I love Sundays like this...

[Jess]

It's raining in San Francisco. A beautiful, hard, steady rain. This is the perfect day to drink rich coffee, bake an apple cobbler (I bake a lot of cobblers... love them) and retool my Manifestation Board.

I know what I want.

I have been attending the Landmark Forum in Action Series seminar for 4 weeks and it's really turning my world inside out. Everyday, I experience a breakdown. The breakdowns either mimic one another or come from a space I've neglected somehow. Being armed with several formats to get to the root of the disturbance - I have learned so much about myself. I see how I have been limited through familial and community belief systems but I progressively have gotten in the way of myself. Therefore, I've been dwelling in the land of veiled mediocrity and when I first realized this about a month ago - I felt real pity for the first time. I mourned for a few moments then moved my thoughts towards better things to come.

For me, the very action of creating an opportunity opens up a new window to self discovery and adventure. Most days, I'm sailing. And it is from those days that I take a moment to register with myself "This is what It feels like." "These are the steps you take to get there." Ubelievably, if I don't take that time to reflect, my breakdowns are more severe and lengthy. You bet your sweet smile that I'm taking the time to reflect daily on the tasks at hand.

I have eliminated situations that lend doubt or adverse outcomes as they suck the energy out of me. Most of the time this is easy for me to do because I'm aware of the consequences/possibility. All the same, some situations (that involve personal relationships) are very tough and painful to bid adieu. It's necessary. It enables me to nuture relationships and maintain a healthy and respectful kin. (A friend once called this knocking the barnacles off the boat... anything that impedes the speed and integrity of the boat needs to be taken off the boat..) Sounds simple but it's really difficult to do.

Other than my transformation as of late from my Landmark experience, I'm making a genuine nod to the ladies of CCOR and how they shifted my life at such an incredible pace. I adore each of their qualities but it was Sandy's videoblog on her Manifestation Board early last June that set some incredible things in motion. My intuition really doubts the coincidence with such a swift life change... because when you see it, you believe it and it sets forth in motion.

Oh, the rain sounds so lovely. Time to light a few more candles, turn up Miles, Ellington, Coltrane, Parker and Thelonius and give my mind one hell of a ride...

(A photo of my board forthcoming...)

[Kyle]

Nice post. :) I love rainy days like that, its so refreshing.