Burst into Butterfly Mode!

Does your heart lift when you watch Monarchs flutter from flower to flower, maybe Mexican daisies and Cosmos?

Mine does.

How I love to stand outside watching joyous butterflies glide from bloom to bloom.

How like butterflies are we, I muse.

We begin as eggs, too.

Like their caterpillar days, we go through a stage of crawling.

We bundle up under covers or enter dark nights as transformation is being worked out in us, corresponding to butterfly’s chrysalis stage.

Lastly, we burst into bloom as our radiant selves, echoing butterfly’s adult stage of colorful wings adorning gardens.

Or we don’t.  Maybe we’re on a different timetable.  Or we need guidance.

Another way we’re like butterflies is this:

Just as no flower knows which insect will come to feed on it or lay an egg on its leaf, we don’t know who will benefit from the gifts we share or offer us unbidden delight.

Last week, I watched my generosity bloom in new ways, and I think it’s because the body work I’ve been doing to release tight spots found a release valve.

So I had the joy of opening my checkbook a couple times to share with deserving women I know.

My actions made them cry in happy ways, offering them recognition of their talents and desires to make big differences in our world.

Have you been sharing your gifts with others?  Are you causing ripples of joy? Wonderful!

I smile to realize that the ripples I started will echo on and on.  Gifts given with love and care have immense capacities to travel far.

And then, other folks were thanking me for the inspiration I share.

Have you received those kinds of comments, too?  Are you passing inspiration to others?

Would you like to?  Do you need to heal more deeply?

It really made me stop to consider things.

I suspect it’s because I lived so much of my life as a very quiet soul with low self-confidence, with very little voice in the world.

Quite frankly, the world scared me.

But as I’ve come back into my body and healed tightness and more, I’ve learned to breathe from my heart, offering my voice of peace and joy outward.

What a hoot to see the effects I’m having, that I CAN add my voice of positivity.

Just like a butterfly traveling flower to flower.

Are you challenged bursting into full butterfly mode?  Are you ready to have  support for your journey?  Please contact me at joy@joyonyourshoulders.com to see if I’m a good match as your spiritual mentor.