Queen's Garden Party

Today the Queen hosted the annual Garden Party in the grounds of the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh. It is a chance for her to meet people from all walks of life.

I came past the Palace and up The Canongate and the Royal Mile just as everyone was leaving, so my usual ten minute drive home from 7th Space took an hour.

But I didn’t really mind. It was lovely watching all the beautiful and colourful outfits and hats of the ladies. They looked like an elegant flock of birds. And the men looked just as gorgeous. They were in black suits, full kilt regalia or Armed Forces dress uniforms. Most of them looked proud of the lovely ladies on their arms, too. As I looked back at the magnificent gates, I saw the gold tips of the towers glinting against a stormy sky.

As they walked up the steep Royal Mile I was suddenly transported back in time and could easily imagine the Scots courtiers and officials following Mary Queen of Scots on processional from the Palace to the Castle.

It’s one of the wonderful things about living in Edinburgh - past, present and the future are always hand in hand.

Goodbye Judgement

I’ve had an interesting morning and it’s only 10am but that’s life in Theta for you! I was getting myself into a twizzle about something and moaning that whenever I am just being myself things go wrong.

I stewed for a bit and then remembered I’m a Theta practitioner so I worked on finding out what was happening with me. The interesting thing with Theta healing is that most times beliefs are changed and sorted in an instant and sometimes it’s like opening up an overstuffed box of stuff. And for me this morning - yup, it was the box.

First of all came the belief that I didn’t trust myself. Then with further digging came out a whole program about judgement - that I keep myself in a cage because I feel the judgement of the whole world if I dare to let the loving, natural, sometimes horrible me out. And of course in there too was the judgements I hold about the ‘shadow’ side of me. And for dessert, my deep belief that by being who I truly am, I’ll harm and hurt, not just my family and loved ones but the whole world. (It’s amazing how often in Theta healing clients believe at a very core level that they are responsible for the whole world.)

Yikes! Naturally I asked for these beliefs to be changed and for me to be taught the feeling of loving myself and others. I was shown an image of myself with constricting rubber bands round me and I felt them ping off and fall away as the beliefs were lifted. I also got the sense that these beliefs - this holding down of ourselves so that we won’t be judged - were being lifted back through my ancestral lines and I asked for them to be cleared in my granddaughters too. (Alora at age 2 just laughed - she is too young to take on these limiting beliefs!) And then I was shown all the people who match my frequency, my vibration crowding round me, laughing and loving and coming into my life.

So I have come into 7th Space with a spring in my step because I can now work at an even deeper understanding of this issue with my clients.

More passions!

Still on the subject of passions - and being in the present of every moment of life, here is my favourite extract from The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke:


These I have loved...

White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines: and feathery, faery-dust;
Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood;
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;
And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours,
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;
Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is
Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine;
The benison of hot water; furs to touch;
The good smell of old clothes; and other such-
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers
Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year's ferns...

Few have said it better!

What are your Passions?

I thought I'd share with you some of my passions. I love horses..as a girl was totally obsessed covering my bedroom walls in posters & riding whenever I could. Now, I don't get much opportunity but am planning on getting my girls riding...for their own benefit, obviously :P

I am also crazy about scuba diving, having learnt in Lake Malawi and dived in warm climes I have to admit that I am a fair weather, warm water diver! I am very keen on getting into Freediving...always like a challenge. Again this is something I am not doing alot of at the moment but living in chilly Scotland with the less than appealing North Sea on my doorstep, can you blame me?

I am an avid reader, mainly non-fiction (although anything goes!) and the mantra of 'you can never have enough books' is one you'd hear me repeat regularly :o) Books are a window into other worlds, experiences and a mass of knowledge..they kept me sane when I was growing up and allowed me to grow and learn in a way school was never going to do.

I have lots & lots of passions. They keep me alive, always experiencing and striving to open myself out to see as much of the world and what it has to offer.

What are your passions? What fires you up and makes you feel full and satisfied?

Healing Open Day

We would be delighted to introduce ourselves and to meet you!

Demonstrations and a talk showing you what we healing and workshops are available at 7th Space.

