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
