Four Horses

In Medieval times much literature and thought was dedicated to the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. Given the plagues, war and famines which swept the world it wasn't surprising they were on everyone's mind!

But I was sitting dreaming the other day and I think the world is more than ready for the Four Winged Horses of Light. Love, Gratitude, Joy and Abundance.

So many of us are now living our lives by these guiding lights. Let's give these gifts the chance to fly in every corer of our world.

Festival of Gratitude

I was watching one of the Star Trek spin-offs on Sunday and the story revolved around one of the alien culture’s Festival of Gratitude.

This struck me as a beautiful idea (and obviously the story writers and producers thought so too since they portrayed it wonderfully!) The emphasis was on writing down the things which weren’t going right for you in your life and then burning the paper in the Fire of Renewal. Having released these problems, you were then free to enjoy with Gratitude the rest of the Festival.

It didn’t surprise me that I happened to catch this particular episode since for most of last week I have been focusing on my own Gratitude and Appreciation and in true Law of Attraction reality, I got a reflection of what I was concentrating my thoughts and emotions on. The reason I was thinking about Gratitude was that I had realised with shame all the times I had accepted wonderful manifests from the Universe and practically taken them for granted.

My gorgeous flat was the second one I looked at and suits me exactly and while I do enjoy it, I’ve spent most of the last year niggling about the things which I don’t like about it. When I took a month off last year to write in Spain I booked sight unseen into a great, family run hotel with a magical view of the Mediterranean and a perfect writing desk and chair next to the tiny balcony. And I moaned about this and that and just in passing thanked the Universe for giving me a wonderful experience.

Knowing that shame and guilt are unproductive emotions which lower our vibrations, I decided to drift back in memory through my life and be present at all the times the Universe has given me gifts which at least matched and most times exceeded my expectations. I decided I would feel Gratitude and Appreciation retrospectively and savour again the magical times.

I had a busy week! The more things and events I remembered, the more came to my attention. There hasn’t been one day in my life (and I’m 55 years old) when the Universe hasn’t showered me with gifts. Gifts of laughter and love and beauty and joy. Gifts of positive outcomes, even in the toughest of situations, gifts of great friends, lovely homes, books, art, music, nature, wild winds and soft candlelight.

So in a way I’ve been having my own Festival of Gratitude these last few days because as I’ve gone back in time and thanked the Universe with Appreciation and Gratitude for all its gifts so freely given, more and more incredible gifts are pouring into my life.

Doesn’t that deserve a Festival?

xx Susan

Rampage of Appreciation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxU860l-_-A

'As I stand here now I look for things to appreciate & I am happy to say there are so many things for me to appreciate :o) '

Life is Good

Today, I went for a walk. We are blessed in Edinburgh to have an long ago extinct volcano that rises up in the middle of the city.

At this time of year it is carpeted with wild flowers, butterflies and sky larks singing their hearts out. It is used all year round by the cities residents and visitors alike...not surprising considering the views that are to be had!

Today, I found a quiet spot off the path and lay back, the wiry grass molding to my back, supporting me, talk about being the arms of mother nature. I let the wind caress me, the scents fill me and the sky larks grace me with their songs. I found that as my body relaxed and dreamed, so did my mind.

I dreamt of all the beautiful things that have happened to me in my life, of all the amazing places & people I have encountered. I dreamt of what more I could have and how this life was fully and uniquely my own.

As I lay with the small, blue hare bells dancing in the breeze; each a little segment of sky and the deep, deep breathing of the land beneath me I felt so much apart of this earth. As my heart responds to these beauties the land sighs and shows me more of her bounty.

I came back into my town house refreshed and able to delight in the golden sandstone of the building, admire my neighbours windows the way they reflect the light, able to embrace the life that is the city.

As I sat at my desk I saw that a friend on Facebook had posted this status 'Don't count the minutes but make the moments MAGICAL.' I smiled in recognition...indeed Life is Good.

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Susan's Stumble

Since we're still in the place of Abundance and Joy this week, I'd like to share my moment of non-manifesting - just as a lesson to myself!

I've been writing a story in which a feather holds a central place. It is in fact an Angel feather and the other evening I wrote the first words about it. Then I curled up to sleep happy with the work. Next day my oldest granddaughter handed me a pristine large white feather. It was a wonderful talisman and affirmation of my story.

