Cherish

Remember the people closest to you. You know...the ones you shut out when you're hurting. The ones you lash out at when you're anxious or confused. The ones you treat meanly sometimes because you've been stressed for months. 

Remember and know the ones who look past your words, your anger, your disapproval, and love you just the same. The ones who check up on you periodically. The ones you cheer you on regardless. The ones who support you in ways you don't completely know. The ones who help you pull yourself back together again. 

Remember these people in your lives. You know who they are. 

Cherish them, thank them, and send them love from your heart to theirs in deep appreciation for them taking the time to notice, the action to care, and the love to let you be yourself.  

From Forgiveness to Freedom

 How does it feel when you forgive someone?

How does it feel when someone forgives you?

Forgiveness creates better emotional health and can grow deeper relationships. If we hold grudges, we may be perpetuating emotional and mental blocks due to the lack of forgiveness. By practicing forgiveness, we create peace, provide a model for spreading goodness, and lighten our energetic baggage as we move forward in our lives. 

For the month of May let's plan to take a few moments each day and bring in the energy of Forgiveness. Let's understand the benefits of forgiveness and our role in forgiving people in our relationships, as well as requesting or accepting forgiveness from people too.

A few wonderful forgiveness methods include:

• saying the Ho'opono'pono prayer
• placing individuals or groups of people (including ourselves) onto a forgiveness altar in our mind's eye
• writing a letter of forgiveness to someone (they can be deceased or living) and burning it. 

Incorporating a daily forgiveness practice helps us release the hold the past may have on us, and gives us permission to move forward, lighter and freer than the day before. 

Allow the magic of Forgiveness to harness the Freedom you've been yearning for!

Spring into Growth

The spring season brings with it an undeniable hope, a lightness, and openness to freedom. The longer days, the warmer weather, and the ability to be outside more raises our spirits. 

Spring is also a wonderful time to check to see how we're feeling about life in general - what are we thankful for, what have we been appreciating more recently, what are we changing for the better?

Are we doing things out of obligation, or out of purpose or feeling like we're contributing? Are we finding a balance of doing things we want to be doing in addition to those we feel we should be doing? What steps can we take today to bring joy to our moments? 

Let's highlight all our strengths and infuse them with love and appreciation - asking Source and our Teams of Light to embellish and grow them. Let's request creativity and perspective to improve upon ourselves and find people to support us in areas that uplift our purpose and joy, and, in turn, that we find others to support and uplift with our strengths. 

Finally, let's remember that each of us in an integral part of the whole of humanity. Each of us is helping humanity evolve to a lighter way of being, one moment, one situation, one smile, one thought, one kind act, one realization, one helping hand at a time.  

Many blessing today and everyday!
 

Happy Holidays

Given the busy-ness of this season and how crowded our days can become while we prepare for celebrations, listed below are a few heartful things for us to incorporate all year long, and especially during the holiday season. 

• Fill your mind with good thoughts
• Expand your capacity to be compassionate and kind
• Breathe deeply and regularly
• Create time for yourself
• Keep your heart open
• Be ready at a moment's notice to give and receive an exchange of kindness 

New Beginnings

New Beginnings are often associated with the New Year or the Spring season. However, New Beginnings can occur any time of year. Mother Earth doesn't necessarily know it's a new calendar year on January 1st - she keeps moving along as if it's another day. While her new beginnings are most associated with spring due to the regeneration of life around that time, new beginnings are occurring all the time.

Same for us in our own lives. New Beginnings can happen any time we choose based on our perspective. If we've been in a relationship for a long while and may tire of some of the routine - how can we perceive or act to create a new beginning for it? Can we incorporate more date nights, or perform some acts of kindness that warm our partner's hearts? We can apply the same for a job that we've held a while. In which ways can we perceive it as a new beginning, internally or externally? 

There are also times we don't choose the New Beginning - say a relationship ends, a death occurs, we get laid off from our jobs, or we graduate to our next level of education. While we may not have direct control of the changes themselves, we can regulate our perspectives during these changes and influence how the New Beginnings evolve. Certainly it is necessary to face the many emotions that arise during these unplanned moments, taking the appropriate time for us. When we reach the point where we can realize and accept that a New Beginning is emerging we can move into it gracefully, at our own pace. 

Be aware of any New Beginnings you can create or take advantage of for your own growth and healing and/or for positive influence to others. We are much better creators than we give ourselves credit for.