•Meet your Guardian Angel
•Play with your Power Animal.
•Experience and learn about Theta Healing
•A taster Soul Guidance Healing
•Space Clearing Demonstration
•Sample some of our workshops

How to Attend

Dates: 27th June 2009

10am until 4pm

Telephone: 07532 004056

Email: 7th@7thspace.co.uk

Location: 11 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh EH7 5EA

30 Day Manifest

Susan & I are doing a 30 day manifest.
Basically it works by writing down any thing that you'd like to manifest that day & then allowing the universe to provide for you! This is about learning to become a fantastic manifester, really applying the Law of Attraction seeing it work for you!

We'd be delighted if you'd all join us in the exercise. So, get a nice shiny note book (for your stationary addicts out there this should be music to your ears) and get writing a list. Here is an example of my day 3 manifest list:

1. £4000
2. Perfect cup of coffee
3. Easy time with the girls (they have been little XYZ's at the moment :o))
4. Good networking contacts.
5. House tidier.
6. To get away in August.

See the things that you want to attract.
Sit down and spend a few minutes doing absolutely nothing but thinking about having what you want and how wonderful that feels. Before you start, however, you need to be happy. If you think about what you want with negative emotion, you will push it away. So feeling really happy at least once a day helps create the right energy to manifest successfully!

But once you have seen yourself with the things you want to manifest, almost let them go! The less you dwell on them the less likely you will try to second guess how the universe will provide them for you.

Did I get these things? I hear you ask!
Well, yes but not in the way you or I would've guessed!

1. The £4000, this is an example of where it helps to be specific. I meant £4000 cash but didn't ask for that so I got an advertising campaign that is worth £4000!

2. The coffee shop I frequent is on the way to my daughter's school, as I was passing the owner popped out & asked if I'd like a free latte as they had made a mistake with an order, since I am a regular customer he thought he'd ask! And it was perfect!

3. The girls were a delight later that day, due to them finding that building tents with bed sheets & stacks of books, is the best thing ever!

4. I made 23 new Facebook & LinkedIn contacts, already they are proving to be amazing resources and some are even clients now! Thank you guys X

5. After playing quietly the girls tidied the bedrooms & even folded their clothes (still in shock)

6. And was offered the use of 2 places in August that would mean I could easily get away.

You see it works in mysterious ways!!

Of course, there have been days where I'm not manifesting. But I will be interested if these thing materialise by the time the 30 days is up.

OK now I appreciate that I am making it sound so easy...well it is! But we all have blocks and doubts & hell, it's tough when you have bills knocking on your door!

And this is where Susan & I have a sneaky advantage by using Theta Healing we can shift blocks and get ourselves over the manifesting hurdles.

So, what we'd like to offer you here is a mini session with one of us to help you kick start your manifesting. Distance is no problem, as the magic of the Internet saves the day again! And we can easily arrange a time to suit anyone in a different time zone. You can choose to work on your general issues surrounding abundance and manifesting or you can choose to manifest a particular thing :o) (Incidentally, you can skip the mini session & have a full session (90mins) to really tackle the deeper issues that might be holding you back.)

This 15 min session is totally free & will hopefully give you a taste of Theta & of how fantastic manifesting is!

Drop us an email: 7th@7thspace.co.uk

Join Skype (free & simple to use) and add us to your contacts skype: emma7thspace or susan7thspace

We'd love to hear from you, regardless of whether you want a session or not. Tell us about your successes!!! And discuss any difficulties you may experience,we are always happy to offer advice and love pondering the whys & wherefores :o)

Much love & look forward to chatting soon XXX

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.

Coffee and Manifesting

I’d like to point out that I don’t spend my entire life drinking coffee! But I do like to have a ritual of a perfect pot of coffee in the morning. And I’m afraid that the emphasis is on the perfect. I have been known to make grown men cry as I fuss about getting the milk to the perfect temperature, the coffee brewed just right and as for the cup and saucer - no mugs allowed here. My friends laugh (most of the time) about it and dread the coffee-making moment in the day.

But today I realised that it isn’t a bad ritual to apply to the art of manifesting what you want. The more specific the request you ‘send’ in, the closer the manifest will be to your liking.

After all, why settle for good when you can have great?

Most Profound Question

Winds

It’s been windy for most of the week here in Edinburgh. I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in the North East of Scotland. Anyone who knows Aberdeenshire will know that one of the constants there is the wind. It blows almost all the time!

