I hope you, your family and loved ones continue to enjoy the opportunity for spiritual reunification this holiday season. It’s a special time to celebrate — allowing tradition’s outer rituals to symbolize cosmic and microcosmic rebirth.

It’s a time for quiet reflection. Time from work and the bustle of holiday preparation to maintain a spirit of overflowing gratefulness.

Sort of an extended Thanksgiving.

Because you really don’t have to wait for the holidays to take this time to marvel at creation. This beautiful opportunity called life.

Allowing overflowing gratefulness to seek its own level

Wait a minute. All this is nice.

But what if you’re having trouble finding gratitude?

Because, face it, it can seem almost trite sometimes to be told to be grateful. Especially when faced with overwhelming opposition.

Or even grief.

Yet it’s not trite. Just asking a bit much if you’re in pain.

And that’s just the time to stop and reflect on even the smallest amount of happiness. Even being happily discontented with things the way they’re showing up. That slight adjustment can be just the lever of consciousness you need.

Gratitude can be a secret way to ‘prime the pump’

A little gratitude gets that overflowing gratefulness going again. It’s a way to energize yourself into making needed changes.

Even when change seems impossible. Or the desire to change and the hope that things can be better seem out of reach.

When you recognize your limitations, you can use gratitude for your discontent with life — just as it is — to lift into a higher awareness.

And then use that awareness in practical ways.

So if your habitual state of mind is gratitude for blessings as they are, you can be happy. Even with discontent. Because discontent can spur you to become more alert for ways to improve your circumstances.

That’s kind of a backdoor approach to the subconscious. Helping it to help the body-mind embrace gratitude a little more consciously. And consistently. No matter what seems to be going on.

Clearing the way to overflowing gratefulness

One more thing: Sometimes you — or someone you know — might need help when the holidays bring up old energy blocks or records. If so, I still have openings if you would like to clear the old energy. In preparation for the holidays. And even beyond into the New Year.

Click here if you would like to contact me about scheduling a session.

Overflowing gratitude is evident in nature

Today I found a video that is just plain beautiful.
An inspiring gem that reminds us about the power of gratitude as a daily state of being.

Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. from giancla on Vimeo.

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WhoHeals.com Gift Certificates

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You can arrange for payment by credit card over the phone with me personally or by check. Or you can have me email you a PayPal money request – it’s also an easy and safe way to purchase from me and they don’t require you to open an account.

Then I’ll email you the gift certificate for you to either forward it to the person you’re gifting. Or print out to enclose in an envelope.

Call me if you already have my phone number and prefer to pay with credit card or by check as you normally would for a session.

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Coming through us. From Source. Our mutual origin.

I always marvel at how, even with our connection and oneness in that source, we’re so individual in our expression.

Yet Source is always part of our awareness. Of ourselves. One another. And the world around us.

And isn’t winter a fine time for rekindling fires of creativity

Even nature knows this.

The seedling sleeps in the cold earth beneath a crust of snow.

More babies are conceived during cold solstice nights.

Stories, paintings, music – even poems – come to mind while the body is more still. Conserving heat and energy.

Many times this creativity hides. Under the surface. Yet those who think they aren’t artists or creative are still part of the Dream Creative.

So you can decide that, from today on, your creativity is going to flow.

From Source. In the center of all creation. Through you.

Begin with your breath. Imagine it merging now. With a sound like crystals. Singing songs of angels. Healing sounds. Soothing. Yet also awakening.

Bringing you to this moment and its power.

You can feel it as a humming or thrumming energy in your own body.

Sense it now: an invisible suffusion of un-whispered thought.

Seed-germ ideas. Dividing and multiplying into cells of substance. Substance that is alive with the same oneness you sense.

Now, in your mind’s eye, reach with your hands spread open, palms up. And receive that aliveness.

Let it spread through your arms. Let it meet the vibrating river of life already inside you.

Let each cascading flow of energy merge. Activating in you together. As one renewed source of inspiration.

And when you are ready, come up. And out of your reverie. Taking with you this sense of aliveness. This tender energy. Of creation.

And let it guide your hands. Let it fill your mind with its ideas. Allow it to flow from your mouth. As healing sound. Mantra. Prayer. Intention.

And then let it flow with you. Into your day. As your individual impression upon the Light that is All.

I’m thinking of you with love, this Thanksgiving Week, and always.

Kind thoughts ~

Donna

PS: If you’ve been meaning to call me for a session or gift certificate, I’d enjoy hearing from you. If you’re requesting a session for the first time, click here for my contact form.

Present Moment Resolutions

While living in the present moment is undeniable truth, planning is part of the practical reality of life.

Without spending overlong moments indulging in regret, applying old lessons learned to new circumstances can improve your life.

Here in the present moment.
That is, if you choose to look at the past as helpful teacher.
Rather than punishing tyrant.

Looking into the future can help guide your present moments when seen as possibility.
A sort of glimpse at one of the many potential outcomes to help create your overall legacy.

