tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52446454404803164142023-11-17T02:41:27.914+10:00Angel Wings and Faery DustRoxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.comBlogger558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-40904155774903742522014-07-09T20:17:00.000+10:002014-07-09T20:17:29.636+10:00A Solitary Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are times on this journey of mine, the one I contracted for, the one I agreed to, when I have been given moments to pause and go...WHAT?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sure I am not at all alone in this experience. Every one, every single person has moments in their lives where they have cause to wonder why something happens, why ugliness is allowed, why loneliness occurs, why it seems at times that our life journey is particularly hard or distasteful, all of those things...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment, my journey is a relatively solitary one. I am human, I enjoy the company of good people, I love cooking for and interacting with others, I need the solace that comes from interacting with a like minded person, as all humans do. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment though, my journey appears to be a solitary one. ALL attempts at letting people in to my inner circle, opening up to others, invites to a meal a coffee or a chat are being spurned or for totally valid and non personal reasons, just not working out (A sick child, bad timing, not enough notice, busy lives etc)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has made me stop and pause...for three weeks now (possibly longer) the only contact I have had with other humans is superficial and fleeting; a five minute chat with the person making my coffee, a glance and a wave at a familiar face down town, a little joke and a laugh with the fabulous team at my local post office, all of which are wonderful moments, however, no lasting and deeper interaction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, since "coincidence" on this scale seems ludicrous, I have looked at this moment and asked WHAT??????</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a frequent reader of this blog (not that my posts have been all that frequent lately...sorry) then you know that I generally follow my instincts and the tugs at my heart that let me know louder than words that I am being offered a direction and guidance from the team of divine beings that I constantly interact with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So...what is the direction, what am I being told, what lesson is there to learn in all of this solitary confinement I seem to be experiencing at the moment? I actually still don't know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some things I DO know though.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through each of these seeming "rejections" of me as a person (and P.S. I am an amazing person to know *silly grin*) I have constantly heard a phrase from a book I read once called <i>The Four Agreements </i>that states, "Stop taking things so personally!" OK...so, lesson being, breathe, relax, be grateful and thankful, and stop taking it personally...I get that, and have "chucked" some dissolving fluid on those thought patterns, and released the need to take it all personally..."Job done," I say to my team, "So now can I have some company?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hmmm...it seems "No," was the answer to that question as the polite declines, and some not so polite declines kept coming in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Be happy in your own company before you invite someone else in to join you. That way, you will know whether you enjoy their company, or whether you are seeking them out through desperation," is the next thought I heard whispered on the wind. This one seemed a little more complex that the "Don't take it personally" insight, I mean, after all, I am truly happy in my own company, I LOVE alone time and be myself time and not responsible for any one or anything time. I pondered, in a light and non thinking way, on this recurring thought. In the silent times, the alone times, the no company for weeks times I have noticed a tendency for my brain and ego (damn them...*Wry grin*) to intervene with ridiculous and ludicrous thoughts like, "You'll always be alone," "No one really loves and understands you," "You can only ever rely on yourself, everyone else will let you down," "Perhaps there's something wrong with you/me?" These thought patterns are totally dismissed for the ego driven rubbish that they are, from my concious mind at least, so I dug a little deeper and pondered a little further and found that perhaps still a part of me (a very small part of me) might possibly believe some of these things. I sat by moving water, breathed deeply, immersed myself totally in the moment and the surroundings and the universe as a whole, and again "chucked" some dissolving fluid on those particular types of thoughts and promised myself I will totally be on the look out for that kind of ego sabotage in future.....feeling lighter and more buoyant as each moment passes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, I have given up of fathoming the lesson...that's right, I threw in the towel *laughing* In the end, I stated quite emphatically to my divine team, "This is not what I want, nor what I contracted for, so, guide me to change it...in human time please" Then, I let the whole thing go and went to dinner by myself in a lovely restaurant. I took my drawing journal and sketched faeries while I waited for my meal. This made people look at my book and several struck up a conversation. I chatted to the people in charge of serving me for the evening, I had lovely interactions with complete strangers that were complimentary, and genuine and heart warming.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, it dawned on me (I'm a bit slow sometimes I'll admit) that the moment I stopped struggling and questioning and, I'll admit it, demanding, people were automatically attracted to my energy and bought themselves into my space, however fleetingly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, for the moment, my journey is a solitary one, but not for one minute am I really on my own. I am happy to be me, I am happy to be uniquely different, weird, and eccentric. I love me dearly, and I am/can be patient in waiting and learning and growing and for sometimes to NOT understand the next step or the current moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I write this post, wondering if somewhere, some beautiful, magnificent and totally awesome light being needed to hear that they are not the only one who feels lonely, abandoned and isolated at times? </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're not alone dear one, I'm right there beside you at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-56466336646575287882014-01-25T21:23:00.000+10:002014-01-25T21:23:37.757+10:00To my twin soul....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have heard often about the twin soul or twin flame idea, and I fully believe that we have an "other" and not always are they meant to be our life partner. Sometimes, they are our best friend, our team mate, our relative or have some other relationship to us. However, having said that, i think we all secretly wish that our twin soul is our life long partner *smile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided that I would write a letter to my twin, I haven't met them yet, but I wanted to send out to the universe that I was ready. It was a brilliant and healing exercise for me, so I thought I would share it with you all and suggest that maybe this is not a bad healing exercise, especially if you're feeling a bit low. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called it a sending because I am sending this message out into the universe for action....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dear Beloved,</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As much as I want to meet you and be with you, as much as my soul yearns to reach out and embrace yours to combine with the very stuff the universe is made from, there are some things I must first know...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you love? Can you fully be with me in the moments we may have alone together? Can you forget, I mean truly forget all else in those moments and see only you and I combined?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you nurture? Can you offer succour when I am hurt without me asking and without question?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you worship and be worshipped in return? Can your touch be tender and filled with all of the love, wonder and joy the universe gives to every moment?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you let go? Can you release yourself and me from feelings of guilt, hate, judgement and harm when the time comes? Can you walk away from the moment and feel only the joy that is present and the love that surrounds it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you remember? Can you look upon me and recall our divine origins?