November 21, 2008
a fish that has nothing to do with this post*
fish, aquarium, Seattle, Canon Rebel Xti
Some early morning transmissions from the universe:
Go slow. Be even more patient than you think you are capable of.
There is plenty of time.
Really.
The grass always looks so green over there until you hear the real deal, with all of its missteps and imperfections. We feel comforted by the real deal because it resembles our own messy lives. It is okay to be comforted by this. It is okay to let go of the facade that our pastures our green and manicured. We are more capable of connection when we let our messy truth be revealed.
Left to our own devices, we will make up the worst case scenario in our heads.
When you are feeling low in spirit, fragile and insecure, sometimes the best thing is to harness the warrior energy in you. Do some yoga, get into warrior pose, do a dance, run around the neighborhood. In the last few days I see how much strengthening my body can strengthen my spirit and help me to access the sleepy, but very powerful energies that exist. After you have honored the grief, the sadness, the disappointment, try using your body to literally lift your spirits.
Get a life.
This is an expression I don't like so much... but it came to mind as I am writing. When we are obsessing, wondering who likes us, where we belong, if we're going to be okay, if they're going to call us back, if we're ever going to be a success (sound familiar?) we are in full-on icky 7th grade gremlin mode. When we get a life, that is, when we connect to what we are really about, when we connect with what we are really wanting, when we honor who we really are in the world, those voices feel small and petty.
Get a life, better said, is more like "What are you passionate about? What did you come here to do? What is the big picture? What are your gifts? What are you really wanting?" and begin to inspire yourself. Take one step today to start doing it.
"I recovered my immense will to live when I realized that the meaning of my life was the one I had chosen for it." Paolo Coelho
Posted on November 21, 2008 08:15 AMgreat read. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did any one hear that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
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Posted by: fussball at March 3, 2009 07:18 AMWow! I needed to read this right now...perfect timing. Thank you.
Posted by: Maya at December 8, 2008 10:58 AMAndrea
Thank you. Truly for all the times you speak the things that I need to hear. Blessings
Always perfect timing. I have been struggling with walking away from a job that was making me so unhappy. I realized, I did have a choice. My choices are mine, there are still loose ends and I am not sure of my next step, but my choices are mine. My will to live, to awake to each day, to see the bright light instead of the darkness, it is and always has been, in my hands.
Posted by: Puanani at November 24, 2008 03:49 PMThank you! I've been reading this a couple of times throughout the day when I needed it most. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can't say that enough!
Posted by: Charmaine at November 24, 2008 01:56 PMI have to agree with you on the 'get a life' bit. I've been telling people - including myself - that for days. Especially those who take work or EVERYTHING too seriously. Only trouble is that I have a hard time taking my own advice. Must work on that.
Posted by: Heather B. at November 24, 2008 12:02 PMI love how things find you at just the right time. Like this post. And that little shop update new in my inbox. thank you.
Posted by: HeatherK at November 24, 2008 11:36 AMoh my, that last little quote- perfection.
it really is up to me to decide, and that is a scary yet wonderful thing.
Well said!! Thank you. xoxo, ~ M.
Posted by: Mariella at November 24, 2008 04:49 AMthank you for sharing these "early morning transmissions from the universe", Andrea. they are help*full.
warmly,
gem
i do believe (though I am a marine mammal person...) that the picture is of a unicornfish.
Posted by: jackie at November 23, 2008 06:00 PMshe woke up in tears and in pain for the 6th night...more meds...lots of soothing and hours later, after finally getting my little one back to sleep, i made some tea and read your post...just when i though i would break into tiny, shattered, tired bits...i've read it again and again
thank you for lifting my heart
today is a new day
Wise words. And that fish looks rather wise, too. Sage, even. :)
Posted by: Jenna/The Word Cellar at November 22, 2008 08:15 PMCould you write something bad once in a while, so the rest of us don't feel so small in comparison.
