Joy!

The angel guidance for mid week is JOY!!!!

'Joy is our natural state.'

Just ponder on this statement for a minute... yes, joy is our natural state. So when we are not feeling joy there is something unnatural going on.

How can that be? I hear you all shout! (along with my critical mind) 

Notice how it feels when a baby smiles at you. However 'not in joy' you are, a smile spreads begrudgingly across your face.

It is contagious! The more you smile, the more the baby smiles, that feeling of  'everything is good in the world' sweeps through your being.

We are so tuned into feelings of misery, doom, gloom that we pass by the evidence of good. 

For example, the News bombards us constantly with pain and ends with a little antidote at the end to make us feel better. But what most of us don't realize is that what we see, hear and are surrounded with becomes our reality. In other words, our beliefs are shaped by them.

Back to joy!

Following are a few ways to jump start your natural state of being in joy!

• En-joy whatever you are doing, whether it is washing the dishes or making a cake
• look at things with new eyes, switch from looking for the worst to looking at a better way
• spend more time in nature, and really look at what is around you.
• listen more to what your loved ones are saying, be compassionate instead of annoyed
• instead of worrying, do something that about it, if you can't, find something else to do
• be thankful for all you have, this means everything, acceptance comes before change
• and if all else fails, SMILE!!!!!!!!!!

En-joy your day xx

Gratitude!

OK, I am taking the advice from the angels and finding things to be grateful for. I started to make a list in the morning,

• Lovely, warm, comfy bed
• my children are well
• I am well
• my partner loves me
• I am alive
• still on holiday
• beautiful cat
• have enough money
• have a car
• can look OK (if I make an effort!)

Then I got stuck! I found it more and more difficult to find reasons to be grateful. I found my mind going to reasons to NOT be grateful and boy did the list fill up pretty quickly.

Most of us are on default to misery! We mean well, we try the positive thinking and even tell ourselves off when we have a bad thought.

If we are on default for misery it is very hard to jump to joy and impossible to find things to be grateful, when our radar is picking up signals for doom!

What if we write more things to be grateful, will it make us feel grateful?

Could do, but the vibration of doom is so strong that it will entice you back.

Let's analyse some of my reasons on my list and see where the thought is coming from. Whether it is coming from my default setting or from true gratitude:

• My lovely, warm, comfy bed

Well, I was still in my bed and was feeling comfy, so I guess I was feeling true gratitude for this

• My children are well

On first inspection this is gratitude, but further investigation shows that it is riddled with worry. Default setting of misery :(

• have a beautiful cat

This is pure gratitude as there is nothing else it could be

• Have enough money

Could be gratitude but where is it coming from? A place of worry or a place of thankfulness?

Am I making too much of this Gratitude stuff? 

Yes I am. I am just trying to show how our default thinking can sabotage our intentions on being happy.

The good thing is, the more you practice being grateful, the easier it is to feel it!

Thank you xxx

Angel Reading for Week 26/8 - 1/9/13

I will be giving a reading for each week using my angel oracle cards, I have a new pack called Angel Aura cards by Jenny Smedley.



Monday and Tuesday

Gratitude - Say thank you for everything in your life

The more we show gratitude for the things we have, the more abundance we receive. The angels are asking us to focus on the positive in our lives and appreciate the small things as well as the big things. 


Wednesday and Thursday

Joy - Smile and your angel will smile on you.

Smiling is contagious, try it! Notice how others respond towards you when you smile instead of frowning all the time. This ties in with the beginning of the week, about being thankful, say thank you more, smile and see how this creates a tsunami of joy!


Weekend 

Determination - Stay focused on your angel and you can accomplish anything

Focus on joy! It can be hard to stay in joy especially when others around you are being grumpy, or you are feeling grumpy. But determination can accomplish miracles. Expect miracles, be the miracle. And don't forget to smile...

Angel Love xx

New Beginnings - again!

I seem to be starting on new beginnings over and over. It is like a spiral of new and old climbing higher and higher but also getting stuck on a rung sometimes and even feeling that I am spiraling downwards at other times.

Maybe that is what life is really like - not linearly but spirally!

We seem to think of our lives in a line: we are born, we grow, we die, from 0 to a higher number.

 But is it really like that?

I often feel like I am regressing to childlike emotions, feeling very wronged and sulk about things not going my way.

Is that how an adult should behave?

Not sure?

But who says it shouldn't be the case?

Yeah, I ask lots of questions and most of the time it's not because I need them answered. I think I just like to ponder, it must be my ancestral Greek roots of philosophizing.

It gets annoying to others around me who are here on planet Earth and grounded in day to day reality (or illusion, but that's another subject for pondering!)

So, back to new beginnings!

It is a Full Moon tomorrow or the following day depending on which part of the world you are from. The Full Moon energy is there to help us with letting old things go, to allow the new to take hold. It is about taking an inventory of who you are, checking out your beliefs, your attitudes, your judgements and assessing if they are really helping you with your life.

If they are and you feel good about things then just keep on doing what you're doing.
If you are not feeling good about things and what you are doing, then most likely you need to change a few thought processes.

I am good at finding motivational quotes, for example,

"What you think of the most, grows"

"You are what you think of the most"

"People see others as they are"

In other words, perception is key and so are thoughts. They really do create our reality. If you don't believe me give yourselves a little challenge for a a week. Notice what you think of the most in that week. Then the following week notice what your experiences are.

 For example, you are annoyed with your partner for being lazy, unhelpful and a pain. You think of this constantly, you notice it, you moan to your friends about it, to him, to the cat.

Guess what happens?

Nothing! nothing changes other than you get more of the same.

Why?

Because it is what is in your vibration and that is attracting more of the same as this is the law of attraction.....

We'll leave it there for now as I feel I am of on another tangent of energy and vibration and love.

So I leave you with the challenge, feel free to contact me and let me know how you got on.