Oneness, what scares us so much about oneness.

Oneness, what scares us so much about oneness. When I look at nature and how interconnected it is I know that the same is true for us. Ferns, bamboo, trees, all network and connect together for the greater good of the whole. I find great humor in the fact that we hold ourselves as the more intelligent of the species. Today, spend the day looking for the commonality between you and the world around you. See what you find and share it with the group.  

Day 29: Ferns, where are you isolating yourself from a community that loves you? Is there any place in your life that you're not plugged into greater community? How is that serving your life? How would recognizing that you belong and are a part of a bigger picture change your life?

The passage above I took from today's reading in "Seasons of Change. I am reminded of this everyday as I go through life. We are so busy being separate, individualized, and protected that we miss the opportunity to love. I love the "Hooponopono teaching." When someone comes to me for assistance, or help resolving something in their life, it is my job to heal that, or release that within myself. I have shared this work with you before and it allows me to heal the thought of separation within myself and the whole.

For a great deal of my life I felt like the outsider looking in. That I didn't belong. For most of my life, I allowed that to be my truth and my belief system. Today I know that when I heal and release that belief and allow love to flow from me to the world around me that I in fact call others who are loving and kind to me. For years, I allow fear of being rejected and bullied to keep me locked in a prison that I had built, locked myself in, and had thrown away the key. Only to find years later that the key was mine. I had it within all along.

When I spend my day looking for common areas that we align, things that we like that are the same, focused on finding ways that connect us rather than separate us. That is exactly what I find. That which I seek is seeking me.

Today I will hold, bless, and release any place is myself that hold separation, fear, lack of greater community in my life. I will use the Hooponopono teaching technique to do so.

I love you

I'm sorry

Please forgive me

Thank you

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of greater community with you.

I love you,

Rev Allen 

Stop and smell the flowers in your life.

Stop and smell the flowers in your life. Today I know that I am brilliant, magnificent and unique. Today I surround myself with people that love, honor and value me for who I am. I honor them for who they are and recognize that there is no need to complete. We are all part of the magnificent bouquet of life. Regardless of who we are we fill in the spaces as needed to make the whole a more joyous expression of love. We understand that we as individuals are whole, and complete, and yet we are willing to join in the community to create a greater whole. We choose to work together, rather than competing with each other. 

Day 28: flowers. Today is our opportunity to be the most unusual flower in the beautiful bouquet of life. Today is the day we can recognize the beauty that is uniquely ours and the gifts we bring to the world. When we spend our life thriving instead of competing we create the most beautiful bouquet and the we allow those around us to shine as they are.

One of my favorite flowers has to the be the anthurium. I love its heart shaped flower which reminds me that being open is the only way to live life. Yet I know today that if the world were filled with only anthuriums it would soon lose its uniqueness and I would lose interest. When my beloved brings me flowers I love the wide array of color, shape, smell, and beauty of each part of the bouquet. In life, we spend most of our lives trying to conform to what the world is asking from us, rather than asking the world for what we want. As my mother would say we have the cart before the horse.

Today I when I look at a bouquet I look at the sum of it. How well does it flow, what foliage complements the flowers that it surrounds. What has been used as filler, and in a month will I remember the individual flowers, or the fact that my beloved loved me enough to get me flowers? Before my beloved and I discovered each other and I was dating myself purchasing myself flowers was one of the favorite things to do for myself. I would go to the market and find the bouquet that called to my heart and that was the one that I would purchase for myself. I would take them home and present them to myself and know that my beloved (myself) had given me flowers.

For the longest time in my life, I focused on the lack, and what was missing. I didn't have anyone to love. I was all alone. What I didn't understand at the time was that I was creating more of the same. When I became aware that I am never alone and that I have the most loving relationship in the world with myself. It was that moment that allowed me to find the many ways to love, value, and appreciate who I am. It seemed at once when I understood this core value that the entire world became aware I was alive and that I was magnificent.

If the world were filled with only one flower it would be a pretty boring place. This year my beloved, and two very dear friends took at trip to see the tulips fields of Washington. I love the array of color and the row after row of tulip beauty. What I love the most was getting down into the tulips and recognizing that each one of them was very different, unique. At once I was filled with the understanding that as beautiful as all of that was I was deeply grateful for all of the other species of flowers that fill the world today. It was at that moment that I understood that my uniqueness. My beauty is what is needed in the world.

