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What would happen
if you removed the thought ‘anxious’
and just paid attention
to these flickering sensations in the belly?

What would happen
if you took away the word ‘lonely’
and simply became fascinated
with this heavy feeling in the heart area?

What would happen
if you deleted the concept ‘sick’
or ‘broken’ or ‘wrong’
and just got curious about
the tightness in the throat
the pressure in the head
the ache in the shoulders?

What would happen
if you stopped looking for solutions
and checked to see
if there was actually a problem here?

Come out of the exhausting storyline, friend.
Come closer to yourself.
Commit sacred awareness to a single living moment.
Bring warmth to the tender place inside.

Infuse sensation
with the light of attention.
Maybe
it’s not as bad
as you
think.
– Jeff Foster

Photo: Courtesy of Pinterest- Artist Unknown

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

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I’m thankful for the light bringers.

The ones that fill your life with the good, good stuff.

The ones who somehow just make you feel better when you’re in their presence; the ones who make your heart rate go down, and the corners of your mouth go up.

The ones you spend time with, and somehow just know deep down that your life is better because they are in it.

The ones who show up for you, the ones who encourage you, the ones who remind you that good people?

They truly do exist.

Search for those people. Seek out those people. Be intentional about creating relationships with those people.

And most importantly - Be grateful for those people.

Their presence in your life? It’s no coincidence. They were hand selected for you, and you for them.

The light bringers; the life givers.

You’ll know when you found them.

Just don’t let go once you do.

Love Always,
Heather

Follow Love Always, Heather for more. x

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Go where the love is.

Go where the friendship flows both ways. Go where you appreciate and where you are appreciated. Go where the door is open. Go where the communication is good, authentic and honest.

Go where the energy is uplifting. Go where you see and where you are also seen. Go where there is health. Go where the intentions are pure. Go where the expectations are simply that everyone just is themselves.

Go where the spotlight shines on everyone equally. Go where you forgive and where you are forgiven. Go where you want and where you are wanted. Go where you choose and where you are chosen. Go where you value your time and where your time is valued.

Go where the love is.

And unashamedly, bravely and kindly step away from everything else. Life is too short to stay in rooms not made for you.

Go where the love is.

Love,
Amy

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Very true.. I challenge you in the week ahead to reframe any leanings in this direction 🩵

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You simply come to know yourself
as Life Itself.

And you turn towards the wounded place.
And you flush it with attention,
which is love.

And maybe the wound will always be with you.
Maybe you will always walk with the hurt.
But now, you hold it. It doesn't hold you.
You are the container, not the contained.

It doesn't control you any longer, the wound.
Because it is drenched in awareness now.
Drenched in You.
Loved by You.
Even celebrated by You.

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You find healing 'in' the trauma.
You find yourself at trauma's sacred core.
The One who is always present.
The One who can bear
even the most intense feeling states.
And survive.
The Indestructible One.
The Infinite One.
The Powerful One.
You.

✍️ Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com)
🎨 Unknown

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“It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Image: An Art Nouveau beauty (circa 1900) by Gaston Gérardthis.]

Poetry, Tea and Me

The Blackthorn Fairy
by Cicely Mary Barker

The wind is cold, the Spring seems long a-waking;
The woods are brown and bare;
Yet this is March: soon April will be making
All things most sweet and fair.

See, even now, in hedge and thicket tangled,
One brave and cheering sight:
The leafless branches of the Blackthorn, spangled
With starry blossoms white!

[Image: The Blackthorn Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, Flower Fairies • https://flowerfairies.com]

Poetry, Tea and Me

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

- John Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley: In Search of
America

[Image: The Seasons - Summer (1896) by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Click on the image to see it in full.]

The Smart Witch by Elizabeth

OR YOU COULD JUST LIVE

You are going to wish your body was more,
You are going to wish your body was less,
You are going to wish your body would change,
You are going to wish your body would not.

You are going to wish your body was many things,
between now,
and the day you leave this mortal coil.

