I work with the feeling side of the situation.  The energy.  The vibe.  The huge information that is available when we look deeper than the words or story.  Looking through the lens of energy shows us the motivation behind your thinking and actions.  So we can see what kinds of false, unhelpful rules your mind has made up about what to do, how to be, how you think others and the world should be……We look at the feeling of the energy. Which also shows you that YOU are energy that is MUCH bigger than any thought.  When you become aware of that, the feeling takes care of all the doing.  It softens any need for “rules” about how to be in the world.  The massive pressure you were applying to enforce those false rules is released.  Relief. Freedom. Choices. Peace. All those come into focus and you realize they were here all along. 

If you’d like to see behind the curtain and open things up for yourself, I hope you’ll allow me to help.  We’ll talk, yes. And I think more importantly, we’ll feel into things together.
Much love,
Chris

Ask, Don’t Tell
 
Don’t tell the moon what to do.
Don’t tell the stars how to shine.
Don’t tell the night sky its color is wrong
And that you’ve thought of another way it should be.

Don’t tell the moon, stars, earth, your body
To be different, better, more convenient.

Lie down in the grass with them and
Wonder
Listen
Look.

Ask.
They will share their ways of beauty and aliveness
And they will free you to hear your own, too.


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CB

 
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

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!”

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