Actually, no, I take that back. Because if you stopped writing beautiful things where would I go for my dose of uplift? Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Nicole at November 22, 2008 07:01 PMAndrea,
Your words are so 'dharmic'. Everything you write is most often exactly what I need to read.....
Many thanks,
Robyn
PS- I am so asking Santa for a starburst necklace!
I have spent this week standing on scaffolding, drilling, gluing stuff,painting scenery,sewing things back together and safety pinning small children into their costumes for an amateur theatre production. I spent most of my time from 11 to 24 doing this stuff and then stopped. When you do something that you really love to do all the questions stop in your head and it goes quiet and calm in there. I had forgotten this! I feel included. I feel useful. I feel like me. I feel whole.
Posted by: Em at November 22, 2008 09:00 AMThis hit home today & is exactly what i need to hear.
Thanks superhero!
xo
ps, grade 7 ickyness was the worst.
Posted by: Jodini at November 22, 2008 07:38 AMI so needed this - thank you for sharing!
Posted by: Shannon at November 22, 2008 06:34 AMI so needed this - thank you for sharing!
Posted by: Shannon at November 22, 2008 06:33 AMThank you! What I need to hear.
Posted by: Fatemeh at November 21, 2008 09:43 PMThank you. The line about time got to me.
Posted by: Shelley Noble at November 21, 2008 06:11 PMFunny how the words we need to hear or read in this case are there for us just when we need them.
I regularly find myself reaching for my notebook when I read your site, so that I can write down snippets and the beautiful quotes you share. Thanks. :)
Posted by: Carla at November 21, 2008 04:52 PMahhh...thanks for sharing, universe...
Posted by: mary catherine at November 21, 2008 04:17 PMhi andrea ~
it is only now and then that i write something out word for word and stick it somewhere i can see it, and this is definitely one of them. It reminded me of another post of yours which I also wrote out where you quoted : "Often we tie ourselves in knots in our minds. Though frustration comes from the head, often the best way out of it is through the body."
thank you so much for sharing! i love to read your blog :)
~ emily.
"7th grade gremlin mode". That is really funny, and so bang on. But thank you for the "go slow". I really want everything to move fast right now and I needed the reminder. You have a wonderful voice.
Posted by: blair at November 21, 2008 02:47 PMyou are wise and beautiful and soo on-point. a friend said to me last night, "the place where we are honest enough to be truly vulnerable is the place where our lives expand with opportunity." honesty's the way to go. thanks for going there in public. your gifts are so appreciated.
Posted by: rachael at November 21, 2008 12:47 PMyou ARE a superhero....i LOVED this.
Posted by: krista at November 21, 2008 12:36 PMyou ARE a superhero....i LOVED this.
Posted by: krista at November 21, 2008 12:35 PMyou ARE a superhero....i LOVED this.
Posted by: krista at November 21, 2008 12:35 PMAndrea, I am literally tearing up and trying not to cry in front of my students. You have no idea how badly I needed to read these words today. I am printing this out to keep as a reminder when I need it. Which is always.
Thank you for this gift today.
Posted by: amy at November 21, 2008 12:28 PMoh how i need this.
thank you
thank you
thank you
so very much.
xoxoxoxoxo
Posted by: Kirsten Michelle at November 21, 2008 12:19 PMI like how raw this post is! It came in the exact right moment. Just gonna say here that we sabotage ourselves when not keeping this message straight! Thanks for the reset, girl!
this post speaks to me so much. I got diagnosed with thyroid cancer a month ago and last week was actually at sloan-kettering cancer center in nyc.
In their patient recreation room they had a fishtank and my partner and I watched this exact fish swim slowly around and look so interestingly strange.
so I think this is a very fantastic synchronicity!
the Universe is speaking through you!
Much Love,
Meenu
Posted by: meenu at November 21, 2008 12:03 PMThat fish has EVERYTHING to do with this post...just keep swimming, just keep swimming. Get a life, find your passion, it is all the same.
Posted by: Lu at November 21, 2008 11:55 AM