Flirting with Life! 🌹😉
Up until August of this year, I had never considered myself a flirt. I've dibble-dabbled throughout the years but never fully committed to the role. Looking back, it never quite felt right and to be honest I never (at the time, cuz we different now...😏) felt like I possessed the aura/confidence to claim such a title. But 2020 really has proven to be that year to flip ALL the switches 🤪. Somehow, someway I've stepped into this new role with full acceptance and appreciation. And by stepping into my flirt-hood, I've had one of the biggest revelations of this loooooooong ass year: Life/God/Universe/Spirit/etc. is just one big FLIRT!
~ champagne elixir for breakfast. It’s 5 o’ clock somewhere…~
Life always wants to flirt and have fun; you just have to be willing to receive (and reciprocate) the attention! My inner flirt, who's requested to be called Ananda LaHottie, unexpectedly awakened within me as I journeyed through the magical vortices of Sedona. The magic of that land awakened a flame within my heart space that I never even felt was extinguished. As I began to fully trust spirit's path and play with life, portals of fortune, luck and awe magically opened all around me. Ain't it crazy what nature will do for ya?...(More on Sedona in my next post...)
With the time we've all been forced to spend with(in) ourselves at home, I've been doing a lot of work on my Anahata (heart chakra), healing energetic fissures from heartbreak, repressed emotions and false desires. This alchemical work has allowed me to dust off the once abandoned throne that my inner flirt now graciously rules from. When our hearts are closed, there is no room for the inner flirt to play, and play is the temple through which miracles are delivered! Through this wisdom of play I allow my heart to open up to all the possibilities, all the potentials. In allowing myself to surrender to the given moment/feeling, I fall into the proverbial flow. For me, flirting is the new flow.
I'd like to think of the inner flirt as the matured, coquettish version of the inner child: childlike in demeanor yet adult in behaviour. The inner flirt is spirited and free like the child whilst deliberate and grounded like the adult. Your inner flirt is your counterpart and compass to F U N!
I'm in my bag AND in my coquettishness!
By surrendering to the flirtatious yearnings of my heart, life has exploded into the most rapturous technicolor motion picture...and I AM THE STAR, just as you are the lead in your very own "film" as well.
My definition of flirting exists beyond the simple accompaniment of the sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter sport that is dating. Flirting with life is a completely wholistic, tantric, embodied, 24/7 ecstatic experience! Flirting with life is:
Giggling as the wind tousles your hair
Cheerfully gesturing back to the spunky 50-somethin' year-old woman blowing you kisses as you buy radishes at the farmers market....
Communing with the bees and moths as they visit the flowers in your home garden
Singing to the flowers you encounter on your weekly neighborhood walk.
And sometimes it can even be:
proposing an intimate zoom "sip 'n' chill" with your closest friends
allowing the Argentine man you just met on the beach to politely press their lips to yours
confidently sending eyes to the bro standing in line at Whole Foods
(...y'all get where Im going with this...)
~ why are all the flirters white tho...? ~
This is just a sampling of my latest experiences with life's coquettishness. I encourage everyone to tune into their inner flirt now more than ever; you need an authentic grin and hearty giggle more than you know...I feel as though people have used 2020 as an excuse to disengage from life, from feeling, from loving, and most especially from living. I'm here to remind you to live and reignite your life. Life is freaking magical so LIVE!
Don't ever let perceived limitations and fear hinder your lightness of being. For your lightness creates space where the magic has room to fly in and remind you that you have wings.
With all that said, a simple way to get back to living is by playing with life and flirting a lil'. Who knows what experiences, things and people you'll magnetize to you, as if my magic. Life is more fun when you PLAY! Play with life and it plays right back with you.
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Leave a comment below and share how you've been flirting with life…and how it's been flirting back at you.
~ divine flowers romancing me in Los Cabos ~