Open doors and unlimited possibilities meet me wherever I go. Sometimes it takes time for the door to open.
“My favorite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.” ~ Mario Testino ~
Every day, we are blessed with unlimited possibilities. But are we opening our minds to seeing them? Each day we can choose to act or to react or to sit by and watch life pass us by. Are we aware of all the opportunities that might be there for the taking? Are you curious as to what life has in store for you? Life is not about what you could do, it’s about what you will do.
Why not wake up every morning and ask yourself what you are going to do today that is different and better than yesterday? If you are sad about what’s going on in your life right now, pause and just remember that everything changes, and tomorrow might be different. Why not try the “Opportunity Door” and see where it leads. Start your day tomorrow by choosing to be great!
You should Smudge whenever you feel negative energy is affecting you, your possessions and your surroundings. Smudge whenever you feel you need to create or enhance positive energy around you. Focus and intent are very important. As you walk around the rooms in your home that you want cleansed, picture the negative energies being brushed and cleaned away and imagine bringing up the Earth’s energies and all the positive energies from the sky. Smudge your home on a regular schedule or whenever you feel it is necessary.
Rules for Smudging your Home to Release Negative Energy
Ceremonial white sage is preferred for smudging. Carefully light your white sage at the tips of the leaves, making sure you have a fireproof bowl or plate ready to catch any ash as it burns.
Sage smudging is the most powerful, not when the sage is burning with a flame, but simply smoldering and smoking. If your sage is burning and you can see the flame, just blow it out and you’re ready to begin smudging.
When smudging your house, you’ll want to start from the back of the house and move to the front. If you have multiple levels, start from the bottom of the house and move to the top. Open windows to allow the negative energy to leave.
When you select the room you’re going to start smudging in, begin in one corner of the room, and move methodically around the room or rooms. Try to get behind furniture and in all other nooks and crannies in the space.
Our favorite smudging affirmation: “Bless this home and all who enter, please cleanse this home of all stagnant and negative energy, fill this home with light and love and with positive energy of the highest vibration.”
Use a feather to waft the smoke by carefully moving the entire smudge stick (and your fireproof bowl to catch ashes) in that direction. When you reach a window or door, waft the smoke into all four corners, beginning at the bottom left and moving in a clockwise direction.
Open cabinets and closets and waft inside, holding in your mind the intention to release density, stuck energy and negativity into the light. The last room you smudge should be the one with the front door.
When you’re finished, move outside and waft around the four corners of the door.
Smudging Herbs
White sage is the most common herb in smudge sticks. You’ll also find a few other herbs commonly used that each have their own advantages. Here’s a breakdown of what you can use in a smudge stick:
White Sage: For wisdom, calming and healing.
Sweet Grass: Promotes feminine properties and remind us that the Earth provides everything we need to live healthy nourished lives.
Lavender: Attract positive energy and love.
Juniper: Purifies and creates a safe and sacred space.
Cedar: Most commonly used when moving into a new space. It is used for protection and clearing of negative energies.
Frankincense: Alleviates depression and promote joyousness. Frankincense was once thought to be more valuable than gold. (burnt on charcoal)
Yerba Santa: Protects boundaries and clears the air of mold and impurities.
Rosemary: Promotes health and memory.
Mugwort: Stimulates dreams.
Copal: Gives thanks to the earth, copal is similar to frankincense. (burnt on charcoal)
My husband and I bought our home 2 1/2 yrs ago. It seemed all our home projects came with much difficulty and added problems. Seemed that no project could be completed with ease. I didn’t feel the peace that I felt in our previous home. After speaking with a neighbor and hearing of all the “unrest” and turmoil that took place in our home (with the previous owners) I decided to order the Smudge Kit. We followed the directions “To a T”. Since my husband and I used the kit together I feel more at peace in our home and we were able to rid our home of the “negative energy” that existed. I would highly recommend this smudge kit and Prayers. We will do more routine smudging to “keep the Peace” in our home.
Smudging Tips
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I’ve Learned: It’s hard to accept, but we can’t change the past. We can’t go back and manipulate things to the way we wanted them to happen. Because life would be meaningless and boring and just not worth living if we did. But we can change the future and that is a beautiful thing about life.
Yes, we will make mistakes. And yes, we will have bad days. But as long as we let the past go, we will have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead for us. Knowing that things were meant to happen, knowing that each day we will learn something so that we keep growing to be a better person. Life is a ride worth taking, so jump on and enjoy the journey.
