Saying Goodbye to the Ultimate Blog Challenge

These challenge months go by so fast, don't they? Once again, the time has come to say goodbye to another great Ultimate Blog Challenge.

I had a great time!!

My goal is always to increase my pageviews and I always do, so I heartily recommend this challenge to other bloggers who haven't tried it yet. This month, I got almost 2000 new friends coming to see me! :)

As always, the best part is meeting so many wonderful new people!

I hope for all of us who participated this time around that the benefits we received from this challenge will be evergreen. More traffic, more comments, great connections with other bloggers, and the fun of writing when you know someone will read what you've written.

See you guys next time!

Have a great day!

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Creating a Daily Peace Practice: Part Two

Peace Practice, Part Two

As promised, here are three more great ways to add in peace to your daily spiritual practice or to create a peace practice. And if you missed the first part of this post, you can find it here.

(1) Adding extra “cool down” time and more stretching to the end of your workout just because it soothes, centers and grounds you.

(2) Choosing a peace blend or a comfort blend, or creating your own, when deciding which essential oils to use. I love anything with vanilla! SO soothing.

(3) Creating a peace room, or at least a peace corner, that can house comforting artwork, big-fat-comfy pillows, your favorite cozy throw or blanket, your fuzzy slippers or socks and a window that faces your favorite tree or offers a water view.

And one more (I had to include this one!): spending time just gazing at the moonlight and letting yourself soak up that soothing moon energy.

I encourage you to think about what it would mean to create an entire peace lifestyle.

And I need to tell you that though I know you are busy, especially if you are at all like me (single parent business owner), but answering the call to create a deeper spiritual practice is going to require giving yourself the time you deserve.

Homework

And while you’re thinking about all that, consider what kind of commitment you are ready to make to develop a deeper spiritual practice.

What commitment are you ready to make to yourself?

And what might that look like for you? How will it feel?

“Transformation doesn’t necessarily happen overnight. When we travel down life’s highway, we make small shifts. A slight move today, another shift tomorrow, and in six months’ time, we will find ourselves in a totally new place. We find a new sense of being right with ourselves and a whole new sense of connection with God.” –Mary Morrissey, New Thought Minister

“Contemplative practices cultivate a personal capacity for deep concentration and insight. Examples may include meditation, contemplative prayer, focused experiences in nature, yoga, art-making, and ritual or ceremony designed to create sacred space and/or support insight and awareness.” –contemplativemind.org

Want some additional possibilities for developing and deepening a contemplative spiritual practice?

Look at this page on the Contemplative Mind website:
http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree

Developing a full-blown, workable spiritual practice, after experimenting with this, letting go of that, make take time. But getting started can happen right now. Today.

Start now. You won’t regret it. In fact, I promise you, it will change your life in ways you can’t even imagine.

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks so much for taking this month-long journey with me!! 

Have a great weekend!

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Creating a Daily Spiritual Practice: The Final Guideline...

Creating a Daily Spiritual Practice

We've been taking a look at guidelines for creating a deeper daily spiritual practice, and here is the final one I want to share with you. It just might be the most important one of them all.

It has to be a peace practice, not just a spiritual one. Mystics have a deep longing for peace that is often ignored and rarely satisfied. So crafting a spiritual practice has to include careful, deliberate planning to create peace.

What this could mean… 

(1) adding a cup of chamomile tea to your journaling or inspirational reading time. Or, drinking more tea in general. Or your comfort beverage of choice.

(2) adding a few minutes at the end of your walking meditation to sit and lean into the grounding energy of an oak tree nearby.

(3) holding a comforting crystal in each hand, moonstone or rose quartz or selenite (etc.), during your meditation time.

(4) learning some soothing tai chi chih moves.

(5) creating or asking your yoga teacher for a comforting yoga sequence.

(6) listening to music that soothes

(7) chanting a peace mantra or listening to chant.

In part two of this post, I'll suggest three more ways to create peace and comfort and give you some homework to help you process all of this information.