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you share? Can you be genuine, honest and forthright in all of your interactions with me? Can you share your passions and your joys, and are you willing to share mine? Can you converse freely in all matters and know that love supersedes all judgement and all other feelings despite that our humanness means that these things will creep into our conscious at times?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you send me away? If a time comes when our joining does not meet our higher purpose, can you tell me and send me away so that we may both be happy?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beloved, these things are most important to me and to us both. So while my soul hungers to be with yours, and while my body aches in longing for that first gentle touch, that first kiss; I would walk away now beloved, so that I may meet you again in this life when our journey's are truly ready to combine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know this, we have met before and loved before. We are joined across the ages and through all of space and time. If we cannot physically touch, meet, or be one in this life time, in this present moment, then I will find you again in the next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come if you can, I miss you</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-9386125236641161342014-01-17T20:47:00.000+10:002014-01-17T20:47:13.892+10:00I am me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been quite some time I know. In fact, a REALLY long time since last I posted. I write what I am guided to write, and for such a long time, I apparently had little to say...smile. It seems that my path lay in other directions for quite some time, and a whole gambit of learning experiences took my focus away from writing. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I went to the beach and just sat for a while (always a healing and cleansing experience) and I began to write again. I wanted to share this first writing with you all...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"She's got to be loved,</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woah, the woman's got to be loved.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's got to be looooved</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she's got to be wanted..."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I'm led here, by the beach side, with this song playing over and over in my head. All morning, all the images of the men I have so foolishly loved pass through my head. It brings me no sorrow though. Instead, an insatiable joy fills me my heart and mind smile and I almost feel that anticipation that marks the beginning of a new love. The pulse quickens and a spontaneous smile comes unbidden to my lips. The door to my heart opens wide and I feel the invitation flow out of me and into the universe. Joy and wonder fill this moment as I truly release, truly let go of past loved; sending them every blessing and all the joy the universe so graciously provides to all those who ask it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of the sad and hollow place that was how I defined myself and my lover, I now, surprisingly, find a gladness, an anticipation, a waiting. In all of the faces that pass me by I see my lover, my soul, my friend. I smile the smile of one newly in love, that smile that is so different from any other smile and I know it radiates from my being as I see the joy in the faces of others as they pass me. I see the acknowledging nod of one being to another and I feel my being respond the same way it would were they a cherished, lost friend I am meeting again on the street rather than the random stranger they humanly are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never has the remembering been so strong before. I remember the joy of home, the one-ness of all beings in a place where only love is real, only the joy of communion exists. So much do I feel that home is a part of me in this existence now, that the "reality" of here seems one and the same. The longing for home that has afflicted my heart for so long, has vanished in this moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home seems no longer separate and a place of "other", it is here and now, surrounding me with loving grace and freeing my heart from the bonds of fear, servitude, aloneness and worry that have bound me to a path I knew I did not want to travel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find myself filled with love and courage. A fearlessness, which is neither ill-advised nor reckless, fills me, and I know that in this moment, the word impossible is meant for others on a different path.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I create, I love, I live and I shine a light for the world to see. I am me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being me is to be sensitive, to love and show loyalty with my whole being in combination and without reservation. There is nothing in me that is not perfect. There is nothing to change, to dwell on or to regret.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am able to embrace the whole of me with loving abandon and to know that my faults are only perceptions. A perception fed and fuelled by the opinion of others who look at me because it is too hard to look at themselves and love without condition.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am in love with me; with my precious and perfect self...and it is enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walk my path and forge a new way of being, an old way of being. I go back to the place I originated before this mortal existence began and I remember.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look into my own heart and find there is nothing left wanting. There, instead of pain, I find the joy of awakening and I am able to sing and dance and be free. I am me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I no longer recriminate or judge myself and my past and try to identify moments I see as mistakes. I don't need to. I am me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am me. I am the bringer of joy, but more than that, I am the personification of joy and through that example, I can lead others to find their own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I understand my path. The rest of the moments to come belong to this path.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-57557436217244208772013-02-06T22:33:00.000+10:002013-02-06T22:33:21.253+10:00The instructions I am given<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always being given fantastic advice and instructions from the divine. These are sometimes in the nature of dreams, impulses, intuition (for want of a better word), dreams, repeated signs, songs, so-called "coincidences" and a range of other things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would LOVE to tell you I always listen to and follow those instructions and advice *sheepish grin* but I don't make a habit out of lying, even on seemingly little things! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say, those times when I haven't listened, I soon discover why it would have been to my advantage to do so... *Wry grin*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ones I really want to focus on tonight is the information I am constantly getting from my body. The simple version is, that every part of me, every fibre, tissue, cell, molecule, understands the connection to the divine that we all have. It KNOWS the contract, knows what's best for me, and the choices that would equal perfect and divine health. It is my connection to both the earth, and the divine all in one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Thursday, I had to have some surgery (don't worry, sparing you the details) and as circumstances were at the time, I had to go on my own, staying overnight in a hotel as the hospital is a three hour drive each way from where I live. When I arrived, I found I had been given little to no information, was being condescended to and treated as the body part being dealt with rather than as a human being. That there was limited compassion and a WHOLE lot of judgement. As the day progressed (It had started at 4am when I had hit the road to get to the place) I became increasingly more distressed. I called on the whole team to be there, Raphael in particular. I was OK, but certainly not fantastic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I sat waiting in the common waiting area, dressed in my ultra attractive surgical gown I began to have second thoughts about the whole deal. Raphael calmly informed me that "chickening out" was not really an option (damn!) I was moved to the pre-op area to wait for someone to come and give me the initial bout of chemicals and there was a picture on the wall of a path leading through a forest. As I sat there, I imagined walking through the forest with Raphael having a chat about the procedure and the after procedure care and all of the things I was frightened about.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one point, I asked about all of the pain and the anti-biotic and other drugs I had been told I MUST take and the like. I live a reasonably natural existence, using herbs to treat most things, and was reluctant to take any chemical drugs, although I was certainly not going to refuse western treatment or any thing like that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raphael challenged me to heal myself! