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The Action of Appreciation

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Newport Bridge, Rhode Island

 

 

Fish don’t know water is wet!

 

Sometimes the most valuable things in our lives are not “out there” or “someday”.

 

Most times they are right here and right now.

 

We need to witness our worths in order to move them into our reality so we can Act on them and release their Appreciation into our lives.

 

This movement from obscurely aware to full on contact appreciation is the HorsePower of life that releases the gifts right in front of our noses and delivers them into the full light of mattering.

 

Today was another example of life being as obvious as the nose on my face – the only problem being I rarely notice my nose unless I’m shaving or plucking nose hairs.

 

 

I have lived in beautiful Rhode Island for 56 years and have enjoyed my fair share of its natural wealth and beauty. My satisfaction though, has kept me from exploring other opportunities to sense what other gems of the senses are in my back yard.

 

Not today, Today I acted on my vocalized desire of “Someday” I would like to kayak in Ninigret pond.

 

At the bridge that crosses over the union of Green Pond and Ninigret pond in Charlestown RI there is a quaint and quite convenient Kayak rental facility that I’ve observed for the past 15 years,  always saying, “Someday it would be great to rent one of those Kayaks and explore the pond.”

 

 

Well today I ACTED on my vocalized desire and did exactly that.

 

At 10:30 AM, Katleen and I put on our life vests, mind you the average depth of the pond is only 4 to 6 ft and with todays low tide it was more like 4 to 6 inches in many places. I’m not usually one for the restriction of life vests and today it did not matter because the Act of Appreciation was flowing through everything I was doing.

 

We got the formal directions from the happy tanned attendant and off we went. We had rented the Kayaks for 2 hours and wanted to see all we could in that time or at least I have a memory of an old story that no longer serves me echoing that in the back of my mind.

 

What really took place after we went under the bridge was a slowing down of time and an amplifying of appreciation for natures beauty in the place I call home. (Which I’m discovering more and more or as I Act on my Appreciation.)

 

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Kayaking Ninigret Pond towards East Beach

 

There is quote from Albert Einstein: ” Nothing happens till something moves”

 

We were moving and it was happening.

 

If you told me I was in the Everglades or even Hawaii, I would have said, “here is better, ” because here is home and here is now and here I am and here we are.

 

The temperature was 79 degrees, the water was clear, the fauna and flora of these two salt ponds were abundant in the form of fish, crustaceans, birds, AND happy smiling humans and their canine aquatic companions.

 

 

We kayaked through the channels to the breakwater where the pond emptied into the Atlantic Ocean. We grounded our kayak on a remote sandy shoal that today was abound with many types of water transportation devises carrying more of those happy humans who today also decided to act on their appreciation’s.

 

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floating above wildlife, surrounded by wildlife.

 

After landing our craft of appreciation on the beach we ventured afoot to the Eastern most portion of East Beach.  Three miles of beach and 12 people as far as the eye could see.

 

Warm, clear aquamarine colored water, cool breeze, light waves and endless sun and only 12 appreciators on the beach while over 100 were only 200 yards away.

 

Kat went in for a swim,  her first on this side of the Atlantic pond this Summer. We drank in the beauty, knowing we will be back soon with Brenda Lee, Kylian, Eddie, Red Dog, and Lucy.

 

We looked forward, toward our next walk on the beach transformational workshop on Oct 26 and headed back to our trusted aquatic appreciation transportation device, our Kayak!

 

We made our way back to the rental facility already planning our time here with Kat’s parents who will be visiting from Belgium this September.

 

We both decided that we will need our own Kayaks for next summer as well as two paddle boards.

 

As we sat on the tailgate of the truck eating our salads, we noticed all the out of state license plates in the parking lot.

 

There were far more out of state plates than in state, only proving once again that we don’t always appreciate what is in our own back yard because fish don’t know water is wet.

 

It was only through  Acting with the HorsePower of Appreciation that the Action of this moving experience is now part of our experiential memory and its sensory awareness is now already seeking it’s Next

 

I hope you move beyond words of observation and ACT on your appreciations today, tomorrow, any day, but never someday.

 

Feel the Connection

Make your Move

Create that Change

 

Brian


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Feeling OK is the Key to Set You Free

The truth that you are O.K. will set you free!

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At a recent private Release Your HorsePower workshop for future counselors and therapists, we delved into what horses have to offer us when we have challenges with addiction and dependencies.