Have a great day!

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How to Create a Mystical, Magical Daily Spiritual Practice (Part Two)

Creating a Daily Spiritual Practice, Mystic Style

Here are a few more things to keep in mind as you consider how to create a deeper daily spiritual practice...

(1) It needs to provide you with deeper access to intuitive guidance in whatever way works for you…
 
(a) writing in your journal
(b) intuitive readings
(c) spirit animal guidance
(d) meditation with spirit guides

(2) It needs to give you faith to trust the guidance you receive and courage to take the steps that move you along the path to the life you want most.

So you need to regularly place yourself in front of whatever inspires you, deepens your faith, helps you believe in magic or miracles, gives you the courage too believe in yourself and reach for your dreams, and heals the limiting beliefs and unhealed memories that could get in your way.

What would that mean for you?

Have a great day!

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Wednesday's Wish

What's your love wish?

Each week, on Wednesday, I want to hear and bless your love wishes. For new love, for family love, for self-love, for anything that opens your heart.

It's a heart chakra Wednesday here every week, and I invite you to share your intention for deeper love or heart healing.

Sacred Presence,

Heal our hearts

of every wound

 that keeps us from being open to all the love 

you have planned for us.

Have a great day!

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Guidelines for Creating a Daily Mystic Spiritual Practice

Daily Spiritual Practice, 
Mystic Style

Now that you have gotten clear about the story or stories you’ve been living and have begun to rewrite your story to create the life you want, it’s time to choose and create the spiritual practice(s) that will help keep you on the path. And the best thing about it is that it will be uniquely yours.

Your spiritual path doesn’t have to look like anyone else's. So the mission for the rest of this week: creating a deeper spiritual practice that is perfect for you. As a mystic (most of my blog readers are magical, mystical women), “perfect for you” means it will have to meet certain high standards.

Otherwise, it won’t work. So here are some guidelines to keep in mind…

Guidelines for a Mystic’s Deeper Spiritual Practice…

(1) It has to be mystic, which implies several things.

(a) It has to be designed to provide plenty of alone time for contemplation and reflection.

(b) It must be richly imaginative. Reading a page in a devotional or singing the hymn on page whatever is not going to be enough.

(c) It can’t be rushed. Mystics need a slower pace.

(d) It needs to offer connection to nature.

(2) It needs to be designed to create a deeper connection with the divine as you understand the divine, with your inner guide or wisdom, and with yourself (needs, hopes, wants, feelings) through contemplative prayer, meditation or journaling.

Tomorrow, we'll look at a few more guidelines. Meanwhile, what would it mean to apply what you've read already to creating a daily spiritual practice?

Are you getting some ideas already?

Have a great day!

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Spiritual Support for Your New Story

Support for Your New Path

In yesterday's post, I asked you which story your life will tell next and gave you suggestions for how to connect to the story that is waiting to be told (or expressed) in your life.

Here are support and resources for writing your new story & creating your new path...

Aromatherapy 

(1) Clary Sage: strengthens intuition for vision and dream guidance and increases euphoria

(2) Rose: for letting go of fear

(3) Bergamot: increases self-love and self-acceptance

(4) Grapefruit: helps you let go of negative patterns and offers emotional clearing & cleansing

Crystals 

Selenite: for angelic inspiration and connection

Unakite: to get right to the heart of the matter and help you heal whatever might be in your way

Tomorrow, we are moving on to look at ways to create spiritual practice that supports your new intention and path.

Have a great day!

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Rewriting Your Story: Which Story Will Your Life Tell?

Which Story Will
Your Life Tell?

We've been talking a lot about our stories and how the ones we loved might be a template for examining the ones we've lived. And now it's time to decide which story you want to create. Going forward, which story will your life tell?

Which Story Do You WANT to Create? 

Because this time, you’re in charge and in a conscious way and you can create any story you want to create. Once you understand the story you were living, you can make a decision to write your own. Ready to get started?