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I went into the surgery, all I could think about was how I could heal myself????????</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the operation, as I was lying on the bed in my hotel room, it suddenly "came to me" that I could just ask my body to heal itself. "What a strange idea" I thought to myself, but as I thought that (with my brain) my heart said, "Go on, can't hurt any worse than you do right now can it?" So, I set myself to the task of imagining a discussion with every cell in my body *laugh* This may have been made easier with the after effects of a general anaesthetic. I gave every cell the instruction that energy was to be converted to the place of surgery; that it was ALL hands on deck and the wound needed to be pain free and healing and ready for the three hour car trip home the next day. I also issued orders that I was to be fit for work on the following Monday. I went to sleep smiling to myself and laughing at what a "silly goose" I was.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been virtually pain free since the surgery, I have not taken the anti-biotic chemicals, instead using calendular and ginger (naturally occurring anti-biotic) because that's what my body said would be OK. No infection, and...a week later, other than some bruising, absolutely no evidence that I had the surgery at all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knock me over with a feather! That ACTUALLY worked *laugh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am of course, not suggesting that anyone ignore medical advice, or not seek treatment of they need to. After all, Raphael suggested the visit which led to the need for surgery being discovered. (Just as an aside, I also asked him to take care of finding me a really good specialist too *smile*) What I am saying is, that within each of us, is a most amazing and powerful tool; an unbelievably strong connection to the divine. Every cell in your body is attuned and waiting for your permission.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give yourself permission to be powerful and hear the instructions you are given! Honour the voice inside of you that tells you what course to take...it's the divine, you can trust it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-17953072266154631232013-01-30T21:10:00.000+10:002013-01-30T21:10:06.893+10:00Another key secret to success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, so I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment *smile* and am being asked to pass on these really simple, yet impactful truths about the way I view myself and the things I do in terms of being successful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just as an aside, we all have our own models for what "success" actually looks like, obviously, when I am talking about this topic, I am totally influenced by my own definition *wry grin*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today, I was confronted with remembering another key to living a successful life. It is so simple I actually overlooked it as a key factor...duh.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking kindly to yourself and loving your whole self from your every particle is one of the BIGGEST contributors to being successful. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is simply NO point to putting yourself down, punishing yourself, or dwelling on mistakes and perceived rejections. The only thing this does to and for you, is to slow you down and undermine your confidence in taking the next step.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being human, there WILL be mistakes, there ARE moments I am sure I would have liked to choose another path or another way of dealing with a situation. There are times when I feel TOTALLY lost, and places I wish with all of my heart that I had NEVER put myself in or chosen (Reading the fine print on the contract far more closely next time *laughing).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, what I know now (finally) is that NONE of these things has the power to stop me, to dissuade me or to prevent me from seeking my truth and my successful life. None of these things are worth punishing myself relentlessly for, nor are they necessarily moments I "had to go through" even though they have certainly acted to show me my strengths. None of these things, "mistakes" if you will can define who I choose to be. They are only moments in time, not great ones, but all the better for that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive instantly, love unconditionally and respect yourself for not only who you are, but the person you choose to be from this moment on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-73395168389670833462013-01-29T19:44:00.003+10:002013-01-29T19:44:57.212+10:00A key secret to succeeding in life...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no one secret that can be passed from one person to another, that will guarantee or prove successful for every person. This is not a "one size fits all" kind of life (awesomely cool really!). However, having said that, I have found there are some key ingredients which, when added to your overall mix, most certainly add together for having the highest possible chances.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of these things is looking at the list of things you wish to achieve, from the biggest (reaching thousands with my words of healing and message of love, having children and parents read my stories and discovering the magic within) to the smallest (getting the laundry done and my four year old pixie in bed at a decent hour) and then make some decisions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your time is NOT an infinite resource, each moment in time is quite precious and should be treated as such. Making decisions about how you prioritise your time and therefore the things that are the most important to you, is a great way to start ensuring that when you spend time on things they are important things and that you are maximising the time you spend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been times I have been so wrapped up in being supper Mumma, in having home baked goods for the lunch box, having a spotless and ordered house, and being extra super organised about getting us here, and being there etc. I often find, during these times I am pleased with my "Superness" and yet, these are the times that, when my little one goes to bed, I realise we didn't do much playing, or spending time together.... *REALLY sad face* In short, I realise my prioritising of my time did NOT match with the things I feel are most important, and I feel awful!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look at my time as a commodity, valuable beyond compare (and the time of others also). My "to do" list is filled with things I feel are the most important, and this is updated daily to change with my changing priorities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this, there are also a LOT of things that I have NO time for, refuse to make time for, and account no priority to at all....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Complaining about "stuff"</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Negativity</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self-Doubt</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things I have no control over and am powerless to change.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worry </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stress</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and a whole heap more, but I know you get the point *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't feel as though you are walking fast enough towards you goal, have a GOOD look at where you are spending the very precious commodity of your time and see if making a few changes might not improve matters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all, the clearer you set your intentions and focus on those things you wish to see more of, the faster the universe acts to create the opportunities you need.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-20222061160418089232013-01-25T22:43:00.001+10:002013-01-25T22:43:47.267+10:00Believe...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-43935944411276119092013-01-24T22:47:00.000+10:002013-01-24T22:47:06.922+10:00Can you feel it, can you feel it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my head right now is that song that goes, "Can you feel it? Can you feel it....can you feeeel it?" I have no idea who wrote or sang in, sometime in the 80's...right now though, a very poignant message in many ways.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last few days I have made a really conscious effort and decision to no longer shelter the whole of me from the world. A lot of the time, up until now, I do not take my whole self to places. The brightest light shining part of me, the part that is the most thoroughly connected and a little bit vulnerable to hurt, gets protected by a crystal shield every time I leave the protection on my sacred space...my home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more (well mostly *smile*)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have decided this for many reasons, the most important and influential of which was a message, and urging from my divine team. This provoked some interesting commentary from me starting with, "You want me to do WHAT??????? WHEN???? You mean ALLLLLL the time????" *laugh* It took some convincing and MANY signs before i would follow through on this one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sure you can predict the results from previous posts...smile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, you guessed correctly, as soon as i followed the signs and instructions, and walked out into the world shining brightly and letting all people see the all of me, I noticed a magic shift in the winds. Our power/ability to influence each other is astronomical, and is even stronger when shining the full and loving intent of our divine selves. