Tag Archives: Jamie Ridler

Wishcasting Wednesday

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What do you wish to release?

I wish to release…

…the grip anxiety, fear, worry, and panic have on me.

…resistance, rejection, resentment, or anything else that keeps me from experiencing my life just as it is, exactly as I am.

…notions of what life should or shouldn’t be, all dreams, hopes, expectations, fears.

…judgements, the way I evaluate and categorize my experience and people into good or bad, fair or unfair, pleasurable or painful, worthy or unworthy, whole or broken.

I wish to release the search for safety, for solid ground, for a happy ending.

…discursive thought patterns, habitual ways of being that no longer serve me, poverty mentality or any sense of worthlessness, and the way I get hooked and carried away by strong emotions, by the stories I tell myself about them.

…the struggle with impermanence.

…the pain, loss, grief, and trauma.

…the suffering I generate, the problems and pain I create.

I wish to release…

…waiting.

…attachment.

…control, perfection, trying.

…smashing myself to bits.

…all the chatter and crap, the unnecessary stuff that is cluttering my space and my self.

…any hope or fear, any sense of should or have to, any self-hate or self-loathing that still lingers.

Full Moon Dreamboard: Corn Moon

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From Jamie’s post: “Today we’re celebrating the Full Corn Moon, the beginning of harvest season, a celebration of the fruits of golden summer and a preparation for what is to come.”

What dreams do I wish to bring to fruition?

Maybe it’s because I am just finishing a weekend retreat, but when I thought about this question, my response wasn’t about projects I hoped to complete or accomplishments I wanted to realize or plans I longed to fulfill, it was about my life, the quality of my experience.

I want to simplify, a return to innocence, to quiet and stillness, to fully experience my life without all the clutter and the chatter and the crap.

I want spaciousness. I want freedom. I want peace–internal contentment and calm. I want clarity and kindness, pure wisdom.

I long to ease suffering in the world, including my own. I want to show up and keep my heart open, to know courage, to stay with the beauty and the brutality, the tenderness and the terror.


May you be happy.
May you be peaceful.
May you be free from suffering.

Achieve happiness and balance.
Restore. Simplify. Rest.
Follow your natural instincts.
True to life.

There is a map written on your heart
rivers of wisdom
mountains of kindness
oceans of love
every road leading to wisdom
space and sky
real, tangible, solid and true
waiting to be traveled, to be seen, to be noticed.

Follow the map, the path to your True North,
each letter, each step, each breath
leading straight to the center of your heart,
to the being, the deep middle of your life.