Rainy day

It is weird when it rains so much in the spring time.

That is Seattle I guess,

or maybe we are all secretly are happy to have a rainy day so that we can stay inside and get cozy. It is one of those days where you don’t feel guilty about putting your pjs on as soon as you get home and making tea and watching a movie. 

Sometimes with all the day to day life stresses it is important to remember that tomorrow may be sunny but today I should appreciate the rain because it makes the trees so green.

I am grateful for rain, tea, kleenex with aloe, hot soup, comfy socks

Learning

I feel motivated and happy.

Learning new things everyday makes you feel like you can do anything. I read somewhere that when the brain is learning it produces more cells and when you aren’t learning cell production slows greatly. 

Main points, learning and brain cell production are both awesome and make you feel happier.

I am grateful for learning, carrots, green juice and long comfy grey shirts

Back to the center

Today I feel happy and grateful. I am grateful for how beautiful the sky is.I am grateful for the 2 delicious coffees that I enjoyed. I am grateful for the dinner that I ate. I am grateful for the shower I took. I am grateful for the perfectly warm tea that I drank. I am so grateful for the opportunity of getting more education. I am so grateful for all the people who made me smile today. I am grateful for this day. I am grateful for having a bed to sleep in. I am grateful for love. I am grateful for all of the love in my life. I am grateful for all of the love I feel for other people.

I am so grateful for my life!

Calming

I have been very busy lately and I notice how easy it can be to get caught up in negative thinking. Being tired or simply not having enough time to put away your laundry can slowly drag you down. It isn’t as if one day a piano falls onto your head and then you feel it, it can creep day by day until you find yourself observing your life more than living it. This is the crucial time to make some movements. Whether it is physically standing up and dancing around to a fun song or forcing yourself to smile alone thinking of everything you have to smile about. Now. You have to catch yourself in a net before you float downstream. Then you feel the feel the fingers cramming your head open and scooping out the things that shouldn’t be there. Self doubt, fear, anxiety, all that crap. Then imagine a warm water trickling down your back, cleaning and soothing your soul.

Slowly I can see the sun again. I can feel the beauty of life.

I feel gratitude for being alive. I feel grateful for water. I am grateful for everything I have enjoyed in my life. I feel calm.

Moxie

The sun lightens the bed and clock differently everyday,

Some days red and others softly subdued grey. Always coming thru my windows,

 waking me only with the help of the loud noisy pest.

The light usually isn’t enough on its own because I often cram my times into certain boxes

the ones that I am supposed to fit into with such moxie

and some of the hoops that I am jumping through keep me up long past my first inclination to rest,

Everyday is a lesson,

Some days are the test.

I am grateful for allergy medicine, sleeping, hot tea, beds, clean laundry

Heather Purser

I am so proud of my girlfriend!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43996502/ns/us_news-life/

 

I just wanted to dedicate this blog to my girlfriend (Heather Purser). She is the sweetest most loving person I have ever met.

She is amazing and I am so grateful that I met her. I am grateful for every day I get to spend with her.

I love love

I love that love is a possible emotion. I feel lucky that I experience this in my life and wish everyone all the love in the world. When refocusing your life and the priorities within it, usually thoughts will bring you back to the people you care about.

Few people think about their life when they are on their death-bed and wish that they had spent more time at work or worried more.

To stay in the present moment I try to remember all the people in my life that have shared joy with me.  It could be giving me the bigger cookie or a real quality hug. All these memories are part of my soul. I am so grateful for all the fun and laughter I have been involved in.

It is such a privilege to share in someones joy yet sometimes we get so bogged down with worry, doubt, self loathing or jealousy. Really loving someone means loving all of them. 

So to twist this, remember to love yourself too. Don’t be so hard on yourself. No one judges you harder than you judge yourself. And when you are judging,

 yourself or anyone, 

you are not able to share or experience joy —-or love.

—-so stop.

Be grateful that love is an emotion that is possible to experience.

I am grateful for clean water, rice, clean water, i-pods, cameras, brownies

Beautiful Day

On a sunny amazing day everything in the world seems possible. Then I think about it and the sun really has nothing to do with the feeling, even though it does.

The energy and excitement of people and yourself propel and move your day forward in a positive way. The sun represents fun in the park, time spent with friends and vacations. On sunny days people make a point to do something that makes them feel joyful and often they take time for themselves to just enjoy their day.

I was walking home and thought about how much happiness I felt running through my veins. I want to remember that I always have this capacity to feel great. My mood and attitude create my perception of everything. I smile more, I sing more, I laugh more, I am more generous and I just feel better.  Because I feel all these things other people get the best me and they are almost always reciprocal which in turn makes it even more exuberant.

The more you love, the more you are loved.

The more you give, the more is given to you.

The more you smile at people,  the more the more they smile at you.

The more you feel grateful, the more gratitude you will experience.

Sunshine is a mindset.

I am grateful for bright colors, sprite, celery, carrots, germinating seeds, daisies, yellow sunglasses, and ferry rides.

I am excited

Summer has begun for the year and I couldn’t be more delighted.  Every year it happens and every  year feels slightly different but this year I know it is going to be one of the most awesome summers of my life.

With the changing of the seasons there is always a slight relief because it signals to you that change is still possible. Just when you think the rain will never stop and the clouds will never part, you spend all day in the park in shorts and a tank top enjoying the heat from the sun.

Embracing change makes it more exciting and fun. Change happens to everything and everyone all the time. Often people try to resist it and seek ”security” only to find heartache and disappointment.  If you become friends with change and accept it you will feel far more secure.

This also applies to the people you care about the most. Sometimes in a relationship or friendship or kinship you think someone should be the same person they have always been. When you truly care for someone you encourage them to grow and change however it will be best for them, even if it means you may not have the same experiences that you are used to having with them.

Encouraging growth in others can be especially hard if we aren’t engaging in this ourselves.

Life is so precious.

Step #1

Figure out what you have always wanted.

Step #2

Figure out what steps you need to take to get it. Break the steps small enough so that they are not overwhelming.

Step #3

Do it. No matter what happens day-to-day remind yourself of step 1 and try the hardest you possibly can. Even if you have an off day, keep trying.  You will be very excited about the results.

I am grateful for my body’s ability to heal scrapes. I am grateful for vitamins and fresh clean water. I am grateful for my friends and how their smiles make me feel happy. I am grateful for my girlfriend who has so much beautiful pure love in her heart. I am grateful for rainbows and pride weekend.

 

Plants

I was meditating today and I pictured a patio yard area in the summer with all the people I love in it. I was hearing each person’s laugh and seeing their smiles and we were all drinking lemonade together. Then I started crying. It wasn’t because I was sad, it was because I thought about how lucky I am to have so many amazing people who I have seen smile and heard laugh.

Life’s moments are fleeting and I never want to forget to enjoy them. I never want to forget to be grateful for the time I get to spend with people I love. I am so grateful to everyone that has shared their life with me in some way. I am so grateful for every couch I have slept on, every meal someone has shared with me, every laugh, every tear, every hug.

I have such an abundance of joy and love in my life and I am so grateful.

Thank you.