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We are drawn to people who smile because smiling makes them attractive. We want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good. Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away, but a smile draws them in. Let’s be one of those attractive people. Smile at everyone. A smile can light up a single heart, or a whole room. It’s a wonderful free gift you can give to anyone who looks your way. Contribute to the bank of happiness, smile!
Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile. There’s a good chance your mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood. Practice it today, smile when someone catches your eye. Try turning smiling into a habit and watch all the positive results happen.
If you are looking for happiness, you can only find it inside of you. Don’t look beyond yourself, you will not find it in another person. Your source of happiness is of your own making. Choose to be happy. Most people feel unhappy in their lives because they expect others to give them things that they can only give themselves. Thinking that another person is your key to happiness will only bring you disappointment. Your relationship with yourself is the only one you have that lasts for your whole life, and you can be your greatest friend or your worst enemy. When you are happy, people around you like you more and want to share in your happy disposition.
If you don’t have it now, develop an optimistic outlook, then believe it to be true. Show kindness to others, it will make you feel really good about yourself. Smile to people you come in contact with every day. That includes friends, family, co-workers, and strangers. Love who you are, and be thankful for what you have. Exercise and healthy eating will help you on this path. There is always time to do more of what you really want to do, so make it happen. Focus on the present, not yesterday or tomorrow, for the present is all we have.
As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
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Life is not a random event. It has purpose and provides for the unfoldment of a divine plan with opportunities to make choices and decisions in every moment. ~ Collin C. Tipping (Radical Forgiveness) ~
If you are faced with a difficult choice, weigh the pros and cons. Take some time and thoroughly analyze the pros and cons of your situation. Work to determine which situation will provide you with the most good and least bad. Don’t let fear decide. Push your fear aside and recognize that you need to make a choice that’s based on what’s best, not a choice based on what you are afraid of.
Believe in the choice you’ve made and remind yourself that everything is happening as it should. Once you’ve made your choice, make sure that you don’t look back. Know that everything will work out the way it’s supposed to and that you have done the very best you could to make your choice.
Choose things that will bring your loved one’s peace. Choose things that will not make those who love you, hurt by your decisions. Choose what’s best for you, and if you don’t care about what’s best for you, then choose to try and learn to love yourself, because there are many people that do.
It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” ~ Stephanie Meyer (The Host) ~
True beauty shines through. It is evident in every word and deed. A life in which happiness is possible is also beautiful, and the path to a beautiful life is paved with beautiful thoughts, beautiful outlooks, that bring a smile and spread happiness to others.
Beauty! what can be said of it? what is it? I look around, to see some object specially beautiful, on which to expend my panegyrics. There is the deep fathomless azure above me; there is the sea, the wild, open, careering ocean; there is that bright clear eye which ever lights my solitude; there is a fair girl, a beautiful boy; there are the stars looking down from heaven; there is beauty in the human countenance, beauty in looks, beauty in thoughts, beauty in actions. What shall I say! I am bewildered; beauty overwhelms me. I am dumb, who would emulate the oratory of an archangel. I am lost in the magnitude of my theme… ~T.C. Henley, “Beauty,” 1851
Often we wonder what our own ultimate meaning of our existence could be. Do we have a definite purpose, a plan for accomplishing something of lasting significance? Life is filled with questions, but do we have the answers that will manifest the path we should be taking? Are we making the right choices in life to get where we want to go? Who we currently are has been shaped by our past. It’s time to think to the future and how we are going to make our dreams a reality.
We first must understand that we are already complete and whole. When we realize that we are looking for what we already have, we will no longer be kept at arms length of what brings us peace and happiness. Our next path in our journey should have a measure of willingness to relinquish control and give ourselves over to a process that we cannot fully understand. Things go much more smoothly when we surrender our control and allow things to happen. It gives us the opportunity to see the bigger picture. We trust that the Universe will support us at every turn. While we are still on this earth, we should plan on, and expect, a transformation in thinking that should now happen over time.
We are all divine souls who are only separated by our individual egos. We affect others by who we are as human beings. Kindness is contagious. Goodness begets more goodness. We should take steps to realize our commitment to serve others and to be of value. Our community should be one where people come to trust each other. Make a difference! The secret to happiness is helping others. By helping others, we fulfill our own destiny.
