What does it mean that “Life lives us?”

It’s okay. 
You don’t have to make yourself be a certain way.
You can’t. What YOU are is a process. 
Let the process of you happen. 
It’s going to anyway. 
Life flows, flowers grow and every mood that blooms in you has its own beauty.

Someone asked me the other day if I’d give a brief description of the phrase “Life lives us.” 

Life, NATURE, is something we think of as only being on planet Earth.  That’s normal – that’s our reference.  But if we give it a moment, it’s obvious that Nature is not only our planet and everything on it, but also our solar system, the galaxy, all the life forms and processes and how they fit together. It’s all of it, everywhere, in the entire, unknowably large universe and beyond.  And whatever it is that powers all that LIFE happening everywhere – well, that has been going on since before we can conceptualize. Long before you got here, or humans got here, or our solar system got here. 

Life has been expressing itself in uncountable forms all along.  All those forms come and go, with that animating force behind all of it.  Right now, life is manifest as infinite stuff, creatures, chemical reactions all at the same time, all across the universe. 

One of those expressions of life is a YOU.  There is a creature that you are somehow aware of being.  You are looking out through the eyes of the part of LIFE that has showed up as you.  You got to watch the whole ride as Life turned you into an embryo, a newborn, a 1 year old, a teenager….you got to witness and experience as Life lived your body and grew it up….  The same way life lived through an acorn and guided it into an oak tree. The oak didn’t do that life-ing and neither did you with your body. Maybe with none of it. Really. Maybe Life is living the exact “flavor” and personality of you.  You are gloriously animated and alive right now, a unique expression of the absolutely endless stream of living energy that powers everything. There’s just that one energy. 

But in our human, mortal bodies, the biology focuses on staying alive and as part of that it creates an “identity” to keep alive.  We take life so personally. We think it’s us running the show.  We think it’s all very, very important. We get hyper focused on the details of the story and stress out about what he said, what she said, what we weigh, what our clothes look like, if we had to wait in line somewhere……

For me, when I zoom out and feel into the fact that an animating energy is living me, it relaxes me. It helps me not take my life too seriously and helps me enjoy the ride.  It helps me to enjoy the specialness of this “me-ness” without getting too wound up in the details. It helps me let go of my illusion of control.  I mean, the animating energy is here, dancing as me, as it dances through eternity. And I get to be carried!  I get to be lived, animated, celebrated in Life’s endless explosion of YES to its own creativity!! 

Life lives you.  And everything that shows up in you is part of life.  It’s literally all life, and it’s all included and it’s literally all good.  Everything is life.  All of YOU is good. The whole thing is good.  I hope you marvel at EVERYTHING that shows up inside you, your feelings, your experience and the story that is being lived as a YOU.

I hope you don’t take that personally, and that it helps you relax, be carried and enjoy life as it lives you. 

I hope you feel my awe and how much I love sharing this aliveness with you!

Love love love!

Christina

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My Intuitive Counseling and Coaching!

All the pieces just seem to have fallen into place.  I’ve been in practice for 17 years or so, but in the last couple years things have just come into focus.  I’m looking at it all from a new perspective.  My understanding about how life works and how the human brain and human beingness work – well, it’s just made the ground of my practice more solid. My work is resting on a new foundation.  I still work intuitively and with a focus on the energy in the body. I still encourage people to connect to their own ability to FEEL their own alignment and navigate by that.  I still point us all to our own, exquisite access to wisdom. More than ever, I celebrate the power of lightening up and relaxing into all that direct experience of ALIVENESS! 

But I’ve made some connections. My experience of the understandings have ripened. And because of that can articulate and share it in an even more accessible way.  And definitely, definitely, my approach has expanded more into the profound change available in ease.  Moving by ease and enjoyment helps all understanding. It helps everything open up and flow.

(That is one of the reasons why I offer process art as an option, if you’d like that.  It’s a tangible, hands on experience of getting out of our heads, relaxing and allowing wisdom to arise from wherever it naturally does when we unclench! Art is not a requirement of my sessions AT ALL. I’m just letting you know about the option!)

I work with individuals and couples of all kinds – most of whom are dealing with some kind of fear and anxiety.  Their minds are having trouble with topics like food, health, weight, money, habits, insecurity, control, relationships, confidence, career, caring for aging parents, ….  Anxiety shows up in every imaginable topic, but the way I work helps us understand why we even have anxiety to begin with:  and how to exhale and relate to it differently.  

I really welcome your questions. I know you are already unfolding perfectly.  You are already on your journey.  And if you’d like a buddy to walk with, help you see it all from a new angle, get some clarity and, well, relax about it all, I’d love to help.  Contact me via email, phone or text if you want to check out the possibility of working together.  I absolutely LOVE what I do and I’d love to hang out with you in your expanding YOU-ness.

Always love!
Christina

619-838-5378
Chris@ChristinaBrittain.com
https://christinabrittain.com/services/

I always appreciate referrals.  Keep me in mind if you know someone who might need a buddy to help them get a little more clarity with something.  

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Can I Just Drop It?

There is a voice in my head that is making itself sick trying to get well.

It’s been there my whole life – the part that is sure there is a problem and needs to fix it.  “Getting healthy” is its favorite, BIGGEST PROBLEM to obsess about.

Your “fixing problems voice” might be trying to control everyone so that you can trust them. 😉 Or constantly looking for all your flaws so you can be perfect.  Or obsessing about finances or food so you will never have to think about money or weight!  😉

Our brains all have a voice that is warring with itself over how to get peace. 

But that voice isn’t us.

We keep walking into the middle of the conflict. Keep joining in to solve the issue.  Keep stepping onto the hamster wheel of that topic and keep it spinning.

Even though we’ve been doing it for a long, long time, we don’t have to.

I’ve been leaving my mind more often. Letting it go on warring and worrying about my safety.  It means well.  But it’s confused. And the obsession just isn’t what I’M interested in. 

I have a lot more time to play now!
To be in the world!
To actually experience being well.

You do too. I hope you go play with the games you really like and let your mind do its thing without your undivided attention for awhile!

Hugs,
Christina

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