 The energy of the last few days, even weeks has been strong indeed in my life. It has catapulted me into a grand change and I am wholly grateful when I look around my life and see all of the abundance that has been gifted to me and my children.
Life may not always be fair, or easy as it were, but I am so pleased to know that when I work hard and stay consistent, I have inner peace and balance in my heart and soul. Do you? Find that your life is peaceful and filled with abundance everyday? I wasnt always so in tune or in balance as I am today. It took alot of work, and self awareness.
One thing I am being heavily pushed toward these days in Meditation. I mean HARD hit to get more time in in meditations. I am making sure to find it each day, and memories of meditation time many years ago keeps coming to the forefront. Learning to pay attention and interpret what I see during those quiet times didnt always come easy either. Its all a process of trust and belief in the Universe around us, and in the connection we all share.
There is no time like the present to get a start on inner peace and self awareness. I work at it every day. I no longer need to write as much down as I used to. You shouldve seen my house years ago. I had sticky notes and papers taped all over my house to remind me to think positive and to put out the right thoughts to bring in what I was seeking.
The word GRATITUDE is now engraved in my every thought, and day and meditation. I am filled with it for everything I have in my life. Even to include the hard times. Spiritual Maturity is gauged by how we act during the good and the difficult times alike. Not always easy, but I can attest to the flow being more positive than otherwise when I put out more of the GOOD STUFF!
Cultivate Gratitude in your life on a daily basis. Even the smallest of things. I heard recently from a friend who is in his 70s that every day he wakes up is a good day, regardless of anything else. He begins with gratitude for breathing. I find my joy each day in seeing my childrens faces upon waking. The sounds and smells of showers taking place. The food in the cupboards and fridge when we come downstairs to have breakfast each day.
It has been a lesson in miracles for me since the year 2012 began. My life has seemed to just soar higher than ever before. Do you know what it means to find your gratitude no matter what is going on in your life? I learned that lesson finally and I believe that I have been given the new house, the new furniture, the new clients, the new neighbors, and even my vehicle fixing so simply FINALLY after so much time, because I let go of the control and gave over to gratitude for everything.
I am grateful for you here, right now, reading my blog! heehee, thank you! I truly appreciate you being here!
Have a beautiful life! Be kind to yourself first! It matters most!!!
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." Melody Beattie
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." William Faulkner
"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." Kari Barth
 Today I just want to stay simple....I more often than not get the idea for the daily blog the night before. This time was no different. Simplicity. Nothing big or grand....only profound thots of keeping things in life simple. Complicating things only makes for more issue. So my guide energy drew me to this short but sweet thot for today.
When your head hurts from the swirling confusion around any
situation....then its been over complicated. When going to work makes
you tired before you leave for the office, then things have become too
problematic. When you think of spending time with a friend and you feel
troublesome instead of pleased....the labyrinth of mis-communication is
the key. These examples are so few compared to the truth of the
complications we endure when we allow perplexing complications to arise in our lives.
Think about what your part is in the intricate complications in your
life. Do you have the key to unlock the energy and bring it back to
simplicity? Do you hold in your heart the heavy feelings that are
keeping the situations stuck? Can it be that if you let go of your
complicated stronghold, the simplicity of the situation would return?
I know that in my world, it is most certainly true that I have the
control to lighten the energy around any situation. In my world, I hold
the key to all of my own locked doors. Doors that surround feelings,
emotions, hurt and worry. All things we have control over being
simplified sounds good to me. And if you have NO control over something, then whats the worry for in the first place? A waste of your time. We are what we think.....and we draw to us that which we think. Simplify your life my dears.....then all things are possible. That which is
positive and good will become contagious and spread from within
outwardly toward those around you.
Work on the things in your life you can change....and know that that
does include anyone else but you. Everyone has to come to the point of
change on their own....but I know this....when you make a shift in your
life, it can and will be contagious to others....give it a shot.
Magical energy is created everyday for you in your name, Find yours!
 Recently I was asked, Does that Fake it til you Make it statement really work!!!? I answered, WHY YES, IT DOES! Putting yourself in the mindset of change is not always easy. One sure fire way to convince yourself it to HEAR yourself out loud saying the things you need and or want to hear. Give it a try!
