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Your amazing light

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It is not just your physical being that others respond to.   It is your amazing energy – that powerhouse of creation connected to all that is; your inner light that shines brighter than any sun if you let it.

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Grandmother Cottonwood, evening sunlight

Are you willing to let your powerful light shine? Are you willing to truly live the purpose you’ve come here to express? If so, you will break the rules, you will defy convention, you will create your own community.  You may be seen as strange and different, yet you will tap into the vast goodness of the human heart. You will live a rich and full and soul satisfying life guided by your heart your spirit and your connection to all that is.

When you allow your light to shine you will know what it is to be fully empowered, fully human, fully at home in your body while knowing the wise and invisible part of you, the spirit.

Your gifts and talents and light are needed here and now. It is time to come out of hiding, wake from your hibernation and live in your full power!

The Earth and all her creatures need you now!

All hands on deck!

Tree energy

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We tree spirits are content. You might say we are happy, or even joyful!

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Grandmother Cottonwood

We feel delight when one of you two-legged beings spends time and attention in our proximity- laying in our dappled shade, leaning against our textured trunks, receiving earth energy through our roots; climbing, swinging, playing at our base, gathering our flowers, fruits, leaves, and seeds.

Through us you are connected to earth and sky. The truly sensitive among you, and of course, the children, will feel and know our energy and be uplifted and healed and calmed in our presence.

Do not treat us as part of the scenery only! We are an integral part of your world. Our energies overlap and interweave. We are inseparable. Our health affects your health!

Do all you can to keep our sweet earth humming in balance and harmony, so all creatures and their descendants may experience peaceful, expansive, healthy, and joyful lives!

Power animals

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Every human on earth has spirit helpers. You are not, nor have you every been alone. Unseen benevolent spirits whisper in your ear and offer guidance for your highest good 24-7.

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Orange butterfly

You can ignore this guidance, you can continue to plow through the problems of your life like a bulldozer, or you can listen and take your spirit helpers’ loving advice to heart.

You may have one or more helpers appear to you in animal form. Snake, horse, bird, spider, dolphin, bat, frog… these spirits take on forms that will resonate with you and inspire, delight and teach you.

All mammals, insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians have special powers, wisdom, and personalities they may choose to share with you. Bat will help you find your way in the dark. Dolphin will help you dive deep and communicate with your community. Butterfly brings transformation….and so much more.  It is in your interest to form a deep and abiding relationship with your power animal.

Allow your power animal to choose you. It may not be wolf or bear or buffalo. Keep your mind and heart open to receive whoever appears to you. Be open to the wisdom and the powerful magic of spirit helpers and the many forms they may appear to you.

Be at peace

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Be at peace in this moment!

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Iowa woodland, sunlight and shadow

Your thoughts can easily yank you headfirst out of the here and now, away from the sensations of the body, the feelings of the heart, and the energy of emotion to a world inside your head. That world contained in your cranium can become a battle ground, an argument with yourself, a roller coaster of worry…

Contained in your seemingly thick skulls are enough worried thoughts and anxious ideas to hijack your peaceful nature, to kidnap your peace of mind and well being.  They can get you caught up in the never ending loop of your brain on worry: “What did he mean by that?”  “There isn’t enough…”  “Why was she so angry?”  and on and on and on…

Let yourself relax. Don’t take yourself so seriously! Laugh and smile enjoy the healing energy that laughter brings.  Pause for a moment and notice the golden sunlight dancing on the leaves of a nearby tree, the shifting dappled shade beneath. Enjoy the feeling of the breath entering and leaving your body, the rise and fall of the belly.

Pay attention to the here and now and most moments in your life will be peaceful and serene.

Educational needs

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Remember at this time when your precious little ones go to school. They need so much more than food for thought, coloring within the lines, math worksheets and memorization drills.

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Girl and her fairy house

Within each child is a universe of emotion, feeling, and sensations. If you ignore their emotional literacy you ignore the greater, most powerful educational requirement in life!

I recommend a daily allowance of 5- 10 minutes for a feelings check in: How do you feel today? Where do you it in your body? Can you tune into that feeling and that place inside you and just listen feel and notice and breathe?

