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Mine the pleasure from the little things and watch the big things come. I said this to a friend last week. She felt stagnant. She felt like she was not reaching her purpose in life quickly enough. She felt disheartened. She was depressed. I bit my lower lip because I was ready to forcefully remind her all the good things that have been happening in her life, of the blessings that she did not expect, of the broad smiles from the Universe, and she was sitting bitching away on this one thing that had not manifested for her as yet.

She eye-rolled me. “You and your crock,” was her added response to my simple bit of advice. “I am not in the mood for any hocus-focus.”

Well, my friend is going to be feeling this way for a while.

I thought to myself, how often we are so busy looking for the big thing that we miss the pleasures that can be had from the little thing? And I am starting tiny here.

The car that stopped to let you cross the street.
The co-worker who gave you an extra broad smile with his morning greeting.
The taste of the cinnamon spice in your coffee.
The honeyed pleasure of your morning tea.
The wave of the butterfly as it passed by.
The seeing the puddle at the last minute.
I can go on and on talking about the little things that can bring us pleasure in our daily lives.
The pleasures we tend to ignore as being unimportant because they are not grand enough.

“Mine the pleasures from the little things and watch the big things come”.

I was awakened from a pleasant dream by the sound of excited chatter and peals of laughter. It was coming from my neighbour’s place and since it was way past the time I’d normally be out of bed, there was no real reason to feel disturbed plus I needed to be up and moving anyway. I continued to hear him talk. Though I could not decipher the words, they felt filled with pleasure and anticipation. His laughter added to the beautiful mix and before long I was chuckling along with him to whatever the news was. He was in good energy and I got touched by it.

I have written about energy vibrations before and the need to protect ours and avoid being around situations that make kindle out of us. This sometimes happens unknowingly but there are other times when it is done with deliberate intent to siphon off the good vibrations that we appear to produce effortlessly.

The persons look at us and wonder what is the secret? They think that there is some quick fix and in 30 days or less, they can look, and be and act like us.

Actually, they can, if willing to go through the process that leads to their awakening. There is no Beyonce-ing this one.

We used to wake up battered and torn;
Bleeding and crying;
Wishing that it would end, the dark night of the soul.

With time and work and effort, and a little more work and a tad more effort, we wake up a new being, all washed and haloed. The energy we give off becomes palpable causing people to become attracted to us. They see the glow, feel the warmth, and experience the love.

It’s all energy.

Do you remember those days when you were little and would head to the playground to have some fun on the swings, seesaws, and rocking horses? The seesaw was my favorite but for some reason, when we go there it was almost always broken. Once repaired though, I would encourage my cousin to seesaw with me. It needs at least two persons for the see to saw and the weight has to be fairly equally balanced. You never want your seat to hit the ground because that could turn out to be quite painful. When everything is balanced, you can then enjoy the movement of the seesaw, riding its waves and troughs.

Sometimes life feels like a seesaw. And there is no equanimity in its ups and downs. The ups become periods when we are so scared anticipating the down that we do not enjoy them and then the downs are down. We feel depressed and disheartened. And heaven forbid that during a down the seat actually hits the ground, we feel the pain ricocheting through our entire world, further preventing us from even seeing the up from that position.

But you know, the seesaw always rises back up as long as there is an equal balancing force on the other end.

Many of us, we do not allow ourselves to feel the counterbalancing weight of Universal Energy, pressing down from the other side and encouraging us to rise again. We stop ourselves from experiencing the love that coaxes us to look up, lift our feet off the ground, and trust that all will be well. The universe has our backs. Always.

So as we ride the seesaw of life, let us accept and embrace life’s vicissitudes. When we are up, we revel in the up and do not think of the down but live in the joyous moments of uptitude.

When life causes us to experience the down moments, we rest in the knowledge that we do not have to stay down for too long; that we are loved and protected; that our down moments are only to heighten the pleasures that come from our up moments.

All we need to do is to look to the opposite side and feel the force of Source Energy as it gently raises us every time.

Coming out of the shadows into the light can be a distressing experience for many, especially those of us who have spent the majority of our lives hiding in the dark. It’s safe, warm, and comfortable there so why leave?

