221 thoughts on “When I feel Great and Things are Great…”

1. I have often wondered why so many of us struggle to accept that life can actually be great all the time, but instead start to prepare for something to go wrong. I can’t imagine that it is an expectation we carry as a young child when the world is full of delights so maybe somewhere along the track of growing up we have taken on the ideals and beliefs of those around us and are living our lives through their life experiences, not ours. So, let’s make the choice to return to the freedom of childhood; a much more simple and joyful way to be.

2. A very sweet article that delivers a meaningful message. As people we don’t seem to appreciate and hold steady in the greatness of what is around us. We may for a part but it’s quickly followed by a ‘what if’. We tend to be critiques of life and are always trying to be better or more or faster or stronger etc etc. What if there is a part of all this missing? What if that part makes the whole thing and without that part it will never be whole? What if that part was truly you, a living breathing whole of you that truly looks at everything and not just focuses on a part. There are many parts to this world and if you are only living in some of them or focused on a few then what comes back to you will reflect this. If we were all to live from the whole we truly are then the world would never be the same.

3. Thank you CJames2012 I appreciate your comment. All that time spent trying to work out an issue is often a distraction away from what we are feeling and learning how to handle it. We are very sensitive and aware beings, and the mind can be like an escape valve from this aspect of our being.

4. Thankyou Mariette, I enjoyed reading your focus on everything that is truly great, and it truly does sound wonderful! I catch myself at times too going into smallness or misery and then I have to remember my life is now actually amazing, and as you say to recognise and stop it when the “mind kicks in and tries to ‘issue’ me around”! Very cute and very true!

5. The practice of appreciation for the being we are within, and all that brings to our life builds a foundation of joy that is our daily accompaniment.

6. This is a testimony that shows that naturally there is an inner tension for more than just the comforts of a supportive human life. We are here to be and to bring so much more. And we are not here just for ourselves, but for us all. This tension should never be overlooked and never be overridden however uncomfortable it is to feel. In fact, thankfully it is there for without it there is no impulse to seek the truth of what life truly is about.

7. Great celebration of being great and great exposé of how our mind ‘kicks in’ to find an issue. Learning to live in our greatness is a great joy and as you share, Mariette, the great support to do this is being present with one’s body.

8. When we are aware of feeling Great, Joy-full, etc. and then we move in a way that supports our feelings we can then appreciate what we have, so that rather than drop we stay in appreciation so it fills any gap to our next moment of lets say Joy-Full-ness. Then that cycle repeats from Joy to appreciation to feeling Great to appreciation to feeling Harmonious to appreciation etc. etc. So we appreciate every aspect of our lives that brings Love and those times that are not so loving we still appreciate them for the lesson to be more Loving.

9. Great blog. It feels great to read your blog. I feel great after building myself consistently for some time. I totally focus with my energy and make sure my alignment is moving towards greatness – feel great -> look great.

10. Quite simply presence seems to be the answer, ‘The more present and in my body I am, the more I can be of true service to the world. And with presence, there are no issues…’ Being present with ourselves has everything to offer ourselves and humanity.

11. Life is about the quality I bring, and I can only be aware of that if I am present, being present in every moment is essential as you share, ‘The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body. And this is an ongoing process. The more present and in my body I am, the more I can accept myself and others.’

12. The world will present difficult challenges every day, and it is the foundation we have built in the relationship with ourselves that will determine how we approach those challenges.

13. I know I have been used to the struggle, so can relate to feeling uneasy when things are going great. And yes, looking back I remember creating complication and issues when there was really no need. Slowly I am seeing that life does not have to be hard and that joy and simplicity are natural.

    1. Thank you Debra for your honest and real comment, I have also found that what I am familiar with can feel safe even though it’s an uncomfortable aspect of life, such as struggle or holding back. It can also feel safe because we know we are left alone if we don’t shine.

14. Beautiful question Mariette, we really do not have an excuse to not be all the greatness we are.. But we seem to have an element inside us that seems to like and endure complication over this simplicity of our greatness. It is therefor our job to feel and connect with our whole being (Soul) and therefore let our behaviors, habits, attitudes all go – by connecting to the simplicity inside – key to our truth is all in there.

15. What a ‘great’ day to come back to this wonderful blog again. I obviously needed the loving reminder that “my mind LOVES creating issues”, issues that if I am not with myself, as in consciously present in my body, will begin to take me even further away from the amazing person I am and into complication. Coming back to me is ever only a choice away, so why wouldn’t I make that choice as life in complication is definitely not enjoyable in the least whereas a life lived in simplicity is full of joy.

16. My feeling of happiness used to be very conditional. I had to have things and people be in certain ways for me to feel good. It is very liberating to be able to feel great without any of that. Yet, there are times that I don’t feel great, and I have learnt that that simply means I am disconnected, and I have a very simple choice to reconnect back to my inner-most.

    1. Fumiyo I can relate, happiness or it’s opposite unhappiness seem to relate to life meeting a picture, when all along we have our inner most heart waiting to be reconnected to which is full of joy – a joy that is unconditional, everlasting, and innately part of our essence.

17. I have found that complication leads to drama, and the more I have come to know myself from within, the simpler life has become, it is steady, drama free and feels great.

18. How often do we feel guilty for feeling good or try to sabotage feeling good because it is less familiar than having an issue? Thank you for making me smile through your blog and inspiring me to keep deepening my relationship with me and the way I live every day.

19. There is so much joy and simplicity in life to be felt when we embrace the true love we all are.

20. A very beautiful blog Mariette, thank you for sharing this.. this is very powerfull insight that you share by your living words. Hence. We are so used to feel not good about ourselves and often if we feel great we tempt to hide it just incase someone else sees it.. A very interesting discovery that only nature will reveal to us. But always in a dose that we can truly handle. Never too much, never less.

21. We seem to look for issues as you have exposed Mariette but life is so simple – stay connected to our hearts and all the rest will unfold as it is meant to.

22. I concur Fumiyo, the truth will always bring a revelation that can serve us, which allows us to serve to a deeper level and I feel this is simply the grandness we innately have within when we so choose.

23. When I connect to my inner-most and move in a way that is supportive to that essence I feel my days are building a greater me so therefore I feel great.

24. This is great Mariette, love the simplicity when we are aligned to the love that we are, no issues, no pictures just the flow of the beauty of life.

25. AMAZING! I love everything about this and I can relate so much. this need to have to have something wrong, to have an issue just so we don’t have to feel just how great we really are, and more importantly we get to avoid any jealousy that might be coming our way from others when we create issues for ourselves.