And one day,
as is always the way,
you will look back,
and see,
that your body was always as it should be.
Doing its best
To be you,
for you.

And you are then going to wish that just once,
you had told your body,
‘I accept you, as you are, right now’.

And that maybe had you done this,
you would have spared yourself a lifetime,
of wishing for something you didn’t really ever need.

That what it was you should have been wishing for, in fact,
was the courage to accept,
the strength to embrace,
the wisdom to really see,
what you have.

You’re going to wish for many things,
when it comes to your body.

Or you could just wish for health.

And live your life,
flawed
and
beautiful.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘I wish I knew’
https://www.waterstones.com/win/i-wish-i-knew-prize-draw

Art by Helma Speksnijder

Merry Imbolc all xx
Imbolc translates as 'in the belly of the Mother' and this time between winter solstice and spring equinox, roughly marks the time when things slowly begin to stir in the womb of our mother earth here in the northern hemispheres. Spring time is beginning, out of sight, deep in the ground.
Being a fire festival, it is good to celebrate Imbolc with a bonfire or sit by our own hearths and gently contemplate the coming year. It is a time of solitude and introspection before the more outgoing seasons are upon us and we set our goals in motion.
Imbolc is ruled by Goddess Brigid and we can call on her too for guidance and support at this time.
Have a lovely Imbolc week all ❤

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. ~Tom Robbins

(Book: Still Life with Woodpecker [ad] https://amzn.to/3RB35YB)

(Art: ‘Double Single’, 1999 by Clive Smith)

The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved.
It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is.
When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through ..

~ Parker J Palmer ~

Artist Credit : Katarina Vavrova

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Live your life so that when it’s time to ask where the time went, you can answer:
It went to tender and joyful moments with family and friends.
To my search for Self, and mending the parts of me that were broken so that I had something healed to give.
It went to doing work that felt like play, to standing up for what I believe in, and to walking this earth with the wonder of a child.
My time went to LIVING ...

~ Sandra Kring ~

Artist Credit : Kat Fedora

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"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born, we were kicked off a precipice, and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it.
So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat."

~ Alan Watts

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard.

Lightly child, lightly.

Learn to do everything lightly.

Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days…

Lightly, lightly — it’s the best advice ever given to me… so throw away your baggage and go forward.

There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.

That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…"
~Aldous Huxley~

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

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Lammas & the Super moon ❤

Merry Lammas one and all 🙂 Perfect that the Super Blue moon lands square on Lammas. This provides a very powerful time to cleanse, manifest and be in gratitude, so I thought I’d put together a little ceremony you can perform at home / outside to draw on these energies for your own healing and personal growth. I was hoping to record a meditation for this but I’ve been a tad poorly with a weird cold / ear problem and I can’t judge / hear my own voice very well!

This ceremony can be performed today or over the coming week where the energies will still be abundant. You won’t be disappointed carving out 20 minutes for this – it’s such a powerful time for manifesting.

You will need a candle or fire pit in your garden or even just a lighter! A small piece of paper and a pen. A gem, crystal or rock / stone – whatever you are drawn to / have n reach.
Get comfy where ever you choose to be and visualise yourself in a golden bubble of light. See your roots firmly planted in mother earth and feel a connection to the light realms above through the top of your head. Take 3 deep breaths and bring you awareness within.

Connect with the power of our full super moon, visualising its strong lunar rays of light. Allow the light to illuminate anything within you that you would like to release at this time. Situations, negative emotions, physical ailments, stuck thought patterns or ways of being, anything at all that you feel is holding you back. As you meditate on a vision of the super moon, allow whatever needs to surface.

When you are ready, write these things down in shorthand / using one word, on your paper.

