The Resolve To Be Brave

April Crawford  Inner Whispers  March 25 2014

CliffJumpingIntoSeaIn each life there are opportunities to discover and overcome fears. Some of them are from past experiences that are carried like baggage into the present.

Some are new emotions aroused by impending events created in the “now.” Whether they are real or imagined, the element of courage is necessary to overcome the obstacles fear represents.

It is important above all to be clear thinking, not allowing the images to take hold within your psyche. Know that any difficult moment you create can be overcome by being centered and courageous.

Decide to dig deep for the resolve to be brave. Choose to act with positive force, thus neutralizing the fear attached to whatever the moment is.

Fear will follow you until it is told to vacate. Remember that it feeds upon the tension within, causing havoc to the moment experienced.

Courage is alive and well within each of you.

Continue reading

Rambunctious Souls

sdsoulAre you one of the: “Freedom loving, fear fighting, pattern breaking, don’t give a shit anymore, sweet and loving rambunctious souls?”

Be proud, stand strong and keep on keeping on.

True freedom first step is: Not giving a rats ass of attention to whatever people are thinking of you.

People are breaking out in vast numbers right now of whatever prison they conceive themselves to be imprisoned in and the matrix is coming down very hard.

Either very obvious and direct or by its nasty fabrication of brainwashed unconsciously willingly self-appointed status quo drones, either in your so called friendships, fellow co-workers or family members.

Always ready to bring your freedom craving soul down if its inner tide should pull you away from the most traveled highway, endlessly road tripping the architecture of the “normal blueprint emotional infrastructure pre-designs” for you from womb to tomb.

From the minor details to the larger visions you may have for yourself. They are on it. Drones in the skies, drones by the dinner table, drones in the cantina.

In my surroundings and the people I engage with in my work I see them breaking free now. On a very profound scale.

They are getting off of the sofa so to speak, and are setting out towards new horizons. Without safety nets. Vision driven, heart driven, driven by the sweet taste of freedom, no matter what they would “lack” in matrix commodities.

Following their rambunctious hearts and dealing with their own personal pain in these processes, I salute their courage.

Ever so strong and fierce and yet ever so fragile, the most powerful cocktail your rambunctious soul will ever provide you with.

The Matrix can’t handle both strong and fragile, since the understanding of the concept would require: Empathy. It knows nothing of that emotion.

Looking back at it, we have always had that rambunctious seed, haven’t we? Just one example: The school system.

You are probably like me, old enough not to have been diagnosed with any strange letter combination that would have made you a target for big pharma. Remembering my time in that, I kinda diagnosed them; Boring, no nutritious value, so I wouldn’t eat their programmed so-called education. The only thing they could do was to beat the living shit out of me, but that fueled my rambunctious soul.

Continue reading @ Zen Haven

Zen Haven | January 30 2013

F.E.A.R.

The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Blog | January 17 201

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
-Mark Twain

I hear it often from people, how brave I am and how much courage I have. Sometimes I just have to laugh, because, going through what I’ve been through with my mesothelioma battle, I don’t feel very brave. At times, the fear was so overwhelming, all I could do was cry out to God to help me. I would love to say that through the last 7 years, I’ve learned to conquer my fears. After all, Lungleavin Day, our celebration of the anniversary of my extrapleural pneumonectomy surgery, is all about overcoming fears. But I still have my moments, more often than I would like to admit. I have the usual fears creep in, my “scanxiety” I’ve blogged about before, little pangs of fear before I fly, but the biggest fear I struggle with is the fear of something happening to my daughter. This is something that has plagued me since she was born.

I’ve always had what I jokingly call puke-aphobia and, with having a kid, you know it something you have to deal with. This year has been particularly brutal on the gastroenteritis front for my poor Lily. Three times she has been sick this year in as many months. When she got sick the third time, the fear reared its ugly head in a big bad way. So much that I took her to the doctor and insisted he do a battery of tests to rule out anything. The thing I was most afraid of? Yep, cancer. Having dealt with cancer myself, and knowing so many others, my hypochondriac mind went right to the worst-case scenario. My husband, bless his heart, is always able to bring me back around to reasonable thinking. Although he understands why I go to the worst-case scenario, he doesn’t indulge it, and his voice of sound reason helps so much to calm me. Except in this case. I could not shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong. Turns out he was right. She is a perfectly healthy 7-year-old little girl. Every single test came back as normal as normal as could be and, for some reason, she has just gotten sick a lot this year.

Continue reading

Courage Doesn’t Always Roar

Inspire Me Today | April 2 2012

courage doesn’t always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “i will try again tomorrow.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I’d want to pass along to others…That each decade of my life I learned my lessons from my obstacles and my joys. I collected them in writing.

In my twenties I wrote my longings: these were foundational to my life manifestations. Create. Write. Inspire. Serve. These days that’s called the law of attraction. The ancients said and I saw it as true – our lives become what we think about. Or, “what you feed, grows.”

In my thirties I gathered my intentions: Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Laugh. Play with abandon. Practice wellness. Continue to learn. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Lead or follow a leader. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

Continue reading

You Are More Amazing Than You Have Imagined

Jafree Ozwald | Enlightened Messages
December 8 2011

Your only limitations in life are limiting beliefs, and these are also a figment of your imagination.

Nothing in your mind is real. Realize how this is closest to the Truth and you will discover a tremendous freedom inside.

You will find that secret part of you which is always free from any type of suffering and can never ever experience pain.

Notice how the greatest freedom occurs from simply dropping all crazy mind chatter.