Becoming a Friend to Myself

Dedicated, with so much gratitude, to Dr. Kate Dow, to the Cultivating Calm and Confidence Within program and to the wonderful women with whom I am steadily growing closer to the wisdom of the feminine that shines within all of us.

Here I am. Stumbling. Standing. Walking. Dancing. I am alive within this vast Amazing Grace. Love’s confusing joy. Mystery…and yet not a mystery at all. I am alive within this vibrating Presence. (Where did all this come from?)

For that, let me remember to be truly grateful.

For the miracle of this vehicle that carries me through my days…for my breath…for the miracle of BEING…let me be truly grateful.

Let me be grateful for the grace of each day.

This year I am asking to face whatever shows up with less fear. More openness. More willingness. More courage. I am asking for more delight through the new year as I learn to be more attentive to the wisdom that is right here…in everything. 

I am seeking to move in love, service…surrender.

There is a divine wisdom that is alive in my cells, in my blood and my bones…in my muscles…in my DNA. 

Do you feel this wisdom too? Deep in what you are?

Let me learn to be more receptive to the guidance and the gentle kindness in the murmurings of my own heart.

I am learning to hear something that is much deeper than the noise and clamor of the world.

Something that is deeper than doing and achieving.

Deeper than measuring up…or the silliness of comparing ourselves to one another.

I am learning to rest in my own nature and in the wisdom of what I am.

When the world feels like a cacophony of judgment and rage…anxiety and threat; I am learning to find a peace that holds all that wild energy with compassion. There is a whispering: “What’s true?” Something is bigger than all of that, and it isn’t in my head.

Day by day, as I practice, I am becoming a friend to myself. As I breathe, as I chant or hum, as I lie on the floor and attend the sensations…everything I feel; I am becoming a friend to myself.

As the new year begins, my wish for all of us is that there be peace. Let it begin now. Let it begin in the only place I know where to start: here…in this experience. In this body.