Now give thanks to these areas for their learning and return their energy to the skies to be transmuted by burning the little piece of paper. (Obvs do this safely and make sure its properly gone out!)
Bring your awareness within once again, visualising the power and light of the moon. Allow the lunar light to now illuminate how you would like your life, any aspects of it or yourself on any level – to look like. What would you like to manifest in your life? What would you like to manifest in our world so that it is a wiser, kinder and more unified place? Ponder this….and when you are ready, spend a few minutes really visualising these circumstances in full swing, see them alight and alive and already taking place. Visualise joy and harmony around everything – your own life or aspects of it and around mother earth and all of her inhabitants. When you are ready, allow these images to be stored in the stone / crystal for safe keeping and for cementing their power – visualise downloading them into your stone. You can hold the stone in future when you feel you need a reconnection to your manifestations.

The third part of this little ceremony is to blend with the energies of Lammas. Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest season – really feel the abundance now available in nature as everything comes to harvest. Think about your own life and what has come to harvest here, baring you fruit / success / resolution. Spend some time connecting with your heart centre and be in full GRATTITUDE for mother nature and everything that warrants it in your own life.
At the end of your ceremony, give thanks for all the energies you have worked with today and send blessings to our land & Mother earth.

Happy Lammas & Super Full Blue Moon ❤ ❤ ❤

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Most of us have been raised to believe that the road to a happy life is paved with pleasure, and that the pursuit of pleasure is the path to fulfillment. But as we grow up, we begin to realize that life is not always easy or pleasurable. In fact, much of it is difficult and painful. We all experience loss, disappointment, illness, aging, and eventually death. We encounter stress, anxiety, and fear. We suffer from the slings and arrows of everyday life.
And yet, we continue to cling to the idea that happiness is found in pleasure and the avoidance of pain. We try to avoid our painful experiences by numbing ourselves with drugs or alcohol, distracting ourselves with TV or social media, or obsessing over our work or our relationships. But the more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.
The truth is that happiness is not found in the avoidance of pain, but in the willingness to face and accept our pain. It is in the willingness to experience our painful thoughts and feelings, to acknowledge them without judgment, and to take action in line with our values and goals. It is in the willingness to be present in the moment, to connect with our senses and our environment, and to find joy and meaning in the simple things in life. ~Russ Harris

(Book: The Happiness Trap https://amzn.to/42JwiTc)

(Art: Photograph by Pierre Jamet)

Happy International Earth Day everyone 🪷🌷🌵🪴🍀🌳🌿🏞️🏔️🌄🌈 # #

Without solitude,
Love will not stay long by your side.

Because Love needs to rest,
so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.

Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive,
no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.

Solitude is not the absence of Love,
but its complement.

Solitude is not the absence of company,
but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Therefore, blessed are those
who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

If you are never alone,
you cannot know yourself.

And if you do not know yourself,
you will begin to fear the void.

~ Paulo Coelho

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"Physical matter is music solidified" - Pythagoras

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"Grandma, I'm tired. So tired of this life..."

"Take your tiredness, my child, and wrap it around yourself. Like a blanket in the cold winter months. Tiredness comes to make you a nest, to bring you to wear comfortable clothes, to make you sink into its warm embrace. I invite you to stay within yourself. Without strength, without thoughts, without actions. Like the snow that covers everything to soften the world, to make it muffled, to protect it from noise. Accept the flakes of your tiredness and let yourself be completely covered by them."

"I could die buried under there..."

"You will be reborn instead. Like the seed in the ground. Do not resist your weariness, do not reject it with a thousand actions, a thousand intentions, a thousand feelings of guilt. It just wants to take you by the hand and lead you to sink into the void. Right there, where the source of every inner strength lies. They taught us to be strong by resisting. But it is in surrendering that the true heroes emerge."

"I'm afraid, grandmother. What if fatigue will annihilate me?"

"My child, you are not afraid of tiredness but of losing control of yourself. The time has come for you to give yourself to life. And to generate together with it the most wonderful children: the fruits of your soul!"

Author: Elena Bernabè

Picture by Magic on Flickr

After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning

And company doesn’t mean security,

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts

And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open

With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today,

Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,

And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight

After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,

Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure…

That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.

And you learn and learn…

With every goodbye you learn.

~Veronica Shoffstall, “After a While.”
Artist: Unknown

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