tem·po·rar·y~ what this 2010 thanksgiving taught me

tem·po·rar·y

 /ˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/ Show Spelled [tem-puh-rer-ee]

lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent:

~the one thing that i am learning, not always the easy way, is that nothing stays the same. much to how i wish with all my might it did...it does not!

we write books about it. we talk about it. we give lectures about it. we discuss it. we intellectually understand the concept..but living it is not always so easy!

the difficulty lies in accepting and truly understanding that nothing ever stays the same. marriage, relationships, kids, friends, work, living situations, emotions, feelings, time, time, places, etc....nothing is permanent.

i am beginning to see that when we think it is we are setting ourselves up for something that can not possibly exist. everything changes...it has too! i never really GOT that before....although i knew it...ya i know, it is my light bulb moment!

i asked my peeps what they have to say about 'temporary', and this is what they tell me:

for our dear children and freinds...can you imagine a world where there was only permanent and no temporary. your world would be stiff, solid, rigid and cold. there would be no fluidity. there would be no growth. there would be no-thing. it simply can not be.

temporary allows for the old to wash away and for the new to come in. temporary allows for change. now some do not like change...just ask lisa! for others they thrive in it. either way, change is the only way to survive. without change there would be no air, there would be no life, there would be no movement, there would be no breath. without change one would have no reason to be.

you see, change and temporary, allow you to become all that you dream of. it allows you the opportunity to change, to move, to sail upon the wind and to grow into the beautiful being's that your heart dreams of. by changing and being temporary you are allowed to go to beautiful places within your heart and with in your mind. temporary allows, the what you call negative or bad, to be "washed" away. it seems so scary but it is really quite calming and beautiful. it is like a birth...exhausting and weary yet rewarding and miraculous beyond your wildest dreams.

nothing is being taken away from you when things change. things are being given to you for you to mold and create into new opportunities and new adventures. when you change the way you look at the world the world changes with you. allow yourself the beautiful gift of change. allow the temporary to embrace your life and take you where you need and ultimately want to go. allow temporary to be your friend and know that temporary has your back.

allow temporary to be what it is....fluid and ever changing to bring you what you want in your life.

if nothing ever changed, can you imagine what the world would look like?? if nothing ever changed there would be no reason for any of you or for anything.

allow your faces and bodies to change, allow them to be temporary homes that house your soul...for now. take care of them and nourish them and allow them to change. there is no growing old. Some of you change your faces and your bodies to look like you did when you were 20. that was temporary, 20 was then...today is now...it has changed...and that is ok. it, your temporary body, is supposed to change or else it would not. allow the change to be beautiful. allow the wrinkles and the curves. allow the youth to live within and allow outer age to show your wisdom, courage and strength.

everything is temporary for a reason...allow children to grow up and out, allow relationships to end, allow new life to begin, allow new work to come to you...do not allow the fear of change to hold you back for your soul is longing to breath. it can only breath when you allow temporary into your space. allow temporary to be your friend and take you where your soul needs to be! we love you and whatever you decide to do is fine with us....we are only here to tell you what we know...the living is up to you!

~loving and affectionately called "the peeps" by Lisa (J.) ;)


WOW! and that is why i love, love, love my peeps so much. they teach me, they help me to remember what is important and they bring such deep love i can feel it in every cell.

i remember why i am blessed. i remember that i am blessed to have had what i once had; a loving family, 2 beautiful kids who are grown up now, i had a husband who loved me as much as he could, a beautiful dog names Brownie, a best friend named Tracey and a house that i owned and raised my family in. i have so much to give thanks for. it has taken me allllll Thanksgiving week to find this in my heart. i felt like the Grinch...with a very little heart and NO love to give at all. that sucks when all you want is to be you! i still have a little ways to go....but isn't that just life?

so for now (as i am learning is so fleeting) i sit and feel lighter. i feel better. i feel like me. i feel like i have given birth yet again...this time to a beautiful little thing called change. i will nurture this moment for change is sure to be temporary.

i needed to understand that in order to move on. i hope that it helps you too!