Spend some time with those you love today and recognize that you are a bouquet of flowers each of you shinning as who you are. Enjoy the bouquet.

I love you,

Rev Allen

Who do you see when you look in the mirror?

Who do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you look at yourself the way you would look at someone you love? My beloved is always telling me how sexy I am, and how amazing I look. Many years of my life I couldn't take a compliment if you wrapped it in gold and chained it to my neck. It was in learning to love myself from the inside out that I become open, receptive, and welcoming of love from within that I was able to receive love from others. Today when my beloved tells me I look amazing i smile, because I believe it for myself.  

Day 27: naked trees, what do you love about your body?

Today is Seasons of Change we are asked to do mirror work. Stand in front of the mirror without clothing and take in the beauty of who we are. As I shared in today's reading the first time I did this, I couldn't even look at myself. When I did find the courage to look at myself. I only saw the things I hated about myself. When I talk with my clients about loving themselves so that others can love them they look at me like I am crazy. Today I know from personal experience that this understanding has been one of the greater lessons I have learned on this journey in life.

I have shared that at Amor Spiritual Center we sing Rickit Byars Beckwith song I love myself so much. For me it is the remembrance that in order for me to love you I must first love myself. I am often asked how to do that. This exercise is a great place to start. Create a safe environment for yourself. Lock the door so you feel safe, set the lighting like you would for someone you love, take off your clothing and look at yourself. Notice what your first thought is, it is very revealing of hidden beliefs.

One of the ways that I understand today is that if I look in the mirror a start to critique myself it is a sure sign that I need to spend some quality time loving myself. Most of my life I waited for prince charming to come along and magically make everything just right in my life. Well, in fact he did. It was me! Once I found a way to love myself for who I am, and see the beauty within I was able to love others for who they are. Within months of getting this understanding within my core my beloved and I found each other. And as they say, they lived happily ever after.

Take time to love yourself today and honor the beauty of who you are.

I love you,

Rev Allen

The Power Within The Seed.

Today I know that my greatest potential is unlocked from within. Like that of a seed, when planted in the soil of life it determines what it will be from within. It is the seed that determines the manifestation and the soil simply says yes. I am planted in the futile soil of the divine. What is it that I will unlock within myself today that will allow me to live the life that I have come here to live? What am I willing to let go of so that I can thrive?  

Day 26: Forest, what is your greatest expression? What are you allowing to keep you playing small?

My greatest expression is love. I love that I find new ways each day to love myself and others at a deeper capacity. I love that when I get random calls my first thought is this is my chance to stand in someones greatness. I am living my greatest potential each and everyday. As I evolve and grow I express love at a deeper level.

The reading in Seasons of Change today talks about the power within the seed. Here is this tiny seed that is planted in the soil which has unlimited potential. When I think about this, I know that I am an unlimited seed. I hold within myself unlimited potential to express myself in any way I choose. The work that I am doing today is the work that I come here to do in this life. Loving others and creating safe spaces for us to find and unlock our greater potential. When I think of all those magnificent red wood trees standing so tall creating a safe space for the seeds, and saplings to grow. Today I know that the mother trees are interconnected with the trees around them and they makes sure that everyone gets the nutrients they need. What affects the one affects the whole.

What if we as human nature lived that way in our lives. Where we recognize that what effect me effects you? What if we as a human expression made sure that everyone around us had the nutrients and shelter that they needed to thrive. What an amazing world we could create with this understanding and consciousness. Today I know that I allow fear to block my deeper understanding that I am part of one great whole. When I do this, I am limiting my potential for expressing love.

Today I know that I allow fear, comparison, and regret to keep me playing small. Today I know that any blockage in my life is self imposed. I know that my work is to release all of those blocked spaces so that I can thrive. I know that comparing is my ego's way of creating separation, and feed the old belief that I am not good enough. I know that regret can bog me down quicker than anything. We often think of regret and failure as part of the same continuum. When in fact I know that what it really shows is our growth. We make choices everyday, and then we label them. Today some of the greatest life lessons and growth have come from the things I labeled as failures at the time.

