Artist Liu Bolin has taken the art of blending in to the extreme.

See if you can find the person in the above photo.

Hint: Look for the shoes between the front tire and the scoop.

Nice trick.

I'm sure everyone can think of a time where this would be very useful. For example, when your well-meaning, chatty neighbor spots you at the grocery on the day your cart is full of frozen foods

It'd also be very handy in the woods with a hungry mountain lion bearing down on you.

For all the other times in your life though, blending in is out, and standing out, is in.

Every time you were shhhssshed, you were being told to blend in.

Every time you held back instead of leaping in, you were trying to blend in.

Every time you went along with the crowd, against your better judgment, you were blending in.

Being More Yourself  is about finding what makes you different, what sets you apart from the crowd.

Knowing what makes you unique and letting others know about it, is the secret to success.

Pick one thing you can do right now that will guarantee you get noticed - preferably something legal.

Pick something where you feel more you and less everyone else.

It doesn't have to be a big thing. Just something very true to who you are. 

Think of it as your signature style.


All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

Along with many other quirks I'm a word-nerd. I love words and their origins and the way we use them. I also love solving puzzles.

So for the fun of it, try this word scramble!
                   
             WORD SCRAMBLE:      GATERNIC

 

 

  [Answers:     CATERING  or  CREATING  or   REACTING]    

 

Which word did you come up with when you unscrambled the letters above?

 

For the sake of this word puzzle it really doesn't matter. Congratulations, you got a word!!!

 

When you are unscrambling your life however, it makes all the difference in the world. Do you spend your days reacting or catering to the people and circumstances that show up? Or do you show up and start creating your life by actively choosing which people, places and experiences you want to include?

 

What's the difference and why does it matter?

 

Your entire life is an original story that unfolds minute by minute, day by day.  And, you get to co-write it with the universe. When you relinquish your participation in the creation of the storyline, you are simply reacting to the universe, waiting to see what will be done to you on any given day. Although most of us do this on occasion, when we are tired or discouraged, if we do this too often we are caught in a pattern of being a victim - life is done to us - and it can make us feel stuck and powerless.

 

The other way we participate in feeling powerless is when we spend our days catering to the whims of everyone around us. When we do this we are saying our needs and desires don't matter nearly as much as everyone else's. This isn't the same as being of service. Being of service means you actively choose where, how, and what of yourself you will share with another. You create the situation. You don't wait to be called on.

 

When we are creating our life, we are part of the creative process and we are able to make suggestions in how our life story will play out by inviting good things in. Although we will never have full control over our story, we have the power to tip the scales in our favour and create a life that fits us.

 

It's the difference between living completely in hand-me downs from cousins with wildly different tastes and proportions, or living in a wardrobe hand-picked by you.

 

So each day before you switch on your cell phone or lift the lid on your laptop and begin reacting to the world, take time for creating the next installment of YOUR LIFE.

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

"Be who you are and say what you feel,
                                        because those who mind don't matter, and 
                                        those who matter don't mind." — Dr. Seuss

Could not have said it better.

Take a minute and see if this isn't true in your life. Who and what matters to you?

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

Annie Lennox is truly an original and I for one, love her for it. 

Gutsy, bold, outrageous, definitely not afraid to be herself.

 
                                        
I'm dedicating her song, Shining Light to every one of you. It's exactly how I see you.

Enjoy the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMWXHj_67I&feature=player_embedded

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

Shining Light Lyrics
Roman candles that burn in the night
Yeah, you are a shining light
You lit a torch in the infinite
Yeah, you are a shining light
Yeah, you light up my life

You’ve always been a thorn in their side
But to me you’re a shining light
You arrive and the night is alive
Yeah, you are a shining light
Yeah, you light up my life

We made our connection
A full on chemical reaction
Brought by dark divine intervention
Yeah, you are a shining light
A constellation once seen
Over Royal David’s city
An epiphany you burn so pretty
Yeah, you are a shining light

You are a force, you are a constant source
Yeah you are a shining light
Incandescent in the darkest night
Yeah you are shining light
My mortal blood I would sacrifice
For you are a shining light
Sovereign bride of the infinite
Yeah, you are a shining light
Yeah, you light up my life

We made our connection
A full on chemical reaction
Brought by dark divine intervention
Yeah, you are a shining light
A constellation once seen
Over Royal David’s city
An epiphany you burn so pretty
Yeah, you are a shining light

And these are days you often say
There’s nothing that we can’t do
Beneath a canopy of stars
I’d shed blood for you
The north star in the firmament
You shine the most bright
I’ve seen you draped in an electric veil
Shrouded in celestial light

We made our connection
A full on chemical reaction
Brought by dark divine intervention
Yeah, you are a shining light
A constellation once seen
Over Royal David’s city
An epiphany you burn so pretty
Yeah, you are a shining light
Yeah, you light up my life
Yeah, you are a shining light
Yeah, you light up my life

        

Although I've suspected it for years, it's really only recently that I truly understood (the type of understanding you no longer question or wonder at it's permanence), that true happiness is an inside job. It's a choice.

