So if you find someone's eyelash baked onto your cereal...do you still blow it away and make a wish? ;) Gross. I had an awesome weekend with two good friends that came up to Traverse City from out of town. I'd have to say one of my favorite pastimes is having a bonfire and sharing stories. Sure we talked about some of our friends we have lost to death way too early, but it is beautiful and healing to be able to talk about our deceased loved ones. We laughed about the fact that some New Yorkers were puzzled at the concept of having a bonfire..."So, you burn wood and stare at it all night?" they asked my friend. Ha! Too funny. It's actually about the time spent with one another, telling stories, playing music, and so on. And yes...we watch the fire as it is mesmerizing! :)
Good morning! With all the loss in my life over the last 3+ years I have taken time to reflect on what to do with it all...All too often life seems to be filled with loss, death, goodbyes, and so on. It would seem to function as a vacuum in our life right? But are we taking the time, more so making the time, to start new beginnings, 'hellos', and creative births? To view these events as a new door opening? A fresh chapter in our life?
I think we get stuck in cyclical thinking or focused on the negative aspects of a situation (because it is painful), rather than appreciating the value and positive facets. This is also a great "coping mechanism"; focusing on the positive and not the negative when things get difficult in our life...it could even tie in with the Law of Attraction that we've discussed before in previous posts.
I think we have to be held accountable to a certain degree for how much growth, newness, and positivity we create and welcome in our lives. If there has been a long list of losses and death, I do feel it is up to us to try and pick ourselves up, invite into our existence new experiences, and to make the best of what we have left.
It is SO easy to take the dark and "bad path"...to start an addiction, to let ourselves fall apart, to give into depression, temptation, anger, etc. But it is much more difficult to fight that pain, sadness, or whatever you're going through and to rise from your ashes like a phoenix and shine brightly :) That is tricky to pull off...but you can do it!
So how do you do it? Everyone is going to have their own path, method, or techniques...just like with spirituality :) But! Daily affirmations are a good start for most people! Try putting sticky notes each day where you will see them with a positive saying or goal on them. What about doing this for other people? :) I'm a "giver" by nature, so I love making others happy...gives me a spiritual high I think.
Visualization and meditation techniques are also extremely helpful. In our new Youtube channel ("Spirit Squad" which is humor + spiritual) with Cait Lewis (@FindCait) and myself, we discuss how to "ground & balance" ourselves with visualizing and meditation. Don't forget to "like" and subscribe...it's brand new, but once we get 500+ subscribers I can make a custom URL to make marketing easier, ha. Thank you!
Many Olympians and athletes use visualization in their minds...and they've documented that it works! An interesting article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/sports/olympics/olympians-use-imagery-as-mental-training.html?_r=0
So if you've been facing some dead-ends, loss, death, and so on...focus on your goals and positive outcomes...envision them happening and coming true! See yourself completing these tasks with success! And push yourself out the front door and get to work ;) Creation doesn't just fall into your lap...you have to make it happen. Go meet new people, try new places, travel, create something artistic, write, and so on. Whatever creative seeds you would like to grow, plant them now and tend to them :)
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Light & Love to you all!
~Samantha~
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