In My Everyday Life

I Love Color

I love color

Bright, great, powerful

WOW color

My favorite colors right now are

red

purple

orange

gold

And although I don’t wear much of these colors, I do have them scattered around my home. In every room. They give me a feeling of happy when I look at them.

I also love images that are full of color and that evoke a feeling that inspires me. Here is an image of our Holy Mother by one of my favorite artists, Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Well, I hope you are inspired to empower yourself and think about colors that fill your heart with joy.

How about you? What are your favorite colors, the ones that make you happy? Please share them here.

Many Blessings,

masha

June 17, 2015June 17, 2015

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I don’t know what happens to me but there are times when I’m really strong and standing in my sacred power. When I really know my worth and believe in myself 100% and there are no walls or any inner voices (no matter how loud they get) that can shut me down.

And then, I don’t exactly know what or how or why it happens but all my walls are back up again and I’m filled with voices of doubt about my purpose, how to live it, how to share my gifts, how not to be afraid. Am I good enough? Clever enough? Brilliant enough? I compare myself to others who I greatly admire and feel that nothing that I can say is as significant, or as artsy, or as important, or as creative, or as clever, and where are my credentials and who’s going to want to read what I’m writing. And on and on…

In what seems like an instant I can go from being on top of the world basking in the knowing of my inner truth and purpose to crash 😦 being totally in the bottom giving up and into this feeling of – not enough. Paralyzed by fear and doubt unable to write.

My mind is blank.

What I’m noticing is that throughout all this there is a raging fire that burns inside of me that has never gone out, is persistent through it all and is not leaving me alone to fall into a haze of a veg out on couch in front of the TV life.

It’s that persistent and constant raging fire that pushes me to move through, to remember I’m Divine Being and a Universal Force. That I am limitless, and so tear down the walls, shut the inner voices and allow the –

outrageous divine inner me to come out and shine her light.

It’s like there is something inside me that is saying, hey, get out of the way you, I have important holy work to do here, so let’s go.

Do you have the same or similar experiences? Love to hear from you.

Many Blessings,

masha

(Sorry, I don’t know who is the photographer.)

May 21, 2015May 22, 2015

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Happy Mother’s Day!!!

My darling Mother was the most amazing woman I know. She was a holocaust survivor; she endured the kind of pain and suffering that I cannot even imagine in my wildest of imaginations. She was the only survivor out of her entire family. And yet even after her heart was shattered to pieces, even after everything she loved was ripped out of her heart, even after she had nothing left to give – she still somehow found love in her heart and gave it unconditionally, never asking for anything in return.

I wasn’t always the greatest daughter and yet she never stopped loving me. I am so grateful that I got a chance to spend the last eight years of my mother’s life with her and got to know her and love her and take care of her.

Towards the end of her life when I asked how will I live without her, she said that her spirit will always be with me.
Well my darling mother I know that you are here with me protecting me and loving me and I am blessed.

Wishing all women an amazing blessed Mother’s Day!!!

Please come and share your Mother’s Day joy, love to hear from you.

Blessings,

masha

May 10, 2015May 10, 2015

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Gratitude on this Shabbat

I love to pause on Friday at sundown to light the Shabbat candles, a Friday night ritual for observant Jews. I didn’t grow up in a home where there was any religion or any rituals. (And I’m not an observant Jew.) But over the past couple of years this has become a ritual that I am in love with.

I light three candles for past, future and present (in the Jewish tradition typically only two candles are lit) from the first strike of the match on the box, I’m inviting in and I feel connected to, the mystery I’m longing for, in a holy way. It centers me into the present and reminds me of what is important. It’s like everything outside of me falls away and I’m here only in the energy of the moment. Every time I light the Shabbat candles I marvel at the simplicity of this act and the holiness it inspires.

I pray the Shabbat prayer and I welcome the Holy Mother into this sacred act. (Not a Jewish thing to do but it’s a me thing to do) I hold Holy Mother, Sophia, Shekinah, my parents, my ancestors, my angels and celestial beings who are with me, in my heart as I give thanks. It’s as if I’m uniting the past and the future and infusing it into the present.

This Shabbat I’m thinking of my gratefulness for the two courses I’m taking.

I’m grateful for Soul Vows with Janet Conner and Blogging from the Heart with Susannah Conway, I’m in love with both of them.

I’m grateful for all the amazing new bloggers/dreamers I’m meeting who are making this journey so precious. And for those I know from previous courses. I am grateful for their willingness to share their hearts. In their sharing they are opening doorways into my own inner self.

I welcome you to share your own ritual, one that centers you and fills you with gratitude. Please share it and post it here.

With gratitude and blessings,

masha

May 8, 2015

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Getting by those Critical Inner Voices

I signed up for Blogging from the Heart on the first day Susannah Conway opened it up for registration. I had been waiting since last year when I first read about it, to take this class.

In the meantime, I had no intention of signing up for any other classes. I like to take one class at a time and be able to really savor them.

But then I get a newsletter from Janet Conner that her course Soul Vows is open for registration. This is a course I already took twice and had no intention of taking it again now that I was signed up for Blogging from the Heart. But her newsletter nagged at me and I knew that I needed to take this class. Janet’s book Soul Vows was just released and I’m mentioned in that book, telling how I received three of my soul vows last year. Her courses are all deep, mystical inspirations that open ways and doors I never knew existed. I followed my guidance and signed up.

After I signed up, of course those inner critical voices started in on me.

(No matter how much inner work I’ve done, they still show up.)

Oh no, what have you done? How will you do it? Two courses at the same time? Maybe you should opt out of one of them. You can make up an excuse. You know you’re not going to be able to keep up. And on and on…those critical inner voices were out in full force, out of control and creating havoc inside of me.

For two days I was immersed in thoughts of not being able to do this, and how am I going to do it, and here I’m spending all this money, and bla bla… And then I remembered to ask my angels and celestial beings to help me. The answer came right away – of course, I need to STEP INTO MY POWER. (This is one of my vows) The Universe is supporting me and everything will work out perfectly.

I let my inner critical voices know that I’m in charge and they can rest now. I love them, but I got this.

So, I’m in the middle of Soul Vows and my new Blogging from the Heart course started today. Yesterday I found out that I will be receiving daily emails, filled with inspiration and to do’s, which by every account should be freaking me out, (I didn’t know it was going to be daily emails) and yet, I’m calm and excited, jumping up and down for joy and I know that everything is exactly as it should be and I am more than excited about both Soul Vows and Blogging from the Heart.

Yeahhhhh!!!

I am inspired!!!

And so my beautiful friends, I’ll be sharing my journey from my heart here on my blog. Please feel free to comment, ask questions, offer your help if you feel moved to do so.

I am journeying with an open heart.

Blessings,

masha

May 4, 2015May 4, 2015

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