Flowers

The pleasure of buying flowers first before groceries!

Books!

I love having lots of TBR books in my library. Today I am especially thankful for all my books and the library books as well as books I get from PBS. Books are really my best friends!

Sunset today.

I have the pleasure of viewing g sunset from my picture window.

I promise to do this more often.

Yesterday's blizzard

Why we are not talking about yesterday's blizzard:

“Now I have told you time and time again, my friends, that you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your inner expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality.

“This is perhaps the closest I can come in handing you anything that approaches a basic truth. All of our material follows from this, and any other information contained in the material follows and flows out of this primary statement.

“I do not speak symbolically, but quite literally.”

“When you find yourselves therefore noticing more and more the inequalities, the disasters and the shames that come within your sphere of perception, you add to their existence. This may confound what common sense may tell you. However, concentration reinforces the quality which is concentrated upon... 

“When you are concentrating upon destructive elements, you lose on two points. You reinforce the destructive qualities by the very act of concentrating upon them, and you rob yourselves of the constructive qualities that you could be concentrating upon, and therefore that you COULD be reinforcing. …

“You will in all cases attempt to construct as physical reality your inner conception of what reality is. Your physical environment and conditions are a mirror of your own basic conceptions of reality.

“If the environment changes it is because your inner conceptions have changed, and no smallest alteration is made within physical reality that has not first been made within the inner self.”

The Early Sessions, Book 6, Session 253

Stitching project

I thought it would be fun to mention it here. I will be more inclined to finish it I think.
It's my way of supporting my work and cheering myself on.

You think...

The impulse to sew

Sew this is what I did today, based on an impulse I had to spend the afternoon in my sewing room.
I got to watch the super moon as it rose between the trees. This impulse to sew was accomplished with no mistakes.
I'm acknowledge myself for trusting myself to act on my impulse today.

Blessings

Rye, NH. 

It is currently the coldest winter I've ever experienced.

I am thankful for my wonderful, amazing life. 

I appreciate all my accomplishments. 

I appreciate me.

I appreciate everything I have and all the people I've encountered in my life.

This year I had the wonderful opportunity to examine all my relationships.

I love those I've decided to nurture and I'm enjoying the freedom in letting go of others.

In 2018

 ( in 45 mins)

 I wish to continue to pay attention to myself, to what I want to express and what I want. 

To continue to appreciate something or someone in every moment including myself.

To enjoy my string of moments.

To be less serious.

To explore more of what I genuinely enjoy.

A judging mind makes the world very small and dangerous

If you believe that anyone’s action is bad, how can you see the good in it? How can you see the good that comes out of it, maybe years later? If you see anyone as bad, how can you understand that we are allcreated equal? We’re all teachers by the way we live. A blind drunk can teach more about why not to drink than an abstinent man in all his piety. No one has more or less goodness. No one who ever lived is a better or a worse human being than you.

A mind that doesn’t question its judgments makes the world very small and dangerous. It must continue to fill the world with bad things and bad people, and in doing so it creates its own suffering. The worst thing that ever happened exists only in the past, which means that it doesn’t exist at all. Right now, it’s only a stressful thought in your mind.

- Byron Katie

Process for letting go of worry

"Once more, it is extremely important that Ruburt keep his mind on his goals, and not burden his conscious mind by trying to figure out circumstances and conditions that are best handled by the infinite intelligence that is within his own subconscious mind. 

The way and the means will be taken care of. 

They will indeed appear almost effortlessly - but he must let the burden of worry go."

The Way Toward Health- Jane Roberts

My personal process for letting go of worry or

How to face it and erase it:

1. Type out what I am worrying about and why.
2. Type out the outcome I want.
3. Delete #1.
4. Print out.
5. Pin on cork board.

It’s not enough for me to tell myself stop worrying or don’t worry or I should not worry. We are all looking for validation and we must begin with validating self. By writing down the worries I am acknowledging my fears/anxieties. I am not discounting myself and the method helps me to feel better emotionally and increase my frequency.

Imagery!