 Our use of language doesn't typically support this notion. We speak a language of cause and effect, 'He made me angry.", "I'll be happier when I'm skinny, rich, smarter, in a relationship....fill in the blank." It distances us from our pain and places the responsibility for our emotions somewhere else. As nifty a trick as this is when things feel too overwhelming to handle, when we begin to believe our emotions are outside of our control, we disempower ourselves. We lose our ability to choose and happiness becomes an elusive thing we can't seem to hold onto.

 I finally figured out we can be happy anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances if we want to - no questions asked, no conditions, no strings! In fact, our true nature is happiness. Think of it as the middle ground or the place a pendulum rests when it's not swinging between extremes. We are always meant to return to happiness, our calm centre. For most of us, especially women with children who have been relentlessly conditioned by the media, our communities and our own kind! that happiness is.......[fill in the blank], this idea that feeling happy is up to us, verges on the realm of crazy talk.

 But seriously, humor me or better yet, humor you and give this trick a try. Think of something that you currently believe 'makes you happy' - a baby's laugh, a puppies wet nose, a new pair of shoes, Godiva chocolates, whatever happiness is to you. Imagine you're there, blissfully enjoying this happy place. Breathe it in. Feel the smile on your face.

 Now imagine you can't have it - ever. What are you feeling now? Did you just swing from happy to sad or worse? What made that happen? Hint: the only one involved was your imagination - a clever creator of stories both great and small, directed by the one and only, you! You made that happen. You chose the emotions by believing, if only temporarily, one story over another. The thoughts you chose and the emotions you tied to those thoughts were totally your choice.

 Now how does that make you feel? Hopefully, powerful. But hey, I can't tell you how to feel, how you feel is up to you! 

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

I love this quote!

When I read it, I feel such a sense of relief!

I breathe easier. I relax.
 
I instantly feel the pressure lift from my shoulders.

I don't have to do everything! I don't have to be everything to everyone!

Oh, I didn't know that. 

I'd spent years scanning the horizon, watching people, absorbing nuances of behaviours, processing other's ideas, weighing them, comparing them, sorting them against my own, searching for the best ways, the best reactions, the best solutions. It was years before I discovered the truth; before I discovered all I needed to focus on was being myself.

Now that's so much simpler!

And so much more original.

And so much more interesting.

And so much more valuable.

And way, way easier

So here's to taking a load of you - Just be yourself!

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

If we are going to save this world we need to facilitate everyone in it reaching their full potential. The first step to healing our environment and the ailing circumstances of our economy and international relations requires that we first heal ourselves. Change, global or individual, must start from the inside out. To restore global harmony and achieve world peace we must first establish peace and harmony individually. It requires a balanced person to bring balance to their world.
 
The future of the world depends on the people who occupy it to operate from their true natures, calling on their full potential to bring about solutions and healing to restore the earth to one that is capable of sustaining us.

We are no longer able to sit back passively and wait for someone else to take care of things. We no longer have the luxury of pointing fingers and laying blame. We will require each and every individual to realize their true nature, apply themselves and together turn this around before we all become victims of the train wreck we collectively set in motion.

This is not the responsibility of one person, one group, one nation. The solution we so desperately need lies within all of us, each doing our part, working in unison towards the same goal.

The reality we have created today is done and we are at the most critical of crossroads - a moment of choice before us - to actively step up to the plate and put everything we have into changing course, ending the harm, restoring Eden.

What we have created now, clearly is not working. Our goal is not a simple reversal of fortunes or a rearrangement of power. Bandages do not heal. They temporarily hold things together buying time while the real healing takes place underneath them. That healing comes from within, from rejuvenation and from a restoration of harmony.

We clearly have not been in harmony with nature or each other for years and the price of this illness has gotten too high. We can't sustain it. The band aids we've applied are only temporary stabilizers but we remain in critical condition. It's time for the healing to begin in earnest. We must stop the bleeding. We must take stock and determine not what we want, but what we truly need. We must start there. 

So what can we do?

What appears in our external world is a direct reflection of our inner state. It is not in our best interest to disregard the power of our influence on our circumstances. When we are internally chaotic, drained, overwhelmed, overtaxed, without a compass or conscious awareness of the direction we are heading, this inner turmoil will be evident in everything we create around us. Conversely then, we have the power to influence our circumstances positively.  