Go within and ask your greater consciousness what is my greatest potential. How can I live more fully from that space? Remember that you are doing the best you know how to do at this moment, and as you know better you can express yourself with greater potential.

I love you,

Rev Allen

Stuck In A Ditch?

What do you do when you are stuck in the ditch? I remembered a time when I was stuck in the ditch many years ago. I blamed everyone and everything I could think of. When in fact I was driving the car and I put myself there. It is really easy to look outside ourselves for what others are doing to impact our lives. When in fact we can choose to look at who we are hanging around and what areas we are driving into. Why would I drive myself to a place that I know that I am not welcomed? When I find myself in a ditch of life, today I call a friend. Ask them for a tow and drive out of that area! Life is way too short to focus on why, and what happened. I can choose to move on. As I drive away from those spaces in my life my mind, body, and soul recognize that I do in fact love myself.  

Day 25: Valley. What is the life lessons that you are experiencing now that will give you momentum to reach your desired destination?

My beloved and I are living life looking into the unknown knowing that it is filled with blessings and abundance for us. I find that so often we will stay in a situation that we dislike, or somewhere we are tolerated rather than stepping through the door of the unknown. I find that when I am willing to let go of the good in my life that even better comes. The transition can appear bumpy at first and then we find our footing and we find that life opens up for us like a flower in bloom.

Over the last few weeks, I have taken the opportunity to look at some deep rooted believes around caution and safety. Fear keeps us playing small, and inadequate when we are destined for brilliance. When we find ourselves in a place where we are simply tolerated we can choose to stay, or set ourselves free and walk into the unknown. Yes, I know it is scary. Yes I know that you don't know what is next. Having your car in a ditch doesn't get you to your destination very quickly. It is time to liberate yourself and move on.

I find that after years of playing victim to life, and blaming everyone for what was happening in my life. It is time that I take responsibility. If I choose to stay it is not the person, place, or thing that is disrespectful to me. It is myself. When I stay where I am tolerated, I hold myself back. When I allow others to talk down to me, dishonor me, and choose to stay the biggest disrespect comes from within.

Live is meant to move us forward. It is our choices to keep us stuck in the ditches on the side of the road looking for someone to blame. Take the lead in your life and surround yourself with people who know your worth.

I love you,

Rev Allen 

I am a "Love Center!"

Knowing myself and how I work is key to opening and allowing myself to transform. Much like the caterpillar searches, for the perfect space to build its cocoon and go within for transformation. I find that creating a safe space when I live to be of the utmost importance. I have expanded that to also create greater community and safe spaces for myself and others as I grow and evolve. Like the caterpillar, once I have that safe space I can go within and do the work that is needed to transform any area of my life.  

Day 23: Beach, where is your safe space? What are you doing to expand that space in your life?

As you read in today's Season of Change reading the beach has always been one of the safest spaces in life for me. When I need to process something I can take it to the ocean and give it to the waves and then wait for the answer that is needed. I can also release any pain, or disease that I have within to the ocean knowing that its transformation power with allow me to release that space within my body.

Creating a safe space for me has always been important. No matter where I have lived or traveled creating home, and a "safe space" has been of the utmost importance. When my beloved and I moved in together for the first time I remember the feeling of being safe. For one of the first times in my life I felt that not only was I at home, and safe with where we lived. I also felt safe my beloved was a safe space.

I talk to clients about how my beloved is one of my safest spaces and that required a great deal of work on my part to release all the places in me that was unwilling to trust another and myself. Today I can say with the greatest of confidence that when I go within that I go to the ocean of love within and there I can find every answer that I desire, and all the love that I need to transform anything in my life.

Having a safe space is one of the foundations of transformation. In order to transform something there is a need to be open and vulnerable. That can be very difficult when we are closed, or live from a fearful place. That is one of the many reasons I love building greater community. Now that I know what it feels like to have a safe space, I want everyone to know and understand that feeling.

I want that so much that we have created Amor Spiritual Center which is a safe space for all. It is a Love Center where others can come and be open and vulnerable. It is my desire to create "Love Centers" all over the world. Today I am happy to say that the greatest joy is finding and knowing that I am a Love Center for myself.

Take some time today and go within and find your safe space and build the perfect Love Center for yourself.

I love you,

Rev Allen

I am willing to let go!