It can be like enjoying both the inner vision you hold of the painting as you flesh it out on the canvas.
You refer to your preliminary sketches as naturally as you focus on your brush strokes.

Be Open to the Gift of the Present Moment

Such are my thoughts,. While sending this belated but warm message of love in celebration of the turning of our calendar.

Be happy.
Be well.

And be open to accept life’s gifts – as easily as you give of yourself!

…any resolution that involves you making decisions about long-range upcoming behavior reinforces the self-defeating notion of living in the future rather than in the present moment.~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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I Am Thankful. Not just because it’s Thanksgiving. We don’t need a national holiday to express something so natural. But we do need other people in our lives, and the Thanksgiving Season provides us with the opportunity to gather in celebration of just what makes life beautiful. What can make life even more beautiful is making being thankful a daily practice.

Please join me and meet others at my blog for a moment this week to share what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving Season (yes, even my non-US friends and blog subscribers).

Post as many times as you like, even if you think of something new to add! Reflect on the special things or experiences (no matter how small or large) that have expanded your outlook, and the exceptional people who have touched your life.

Here are a few things on my mind this Thanksgiving Season:

I’m thankful for the positive energy, enthusiasm and encouragement of my friends, each one of you here and everyone offline.

I feel rich with so much support from my family and loved ones. I thrive on the bond of love and friendship that I have with each one. In particular, Mom, I am thankful for your love. You are an inspiration and a joy, a fabulous storyteller and my best friend.

I am thankful that I have learned the secret of giving unconditional regard to others, to myself and–just as important–accepting this gift from others. Living this way has so changed my being and world that I have made it my life’s mission. I appreciate being able to promote it as one of the primary channels for creating true wellbeing.

I give thanks for the technological genius of the internet and the random and happenstance way that it connects people–now with FaceBook and other social groups, I am thankful that we are even closer than “six degrees”.

I especially appreciate each one of the lovely people I meet daily: in my personal life, through my energy healing work, and in writing for this blog; you are truly a large part of the special joys of my life.

What are you thankful for?

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Creative writing is something that comes easier now than when I first started. Before I would use backs of envelopes or torn scraps to capture the essence of an insight. Now, I lavish my environment with blank journals, easy flow pens and digital recorders.

Many of you who read my articles or schedule sessions with me know that I sometimes recommend keeping lists as part of your self-discovery or manifestation practice. I teach doing this in a certain way to help you open to deeper spiritual healing. It is not just a theory but something I test and use myself and develop with my master mind.

Creative writing for its own sake can also be one of the simplest pleasures of life. It might even lead to a new career, or help develop the one you have.

Creative writing to tell your story

Expressing yourself creatively for your own eyes – or to tell a story to others – can also be liberating in its own way. If you are looking for a method to quickly get your book written, you may want to try the novel-in-a-month approach. If so, click here for a good step-by-step course (my affiliate link). And if you seriously feel that you have a best seller inside you, take a look at some unusual ways for getting your book on the Amazon best seller list. Click here to learn more (my affiliate link)

How I create space for my creative writing

I use writing, including creative writing, for almost everything, whether it’s to be a fully developed article, event or other product, or for the manifestation of my desired experiences. My lists have evolved from shopping or to do lists to those I prepare as proposals for co-creation.

I support my creative writing process by keeping notebooks and MP3 recorders where I’m likely to reach for them:

• in my purse or day pack
• at my desk
• in a kitchen drawer
• on my coffee table
• on my nightstand

When I travel I always pack

• my largest capacity MP3 recorder
• its charger and carrying case
• some blank journals
• a few felt tip pens

I’m getting better at remembering to use my mobile phone or digital recorder to dictate on the fly. But I like longhand best for capturing what comes before it flees.

Usually I have soft world music playing while I write. Or I might prefer the ambiance of neighboring birds and insects outside. When it’s quiet enough I can sense the distant surf and catch a salt breath. I might even pack up my notebook, pen and recorder to keep my writing appointment at the park.

Scheduling your  creative writing when you’re focused

Two consistent times for my best creative writing are just before bed, and soon after I wake. I may also schedule other times when I have no distractions, and my energy is clear and focused for developing earlier musings.

Each writer has her own process for capturing the essence of creative thought, and these can vary. Angela Mayou tells about her seeming eccentric but focused creative writing process:

“I get up about five… I get in my car and drive off to a hotel room: I can’t write in my house, I take a hotel room and ask them to take everything off the walls so there’s me, the Bible, Roget’s Thesaurus and some good, dry sherry and I’m at work by 6.30. I write on the bed lying down – one elbow is darker than the other, really black from leaning on it – and I write in longhand on yellow pads. Once into it, all disbelief is suspended, it’s beautiful… After dinner I re-read what I’ve written… if April is the cruelest month, then eight o’clock at night is the cruelest hour because that’s when I start to edit and all that pretty stuff I’ve written gets axed out.” ~ from Creators on Creating (my Amazon affiliate link)

What is your creative writing process?

