Focus
Pioneers,
As I mentioned on the forum yesterday, what you choose to focus on in life is extremely important. Your focus is the team captain of vibrant health, spiritual wealth and happiness. Decades ago, Ram Dass introduced us to the saying Be Here Now, with his spiritual eye-opener of a book by the same title. Yeah, yeah…be in the moment…blah blah blah…Ugh. Right?
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wanna give the “moment” the bird. When the now is sucky, mean and painful nobody in their right mind is gonna wanna sit in it. Well, maybe some red robed monk who gets off on mental torture and back pain would but not me. Yet I often wonder about my pain ratio. How much of it do I create and how much is real? Is it too hard to make my juice in the morning? Is there really no time for me? My husband, does he stink at communication when we fight or am I the one getting tongue tied? What’s the reality of my money situation? Will I always fear it or will there be flow? And then of course there is “the cansa”. Ohhhh, the scary, scary, spookie “cansa”. Poor me, whoa is whoa. I was given 10 years to live (by some jackass doctor) 6 years ago. How should I view that? 4 years left OR plenty o’ time sassy cat. That douchy was dead wrong. He’ll be dirt napping way sooner than me fiesty, firey, ALKALINE me!
I bring this up because lately I’ve read so many comments about fearing the Adventure Cleanse Tune-up. In my mind, those of you who are scared of changing the food on your plate are not sacred of changing the food on your plate. The real issue is changing your focus. Letting the light in. Half empty is comforting. It ensures that since you won’t be reaching you won’t be falling. There will be no scrapes that need tending and stingy alcohol. They call it “cruise control” for a reason. But I ask you this, is it breezy and warm inside your own personal city limits or deep down does it feel like prison?
This is no time to be beige. You are a glitter soaked wellness warrior and your thighs need you! Your liver will deep bow thank you. You will poop like a heavy weight champion. Your spirit will shake it off and stamp it down as you will rise out of the hole and shift your perception from lack to plenty.
If you are following my 28 day cleanse (today is day 3!) I ask that you focus on the positive rather than the negative. Instead of “I didn’t do it right”, please notice, acknowledge and bless all that you have accomplished. In order to do this you really need to think about the language you use. We all talk to ourselves (especially in the car). Pay attention to what you are saying and remember that your cells have ears! They are listening…
Ok, I’m gonna keep this one short today so that I can go sit on my meditation cushion and try and corral the mind mustangs. Perhaps I’ll start with a little prayer. “Please help me to see the cardinals through the clouds”.
Peace and focus,
Kris
- Posted by Kris Carr on May 13, 2009 at 10:09 am
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“This is no time to be beige. ”
This is my new motto. I love it. And what the heck? I’m wearing practically all brown today… I’m going home to put something orange on at lunch. Right before I drink my green juice
You are such a fabulous ray of sunshine!!!
I hear ya loud and clear sister. Focusing on the positive is how us cowgirls roll, no other way to go!
sipping my warm lemon water.. loving you beautiful!
deb
Thank you for this wonderfully written reminder. It’s so true in every area of life. If I can notice and acknowledge what I do accomplish, it makes it easier to keep at it.
Thanks Ms. Kris! Love your post today….I also like the “beige” comment, and I so realize I need to work on corraling my “mind mustangs”…they are going wild and unkept all too often.
Luv ya and all your light, hugs, Tina
Thanks Kris,
Yesterday evening I completely came off the ACT tracks and it was only day 2! – then woke up in the night 2:45 am wondering what I am doing? Saying all those negative things. Rather than remembering what I have accomplished these past 11 years.
Your morning blog helps sooo much. I deserve better than that. I am strong and can do so much better. I will hold on to what you said- “your cells have ears! They are listening…”
Today I will wear something bright to the Philadelphia museum in honor of you and a butterfly!
Thank you. Day 3 is going to be a winner!
I am reading this while sipping my yummy green cocktail and finding it just what I needed this morning! Thank you Kris. It is amazing how easy it is to lose perspective and go the whoa is me route. I realize it doesn’t have to be all or nothing with the cleanse and am okay with doing our best at it and easing in. This week we aren’t as strict as we could be(still brewing the morning java), but when the current 50 pound bag(lol, just kidding)is gone, we won’t buy anymore-at least for next 20 or so days. I enjoy green tea and my husband, well, he drinks it! We power walked for an hour this morning and came home and made the juice together and for the rest of the day the focus will be on our successes and not on the coffee that we are slowly saying goodbye too!!
Cathy
Thanks! Right on sister! Everyone – Step outside your comfort zone and get real. Real food makes a real difference. I have been a wellness warrior (food nazi – my 4 kids call me) for 33 years! Then last year I was diagnosed with “da cansa” and I am just soooo thankful that I am well and I have stayed well and this cleanse is awesome…I’ll be even more well! I go tomorrow for my big one year work up…Day 3 and I feel great! More power to green juice… I used to always put carrots in my juice until I met you! I am loving the green! Keep the faith and thanks again! Ryan
What an awesome post Kris, I read it just when I needed a good swift boot!!
I am one who has had a decline in health due to allowing the stress become me. NO LONGER! I can still be loving and caring but never again at the expense of my own health.
Bless you and all my fellow ACTers on this wonderful May 13th.
Cheers!
