Nature Lessons for the City Girl
Wow! My hubby & I just saved a hummingbird that my cat proudly brought in the house. I have a special attachment to hummingbirds ( they are my power animal-many cool encounters with this warrior bird) and I managed to get my cat to give up the bird and to my surprise it was still alive when I went to retrieve it under the table. It is a big male with a red breast and it took off in my kitchen in a flurry.
Fred is a animal whisper, he is always able to gently catch whatever critter finds it way to us. I was thankful he was close by and he came home and worked his magic and carried this little guy outside to his freedom. Teamwork is key
I am working on building a new business and I am deep in the creative process and I was beginning to lose a little steam and my whole afternoon came to a halt for this little guy. Got curious...did a search on the internet and found this little gem
- I just got schooled by this tough little guy

"Hummingbird a symbol for accomplishing that
which seems impossible.
It can teach you how to find the
miracle of joyful living in your own life.
Hummingbird reminds us to find the joy
in what we do
and to sing it out. "

How I discovered that Discipline is my Superpower

Discipline is my superpower

And I activate my superpower with my Effort

And I activate my effort with my Vision

And I activate my vision with my Heart

And I activate opening up my heart with my conversation with my Teacher

And I receive guidance through my expression of my Gratitude

And I activate my gratitude through my daily practice of listening in the Stillness

And I supercharge my discipline with my choice on where to place my Focus

And in each moment I practice the effort of letting go of F.E.A.R

( false evidence appearing as real)

And in each moment that I am given the clarity to let go of fear and choose instead LOVE

I am given the gift of Grace

And grace for me is every opportunity that I am aware of my Abundance

And I experience my abundance by being in the Present

And being in the present affirms to me that in the stillness I am connecting to Prescence

And stillness requires Discipline

Last year, I discovered that discipline is the superpower that I have been looking for all my life.

I went through another health challenge that required big changes in my habits.

I have learned from my trauma, drama & karma, that running makes it worse and it is best to just roll up the sleeves and do the work, and I have done this over & over again with varying results, depending on my efforts.

Challenges have come to me in all the major areas that can get our panties in a bunch.

I have experienced Financial, Health & Relationship challenges many times, including getting lost for a time in the dredded Bermuda Triangle of Broke, Lonely & Out of Shape.

In the past, I dealt with challenges by putting more effort into my suffering then I did into my healing. I was stuck in the old belief that I can only change with a bulldozer bearing down on me and that the gentle approach was for weaklings. I was stuck in an old belief that if I hold back my complaints that I will suffer in silence and nobody will be able to see that I suffering and I will drown in my stew of trauma, drama & karma.

What I have come to observe is that each time that I choose to put more effort into my healing and less into my suffering, I experience Grace.

Grace for me, is when the messy process of healing is accompanied by profound moments of clarity, gratitude and joy, and I experience joy when I get that feeling of being lite up from the inside so much that it must bubble over into my expressions to my outer reality.

The more that I choose healing over suffering, the more I am able to express my truth, my gifts, my heart in my daily actions and this leads to a decreased desire to live in my suffuring and increases my desire to make bigger efforts with my healing, so I can live in my Joy and experience the fruits of my Visions and the connection to all in a state of Love.

When I have let go of seeing Discipline as the ruler slapping my wrist and instead embrace the practice as a superpower to ignite my joy. When I have let go of seeing Discipline as the Hall Monitor and embrace Discipline as my Coach, I am then able to up my courage to play big with my Personal Growth Plan and celebrate my connection to the Great Mystery

and that for me is my inner game of the Hokey Pokey- cause for me that is what it is all about.

Joy*Love*Light

Carmel

www.carmelmorgan.com