Akosua Dardaine Edwards's Blog, page 223

If you don't know now you know!

You know very well, who you are, don't let them hold you down, reach for the stars! And if you don't know now you know  Notorious BIG

So I ran the Green Race this morning, talk about jumping out the comfort zone! The Green Race is a 5 mile run on the North Coast Road that ends in a town called Arima! Up at 4 am asking myself why am I doing this? The answer was clear, jump out the comfort zone and show yourself that you can do it, then take that same mindset on the road knowing that you can do anything!
I did it! I am in awe of the human mind and body to produce results once the negative chatter is ignored all I was concerned was with finishing, running the whole way and being proud of me! And today I am!

Peace!!

Live your own story. Don't try to edit someone else's!

Break loose! Free yourself from dysfunctional people who are experts at meeting their own needs at the expense of yours. Don't let people stay in your life who trample on your feelings or behave badly. Set clear boundaries so that you don't get caught up their maze of madness, or feel responsible for their life choices or consequences. Live in your own story. Don't try to edit someone else's. Les Brown

To let go is to not cut myself off, it is the realization that I cannot control anotherTo let go is not to enable but to allow learning from natural consequencesWe feel that to let go is to admit powerlessness which means the outcome is not in our handsTo let go is not to try and change and blame another it’s to make the most of myself To let go is not to care for but to care aboutTo let go is not to fix but to be supportiveIt’s not to judge but to allow another to become another human beingHow do we practice letting go?
Get yourself out of the wayPeace!

All Change is not growth!

What is your life revolving around? Deborah L Johnson

Interesting question isn't it? Yea I thought so! What is my life revolving around? And when you get the answer you see what's really happening in your own world!

So lesson for the weekend, all change is not growth! Sometimes we want things to just be different, different people, different places, different things! And we end up having the same experiences, same life just with different people in a different place with different things and stuff!

All change is not growth! You take YOU where ever YOU go! Growth requires a choice, you have to choose it! Consciously choose it! And that is the start and maybe that is the end as well

So I sat down yesterday and asked myself, what is my life revolving around? I want it to revolve around love, faith, compassion and growth, then everything else will fall into place! I will make decisions based on those principles rather than on what society wants, what is the latest style and fashion, what I feel I need to be successful, what I need to do for money, and all the chattering imps that come into my head, its so much more fun that way!

Peace!

Be free to sit inside and quietly love

If you aren't so preoccupied with trying to be okay, you will be free to sit inside and quietly love, serve, and honor whatever naturally unfolds in front of you. When you reach this point, you are no longer living for yourself. You are interacting with life, but not for the purpose of being okay .Micheal Singer


Ok, the best book I have read this year is by Michael Singer called the Untethered Soul. The book pulled at every single one of my strings! So much good stuff in that small book! I must have reread every chapter about three times! Michael Singer talks about letting go, our relationship with our thoughts and awareness! I now have a totally different view on what letting go! I decided that I will practice his concept of letting go, which in my own mind I interpreted as opening my heart and letting things pass through rather than holding on to it, analysing it and then storing it for future use! Useless really! Why store stuff for no reason and then bring it up again when triggered?
So, for example, if something is bugging me, I let it go, one time, no sticking ( as we say in the local palance) right away I let it go, opening my heart refusing to keep it to avoid feeling uncomfortable, pain, or uncertainty! I just let it go! And presto, the feeling goes, when a new situation comes up, its a new attitude, not all the old crap from before that's been adding up forever! Feels pretty darn good!

Peace!!

Go create something today!

You can change what you see. You don't have to be trapped by it.
Nothing has to remain the way it is, and nothing is the way it is forever unless and until you say so. You really are in charge of your day-to-day experience. Really. (Neale Donald Walsh, author )
Started writing again, and what I have learnt is that we, all of us, were born to create! All, every single one of us put on this earth, have the ability to create! Creation is our birthright! Why do we spend time tearing down, running from our creative power, trying to fix life and people and things? Because of fear! We are afraid of mostly our own power! We are afraid of the unknown, what people would say, what they think, how we're going to survive! Fear changes everything!But hey, fear is there and if we play into it life will be boring and stressful as hell!
Create something today, do something with the power that you were given by the Universe, it could be a cake, a mug of mauby ( that's a type of drink from Trinidad with a bitter taste but somehow I love the thing!), the creation doesn't have to be earth shattering its just something that stirs a passion in you, something that makes you feel good, makes the world a better place!And when you create it let it go! Stop worrying about it, if it's good, if its successful, what people would say, here we go again!! Create it, love it, let it go and create again! There is no need to strive and struggle and stress! The supreme creator only creates good! And we are all part of the supreme!Peace!!Oh, the book will be out early 2015, stay tuned!!

