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198. What does God feel like?

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Recently, I tried to tap into God/Source/Spirit/the Universe but I felt nothing. I didn’t know how or where or what to feel.

I have been pondering it since.

In trying to figure out how I can feel an entity that doesn’t exist, my mind went to gravity. Which is in reality a theory as it cannot be proven absolutely nor disproven at this point. The theory of gravity stands because certain things happen in pattern and predictably according to this theory.

Could this be applied to Spirit? I can’t prove that it does or doesn’t exist but by treating it as a theory and finding the confirmation that it does by observing the miracles of life, can I believe it to be true?

And how do I feel it? Is feeling Spirit the same as feeling the groundedness of gravity? Or is it feeling the opposite of gravity because only a force as big as God can defy gravity? Is Source in the magic of the unseen but the tangible like birth and death, or in magical magic like synchronicities, intuition, ideas and creativity?

What does God/Source/Spirit/the Universe feel like to you?

195. Synchronicities and Boundaries

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I love when synchronicities occur in my life. I take them as signs for things I really need to pay attention to.

This happens often for me through information via reading books or articles, listening to interviews or podcasts and conversing with friends or other wise people who I was meant to cross paths with at that exact moment.

My latest synchronicity is the word “boundaries.” And by magic of the Universe, this blog will likely be a synchronicity for someone reading it (so cool!).

I am still digging into this topic for myself and will write more later, but I want to share an interview that a friend passed along to me between Marie Forleo and Terri Cole, psychotherapist and author of Boundary Boss. I am grateful for this conversation that gave me some eureka moments and lessons I can apply to my relationships, work and being a mom.

Happy synchronicities and boundary setting!

194. Bowling a strike

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In order to bowl a strike, the focus should not be on knocking all ten pins down. Instead, it is about form, movement and precision leading to hitting a particular point of the cluster of ten.

Receiving this message today in a conversation, I am realizing that I am misplacing my focus and need to return to myself and how I approach the bowl and not so much on all the pins I need to knock down.

(Note: I am not a bowling expert. This is not official bowling advice)

193. My right to ask

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Asking for what I want is hard to do. I think that I must have possessed the skill at one point because I witness three little bodies asking me for what they want ALL.DAY.LONG and then subsequently getting mad and upset if they don’t get what they want.

This is one of my biggest triggers as a mother. I see their asking and anger as signs of unearned entitlement and unjustified righteousness.

Growing up, I had very little and that was that. I don’t know if I ever asked for what I wanted because there was never a lot of money. I remember wanting to go on a trip to Europe with my friends in high school but I didn’t even think to ask my mom – partially because I knew (assumed) she was going to say no and partially because I didn’t feel like it was right for me to ask for so much money all for myself.

And I know that this is something that I absorbed back in the womb. When my mother was pregnant with me, she was afraid to ask for even an extra egg to eat not only because of limited resources but because of power dynamics within the family.

And so here I am, trying to re-learn this skill, re-tracing my steps back to a time when my gait was half skip/half walk and my sense of righteousness and entitlement were strong because asking for what I want is indeed a right.

192. The ability to translate

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The ability to “see the gray” is the superpower humanity needs to break through the very black-and-white (aka binary) thinking of our world right now. The binary is very obvious in politics but also apparent everywhere else if we look for it. This includes how we approach motherhood and the systems of and anything touched by white supremacy and patriarchy.

Being able to see the gray also requires for us to be able to sit in the gray. One ability that goes hand in hand to cultivate comfort in the in-between is the ability to translate.

The first type of translation that comes to mind is the ability to translate between languages. Phrases, sentence structures, and figures of speech are not a one-to-one translation. Instead, they require the mind to mold and reshape the thought in one language to another in order for it to make sense. That ability to take one language and move words around and reshape them so they are understandable in another is very much work that our brain does in that gray space.

But translation is not limited to languages. Translation also occurs when we try to communicate between forms and bring thoughts to life in other mediums like movement, painting or writing. Art requires for us to feel into the thoughts and emotions and re-form them into expressions through our body/brush/pen. That ability challenges and stretches us to think about things differently.

Where else do you see translation happening?