Oh, hello day. I needed today. Did you?
Sweet friends, guess what I just realized!
Today is the second of February,
aka Groundhog Day aka The Festival of Do-Overs.
Superpower of Do-Overs Forever!
A breath for this.
We get to try things. A breath for this too.
Yes, we get to try things.
We get to try things again.
We get to try things slightly differently than we have tried them before.
We get to try similar things things and breathe differently, notice the difference,
notice the difference differently!
We get to try entirely new approaches and laugh at whatever happens.
NOW IS NOT THEN.
Sometimes now is eerily reminiscent of then,
but that’s just a reminder that we get Do-Overs,
yes, we can take a new approach this round,
similar challenge, another level of the video game.
Hey guess what, this moment is new.
Superpower of remembering that this moment is new,
a breath for this moment, a breath for its newness,
a breath for perspective.
As a favorite yoga teacher says each time we repeat a posture,
“We’ve been here before, but we’ve never been here before.”
Interestingly, all my favorite yoga teachers,
none of whom know each other and some of whom live in different cities,
have all been obsessively into repetition since the new year began,
maybe this is a clue about approach for this new level of the video game…
Repeat.
Repeat something familiar,
pay attention in a new way,
breathe deeper,
be a resonant bell,
can I allow breath and this question,
this moment of asking,
to turn me into a clear channel
for Curiosity, Receptivity, Playfulness, Wonder, Awe,
all the good in the universe,
glowing these qualities inward and outward,
letting them circulate through my body
and my life, amen.
and what if this happens because I blinked my way into new eyes, new seeing,
hello beautiful awakening month of Perspective
What is mine…
On Saturday I drank wine with my favorite secret agent from Salt Lake
and somehow lost my favorite earring,
then spent three days scouring the streets,
searching everywhere I had been or might-have-been,
whispering a loving reminder in my heart that all is well,
breathing the superpower of Everything That Is Mine Returns To Me,
(and if it doesn’t return, it is not for me)
Redirected.
On Tuesday, the earring was on my doorstep,
perfectly placed, apparently it had been
right in front of me the entire time,
it knows where I live.
Interestingly, along with the return of the earring,
a someone-who-was-gone came back into my life too.
An actual miracle — two miracles! — as well as
an excellent clue about PERSPECTIVE,
which incidentally is our magic word for February.
The month of Majesty brought us here, so let’s breathe for:
- Majesty Into Perspective / Majestic Perspective / The Perspective From Majesty
- What Does The World Look Like (and how does it react to me) when Crown is On and I expect everyone to see?
- All the combined superpowers of both Maye Musk in her cosmic wonder, and Janelle Monae glowing her powers of Regal As Fuck at the Black Panther premier (she glows just by breathing, I love her), aka MY MAGNIFICENCE IS NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH, Wildly Glamorous Bond Villainess Goddess-Queen of Everything Leaving A Trail Of Devastation In My Wake and Incinerating All Bullshit Forever!
- Thank you, Year of Fiery, for delivering this state of Constant Smolder, turned up to 11, my glow sparks are so fucking hot, full-time slow-burn smolder state!+
- Surprise miracles and solutions everywhere
- It All Gets Done With The Greatest of Ease!
- Wild! Self! Treasuring!
- Born To Smolder
- I Treasure My Space, Inside & Out
Back to the moment of the moment.
The other day at the end of yoga, I was feeling,
hmmm, not sure if this feeling has words,
I was feeling passionately-intensely in love with myself,
as if my heart was a glowing love-beacon
and all its love was for me,
a fullness and richness of {love},
an incandescent flower-opening inside.
Then S said: the light in me delights in the light in you,
except I heard it as the delight in me delights in the delight in you,
light-hearted, light-and-delighted, lit up with love.
Lit up from within with love, love and more love.
I feel this in dance sometimes too,
maybe even especially when I dance with myself in the early morning dark,
sometimes I think oh god that was a good dance, I am a star, it is true,
and then I am all HEART EYE EMOJI about myself,
and this is an absolutely amazing feeling,
I wish for more of this perspective
in the Month of Perspective,
in this year of Triumphant,
and turning fiery-one years old!
How is that for a just-right wish to accompany the month of Perspective?
Announcement! Well, more like a question!
Hey, remember when we took twelve days (okay it ended up being a bit longer) to immerse in Dedication, Illumination and Mystery? Would you like to do the same with Wild Self-Treasuring and other Majestic Perspectives of Big Self-Love?
If enough people want to play this way, I will set this up for February!
Invitation for this post!
You are welcome to share !!!! or anything sparked for you here, riff on the theme of Perspective or anything else, and of course we can seed any wishes, intentions or desired superpowers for this month, trusting that they will indeed come in even after revealing some opposites, whatever you like…
We remember that People Vary, we take care of ourselves as we need, we don’t give advice, this too is part of the life of Crown On.
Here’s how we meet each other here: with great kindness, appreciation and love.
Lots of heart-glow over here for you and everyone who reads, thank you for being here with me.
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Happy February! Happy Perspective! Thank you for this post today when I needed to remember that everything can be new again if I just blink and remember that the world is destroyed-and-created with every blink.
I am coming to terms with my body being the way it is right now and “terms” is absolutely the right word for it because it is a negotiation and sometimes it is a tense one, but maybe I can remember that I get to try to do this differently. I can give myself the softest flannel hug and say “Hey, love, is this story helpful?”
I’d love to play around with Wild Self Treasuring with you! It is a superpower I could REALLY USE these days. So much is coming into place and then there is this fiddly bit which is my relationship to myself and I would love to build all sorts of WSTs into my life – Wild Self Treasuring (treasuring my wild self, and treasuring myself wildly) and also Whole Self Trusting and maybe others I haven’t thought of yet.
