A Sunday Guided Meditation

Monday Meditation - abundance

Happy Monday

susanne van hulst

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavita

Let’s try an abundance meditation

sit as comfortable and as upright as possible.

rest your hands open and uncross your legs

drop your shoulders and slightly tuck in your chin

breath through your nose

smile... yes... put a smile on your face

keep your eye focused on something just above you or half close them... or... if you like close them all the way... whichever feels the most comfortable for you.

now take slow, deep breaths and tell yourself to relax with each breath.

pay attention to your breaths as you tell each part of your body to relax from your head down to your feet.

when you are relaxed repeat to yourself "I am abundance, I open myself to abundance, life is abundance"

say it to yourself with each breath

As you say this, bring your attention to a spot about three inches to the left of your chest area and inward toward the center of your body (your core).

Imagine that the air around you fills with a thick liquid. The liquid is so thick you relax completely into it. It cradles you gently keeping you safe and secure. It connects you to everyone and integrates you with your surroundings.

Through this, you can sense and feel abundance in your environment. You can feel abundance within you. The energetic vibrations of abundance are being transmitted to you through the thick air.

You are the center of this thickness and all abundance flows through the air to you. Open yourself and receive the abundance flowing to you and through you.

Listen to yourself and hear you inner radar speak abundance to you. Know that you are supported and connected to the abundance around you. Rest in this abundance, knowing you will manifest this abundance in your life and the world.

When you are finished, tell yourself that you will be abundant and that life will promote you and help you to grow, prosper and be abundant. Rest a moment and relax in the space of your meditation. When you are ready, get up and return to your day. every now and then, throughout the day,  stop, take three deep breaths and say "I am abundant, life is good."

-- written by asd --

-- (with some assistance from john a. bright-fey... thank you) --

Wonderful Women Wednesday

“There are women who make things better...simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.”

-- Ashley Rice --

Friendship is about making the effort to show up in a relationship

Friendship is not about sending a representative

Friendship is doubling the joy of happy times

and diving the grief..it helps make life even better

Friendship is not about harping on the negative

or harboring resentments from the past

Friendship is not jealousy over another's successes

Friendship is help and succor and strength and support

Female friendships are living, breathing, viable things

they should be honored, cherished, and appreciated

because they manage to survive despite and because of...

women are strength and love. women are compassion and understanding. women hold each other up, support each other through hard times, laugh together at the ironies of life and cry when life disappoints them.

women endure childbirth, double standards, rape, abuse, mistreatment and never give up or give in. we are all queens and we protect our kings and our children. we look after and strive to save our earth and our environment. we are mother nature’s helpers and leaders of new beginnings and creators of new generations.

we give, create, connect, serve, lead, inspire, imagine, dream, believe, and hope. we never truly lose faith... and...we do it all with and through our friendships with one another.

i am proud to be a woman, to have women friendships, women family members, sisters and female mentors. we are women! we are succulent, wild, amazing, outrageous and fabulous! we are women making forward strides everyday. i honor us all!! women rock!!!!

-- written by asd --

sista girls cafe - friends for life

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-- photograph of Fela Kuti Queens, Bernard Matussiere --

Stop Think Respect

Sunday Love and Affirmatiions

Sunday Relaxation - Taking Care of You

I love Sundays. No matter what kind of week I have had. I look forward to Sundays. Whether it is staying in bed a little longer, curling up with a book, listening to music, taking a walk in nature, spending time with loved ones; I always think of Sundays as a day to celebrate The Creator and all of His Creations and as a day to take care of me.  That is not selfish. If I don't take care of myself how can I be there for those I love, how can I take on the world, how can I work for my dreams. 

Loving and giving include loving yourself and giving to yourself the things you need ... nourishment, joy, laughter, fun, shelter, clothing. Sometimes we forget that in that giving and loving are things like, serenity, relaxation, and recharging our inner batteries. Today... before life grabs you up and takes over, make a conscious choice to spend sometime taking care of you. 

SO... make sure... MaKe SuRe... you Take CaRe of YOU so you can say thank you for all your blessings, share a smile or some laughter with another, do a kindness for another and give and love with a lighter, brighter, gentler, relaxed spirit.

Have a Lovely Sunday and may The Great I Am Bless you and Keep you SaFe

Thoughtful Thursday - so... for real... we can make a difference

i had plans for today's post. i had been thinking about it for days and was eager. then yesterday happened and i had to share. so today's post will have to wait. i hope what i share instead resonates with you. 

i have to tell you... i do not listen to the news. i do not read the news. i spend most of my day looking at beautiful things and listening to beautiful music. i surround myself, in my home, with beautiful things. it is not just that i enjoy beautiful things - i am trying to keep evil at bay. it may sound crazy but i really believe what you put out there - in the world, is what you get. so i put out beauty... and goodness... and love. i hope to get a lot of that back.

