Giving thanks

I'm thankful today. I'm back in my centre.

I was introduced to a beautiful song. The lyrics are:

You do not need to be more than who you are.

You could not be less than what you are.

Perfect. Holy.

So simple, yet so grand.

In the eye of the storm

It's been a stormy time. I've been trying to stay in the centre of the storm, where it is calm.

It's been a time of great emotional upheaval, forgiveness, love, redemption, laughter, and miracles. For me. And, it appears for others around me as well.

I'm praying for another miracle.

I recently read this quote from Einstein:

"There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle."

Update: This particular miracle that I was praying for was granted a few days later. I was bracing myself for acceptance of whatever was to be, but was very thankful that the universe said "so be it" in this particular instance.

"It's a beautiful day"

Almost everyday, Alex tells me “it’s a bee-wut-ee-full day”. On cloudy days, on sunny days, on windy days. It’s almost always a beautiful day.

Lots of wisdom in that.

And on days that I’m stressing about this or that, it’s always a great reminder when he tells me “it’s a beautiful day”. And, of course, regardless of what’s going on, I have to agree with him that it is.

Healing on the planet

My understanding is that this is a time of tremendous healing on the planet.

It is a time to let go of anything old patterns, belief systems that are no longer serving you.

We are getting a lot of spiritual help right now to heal the old.

We are birthing a new earth, right here, right now.

It's an amazing time to be alive right now.

Be vigilant with your thoughts as you are a powerful creator. You are creating your world, and collectively, we are creating a new world together.

My understanding is that anything that is of the "old world" will not be supported as the new consciousness is being birthed.

Healing dream

I had a powerful healing dream last night. One that reframed how I see myself, my family, my relationship to God, my life and my whole world.

In my dream, I remembered my rightful place as a child of God walking this earthly life, born to earthly parents, who are also divine sparks of God. I can let go of the charades of pain that cover up my divine "sparkles".

In my dream, I remembered that we are all meant to "sparkle", to walk fully as human beings of light. To be fully embodied beings of light.

It was beautiful and I think was the answer to my prayers for healing.

Someone recently asked me what I was healing from. I think that ultimately anyone that seeks any sort of healing is looking for the same thing -- a union with the Source. This is ultimately the only thing that will bring any sort of lasting satisfaction. Otherwise, we are looking at all of the wrong places for happiness.

I've spent my whole life looking elsewhere for happiness. I think we all do. As I've started to ask for what I've wanted and as I've received what I thought I wanted, I have often realized that I was still left with desire. Even after achieving or getting that which I'd yearned for.

After awhile, I realized that the things that I was searching for weren't leading me to the bliss that I'd sought. When I started to connect within more, I found that the ever present hole within me began to be filled simply by Presence.

I've experienced a lot of pain in my life. I think we all have. I've found that if pain isn't dealt with, it continues to show up in your life until it can be healed. The dream that I had last night reframed my past pain.

I was meant to live a fully embodied life, to be a fully embodied being of light. We all are.

Whole body vibration machine

I tried one of those whole body vibration machine's yesterday in Paradise and I loved it!

If you haven't heard of it, it's a machine that you stand on for 10 minutes and supposedly it's the equivalent of a 1 hour workout.

All sorts of health benefits are claimed including:

• burn fat
• increase muscle strength
• improve flexibility
• increase bone mass density
• stimulate lymphatic system
• massage muscles
• enhance balance and coordination
• increase metabolism
• increase lean body mass
• decrease blood pressure
• decrease cortisol (stress hormones) and increase serotinin (happy hormone) levels

More information can be found on it here: http://www.purelement.ca/down/16P.pdf

I found out about it from a friend who lost 12.5 inches from all over her body in only 2 weeks. This friend is an athlete, a rower, so I was pretty amazed by her results.

It was quite a fun experience to stand on the machine. With time, you can start doing all sorts of other exercises to target certain muscles (some of which are actually yoga poses)...

I tried it for the first time yesterday and I enjoyed the experience. I had it on a low setting to start. Even from the one session, I felt energized afterwards and I seem to have less neck and shoulder tension...

Gratitude

We've been grateful for a lot of things lately:

• We effortlessly found an amazing new tenant for our basement apartment.
• I found a Reiki pratitioner to do trades with.
• Alex has been sleeping through the night!!!!!!!!!
• Alex has been doing very well health-wise.
• We continue to love living in our new home in Newfoundland.
• I love being back to teaching yoga again.
• I have been receiving the healing that I have been praying for.

We feel very blessed.

Less is sometimes more

We've at least partially solved the problem of a huge mess of toys in our living room.

Last week, we told Alex that any toys that he didn't help put away in his toybox would be put downstairs in the basement for a couple of days.

Sure enough, he didn't want to help and we were able to clear away a huge garbage bag full of toys. Our intention was to replace the toys within a couple of days.

It's been a week now and Alex doesn't even miss the missing toys and we find that he's playing more with the toys that are left.

And, it feels so much better to be in our livingroom. It's easier to clean up and isn't always a disaster area.

Sometimes less is more...