“…once you glimpse the possibility of freedom, taste the ease of soaring, you can’t go back. Once you know, you can’t unknow.” – Geneen Roth
When I asked the Universe for a ‘break’ I didn’t mean a broken foot. But this foot and the time off of it has given me the break I needed. Two weeks ago I was dangerously close to drying up. But then I was given this time: time to read, to hear, to see and to feel so much all at once.
Nothing I have come up with this week is new, but it feels new to me. It feels like the moments just after you drink a fresh green juice and you can feel it nourishing your cells. Last week I began asking myself: does this feel like love? It felt so right to be coming from that place, but it was astonishing how many times I said no.
I’ve decided that my mission needs to be to re-establish my relationship with love. The first step needs to be to stop coming from a place of fear, so I have done a few radical things. I have ‘unsubscribed’ from all of the mailing lists and websites that are only out to capitalize on my fears about myself or that promise me anything for a one time low price of $397 (regularly $6000.) I have promised myself that I will never put myself on a diet again, and I have committed to asking the question as many times a day about as many things as possible: Does this feel like love?
I know I am new at this, so I have also committed to go gently. A young grasshopper must take it slowly! But being love’s apprentice feels like a wonderful thing to have to work at.
“When you say something like [I love you]… with your whole being, not just with your mouth or your intellect, it can transform the world.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
and now that you have written it down and put it out there it will come to be. happy friday! ciao!
you are so powerful woman! its like you broke your foot and the universe gave you wings 🙂
you feel like love to me. and your words are nourishing my cells right now.
What a really beautiful question to keep in mind!
Hope your foot is feeling better soon. Love is healing too!
what an incredible gift.
Megg, you are just awesome. I have been reading your words since coming across the site via Carolyn Rubenstein. There have been so many times where a quote or post you’ve put up has been exactly what my soul needed. It is wonderful to know I’m not alone in this quest to grow and change. Just yesterday I also made a choice about love and recognized that I need to be gentle with myself as I go. I purchased a bracelet with the hope that by looking at it I will be reminded to pause and remind myself to respond to the world from a loving place versus a place of old anger, hurt feelings, and fear.
wonderful ! WONDERFUL !! Can I share with a card which I made ages ago but fell out of a book. I’d hand drawn onto a blank card these words from Julia Cameron ‘Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong’ can I also recommend the website of Robyn Posin http://www.forthelittleonesinside.com
Oh, I love this. All of it.
I have been being more honest with myself about how much I live from a place of fear. FEAR… Lemme tell ya’– it’s a LOT.
I am ready to be done with it. Now I am facing the fear of letting go of all my fear…Because it means I must change so much of how I know how to walk through the world.
This post is lovely, and so are YOU.
🙂
Hi Megg!
Loving this post… so much truth in what you say…..and the freedom….the freedom from an overload of email newsletters…I’m going to take a page out of your book here and do the same. ThankU for such a simple idea!
Luv Min xxx
I’ve been systematically unsubscribing from all of the “good for me” things too – trying to get back to the only answers that matter, which are the ones that come from my heart.
blessings for your journey,
Kelley
read ‘unconditional love’ by ed and deb shapiro.