26 years ago when I got pregnant with my first born I gave up TV. My intention was to do so for my baby. I missed it (mostly Seinfeld) for about four days. Then not at all. Never looked back. Your inner being never looks back and I live about 90-95% of my life in the Vortex from the viewpoint of my inner being.* Come to my house some time (which I named the happy white pineapple 😊✨🌟💫🍍) and you’ll see what I’m talking about (lots of sparkles, glitter, twinkle lights, confetti, cupcakes and happy stuff all over). My dear friend @WendyAbrams’ daughter said when visiting (she was about 12), “Everything in this house is so playful.”
Yup. 😊
But I digress. About 15 years after giving up TV I bought a wide screen for my HH so he could watch movies on a big screen. We still didn’t “have tv” but over time this show and that show found its way onto that big screen via the internet (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, The Goldbergs).
Fast forward to Barrington Rhode Island in the now. We have a few wide screens and I have surrendered to (aka let go of resistance against) most things, including TV, Netflix, Apple TV, cooked food and animal products. And it feels good. Why? Because releasing resistance always feels good.
I still don’t sit in front of a screen much, if ever, not because I am resisting it but because I am just drawn to other things. No judgment. My Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 are all different regarding their relationship with the screens. My youngest chicken, Montana (age 12, youngest by four minutes), has never liked TV - just has no interest. Not in movies, either. Once we took him to Disney on Ice and he slept through the whole thing. LOL 😂😂!! He’d rather be solving math problems (like really). He just finished Calculus on Khan Academy…his choice. That’s fun for him. The others have varying levels of interest in screens and it’s all good! ❤
Sometimes my boy Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 and HH are watching something all cozied up in the living room and I just wanna join in on the energy of it. So last night I did.
They were watching “the new Kevin Hart movie,” and I asked, “Will I like it?” to which my HH replied, “I dunno, maybe….” So I dove in.
Well, I didn’t like it.
Not. One. Bit.
It was so violent - from the very first scene - that my skin was crawling. I was like, “OMG!!” and Dakota said, “Mom, you better leave the room - now.” (adorable)
So I left, did some stuff and came back to say goodnight later. I was sitting on the couch confirming my coaching clients for today and looked up for an instant and the scene was even more gruesome than the one I’d seen earlier, and I gasped. To which Curly bear🐻❤️ (Phoenix, age 15) quipped, “Well, Mom, you’re the one who’s IN here.” Touche’. 😆 I chose to be there, so suck it up buttercup - or leave the room. I have a choice.
So off I went to snooze. I made a choice to take my hand off the hot stove.
I woke up this morning at four am to practice Prana Power Yoga ✨🙏🏻✨ and whoa, I was so out of it because I had had the worst dreams. So unlike me.
Yup, you get what you think about.
I got on my mat and breathed away the resistance and then meditated and felt better. After I saw my 6:30 am client and got my Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 on the bus I met my good friend for a beach walk in the rain. She said, “Oh look! A windbreaker I have never seen! I can wear this!” (She found it in her trunk, her husband’s car. He does lighting for movie sets).
What was written on the black windbreaker? “THE BOSTON STRANGLER”
I immediately blurted out, “Oh, I wouldn’t wear THAT wind breaker….” She comes back with how it’s not hers and she’s never seen it before and why does it matter? You can imagine what I said (Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 101).
Then I caught myself and said, “Whatever, let’s let it go and move on.”
Half way through the walk it hits me! The Kevin Hart movie! (It was called “The Man From Toronto”) The nightmares! And now…”The Boston Strangler” windbreaker!
The Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 is always at work. I am obsessed with it (since age 5) and I teach, coach and write about it daily and I missed it! For a moment.
My friend and I had a good laugh and the contrast taught me, as it always does.
Contrast is fertilizer for growth. It is a jumping off point for clarity. Don’t you just love that? If you can embrace the contrast, you have reached Step 5! Wahoooo!! 😊🌟✨💫
👆🏻*If you want to learn how to live this way as well - 90-95% of your life in ease, joy, love, excitement, happy expectation, satisfaction, relief and peace, otherwise known as “The Vortex” - message me to hear about my Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 Coaching. I have a wait list but slots open up regularly and also, as part of my coaching practice and to give back I offer one Pro Bono Coaching session per week to someone who comes to me in meditation. LMK if you would like to be put on a wait list for a Pro Bono Coaching session.