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing seems hard or even impossible. People have responded to me beautifully where at other times they may not have....magic.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel we are on the verge of a mass consciousness shift...there are more and more people waking up (So to speak) to the true them, to remembering the love and majestic moments that occur when we listen to the inner voice guiding and protecting us....can you feel it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-64747265757347951362013-01-23T22:43:00.000+10:002013-01-23T22:43:25.425+10:00It's all about perspective really<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exponential learning curve for me in the last few months has been the concept of choosing the way I view potentially negative situations. There are a lot of times in my profession (my real world profession of teaching that is) where I am confronted with massive amounts of ego, of people taking things personally and then seeking revenge and general nastiness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have often struggled in coping with these situations without feeling large amounts of heart hurt. It makes me feel terribly sad to see the way human beings treat each other, it is only us, of all creation, that has this incredible sense of cruelty towards others of our kind. *sad</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I choose a different perspective, that has been long in the learning/remembering and understanding of. Often I have heard people say, "Just smile, it will either make them warm to you, or annoy them, either way, you win" While I don't necessarily subscribe to this exactly, the intent is sound.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a particularly trying time of judgement and conflict with and from others, I finally found myself in a place to practise seeing differently in a way that was easy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a fantastic imagination and I bought it into play in this defining moment. *smile* It was like this; a beautiful light bringer friend of mine sees the love energy we share as brightly coloured bubbles (awesome right?) and so, when I felt myself subjected to some not very pleasant "stuff" I pictured myself blowing love bubbles at them. Soon, I saw the tantrums as amusing rather than annoying, I saw the nasty comments as a reflection of their lack of self worth rather than a personal affront to me (I know this is still a judgement...baby steps...*smile*) and I looked at all of these behaviours from INSIDE the biggest, most multi-coloured love bubble you could ever imagine. It worked. I came home feeling NO impact whatsoever from THEIR CHOICES...none!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a moment or two where even the love bubble trick was not working, and in those moments I sang a little nonsensical ditty inside my head that went something along the lines of, "There's a light being here, and another over there, there is light in their clothes, their is light in their hair, there's a lot of lovely light in the air, everywhere, it's a lovely kind of day." Who couldn't be smiling after singing this to themselves? *Laugh* This served to remind me that even though the current actions chosen were not from a place of love, that the amazing light bringer was in there still, and that was who I would choose to see and direct my attention to.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FREEDOM I feel today is amazing....I released my need to judge others for their actions, embraced the love and light that resides within us all regardless of our current choices...and I did it all by singing and imagining big bubbles of love...how easy is that!?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoox</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-68416409342866831342013-01-22T21:59:00.001+10:002013-01-22T21:59:25.327+10:00Are you giving people permission?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE this quote:</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent: ~Eleanor Roosevelt. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it for so many different reasons, the main one being the power it transfers into my hands when I read it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have all had people in our lives from time to time whom we feel gave us the impression that we were/are less than, who gave us the impression that what we could give, was never going to be enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of us, at some time or another, will have a crisis of confidence based on what we believe others perception of us to be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each time I have experienced something like this, a sign from the divine pops up, like this quote, and reminds me that the only judgement I should be concerned with is my own...and even then, first making sure my own opinion is not reinforced by the belief of others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In understanding that it is through giving people permission that we allow them to impact on us, we receive all of the power for our purpose and direction back into our own hands. Denying people permission to judge, or for their judgements to impact on us, is a very basic first step into growing into the co-creators of our own destiny and outcomes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People have a right to their own opinion, just as I have a right not to acknowledge theirs *smile* I have no real desire to know what other people are thinking of me or saying about me (unless of course that it's that I am amazingly awesome *laugh*) It's their opinion, and most of the time, the people saying stuff about me, know nothing of me anyway. So why should their opinion count for anything?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take back your permissions, refuse to acknowledge the negativity of others and to accept THEIR judgements of you. Don't listen, don't accept the information if someone tries to tell you, don't repeat it, dwell on it, or give it any power over you at all. Reaffirm your own self worth, look in the mirror and remember that you are AMAZING, and that everyday, you bring a beauty and a light into the world in a way no one else can.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love, light and respect</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-30095034752141549392013-01-21T23:15:00.001+10:002013-01-21T23:15:42.701+10:00Are you waiting for the perfect time?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a lot of things I just don't start at times, reason being? Well, I'm waiting for the perfect time, I'm waiting for all of the obstacles in my way to be cleared, and I'm waiting until I can come up with no more objections........</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know the end of that story right? Yep...those things...they don't ever get done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone told me once that I would need several life times in order to do all of the things I want to get done and to pursue all of the things I am interested in...perhaps that's true...but I think I have found the key to getting it all done in this life time with plenty of time to think up other things to do on the way....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You want to know what it is?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I no longer wait.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There IS no such thing as the "perfect time" other than right now! So, there is no waiting, I don't wait for all the obstacles to be removed, for the path to be clear, for the problems to be solved and all of the pros and cons discussed...not me. I dive in head first, I follow my path, my heart, my impulses and my team and just go, go, go while the impulse has a hold of me. I create, I make, I do, i decide and I just keep on going until the job is done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While doing this, running headlong, most of the things I saw as obstacles before i began...well they turned out just to be excuses, because when I got to them, most of them were no longer there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Often, if we feel like we need to wait for the perfect time, it means that our "brain" is trying to keep us locked in our comfort zone, because it thinks it's safer...it might be, but without jumping in, there is no great gain either.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So don't wait, leap in, follow the impulse, walk your path...no, scratch that, RUN, and have a magical journey.