CREATING MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM = MOTION in ACTION

This week I've been sitting with new feelings and emotions. Asking myself "WHAT IF" questions and then meditating on what it might look like, taste, smell and sound like if IF became 

reality. 

It's really quite a juicy practice.   I sit comfortably in a quiet space to meditate and  listen to my breath.  When I feel grounded and calm I ask myself WHAT IF I  went to Montreal with some girlfriends and created a retreat?  What would that look like? What would I like to experience?  What would bring me pleasure?

It would have to be luxurious.  And intimate – a small number of Goddesses that would entice me into deep conversations and sacred silence.  I envision the warmth from a roaring fireplace.  A gaggle of Goddesses laughing, enjoying our succulent space.  There is sensual music playing in the background.  Yum, I hold this sensation for 17 seconds.  A few more delicious thoughts appear.  

This big room is in a palace, perhaps, with a huge modern kitchen so we can cook together and concoct some rawlicious dishes.  And juice delicious organic fruit and greens and eat slowly and sensually.  Yum.  Another 17 seconds creates more flow and thoughts.  

A heated swimming pool where we can stretch and swim.  A jacuzzi to help melt the tension of our bones after we walk around the city.  My body is now becoming flush with good feelings.  

These sensations - these 17 second moments – one after another - are creating neural pathways of vibrational frequency that goes out into the Universe.  I can imagine myself in such a space.  I can feel the exhilaration in my bones.  These yummy feelings that excite me send out a pattern of attraction into the Vortex calling in my desires to me.

And so it is.  Two juicy girlfriends, from Montreal, like me, who love yoga and helping women heal sat on the beach and talked.  17 second moments that took off like wildfire.  A little research, one phone call after another and all of a sudden, we are bringing to life that which was previously only a figment of our imagination.  Sharing it and nurturing it has created a momentum of its own.

This last month with my SisterGoddesses Carole and Zeina, we swam in the ocean and created 17 second moments of desire and juicy feelings and then surrendered to Shahahakti and the sand.  

SHE amply rewarded us with a castle, no less, in the heart of Old Montreal.  And it has a swimming pool and more than one fireplace.  Woohoo.

We are offering an end of summer fling for twelve lucky Goddesses.   In Montreal with we.  An Orgasmic Goddess Retreat, in a castle,  play and pleasure for entrepreneurs.   A training camp for leaders of the reLOVEution.

                    "I'm so excited!!! I just can't hide it.   

                     I'm about to lose control and I think I like it"

                                             - Pointer Sisters

Our website launches Friday.  If you know of a SisterGoddess who can truly benefit from this once in a lifetime experience of love and laughter with me and my sisters, let me know - LuckyGirl

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

 OUR TRUTH - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

  "I am so blessed , I am so blessed, I am so grateful for all that I have."   

                                                                          - Karen Drucker

These words are the lyrics to Karen Drucker's song (see the whole song in the video above). The words of this song set the tone for my day, each and every morning.  I focus on what is truly important - how blessed I am and grateful for all that I have.

2014 is my year of Gratitude.  Checking in, halfway into our year - I've shed so many skins, loosened so many layers and let go of all things that I have no control over. The weather, the news, traffic, other people, death, aging....  

What I can control - what I have 100% autonomy is my ATTITUDE.  I choose how I will respond or react to any situation that crosses my path.  My research, over the years, shows me that the only attitude that really works and gives me what I want (health, happiness, abundance) is GRATITUDE.   Here are more things that my gratitude research reveals or 3 things that I know to be true about gratitude:

Truth:  GRATITUDE IS A MUSCLE

Gratitude - saying thank you on the INside and out - to each and every thing that comes my way, no matter what it looks like when I receive it.   

This was not allways my way.  

I would go from experience to experience without taking the time to digest and savor.  

Now, I stop and breathe and process all the juiciness that is in my life.  Expressing gratitude when I first wake up for the legs that let me stand, for my heart that beats, for the arms and hands that let me move and feel.  Singing gratitude for what my eyes see and my mouth tastes.

When I get lost in my thoughts or lose my focus, I stop and breathe and get down on my knees and get gr8full - counting my blessings and thanking the Universe for all the chaHAhallenges and opportunities in my life to LOVE.  

The Universe works in mysterious ways and what I see is not always what is.   

Being in gratitude allows me to chaHAhange my perspective - have aHAHA moments and appreciate this life I have.

Before I go to bed, I get quiet and do a Pussy Ritual.  

I put my hands on my core - my sweet spot (the sacred space with 8000 sensory nerve endings designed for pure pleasure ) - I meet up and I feel theall the pleasure in my life and I give thanks - 12 times.  12 things that I acknowledge that brought me pleasure and I am truly greatFULL for.  12 things that I love about myself and how I be in my world.   12 people that touched my life today.

I flex and strengthen this attitude of gratitude.   I work it out by putting words on paper and writing thank you notes or doing a Act of Random Kindness (ARK).   I expand my muscle by knocking on a neighbor's door or calling a friend and just listening.  I cultivate gratitude by sitting in the grass and taking in the nature that surrounds me - hugging a tree and talking to the squirrels and being One with my surroundings.

Truth:  GRATITUDE IS A MULTI SENSORY EXPERIENCE

Gratitude is more than the words we say.  It's a feeling - deep inside - of reverence and irreverence for life.

It's feeling GREATfull for the smell of a fresh peeled orange in the morning or squirting lemon in my glass of water.  It's feeling pleasure for the cotton modal fabric I adorn my body with and the lotus flower that sits on my tush when I put my yoga pants on.  

It's tasting the dew on a leaf outside my door as I prepare for a walk with .  It's breathing in the sunrise as the clouds dance and change colors.  It's touching my cat's fur and feeling her purr in response as we dance, fingers to fur.

Using my senses to experience gratitude heightens the experience.  It keeps me in that delicious vibration of aBUNdance as more comes my way.  It brings me delightful and pleasurable experiences.

Truth:    WHAT I FOCUS ON, I GET MORE OF

As my understanding of myself shifts - my perspective chahahanges.  As my attention resides with what is good in my life, I find myself noticing more all the little things I take for granted.   

I focus on my breath and being healthy.  My world expands so I find the right teachers and arenas to make small adjustments for optimal alignment and balance.

I focus on my family - all the Wee Ones - I get to see them all in one weekend - six nieces and two nephews, three sisters and two brothers.

I focus on my ability to laugh, at myself, and with myself.  
I focus on the joy of being outside in nature every day.  
I focus on the freedom to be and do, in my pleasure.

It took the lens of GRATITUDE to see all the yummy and exhilarating life lessons that have created me, Goddess Diana, the human bean that I am becoming. Looking at THEN and seeing how it has shaped NOW. And finding the gifts of THEN in the NOW. 

I am so grateful for THEN. I am so blessed for where it has brought me NOW.  I am so grateful for this PRESENT.

MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS

OUR TRUTH - MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS

    "My religion is kindness

     My church is nature

     My God is a feeling that lives deep inside

     My job is to be conscious

     My path is forgiveness

     My religion is kindness and

     I practice it every day"

   

These words are the lyrics to Karen Drucker's song.  Many years ago, I got disillusioned with life.  I started to looking deep within.  Following the wise words of Don Miguel Ruiz, I looked at the "mitote" (fog) that was my life and the cacophony of voices in my head that were not mine.  I started taking inventory of my agreements (false beliefs, self importance, fears, layers of denial and justifications).  I began to question my religion - I studied other religions - found the same thing - people preaching LOVE and kindness and doing different.  A hypocrisy that my body could no longer accept.   I let go of my religion (Losing my Religion, REM) and followed a spiritual path.  The words of Karen Drucker's song above resonated with my heart. As do most of her lyrics and songs.  As I was shedding agreements, I chose one.  KINDness.

I choose KINDness.  Straightforward and Simple.  KINDness.  At its most basic, kindness is just being nice.  To myself first.  Stopping the chahahatter in my head of what was wrong with me or how I did not measure up. As I built up my kindness muscle,I learned to truly love myself.  By remembering my true nature and performing random acts of kindness, it started to overflow.  KINDness for others - genuinely caring about people since WE ARE ALL ONE.  What I noticed was that the more kindness I shahahared, the more I received.  I realized that every interaction (with myself and others) was an opportunity for kindness.  A chahahance to smile or just say Hello (I see you).  

I became very conscious that it's a choice I get to make, MOMent by MOMent.  And I am far from perfect.  There were days when I had a hard time smiling or sharing a kind word.  So I practice.  I make an effort to be kind to myself daily.  I meditate, I laugh, I dance.  I fill my pleasure reservoir so it can spill over and flood the world with joy.

I realize that there is no thing I need to do but be me.  My JOY of BEING is to be loving kindness.  In as many MOMents as I can.  And then stepping out of my comfort zone and practicing more kindness with myself and others - just because I can.

I am blessed to surround myself with like minded people in my life.   I have a friend named Bob.  Bob and his dog Bogart bless me with their presence when they are in South Florida by parking their big blue bus under my trees.  I get to wake up in the morning and see this on my front swale.  To see more about Bob and Bogart,look below the bus.