Dr. Gail Brenner

Sacred Space for Awakened Living

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Archives for February 2012

Your Guide to Everyday Joy


Tending Your Garden of Everyday Joy: 30 Reflections for a Flourishing Life. This is the title of the new ebook I wrote, and I am happy to give it to you for free.

All you need to do is click here sign up for the mailing list, and, you will receive a link where you can download it. And if you are already on the list, you will receive the link, too. It is my gift to you because I appreciate your support of what I offer here at A Flourishing Life.

I love this book because I designed it to be very useful for you. Really, it tumbled out of my heart and onto the page. It contains 30 short passages that you can reflect on, study, then diligently apply to your own life.

Here is #22, From Unworthiness to Wholeness:

A pattern of thinking that is way too common these days involves people feeling that they are lacking, unworthy, or insufficient. This is a story that masks the magnificence of who you truly are.

If this story defines you, consider leaving it behind and walk out into the light of your full potential. Be loving and kind toward yourself whenever the story appears, but be ruthless in realizing, over and over, that it is not the reality of you.

Somehow you learned to believe that you are limited. Pull this weed from your garden, and create the space for your unique creative self to shine.

Can you live from wholeness today?

In a way, everyday joy is serious business. It invites you to stay very aware of the choices you make – and you make millions of them every day – so that you can stay connected with what you really want.

This is not a book of affirmations or trite suggestions. It offers what you need to know so that you can live the moments of your precious life in everyday joy.

I recommend that you take your time with these reflections. Stay on each one as long as you feel moved to – a day or a week – and return to them often.

It seems easy to forget your true magnificence when thoughts and feelings take hold. This book is about remembering. Remembering who you are – truly magnificent you.

Make everyday joy a priority, and you will see results – every day.

I’d love to hear your feedback, so feel free to comment once you’ve taken a look.

Love,
Gail

The Power of Vowing

“I pledge to meet you with openness and acceptance in the moments of our life together.”

These are the words that my partner and I will be saying to each other at our wedding ceremony next Friday. Yes, I’m getting married, and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it.

The process of creating our ceremony has been revealing in unexpected ways. Over the years, I have made commitments to myself, but speaking a vow to my beloved in front of our family and friends is potent.

After all, I live with a great deal of integrity, so if I make a vow, I intend to keep it.

But I want this vow to be freeing – not loaded with should’s and feeling like a prison. So I take it as an expression of my deepest desire: to meet all of life with openness and acceptance.

Which includes being open and accepting of myself when I fall short.

You can think of it this way: the noun “vow” is lived as a verb. It is a living, breathing, spacious, loving way of being.

So I invite you to fill in the blank: I vow to….

Take your time with this. Get quiet, bring your attention inside, and let the answer come from the deepest part of your being.

Then watch how your life aligns in unimaginable ways.

Years ago I gathered my fragmented life and committed to knowing the absolute truth, no matter what. Some areas are still a work in progress, but here I am, marrying a man who is amazing, and the right match for me, beyond anything I could have ever dreamed up.

All I can say is, “Thank you.” I am on my knees with gratitude.

Have the courage to state what this life is about. Be conscious, awake, and infinitely loving. Every moment is more precious than you could ever know. Make a vow, and you won’t miss out on what you have been given.

Now it’s your turn. What do you vow to? Say it in the comments below, let it be known with all of us as witnesses. Then live it, and the rest will be taken care of perfectly.

Love to you,

Gail

PS: I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off, and I’ll be back with you later in February.

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