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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The Adventure of Being You



To me, the space of being, 'Being You', is more of an adventure than anything else, really. Nobody ever teaches us to 'Be You'. We never learn that 'being' is of value!

And I'm not talking about 'being' as the opposite of 'doing'. It's funny. The other day, I was looking for stock photos and I put in the search term 'being', just curious to see what would come up. And there were all these images of kids playing and nature! Quiet beaches, silent lakes, pictures of clouds. A few images showed adults meditating. THIS is what we think 'being' is.

To me, being is also a very active energy, it's creation. It's really everything. It could be a running horse, a catamaran racing across the water, fast, splashing, joyful being with the elements. Even John Muir climbing on top of a tree in a storm, swaying with the wind in the tree's crown, talking and yelling to the storm. Yes, the intensity of that AND the intensity of the silent lake. The doing is part of being, yet it's a 'doing' done from being. Makes sense?

Example: Doing from doing is all the frantic running around, loaded with 'musts', 'shoulds' and getting all the chores done, all the obligations, and tons of conclusions like "I have to make money!", "I have to pick up the kids!", "I have to clean my desk and get everything done today!" Do you get that energy? Do you know it well? How does this feel in your body? ....

'Doing from being' is different. It's when we look at our priority list and ask a question like "What needs my attention today?", "Who can I call today?" "What money am I going to receive today?" "What does my business require of me today?" And we follow whatever 'pops up' . It's more functioning from question and curiosity. Do you get a sense of that energy? And how does that feel in your body? Different?

We see this energy in nature or with kids. A butterfly or a bird doesn't make a plan for the day, as in "First, I go to that tree, and then, I must work on these flowers! And don't interrupt me, because I have to get it all done!" No, they go here and there, and they allow the wind to carry them to other places. They know that they are always going to find what they require, and they are willing to move around in non-linear ways. They are also willing to change their trajectory.

Kids do that too. They move around, they start things and don't finish them, they are here and there, and when they get bored they change what they're doing and move on.

Could we all be that to? Being is an active state of asking questions and choosing, and asking more questions and choosing. It might not make sense, but if we follow that lightness of a choice it will create something that also has that lightness to it. We will start generating our lives from that energy. Following lightness might be taking a picture and posting it, and it might be that someone sees it, and it changes their day, it might even change their life. If we follow that lightness, that light energy and we choose that, it creates something. Even if it doesn't show up right away, it creates. And better even if we don't have any conclusions about how things have to show up.

Are you willing to trust that? Even if you will never find out what exactly it created? The birds don't wait for our feedback or acknowledgement of their beauty, they keep singing and being. Their being will receive our gratitude but now wait for it.

Being is motion, it is choosing what's light. If we don't have fun, who are we being? If we don't enjoy our lives, who's life are we living?

There is an amazing class coming up in Madison, Wisconsin, in November, facilitated by Corinna Stoeffl. The "Being You Adventure", on Nov. 4 and 5 at the Sheraton Hotel.
Find out more here:
Intro evening, Nov. 4, 2016, 6:30-9pm CLICK HERE
"One-Day Adventure of Being You, Nov. 5, 2016, 9:30am-6pm: CLICK HERE
Is it time to start the adventure of discovering the "YOU" you have always been and never noticed?
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