“The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.” ~ Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life ~
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Love is the core nature of us all. We feel good when we give and receive love because this is the Spiritual thing to do. When we understand that love is who we are, we have a very positive energy and great things happen. For each of us, our Soul is where unconditional love, unending forgiveness, compassion, harmony, peace and joy reside. Love cannot be taken from us, because it expresses the underlying nature we each have as the sons and daughters of Divine Love.
Love is what comes through us naturally when we fully open up to another person, to ourselves, or to life. In helping us to connect with the aliveness within us, it reveals our essential beauty and power. The Bible says God is Love and that we are created in God’s image.
We seek love from others to make us happy. If we would just live in the moment, we would realize that we are happy. We would realize we don’t need others to make us happy because our love comes from within. When we are present in life, we have nothing to fear. Loving who we are improves everything in our life our health, well-being, self-esteem and relationships. Love who we are and love each other, it is the only way to live.
Love is not outside of us, it is an inner state. Love is emotional and spiritual. Love is warm and vulnerable. It is a way of being. Love is who we are.
There are really only two dimensions to the concept of attitude — you either behave as though you are a victim of circumstance, or you take full responsibility for your situation. ~ Richard Rudd ~
Having a good attitude will help with whatever situation you find yourself in. A good attitude goes a long way in making you feel happy. If you feel happy, you usually are happy. Being happy is not about circumstances or any other outside force. Happiness is a decision we make. Why not make up your mind to embrace happiness. Make it a habit to actively search for the positive side of everything. Do not allow anyone else to have the power that rightfully belongs to you. Never give away your power! Smile, take responsibility for your situation, try to solve it as best you can, and move on. Life is too short to do anything less.
Always be yourself. Be proud of who you are. Everyone goes through phases during their lives when they want to find themselves. It’s normal. Do what you like to do and be proud of it. Buy the clothes you like. Make your own clothes if you want to be different. Try new things and be open to new things. Give each new experience a fair chance to shape who you are, if you want them to.
Listen to the music that appeals to you most. Do not conform to listening to the same type of music that others listen to if it is not your thing. Understand that every piece of music deserves some degree of respect. You may not understand it, but that doesn’t make it bad, it may be right for someone else. That’s what makes us all unique.
Appreciate different music, clothes, hairstyles, multi-colored nail polish, or whatever else catches your fancy. Be understanding to others and give others the opportunity to understand you. Think for yourself. It is only you who understands what makes you original.
Halloween is celebrated in several countries, most prominently in the USA, and is generally viewed as a fun holiday where kids dress up as ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and pop culture creatures, and collect candy door to door. For most of us, it is a wonderfully frivolous event that allows us to dress up, act like a kid, see the joy on kids’ faces, and decorate our houses. But what is the original meaning and purpose of the holiday?
The word Halloween is derived from the term, “All Hallows Eve,” which occurred on Oct. 31. “All Saints Day” or “All Hallows Day” was the next Day, Nov. 1st. Therefore, Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day. Stories abound that the origin of the holiday began around the time of Christ, but in ancient Ireland and Scotland. At this time of year, the animals were brought into shelters, and crops were harvested. This time of change involved a lot of superstition. This annual change of season and lifestyle was marked by a festival called Samhain, pronounced ‘sow-ane’ (Sow rhymes with cow) which means ‘end of summer.’
The legend is that during this time of superstition that spirits and fairies were lurking, looking for bodies to inhabit. People would dress up as these spirits, making noises and causing havoc, in an attempt to confuse the spirits and not have their bodies taken over.
Later, as the Church spread to the area, November 1st was made into a holiday called “All Saints Day” or “All Hallows Day”. The day before was referred to as “All Hallows Eve” or “Halloween”. Legend has it that a custom developed on this day of going door to door and asking for small cakes in exchange for saying prayers for the recently deceased. It was believed that souls were in limbo, and prayers of the living could help.
The Jack-O-Lantern apparently comes from Irish folklore about a man named Jack who tricked the devil into climbing a tree. Once the devil was in the tree, Jack carved a cross on the trunk preventing the devil from coming down. The devil then made a deal with Jack not to allow Jack into hell after he died if only Jack would remove the cross from the tree. After Jack died, he couldn’t go to hell; and he couldn’t go to heaven. He was forced to wander around the earth with a single candle to light his way. The candle was placed in a turnip to keep it burning longer. When the Irish came to America in the 1800’s, they adopted the pumpkin instead of the turnip. Along with these traditions, they brought the idea that the black cat was considered by some to be reincarnated spirits who had prophetic abilities.
