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Loving the Holiday Season Come Join the Fun

I love the holiday season and I love to surround myself with holiday things that make me feel happy.

I love the colors, the feeling, the food, the delicious smells of holiday.  I love Christmas dinner with my family, love the ornaments, love looking at all the decorations in the mall and in all the stores. I love going to Las Vegas at this time of the year and going to the different hotels to look at the decorations.  Every hotel has something different and  amazing, although I don’t think I’m getting there this year :(, and I love looking at the trees decorated with the lights and hearing the Christmas songs all over.  I love Christmas songs… and did I say I love the holiday season? So I decided to post some of my favorite things throughout this holiday season, and I’m starting with the Christmas flower, Poinsettia.

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This is also a time of the year when I hold my mother dearly in my heart, and I remember and miss our time together.  We went to the mall often throughout the year, but during this holiday season it was always more special for us.  We would just walk around looking at everything Christmas, window shopping with smiles from ear to ear on our faces.  And of course we always had a cup of something hot, mostly tea, at the eatery and watch all the people walking by carrying bags filled with goodies.

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So here we are, and I’m taking a journey through a month full of wonder and magic.

This holiday season invites us to open our heart to look within and to give out the beauty that lives within us.  Lets open to, and allow the magic of this season to capture our imagination and our hearts. Spend a few minutes each day, if you can, just becoming aware of the love the mystery of this universe is extending to you.  And don’t worry you’ll still have plenty of time to rush around.

I invite you to join me in celebrating the last month of 2017 with joy and wonder.  Post your own pictures of Poinsettias, (one only please) that uplift you, here in the comments bellow, or join me at my face book page, click here , and join the fun.

Happy Holiday Blessings

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Magical December

What if you lived each day in December inspired?

What if you decided to listen to your inner voice –

What if you took a journey into your heart and wrote down one thing you’re grateful for each day –

What if you –

Aligned with Mother Nature

Listened to the birds singing their song in the early morning hour –

Noticed the tree that’s been growing right in front of you but you haven’t seen, not really.

What if you believed in yourself?

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Connect with the vision that you’re holding of yourself –

What one thing can you change about yourself, what one thing can you give up, what one thing can you open yourself up to.

What are the conditions that you will not negotiate, that you will not live without?

What if you gave yourself a few minutes of ME time each day?

Ten minutes to write your thoughts into a journal –

What if you made a list of all the things you like, all the things that make you happy, not just your family, but also those things beyond your family –

Having a delicious cup of coffee, your feet up on the couch. Pizza.  Opening up to a journey within, to uncover the true you –

What if you stopped rushing every second, looked up at the sky and breathed in the air –  with gratitude d e e p l y all the way down into your belly – and breathed out AHHHHH…

What if you could make something true for you, something that is just for you, something that you’ve been wanting, craving, wishing, dreamed of –

What if you could – Plan to take a class. Learn something new. Draw.  Read that book you’ve been meaning to.  Change your thoughts for the highest good.

What if you looked at experiences you had this year and used them to grow and transform.

And here’s the secret, here’s the magic – it’s possible, and you can.

It’s all up to you.  You’re co-creating your life with a Universe that loves you and gives you everything you want and desire.

You’re the one that makes the choices for you.

You’re the one who decides how you’re days will be, what you will give to yourself.  How you will treat yourself.

December is a month of magic; it’s the gateway that stands between the old and the ushering in of the new.

December invites you to let go and open up, to give out of yourself and to receive.  It asks you to look within and tend to your inner garden. It asks you to weed out the old that no longer fits, and to make room for the new that holds endless magical possibilities.

So, what if you lived each day in December inspired, come and share your thoughts in the comments bellow, love to hear from you.

Blessings Magical December!

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Did You Know You Have Endless Possibilities

Every minute holds endless possibilities. How you want to feel. What you want to experience. How you want to be. What you want to let go of. What you want to open yourself up to. What changes you want. How you want to think…the possibilities are endless.

So, what are you choosing today? What will you accomplish today? What mountains will you stop carrying around with you? What fears will you dissolve? What goal will you take a step towards achieving?

The possibilities are waiting for you to pick them up, to hold them, to use them in any way you desire.

