{"id":68,"date":"2013-04-04T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:51:27","slug":"birthday-surprises-and-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Surprises and Gratitude…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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I remember the day back in the dead of winter when my dear friend Maryanne told me to block off a couple of dates in the spring as she had some surprises planned for my birthday.\u00a0 She was giddy with excitement and I remember feeling how much I wanted to know what she was excited about.\u00a0 I wanted to be a part of it, right now.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to wait and I even told her that it wasn\u2019t fair that she could live with the anticipation and I would lose out on that, because I didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 There was a part of me that wanted to be in it with her fully in that moment and there was also a very quiet part when I listened carefully that wanted it to unfold organically as she had planned.\u00a0 I have never been the most patient person so I had no choice but to put it out of my head for months.\u00a0 Suddenly the week was here and we were arranging pick up times and what to wear and how to prepare for the day and I was beyond excited.\u00a0 I knew in that moment most of the excitement was because I didn\u2019t know and I was completely surrendered to the day approaching.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even try to guess.\u00a0 Surprisingly, I didn\u2019t want to know anything.\u00a0 I had waited this long, now I just wanted to experience it without any thought.\u00a0 There are not many times in our life where we can just be in the experience without having any preconceived ideas or expectations so I was going to ride this one to the end, even when the not knowing felt torturous.<\/p>\n

The day arrived, Maryanne picked me up and we were running a bit late and then got a bit lost. \u00a0Being helpless to figure anything out became a challenge for me.\u00a0 Now I really wanted to know\u2026not to soothe myself and my own curiosity but to help make it less stressful for her.\u00a0 As directed I went to Maryanne\u2019s phone to access the GPS and up popped a name that was all too familiar to me: David Hickey. ( a 15 minute reminder on her phone) I could barely contain myself as Maryanne confirmed we were on our way to a private concert by David Hickey.\u00a0 It was overwhelming\u2026never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that to be possible.\u00a0 We drove there, living in the anticipation, now both living in the stress of being late and some how it felt good to share that with her, like I could relieve some of that load.\u00a0 When we arrived and saw David, I struggled with settling in. I could feel my whole being vibrating, in shock, in awe, in gratitude, in anticipation, in sweet surrender calling me\u2026it felt like too much, I held it together and as I walked in to the studio, there sat 3 of the most beautiful women in my life, Lisa, Sandy and Sarah\u2026it was too much.\u00a0 The emotion welled up inside me and with a gasp of air released the tears.\u00a0 The tears barely stopped for the next 2 hours.\u00a0 There was enough of a break for me to attempt to ground myself in this beautiful energy, amongst these precious huge hearted people in a room called the Crystal Cave which vibrated all on its own.\u00a0 David plays gongs aligned with the planets and crystal bowls, santoor, and a vibraphone. The studio is aligned with beautiful breath taking crystals from Brazil and the room itself has crystals and other energetic pieces of the earth buried in the walls.\u00a0 We lay down on the floor creating a star where we could all physically reach one another and David began to play.<\/p>\n

Tears rolled down my cheeks filling up my ears, not wanting to move, feeling my body releasing and shifting as I lay there, my heart expanding and contracting, aching and singing out and finally relief\u2026my heart was free.\u00a0 The tears stopped and I became aware of the lower\u00a0 part of my body vibrating, spinning, opening, anchoring deep within the earth, calling for connection to all, powerfully aware of all earth energy and then suddenly I was gone.\u00a0 This was a different leaving. Many times in meditation I feel myself rise up above my body living and experiencing life in the expanded dimensions, in the openness and the freedom of all that is but still very connected to my body on earth.\u00a0 This time my body came with me and in spirit form we travelled together.\u00a0 I found myself meeting up with\u00a0 people, friends, family all over the world as if I could just drop in and be with them wherever they were at in that moment.\u00a0 I found my Mom in Florida, lying down and I lay down with her, spooning, loving her up before I was called elsewhere. I found a friend in France and we walked the streets together. After globetrotting for a while, suddenly, I was pulled deep in to spirit realm where I connected with a deep love who passed away several years ago and there we were together in spirit form experiencing all that is in absolute wholeness, oneness, nothingness and everythingness\u2026it was truly indescribable.\u00a0 Beyond peace, beyond love as we know it on earth\u2026it just was.\u00a0 There were many people, many experiences\u2026I have no idea why those particular people at that time but it is where the universe pulled me.<\/p>\n

This was a gift\u2026beyond description, beyond words of gratitude, beyond expressions of love.\u00a0 It was an experience that we all shared that had everything to do with me and nothing to do with me.\u00a0 It is the expression of the heart that allowed this journey.\u00a0 It is the first day of the rest of my life.\u00a0 Thank YOU, to everyone on this earth, creating your own vibration allowing such magnificence to flow through us, within us, in between us\u2026I can\u2019t wait to see what the next 50 years brings and who joins me on this journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember the day back in the dead of winter when my dear friend Maryanne told me to block off a couple of dates in the spring as she had some surprises planned for my birthday.\u00a0 She was giddy with excitement and I remember feeling how much I wanted to know what she was excited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[11,27,29,23,28,5,4,21,34,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livingalldimensions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}