Loud voice today, saying Live Beautifully. Dime mas…
Live Beautifully means live, work, breathe, act, speak in the frequency of beauty, which is light, expansive, receptive, easeful and … ‘attractive’ (in the law of attraction meaning of the word.)
My adrenal glands are suffering at the moment.
Live Beautifully is the message of your adrenals to you! Live Beautifully means that leading with the Soothing System is just fine. Live Beautifully means live lightly, gently, softly, compassionately.
And when you spot yourself revving in overdrive, or acting from/in fear, just stop… pause… reboot… reorientate. Nothing is worth spilling adrenaline over today. There is a lot to get done today, and only by ‘Live Beautifully will you achieve it sustainably.
I’m just reminded that tomorrow is the 11 year anniversary of Mum’s stroke. Her philosophy? “It’s got to be fun!” Yes, that is a vital aspect of living beautifully…
Fun is exactly the ticket. Compare ‘fun, open, calm, soothed, receptive’ to… ‘red, raw, closed and inflamed’.
Like my innards….
As we think so we feel so we act so we receive.
Why inflamed? How did that happen? What’s going on ?
Adrenaline is a ‘burning’ substance… and it is also addictive. You kinda know you’re alive when the adrenaline is kicking. Add in a hooking reaction to dopamine and you’re in constant drive/overdrive. Relax. Relax. Relax… Feel the burn of inactivity, of lack of concern. Revel in boredom and under-stimulation.
That’s it – I am addicted to stimulation, so I dododo, either out of fear or out of stimulation-seeking. Need to practice mindfulness properly to get back to being able to tolerate non-stimulation.
Non-stim.
Hm… stimming. Of course. Why? Why do we stim?
Sensory processing, but also, anxiety management.
I need to manage my anxiety in a different way than revving up and overloading – I need to manage to have less in my life and less in my brain. I need to lean in to the life my brain tells me will be “boring”…. because what is truly boring is over-stimulation and the inflammation it causes in my brain and body.
Repetition. One jam. Simplicity. Can I…?
Sounds like living beautifully…
Aha. Yep. I see. No more jazz-hands is about leaning into what I fear will be under-stimulating… and gloriously riding the wave of under-stimulation like a faerie queen on a unicorn…
Live beautifully (under-stimulation)
So, I googled images under ‘Faerie Queene on a Unicorn’ with tongue in cheek, but actually, yes, I’m moved and relieved and transported by this painting. So I went to the website of the artist, and look what he says on his home page…
“This is my world. This is the world I love. It is a world without limits. My world is what I choose to make it.”
Beautiful. What is the world that I choose to make and live in? Is it a world of conflict, dark politics, mental illness? No! My world is a world of peace, unity, love and light, and it’s furnished with the tools for fostering yet more peace, unity, love and light. And we share these tools amongst ourselves.
This is living beautifully. <3