Pause for a moment Dear One.

Be still.

• Become aware of your breathing
• Become aware of your thoughts
• Become aware of where you are
• Become aware of your body; how you are holding it right now
• Become aware of your heartbeat
• Become aware of how you are feeling
• Become aware of what it is you want from this moment, and the next

Now that you are aware, Dear One, what is it that you were about to do next?

What if, instead of being discouraged by what is Dear One, you allowed yourself to start to get excited about what could be?

You are a creator, Dear One.

You have come here to create, not to simply react or comply.

It’s important for you to remember that.

Sometime healing does not require a new herb, potion, tonic or pill Dear One.  Sometimes it does not require a new way of thinking, moving, eating, or behaving. Sometimes it does not require a new mantra, meditation, massage or treatment.  Sometimes it doesn’t even require compassion, understanding, insight or forgiveness.

Sometimes Dear One, the only thing that is required to heal, is rest.

So, before you go off in search of a new answer, a new technique, a new practice, a new method, a new plan for healing your body, for healing your mind, for healing your life, why not give resting a try first and see how you feel.

If you want things to be different today, Dear One, you’ve got to do things differently.

Trust us Dear One, they won’t stop loving you if you need to say no from time to time.

We know it can be tough to do when you want to help, when you so very much want what’s best for them.

When someone is hurting or scared or confused, their attention is focused on their discomfort, on their pain, on themselves, on telling you what it is that they need, which is completely understandable.

But here’s what they are not telling you:  They want what’s best for you, too.

Please remember balance in all things Dear One; that includes being of service to others as well as being of service to yourself.

We want you look on the bright side today Dear One.

Why?

Because doing so will feel so much better than not doing so, and we want you to feel better.

That’s why.

Raging, fearing, criticizing or whining about what is Dear One, is about as useful as shaking your fist at the rain during a rainstorm is.

No matter how much effort you exert, no matter how much you wish it wasn’t so, no matter how unjust you think it might be, there is really nothing that you can do to stop the water from falling from the sky.

But what you can do is choose how you are going to react to it.

You can stay inside if you want to. You can go outside with an umbrella, a rain coat, rubber boots, or all three. You can run around the block without your clothes on, or you can choose to go out in your favorite suede coat. You can dance in a puddle or take a walk with a lightening rod.

You can’t stop the rain Dear One, but you can choose how you are going to experience it.

There is nothing wrong with you that time can not heal, Dear One, if only  you would stop chasing down healing as if were some goal to be reached.

Health/healing is a part of your journey and not a destination in itself.

It would be like trying to get to fun.  Fun is not some place to get to and hold on to forever.  Fun is an experience – a gift in the moment.

Think of health the same way.

You can’t get to fun and stay there forever.  Just like you can not get to health and stay there forever.  It is just not the way it works. You see, you can make every moment fun though.  But it can’t be stored up.

Fun is a gift in the moment – as is health.  So cheer up and learn to play.  Eveything that you desire is in the present moment – fun, health, love, change, prosperity – all of it.  Choose it in the moment and it is  yours forever – if you choose it over and over and over again that is.

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.