Being satisfied does not mean that you will not improve. Being content does not mean that you are never going to move into something better. It does not mean that you stop reaching for better things, better thoughts, better feelings, better you. It does not mean that somehow you have resolved yourself to 'no more', or that your desire for improvement has been shelved.

It does mean that you recognize that the space you are in, in this moment, can feel good, as it is.

It is the choice to allow "good enough" to flow for a while. It is putting down the striving and working toward something different than what you have, or different than who you are, and instead being okay with the now as it is... with YOU as you are.

Even more than okay, it is the breath of acknowledgment that there is no 'destination' as such, only the present.

In practicing feeling into the contentment of your present, it allows for an expanded feeling of satisfaction when you actually do arrive at a 'new destination' or goal.

To be able to feel and appreciate yourself within the context of the journey, is to expand overall contentment.

As with anything, practice is the key. If you cannot allow yourself to feel the small 'successes', the small daily expressions of your life, the small places of contentment,  how will you be able to feel the bigger ones? How will you know to stop and celebrate, or to be satisfied as you move into your future?

To practice contentment and satisfaction, is to be in the flow of knowing not only your "okay-ness", but also your Divinity - your Divine nature, your "I Am" presence.

To be content is to set aside for a moment, your longing for something different. To set aside the yearning for the "better". To stop chasing the "proof" of your worthiness and value. It is to demo the structure that houses disappointment.

That yearning for something "more" is fine, it is an innate part of our human desire to create and expand. But, if it is at the expense of your satisfaction, if it constantly blocks your contentment, it is time to re-evaluate.

It is possible that the "MORE", is really a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Instead of more being true self alignment, it is a front for, "I'm not good enough!" "My life is not living up to the expectations set." "Something must be wrong with me." "I am getting it all wrong." and even, "Things aren't how I think they should be, so demanding more, in a louder way, or working harder must be the answer!"

Society, old thought patterns, habits, trauma triggers, and safety mechanisms, all have a way of making satisfaction feel like "settling". They have a sneaky way of making contentment seem like you aren't doing enough to "hustle".

For now, challenge those ideals.
Actively look for where things feel satisfying in your day. Actively focus on small things that feel like contentment, on places where maybe you can be content with yourself for a bit.

As you do so, you begin to turn those outdated, old drivers into quiet passengers. Pretty soon you will find the horizons of the journey have opened up. The path begins to unfold in more peaceful ways. The beauty of the unfolding begins to present itself to you, and the feeling of "success" becomes part of you, not something outside of you.

So here's to satisfaction and contentment. Here's to small commitments and tiny steps that lead to big fulfillment and wonderful change.

Here's to just being satisfied a bit more - not a big jump to joy - just satisfied. Here's to being content a little more often. To being in that peaceful place of enough for right this second.

Here's to the gentle process of alignment that is fully satisfying.
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Release the past.
Start from scratch.
This is a fresh path.

Yes, you have gathered the tools, gifts, and insight you need as you moved through the 'past' up to now.
Yes, it seems as if this is a continuation of that journey since you are still travelling in your current body. 

It is not.

This is a new journey.
You have emerged from the cave of years of hibernation. More than sleep, you wrestled with the dark dreams of dark days past. You fought the demons of past systems and energies meant to keep you "safe", but that really kept you shackled.
You have won.

Do not go back into the dark thinking there is more to wrestle. The lower energies would have you believe that they are powerful, powerful in their make believe story that you are stuck or unfinished. They are not.

By all means go into the dark places as guided or as you choose, but go as one sovereign and victorious. Not as one still anticipating and participating in the fight.

Be clear, you have won.

Did you win because you were a stronger fighter? A more diligent or worthy opponent?
No.

You won because you found that the healing and victory over past creations is through Re-Creation!
Inside the cave, you allowed yourself to use the process of Creation and in doing so the old story has lost its place as the script and map to your life.

When our heart and creative power grows, the old processes and creative templates can become painful in order to remind us not to use them anymore. Thank them and the pain for the reminder that you are a powerful creator.

Just because pain, or 'limitation', or fear, or old thoughts do not go away, does not mean you are doing something wrong, or that you are not a powerful creator! On the contrary, often they are there to allow you to practice and see how powerful you are!  

Remember, the 'goal' is to not to create something to make the pain or limitation go away, that is the 'old' way, the 'goal' is to know your creative power NO MATTER WHAT IS SHOWING UP! ...To keep creating past all the limitation, instead of letting it stop you as 'proof' that you must be less powerful than you thought.

​Determination, will, and blatant compassionate acceptance, these are the tools on this new road of creation. Do not stop to say, "See here is 'proof' that I am getting this wrong!" 
Nope.
You are SO powerful that all those creations of 'proof' are just that...
Your own creations!!

If you can practice this acceptance, you can stop judging those creations and move into the wisdom of your next powerful creation!
Do not get sidetracked by what you see or even 'feel'! Go deeper, go higher, go to the drawing board and create anew. Do not get stuck creating from the past. Let the creations move through you as part of a bigger expression of Possibility. 

USE YOUR PHYSICAL BODY AS A BALANCED CATALYST FOR CREATION. 

Do not forget your body in the process of higher creation. It is not innately lower or limiting energy! It is made to facilitate the elastic energy of "reality" and to help 'bend' physical time and space in order to facilitate further creation! 
(There is a reason Yoga has collectively become so popular on the planet.)

Your physical body is a partner and catalyst in the expression of your ongoing, powerful creations... 
No matter how painful or pain-free it is.
No matter how healthy or unhealthy it seems.
No matter how young or old it is.

Finally, give yourself permission to release your parents, release your siblings, your family, your relationships, your institutions, your educators, your violators, your abusers, your captors, your injustices, your illnesses, your teachers, your partners, your leaders, your gurus, your pastors, your children, your stories, your creations... yourself.
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Give yourself permission to open a compassionate heart to a powerful new story. These are not platitudes or placation. This is the powerful work of a new kind of forgiveness through creation.

You get to reclaim meaning.
Meaning belongs to you and you belong here as a powerful creator.

You chose and were chosen.
You represent the power of Oneness, of Singular Creation.

Go Create.

​​What an interesting Paradox...
The game of life is a push and shove
The finest gift of drunken purity,
The finest shift of sober reality
Always moving this way and that,
Always staying on the same circle
The spiral of relationship, the spiral...
Fabulous communication fraught with
Distress and intense connection.
What curse?

What gift...
What creation of, of, of...
Low battery.
You can do better.
You can create, you can.
Here I am.
What gift, what g.i.f.t.
Here and now.
I don't know a thing
Except what I create next.
What I create.
It is all a new scene, a new start, a new this and that and the other and forward motion.
Back to the beginning and around again.
What do I know.
What an interesting paradox.
Here I start, at the end.
Cold.
Tears and years and not any more understanding of the process than when I began.
Fuck it.
Here it is.