Why expose ourselves to ridicule and verbal abuse when we decide to voice our thoughts and feelings on subjects that the masses are not comfortable with; subjects that may cause them to question their long-held beliefs on ideas like religion, spirituality, and all things esoteric and metaphysical? Sometimes we tell ourselves it is best to keep our thoughts to ourselves and let the masses go.

But there is a pull on people like us. Do you feel the awakening? The desire to come out of the darkness and show your light?

And have you like me, been resisting it for fear of whatever?
Of being laughed at?
Of being called crazy?
Of being labeled a witch or perhaps a bitch?

I feel you. And I understand. But I invite you to join me and let us do this together.

For me, it has been difficult. But we can do it one step at a time. We will expect and prepare for the backlash, the negativity, the misunderstandings, the persons disappointed in us as they like to say, the…the..the… but each day makes us stronger and bolder.

The list of reasons not to come out will remain forever long but nothing feels more blissful than a warm sun shining lovingly on your face.

I got touched by a ray yesterday.

You?

“I’m going to sleep on it,” my friend said yesterday in response to an issue she was having that was becoming more and more entangled in her mind creating utter frustration for her. I smiled to myself as I heard her words for I knew that the answer was going to come with such force and clarity that she would be unable to deny the power that comes from ‘sleeping on it’.

I sleep a lot. I look forward to sleep like the work-weary looks forward to Friday. My dreams are vivid and many times hold messages for me. Some I remember on waking; others are stored somewhere in my subconscious to be retrieved when needed.

We say it often. I’m going to sleep on it.

Do we use the phrase as a cop-out or are we guided to do just that by our intuitive self, our subconscious self, the part of us that knows the answer is there even before we asked the question?

There is power in sleep. Not just the renewal and rejuvenation it provides to the physical body, but the opportunities it provides for our astral bodies to explore, to experience, and to find answers to problems that plague us during our waking hours. Sleep allows us to connect to our ancestors, our guides, to the Divine, and to receive messages that we may not be open to receiving when we are busy with the doing.
Many of us do not get enough sleep. We are over-occupied. Too stressed. Too caught up in what we consider real life that sleep becomes a concept.

When we go to sleep looking for solutions, they come. Perhaps not in the way we prefer but we get a response nevertheless. It is always the answer that best facilitates our divine purpose.

I invite you to look to sleep for answers to your most vexing problems. Tap into the power that is given to us through dreams and visions.

When you don’t know it in the here and now, sleep on it.

There are two topics that I do not enjoy blogging about so whenever I sit to meditate and I get the inspiration from my guides to write on one of them, I get all emotional. I try to resist but always end up following the message as led. The topics are sex and death. Today we talk about sex, maybe tomorrow it will be on death. Who knows? Perhaps though, these two are more closely related than we realize. Sex sometimes results in death, ‘le petit mort' as referred to by the French and death results in the release from the flesh, like a butterfly rising from pupae, freeing our bound soul to return home, which I believe will be as orgasmic an experience as le petit mort.

I have digressed. Sex. What about sex?
I have made a personal decision to give up unfulfilling sexual relationships and I mean this both literally and figuratively. I have had intimate experiences of both types. It messes with my energy, leaves me wanting more, knowing that what I want more of cannot be provided by the partner in my bed. So along with the many other things I have given up in my life of lates, sex is through the window until I am able to find someone whom I can connect with on a physical, mental and spiritual plane. Given that I have a debilitated Venus in my astrological birth chart, I am not betting on this at all.

This leads me to ask, what unfulfilling thing in your life have you been thinking to toss through the window?

A job that makes you cringe every Monday morning and have you wishing it was Friday?
A partner whom you have outgrown but feel that you are stuck with until death do you part?
Friends, who are not just vibsing the way you are now, with the parties, drinking and smoking no longer giving you that high?
Family members, energy vampires?

It is often hard to give up on things that we have grown accustomed to even though they are no longer satisfying. The giving up is like taking a giant leap to the moon for many.
But I promise you, once you take that step, not for mankind but for yourself, you become a new cosmonaut.