What are you willing to release today so that your mind, body, and soul can be free to live more freely? We are often so busy living in the past or the future that we step right over the present. When we open the gift of each moment, we find that life is full of joy, adventure, and love. Stop for a moment and allow the care of the world to let go. You are safe and you have everything that you need.  

Day 22: Clay, what area of your body do you hold energy? How does it feel when you release it and let it go?

This is an easy one for me, in my shoulders. I love getting a massage from my healing friend Torito. He is very gifted at helping me release the stored energy in my body. Those places where I have been holding energy and become rigid like clay can be painful in the release process. I know that when I stick with it and continue to let go it feels so much better and I feel the freedom of release.

I don't know about you but it feels as if I can carry the world on my shoulders at times. I totally realize today that I have put that burden on myself and that in that moment I am choosing to suffer. I can choose to let go and trust the process and the divine flow anytime I am ready. When I am ready and I go within to release the tension I feel my body take a deep breathe and let go. It is one of the best feelings and yet I choose to pick up the world and put it back on my shoulders.

I do my best to keep my focus on what I want rather than the whys of life. I find that when I do I spend more energy creating what I want rather than more of what I don't want. I find that when I can focus on my breath and follow it in and out as I breathe that I live in the present moment. So much of what we take on in life is some perceived thought that causes us to worry, and be fearful about what is coming next. When we can be fully present in the now moment it serves us so much more.

Today when you find yourself becoming tense, or stiff. Stop, and follow your breath in and out and be in the present moment. You will be amazing at how good it feels to be here now.

I love you,

Rev Allen

I Have Wings and I Can Fly!

We limit our abilities in everyday life. We believe we are restricted by what others have accomplished. Imagine where we would be today if everyone believed that? Would we have cars to travel, phones that ring, computers that connect us, and health care to keep us thriving? Ford, Bell, Jobs, and Williams had to go within and look for the answer and be prepared to stand there doing their best until it manifest as so. What do you hold within you that will transform your life and the lives of countless generations in the future? Live that life, dreams those dreams, and fly!

Day 22: Caterpillar: If you could transform anything in your life what would it be? In what way is life supporting you to make this change? In what way can you support yourself? Journal about what you can do to best support your own transformation?

I love this reading and I have shared it more than any other reading in the book as I have traveled on tours sharing Seasons of Change. I get excited each time I read it for it reminds me that I have the power within myself to transform anything into what I desire. As I recognise this amazing creative power that I have, and become mindful of what I put into it. I become aware that I have all that I need within to transform my life and fly.

The world around me would have me believe that I am limited and that I am only as good as the things I have or the people that I know. When in fact it is all about where I am holding myself, and how deeply I love who I am. For a great deal of my life I spend more time imitating than I did expression who I truly was. I was the best chameleon there was. What ever you needed me to be that is exactly what I was. The only problem with living that life is that it is impossible to continue living that facade.

Today I know that like the caterpillar I have this amazing transformation power within. At this moment, I am living my life to the fullest taking in all that I can. I take the time to go within and know my truth and follow my heart and live each moment to the fullest. I focus my attention on what I think of myself and release the attachments I have of you or your opinion of me. I express myself with all the fullness that I have. Your opinion of me doesn't matter because it has nothing to do with me or the journey that I am on.

When I am ready to transform any part of my life I have no need to look outside for the answers they are all within me. I sit in quiet meditation and go within until I have all the information I need to begin the transformation process. While in the process I love and nurture myself and allow the transformation to take me where I need to go knowing that I am safe and that all is well. When I am ready and only when I am ready do I emerge with wings that will liberate me from my old consciousness and express myself to the fullest ability that I have at this moment.

I am living a life filled with adventure and I know that I have what it take to thrive in all that I do.

I love you,

Rev Allen

What Did I Plant?

It took me a moment to understand the connection between nature and my life. I understood complete that when I plant tomatoes that I will be getting tomatoes. Yet, I missed the connection that when I talk about the old over and over again that I am in fact planting something I no longer want expecting something new. Today I know that to be a definition of insanity. How do we break the pattern of planting the same old thing? We listen to ourselves. We love ourselves enough to talk more about what we want that what we don't want. We ask our friends, and families to support us in this process. We ask them to ask us questions. Do we want more of this, or what would you like in its place. The key to this is shifting the focus of what we don't want to what we do. Share that, talk about that, dream about that, write about that, concentrate on that, and live that until it manifest in your life.    

