A simple pause in the day –
It’s amazing what a moment of pause, of placing your focus on something else can do for you. While I was out earlier, I was lost in thought thinking about how limited I am right now in my mobility, how life has a way of slowing you down, when suddenly I noticed the tree with its green leaves against the blue sky and the gorgeous clouds, and everything changed, and gratitude showed up.
Happy day!!!
Blessings
Remember you are awesome!
Embrace yourself.
Be kind to yourself.
Give yourself a break.
You don’t need to do it all in one day.
You don’t have to be a perfectionist all the time.
You don’t have to accomplish your to do list all in one day.
You can let go a bit and allow yourself to just be.
And put your feet up.
Give yourself 30 minutes of some – me – time.
Have a cup of chi or coffee or whatever makes you say ahhhhhhhhh.
Breathe.
Do something that brings joy into your body.
Walk barefoot on the grass.
Just stare out the window.
Read a few words from your favorite book.
Doodle.
Meditate.
Dance.
Or, just do nothing at all.
Just be.
Remember – YOU ARE AWESOME!
Sweet Blessings
Blessings are yours
just open your heart and
receive
believe that you
deserve
believe that you are
worthy
believe that it is
already so
You are blessed!!!
September Blessings
When I pull up the shades and this is what I see, it makes my soul sing with joy.
A few days ago I fell and by some divine miracle I didn’t hurt my surgery knee, (from which I’m still not fully recovered,) nor did I completely kill myself. I am bruised and still feel the fall, but I’m OK. It’s been four months since the surgery, and I haven’t been able to really go outside and walk around looking for wonder to photograph.
I started off this year with the word “mindfulness” and as the year progressed two other words attached themselves to me, “joy” and “wonder”. And so far it’s been a real gift to find joy and wonder in the everyday things. This morning I pulled up the shade and I was immediately struck by this gorgeous view. I usually don’t photograph airplanes, nor are there many flying over my house, but there it was, the sky the airplane the trees the colors, I could feel the beauty and the view just hit me, a gift to my senses.
Wonder and joy are all around us, they are in our every day no matter where we are, we can find it if we’re open to it. I feel joy washing the pots I used to cook my dinner in, I love feeling the warm water run through my fingers. I feel great joy cleaning my kitchen after dinner, feeling grateful for another end of a day and leaving it clean and ready for the morning.
The most important part to bringing a moment of joy and wonder into our day is to want to. It’s our choice, we get to decide, we can set our intention to be mindful, and open to see wonder in the things that we do or look at every day.
Do you look for a moment of wonder and joy in your days? Come and join in the fun and share your moment, I’d love to know.
Wonder Joy Blessings
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha
The relationship you have with yourself is the one that matters the most.
Give yourself a break – you deserve it! Do one act of loving kindness for yourself today-
Give yourself a break from all the hustle, and the rushing…Set aside the shoulds, the have tos, the need to, the musts…let it all go…
Are you stressed out to the max? Are you letting anger and fear control you? Are you overthinking everything? Let it all go and just be the powerful miracle that you are and – give yourself a break today.
Remember that you’re special – important – extraordinary – amazing – and worthy. You’re a divine miracle and deserving to receive of all that you have to give.
To love yourself is to love Spirit, there is no separation. You’re one with the Divine.
Bring a loving light into your day and just – give yourself a break today!!!
What one act of kindness can you give yourself today, come and share, I’d love to know.
Blessings
COPYRIGHT MASHA G. ELLMAN 2019
I was looking through Instagram last week, not really paying any particular attention to anything, I’m still recovering from the surgery and my concentration right now is very minimal, when suddenly these words just jumped out at me and struck me – this too shall pass – Oh WOW!!! I turned off my phone and I quickly wrote them down so i don’t forget them. I sat there holding them inside of me, allowing them to linger taking in their meaning and their magick.
These words were exactly what I needed. I’ve been so caught up in the web of this recovery, that I’m not seeing the light. Mostly I have no energy and I’m dragging through the days. In my last blog post (here) I wrote about being deliriously happy because I can drive myself now, and I am but, I’m far from recovered. This recovery is not a walk in the park, I’m not back to my normal self and I haven’t been able to get back into my daily routine, into a rhythm that supports and uplifts my life every day. I know it will take time but I wasn’t remembering this when those words screamed out at me.
When we’re going through a rough patch, no matter what it is, a divorce, a recovery, an emotional time, we don’t remember that things will get better, that we will get through this, that we will be ok. It’s hard to see an end, it’s hard to envision light when in the dark. But, the truth is that whatever we’re going through, is not going to last forever, it will get better. We live in a universe that is always changing and moving and so are we, that’s just how it is. And regardless of anything, as this amazing Universe reminded me, the truth is that no matter what –
this too shall pass.
I’m carrying these words with me, empowered and hopeful with the knowing that I’ll be ok and I’m hoping that it brings you comfort as it does for me – knowing that whatever you’re going through is not forever and will pass.
Blessings
In My Everyday Life 