August 2024 Week 1

Wow, wow it is August!! What has happened to this summer? This morning at beach yoga we reviewed the summer intentions and spoke of how they have built a foundation for this month. We started off July with, I am Grounded with the hopes of keeping ourselves rooted and focused on what is important and eliminating the extra “noise” all around us. This gave us a firm foundation to move into last months intention - I am letting go and I am letting in. Allowing an easy flow of releasing the excess and creating the sacred space, the pause to intentionally and effortlessly receive the letting in. Now this month the intention is, My new life starts now. This I hope can put us into a place of hopeful anticipation of letting in the unknown. This second half of the summer the hope is we use our grounded, cleared and unburdened space to fill up with something new.

Now for the reality of my life as it stands right now. As I wrote last month, it was a powerful God instance (not a coincidence) that my intention last month would be I am letting go and I am letting in as my husband resigned from his career of 35+ years on July 1st. This has been a month of letting go of what we knew and letting in what we don’t know. Another God instance (a coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous) - this months intention is absolutely relevant for Donald and I as we welcome in with trust and excitement the start of our new life.

Personally, I am soooo grateful for June’s intention as it helped me focus and get grounded in my life and what is important as the summer was revving up. I actually feel like I have finally emotionally and spiritually matured - thank you God! Wow, that took a long time and a lot of work lol, but so worth it. Summer in my town is often full of social gatherings and activities day and night. Having the foundation of June helped me in July to truly embrace the moments I was in and to let go of the noise I often have in my head of thinking I should be somewhere else, with someone else. (For context, many days and nights there are 2 or 3 places I could be in at the same time with 2 or 3 different groups of people). Letting go of having to be everywhere, doing everything has freed up that sacred space I spoke of last week where I can peacefully pause and then use this month to hopefully anticipate whatever is in front of me. That for me is the start of a new life. To be fully grounded and intentional in me and my life, dismissing outside distractions is mature, comfortable, confident and absolutely new. I am going to embrace this as the start of my new life right now.