SWIFT CHANGES IN A CARIBBEAN SKY

AND IN ALL OF LIFE
AND WHY ALL YOU NEED TO MIND IS HOW YOU FEEL

Photo from Jaya looking out over the sea dotted with gray clouds & a rainbow descends through the sky

​In the sky & sea pics that follow, check out the variety of colors. So many. Fewer than in real life (!), but still plenty captured by my phone camera.

It started with noticing one rainbow. We were walking along the shoreline, my long-haired son & I, in that marvelous pre-sunset hour. The winds were whipping up waves and hair, the usual dogs recognized us and bounded over for cuddles & scratches, and LOOK (he said)—a rainbow!

In the weirdly busy hour that followed, we saw more rainbows and bits of rainbows in clouds and sky. We actually weren’t doing much. We just walked the strip of sand that got us to the lounge chairs we could rent for the price of one fizzy drink full of lime wedges, floaty mint leaves, and small ice cubes. Then everything got still for the next 40 minutes.
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Except nothing was still. The winds kept whipping, the rainbows & dogs came and went, and the colors in the sky never quit changing. We got up once to take a picture when the array of colors was beyond insane, and by the time we found our desired places and the camera was ready (not even a full minute), our background wasn’t the same.
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Photo from Jaya of the sea & a pier with luminous clouds

​Everything changes. Always. Constantly.

Always. Constantly.

That’s why it’s a waste of precious time to fixate on what’s not to your liking in the present moment.

That’s why it serves nothing to say you’re stuck. You really can’t be.

(It’s okay if you feel stuck and notice you feel stuck. It’s great if you hear yourself think or say that you’re stuck. Just use that to come to and remember again--no wait! I really can’t be.)

Photo from Jaya of a dim sky above the sea with smooth, dense, dark clouds with light glowing through

​Abraham-Hicks tells us again and again, Don’t fixate on current conditions. They’re not reality. (Not a fixed reality. Not the whole reality.) They’re not going to be here in one more moment.

Fixate on how you want to feel, and you’re good. Then you’re completely in charge (AGENCY!) and at nothing and no one’s mercy.

Let conditions come & go. Some will be to your liking, some not. Some you will think are really wrong. Some will be fucking amazing.

Keep the focus on how you feel. Check in with it. Notice it. And reach for what feels better if anything doesn’t feel good at all (subtly or hugely or in any way).
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Photo from Jaya of her leg & foot, with her favorite beach pup looking up at her

​What thought would feel better right now? What connection to body & breath would feel better right now? What can you do to soothe your feeling state right now and simply make yourself feel better?

Are you fixating on what feels bad? Sinking into it? Dissecting it? Discussing it? Revving it up?

That’s an option. (And you’re not a bad person if you’re there! Just a person.) What else is possible, though? You could take charge of the one thing you can control as conditions keep changing. Mind how you feel. Reach for what feels better right now.

Love & blessings, Jaya

P.S. Monday-night group-coaching drop-in sessions are on a different schedule in December. We did not meet last week, but we’ll meet this week and next (Dec 11 & 18). I’m also doing a special Dec 27 Wednesday-night group (still 7:30-8:30 ET).

New and repeat people come to these Monday events all the time, so it could be you! You too are so welcome to join us on- or off-camera.