What is your life saying?

Shawn — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:47:11 +0000

Being authentically and vibrantly alive requires some soul-searching and a great deal of self-exploration. With a world full of outside influences, we may not even see, much less know, what we are really about. Parker J. Palmer writes about learning to listen to what is important:

I was in my early thirties when I began, literally, to wake up to questions about my vocation. By all appearances, thing were going well, but the soul does not put much stock in appearances. Seeking a path more purposeful than accumulating wealth, holding power, winning at competition, or securing a career, I had started to understand that it is indeed possible to live a life other than one’s own…Then I ran across the old Quaker saying, “Let your life speak.” I found those words encouraging, and I thought I understood what they meant: “Let the highest truths and values guide you. Live up to those demanding standards in everything you do.”…Today, some thirty years later, “Let your life speak” means something else to me…”Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”
- Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

It’s quite a feat to learn what’s yours and what’s some kernel of your truth, covered over by influences of society, media, celebrity. But the soul knows, and as Palmer says, it does not put much stock in appearances.

What is your life saying to you?

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A new venture

Shawn — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray! Words alone can’t express how excited I am about Vibrantly Alive Women. I want to feel good. Great. Fabulous, even. I’m still fairly young and basically very healthy, but I want to make sure that I stay healthy and young-at-heart, at the very least. Heck, I want to BE vibrantly alive and FEEL that way, too.

I’m starting this new venture, Vibrantly Alive Women, because that’s what I want for myself – and for every other woman who wants it, too. I just get all tingly when I think of feeling vibrant and alive…and I LOVE that feeling! I feel really expanded as I imagine a bunch of older women being vibrant and alive, and loving it! Their eyes and smiles and hearts and souls beaming with their vibrance and light. How cool would that be?

Here’s a video (from Kaiser Permanente, promoting mammograms, but still fun!) that has that “great old ladies” feel – and the song is now stuck in my mind! Enjoy!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Please come back…I feel like I’m brimming over with enthusiasm – and hope to be sharing that as all of this develops!

blessings,

Shawn

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