Day 21: Dirt: What are you co-created in your life? What would you like to co-create with nature today?

Over the last few days, I have talked on the phone, or with clients a great deal. I realize that I am co-creating with life what I want and I am allowing others to do the same in their lives. I love when we sit and listen to others we are part of the great creative process. When I listen to my clients, friends, community members I will often ask are you sure that you want more of this? It is rare that I will ask for the details or for the story. We make it all up anyway based on our perception. I do my best to be the opening for what others want rather than creating more of the same. I understand that we need to release the old pattern by what ever means necessary, yet I know that when we keep telling the same story over and over we are asking for more of the same.

One of the things I co-create in life on a daily basis is that I ask myself when thinking is this what I want in my garden? I love planting flowers and having them share their beauty in the spring and summer. One of my favorite flowers is geraniums I love their deep color red being my favorite of course. When I go to the plant our garden each spring that is what I choose for our garden. How fruitful do you think it would be if I planted pansies expecting geraniums? Yet that is what we do in our everyday lives all the time. We keep telling the old story over and over again to any and every friend that will listen. We sometimes have this one brave friend who will ask us what we want only to be followed by "I don't know?"

The creative process is always creating. ALWAYS! That is one of the many reasons I listen to myself to see what it is I am saying. I ask my clients to do the same. I will be thinking I want something new while all the time telling everyone the same old story. It's like going to a restaurant looking at the menu thinking that looks tasty. However, when the wait staff comes to take our order we are so busy thinking about how much I hate liver. I hate liver, who would ever order liver it is so gross and nasty that we actually order liver. Guess how surprised we are when our meal comes and we have liver. It is at that moment that we often want to say something like I didn't order this! When in fact we were so focused on what we didn't want to order that was exactly what we ordered.

Each day we get a chance to transform our lives. We get to co-create with this amazing creative process. Life is a banquet what will your order today?

I love you,

Rev Allen 

I Set The Pace!

In today's world, it is so easy to get caught up in how fast everyone else is moving. When in fact it has nothing to do with me. We live in such a competitive and comparison world that we have become consumed with who arrives first, being the winning, my award is bigger than yours, and anything other than first place is losing. When we can step back, and move at our own rate of speed we arrive at the perfect time. One of the things that I admire most about who I am it is that when I say that I am going to be somewhere at a certain time that I arrive on time or early. It's not about winning or losing it for me it's about being available when I said that I am going to be available. There are countless times however when I have received criticism and feedback about my compulsion around time. Today I am fully aware that I move at a rate of speed that is different from everyone else. Today I recognize within myself that the rate of speed at which I move is perfect for me. I assume no responsibility for how you view, or receive the way that I am living my life.

Day 20: Snails, what are the importance of being at home within yourself?

Snails get this reputation for moving slowly. My beloved indulged my love of animated films and we went to see the movie Turbo together. I loved the movie and all of the adult life lessons that can be gleaned from it. What is it about moving slowly that is bad? Well, it is not, we have been so accustomed to high speed internet, buy it now, and all of the instant gratification in the world that moving slowly is like not moving at all.

Moving at one own pace is exactly what nature does. With all the climate changes in the world today it often feels like we get all four seasons in one day. You can often hear people here in Seattle say that if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes and you will have something different. Wait? What is that I want it NOW! It isn't that the snail is moving slow. In fact in the world of the snail, it is moving through life with lighting speed. When I think about the movie Turbo that is what comes to mind. It is all about perception.

I am constantly asked for the tools for success from my clients, friends, and community members. I hear a great deal about how folks want things to shift in their lives. I usually start with the truth about how we didn't get here over night and it will most likely take us a moment to find ourselves in a new environment. I ask questions like what are you doing to quiet your mind, and go within? You mean you want me to meditation? I have tried that before and it doesn't work. What are you reading? Who has time to read? I need something that is going to fix this mess!

