A friend just finished a round of chemo and was feeling better.  I said, It’s good to feel good, huh? It was cool last night so windows are open to the nature sounds. That’s always so healing for me: simply sitting, listening, feeling the air on my face, feeling how comfortable my body feels where I sit, knowing every day is a new possibility. So if I can take moments to just sit and bask in how good it feels in the moment, right now, I can make those moments last. That is what I find puts me in that receptive healing mode.  It helps me to do deep circular breaths as well. I breathe in as deeply and fully as I can. I pooch my tummy out on the inhale and bring my navel to my backbone on the exhale. If I do a slow controlled exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. I raise my shoulders a little as I get to the deepest part of the inhale, to expand the lungs more. More oxygen to the cells= faster healing. It’s a really good anxiety reliever as well.  This practice can accelerate your healing, getting more oxygen to your cells and clearing your mind.  It sounds easy but daily breathing and meditation and appreciation can be a 12 hour a day job.  If you do it right 🙂

Name 3 things that are pleasing you right now. For me, the fan feels yummy on my skin, I love the smell of the nag champa incense and I can hear the crickets outside singing to me. What 3 things are pleasing you right now? By doing this exercise, you just raised your vibration. That brings you closer to your dreams and goals. You’re welcome.

I posted on Facebook: “I just got one of those mass solicitation emails that shows everyone’s email address. I emailed the store owner back to unsubscribe and let her know many of the addresses are wrong. Make sure she’s got your correct email address if you should be on the list.”  She got angry I called it a solicitation.  I meant no dishonor, I just wanted folks to know to check with her is all, since I got like 20+ back right away.   A friend wrote: “I think Andrea did you a favor; it is important to guard others’ data. You might check in yourself why this felt like an accusation. Peace ….” I don’t know her response.  The phrase I used is what it’s called on THIS side of the industry: mass solicitation = sending out to a bank of addresses you don’t know are current, offering your products and services.
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What you see as a stupid blunder actually saved you from yourself.  See?  Not the enemy. You’re welcome 🙂

Hens and Chicks

A blissed out day today was. I went to Open Mind Zen for Al Rapaport’s dharma talk, saw soul sister Elizabeth Stamper, always a joy! Hung out in nature with galpal (and soul sister from the same hometown) Thea DeDyne  and talked birds, squirrels, hens & chicks and hot flashes. Then to Unity of Melbourne‘s first Sunday Reiki Circle with Lloyd Reiser who cleared the energy in my thumb so it’s completely mobile. Lloyd’s got the juice! He also identified an area that I’d not mentioned and cleared it, he’s the man. When I got home, the cardinal mom stepped off her nest and I peeked! Still 2 eggs in the nest and one getting-really-fat hatchling with 5 feathers. Now I’m wondering how they are all gonna fit in the nest… yes, that’s something good for me to worry about… like cardinals never had babies before… oh no and now it’s raining on them. I am ridiculous. This is not unlike what Al Rapaport said today at the dharma talk: we think we’ve got to be in control of – anything -.

Especially be kind to those who talk against you, they don’t know what they bring upon themselves. We grow, we learn. Bless those who keep their attention upon you. Let that reflect back to them and give them peace. Their discontent has to do with them, not with you. Bless them.