INspired Action Journal - A Message In a Bottle
A Law of Attraction Publication of Bliss Studios LLC
Who hasn’t walked a beach and dreamed of discovering buried treasure or a message a bottle? Well, dear friends, that dream came true for me this week. While I was swimming in The Cove in La Jolla, California, a message in a bottle floated right into my hands.
It was the funniest thing. The bottle just bobbed in the tide, as if it was waiting for me to pick it up. And so, I did. I received a message in a bottle.
By the time I swam to shore, my husband and others gathered to lay their eyes on this spectacular little surprise. A couple from Illinois exclaimed, “Wow, that is cool” and others chimed in with heartfelt sentiments like, “I have always dreamed of that happening to me.” Little children danced in the sand and smiled in eager anticipation as we opened the well-sealed bottle.
Inside was a charming note that began with “Ahoy!” A man named Jacob M. of Phoenix, Arizona mailed the package on 8/2/08. So this hardy little bottle drifted from only-Jacob-knows-where for over a year. Naturally, we shared this happy tale with everyone we met on our trip from The Cabrillo Monument to the Carmel Valley hotel staff. Our trip to San Diego was truly a dream come true.
But there is so much more to appreciate here. For while this is a sweet story; one I’ll tell for a long time to come. And, while we are eager to contact our new friend and hear the details of the bottle’s beginning, there is so much more meaning to this story than the mere discovery of a message in a bottle.
I am passionate about the blue, blue ocean, animals and any opportunity to harmonize with them. The Cove at La Jolla is a treasured sanctuary for goldfish, pelicans, seals, sea lions and many others. I was snorkeling that morning, listening to the rhythm of my breath while being dazzled by the goldfish and bluefish only a few feet below. Then, I felt the soft and clear impulse to ditch my gear on land and swim free-style into the welcoming waters. It felt heavenly to watch majestic pelicans floating in the sky. A pelican even glided within a foot of my outstretched hands. Sheer Bliss!
With that full and blessed feeling beaming from every pore, I turned to the shore line to take-in the magnificent view. And there it was: a message in a bottle. It came right to me, as if to say: “hello, we have been looking for you, and there you are.”
So you see, my friends, the real message wasn’t the message IN the bottle at all. The real message was IN the moment. And the INspired Action Journal message of this true story is: “Do what you love, for the joy of doing it, and let things come to you.”
The link to the online newspaper article: http://inspiredactionjournal.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/a-message-in-a-bottle/
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Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy Grieco
www.Bliss-Studios.com
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Profound Non-Action, Pround Silence
Inspired Action Journal
A Law of Attraction Publication of Bliss Studios LLC
Sometimes the inspired action is non-action.
Sometimes the inspired word is no word.
Practice feeling for the inspired opportunity of non-action and open space.
Profound non-action, profound silence, profound Being: INspired Action.
Copyright © SusanJoy Grieco About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its’ entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy Grieco
A Law of Attraction Publication of Bliss Studios LLC
Sometimes the inspired action is non-action.
Sometimes the inspired word is no word.
Practice feeling for the inspired opportunity of non-action and open space.
Profound non-action, profound silence, profound Being: INspired Action.
Copyright © SusanJoy Grieco About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its’ entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy Grieco
http://www.Bliss-Studios.com
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Feeling Your Way to the Sweet Spot
A Law of Attraction In Action Publication of Bliss Studios LLC
Feeling your way to the Sweet Spot
Recently, I attended an Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction workshop on the West Coast. While visiting, a gregarious and lovely friend introduced me to a major league baseball player. Awesome! Regular readers of the INspired Action Journal know that I am a great appreciator of athletes. I enjoy practicing yoga, golf and swimming, and I am married to a Marathon runner. But, like many Americans, I adore major league baseball. Go Yankees!
So, what a treat it was for me to chat with this super nice, energetic guy. At one point, I confessed my trials and tribulations with hitting the softball. When I step up to the plate, swing at the ball and make contact, I feel an uncomfortable vibration up my arms, spine and through my body. In a cartoon version, I would look like Bugs Bunny or Wiley Coyote hitting a ball and his whole body reverberating from it. Zzziiinnnng!
