The Pleasure of Living

Sometimes I forget to breathe. Sometimes describes a lot of what goes on for me. Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes not. Sometimes I'm selfish & sometimes selfless. I've come to a place where I feel more solid and safe finally.  There have been times more recently where I have been pretty scared and unsure of how to move forward in Life.  I have such great support of friends and family and more than anything, God.  As I relax into this safety, letting go of fear and doubt, I'm able to see how to give my best from within to what is in front of me.  I get scared sometimes about rules I've set up for my own living & what will keep me safe and on a good path. Often I find this has to do with either what I'm used to, told, grown up with, and influenced by from others. The best way I've found is through experience. What has this experience brought to my attention which requires rules? Rules about how to live that I might experience a more relaxed, pleasurable and joyful existence.  Maybe structure is a better term for it.  Breathing is number one on the list. If I can breath, then I exist and can survive which in turn will become thriving.  Beyond this I choose to eat healthily, which can mean so many different things as I have gone from extremes of living a super refined low-fat raw vegan diet (organic raw fruits and veggies 100% off the land) to eating what is available, whether it is meat or organic or what not.  Koho pono, to pick what is right... this is something I am coming to learn about and would like to understand much deeper. The discernment process of learning what is best for me to surround myself with & bring inside me so I can be outputting the best of myself as well.  This applies not only to food and physical environment, but to those I surround myself with & their influence  of thoughts, words and actions.  I suppose this is how I see myself integrating these extreme experiences in some way, through koho pono, discernment.  I love to do so much in this life and have come to understand that I can actually be great at anything I put Love into, that is if I am aware of being Love.  Meditation helps with this.  This is something I have found to be a great structural support in my life.  It brings peace and inner focus to my life.  These are the things I am finding help me in creating discipline for creating the rest of my life. So I can experience more than just the pain and suffering of failed relationships or my lack of confidence in working because the inner life I hold so deeply within has sometimes been difficult to bridge with the outer world and it's demands.
I've given up drama for Lent & I hope I'm doing a good job of keeping up with that... at least sometimes. I really would like to be more stable and solid by using these concepts for living a more pono life. Koho pono will be a good reminder of how to go about the day in choosing what to bring into focus.