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How Wide are Your Boundaries?
 

In each of your life interactions, are you seeking out opportunities to expand your boundaries?

Are you continuing to set new limits beyond those that are currently comfortable to you?

Do you try each day to grow high and wider?
Are you pushing your horizontal and vertical boundaries out more and more in all that you do.

Expanding your boundaries is about connecting to parts of yourself that you have not yet befriended.

As your boundaries increase, your capacity for caring about others and self increases, too.

 

 

 

In everything you do, you are transmitting who you are, be it to yourself, to others, or to Nature. Do you know what you are sending? And, if you do know, are you sending out the best you can be?

All exists in levels of consciousness? How conscious are you? Happiness is about developing healthy relationships with Self (ME), Community (THEM), and Nature (IT).

Exercise body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Expand your awareness in:

  • Self

  • Relationships with others

  • World at large (Community, Ecology, Politics)

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find we are bound by a thousand invisible cords...to everything in the universe. ~ John Muir

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. ~ Hazel Henderson

Thoughts      ~ j. christina brittain

The longer I live, the more I realize how much of the world there is; and how little time I have left to explore it all. I must remember to make REALLY thoughtful choices about how I spend my time.

Perhaps my choices should embrace the richness of the journey rather than accomplishing tangible things. Just like savoring a delicious meal, bite by tasty bite, so life should be enjoyed moment by moment instead of racing for the goal. Maybe a few experiences deeply felt are better than tearing along at a frenetic pace, vaguely recalling mostly nothing.

If things just aren't working out for you, try moving to a gentler place. The world might just begin wishing you well.

When you find yourself behaving badly and feel helpless to stop, just go with it. There will be time enough tomorrow to clean up the debris.

Whenever someone questions your behavior or actions, (an they always do), say to tell them, "This is it; this is me; this is what I do!" and then, just walk away.

Money is not always a good thing. Wealthy people are often quite obtuse. (Meaning: unfeeling, tactless, insensitive; blind, imperceptive, unobservant; gauche, boorish; slow, dim.) Of course, if you have enough money, you can afford to be.

How joyful to be totally alive inside ourselves and knowing full well that it is exactly where we belong.

Nothing we do is an accomplishment...it is just part of the process of living that takes us to a higher goal.

Language and logic do the work of making what already is run better; intuition seeks the unknown through creativity and invention.

We must return to our genuine selves...we owe it to the integrity of the universe.

We must rediscover the path of our wild, innate, instinctive, joyful selves. What else is there...really?

We share an undeniable kinship with Nature, now suffering from neglect, outlawed by modern society, and lost in the hubris of commercialism and greed. But share we do, so much so that our souls ache to reunite with this essential, nurturing part of ourselves. We know Nature is as much a part of us as our modern day language, logic, and reason. We need it to be a part of us. Nature IS us and we are her.

Nature comes to us through our senses. She comes to us through our higher conscious senses that we know well ... sounds of wind in the trees...sights of suns setting in the fading sky ... touch in the softness of a baby's toes ... smell in the sweetness of basil leaves ... taste of lemon curling our tongue. And she comes to us through our inborn senses that we lost touch with long ago ... awareness of pressure that warns us of storms ... warmth of community that draws us to others ... sensitivity to gravity that keeps us upright.

We are rekindling our bonds with Nature when we are drawn to the warmth of a fire...when we feel the eyes of another through the back of our head...when we snuggle into the protectiveness of our homey nests...when we fiercely protect the private space around us.

We must return to a natural life where, in integrity and honesty, we can regain what we genuinely need for enhancing wellness in our lives.

Knowing who we truly are takes constant practice. Without practice, we quickly revert back to the person others expect...demand...us to be.

We must allow our genuine selves to freely animate and inform us about who we really are.

To look out at the world with our intuition is to see it with a thousand cloudless eyes.

Our genuine nature carries everything we need to thrive: means, songs, sanctuary, spirit, healing, wisdom, and joy. Reach inside. It is there. It has been there from the beginning of time.

Is fear really a motivator? Is not passion for the endeavor the true and only genuine motivator? Fear is extrinsic...outside ourselves. Fear does nothing more than perpetuate more fear...and rob us of the creative energy to explore new ways.

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