The first step is to throw off our false beliefs. Let go of all notions that do not serve us regardless of how long we've held them. These include the expectations we may have had for what our life and world 'should' be. A 'should' is almost always tied to a false belief - an ideology that we take to be a set in stone 'rule' or the 'truth' when in fact anything set in stone is inflexible and therefore couldn't be farther from a natural truth. Nature is never rigid; never fixed. 

The next step is to take back our power from every time zone we've left fragments of ourselves in. This means letting go of the past. We spend an inordinate amount of energy trying to breathe life into moments gone by. We can't resurrect the dead and yet daily we attempt to do just that. Instead, properly grieve what's past and then let it go. We need all our energy in present time.

Once we learn to hold steady in the present, we can find our centers. This makes step three, discovering our true nature, effortless.

As we reconnect with our true natures, we are better able to restore harmony with all of nature. Our interconnectedness becomes so obvious, as does the part we play in the creation, or destruction of this world, We are designed to work with, not against nature as it is designed to work with us. 

At this point, the solutions we require will become crystal clear and all that will be required of us will be to put one foot in front of the other directing our energy to the fulfillment of our individual potential and ultimately our collective potential. This is the point at which grace, ease and peace converge and it's closer than we think.

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

Your true nature is that eternal part of you unrelated to time, place, circumstances, culture or connections. It's the part of you that no matter where on the earth you descended, would remain constant.

Think eternal versus external.

The external part of you is made up of all things necessary to survive life on earth. It's the vehicle you ride in - your physical body - and the beliefs and laws that govern you - the code of conduct taught to you by your family and community. It's how you present yourself be it the clothes you wear, the career you choose, your public face, the one that conceals what you may really be thinking, feeling, believing, all for the purpose of fitting in. Your true nature on the other hand is less interested in fitting in and more concerned with finding the right fit.

Your eternal self is connected to everything in a way your external self alone can never be. It knows no limits. It exists free of fear. It is conected at all times to what every human ultimately seeks - love, joy, peace and freedom.

The biggest fear most people have is that if they seek a life that fits, they will no longer fit in and end up alone. And this is the farthest thing from the truth! When your life fits your true nature, the connections you make are actually more secure, stronger and have deeper meaning than any relationships you can ever establish based on your desire to simply fit in. 

Imagine muddy water versus clear untainted water. We all began like clear water, pure love and joy. Then throughout our life as we try to assimilate and learn to survive in our environment, things become less clear, muddied up. Returning to our true nature is actually a return to this state of clarity before our 'flow' was diverted, before junk collected in our stream of thought, before we became less ourselves and more of what others wanted us to be.

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

Never before in history have we been so out of harmony with our natural world. It's as if we lost all sense of our true nature and instead forged blindly ahead under the misguidance of our ego - linear and limited.

 

Somewhere along the way we collectively declared our five senses were our new gods. If we could see it, hear it,  smell it, taste it or best of all, grasp our hands around it, then it was real. Everything else we decried was worthless. Science became king. We denied all knowing that didn't have research to back it up. Common sense became all too uncommon and we believed at last, we could control our surroundings and alas, would finally feel safe.

 

And we were wrong.

 

It's more than time we let go of this nonsense that we can control every thing.  The myth we cling to is the one that says we can appease our fears if only we're in control. And in our insatiable lust for control, we have created a state of natural chaos so beyond our mastery, our survival will depend on the one thing we fear most - complete surrender.

 

Today, we are feeling a greater sense of uncertainty than ever before as our single-minded focus on science and complete disregard for the nuances of the natural world, has us on a crash course with ourselves.

 

Now here's the thing. We can all crawl under the bed in the fetal position or we can turn this around starting right now.

 

If you have ever left your garden on its own or taken a moment from cursing the morning commute to look at the cracks in the road, you'll notice nature survives. It doesn't sit around and bemoan the exhaust - it adapts and sprouts a flower right there in the middle of the concrete.

 

Nature always finds a way and when we get back in touch with our true nature, so too, we will find our way, regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com

        

When your life fits who you are deep within, everything is easier. You save time, energy and money. You experience more joy, less conflidt, and can manage life's challenges.

And being more yourself has never been easier, more fun or more fulfilling.

I'll be introducting you to ways to be more yourself in your work, at home and play. I'll show you how you can increase your energy levels, experience more joy and have more time and money for the life you really want.

This blog isn't about teaching you new tricks. You already have within you, everything you need. My part is to simply shine a light on it, so you can see it's there and put it to good use, creating the life you are meant to have.

All the Best

Gail Blesch

For more information on how I can help you feel More Yourself, teach you how to restore your sense of inner equilibrium and give you tools to maintain harmony, health and happiness, contact me at: glbesch@ymail.com