Where Will You Put Your Focus? – Monday Oracle 29 July 2024

 

“What you focus on grows. What you think about expands.

And, what you dwell upon determines your destiny.” 

~ Robin S. Sharma

 

Hello, Lovelies!

This Quarter I am using the Sacred Destiny Oracle by Denise Linn for my weekly oracle readings.

Our card to guide us for the week ahead is LOVE.

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.

July encourages you to focus on your habits and processes – the steps that take you closer to your projects, goals and dreams. It’s a supportive month of creative flow, opportunity, and abundance. Embrace connection, and celebrate your milestones no matter how small or big they might be.

LOVE

LOVE reminds us of the power of focus – focusing your attention on what is beautiful and good in your life and that makes you happy! What we focus on expands and is drawn to us.

The energies around us are very sensitive to our thoughts and emotions right now. But this works, no matter what the object of your focus maybe. So, if you focus on problems and what is making you unhappy, and speak only about those things, you will be magnifying that energy in your life. (Seriously, do you really want to do that?)

We recommend another way. Use the positive energies of this week ahead to redirect your focus to what is already good in your life, using the skills of gratitude and appreciation.

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

There is something powerful in bringing your attention to the moment – to living fully in the presence of a person, a task, an idea. Your focus becomes a sacred act. It can lead to the creation of new things. It can invoke patterns of completion. It heightens flow of inspiration and draws forth synchronicities and magic. What can you bring your focus to this week? What most needs your attention? How can you create a concerted effort to get something started or completed?

Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Ruby, Emerald, Diamond, Sapphire, Gold

Where will you put your focus this week, my lovely friend?

I’ll be putting attention to healthy food, hydration and plenty of rest. I’ll be writing and planning and hanging out with Ben and the pupsters. I live in a hilltop paradise, so I’ll be watching the sky, watching the birds, appreciating our wild jungle-y rainforest and hopefully getting a beach walk in too.

Does nature do that for you too? Does it help you feel supported and soothed?

I’m hoping for some good moments of peace and quiet. That deep quiet where I can breathe it in and let myself relax. That deep quiet where I can gather my thoughts and focus on a project with everything that I have.

There will also be time for clients, and for my community. 

But that deep uninterrupted quiet? Yeah, I’m longing for that right now.

For my Aunty Project where I am working with my younger niece to help support her cooking skills, I am fine-tuning recipes for Nachos, Potato Wedges, Cheeseburgers, and Chocolate Brownies this week (Ben is ecstatic because he and my neighbour are my taste-testers. Meanwhile, I am sticking to my medically-prescribed misery diet for the sake of compliance while on new meds – blah!). My niece and I have done lots of healthy meals, but I had a request for fast and fun meals too that are easy to pull together on a school night. I’ll let you know how we go. If you can think of any other recipes I can add to the collection, or that you’d like me to make and add here on the blog please let me know.

Love, hugs, recipe books and hopeful dogs who love kitchen snacks, Nicole xx