So what did I do? Well I was aware and appreciative enough to thank her and I enjoyed it for a few moments, then unceremoniously shoved it into my briefcase where it languished uncared for for the next few days.

Not only that but I also decided in my greater wisdom that the story was no good after all so I abandoned it and started another one. Thanks Universe - but no thanks!

It wasn't until I found the feather again yesterday that I unravelled the sequence and realised just what I'd done. I had to use Theta Healing to clear the subsequent belief that I only get one chance at manifesting and I also had to lift the deep regret I felt - regret just clutters up our energy! It was a sad but excellent lesson and boy am I focusing properly on gratitude and listening to the signals and messages from the Universe!

Love is you Being You

The words are by a lovely friend, Hemal Radia of www.manifestingandlawofattraction.com.

Just Be!

While Emma and I were promoting and speaking to people about our Abundance and Joy Week, I was delighted and honoured by the responses from everyone.

A lovely Brazilian woman said ‘Ah Abundance and Joy!’ in a voice redolent of hot summers and joyful living. An elderly man bent and chucked my granddaughter under the chin. ‘Joy is you,’ he told her. A stern businessman’s face wreathed in smiles and said he’d dance his way to 7th Space to join in! A harassed mother stopped still for a moment and I watched her shoulders loosen as she let go the stress. ‘Oh yes!’ she said.

It seems that we’re willing to let our world stop for a moment and let the vibration of these two states take us over. We all have examples of our own abundance and joy and really they aren’t so far below the surface as we sometimes fear.

Reflection

7th Space Abundance and Joy Week came to a close at midnight yesterday and today Emma and I are evaluating its success. It has taught us both a lot, given new energy to our Workshops and brought us many wonderful new clients to work with.

One of the overwhelming aspects is that nearly everyone has come to us with the same desire - the desire to connect.

The desire to connect with themselves as they truly are, to connect with the Universe and the flow of Abundance, to heal and connect to the Joy they know in their heart is their natural birthright.

Too often life seems a battleground - with ourselves, with our relationships, with our bodies, with our work, with the tax man, with … we can all write this script! If we’re not living in the past, we’re trying to project ourselves into the future. Somewhere inside we know the only reality is the present but it seems so hard to stay there.

To stay in the present, in the space where Abundance and Joy live, is scary. Why? Most of us have no idea! After all why would we choose to hang on to pain, stay in the darkness, continue to be unforgiving of our loved ones and ourselves? It doesn’t make sense does it?

But the reality is - that Abundance and Joy is our reality. It’s who we are, it’s what the Universe is - all the time, every second. And every moment of this special week for us has been a joy!

Abundance and Joy

Abundance and joy. Next to love can there be two more wonderful words? Joy - even saying it can have the feeling of bubbles fizzing in your blood. It’s sunshine and running free, it’s a hug from your grandchild, it’s the tug of a kite string rising in the wind, it’s the first dive in a crystal clear sea, it’s seeing a summer dawn flood over the horizon, it’s a letter from a loved one, it’s a healthy body, it’s smelling a rose, it’s reaching a goal, it’s dancing under the stars, it’s the first step in pristine snow, it’s a song from your childhood, it’s a balloon ride above the Australian desert, it’s the reality of a dream.

Joy is action - feeling yourself to be unstoppable, free, all that you can be. It is a moment when you transcend everything to experience incandescent life.

Abundance is being - it is the gift of the universe, it is who you are, it is gratitude and wonder.

Abundance is limitless. It’s apple blossom tumbling in the wind, it’s the silver flicker of fish shoals, it’s constellation upon constellation, it’s dew flashing rainbows in the morning, it’s snow flakes shaking down from a winter sky, it’s the endless pattern of flames in a log fire, it’s the myriad cells in our body giving us life, it’s the number of heartbeats in a lifetime, it’s droplets of water in a fountain, it’s the ruby seeds in a pomegranate, it’s all the smiles in the world.

Our tag line for 7th Space is ‘Live life with abundance and joy.’ We believe that one way to do this is through healing and self-empowerment. And this week particularly we are dedicating everything we offer to Abundance and Joy. Come and join us!

Homer and Abundance and Joy

It’s Saturday morning and I’m starting the day in a time honoured tradition of watching TV cartoons. Specifically the Simpsons which I love and adore!

