fairytale ending

I love fairy tales. Almost exactly three years ago I walked into one of my own. It was the most beautful thing. Totally unexpected at first and then it was as if it had always been a part of my life. It was absolutely perfect in every way. I got everything I ever wanted in one delightful package. It captured my imagination and inspired me to grow and soar. I discovered wonderful treasures inside myself that I never knew I had. I acquired a new confidence, a new sense of wellbeing. I set myself free and the world responded by allowing me to be more than I ever imagined.

I wasn't alone in this fairy tale. It was a beautiful dance of two as one. Truly magical as we both moved together and created something real and vibrant that just seemed to take on a life of its own and draw us along its winding path with so many delightful adventures along the way.

Fairy tales are amazing, for as long as they last you can allow yourself to be led into a wonderful land that started of as a wonderful thought in some one's imagination and once it is over it cannot leave you unchanged. The best ones turn a light inside you that keeps burning long after the curtains are down.

My own fairy tale was everything I wanted it to be and so much more that I had never thought to ask. It was such a wonderful ride and like all fairy tales came complete with that perfect ending...

... and they both lived happily ever after

living in wonderland

"I can't believe THAT!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" said the Queen in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!"

I love this excerpt from the book Alice in Wonderland. I loved the book too. Really captured my imagination. It is an interesting phrase, captured my imagination, its nothing like it really is, it's quite the opposite actually. Things that seem to capture our imaginations actually allow us to set it free. They tickle it, excite it, cause it to awaken and inspire it to soar. I was reminded of this today when I caught myself believing several impossible things before breakfast. Then again like the phrase captured my imagination, believing the impossible is another phrase that doesn't really make sense, when you believe the impossible it becomes possible and even the word itself screams at you or whispers I'M POSSIBLE.

I have come to enjoy believing in impossible things that too sends my imagination soaring and where my imagination goes creation is sure to follow. I guess that is what makes it so thrilling, daring to entertain an impossible thought draws me closer to attaining it and that is such a delightful rush. Choosing to beleive that impossible is possible takes me out to leading edge of creation, the leading edge of thought, a place only visionaries and inspired luminaries dare to venture but one that is open, has always been available to all.

I thinking beleiving in impossible things is a useful trait to foster. I intend to spend half an hour every day doing just that. Living in wonderland. I think it's gonna be fun.

15 minutes of nothing

I love this place. I am amazed by the genius of creating this space for myself. My holding place. It is always such a thrill going back reading through my old posts. It is such a lovely way of reminding myself where I’ve been and where I’m going. I guess it helps that I have the shortest attention span sometimes because, I am always so pleasantly surprised when I catch glimpses of a forgotten me.

I haven't written as much as I would have liked to lately. I’ve spending a lot of my time in-joy-ing life rather than speculating about it. I feel like a little kid again. There is so much that is wonderful to see and absorb and try and take in, who has the time to sit and write the world is going by so so fast? I just want dive in and let the stream carry me with it to all those delightful experiences that I have placed on my path.

Recently though, I have begun to realize that all I have is time, and time is the most wonderful thing. When you know how you can play with it and mould it and make it do whatever you want. I have started to experience time in the most magical way and it all begins with what has become the most precious fifteen minutes of my day.

It brings me such joy to think of them and from wherever I am in the course of the day I get so much pleasure from either savouring the deliciousness of the last experience that I had or joyfully anticipating the next experience that I will have. Who would have thought that fifteen minutes of my life could be so wonderful.

Every morning for fifteen minutes (though sometimes it is so delightful I do it for fifteen more) I do absolutely nothing. I get comfortable (I like to get into savasana, the corpse pose) and then I do nothing, I think of nothing, I just sit with myself and breathe. That’s it, but words cannot express just how amazing this experience has been for me. It has changed my life. I have so much more energy, so much more time, so much more peace, so much more joy. Every day I do it I get more from it. I seem to connect with such a deep stillness that is inside myself and I find that I take it with me every where I go, and wherever I am, whatever I am doing, I can just remember those fifteen minutes and I am instantly there in that still calm, deliciously happy place. Time slows down or flies past or just calmly trots by at a comfortable place. Everything feels lighter and I feel so much freer. Ideas come to me more easily. The world just seems so much shinier.

Those quiet fifteen minutes of nothing are like a treasure chest from which I am constantly discovering new delightful trinkets and baubles to enjoy. I am amazed that it took me so long to decide to do this and astounded by how wonderful it is that I decided to do it when I did. It has been such a lovely gift and one that constantly surprises and thrills me. Fifteen minutes of nothing that become an eternity of everything I have ever wanted. It’s a nice trade I think.