Anyway, without missing a beat, my new friend, said “That’s because you haven’t hit the sweet spot.”
The Sweet Spot.
That makes sense. That’s the place where you have all the elements line up. The intention, the focus, the positive expectation, and the incremental accumulation of physical evidence … and there you are. You… savor the Sweet Spot in the moment.
Yes, of course! The Sweet Spot. I know that sound. I know that feeling: in the tennis swing, in lap swimming and in singing and performing. Yes, I know that Sweet Spot: in addressing the little white ball, in the writing of these Journals, in appreciating a wonderful friend, in choosing to feel SO in-love-with myself and with everybody on the Planet.
I LIKE it. How about you?
We all know how the Sweet Spot feels. We all know intuitively how to get there.
Sometimes, it just takes a new friend to clarify and inspire us, yet again.
Have fun today and feel your way to the Sweet Spot.
Legal Notice © SusanJoy Grieco About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy and John Grieco
http://www.Bliss-Studios.com
Feeling your way to the Sweet Spot
Recently, I attended an Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction workshop on the West Coast. While visiting, a gregarious and lovely friend introduced me to a major league baseball player. Awesome! Regular readers of the INspired Action Journal know that I am a great appreciator of athletes. I enjoy practicing yoga, golf and swimming, and I am married to a Marathon runner. But, like many Americans, I adore major league baseball. Go Yankees!
So, what a treat it was for me to chat with this super nice, energetic guy. At one point, I confessed my trials and tribulations with hitting the softball. When I step up to the plate, swing at the ball and make contact, I feel an uncomfortable vibration up my arms, spine and through my body. In a cartoon version, I would look like Bugs Bunny or Wiley Coyote hitting a ball and his whole body reverberating from it. Zzziiinnnng!
Anyway, without missing a beat, my new friend, said “That’s because you haven’t hit the sweet spot.”
The Sweet Spot.
That makes sense. That’s the place where you have all the elements line up. The intention, the focus, the positive expectation, and the incremental accumulation of physical evidence … and there you are. You… savor the Sweet Spot in the moment.
Yes, of course! The Sweet Spot. I know that sound. I know that feeling: in the tennis swing, in lap swimming and in singing and performing. Yes, I know that Sweet Spot: in addressing the little white ball, in the writing of these Journals, in appreciating a wonderful friend, in choosing to feel SO in-love-with myself and with everybody on the Planet.
I LIKE it. How about you?
We all know how the Sweet Spot feels. We all know intuitively how to get there.
Sometimes, it just takes a new friend to clarify and inspire us, yet again.
Have fun today and feel your way to the Sweet Spot.
Legal Notice © SusanJoy Grieco About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy and John Grieco
http://www.Bliss-Studios.com
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Pregnant Pause
A Law of Attraction in Action Publication of Bliss Studios LLC
The Pregnant Pause
Sometimes the inspired action is no action at all, really.
Instead, it’s the pregnant pause,
the long yawn,
a short nap.
Sometimes the inspired action is looking at the blue sky
and its puffy clouds
for hours.
Sometimes the inspired action is playing with your pets,
vegging on the couch,
or lying on the floor in yoga position,
staring at the ceiling in the twilight,
just breathing.
Sometimes, non-action is the best action you can choose:
step aside while the Universe lines up all
the people,
places
and things.
And all that… while you sip your tea.
There is such pleasure and power in the pregnant pause.
Legal Notice © SusanJoy Grieco
About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy Grieco
http://www.Bliss-Studios.com
The Pregnant Pause
Sometimes the inspired action is no action at all, really.
Instead, it’s the pregnant pause,
the long yawn,
a short nap.
Sometimes the inspired action is looking at the blue sky
and its puffy clouds
for hours.
Sometimes the inspired action is playing with your pets,
vegging on the couch,
or lying on the floor in yoga position,
staring at the ceiling in the twilight,
just breathing.
Sometimes, non-action is the best action you can choose:
step aside while the Universe lines up all
the people,
places
and things.
And all that… while you sip your tea.
There is such pleasure and power in the pregnant pause.
Legal Notice © SusanJoy Grieco
About forward/copy to others: please send the message in its entirety.
Everything’s Going Your Way!
SusanJoy Grieco
http://www.Bliss-Studios.com
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