Today, there are no such heavy meanings associated with the holiday. There are no implications involving the dead, or bargains with forces good or evil. Halloween is innocent and fun, and in a world of cynicism, aggression, and overall grumpiness, we should all embrace a holiday where we take off our worry caps and escape for an evening of goofiness and free candy.
Halloween is celebrated in several countries, most prominently in the USA, and is generally viewed as a fun holiday where kids dress up as ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and pop culture creatures, and collect candy door to door. For most of us, it is a wonderfully frivolous event that allows us to dress up, act like a kid, see the joy on kids’ faces, and decorate our houses. But what is the original meaning and purpose of the holiday?
All Hallows Eve
The word Halloween is derived from the term, “All Hallows Eve,” which occurred on Oct. 31. “All Saints Day” or “All Hallows Day” was the next Day, Nov. 1st. Therefore, Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day. Stories abound that the origin of the holiday began around the time of Christ, but in ancient Ireland and Scotland. At this time of year, the animals were brought into shelters, and crops were harvested. This time of change involved a lot of superstition. This annual change of season and lifestyle was marked by a festival called Samhain, pronounced ‘sow-ane’ (Sow rhymes with cow) which means ‘end of summer.’
Spirits and Fairies of Halloween!
The legend is that during this time of superstition that spirits and fairies were lurking, looking for bodies to inhabit. People would dress up as these spirits, making noises and causing havoc, in an attempt to confuse the spirits and not have their bodies taken over. Old school fairies, like the real ones before the Victorians got to them, were dark, odd things, more about mischief and irrationality than dainty flower people. It was normal for them to be the kind of creature you’d want to appease but also avoid, making sure it knew you were happy to leave out some milk or food for it. But you really didn’t want it coming into your house, spoiling your goods or stealing your babies.
Beginning of Door to Door for Treats!
Little kids trick or treating
Later, as the Church spread to the area, November 1st was made into a holiday called “All Saints Day” or “All Hallows Day”. The day before was referred to as “All Hallows Eve” or “Halloween”. Legend has it that a custom developed on this day of going door to door and asking for small cakes in exchange for saying prayers for the recently deceased. It was believed that souls were in limbo, and prayers of the living could help.
Halloween’s Jack-O-Lantern!
The Jack-O-Lantern apparently comes from Irish folklore about a man named Jack who tricked the devil into climbing a tree. Once the devil was in the tree, Jack carved a cross on the trunk preventing the devil from coming down. The devil then made a deal with Jack not to allow Jack into hell after he died if only Jack would remove the cross from the tree. After Jack died, he couldn’t go to hell; and he couldn’t go to heaven. He was forced to wander around the earth with a single candle to light his way. The candle was placed in a turnip to keep it burning longer. When the Irish came to America in the 1800’s, they adopted the pumpkin instead of the turnip. Along with these traditions, they brought the idea that the black cat was considered by some to be reincarnated spirits who had prophetic abilities.
Halloween is Innocent and Fun!
Today, there are no such heavy meanings associated with the holiday. There are no implications involving the dead, or bargains with forces good or evil. Halloween is innocent and fun, and in a world of cynicism, aggression, and overall grumpiness, we should all embrace a holiday where we take off our worry caps and escape for an evening of goofiness and free candy.
How to Make Halloween Strawberry Ghosts!
Ingredients:
12 Large Strawberries, rinsed and dried
1½ cup or 150g White Chocolate
½ cup or 50g Dark Chocolate
Method
Melt the dark chocolate either in a glass bowl over a pan of hot water or in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds to ensure it doesn’t get too hot.
Using a spoon, drizzle the melted dark chocolate on grease-proof paper to create drops and lines which can be the ghosts’ eyes and mouths
Leave to harden. Then melt the white chocolate the same way.
Dip each strawberry in the melted white chocolate. Holding the stem, immediately take to wax paper, letting excess drip down and form the tail.
Carefully place the eyes and mouth on the ghosts before the white chocolate hardens.
Leave the strawberries in the fridge until ready to serve.
In a hurry? Substitute mini chocolate chips for the dark chocolate and just place on the white chocolate strawberries for eyes and mouth.
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. ~~ Stephen R. Covey ~
Healthy relationships bring happiness and health to our lives, as people with healthy relationships are happier and have less stress. There are many different types of relationships. There are the relationships with parents, children, siblings, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, classmates, and those people we work with. No one will be everything that we might want them to be. Sometimes people disappoint us. Healthy relationships mean accepting people as they are and not trying to change them.
