HEY, FLORA! WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE TO YOUNG ARTISTS?
Well, well, well…what do you know? Seems the topic of shining and celebrating (ala yesterday’s post) was a topic many of you could relate to. It was awesome to read all your supportive comments and it got me thinking about this SHIFT that appears to be happening. It seems to me, that after many many years (eons perhaps?) of playing ourselves down and believing internal and external stories about being small and not worthy of success, we are arriving at a new threshold. In this particular time and place of aliveness, there seems to be a NEED rapidly bubbling to the surface of our awareness. It’s a deep desire to express ourselves fully, to recognize and follow our heart’s longing, to step powerfully onto our soul’s higher path and to do the work we are meant to do in this lifetime. In this longing, there is simply no room for old stagnant stories of smallness to exist because these stories will only get in our way and take up our precious energy.
Do you feel me?
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this—again, this is a very LIVE experiment without a lot of editing or filtering (or conclusions in this case :)), but I just love thinking about how human consciousness is literally SHIFTING right before our very eyes. What an amazing time to be alive. Can you just imagine what our world might look like if we all accepted our greatness and gifts and decided to put them into action for the greater good? Yowza.
I want to live in THAT world.
OK, signing off with another one of my fave quotes…xo flora
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman
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Another awesome blog – you do realise that we look forward to your daily writings now…love your piece at the end……
I realize I have surrounded myself with people and situations that are sad and sometimes unbearable, considering the words you wrote yesterday. It was refreshing to read your experience of joy and happiness. Reading your words brought out, in me, the desire to embrace and reacquaint myself with those same feelings and or the desire to feel joy once more in my life. I think it’s been too long. Lately, I have been demanding more for myself. Yes, there is definitely a movement in new directions. I can feel it within my core.
I am absolutely loving your daily blogs! I look forward to them!
I can definitely feel a SHIFT going on… I too have problems with accepting greatness and playing myself down. What good does it do to the world for us doing that? Nada. We need to find what lights us up and shine brightly for the world to see… and inspire others to do the same.
So true Flora! I feel myself shifting, believing I can do things I never thought I could do! So good to see and hear stories like yours. I guess we are all vulnerable in some way and that’s what we need to allow in the world now. Your truth and vulnerability here are inspiring! Keep it going! Loving it so much! 🙂
Really feeling this Flora. I am loving your daily posts and yes, that Howard Thurman quote says it all.
I am finally starting to express myself fully, following my heart’s longing and in doing so, feel that I am really, truly coming alive (again).
In shining and sharing and indeed celebrating even the smallest of achievements and successes, are we not just shining that light further as we share our joy? Please keep sharing and celebrating. You are a breath of fresh air and in inspiration. x
Enjoying your blog posts! Thanks so much for sharing your gifts!
loving your blog…and this quote is fabulous!
I just found your blog…it is that, ah moment! Thank you 🙂
This is a quote from a New Yorker article I just read. “And what was not possible all too easily becomes the story of our lives. Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless trauma about, the lives we were unable to live.” Adam Phillips.
This is definitely not you. You’re a great model for growing and changing!
As I get older I have a greater growing need to live the life & do the work I was meant to do. Thanks for sharing.
woo hoo
I totally agree with you Flora. There is definitely a major shift happening all over the world and it begins in our own hearts. I’m filled with gratitude at the idea that we are all co-creating THAT world together, each in our own way. Thank you for sharing what is in your heart!
Love your blog!! I also feel a shift. Perhaps the Earth is experiencing a sort of awakening.
Thank you for your positive blogs. I am loving reading them every day. I love your positive thoughts about the shift. I needed to hear that today. Life is GOOD and a it is a blessing to be alive.
Hey Lady Flora,
There certainly MUST be something in the air. (Or is *this* my “mid-life crisis since I just turned 40 this year??? ‘cuz it feel more like my quarter-life since I feel like I’m 25.. or how I wish I felt inside at 25… but I digress)…..I am taking a leave from my profession of the past 18 years, to TRUST myself and dive IN! Into my heart, into my family, into my ART….
I must say you certainly helping me through all of this (I was missing your daily muses from BT Jan ’13)…trust…believe…do…trust…believe…do….
xo,
Emily
so good to share this paradigm shift with like-minded open-hearted people all around the globe
Oh, I am so greatful that you expressed the ‘shift’ term. I certainly feel it as I am going through it and witnessing others in my life going through something too? It’s as if people are deciding it’s time to purge out excess ‘stuff’, seek positive health routines, are calmer, nicer. It’s so pleasent and quite frankly, it’s GREAT FUN! All that I’m newly learning and discovering is simply amazing…and I keep asking myself “Have I lost my mind??” If you all above are experiencing it then I feel reassured to have found a public mention of it!
Awesome! So magical words to express how you feel. Thank you for sharing!