I can learn a great deal from the snail. Travel at my own pace, find time to rest, and go within for the answer. If I am moving slower than you are that is excellent. If I need to rest and you are the energizer bunny that is excellent as well. If I choose meditation, quiet time, and seek the answers that I need from within that too is excellent. It is not about speed. It is about focus, perspective, and bliss. Can I find a place within myself that is ok with where I am at this now moment? Am I am peace? Am I willing to trust that where I am heading is the right place for me and that it will be there when I arrive. Do I understand at my core level that what is for me will appear at the perfect time, and that no one can take what is mine?

Be mindful of your pace today. Move at the rate of speed that feels right for you.

I love you,

Rev Allen

What's your why?

Why do I get up each day and do this work?  I have never been more alive, more awake, and more aware of the world around me than I am at this moment.  I see beauty in places that I had missed it before.  I am more loving each day because of this work I am more in love with the essence of who I am than ever before.  I want this for everyone, and yet I know that each person must find it in their own time, and in their own way.  I do this work each day so that others know that it is possible, and that it does indeed work.  I want to be the example, and live that which I teach.  I do this work each day because I want to have a part in what happens in my life and I want to show up as love.  I want to get the most out of each day and see all the little things that I have missed in the past, looking either in the past or far off into the distant future.  I love being here with you, looking at life in the eyes saying thank you for the most amazing life ever.  

Day 19: Leaves, create a list of 5 ways you are magnificent. Repeat those to yourself while looking into the mirror.

Why did I write this book? Yesterday I had the honor to sit with another writer and talk about creating a book. I was able to share how important it was to for me to get the first book published, and how I had allowed perfection to stand in the way of that. I was able to share how releasing that work allowed me to open up to this work which allowed the most wonderful book to come through at just the right time.

It was my intention in writing this book to allow myself and others the space we needed to transform our lives. A safe space to look at ourselves and how we are interconnected, and yet individually unique. It was a desire to assist the greater whole in finding, self love, and living the lives that we have all dreamed of. I had a deep desire to go within and find the places in myself that I was holding anything less that magnificent and be willing to let that go so that I could thrive in life.

Little did I know that the words on the pages of this book would indeed be the greatest gift to me that I had ever given myself. That as I turn the pages for the 4th season that I would indeed be transforming my life at a deeper level than I had been able to imagine before. That by doing this work to the best of my ability day after day that the person I am becoming is someone I can, and am very proud of. That today because of this work when I have a day or two when my heart is really heavy that I know what to do to restore myself, and that I know where to focus my energy.

I realize more and more each day that life is way shorter than we imagine it to be at times. Why then would I dare waste any of it doing things that don't bring me joy, happiness, and love. Yesterday I watched the most amazing miracles happening in everyday places, and everyday people loving each other where they are. Because I was open, receptive, and aware that there is good in the world, and I am part of it. I watched another author come alive as she put together what she needed to set herself free. I watched her bloom before my eyes. Love is all around us. It is who we are. It is the one thing that we hold within us each day that will allow us to transform our lives each day.

Open, blossom, grow.

I love you,

Rev Allen

What are you willing to do to change your life?

What do you do in your everyday life to create the life that you want to create? What are you willing to try to make a difference in the way you show up and live your life? What daily activites are you willing to create, what habit, what new way of living with you create that will change the direction, shift your energy, and transform your life. Setting your intention is a great place to start.  

Day 18: Winter, write down an intention for the day. Read it several times throughout the day. Journal about the experience.

What is the importance of intentions? What possible good can come from writing out what you want, it is only going to be more of the same.

When I was first introduced to intentions years ago the above thought would most likely have aligned with my state of thinking. I was however really ready for a change in my life and was willing to try something new. I realized that my life was filled with challenge after challenge and I knew that in order for that to change that something within me had to change as well. I had found the new thought community and I was hearing a great deal about changing your thinking changes your life. I realized that most of my life I had allowed whatever to come into my life and then dwell on the fact that my life was less than stellar.

I was employed by a fortune 500 company with one of the largest territories in the country and yet my personal life was self defeating, lonely, and focused on what "you" thought of me. It had been suggested to me that I read a book by Hick titled "The Amazing Power of Deliberant Intent". I began reading and found myself really pushing back at the beginning going this is really nonsense and what good could this possibly do. I am a person of my word so I persevered and finished the book. While in the process I begin to use some of the techniques that I found in the book. Before I would go into a meeting I would write out what my intention was. I would read it several times before going into the meeting. I was amazing that every time I took the time to do this that is exactly how the meeting would unfold. If I felt it going in another direction, I would open my book and read it again. If need be I would ask to step out of the room for a moment and focus my energy and come back with a renewed intention.