<3 <3 <3
I *love* Whole Self Trusting! *heart-eye emoji*
SAME!
I was away from the Internet for most of the day and didn’t see this post until Groundhog Day was nearly over, so I am declaring a Do-Over for the Day of Do-Overs! Superpower of Do-Overs forever *and* Superpower of All Timing Is Right Timing!
Also, YES to Wild Self-Treasuring and other Majestic Perspectives of Big Self-Love! * <3 *
Mmmmmm! (When I saw the picture for Perspective I said that out loud!)
I have been thinking a lot about perspective recently, about the need to step back a little bit in order to be able to enter in, about remembering to stop and look back.
* * the delight in me delights in the delight in you * *
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Yes exactly, this dance of back-forwards, zoom-out to zoom-in, turn around and see how far you’ve come, this is exactly the thing I am trying to express in Perspective! <3 <3 <3 !!!!
Big heart-eyed yes to wild self treasuring. <3
Greetings in a new outlook Havi! I have changed my Perspective for the weekend following an internet fiasco where I am blocked from using my online video game for unknown days until beaurocratic snafu gets sorted. So NOW I have a free weekend on RETREAT into REFUGE and SAFETY and PLAY and RELAXATION and CREATIVITY of UNblocked stretching TIME longer and longer and fuller of FUN!!
I am taking Impromptu Naps, reading Lazy Books about being an Idler, and LOAFING about in PJS and not WORRYING bout a THING or two or three which is a wonderful CHANGE in PERSPECTIVE!!! I didn’t know February was the month of Perspective and this word comes at the purrfect time for this kitty. Thank you. If you do a February Perspective Haven, I’d like to come along and play with the changing VISTAS.
Blessings,
Solo
What a lovely perspective change!!! PERSPECTIVE HAVEN!!!
Wild Self Treasuring Immersion as my badass loving valentine to me from me – yes please! Xx
I think I just might take myself for a date to the hot springs for a wild self treasuring immersion too!!
HOT SPRINGS fuck yeah for perspective!!! <3
I got so much joy and delight from this post! Deep breath for perspective and welcoming February in.
Perspective of JOY & DELIGHT! <3
Long story short: today on Happy Sunday my brother colored my hair bright flaming soft AUBURN (O BURN HAIR BURN) ! RED and I am a beauty REBORN!!! My hair is the deliciously teasing naughty red of my early summers and with my hazel green witchy eyes I am a FEMME FATALE SECRET AGENT of OPS of PERSPECTIVE!!!
In my thirties I wrote an ode to the joys of silver gray CROWN ON and now, in my 60’s, my RED BURN BABY BURN HAIR has CHANGED my PERSPECTIVE to one of YOUTH, JOY, and Endless AUTUMN Indian Summer days. The Poem I will write now is of flinging my long flaming tresses saucily to the wind with my CROWN ON!!!
Here’s to Perspective in a COLOR. REDHEADS, BEDHEADS, mischievous in-coming me kitties ROCK ON!!! Who says you can’t be a HIppie FOREVER and a DAY?
I LOVE IT!!!! <3
Wild Self Treasuring – yes please!
I have struggled all day. I lost my temper today. I am not the struggle. I am not in my temper. My temper is an expression of lack of perspective. The struggle is lack of perspective. How can I change? my Perspective, from struggle to EASE and POISE. One, I can eat on time and not let my blood sugar get low. Two, I can let things GO, RELEASE, EASE. Three, I can start over, REDO my day from a new beginning even now when the day is over technically, I can Do_OVER my day. I see that not changing Perspective earlier was a MIS-TAKE on my day. I am going to go eat now and start OVER and ABOVE where I was earlier. This bird will fly.
My perspective is skewed by PAIN. my learning from PAIN is long, slow, laborious, full of twists (oooh my twisting arms) and turns (oh its my turn again another trigger pulled of PAIN), a climb up a ladder of suffering and desire, desire to snuff out the PAIN and not wanting to experience it. So I have two options with my PAIN so far if I don’t want it to trigger me into PANICK and ANXIETY mode and then MELTDOWN. ONE is to pray it away to others who are worse off than me or just need my grateful attention, and the other is to FEEL it and cry a lot. There is a third option too, to opt OUT of PAIN if I can by dozing or taking a nap. February is leading up to MAY, when I have surgery to remove my entire left shoulder which is being pushed out of its socket by my arthritis. I want to be here in this moment, change my Perspective on PAIN, and each new PAIN doesn’t have to be PAIN piled on PAIN piled on PAIN. It can be NEW PAIN, learning PAIN, new and hopeful suffering , leading me to relief eventually? I can try really hard to be PAINTIENT, SENTIENT of PAIN and PATIENT.And I can ask for GRACE not to take out my PAIN on others with frustration and temper and tantrums of meltdown. PAIN doesn’t have to Trigger me. I can be PAINTIENT.
THis is my new PERSPECTIVE ON PAIN for February.
Yes to the wild self treasuring in a safe space!!!
Wonderful.
UPDATE: THIS NOW EXISTS!
–> http://fluentself.com//wild-self-treasuring/
Havi I treasure myself so much I changed my something that I had for forty years and made it new and private so I can be who I am in love to protect myself and make myself a SAFE SPACE and a Happy Place for me to be.
Wild Self Treasuring can HURT CHANGE can HURT but sometimes it takes a new Perspective and some Pain in the Process to GAIN GROWTH and safe space. Change your place, change your luck.
Wild SOUL self treasure abounding!