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Creating Moments

June 24, 2018

“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.” 
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

For the past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about moments. For me, June has always been a month to get through so that I could enjoy July. I’ve always been a planner. When I was teaching, I had a big calendar on the wall of my classroom and each day I’d mark a big black ‘x’ through the days, counting down until the next break. I had a countdown to summer stuck up in my locker all through high school.Some of the wonder of shifting my life into a place of magic is that I have stopped doing so many countdowns and started enjoying more moments.

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I watched that glorious video of Courtney Hadwin, the little girl who wowed the judges on America’s Got Talent. (If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.) As we watched her face at the end, we wondered about her life from that moment on and wished for her that this would be just the beginning of a lifetime of magical moments.

Interestingly on the same day I saw Courtney, I was sent a video of Dorothy Williams having the same moment on the same stage. (If you haven’t seen it, watch it to the end!) In the interview at the beginning she tells Nick Cannon that even though she’d been on stage all of her life, she’d never been the star, so she was showing up to try to have her moment. In sharing that with him and by showing up, Dorothy got to be a star.

Once my tears had dried, both of these videos made me think a lot. What moment do I need? When I am 90 years old and looking back on my life, what moment will I wish I had had? What wonderful, golden, precious, glorious thing do I most want to happen? And how can I make it happen in the best and most magical way?

I think that if you ask yourself this one question, you will learn more about yourself than you will using many self-help books and courses: What moment do I need in my life?

You may have an answer to this question come right away, or you might need to ponder it a bit, but either way, listen. Listen to the whisperings of your soul. It might be something that you think could never happen. Make it happen anyway. Be inspired by Dorothy: what do you need? Boil it down to the essential ingredients and start to invite it in. Moments are precious, and often they are surprising and magical, but they still need your participation. You have to be out there. You have to show up.

What moment would you like to have in your life? How can you begin to make that happen?

xo

Alignment, Costa Rica

What Are You Wishing For?

November 21, 2017
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“Time for a little refresher on manifesting change, parking spots, and a new magical treehouse, Meghan.
Think about it as if it were already done. (Note “already done” part.)
 Keep showing up, doing all you can, every day, in every way, until already done. (Note “keep” part.) 
 For complicated cases, like when dealing with invisible, limiting beliefs, negative friends, or staring down adversity: follow the exact same steps.  
You’ve got it made,
  The Universe”

 

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It’s been nearly six years since we started talking about moving to Costa Rica, but before that, long long before that, I wanted a treehouse.

I know this because a million years ago, when I signed up for Notes from the Universe, I put on my profile that I wanted a Magical Treehouse. And ever since then, the Universe has occasionally been reminding me about how close I am to getting one.

For years I would just smile and laugh a little bit and remember how silly I had felt adding that to my profile. I obviously wanted a treehouse at that time (I mean, who doesn’t?) but there were a million other things I wanted too. I don’t know why I chose to put that in my profile. What I do know is that I knew then and I know now what the feeling of having a Magical Treehouse would be like. And looking forward it was very much the same feeling I’ve been working with for the past few years.

windowsLast week when we were up in our new house, talking to the builder, I looked up and realized that we had built a treehouse. Our house isn’t IN a tree (In Costa Rica, that would be crazy!), but where it sits is level with the treetops in all directions. I even got a delighted text from my husband yesterday telling me that he was at the same level as some visiting monkeys.

Magic is real. It isn’t always easy, and it rarely happens the way you thought it would or the way you planned it. The creator of Notes From the Universe, Mike Dooley, talks about avoiding the cursed hows, and I absolutely believe that. If I had actually planned for a treehouse, I would be living a different life in a different place. Instead, we focused on the feelings we wanted and paid attention to the messages and the instructions and the ideas that we got.

And even though it was never ever in our Costa Rica plan, next week we are going to move into a magical treehouse. After all of this time and with no actual plan for one and with no actual tree.

What seeds are you planting right now? What magic are you making? What magic have you made that surprised you?

It’s possible.

I send you so much love,

Alignment

In the Gap

August 21, 2017
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in the gap

 

Maybe I’m in the black, maybe I’m on my knees
Maybe I’m in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart.

~ Coldplay, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

 

Not long ago, there was a full solar eclipse. It was on March 20, 2015. Why do I know this? Because I was in the middle of one of the biggest changes of my life. We had left England and we were staying in Canada for a few days before taking the first flight to Costa Rica.

We were literally in the gap between one life and the next. I remember driving somewhere with my music on shuffle and hearing Coldplay singing about the gap between the two trapezes and feeling like that was exactly where I was: dangling in mid-air, hair flying, hoping beyond hope that there was going to be something there when I reached out my hand.

The last one? March 2016. How do I know that? Because we were in the middle of the final, final pack. The decision had been made that this was forever and we had to go back to the UK to deal with everything there. That particular time was, for personal reasons, one of the hardest of my life.

Athena Perrakis of Sage Goddess taught me that one of the ways to understand this eclipse is to look back at where you were during the last one.

Well, during the last two, I was in the gap; in the middle of leaping headfirst into a new life. And since then, I have spent time in some dark places and some very bright ones. I have moved through being proud of myself, afraid of where I live, ashamed of not ‘living up’ to my plans, coming to terms with what I saw as the excess light here, becoming more balanced as I found more darkness, letting go of some dreams, opening up to new ones, being lonely, being more in love with my changing husband, and finally beginning to create my business. I have faced some fears – both real and imagined – and let some things go. So much of what happened was because I was not conscious of what was happening, and looking back, I can see how much of it was actually of my own making.

So what does that tell me about this one?

Well here I sit again, in the gap between one life and the next. We are in the last months of building our house. We are about to move and finally finally unpack. Most of my things – what’s left of them anyway – have been packed since just before the last eclipse. I have just recently begun showing up daily to my writing (I’m on 24 days in a row), and I have learned to really pay attention to what is going ON, not what I think is going on.

Jason Miller wrote a great post about this eclipse. He offers a few suggestions but the one I like the best is this: “The moon and the sun are off the table, leaving a wide empty space to be filled. Fill it.”

During this eclipse, I am looking towards the next one. Where do I want to be then? I want to have healed my inner program of threat and fear. I want to have healed my inner program about being afraid of money. I want to have opened to more visibility, be writing another book, and be happy in my home. I want a labyrinth and a loving community.

I want to feel FULL; prosperous in every way.

So I’m committing today, under this eclipse, to focusing on clearing up everything that is in the way of that. To focus on building the cathedrals in my heart.

Bring on July 2, 2019. I am ready.

xo