by Gizelle | May 5, 2020 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I woke up this morning in a bit of a slump, nothing serious, just ‘ho hum’. On the heels of ‘ho hum’ I realized that I’ve carried a fantasy (for more years then I’d like to admit) that I hoped one day to become a great writer. Hot on the heels of this thought was...
by Gizelle | Nov 11, 2019 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I recently came out of a flat period in my life, not depression exactly (but easily mistaken for such), more of a sense of 2-D detachment to my days. At first I wondered if I was resisting the ordinary flow of my life: wake-up, tasks, work, sleep, sprinkled with a...
by Gizelle | Oct 21, 2019 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
Upon awakening in the mornings we become aware once again of THIS reality, our waking reality, a different experience from our sleeping state of being. It is as natural as breathing for us, in one moment we are ‘dead to the world’ and in the next instance we are...
by Gizelle | Jul 22, 2019 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
It is possible, nigh probable, that what we experience as the “fear of the Unknown” is really a case of mistaken identity. Some stalwart souls attempt to see such a fear from the ‘glass is half full’ perspective, reframing it to be the Great Mystery, the Unknown or...
by Gizelle | Jun 17, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
Every particle of our being is saturated with Life Force Energy. Much like fish that draw water through their gills, deriving the oxygen they need from the water, flushing out what they don’t need through bubbles, we are surrounded and embodied with Conscious...
by Gizelle | May 27, 2018 | Change & Growth, Healing Separation, Life in Balance
For many years I struggled with owning that I was a creative person, in fact I would defer to my sister as the ‘artist’, the person in our family who was the ‘creative one’. Eventually I was able to by-pass the whole inner debate, and came to an awareness of...
by Gizelle | May 6, 2018 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
I had a mentor ask me this question about 30 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it! Of course I wanted to be RIGHT! I had to be RIGHT, my life (so my ego thought) depended on being RIGHT! I was terrified of being wrong, of making a mistake, of being found out. ...
by Gizelle | Mar 25, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
White Noise Machines aren’t called Black Noise Machines. Based on some sort of physics that enable sound waves to be muted or displaced, they provide a way for us to cover over unwanted sounds. Underlying conversations, thoughts, outside distractions and...
by Gizelle | Feb 18, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
It is a mistake to think that the purpose of being on a Spiritual Path is to “disappear the ego’. As long as one is in a human form, there is a purpose for having an ego, having a personality, a physical expression of our deeper Soul Light. So setting one’s heart...
by Gizelle | Jan 28, 2018 | Explore Life, Life in Balance, This Moment -- Now
At times I freak out and wonder what I’ll do without a 401K that will fully support me, especially as I grow older and grayer. But then I remind myself, people lived for thousands of years without a 401K. Fate and my Soul have conspired to put me on the road less...
by Gizelle | Jan 21, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I suspect that I’m coming to grips with the reality of being ordinary — my teacher told me years ago to practice ‘bowing lower’ (from the Buddhist perspective), not struggling for or against, saying ‘yes’ to what is. I have been...
by Gizelle | Jan 7, 2018 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
An ex-partner once said to me that I had what it took (whatever THAT means) to have been wildly successful, and rich — the brilliance, creativity, etc. Then he followed up with: “So why aren’t you?” I was offended, not complimented – it was...
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by Gizelle | Nov 19, 2017 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
Remember that “Ruach” means Breath of Life/Spirit — and that Ruach surrounds your very Being, the gentle caress of the air against your skin, the breath moving in and out of your nostrils as you sit in meditation. Fall into the pool of sorrow and...
by Gizelle | Oct 2, 2016 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
Took a beautiful walk today out to a point that granted an almost 360 degree view of beaches and ocean, with a forest behind me. Up a gentle slope up-hill through a glade, then into the forest of trees, past an abandoned house. Then on through a canopy of trees,...
by Gizelle | Aug 27, 2016 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Leaps of Faith, Life in Balance
and the Universe will support you. Reminds me of the book entitled “Do What You Love, and the Money Will Follow” – although I’ve never read the book, the teaching has stuck. There have been many, many times when I ‘believed’ that lack of money blocked me from taking...
