Details Are....

Details are the little rays of sunshine that dance and lap at your skin, giving great warmth and blissful joy.

Details are the soft whispers, the gentle touches, and the cool breeze blowing across your face.

Details are the tides ripples providing the salty warm hugs of the ocean waves that reach out to embrace you in heavenly compassion.

At times details are the harsh words that break you, not truly are they meant, but break you they do all the same.

Details are the fiery stares that burn through your soul, leaving you empty instead of whole.

But through all this, details are the meaning of life, and without a life full of details, a meaningless life it would be.

This is a poem I wrote long ago as I was learning how to not take everything so personal. I began to realize we are all human and what that actually means. As humans we all suffer and hurt; we experience joy and love. With all of our beautiful differences this is truly something we all have in common. I began to observe those around me and I saw that underneath the root of the hateful things people do to one another is simply their own pain and suffering coming out. In this I was able to offer compassion to that person instead of getting hurt by their words or actions.

Now compassion does not mean allowing yourself to be walked on or mistreated, but it is always better to have empathy for someone instead of hatred. Also, this does not mean you must continue to be around someone who is always lashing out at those around them due to their internal suffering and struggles. Remember we all have a choice. We have the choice to decide how we are willing to be treated and what boundaries we will put in place.

This poem is the reminder that all experiences are a blessing. When we are experiencing joy, love, or any "positive" emotion because of what is happening in the moment I encourage you to pause and hold that experience in your mind for no less than 20 seconds. This allows you to fully absorb the uplifting affect of this moment in time. You become truly present with this joy and/or love. Over time this pausing in the moment will shift how you feel on a regular basis. Now when we are experiencing difficulties that give birth to so called "negative" emotions (i.e. anger, sadness, jealousy, and so on) I ask you to again pause, name the emotion and look for the lesson within this experience. Over my lifetime the experiences that have shaped me and made me more grateful, more peaceful, more positive about life have been those that forced me out of my comfort zone and required me to stretch to find a deeper level of compassion and love either for the other person or for MYSELF. Please remember all compassion starts by having it for ourselves. Compassion for what we are feeling and remembering not to judge the emotion, but instead name it, sit with it and allow it to be okay, not negative because this is truly the human experience. When we do this for ourselves and all of those around us the world shifts to a place of peace and love.

Thank you for sharing a brief moment of your day with me. I am wishing you a day and a LIFETIME filled with Peace, Joy, Love, and ABUNDANCE in all things!

The Peace Alchemist