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Day 6: What Makes Your Heart Sing?

I’m so grateful that these last few months have been a study in what makes my heart sing.  With the end of a significant relationship and an unfamiliar (yet welcome) sense of expanded time, I’ve chosen to let Spirit flow through me and illuminate my passions and desires.

I’m drinking 1.5 litres of water a day, every day.  I’ve joined Curves and work out at least 4 days per week.  I’ve allowed myself the “luxury” of pure, organic food and body care products.  I’m honouring my body’s cues for food intake, and I’ve developed quite an appetite for Greek yogurt and chopped dried fruit sprinkled with cinnamon hemp seed granola, drizzled with pure maple syrup – for breakfast.

I’m choosing what feels GOOD more often in every day. Water, food, shelter/environment, relationships, commitments, everything…and it’s all improving on the daily, as my daughter would say.  I awaken early and spend time in sacred ceremony and journaling every morning, appreciating my amazing view of Lake Ontario and the changing skies of sunrise.   I record my day’s successes and inspirations in a “Positive Evidence Journal” before bed.  I am posting EVERY DAY (well, except for the first one 😉 ) in this Daily Blogging Challenge, which is really completely amazing.

I’m giving myself the invaluable gift of support via mentoring and community in Brenda MacIntyre’s “Step Into Your Birthright” program.  And although I appreciate the inspiration of many wonderful guides who have inspired my path here on this lovely blue plant, I have an especial appreciation for Abraham-Hicks.  Abe’s wisdom helped me to traverse the path of my son’s recovery from his serious auto accident and my daughter’s crazy adolesence.  As a result of these experiences, I know for a fact that my children are Divinely blessed and protected, and I also know in my bones that my attention and intention are powerful tools.

Creating my own heartsong music?  Flowing, cooking, singing, writing, dancing, loving, sweating, laughing, soothing, uplifting, feeling, being in Sacred Circle…that’s music to me.

What makes your heart sing?


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Day 3: Seeing the Good

My first introduction to the self-growth and personal development field was nearly twenty-five years ago while working a temporary job at a major book publishing company. Boxes of new titles arrived at the office weekly, and among them were newly released offerings by Louise Hay and Susan Jeffers.  I learned about the importance of positive thought and mindset and intention as I was in the midst of making – let’s just call them “questionable”  – major life choices.

Fast forward a good number of personal growth books, courses, and affirmations later, and I became a mom for the first time at the ripe old age of 29.  My own mother had given birth to me (her only child) at 41, a fact which I was to regard with some awe and much greater respect later in life.  I remember thinking at 45, “I can’t imagine having a 4 year-old at this point.”

Motherhood dramatically changed the way I looked at life and the possibilities ahead. After my daughter was born (four years after her older brother), I left their biological father and began a new chapter.  I remember journalling every day until there were no more tears left to cry, releasing all of the anger and grief I felt at losing the dream of our happy family.  It never really was, though…I recall the peace I felt when he finally moved away to another province and left us to rebuild our lives.

I’ve always considered myself to be a pretty upbeat person and I continued to work on positive affirmations and goal-setting.  But I didn’t experience as much success as I’d hoped for – I allowed a lack of support from my then-partner to tank my network marketing business, I gained a LOT of weight, and I came to a point where I needed to rethink my whole outlook and lifestyle.  I left my job and started a virtual assistant business for coaches (after being introduced to coaching through bartering my services for free coaching sessions.)  I learned a great deal about the law of attraction, the business of coaching and the steps for success. Around that time I also discovered Abraham-Hicks, whose uplifting message absolutely resonated for me then – and still does today!

But even though I “knew” intellectually what was required for success in health, relationships and wealth, and I had done a personal excavation and was (at least somewhat) aware of what was holding me back, I didn’t experience the success I was seeking.  After long years of study and application I was still doing battle with debilitating fears that kept me playing small.  “Not smart enough, not good enough, just NOT ENOUGH” was the mantra I would hear every time I attempted to step outside of my comfort zone.  I isolated myself and wondered why, no matter how great my desire, I couldn’t translate theory to reality.

Truthfully, it wasn’t until I allowed myself to seek soulful support – which specifically helped me transform my long-held fears and blockages – that things really began to shift.  I began to understand how to actually put into practice the concepts I’d learned, and how to finally release the limitations that I’d permitted to hold me captive for so long.  The incredible changes that have taken place in my life in the last couple of years  (and the last few months in particular) have left me feeling as though I’m living in an entirely different Universe.

And despite the sometimes rocky journey it took to get here, I’m seeing the good in all things.

And so, I believe,  can you.


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Life When Stretched Is Celebration

“Sound when stretched is music.

Movement when stretched is dance.

Mind when stretched is meditation.

Life when stretched is celebration.”

~ Ravi Shankar

The theme of this blog is Celebrating Abundant Living: Body, Mind, and Spirit, so the above quote really resonated with me.

I have stretching myself by focusing my energies on expansion and stepping out of my comfort zone in many ways, and I am feeling refreshed and re-energized.  I find myself awakening rested and inspired, with an eager sense of adventure for the new day.  I feel absolutely on target to manifest miracles…as Abraham-Hicks says “ You know when you’re on the brink of it when it feels like the next logical step.” 

