By Dr. Roxanne Daleo

1. Light a candle. Gently, turn your attention away from the day, away from the stressors. Bring
your attention inward to your breathing. In the breath is the clearing space where something
new can happen. It is open, expansive, healing. The candle flame represents the spark of the
Divine within you. Place your hand on your heart, feel a love for your self in a new way, without
judgement or opinion. Imagine the light burning brightly, steadily luminous. This is your moment
of awareness, rest in the stillness of pure love.

2. Go outdoors. Create a sacred space for yourself. It could be in the woods.Stand with the
trees: strong, tall, confident, resilient. Contemplate who you are in the Universe. Reconnect
with your true essence of Source. We are all related. We are all connected. Take a moment
to feel the interconnectedness of all life. Let this knowing fill you with reassurance.

3. Sit with a wild flower and see what it has to tell you. Just be quiet and listen, deeply. What
would it say about beauty? Take a moment to write or draw this lovely flower. Pay attention
to the details, the colors, the fine lines, the leaves, the overlooked aspects. Look again, see
all you possibly can about this little wild flower growing where it was planted in the meadow.
Let her remind you that you also have the potential to grow right where you are. Let this
knowing bring you self-appreciation.

4. Look up to the sky. Watch as the clouds slowly drift away. Imagine you could hitch a worry
thought to a cloud and see it drift away. Just let it go by. No need to hold on. Let it go.
You are safe, you are whole. You are free.

5. Go home. It could be to your bedroom or a private home space where you like to be. Take
out a pen and piece of paper or your journal if you have one. Write down your talents or gifts
you are born with. It could be you have beautiful handwriting or are talented at drawing or
painting. Maybe you have athletic ability or you’re a great dancer. Think of whatever it is you
love because what you love will inform you of your talents. Think of what you do that
has time fly, that’s a clue to discover your gifts. Take a moment. write down as many as you
can this will bring you back to love. Remember you have a beauty within and it is knowing you are love.

By Dr. Roxanne Daleo

1. RECALL a time in your life when you were in a state of resourcefulness. Think back to an experience that caused you to dig deep inside yourself for courage! A time when you felt fear but you pushed yourself through with determination and self-belief. The key is seeing yourself successfully completing the task at hand- that’s the feeling of tapping your inner-strength, I’m talking about! It could be learning to ride your bike; having fun sledding or playing a team sport and making a goal. Maybe it was when you mastered singing, completing a musical performance and hearing the audience rousing applause. You decide. When did you feel great? What were you doing that made you feel super-good inside yourself?
2. RE-LIVE IT using all your senses. Imagine hearing all the sounds around you; feeling the feeling of exhilaration and excitement, totally see yourself as you were going through the motions on that day. The day you felt good about yourself.
3. RESOLVE yourself to never giving up. You have within you all the power you need to do what you set out to do. Reactivate your resourceful state – your cellular memory will help you know it is still there within you. It feels like a “YES, I did it!”
4. RESET using three deep breaths. Even though you promise yourself to never give up, use your breathing to create space so you can pause and reset.  Be present. You are learning how to make friends with  all  your emotions- angry, sad, hurt, scared, happy. This ability to be fully  present creates the new in you.

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Give an offering to Mother Earth
A flower, a leaf a stone
A poem, a story, a song
A wish, a prayer
A tear for your pain
A touch for your healing
All these things in love and joy.
“I honor you, Earth Mother, with all that I am.”

Take a Walk in Beauty
I walk with Beauty before me
I walk with Beauty behind me
I walk with Beauty above me
I walk with Beauty below me
I walk with Beauty all around me
Today my world is beautiful

Spring is the time of new beginnings and the energy is moving around us and within us. It’s a perfect opportunity to be creative and experience soul growth.

You can do this by practicing any new craft, art, writing, dancing, singing, drawing sculpting or painting. Use your energy to generate something new because when you create something from nothing, you discover what’s inside you. And when that happens you activate soul growth. This is the core of deep knowing and this is how you amplify learning and appreciate your spirit.

There is an incredibly powerful and fast moving potential available to you in this New Year. Realize the hum of our planet is rising in response to the high frequency, incoming light activating your heart center.  We change our future with our consciousness. Live from your inner wisdom and wholeness. 

You are a magnificent, energy being. Your heart is already switched into the mode to receive, to upgrade, to step into yet another band width of energy.  We are being asked to change how we live and to focus inwards to become more loving to ourselves and others. Become the master of your energy!

The New Year is like writing a new chapter in your book of life.

