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Live Your Magical Life

Do you realize? You are like Dorothy and her ruby shoes in the Wizard of Oz. The power to create your own best life has always existed within you. The challenge is to not let any external force convince you otherwise!

You were born with a tremendous amount of personal power at your disposal. The three most important internal tools to help you on your journey are:

Your mind (power of your thoughts)
Your heart (expansive love connects you to the All)
Your higher knowing (also known as your intuition)

What are you waiting for? You have the power to create and shape your destiny, to claim your joy, to live a magical life. “Carpe diem”, seize the day!

Inspirational Quotes:
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” ~ J.K. Rowling
Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” ~ Neil Gaiman

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Humanity’s Healer

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Did you know? The heartbeats of Earth and humanity are intertwined. The Earth’s heartbeat (called the Schumann Resonance) is measurable, and studies suggest that when we are out of sync with it, we are not in a prime state of health.

Synthetic technologies such as cell phones and computers play a big part in this disconnect.

Spend time in nature and get to know the Earth’s heartbeat. Whether you realize it or not, she is calling you back to your organic essence. Nature will unconditionally heal you.

Inspirational nature quotes by Henry David Thoreau:

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Just for the Fun of It

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As eggs are historically a universal symbol of fertility and rebirth, it was a natural evolution that they’d factor into springtime rites and the celebration of Easter. When my friend V invited me to decorate some eggs this past week, she was flabbergasted when I told her that I’ve never before indulged in egg decorating or Easter egg hunts!

At least I CAN say that I’ve eaten my fair share of chocolate Easter eggs over the years. I am extremely experienced and adept in this area! 🙂 According to this very interesting article about the history of Easter eggs, the first English chocolate egg was sold by Fry’s in 1873: Why do We Eat Eggs at Easter? Chocolate is my kind of egg!

Going into this egg decorating event, I was pretty confident about my abilities. I have considerable history as a fine artist, so I’m therefore capable of very detailed and accurate drawing. I was in the mood for some sparkle, so I was elated when I found some tube sparkle applicators in various rich colors. The applicator tips are fine, so I pictured drawing intricate shimmering designs on the eggs I purchased from The Girl with Green Eggs (last Tuesday’s post).

Wrong! This egg decorating exercise was humbling in so many ways. I did not know the characteristics of any the involved mediums (the eggs as canvas, the dye, the sparkle goo), had not anticipated the messiness factor (and therefore cross-contamination of color), the clumsiness factor (trying to hold on to a slippery egg), or the prolonged drying time required for the sparkle goo. All in all, it quickly began disintegrating into an exercise in frustration.

I was forced to step back and ask myself why. I realized that my end goal of achieving some respectably beautiful eggs (the results) had quickly over-taken my supposed primary goal of having some fun (the process). Once again the “perform and produce” serious side of me had beaten down the part that just wanted to have some fun for a change. Once I realized this and let go of expectation of any certain result, I was able to play.

I stopped fighting against what I viewed as limitations, which opened the door to possibilities. I realized I was going get something very different from what I had pictured in my mind, and that was OKAY. Between the steps involved, the messiness, and the drying factor, it took an excruciating amount of time to produce a few decorated eggs.

But I love them! My Easter eggs represent some lessons in preparedness, expectation, flexibility, creativity, experimentation, patience, and simply allowing myself to relax and have some fun with friends. The eggs are beautiful in a way that I totally had not expected.

That’s a lot of takeaway from one egg decorating afternoon, and I’m grateful for all of it. Thank you, V!

To my readers who celebrate Easter, I’m wishing you a beautiful weekend. As it unfolds, try to make room for the unexpected. You may be astonished at what comes to you when you do!

Moving Beyond

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When will humanity choose to start seeing the bigger picture, and move beyond all the pettiness and squabbling that keeps our reality small?

We tell ourselves that we are evolved and civilized, but are we? I wonder if other life forms (that which we call “alien”) are watching, and just shaking their heads. Perhaps they see we are capable of so much more, but we just won’t quite allow ourselves to claim and live our magnificence…