    1. I agree Elodie, it’s a form of control, controlling the greatness within by focusing on an issue instead of letting our full selves out and learning to handle whatever comes our way – reactions, jealousy, etc. When we feel the magnitude of our essence we know an issue can never truly be who we are, maybe more like a tool we have used to keep ourselves hidden and small. When we meet a tiny baby we feel their purity of essence, no issue exists inside them, they are just pure being.

26. From a young age we are encouraged to look outside of ourselves to seek fulfilment, for we have come to exist in a way where we believe that who we are is not enough. For when we truly embrace who we are within we realise that we already are it ALL, our greatness is magnificent. Through this connection to our essence, to our Soul we move in a way that reflects our presence in all we do, as such every moment offers the opportunity to evolve, deepen our connection to love, and be more of the greatness we are.

27. The body loves us back when we are present and honouring of it’s wisdom, this is something I am appreciating everyday.

28. When my mind kicks in I am gone, the quality I bring is disappeared and life gets serious and then it is very easy to create issues. Actually life is about the quality I bring in every moment and is not about the past or future. This is not yet something I have mastered but I know it in my body as an absolute truth.

29. Before Universal Medicine my life went from one emotional drama to the next. After Universal Medicine is a constant development of self love and understanding, and the dramas are pretty much a thing of the past.

30. Very true Marietta. That creation of issues is a huge self-destructor, as when we see things with simplicity and as they truly are, we can deal with them with ease.

31. Nothing is more joyful than accepting where we are at and feel okay being ourselves, with no ‘buts’.

    1. Great point Harry. I am great, but…. – hmm I know that one oh so well. The but is the individualisation. It is the issue. We don’t need issues when we let go of needing to be someone and instead just be who we naturally already are.

32. Mariette your whole amazing blog is full of joy and very infectious as I can feel my joy as well! I have to admit that I also have this following disease – I call it disease as for me it feels like that: “In other words, my mind LOVES creating issues.” I love what you have shared how you stopp it and I like to add I love it not to take myself so serious – as being too serious is stopping the joy and the playfulness.

33. What you’ve exposed here Marietta is that we create our own issues. It does seem very odd though how when we are so amazing we look for reasons not to be.

34. “The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body.” Listening to my body. not my mind is an ongoing process for me – but when I do the wisdom offered is profound. My body knows what is right for me. I just have to pay attention and honour what it tells me. And so true what you say Mariette, when I feel great life is great – it flows.

35. Re-connecting to our bodies is the simplest way to bring us back to the flow of life where big issues become insignificant and we have the ability to see life for the simplicity and magic that it truly is.

36. The true state of our health, beauty and wellbeing starts from within us by the quality of thoughts or energy we choose to align to. Thank you Mariette!

37. Mariette, I love how you bring everything back to the body. I know for myself when I am in my body there is a solidness and holding which lies forever under the many things I feel in my body. Of which there are no issues. Simply a constant guidance on how to best care for and support my body.

38. It is great when we feel great and perhaps the issue we are feeling is from our body saying that from this foundation of greatness there is always a call for us to share more of ourselves and The Way of The Livingness with others.

39. Super honest blog – Love it , and the playfulness of it too – as such , we are amazing and seemingly we are seeing everything to destabilise this feeling and make things complicated.. Really absurd actually, but understood when there is looked beyond and faced what it is we are actually having trouble accepting after all those thousands lives of denying it. Absolute truth that is shown in this blog – and that is for the reader the unravel. Thank you Mariette, wonderful news this is, I am glad you came this way.

40. I love this Mariette, I can relate to creating issues at a time when things are going beautifully, it is an old pattern of mine and it’s like I am saying – can life really be this amazing? Yes it can and it is endless the amount of amazingness we can feel in life – embracing this in my life is a game changer and a work in progress but a worthwhile one that is powerful and joyful when we claim this in our life. Your line ‘ The more present and in my body I am, the more I can be of true service to the world’, very true and a beautiful reminder of what we offer the world by our reflection when we choose the greatness that we are.

41. I can absolutely relate to the self sabotage that kicks in when everything feels like it’s running smoothly. It’s amazing how it switches on like clock work. But as you say, it’s all just a distraction. We have no issues, we create them.

42. LOVE IT!!! Thank you Mariette for this inspiring piece. It’s perfect – as perfect as perfect can be.
    It is such a joy to read about someone appreciating themselves and then also keeping it very real by explaining how to actually sustaining that, because let’s face it, the world with where it’s at is not super supportive of self appreciation right now.

43. Great Mariette, This is absolutely Great! It is more like a MIRACLE! This is a phenomenon that is unheard of in today’s world. You are to share this and help others to get ….GREAT! The world is desperate for this. Well Done Mariette. Keep on being.

44. This is so true Mariette, I can so relate to your blog. Issues are not real, but we create them to avoid feeling and accepting how amazing we are and life truly is. Crazy as it sounds this is what I do too, but I now know I have the choice to not choose issues but choose appreciation instead. The question is why would I choose to sabotage feeling amazing? I realise it was because I was afraid of feeling the expansiveness of where this amazing feeling can take me if I choose more of it, so fear is what caps my amazingness. This is a choice to not deepen my connection to myself, to others and to God, and this allows me to stay stuck in my comfort zone of not having to take responsibility to be who I am. By choosing appreciation and embrace trust allows me to let go of fear, this creates space for me to choose to be more of who I am and it allows me to feel absolutely amazing.

45. I have found it very interesting how when things are great I try to find something to sabotage myself with, because I know I don’t really want to take on that extra responsibility that I am being asked to step up to. The funny thing is that it’s really me who is asking myself to step up, so I am really only fighting myself.

46. Love the gardening analogy – it is so apt because the mind provides fertile ground for self-doubt to take root and spread rapidly unless we choose the simplicity of being present in our bodies and appreciation -the weedkiller of self doubt.

47. Great blog playfully exposing how we sabotage ourselves rather than accepting and appreciating how amazing we are. Having spent a lifetime digging around in my mind to find an issue and not stand out as different I am catching myself more and more in this activity and choosing to return to being present in my body and refusing to let my mind ‘issue’ me around. Thank you for the great reminder of how simple it can be and that we always have a choice – today I choose to appreciate the greatness of my life and me.

48. Love it, Mariette. You’ve nailed the human condition. Why can’t we just appreciate all that’s great about our lives, ourselves and our bodies – and just accept that there are no issues apart from those that we’ve chosen to create and weigh ourselves down with?

49. Thank you Mariette, I loved reading your blog, I had to smile at the words “and when my mind kicks in and tries to ‘issue’ me around, I just go back to my fingertips which helps me to feel my tenderness, I go back to my feet which helps me to come back to my body and I observe my breath, gently in and out.” so simply put how to respond to the “issuing mind”

50. ‘When I feel Great and Things are Great…’ why on earth would we ever want to sabotage those feelings of greatness?

