YOU ARE SUPER 💫🙌🏼💪🏼🦸🏽♀️🦸🏼♂️💥☄️🌈💗 Walking back from Comic-Con on Saturday, Lara enthusiastically told me how cool it’d be to regularly leap up and out as if you literally believed you could fly, while walking down the streets of Seattle. A few minutes later, as we went down some stairs on the way to the ferry, my daughter spread her arms and started jogging the stairs like and was soaring through the clouds. After watching her joyous face for a few moments, I decided to join in. “Woohoo!” my soul sang.
Earlier, we’d gone to a Marvel comics meetup with all these diversely glorious beings. It got me thinking how superheroes have SO MANY different powers and hail from all ethnicities, cultures, and genders.
This in turn reminded me WE’RE ALL SUPER! Like comic book heroes, each of us has our own uniquely wonderful gifts to share with others. Whether you are encouraging, give great hugs, draw well, cook yummy food, dance like a champ, listen well, love gardening, and/or _____ you are super and have heroic powers for making the world a better place. So here’s to being super today!
#love #super #superhero #kindness #compassion #care #understanding #listening #care #bliss #positivity #hugs #upwardspiral #magicman #blissarmy #blissology
C O N T E X T
The pic of Lara and I "hanging" from the cave ceiling (like Luke Skywalker) taken at ComicCon yesterday make WAY more sense when I flip the pic. :) Context matters A LOT in that we're all shaped greatly by our environments, experiences, and influences. Seeing people/things from a better/truer context enables us to love better/truer.
For instance, as Lara and I hustled to an event at ComicCon, I heard a lady behind me tell her friend, "I had a good poop today." What the what!!!??? A couple hours later, though, we passed the same spot and I saw a rack of t-shirts, one of which you can probably guess read: "I had a good poop today." Ahh! Light bulbs! NOW I get the context of what she said, and instead of thinking she's a weirdo, I find her normal.
Sometimes I wonder if people think I'm weird for seeing life lessons in EVERYTHING. Yet, the thing is life is a school of Love and every person, experience, and place truly is our teacher. Everything really is a guide toward kindness, joy, compassion, and connection. Context helps us believe the best in one another and love and care for one another better. Have an amazing day!
#love #context #story #kindness #best #positivity #growth #transformation #magicman #upwardspiral #joy #bliss #blissology #blissarmy
I’ve never played the lottery, but I win it everyday when Lisa not only chooses me, but encourages, inspires, and cares for me in ways I never knew possible❣️ Today, not only did she drive me to work, she got up early to get us coffee at Starbucks since our machine broke, and took our dog Biscuits with her to work so I can get more done today. I’m one blissed and blessed dude!!! 💗💫😊🥰🍀❣️
Teaching yoga I get to regularly interact with attractive ladies. As you might imagine, thought bubbles related to their prettiness arise from time to time. While I'm realizing this is normal and natural, the danger is when I identify with these thoughts, which is all too common for us. It seems to me we've made an idol of Descartes' idea, "I think therefore I am", by coming to believe, "I AM the notions floating in my mind". As Richard Rohr observes, we're addicted to our thinking without even realizing it!
Even though thoughts are largely negative and repetitive, these days I'm doing my best to remember everything has an original goodness to it, even if we sometimes have to dig deep to find it. So, I ask myself: What's the origin of this idea in my brain? When it comes to an attraction toward women who aren't my wife, for example, I'm discovering it's an appreciation of beauty, desire for connection, love of life, and wiring for intimacy.
If I identified myself with the fleeting images in my mind, I might believe I was in love with so and so, or a bad person for admiring a woman who's not my partner. But, by stepping back to observe, engage, and shape our mental clay from a distance like an artist, each of us has the power to create a more Light-filled life.
Renowned meditation teacher Sally Kempton encourages us, as we notice thoughts arise and subside, to remind yourself, "These thoughts are energy, and every thought has potential power to transform my reality." Today, I invite us to practice savoring the pauses between thoughts, while also approaching our mental chatter like a master sculptor who is going to create a gorgeous work of art from a humble rock. Let's observe, engage, and shape our thoughts to brighten and enliven!
#love #light #thoughts #transformation #positivity #meditation #growth #being #yoga #observe #breathe #story #beauty #brighten #enliven #magicman #kindness #bliss #upwardspiral #blissarmy #blissology #kitsaphotyoga
