 Today is the shortest day and longest night of the year. Around the globe many cultures celebrate this turning point from darkness to light. It is Winter Solstice. Especially this time of year I sense a beautiful expansive stillness emanating from within nature. As we pause for a moment allowing our intellects a rest from the mental and forever changing chitter-chatter of our busy minds we see that this deeper stillness is a perfect reflection of who we truly are. In stillness there lies a deeper Knowing easily forgotten when we innocently live our lives from within the self-made confines of our personal thinking. In the darkest of darks there is always light. As we pause and all else falls away we see that we are that which lights up the world. Perhaps it is time we stop talking and start listening.
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Translation to English It happens that it occurs to me to reflect on what is really ever 100% up to me 100% of the time. For example:
The only thing that is ever 100% up to me 100% of the time is Being. Being lies beyond the babbling of the intellect and its often cry for attention. The intellect wants what is best for us, but it’s an innocent misunderstanding that I can think my way to wellbeing and peace of mind. What occurs when I see from the inside that Being is the only thing that is ever 100% up to me, I fall into a clear and deep calm. A bit like letting myself float in water with just the right temperature. So Being is not not doing or taking action or indifference. On the contrary. The calm in being is the feeling of the pace of life. The rhythm of life. When I feel the rhythm of life, there are no decisions, only a natural and soft direction in which to move. What looks to you like it is 100% up to you, all of the time every time?
 You are not your thinking moving through your mind, like sticks and soft leaves in a gentle river. You are not your thinking seemingly stuck on repeat like a heavy cloud covering the sky on a stormy day. You are not the feelings, heavy nor light, that dance or stomp through you in perfect unison with each thought. You are not your past experiences. What is experienced is thinking in the real time moment of Now. You are not the sticky note labels you, others or society define you by - the list of labels being endless but none True… If who you are, is not this, then who are you, in this moment? Text: Trine Høhrmann, © 2021
Photo: Canva  There is tremendous power in hope. In fact it is a game changer in how we show up to ourselves and in the world. Hope is not the light at the end of the tunnel, but the light already shining brightly within the tunnel.
 Today ask yourself “what am I grateful for?” The question “what am I grateful for?” is not a question to be answered in intellekt by your personal mind. For the purpose of this exercise I invite you to look within giving yourself the gift of stillness. Stillness is not no-thinking or the avoidance of thinking. Stillness is always present. Always there. Always available. The ebb and flow of stillness is simply our awareness contrating and expanding. With kindness and in your mind ask: “what am I grateful for?” Pause - Breathe - Be Let what wants to show up show up.
I live an inspired life when I express beyond my intellect's assessment and analysis of what it says is allowed. I live an inspired life when I move beyond my intellect's assessment and analysis of what it says I can and cannot do. I live an inspired life when I listen beyond my intellect innocently believing it has my best at heart as it assesses the moment on the basis of a life already lived. I live an inspired life the moments my heart is fully open. Because in that moment I am ready to hear.  Art: JMHR
 I notice that my best decisions are made from clarity and inner quiet, a deeper knowing if you will. From that space there is no decision to make but a meaningful and natural direction in which to move. I notice time and time again that what is always holding me back from living the highest version of who I am is me innocently believing my personal thinking is Truth. When in fact it can't be Truth. Truth is consistent. Truth is true 100% of the time all of the time. Whether I think I can or can't do something or who I think I am in any given moment is always changing, and therefor is not Truth. The Truth - we are, by design, whole and intact. Like the sky. No matter the severity of the storm the sky remains clear and intact. The only thing that can take us away from knowing this? Innocently misunderstanding where our experience is coming from 100% of the time, every time. What if decisions where made, not from what you think about, but from what occurs natural for you to do when you explore from an open mind and open heart?
