learning to blog...

Okay, so I have spent much of my morning learning how to set up my blog. This is all new to me and I feel inspired by all of the possibilities that this creates. I love the idea of creating a daily habit of sharing consciousness. I also love the way that I can share links to products and organizations that I care about.
I want to learn to express myself with confidence, I want to become less afraid of saying what I think and sharing what I care about.
So many of us are on a journey to creating our best lives. We also wish to provide for and teach our children to live consciously and understand how much control they have over their inner and outer lives. We have to learn and relearn that we mush choose not to be victims - that we have much more freedom than we give ourselves credit for - especially as adults.
Eckhart Tolle's books "The Power of Now" and "A New Earth" are great guides for us. As is the program taught by the The Landmark Forum. They give us the tools to learn to separate that voice we hear in our heads - that critical and judgemental voice, the voice that tells us that we are our stories - from the true consciousness that we are.
We are beings of energy. All matter consists of energy. That energy ties us all to one another, and it both makes each one of us unique and part of the greater whole. Some of what I do professionally is bodywork, and it has taken me years to feel like I can really believe in that energy. We are taught as children not to listen to our intuition, at least, I was. We are taught not to believe in things that are not concrete, or that we cannot record on film. But there is indeed, a layer of reality(and I use that word consciously) that exists even though it is very hard to quantify or record, and to refuse to believe in it or to acknowledge it, is to miss out on the great miracle of our existence. And what a miracle it is. Imagine if we could remember about that miracle in every moment. Maybe we could try that on and see how it feels.