I was something of a wild child (no, not sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll!). I mean that I had to be outside all day, every day. Fortunately I had a Mum and Dad who understood me and (in those more care-free days) would let me spend hours out on the moors and the sea cliffs nearby. I would return home with wind-tangled hair and eyes full of the wonders of the outdoors.

For me the wind was a presence. I loved it like I did the sea. Sometimes I would stand on the harbour pier, getting buffeted and scoured through to my bones. Other times I would lie in some fragrant hollow of heather and harebells and listen to the sky larks overhead while the wind breathed warm and soothing on me.

Eventually I moved to other places and although I was often glad that the climate was milder and less wind-driven, I think I always miss the winds.

I love the way the light is changed all the time by the wind scudding the clouds. I love the way leaves sparkle and glitter as the winds tear at them. I love the way a field of barley will look like the waves of the sea as the wind brushes across it. I love the clean smell and sense of wild spaces.

The winds really are the messengers the ancients taught about. They tell us about the places they’ve come from - from pristine Northern wastes to the hot dry Sahara. Swallows get blown in on them in spring and geese battle the headwinds in autumn.

How exciting is that!

The Secret

I watched The Secret again last night. For those of you who haven’t seen it or read the book, The Secret is - The Law of Attraction. How it works and how it can transform your life.

But watching and hearing about this wonderful secret - how we live in a reality which we create ourselves - with our thoughts and beliefs and desires, reminded me how difficult it can be to get out of our own way.

By that I mean that we may consciously have positive thoughts about what we want and who we want to be, and we may carefully follow the simple Law of Attraction which is: like vibrations attract like vibrations - so if we are focusing on joy and love and gratitude, then we attract into our lives things, experiences and people which give us even more joy, love and gratitude. But…

Still our lives don’t change significantly. And all too often we beat ourselves up, thinking we’re the stupid ones because we can’t get it to work.

Sound familiar? Yes, me too!

But here’s an interesting idea - what if all the beliefs and thoughts we have about ourselves, and about ‘reality’ aren’t actually true? What if they are only that - beliefs. Beliefs come into being through what we perceive are our experiences so if we have different experiences we can have different beliefs, right? And most of us who have worked with the Law of Attraction have done a fair amount of work changing our conscious beliefs and thoughts to bring us the experiences we want.

Still with me? But this is where the hiccup comes in. 90% of our beliefs are unconscious. We don’t even realise we have them! So we can do all the positive affirmations we want but they are only ever going to bring us limited success.

So the obvious answer is to find a way to identify and change these unconscious beliefs which are blocking us. When these beliefs are lifted from you, the Flow of Abundance becomes an unstoppable river of everything you have ever wanted - your soul-mate, the perfect house, your dream job, a radiant physical body, and many other desires and longings. There is simply nothing to get in your way, you are effortlessly in alignment with the Law of Attraction.

That is why Theta Healing sessions, Emma’s Soul Guidance and the Workshops we hold here at 7th Space are so powerful and effective. They each offer radical ways to identify and change beliefs and programs you are holding at your sub-conscious level. And once these new life-enhancing beliefs have been given to you, you are also taught what it feels like to be this new person living your daily life and being free to allow the Law of Attraction to enchant your life.

Our Power Animals

I was talking to my power animal this morning. (A few years ago, I never would have thought I’d be saying those words!)

I’ve been wanting to introduce power animals into the Live Out Loud! Workshop. This workshop is all about owning your own power - getting rid of ‘I should do this and I have to do that’ and particularly freeing ourselves from the feelings of guilt and selfishness which rear their heads whenever we think about doing anything just for ourselves. It is about uncovering our authenticity.

And that’s where power animals can keep us on track and add such sparkle and wisdom to our lives. Power animals, if you invite them to do so, have the ability to awaken within you the deep authenticity they possess themselves. They live without pretense and they can remind you how to keep this genuine state within yourself.

Most of us long to re-connect with nature. We make gardens and have pets and walk in the countryside. We know on a deep level that being grounded in the natural world, being part of the rhythms and cycles is necessary for our well-being. And acknowledging your power animal is a wonderful way to keep this connection alive and with you all the time. (One of my granddaughters has a hippopotamus for a power animal and sometimes it’s a struggle to get it to fit into the sitting room…!)

