I LOVE Mama Gena…. and she happily sends out a regular newsletter…. check out this gem below fora new twist on how you present yourself… Mama says “It was a love letter to myself, composed with heart and haste, in service to all that lay before me on this most mundane, yet sacred, day in my life.”

Consider what in your wardrobe serves you… what expresses your essence… what works for you and with you in your mundane and sacred life?

A Haiku to My Beauty | Mama Gena Moments

So, this morning, I had to run to Brooklyn, before my first meeting, to drop off Maggie at a friend’s house for a play date. We were due at her friend’s at 9 a.m., meaning we had to leave our house at 8 a.m. And I woke up at 7:30.
Not good.
That meant no shower, no clean hair, no breakfast, no coffee.
But the one thing I would not give up for lateness was fashion.
Nor would Maggie.
She and I have our priorities straight.
Fashion can lift me from despair, into poetry.
From crankiness, into humor.
From pathetic, to divine.
How?
Well, it is my little time to flirt with my circumstances.
I put on a skirt that I once wore on the Today Show to remind me that, even in my having-overslept haste, I am a star. I wanted to tone down the glamour of the skirt, so I put on a pair of flat brown riding boots that can stand a fast hike to the A train. Some crocheted tights for a flirt at the hemline. I popped on a dark brown sweater, to pay tribute to the fall day. And a gold necklace that the man I had dreamt about last night once gave me.
So, my outfit was a little dialogue with me, by me, and for me.
It was a love letter to myself, composed with heart and haste, in service to all that lay before me on this most mundane, yet sacred, day in my life.
A haiku to my beauty.
A tipping of the hat to all I am, and all I stand for.
I was perfectly dressed for my office, all my meetings, my trip to the dermatologist, doing homework with Maggie, and my downtown dinner at a hot restaurant with a client.
The power of fashion is so potent it can make messy hair seem purposeful.
And it can keep me on track with recognizing the absolute best about me, which allows me to interface with the world in a better, more gracious, more me, way.
See, the whole idea of the ­Womanly Art of Owning your Beauty ­is not to make you, or me, or any of us, beautiful. We already are.
It is to give us a way of remembering the truth in a world that does not encourage a woman to face the fact of her beauty in a consistent way.
That is the gift of fashion, as far as I can figure.
And it is why I am so delighted with this issue of the newsletter.
Check out your closet today. Make up a little poem, a little haiku, a little love letter to yourself from whatever you find in there. Each of us is always just a few decisions away from being a living monument to our own beauty.

This is an article from ‘Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts Newsletter.’ For more from Mama Gena check out: http://www.mamagenas.com/

A quote by Denis Waitley..

Since the mind is a specific biocomputer, it needs specific instructions and directions. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

This great article (link below) breaks down what the brain is doing and some of the science behind visualization AND includes great ideas you can implement into your visualization practice.

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Let me know what you think or share your visualization practices.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – A quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Gray twilight… not a place where JOY exists.  Gray twilight says to me daily grind, reacting… coming from a place where you are totally at the effect of circumstances.  Circumstances like not enough time, not enough money, and lots and lots of SHOULDS.

Notice today when you are in the gray twilight.  Notice first.  Then physically shake it off… shrug your shoulders or wiggle in your seat a bit.

Find your way back to a place of choice.

You might ask yourself, “What commitment brings me to take this action?”  Sometimes, simply presencing ourselves to the “mighty things” we are committed to, brings us back out of the gray into the color.

If you can’t seem to presence yourself to a commitment, choose something different.  Choose to “dare mighty things”.  You’ll be delighted and surprised at the color and the JOY that’s available from that place.

Have other ideas moving out of Teddy Roosevelt’s gray twilight?  Please share them!

ONE day, a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”

The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”

“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish?” You can’t possibly make a difference!”

After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said…

“Made a difference for that one.”

Adapted from The Starfish Story by Loren Eiseley

Where do you let what seems reasonable?   What is your heart asking you to do in the face of your head telling you it’s not practical, it won’t make a difference or some other such limiting story.  What can you do today that will make a difference for ONE?

A thought provoking quote by Marilyn Ferguson:

“It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear… It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.”

What’s your Linus Blanket?

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I write this from my recently re-located, re-floored, re-doored and re-painted office.  What started out as a simple move of my office from one room to another turned into a remodel once we found the floor had rotted out (and fixing it meant replacing the door…)

Thank you for the lesson in being unstoppable… and for getting to practice keeping good humor despite issues turning up at every turn.

My reward is having a beautiful, sacred space to do this sacred work I love so much.

I’m luxuriating in the lovely, clean space which has a view of old growth trees and the occassional four legged creature walking by…. AHHHHHH.  Delicious.