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Give Yourself Permission to Claim Your Life

September 21, 2007 by Liz 11 Comments

The How to Happiness

In January, I wrote these words.

I want to have the time of my life.

I wrote about the how to happiness and listed out ten ways to live life. The first way was to claim it.

We don’t need to get a life.
We need to own the one we’ve got.
Owning our life is the first step to living life.

Give Yourself Permission to Claim Your Life

After years of school and people telling us what to do, we can find ourselves doing what “comes next” for everyone without ever considering whether that’s what should come next for US. We end up moving through time doing things, but not really living life.

Give yourself permission to claim your life. You know you can do this. What is a few minutes in the context of the hundreds of thousands that you might reignite?

  1. Stop what you’re doing.
    Still yourself, your body, and your mind, completely.
  2. Sit and breathe in deeply.
    Be inside your skin.
  3. Notice the feeling that begins to become you.
    Keep breathing deeply.
  4. Keep with that feeling until you forget about the breathing,
    until you are comfortable feeling the lightness of being.
  5. Name that being feeling “living.”
    Don’t try to make it into anything.
  6. When you feel like a human, get up and do something to claim this life you’re living.

Go Out to Claim It

Here are a few ways you might do that, in case this notion is new to you.

  1. See the sun rise. See a beautiful sky.
    See a smile you put on someone’s face.
  2. Eat something delicious.
    Share a marvelous meal with a friend.
  3. Send yourself fresh flowers.
    Keep some and give some away.
  4. Listen to the sounds of nature that you don’t usually hear.
    Enjoy silence, especially silence share with someone you care about.
  5. Take the longest shower or bubble bath in your experience.
    Buy something soft as cashmere and give it someone who inspires soft thoughts.
  6. Kiss someone you love.
    Follow that with a hug.

Most folks don’t need ideas to fill our life moments. But we might need an occasional reminder to fill our moments with life. Once we start breathing and inhabiting our skin again, the ideas for living life aren’t hard to recognize.

How will give yourself permission to claim your life?

Be irresistible.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Comments

  1. Shona Cameron says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:03 AM

    hi Liz
    Appreciating the reminder- its so wet here (manchester-Uk) today. I will go out in the rain rather than hide away from it. Remembering that I want to live every moment whatever that moment brings
    Shona
    PS am new to this and am enjoying your blog- have a great sense of invitation from you to join in

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:29 AM

    Hi Shona!
    Welcome! I’ve been to Manchester! It’s lovely there. 🙂

    Not long ago I wrote “But the rain isn’t a sadness.

    It’s a shower. It’s clean air and a ligher sky flled with hope, telling me my heart is right, my heart is true to north, to my soul. . . .

    And the sun is joy.”

    Thank you for accepting my invitation. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Karin H. says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:47 AM

    Great timing Liz!

    Just off the phone with a company who let us down big time.
    So when I read this I stopped what I was doing (grumbling, feeling angry, organising and implementing plan B) and smiled.

    Later today I’ll hope to comply with your last claim-item 😉

    Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:49 AM

    Oh wow! Karin,
    Your comment is also timed perfectly. Thank you. 🙂

    Reply
  5. Karin H. says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:55 AM

    Trust you to make me curious!

    Karin H

    Reply
  6. ME Strauss says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:58 AM

    Sorry, I was just working on something that I finding exciting and I can’t find the words I need to communicate part of the concept. 🙂

    Reply
  7. gp says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:39 PM

    all there is, is now breathe in serenity, peacefulness…like “all is well”.. .breathe out… (hmm… the mare relaxed too)

    gp in montana who thanx u muchly for the reminder

    Reply
  8. Steve Roesler says

    September 21, 2007 at 10:01 PM

    Well, Liz,

    After two non-stop days in NYC I got back to the
    woods here in South Jersey, watched the deer and the goldfinch, smoked a cigar, and breathed deeply (yeah, I know).

    After a nice meal, a glass of wine, and a return to the back porch and the crickets, life is full.

    Thanks for the reminder.

    Reply
  9. ME Strauss says

    September 21, 2007 at 10:03 PM

    Hi GP!
    I’m smiling that all is well where you are. I’m getting things to together here to make the sunshine soon. I like the sound of relaxing. 🙂

    Reply
  10. ME Strauss says

    September 21, 2007 at 10:04 PM

    Ah Mr. Steve,
    I’m going to have to see that porch one day. It so makes me think of our back porch in Austin. 🙂

    Reply

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