hey we are all in this together, right? that is one thing that will NEVER change! the unity of peeps...here there and everywhere!!!! xoxox

much love and light for this moment

Lisa J.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgTAJiWXvs&feature=related

My beautiful 'beings of light' would like to share this during a time of 'giving thanks':

My beautiful 'beings of light' would like to share this during a time of 'giving thanks':

Give thanks not to the maker, but to you the one that has been made.
Give thanks to your world, for it is your world that holds you up in time of need. Give thanks to the trees, for they are the ones who take away your burdens.
Give thanks to the moon and the stars, for they are the ones who you look up to in your hours of need.
Give thanks to the animals, for they teach you about unconditional love.
Give thanks to those who hurt you the most, for they could not hurt you if they did not love you the most.

Finally, give thanks to you. Without you, there would be no us and without us there would be no you...You see we are all ONE.

Together we create beauty, wonder, love, and joy....Live in gratitude not just this week but for always. It is with great gratitude your heart will become free. With a free heart and an open mind the unlimited potential of your truth will become alive within your soul. Sleep well, love well, live well, and BE well.

With love and admiration to you, our 'heroes' in the flesh,

Lisa's 'magnificent peeps'

Our Thanksgiving Message

Thanksgiving is a day of unity, gratitude and blessings for all that we have had, all that we do have and all that we shall receive!

This is the time when people unite with no judgment, no politics, no separation due to race, religion, creed, or ethnicity! Open your hearts to friends, family and strangers alike. Open your hearts to your friends and family from the past, those in the present and welcome in new friends to your space.

This holiday season (and everyday) it is important to mend broken fences, rise above perceived wrong doings and live in the love that you were born to be. It is a time for being in the moment and celebrating the light that YOU were born to be.
Celebrate your gifts, celebrate each other and most of celebrate YOU. For many it has been a tough rode but it has been a rode none the less and has gotten you to today. Find GRATITUDE AND THANKS!

Be thankful for those who have crossed your path. They were spiritual backpackers, as you are, just doing their thing.

As my beautiful beings of light, known as my 'Peeps', so often remind me, I will remind you too...

be bright

be beautiful

be free

be love

be you

be the music

be the air

be the space in between

be the magic

be the forgiveness you seek

be the beauty that is all around you

be the abundance

be the stars

be the light

be the answers that you seek

be patient

be calm

be faith

be grateful

be wisdom

be courageous

be brave

be kind

be healthy

be all that you seek

be who you were born to be...

Happy Thanksgiving and be kind to one another! :)

Lisa J.

Today I Will

for today i am grateful for all that i have, all that i receive and all that i shall give.

today i know the difference between:

good and evil

up and down

yes and no

positive and negative

black and white

wants and needs

reality and illusion

me and you



today i understand that not everything will go my way. it it will go the way it needs to go in order for my soul to develop and my spirit to soar.



today i will be me. i will stay in peace and i will do my best to be who i am.



today i will not hurt myself. i will not speak poorly about myself and i will not abuse my body!



today i will lead by example and fall asleep proud of the person that i was all day.



today i will tell someone i love them



today i will find compassion for those who are in the most pain



today i will fill my vessel first and then fill the vessel of others if so asked



today i will walk with my head high



today i will serve and be served



today i will worship and be worshiped



today i will love and be loved



today i will allow what is rightfully mine to come to me with ease



today i will not cry for what was lost but rejoice in that i have found



today i will not have guilt since i will know, for today, that we all make choices and other peoples choices are not a reflection upon myself



