Love is… contagious <3
Each day, each breath of love expands in such fantastically productive ways, that even though I am getting used to it, I never cease to feel sweetly overwhelmed with the intensity of graceful living.
Life is indeed a gracefully sensual experience when allowed free rein to flow from the source of balanced Isness.
Take the weekend before the last, for example. I had an InPassion Breathe Free Session scheduled for Oporto and another for Braga (north of Portugal). The one in Oporto was at a Holistic centre. The other was at a private residence. Guess what? The one in Braga happened and the other didn’t. Why? Because of the LOVE frequency. For the event in Braga there was nothing but the desire to be together and share Isness. There was no fear of competition, on the part of the organizer, and there were no expectations or agendas, other than simply making the most of the opportunity to share the Love that we are.
When I had confirmation that the event in Oporto wasn’t going to happen, I considered whether I was going anyway or not. It is a long trip. I had invited a friend to go, offering her the opportunity to enjoy a relaxed, expense free weekend and I also invited her daughter, who needed to go shopping for clothes (she’s been growing fast J ). This made me decide that “yes, I am going anyway”. I didn’t know how many people were going to the event in Braga, though.
As a consequence of allowing the flow of love, the most amazing gifts came our way. The organizer, a dear friend of mine whom I had only been with once, for she attended a workshop of mine last September, received us like royalty! She gave us the keys to an apartment she has, where she doesn’t live. It was complete with bedclothes, towels, beautiful space. All we could possibly need. In the evening another friend from there took us to town, showed us around and then took us dancing. He didn’t know where the Club was, because he had never been there. He asked a group of people who were talking to each other outside a restaurant. Two of them got in their car and lead us to the place, and then they went back to where they were. So we even had a private escort!
The following morning, once again, we were escorted to the venue of the event J It was the house of the organiser’s friend, who had heated the place and made it comfortable and cosy for us. There were 12 people at the event and it was a marvelous experience for all of us. We also had the privilege of my friend’s presence, the one I took on the weekend, breathing compassion for all, just there, in deep silence, creating even more of a loving balance for all. We named her InPassion’s Executive Breather ;)
As if this were not enough, the organiser had yet another surprise for us! On Saturday she was busy all day preparing a surprise lunch for all of us to enjoy after the workshop on Sunday! So we all ate at the house where the workshop was! Everyone in the workshop! We were all a family J
Then, we wanted to go to Vila Verde, the place where some beautifully embroidered Fiancées handkierchiefs are made, because there was a big feast of LOVE there, during the weekend. Once again we were escorted right around the town, so as not to get caught up in the huuuuge queue that had formed to go in.
We enjoyed. We took photos of the beautiful creations inspired by the Fiancées Handkierchiefs. We loved it. We left and travelled back home. (There are photos of these creations on a post I shared here a few days ago.)
When we arrived, the lady with whom my friend’s children had spent the weekend had prepared a major banquet, just for the joy of having us at her house! So much love!
But that’s not all…
During the weekend we had spoken about my upcoming trip to London. I am taking my English students there, so I am receving the whole package, expenses included, in exchange for my "work" ;). My friend’s daughter mentioned she would love to go, it’s been a dream she’s had for a long time. The trip was just two weeks away. It seemed impossible that she might go, first of all because she had no money to go, and secondly because everything was organised already.
On Monday a lady who was going gave up. Nevertheless she wanted to make sure someone else enjoyed the experience, so she offered it to my friend’s daughter, complete with spending money which she had already exchanged for Pounds and all!!! The young girl was so overwhelmed with such an amazingly unexpected windfall that the following day she was bedridden with high fever! ;) Receiving so much so fast can be a bugger! Hehehe It’s all a question of: how much can you accept to receive? Anyway, now she’s in tip top shape and all ready to go and receive her unexpected dream come true.
Last weekend was equally an endless succession of pure Alchemy! Once again I invited this friend who went to Braga for yet more receiving. She accepted ;) Now she knows she CAN take it! Hehehe The thing is that as we allow our hearts to expand into crystalline boundlessness, everything becomes possible and this is INTENSE!!! Indescribably intense, but oh sooooo complete! The illusionary frontier between what we thought was giving and what we thought was receiving simply disappears. Puft! It eclipses into nothingness.
Well, let’s get on with the story ;) We went to the Algarve, in the south of Portugal, where I was going to spend the weekend with my son who lives in Alentejo with his dad, and also to present my new book Vice Versa, about the magic in everyday life. On Saturday morning the sun was shining peacefully in an endless blue sky. The sea was transparently soft and inviting. The sand was sparkling its golden invitation. We were lent an apartment right in front of the beach, where we could appreciate this perfect scenery while lying in bed!!!! The apartment was called Regency, and we sure felt like royalty, such was the privilege we were offered.
We just had to go to the beach! In the dead of Winter, after weeks of rain, here was a pristine Spring morning! We just had to go and play in the water! We just had to lie on the soft sand! We just had to accept this fulfilling Present, such was the love it contained!
In the afternoon we headed for the book presentation. A friend who I had met just two weeks ago, curiously at the workshop I hold once a year named Mind and Soul… in my Body (the same one the friend from Braga had attended last year), invited me to present the book at her own home. Another two friends from Albufeira (in the Algarve, where the presentation was scheduled), had gone around town during the week, inviting some friends to come in sort of a door to door personal invitation tour J
We arrived at the house. It was so beautiful! Luxuriously decorated, a huge, comfortable living room with a warm fire burning in the central fireplace. They had prepared a delicious snack for after the session, complete with cakes, cookies, tea and other homemade delicacies. I was speechless. You know what it feels like when you are so fulfilled, when you feel so loved and you love so much that tears brim over your eyes and laughter comes bubbling from that place within where miracles happen? That’s how I felt.
Fifteen people came. It was like a family gathering and it was ever so special! I sold lots of books, received registrations for my next event in Bretagne (France), the InPassion Masters event, and my friend, InPassion’s Executive breather, was invited to do her Reflexology and Intuitive Therapeutic massage sessions in the Algarve! She had been invited to do so in Braga too! So now she’s going to have to manage her appointments in order to deal with all of this abundance ;)
At night my mum, who had gone to the Algarve as well, in order to deal with her apartment’s renovation, went out dancing. We weren’t too sure whether to go or not, for we were still dealing with the love overdose of the afternoon’s book presentation. Anyhow, my 6 year old son was intent on taking us out dancing!!!! He just had to dance with mummy! And so it is that we actually went and once again enjoyed it immensely. Thank you Samuel!
On Sunday we went to the beach again! It was windy, but I tell you, I’ve never ever loved the wind so much! What a blessing! Then we were taken to yet another Paradise on Earth. It is called Vila Monte and it I loved it so much that it shall be the venue for my Symbiosis Event, at the beginning of November.
It is not only the weekends that are filled with infinite love. Everyday it is like this! Every single day, and I could go on and on sharing fantastic experiences, but now I’m going to have lunch… with a friend who cooked it especially for us.
I thank you, I thank me, I thank all that IS for absolutely everything. Praise to enlightened living ;)