This particular one is the usual mix of Homer having some grand scheme, it failing in spectacular fashion and then the final reel where the family gather round with love and support - or something like that!

At the moment he’s trudging through the snow saying ‘I can’t make it. Yes you can. No I can’t. Oh shut up. No you shut up. Oh what’s the point. It’s hopeless. I can’t make it.’
(It’s much funnier when you see it!). Anyway, it sounds pretty much what goes through any of our heads when we’re going for a goal or stuck in a situation we don’t want.

But of course, in spite of the bumbling antics Homer does emerge with a kind of victory. What does Homer love - Marge, Duff beer, his kids, being an American, and many other random things which catch his attention! And somehow he manages to hold onto these, they bring him joy and he’s always in search of more things to bring him joy. And he always gets them - maybe not in the form he imagined but abundance and joy follow him - and we get to see ourselves reflected in him and laugh at our own bumbling!

So really there are many role models for us - we just have to be open to them :)

Resistance is Futile!

I was watching one of my granddaughters have a hissy fit yesterday. And once it was over, we were trying to bring her round - make her smile and move on. Every time she relaxed enough to start smiling or laughing at our antics, she would immediately scowl to block the good feeling. Even at her age she was hanging on to the bad feeling. Of course eventually she surrendered to the irresistible tide and giggled and the rest of the morning went well for her.

It made me remember all the times I’ve done exactly the same thing. When I’ve returned to the painful thought over and over again like nagging at a sore tooth. When pride or righteousness has kept me thinking resentful thoughts. When it seems easier to stay stuck in a bad place because at least I know it. Stepping into the light seems such an effort sometimes!

What hooey! Being action driven beings we seem to think that joy and abundance are states we have to work hard to achieve. That we are going to have to do some complicated dance to get them to come to us. Sometimes we think we have to bribe them by becoming spiritual, good and super-human! Most of the time we make excuses to keep them at bay - ‘it’s not right to be happy when there is so much pain in the world’ or ‘we’re here to learn lessons the hard way, not to have fun’ or ‘no one I know is joyful and abundant so it doesn’t exist’.

As Abraham Hicks, The Secret and every spiritual leader is always telling us - joy and abundance are our birthright. They are already who and what every single human is. All we have to do is relax and notice something around us, something beautiful, uplighting, precious and inspiring. And don’t think that these moments don’t exist in every life. Some times the ‘hardest’ lives are the most inspiring, beautiful and precious. Ask any mother of a challenged child.

And each moment joy and abundance are experienced, it pushes the things you don’t want in your life further out of your consciousness. And the less focus you have towards the bad things in your life, the more room there is for joy and abundance to express itself. And the more you notice the things and people in your life which make you feel joyful and abundant, the more you will notice these emotions and experiences becoming your default setting. And then…

You find yourself giggling at your own resistance. You discover a new spring in your step as you walk down the road, noticing all the beautiful, funny, ingenious, inventive things spread out just for your enjoyment. Your eyes begin to sparkle in anticipation at the joyful and abundant experiences which you haven’t experienced yet but which are flooding your way. The world takes on a bright, shining quality when you see it through the true sight of your inner joyfulness and abundance.

These wondrous feelings become unstoppable, love of life blossoms in your heart and in your actions. You connect to the great dance of creation.

And all because you allowed a feeling space to grow.

Abundance & Joy Week!

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'If'

I have a beautiful calligraphy scroll on my wall which was penned by my uncle. I never knew him but his choice of poem perhaps says a lot about him. The poem is Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’.

Over the past decades this poem has become unfashionable and rejected by many as the hangover from a world of colonialism and jingoism. Feminists loathe it for its seemingly masculine viewpoint and for the last few words - ‘and, which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son.’

But I think it bears reading again. It speaks of self-trust and fortitude. It warns against being too of the world and losing your centre. It places much emphasis on self-reliance but not isolation - of being there for others. It sows the seeds of the virtue of never giving up, of holding on to the strength and guts which make we humans so magnificent.

It encourages vision and kindliness. It shows how we can walk through the world with our heads high, paying our dues along the way but not being seduced or battered down by false glamours of power and position.

In this poem I think there speaks the truths which many of us today are striving for, are actively modelling our lives around - be we men or women!

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to a make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with torn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”.
If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - not lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling