Daily Bliss Archives · Ashley Barnes

Daily Bliss – April 16

We can spend a lot of time focusing on why we’re here, what we’re supposed to be doing and how.

We can spend more energy focused on the why than we actually focus on living.

And by living, I mean showing up. Staying in our bodies so that we can be fully present and aware. Simply being.

It’s no easy task. Not in this world that seeks to pull us in a dozen directions at once, to keep a dozen tabs open in our heads at any given time.

If we’re distracted and busy, we stay in the dark.

We miss the little details and even sometimes the big ones.

We forget what simple pleasures feel like in the constant yearning for what’s next.

It’s alluring and deceiving. It seems right and it feels wrong.

And it doesn’t have to be.

We can simply be.

How are you simply being today?

Daily Bliss – April 15

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These words I write, they aren’t mine.

They come through me, and if I’m still enough, I’m blessed to receive them.

But much of the time, I’m not still. I’m working, thinking, looking at my phone.

Distracting myself with busyness or busying myself with distraction.

It’s a constant relearning of how to BE, and one worth engaging in.

For these gifts we have come at the price of being open to receive them.

And to be open, we have to learn to be still.

I’m relearning the depth of receiving through my being this week.

What about you?

Daily Bliss – April 14

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I’m a water girl. A Pisces.

My office window is strategically placed so I can see my pool, the neighbor’s koi pond, and the creek behind our houses.

I’m most at home at the beach. Barefoot with my feet in the water reading a book or writing.

The water is my flow. And I have to cultivate that feeling regularly.

We don’t always exist in the spaces that feel best for us. But we can cultivate that energy.

We can bring that vibe into being when we need it.

We can reach deep inside us to rekindle the knowing that’s embedded in our being.

Daily Bliss – April 13

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When I think back, it’s easy to see the breadcrumbs of how things came to be.

A little trail leading me, guiding me in the right direction, sometimes veering, but always gently steering.

I couldn’t see it then. But I can now.

And it’s because I took the steps in the first place.

No movement, no space created for anything to fall into place.

We have to keep moving, otherwise we stagnate. We grow numb, depressed.

Movement keeps us flowing, even if we don’t know where we’re going.

Yet.

Trust the dominoes to fall.

Where are creating a shift today with forward movement?

Daily Bliss – April 9

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Fear is an inevitable part of life.

In many cases, it keeps us safe. And in others, it holds us back.

We become conditioned for safety and comfort over uncertainty and risk.

Yet when we are called to something, we still must reach out.

Because that dream, it doesn’t die if we stop reaching.

But when we stop reaching, it makes the darkness darker, and more lonely.

And deep down, we know we’re born for the light. Where can you reach out today, even if your hand shakes, even if you feel the fear?

How often we tell ourselves lies to keep ourselves in line with what we’ve been told is right.

How often we believe these lies until we become someone we’re not.

And how often we come to realize these are just lies and nothing more.

Not facts, not cemented, but changeable.

Deep down, we feel the true music guiding our souls to move in the direction of our truth.

And sometimes, it just takes a willingness to dance in order to make it happen.

How are you dancing into your truth today?