Rising Up

Happy Wednesday,

How is everyone doing this fine Wednesday? I sure hope you are all doing well and staying safe. All is well here and not too much new to report. I am still in the process of setting up my crafting/sewing area and I’m excited to say, it’s coming along quite nicely. Below is a photo of my new little space. My dear friend Leslie gave me the table and I absolutely love it. It’s a drop leaf, so I can extend it when I need it for quilting, or even for using my Cricut, or I can leave it smaller when I’m assembling some of the fun things I make with the Cricut such as cards or fun little banners or holiday trinkets. I may even use the space for writing, but I’m thinking most likely I will continue to use the patio for that or my comfy spot on the recliner, at least for my blogging. I’m trying to decide the best spot for writing my book. I am excited for the potential of rain next week. I usually accomplish so much during rainy days. I love to open the house up and listen to the falling rain, it just puts me in a really peaceful place. So, that’s about all that is new with me for the moment. I do want to thank everyone that continues to reach out and comment on my blog. I love hearing from you all.

Today I thought I’d talk a little about rising up, or rising to the occasion. I wanted to ask you first though, what does hitting rock bottom look like to you? For me, hitting rock bottom is and has been, losing pretty much everything. Hitting rock bottom looks like my work comp doctors telling me I’ll never be able to work again, and the State of California telling me I don’t qualify for permanent disability. Hitting rock bottom looks like me not being able to drive anymore, loss of independence. Rock bottom looks like losing my home. It means losing my treasured photos of my sons. Rock bottom was losing my religion and almost my faith in God. It has meant not having something or somewhere to call my own. The bottom of this pit is the loss of my job, my marriage, and the loss of those that I thought were friends. Rock bottom was losing my dad. I feel I’ve hit rock bottom. Not sure how much further down I can go or how much more I can lose. I pray, I talk to God and ask him to guide me and my choices. Rock bottom sucks, but as I told you yesterday, “how low you’ve gone is how high you’ll rise.”-Sonia Ricotti.

All of this, all of the loss and rock bottom being in a pit has consumed me in so many ways, but I’m here to tell you, it’s time to rise up. The time has come to imagine that new life. My new life. Your new life. What do you see when you think about your wonderful life? I have to ask myself, do I exhibit, or feel love, joy, peace and gratitude? I feel in order to picture that wonderful life, I need to keep focused on the positives in my life. The love in my life and the things that bring me joy and peace, outwardly and on the inside. I need to keep reminding myself of all the things I have to be grateful for. In order for us to rise up and continuing rising to our best selves and reaching our best life, we need to pay attention to our thoughts. I need to pay attention to my thoughts. This means we need to, or I need to uncover and toss out the window those limiting belief’s I’ve/we’ve come to adopt. “Elevate your vibration. Like energy=Like energy.”-Sonia Ricotti. We tend to be drawn to people and circumstances that feed the energy we have, be it negative or positive. We need to learn to attract to ourselves and be attracted to the positives. The more positives we surround ourselves with, the more positive we’ll become.

I think it’s fair to say that we can’t all feel happy 100% of the time. We can’t always be upbeat and excited for our circumstances, but we can take those negative moments and draw out our inner strength and rise above allowing ourselves to be consumed with the bad. If we belief something isn’t possible, that will more than likely become the case. Can we acknowledge the fact that we have negative feelings? Can we acknowledge these negative feelings come from the consequences of our human condition? Are we willing to look at those feelings without judgement? We have to accept the negative feelings in order to release them. We have to find the path to letting go of those roadblocks and boulders that are trying to keep us from finding peace. Once we acknowledge the negative, release it, then something wonderful will happen. We will be able to look in the mirror and see our amazing inner self shining forth. Our path to peace will be illuminating and it will reveal itself to us.

Can we find a way to take baby steps, one day at a time and find one thing to be grateful for? The next day find two things, and increase our gratitude for life a little more each day? If we can increase our vitality, our energy and be in the present, we will hopefully begin to, with little effort, function in a more positive manner. Our lives will become more productive. That big dream we have for our lives, it will be more within our reach. The more we rid ourselves of negative emotions and thoughts, the more we will experience rising above our limitations that we have placed upon ourselves and we’ll finally be experience more happiness, contentment, peace and joy. We’ll be even more grateful to be apart of this crazy journey called life.

Rising above the negative and rising up to a better, healthier and happier life. Are you ready for the journey? Are you ready for freedom? Are you ready to rise up and live your best life possible? I am! We all have a story. We all have baggage and we all have had horrible things happen in our lives. Can we rise above those and forgive the person or situation that wronged us and be willing to release it? I am. Are we willing to live life with the joy and happiness we seek? Can we embrace the positives in our lives and chip away at the negatives? I am. Can we picture our best life possible and go for it. That’s my goal. It’s time to embrace the fear and remember, I won’t, you won’t fail if we keep moving forward. If we fall, it’s simply the Universe correcting ours step and putting us back on course towards the life we were meant to live. The only thing that stands in our way is ourselves.

Let’s rise above all the negative life has thrown our way and embrace each day as though it’s a new opportunity to step out of the life we don’t want and into the life, that big beautiful and wonderful life we want. Picture the best life possible and go for it. Live life with little to no regrets. Learn from the stumbles we take and rise up and keep going. You got this, I have faith in you. I got this, cause I know you have faith in me. Let’s encourage one another and keep going. It’s a new day and a new beginning for something bigger and better. Rise up and embrace the love, joy and peace we do have in life. Be grateful for the little things. What other option do we have, other then to live life in the complete opposite way, negative and unhappy. I’m choosing to reach my goals, one at a time, one day at at time, I will get there. I hope you’ll continue on the journey with me. I wouldn’t be where I’m at today without you.

Well guys, that’s about all I have for today. I do hope you enjoyed the blog and thank you so very much for being on this journey with me. I am so beyond grateful for all of you and especially for the encouragement and support you show me. Take care of yourselves, be happy and don’t forget, Love Life++