today i will not let people take my power or take the power of others



today i will be grateful for what i do and do not have



today i will find forgiveness for myself



today i will find forgiveness for one other person



today i will heal



today i will use my voice



today i will be strong



today i will bend



today i will persevere



today i will not care if you like me



today i will not care what is said about me



today i will hold my head up high and be proud



today i will remember my truth



today i will take a long shower



today i will listen a bird



today i will sing out loud



today i will know my inner beauty



today i will KNOW that i am NEVER alone



today i will know that nothing is what i think it is



today i will know i am not a victim of anything or anyone



today i will KNOW i have choices



today i will feel my freedom



today i will be a friend



today i will see myself the way others see me



today i will open my heart



today i will be honest..with myself as well as others



today i will be healthy...in all of my bodies



today i will not be angry with me or with you



today i will let the past be the past



today i will see the others persons perspective and not let it define my own



today i will not project



today i will be still



today i will be my own guru



today i will not be afraid



today i will know my talent



today i will know all my needs are being met



today i will know my worth



today i will take care of me



today i will remember to breathe



today i will call my grandma to say i love you and i am thinking of you



today i am grateful for what i do have



today i will understand that nothing ever dies



today i will know I AM A ROCK STAR baby



today i will be proud of where i came from where i am today and where i am heading tomorrow



today will just be another day.



Totally

Opening

Doors

Allowing

Yesterday to be yesterday and today to be today!



Lisa J. Smith

Guided Meditation by Lisa J. Smith

Your Silent Truth is a soothing and gentle guided mediation that allows you to discover who you really are in your heart. It allows you to go into your heart to feel who you are. What is your truth? What is it that you are trying to say? Trust in your higher self that you will always know what to do, in any given situation, at any given time. Are you having a hard time expressing? Ask for the words before you begin and allow the music and the words guide you into your heart. "Trust in your higher self that you will always know what to do, in any given situation, at any given time".
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Release and Let Go is a guided meditation to help you release anything that is not serving you anymore. Whether relationships, old thought patterns, beliefs, jobs, what ever you do not want to carry anymore. Set your intent of what you would like to release and let the music and the mediation do the rest. "Release anything and everything that tells you, “You are anything less then divine, beautiful, and full of love".” $6.99




Meeting An Old Friend is a relaxing guided meditation that guides you down a soft and gentle path. With the sound of the beautiful background music and the soft guide of Lisa's voice, you are guided down a path to meet your beautiful being of light. Whether a spirit guide or loved one on the other side, you are sure to awaken with the knowing that you were just with an old friend. "It may seem like it has been awhile since you have seen each other, but in your heart you know that you have never been apart.” $6.99




Each meditation is copyrighted by Lisa J. Smith and may not to be duplicated without permission by Lisa J. Smith.

Each meditation was written and produced by Lisa J. Smith.

Music by Thaddeus. Back ground music only can be ordered from LuminEssence Productions at www.orindaben.com.

Road Blocks

ROAD BLOCKS, looking at them like this: keeping me in check, keeping me on my path & working in my highest and best interest for all that i need not want. i will say to myself: "even though i don't understand, i will trust that EVERY ROAD BLOCK is a guard rail that is helping me reach my dreams. my higher self has my back, knows what i want and need and will get me there in divine timing & under grace"!

Lisa J. Smith

Inpsiration from the movie Case #39: Letting go and FEAR

LETTING GO AND FEAR....

isn't it funny  how it is always so easy to say but such another to walk in? i suppose if we all walked in faith all the time we would not need to be here.

fear will kick your ass and make you feel like a shell of the spirit that you are. it will test your ability to love. it will test your ability to give. it will test your ability to be in the moment. it will test your ability to find freedom. it will test your ability to LIVE!

FEAR...some people seek it out, thrill seekers, some people fear nothing they say. i think that at times, we all fear something. i think that if we are honest with ourselves we can find a little something something inside of us that  scares us even if it is just a little. that fear keeps us safe so we don't do stupid things...if you had no fear what would you do?????  exactly...IT KEEPS US ALIVE TOO! example, if we touch a hot stove and get burned once we learn to fear putting our hands on a hot stove so we don't get burned again...FEAR is knowledge that leads to wisdom if you follow the path....but man the first time HURTS!

some people use that FEAR as a platform to spring board through to the next chapter, some people shut down completely and are afraid to move, then like most of us we fall somehow in the middle. we disguise it, right it off, ignore it in the hopes that it will go away, yell at it, damn it and do whatever we can to NOT deal with it.

the funny thing is the more we do that...the more FeAr grows and grows until it is so big we stop breathing...we freeze. we have no power anymore...our life line is numb!

