Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish to enjoy?

As usual I'm late to the party ..... and I can't even blame work this time.  I'm having a lovely week off work, chilling at home, spending time with beloved friends, eating lots of cake (stacks of the stuff - there have been several birthdays) and even going shopping in town (not hugely into clothes shopping - crowds annoy me).

So yesterday I logged on early before going out to see what Jamie's question was ......... almost danced with joy as hundreds of little sparks lit up as to what I could say .......... and then ended up surfing through Facebook.  Which completely threw my mood off-kilter for a good part of the day (let's just say I had some huge lessons rear up in expectations due to feeling disappointed in someone).  So by the time I got home (it was late), then had dinner (even later) and then chatted to a friend in hospital and so on, it was gone midnight and I thought I'd leave the post until today!!

Right ..... after that long intro ........... Jamie has asked us this week, what do we wish to enjoy!  

Lovely lovely question.  After all .......... if we don't enjoy what is in our life, what we do, how we feel, what we sense, think and cast out into the universe .......... well, we're not exactly going to have a very joyful life either on a daily basis or when we look back at the end of it!

This week, I thought I'd do a list ........ but then figured that everything I could list, would actually go to make up LIFE.  I want to enjoy LIFE ........ *nods head* .......... but as usual, I got to over-analysing and eventually wound that down to the moment.  I want to enjoy each and every MOMENT.  However, at this particular point I was out in town, having lunch at Costa Coffee with Quackers .......... and then thought .......... oh crap ....... if I have to focus on every moment, then look at everything I'm going to miss.  It's near on impossible.

Think about it .......... we can enjoy being IN the moment ....... but to enjoy every moment ......... how on earth can our senses take that much in.  At the point of thinking this, what should I have focussed on?  The conversation with Quackers .... ie. the words, the tone, the volume ...... the sights around me ........ the coffee shop, Quackers herself, my bag (which I moved onto my lap for safety off a chair where it could have been swiped), the table in front ....... the shoppers milling around outside the coffee place?  What about the temperature, the other customers?  The earnest ones in conversation, the ones laughing, the ones who looked sad, what about the two young girls outside giving a drunk lad change because he was begging?  At which point should I have isolated one specific thing to focus on so as to enjoy?  We take in so much consciously but so much more unconsciously .......... so I decided to make this week's wish less vague and more easily "focussed".

But then another list came in ............. should I focus on enjoying being free of my past ........... of the people and behaviours that did help to set me out on this path I am now walking.  Should I just enjoy this path ...... what about clothes .......... since I was shopping for my holiday and Quackers was pulling out some dresses that I wouldn't normally have even looked at (for someone who wears a lot of single colours and black - eventually trying on a multi coloured orange based dress that was "busy" was a new experience).  How about focussing on listening ......... nope, after the last few years at night school, I've come to realise just how unfocussed most people's "listening" actually is.  So then I thought about focussing on smiling ........ after all that has a huge knock-on effect with other people, it's positive and brings joy to life right ........... nope, didn't feel "right".

So this week I am going back to something I thought of a long time ago .......... in fact I blogged about it when I was creating my weekly affirmations over at Oracle Speak.  And this one is important.  Hugely important.  It's something that every single human being I know of, can find fault with.  In fact we all do it.  It's one of the ways that we put ourselves down, live in fear about .......... and especially in this media-based youth orientated society do not spend enough time thinking, feeling and speaking positively about.

OUR BODIES

Aren't they truly marvellous?  Complicated biological machines that move, create, recycle and self-heal.  And how often do we really focus on how wonderful they are?  How often do we give them what they actually, truly, really need?  How often do we appreciate them?

(courtesy of http://ronisweigh.com/2009/10/why-do-you-love-your-body-ronis-exposed-post.html)

OK this may sound a bit "weird" but try it ......... imagine your soul or spirit as a huge bright white orb .... and it's bouncing around inside the physical home that we call a body.  Do you feel joy at that?  Are you in harmony with what your physical home needs?  Can you feel each and every aspect of your physical shell as you direct it to move?  How does it make you feel?  And if you aren't happy with it, if you aren't feeling joy with it .......... why not?  Got an answer to that?  If so .......... then ask yourself ........ what can I do about it to bring joy there!

Here's something else to consider .............. describe your home.  As in your house ...... the physical house that you and your body actually live in ....... now take that description you've just given and apply it to your physical body.  How does that make you feel?

So this week, I want to enjoy feeling, appreciating, being .............. I want to relish what I actually have ..... to know that yes, there are some bits that aren't "perfect" according to what society thinks we "should" be like .......... I want to actually enjoy believing and seeing that "damn this is good" when I look in a mirror rather than saying it, trying to believe it but not "feeling" it.  This week

I WISH TO ENJOY MY SOUL'S PHYSICAL HOME

I WISH TO ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF WHO I AM

I WISH TO ENJOY AND APPRECIATE MY BODY

And for anyone who is interested in a couple of affirmations about the body, please click here and here to be taken to that page .... enjoy :)