I know how my Jaguar has enriched my life. She reminds me that life is for living and that there is always time to swim and play. She steadies me when I am fearful of trying something new, letting me know that it’s ok to feel nervous but that I mustn’t let that stop me. I feel her padded feet moving cautiously until she has sussed out the terrain and once she’s confident, she moves into the arena with power, awareness and balance.

Theta healing is so effective at teaching us how to understand and be ourselves in a place of deep truth. But sometimes it’s nice to have a companion on the journey!

Honey Bees

I've always been fascinated by bees and so like many people I am saddened and very concerned about the declining world populations of Honey Bees - such bad news for us and the planet!

Bee shamanism is thought to be one of the oldest forms of shamanism. Bee teaches us to honour the feminine, the goddess, from whom all life is born; and about community and re-birth.

As bee moves from flower to flower, she teaches us to drink from all experiences and allow those experiences to transform us into something greater and more potent - our true selves.

Community

After singing the praises of Orange Blossom last week, I've just found a bush of my own in the front garden. I managed to restrain myself and only gather a few sprigs to put on my table while I had coffee this morning.

And while I was enjoying my breakfast, I was able to enjoy the community spirit of living in a building of flats. Several tenants were taking advantage of the sunshine to hang out washing and we got chatting.

People accuse city living of being insular and alienating. Today I got invited to a wine evening, had an offer to borrow a bike and was able to offer to give one of my neighbours a Reiki session to help her sciatica.

How's that for community - as always...life is what you make it!

Rampage of Invincibility (transcript)

Abraham:
We’re going to start where you are and build you into the vibration that is necessary for you to be or do or have anything that you want.

“I am beginning to understand that I am more than I see here in this physical body. I acknowledge that there is a larger part of me - a Source Energy part of me - that is truly the essence of who I am.

And I accept that a part of that consciousness is now flowing in this physical body and so there is a sort of duality going on within me where I have this stable beginning and becoming and then there is the part of me that is focused here in this physical body and I understand with clarity the value of the two parts of that which I am.

I can feel the Eternalness of who I really am and I can feel the specifics of who I am in this human form on this Leading-Edge time/space platform and I am beginning to feel appreciation for the contrast that surrounds me that once I condemned, now I embrace because I can feel that the contrast is inspiring yet another new idea from me.

And I remember feeling a new idea being born within me and hating the birthing of it, because it was an idea that I did not believe and, therefore, it brought me pain. But now I’m experiencing the thrill of giving birth to ideas and even though I don’t know how or when it will come about, I do have faith or belief in the Laws of the Universe and I am knowing that I am a Creator who, having given birth to this idea, will be given all of the advantages of the resources of Source in order to accomplish it.

So while I stand in this place of wanting something that I have no way of figuring out how it’s going to be, I am feeling soothed in the awareness of it. No, more than soothed. I not only feel soothed about having given birth to an idea of something that I want, I’m feeling enlivened by it because the larger part of me knows unequivocally that I am the Creator of my own experience and that larger part of me is not only looking at it and agreeing with it, but has become the vibrational equivalent of it. In fact, the larger part of me has already become what I’m asking for and so now it’s only a matter of the rest of me catching up with it. And now that I know what I know, I don’t think this is going to be too much trouble.

When I move in the direction of catching up with it, I feel better. And when I move in opposition of catching up with it, I feel worse. And I am so sensitive to the way that I am feeling these days. I am so proud of myself because I’m aware of when I’m going with the Flow and when I’m not. I’m aware of when I’m moving downstream and when I’m moving upstream. I can feel when I’m letting myself be who I have become and I can feel when I’m not letting myself be who I’ve become.

And I’m no longer mad at myself in the moments that I’m not letting myself be who I’ve become because those moments only help me to know the difference in the Guidance System. I can feel I’m actually moulding the clay. I’m finally in the place where I don’t need to be the manifested receiver of everything that I want all at once because I know that it’s all coming, that there will be a time that I will not be sending more rockets of desire into my future.

I’m finally beginning to get it that I never get it done and I cannot get it wrong, because everything that I’m living is causing an expansion and I can tell by the way I feel whether I’m moving toward that expansion or not.