did you know that fear can not hurt you. it has no power over you what-so-ever. the only power that fear has is the power and the fuel we give it....and boy do we give it fuel...the what if's and the whens and the OMG's, and the blah blah blahs we come up with.  fear laughs....it laughs and laughs bc it is winning and knows that we are afraid so we are feeding its life line...and it grows and grows until it thinks it is in control of YOU! it can tell you what to do. it bosses you around and you succumb to its every wish bc you are AFRAID of the consequences of what the fear will bring you. the fear is so real. illusion...what illusion it is ReAL...it is? no, it is not real...it is a projection of false thoughts in your mind...it can not exist unless you manifest it...YOUR truth becomes YOUR reality...create your REALITY...no one says fear has to win every time...we are just chickens...to afraid because we fear what will happen to us yet nothing will happen unless you make it happen....fear does not make it happen...we FREAK OUT!

if you look at fear and you face your fear it WILL go away...does it mean you will be overly happy... NO! sometimes it is emotional and brings up things we would rather not look at...hence the food for fear.... it means the FEAR of the fear will go away and then you can begin to do your "work". i know bc i have had to do this more than one time in my life and so have YOU!

i just saw the movie, Case 39 ....when the main character faced her fear, her "demons", they lost their power. she told them it is not not real, it is not real you are not there, it is not real....guess what....it was not there. it is not that she pushed them in or ignored them...she addressed it, walked into it,  and and then came right thru it...the FEAR....was powerless.

Letting go....FEAR...duh there is FEAR! "LET GO of what no longer serves you"....we all say it and we say it all the time. What a way to sabotage and keep us from our light and from our joy. if i am a little kid and i am hanging on the monkey bars for dear life.....and all my friends say "let go",  but i am afraid of what is beneath me...there is no way in hell i am going to let go! i am going to hang on until my hands bleed. if some one says "ok lisa, the ground is right underneath you and when you open your hands, you will gently and very softly  and in the cradle of mother earths hands where you fall into love and warmth...you bet i will LET GO...but FEAR will never let us hear that. fear will say, YOU ARE GOING TO FALL LISA". so forget it...ill hold on thank you very much!

i have yet to find an answer that makes me not afraid to LET GO.... i propose the word 'accept'. when i am hanging onto the monkey bars and my friends are saying, "ok lis....we have to go in now and i LET GO....i acceptated, in that moment, there is nothing to be afraid of and i theeennnnn LET GO!

FAITH: you already are the faith. you already are the strength. you are the courage and the love. the illusion is binding you to the "fear".

the fear:  you need to know what is is, learn from it and thank it for showing up so that you can move forward without it. it made you a fighter, it gave you confidence,it showed you that you are a bad ass and someone to not mess with, it gave to you what your soul was trying for years to make you see. we dont see it bc it is easier to unconsciously  look the other way....who wants to go through that right????

YOU already have what it is you need.

do not let go...as that will put you in more fear...who the hell wants to let go right???? i know if i have to let go i have fear....fear of falling fear of smashing on the ground.. fear fear fear.....no letting go...only being with what scares you. owning who you are in your heart and instead accepting whatever it is, know that everything is moving around you and YOU will always be OK.nothing is going to hurt you EVER if you dont allow it too.

again easier said than done and boy that fear is somethin' else. :)  its only a fear my love...only a fear....we can do this i keep hearing...

when you see the movie, Cast #39...btw, i hate those movies because they scare me ( i hated every minute i was there and wished i was at a comedy).  reflecting back on the movie i learned a lot....look at the "demons" as your own...how yours show up in your life, what do they look like, how do you let them take your life from you and finally see how to overcome them! who would have thought....THAT movie would teach so much about letting go, fear and finding peace...i suppose hiding in LISA'S WORLD all the time will only give me what i already know....we have to be uncomfortable to see what the message is right in front of us....

Silver Lining: YOU WILL BE SOOOO PROUD OF YOURSELF for seeing what you are really MADE of...strength, courage, perseverance and LOVE!

here is to ACCEPTANCE AND LIVING!