I. D.o.n.’t. H.a.v.e. T.o. B.e.l.i.e.v.e.
W.h.a.t. M.y. M.i.n.d. I.s. T.e.l.l.i.n.g. M.e!
I nherent in all of us is a knowing. A
D ivine factualness –
O bvious when we still ourselves in the
N ameless, wordless
T ruth we can feel in our bodies, our
H earts. How worthy of
A we that we are able to feel the
V itality of Truth!! A gift that we can
E nter it simply by turning toward it, feeling for
T hat relief, the relaxation and
O pening that happens in our
B odies. Suddenly able to
E xhale, we are back in touch with
L iving
I ntelligent
E nergy. There quietly appears a
V oid. A silence where the
E ndless demands of the mind become a
W hirlwind we can now see as
H ollow. Our world of panic that seemed
A bsolutely solid and irrefutable
T urns to smoke. But just a
M oment ago, we thought there was no other way. Our minds
Y ell! They press us for action NOW!!
But
hear
this:
M inds don’t have muscles. They can
I nsist louder and LOUder and LOUDER, but they can
N ever actually make us
D O anything. Feeling out of control, we’ve only been acting from mistaken
I dentity. We
S ee, feel and hear the incessant voice in our heads
T hinking it’s us speaking. It’s not. What if
E verything we think is a confused, protective mind, imagining our
L ives are in danger if someone doesn’t call us back, we make a mistake, we don’t
L ook how we “should,” we do or don’t eat, drink or buy THAT THING! What if that
I magining was never real. And what if we’ve been acting on it
N ot realizing we didn’t have to? What if we have a choice to act or not, and the bodiless energy of a single thought can’t make us do a single, ding dang thing?
We
really
can
G o back to the knowing inside. To the still place of Truth we can feel. We can
M ove or not move from there: There, where
E verything is possible, none of it is required and Infinite Safety is in our very bones.
———————–
Knowing freedom from the living energy of my bones right now!
Love,
Chris
The Mystery of Death
Thank you for being here. For sharing in this circle with me.
Hi everyone. I want to take a moment to share with you all that I have a dear friend who is hanging out near the Mystery of death. She’s dancing with a cancer diagnosis and her own gorgeous relationship to LIFE! In her words, she’s close to the veil right now. But who knows whether or not she will dance back into the more solid, or less solid side of the energy…? We who are privileged with being with her right now just don’t know anything about what will happen or even IS happening! Which leaves room for the realization that ANYTHING can happen. I love to quote Scott Kelly who said “At the end of the day, possibility is all there is.”
It really is a Mystery. All of it. Every part of this amazing awareness, experience, existence… I deeply appreciate that you that are here in this circle of connection with me. I see that we are so engaged in this MYSTERIOUS, wondrous ride. We’re willing to be curious. Willing to maybe be okay with NOT KNOWING anything really. And we’re so able to revel in the beauty all of this experience that we don’t understand. That’s the thing. My friend’s journey is challenging, miraculous, astonishing, inspiring, painful, powerful, messy, clear, simple …. It’s all of it. And I see so much beauty in every part of it.
I see so much beauty in every part of you. Of me. Of our dance here. I feel such love for you all. Thank you again for being here with me – and for each other. Much love and JOY in my body and being for our whole, mysterious dance together!
Christina
J.O.Y. I.N. T.H.E. B.O.D.Y.
J.O.Y. I.N. T.H.E. B.O.D.Y.
J ump and shout! Let it all shine
O ut! Rejoice in
Y our voice and your wings of light
I ncandescent, real
N ear to the earth, yet
T rembling with ecstatic flight of
H eart beating, blood pumping
E nergy of Life Life Life!
B ooming and blooming and
O pening doors of
D elight with every single moment of
Y OU being HERE in this home of beloved earth body adventure!!
ABC Insight: H is for Hope
When you are hopeful, you are open to possibility. Which means you are open to the whole universe. Because that is what the universe is – the living play and expression of unlimited potential.
When you have hope, you’re aware that somehow, “impossible,” wondrous things can – and do – happen. Even though from your current vantage point you might not be able to see HOW it will happen.
