DISCOVER 3 SIMPLE STEPS TO JOYFUL WAKING by Julie Jordan Scott
It was our usual Saturday morning routine.
We found ourselves at Barnes and Noble for Story time and Emma found
herself getting increasingly angry about something. I can't even
remember what the brou-ha-ha was this week.
I gave Emma these simple instructions: "Stay here and breathe
through whatever is upsetting you. I will go get some books to read
from right over there (pointing to a shelf on the adult side of the
store) and sit at this table right here. I will wait for you. When
you are ready to speak calmly, I will be here."
I thought I saw smoke coming from her ears: grey, heated foam which
was immediately followed by a glimmer of respect and gratitude.
I wandered to the stacks of books adjacent to the children's
department: it had always been there but was, until this moment,
unfamiliar territory. I gleaned two quote books from the first shelf
which caught me eye. "Freedom" was a natural find and the other
one looked like a McGuffy Reader from my Grandmother's childhood.
I opened the McGuffy-Reader-esque book with its mustard and black
curly cued cover and read the very first quote on the very first
page.
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
The words seared my soul, deepening the "YES!" inscribed on my
heart. The speaker-writer: Paul Valery, someone I had never heard
of until that moment.
I knew I was meant to read that quote in exactly that moment, that
space in time. I knew that this exact situation occurred in just
this way so that I could receive that perfect message. The only
thing missing was a big spotlight and the letters "Julie: Read
Here!" emblazoned in the margins.
If I had chosen to get angry with Emma and fight with her and drag
her out of the door kicking and screaming and spewing upset, I
wouldn't have seen it.
If I had chosen to cajole and coddle Emma out of her upset, I would
have been too busy mucking around in her business to receive my
message.
Instead, I chose to stay in a place where I would remain calm and
trusted her to breathe her way through her upset.
Guess what?
It worked.
The message I found from Paul Valery, "The best way to make your
dreams come true is to wake up" has been my companion for the last
few days. I explored the other books I collected as well, all gems
and worthy of attention. Emma joined me at the child sized round
table with several selections of her own.
We left the store filled with contentment and peace because we
trusted the process, we stayed present and we honored each other's
experience.
Today marks a new beginning. You have the choice to
honor this new beginning through following a similar path.
1. Wake Up - and stay awake - by breathing deeply and calmly
through those moments which may appear (at first glance) to be upset
inducing. It is like Epictetus said so many years ago: "Man is
troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them."
2. Choose to stand alongside the emotion - instead of fighting
the emotion or burying it, move through it by acknowledging it,
accepting it, and choosing to move into an alternative that feels
better and ultimately serves the greatest good of you and everyone
else.
3. Sit with whatever is on your path. You don't need to rush
down a divergent path. Whatever direction you are facing right now
has a message, a "pot of gold" not at the END of the rainbow - its
right there, right where you are this moment.
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Personal Success Coach, Writer and Speaker Julie Jordan Scott
launched 5passions.com in 1999 to assist people to live each moment
with Passion: Creative Energy, Blissful Attraction, Boldness
and Courage. Don't live an Unlived Life: Subscribe to Discovering
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