Sun Cycles Marks Your Entry of Birth

My birthday, another whole 365 days of getting to be alive, has just cycled through again. Wow! 58 this year. I’ve surpassed my brother and my father.

Since my cancer diagnosis in 2016, I notice how I am also marking time by the yearly passing of surgery dates. I acknowledge that my body has done another amazing recovery to a new integration of wholeness, a reorienting of sorts.

I’m so grateful for my physical body that it continues to keep coming back so strong and willing to heal into greater states of awakening. We are not all so fortunate. This is why I still hold strong to one of my healing principles that came from my oncologist:

make each day a rehab day

New Anniversary Dates

September 24th, 5 days after my 57th birthday, I had the biggest and most invasive operation of my life. My cancer had returned albeit in a very small way, yet significant in that my body had not eliminated it fully. After several attempts trying alternate solutions, I was in the place I had hoped I wouldn’t arrive at.

Wanting to see another anniversary of my birth day made it clear what I needed to do. Take the big operation that would remove my lower rectal area up to where the initial tumor had started along with the lymph nodes in the groin area. At this time, last year I was recovering after a successful operation.

I can’t say I remember it clearly, as life was a blur for a few weeks, except that I was still breathing. And if I’m still breathing, my heart is beating and I’m opening my eyes every morning, then I say, “there’s more right with me than there is wrong.” Time heals.

Celebrate You!

Another 1 year surgery Anniversary to celebrate being Alive!

Anyway, this post is about anniversaries and celebrations. Celebrating being alive on the day you came into the world and the life you have lived thus far. Everyday you are a gift to the world just being who you are. That is enough. I am learning through all of the ups and downs these past four years, that not being afraid to be who YOU truly are and share this essence of your Being with the world, is all there is to do.

Line up with the beautiful, soul filled energy inside you and spread it to everyone you see and sprinkle it into everything you do. That is it. You are enough just being you!

While I quietly celebrated and happily acknowledged my 58th passing around the Sun, I then celebrated the recovery of a year passing after my big operation. On the same day, I found myself in a gorgeous little town in Switzerland listening to Tibetan Singing Bowls with a humble Tibetan man.

Find Your Song With A Tibetan Singing Bowl

For a couple of years, I have been wanting a bigger singing bowl with a deep, healing sound. I knew I would recognize the sound for me once I heard it and I did. Within an hour, I had discovered the sound for me and left feeling so at peace in my body and mind.

We talked about practicing compassion for self and towards others, cultivating loving kindness, listening with an open mind and allowing for words to be spoken as if they flowed from your mouth like a quiet mountain brook. I left him and this small sanctuary of overflowing Tibetan Buddhist energy to take a stroll along the Vierwaldstättersee, otherwise known as Lake Luzern.

This day had a magical energy infused into it for me and I was so grateful for all the support I have received especially since this new chapter of my life opened. Not one of us is an island.

You and I are so connected with every thought, every breath, every choice we make. Let’s strengthen in this place of interconnectedness with one another and embrace compassion for all.

Let loving kindness be your guiding light

P.S. I have new anniversaries to add to my yearly calendar: 2 hip replacements! I’m now truly becoming a bionic woman. My energy is coming back in a whole new way without all the pain of the past two years and I’m working on some gifts that I want to share with you along with a short and powerful online course I’ll be offering later this Fall.

There is so much I have learned through this transformative cancer experience I want to share with you. I’m excited about giving back to the world and being here to support you along your journey however it is unfolding for you.

Stay tuned. I am figuring out this online world and the best ways you and I can stay connected:) Connect with me in the comments section and please pass this post along to anyway you feel would be uplifted by it.

Together we are stronger.

Love always,

Leslie

Anniversary Dates ~ Special Markers