The quality of our lives is often dictated by the type of questions we ask ourselves. If we ask ourselves why something happened to us we often feel like a victim. If instead we ask ourselves what we want and how can we make a difference we empower ourselves to create what we want.

A great exercise is to pay attention to the questions you ask internally. Notice, expand your awareness of your inner dialog so you can change it.

Some of the most useful questions I have found are:

How else can I see this?

What would love do or Jesus or Buddha or the Virgin Mary?

How can I see the perfection in this?

What do I want to create right now?

What is the gift in this situation?

Here is a video I just made. I hope you enjoy it and if you like it, please pass it on to your friends.

With love and aloha,
Susan

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In my work I often talk about the difference between dominion and domination. Society is based on domination. The way our mind thinks is most often based on domination: black and white, right and wrong, good and evil, positive emotions and negative ones. Symbolically this is represented as a line.

As we deepen our connection with our spirit, with our true nature we move into dominion. Symbolically dominion is represented as a sphere. For anyone who loves looking words up in the dictionary, like I do, these paradigms have very little to do with the literal translations of the words and everything to do with the energy component. How the paradigms feel in your body when you live them. Miguel talks about seeing the world through the eyes of the angels. Living in the world from a place is what dominion is all about. Hitler is a wonderful example of a world that domination creates.

I awoke to this quote:

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in
all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on
everything with an impartial eye.

Bhagavad Gita

And then a friend sent me a link to this video. It was one of the most powerful images of domination in action and the healing power of dominion. I highly recommend you watch it! May your day be full of love, happiness and joy. What a world this would be if all of us made living in dominion a thing of the past and chose love instead.

A wonderful exercise is to lovingly notice any of your judgments and ask yourself, “How can I see this through the eyes of love?”

With love and aloha,
Susan

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Many of you are probably familiar with the poem Footprints. After yesterday’s photo I just couldn’t resist sharing this parody with you. As I have explored Toltec Wisdom I have found the act of surrendering my beliefs, my rigid thinking, my limitations and my way of doing things to be an on going process.

When I was going through a particularly challenging period of time a friend sent me this. Not only did I laugh but the image helped me to let go with a bit more ease and grace.

One night I had a wondrous dream,
A set of prints on the sand was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
Yet mine were not along the shore.
But then a stranger print appeared.

I asked the Lord, “What have we here?
This print is large and round and neat,
But Lord, it’s just too big for feet.”

“My child,” He said in somber tones,
“For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to seek My face,
Take up your cross and walk in grace.”

“You disobeyed, you would not grow.
You would not stand against the flow.
Your neck was stiff, your ears were shut,
So there I dropped you on your butt.”

“Because in life there comes a time,
When one must fight, when one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave one’s butt-prints in the sand.”

-Anonymous

So perhaps practice the art of letting go, trusting the process and going with the flow. Everything is pono (perfect) until we tell ourselves otherwise.

With love and aloha,
Susan

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My neighbors dog has decided killing chickens is a great sport. The other morning I witnessed her kill a chicken right in front of me. My dog Ginger has appointed herself the guardian of the flock.

Neither of us could save the chicken’s life and unfortunately Dale has been missing since the beginning of the week. All I have been able to find is a pile of feathers so I assume Dale has changed address and is no longer with us.

Dale enjoyed her life here and her foot had healed quite nicely. I will miss her greeting my car when I drive into the yard. She was part of my family for ten years. We were going to take her back to visit the Vet to show her how nicely her first chicken toe amputation surgery had healed. Dale had the funniest walk, it was half hop and half wobbly run. Her chest was rather flat so it made her look wider than she was, combine that with her hippity hoppity walk she always made us laugh and brought a smile to my heart.

I have a few of Dale’s feather’s on my altar and many warm memories in my heart. Tomorrow I will put one of her feathers on the other chicken’s grave. We called the other chicken ‘The Pecker’ because she would come to the door and peck at the screen door until she got fed.

To me their deaths are another opportunity for me to see the perfection in everything. I have shed many tears and had moments of wanting to kill the dog but I keep reminding myself about the concept of pono, love and forgiveness. The ‘killer dog’ used to bark almost all day long. When I showed the woman my dead chicken she apologized and said she might get rid of the dog. I haven’t heard any barking since. Maybe killer dog has moved on as well. This weekend I plan on going over and talking to the neighbors to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

Life is and then we tell ourselves a story. I choose to focus on the joy these feathered friends brought me and allow myself to miss them while I watch my month old baby chicks grow by leaps and bounds. Death is after all part of life and I have found death can actually make the gift of life even sweeter.

As I was feeding the babies today I thought about the fact that all of my pets are only here for a limited amount of time and I can savor each moment or dread loosing them. I prefer savoring all my precious moments with them and in the case of Dale my memories and all the wonderful gifts knowing her has brought me.

With love and aloha,
Susan

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Aloha everyone,

While I was going through the class folder on my computer I ran across this. I’ve always found it a beautiful way to look at life.

Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen.

Love your life.

Believe in your own powers, and your own potential, and in your own innate goodness. Wake every morning with the awe of just being alive.

Discover each day the magnificent, awesome beauty in the world.

Explore and embrace life in yourself and in everyone you see each day.

Reach within to find your own specialness.

Amaze yourself and rouse those around you to the potential of each new day.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than prefect; this is the essence of your humanity.

Let those who love you help you.

Trust enough to be able to take.

Look with hope to the horizon of today, for today is all we truly have.

Live this day well.

Let a little sun out as well as in.

Create your own rainbows.

Be open to all your possibilities; all possibilities and Miracles.

Always believe in Miracles because you are one!

With love and aloha,
Susan

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