There is nothing wrong with being your own best friend! Heck I encourage it in my children. Everything is returned to us in like energy, EVERYTHING. When you are kind to yourself, and treat your life with respect, the Universe picks up on that and returns to you the same thing. In the form of people, things happening to and for you, and in the way you feel about your life.
Everything comes together in our lives when we seek out truth, inner peace and balance. Negativity will find negative people. Positive energy seeks out positive people. There is no gray matter there, its black or white, period. If you find yourself not sure how to go about exacting a change in your life, you can put a little pep in your step and fake it til you make it! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, and the way you feel about everything all work in conjunction bringing to you what you seek.
If you are worried about life and bills and relationships then you will find each day new bills in the mail box and new ills for your mind and body and less and less connection in your personal relationships with others. This too is a given. Fake it til you make it works wonders for your souls connection to the Universal languages. Spout it to the roof tops, I am HAPPY and IN LOVE, or I AM ABUNDANT in ALL THINGS, or how bout, I AM I AM I AM AMAZING!
This may all sound alittle silly at first, and maybe even BE silly! But it works, and works well. Give it a whirl, take it out for a spin, drive around the block a few times yelling out the window, I AM A WONDERFUL PERSON WITH A FABULOUS LIFE! I guarantee you will be giggling and smiling and enjoying yourself! Say these mantras all day long, internally, externally, write it all down and post it around your life.....and before you know, you will have changed the way your mind is thinking about YOU!
Have a magical and blessed day!!! WEEK! MONTH! heehee!!! Much Love~ MP~
 As I laid in bed waiting for my son to fall asleep this evening, I noticed the brilliance of color the low light from the setting sun strewn across my bedroom. I began to see words dancing all around the room. Faith, Believe, Joy, Family, my childrens names. I think now I will be shopping for wall tattoos. What an astonishing year this 2012 has been thus far for me and my babies.
I crept down the long stair case, with the original banister from 100 years ago, and each step has its own unique groan. Made me smile as I remembered the house I grew up in, there was never any way to sneak then either! ~smiles~ As I round the corner at the bottom of the stairs and head out into my favorite room, my kitchen, I am caught again with awe at the colors the light threw my new curtains lays out across the walls. Do you know that feeling, the one deep inside your tummy.....warm and inviting that lets you know you are safe and happy? I dont believe in all of my life, that I can remember anyway, that I have ever felt so connected to a house as I am to this one.
I look at the days laid out behind me in 2011.....and am so filled with awareness for all that has happened to/for us in the last few months. I didnt even realize I was so worried about things until I was no longer in that space we just left. The last walk through it was short and sweet, and as much as I loved the calm there, I was light on my feet as I said goodbye and walked away from it for good.
Words like gratitude and respect in the written form seem so small in comparison to how I feel right now. My energy just knew I had to put it down. I felt a need to put to "paper" my thoughts and feelings. I have known gratitude and respect for a great many things in my life, from the smallest of things to the biggest. In these moments this evening as I walked through my new home, I was floating on a cloud of acknowledgment larger than I have ever felt before. (Well, except for the birth of my babies, but on such a different level)
I can feel the energy stir as I listen to the sounds of my children playing up and down and all around this large space and I find myself smiling more and more each day. That is the way it is I have found, when I am open to all things, without thought to control any situation. I have opened up to the Universe and in its infinite wisdom, I am shown yet again, that the plan for me is ever so much more than what I can imagine. There is much to be said about sitting down in life and letting go of the wheel, as opposed to white knuckling the direction WE WANT to go in. The irony is so simple I almost missed it.
This exercise in acceptance for me has been so enlightening. I know I must sound all gushy and stuff.....but I wanted to sit down and pen it out so to speak before the thought was lost among all the others.
We are all able to have this magic in our lives. Worry Doubt and Fear play WAY to big a part in most of our lives. 2011 was proof positive to me that the worry is not the winning side of life. I have stepped over that line and am now standing firmly in FAITH with Gratitude in my heart and pouring out of every pore!
Love and blessings to you all!!!!