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxox</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-25967628021537390972013-01-20T23:31:00.000+10:002013-01-20T23:31:09.327+10:00You're allowed to have bad days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things I have remembered recently is to allow myself to feel how I feel no matter how that may be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choosing a path of love and forgiveness in all things has it's "moments"; moments where it's lonely, moments where it's frustrating, moments where playing by the rules (the rules of our own personal integrity and therefore our own making) is difficult and seems unjust, moments where it seems to be a disadvantage or weakness for a moment or two....oh yes...it can be all of these things, just as any other path can be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I reminded myself of today, was that having one of these moments does not mean I am failing at, or lacking in anything. It means I am human, and that while I share the very nature and love of the divine, I am also subject to these moments that seem to have no understanding and no purpose. At these times, I choose to just let the feelings run their course. Sometimes this means phoning a friend, or sharing those thoughts and moments (although I do try to be cautious about sharing these moments who love and support me and are happy just to hear me out) or to ask for help in passing through these moments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I seek solace often in the company of nature, whether through the soothing energy of the sea, the majestic patience of old forest trees, or the young and energetic comfort of my veggie garden, nature is a magnificent healer, and a lovely place to convalesce so to speak.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think it is important to step away from judging myself when I have a "moment" like this, to not feel I am failing or taking a step backwards or in any other way view this experience as a negative thing. It just is...it is just me in this moment. I also see no point in trying to suppress or hide these moments from myself either (although naturally I attempt to ensure others aren't impacted).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess what I am attempting to say is that it is REALLY OK to have a bad day...even a few in a row if need be *wry smile* sometimes, walking away from these moments I come to a fuller understanding of who I am, what may be troubling me, and the direction I would like to choose to avoid another moment like this that is the same...at this point, having this moment becomes a gift, another skill to add to my healing tool kit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give yourself permission to feel in whatever way you feel. It's not wrong, or right, it just is ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-12434544212587406722013-01-19T22:21:00.002+10:002013-01-19T22:21:22.595+10:00Persistance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the key factors I recognised on my unplanned "sabbatical" has been the power in persistence.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not one of the people seen as achieving all of their worldly goals and reaching for the starts has got there on the first go...really. If there has been someone, I am completely unaware of them *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Putting my intentions forward, safeguarding my dreams, making plans and taking steps is WONDERFUL, but it all comes to nought if I am willing to give it all up at the first sign of difficulty.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an early example in my life; I became pregnant with my first son at the age of 19, unwed, having only just begun my university studies, in an extremely devout catholic family...not a great place to find myself *wry grin* I was told I had, "ruined my life" by multiple people (not all my family members, I thought I should clarify) and that there was no use in planning for a future......</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hmmmm..... nope, that option is not for me thanks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, things were a LOT different from the plan I had formed and the dreams I envisaged for myself. Things that were easy became a little harder at times, but I simply would NOT relinquish my goal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure, I made some adjustments, took a slightly different road, had some different choices and forks in the road than I may have had if things were different...but this did not change my end goal...and so, I persevered. No matter how hard, no matter how tired, no matter how broke, or how disaffected I felt, I just kept putting one foot in front of the other until I got there six long years later...and ooohhhh, the satisfaction!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With perseverance, I had two amazing things instead of the originally planned one; I had my degrees for the career I am passionate about...but more importantly, I had with me a gorgeous, beautiful, amazing child!!! Wooohoooo, two for the price of one *laugh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bottom line is, if the goal you set in your purpose, if it is what you truly want with your whole heart...then persevere, because if you are willing to give up when the going gets a little rough, well then, perhaps the goal was not what you really, really desire??? If it is, then keep taking those steps, don't give up, because the next step may be the one that leads you to the end zone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxox</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-6054479820475363452013-01-18T20:48:00.001+10:002013-01-18T20:48:37.937+10:00Universal life purpose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While we all have a goal we set, a life purpose which we are urged to fulfil and makes our heart leap with joy, I also believe there is a universal life purpose, one that we all share so to speak.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our common life purpose then is to bring out the best in others. Let me take a moment to note though, that this cannot be achieved through criticism, nor through judgement.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simply, we are all charged with inspiring each other.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can do this in oh so many (non intrusive) ways.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use positive and loving words when speaking to, about, or thinking of others.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the light being and the love in all people regardless of their actions.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive easily.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love unconditionally.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspire others to be happy by perusing your own divine happiness, this sends out amazing rays of healing energy.</span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are all of one spirit in the end, and we're all in this together. There are so many ways in which we can bring about joy, gratefulness, happiness and to generally lift up the energy levels of others, that once you get started, you can never think of stopping.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a pay it forward kind of thing, living your own blessings, respecting yourself and your boundaries, committing to happiness, forgiveness and a life that comes from a place of love means we shine our light on the world and inspire others to do the same with their choices...the results are magnificent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-24255214677729402672013-01-17T21:23:00.002+10:002013-01-17T21:23:32.125+10:00Notice your awesomeness...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know, at least fifty times a day you do something amazingly awesome! It's true, really it is. Unfortunately, most of the time, the awesome moments are overshadowed by something else, there is a minor disaster (the glass of milk slopped over the side, the toast landed on the floor buttered side down, etc) and suddenly, your awesomeness flees out of your mind in a flurry of self recrimination....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know what, notice your awesomeness, notice the moments where the toast fell, you caught it, landed it back on the plate while doing a complicated dance step to avoid the cat winding its way around your ankles. Take heed when you went to step out into traffic, and suddenly stopped BEFORE a car came screaming around a courner. Take a bow when you managed to smile gracefully and with genuine love when someone was rude to you....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean...holy cow...YOU ARE AWESOME...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just thought you should know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-73862799118529249962013-01-16T19:48:00.002+10:002013-01-16T19:48:40.247+10:00To harm or to heal...