind of like panty hose), and I looked at her butt and I was like, “Hey, your butt looks good these days!” and she was laughing about her tights being ripped and totally didn’t care. She laughed, and said, “Yeah, who cares if anyone sees my butt!” She felt happy and radiant.
When I woke up, the energy was so yummy that I called her the next morning to tell her about it. She exclaimed, “That’s ME!” She went on to say that she DID used to look like that, and act like that When she was younger. I shared some things about orange and pink and white and what those colors represent. I told mom that she was thin and looked absolutely radiant and that it is NEVER TOO LATE to be who you know you are. Plus, she has THICK, beautiful hair and she has been chopping it for years. When I told her about the hair, she said, “Yes, I haven’t felt like ‘me’ without my hair.”
I’m not sure what going to tryout did, but I feel A-MAZING! 
I get a sense that mom and I are going to be doing fun things together…that feels amazing, too.
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