“At the end of the day, possibility is all there is.” – Scott Kelly
G is for Give Without Agenda
We are whole and enough, always. It’s built right in: all the love, resources and direct connection to Life’s guidance we will ever need. When we know that, we are able to give without fear. We can give to give, rather than give to GET something. No matter what our minds might tell us, we never truly lack anything. We are free to give what we know overflows in us, expressing all the love that we naturally ARE.
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
— Hafiz
First, Slow Down
F.I.R.S.T., S.L.O.W. D.O.W.N.
F ast! Furious! Hurriest! Get ‘er done!
I nstantly, we are not here as we
R ace to the next thing and lose
S ight of
T his – moment – of – life – happening – now.
S o simple. Exhale. Sigh.
L et the body relax and
O pen to the unhurried
W isdom
D eep within itself. Pause. Breathe. Re-
O rient to that ever-present
W ellbeing. There’s
N ever truly any rush. Eternity unfolds Itself on its own, perfect timing
One flower, one cloud and one YOU at a time.
I Don’t Have To Believe What My Mind Is Telling Me!
I. D.o.n.’t. H.a.v.e. T.o. B.e.l.i.e.v.e.
W.h.a.t. M.y. M.i.n.d. I.s. T.e.l.l.i.n.g. M.e!
I nherent in all of us is a knowing. A
D ivine factualness –
O bvious when we still ourselves in the
N ameless, wordless
T ruth we can feel in our bodies, our
H earts. How worthy of
A we that we are able to feel the
V itality of Truth!! A gift that we can
E nter it simply by turning toward it, feeling for
T hat relief, the relaxation and
O pening that happens in our
B odies. Suddenly able to
E xhale, we are back in touch with
L iving
I ntelligent
E nergy. There quietly appears a
V oid. A silence where the
E ndless demands of the mind become a
W hirlwind we can now see as
H ollow. Our world of panic that seemed
A bsolutely solid and irrefutable
T urns to smoke. But just a
M oment ago, we thought there was no other way. Our minds
Y ell! They press us for action NOW!!
But
hear
this:
M inds don’t have muscles. They can
I nsist louder and LOUder and LOUDER, but they can
N ever actually make us
D O anything. Feeling out of control, we’ve only been acting from mistaken
I dentity. We
S ee, feel and hear the incessant voice in our heads
T hinking it’s us speaking. It’s not. What if
E verything we think is a confused, protective mind, imagining our
L ives are in danger if someone doesn’t call us back, we make a mistake, we don’t
L ook how we “should,” we do or don’t eat, drink or buy THAT THING! What if that
I magining was never real. And what if we’ve been acting on it
N ot realizing we didn’t have to? What if we have a choice to act or not, and the bodiless energy of a single thought can’t make us do a single, ding dang thing?
We
really
can
G o back to the knowing inside. To the still place of Truth we can feel. We can
M ove or not move from there: There, where
E verything is possible, none of it is required and Infinite Safety is in our very bones.
———————–
Knowing freedom from the living energy of my bones right now!
Love,
Chris
F is For Full Permission of Being
Y.O.U. H.A.V.E. F.U.L.L. P.E.R.M.I.S.S.I.O.N. O.F. B.E.I.N.G.
Y ell or whisper, be
O pen or closed, be
U p or down, be
H umble or puffed up with a swagger and a smirk. It’s all
A llowed. What if it’s more than allowed but actually
V enerated by whatever the
E nergy is that
F orges and fuels us? We can’t
U nderstand that kind of unlimited creation of
L ife in the exploration of its infinite self from our
L imited human
P erspectives. But we can
E avesdrop by every thought, feeling and action that
R olls through us. The
M ysterious magic of that Beyond
I ntelligent Power is really the
S ource of all “our” doings. We are sweet
S pectators with the barest
I nkling that there is only
O ne and that Oneness, that Wholeness leaves
N othing out. It’s
O bvious that anything, any way of being that we could ever be, comes
F rom the Wild Inclusiveness. And so we
B e. What are we judging, resisting, claiming as our own or
E mbracing when a thought, a mood
I nvites itself in? When we look up at the sky of being and the unfathomable movement of Creation, we can see that
N othing is personal. And every surprising moment is a
G ift given. Be freely, knowing all of it is the changing, surprising play of Life, discovering Itself through YOU.