Communication is essential in healthy relationships. Take the time to really be there for each other. Listen to what they have to say. Ask them questions in a friendly way and show your interest in what they are saying. Share information as well as yourself. Healthy relationships allow change and growth. Healthy relationships are mutual. Take care of yourself as well as each other. Always be dependable. If you take on a responsibility, complete it as best you can. Healthy relationships are trustworthy and sincere.
If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world. ~ Greta Crosby ~
Believe that you are worthy. You are worthy of being happy, healthy and alive. Start believing by using your senses to really appreciate all that is around you. Nature has so much joy to give us on a daily basis if we will stop to watch, listen, touch, taste, and smell. The gift of this awareness is that we stop worrying so much about what’s going on inside ourselves. It is the gift of the present.
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in. ~ Marshall Rosenberg ~
To create the world that you want to live in, first thing you must do is change your thinking from believing that you live in a world you can’t control, to a belief that you live in a world you can control. Start by envisioning the world you want to live in, how you want to feel moment to moment, what you can do to improve things, and believe that you can create positive change.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. ~ Marianne Williamson ~
Raising children is not easy, if you’re doing a good job. They need limits. They have no choice but to go along with plans that are not always their own or to their liking. They need to know the consequences of their actions, and that they will be held accountable. In life as an adult, things will not always go their way. They need to know there are rules. Rewards for doing well should be given, but not for just showing up. We must teach them by our good example. They need to know how much we care.
Young people who can’t handle loss or disappointment today, were probably poorly raised children yesterday. The past two decades have shown us the new (incorrect) way to raise a generation of children. They cannot emotionally deal with life when their political candidate did not win the election. Their emotional frustration is such a terrible burden that their only relief is to riot and destroy public and private property. They have been encouraged to equate abusive words with physical violence. An important thing they lack is boundaries. Society has created a generation of snowflakes who all expect to get a trophy for just showing up.
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When you listen to music that moves you, your brain releases dopamine, a chemical involved in both motivation and addiction. The intense pleasure we get from it is actually biologically reinforcing the brain. When we listen to music, we seem to be looking to match our emotions. We don’t need a study to tell us that listening to music improves our mood and contributes to a greater quality of life.
Music has been found to boost the immune systems of patients after surgeries, thus reducing complications. Music therapy has proven to be more effective than other types of therapies in patients suffering from depression.
In one study, researchers led by Victoria Williamson, a visiting professor at Switzerland’s Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a fellow at the University of Sheffield, analyzed more than 50 different musical features and found that earworm songs—tunes that were mentioned by at least three different people in her survey—tend to have notes with longer durations but smaller pitch intervals. This makes sense, she says, because these are two main features that make songs easier to sing, even for the musically untrained. “Fundamentally, an earworm is your brain singing,” Williamson says. Earworm songs also have a certain amount of built-in predictability, coupled with enough novelty to pique a listener’s interest.
Listen to your music, listen to your hopes. Live in your dreams with an eye on the present. Join us at www.secretserendipity.com as we try to be the best we can be. Happiness is in the Now. Peace, Love and Music always!
According to our research findings, Who Let The Dogs Out is one of the top five all time “Happy” songs. So, here is a clip:
It is easier to analyze a problem when you are outside the situation. We are on a journey of confusion. We need to find what makes us happy. What do we want? What interests us? What will bring us the most happiness? We should look at our life through the eyes of a stranger. Are we on the right track?What energizes us to keep going is to actually see progress.
We should start by organizing our thoughts and clearing our mind. Let’s not think about what our life is missing, but be grateful for what we have. We can look away from material needs and look for satisfaction in fundamentally deeper outlets. It’s time to think about exploring everything in life, there’s so much to learn.
To find answers to anything, we have to look at all the different angles. To make a decision that is right, we have to make the time to focus on the result we are the most interested in. We can learn more from failure than from success. We need occasional solitude to reflect upon our experiences to establish what kind of person we want to become down the path, and to help understand the things we need to do and change to reach that place in life. A sense of purpose comes from within. Don’t place too much emphasis on what others think of you. Also, don’t place too much emphasis on what you think of yourself. When we become confused about our life, people offer guidance. Treat them as just suggestions. Go with your gut and don’t over think.