Journal Questions

(1) Is it time to change the script?

(2) How do you want your story to change?

Two ways to make this process more powerful and concrete…

Do an Elevator Meditation

(photo credit: Vancouver photographer, Jason Pfeifer, Phosphene.com)

After getting relaxed and taking several deep breaths, imagine that you have just stepped onto a magic time-traveling elevator. This elevator is going to take you into the future. Take a look around and notice what the elevator looks like.

Instead of normal floor numbers, it has years. So you can choose one year into the future, five years, etc., and you can take as many rides on the elevator as you want.

Once you choose your number, the elevator doors will open and you will step into a dream life that you are creating yourself. Notice what you see, hear, feel and smell. Notice what’s happening in your world.

When you are complete with this meditation, write about your experiences in your journal.

Create a Vision

Imagine making some part of your elevator meditation come true. Spend some time daydreaming about it in great detail and without pressuring yourself to come up with the “how, “ notice if any ideas come to mind.

Artwork: Create a vision board or collage of this new story you are going to create.

Tomorrow I'll offer spiritual and energetic support for your new story.

Have a great day!

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Are You a Sleeping Beauty in Your Own Life?

Are You a Sleeping Beauty?

(photo credit: Thomas Spence, IllusionsGallery.com)

We've been looking at the messages and themes in Sleeping Beauty and yesterday, I asked you to consider two possible limiting beliefs you might have if Sleeping Beauty was a favorite story for you during your childhood. Though I am using this story as an example, because I relate to it so much myself, I hope you have been able to apply the same process to the other stories you've loved.

Getting back to the story, the prince finds the princess as if he had been led to her by an unseen hand.

Unseen Guidance

When I look back on my own life, I often feel as if I am seeing the work of an unseen hand leading me where I needed to go. Does that happen for you?

When the princess awakens, she tells him that she was waiting for him in her dreams. Are you waiting to be rescued so that your dream can come true?

Happily Ever After

"They lived happily ever after, as they always do in fairy tales, not quite so often, however, in real life."-Sleeping Beauty

What would happily ever after look like for you? This fairy tale reminds us that not everyone lives happily ever after in real life. But if you could, what would that be like? When people give it some thought, they often realize that they can be happy with a lot less perfection than they originally imagined.

Try Casting a Spell

Consider setting an intention to create the life you want most. Say it out loud and write it in your journal. Make a ritual of it if you'd like!

The happiness you have dreamed of might just be possible if you are willing to be your own prince and willing to awaken. What new story will you create?

"Every person is born into life as a blank page -- and every person leaves life as a full book. Our lives are our story, and our story is our life. Story is the narrative thread of our experience--not what literally happens, but what we make of what happens, what we tell each other and what we remember." --Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher

Use this same template for asking yourself questions about the stories that were your favorites. And consider this question, over the weekend.

We've been exploring story within the context of thinking about who you are being called to become. The answer is always more you, but in what way?

How does knowing the stories that your life has been telling give you clues about who or what you are being called to in your own life?

Have a great weekend!

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A Closer Look at Sleeping Beauty: What are Your Limiting Beliefs?

A Closer Look at Sleeping Beauty & Limiting Beliefs

(photo credit: Foxfires at deviantart.com)

In yesterday's first look at Sleeping Beauty, I asked if you could relate to any of the themes from this story showing up in your own life and I shared what some of those themes were. I also gave you questions to ask yourself to see if this is a story your life is telling.

Today, let's look again, and see what limiting beliefs you might have if this story was one of your favorites (as it was mine, as a child).

Does There Have to Be Struggle?

"He made his way through slowly and with a struggle, for the trees and bushes grew in a thick tangle. A few hours later, now losing heart, he was about to turn his horse and go back when he thought he could see something through the trees... He pushed back the branches... Wonder of wonders! There in front of him stood a castle with high towers."-Sleeping Beauty

If this has been your path, you may have two limiting beliefs that you learned or concluded somewhere along the way...