I am a New Year.

I am a clean page in my book of life.

I am my next chance at the art of being love.

I am an opportunity.

I am original.

I am open to receive grace.

I am all that I dream.

I am all I believe.

I am the spirit of purpose.

I am the song of power – joy, joy, joy.

I am all the goodness and determination

I can awaken and energize with my heart’s desire on this and each new day.

This month of December is an auspicious time on multiple levels. Firstly, it is
the birth of the newborn baby Jesus and the remembrance of his origin story.
Also, it is time to feel the golden ray of Christ from the cosmos meeting with your heart and third eye with joyful illuminations and the highest perspective.

When we allow the Golden Ray of Christ Light frequencies to flood into our
bodies and fields, we can immerse ourselves in love, joy and peace. Attend to you heart and third eye matching up these two wheels with this energy and consciously bringing balance between heart and third eye. You’ll gain new understanding how we are perceiving the world around us. Open to this incredible down pouring of the Christ light that is coming in from the Universe.

Gentle Attunement

Breathe in calmly and deeply. Feel the sensation of resting, allowing the golden ray of Christ light to move into you, hold for a moment and release the breath.

Take another deep breath, bring the golden ray of Christ light into you heart.

See the radiance, feel the love for yourself and rest a moment. And again, take a third breath, let the golden ray of Christ light expand around your bodies- physical, auric, etheric. Take in the love. As you do see astral bands sent out by your heart to the hearts of your loved ones… harmonize the energy like tuning a musical instrument. Know every thought you keep, every word you speak is fine tuned at the highest frequency you can hold. Now see the astral band between you and another. See the face of God in each other. Allow the golden ray of Christ light to brighten your inner sight so you can truly see all that is; drop old perceptions, beliefs, judgments. Allow the golden ray of Christ light to wash over you, cleansing and clearing, harmonizing to love, joy and peace. Allow this powerful golden ray of Christ light to nourish and sustain you. You are love and so is he. Balance and healing is available with Christ light in this moment. With Christ, the Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Light in the Darkness the energy moves. Even when you don’t see it, it’s moving. Even when you don’t feel it, it’s moving. Christ light is working, never stops working. The golden ray of Christ is flooding in from the cosmos, the love connecting with you is so immense, full of potential, growth, expectation and joy. Open your heart fully to receive these energies. And start to send your heart light back to all in your world. You are one heart. Feel how you are one with all of creation. Rest in these energies for a few moments. You are safe. Breathe in deeply and exhale joyful expectation. Expect love, you will receive it. Expect radiance, you will feel it. Breathe, relax, become the golden ray of Love. . When you feel radiant, open your eyes and smile.

As we sat down to dinner, I asked, “Would anyone like to say grace?” Surprisingly,
Joe, eight years old, excitedly volunteered, “I will!!” to which I said, “OK, go ahead,
then.” He stood up at the table and raised his voice, “Grace! Thank you for this meal!
Thank you for my family and our new neighbors who just moved in next door. We are so
happy to meet and have this great feast together and eat all this good food and
dessert!”
What a terrific declaration! I never would have imagined this expression but as Joe
genuinely committed to the task at hand, no one corrected him. We smiled and
accepted his offering before the meal.
Do you have a sacred ritual of giving thanks before meals?
When I was a child, every night before dinner, my Dad said a prayer. His personal
reverence for the sacred and divine came through him as he blessed the meal and
gave a word of thanks for the food and to mom for her wonderful cooking and for us
as his family.

Here are five reasons you can consider why I think it is important:

    1. You model for your family your values. Whether it is for the farmer or for God,
        whether a serious prayer or a joyful song, you are pausing, reflecting and
        acknowledging your bountiful blessings.

2. You are allowing your child to know their own importance and significance as a
   member of the family. You are creating meaning to your life and the lives of your
   family.
3. You are cultivating the spiritual nature of the child. Your child intuitively has
   awareness of the sacred, the gesture of grace brings to life your commitment
   to being the presence of Love and having that love for the sacred come through
   with your words and actions. Your child feels your emotions and intentions.
4. You set the stage for your child to keep the channels open and commune with
   God in their own way, perhaps, talking to the tress while in the backyard, or
   playing with tidal pool animals at the ocean. It can happen anywhere but especially
   poignant in the natural world around them.
5. You can start by lighting a candle at the dinner table or ringing a bell before you
   say a word. This symbolic gesture will cue everyone, it is time to pause for praise
   and thanksgiving. Everyday!

