Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst

When I lived in San Diego I had frequent and regular appointments with Life Coach  Wendy Kranz who can be found on Orange Avenue on Coronado Island and who owns a company called Damn Thirsty where she coaches people from all walks of life, Fortune 500 CEOs and stay at home moms alike. I can highly recommend Wendy, she is absolutely fantastic as she coaches people in their outlook on life and everything else you throw her way. For example she made me realize that how I feel is not the result of what has happened to me, as I conveniently would have had it, but of how I choose to think about it. In other words, it is my thoughts about my predicament that govern how I feel. So I have splendid news for you all: If you can control your thoughts you can control how you feel, so take charge! I have it on great authority that it is easier said than done so we all have to practice, a lot, because it is so much more handy to claim the status of a victim than taking full responsibility of our lives.

Life coach Wendy Kranz

The other day I was thinking about the name Damn Thirsty and how it symbolizes what Wendy Kranz had discovered; that so many of us indeed are thirsting for something more or perhaps something else but without knowing what. Some people, including myself at times, seem to have it all and yet do not feel totally happy, because there is a void that cannot be pinpointed. Why? What more do we need? The thought of constantly being Damn Thirsty made me start thinking about what this really stands for and I have come to the conclusion that perhaps it is authenticity we yearn. In this materialistic world we are not really valued for who we really are deep inside instead we are often are judged and sadly also many times find our own self worth in artificial attributes such as how much money we have in the bank (or what people think we have:-), where we live and what car we drive in addition to age, physical look, weight, and job title, hence who we really are on the inside tend to be totally ignored and overlooked as something that counts, by others and shockingly also often by ourselves. With that said I think it is about time to start to listen to what comes from within rather than to live by what others (people and institutions) are conveying about who we are and what we are worth in this increasingly superficial world.

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies: The resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation. The quiet and resigned believe that our time on this earth is random, a roll of cosmic dice, completely beyond our control (you know these people when you hear them as their sighs speak volumes). The rest of us, the restless agitators, sense that there has got to be something more to why we are here, something other than money, career, sex, physical perfection, and materialistic acquisition with the meaning of life.

I believe that it is the lack of authenticity in our society that makes us thirsty, in addition when the precious authentic characteristics that we naturally have within us lack value and the message is that we have to be in a certain way to count and we start to live lives that are not in congruence with who we really are both children and grown-ups succumb to illnesses caused by stress. When people are forced to conform to living and expressing themselves in a way that is against their entire being, which by the way leaves even the strongest of individuals grasping for breath at every turn, stress and inner conflicts arise and we start to feel empty, and thus we find ourselves knee deep in water dying of thirst.  

And that was my dwelling of the day!

Morning glory. 

What is more authentic than nature? 

And what is more authentic than animals? 

Simple abundance!

Have a lovely authentic day y'all!