I invite you to take a moment to think about how and where you are stretching your life into celebration, and I invite you to post your responses!


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Rainbows…

There are many areas in my life where I feel amazingly GOOD about what’s happening…and then today I heard some sad news from my son.  In parenting situations like these, I find it most challenging to navigate my thoughts and feelings and maintain a positive, uplifted vibe.  As Abraham-Hicks says,

“You are here because you are wanting to really be Deliberate Creators. And we want you to know that a Deliberate Creator is really a deliberate feeler. A Deliberate Creator is one who says, “I want so much to feel good, because when I feel good, I’m in alignment with that which is my Source.” A Deliberate Creator does not demand that circumstances change so that you can have a better-feeling response to the circumstances. A Deliberate Creator says, “I will choose–from what seems to be available–the very best-feeling thought, past, present or future, that I can find, and I will fixate on it until it becomes the reason for my vibrational offering. And I know that Law of Attraction will then accumulate around that vibrational offering. And then, I will reach for the better thought and the better thought, and the better thought.”
And what you will discover is that there is always a better thought.”

So it’s clear to me that my work is to walk myself up the vibrational scale from scared and sad; to see the rainbow in the clouds, so to speak.  Here goes:

I’m glad my son called to tell me in person

I’m glad he is alive

He knows that there are people working on his behalf behind the scenes

He has freedom of choice

He will be back home in a month or so

I will be in a better position in all ways to assist him then

He is smart and funny and resourceful

He desires a better life

He has skills and talents

I believe there can be a gift in this situation

I trust the Universe

Everything is unfolding in perfect Divine timing

…My son knows how much he is loved.

Better, much better.  🙂


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Visualizing – Creation Tool or Vibrational Practice?

“When you deliberately conjure an image for the purpose of creating, we want you to understand that, well, often people think “I’m going to sit and do my creating now.”

“And we want you to understand that all that visualization is, is practicing the vibration of what you already asked for in. This is just vibrational practice. All that visualizing is not making something happen. It’s letting something that’s already happened in. That’s such an important distinction. You’re not creating with your affirmations, you’re not creating with your visualizations, you are practicing a vibration that lets it in. (emphasis mine)

“So, the more practicing you do, the more you set a tone that lets more in.”

~ Abraham Hicks
In honour of a beautifully aligned and exciting project (a perfect match to my talents, passions, and appreciation) I was moved to search “synchronicity” on Thesaurus.com, and here’s what I found:  synchronicity = coexistence. Interesting!  A reminder that what we may experience as happy coincidence is actually the evidence that our desires CAN be made manifest.  The abundance and prosperity we so often actively seek already exists, it simply awaits our vibrational alignment.

Loving What Is – that has been the theme of my week, in the wake of what has been a particularly virulent bout of vagrants/crises/drama …whatever the current format of the contrast.  I am reminded that it IS possible to choose appreciation in the midst of (apparent) struggle, and that choice brings me ever closer to the alignment that allows my Source energy to flow love, beauty, abundance, and creativity through every aspect of my life.  I am reminded of Einstein’s quote:

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.“

So whatever the appearance of the ‘problems’ in my life, if I wish to move forward I must transcend the consciousness that created the situation and soothe myself into vibrational alignment with the expanded version of myself (the ‘me’ that is already enjoying the fruits of my rockets of desire.)  And I know that the way to do this is gratitude for what is…deliberately setting my focus to what is already GOOD in my life, and actively appreciating that and dwelling as often as possible in that vibration, as I envision and anticipate the feelings of already having a healthy, happy & productive family; passionate, purposeful, soul-satisfying work; frequent travel; a warm and inviting space to entertain; and the financial security and serenity.

I can choose to focus my attention, and therein lies my freedom.  I can choose to use energy tools to raise my vibration and release my resistance.  My work is to find vibrational relativity to my desires through active appreciation and joyful visualization.  As I traverse that path, I’m delighted to find that the Universe sends me frequent reminders that ALL is Energy, and that I AM more powerful than I might perceive (or allow myself to perceive) or know.

I am committing to these intentions daily:

To be in the flow of magic, miracles, manifestation.
To notice frequent synchronicity…the numerous places where my ideal reality intersects with my current reality.
To appreciate and bless the people, events, and circumstances that illuminate where I hold my resistance, so that I can release and transmute my experience into that of my expanded (Higher) Self.

I’m so grateful for all of the falling-away, messy, broken down, seemingly ugly parts of my life right now…perfect opportunities to identify my thoughts and beliefs, and release and transcend old patterns.  After many ups and downs in my life, the current crisis is a clear indication that my limiting beliefs have surfaced for final blessing in a rather dramatic way. A new search on Thesaurus.com reveals that a concurrent meaning for ‘release’ is absolution: free from responsibility, duty.  So these old beliefs that have stuck with me for almost 50 years are ripe for release…I can feel that energy being freed to flow as love and expansion.

Abundant cause for Celebration!