When we finally get in touch with a truly Bold Move, there is an excitement that sets into the cells! Like we’re dancing inside ourselves. That’s a sure sign, and I’m thinking it might be because for a few moments upon first recognition, we are aligned with all of the dimensions of our uniqueness.

Thoughts and feelings are complimenting each other, and they both synch up with our values, our positive beliefs, our authentic passion and our most worthy goals. The body is awake to itself in a fresh way because the tension of being out of synch melts away – just for a while, a wonderful while.

And then, we get the fresh challenge of the creative tension that comes up as our Inner Critters catch on to the fact that they will soon be sidelined. They invariably raise a ruckus, trying to reignite confusion and with it,  fear and doubt.

That’s how it has felt these past few days as the business plan has come to completion. Allan and I both have been pondering the creative tension we will feel when our funding actually comes in.

Wow! I’m thinking Alert Level Purple, here.

I’m thinking that it’s a little early to talk about the whole Alert Rainbow thing because we’ve really only talked about Red, Orange, Blue and Green so far. But I’m just bubbling today with excitement and sticking to one color, even if it is Sunny Yellow, seems impossible.

The thing is, a Bold Move that I’ve been navigating some time now is right here on the deck today. The business plan is ready to go out.

For those of you who read the March blogs, you’ll know that writing the plan was a big, big stretch for me. And now, with help from Allan and other generous folks, it is ready. So, we get to stretch again, through the process of seeing who are going to be the lucky funding partners of the amazing Bold Moves expansion!

Celebrate – Alert Level Rainbow Fusion!

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Okay, another thought on Alert Level Green.

Green is the color of an alkaline diet. Yes, that’s correct, we’re talking broccoli and spinach. We’re talking kale and chard and watercress. I can just hear my partner Allan wondering what the heck I’m up to now – what does chard have to do with Alert Level Green or with making Bold Moves?

Well, here it is: we define a Bold Move as a courageous action that is aligned to your individual core values, and as a breast cancer thrivor (much more than a survivor), I highly value the curative powers of an alkaline diet.

After surgery and 27 radiation treatments,  I asked my doctor about going on a strict alkaline diet instead of doing medication. Amazingly, he said, “Truthfully Shayla, I cannot guarantee that the therapy I must recommend to you would be any better than a strict alkaline diet, but most people can’t stick to a diet that is strict enough.”

My jaw dropped and I said, “Watch me!”

Seven years later, I’m still cancer-free and I’ve been on a strict alkaline diet that whole time.  I can say without equivocation that a Green Alert that had us moving toward  wonderful green foods as a nation would be absolutely evolutionary. Alert Level Green equals slim bodies, healthy skin, high energy and a greatly diminished chance of ever getting any of the nasty diseases that plague our society.

Who knew? Well now you do. Gives the greening of America a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?

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I know I’m a day late with this, but it is being composed on the real Earth Day.

Here’s a green heart for the Earth. Green Alert for growth, for green, growing things. Green Alert for photosynthesizing pure sun energy into food and flowers. Green Alert for open heartedness. It’s challenging to stay in touch with this one in a time when there is so much  division, so much contention everywhere. So much intentional fear-mongering Red Alert energy.

I wonder what would happen if a Green Alert had us open our hearts just for one hour, let alone one day, to the beautiful planet that sustains us all, for the variety of fauna and flora that delight our imaginations and fill our eyes with wonder and sometimes tears. Green Alert to delight in the many colors of skin that have us humans showing up like a veritable, amazing  rainbow. Happy Earth Day, every day! Green, Green, Green Alert.

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While we’re looking at opposites in this question about the colors of fear, we might notice that there is another example of the polarity exhibited in red versus green: red light, green light. Stop and go. For the past decade, there has been a lot of stop energy in our country.

Many of us have come to complete stop in our lives, either because our world has changed so much we don’t know how to get going, or because we are fearful that if we move one inch, the change that is flattening our friends and neighbors will flatten us too. Let’s notice how stop energy is directly proportional to the degree to which we make our decisions based on people, media, and circumstances that are outside of us.

So maybe a Green Alert has us waking up to our own inner sense of direction, has us saying go, go, go because we are following our own guidance, hearing our own inner wisdom. Unfortunately, for many of us, that is pretty tricky because we have not been supported in fully exploring our inner selves, so we’re not sure what is wisdom and what is just fantastic nonsense.

In BoldMoves Country, we get that support, some of us for the very first time. And we also get a simple, yet powerful way to tell wisdom from fantasy. Wisdom comes with a true sense of possibility. Fantasy comes with a subtle undertow of fear and doubt that has us wanting to escape our lives.