Some recent bodily discomfort had me scurrying off to the chiropractor.  I was fascinated with the spinal x-rays and scans which showed many misalignments. Some imagery I’m presenting to myself. 

I am not surprised as i have been feeling out of sorts, scattered and not with it. 

I am just acknowledging this here because having done so means I am on my way to changing.

Once again my focus is to stand tall, square shoulders head held high, chin lifted.

December in New Hampshire

Favourite pasttime has got to be watching snow fall, though it did not happen often.
Tonight though is one of those blessed times when it's falling in thick, fluffy, puffs.
I could fall into it again and again.
Okay back to watching.

New interest!

I discovered I like perusing the Restore store and finding things to refinish.

 I rather liked this jewelry chest which was in pristine condition really. However I wanted to refinish the outside...

It now holds all my handmade jewelry.

Heron cross stitch

I finished this while we were renting this house in early January. 

I had it framed too. As soon as I have completed the interior painting I will be gracing my walls with this and others.

I am choosing my experiences all the time

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. – Eckhart Tolle

Dear Self,

I love you dearly and I want you to experience the truth of this, so for 2016  together we will embark on a personal process of self love or self appreciation. This is your current assignment and knowing your personality I have every confidence that you will work diligently to accomplish this.

Along with your personal guides, you also have an infinite team that is assisting you every step of the way. All you have to do is call and allow.

Remember how you manifested the key? You found it in a most unlikely place. All you did was ask and allow and there it was.

Physically you have isolated yourself from everyone you already know and that's a good thing.
We want you to spend this year focusing upon yourself.

We have made all the tools available to you and we will present them in perfect timing.

It is important to remember that this assignment is for you and you alone. Everyone is on their own unique path and this one is yours right now.

You have always choose writing as your medium of communications and this is what we will use.

Along with your blog and your physical notebooks and those hundreds of gel pens and fountain pens we will have a splendid time!

Along with your morning coffee, we want you to read out aloud to yourself the following from our dear Seth each morning:

“One: I will approve of myself, my characteristics, my abilities, my likes and dislikes, my inclinations and disinclinations, realizing that these form my unique individuality. They are given me for a reason.

“Two: I will approve of and rejoice in my accomplishments and I will be as vigorous in listing these—as rigorous in remembering them—as I have ever been in remembering and enumerating my failures or lacks of accomplishment.

“Three: I will remember the creative framework of existence in which I have my being. Therefore the possibilities, potentials, seeming miracles, and joyful spontaneity of Framework 2 will be in my mind, so that the doors to creative living are open.

“Four: I will realize that the future is a probability. In terms of ordinary experience, nothing exists there yet. It is virgin territory, planted by my feelings and thoughts in the present. Therefore I will plant accomplishments and successes, and I will do this by remembering that nothing can exist in the future that I do not want to be there.”

We love you for all eternity.

New Hampshire

It's been about six weeks since we have relocated to NH.

I am really enjoying having my being in this new location.

I am most appreciative of clean, fresh air, beautiful vistas, lovely people and lots of space.

Blissful silence.

Looking forward to discovering  our next home now.

Monks and soulmates

The first story illustrates well how I had told A about a friend of mine who had done something I wasn't in agreement with. Three days later A asked me about the friend. I had completely forgotten the incident and was quite surprised and annoyed that he was even talking about this.

This website nails what a soulmate is.

Hiking at Pt Tomales, Point Reyes.

This is a bit past the halfway point

 Hiking in sand is NOT fun.

 The weather changed from this

 to this

 Very pretty towards the late afternoon.

Conversing for fun

(Another excerpt from my automatic daily writing):

In seeking out new ways to communicate effectively, what if we just sat down to talk without having a preconceived topic? Or a goal? Or a purpose? What if we just talked about whatever.

Without debating it. Without judging it. Without comparing it. Without quoting what other people had to say about it. What if we just amused ourselves with how we feel about it? A conversation out of curiosity for the fun of exploring with and in fascination.  I think we will finally allow our genuine self to be heard.