Dear Ones,
Every breath that you take is a miracle of Life. You are living on Planet Earth at this very moment because your Soul chooses to have you experience this time, the place you are standing and the people around you in this present moment. How wonderful it is that you are even able to receive these words!
Give yourself permission to enjoy your next inhalation. Focus on your breath for a moment. In. Out. In again. Out again. Be grateful that you can breathe. Think of all those around you who are also breathing and be grateful that they are in your life. Even those with whom you are not well pleased are in your life so that they might help you to learn lessons so be grateful for the opportunity to learn.
Look around you today with a sense of wonder, of curiosity, with gratitude for everything that is around you. Smile, for your smile will raise the vibration of the air around you and will bring a higher vibration energy to all those who see you smile. Ask yourself what you can do to keep yourself comfortable while raising your vibration and sharing that higher frequency with the world. You might find that you are moving beyond your so-called ‘comfort zone’ to do this but you will quickly become more comfortable with a higher frequency energy and this will catapult you into higher and higher levels of satisfaction with your life.
Does this make sense to you? Lifting your vibrational level brings you more satisfaction with your life. Your life doesn’t have to change to be more satisfying – you do. And once you realize that this is true you will have more control over your life. Change how you see the world around you. Are you sorting for what is wrong or are you enjoying what is simply there? Are you focusing on lack or are you reveling in the gifts that abound? It is all about your perception of reality, for you create your reality with your attitude toward your life. Even if facts and data don’t change you can change your feelings, your attitudes and your perceptions.
Start by noticing your language. Are you celebrating with excitement what is in your life in this moment or are you allowing your thoughts to carry you away from the celebration that is available to you? How are you speaking about this moment? When you become aware of your language you can easily change what you are saying so that you language what you wish to feel. The half-empty glass can make you feel less celebratory than the half-full glass, so make a decision right now that you will see the glass as half-full.
Speak of higher vibration thoughts when you talk to others and you can help them to feel more excitement, too. Focus on The Light in the World, not on the darkness. Focus on what is beautiful and exciting and wonder-full in the world and your energy will be infectious. It is okay to infect others with enthusiasm and this happens naturally when you are living your life with gusto!
And so it is.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: “Breathe. Focus on the Light. Breathe Again.” by Rosemary Bredeson
December 14, 2010 — RosemarySounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? So is this all it takes to live life with gusto?
The answer is ‘yes.’ Isn’t that wild? Everything in your life doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have the perfect partner, job, home, health. You just have to breathe with a focus on the Light. I have a friend who is losing her sight and she has the most amazing ability to smile and joke and talk about clothes. I just love being around her because she is living life with such gusto – without sight but WITH gusto. Think how much easier life is for us with our eyesight intact and yet SHE is living with gusto. Are you?
It’s a decision. You can choose how to look at your life. You can feel sorry for yourself or you can look for something about which you can feel gratitude. You can say ‘Woe is me’ or you can say ‘Whee! Ain’t life grand?’ Which will you say today?
Remember that life isn’t about what happens to you. It’s about how you respond to what happens to you. When something seems to trip you up how do you respond? Do you look for the opportunities in the situation or do you whine? Does whining ever get you what you want? I believe that opportunities abound for us to grow and to explore and to learn but whining and feeling sorry for ourselves keeps us blocked from the growth, exploration or lesson.
In my life I am all about learning the lesson as quickly and easily as I can. I try to avoid 2 by 4s to the head so I constantly scan the horizon looking for lessons. I want to live life with gusto so I am grateful for the opportunities to learn that I discover along the way. I smile so that I might lift up another person’s day. And in that experience I find I am the one who is uplifted.
Think of the cultures who enjoy life with a richness and fullness to that enjoyment. The Italians, for example, have a wonderful saying – ‘Dolce far niente,’ which means ‘How sweet to do nothing.’ Sitting with friends, enjoying some wine, doing nothing. It all adds up to living life with gusto. Do you give yourself permission to do nothing? Are you taking time to really enjoy yourself?
You don’t have to take a big vacation or be doing something spectacular to be excited about your life. Take pleasure in the little things in the moment. Enjoy the bite of food that is in your mouth. Smile at the person you are passing in the corridor or speaking with on the phone. Look out the window and enjoy what you are seeing. Choose in this moment to relish whatever the reality of this moment might be. Be grateful that you can breathe. Be happy that there are other people around you who are in your life for a reason. Enjoy the moment without judgment or perfectionism but just as this moment is unfolding for you. This is what living life with gusto means.
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