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\"thanksbeing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I came up with this term earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

I think we can use holidays as reminders of what’s really important in life, like family and counting our blessing.\u00a0 Not like the forced, obligatory type of…we should be grateful for_____<\/em>.\u00a0 We are not always grateful during any given day and the holidays can be tough energy actually.\u00a0 It’s when we need to practice gratitude within and embody thanksBeing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The holidays bring up money worries, family issues, unresolved feelings, a spotlight on your love life or lack thereof, and life review as the year comes to a close.\u00a0 Couple that with lots of food, sugar, and alcohol…it’s like carb-vaganza!\u00a0 We tend to overindulge as a way to manage the chaotic energy at parties as well.\u00a0 I’m feeling like doing a December challenge of gratitude to really anchor in the feelings we want to feel, like gratitude, peace, love, joy, prosperity, and all that good stuff.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to plug into the collective consciousness and feel the buzz of it all.\u00a0 Or you can disconnect and plug within.\u00a0 Meditation is the perfect choice.\u00a0 Prayer, communion with nature, loving without attachment, and soul activities are what we stir that spiritual mojo to the max. Why not start out the new year by laying the ground work a month early?\u00a0 Divine December I could call it!\u00a0 Or Delicious December!\u00a0 To do something for Body-Mind-Spirit each day and write it down.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t have to be boring or heavy, like a to-do-list, but more like a celebration of Self.\u00a0 God gave you this life to experience, not to endure.\u00a0 I was reading The War of Art<\/em>, by Steven Pressfield\u00a0which I highly recommend it to everyone.\u00a0 He spoke about the concept that people totally change their lives when they get cancer.\u00a0 Like they now have permission to have the life they actually want to live.\u00a0 It’s when they realize it’s not a dress rehearsal.\u00a0 I think of that when I look at my body.\u00a0 How a person would feel about the magic creations that their bodies actually are when their health is in question and their life looks super precious.\u00a0\u00a0They get an instant flash of living in Thanksbeing.\u00a0 We don’t need\u00a0to get sick in order to feel that or to have the right to have things we want.<\/p>\n

Combine that whole energy and being grateful, taking care of your being, living on purpose, and ask yourself if you are willing to receive as much good as possible.\u00a0 Are you open to receive?\u00a0 How much?\u00a0 Do you feel only worthy when you are giving?\u00a0 Do you always have to be the host?\u00a0 From compliments, money for your gifts, talents, and services, love, attention, and more?\u00a0 Can you receive easily?\u00a0 Does it feel weird?\u00a0 Does it bring up stuff for you?\u00a0 The holidays are a giving and receiving time.\u00a0 Sometimes we want to give more but we can’t and it feels bad.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 But look at it this way…time, energy, and love are free.\u00a0 You can give from your heart and not by dollar sign\u00a0value.\u00a0 Write someone a poem.\u00a0 Write them a love letter.\u00a0 Give with the intention to make the other person feel good and that is the best gift ever.\u00a0 Ask for what you want.\u00a0 Be open to receive it with pure gratitude and no guilt…and you will get more.\u00a0 It’s not about stuff, it’s about the feelings behind it or\u00a0what\u00a0is created in receiving.<\/p>\n

Sending you all blessings this holiday weekend here in the US.\u00a0 This empath can’t take the energy of Black Friday shopping, but hope you brave shoppers got some good stuff!\u00a0 Keep on Thankbeing not just until Monday, but forever.\u00a0 I need to make up Thanksbeing cards. I still love snail mail.\u00a0 Don’t you?\u00a0 I love receiving.\u00a0 It’s Thanksbeing every time I receive.\u00a0 It feels so good.\u00a0 We’re taught to give, but often stumble on asking for what we really want or actually being open to receive it.\u00a0 Keep asking yourself questions.\u00a0 How do presents feel to you?\u00a0 Do you feel comfortable accepting good things of do you instantly feel the need to give of equal value or more?\u00a0 Imagine opening your heart to receive a little more love… and then feelings of Thanksbeing are right there.<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 If you would like to send me a Christmas card, I am a good receiver.\u00a0 I do happy dances of gratitude and Thanksbeing.<\/p>\n

P O Box 1132
\nOcean City, NJ 08226<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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