Are you Vibrant or Dazed?

This evening, on the way home from yet another road trip to Green Bay to finally pick up the organic parsley and cilantro I’ve been waiting on for over 2 weeks, I was talking with my son, Rodrigo, the 16 year old who usually concedes to coming with me.

Somehow or other the conversation got around to how people feel, whether they feel the vibrancy, intensity and aliveness of every breath and moment the way I do. I guess I just didn’t realize it before, but he laid it out very clearly, “Mom, if the world felt half as intensely as you, this would be a completely different place. I guarantee 99% of the population has absolutely no clue and are much more prone to walking around in at least a daze, if not a half stupor.” A couple minutes later, he was asleep. He had a short night last night and got up somewhat early this morning.

I was left to contemplate the irony of his words. It seems so bizarre to me, the person somehow affected by some strange unidentifiable something or other, which has to some degree impaired my sensory system, the physical system with which we feel, to be told that I’m the one who feels more than most. I don’t even like the way that sounds. Who are we to judge to what degree others feel? How can we know? Whose happiness or whose sadness is more intense?

As I drove, I noted the feelings that were coming up for me as I experienced the intense diversity of the disc in the player: parts from a Greek Orthodox song, very strong Native American rhythms in another, and another very classical Mediterranean guitar piece. As I listened, I also reviewed the places, stages and adventures of my life. Each of these pieces flooded me, and as is highly normal when listening to this artist, I could feel my Heart expanding and stretching to allow a very wide open space from which to feel that intensity.

There are times in which I wonder if a portion of my ‘normal’ physical senses needed to be turned way down in order for my Heart to open as wide as it is able to be open now. Other times I think that needing to pick between one or the other is nuts and I resign myself to seeing that as a simple “Earthly justification” for something which has none.

Either way we stir it, life has been very interesting and intensely fascinating lately. There is a state of intoxicating vibrancy to life called presence, the elixir making it all worthwhile. I’m creating, empowering and envisioning the absolute best year ever in 2011. Then again, what would you except from someone on The Optimystic Ride??

May each of you find the very best possible way to create and BE the best you that you are possibly able to be!! I have a number of surprises and long overdue goals I am currently manifesting. You'll be hearing about them soon!!

BLESSINGS BEYOND BORDERS©


Gina
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