The Photo is a of Lake Pepin at Sunset! This is where we now live. Isnt it beautiful!
 There is such a joy in my life during these first days of 2012. I am no different than anyone else, I have my moments when life seems so heavy I cant pick myself up. The interesting energy being displayed at this time may be unseen but for sure it is felt by me. Those things you cannot see or feel are important in the ebb and flow of the tides of this life. We are supposed to trust in that truth and allow it to be our guide. This is something I have felt over the years, that I have had to relearn a few times. But at last, it is here. I have arrived.
I feel closer to inner peace than I have ever been. The loving energy that has enveloped my little family is truly awe inspiring to me. I am in the midst of my abundance and as I stand in this bathing light I am humbled to my core.
I am a firm believer in Personal Power. It is not always something I have been in balance with, but of late, I am pleased to state that I am standing strong in my center of balance now. The rewards are constant. No fear, no doubt and no worry involved. There seems to be a clearer line of thought. I have only to think it and IT IS.
There is a brightness to the morning of each day. I am a morning person regardless, most everyone who knows me knows that. Something feels different. Pleasant and powerful, mornings are dazzling with a brilliance I dont remember ever experiencing before. I can see farther ahead than ever before. The internal verbage has changed its melody. All of these energies around me are clearer and I feel intensely alive.
I am not sure where this all stems from and even as I type these words, I am given the thoughts of it not mattering. Acceptance and forward movement are the key points of interest here and staying on that path is the biggest point I have ever felt. I am in complete esteem of this occurrence in my life. I wanted to share this flow with you all so I decided to come and put it down before the thought left my mind.
I must say I have realized that this powerful flow was in my life many years ago. I had my son and became very ill. Then the mother in me took over for I had a baby who needed my whole attention. Life took on a new direction as mothering became my lifes goal. I love that energy in me as well. I am a good mother and it rolls deeply through my core. I have done nothing ever before in my life as fulfilling as being these childrens mother. During this time of a new baby and being so physically ill I couldnt do much of anything, the flow of my soul slowed and I feel shifted to a quiet back seat if you will.
Now I feel that "Im Back" is the statement of the day, hour, week, heck, New Year! Its as if a mountain pass has been traversed and I am wholly in all of my glory safely on the other side! Its an amazing energy that has not left me since it arrived somewhere around the 4th of January. Not that I expected it to, but to be honest, its a totally contrasting energy to what I am used to. Meaning, I felt I had to truly work at it in the last few years. This comes to be as if a gift given each day upon waking.
I am glorified in this energy each day. All day. It does not pause a moment. So as I write this to you I hear the recipe for success played out in my head. Words that came to me in meditation in November last year. Think it, Feel it, Say it, Do it. I have said this a number times in the last few months. I have arrived at that result is what I am sensing. My inner conversations with self, the words uttered to others, to my children, my feelings of success and love, and my actions in work and life every day.....all bring me to the Ah HA moment.
Do you know what is most eye opening to me at this moment? That this is MINE....it BELONGS to ME! I mean that, in all authenticity I have ALWAYS had this. I have finally reached this pinnacle point in my Soul Walk and this is my reward. I am giddy with smiles and cherishing every moment.
Thank you for reading my words. Thank you Spirit/Universe for gracing me with this joy! In gratitude and respect for all that is, I wish this powerful light and love upon each of you!
 Good Morning to you on this fine Saturday! I have been working hard already this morning, and I have found some things I wanted to share here today.
Of all the areas studied in the relatively young field of positive psychology, gratitude has perhaps the widest body of research. Grateful people have been shown to have greater levels of positive affect, a greater sense of belonging, and lower levels of depression and stress. Furthermore, efforts to make people more grateful have their own benefits. Gratitude is clearly an important part of a “good life”, and it therefore demands further careful research. Each of the studies profiled here has strong scientific merit, and their results should give us a sense of cautious optimism as we move forward in the study of thanks-giving.
Think about that as you live your daily lives. I practice gratitude, daily. Sometimes its not always easy, but well worth it. There is so much to be thankful for, and not just during the holidays.
Enjoy your life!!! Its worth getting happy about!
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