pause for us all on routine existing

We are humans. We are flawed, restless and going so quickly.
We are being given a massive pause to look at ourselves.
To see what we are doing with our time and energy.
Our daily distractions and stimulations of routine are removed.
To comprehend more of the space we take up.

As a soul who has spent an immense amount of time alone, it’s not always easy.
Our habits become exemplified and our distractions increase.
Anything to not face what we have been avoiding doing.
It takes some time to hear our own voice again without the noise of the world.
Our fears, sadness and worries become consuming.
It becomes harder to recall what creates happiness.

Remembering the ways we enjoy connecting with our own happiness is a full discovery.
Unplug to know what truly feels right to you without other’s opinions and influences.
Creations wanting be made have the power to bloom.
Clean, organize and cleanse all you’ve been ignoring.
Unshackle guilt of finally putting value on what and who you actually care about.
Root in your space, knowing all you need is within you.

We can’t allow the daily massive swell of fear coming at us to wipe out our being.
We are ALL feeling the heaviness of uncertainty.
It’s an ebb and flow, moment to moment we are experiencing.
Presence has never felt more here than it does now.
It’s out of our hands.
Practice patience with yourself and those around you.
We will discover new ways of being.
We are being given permission to slow down, to go in.

28 & falling in love

As I approach 29, I celebrate 3.5 years booze free. I celebrate coming into myself in the most powerful way. Feeling into my skin to stretch myself wide. Knowing the love that lives within the spaces of my body and my truest desire to exude it. Feeling into all the experiences that have molded me into my being. All the struggles that allowed me to embrace the darkness with the same compassion as the light.

I received more clarity as I felt more into who I was. I gave myself permission to be full and to be whole. Allowing access to all parts of my being. I learned to feel full spectrums of emotions. To feel the depths of love, happiness & bliss, you must feel the opposite to appreciate the splendor of their gravity. Honoring difficult emotions by staying open to them and not suppressing what needs to be felt, allows them to shift and bring more room for sweetness.

I fell in love with myself during my 28th year on this planet.
I also fell in love and fell. I fell hard and had to pick up all the pieces of my heart.
But I was able to realize the power of love.
I was able to hold the heaviness of my own heart. I held it in my bare hands looking at all the shadows I’ve been fearful of facing, and as it pulsed in between my fingers I learned the love I needed to give it.

Heartbreak cuts you open to look at all the darkness poured out. The parts I never knew existed. I dove into the depths of my soul. Into the deepest sorrow to be able to feel even grander joy. I dredged the trenches of my heart to learn what the inside of it looks like. Removing barriers that held me from feeling love fully. From loving every single part of my being.

I was able to feel into the space within me. To learn the value of what I needed to fill my soul with. As I felt my energy I gave it only what would expand my heart, mind and being.

I began surrendering to my life by listening to all the messages it sends to me. Hearing when my soul craves connection and love. Fueling my vessel with nourishment and restoration. Be that delightful tastes from the earth, solitude or grounding in nature. Spending time barefoot in the dirt, wading my feet in running water and breathing in the fresh air as I wander to places familiar and new. Typically covered in mosquito bites, and bruises but fully living.

The more you search, the less you find. 

The more you surrender, the more you will live. 

As we continue down our path, somethings no longer feel aligned and it's okay to release them. All the hotdogs, booze and toxic humans from my past allowed me to feel the furthest from my center, so that I am able to embrace this real connected being now.

As I evolved, as did all avenues of me. My practices changed with time and my creative force went through transformation. As time goes on we expand and need practices to connect that match the frequency we are vibrating on. Then souls come into your life that match your frequency, that are on the same wave length as you. You can feel it through the effortless flow of your souls connecting. The ease of communicating and understanding what each other’s hearts feel like. The inspiration they provide and the support they give you to be fully authentically yourself. For they believe in you as they see your light shine, and they reciprocate the love you radiate. I fell into deep connection with friends I adore and admire.