Over the next decade, I took this lesson to heart and allowed it to fill my life with what I wanted, and what I intended rather than what had been filling it before. I begin to realize that I had power in my life and that I could help in this co-creative process of life. I begin to ask my clients, friends, family what their intention was. I use this technique in my day to day life today. Setting an intention is the space with which I align with my highest self and the greater good of the whole. Today I know that setting intention have evolved for me and that I use it in all aspects of my life.

I love you,

Rev Allen 

Why Am I Doing This?

Why do I need to do this work again? I did it yesterday and nothing happened. Why bother? It is really easy to want the magic pill that will help us lose 40 pounds, change the texture of our hair, or kiss the frog and have the handsome prince to arrive. I look at it like this. I have been looking for that pill, hating who I see in the mirror, and let's just say I have kissed a great many frogs. Only to find myself right where I was before. In doing this process, I have found freedom, joy, and movement like never before. Are there days when I miss? Yes! I don't focus on the day or days lost I just begin again. Life will show up and from time to time I will shift my focus. When I find that is happening, I acknowledge it, release it, and return to the work at hand. Being fully present and moving forward with ease and grace. It is easy to choose to dwell on what I may see as failure, when in fact it was just a detour. I am back on the path now, enjoy the moment. Live in it to the fullest. Grow, transform, and love who you are.  

Day 17: Moss. Where are you in your 90 day commitment? Write down three things you can commit to daily that will grow the transformation you are seeking? What are some of the opportunities that have arisen in your 90 day journey?

I really love this process and how it is working in my life. Having done this process for 3 complete seasons and now in my fourth season I realize that I like nature can indeed transform anything in my life that I wish to. It is a matter of focusing my energy and putting my power in the direction that I wish to go rather than where I have been. It is so easy to constantly look behind at the past and dwell there. That is not the direction that I am going. I wouldn't drive my car looking constantly in the rear view mirrors?

What are three things that I can commit to daily that will grow the transformation that I am seeking?

1) I will commit to doing this work daily. I will do the exercises in the book and I will go within and find the answers that I seek. I will allow this book to take me through a day to day journey to transformation. I will allow the process to help me to keep my focus on where I am going rather than looking at where I am been.

2) I will set aside some time each day just to be quiet. I will find at least 5 minutes each day where I sit quietly and listen. I will allow the chatter in my mind to do what it does, I will acknowledge it, release it, and return to the quiet. I will start where I am and do this practice knowing that it will indeed create a safe space for me to transform my life. I will grow this practice as I feel that I am ready to commit to more time. The key is consistency.

3) I will give gratitude for what I have, and where I am at this now moment on a daily basis. I will be present with the truth that when I find something to be grateful for that is the opening for more joyous, loving, abundance to enter my life. I will release the desire to compare and compete with others and enjoy the uniqueness of who I am. I will be fully present in the day giving thanks as I go along.

What are some of the opportunities that have arisen in your 90 day journey?

It is so easy in the transformational process to do the daily activity as well as not do it. That is the beauty of this process. We are often taught that if we work really hard we will arrive at our destination. Nature however does it growth easy, slowly, lovingly enjoying each moment. Doing the same thing over and over again expressing itself to the fullest at that moment. Nature doesn't compare itself to the flower, tree, moss next to it, it simply lives in the moment to its greatest ability. We as human nature have been taught that pushing our way through, making something happen is the way. When in fact the law of motion states that what I push against will push back with equal or greater force. When I relax, enjoy the moment transformation happens with ease and grace. I am not resisting where I am. Nor am I attached to where I will be tomorrow. Where I am is where I need to be in this process, and as I show up in my magnificence I allow this process to flow with ease. Tomorrow I will enjoy that moment just as I am this one.

Where will you put your focus today?

I love you,

Rev Allen

The face of Love!