———————–
Let’s wave our magic wands and give ourselves full permission to be all that we are. Especially since we’re going to be however we are in every moment, whether we give ourselves permission or not!
Love to you,
Christina
Some Personal Thoughts on Mind, Body and Food
Hi everyone. Some of you know a tad about my past funkiness with food and health. I grew up in a really extreme environment when it came to food. I was put on diets from the time I was 8 years old. Growing up, I was given the incredibly mixed message that I was supposed to be my mom’s eating buddy but also supposed to be thin. I developed binge eating and bulimia to cope with that impossible demand. I couldn’t figure out what food was “safe,” or how I was supposed to eat. Mom and I went on endless fad diets. There were years when we only allowed ourselves to eat 500 calories a day, but then ate until we were sick on the weekends. All that undependable nutrition and body abuse resulted in a variety of health issues. And the health issues in turn amplified my uneasiness, anxiety and misunderstanding about food. My friends, believing all those mixed-up thoughts, I behaved in truly crazy ways. I felt such massive, overwhelming confusion and was so steeped in my thinking that I couldn’t access basic common sense.
Now I see so much. I am far more free, trusting, healthy and happy. And I know what my thinking is now, which changes everything about my relationship to life itself, not just food and body. I know that what I’ve seen could be helpful to you too. Regardless of whether you suffer confusion about food and health, or you obsess and worry about other stuff. I know it can help because I’ve watched this new clarity help my clients – with food and with every other topic imaginable.
So I want to share it with you. I met a new friend named Sarah Parker who wants to share with me! Sarah lives in the UK and works for the National Health System, working with people with eating disorders. She’s able to help because she dealt with anorexia for over 15 years and then with her own resultant health issues. But like me, the major reason she’s able to help is because of what she’s seen about how human minds even create our “realities” and why that’s so confusing to us. Sarah and I have been talking a lot about “The Feast” as a metaphor for understanding and reorienting to joy around food – and everything else in life.
We really hope you’ll join us for this 4-part webinar workshop. You can come to one or all of them, and you can come even your own struggles have to do with something other than food. In this, our first workshop, we ask that as your “fee,” you write a testimonial and give us some feedback on what you experienced.
We’re sending you all our love and celebration of The Feast!
Christina and Sarah
I Am Way Bigger Than Any Thought, Idea or Story
I. A.M. W.A.Y. B.I.G.G.E.R. T.H.A.N. A.N.Y. T.H.O.U.G.H.T., I.D.E.A. O.R. S.T.O.R.Y.
I t’s impossible to contain you!
A nyway, who do you think you are?!
M ore than you think, that is for certain. Look at yourself with
W onder and
A mazement! What you think
Y ou are is only a fraction of what you can perceive. You are
B eyond all
I maginable
G ood. You are
G reater, larger than anything and
E verything you’ve ever
R ealized about yourself. The
T ruth is that
H owever you’ve conceived yourself to be, you are as vast as
A wareness Itself. And there is
No one thought that can define or explain the
A ll-encompassing consciousness that lives as you right
N ow.
Yes, you. Me. All
T hings
H ave more to them than any
O ne idea. There is more to all of us than we can
U nderstand
G iven our single viewpoint as a
H uman that can register only the
T iniest fraction of what exists, what is possible – even in ourselves. Yes, we, YOU are
I nimitable! The truth of you is far-greater than the mind can fathom, yet your unique, HUGE
D esign is
E xquisitely YOU! It’s just that “you” are far bigger than your brain can
A llow. So, maybe feel into the
O pen, unknowable
R eality of your own
S ublime Presence. Lean in and
T ouch that simultaneous
O neness and the individual you that It expresses. And in that loosening of surety,
R elax into, ease everywhere into, the reality of
Y ou that is so, so, SO much bigger than any thought, idea or story ever could be.
——————–
With love from the biggness of me to the biggness of you,
Christina
E is for Ease Up
If you’ve got your pedal to the metal and are leaning forward trying to get there faster, lean back. Slow down and look around. Chances are that it’s not even YOU driving the bus. Who or what snuck in there and got their hands on the wheel? Slide back into the driver’s seat, ease up on the gas and see if you’re even headed where you want to go!