I am a people admirer, I love connecting and learning about their individualistic selves. Discovering how we think, love, what we believe in and hope for. I am able to understand humans and love even deeper. We all search for and desire love. Perhaps we are looking too hard. Maybe it’s always been within. It’s all around. It radiates from your being when you connect with it.

This year taught me about the power of my energy. How we are all bodies of energy vibrating. I focused on my alignment with my truth. Filling all spaces of me with love and harnessing my power. When you put energy into falling in love with yourself, you call people into your life who love you to the same degree.

I flow into my body to give it the love it needs. Our bodies should be treated like palaces and they will respond with even more power when cherished. Movement has become my connection and healing this year. To release the energy that has been stored and awaken what has been dormant. My full self. A deeper breath of who my being is. Following my curiosities and taking leaps into exploration. Trying new forms of movement that intimidate me. Flexing belief and following intuition through it.

I dove into the depths of my being to embrace the full existence of myself.
I want to be unconditional love as I continue in my journey on this earth.
Finding balance each day to come from a place of presence and gratitude.
To soften into my humanness and forgive myself for the moments I veer away.
I take intentional moves to be the energy in the room.
I am working on allowing my traumas to become my nirvanas.
Allowing my imagination to strengthen everyday with each belief into my whimsical existing.

fasting & feeling alive through Ramadan

I have just concluded fasting for 27 days in a row. The longest consecutive amount of time I have accomplished. I fasted from sunrise to sunset. Abstaining from consuming water, food, and negative talk towards myself and others.

It is part of my faith. It isn’t some weight loss fad that has become trendy through intermittent fasting. The holy month allows us to remove the distractions from our every day to be fully with our self to feel gratitude for the life we have.

Each Ramadan provides new lessons, clarity and gratitude in ways you never expect. It brings you closer to yourself and to love. Your mind is able to be cleansed as you quit bad habits and change your rituals. You feel lighter, more at peace and fully present.

Feeling the moments of each day as they unfold can be intimidating at first because you have nothing to fill yourself with or distract. We are only given a certain amount of energy each day. We get to decide what we do with it, where we will allow our energy to flow and how to use the power we have.

Not being in your homeland during such a holy month of connection and deep-rooted love is more difficult. You are not able to hear the prayers echoing through the village. You don’t see the fast in everyone’s body, manners, and energy. You don’t have an entire country around you to relate to what you are feeling and going through.

It becomes far more powerful of a connection with you and your higher self, when you don’t have the support of your country participating. Instead it’s time for you to thank God for the vessel you have to thrive in this world.

You feel more love through you, giving more compassion to others and yourself. Being able to recognize how your body and mind feel without food and water for 20 hours as you go through your day. You feel more gratitude for what you have been blessed with and can understand deeper for others with less.

You have to closely feel into your body to understand what it needs, and learn that it can do SO much with the energy you have. It doesn’t require much but we have been convinced that it needs everything before it can be satisfied or run properly.

Cravings and desires don’t last. They may feel strong as the long day starts. They feel like a strong pull persuading you of how badly you need it. But as the hours press on, your energy levels can only be given to things you truly care to think about. The pull to the distractions lessens.

I taught 3 yoga classes each week, I continued training with my boxing coach and going for walks in the park. I didn’t limit my movement rituals for I know my body can improve as I realize the power of my mind more.

Your awareness intensifies
Self-control strengthens as you resist actions.
You decide where you want your energy to go to.
Flexing spiritual muscles as our faith grows stronger.
Through love, gratitude, prayer, breath and existence; we strengthen our faith muscle connecting to the universe. While restricting food and behavior through fasting, we are able to restructure our patterns and limit worldly desires to reinforce our ability to progress.

Instead of trying to fill, to rush, to push passed here; I am able to gather the richness and the inspiration of this existence.

As I soften into my humanness with less mental distractions I realize I am my own loving guidance. Feeling unconditional love and forgiveness at my center. Taking the magnitude of each day with more intention to feel the fullness of all that we have. 

Our existence needs to be fully felt.
Feel your body. Hear only what it needs to be a loving energy source.
Thanking the universe, God, a higher source for all that is this life.
Aware of your body in space.
Aware of love emanating from your soul.