FOOD FOR THOUGHT

1. “IF ONLY WE COULD
ALL DO THIS”
~Ron, Friend of Rue Anne Hass~
“LET THE BEAUTY OF WHAT
YOU LOVE
BE WHAT YOU DO.”
~Rumi~
I am sharing within the Five Slides of this Power Point excerpts that gave me a lot of
FOOD FOR THOUGHT from Rue Anne Haas’s Intuitive Memory May 28, 2018 Blog.
All quotes are by Rue Anne Haas unless noted by “~”
https://www.intuitivementoring.com/if-only-we-could-all-do-this/

2. “If only we could all do this” ~Ron~
“It is almost like you are assuming that you CAN’T do this. Is that true? Or maybe
you are saying, what a difference it would make if we all actually do this!”
“Give your own thought to the beauty of what you love.
Ask yourself these questions.”
“What is something you have created with your heart or your hands?”
“What does your body like about doing this?”
“What subtle physical and energetic signals do you notice?”
You take something very specific, like the activity
that you love doing, and ask
yourself, “What quality is this an example of?”

3. “Eventually you come to a short list of the big, universal qualities
that are important to you, no matter what.
What I sense in my own being when I ask these questions about creating something—
or doing anything really—is radiant universal quality of delight. In my body I feel this
as a kind of flowing expanding sensation in my heart, into my chest. Like twinkles of
light. It is uplifting. It feels like my body is smiling. This felt sense is generated by
what I am doing and my love of doing it, and the deep reach into my creative resources
that the work invites.”
“Hold your Big Idea in mind, and then keep asking the questions:
What is a smaller part of this big idea?
And what is a smaller part of this big idea?
Now… what is a smaller and more do-able part of this idea?
You are asking:
“What aspect of this might I bring into my life right now?
What small manageable part of it has the same feeling and resonance of that big
beautiful vision? What is a small bite?”

4. “Actually this Chunking Up/Chunking Down thought process leads you right into a kind of guideline
for how to live your life. When you live from choosing what lights you up inside, even in the smallest
ways, all the qualities and actions that are most nourishing to you are being reinforced, all the time.
Things will be a little (or a lot) messy and
dis-orderly. Just let that happen. Maybe that is better! Something wonderfully unexpected might
happen! Life doesn’t fit itself into neat categories.”
“Our bodies are always making commentary on what we are thinking and feeling. Mostly we
don’t pay much attention. Or we ignore or actively dismiss what our bodies are saying. He was
having knee problems. I bet there is a whole story in our knees about our choices and how we
feel about them… Knees, they carry us forward. They lift us up and lower us down. They take
us in the direction that we are going. They become flexible or stiff, graceful or awkward. Ron
was looking toward “knee replacement.” What an interesting metaphor in this context!”
“I have scoliosis in my spine, which throws my balance off, and over time as I age it has put my own
hips and knees into imbalance. My right hip and my left knee. I notice that how I hold myself—the
physical stance I take—has a powerful effect on my hips and knees. I am working to become
conscious of my stance, and when I notice that I am sinking into the curve of my spine, I lift my body
up and into a more balanced place.
This is a physical story, but our bodies are also a metaphor and a story about the historical stance
of our human ancestral spirit. How might my scoliosis and my stance reflect the distortions in my
family’s story about how to live a life?
My inquiry is, How am I standing up in my Presence, in my life?”

5. “The conscious work I am doing on how I embody my life story, and the stand I take in the
world, is helping to strengthen and turn my body toward balance. I believe that my
intention and attention is also re-configuring and healing some of my disjointed family
history, places where my ancestors maybe weren’t able to stand up straight. I can help to
heal my old stories by choosing beauty and love in each moment,
even if the big picture seems gritty or sad.”
“What would be the effect on an old story of getting in the habit of letting what you love
be what you do? “If only I could all do this!” sounds helpless. Like I have no choices. But
paying attention to my body’s experience, and doing my best to choose thoughts and
actions that are strong and generative—that can help so much in changing my stance. I
probably can’t “cure” my scoliosis altogether, but I sure can stand up for beauty!
All of this comes down to this essential question:
How can my thoughts and actions honor the living spirit of the world?”
“I am pretty sure that Rumi knew this.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Paraphrasing what Rue Anne Haas had written: “You don’t have to be anything in
particular to be an expression of love. Be you. Take your next breath, and start there.”