51. When we allow our mind to create issues when there are none we waste much energy inducing a roller coaster of drama and emotional responses that only serves to complicate what simply does not need to be complicated and simultaneously disconnect us from our truly amazing greatness.

52. “It seems to me that when I feel great and when things are great in life, or even amazing, I have the tendency to look for something that is not going well, that needs change or adjusting, or that might be or become an issue in the near future.” Oh yep I can do this too – feeling that it’s too good to be true and looking ahead for unforeseen hidden dangers so that I can nip them in the bud. I’m learning to stop this and appreciate and accept when things are flowing smoothly.

53. Beautifully expressed Mariette. Life can be beautifully simple when we don’t allow the complication of the mind to creep in. I have found the Gentle Breath Meditation a great way to silence my chattering head.

54. This blog is exposing for all those who have been perfectionists like me in the past, constantly seeking to make things perfect as if life itself cannot be ‘perfect’ as it is. There is never actually any perfection, it is an illusion to think there is and will never satisfy. It is just a way of not surrendering and allowing ourselves to enjoy what amazingness is already with us waiting for us to claim and live.

    1. Yes Joshua, it is like we cannot accept that everything is already here and that there is nothing to long for, need or want. It is like you share up to us to claim and live it. From one moment to the next.

       1. Absolutely Mariette, how can we ever need or want something to fill us when we already have all that love inside us? Shows how important it is to claim and live it then

55. Simplicity is amazing itself. It is a true mastery to live a simple life and appreciate it.
    Thank you, Mariette, for being amazing and expressing it.

56. Life is truly amazing when we choose to be with ourself, and take the responsibility to live a way that supports that connection.

57. it is so simple isn’t it… What…! Just by staying in my body my life will become simpler? Is if complexity has been running us then this would seem so simplistic… But it’s true, and it’s recognized in psychology and in the medical world again and again that this is what is needed.

58. “The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body.” A simple act to bring one back to feel and appreciate all that we are.

59. In creating issues we are avoiding feeling how incredible we are. This blows my mind that we take great effort to advert ourselves from feeling such glory. It’s like we believe that we are not worthy of having such a gorgeous issue free life that we keep it just under the fullness that it truly is by creating issues, another crazy tactic to hold ourselves back.

60. Love it Mariette, you just nominated half the world’s issues, the issue being there is no issue. It’s a great pattern to see and call out, leaving more space to stop and enjoy no issues.

    1. Absolutely Kim and to know that this can be our normal way of living – if we so choose.

61. This is a tour de force of how simple life can be, how it can be great with no complications, no perfection, just living everything that you are. I was convinced… but also know that judgement that kicks in and says ‘surely not’, and starts searching for something to worry over. And then you deliver the ‘coup de grace’, that even here a simple tool like bringing your attention back to the fingertips grounds back into our bodies and the simplicity.

62. What strikes me reading this is that we create all of our own issues in order to not allow ourselves to feel the truth – This feels particularly poignant for me as it relates to acceptance and appreciation of who I am.

63. So great to read this great blog this morning Mariette, so, so familiar. I was not feeling so great and realised as I read this that I had almost tricked myself into an issue which isn’t even real. Awesome reminder and the fun way you address it is lovely too. So keeping it simple today.

64. Fantastic blog. It stopped me in my tracks and got me to reflect on the fact that actually, yes, my life is truly great and yet I do have more than a tendency to develop issues on the basis of ‘what ifs’ and worst case scenarios or from a desire to change, enhance or upgrade something. So, note to self – be careful what you wish for! Without all the accompanying distractions, life most definitely can be simple when I accept I feel great and appreciate that all I have around me and in support of me is pretty amazing too.

    1. Great note to self! I love what you write about the fact that all that is around us and in support of us is pretty amazing too. This shows how everything is a reflection and there for us to evolve and grow.

    2. It is so insidious getting caught in the trap of trying to make things better or worrying that if we voice how amazing we are there will be jealousy and ‘schadenfreude’ from others and that if we keep ourselves small we will somehow be protected from this?! Today I refuse to be distracted from the greatness and simplicity of life and the ongoing support in celebrating this with others.

65. Mariette your blog made me smile. I recognise myself there. When everything and I feel great there is sometimes this nagging doubt that surely it cannot last. Life is not meant to be easy. Instead of celebrating how great and complete I am my mind starts popping up with reasons why I should not celebrate life. The only way to quieten the mind is to reconnect to my body and this I am learning to do more and more often.

66. Agree what issues do we actually have?

    I say this in respect of people who have troubling lives that is very real for them.

    However I can say I experience a greatness with life when I am great also. Our lives can often be tainted by our perception of the world and can leave us debilitated. However when we stop and consider a situation without our perception goggles on our lives can be easily changed by a choice.

    Therefore the glass in also half full because I have the choice to grab the water jug and fill the glass to the brim.

    1. Love it Luke – especially this comment that it is up to us to grab the water jug. Its there right beside us all of the time in plentiful supply, all we have to do is look up from our past hurts and see the opportunity that is available to us each and every day.

       1. And that is the beauty of life, that we have that choice every day, to look beyond our hurts and to open up to everything and everybody that comes our way. The hurts is not who we are.

       2. Well let’s fill our glasses then ;-).

67. Well claimed Mariette, the choices we make will determine our state of being.

68. I was feeling into the beginning of your blog Mariette, about joy. Joy for me has all to do with being present, being in my body, it’s an inside thing. It is the feeling of being connected to me, my body and everyone and everything at the same time. A lovely flow which lights up my day and it all starts with knowing me under my skin. It’s not always coming with laughter etc. but the emanation of someone in joy is contagious.

69. “The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body.” Yes I know this one too Mariette, tempted to create an issue when I am feeling great, it’s so crazy! Thank you for writing about staying present and presenting the simple ways we can do that. I do love simplicity.

70. Beautiful and joyful, Mariette. I know this one. When feeling great and things are going great I start pinching myself (not literally), or I am eating something I wouldn’t normally eat. It’s amazing how I look for comfort in being less. And it’s so true when the ‘I’ gets out of the way, it feels so much more natural and normal to claim the awesomeness that ‘I’ feel and express.

71. It is indeed a sabotage on a grand scale! We sabotage ourselves in thinking that life has to be complex. But also the belief that we constantly have to better ourselves, that there is something wrong with us, that we are not good enough and that we have to reach a certain point where everything will be fine. Why not enjoy this very moment and appreciate who we are right now?

