Keep calm and sparkle!

The title of this week's post comes from a glittery pink travel mug I recently bought - and it's good advice in an increasingly stressed out world.  There's definitely been opportunities this past week for heeding such words of wisdom, as others have seemingly been a bit mean to me ...  When stuff like that happens, it's about not letting any reactivity take hold for long and in that, the sooner I start opening and softening the better.  It's clearly all an inside job; there's no use waiting for others to behave differently - staying open and living from the heart is what it's all about.  So although I dream at times of living in an eco village surrounded by the beauty of nature,  I'm staying put and taking every difficulty as an opportunity to open my heart, to soften any hard edges which show up and to go deeper within; to stay true...

Loving what we Know and letting go of any surface story or spin, is what puts us rightside up again.  The opening and softening points us to that deeper Knowing and brings balance to the system; it brings in the calm - a little bit deeper and we can even begin to quietly sparkle ...  

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti