LIFE STEPS COACHING

Today is my birthday and I am reflecting on the little things of the day. I was never much into Birthdays, prefering less attention by nature. However, I'm learning there's something missing in that outlook. As the years go by, I realize how wonderful and important it is to embrace and savor the wishes and sentiments bestowed upon you by those you love. As I see it, a card, a phone call, an email.. none of these are perfunctory communications, or happen out of mere courtesy. The people in your life truly have you on their minds as they go through the act of making the call or writing the card, and they want to acknowledge their sense of connection with you.

Giving and Receiving
Today I am seeing how Birthdays are a good opportunity to nourish the balance between giving and recieving. And it is such a balanced cycle. The harder I work in earnest to contribute to both the act of giving and that of recieving, the richer and more complete I feel. Its easy to find myself getting stuck in one place or the other. Usually I direct my conscious energy and awareness toward having gratitude for the things outside of myself, like a loving husband, a wonderful home, an adorable dog, a new computer, an amazingly special group of friends, or the city of San Francisco.

Blessed
My intuition and inner wisdom guide me to feel a sense of primoridial celebration and to inhabit the blessing of my very existence - my breath, my beating heart, my brain, my blinking eyes and typing hands, my sense of humor, my creativity, my way of seeing things, my energy, my nightime dreams, my health, my connection to this time and place in the world, my memories, my vision of the future. What better way can I honor the gift of my own birth than to reflect on these things? Today, I have a new sense of the magic that is available to me by engaging in this annual ritual.