Breathe in and out as you ask and receive

Take a breath. Breathe in and breathe out.

Then speak these words silently to yourself:

"I am worthy of asking and receiving what I love with ease and joy."

Breathe this in and breathe out. Breathe in and breathe out. Breathe in and breathe out. Three times is a good start.

Notice how these words feel in your body. Do they settle easily on your heart and in your mind? Do they feel good? Or is there some sort of tension or discomfort?Notice where you feel an energy of discomfort or tension. Is it in your head? Is it in your throat? Is it in your solar plexus? Is it in your legs?

Breathe into that tension and thru it gently. Breathe in and breathe out.

Accept where you are and how things feel to you in the moment. Breathe.

"I love and accept myself completely, exactly as I am."....or my favorite..."I am willing to be willing to love and accept myself completely exactly as I am." Sometimes we need a little willingness...a little willingness goes a long way.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Make breathing a regular practice.

We can all use more breath....and connection to the safety and love and joy and freedom and abundance of our own breath.

Thanks again to Marilyn Westlake, my Toronto photographer friend for these lovely pics.

PRACTICE GIVING AND RECEIVING

Sometimes on the journey to receive we discover that we are not so good at receiving.

Receiving is a place of vulnerability. Giving is a place of safety - we get to decide what we give and when we give and how we give and to whom we give. But receiving opens us to the unknown. It brings up our worst fears and sometimes are greatest wounds and disappointments.


Will we receive what we love? Are we really seen? Does anyone really know us? Have they taken the time to care about who we are and what we love? Have we taken the time to give ourselves what we love and care about? Have we shown ourselves to others? Or are we still in hiding?

Opening to Receive with JOY is a practice...expanding the boundaries of our allowing...opening to receive...means often confronting the places in ourselves where we have been afraid..where we have felt overlooked, or disregarded, forgotten....and where we have first overlooked and disregarded and forgotten ourselves. Because everything is a mirror of us. If we are not receiving, we are not giving to ourselves or others. Where we hold back, the universe holds back. When we give with love, appreciation and gratitude, the universe gives to us with love, appreciation and gratitude. And receiving depends on giving to ourselves and others.

Give yourself something you love today. Discover something new to give to yourself and enjoy the pleasure of receiving your own love. Then go out and give to someone else. A smile, a kind word, a flower, lunch, a tithe, a gift, a surprise. Something. Anything ....anything given in love will come back in the spirit in which it is given. Make giving and receiving a practice. A practice that becomes so second nature that you become a fearless giver and receiver....and then watch the magic bloom in your life.

Flower photograph -2010-, courtesy, Marilyn Westlake, photographer, Toronto, Canada.

THE UNIVERSE SPEAKS IN BLESSINGS & GRATITUDE

I am thankful for all the reminders life brings ~~

Yesterday, driving on the Pacific Coast Highway, a car with the license plate:

"SO BLEST."

Then leaving my cousin's home after lunch, the car parked ahead of me had the license plate:

"GR88FLL"

God is brilliant.






Pic, Feb 2010 - gratitude to Marilyn Westlake, Photographer and friend, Toronto, Canada.

THE PRACTICE OF GRATITUDE

See everything as a gift from God.

Smile. Raise your vibration thru Thanksgiving.

Speak favor to all you meet. See and speak the best for them. Wish them abundant blessings.

Be in gratitude for all that is, all the good unfolding in your life. Thank God for it all.
You are loved, you are wanted, you are blessed.



@copyright Christiane Schull. All rights reserved.
Thanks to Ric Rogers for picture of Archangel Gabriel on the isle of Formica, Italy. 2002.