Limiting Beliefs

(1) That anything good that you want will take a long time and require struggle.

(2) That only if you persevere through the long battle, when nothing seems good, will you eventually stumble upon your reward.

The Law of Attraction

But are either of these really true? Certainly, it is what people sometimes experience! But must they?

According to the Law of Attraction, you can have whatever you want and it can come to you easily. If that doesn't happen, then there are probably limiting beliefs and painful feelings (like the prince's melancholy mood) in the way.

Tomorrow, let's look at a few more aspects of this story and see what happens when we apply it to our own lives.

Have a great day!

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Wednesday's Wish

What's your love wish?

Each week, on Wednesday, I want to hear and bless your love wishes. For new love, for family love, for self-love, for anything that opens your heart.

It's a heart chakra Wednesday here every week, and I invite you to share your intention for deeper love or heart healing.

Sacred Presence,

Heal our hearts

of every wound

 that keeps us from being open to all the love 

you have planned for us.

Have a great day!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ 

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A Closer Look at Sleeping Beauty

A Closer Look at Sleeping Beauty

(photo credit: ComicBookResources.com)

I asked several questions in yesterday's post about the stories you have lived and experienced, and I suggested looking at them through the lens of your favorite stories from childhood.

Here's an example of what I mean using Sleeping Beauty...

Have you ever felt like you were knocked flat by the negative energy coming your way? That is what happens as this story begins.

Some say that the stories we loved in childhood become the template for our lives as adults. If Sleeping Beauty was one of your favorites, take a few minutes to see if there are any parallels in the life you experience today.

Are you asleep in your own life?

Are you waiting for rescue?

Are you waiting for true love?

Have you been knocked flat by negativity in your past?

Eventually, the prince comes to rescue the young princess. But it happens almost accidentally. If you are to be your own rescuer, do you have a plan?

Tomorrow, we'll consider a few more questions based on this story.

Have a great day!

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What about Your Stories?

What Stories Has Your Life
Been Telling?

In yesterday's post, I asked you to identify your favorite stories from childhood. What were the stories you wanted to hear again and again? Today, I want you to keep those stories in mind as you consider these next questions in which we compare those stories to the stories you've lived.

1) Think about some of the stories you have lived. Would any of your experiences fit the framework or theme of one of the childhood stories you identified above?

2) Were any of your stories stuck in the Land of Before?

(a) Before good triumphed over evil?

(b) Before the rescue?

(c) Before the awakening?

(d) Before the "happily ever after"?

3) If you could rewrite the stories of your life, what would you change?

(a) Would you add a fairy godmother or a good witch or a superhero?

(b)What superpower would the hero or heroine (you) have?

(c)Where would you wave the magic wand?

4) Taking a look again at those stories, what might your heroic quest be?

(photo credit: The Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit, Entertainment New Media Network)

Found through Google at Sarah's Blog of Fun: http://www.sarahsblogoffun.com/2013/09/kung-fu-rabbit-movie-review-and-giveaway.html

Have a great day!

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Read Me that Story Again

Read Me that Story Again 

(photo credit: OldHippie.org)

Not only have we passed the halfway point as we begin this week, but we are getting to the part of our journey this month where we really dig in to the deep stuff. Now, we begin the process of  examining our lives to see what stories they are telling.

But first, tell me which stories were your favorite when you were a child?

"The story (stories) we most loved in childhood often reflect the life quest we have come to take upon us in this lifetime. That is why it resonated with us so strongly. Going back and rereading the one or two stories you most loved will often help you to see the patterns in your life." - Ted Andrews, Animal-Speak

Stories often entertain us and present basic truths that we are more receptive to because they are in story form.

1) What were some of the stories you loved as a child? List the top 2 or 3.

2) For each story, identify the basic plot & the difficulties that were encountered.

3) How does good triumph over evil? Does someone get rescued? Does someone awaken?

