 Once in a while, you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right... Today I re-read a piece of profound and enlightening poetry written by the talented John Roedel and I felt that I had to share it with you all. Immediately my mind remembered these words of the song Scarlet Begonias by The Grateful Dead Once in a while, you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right... Isn´t it amazing how the simplest things elicit a memory, a feeling, a reaction in us and remind us of something we have seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled, and of course "felt", don´t you think? Thank you John for shining your light. What has the light shown you today? "what took you so long?" my brain and heart divorced a decade ago over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become eventually, they couldn't be in the same room with each other now my head and heart share custody of me I stay with my brain during the week and my heart gets me on weekends they never speak to one another - instead, they give me the same note to pass to each other every week and their notes they send to one another always says the same thing: "This is all your fault" on Sundays my heart complains about how my head has let me down in the past and on Wednesday my head lists all of the times my heart has screwed things up for me in the future they blame each other for the state of my life there's been a lot of yelling - and crying so, lately, I've been spending a lot of time with my gut who serves as my unofficial therapist most nights, I sneak out of the window in my ribcage and slide down my spine and collapse on my gut's plush leather chair that's always open for me ~ and I just sit sit sit sit until the sun comes up last evening, my gut asked me if I was having a hard time being caught between my heart and my head I nodded I said I didn't know if I could live with either of them anymore "my heart is always sad about something that happened yesterday while my head is always worried about something that may happen tomorrow," I lamented my gut squeezed my hand "I just can't live with my mistakes of the past or my anxiety about the future," I sighed my gut smiled and said: "in that case, you should go stay with your lungs for a while," I was confused - the look on my face gave it away "if you are exhausted about your heart's obsession with the fixed past and your mind's focus on the uncertain future your lungs are the perfect place for you there is no yesterday in your lungs there is no tomorrow there either there is only now there is only inhale there is only exhale there is only this moment there is only breath and in that breath you can rest while your heart and head work their relationship out." this morning, while my brain was busy reading tea leaves and while my heart was staring at old photographs I packed a little bag and walked to the door of my lungs before I could even knock she opened the door with a smile and as a gust of air embraced me she said "what took you so long?" ~ john roedel (johnroedel.com) Are you ready to take 100% responsibility for Y O U!
Go on, give it a go and see what happens. The only person stopping you is Y O U! You Got This. Let me know how it goes. Linda Ledwidge is or has been at one point in her life a - human BEing as well as a human DOing, woman, daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, nurse, midwife, head cook and bottle washer, among other things and her passion today is ~ to hear you smile! You can contact her here. #FreeFloLiving #FeelingOnPurpose All that ever matters is How You Feel!
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 “Life is a rollercoaster Just gotta ride it....” sang Ronan Keating Life is full of ups and downs, twists and turns, thrills and spills, just like a roller coaster. People say to me.... “yes, but the difference is we can choose to ride the roller coaster or not. There are many things in our life we cannot choose and many people and events that we cannot control” I do not argue with them. I believe there is only one thing within our control, how you feel and in turn, how you react to the world you live in. This has a direct effect on what happens around you and to you. "We can choose to ride the roller coaster or not, there are many things in our life we cannot choose and many people and events that we cannot control.” When you are riding the roller coaster, you and the others sharing the ride go on the same route, have the same ups and downs, the same twists and turns, the same thrills and spills. Some of the people on the ride will scream in delight, enjoy the adrenaline rush, and soak up the experience to relive it over-and-over again when they remember the ride. Then there are others who, despite being on the same ride at the same time, will scream with fear, close their eyes and wish the ride would end. They also soak up the experience and relive it over-and-over again when they remember the ride. Other people will be on the same ride, and feel neither the excitement nor the fear. The adrenaline doesn’t rush through them; they don’t enjoy the ride particularly, and they don’t hate it either, they just go along quite literally for the ride because others do it, and it seems like the right thing to do at the time. They also experience feelings that they will relive over-and-over again when they remember the ride. As you can see different people will have different experiences even when they are doing the same thing, at the same time and under the same conditions. THAT’S OK! Just remember that: Y O U have the choice about how you feel Y O U have control over how you feel Y O U decide what experience you will have based on the way you F E E L. I invite you to join me in 2023 on the roller coaster of life. There will be ups and downs, twists and turns, thrills and spills. We will have different experiences at different times and some of them may not always feel good...that’s OK. One thing I can promise you is that the choice is yours. The only thing that ever matters at any time or place is - how you feel -and you are the only one who can control that.  Are you ready to take 100% responsibility for Y O U! Go on, give it a go and see what happens. The only person stopping you is Y O U! You Got This. Let me know how it goes. Linda Ledwidge is or has been at one point in her life a - human BEing as well as a human DOing, woman, daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, nurse, midwife, head cook and bottle washer, among other things and her passion today is ~ to hear you smile! You can contact her here. #FreeFloLiving #FeelingOnPurpose All that ever matters
is How You Feel! 
How do I know?
Are you ready to take 100% responsibility for Y O U! Go on, give it a go and see what happens. The only person stopping you is Y O U! You Got This. Let me know how it goes.
All that ever matters
is How You Feel! 
Different strokes for different folks. – Clarence Darrow
Are you ready to take 100% responsibility for Y O U! Go on, give it a go and see what happens. The only person stopping you is Y O U!
Reference: “one-size-fits-all,” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-size-fits-all. Accessed 3/23/2022.
 Do you ever feel like you are in the holding pattern of life? In a holding pattern, you remain in the same state or continue to do the same thing while waiting for something to happen - just like the plane circling and waiting for something to change and a landing slot to open up. Do you ever feel like you are in a holding pattern? "Good News - you´re not!" You know when a plane has to go into holding and wait to land. To the passengers on the flight nothing changes while the plane is circling until the pilot is given the go-ahead to land but in actual fact, there are so many changes going on to allow the plane to land safely that the people on board the plane cannot see. When you are in a holding pattern you think that you are doing the same thing over and over again and nothing changes. Every day feels the same, you are waiting for something to change. Has this ever happened to you? There can be times in our life when we feel stuck and not sure what to do about it. Are you in a holding pattern of life, where it seems that nothing changes? Well, good news - you´re not! If you know my work, you will know that I am always looking to find the most logical and simple ways to feel better about any situation. Can you imagine my absolute joy at realising just how simple it is to become unstuck?
Definition of holding pattern Merriam Webster 1: the usually oval course flown (as over an airport) by aircraft awaiting clearance especially to land 2: a state of waiting or suspended activity or progress Go on, give it a go and see what happens. The only person stopping you is Y O U! You Got This. Let me know how it goes. Linda Ledwidge is or has been at one point in her life a - human BEing as well as a human DOing, woman, daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, nurse, midwife, head cook and bottle washer, among other things and her passion today is ~ to hear you smile! You can contact her here. #FreeFloLiving #FeelingOnPurpose #KISS #RedressStress #PivotPoint *Reference - John Kehoe Mindpower
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