72. Oh Mariette- I so relate to what you have shared here – sometimes I even take my ‘issue’ as far as self sabotage – and undo some of the greatness in order to re-build it so I still have something to ‘work on’ to appear ‘normal’ and relatable to others. I do this at my own expense for acceptance and to gain what I perceive as love. The only reason I can see all of this now is because I know the love within me -that is great and feels great when I live it as my everyday norm.

73. I love this Mariette. I can relate to what you are sharing here about how we allow the mind to search for things that are wrong, or not good enough to keep us small, which keeps us from expanding. As you have shared I have also found that when we are present, connected to our ourselves we are then essentially in our greatness and with this we are ready and open to knowing what is needed next to expand this greatness that we have returned to and are living so far.

74. My life is great too, this blog has really called me to take a good look at this and see the futile nature in creating issues in it. No matter what I do my life is great, I am great, and this is building everyday. As you say there is always things to learn, things to move on from, but this is all a part of it… none of us are perfect and I love your little tack on the end that you aren’t perfect.. no biggie, it just is what it is. Very inspiring blog to just say go deeper and deeper and deeper with yourself and do not let your mind take you over. Very real and very supportive Mariette.

75. Love your comment, thank you Arianne. What helps me lately when my mind starts to issue me around again is to just say: no, I am not going there and it may sound too simple, but it does work. I just make the choice to not go into some story into my mind and move on with what I am doing.

76. Yes, my mind loves it when things happen and or people come to me with problems, so I can think and/or talk about it. Even when nothing interesting happens, my mind tries to come up with something. Crazy….

77. Yes, that pattern of sabotage, which shows itself in many ways. For me it can be through thoughts, like I said, creating an issue, but I also sabotage myself with food or looking for some sort of distraction that I know will take me away from feeling great. I also sabotage myself by putting a limit on how great I am ‘allowed’ to feel, finding myself something ‘to work on’.

78. Dear Mariette what an amazing blog. “The more present and in my body I am, the more I can accept myself and others.” That is so true and as you so wisely wrote if we are present there is no time for “issue around”. By the way that is my new slogan now – be present and don’t issue around – wunderbar.

79. Great blog Mariette Reineke, and as you say we are great and the biggest issue I have with that is as with you, accepting and appreciating that greatness in me every moment in my life. In a way I too have the tendency to look for issues that make me feel miserable instead. How weird is that? Thank you for the reminder that I am amazing all the time and that it is only a matter of choice if I allow myself to feel so or not.

80. It is great to read your words Mariette. I realize also that when someons asks me how are you, my mind has this very walked path of trying to find the wrong, the difficult, the little details that are not perfect. On the other hand, it is the body that can testify how great things are, how fortunate I am and how many things there are in my life to celebrate. By you taking stock of all the things that are amazing in you and your life, I also make a list of all the things that I can celebrate, and there are lots. Wonderful feeling you leave me with.

    1. Yes, I can relate to this. When somebody asks us so how are you, there is this tendency to answer with that things could be better, what we think needs improvement, what is not going well and/or what should be different. In this way, the focus is never on what there is in this moment and what we appreciate.

81. When I find myself thinking a lot about a certain thing, I know that I haven’t expressed in full and/or that I am bringing in complexity. Sometimes it feels that my mind cannot handle the simplicity of life and the belief is there that ‘there must be something, come on!’. But life is simple, we as human being just love complexity. I guess life without complexity is too boring….

82. I notice that sometimes, when I feel really amazing and don’t create an issue myself, somebody else comes and presents an issue. It takes lots of presence to cut through this interference and stay clear, that there is no issue!

83. Beautiful and very timely – I am feeling a lot that if I stopped interfering in my own life, it would be amazing, but this idea that there has to be issues, or I have to be doing badly or perhaps a fear of actually being okay, drives me to create issues where there are none and stubbornly refuse to lie to the full potential I know is there.

    1. You raise a great point – that just because our life changes in the way it looks or perhaps doesn’t look the way you had imagined it would, doesn’t mean it cannot be equal full of joy and love, if we allow it.

       1. Absolutely Rebecca, no matter what changes we go through in our life with work, relationships, the place we live and our financial situation, whatever it is, joy comes from inside out and should not be depending on what is going on outside of yourself.

84. The lovely simple rituals of reconnecting that Mariette mentions are just that, so simple, but are laying a foundation of conscious presence that is the essence of reconnecting with who we truly are.

85. Feeling the celebration Mariette, I am with you, life is a joy and simply is that when we honour all we are, stay connected with our bodies and accept and appreciate it can be so simple… yet so grand.

86. This blog is great in how it expresses acceptance and appreciation in a lovely and lighthearted way, with there being no room for issues. “and when my mind kicks in and tries to issue me around, I just go back to my fingertips which helps me to feel my tenderness, I go back to my feet which helps me to come back to my body and I observe my breath, gently in and out”.

87. Love the ‘condiment’ bit there emfeldman, salting our wounds and peppering our lives with complication.

88. ‘The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body.’ Beautiful – a great way to be free of these crazy creations. I totally agree.

89. Yes, I can so relate to that, our thoughts are our main obstacles, it just loves to create something that is not going well or it just makes up a story. I also notice how tiring this is. There is so much exhaustion in the world but that is because we so much live from our mind instead of being in our body.

90. Thanks Mariette for your light-hearted yet deep sharing. I can relate to the creating of issues in my head when things in my life are actually so great. This is a great reminder of the power of presence and letting myself be in or come back to my body. It really is the way to be of true service in the world.

91. Super post Mariette, your expression so playful, light and full of truth. Your life feels great, and it prompts an automatic review of life in which to appreciate this same greatness for oneself. Awesome, I’m looking forward to doing this!

92. Very gorgeous blog Mariette .. “When my mind kicks in and tries to ‘issue’ me around” … Very cute … Made me chuckle. Feeling great! Joy-full in fact!!

93. Yes, how often do we look for something to be wrong even when things feel and are going so well, it’s like we look for something to trip us up and then we have a reason not to feel so great.

94. Ah yes the guilt of being well! Trying to fit in often means feeling guilty for being well. Yet being well, physically and emotionally, taking responsibility and committing to life should all be things we encourage in each other. Young people can often reflect ‘no issues’ back to adults and I wonder if adults sometimes react to that reflection teaching from young that you shouldn’t shine too brightly or you will make someone else feel bad. Just an ‘I wonder’ moment when we consider why we create issues where there are none. Thanks for starting the conversation in me!

    1. This is brilliant Lucy. Its like young people have no pre-conditioning that life is complicated and so they see things more clearly. As we get older, we have experiences of being hurt and getting it wrong and we then hold onto these as ‘the way it is’ putting obstacles in the way of just being ourselves. Consider that darn TV remote… when we were young you would just keep pressing buttons till it worked. As we get older it seems to get more complicated until you get to the point that you no longer want to pick it up as you ‘can’t’ get it to work!

