Eat, Dear One, and sleep, according to the needs of your body, according to what your body is telling you it needs, not according to the hands on the clock; and heal your body.

The clock does not need healing.

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If it doesn’t feel right to you – it is not right for you.

It’s that simple, Dear One.

Yes, there is much for you to feel badly about, Dear One.

There are many reasons for you to be sad.

And there is a lot for you to be angry, hurt, disappointed, distressed, and resentful about too.

If those are the things that you feel you need to choose to give your attention to, to focus on right now, then you absolutely should do so.

But you should know that there are just as many joyful, peaceful, inspiring, loving, hopeful, helpful, good feeling options available to you as well, whenever you are ready to choose them.

You can choose to believe anything that you want, Dear One.

Your beliefs are not like the color of your eyes or the length of your pinky toe.

They are not assigned to you, or determined for you, by genetics or some other external force in the universe, like a parent, a partner, a teacher, or a book.

(Although we know that sometimes it can feel that way)

They are a very personal choice that you make every single day.

And if yours are causing you to feel anything other than strong, empowered, and  good about yourself, please remember that it is well within your power to change them anytime you would like.

Whether or not to love someone is not a decision that can be made logically, Dear one. So stop trying so hard to try to “figure it out”.  Because you won’t, you can’t.  Love is not a decision to be made.  Love is a feeling, a force, an experience that you allow, that you share, that you enjoy.

Either you love / allow love to flow through you and to you, or you don’t.

You allow love, Dear One.  You don’t choose it.

Either they inspire the feeling, the allowing of it in you, or they do not.

The only decision to be made when it comes to love, Dear One is whether or not you are brave enough, open enough, moved enough, desiring a connection enough, to allow it, to experience it, to surrender yourself to it, when inspiration should strike.

Start by asking yourself this first, Dear One:

Do you really need help, or do you simply need to remember just how strong, capable, resilient, and powerful you are?

The reason we are asking is to help you figure out if this is going to be an outside job or an inside job.

It will be much easier for you to find the help you are looking for if you know where it is that you need to begin your search.

We really think that you are in need of a surprise today, Dear One.

So, surprise yourself!

Do that which you have been afraid to do.

• Be brave
• Speak up
• Take a chance
• Follow your heart

We already know that you can, that you are able, that you are capable of doing these things, Dear One.

We just think it’s time that you knew it too.

Take a moment, Dear One, to feel the beating of your heart.

It is the energy of the universe that is powering it don’t you know.

It is the vibration/the energy of your spirit that is powering your heart, that is rushing the blood through your veins, that is moving the air through your lungs, that is animating you in this physical reality.

Your soul/spirit powers you just like your creative energy powers the world around you.

That is why creation is considered a sacred act, Dear One.  Because when you create, when you expel your energy out into the world, you are breathing life into it, you are animating the universe, keeping it alive.

Spirit and physical realities need each other to exist.  We power and empower each other, Dear One.

This is how spirit perpetuates itself.

Do you want to know where you belong, Dear One?

You belong in a place that makes you happy.  You belong with people that you love, and that love you.  You belong wherever it is that you feel strong, supported, powerful, and creative.  You belong where you feel encouraged, inspired, and energized, hopeful, courageous, accepted and safe.

That is where you belong, Dear One.

If, when you look around you, you find that you are not in a place like this, then perhaps it is time for you to acknowledge that where you are, might not be the right place for you.

The realization that you are bound by nothing, Dear One, except for the limitations that you place on yourself, your beliefs, your choices, and your own imagination – that is what true independence is.