Looking around for constant blessings is a personal practice toward Happiness. It can become a habit to be aggravated and ‘put out’ by nature, people and the flow around us. It can also become a habit to see the web that is weaving constantly just for YOU. Things are always working our for us!
Watch the bright web being spun everyday so that your life flows well and happily. The more you SEE the good that is being collected just for YOU, the more it will happen.
Nature is offering so many pieces to focus on at the moment. Color is opening, birds are singing and organizing, trees are leafing, and colorful life is being born. Sitting outside for 15 minutes to notice all of the changes that are 
happening in this season is a beautiful meditation.
Sit. Quiet. Observe.
Soak it in. Try not judging any of it, the pollen that brings about allergies or one bird call versus another. Simply notice what is there. 10-15 minutes of witnessing, is time powerfully spent.
Most have heard the the old parable about the two fighting wolves within us, one angry, jealous, resentful and one peaceful, kind and hopeful. The Child asks the Grandfather which wolf wins and he answers, “the one you feed.” This speaks largely to the present and how we live our lives and make decisions. It also may speak to our past – something that many people churn, regret, and actively pile on shame and anger. We could be feeding the wolf within us now and feeding wolves of our past.
Sometimes with certain themes in our lives there is a choice to focus on the negative experiences and fill our cups full of all that we did wrong, or what was done wrong to us. Within these certain themes there could be contradictions that we conveniently ignore to feed the angry wolf, because we know him and we are used to his vicious treatment, and we are used to our shame and resentment. The peaceful, positive, and kind wolf in our past is sitting there starving. This one exists too, and can be woefully neglected.
The past has good and bad. When there is a bad theme in our past that effects our lives now we have a choice: which wolf within those times is fed, groomed, and befriended. There was bad, yes, and was there good?
I am wanting to feed the peaceful, hopeful, kind wolf of my past so that my perspectives of NOW can look just a little different than the monster that sneaks in at times.
“Laughter is an instant vacation” Milton Berle
Take yourself and others on a trip this weekend!
A bird flew into this window, so thoroughly that it left behind a a gift and a reminder.
Even the most humiliating of mistakes can leave a beautiful impression of your existence for others to witness.
To physically practice leading life with your heart, posture is key. A gathered back and a curious sternum, held high by a long torso. The line between your belly button and you sternum can be lengthened just by bringing your awareness to it, and then your back has help gathering. It all works together. 
A Pose that you can practice to strengthen the muscles and let your heart reach out, is Locust. Laying on your belly, continue to keep your gaze on your mat as you lift your head, shoulders, chest and arms. Simultaneously, lift strong, engaged legs until your body is gently rocking with your breath on your upper thighs and lower torso. Release and rise with your breath.
Now sitting, lengthen this front torso line, draw your sternum up and proud. Draw your skull back away from screens, stacked on top of your actual heart. We tend to lead with our heads (figuratively and literally) while walking and sitting and this is very straining on our upper backs and lower necks. As your skull sits back onto its nature place in this stack your shoulders can release, shoulder blades can guide themselves down and the entire back will strengthen and give a curve back that can release these hard working muscles as well.
Now sit and feel this strength in your posture. Tall, Proud and the way nature intended for our spines to live.
Hello, lamppost, what’cha knowin’?
I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’
Ain’t’cha got no rhymes for me?
Feeling Groovy
How we end our day is very important. As you sleep your brain will do it’s very best to process unresolved events and ‘personal logic’. Your body will hold what you have left from the day and this can leave us waking up with soreness, irregular sleep cycles, upsetting dreams and sore, clenched jaws.
Here is an option to set yourself up for a positive mind waiting to dream and a relaxed body ready to relax and let go of the day.
mfort, fold a decorative bed pillow under your thighs to ease the lumbar curve.Sleep well this weekend. Recoup. Rejuvenate. The practice of Living and Loving will happen in a new way with better sleep.
Post by: Tracy Weaver, Life Coach, EFT Practitioner
The “Be Your Own Best Friend” trend has certainly gotten off the ground and it is all psychologically very sound. You are the only with one with you 24/7, and hopefully you do know yourself better than anyone else. Being your own critic really isn’t good for you or your health and yes, you can learn how to be inwardly loving and positive to yourself. But all that isn’t actually what got me going on finding ways to be good to me. It was the timeless comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
At one point, Calvin wrote letters to his future self, posted them, got them back in the mailbox the next day and read them aloud to Hobbes. The idea always tickled me and many years later, I decided to do some friendly things for my future self, things that would make me feel good when I got them or came upon them.
One is easy. I love music and so I occasionally find a used music CD online and buy it. Then I forget all about it which, in my case, is really easy to do. A few days or a week later I get a padded envelope in the mail with something new to listen to, a nice surprise for that evening. I also do this for my wife and occasionally other folks. Just a nice little surprise in the mail, and something new to listen to that evening while making dinner.
Another is setting up the coffee for the morning before I retire. I’m picky about coffee, so I set it up just as I want to find it in the morning. I’m also an early riser, waking up ready to do things while daylight is still a couple of hours away and the house is cold. Since my wife does not share this habit, I lay out whatever I’m going to wear in the morning in such a way that I can easily pick the items, figure out what they are, how they are oriented, and get dressed quietly in the dark without falling over hopelessly tangled up.
I’ve found it’s fun to do for myself and that my future self appreciates it! I don’t go overboard, just a few thoughtful little things. I wonder, if you were to try something like that, what would your future self most appreciate from you?
You are Loved
You are Loved
You are Loved
Show what you know.
Show it to EVERYONE.
Everywhere
in every way you can imagine.
This Day of Love can be a Year of love
and then a Life of Love.
Presence and Positivity 