Let’s open minds to the power within. Our own mind can heal or hurt us, we are the ones who assign the meaning to life events and things that happen. The essential pathway to understanding how we might tap into our inner resources is awareness. Awareness helps us to be present without judging or criticizing oneself or others. Learning how to maintain a light-touch mentally rather than pushing away or grasping is a skill worth developing.

The most common reaction to the good things that happen in life is to try to hold on, hold on tighter, making every effort to have that good stay and wall out the bad stuff. Try as we may, we don’t want anything bad to happen to us.; whatever “bad” is! And- if that bad thing does happen, we’ll say:”This is a very bad, horrible, terrible thing!” Rather than, suspending judgement and saying to yourself: “This is interesting…could be bad, could be good.”

In the teaching tale, Zen Shorts: The Farmer’s Luck, the story reveals the assumptions of what the neighbors call “bad luck” or “good luck” turns out to be the opposite. Through various experiences, the farmer resists the temptation to agree with his neighbors’ opinions. For example, his son falls off a horse and breaks his leg, everyone says, that’s too bad, bad luck! But, in fact, a few days later when the soldiers come to their village to take able-bodied young men off to war, his son is passed over because he has a broken leg!

Can we be both present to the experiences of our lives while, at the same time, being non-judgmental, accepting and curious? Can we learn to see them, be with the experience without trying to push it away? Can we allow ourselves to feel a difficult feeling, rest in it and just be without judgement?

And if it’s a happy, welcomed event, can you learn that ”kissing joy” as she flies by is a wonderful way to play with your imagination, tapping your inner resources in order to be present, notice, enjoy but not become attached to it? Kiss it and let it go.

And then can we practice with this same awareness, when something seems awful? Watching our feelings of sadness without getting lost in them?

Imagine you are gathering all life experiences, noticing the contrast like the many shades of gold, yellow and brown of the autumn leaves.

Say to yourself: “As I use all my senses to take note and savor, I am present and open to all the feelings in my life.”

The practice of “kissing joy” is an opportunity to become aware of how you can direct your mind to focus without judging, without making an opinion; rather, just noticing and collecting.

Let’s make a collecting cone. Roll up a piece of colored construction paper and tape it so it holds its cone shape. This is a tangible way to practice “kissing joy.” 

Throughout your day, you may want to place in your cone real objects like an acorn, red maple leaf, or finding a head-up coin or photograph.

Say to yourself, “Today, as I am filling my cone with the little things in life I am noticing and collecting with awareness, gentleness and gratitude.”

At the end of your day, the contents can be taken out and reflected upon as a form of awareness practice. Be gentle with yourself.

Then you can begin all over again the next day.  Empty out the contents; let go of the previous day to make room for the new, the now, of today.

As in the ancient meditative tradition, keep your cone empty.  When you do, it becomes a practice of taking in, breathing, watching, and recognizing the every day passing events–and ”kissing joy”. Enjoy!

One of the major factors that contributes to your child becoming mentally strong is
learning a “growth mind set.” That means, the more you can give your child ways to
practice flexible thinking and adaptability, the faster your child will build skills in social-
emotional intelligence which leads to a sense of competence.

It all starts in the home environment, you be the energy that generates a supportive,
positive, enthusiasm for learning and life. You introduce your child to the ways they can
become competent, flexible, industrious and adventuresome. Talk about the ability to
see things from a new perspective and different viewpoints; It can be as simple as
playing a game and seeing several steps ahead of time.

A growth mindset is both preparedness to the expected and openness to the
unexpected. Show your child how to problem-solve using two different moves, like in a
game. Demonstrate how to see different vantage points. Here’s how.

BRANCHING OUT— YOU CHOOSE —GO RIGHT OR GO LEFT?

Imagine a tree with two large branches growing outward from its trunk. You might want
to illustrate using a tree outdoors, a photo or make a drawing while sitting at the kitchen
table. Now, let’s say, the branch to the left we’ll call “A” and the branch to the right we’ll
call “B.” You have the ability to choose. For example, say you are planning to ask a
friend to join you to do something, if he says “yes” that’s “A” and you know what you’ll
do. But if he says “no” that’s “B” then you have to plan out what to do instead.
In this way, you still feel OK and in charge of your energy and emotions thereby
keeping your inner balance. When you have a growth mindset, you are prepared,
ahead of time, with both “A” and “B” decision. This way you feel more control. You don’t
have to let the outside world upset you. You have enough awareness to know both are
OK. And you develop inner strength.

If you like this article and want more about developing flexibility read “Anything Can
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