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Dance and then Dance More

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt.

Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.”

-Mark Twain

The music is so loud the ground vibrates, my feet start to move to the vibration, my hips take off and my arms swing my body into action.

There Is no worry to the direction, no resistance to the song.

Only the reflection in the window shows me I am truly there.

The vision started young, the dream never died, the desire deep inside.

When the dream came alive, a dancer, a  dance teacher, a studio and my dream, they all arrived as a team.

Lessons, dance shoes, lights and action.

A strong dancing leader whips me from side to side as if

the music had total control.

My mind is lost in the freedom of movement, I am in complete balance with the moment and energy.

No worries exist.

I feel the breeze from the movements brush my face.

Sweat rolls down my back and I can no longer feel my feet.

My smile has been locked on for hours, never fading even when the music fades.

The movement, moment and feeling last forever, I feed it, fuel it, remember it and strive to be with it even when I’m still.

I’m free, I feel, I breathe, I know.

Never give up, keep dancing!

Seeking and Never Finding

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

He who comes to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

Rabindranath Tagore

Do you seek love and never find it?

People who can respond and receive love on a regular basis are the people who never lose sight

of the abundant source they draw from.

We are love and when we accept that and

allow that, we receive it.

Finding love, being in love and wanting to be loved is what we all want.

Seeking and never finding happens when we look outside of love.

You won’t see what’s in front of you if you are always looking over the horizon.

Be cheerful when life is difficult, patient when others are impatient, and loving when others respond other than loving.

Love is you, you were born out of love, a miracle you are, you don’t have to seek it,

when you accept you are love then love will always be there.

I read this today, love is what’s left over when falling in love fades away because love is an endless source.

Ask a child what love looks like and there you will see

love.

Love is in the little things we give, our last bite of food, holding hands, smiling,

listening as if the person you hear is all that exists, eating good food, allowing healing, crying, laughing

sharing, caring, giving, understanding, compassion, empathy, encouragement and so much more.

Love is in the flow of the river, the ocean, the wind, the rain, the sandy beaches.

Love is when you see your child smile at you.

Love is when you give unexpectedly and without expectation.

Love is selfless and never keeps score.

Love is when the sun shines on you.

Love is always true or it’s not love at all.

Don’t seek love, be love.

Meditate or Debate

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

 Oliver Wendell Holmes

A bonfire in the night, burning at its highest and hottest.

With just the right piece of wood added, it goes to heights seemingly endless.

I remember as a child sitting too close to the hot rocks surrounding the fire and melting the soles of my shoes.

I would fixate on the flames and heat so deeply that I didn’t blink for minutes it seemed.

 I would literally disappear

into the intense feeling of the heat that radiated through me.

I was meditating at the time and

I had no idea.

The debate inside feels somewhat equivalent to me at times.

 My experience in moving from the debate to meditate

depends on the information you throw on the flames.

Are you enjoying and feeling the flames as a spectator and monitoring the fire, or have you stepped in the

fire and stopped monitoring the flames.

You can skyrocket an emotion, memory or moment to last

as long as you choose it to.

You can feed the fire, or you can monitor the fire.

You can stroke it, move it, sit by it, get burned by it,

enjoy it, reflect on it, feel it, talk to it , love it , leave it

or carefully and with caution you can allow it to cool down

then turn to ash and allow it to be part of the new soil.

Enjoy the new growth that is abundantly waiting.

Its a new day allow Sunshine in!

In your head or in your heart?

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist,

we create it.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

-Nikos Kazantzakis

Until recently (as in today) I have been told  I am all about thinking from the heart.

Today I was told to get out of my head and into my heart.

I  just got back from the gym, I was pumped and ready for my day.

I had a coaching call in one hour

and I was going to take a shower and silence my workout energy and be centered.

So, I was thinking this in my head anyways.

Then I looked at my phone and a message came in and said, our meeting is in 7 minutes.

Who made the timing mistake, I thought to myself?

Did it really matter?

It wasn’t me, it was a world class coach.

We all make mistakes.

What I learned next and more importantly was this, his ability to acknowledge his mistake and

his calm reaction and ability to move on to what mattered.

 I said,” Let me hear it coach, whats next for me?”

“I have my vision for two years done, I have my schedule written and on track, I have

this, that and the other thing done.”

RIGHT then I was interrupted, stopped in my tracks and immediately redirected,

“Wait, stop, you need to slow

down and breathe.”

What?

Oh yes, the very act I have been practicing daily.

Slow down, take time to be and take time to breathe.

The next words he said were pivotal,

“get out of your head and into your heart.”

What,

I said to myself in my defensive self talk?

I was completely out of my heart and into my head and didn’t even realize it.

It took me  about 10  minutes of meditation and guidance to get into my heart and out of my head.

My inner dialogue had taken over and started to defend itself with,

“I just got done working out”, “the call came an hour early I wasn’t ready”, blah blah blah.

I stopped that false self talk in my tracks, and this is what I made a decision to say to myself in seconds,

” your in this to win this”,

“listen to direction”,

“allow

someone to care for you and allow yourself to receive”.

“Top Performers receive Top Performer guidance.”

As soon as I allowed that, his response was exactly what took me to the next level.

He said,” your safe with me.”

“Safe”

Once I was in my heart again and felt safe, the magic happened, calmness, love, acceptance, peace and healing.

He then said to me, “Its time to heal”,

I kept my eyes closed but those words drilled into my heart to the depth of my core.

It followed with emotion and tears I can’t explain, there were no specifics surrounding the tears,

just that they wanted to be there and I needed to allow it.

Our head can make decision just as well as our heart, however the heart

knows exactly where you want to be.

We can all get stuck in our head ,when we direct back to the heart, it all becomes clear again.

Breathe, it’ll take you there!

Sending a piece of my heart your way!

Fuel for Thought

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

What if every morning you decided with fierce intention this was going to be a fantastic day?

Do you live your life waiting or looking for happiness?

Are your responses and reactions in line with your intentions?

The Sunshine project will be a continual challenge to your thoughts as well as continual information that will help direct your path to live everyday with passion and tenacity.

Every morning can start with a smile and everyday there are a million things to be in gratitude about.

What if you just took 5 minutes to write down all the things you were grateful for and you did this everyday?

Do you think this could start to change your life?

I promise you it will change your life and I also promise you , you will not run out of things to be grateful for. You will start to live in the gratitude of every breath and every moment, when you run out of people and material things to write, you have to start digging deep for more and noticing more and allowing yourself more. Abundant thoughts are on their way.

Hang on tight for daily Sunshine, I will be shining light on all areas of life, health, fitness, food, skin, finance and family.