Oh I forgot, I am wearing a bright and cheery salmon shirt today to match my spirit. I have always afraid to stand out in a bright colour and would stick to beige, gray, white, black.
Today I am a flower!
HIGH FIVE SISTER!!! Great post!
Kris…did you write this for me??? I’ve always been an Eeyore….glass half-empty, why me kinda gal. I can try to cheer up everybody else, but not myself! NO MORE baby =) So what if that juicer broke, so what if it’s raining, so what if my hubby is being furloughed….there will always be pain, stress and suffering in this world. I CHOOSE not to wallow in it any longer!!
Thanks peaches…enjoy your focus today
XOXOXO
Becky
I, too, love the quote, “There is no time to be beige.”… and “Pay attention what you are saying and remember that your cells have ears”. I enjoy reading your blogs & positive thoughts. Thanks for being you! With Blessings- mz
Hey Kris, I am unofficialy following along on this Adventure Cleanse journey with you–but have been raw since day 1…having big, juicy juices and salads every day. The one thing I’ve already noticed? My energy, and you are right, by ingesting salads–the body cleans out the way it should…instead of being stopped up and uncomfortable.
You are correct–attitude is the driving force in all of life.
What is to fear? getting better?
That douchy who gave you a ten year sentence ought to take a look at this website and your following….maybe he’ll rethink his “God” routine and give patients the hope they so need when they are diagnosed with any illness. So many doctors have absolutely no bedside manners…and you know it is a class or series of classes they must take to get their degree.
Thanks for everything.
“You are a glitter soaked wellness warrior..” Love this!
Morning of day three on level 4 of ACT and I’ve released 2 pounds. With these steps I’m getting closer to my goal but found myself fearful of succeeding. wtf? Rock the glitter and thank you for the focus and love. xoxo
I’m slowly unfurling my beautiful wings from the cocoon I have been marinating in- it has been a long sleep but necessary to get me to where I am now. I am grateful for all of it, but right now, especially for your words that nudge me to see the world from a higher perspective. I’ll take my wings, thank you very much, and see you on the horizon. Love and Light, Alma
Hi there Kris. How serendipitous that you wrote this blog thee morning after I read the Be Impeccable With Your Word chapter of the Four Agreements. I’ve been working on it all day–every time I catch myself being negative, a little mental bell goes off that reminds me to reset and refocus. Take a deep breath and replace it with something positive. Thanks for the reminder. hope you enjoy your meditation. Those mind mustangs are Wild Ones!
Kris,
You are my role model on many, many levels! You give me hope! I will never forget that Oprah’s program where you were a guest there – there were two participants that day on Oprah, you and that professor from CMU. Your approach to healing and getting better works big time – no need to say anything more. Thank you!
Mary
Your comment on being beige reminded me of Billy Connolly the comedian and his devotion to the ‘elimination of “beige-ism” from the world’ (as he puts it!) LOVE IT!
Tremendous inspiration! thank you.
Great post Kris, thanks for reminding us all!
Love,
Casey
My favorite post so far. My inner city limits are damp, dark and cold. I have some reflecting to do and sunshine to find. Thank you.
Jeez, I needed this one. I was feeling mightily guilty, after a family wedding this weekend out of town that lead to a lot of exhaustion/ caused me to fall off the wagon a bit with my diet. I was pretty down on myself. Felt like an unhealthy blobette. But, now, my belly is filled with a healthy organic salad and I’m ready to settle in to sleep after my shift at the hospital (I’m a NICU Nurse) and am filled with a sense of renewal after reading your words. Gonna get up and get back on the green juice, rebounding, colon cleansing wagon in the manana. Thank you Kris.
love this post. funny about beige. i look at foods and usually refer to it that they are eating beige food. of course my fave is green…for juice, salads and all the colors of fruit.
Kris, you are brilliant! absolutely brilliant!
love ya so much
One of my most favourite quotes on this very subject is by the author and doctor Rachel Ramen in her delightfully inspiring book Kitchen Table Wisdom. And it is this: “Fear is the friction of all transition”. When we can be with the fear, observe it, ask ourselves what we think this change will look like in our lives, we usually come up with more positives than negatives and the transition is then made before we can even question it.
Thanks Kris! That was very inspiring! I am on a healing holiday and dealing with these issues. Please never stop writing
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kris, thanks for the amazing inspiration. The adventure cleanse is awesome!! I just feel better walking up to the cashier at the grocery store with a basket full of veggies and fruit!! Loved the beige comment. Rock on sister!!
Kris, you are SUCH an inspiration. I have just started a journey to better my life and get healthy! Sadly I don’t have the funds to go raw, I barely make enough to pay my bills, but I will get there! But you keep me inspired, I hope I can be half as inspirational as you some day! Thank you!
“That douchy was dead wrong. ”
I take from your wording that he did not speak to you with sensitivity and that, rather than his being wrong, is why you (rightly!) has negative feelings about him. I sometimes think the lack of sensitivity, as well as rushing, no time, treating people like object to “process” like in a factory, etc, are some of the worst, maybe the worst, aspect of our medical complex, more so than the limitations of our knowledge (though the two are related…they can’t admit “I don’t know” after all, so they do/say something to shut you up into being the move-along be-processed cog in the medical complex machine) or something like that..Take care and hug yourself..e-hugs from me and I’m sure many others too!