Who told you that you're not enough?

What’s driving your habit to improve? Are you fixing your flaws, or are you exploring your potential? Are you inviting the real you to emerge, or are you trying to cure your so-called shortcomings? DLP
Thank you Chela Davidson for pointing this out to me! Big love!We’re so inside it that it’s almost impossible to imagine what we’d do with our time if we weren’t trying to make more money, look more perfect, acquire more stuff or be mo’ better. So what would happen if we were actually operating from a place of sufficiency rather than lack? Would we let ourselves go? Would we lose all drive? Would we not buy anything ever again? Well, we would probably stop associating sugar water with happiness, that’s for damn sure.   This question, that comes in many forms, is posed a lot as rebuttal: If I truly believed I was enough and I had enough, wouldn’t I just become complacent? Lazy? Nothing more than a disgraceful lump of everything I’ve been working my tail off not to degenerate into?   No.  Experiencing adequacy, sufficiency, and self-acceptance doesn’t make us complacent, they make us brave; they give us a view beyond ourselves to stretch into with gifts in hand. They give us a foundation of wholeness from which to express ourselves and offer our care and creativity. It is impossible to have a healthy relationship with someone who has no boundaries, with someone who cannot communicate directly and honestly. Learning how to set boundaries is a necessary step in learning to be a friend to ourselves. It is our responsibility to take care of ourselves - to protect ourselves when it is necessary.  Operating from a place of sufficiency, feeling our own adequacy and not being identified with lack, all the while still growing our capacities, exploring our limitations and moving toward something beyond ourselves, requires us to be able to hold the paradox of it all. And yes, it is a paradox. Complete as we are AND creating, expanding and serving from that completeness
 Peace!

The Creator works through a rested mind

For everything there is a season.

Hey awesome folks. Just about to board a plane again and wanted to touch base. So far I've been working and writing. I learnt on this trip about balance. A time and place for everything.  A time to work and a time to play. And when things are off balance what happens? It all falls down! So tip the scales. Balance it. The creator works through a rested mind.
Peace!

Raise your own standards

Let go or be dragged.... Less Brown


Hello awesome people
Checking in from the windy city of Chicago. What did I learn today? Well, simply put, my responsibility, my life! The quality of my choices whether conscious or unconscious, will reflect in the life that I currently live. Its really that simple. So the choice is and remains to be responsible, be as conscious as possible, raise the standard, my own standards. And let go!
Peace!

What's the worst that can happen?

The world’s greatest lie is that you lose control of your life, that you have to obey some rules that are not your rules Paul Coelho
I'm waiting to board the flight to Chicago!  I always liked the Windy City (in the summer!lol) sorry Chi town peeps, your city it lovely but when its cold its ruff!!
So just checking in and reminding you to take a risk to live your dream, write the book, open the business, bake the cake, make the call, send the text, change the job, take the course!What's the worse that can happen?
Peace out!

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It gets better with authenticity

In this right here moment, I accept and BELIEVE that there is nothing I lack - NO thing I need added unto me to make me complete - and NO thing that is wrong, bad, rotten, unloved, and amiss about me.  God made me and She does NOT make mistakes.  I am perfect! Peter Ripley


It gets better with authenticity! That's what I learnt yesterday at the book signing event in NYC! As I do this more often, it gets better when I am just me and being me is so easy! So how do you show up in your life?I'm showing up as me every single time...
There was a band that started the event with music and they were rocking! Steel drums, djembe drums, bass and guitar! The folks there were digging the music! It set a really nice vibe for the rest of the night!
A piece was read from the book, one that I couldn't remember and it set me off thinking, I should really sit and read this book again! I listened and was interested in hearing what other people resonated with in the book!
I am really super grateful for the opportunity to share my story! Give thanks!
On to Chicago....Peace!!