Red Alert:  be afraid – to stay, to go, to come, to leave. Green Alert: open to the possibility of knowing who we are; open to the possibility of recognizing fear even in its most deceptive forms;  open to the possibility of managing fear so it doesn’t run us; and open to the possibility of go, go, going boldly forward in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Bold Moves America!

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It’s difficult to find any terror in the thought of a Green Alert!

Let’s build upon the green-with-envy factor that is a variety of the greed that comes when we diminish ourselves through self-ignorance and self-neglect and then try to fill ourselves up with material things. Maybe, seen in this way, a Green Alert is something that we feel inside, but do not recognize for what it is.

On the color wheel, red and green are opposite each other. So, if level Red Alert signals the height of terror, maybe level Green Alert signals it’s opposite. And what would that be?

Oddly enough, red and green are both symbols of the human heart. In America, we are so familiar with the red version called a Valentine. Interesting, that this heart is traditionally pierced by an arrow, Cupid’s arrow of love – a terror that is inflicted when we project our love onto someone else, or when they inflict theirs upon us.

In Eastern spiritual systems, the color of the heart is green, as in the heart chakra, a green, internal center of love energy that is minus any piercing projectiles. The green heart is symbolic of love of self––oh not that ego-centric or self-centered kind of love––but the still, quiet love of self that comes when we think to respectfully nurture ourselves and build ourselves strong enough to truly nurture others. When we care to know ourselves well enough that we don’t go unconscious in our behaviors toward others. We’re not very good at that in America. Our motto is “No Pain, No Gain” after all. So are we back to green with envy then? Comparing ourselves?

Let us ponder these opposites through this day and night and see where it takes us, either in our individual dreams, or in tomorrow’s missive!

Media and our government give us Red, Orange and Yellow Alerts to monitor levels of fear––or terror. We’ve been looking at the possibilities of Blue Alerts to give us a sense of possibility thinking. But let’s step back just for a moment and look at fear again, through the colors of a chain reaction that happens when we let fear take us captive.

Fear and doubt, lead to self-denial, because we become afraid to give ourselves what we really want.

Self-denial has us feeling deprived and it kicks in our ego stuff. We puff ourselves up so that we can feel better even if we are depriving ourselves of what we really want and need.

The ego is voracious, grabbing onto whatever material things it can to fill the void created by self-denial. So ego enhances greed.

And greed has us green with envy when we can’t fill our material coffers. So there you have it, a rainbow fashioned from fear. That’s a dark rainbow, yes?

Tomorrow, we’ll look at a different view of green. This color, in fact, may hold the keys to the whole freedom-from-fear possibility spectrum.

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By now, we’ve got a rhythm about blue being a state of infinite possibilities. So how does that feel? And how open did you say you are?

If you’d like to know more, you might want to check out the BoldMoves Readiness Index. Openness to possibilities is one of the things you’ll be looking at. It’s just over to the right and up two steps. >>

Have fun. More tomorrow – thinking about broaching purple – or violet, maybe, or fuschia.  It took me four tries to spell that right and the spell-checker is still not happy with it.

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We think of a blue lagoon as an ultimate place of beauty, peacefulness and relaxation. These are exactly the qualities that rest within each of us to be fully experienced once we come to peace with ourselves. Then, we can see the beauty of our individual uniqueness. Then we may relax and rest from the life long labor of finding inner calm.

I suppose there are many paths to this inner state of self-acceptance and, dare I say, self love. The path with which I am most familiar is the path of self-knowledge.

I recently heard a quote by the Jewish sage Hillel: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself only, then what am I? If not now, when?

Maybe it is your time to be for yourself so that you have the fullness of strength and wisdom to be also for others. If so, then you might ask yourself, “How open am I to possibility? How ready am I to put fear away? How willing am I to learn to love myself?” These are the question of BoldMoves Country – BoldMoves Blue Lagoon. 

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Wow! What would happen if we decided as a people to respond to a national Blue Alert by blooming? That’s right, opening up like a field of 300 million flowers of every variety? We would shock em and rock em right to the most outer rim of their fuzzy auras. We would swing and sway in a magnificent breeze of fresh ideas. We would create pollens of infinite kinds and blow in a whirl wind of innovations. We would mix our fertile pollen with the help of willing bees and generate the wildest, most exciting, most amazing stuff.

So where do we start? Well, the seeds of each of us as outrageous blooms have already been planted. They’re in our DNA. And most of us have been tilling  soil since day one of our lives, flailing about in a confused dance, trying to please them, whoever they are.  Now, we just have to get acquainted with our real selves, remember––re-member our true natures.

Bloom baby blue!