What colors do you crave?

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What colors make you happy?  What colors lift your energy?

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Sunflower and lightning bug

Do you need the stimulation of bright turquoise, the sweetness of deep rose, the cheerfulness of glowing orange, the comfort of emerald green? Bring the colors you crave into your life in fun easy ways; clothing, decorations, jewelry, scarves, ties, paint, pictures, flower pots, lawn toys, bird houses, walls, woodwork, glass…

Color is a quality of light, color is energy. Are you stuck in a rut? Bring in a new color to help you shift your energy and lift your mood.

You are a full spectrum human being. Allow yourself the happiness and joy of colors you love. Allow yourself the full spectrum of emotion, of feeling, of experience. Use color to make your life full rich and joyful.

What do you tell yourself?

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What do you tell yourself? Do you tell yourself you are ugly? Not good enough? Stupid? Powerless?  These are lies!  When you tell yourself these things you are your own worst enemy.

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Can  you begin fresh?   When you were an infant you simply existed in the present moment with no thought – simply grace – effortless existence.

Examine your thoughts. Thoughts are energy that have creative power.

What do you wish to create in your life? Gradually shift the content of your thoughts until they support you and the life you wish to create. When you catch yourself thinking thoughts such as…”I’m ugly”…tell yourself  something like “You know, I’ve always though that, but I do have beautiful eyes…”

Find something positive to tell yourself. Make small incremental steps with thoughts that you can believe as true. “My hair is beautiful and glossy.” “My ears are perfect.”  “I love  the way my face transforms when I smile…”

Allow these new kinder thoughts to take root.  Practice them daily until they feel natural to you.

I know you can do this. Create new habits of thought. Allow yourself to feel good!  Give yourself the gift of thoughts that support, empower and uplift you.

Maintain your light

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Do not shut yourselves away from the world outside your four walls. Witness what is occurring around you and maintain your alignment with source as best you can.  Maintain your light as best you can.

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Sunlit sunflowers

Maintain your light in the face of ugliness . Maintain your light in the face of chaos. Maintain your light in the midst of lies. Maintain your light when other have lost their way, when their lights are hidden behind shadows of their own making.

You may think you have no power, no affect on others, on national and world events. Yet, when you become the light, allow the light in you to shine without reservation, without getting pulled into the shadows with the fighters and the blamers, the fearful, the insecure; when you simply witness and shine, you are a healer. 

When you maintain your light, you are a powerful being who lifts others up, making a positive difference in the web in which all things are one.

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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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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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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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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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!