Finally, I’m beginning to understand that it was never about the fulfilment of the manifestation anyway. These things that I want are only my target to focus upon so that I can ride this River of Life. I am fulfilled in the knowing that I am expanding and I’m thrilled in the knowledge that I will never get it done. And I am satisfied - deeply satisfied - with where I am. I’m thrilled in knowing that I am where I am and that I’m putting the boat in the water wherever I am and my knowledge that the Stream is flowing downstream - ever flowing - toward all that I have become is enough for me to feel satisfaction in where I am. No more will I nitpick as I measure the distance between where I am and where I want to be. Instead, I flow on this joyous River and I experience the exhilarating feeling of motion toward my expansion.

I can feel that the Source within me loves me and adores me and has become the expanded version and I can feel that there’s no remorse or discomfort whatsoever in the Being of my Source. My Source not for a moment looks at me where I stand and compares where I am to where it is and mocks me in the not achievement. Instead, the Source within me that is expanded as a result of what I have lived stands in loving appreciation of all that I have become and calls me never endingly toward it.

And now I get it that that’s what life is. That the duality of me, that the Source Energy that was willing to come forth that expanded out further and now the physical part of me that’s willing to catch up, I now get my place in this Universe. I’m important to the expansion of the Universe and it’s time for me to receive the benefit of my expansion and now I know how."

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Unicorns

Emma isn't going to thank me for this post! Her eldest daughter is Unicorn mad and I promised Poppy I would post a picture for her.

But how can you resist the beauty and exuberance of these two creatures? They embody the spirit of joy.

Crop Circles

Apparently crop circle watchers are hoping for a good year this year. It seems that dry summers give the best results and crop circles are more abundant. Given the forecast, let's hope they get their wish.

I've only ever once seen a crop circle. Eerily it was in Hampshire on the Summer Soltice, near dusk. It wasn't particularly intricate but it had a very strange atmosphere and I would have happily lingered. Who knows, I might have solved the mystery.

Healing Waters

Emma and I took the girls to a river walk the other day. It wandered in and out of the trees and sometimes the river was slow and deep and sometimes fast and shallow. A bit like life really!

We all came back feeling refreshed and chilled out. There's something about being beside water which is so healing for we humans. It's probably why so many people have water features in their gardens and why kids are thrilled just playing in a bucket of water on a hot day.

Memory

In the gardens near my flat, the mock orange blossom flowers are nearly out. These are one of my favourite flowers - they seem to get neglected for most of the year and then suddenly you smell their perfume on the breeze and you are transported.

In my case, transported to Rome where at this time of year the city streets are rendolent with the smell of orange blossom while the swallows shriek and swoop overhead.

One of the drawbacks to the healing work Emma and I do is that we get really hungry after a client session! So tonight I've come home after a busy day of appointments and decided that bacon and eggs is the way forward.

When I was travelling in Australia last year, I loved the way you could get a full English breakfast at any time of the day or night in the cafes and restaurants. There really isn't a better way to recharge the batteries especially when you're back-packing than tucking into bacon, sausages, hash browns or pancakes. So I have wonderful memories of eating breakfast at sunset over the Australian Outback or at dawn in Darwin.

Excuse me - my eggs, bacon and waffles are ready!

Ceremony

Tea Ceremony

Time bent like knees on cushion

Past blends, becomes now

Feeling Good

I've been wearing a beautiful Apophilite crystal today. It's often called the Reiki crystal because it has a very high vibration and a loving energy.

Whenever I wear it it's like I put a ray of sunshine round my neck. I smile and feel like dancing down the street.

How wonderful that something so small can bring such joy!

A Mask

I've been reading about Venice this morning and particularly about the Masked Revels of the Carnival. They fell out of favour for many, many years but were revived in the 2oth Century with a keen eye to tourist potential. However, they are still an opportunity for Venetians to have balls and parties in the dreary Winter months.

They are also a wonderful opportunity to engage in one of the truly universal games we humans play - hiding behind masks.

One of the effects of healing work is the stepping away from masks. Through healing we often move into a deeper understanding of who we truly are.

But still, who can resist the glamour, allure and mystery of occasionally hiding behind a mask?

Inner Journey

Sometimes when I'm creating my guided meditations, I look at beautiful photographs and artwork to stimulate the imagery I want to describe. I found this wonderful painting of a waterfall this morning. Perfect to help me create an inner journey.

