“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
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Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using The Sacred She Oracle by Ma Deva Padma for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is 10. GRATITUDE
2024 is a year for fresh starts, for creativity, healing and social connection. It’s a year for ambitious projects and for getting stuff done.
June encourages you to focus on your life direction – reflecting on what is working for you, and what you would like to change. It’s a month of creativity and innovation, of heightened psychic perception and intuition, and a deep need to be honest with yourself about your life.
10. GRATITUDE
Did you know that, energetically speaking, what you focus on is what you draw to you?
The energies around us are very sensitive to our thoughts and emotions right now. So, if you focus on problems and what is making you unhappy, and speak only about those things, you will be contributing to magnifying those vibrations in the world.
But there is another way. This week helps you redirect your focus to what is already good in your life, using the skills of gratitude and appreciation.
You may be wondering if it is appropriate to feel grateful and happy when the world around you is full of suffering, or if there is suffering in your own life. The truth is that there has always been suffering, and there will always be suffering – it is part of the human condition. But maintaining a focus on gratitude, especially in tough times, and while still acknowledging the difficulty and tragedy around you, helps you to develop emotional resilience and better coping skills.
Gratitude is the act of being thankful or actually giving thanks for the good that is in your life. It’s also a feeling that sits in your heart – so tune in this week – where are you feeling grateful? Allow that feeling of gratitude, and being aware of your blessings, to fill your heart and then radiate that feeling throughout your body, and if it is strong enough, out into the world around you. Know that the more you feel and practice gratitude, the more you will find to be grateful for in your life.
Appreciation is an act of mindfulness – where you involve your senses and dwell in the moment to assess and enjoy something with which you are actively engaged. It could be pausing with that first sip of coffee, lingering in a hug, closing your eyes and upturning your face to the sun, thinking for a moment of how lucky you are to have someone or something in your life and why you feel that way.
This week the acts of Gratitude and Appreciation will allow you to send positive energies out into the world, drawing more of those same energies back into the flow of your life.
So, no matter what your world looks like this week, choose gratitude and live from appreciation and you will be contributing to a surge in positive vibrations.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead
Be aware too that your vulnerabilities and old hurts, especially those old wounds from childhood, are close to the surface right now. You might find yourself just a little more teary than usual. You might need a little extra quiet time to find your way forward as you finally step away from the past. You might need to break down in order to break through.
Reach out to trustworthy friends or family. Seek help if you need it. Actively work on letting go of what no longer serves you. And of course, in the midst of it all, count your blessings and cultivate gratitude for the things that matter to you in your life.
Surround yourself with what supports you and uplifts you. Do what you can to uplift others. But never at the expense of yourself. Be gentle with yourself this week.
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Clear Quartz, Amazonite, Garnet, Pearls, Rose Quartz.
Things I’m grateful for in my own life?
My relationship, and the wonderful friendship and support I have from family and community, including YOU, lovely. Thank you for sharing this journey with me💕 . Our two gorgeous pupsters, Harry (Blue Cattle Dog) and Rufous (Red Cattle Dog). My fairy friend Sokli, my Guides, and my ‘working crystal’ collection, our new bookcases and the multitude of books for which we are currently custodians, winter sunshine, Spotify playlists that soothe me or provide the right energy for writing, living so near the beach in our beautiful treehouse, cups of tea and mugs of good decaffeinated coffee, our Treehouse and its leafy green outlook – goodness, so many things.
This week I am also blessed to have a dear friend coming to stay, so that we can write together and hang out. It’s something I am really looking forward to.
Thank you too, for everyone who has connected with me to share their own health journeys, and to send encouragement for mine. Slowly slowly I am making progress, and I’m hopeful that this week I will get a medication and supplement adjustment from my doctors, supporting me to get my sleep and pain back to a more manageable level. Fingers crossed🤞
Living with chronic, genetic and degenerative illness means there will not be a cure for me at this late stage – but better management and global improvements? Yes – I can work with that!!!
And in an update on my Aunty Project, where I purchased two copies of some current popular cookbooks so that I could teach my nieces to cook via Zoom and WhatsApp, the experiment is going really well in relation to our time together online and the process of learning and working together. What hasn’t been so great is the quality of recipes we’ve made. Most we have rated a 5 out of 10 when we have done no tweaking, and last week’s was so bland and tasteless Ben rated it a minus 7! So I made the executive decision on the weekend to use my own recipes, and to teach those instead. I did a practice run of a teriyaki marinade I haven’t made for a while – and it was delicious – and so this week we’ll have teriyaki chicken, with rice, broccoli, edamame and a little fresh Asian-fusion salad. Easy, and so very yum. The marinade also works well for tofu, salmon, beef, lamb or pork, – so it’s really versatile. If you’d like me to share any of these recipes let me know.
Love, hugs, and puppy kisses from the two sleepy dogs at my feet, Nicole xx