There is no right or wrong! No red pen writing comments, no colored star, no check marks, no frowny or smiley faces. Just feeling, knowing and accepting the inner truth.

Help your children learn the most important lesson of life as you learn it along with them. Do it together!

Grandmother Cottonwood’s prescription for all humans, especially children: Tune in to how you feel. Name the feelings. Notice your feelings and emotions in your body. Feel them. Pay attention!

Who are you?

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Does the mirror tell you who you are? The bathroom scale? The beautiful clothes you wear? The home or car you own?  The environment around you?

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Monarch butterfly on wildflowers

How do you know who you are? You are a cluster of energy coalescing into cells, somehow woven together to create a body. Is the body you – the real you?

What makes the body tick? What power causes your heart to beat, your voice to ring out in the silence, your hair to grow, your muscles to contract, thoughts to pass through your mind?

Can you wrap your mind around the fact that you are so much more than your physical being, more than your possessions, more than your thoughts?

You are an energetic being – an indestructible spirit.

Live your life knowing this.

You reflect the universe

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Within each living thing is a reflection of the entire universe. You are brilliant! You are a miracle! You are a reflection of all that is – And all that is is delightful, magnificent, and ever expanding.

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Hosta in blossom

All that is is great and abiding love. At our core we are the energy of love. Expansive, all encompassing.

It is common for humans in your culture to forget this most basic fact of life. We – all living things are animated an fueled by love! It is the foundation of our existence.

Those who turn away from this fundamental truth need not fear, for they too are supported, permeated and uplifted by this life force you call love.

Life in a human body on planet earth is about rediscovering your origins. Discover your basic make up deep within – the particles, the energy of love!

We are all on the same team!

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We quiet rooted ones have more influence on your lives than you could ever dream of. We shade and cool this planet. We hold the soil with our roots, we clean the air and water, we feed and clothe you. We shelter and protect you. We link you to the earth and the heavens.

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Shaded woodland with nettles

We are not flashy or loud or in your face. We do not beg for attention, yet we are an integral part of this world. A vital link in the chain of life.

I ask you all to tune in to the quiet frequencies of your rooted neighbors to breathe your thanks and appreciation for our contributions to you quality of life.

As we growing things prosper and grow and thrive, so do you, and all creatures. Our energies are interwoven in the magnificent web of all that is.

For those who would push us aside with a bulldozer, an earth mover, or cut us back with a weed whacker, a chain saw; level vast stretches of forest and destroy our living soil and roots with your heavy equipment, you show your misunderstanding of the web in which all things are one.

You have no choice! All living creatures, all things seen and unseen depend on each other! We are all on the same team, so to speak.

Take this to heart. Know this in every cell of your being and live in harmony with mother earth.

Know yourself

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Dearest ones, I ask that you reconnect with the natural world, the stones, rivers, and trees, the grasses and insects of your home, the animals, the soil, the atmosphere.

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Grandmother Cottonwood, dappled shade

Allow yourself to quiet and breathe and simply be with the world, the earth as it is.

Know yourself in the flow of a river, know yourself in the shifting dappled shade of summertime, know yourself in the rough gnarled bark of an aged tree. Know yourself in the purple thistles and down that drifts in the breeze. Know yourself in the shimmer of my silvery leaves. You are all of these things and everything not named.

My dears if you learn nothing else from me, know this: You are one with all that is and all that is is one with you.

Take up space and live!

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Potted plants will live fully within the parameters of their pot, the ceiling height, the light from the nearest window.

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Grandmother Cottonwood

Just as you must live within the confines of your circumstances, the blueprint of your species, allow yourself to live fully within the boundaries of your life. Live your life fully, fill your container with your roots. Take up all the goodness you have access to without depriving others.

Reach toward the sun and do not look down! Do not have a second thought about your right to exist, to take up space, to be here on earth as part of the exquisite tapestry of all that is! You live and that is proof enough of your worthiness.

Only humans question their right to exist, to receive love and abundance and nurturing, to keep themselves warm and fed and comfortable. This is a waste of your precious time!

Receive the gifts of this life with grace and gratitude. When you thrive all creatures on earth thrive as well!