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some emotions in our spectrum that definitely belong only to us; to humans that is, and they can be quite harmful. Anger, hate, distrust, fear and blame...just to name a few. While all of us at times, will experience this full range of emotive responses, our ability to mitigate them as soon as possible is to our own benefit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just recently, I experienced a "moment" a point in time that was a bit of a struggle and through the actions of another, I felt pain, disappointment and a whole gambit of non-useful emotions. .. bleh...not nice at all. All of a sudden, I was unable to sleep properly, the scenarios just kept going around and around in my head, I felt righteous, angry, and was laying a whole heap of blame at the feet of the other being involved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not helpful in the least.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While there is no doubt that the actions of another person precipitated these moments, it could also be said that I in turn, fed the experience by feeding fuel on the fire so to speak.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was during the midst of this experience that I was given to understand a little more about guilt and blame and what an insidious set they can be. I consciously let go of blame, I chose to relay the events without blaming anyone (including myself for allowing the situation to develop) and to release the need to find someone at fault. Now, I'm not saying this was an easy skill to master, but it can be done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In trying to find someone else to blame, it is possible I was trying to relinquish my own responsibility or to lessen the blow, in actual fact, what I was doing was creating a pool of anger and resentment around me, and building a wall between myself and others in order to protect myself from being hurt in the same way again...sheesh...also not helpful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked at the situation from a more detached point of view, then, I repeated over and over again the statement, "No one is to blame, this situation just is as it is." Even when I was telling a close friend about the situation, I said these words again, each time reinforcing the belief that this is true.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In releasing the need to lay blame, I released the need to judge and to be angry. In so doing, I found it so much easier to move on without adding to my hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short, by adding no blame I could forgive, and so heal and move on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-84529681805270450032013-01-15T18:54:00.002+10:002013-01-15T18:54:39.729+10:00Seriously exciting and energising stuff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, let me offer my apologies for my prolonged and unexpected absence. There are moments in time for writing, moments in time for growing, for listening, for changing, for thinking for feeling etc. I write these posts from my heart, as I am guided to do. I never intended for there to be such a long absence between postings, but hey...you gotta do what you've gotta do...and what I had to do was to grow... *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many different things have been happening over the last month or so, chapters closing, doors opening, a new story burgeoning (seriously exciting) and growth for me as a person.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have taken a lot of time on my own to delve into the direction I wish to take and to feel my way through some obstacles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have discovered many secrets to being a better me, and have also learnt some more about healing myself of hurts both past and present.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't worry, I will most certainly be sharing these things with you over time...trust me, it's too much all at once *laugh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one thing I focused a lot of energy on and spent a great deal of time in contemplating and talking to the team about was/is the direction I am currently taking. I set my intentions for the year we have burst into all of a sudden, and am walking that path already.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was quite a simple process really, although at the time it seemed magnificent and huge *wry grin* as I suppose all things just recently remembered seem to be. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sat myself down in a quiet spot with pen and paper and wrote my way through the year that had been; the heartaches, the trying times, the lack of understandings, the joy, the sorrows, the uplifting and the moments that seemed to drop out from underneath me. I wrote and wrote and wrote. Page upon page of the year that was poured forth. In short (sort of *wry grin*) I sat down and wrote myself a letter about the journey travelled. I couldn't help but feel uplifted by the number of pages pouring out of me. The fact that some of those pages detailed some not so pleasant moments was/is irrelevant ..I thought to myself, "Just look at how much I experienced!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I set that letter aside, no need to read it further, I lived it after all. Having put aside the moments that I had already walked through, I looked to the moments to come and set my heart on a mission. The journey? Who am I....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On small pieces of paper, I wrote actions that the me I wish to be would take, for example, "Choose to forgive even though no apology was offered," and "love unconditionally and without stopping to discover if the other is worthy." and other such things. This is the person I AM, I told myself. This jar of papers are my self guide, in moments when the way doesn't seem as clear as it does now, I will be reading those pieces of paper to remind myself and put me back on the path.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then decorated a second jar titled "2013". While I would love to take the credit for this one, I didn't come up with the idea *smile* it came from a Facebook message. This jar started with nothing in it, however, as a beautiful, wonderful, magical experience happens to me throughout the year, I will be writing it on a piece of paper and popping it into that jar. As the year progresses, the jar will continue to fill and then this New Year's Eve, I will open the jar and relive all the magic of 2013 and rejoice...great place to end and to begin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three small things that I could accomplish with relatively small amount of effort that have acted to propel me into 2013 with freshness, rejuvenation and hope....FANTASTIC way to begin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of stuff happening on the work front too (my real work that is...the work of being a light bringer *laugh*) and a lot of exciting things to follow here *does a happy dance, clapping her hands and singing a tune* </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would love to hear the events that have bought you into this new moment...feel free to share.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With extreme amounts of love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxox</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. If you feel like a dose of unconditional love right now...feel free to pop in on the new facebook page run by myself and an amazingly angelic fellow light bringer called "Love Bubbles" https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Bubbles/405815306169457?fref=ts</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-38843022871408793642012-12-17T21:55:00.000+10:002012-12-17T21:55:09.941+10:00Walk past the human moments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many times misunderstandings and arguments have come up in my life because I couldn't (or more likely wouldn't) walk past the human moments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By human moments, I mean when someone is acting (in my perception) selfishly, ignorantly, said something I have taken personally or out of context, me reading my personal baggage into a completely innocent statement, arrogance and rudeness etc. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When faced by one of these circumstances, it is at times rather difficult for me not to act as a riled cat with my tail all fluffed up, hissing and spitting and generally carrying on. (There's a nice visual for you)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of times, I have acted, in what I saw, as "self-defence" immediately going on the attack and taking no prisoners ..the down side to having a solid vocabulary and the willingness to use it, is that in these moments, so much damage can be done that there is no room for understanding and forgiveness later when the mistake has been realised.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In later years, as I have walked further down my path and come to a deeper understanding of the concept that we are all of the same source, all beautiful and divine in our own way, and all possess the right of choice and non-judgement, I have managed to cage the cat somewhat *laugh* Still, she is sometimes there beneath the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I practise what I call "walking past the human moments." (Notice I said "practise") I choose silence in the face of all of the scenarios I described above, even when it is REALLY obvious to me that someone is trying to get under my skin or being deliberately and wantonly rude or ignorant. In the moment of silence, I look for the light being that is all of us in essence. I look past the humanness of the actions, and really attempt to see the person who has affronted me. With that moment, I am usually able to discover part of the reason/reasons for the persons behaviour, I am able to remind myself that I should remember that all of us are fighting one battle or another and it is not fair or right to judge when I don't know the story. In short, by giving silence, I give myself a moment to step away from judgement and to embrace forgiveness and understanding rather than judgement...then, the "need" to retaliate is passed by.