Glowing is my favorite activity.
I love it almost as much as I love being a bell.
They are the same thing, actually.
Being a bell is just glowing sound: resonating.
Glowing is the light-based version of humming my happy hum.
Glowing is what happens when I am quiet: it is a side effect and a feeling.
It is one of the reasons I commit myself to this ongoing practice of self-fluency. So I can access my internal glow, radiate the qualities that I need, bring light to the corners.
And glow-sitting is my secret-agent code for meditating, because often I forget why I love to meditate, even though I never forget that I love to glow. Glow-state is my preferred place to be.
Things that support glow-state.
Things that support glow-state — for me, because People Vary…
- napping
- quiet
- laughter
- a secret rendezvous
- code words
- things that taste delicious
- luxuriating in slow intentional movement
- being a gazelle: dance, yoga, stretching, aliveness
- adoration, pleasure, wonder
- imagining myself inside of a compass of qualities
- ….
Glowing is a word that begins with G.
Last week was all about G because I was at Rally (Rally!), and we are winding our way through the alphabet, and there we were at Rally G. Rally!
It was also about the opposite of W, and mainly it was about G. These might be (okay, are) related.
More beautifully glowing words that begin with G.
Gestation.
Glamour.
Glistening.
Golden.
Gifts: presents and presence.
Things that are gorgeous. Glue: connecting pieces together.
Green. Green is go. Go!
Gwishes are magic.
A grove is a home for trees.
And last week was the birthday of the trees.
Gather is a beautiful word.
As is grace.
Glory. Also as a verb. To glory in.
Giggle. Guest. Goodness. Gilded. Grow. Group. Guess. Gallivant about. Gusto!
Gone. Aka the superpower of Elimination…
Give and giving. Glee and gleeful.
Gentleness. Graciousness. Gratitude.
Ground and grounding.
And all the many things that are glorrrrrrious.
I want to share two things with you from Rally G.
And yes, both of them start with G.
Often at Rally themes sort of emerge, and we end up casually playing with/around them all week…
One of these was Giddy Defiance!
This is the combination of Extreme Permission To Go Your Own Way No Matter What People Might Think, along with the superpower of Blithe Disregard (for rules/monsters), and having fun with this.
My current favorite example of Giddy Defiance is the Detroit Football Club supporters group — that’s proper football, aka soccer. Their shirts say:
Nobody likes us. Nobody likes us. Nobody likes us. And we don’t care!
Giddy defiance. I love this so much right now and am feeling inspired. A playful, lighthearted way to take a stand. You know who else I love who does this? GNR! GNR! GNR!
The other theme emerged from the word GAZING, which is a glorious word that we seeded in our Rally compass.
Agent Anna pointed out that this is related to the superpower of the Hubble Deep Field Array:
Looking Where There’s Nothing To See If There Is Something.
This ended up being a huge clue for all of us! Gazing. Gazing at stars.
Gazing and glowing.
And giggling.
Thank you, letter G.
May it be so! And come play with me.
If you want to whisper words or sound effects that start with G, go for it.
If you want to share in any of the qualities and magical words I named here, you can.
They work like the salves in the Friday Chicken: just take some, there is always more.
Whispering loving spells that begin with G, for myself, and for anyone who wants…
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Coincidentally, the week of Hunt for Happiness occurs the same week that Rally H happens! What better way to hunt for happiness than by Rallying with self-fluent people?
This information comes via brownielocks.com
A Hunt! That is definitely a clew. Thank you!
*whisper* Gliding. Glide. Glide. Glide.
Also: *gleeful shout* Great Gallumphing Geekery!
Of course! Stroke, glide glide. Stroke, glide glide. YES!
I am rather in love with Giddy Defiance.
And letting Go.
And Going.
And having the Gall to do what I need and want to do.
And saying Goodbye to some things.
And Gathering my new books and taking to bed.
Oooh. Gall. That is a good one! Gall and goodbyes, yes. Thank you for that!
Love the Giddy Defiance. Much Gladness Gyrating there!! Giraffes. Goofiness. Gems all.
Gems, of course! And gyres. I love it!
OED says, Glamour: an attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing.
Via 18th century Scots for magic or enchantment
In turn from the Latin “grammatica” (grammar) also used in the middle ages to refer to esoteric learning and writing.
Secret holiness indeed. A fluent self word par excellence.
Mmmmmm I love it.
Extreme Permission To Go Your Own Way No Matter What People Might Think
:: makes a note, smiling ::
This week’s theme is gratitude. Working on a state of gratitude rather than instances.
And then happiness.
Gratitude
Happiness
Illumination
Great holy impudence!
Glad happy iridescence!
Gripping healing imagination!
Gorgeous hot impishness!
Glowing with gratitude, I am.
Such a beautiful array of glorious and gentle spells and salves that start with the letter G! And PhilH: how wondrous that glamour and grammar have the same root. That’s marvelous! As a bit of a grammar nerd, it’s delightful that the word grammatica referred to esoteric learning. 🙂
Gallant and Generous, Genius and Genies, Gallop and going for a Gander. So many Great words with G. And
As always: Gracias!
mmmmmm – rally G-G-G…
Give and Grow and yes! Glow
and Gyrate (a happy thing, and sometimes not-so-much)
also, Get up and Get Going (somewhere)
Thank you, Kaari for Gratitude!
and Green – Green Green Green!!!
– just over the horizon, despite below zero today… <3
Ohmygod someone just linked to this. Grapes. Glue. Gyroscopes. It is wonderful. I am going to listen to this all day.
Glaze.
gallivanting gophers, gamboling giraffes, gallant grebes.
gallimaufry. good riddance.
gnarly gnosis.
gutsy gurus.