Lighten Up

I've been told to write shorter, lighter entries. This photograph of light was taken by my friend Anne Jablonski at Feathered Pipe Ranch.

So today I'm writing about light and how it feels to lighten up. The reason I turn in desperation to all of my "little" addictions (they are of course "little" because they are fake) is how weighted down I often get by what I perceive as external expectations and demands. The big epiphany here is that nothing is external; the only weight - guilt, fear, burden - comes from my own head!

Lots of us talk about "out of body experiences," floating around outside ourselves when the pain of all that self-imposed weight gets too heavy, but the truth is that we are never "out" of our bodies. We do however, have the capacity to expand our awareness into a larger physical and mental space. The Truth is here, undeniable; and when we yearn for anything else, it is because we are missing the force of that life, the joy that is always in us right now. When we are weighted down by burdens and false obligations we don't feel that reality.

It's time to give up the perceived weight over to Truth, to let Truth carry us straight into the heart of love.

Today I remember to be light - to allow myself to expand and illuminate the full body of who I am. As light I can acknowledge the full extent of myself.