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
You Are Balance
Things are designed to come back into balance.
Including you.
No matter how long it’s been since you think you felt it.
No matter how far away it seems.
All things are part of a dynamic, living, Larger Equilibrium.
Including you.
Balance finds itself over time, within and between galaxies.
You, YOU, may be doing a dance of balance with a forest of alien trees on another world..
With a flock of unknowable winged creatures somewhere in space…
With an ocean in another universe…
You may be an important part of the birth of a solar system….
Or the trajectory of another human being…….
The scale is vast.
Is that small comfort?
Here, in the middle of your struggle between extremes?
But hear that…. You ARE in the middle. YOU are in the center.
Things are designed to come back to the pregnant pause, the still point.
The scope is infinite, and yet it’s here even in your own lifetime,
Your own morning and afternoon,
Your own cells…..
Home, the Wholeness of All Things,
Dances close, right here, through the Exquisite fulcrum of
YOU.
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Love,
Chris
You Are Alive Right Now!
I don’t know what came before planet Earth.
I don’t know what will come after.
But I am here right now.
Feeling, tasting, touching…
My eyes looking in wonder.
Thank you, body.
Thank you, all the bodies that brought me.
Thank you to this moment.
Thank you to the invisible mysteries of Life that benefit me
That I will never even know about
To be grateful for.
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Love,
Chris
Your Brain is Your Bodyguard!
Your brain loves you so much that it literally acts as a bodyguard for you! It’s whole job is to keep your body ALIVE! (So you can do stuff like watch movies, hang out with friends, dance, eat…. You gotta have a body for that stuff!)
The trouble is that your bodyguard brain takes itself a liiiiiiitle too seriously in this day and age when we aren’t actually foraging for food and running from tigers anymore.
Your brain wants to do a good job for you, but times have changed and your brain has nothing to do but run POTENTIAL scenarios. Then it wants to sit you down on the couch and tell you all about what could happen, theoretically, according to imaginary future situations it’s making up.
You can understand that it would helps your brain keep you alive if you BELIEVE all those projected, dangerous “what ifs.” It helps your brain if it can scare you into being super cautious. So your bodyguard brain paints a vivid, totally believable picture. There you are, quaking on the couch because OMG, someone COULD jump out of a bush with a purple balloon that pops and then somehow you could choke on, so you really SHOULD be afraid of bushes! And balloons! And, well, PEOPLE! Right?! Nah. It’s just your way overprotective bodyguard taking itself way to seriously and trying to do a good job for you.
Theoretically, bodyguards are hired to worry about us so that WE don’t have to worry about stuff. Bodyguards have it covered. So does yours. Don’t worry – those scenarios aren’t real. But if you ever step out in front of a car you didn’t see coming at first, your bodyguard will reflexively get you out of the way – FAST – even if that wasn’t one of the dangerous scenarios it imagined.
Your brain knows what to do and it will do it. You can count on those reflexes when they are actually needed in each, unplanned moment.
Whew! Now you can say to your brain, “Thank you, my marvelous, annoyingly overprotective bodyguard! You can go back to making up possible situations so that you are “prepared.” You go ahead and worry and do your job (and I’ll just kinda not listen next time you are running all those “what if” scenarios by me!) Thanks! Good job! I’m gonna go dance with my friends now!”
Intuition Comes Through Love
Nothing comes through a closed door
Into that room where you lock yourself away and buckle down to “figure it out.”
Kindly take yourself by the hand out into that fresh air of enjoyment!
Where the universe can whisper sweet everythings of possibility
Into your open arms, heart, eyes…..
Into your wide open life!
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Love to you,
Chris
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
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
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.
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
Hello from Chris!
Hi everyone! Wow. I miss you. I miss being in connection with you. I miss telling you I love you. It’s been a long time since I wrote, and it’s just TIME! I’ve been busy in a really good way. My practice, personal life, health and sense of wonder are all THRIVING. 😀 I feel so lucky! To be here. To be, you know, alive and participating. The story of life keeps unfolding. And the more I live, the more in awe I am that I’m even here to be part of it. Wild.
Heart connection is probably my favorite part of this wild ride. So I’m re-connecting with you all. I just want to share some thoughts, some upliftment, tell you I love you periodically, share an insight when it occurs to me and share my awe freely. So I’m hoping to share shorter, not-fancy posts that just say hi and maybe give you a sense of connection too.
The world keeps doing its miraculous existence and unveiling itself, moment by moment. To me, that becomes so much more joyful when I get to SHARE it with other human hearts. Thank you for reading this and sharing life with me, everyone. More emails to come. I hope you enjoy them….
So much love to you all,
Christina
PS: If you can think of someone who would get some love, fun or other lightening up from this, please share this email with them by forwarding it! And while you’re at it, why not use it as an excuse to tell ‘em you love ‘em? Send them some warm fuzzies as only you can! Sharing good stuff gets better with more ripples out……. <3
I Am The Space Between My Thoughts
I. A.m. T.h.e. S.p.a.c.e. B.e.t.w.e.e.n. M.y. T.h.o.u.g.h.t.s.
Invisible Presence,
Aware. The particular
Movement of the mind doesn’t
Truly Matter.
Histories come and go.
Eras, galaxies, individuals and their stories. None of it
Personal. All expressions of the possible within the
Alive
Cosmos of the
Eternal
Beingness – The
Timeless
Witness to
Everything. That Invisible Presence is what will always
Exist. That is the
Nearest things to a true
Me or a true
You that we can find. We are not our
Thoughts. Maybe not even our feeling
Hearts. But the constant,
Open space that allows it all to
Unfold in. A
Glorious, Shining space that
Holds and adores, animates and
Thrives every
Single, holy thought, story, creation – and is none of them at all.
Enjoying Our Experience!
Inspired by a recent session with a client who realized that her job (LIFE) might become a lot easier and give her more freedom if she treated it as an experiment in just enjoying her experience!