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Paradise or Anti-Paradise (Originally Published 2/21/2023)


Most everyone on some level of consciousness is seeking Paradise. In the dictionary, Paradise is described as heaven (whatever THAT is); an ideal place or state of mind; a place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be.

Ha! Really? Seriously?

 

I recently had a mental bout with the concept of Paradise. We live in the Florida Keys in the winter. The word Paradise is quite loosely used in the Keys. The weather is almost always temperate (balanced by the visits of Irma, Ian and other alphabetically named hurricanes), fishing is abundant, you never see a clock anywhere, and the Keys are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Gulf of Mexico on the other so water, water, beauty, beauty everywhere.

 

I started traveling to Florida from Michigan when I was around 33 years of age. I could really never afford to travel back then and spent a good deal of the year following my trips working to pay for them. I’m sure it was during my many trips to Florida that my emotional and mental mind-bodies, the minds that holds one’s hopes and visions for the future, firmed up all the details to land me in the beautiful Florida Keys for half of the year. The ride was wild, but here I am!

 

This year my recent Paradise dilemma began within the first two weeks of my arrival. We take at least a week to get from Michigan to Florida, visiting different friends along the way. I am a nester and a writer who loves her own bed and surroundings. Living out of a suitcase for eight days is extremely stressful for someone with my archetypes. I work very, very hard at living in the light zone on our journey south. You could call the journey down to the keys my anti-paradise experience for me.

 

Once we land, there are a million things to do to bring our Keys home up to par; remnant landscaping, dish and furniture rearranging from our summer guests, deep cleaning. . . well, you get the picture. Here I was in Paradise, and I was still reeling from the whole Michigan to Florida process.

 

And then I remembered. I was in the Paradise of my own making. Why wasn’t I enjoying it? Any of you regular blog readers know that as a conscious change coach, I am trained to ferret out the issues, events, and traumas that BLOCK one’s ability to live in Paradise, the experience of the place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as one imagined it. What was I missing? What had gone wrong?

 

Simple!

 

I was not living in the now. I was grumpy about missing all of those days of writing while on the road. I was still reeling over all the stress at the office for the last six months. I couldn’t just enjoy the beautiful ocean without first landscaping, cleaning, painting, hooking up to computers, cleaning some more, etc. I was focusing on all the expenses yet to come from everywhere, worrying about my next step.

 

Living in one’s Paradise without living gratefully “in the moment“ is a sure-fire way to make your own Paradise evaporate. EEK!

 

Here’s today’s message in a conch shell: Define your Paradise (there are zero limitations to the experience of this). Create manifestation intentions towards the experience of your Paradise. Recognize when you’re there and give thanks to a power greater than yourself for the ability to be exactly where you are. Lastly, keep the power over your visions.

 

I am off for a very long bike ride through my Paradise. I hope you are in yours too. In fact, Paradise can be anywhere you make it. Look around and rethink your current circumstances. Consider you’re in Paradise this very minute and watch the magic happen.

 

 It’s always a matter of choice, isn’t it?

 

Affirmation:  At this moment, I am in the Paradise of my own making.

“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”

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Catherine Wilcox is a Conscious Change Coach, Mentor, emotional intuitive and Writer. If you like what you read here, then you may enjoy one of her Published Books:

**Catherine’s latest Book, The New Stone Age, Crystal Data for the 21st Century, contains ten chapters of information designed to help the novice and intermediate crystologist obtain the secrets to working with crystals to help the four mind-bodies balance chaotic energy.

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