Restlessness is the motivation to keep us trying new things. Do we know what we are looking for? Maybe we need more challenges in life. New goals, new direction, new dreams. Maybe we need to do something productive instead of searching for happiness. Trying to fill our life with worldly pleasures and achievements is like filling a bucket with holes. We can only start to feel satiated in life when we find meaningful steps that make the world a better place and reduce our attachment to things. We need to fulfill what our heart is craving. We have to make our plan to have every reason to be happy and content with our journey.
“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. “ ~ The Eagles, “Already Gone” ~ We have the key to get out of the chains that bind us, let’s make it happen.
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Every day, in every aspect of our lives, we have the option of doing our best work or something less. If you’re not doing your best, then you’re compromising your standards and you’re setting yourself up to create bad habits and attitudes that accept consistently substandard performance. Your efforts at doing your best will bring you pride and satisfaction. Your best is going to change from moment to moment, depending on circumstance. Simply do the best you can in that moment. Making a habit of doing your best can pay off handsomely for life.
We must try to put our heart into everything we do. Every step we take must have purpose. We must think about the choices we make. We must position our entire beings into doing our best, and being aware that the choices we make are positive ones, so that we may truly experience our most magnificent selves. Your best will depend on whether you are feeling wonderful and happy, or upset, angry, or jealous. If you’re not doing your best, then you’re operating at a lower level, and you are the one being cheated out of being the best you can be.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius ~
Does being around a lake give you a sense of peace? Do you recognize when someone isn’t telling the truth? Are there days when you want to get away from everybody and everything and just spend time in a darkened room? You are probably a highly sensitive person who experiences life on a level much higher than the average person.
You are not alone. Many people feel the same way. They understand their feelings and have learned how to manage their sensitivity. Highly sensitive people appreciate the creativity of a musical and the excitement of visiting an art gallery. Recognizing that you are a highly sensitive person will help you develop a better awareness of yourself and your needs. A highly sensitive person feels more deeply, cries more often, and feels the pain of others.
People who are highly sensitive are great at analyzing situations and offering up the best advice. They believe in Karma and how everything happens for a reason. Highly sensitive people live their life in harmony. They love animals and are sensitive to their needs. They have a vivid imagination and a depth of understanding that comes from paying too much attention.
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having ‘too many issues’ are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.” ~ Anthon St. Maarten ~
“Sensitive people are the heart of the world. Sensitive hearts will save this world if they are empowered. Caring deeply and feeling deeply is a gift.” ~ Eileen Anglin ~
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter, don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. ~ Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss gets it right. We have to stay true to ourselves. We need to treat others the way we wish to be treated, and respect ourselves for who we are.
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” ~ Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life ~
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It is almost certain that between friends there is at all times a silent communication, a sort of unconscious mental conversation going on. ~ The Science of Mind ~
If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having. ~Author unknown.
People tend to pick friends that are similar to them. Friends help make us who we are as individuals. They accept us just as we are. Our friends often have similar viewpoints and values, Friends motivate us and help us to develop our sense of self-worth. Friends tend to be open and honest with each other.
Friends help us deal with stress, and help us make better lifestyle choices that keep us strong. We are happier when we choose to spend time with happy people. When we spend time with friends, we fill up our lives with great conversation, heartfelt caring and support, and we experience laugh out loud fun.
Friends are wonderful to have, cherish them every minute of every day. Don’t ever be afraid to ask a friend if they need help. You need to let them know that you’re going to be there no matter what. Even if they don’t say they need help when they might, the fact that they know you are available to help them may one day lead them to ask you for help. And if they do, do all that you can to help them.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business. Time still to be served. A debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~~ Fr. Alfred D’Souza. ~
Live in the present. Spend time with friends or family doing relaxed, focused activities. Talk, eat, cook or go on a walk with someone you care about. Spend time face to face if you can, but also call a loved one on the phone if they are on your mind. To live for today, focus on what you have. Appreciate the things that make each day yours. When someone does something you appreciate, thank them. So much living in the day means allowing yourself to be open in the moment. Feel free to change your mind at any point and walk in the directions that attract you. Spend as much time on your feet and without your phone as you comfortably can.
Live in the NOW with what we learned from the past. Appreciate what we have today, tomorrow will be here soon enough. Follow us at www.secretserendipity.com.
Ceremonial white sage is preferred for smudging. Carefully light your white sage at the tips of the leaves, making sure you have a fireproof bowl or plate ready to catch any ash as it burns.