it does work with me, but as with everything on my journey, it is a hard thing to do. it is hard to let go of my attitudes, perceptions, experiences and focus on just the good, the loving, and the beautiful. it is hard to focus on the light to keep away the darkness. my friends say i wear rose-colored glasses. i don't think that is true, but i do believe if we each try to seek the goodness in others first and try to be kind, we would all be part of a love movement that would bring the people of this world closer to the world it was created to be... a world of love. but as with letting go, that is hard.

yesterday, i and the people i am in a learning group with,  went out to feed people who without our kindness would not eat that night. But we could each spend only seven dollars. and we had to feed a lot of people in two hours. you would be surprised at some of the wonderfully outrageous things we did to make our seven dollars go far. in the end we feed real food - bread, water, pizza and more, to over two hundred people.

and... we didn't just feed them, we talked to them, exchanged names, smiled and connected.  we were not a lot of people. we didn't have a lot of money. we didn't have a lot of time. we didn't have... wait... you know what? it doesn't matter what we didn't have. what matters is what we had. we had each other. we had the desire to make a difference. we had the commitment to help and love. we had the willingness to get what we wanted done without worrying about how we did it.

i am telling you -  love is growing, spirituality is spreading, self-introspection is becoming popular and more people are trying to live lives of kindness, love and peace.

so today, i am lifting up those who are going through hard, sad, tumultuous times. today i am embracing all those who live outrageously in the hopes of touching, moving and inspiring others. today i am blessing those without and holding them close.

i am holding my heart in my hand and letting the glow of my soul fill my heart with radiant love. and then i am going to step outdoors and hold my heart up to the heavens. i believe the radiant glow of my heart's loving kindness will reach out to the hearts and souls of others. i believe it will touch others and they will wish to spread this loving kindness to others as well.

i believe we should all hold our hearts in our hands and let the glow of our souls fill our hearts with radiant love. and then step outdoors and hold our heart up to the heavens. i believe the radiant glow of all of our hearts... of our loving kindness, will reach out to the hearts and souls of others. if enough of us share loving kindness, perhaps next week we will start to hear stories of overcoming and health, of peace and joy, of compassion and goodness. perhaps we will hear stories of love and kindness and we will know that loving kindness does abound in this world of ours.

if you read this and are moved to comment... please tell me and my friends .... you know where the love is... it is within each and every one of us!!! each and every one of us can make a difference

-- written by asd --

If loving ME is wrong, I don’t want to be right! Just saying…

If loving ME is wrong, I don’t want to be right! Just saying…

Beatrice Bruno, The Drill Sergeant of Life

Beatrice@DrillSergeantofLife.com

www.DrillSergeantofLife.com

I’ve been putting some thought into the question of love, for self and for others, but especially for self. Just recently, I came to the conclusion that if we don’t do the following, we will not only do ourselves, but others, a disservice. I discovered that I must love me more than ever just so I can love others.

1. When you really love yourself, you make certain to treat yourself the way you want others to treat you - the way you treat them. Many times, we forget to treat ourselves better. Why? Because we may not love and care for ourselves the way we really need to. In order for us to love our neighbor, we must first love ourselves. That love must be evident in everything we do. Would you kick a friend when he or she is down? Well, conversely, why do you kick yourself when you are down? It may seem crazy, but when we put ourselves down because of some shortcoming, we are inadvertently not showing ourselves love in the way that we should. We must do better with loving ourselves before we can love others properly.

2. When you really love yourself, you are authentic… with yourself as well as with others. Don’t allow yourself to believe something about yourself that’s not true: i.e., negative things others say about you, negative thoughts you have about yourself. By the same token, own up to your shortcomings. Then, make a plan to strengthen yourself in those areas. In doing this, you love yourself enough to admit your weaknesses but also love yourself enough to improve your status and move forward so you can help others. When you do this, you also show others that you are willing to do whatever it takes to improve yourself so you can love them better. Watch what happens when you do this.

3. When you really love yourself, you can let others go. Not everyone in your life is there to stay or really needs to stay. I have a very good friend in NYC that I met around 2010. We have been besties since, even though we live thousands of miles apart and don’t talk on the phone as much as we would like. But, we love each other and believe we are destined to be in each other’s lives for as long as God says. She is one on whom I rely for advice, guidance, and a good swift kick in the spiritual rump when I need it. And she knows she can rely on me for the same. We don’t take advantage of each other, nor do we talk down to each other. We care for each other, definitely not one-sided. We treasure what we have been given. On the other hand, there are others I have had to let go because the toxicity of the relationship has not been conducive for a good situation all the way around.

Start loving yourself more. Not to the point of narcissism, but to the point that you won’t allow anything or anyone to hurt you so that you can’t grown into the awesome person you were created to be.

Take care and God bless!

Beatrice

Self-love Affirmations

Place your hands over your heart, take a few cleansing breaths, and repeat these words to yourself...

Thoughts are Things

30 Days of Transformation - Think and speak life energizing words.  

Eliminate words like "hate," "can't," "won't," "tomorrow," "fat," and phrases like "I should," "I want," "I'll try," from your vocabulary.

Simple Secrets to a Happy Life - Movie

Click on the link to play and enjoy. . . . . . .

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