Do you use creative writing to manifest what you want or how you’d like to experience your life? Or do you use creative writing to heal or discover more about yourself? Does your writing inform, tell a story, or inspire?

And what do you do to inspire consistency? Do you have a special routine or private retreat for devoting time to your creativity?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments about your creative writing process. So feel free to share any methods you use, or how you use writing as a spiritual practice.

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And here the precious dust is layd;
Whose purely temper’d Clay was made
So fine, that it the guest betray’d.

Else the soule grew so fast within,
It broke the outward shell of sinne,
And so was hatch’d a Cherubin.

~Thomas Carew

Many of you may know that I recently moved, but maybe not that I’m living in the same neighborhood or that I’ve been here for the last 12 years. I’d gotten to know a few of my neighbors who were more settled than the mostly transient population of our village. Of those I knew by name, I’ve admired Phyllis a great deal.

Phyllis had created a fairy kingdom of a home, a loving project that spanned a half century or so. Her cottage looks like something from the English countryside. She tended a rare and unique moss in her yard. Her graceful trees sheltered choruses of birds making nests and heralding the passing hours, night and day. Her roof was thatch shingled, and I often swore I’d just seen what had to have been elves or pixies peeking about the rocks or bushes.

And so over the years Phyllis and I would exchange greetings, passing each other coming and going on our morning walks — she always walking more briskly, though I am not known to stroll. Or I’d stop to say hello and admire her handiwork while she gardened, which was almost all the time.

One day, instead of Phyllis, I saw a stranger watering the lawn. I stopped to inquire about my neighbor, for never have I seen another tending her lawn. I learned that it was a friend; it was she who had worried when her ring went unanswered, and it was her lot to find Phyllis out back where she’d been tending her secret garden. Phyllis was 90.

Her passing naturally affects me. It makes me wonder too. How many of us choose to really live, each active and happy in our own garden of life? How many times have we passed on the joys of the moment, choosing instead to put them off for a more ‘appropriate’ time?

I was privileged to have known Phyllis, who always inspired me. Not with her words. She wasn’t much for conversation. But she taught through the magic she created in our neighborhood. And she always struck me, not as someone who lived to die. No, her legacy was loving life enough to have died, truly living.

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Meaning of life

A stash of good things that someone could really use.
Or that I feel like giving to someone I meet.

Sometimes it’s a book that I really like.
That offers practical wisdom.

I just found a cool book to add to my stash.
It’s called, Don’t Believe It!

It’s about living bravely.
Written in everyday language.

Which is a breath of fresh air. Unlike so many reprinted books on ‘creating your reality’.

You know, the ones that have great information.
But were written more than a century ago in ‘New-Thought’ style…
And that some so-called current books resemble.

I like it also because it gives simple explanations.
Like about how the mind creates circumstances that seem to defy logic.
Or so called “Reality”.

So give this book a read.
If you like it, you might also keep a stash.
To ‘pay it forward’…

“Math is nature’s language: it’s method of communicating directly with us.”~Numbers

The perfection of  Phi, this universal form which can be found almost everywhere, including classical art and human life, is at the foundation of what makes life so infinitely fascinating. Although we usually don’t realize or  remember that divine mathematics is the author, the composer and, some say, even the Creator of such beauty.

It can also be healing to the soul. When you look for this spiral — and you’ll find it just about everywhere — allow it’s expression through nature and in art to perform its own subtle magic on your senses. Even those beyond the five. Especially take time in your meditations to appreciate its form found in the frequency waves and patterns of energy, matter, sound and light.

Sacred Geometry and The Golden Mean: in nature and art

I like the visual interpretation of the Golden Ratio in Sacred Geometry as featured in the meditative video, below. Its use of artistic imaging is set to a mysterious sounding score, a milder soundtrack than the high-intensity theatrical music used in so many YouTube treatments of this concept.

The video I chose to include here, in my opinion, does a better job than many others I viewed to contribute to the weaving of the teachings of Phi, which are so perfectly and clearly demonstrated in nature.

But the imagery is what got me, compared to other videos. Even the almost subliminal picture inside the iris in the opening view (no doubt intended to elicit the usual response) demonstrates the beauty of design in man.

In the end of this little piece, I wondered if the music which had skillfully helped to weave the message in the slide presentation would be overpowered when the TV clip was (abruptly) introduced.

Given its own somewhat subdued soundtrack of restaurant music and conversation soundtrack, I wondered if with proper permissions the TV clip could be better served if inserted after a short intro to the video. Before mixing in the other music. Then I’d have the TV clip fade into the slide show and music.

And yes, I’d include the cleverly placed image winking in the eye… but save it for the end.

Soul Reunion and Healing With Sacred Geometry

So how does meditation on The Phi heal? Be your own judge; take a look at the world around you and see if, when you notice the spiral everywhere, it doesn’t do a little something to help you appreciate and even find meaning in your purpose, which is really Oneness, after all.

Description from YouTube: The “Golden ratio”, Our one true connection to the cosmos, and perhaps God himself..Enjoy.

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