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  • How Open Are You To Being In Love With Everything?

    Wake-up calls can be poignant, sweet and deeply moving parts of the human experience.

    Actress Jennifer Anniston said, “I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.”

    Among the most profound wake-up calls is awakening to being in love with oneself, with the world, with all other humans, and with life itself. Yes, of course, we love romantically, and certainly we love our families and friends. Yet, how many of us are just now experiencing waking up to the love of life in all its forms?

    Have you noticed an expansion of your loving nature far beyond those in your immediate circle of friends and family? Are you open to being in love with everything? What is the degree to which you cultivate gratitude for your waking up to loving beyond all ego concerns?

    What kind of connection do you feel to animals in peril, oceans being damaged, hunger and plague? Can those experiences contribute to our “wake-up calls” as humans to make the world a better place for all life?

  • Is Life Poetic? Is Life Poetry? Do You Write Poetry?

    As we conclude our consideration of poetry this week, some questions loom large: Is life poetry? Is life poetic? How can we find the poetic in life – in love, in grief, in everyday things, in all kinds of health or illness, difficulty, stress, happiness, betrayal, joy . . . in all of the human experience?

    Probably we’ve all written some kind of poetry – or at the very least, thought about it. Here’s a line from an unfinished poem which, I think, exemplifies a way to experience life as poetic:

    I saw a double blue star once through a telescope on a cold Arizona night

    And the desert provided the purity of darkness to allow only the star to show.

    Hardly great poetry, but these two lines take me back to an extraordinarily happy evening which can be revisited using my attempt at poetry. I know the special circumstances that the double blue star represents in a delicious field of pure darkness. Each of us has these kinds of memories and experiences that can form a way of relating to life as poetic.

    Who out there writes poetry – even if you never share it? Have you ever written to someone you love? Has anyone ever written poetry for you? How special is that to you? Do you read your poetry to your children, your significant other, your friends, your family? Would you like to confidentially send in some of your poetry and / or post it to the new beta site:

    http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall

    Happy Friday and Happy Mother’s Day to Mothers Everywhere, Including Our Mother Earth !