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The Spirit of the Islands

ahealedheart — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:02:58 +0000

Hawaii is one of my favorite places on earth and the Big Island of Hawaii holds a special kind of magic for me. With worries the last couple days of Tsunami warnings my thoughts have been on Hawaii’s islands and my friends who live there. So this post is for each of you; may the islands remain safe and the spirit of Aloha surround each of you.

kinsiekins photo flickr

Quote of the Week

ahealedheart — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:01:12 +0000

Encourage others. Believe in them. Appreciate them. See God in everyone.

Dr. Norris Chumley

A Travel Dream Becomes Reality

ahealedheart — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:41:26 +0000

: Flamingo Beach

If you’ve been following my posts of late you know I’m doing exercises and activities from “Ask and It’s Given” By Esther and Jerry Hicks and Abraham. This past week I saw one of my visualization box wishes become reality. To help you understand lets go back about six weeks. Six weeks ago I was following the press trip of a writer I’ve come to enjoy. Her website is Almostfearless.com She gave up her corporate life and became a travel nomad writing and blogging her way around the world with her husband and dogs in tow. I receive her travel updates via email and in early November she was headed out for a six day press trip to write about Belieze, courtesy of Belieze Tourism.

When I saw her post about the trip I said aloud, ” I want to do that. I want to take a press trip like that.” Along with my statement were physical pictures and travel brochures of places in the caribbean I would like to visit. All of this was inside my visualization box which I see daily on my living room stand. Let me also be clear, I’ve spent the last two years blogging for a travel website and have spent ten years of my life traveling and working overseas. So it wasn’t just a whim that had me saying I want to take a press trip. I’ve done the ground work. I have the skills and I have the knowledge to write and travel alone. I was simply asking the universe to help me manifest an opportunity to put my skills in the forefront as a traveler and writer.

Just over one month later I was contacted by the writer whose travel website I write for. She offered me an opportunity to travel as part of a press trip to the caribbean. After thinking 10.5 seconds I said I’m 98% sure I can go, I will get back to you in the morning with a final answer. Of course that answer was YES! Are you kidding me? No writer who loves to travel is going to say no to an opportunity to travel and write about their experience. So within six weeks of my desire to manifest a press trip I was preparing to head out on my own caribbean press trip. Life is pretty amazing!

I departed on Dec 16th for four amazing, adventurous days on the caribbean island of Aruba. I know it was a combination of belief, manifestation, divine support, years of writing, blogging and traveling that created this amazing opportunity. It was powerful and awe inspiring to see this moment manifest in my life. It is the realization of one dream and a start to a whole series of dreams. I am blessed, I am grateful and I am thrilled to be at this place in my life. It feels like a beautiful, spiritual gift. I see these exercises working in my life. I hope you will be inspired to use them in your own life. Namaste

If you would like to follow my posts from Aruba you can find them @ wanderlustandlipstick.com/hammmockinparadise

I Choose Love 2

ahealedheart — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:58:32 +0000

This youtube video is from Shawn Gallaway, my collegue Reba shared it with me. She writes the Yin Yang Spirit blog on this site. Check out this wonderful video about choosing love in our lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOMgQCRAqM

Walk The Walk

ahealedheart — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:36 +0000

Beach Photo Credit: Lisa Overman

Life is joy, love, challenge, choices and change. We all want to feel loved, cherished and desired. It’s part of the nature of our soul to need love. We want to feel the warmth, closeness and the delight of loving and being loved. Relationships are a gift and a challenge to walk each day. No matter what relationship you choose you will find moments that transform you with the depth of their love, the fear, the frustration and the sheer joy and commitment of loving another soul. This is no easy walk, it’s a baptism of fire. No matter who we are, who we love, who we feel drawn to in our life the fact remains we are changed and challenged by commitment in the best and worst ways. For certain life will become about WE rather than me. It will feel at times like a series of compromises, which challenge your very being. We all think we are flexible until we’re faced with the needs and desires of another soul. Then we come to realize maybe we aren’t as easy and flexible as we imagined.