Anticipation. This word has a delicious ring to it. There is a feeling that arises as we wait in anticipation for something that we know is coming and we can feel it right there. It is like a slow fizz that increases in power as the pressure builds up. It is orgasmic even.

I have been waiting in anticipation for something. It feels huge. I do not know what it is but the feeling that the wait engenders tells me that it is going to be something I have been asking the Universe for, for some time.

Sometimes we grow impatient as we wait. “Where is this thing, when is it coming?”

I invite us not to concentrate on the absence of it but to relish the becoming of it. Envision it as already happened. Revel in the emotion and enjoy the build-up to that final crescendo of the manifested it.

My spirit guides sent me on a Quora reading spree this morning. Lately, they have not been using any subtlety in sending me these synchronicities. I already realize their aim is to get me out of my comfort zone and I am scared. It was not enough that I began sharing my ‘artwork’ on the internet, then the writing of daily blogs on topics that I know will bring me under close examination and subsequent ridicule but guides and ancestors knew this, so they were hot on the button as soon I began talking to them about my fears.

Really, what do we have to be scared of in this life?

Okay, I already see the look of incredulous disbelief on your face that I am asking such a question. Now you are opening your mouth to start your well-rehearsed list. Before you begin, I would like you to pause for a moment. Think. Ask yourself, “what is it that is below all of my perceived fears?” We have been discussing this for a long time so we know where to find the answer.

Identify your ‘it’ and know that now 90% of the battle has been won since this then creates the space that allows for a connection to Source Intelligence. And so we begin the work of removing the real source of fear from our lives.

What is your real fear?

Stop. Think. Ask yourself.

Do you know that feeling? The one you get when you open your window or door first thing in the morning, step onto your verandah, and get greeted by a cool breeze that brushes your cheek, your lips, your bare knees, and then your toes?
During moments like these, the English vocabulary is weighed in the balance and found wanting.

You are able to experience this is because you are feeling a sense of gratitude.
For life,
For the love of self and others,
For just being in the here and now,

I enjoy writing blogs on gratitude. It lightens the load from having to talk about heavier topics like death and being dead and living and still being dead. The second one is worse.

So share with me in giving thanks, my friend.

Every day and always.

Meditation provides us with an opportunity to connect with our Inner Self and receive intuitive messages that is some way, shape, or form were sent to help us to navigate this physical plane. Our Inner Being is always wanting to talk to us, to show us, and guide us on our way. When we meditate often, the connection becomes alive and vibrant and we are able to discern what is intuition from what is just our wishful thinking manifesting from our ego minds. Intuition feels different. It seems to come from the gut and travels up to the part of our brain that accepts the information and translates it into something we can understand.

For me, I get many messages thought meditation. Some are very personal and others more general. Some I act upon; others I leave until I get a kick from the Universe.
So this morning, during my meditation I was clearly told that I was to meet a Leo who would be rich AF. I actually saw the letters AF in my mind’s eye and it startled me. I am not looking to meet anyone. There are not enough hours in my day to do what I have to do much less meet and get to know a new person. My grandmother, she crossed over into non-physical many moons ago was not pleased by my apparent resistance. It was not until recently I was able to re-establish a connection with her and she has remained as prickly as per my vague recollection of her. She actually remarked, “still the same, bright and dumb”. I was duly chastised.

When I asked Elijah, my spirit guide who sends me messages for my blogs, about what was I to write about today; should I talk about this Leo? Isn’t it too personal? Who cares about my meeting any Leo man? He smiled, he always does. He is very wise and I depend on him totally for my creative thoughts. “Everyone can relate to the idea of ‘messages through meditation’,” he air quoted me.

So what about you?
Do you trust your intuition for messages?
Do you act on them or do you hit the ignore button?
Do you, like me, argue with your entire spiritual team over the information knowing full well that they are always right?
Do you end up on the wrong side of right when you don’t act?
Aren’t you tired yet?
So, you are stubborn like me?

Well, I think our best bet, based on the way things have been going these days, is perhaps to simply trust and let go.