Fear

Our greatest Fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

You are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; it’s not just in some of us. It’s in everyone!

And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we liberate from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Attributed to Marianne Williamson.

Yes, And

This is from lessons in Neuro Linguistic Practice (NLP) and exercises in Improv, a way of growing your attention, and recognizing the interconnectedness of all things from both Quantum Physics and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

         In Improvisation, while on stage, you are given a line, a topic, even a prop and it’s time to create. Saying “Yes, and” to what your partner or team says.
         Yes, I accept you and from your idea and I will build you and your idea to look and be better.

My goal is to make you and thus us look better, and entertain.”
         “Yes, and” can lead to great humor, new ideas, and a great sense of presence in the NOW. 

         “Yes, and” requires paying attention.

         In NLP “Yes, and” changes my world. It changes how I feel. “Yes and” allows me to own all of life, instead of the separation, stuckness of not belonging. 

         I am whole and a part of all things is one of the affirming mantras of new age consciousness lifting. 

         Here is an example of how “Yes and” can add attention, connection and peace to your life.

         Feel the difference between these two statements:
         We went on vacation but, it rained.
         We went on vacation and it rained.
         Which one felt better?
         Which one rained on your parade?

         Using “Yes, and” is communication that empowers and does not create a separation between you and your experience. It does not negate or separate you from your experience with a butt.

         Butts are best made for sitting, and observing.

         Change those separating butts into and's and feel the difference.
 

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Willingness

 How to use the lesson in Yes, And?

One of my favorite and most influential teacher said, “With little or no doubt I say yes.”

 I not only say yes, I say “Yes, and”,
I act it out with willingness.
  Willingness, moving toward desires, and wants. Moving toward being, having, acknowledging, and appreciating.

 Willingness is a pathway to enthusiasm, excitement. It makes life a party, as in to participate.

 To play is a willful act.
 Will is a powerful name, William, Will I Am, may say it all. All I am is my will.

I use my Will to choose, it’s the vehicle from which I decide.
 Willingness moves from a verb, a doing, to a noun, a way of being.
 It was an epiphany when I realized that Willingness is the opposite of resistance.
 Does Willingness build Will power?

 Does choosing to ‘show up’ build Will power?

 “Yes, and” showing up in life is a major act of Willingness. It requires putting away being right, ones’ fears, and not being attached or identified with outcome. Willingness is risking, choosing to have fun, to be creator of your own world, to be responsible, accountable, even Setting A Good Example by the grace with which Willingness manifests.

 Where did I get my Willingness?

 My favorite teachers were always willing to go along with my enthusiasm, and bringing excitement to the learning game. The best of them play “Yes, and.”
 My coaches loved my Willingness to try ‘it’ another way.

They supported me with “Yes, and” your
way works, and try this.

 My spiritual teachers were all major
players in resisting not evil. 

They said to fully experience and be here and now, putting Willingness forward.

You didn’t have to believe what they said, just be willing to listen, and maybe see if it works for you.

 Where would we be without will?

 Perhaps humanity would be downgraded into indoctrinated servants of the most willful one, relegated like the ants in the wizardly tales of Merlin, aspirations and possibilities lost as robot like beings. 

 Does will ever join forces with evil?
 Can it ever join with vengeance or revenge
to “get them, get even?”
 Does will ever become habitual and lose its
purity or intensity?

 Is the human spirit best judged by our Willingness to be the other virtues, Compassion,

Grace, Patience, Trust, Honesty, and Forgiveness?  
 Willing is not who I am, it is how I chose to be. 

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