Passion comes from the depth of our being. Passion moves us, makes our soul dance and sing. We live our lives passionately: wanting to do good with our life and our love. We believe passionately and sometimes our challenges fill us with the conviction of peace and the reality of compromise. No relationship will be easy or painless, but the depth of our love and passion will make it worthwhile and make us willing to walk the walk with hope, love and joy. These after all are the gifts of life and love.

Enjoying Life in Your Forties and Beyond

ahealedheart — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:28:07 +0000

My dolphin experience with Echelle

There is so much to be said for reaching my forties. I really no longer give a fig about what people think of my life or life choices. I am by far the happiest I have ever been with myself and my life. I have healed and I’m now capable of inspiring others to heal. I’m free of the pain I spent many years feeling and have moved beyond the suffocating grief I lived through.

Being forty six gives me a certain freedom, I choose how I spend my time, energy and life. I strive each day to create good through my writing and my website, but I also strive to feel joy and contentment in my every day experiences. I love what I do, I love creating a healing space for people to enjoy, read and be inspired by. This is my life’s work and that feels more amazing than anything else; to have reached my forties and know exactly what I’m meant to be doing. It is the most divine feeling. I feel inspired, motivated and thrilled to be doing this work. I know my experiences and stories can guide others through their own journey of healing. That is a gift, to reach the other side of pain and loss and feel I can use it for something useful, something deeply uplifting. I feel grateful.

I believe when we reach our forties we view our life differently, we refocus on what we really want in our life, rather than what we think we are supposed to have in our life. We make time for ourselves, for those we love and we treasure every day, knowing that life can be short and we better play part of every day. Time doesn’t move backwards, it moves forward and as I explore this year of being forty six sometimes it flies by and I wonder if I’ve treasured each moments enough.

Life is good, I hope as you read this you will consider your own life. Are you feeling inspired? What can you do in your own life to add joy and contentment? Are you doing something you love doing? If not find a few hours a week and make it all yours. Life is full of choices. Make yours all they can be. Make them uplifting. Namaste

You Can Heal Your Life

ahealedheart — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:00:42 +0000

Louise Hay you can Heal your life.

I have written about this movie, “you can Heal your life” previously on my site. I watched the interview portion of the dvd with Louise Hay again tonight. I was looking to gain some additional insight for my own life. As I listened I was touched over and over by her words and her inspiring thoughts. I replayed the interview about four times so that I could get each of these quotes. Her words and her thoughts are so deeply moving and inspiring that I wanted to share them here on my web site.

Begin to train yourself to be aware of what your thinking. One of the ways to do that is to periodically say, “what am I thinking?” Would I like this thought to create my life? It takes a while to do that. Even on the smallest level it can make changes. We begin this by doing, doing affirmations. Do them deliberately, that is making positive statements about your life. Do it morning and night, or twice a day or even at lunch. As you do this, things will begin to change. I call it getting the green lights and the parking spots. They are small things but they are good things.

What I like people to do is stand in front of the mirror and do their affirmations. There is something very powerful about looking in your own eyes and accepting yourself or rejecting yourself. When you get up in the morning go to the mirror and start your day by saying “your name, I love you, I really really love you.” Miracles will begin to happen. If you can begin your day with that it’s very very powerful.

If you do a good general statement about yourself the universe will figure out how to manifest that, how to bring it into your life. It’s like planting a seed and letting it grow.

Gratitude works alot. The more you’re grateful for your life, the more the universe gives you to be grateful about. The universe loves gratitude.

Wow Zone

ahealedheart — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:38:34 +0000

Wowzone.com

Today I came across this website, through a Gratitude email I receive each day. I thought it was beautiful and wanted to share it. Enjoy and check out the website at the link above.

WOW: Wish Only Well
WOW is living in your highest ideals and believing in yourself. It’s appreciating and respecting the diversity and magnificence of life, realizing that you are a link in the chain of life. The chain will be as weak or as strong as you.