 The clearer we see who we are and our innate qualities as human beings the clearer we see it in others, and we naturally become more impactful and effective in serving the people in our community. I'm often asked "so how do I do that?", "what are the tools?". My best how-to tool is simple "stay in the conversation, continue exploring and you may be surprised by what you see." We often turn, and sometimes we even run away from the conversation because we fear what will happen when we dare not be afraid of loosening the grip on what we think we know. That's human. All it means is that in those moments we listen not from an open mind and open heart but to the intellect/ego. I've noticed that a lot of times when we listen to people struggling with the human experience we are quick to jump to conclusions, to give advice and let them know about all the ways in which they can fix, change or let go off what is being experienced. Regardless of whether the advice is to fix what's being felt on the inside or change what is outside of us that looks like it is causing the feelings on the inside. All of it well-meaning, and I can't help but think that the motivation for the advice is an undiscovered belief that we as human beings are inherently broken and therefore in need of fixing, and that we as the ones struggling have to look for answers outside of us because we ourselves operate under an undiscovered belief that we are not Enough. That we do not already have within us the answers that will effortlessly remove the invisible mountain of our own hidden beliefs about who we are and what we can and can not do. That we are Enough. Advice, no matter how well-meaning does nothing or very little for the person asking for or getting the advice. Why? Because only we ourselves Know what is meaningful for us to do (or not do). The biggest, best and most impactful tools and how to's arise from the silent space within. The space in which thought is flowing freely. My best advice is to give no-advice, but simply to Listen.
 Yesterday I began John Wheeler's book Full Stop! The Gateway to Present Perfection. Speaking to our non-dual nature I laughed out loud when I read: "Why would the sky look for itself in a mass of passing clouds? It would never imagine itself to be one among the number of clouds that happen to be appearing, saying, ‘That particular cloud is me’." I laughed because in that instant I saw an image, an insight if you will, of me pointing to my own passing thought-clouds saying "This is me. This is me. No this is me. This is me." I can fool around with my thinking for better or for worse believing each thought to be telling me the truth about who I am and what is possible. This is called being human. And then I read something like this and I start laughing because I remember I am the awareness aware of thinking.
There is tremendous power in hope. It is a game changer in how we show up to and in the world. Hope is not the light at the end of the tunnel, but the light already shining brightly within the tunnel. Today I feel moved to share with you a quote from psychiatrist Dr. Bill Pettit. My husband first heard this quote a couple of years ago on Dr. Pettit's The Real Change live podcast series. My husband always reads it to me when he knows I am on my way down the rabbit hole of less than helpful thinking, gently pointing me back to wellbeing. My hope is you will read it, continue to read it, and share it with others. So much of our thinking is on the Corona virus and the ramifications of its existence in this world - physical distancing, uncertainty about the future, our livelihood, the physical and mental wellbeing of ourselves and loved ones, and at times whether we should be worried or not. It can feel like we are desperately trying to control or keep a rollercoaster ride in check. Like all humans I experience times when my outlook feels dark and hopeless, and other times it feels bright and hopeful. It feels much like moving up and down levels in an elevator. I spend time in the basement feeling all sorts of less-than feelings (less than hopeful, happy, calm, loving, patient...) and I see only what is not possible. I naturally move up a few or several levels, and I feel brighter, lighter, happier, more hopeful and compassionate, and I see only what is possible. I move down levels, and up again, and so on and so forth. It is how we are designed to work. I don't always see that is what is happening so an obvious tell-sign that I am well on my way down the rabbit hole of less-than helpful thinking are the deep and apparently loud sighs I make as my body naturally releases the tension created by my thinking. When my husband has been on the receiving end of these sighs for long enough to hear they are not becoming less but deeper he always asks "do you want me to read something to you that helps me?". I always respond "yes please" well aware of what exactly it is he will read. My hope is that you will hear something resonating within you in such a way that hope arise to the surface brightening up your experience. This is the quote heard on the Real Change podcast series from psychiatrist Dr. Bill Pettit. "Listen, this is not rocket science. Sometimes you're in your right mind, and sometimes you're not. And your right mind is your home, but you can think yourself away from it. Now when you're there (away) and you want to get back home, it's really quite simple. Number one, when you're not there you're not very smart, so keep your mouth shut. Number two, keep your hands to yourself. Don't throw anything, don't hit anything, or anybody. Number three, leave your thinking alone until you feel better. Don't try do do anything with it, don't try to think positive, don't try to get rid of the feeling/thoughts, don't try to distract yourself. Just leave it the hell alone as best you can." Dr. Bill Pettit. How lovely is that. I highly recommend that you check out and scroll down on this page to watch and listen to Dr. Pettit and his wife psychologist Dr. Linda Pettit beautifully pointing us towards health and wellbeing. With love. Trine
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Me in a nutshellI am, for the most part, happy mom for two amazing teens, wife to my wonderful and supportive husband, acting CEO of our small household, owner of Lumen, Mental Health Educator, essential oil enthusiast, and best of all I am me. Welcome!
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December 2021
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