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to say also, that I used to see this as a weakness, not retaliating when others are rude or offensive. I used to think I had not stood up for myself or put myself forward....what I know now, is that I accept responsibility for only one persons actions...my own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-61681291099294655062012-12-16T21:44:00.002+10:002012-12-16T21:44:23.717+10:00Smiling when your heart hurts the most<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of those arts that I have perfected over the long-term, smiling and "putting on a good face" so that no-one even suspects I am hurting at any given time. Walking through the world with no one aware of what is going on inside my head. While this has been, for me, a survival skill, it has changed over recent years into something more positive. I am thankful, therefore, for all the times I used this tool to help me hide, because it has taught me to use it for a far better purpose now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look at the world sometimes, and I shake my head, my heart hurts, I feel complete bewilderment and sometimes anger. A world where little ones are not always safe in their classrooms, where cruelty happens to people and our animal friends daily, where slavery still exists and so many starve and are without help when they need it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In times like this, while my heart is hurting and I just want to weep, I find smiling, finding something to be happy and grateful for, is the first step to healing. I am not just talking about being brave or putting a good face on it. I am talking about genuine joy and gratitude even for the smallest thing. This kind of love sends out an energy. I cannot give those little ones back their lives, nor can I provide food and freedom and basic rights to the MANY who lack for them. What I can do, and it is no small thing, is I can send my love to the world, I can be grateful and joyful and allow that loving and positive energy to infect others, and still more others. I can ask forgiveness for those who I perceive need it, and I can send love and comfort across the globe in empathy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't find that ranting and raving without action a healing and helpful thing, not for me, not anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sending love into the world tonight</span><br />
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Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-89815971038844085992012-12-15T21:54:00.002+10:002012-12-15T21:54:58.958+10:00Regaining serenity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope that by now, having read a few of these posts, it has become apparent to you, beautiful beings, that while I may listen, have faith, believe and walk a path of love and forgiveness as best I know how...I am also, undeniably human into the bargain *smile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been so many times when I have "lost" my connection with the divine (in other words, too preoccupied with what's going on and buying into the negative to listen) and when these moments come upon me, I feel as lost as though I didn't know there were angels guiding my every step. *sigh* </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least now, I can remember in those moments, that the team is still there, will ALWAYS be there, that no matter how lonely, I am never alone. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the platitudes in the world don't help though in a moment of helplessness, of heart aching loneliness or of extreme grief and pain. Yep...I have these moments too...human remember *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connecting with nature has always been one of the things that has helped me to ease the ache, or to regain some semblance of balance within my soul. Even before I realised that my heart and the divine, were constantly giving me the information I needed to walk the path I choose and to be happy, I sought out nature when I felt particularly aggrieved Sitting by the beach, watching the waves continue their endless march in and out, sitting in a garden under a tree, walking through a particularly old, and nurturing part of rain forest, or just sitting outside on the grass...all of these things have helped me immeasurably, and many others besides.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of what creed you believe or whether you think there are a divine team of beings guiding your steps or a conscious universe acting in accordance of your intentions, nature can have a healing impact when you feel lost and dishevelled and a little afraid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try it out when you are hurting. Go and sit in the garden and let your thoughts roam and wander where they will. Sit silently, or talk, or sob, or whatever takes your heart in the moment. Look at your surroundings or sit as though seeing through the environment. None of this matters. Just being surrounded by nature has the ability to heal; to restore some sense of calm and serenity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, I always take pen and paper with me when I seeks out nature's healing comfort. Inevitably, as I sit and feel the hurt drain from me, and a calm peace sooth me, I start to hear my heart again, and when my heart is whispering to me, I make sure I am taking notes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-63240293969376311612012-12-11T22:34:00.000+10:002012-12-11T22:34:13.851+10:00Oh so many diversions....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know, I often picture myself, as I was sitting there with the Archangel Michael, and we were discussing this journey, and the contract I would sign...often I ask myself whether I REALLY read that contract or whether I was just happily wrapped up in the moment...*sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things I have often pondered along this journey, is why it is I so often get totally wrapped up in "stupid" stuff?????? I mean really, I KNOW and have remembered/learnt all this stuff, and yet, I am often caught up and buying into stuff that just doesn't matter in the scheme of things...you know?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life, the human life we lead, is a distraction and diversion to keep us happy and laughing while the "real" work gets done. *smile* To me, the real work is the business of beautifully shining my light on the world as I walk through it; to be the best human me I can be; to love unconditionally and forgive instantly...everything else...a pleasant diversion! well...that's what the contract said I'm sure *wry grin*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I just have to laugh at my very humanness as I get caught up in what someone said about me, or a perceived insult/slight, or any other day to day thing, which in the long run means nothing to me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other times, when the moment has been far more terrible than someone being catty to me, I have had to remind myself to believe and keep knowing that this moment will pass and it too is just a diversion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using this thought pattern helps me to get through some of those more...shall we say..."challenging" moments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are powerful co-creators in the life we lead...I mean sure, we signed a contract, but that will never be more than we can handle, we knew it when we signed it...but if the diversion which is currently my life is not fun and pleasant, then I get to change those details, I'm telling myself to change something, move on, be different! OK then, message heard self *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxox</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meeting faery friends and having them share their wonder and belief with me! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playing with my somewhat crazy cat!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making faery journals, drawing, creating, making magic!</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-62258743413634734182012-12-08T22:48:00.001+10:002012-12-08T22:48:24.438+10:00The Stamp of Approval...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was sitting in my garden today enjoying the wonder and the beauty of the sunset that has been magnificently enhanced by a massive smoke haze from surrounding bush fires. I was gratified by the beauty of the moment, and thinking that even something as potentially destructive and heartbreaking as bush fires can be, have the tendency to produce something magnificent and to be grateful for.