95. When we feel great and life is great, there is something inside that sabotages by trying to find an issue. We have been conditioned to feel guilty about feeling great when others do not, as if we are irresponsible or not taking life seriously enough. I remember once at a dinner party being told not to be happy because it was making other people feel miserable! And perhaps there lies a clue to it: if someone doesn’t have any issues and feels great, it is just too much of a reflection and a contrast that makes others have to look at why they are miserable. Actually, if we feel great, we have a responsibility to stay in our bodies and continue to be amazing and joyful, thus others may see what is possible.

    1. I can so relate to the sabotage…..I use food to sabotage myself when I feel absolutely great. And yes, creating an issue and going into a story in my mind is another one that I use. But I have to say, the more I am aware of this, the less and less this happens. And then yet, it is possible to feel great for several days in a row….or even longer..

96. Yes 100% agree. You are great. Keep up the great work! xx

97. This is awesome Mariette, it’s funny how we can choose not to see all the amazingness that we are, and instead focus on the little things and make them seem huge. Thank you for reminding me of this – time to stop and appreciate!

98. It is great and it feels great to simply know and claim that your life is amazing and so are you. No issues required, just to get on with deepening how great things are. Love it Mariette.

99. I love the simplicity with which you have presented something so age old. The tendency to look for or create ‘issues’ when everything is great rather than accepting and appreciating that it is possible for things to be great even if they are not perfect.

    1. Beautiful Penny what you share about ‘perfect’, because the moment we want things to be perfect, we are already creating another issue…

       1. It’s true Mariette. The drive for perfection is a surefire way to keep us caught up in another issue, something to confirm things are not perfect, which ensures that we miss the opportunity to truly appreciate and even celebrate all that is actually wonderful in our lives.

       2. Great sharing, we are so focussed and almost obsessed with what is not going well in life that we completely forget to cherish and celebrate all things that are there, right in this very moment. This moment, the only moment there is.

100. Groovy blog Mariette (Groovy is a way of saying cool). I love the fact that you’re in a great rhythm of shrugging off the ‘oopsies’ and loving the rest of day in a conscious, bodily feeling style of way, for the bulk of the time. Rick James once said “enjoy yourself” and I get the feeling you are! Awesome.

101. Haha what a fun and beautiful blog. It’s amazing how simply coming back to the body feels amazing and the mind has no power to find an issue.

102. It’s awesome the way you are living and I love that you have put all of this into a blog. Even the more practical things like having a bath to lie in, money to buy food, nice clothes to wear etc. People have a choice here; they can appreciate that life really can be great when you honour how you feel and feel great or they can compare and be jealous of the simplicity of your life and that your life is great. I say, keep sharing that your life is great, if it is, why should anyone hold that back?

     1. I love it areiljoymuntelwit; “People have a choice here; they can appreciate that life really can be great when you honour how you feel and feel great or they can compare and be jealous of the simplicity of your life and that your life is great”.
        I have found jealousy from others to be one of the hardest emotions to deal with. When I am doing really well, saying yes to love in all areas of my life, people can feel the choices I am making and so get to feel the choices they have been making. It is here when I can feel jealousy from them creep in. Most of my life I have then reacted to this jealousy and deliberately undermined myself and cut myself down to not feel it, so they then have nothing to be jealous of. Now I am starting to see it for what it truly is and not see it as a direct attack on me as I used to. I know how easy it is when I have not been making loving choices to compare myself to someone who is and then be jealous but it serves no one and holds us all back living this way. Now more and more I am allowing myself to appreciate the choices other people are making towards love and this leaves no room for jealousy to creep in.

103. Divinely written Mariette, this is gold. You have nailed to a ‘T’ just what we tend to do with Greatness, which I agree, is simple and our natural way. We seem to have set ourselves up aeons ago with decisions we’ve made, and contracts even, to limit its scope… ‘yes I can be amazing all week, but I can’t let this go on/it won’t continue’… ‘yes I can be fabulous in my job, but boy I need to keep SOME inner turmoil going, so I’ll create an ‘issue’ with my partner’… It goes on and on.
     And yet, step off that seemingly ‘demonically possessed’ hamster wheel (!) and what are we left with but the simplicity and purity of our Greatness, that has always been there and no matter what, is ever-awaiting for us to get our (small) selves completely out of the way and just embrace it.
     I’m with you on this ride dear Mariette. Greatness is my natural way too.

104. Very refreshing read Mariette – the ‘feeling great’ jumps out from in between the lines. Joy is so contagious! And it is always there right at our fingertips, a simple choice not to allow the mind to kick in and try “to ‘issue’ me around” – love that phrase.

105. A really joyful and lovely article.

106. An awesome account and reminder of the joy and fun we can have in our lives !! So amazing is the possibility of letting it all go and having fun with life ~ I all to often getting caught up in the seriousness of it all thank you for bringing lightheartedness to the table.

107. Great Mariette, I know this very well: when everything is great, creating something that doesn’t work. This is one thing that holds us back from who we are.

108. A great Article Marietta , its so true how we like to create or blow up and enlarge small things to become bigger issues , instead of appreciating and claiming our glory and where we are at when things are going well for us.

109. What an awesome blog Mariette. You have defined here what true appreciation is and it feels like a breath of fresh air in a stale and stuffy room. Much for me to learn and ponder and put into practice so thank you.

110. It’s true, it’s like we don’t know how to accept just being great, like there is an inner nervousness or anxiousness that gets in and stops us from allowing the ‘great’ feeling to permeate our being and be there consistently.

111. It’s great to read about someone feeling so great and living such a great life when there is so much despair in the world.

112. Fantastic blog Marietta and very much what I have observed in my life – that old belief system that says ‘too good to be true’ comes in and pushes us around. No more, I am inspired by what you have written.

113. There is no issue, that is the issue…I love it Mariette, only the mind could do this, only the mind..

114. Very inspired blog which reflects how simply we can choose to either be with ourselves or go into sabotage when feeling great. I felt a lot of joy and lightness in reading this and it is true feeling great and staying with yourself requires presence, being with yourself in the moment and choosing the quality in which you do everything – then life can flow with greater joy.

115. Simply reading your blog Mariette made me reflect how I feel how great and amazing I am and how wonder-full my life is. Thank you for your awesome and amazing reflection.

116. This is such a joy-full blog to read and an awesome tribute to ourselves and the amazingness we are – we are simply to choose it.

     For me, I have been shown through the presentations of Universal Medicine that I am Great/Amazing that if I do not feel this for any reason or in any aspect of my life – then it is simply not the me that I am in those moments, but a far lesser version…

117. Thanks for this confirmation of your greatness, Mariette. I specially love your ‘going to bed early also on Friday nights’! Regularly my partner and I find ourselves laughing and giggling in bed around 9pm on Friday nights – still a bit astonished about the fact, that we just love to be in bed early, after a day, which feels fully completed and the body is warm and tired.

118. This is so gorgeous and playful Mariette. You have summed it all up beautifully here: “And with presence, there are no issues”.

119. This is so Beautiful Mariette. I love your playful comment “when my mind tries to ‘issue’ me around”. I can so relate to this Jedi trick that I’m learning more and more not to give any power to. Your blog also reminds me of the beauty of feeling great just for being. Every Monday at work we have a meeting where we share our ‘weekend highlights’. Colleagues go into great detail about all the activities they do to have a great weekend and they always seem amused to hear what a great weekend I’ve had for doing very little!

120. A beautiful article Mariette. That trick of looking for what is wrong is very familiar to me. Learning to appreciate everything I am and the connection to everyone I meet is to deeply appreciate the truth of the Ancient Wisdom that I have heard and felt from Serge Benhayon.

121. So much fun to read Mariette, so much you, the amazing and gorgeous you living a simple and joyful life every second!!

122. Thanks Mariette for sharing your blog, yes life is great being in my body and sharing that warm tenderness with others not in a needy way but because it is there to share. Why would I choose otherwise?

123. Really love your blog Mariette. And it is so exposing that when I feel great and life is great I look for something that is not right and create an issue. This I only do to have an excuse to not take responsibility in being out in the world with all of me.

124. “The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body. ” Wow – what a corker of a statement. I was reading this blog going… I want this great feeling – how do I get it – then boom pow – it was right there letting me know what step to take next. Thank you Mariette – I loved reading this.

125. A totally gorgeous blog Mariette. I remember being in high school, I think I was about 14/15 and very concerned that I didn’t have the teenage concerns of my peers. I was pretty happy and loved my family and everything was great. But that didn’t do. I basically made up issues so that I would feel like I was fitting in and was the same as everyone else. But why should we? and why can’t we claim we are great and life is great as you have so beautifully written?

126. Wow, I can relate to this very well, Mariette! Thanks for pointing this issue out – I immediately feel better, now that I can nominate another issue, that I also have… just kidding.
     I noticed also as a pattern, that I tend to take on other people’s issues, if there is none in my own life. So if anybody out there is looking for issues: this latter pattern is a guaranteed and longlasting issue-creator as well. 😉

     1. Hilarious Felix, I can be great as well in getting involved in others people issues or take on some lovely emotions from others and lay them on my own shoulders. The mind cannot handle ‘no issue’ so it just starts to creat anything at hand.

127. It is crazy, but to genuinely say that ‘life is great and so am I’ is practically a revolutionary act these days. I can relate to falling into having issues and things to despair of as you say. This way of being is like a fashion fad. But I have found there is always a choice I can make, to come back to the greatness I naturally am. This blog feels GREAT and so do you Mariette. I had a great time reading it.

128. This is a joy-full and beautifully reveling blog to keep life simple and feel great for it.

129. This is so honest and feels very affirming, Mariette. We make things so complicated and lose the joy in how we live each day.

130. It is lovely to feel your appreciation and confirmation of yourself Mariette. Staying connected with our body is key to feeling and appreciating the greatness we naturally are in essence. I love your words, “In presence there are no issues”. It is an interesting reflection to consider why we may choose to be less than this.

     1. I love that Marika, “it is a real ‘GAME’ changer of life”… isn’t that the truth. We have the choice in every moment to live the love we are or choose to pretend we are less than this and play that game.

131. This is so true, when you make loving choices for yourself, you do feel great and that radiates out into everything that you do, people you meet and interact with. Great reminder that it is our responsibility that what comes back to us, is what we put out. Everything is energy.

132. I love this Mariette, this is very infectious and why not, when life is so simple and things are great because we simply are feeling great. Thank you.

133. The lightness and joy in your blog made it a delight to read again Thank you Mariette.

134. A joy to read Marietta. I love how you love how sexy you look with your swimming cap and goggles…so gorgeous!

135. I loved reading this Mariette as it is a great example of how to focus on the things that are going really well in your life and accepting that there are going to be moments when you slip up and that’s ok also.

136. This is cool, it’s a like a extended bio of yourself which was cool to read

137. Mariette, this IS great. I can relate wholeheartedly with what you are saying here. And even when the world appears to give us situations to upset the apple cart, so to speak, it is still up to us as to whether we choose to turn them into big issues or not. I am feeling this so much more deeply now, thank you for the reflection.

138. This is an awesome blog about appreciation. I can really relate to what you have shared Mariette. You have said;
     ‘The more present and in my body I am, the more I can be of true service to the world.’
     This is what I come back to when I notice myself looking for the ‘issues’.
     Sure there is always something to unfold and this is an ongoing choice… but truly appreciating all that I am and staying connected my body is vital in the process.

139. I can relate to your article very much.

140. Wow. What a blog. Just the pureness of simplicity is so amazing. Nothing complex!

141. I just absolutely love love love what you have shared here Mariette, it is so simple and reflecting so beautifully to appreciate ‘all’ that is in one’s life. I have always had a tendency to focus on the 5, 2 or 1% of life that is not going well and not all the wonderful things that are. Plus forget to come back to my body, that one marker that does know who I truly am, as you said…..AMAZING!! Thank you I deeply loved what you have shared.

142. It is ludicrous that the thing we really want is a really simple and truly joy-filled life yet when we have it and experience such amazing-ness it is something we resist. Acceptance is a very useful skill to live when we realise every day how glorious we truly are.

143. This was a great blog to read Mariette — and it reveals the power and wisdom that is right there in our bodies, versus relying on what is in our heads! I can very much relate — if I go into my mind I have a gazillion things to sort out, and problem upon problem. I can frown and frown away with all the issues I have created for myself. But when I connect to my body, I feel the truth of who I am, I feel the tenderness and vastness of my body which holds me and walks with me day to day and I appreciate everything I have in my life that supports me to be all of who I am, wherever I am. I drop into my body and feel how simple and carefree my life actually is (which wasn’t always this way but it certainly is now). I drop into my body and I feel exquisite and amazing, and any issue I thought I had simply melts away and can be easily dealt with from me being in connection with the real amazing me, first.

144. Ha!!! Such a lovely, light and simple blog Mariette! My favourite line is ‘I love how sexy I look with my goggles and bath cap on’.

     1. Me, too. Love to see you Mariette, in your goggles and bath cap!

145. Such a joyful blog. It truly is so simple, to come back to the body and to presence and the issues just fall away. As you state “And with presence there are no issues…..so I stop worrying about the small stuff and focus on the big.” Thank you for sharing so beautifully Mariette.

146. So joyful and full of life – awareness of that niggling little voice that keeps wanting to sneak in a ‘but” is easily outed by coming but to the body and breath – so simple and so empowering. Great Joyful Blog.

147. Awesome sharing, thank you Mariette! Reading this blog is a reminder to me that I am in fact, amazing! And, while I don’t know you personally, I can feel from your blog, that so are you!

148. This is awesome! Just what I needed to read, I seem to always be looking for something that is wrong in my life and when there isn’t i can relate stresses about everyday things just so that I feel there is an issue.. The big thing for me is to love and appreciate where I am at. And not think I need to be anywhere else, or doing anything more. I am all that I need to be right here and now..

149. Mariette, I found your story really sums up a dilemma I catch myself in – my mind loves to create issues when things are going well. If I manage to dismiss one and return to myself, my mind sends an even seemingly bigger drama for me to cope with. I am finding it quite a transition process as I learn to stay more present with myself. It helps to read the journey others have been on in similar circumstances. Thank you all.

150. Mariette, I LOVE this article – YES you are amazing, just like me!

151. I remember some years ago after a life time of having issues suddenly being faced with the issue of not having issues anymore – it takes some adjustment! Now I feel greater than great and that awesomeness never stops expanding. What I have discovered is that we are forever evolving and there is no end point. That evolvement is not an onward or forward thing but actually a RETURN to the divinity that naturally resides within each of us. There is a constant pull that calls us back to ourselves that can be experienced as a tension and translated into being an issue. When I see it that way instead of it being a bad thing like an issue, it is something very gorgeous and supportive.

152. Simple reminder that being and feeling connected to our bodies is key to not creating issues and just accepting and allowing the greatness that is us. Thank Mariette for reminding us all over again.

153. Your blog was a joy to read, it was so light and lovely to feel your appreciation and enthusiasm for life. I also like the simplicity and practicality you offer with the following ‘when my mind kicks in and tries to ‘issue’ me around, I just go back to my fingertips which helps me to feel my tenderness, I go back to my feet which helps me to come back to my body and I observe my breath, gently in and out.’

154. Revisiting this Mariette at just the right time. Exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you – I love your blog.

155. Amazing blog, Mariette. I love your honest sharing and very accessible writing. It makes it so easy for me to relate to:
     ‘it seems to me that when I feel great and when things are great in life, or even amazing, I have the tendency to look for something that is not going well, that needs change or adjusting, or that might be or become an issue in the near future.’
     Boy oh boy do I know that one, having an issue with not having an issue and creating something to worry about because just like Bina wrote: if not it would mean taking responsibility for myself to stay amazing consistently. To allow myself to feel how amazing and powerful I actually am?

156. Beautiful blog, Mariette. The appreciation in your words shine through and are very inspiring to read. And I agree, why shouldn’t life be simple? And to be honest, life really is simple, it’s just that we are so good at making things complicated. Being present with ourselves at all times is a good start to un-complicating our lives.

157. I really love your top blog Mariette ! Life is indeed simple and I too have no real issues and I appreciate what I have and what has unfolded for me since I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Each day is for me a beautiful day where I can deepen my relationship with me and it is an ongoing process.

158. This is an amazing super simple blog. I love the way you bring yourself back to the body with your fingertips, feet and breath. I was recently reflecting on all the times in my life I have lived with issues that were purely there as a distraction to the fact that nothing was actually wrong and there actually were no real issues.

159. I love this blog Mariette. I know so well this feeling of sabotage but recognise it more and more when it comes up. I love how you bring it back to the body and stillness and then being able to connect to what’s real again. Awesome. Thank you.

160. Hi Mariette, thank you for this inspiring piece of writing. I felt particularly inspired by all the seemingly little things in your everyday life that you love. It made me realise I have a lot in my life that is worth appreciating, and I am very blessed. I can also really relate to the self-sabotage and creating issues out of lack of acceptance of all those amazing little things.

161. Great exposé of the games we play, sabotaging our otherwise greatness. Thanks Mariette.

162. Your title Mariette says to me (having just re-read your amazing blog) why do we not remain great? The real question is why do we not continue everyday to feel great? What gets in the way? and What sabotages this amazing feeling?

     Could it be possible that we don’t want the spotlight? Could it be possible that others may feel even more uncomfortable around us? Or could it be that we know deep down we are great and to accept that means we have to take even more responsibility for ourselves, to keep up that consistent way of being?

     1. Bina,
        Thank you for bringing out the question “Why do we not remain great?”…and illuminating it with your experience.

        I have been feeling more aware of my resistance to accepting my fullness…it feels very scary. I am SO familiar with smallness and self doubt…and when I start to shine I do feel people get uncomfortable and even try to squash me down again…theirs may be rooted in the same discomfort I have around ‘starting to face the responsibility that comes with being amazing’…and I can look back and see how much I have disregarded this while identifying with my suffering and this is painful.

        Getting honest about these forces at play and allowing myself to feel the true harm of not being all of me is leading me to take more steps toward accepting my responsibility to be the love that I am here to be…and the more I feel ME the more beautiful feelings I have…and can share.

163. How true this is. When life is simple I often bring things in, through thoughts that stem from a belief or an ideal of some kind, and make it complicated. I love what you say here, it is certainly true for me.”The only thing that really helps me in not creating issues, is being present and in my body. The more present and in my body I am, the more I can accept myself and others. The more present and in my body I am, the more I can be of true service to the world.” I have found that practising Esoteric Yoga is a great support for us in this.

164. I love the simplicity in which you write Mariette and it makes sense to me. Yes I love my life and it is not perfect but I know what to do if things get a bit hairy and I know what to Not do next time. Like you I am learning everyday and the only issue I have is I look for issues when there isn’t any. Crazy.
     Why I no longer have issues is because I have been inspired by the life and work of Serge Benhayon which has shown me another way to live that is real and makes sense.

165. I love this blog and so timely to read again today. It is so so inspiring as a reminder to the greatness we all naturally are and when or if the issues arise they are mere specks. Thank you Mariette.

166. I love reading your blog Mariette, I can relate to feeling great and thinking this is so easy and then going back into an old pattern and loosing it – choosing complication. It is also my experience that when I am fully present any issues I may have seem to be at arms length and then if I loose my presence the mind takes over.

167. I love how you write, I didn’t want to stop reading and the “look sexy in my goggles” made me laugh … I am sure it is true as well : )

     I could also really relate to this because when things are going well in my life I tend to get a bit shocked and think ‘wow, really, but surely this won’t last for long!’. So what you wrote here, especially “The more present and in my body I am, the more I can be of true service to the world. And with presence, there are no issues… so I stop worrying about the small stuff and focus on the big… and when my mind kicks in and tries to ‘issue’ me around, I just go back to my fingertips which helps me to feel my tenderness, I go back to my feet which helps me to come back to my body and I observe my breath, gently in and out.” really helped. Thank you for sharing … and write more : )

168. Mariette, I absolutely loved this blog. It is something I have experienced many times, (creating issues after feeling amazing) and quite a silly game we play with ourselves. A simple equation you’ve given to keep feeling that amazingness too- feel fingertips, a gentle breath, and our feet on the ground. The only thing I would add is accepting that it IS possible to feel great ALL the time.

169. Awesome blog Mariette, crazy how we can’t accept that in simply feeling great you don’t need to have issues. Why do we tend to make things so complicated? Love is simple, clear and easy.

170. It sounds “almost too good to be true”, but I know it is not, because I have met you and have felt that amazingness and beauty and simplicity in you, and watched it growing from year to year. Thanks for the reminder about issues, a big lesson for me.

171. Mariette, I love your article and your Joy. We are tought from a young age to put the mind in the center of our lives (particularly at school) and that’s the problem. Life is simple when we are present in our bodies and make each movement loving and tender.

172. Spot on, Mariette! I, too, can fall into making life less so that I can avoid my amazingness. Creating a problem where there isn’t any at all and my mind over-analysing issues that could be understood better by observation and just allowing them to be. When I stop and feel into these situations and realise what I am actually doing, I soon return to my natural flow and harmony. How amazing I must be to put up this incredible resistance within myself? I am nodding knowingly….thank-you for your directness, humour and the simple methods of returning to what is lying in wait for us all. Being present in our own bodies is not that hard once you know how – we’ve just got to keep choosing it until it is such a natural response, we don’t have to anymore.

     1. Peta, I appreciate your encouraging statement about being present.
        I have come to realize how very key it is to be in my body AND how much I have perfected NOT being with me in my body…and so this is very challenging work at times! …I do feel it getting more doable and natural as I stick to it…I know what life is like without my presence and so I know it’s worth it!!

        “Being present in our own bodies is not that hard once you know how – we’ve just got to keep choosing it until it is such a natural response, we don’t have to anymore.”

173. I love the way that you have delayed the revelation until about two thirds of the way through! ” Well the issue is, that there isn’t any”. It always seems to be the mind that
     puts massive barriers in the way and creates problems. This is so true!
     Great blog Mariette!

174. I am so glad I am re-reading your blog today Mariette. I love how you start with the appreciation of all the great and amazing things you have in your life. It was a beautiful reminder for me to stop and appreciate my own life and not focus on the issues.

     1. Hi Priscila, this is lovely. I also feel that it is a reminder for me to ‘stop and appreciate my own life and not focus on the issues.’

175. I love this Mariette. The fun, joy and love that is you is expressed in every word. A huge inspiration, thank you.

176. Thank you Mariette for expressing the joys of life so simply.

177. You are great Mariette and this is a great article. It is amazing how we have to create issues to feel life is important and it is great when we can just be all the things you say.

178. Thank you for sharing how great you and your life is and the way in which you keep your issues at bay – a great reminder. It seems we are so used to having dramas, problems to solve, that we forget that these things do not matter and that life feels great when we appreciate everything we do have.

179. Quite simple, but then, why shouldn’t life be… simple… when I feel great and things are great.
     This is fantastic Marieete I can feel the joy and love in which you write. I am inspired!

180. Absolutely beautiful Mariette, this is the second time I have read your article and it feels even more inspiring and exquisite second time round. ‘Quite simple, but then, why shouldn’t life be… simple…’ I love this, I have found the more present I am the more simple life is and that I can also then ‘stop worrying about the small stuff and focus on the big’.

181. This is beautiful Mariette. Yes we are so used to having problems that it feels quite strange without them! Here’s to a new reality and a new normal of feeling great and the allowing of that.

     1. What you share is so true Rebecca, actually allowing ourselves to enjoy the simplicity and amazingness of our daily life should be our ever evolving new norm.

182. Awesome Mariette, and I can relate to a lot that has been shared. This is a great reminder to focus on the ‘what I Am- Love’ instead of ‘what I am not- the issue’ and I am learning the more I appreciate the greatness the less reason I have to create an issue as this doesn’t fit anymore. Thank you.

183. A timely read for me, one I can relate to extremely well. Rather than appreciating all the amazing, supportive and loving people and situations in my life I look for the hard route or the issues. When actually it is as simple as choosing to pay attention to my fingertips, to acknowledge the fact that right in this moment my life overall IS amazing! So amazing in fact that the issues I do have are tiny little specks on the surface of the sun. Taking the time to actually just stop those nonsense thoughts, sit back and appreciate, then claim fully that my life is awesome, is what I understand and am inspired by this blog. Thank you.

184. Wow Mariette, so lovely and inspiring to read, it feels wonderful to read you claiming how amazing you are and your life is.

185. So beautiful Mariette, and so true – how often do we have that “it won’t last” attitude when things are great and we are great, and we then look for the fault to materialise in our lives and prove us right. Our lives can be simple and fun, we can feel well and glorious and appreciate the simple things we have, our bath tubs and clothes, food and friends and all the while nurture ourselves with early nights and nourishing food and relationships. What a gift and as you say, all inspired by the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.

186. I love it. Just GREAT. 🙂

187. A beautiful, vital blog that so reflects who you are. You inspire me to not get so caught up in the ‘what is not’ and just be.

188. A great blog Mariette. I am learning to accept my amazingness too.

189. Inspirational Mariette. Isn’t it downright weird how our mind searches for the old default of issues… or ‘let’s create one if none exists’. You provide us with a simple reboot to bring ourselves back to our body. Thanks for sharing your amazingness!

190. Great blog Mariette – I love how you have nailed the mind creating the issues and when you are present in your body there are none! Very inspiring to read and feel the joy within you.

191. Ooh just absolutely exquisite, had me smiling and laughing and feeling the joy of how simple life can be and how awesome I can be without any perfection and no matter what’s going on. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

     1. Me too, smiling, laughing, feeling the joy, and also seeing appreciating things that I had perhaps overlooked a little in my life.

192. Hi Mariette, Thank you for your blog. You have nailed it. If it wasn’t for the mind, there would be no issues. You have expressed this beautifully and I thank you very much for reminding me that it is as simple as returning to the finger tips. Leigh

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