Believe in the power of faith, hope and love. Contribute to life in your own special way and celebrate the renaissance of the human spirit!

Be a messenger of hope! Give WOW a new meaning: Wish Only Well.

Say WOW, smile…and pass it on!

My Gratitude Realization

ahealedheart — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:03 +0000

Indian Shores Beach Gratitude By: Lisa Overman

The last weeks I’ve felt drawn to write about gratitude and how gratitude impacts our life and our experiences. Gratitude has shifted the flow of abundance in my life. Two days ago as I was impacted by a wonderful flow of abundance into my life I had an Ah Ha moment. It’s been through my own struggle with paying for two houses and all the accompanying bills, that allows me the insight to share with others in similar situations, allowing them to see that they too can make a positive shift in their life by focusing in gratitude.

It would just be words that are meaningless if people thought I had no similar experiences in my own life of this struggle in our trying financial times. I have been juggling the bills of these two houses for two years, alone. The moments of fear, anxiety and stress have been great. But my determination to find a way through the dark moments brought me to a place of grace and gratitude, where I realized my focus on gratitude was making a shift in my life. It can certainly make a difference in the lives of others in similar situations. No, it doesn’t happen over night. It is not a magic bullet to make all our problems go away. What it is, is a gentle shift in our thinking, our experiences, when we realize even in the struggles that we have things to be grateful for.

Okay, I admit there are moments when I’m not in gratitude, when I’m in fear. There are moments when the anxiety overcomes me and I feel like I can’t breathe from the stress. What gratitude has shown me is that I can shift my life with a grateful attitude. It has brought a gentle flow of abundance to my life. Several times now money has flowed to me that I needed greatly at that time. It doesn’t happen every time, and no matter how great or how small the abundance that comes, I focus my energy and my prayers saying thank you to spirit for providing each gift of abundance. I repeat my thanks and I find it shifts both my mood and my experience. I feel more uplifted living like this. I also find more blessed moments coming my way and find myself focused much more in an attitude of gratitude.

Shift To Gratitude

ahealedheart — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:45:23 +0000

Clouds By Dareha Photo Flickr

Gratitude is our best asset in times of challenge. When we feel overwhelmed with what is expected of us, with our ability to provide for ourselves and our family staying grateful for what we’ve already created and accomplished is very important. Gratitude aligns our us with our spirit, gratitude lifts our energy and shifts our body energy to a dimension of universal love that best serves our body, life and spirit.

It isn’t complicated, simply put it means awake with grateful thoughts for what you already have in your life. The person you love, the family you draw near, the bills you’ve been able to pay, the car you drive, the house or apartment you’ve made your own. Focus a thought of deep gratitude for each gift of your life. Spirit likes a grateful attitude. Living in gratitude daily shifts your energy in such a way as to draw more good into your life.

I know in these tough times it isn’t always easy to be grateful. I too have hours when I feel less grateful than I should. At times I allow fear or challenge to overcome me. My constant and remaining struggle of paying for two houses, when one hasn’t sold has me at times feeling as if I’m being drown by it all. It is truly overwhelming. What I’ve learned through my own challenge is that gratitude really really works.

The other day I was feeling quite grateful for money that spirit provided me with in an unexpected way. It wasn’t a lot, but I was grateful. I focused my thoughts over that afternoon in gratitude. Thanking spirit for providing me another small means of support. Interestingly the next day after focusing on gratitude and really thanking spirit for what I had received, more abundance came my way, nearly doubling the amount I had received the day before. It was a moment of realizing gratitude is key, gratitude is the shift our attitude needs to bring more abundance to our lives. Gratitude is key in shifting a life, your life, any life. Live and work in gratitude. Find ten minutes when you wake up and before you go to sleep to focus your thoughts on what you are grateful for. Each day allow that list to grow, thinking of all you truly have to be grateful for. Namaste.