Captured Moments

Our parents do us a great service, whether they meet all our needs or not.  They have the responsibility to teach us how best to survive in the world, based on what they know, understand and have experienced themselves.  If they are limited to just basic information, knowledge, experience or education, whether it is due to gender limitations, financial restrictions or based on their parents and their limitations, they cannot offer more than what they know.  Gratitude and forgiveness for what they provided is essential for our growth and, in many cases, our current health and happiness and certainly for our healing. As adults, one of the greatest gifts we can receive is the developed ability to discern what was 'fed' to us by others, beginning in early childhood when we were not able to discern for ourselves.  As we grow and develop, we play out all the expectations, assumptions, self-images, imposed needs, old hurts, old anger, old resentments from those around us,...

If we can imagine our core sense of self/Self by looking deeply within and begin to feel the depth of happiness and health we could ever experience, coming from there, anything not that or in the way of that could go.  Why is this?  Because when we know who we are based on who we are not, the 'knot' begins to give way, and our True Self begins to emerge. Imagine a beautiful daisy or any other flower you are drawn to developing from within your core.  As this lovely perfected flower begins to open and grow with your own awareness, know that that center of the flower cannot be penetrated or negatively affected by anyone or anything, ever.  Know that this inner flower is strong and clear and it is you at your essence. This golden center of the emerging flower contains within it the perfect vibration of Health and Happiness for you.  Know that it can and will discern what is best for you and your system to gain and maintain your perfected balance of mind, body, ...

Our human heart connects us to our bigger, expanded Heart, which links us directly to the HEART of the COSMIC SOUL.  When we can hear it, acknowledge it, understand it, listen to it fully and let it guide us, we align more fully with who we really are! Our ego mind takes us on a journey, too, with it's drive, it's need for self-fulfillment, self-acknowledgement and self-identification.  Yet, it is up to us and our lifetime and life cycle to realize what aspect of us we are aware of, listening to, following and what desires we are hoping to fulfill.  Not to mention, what others around us want and need or expect from us, too.  There are also life forces that can play on us and distract us away from listening to, understanding and following our hearts. When our Heart speaks, we are wise to listen and begin an honest dialogue with it, respecting it's direction and LOVE for us.  Our HEART of Hearts will always guide us to the right and perfect situation for us, w...

The real key to our most positive health and happiness is the integration of heart, mind, body and soul.  The four aspects of being human and spiritual need to be balanced, harmonious and whole in order for us to receive the greatest energy and joy for our most inspired and uplifted lives.  This is what ensures PEACE is experienced throughout our human systems. Our Highest aspects want to guide us there so we wake up to our true and highest potential of being human.  If we are not naturally gifted to have everything already balanced and harmonious, we can be guided to where that new learning can take place.  Perhaps there are classes we can take, experiences we can have, people we can meet or partners we can go through life with and learn from to integrate that needed and necessary balance. Working with our spirit and soul aspects will help us to seek the inner LIGHT, LOVE and CLARITY needed to collaborate with our sincere efforts to become healthier and happi...

If we imagine a thorn going into our arm from a rose bush outside our selves and it buries itself deep into our arm, we can imagine the pain we'd feel.  However, if we don't take immediate action to remove it, that thorn can dig deeper into our arm and we can forget it is there! Perhaps over time, with even greater infection, then it can render our arm useless.  Maybe we don't want to remember it went into our arm, maybe we don't want to remember where it came from or maybe even consider why it might be there.  We might just want to forget about it even existing. Yet, gone untreated, that nasty torn can become our own undoing because we denied it ever existed.  We might feel like it is our own fault it is even there.  However, if it goes unchecked, the long term havoc that it can ensue is tremendous! The thorn can be likened to people's attitudes towards us in terms of their anger, jealousy, envy, hatred, bias, a need to get ahead or just plain rudeness but ...

To exercise our basic ongoing happiness and health, four basic freedoms invite the ease of this continued self-loving effort for our basic shifts and changes to support greater evolution.  They are: our freedom to think freely, freedom to feel freely, freedom to express ourselves freely and freedom of movement and motion.  When we have and exercise these four freedoms, our health and happiness increases because we literally feel safe to be and feel like ourselves. These freedoms also allow and invite us to deeply value who we are as ourselves.  When our sense of self-value and self-worth are strong enough, consistent enough, applied often enough, we begin to heal on the most fundamental and spiritual levels. The world may not have reflected value or worth in us as we are because of the structure of life and what most people believe is inherently human.  We all tend to follow the footsteps of those who came before us and consequently, we feel safer and more secure...

No matter how strong our heart/soul self may be, when elitist thinking takes over, the heart/soul self will not be visible.  Elitist thinking, like other kinds of negative, isolating thoughts, can and does derail the best of our human intentions.   Oneness, wholeness, The Collective are terms that apply to the entire Humankind presence on earth, including, too, all living things.  When our Hearts and Souls reach out to share our LIGHT to include the whole of life, divided thinking must go because it forms negative boundaries that are harmful and hurtful because ultimately, they are not true. Throughout time, it seems, there are always those who have more, have been given more or who received more, which creates, of course, the opposite energy of those who have less, are given less and who have received less.  It is part of the balance and re-balance of life.  The issue comes when there is elitist thinking, elevating the thinker, thereby lowering those t...