Share in the comments which ones you liked best.

Have a great day!

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Encouragement for the Journey

Encouragement for the Journey

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Next week, I will ask you to begin to identify which story your life is telling and to consider whether or not it's time to change the plot and/or the ending. But first, some encouragement and a description of what it may feel like to decide that change is necessary...

"Courage is about stepping into your grander self, your bigger story. What are your fears and where do you find that you limit yourself? What are the limiting beliefs that keep you from stepping into your bigger, courageous self?" –Jean Houston

"Bang! You may come to a sudden realization that your life is not working for you. Some part of your life doesn't quite fit any more, like an old sweater that’s two sizes too small. You can only suck your gut in for so long before you lose your breath. You can only put on a happy face when you're feeling awful for so long before your eyes betray you. Just as the wakeup call says 'no more sleep for you', the personal wakeup call says, 'enough! I can't live this way anymore. It's time to make a change.' -Ian Lawton

James Baldwin said, 'Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.'"

"One way we keep ourselves small is by thinking we’re not good enough. We’re not smart enough, not pretty enough, not educated enough, endlessly not enough. Imagine what you could do if you knew, without a doubt, that you were enough. What would you do?" –Katherine Martin, Those Who Dare: Real People, Real Courage 

Have a great weekend!

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Intuitive Guidance: Other Ways to Connect

Other Ways to Connect with Intuitive Guidance

We've been talking this week about intuitive guidance. About how to create a deeper connection with your inner guide.

Here are a few more suggestions ...

Other Ways to Connect with Intuitive Guidance 

(1) Journaling: Just as you did before, choose the questions you’d like answers to, write them down, leaving space for the answers, and then write whatever comes to you.

(2) Dreams: Click on the link for my dream guidance kit. Use the password mysticquiz.

(3) Oracle Cards: Oracle card decks are a great way to ask for and receive intuitive guidance. If you would like to give one a try before buying a deck, here are two websites that offer a free online reading…

Earth Magic

Gaian Tarot

Have a great day!

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Do you ever feel that way?
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Wednesday's Wish

What's your love wish?

Each week, on Wednesday, I want to hear and bless your love wishes. For new love, for family love, for self-love, for anything that opens your heart.

It's a heart chakra Wednesday here every week, and I invite you to share your intention for deeper love or heart healing.

Sacred Presence,

Heal our hearts

of every wound

 that keeps us from being open to the love 

you have planned for us.

Have a great day!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ 

What if you could finally heal
whatever is blocking you from the love that's waiting for you.
COMING SOON: the Moon Healing Love Course:
an eCourse for healing what's in the way.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Spirit Animal Support & Music

Spirit Animal Support
and Music

This week, we are looking at ways to strengthen your connection with your inner guide. Yesterday, I suggested several essential oils you can try. Today, let's look at how spirit animal support can deepen your connection...

Spirit Animal Support 

Elephant – “Elephant has a powerful capacity to perceive and discern both the revealed and the hidden.” –Joni Keim and Ruah Bull, Daily Aromatherapy: Transforming the Seasons of Your Life with Essential Oils

Turtle – “Turtle embodies earth’s mothering, nurturing and sustaining qualities.” –Joni Keim and Ruah Bull, Daily Aromatherapy: Transforming the Seasons of Your Life with Essential Oils

Music 

Music can be such a powerful mood-changer and can create connection between people together in a crowd or across great distances. Find or choose the music that stirs you and gets you in touch with your deepest self and use it to enhance this connection to your inner guide.

My example here is a video that means a lot to me because of the nearly instant connection that was created in that moment. It uses the element of surprise, which often heightens the emotion that follows.

It may not become the song you use but may get you thinking about similar songs you know. Here it is…

 

Have a great day!

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Do you ever feel that way?
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Deepening the Connection with Your Inner Guide: Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy for Deepening the Connection with Your Inner Guide

Yesterday, I suggested several crystals you can use to deepen the sense of connection you feel in your developing relationship with your inner guide. They also can be used to deepen your sense of spiritual connection, in general.

