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Showing posts with label self help. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

 


A world of 360 Changes

I am not going to sit here and waste my time nor your time explaining why I haven't written in so long.  So basically I am going to get straight to the point.  Our world as we once knew it has done a 360- three times over!  I look around when and if I decide to go into public and see many people wearing mask.... some don't wear mask, but the biggest thing I have notice and (I speak for myself in this scenario) is hardly any of us look at each other anymore.  There are very seldom any smiles, we are living life behind a mask and the only place we seem to feel safe these days is in the privacy of our own homes.  I could go on about this but I believe you get what I am saying.

Than there are those of us that have to be in public (in my case two days a week) because of WhiteOak Art Designs & More and that is my personal saving grace.  That is one the place that even if my customers wear mask, I can still feel their smiles, see their beautiful energies and although I still wear my safety mask, I feel the privacy of my own home.  Many of you know that my spiritual path is as important to me as the air we breathe.  I have fell, I have tried to close down, but my gifts are part of my life.  I see things, know things, share things, anything and everything I can do to help others.

One very important thing I have learned especially recently with the way the world is, and how the planets are aligned which my friend Steven can explain better, it is causing a lot of shit to surface and it is completely throwing me for a loop along with countless numbers of other people that are near and dear to my heart.  So hear it is in a nut shell, the big five letter word KARMA!!

Oh, how Karma is a bitch and a half!  Many people that walk a similar path as mine, are noticing it more and more everyday.  You can run from many things in life, but Karma and death always will find you.  Yes, I know it is morbid thought, "death" but lets face it, we all will die.  Back to the point here... when I mentioned earlier how I see and know things like many others and we try our best to help the other person to see... often it is a 50/50 draw.  Either the person listens or they don't!  In all of the case scenario's there are lessons that need to be learn, and those of us that try to shield others from pain and hurt, but they REFUSE to listen to us, in the end, We the spiritual people hurt just as bad as the other person, often worst!

I have come to learn that common sense is a precious gift that many are not born with, but could indeed be one of their life lessons.  Common sense says.... if there is a fire in front of you, if you cannot put it out, call 911.  Don't run into the fire to get a pair of shoes.   Listening is another gift. Ever since I a very young child I would sit with Elders and listen to their stories.  In a sense I guess you could say my grandmother was my best human friend when I was a child.  (Yes, remember in other stories I have written, I talked about my little spirit friend I had).

I was not being selfish when I said above that the spiritual people hurt just as bad as the other person, often worst.  When we tell someone something, it is not cooked up in our inner cauldron, it is messages we are given from the Divine Source!  You could even chalk it up to intuition, or common sense.  When you see trash, it is trash!  Right?

When we do things to try and help people, and turn around and get shit on over and over again, it is not because we are dumb, or like being shit on, we care!  We don't want our loved one to suffer, we don't want them to go through the hell we did.. and often its in our own minds that we are the ones that are fucked up and take the blame for others actions, although it really isn't our fault. We tried our best to help, we tried our best to explain things to them in kindergarden language, and they still refuse to listen.  So what is the point, do we give up? Do we just throw our hands up and say what the fuck ever? OMG, that would be so easy to do.  But No, we suffer the ordeal with them, we try over and over and over again of ways to get them out of the mess they got THEMSELVES into.  

There are big hearted people in the world, and their people who actually do not give a shit about hurting other people nor care about what the other people have to go through.. its all about the "What about Me" game.  Well, In closing know this .... I did not get up this morning and plan on writing.. I was sitting outside and heard a woodpecker, and the ancestors told me I needed to write about this topic.  So here it is... Understand, we can only help people to a certain point, from there its up to the other people, because when Karma steps into the picture, there is not a damn thing we can do to help.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Honoring the Divine Within

Inspirational floral photography

When you read the phrase:  "Honoring the Divine Within" what comes to your mind?  There use to be a time when I created a line of herbal products just for this reason.  In today's society, men and women have to manage several different titles at once:  Mother father, business person, wife, husband and so on. One of the main things I have always noticed is how easily it is for a woman to put her needs on the back burner to nurture everyone else.  I am not saying this is always the case, but the biggest majority of women do that. 

When you are raised in a house-hold where the mother and the step father were always top priority above anyone else, what choice is there but to make a nest on the back burner?  I personally have learned a lot throughout my childhood, not about things to do but about things NOT to ever do!  Since I have been out on my own at a very young age, I can tell you, you learn a lot by hand on experiences and you take those experiences to mold how you want your own life to be. Along my path I have had to learn how to ~Honor the Divine Within~ and there are times I forget to do that and often reminded in different ways.

"Be yourself. There is something that you can do better than any other.  Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that" ~Unknown Author~

When you continuously put your own needs on hold or on the back burner, you are causing a lot of chaotic buildup on the inside. You are throwing yourself in an unbalance situation that can cause low self esteem, low self confidence and low self respect.  Soon you begin to forget your Divine Within and your own identity.

I am not saying this is always the case, I am just speaking from own experiences in life and remembering several conversations I have had with many other women and men.  Don't get me wrong, when I turned my life completely around after getting custody of my brother and sister, I have no regrets.  I gladly put myself on the burner because I have always had this Fairy Tale image of what a mother should be.  In my case; if I had the chance to change a few things I think I would~only because I actually lost a part of who I am (or was) when my brother and sister grew up and moved out on their own.  I made the mistake and built my world around them. Finding myself again became a very strange, very hard yet wonderful journey on my path.

"Only as high as I reach can I grow,  Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be"
~Karen Ravn~

During my healing process of finding my Divine Within, one of my journey's was finding my "child within".  The child that remembers all of the fun things in life, the child that likes to treat herself, and the child that remembers all of the beautiful things in life~often however it is not a matter of remembering all of the wonderful things in life, often it is learning how to find them.  The Child Within

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

~Take a few moments each day just to be with you
~Relax in a warm tub or take a warm shower using your favorite scent
~Buy yourself a treat, it does not have to be expensive
~Take a few minutes out of the day and smell a flower or better yet, purchase a fresh flower and set it next to your bed (when I was single I did this every payday!)
~Put on your favorite song and DANCE
~Remind yourself that you love who you are and you are proud of all of your accomplishments because you are worth it!



Sunday, June 26, 2011

Honoring the Divine Within

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Honoring the Divine Within

The Divine you

When we hear the term: "You need to Honor the Divine Within" what comes to your mind?

Many years ago when I first started creating herbal products to sell, I based the whole concept of my business on "Honoring the Divine Within". In today's society (and I am sure it has always been the same way) men and women both, have to manage several different titles at once; Mother, Father, business person, wife, husband and so on. One of the main things I have always noticed is how easily (especially for women) to put your own needs on the back burners so you can take care of everybody else. I am not saying that is always the case, but the biggest majority of women does that.

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