Responsibility

One of the things which interests me, is the way we humans are so intent on taking responsibility for other people's emotional well-being.

We delay making the changes in our lives we know we need and want, because we imagine our loved ones will be devastated and destroyed. So instead of giving them the chance to grow and change, we sabotage our own growth.

Now is this protecting ourselves from emotional fall-out? Is it a passive/aggressive martyr thing? Is it a misguided but essentially well-meaning desire not to hurt anyone? And for those on a spiritual path it can be from a belief that it is their duty not to cause ripples, make someone uncomfortable or follow our own ‘selfish’ desires.

One of the hardest realisations but also one of the most rewarding is that we aren’t responsible for anyone else’s emotional well-being or any of their reactions to anything we do.

This isn’t a license to deliberately cause pain, but a truth - that we cannot control (nor should we seek to) what another person does or thinks.

Guest Article: How to Overcome The Clutter! Cheri Najor

For more about clearing you clutter and cleansing your space pop by the website & check out the Space clearing workshop & the podcast Space Clearing for Therapists.

'My body felt like it was in a vice grip. I stood there as the familiar feeling of being completely overwhelmed, panicked and ashamed took me over. I was standing in my basement, staring at an accumulation of so much "stuff," I could barely move. I even had "stuff" packed in the rafters. My stomach turned at the site, and more than anything, I wanted to do what I've always done. Shut the door and walk away. But on this day, I didn't walk away. This day was different. On this day, I made a single decision that changed my life. This same decision could very well change your life, too.

I started to count it all, and then I lost count. Over two thousand psychology and self-help books, one hundred ninety-seven VHS tapes with titles ranging from "It's A Wonderful Life" to "Tamilee Web's Abs of Steel," forty-five extra pairs of high heels, fifteen mamoth-size boxes of Christmas lights and nick nacks, thirteen flower vases, five extra couches, four cozy antique chairs waiting to be reupholsterd, three shelves of dusty white binders filled with "brilliant" college papers from the 80's, three vegetable peelers, two dining room bureaus and one extra Christmas tree, just in case.

You get the picture.

CLEARING OUT THE CLUTTER BEGINS
I knew that my stuff wasn't really the problem. It was the thinking underlying the stuff I had to marshall the courage to get iin touch with. So I asked myself a challenging question, "What in the world drove me to buy and hoard all of this stuff in the first place?"

My first thought was that I had been hypnotized, hook, line and sinker, by the world of materialism, the world of more. On some level--and without consciously realizing it--I believed that the more stuff I had, the more secure I'd be. OK. I could live with that. That made sense.

As I dug deeper into the thoughts that led to this massive accumulation, I realized (much to my horror) that I also wanted you to walk through my home and admire my stuff so that you would see me as successful and marvel at how a single woman raising a son on her own could possibly afford all this stuff. (Yuck. Eww. It was everything I could do to refrain myself from stepping in front of a yellow school bus when this realization hit me.)

And then the final epiphany, the one that really sent me reeling. I had fallen head over heels in love with the romantic, beautiful, and ever-elusive illusion of "someday." Someday, I'll throw a big party and might need that rose-colored antique bowl. Someday, I'll reupholster those chairs. Someday, I'm going to use those books as reference material for the book I haven't started, but will eventually write.

Someday.

The word haunted me. It owned me. And on this day, I was so sickened at the sound of it echoing in my brain that I just... couldn't... take it... anymore. If you've ever hit the wall with a realization about yourself that is less than pleasant, you know what I'm talking about.

THE DECISION THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
So, I did the only thing that made any sense. I made a decision. And that decision was simple. I launched a frontal assault on the word "someday" and eliminated it from my vocabulary. Period.

Someday didn't really exist anyway. It was just an illusion that I conveniently kept alive so that I never had to really commit to anything. SOMEDAY was always OUT THERE, enabling me to pretend that one day, I would eventually do what I said I was going to do.

Someday kept me safe.
Someday kept me in La-La Land.
Someday never demanded that I risk anything.
Someday corrupted the integrity of my word.
Someday kept big dreams alive on nothing more than life support.

The word was suffocating me, and more than anything, I just wanted to breathe and be free.

SAYING GOODBYE TO SOMEDAY
It's been four weeks and four truckloads of "stuff" later, and the feeling of freedom that surrounds me as I write these words is beyond words.