Now let's look at ways to use aromatherapy to do the same thing...

Aromatherapy 

Rose oil – powerful conduit for feelings of loving connection. Also, a very nurturing, comforting oil. Genuine rose oil is pricey but worth the investment.

Petitgrain – promotes loving and harmonious relationships.

German chamomile – increases your receptivity to intuitive guidance, promotes honest communication and increases psychic ability.

Neroli – increases direct connection to intuitive guidance.

Frankincense – increases spiritual wisdom and deepens your connection with the divine.

Jasmine – will help you understand deeper truth.

Have a great day!

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Do you ever feel that way?
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Deepening the Connection with Your Inner Guide: Crystals

Deepening the Connection with Your Inner Guide

Last week, I suggested the importance of having an inner guide for this heroic journey to answer the call to create a deeper spiritual practice. We talked about how to connect with your guide here and here.

This week, I have ways you can deepen and strengthen that connection, starting today, with crystals.

Resources for Deepening the Connection with Your Inner Guide…

Now that you have begun the relationship with your inner guide, here are some resources to help you sustain that connection or deepen it even further using crystals. Check back tomorrow and each day this week for other resources you can use.

Crystals 

Rose Quartz – holding a rose quartz crystal or even placing it nearby may help to increase your perception of love and tenderness.

Selenite – if you have been thinking of your guide as angelic, this is a great crystal to use because it generates angelic frequency so may draw angels near.

Aragonite – heightens spiritual communication

Fire Agate – is grounding and will deepen your sense of connection to earth energies.

Have a great day!

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Do you ever feel that way?
What if you could get yourself unstuck & finally heal
whatever is blocking you from the life that's waiting for you.
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Connecting with Your Inner Guide

Connecting with Your Inner Guide

In yesterday's post, I asked how you would want to connect with your inner guide. Let's continue the process of connection today...

Welcoming Your Inner Guide 

Imagine, again, that your inner guide is with you. And try this experiment to strengthen your perceived connection…

Know that your energy field expands and contracts but is always there, surrounding you. Stand up and after taking a deep breath or two, imagine that your energy field is wide enough to welcome your inner guide.

Consider that this guide has always been with you but you have had the volume turned off or the screen minimized and that kept you from knowing that your guide was there.

Imagine turning the volume up again or whatever comes to mind so that you can see, hear, feel or sense your guide there with you. Push that meter or lever or volume knob as far as it can go, and then notice what you experience.

Spend as long as you would like experiencing your inner guide’s powerful presence, your guide’s great love for you and the connection you share.

Artwork 

(photo credit: Karen's Whimsy)

Draw a picture of your inner guide or create a collage that honors and expresses what your inner guide means to you. Add words that describe your connection and the way you feel in his or her presence.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you Monday!

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Meet your Inner Guide

Meet Your Inner Guide

Connecting with Your Inner Guide…

Today we talk about meeting your inner guide. We've been talking about this heroic journey to answer the call to create a deeper spiritual practice, and I think no such journey would be complete without a guide to accompany you.

Don't you agree?

Planning the Meeting with Your Inner Guide 

How would you like to meet your inner guide? With a handshake? A hug? A touch on the arm? A sudden silent comforting presence nearby?

And what would you like to do when you connect? Take a walk together? Chat inside your head while you have a beer at the pub? Hold hands while you laugh together and tell each other secrets?

Sit in deeply connected silence somewhere outside in nature? Write each other letters in your journal? All of the above? None of the above?

(photo: Urban Flip Flops)

Have a cup of tea or cocoa and think it over. Then make it happen, or imagine it. Tomorrow, we'll talk more about how to connect with your inner guide.

See you then.

Have a great day!

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Wednesday's Wish

What's your love wish?

Each week, on Wednesday, I want to hear and bless your love wishes. For new love, for family love, for self-love, for anything that opens your heart.

