Enjoying the moment

The best things in life often are....RIGHT HERE...RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT
RIGHT NOW!
Trust yourself to exquisitely enjoy each moment.

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
Jean-Paul Sartre


How do we enjoy each moment? How do we feel the bliss of a moment in time as though we were that moment itself?

I find a powerful way is to image what your older self would say to you, what they would encourage you to do. Perhaps they would tell you to make sure you spend time with the ones you love instead of being too busy. Perhaps they would tell you to follow your dreams, or to follow your heart, or perhaps they would even tell you that you should never give up. i wonder what wisdom they would they give you?

Here's what happened when I wrote a letter to myself from my 80 year old self....
These are the words I received.
My 80 year old self told me that I must "LIVE".
She said "...your life is to be lived to the fullest, not to be lived alone. You can follow my dreams as you already ARE an amazing woman". These words have given me hope and the courage to keep following my dreams when my inner critic tells me to "give up".

One of my greatest loves is ecstatic dancing, and when I dance I am truly immersed in the moment.
Movement is my meditation and my release, it is the space I find healing, wisdom, peace and love. I have explored many different forms of movement but pure tribal ecstatic dancing is where I loose a sense of time, where I become enchanted by the ecstasy of movement to experience exquisiteness and happiness.
This is a contentment experienced through being in the moment or the creative flow of life....BLISS.


Sometimes I also choose to write in the mornings as a way to get out all my worries and allow my creative ideas to emerge. If anyone would like to know about this process please feel free to ask me in the comment section below.


Here is an example -

​Except from morning writing 8th December:
"As the days become longer and the Earth heats up I become stronger and my words flow more freely. Like silky honey dripping from the corners of my mouth after mischievously dipping the spoon into the honey jar for a delicious treat.
And as I sit here writing on the balcony I can feel the warm breeze caressing my face, the heat generating golden scents from the flowers and the trees. Mother Nature is holding me, holding me and loving my spirit back to life..."

When I wrote this I felt completelly connected to myself and my surroundings Being fully immersed in the moment is a blissful feeling.

Today's wish for you -
Try doing something and fully appreciate it, appreciate that exact moment in time, whether it be dancing, walking, talking with treasured friends or cooking a good meal, just focus right in on what you are doing. What sensations do you feel, colours do you see, or sounds do you hear? 

• If you feel so inclined you may wish to write a letter to a friend, I posted 3 Postcards to friends today and often post one to myself just for fun. 
• Or perhaps you may wish to write a letter to yourself from your older self? What would he/she say to you? What positive encouragement would you gain from your older self?
• You could even just write a letter to yourself telling yourself some of your positive strengths or values, or even dreams that you have for yourself
• Or you could just go outside and take a walk and take note of all the colours, sights and sounds around you. Even if you are in a large City there are some lovely streets to walk down that have gorgeous flowering trees, quirky little shops, yummy new Restaurants where you can try new and different food or quaint little shops just waiting to be discovered.
  

My wish for you is to experience the blessings around you.
If it is a dark day and you cannot see any blessings then my hope is for you to be able to ask someone to share a moment in time with you so that you can feel supported and loved through your darkness.
As my 80 year old said to me "...life is not meant to be live alone, Amy, Life is meant to be LIVED"

Blessings
​Amy