The kennel that once housed my beloved Golden Retriever "Ben" who passed on more than five years ago is now in the hands of the Animal Rescue League. You should have seen the beaming smile on the volunteer's face when I handed it to her. "Oh my God, thank you!" she said. "You have no idea how much we needed this." The crib, changing table, baby stroller, clothes, playpen and high chair that I was saving for my "someday second child" are now in the hands of an organization dedicated to helping financially strapped women provide for their children. The books are now the property of Purple Heart and the Pontiac Library. The rest of the stuff has been freely given to charities throughout Michigan, being enjoyed and appreciated by men, women and children that need it, now more than ever.

For me, the lessons have been nothing short of profound and life-changing and I share the following with you in the sincere hope that they help to set you on a path of freedom from which there is no turning back. Here's a few of those lessons for you to ponder:

1. I am not my stuff.
2. I do not need you to admire my stuff any longer. In fact, I don't need you to admire me at all.
3. Stuff is meant to be used, enjoyed and released with joy.
4. Stuff isn't supposed to be covered in plastic or coveted in the basement. Pull out your crystal vases and Grandmother's china and throw a barbeque.
5. Stuff can never create a true sense of security. It does, however, create a lot of clutter.
6. The need to hoard stuff is a symptom of an underlying belief in "not enoughness." The truth is, supply is infinite and endless.
7. Releasing stuff feels good.
8. Getting rid of the thoughts that cause you to buy the stuff in the first place feels even better.

Today's Meditation
It is with great joy and a free mind that I release my material possessions into the world.
The natural and effortless law of giving and receiving is now flowing in my life, and I welcome its accompanying soft, cool breeze.
I am so happy and grateful to know that who I am has never had anything to do with what I accumulate.
I now celebrate the truth that my sense of security now comes from knowing who I am and the true origin of all good and plentiful things.
I willingly let you see me clearly, to love and accept me for me, knowing that this is enough.
I am now free of any thoughts of lack, limitation and scarcity.
Abundance is my birthright, and living in flow brings me peace.
I now live in a beautiful home.
It is simple. It is clean. It is filled only with things that bring me joy.
It reflects my mind.
I am free.


"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32 '


Written by and through Cheri Najor (with a little help from her friend). For coaching or speaking services, you can contact Cheri at Cheri@LittleMissPositive.com or visit her website at http://www.kreativnrg.com/

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Rampage of Invincibility

Chill

When it gets too hot in the city and the bus/train is unbearable, rest your mind and drift away sitting on this seaside decking!

Windows

Across the headlands
The forest masses
Under gray skies
And mist
Into a solid wall
Of muted gray
Through which cars
Glide skirting noiselessly
The rocky edge.
Through a window
I watch, windows are
For watching -
Square pieces of life
Ever changing.

by Donovan Holtz

Fractals

I have a new deck of soul guidance cards and the images are all fractals.

I have no idea what fractals are but they can be very beautiful and something about their energy seems to reach out and connect with mine and I'm sure many other people's.

This one is called Dragon's Tail.

The Croissant Thief

We've been having beautifully warm weather in Edinburgh the last few days.

This is Emma and her girls having breakfast in my garden on Sunday morning.

It's always a delight but trying to eat the croissants before Alora (the youngest) gets to them is really a challenge!

Me v The Universe!

The other day I decided to have a glass of champagne with my lunch - just for the hell of it. Now I have got the trick of opening champagne down to a fine art! But could I get the cork out of this bottle?!

I have been watching my diet recently, cutting down coffee and carbs and stuff. So, knowing how our higher self guides us by ‘whispers’ I sat and pondered this stubborn cork. Was the universe reminding me that I shouldn’t be drinking alcohol - that it wasn’t exactly healthy?

However, I have a distinct stubbornness of my own and I wanted this champagne and I was going to get this cork out if it killed me. Which it nearly did - my hands were weak and shaking for the next hour.

As I drank a glass I reviewed what had happened. Had I indeed blown my diet? Would I immediately fall off the band wagon? Or … and here’s where it gets interesting ... I have also been working on being more spontaneous, more going-with-the-flow. So, was the stuck cork a warning, or a chance to really put my muscle into being abundant?

Guess which one I’m going with!