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the labyrinth

I Am Going to Build a Labyrinth

December 17, 2015

If he is to choose the path of magic then he must choose responsibly, he must know enough about the labyrinth to walk a true path through it. – Neil Gaiman

On Friday I had one of those mornings when you wake up out-of-sorts and a little bit miserable and cry when someone asks you to do something simple like put gas in the car.

Luckily I had a massage booked, so after I stopped crying and put gas in the car, I took myself to Dominical for the morning. Knowing that I was being ridiculous and hysterical, I lay on the massage table and repeated lots of different (and much less coherent) versions of:

I now release all that is no longer serving my highest good.

It wasn’t easy. I kept getting distracted and my nose itched and I tried to figure out which mantra was in the song coming through the speakers, and I spent a long time wondering if the masseuse was using lavender oil.

And then, somewhere around my right calf (she started on my left side), my mind suddenly got very calm. I stopped releasing and twitching and holding back and was very quiet for a moment, and then I had one single thought:

I am going to build a labyrinth.

Don’t ask me why because I have no idea. I just know that I am supposed to do it. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since we decided to move to Costa Rica. Shortly after we made that decision and I started thinking about it, I looked out of my window at work and saw the picture above. It’s supposed to happen. I’ve talked about it a lot, and we have made sure our land has somewhere that would hold a labyrinth. (I think my husband believed I was going to do it before I did.)

Until now it has been something that was going to happen someday, but as I lay naked on the table, releasing turned into clarity.

I am going to build a labyrinth.

I am. It’s a thing. At the same time as I thought it, I knew with complete clarity that when I start to build it, other people will come and help me. When I start to build it, it will change me in ways that will be both expected and unexpected. When I start to build it, magic will happen.

Last night I got word that we are going to own a piece of land any day now.

I am going to build a labyrinth on it.

xo

inspiration

In This Moment, I Choose Me

December 1, 2015

“I call all of my power back to me now. I am whole and complete.” – Danielle LaPorte

I woke up this morning inspired to make a video for you. As much as I would prefer to have us sit together, drink tea (iced tea – it’s hot here!) and talk properly, this is the closest thing I’ve got. (And I think it’s hilarious that the thumbnail at the beginning makes me look sad – I promise I’m not!)

In this video I talk about a new momentary meditation practice I have been doing. It was inspired by Danielle LaPorte’s post (which you can find here), but I’ve changed it up a little bit. I know i am not the first to do this, and I don’t take credit for it, but for me it has been a powerful change-maker. When there is crazy-making going on around you, when you are feeling overwhelmed or your buttons are being pushed, you are not in possession of your power. Taking a brief moment – even just the length of one breath – and calling that power back to you reminds you of who you are, where you are, and that you always have a choice.

“I call my power back to me. In this moment, I choose…”

Choosing how you feel and how you react is a revolutionary act. Choosing how you react is actually choosing yourself. And that is where your true power lies.

Sending you so much love,

Jamie and Meghan

 

Finding the Magic

Finding Magic

November 24, 2015

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.  ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Magic.

What does it mean to you?

I never thought that magic would be something that would be the basis for my whole life. Like many people, I always connected magic to the wicked witch, to darkness, and to the unknown. I saw magic as something other, something that good girls like me would never touch.

But then I started to write and people told me that I helped them to see their magic. And then I co-led a retreat and people there told me I had brought magic. And then more than one person called me ‘Magic Meg’, seeing something in me that I had not seen for myself.

And it wasn’t about spells and it wasn’t about potions. It wasn’t remotely about anything dark at all. In fact, it baffled me because it was about doing something that I already do: finding the magic – the divine – in the everyday.

Magic, for me, isn’t about anything other than proof that we are all divinely connected.

And it is only more powerful in the company of other women.

Which is why I decided to begin hosting gatherings of women in places known for their magic.

Finding the Magic is about me providing and holding the space for you to crack open the door that stands between you and your very best self. It’s about giving yourself permission to play with what magic you can see, can find, and can feel. It’s about delight and play and letting go just enough to see that you are magic.

Finding the Magic is about remembering what it is like to feel free.

 

xo

 

 

 

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