I’m not feeling the song, I can change the station or let’s say I can’t at the moment. I can still look for reasons to be happy. I get to choose which aspects of my experience to focus on, and that really makes the music.
I love how this is illustrated in the movie August Rush.
Love, Coyote
While on a walk her iPhone started jumping randomly through songs.
I am inspired to share this Facebook status by a dear friend who just lost a pet she loved.
"Constructively turning all bits of coal to diamonds. I prefer a sparkly life!"
I love her strong intention to create her life according to her desire. It’s not good nor bad to feel how we feel, the real question is, are we where we want to be? What’s our preference now?
Thanks Melissa! I too enjoy living my life in the sparkle, including the sun bouncing off my tears as I miss the way I felt in the pressence of our dog who passed on last month. He always rememded me how good it feels to love and live in the moment.
Love, Coyote
"As an antidote to rigid financial conditions, Hagan got his cab driver’s license and insurance, and officially opened for business last month with the Recession Ride Taxi. In his SUV, Hagen will take passengers anywhere they want to go in and around Essex—for whatever they want to pay.
There are no set prices for transportation, and Hagen also offers a cooler full of pay-what-you-want beverages to thirsty guests. He even offers special perks to frequent riders: he provides his passengers with hole punch cards, giving them a free ride after every six trips.
Of course, Hagen’s customers could easily get a free ride anyway—after all, he’s not forcing them to open their wallets. Since his payment policy is so flexible, he’s taken some strange trades: one customer gave him a $10 grocery card, and a local musician gave him his group’s CD. But in the weeks since the business has launched, Hagen hasn’t been short-changed once."
"I believed from the start that this would work,” he said. “I believed that people are going to be generous enough to make it worth my while, and I’m going to be generous enough to let them decide."
Check out the rest of this story and other uplifting real life stories at dailygood.org.
My aim is to move through my day attending to the thing that feels inspired in the moment. Sometimes I get worked up about my to do list, my inner-critic’s banter about doing more, etc.
It takes a little time and attention to return to my inspired place, but always the outcomes are better than pushing to just get something done. After all, I feel better! Inspired action always feels the best!
The list never gets done. As Tolle says, "We must become friendly with the present moment," ourselves here and now. It’s how we can connect with our joy.
I wish you kind thoughts about who you are here and now, starting with something small in appreciation and moving downstream from there! Maybe it’s a breath or a walk around the block looking for an appreciative feeling to arise.
Love, Coyote
Photo: Time To Pause/Hudson River/iPhone/Coyote Karrick
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I’m getting so good at noticing when I feel the negative emotion resulting from complaining internally or out loud! “This coffee’s not good…my favorite shoes molded…I’m so sick of the rain (a very wet summer in NY!)…when will so and so get it…etc.” That was me this morning.
My desire is to notice myself start down that road and make a shift. I do not want to use anyone or anything else as a reason not to feel good. Who I am is positive and I want to feel good – a natural state – a choice. I will focus my attention on that side of the scale, the side of appreciation for this life experience (contrast and all!).
I wish for you reasons to appreciate everywhere and especially within!
Love, Coyote
Photo: Making Wishes – The Intelligence of Innocence/NYC/iPhone/Coyote Karrick
Not driven by lack nor by fear. I want to live by inspiration that comes swift and clear or soft and slow. I expect and delight in knowing it (my inspiration) is close at hand!
I hope you are living more and more of the time in your centered place where inspiration thrives. Love, Coyote
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Feeling blah!? When we don’t feel 100% our desire for wellness is very strong, as is our incentive to become really deliberate about what we are giving our attention to. It’s an opp0rtunity to practice looking for reasons to smile and laugh, and appreciate vitality everywhere – in others, in nature, and especially in ourselves!
Something got stuck in my eye yesterday and I became very aware of it’s swelling. Looking at it in the mirror didn’t help, so I looked instead to shift my awareness to more pleasant aspects of my broader experience. I wrote a love letter (appreciation), then lay back with my eyes closed and entertained possible scenarios for an upcoming adventure (visualize).
If negative thoughts and assessments creep back in, you can see it as a chance to practice selecting a focus that feels better! No need to be hard on yourself (I can go there & it’s so fruitless!), instead look to know more of your positive qualities. Maybe you make a list and let it build.
I wish you a sense of your natural vitality! Love, Coyote
Certified Integral Coach . coyotekarrick.com . 206.841.5369 . coyotekarrick@gmail.com
Photo: Wild Rasberries Thriving Until We Ate Them Up!/NY/iPhone/Coyote Karrick
Laughter is an audible expression or appearance of happiness, or an inward feeling of joy (laughing on the inside). – Wikipedia
Set the intention that you will find reasons to laugh on the inside or the outside today.
Here’s a wonderful youTube video that might get you to tears…in that good feeling way!
Photo: 2 year old enjoying pasta/Coyote Karrick
I know that life can be a delicious adventure, so I've embarked on a quest to know it as such through experience. In the process, I'm learning to get out of my own way and laugh more. My intention is not to tell you "the" way, there are many ways and your inner-resources and personal experience can guide you. However, something here may inspire you to seek a direction or follow an idea that already resonates for you. I wish you the best conditions for your life adventure. Love, Coyote Karrick
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You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now–until it gets better right now! - Abraham-Hicks 
Free your mind, the rest will follow...
- En Vogue
The ancestor of every action is a thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. – Mahatma Gandhi
What can any individual do? They can see to it that they feel right. An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
In dreams, as in love, all is possible. - Janos Arany
I consider waking up and living a life designed by my Inner-Compass the biggest adventure of all. - Coyote
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