You Are Hugalicious!

If you were the kiss, I'd be the hug..............

Tonight's post is for no other particular reason then to send you an extra-ginormous-ridiculously-squeezilious-embrace of love ;)

My hope is that you will read this, smile, find a friend or a stranger and embrace them with all the love you got!!!

Don't get lazy.....see how many extra-ginormous-ridiculously-squeezilious hugs you can give out over the next week!

Need some inspiration, check out my guru Amma, yes it's true....she hugs for a living!!

Reaching through this computer giving you a super-wonderful-extra-ginormous-ridiculously-squeezilious embrace of all the love I got (and p.s. I got A LOT of love)

Hug, Hug, Hug!!!

Erin

"Post-It"ing my Love.....

Today I woke up with a strong desire to do something different.

After reading Amy K.R.'s blog, I decided it was time to hit the town and spread some love and kindness ;)

I grabbed a stack of post-its, a red marker, my pug Riley, and we spread some pretty cool notes across the town!

Want to give it a try? Awesome!....it's really easy.....write a simple positive message and stick it somewhere to brighten someone's day! An easy and free way to spread love!

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
-Mother Teresa

A Piece Of The Puzzle

Hi Lovelies!

Today I was privileged to learn some very beautiful things about what exist in the hearts of others! It was cultural presentation day in one of my classes, where everyone shared a little piece of what life looked like for them and I was thrilled to be apart of the experience. No matter how different everyone approached the front of the room, each had a unique and delicate piece of the puzzle to be joined together.

No piece was the same, some were the corner pieces,the edge pieces, and some belonged in the middle. The magic was that no matter what size, color, shape, and form the piece was in- each one fit!!

Want to know a secret? The piece we all carry is rooted in the heart and the puzzle is love.

I hope to help put this puzzle together, the more pieces we have the more love we will infect and connect as a whole!

You hold a magnificent piece to the puzzle, so what are you waiting for?

Love, Love, and more love,

Erin

P.S- When you connect to the puzzle....love is everywhere!

Changing Form....

"What would my life be like if I had as much faith in what's falling apart as what's growing?"

- Lynn Kapitan

Today I am grateful.....

I am grateful for the uncomfortable anxious moments that have so cleverly squeezed their way into my last few days. I am grateful for the penetrating ache that has reached me from head to toe- reminding me that yes pain is real sometimes. I am grateful for the tidal wave of tears that have flowed so effortlessly out of my eyes. I am grateful for the experience of human emotions that remind me so lightly that I am among the living.

Tonight I knew it was imperative that I open my heart and do some writing! I was looking at my sister-n-law's vibrant blog when I discovered the quote at the top of this post......it was perfect!

Over the past few days I have felt very overwhelmed, almost like I was made of ash and if you touched me with even the tip of your finger, I would fall apart!

I sat in front of my alter and got quiet and the message I heard was “Your growing”. When something grows, it expands and it takes on new form. Like a snake shedding old skin, I am growing and expanding into my true Self.

Nothing really ever falls apart; it just changes form…..

My love for you keeps growing every second!

In Love & Service,

Erin

Discovering Self

I grew up very needy for everything outside of me, continuously trying to stick a square peg inside a round whole. Always going around looking for "that" or "this" to guide me towards a sense of Self. It was as if someone was walking around with my missing puzzle piece and I was incomplete until it was recovered.

I close my eyes in this moment and let the sense of Self that is gently tapping at my heart flow to every cell in my body...sending mysteriously familiar goosebumps to my surface. In this moment I recognize that everything that I seek outside of myself can only be discovered within. It is when I am still and guided within that I feel ultimate belonging and infinite bliss.

These moments come to me in Puja, meditation, writing, Kirtan, and spiritual practices. When I do these activities that I am passionate about, I am aligning myself with the love and true infinite self that resides within my heart. What a beautiful feeling and how I would love for it to last, yet the ache of the pureness of this joy and love become overwhelming. As, a teacher once spoke to me "You are spirit and spirit can sustain anything". I guess that one hasn't sunk in yet!

Do you have these moments of pure bliss and love? Ya know where your heart aches oneness, your body tingles with stillness, awareness quiets your mind, and love is all you know. These are the moments that make you want to sing at the top of your lungs, dance like no one is watching, skip with a child like innocence, and smile as if the world depends on it.

NOW is the only time...live your passion...follow your bliss....and fall in love with everything!

With all my Love,

Erin

The Mirror

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. Deepak Chopra


Recently I met an incredibly powerful woman at a dance club and was pushed by a force of curiosity to speak with her. Much to my surprise, a connection was made, and a rapid seed of love was planted. The unconditional love and joy that was experienced with her was sweet and everlasting. Her smile so very genuine and her eyes illuminating the God within,had me pinching myself to see if I was dreaming.She stands for love, happiness, power, and service....everything I am passionate about too.

There is that witty saying "if you want to get to know yourself, get into a relationship". Like a mirror that only identifies truth, I was shown a very intimate display of my healthy and unhealthy behaviors I activated with my partner. Cupid hit me with an arrow and knocked me off my feet.....and my ego!

The relationship was overwhelming and exciting at first, all new fun feelings and emotions brewing inside. The next to enter on stage was fear.....usually having a guest appearance in all of my past relationships along with the catch phrase "this one will leave too". I contemplated so much on the fears and concerns of being left that I attracted that right into my reality once again! Along with my fears of "do I really deserve this amazing lover" I began to get so consumed with the past and future that I cheated myself out of the now.

A few things I discovered about me and am committed to working on:

1)Improving my listening skills.
2)Dropping all excuses and taking responsibility for everything in my current reality
3) Learning to stay in and enjoy the now.

The relationship with this beautiful lady has ended, but I will forever be grateful for the experience and awareness it has brought. As for the relationship with self, it is forever expanding!!


With an open heart,

Erin

God Is Love

I allow my heart to expand with love.

Close your eyes and allow the divine goodness in this moment to flow directly into your heart. As you allow the awareness of the moment in, your heart will automatically expand to the necessary capacity in which to house this new love. In every moment there is always a new awareness and particle of love that is yearning to reunite within you. This is obtained by letting go of everything and entering a state of "being". When we are in a state of "being" we are in fact in the center of love.

Love has many forms, yet it is formless. It is everything and nothing all in the same. It is the effortless ache that has driven you to be in this moment. Love is the vibrational frequency that connects us all as one. It is the space held between your heart and mine. It is pure acceptance of all that is and will ever be. It is the vibrant and powerful expression that penetrates within you and radiates effortlessly to the world. Love is the freedom and courage that allows you to stand up and create what you are passionate about.

In love fear does not exist.There is zero separation and everything illuminates as one. So when asked what is God to me?

My response is quite simple....LOVE.

Infecting you all with love,
Erin