023_Acceptance & Surrender _Living Trust in Life

Hey yummy Friends -- We're doing another episode on the fly today...

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver

This quote from the poet Mary Oliver really sums up the invitation from life we're discussing in today's episode.

Parker is in Vegas with his brother -- a spontaneous opportunity for a long-awaited reunion. YAY!

When we're living attuned to the pulse and flow of life, accepting what comes and goes, spontaneity is natural. We're open and trusting and we can feel the movement toward the yummy adventure around the corner. We move with the flow, trusting life to handle the details of how.
 
In today's episode, we're talking about living from a place of total acceptance and surrender, living in trust with life... feeling into the pulse of aliveness and flowing with life rather than resisting.

So we're not talking about resigning ourselves to circumstances, but rather accepting the whole of all that shows up in our lives - in this moment before us now as a gift.

Even if we notice resistance, that is a gift telling us something about what we believe is true about ourselves and the world -- resistance tells us we're attached to our story of how things should be, rather than accepting the actuality of Now. And it feels icky.

But we can always turn the dial on our yummy-stat from icky to yummy by tuning within, to the center of love and acceptance, where we have already allowed the circumstances before us - where life pulses within us and flows with the wholeness of all that is... Feel the aliveness of presence? Yummy,  yes?!

Are we accepting the actuality of the current global wholeness we share and honoring and respecting this collective experience we're having? Are we adding love or fear to the energy pool? Trust or judgment? where we hold ourselves is where we hold the world and vice-versa.
 
Are we present here and now? Or are we resisting because of our attachment to an identity that is no longer serving us?
Can we let life be what it is and we allow ourselves to be continually transformed by it?

This is living in acceptance, surrender, and trust. It is a present moment decision to be with life,  rather than trying to control it. 

That's like the global life lesson of 2020, yes? We have very little control over so much, but we always get to choose our perception, and how we respond... these are the seeds we plant in the whole energetic garden of life. Now is it.

The truth is that none of us are promised tomorrow, we just assume it'll be there for us. 

Now is everything! Now is alive... Surrender, accept, and trust - that's the yummy way!

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver