Back in My Birth State

Across the chasm of time since I last wrote from Austin, I am resuming my newsletter from the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County, where I now reside. I’m happy to be back in touch from this new location. I love everywhere that I have lived and it’s always the people that I miss most when I change locations, and yet I enjoy adding new friends to my world too.

You may know that I have relocated a few times and the reflection friends give me is that I make it look so easy – in fact my friend Cheryle just sent me an EMail message tonight saying that very thing and asked for some words of wisdom.

The first thing I do is to realize that my occasional thoughts, daydreams and musings have brought me to the decision that I’m moving. At its origin, the word decide means to cut off all other options and I’ve come to realize that my brain is the last to become aware that I’ve done that. This helps make for a very matter-of-fact feeling as I allow time to let that decision seep in all at levels. In order for my nervous system to get on board with a decision, my head has to be happy imagining and planning, my heart must swell with a joy that gives me a mini facelift and my belly expands into spacious peace with each breath.

I’m convinced that the ease I experience is aided by the clarity and lack of wobble that comes from the alignment I described. Where what I want to happen meets what is happening or, what wants to happen on a grander scale. I sink back into the current of where I am flowing. I wish you ease and flow in your decisions and transitions.

I have created a variety of exercises to aid in making decisions. One of them is available here.

It’s all improv,
Jody Kaylor