Warning Alert. This Statement.

We've had a year like no other. Duh. I know. March 2020 marked a time normal life changed. Every one of us no matter season of life experienced, albeit forced, into some pretty major adaptations in how we work, play, gather, celebrate and grieve. As the weeks became months passing by, I began to realize living on pause and waiting for normal to return could not only be a huge waste of time, but if I'm not careful could also keep me from living my best life. I needed to get busy finding it anew. It's been a process and one not without more than a few hit and misses. For reasons beyond our know, we get to live in a unique time. A time that's given me opportunities again and again for brand new awarenesses. I want to open my heart to love people who are different than me. I want to love people who are living in so much fear and find a way to offer light in their darkness. I want to be refined under pressure. That's how diamonds are made and I believe each of us were meant to be refined to diamond status. We were chosen to live in these unprecedented days. There is a re-set happening and we are the ones that get to see it unfold. You and I are the ones to not only find light for our path but to also help the future generations find it too. We have been chosen in the timeline of history on this beautiful planet spinning in space. So, instead of waiting for better days to come so they can secure my comfort, can I instead be more creative, more adaptive, more resilient and a brighter light in a darker world? Can I shed off old tendencies that perhaps were kindling for the fire of division and blame? Can I continue to hold hope for us and be an encourager for you? You and I were chosen and we are very special.
 

Here's a little practice for you. You can take in this small mediation anytime you need to breathe in gratitude, ease tension, anxiety and sloooooooow down. 

Sit in a comfortable seat.
Close your eyes as you drop into the moment.
Allow your breath to elongate and slow, allow deep inhales and slightly longer exhales. 
Bring your awareness to your heart beat and make space in your mind as you ponder the beautiful things in your life. We are able to hold joy and sorrow at the same time. Hold all the moments of this year and appreciate the breath in and throughout your body. Keep breathing and being mindful.
When your ready, with a big exhale, let it all go.
Feel the lightness of release. Enjoy breathing into that lightness. Let it fill every part of you.
Now make every breath a beam of beautiful light. Watch each light-filled-spilling-over-breath, come into your chest...your collar bones. Allow it to expand to your heart and your ribcage. Bring your light filled breath down to your belly. Breath into your legs and all the way down to your toes. Let that light illuminate the very bottom of your feet and all the places they travel. Follow that light all the up the spine, floating past each Chakra spinning wheel of energy and up to the crown of your head. Now, let that light float just past the top of your head and watch it simply hang over you and bath you in its warmth. You are light. And where there is light, darkness can't hold the same space.
Namaste❤️
Holding hope,
Jill