One thing I have noticed a lot not only with my interactions with patients but also observing the daily news is how many people are walking through fire at this time. So many people are in crisis right now and I have so much compassion for them as they are confronting a lot of challenging circumstances in their external environment whether it be in their working life or their personal life….the fact is many people are walking through fire right now. Remember these people in your prayers at night if you can (as I am sure you know some people that are walking through fire metaphorically speaking.) At the same time, one thing you can do that is helpful is to direct your thoughts to what you want to focus on…

You could potentially walk on water if you directed your thoughts to higher ways of being; looking at the situations in your life from a higher vantage point – What is this teaching me?; How am I growing in this situation? Or how about really focusing on the beauty in the present moment? This is keeping your thoughts in current time. So many of us, including myself, find ourselves thinking of future time (what may happen in the future) or we think about the past (thinking about what might have been or just plain dwelling in the past)…all these strategies are employed by the mind to somehow regain control (which is an illusion) and the only moment you have is the present one so why not focus on it? Bring yourself back to the present moment over and over until it feels natural to you to be in the present moment, then you will truly be walking on water when you realize how beautiful the present moment truly is…and it feels so much better than directing your attention to walking through fire all the time…

I have been thinking a lot about the experience of life and how grateful I am for it. I was reading a book by Osho on Saturday and I resonated so much with the message and it got me thinking about things. We each have an opportunity in every moment to open ourselves up to the richness of life. It is available to us in each and every moment of our lives. We interact with our environment on a continual basis…yes, our environment changes but our relationship to our environment can remain the same. We can maintain an air of anticipation no matter where we go…an anticipation of the richness that life will offer us because life is a blank canvas waiting to be written…Life meets us exactly where we are and asks us to willingly participate and offer ourselves up to it. If we offer ourselves up to it, up to life…if we empty our cup, open up to life and say yes I am available to life then our cup is soon overflowing with life’s offering…we then experience the richness of life and are left with a feeling of gratitude…all that is required is a shift in your attitude towards life.

I was riding the bus home today from work and two people were sitting not far from me complaining about the weather and all the snow. I empathize and even identify with their lament somewhat but you really need to embrace what is at the same time. Life is rich in the offering no matter what the weather is like and every moment counts…you need to seize the day! 

It was a somewhat inclement day yesterday but I chose to embrace it and had the best time because of my attitude and approach to the day. I went with my partner up to Nose Hill…we strapped on our snowshoes and embraced the experience of the day…we opened ourselves up to the richness of life. It was quite mild up there which was unusual (the wind is typically fierce but wasn’t too bad either), the hill was enshrouded with fog, the trails were non existent blanketed out by the previous night’s snowfall, there were no tracks to follow so we made our own tracks and trekked across the seemingly bleak landscape.. it was so beautiful…the starkness, the silence, there was nobody for miles, our hearts pumping, feeling how good it felt to move our bodies…

I saw a woman on the horizon jogging into thick fog and seeing her profile contrasted against the ghostly downtown skyscrapers remotely visible behind her was magical to say the least. We were only on our snowshoes just over an hour but what an hour it was. It left us feeling so grateful for the mystical experience of Nose Hill on a Sunday. We will never have the same experience again…we were so in the now and the richness of it. 

The point is these moments are available to all of us on any given day. It is making yourself available to them, truly being present with what is, and reveling in the mesmerizing beauty of what life is and what it offers to you…if you open up to the richness of life…Contemplate this and bring this sentiment into your day and see if it your day does not become more magical to you and then leave me a comment! Even your trip to the grocery store takes on a different hue if you view it through new eyes…

I was honored to teach a one day workshop this past weekend for the MS society. Each participant had MS and some participants were visibly affected (in wheelchairs)…what struck me though was the courage they had in accepting their affliction while being open to new ideas and beliefs that would assist them in creating positive change and the courage with which they shared their own experiences. All the people in the workshop were incredibly open. I was sharing innovative information that required them to have flexible belief systems and an open mind. They all were awake and conscious, in their own process of evaluating their life and wanting to make it better.

One lovely woman in the workshop was lamenting that she wished she had known all this information when she was younger. What I say is you get the information you need at the right time in the right way. Everything in its own time. She was wondering if it was too late to make changes within herself and see the positive benefits. I said it is absolutely not too late to make changes, be empowered and see the positive benefits.

Many people doubt their ability to create positive change in their life…but it is the unwavering belief in your ability to improve your health that tips the balance in your favor. It is never too late to be what you might have been…there is only the present moment and you can make the most of this present moment and then watch it carry forward to influence future events. Don’t lose your momentum! I watched each participant find more of themselves as the day went on…their light started to shine brighter with new growing awareness of possibilities for transformative change.

Have courage to see new possibilities in your life and see unlimited potential in yourself. Know that this is true by your divine birthright! Always believe in your ability to heal – there is no timeline on that. Just because you are getting the information when you are 65 and not in your 20’s does not mean your potential for healing is cut short, rather it means gratitude for receiving the information when you are more open to hearing it and have opened your mind and shattered false paradigms to believe in new possibilities. I say hallelujah to that!

Always see your own beauty, the beauty of your own life path,  the perfect timing of events for you, divine intervention giving you the right information at the right time… always remember, it is never too late to be what you might have been… always be open to dreaming in even more possibilities than you would have ever imagined…thank you to all the lovely participants that came to my workshop…you are loved…