It's a heart chakra Wednesday here every week, and I invite you to share your intention for deeper love or heart healing.

Sacred Presence,

Heal our hearts

of every wound

 that keeps us from being open to all the love 

you have planned for us.

Have a great day!

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Finding Your Way on the Path

Finding Your Way on the Path

Yesterday, our focus was on identifying where you are right now in your own heroic story. Are you on the lower path or the higher path to which you have been called?

And this month, in general, you’ve chosen to begin the adventure of finding your own mystic path and story as we look within and follow the intention to create a deeper spiritual practice.

With all of this inner exploration, the goal is to let go of what no longer serves you.

Here are resources to support you on this first leg of the journey…

Walking Meditation 

Take a five-minute walk amongst the trees and connect with their solid strength and grounding energy as you pass them by. Your goal is just to focus on your breathing and take in the sights and sounds around you.

Spirit Animal Support 

Ask for hummingbird support. “Embody boldness. Dive on desire with courage.” –from the hummingbird manifesto. Sarah Seidelmann, What the Walrus Knows 

Crystals 

Grab selenite for calming and soothing but powerful support.

Raises frequency to angelic levels.

Essential Oils 

Vanilla is both soothing and grounding.
Bergamot helps to open the heart.
Rosemary centers and promotes strength.
Rose comforts and helps you let go of fear.

Have a great day!

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Which Path Are You On?

Which Path Are You On?

In yesterday's post, we talked about the hero's/heroine's journey and took a look at what often happens within those kinds of tales of growth and development.

Near the beginning of a typical hero’s journey, there’s a choice between a lower path and a higher path.



Most of us wander onto or actively choose the lower path first and then, sometimes reluctantly, accept the call to a higher path.

Has that been true in your own life? Which path are you on right now?

Brief (One-Minute) Meditation 

Ask your heart and your higher self to show you how those 2 paths have shown up again and again in your life. The answers may come to you in images, memories, movies you’ve seen, song lyrics.

So give it time and if symbols do show up as answers, give yourself time to tease out their meaning. Be open and don’t judge anything that comes. Just write it down in your journal.

Artwork Idea

Create a collage or draw a picture that represents you on each path. Words, images and anything else that comes to mind. Then look at each path and write down the thoughts and feelings that come up for you.

Journal Questions 

(1) What are you ready to let go of from the lower path that no longer serves you?

(2) What would you like to bring into your life once you let it go?

Have a great day!

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The Heroine's Journey

The Heroine's Story 

Are you the hero of your own story?

In continuing this series designed to help you answer the call to create a deeper spiritual practice, we start by looking at where you are now and by suggesting that you think of yourself as the hero of this story, beginning a spiritual quest.

Looking at it from the perspective of a hero’s (or heroine’s) journey, let’s consider what is likely to be most important as we continue.

In most mythic tales, for men, it would be to conquer and use force and strength to prove themselves worthy or victorious. And that seems to be an important part of their journey.

So if you are a guy reading this post, consider whether or not that is true for you. Does your story include battle or tests of strength or will?

For women, the journey is often internal. And when it isn’t, when the women must do battle of some kind, there seems to be a different goal. The women often just want to go home.

They want to come home to themselves, to their families, to their normal way of life. As the Beatles would say, they just want to get back to where they once belonged.

The female characters are often different, too.

(photo: PureFit360)

I like to think of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz as an example here. She is loving and kind, compassionate and generous, and willing to believe in nonordinary reality.

Much like the everyday mystic or wise woman. And though she wanted her life to be different, which prompted her adventure, she also really just wanted to go home.

So I will refer to her from time to time (and her little friends, too) as we take this mystic journey together.

Wizard of Oz Journal Question: if there is a path, or a story, for you, in which “dreams that you dream really do come true,” what might that be like? Ponder that question until tomorrow.

And here’s another one: what if your story IS the story of a hero (you!) finding a way to make dreams come true?

Have a great day!

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