Day 7.... Part 1

Last Sunday, in San Diego for Christine and Garrett's wedding, we sat in the sun and drank beer for majority of the day before we moved onto Saki Bombs at dinner. Needles to say, I got extremely burnt. It was the most severe sun burn I have received since I was a teenager running around the water parks in Wisconsin Dells with no care in the world.
My point is, it happens to be a unique coincidence that this happened in this particular week because I am peeling on 85% of my body. The reason I am sharing this rather disgusting information is because of the metaphors that go around shedding. When a snake sheds it's skin, it is a sign that the animal is growing, is maturing, has a new skin underneath to reveal. When a dog or cat sheds it's fur, its the change of a season. In my case, it really is just a coincidence but a wonderful one that adds a physicality to what is going on in my life.
Last night I had Christine, Garrett, and Dina over for dinner, and through all of the fun that we had, we still got into conversation about hat is taking place in the four of us, as well as all of you following this 2 week journey. That doesn't even start to include the hundreds of thousands out there that are just sitting in limbo, waiting, searching and calculating what is next in their personal journeys.

Last nights conversation got me in the realization of my first belief for the rest of my life. Here it is declared...

Belief #1 Life is not meant to be separated into segments. It is one flowing movement that cannot be compartmentalized as much as we like to think.
*So, this is mostly focused on work vs life. But it can easily get added to the
rest of our lives. Work and life does not have to be segregated. Why would we want to
have that separate when we spend so much time of our life at work? I do realize that there
needs to be a separation between work and personal life when it comes to actual job
functions, but separate work and life and acknowledge the separation gives one more
worth and credit than the other. Both work and personal life are apart of the same life!
There, in making one part of your life have more value than another is where this belief
engulfs all of our life, not just our career.

There is a Broken Bells song called The Mall and Misery, and the first line in the song is "Use your intuition, its all you've got." There is a lot to be said about that ten syllable sentence. We all have an amount of psychic ability in us. Whether you believe this or not, its true. We are animals with instincts and sometimes this is our most useful tool. "What does your gut say?" We've all said it. We've all heard it. If something is not working in our life and we feel like we are always swimming against stream, we probably are. Your body knows things, we just have to give it the time to figure it out. This brings me to my next belief. Here it is declared.

Belief #2 Spirituality + Inspiration + Intuition = Everything
*Earlier this week, I related how spirituality leads to inspiration. Once in a while,
there is a lack of inspiration so we need to keep it cataloged. We have to know what
inspires us for those moments that we have no inspiration. Our spirituality(religion,
meditation, a personal philosophy, exercise, ect) will get us grounded, focused and will
enhance inspiration because not only does it give clarity, but it too will inspire us. When
then the spirituality and inspiration are added to our intuition when there is clarity, we
are able to gain knowledge about the hiccup, problem, issue, triumph, or obstacle that
we may have at that moment. We get everything!

This is quite a bit to digest, so marinate on it. I'm off to record our show and then I will continue with more......