This led us to how we can release OUR Personal HorsePower to move beyond the restraints of addictive/dependent behaviors that no longer serve us and toward what matters most in our lives.

To actually create habits and rituals in our lives that serve our movement. Movement from where we are to where we want to be.

The question is not “What is your Addiction?” but rather “Are your addictions serving you?”

First we need to look at the blinding element that restricts us from ever having the vision, awareness, or foresight to see beyond our addictions and actually determine whether they are serving us.

This blinding element that keeps us in the dark, keeps us from seeing clearly, is where horses can help us the most.

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For it is in our ability to judge ourselves that we blind ourselves, and it is in their inability to judge themselves or others and here they offer us a candle in our darkness.

 

Horses do not judge, cannot judge!

They cannot resonate with shame, blame or guilt.

They do not wish that others would be other than they are.

And they freely speak their truth while finding their natural place in life according to their Nature.

 

In other words, they are O.K. within their own skin and with others being who they are in their skin.

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Does that mean they love and accept all situations? NO!

They tell their truths based on the situations at hand and are not clouded by thinking it should not be.

 

They accept, see and then act accordingly.

This O.K.- ness with themselves and others helps them see.

Does that mean they are O.K. with the hungry wolf? NO!

But they are not blinded, nor their actions are interfered, by judging the wolf as bad or that the wolve’s actions should not be. Hence they can act/react in the moment, NOT in the judgement.

 

Their lives depend on this freedom offered by O.K.- ness.

We can have this same freedom when we use our O.K.- ness as a tactical tool to effect a situation rather than a conceptual tool to judge our situation.

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I want you to consider using your O.K.- ness by thinking of O.K. in a different way.

To engage your personal HorsePower and move any situation toward what matters most to you while freeing you of the blindness of judgement, try using the powerful tactical move of applying your O.K.- ness to MOVE any situation toward a direction that matters more to you.

 

Next time you catch yourself confused, conflicted, feeling incongruent or weak, use O.K.

 

O.K. OUR KINDNESS

 

Not to be “Nice” or “Good” but rather to see clearly and engagingly move any situation to a better feeling place.

 

Use O.K. Our Kindness to be kind to ourselves first

Use O.K. Our Kindness to be kind to others

Use O.K. Our Kindness to tell a better story than the one you are in.

 

Start with O.K. by accepting the situation as it is and using O.K. Our Kindness to move it toward what matters.

 

We humans are naturally compassionate and when we align with our nature, nature will align with us to create newness and freedom beyond the restrictive behaviors of addiction and dependencies that no longer serve.

 

O.K.!

 

Feel the Connection

Brian

 


 

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We All Need a Kick Start Sometimes

The only constant is change. It is the nature of nature to expand, express, renew, and begin again .

The opportunity of life lies in the transition, the gap!

 

When we can interrupt the previous patterns of our lives that no longer serve our expansion, we can create a gap where life can begin again.

 

The amazing thing about patterns, habits and rituals is their sticking power. Once a pattern has been set, it has amazing staying power until it is interrupted and a new pattern put in it’s place.
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Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
- Isaac Newton
 
We can witness the amazing power of patterns in the simplest of habits. Have you ever moved your waste basket at work or in your house only to find yourself going back to the old location for days, weeks, months and many times years later finding yourself going back to the old habitual location.

  1. We can all use this patterning power of nature to our benefit by first “Wanting Something Different”.
  2. Next we need to break the old patterns of behavior.
  3. Third we need to insert the new pattern
  4. And finally we need to constantly recognize patterns and validate the ones that serve us.
In all these acts we need to be AWAKE to see what is going on.
We need to be PRESENT to our life situation.

 

AND we need a Kick Start to Freedom to break us free of the gravitational pull of the previous pattern.
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All throughout nature there are examples of beautiful transitions the create new life giving patterns.

 

Birth is one of the most obvious.

 

 

There needs to be both a “pushing” and “letting go” at the same time.

 

Always the focus is on the OUTcome. To make it through to the other side.
Never is quitting an option.
There is pain and discomfort while focusing on the joyous creation.
And then there is a kick, a slap, and outside force acting upon the situation to change it, to aid the awakening.

 

This is life.

 

This is living.

 

What are you awakening to?
What kickstart do you need to awaken to your next?

 

Embrace the force that moves you toward what matters while breaking you free of what no longer feeds your hopes, dreams and desires.

 

Feel The Connection,
Brian Reid