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was thinking, as I looked at this sunset and feeling my way through another sad moment, when I suddenly understood my sadness and seeming loneliness today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been a few days lately where I am having to consciously think of the things I am grateful for and to look for the positive and all of those other strategies. There are MASSIVE energy changes going on around the world (I'm sure you've noticed the impact) and there is a lot in the way of learning/remembering and changing within myself as well. these times for me are often characterised by tiredness, a lack of willingness to engage in activities that I normally revel in, and a feeling of isolation and loneliness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came to a new understanding of this today. In a moment I realised that I was actually seeking approval from the people around me in some way. More than that though, I am/have been looking for acceptance and therefore curbing some of my natural instincts and impulses when around others...apparently I am a little too faery like and weird *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I asked myself, "Why do you need the approval of others?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I don;t!" I replied adamantly, "So why are you looking for it then?" I responded with a little sarcasm...... hmmmm..."OK, you got me."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought on this further.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't really come up with an answer, so I figured this was one of those times when knowing why was not necessary, only recognising the situation, and then acting to change it if necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I immediately asked my team to help me release the need to gain approval. I was sent inside to get pen and paper and immediately drew myself a stamp of approval...*silly grin* I of course, then laughed myself silly. The message, aside from the frivolity was clear...the only one who I need approval from, is me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on it...*smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-60282005006037017852012-12-06T23:00:00.001+10:002012-12-06T23:00:24.901+10:00Celebrate who you are<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am often my own worst critic, which in some ways stands to reason. You see, no one knows me as well as I do, so, naturally, I know all of my "flaws" and "imperfections" better than someone else knows them too *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing I know and have faith in though, is that I was created a perfect being, and I am still a perfect being. So, while there are things I would desire and work towards changing (I could stand being a little less judgemental at times) I also know that there are so many things to celebrate about being me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't wait for birthdays and Christmas or any other special occasion to celebrate and rejoice in the amazing things about me, and I most certainly don't wait any more for anyone else to point those things out to me *grin* </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I come to a new understanding, I celebrate, when I successfully harvest the bounty in my veggie garden, I celebrate, when I make a great decision, I celebrate, when I follow my divine team and listen to my heart, I celebrate and so on and so on....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look into your heart, REALLY look, and you will find all of the magical, wonderful, amazing, beautiful, inspiring things there are to celebrate about being you!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we do this, when we take time to celebrate being who we are right now, we are sending amazing waves of gratitude and love out into the universe. In sending these thoughts out, we acknowledge all of the things we are thankful about. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The laws of the universe state that you get more of the things you think the most about. Focusing on the beauty and the reasons to rejoice being you, tells the universe you want more of those things that make you amazing...and so it is!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxox</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-19353178525733688662012-12-04T22:17:00.000+10:002012-12-04T22:17:04.040+10:00Not a moment is wasted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am asked to remember today that not one moment of our time here is a wasted moment whether we are procrastinating over doing something, whether we are in a moment of pain or grief, whether we are in a place or a job we would rather not be in r whether we are in a moment where we feel completely connected and at peace with ourselves and the world...all of it matters and not a moment is wasted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each moment we live is a moment we are remembering more about the contract we signed and the path we choose for ourselves. Each moment allows us to more perfectly walk the walk and to grow into being more perfectly us than the moment before. Even if the moment is teaching us what we do not wish for ourselves. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find myself remembering conversations with my senior art class where I was asking them to show me and demonstrate to me who they are as people, yet without using words or pictures of themselves. The concept title was "Symbol Soup" they were being asked to define who they are and who they choose to be using symbolism and moving away from the literal. Hard ask! However, one of the conversations that emerged as they thought and felt their way through what I asked them to do was the concept of defining who we are, by stating what we are not.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems then, that I am asked to remember this conversation to highlight to myself that moments that seem very much like ones I would not possibly have written for myself, and yet I have obviously humanly chosen to be in through free will, are moments where I am able to define my direction, by being confronted by what I "am not" or what I would no longer choose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked the question of my team today, "May I know more, may I rewrite the contract so that I can remember all of the information that led me to sign?" In other words, can I know the whole picture, thus reducing the frustration of following each little step without knowing where it will lead. The answer was simple and immediate..."Yes."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suddenly woke up to the understanding that the limits in knowledge, foresight and in outcomes all come from me. I CHOOSE to withhold this knowledge from myself at times, and if I can choose to withhold, I can also choose to have full disclosure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suddenly, as this thought occurred to me, I felt at peace, and all the things I was concerning me with no longer seemed to matter any more (well at least not in the sense that I need concern myself with the outcome.) I felt freer and lighter. YAY team *smile*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I walk into the world with my new set of understandings tomorrow and see where they take me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244645440480316414.post-47547177015183885352012-12-01T21:04:00.002+10:002012-12-01T21:04:27.643+10:00Don't spoil your present<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the strangest things I have come across is the "live in the moment" type philosophy...I mean, I HAVE to be super organised well in advance, I simply MUST plan ahead and have back up plans in place in case the original falls through. If I don't, well, things just don't run smoothly, I get a feeling of immense stress and things REALLY start to go pear shaped from there...so HOW can I "live in the moment/" *she says with contempt and judgement* *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think upon this moment, which was for me not so long ago, and I just have to *sigh* loudly! I answer my own question, "You feel this way because you didn't truly understand the concept silly."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed I did not, and sometimes even still, I don't fully understand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My new understanding of the thought, "Live in the moment" is that I can choose to enjoy every minute that passes (or as many as I feel I can) and not spend time worrying about "what ifs?", missed opportunities, failures, embarrassments, what I did do, didn't do, will soon do, may very well do and all of the rest...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can make plans, set goals, create pathways to my hearts content (and indeed I do *smile*). What I choose NOT to do, is spend time in worry, stress and in listening to my brain and ego throw out all sorts of scenarios in order to frighten me into staying comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't spoil your present by fearing the future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love and light</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxoxoxoxoxo</span></div>
Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153141844949494197noreply@blogger.com0