Who do you see looking back at you when you look in the mirror? For years, all I could see were flaws, blemishes, and self hate. Doing mirror work over and over again, along with these daily practices has changed my life. My eyes softened, my heart opened, and I began to see who I really am. Love! I know some of these daily activities may appear silly, and you may ask why bother? That is the point. It is the things that we do day in and day out that create the lives we want to live each day. Today when I look in the mirror I can look myself in the eyes. Smile, and say I love myself. That is growth at a core level of my life. Today I don't look for anything other than beauty, joy, happiness. This is transformational growth at a level that I have not experienced any where else. Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror today and see what and who you see looking back. 

Day 16: Mist, mirror work, stand in front of a mirror and recognized the beauty of who you are.

Do I have to? Why do I have to look at myself in the mirror? I can tell you about all the flaws without looking.

Today when I looked in the mirror I noticed my beautiful eyes. They are an amazing shade of blue and they are so loving and kind. I love today, that when I look in my eyes I can see what others see. Compassion, love, acceptance, and safety. I noticed a change in my face and the way it has transformed over the last 3 seasons. I noticed my smile and how wonderfully it illuminates my face. I took in the fullness of my body, my skin, my hair and with heartfelt gratitude as I told myself how proud I am of who I am and what I am doing in my life today.

Today I looked deeper than the outside surface of the persona that I represent and looked at the beauty of my soul and what it brings to the world. I experienced love in a deeper capacity than ever before. I felt love, deep abiding love for who I am, and for what I bring to the world. I felt open and receptive. I felt the changes that have been made in my day to day life showing up in the reflection of the mirror of life today.

I have shared my journey with mirror work with Seasons of Change and how when I first started I would find every flaw, every blemish. I have shared the before and after pictures of my journey into health and wellbeing. It is easy to see the dramatic changes that have occurred over the last 3 season of my life. It is often easy to recognize the visible changes but what about those changes that have occurred due to the new thoughts, new beliefs, and new habits that have been created in my mind and soul. What of the calm that is my essence today. Today when I looked in the mirror at who I am, I experienced a feeling of calm, peace, love, and joy that I had not before.

Looking in the mirror today, I saw love looking back at me. Now that is growth from the inside out.

I love you,

Rev Allen

I am LOVE!

What do I bring to the table of life? LOVE! Each day I make my life work about removing any place within my life that may be resistant to love. I go within and look for ways to grow, expand, and evolve. That is after all why I come here. Oh the world would have me believe that it was to be this, or that when in fact it is to be love. All the other stuff that I choose to take on is really a diversion from my real work which is to be love. When I can look within and find the places that are resistant and clear them an open the windows of my soul and allow love to flow in and out of my life that is when I am the most free to be the expression of love that I come here to be.  

Day 15: Mountains, create a list of 5 of your greatest qualities.

How does creating a list about my greatest qualities help me transform my life? How does looking at nature help me transform my life? How does looking for the good in life help me transform my life?

All of these are excellent questions. One of the things I know and understand today is how things are interconnected. When I can see the beauty in nature that means I am open at that moment to see it within myself as well. It is impossible for us to recognize something in another that we in fact do not possess within us. I am aware that the thing that I see in others that really irritates me is a quality that I have. I also know that when I see something amazing in someone that I too have that quality as well. Why is it that the irritant is so much easier to see? I think the answer is that we are taught to look for the flaws, defects, and errors in life. What if we just admired something for its beauty that includes all of those things as well.

I have a wonderful Native American friend who shared with me the story of how his tribe honors thing that is broken, or cracked and holds them as the most sacred items they possess. The belief is that the crack, or flaw is the point at which the great Spirits enter the vessel. I love that. Let's look at nature for a moment. In order for the seed to germinate it must crack open from the inside and expose itself to the soil and the warmth of the sun in order to become what it destined to be. So all of those amazing places within our lives that we so often worry about are the spaces in our lives where we allow our greater selves to enter.

Learning to honor myself and the qualities that I hold within in one of the greatest lessons on the path to self love, self discovery, and self worth. When I can go within and see the beauty that I bring to the world the entire world is shifted. Once I see it within myself, I can better see it within you.

List 5 of my greatest qualities.

1) The way I loved myself.

2) The way I loved others.

3) The way I loved with a compassionate heart.

4) That I lived a transparent life.

5) I am a great skipper.

I love loving you,

Namaste`

Rev Allen