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When the word possibilities came into my mind, I knew right away I wanted to write about it.  It was an immediate, oh yes, this is perfect. And then as I was writing my inner know-it-all showed up, and started with the, that’s not really good enough, you have to mention the universe and the magic and you don’t know enough, and who do you think you are…and…and… I got totally lost inside this negative self talk, fear was up, and it stopped me from everything.

And then I realized, that wait, I have endless possibilities, and I am the choice maker, I can either continue to allow my inner know it all to continue barraging me with all the nasty negative stuff, or I can stop her, move beyond, and write from my own truth.

The possibilities are endless and the choice is always ours.

How we see ourself.

How we love ourself.

How we give to ourself.

What we want to believe.

What we want to commit to.

How we want to trust –

The possibilities are there for us to choose from.

We can stay the same.

We can stop.

We can transform.

We can give in to our fears, to our jealousy, to our hatred and anger…

We can live in gratitude, in loving thoughts, in inspiration –

We hold the magic key to endless possibilities.

Annie Dillard wrote “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

So, how are you spending your days?  What possibilities are you choosing from, what doors are you unlocking with your magic key?  Love to hear from you, come and share in the comment section bellow.

Blessings

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Hello November – Reflection

For me, I love November, it’s my birth month, and I’ve made it the month for inner self reflection.  But, I also feel that November is the month that invites us all to spend some time to reflect on ourselves.  For looking within and getting naked to uncovering the truth of who we are.

November asks us to remove the layers that are blocking our inner growth and allowing the beauty of who we are to shine through.

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Look within yourself – What are you holding onto that is no longer serving you? What old hurt are you still carrying around with you? What stories are you telling yourself that are keeping you small, in pain, blocked? Where do you need to love yourself more? What are you not giving yourself?…

Get naked to your question, don’t embellish it with thoughts that will cover up your true feelings. It’s only if you can see yourself in the naked truth, that you can remove what doesn’t work for you, what is blocking you, what is keeping you from love . Open up that space to allow new energies to fill you – new energies that will support you on your journey, that will uplift you, inspire you, heal you, that will carry you in gentle ways into a higher place of inner wisdom.  Of course you can look within yourself anytime of the year, but doing it now in November helps to clear the way for the intentions you want to set for the new year, and for a new vision for yourself.

So give yourself the gift of inner self-reflection, and clear the way for opening up to the magical gifts the universe is holding out for you.

Come and share your thoughts in the comments below, love to hear from you.

Blessings

COPYRIGHT MASHA G. ELLMAN 2017

 

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Are You Noticing the Messages from the Universe

We live in a universe that embraces us and loves us and communicates with us all the time.  If we’re open to receive it’s messages, if we can pay attention and see the visible in the invisible, we can then live in harmony with our natural nature and receive.

To notice and read the symbols, is to be engaged with the language of the universe.

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There are many ways in which the universe is constantly trying to communicate with us, and these kinds of things happen all the time, every day.  Suddenly you notice a word on a billboard you’ve seen many times before, but never really noticed it, and it’s the perfect word that triggers the answer for what you’ve been needing.  Or suddenly an image or a word pops into your mind and you immediately have your answer and know what to do.  You may overhear a couple of strangers having a conversation in the supermarket, and one says the perfect thing that you needed to hear. Or you’ll have an animal or a bird come to you in a way that you never noticed that creature before, bringing you a message of confirmation.  This is exactly what happened to me.

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We went on a two day cruise to Mexico out of San Diego and on the second day I opened the curtain in my room, and there was this huge Seagull just standing there and looking straight at me.  He kept on tilting his head first to one side and than to the other and looking at me with one eye than the other.  I quickly grabbed my phone and I was hoping he would remain there while I was fumbling to find my camera app, because in that moment I was like OMG OMG OMG where’s my camera?  LOL.

This has never happened to me, in all the years I lived in Florida near the ocean where I took a walk along the boardwalk every day, I’ve never had a Seagull come up to me like this and just stay there and look at me so intensely.

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So I knew that this is definitely a message here for me from the universe.  I googled the symbolic meaning of Seagull and the one thing that really hit home for me was, that the Seagull is a very chatty bird, and his message is for me to be fierce and to be wide open.  I am entering the new year with my new word “trust” in myself, and this is the universe affirming for me to fearlessly step into my power, and allow my authentic voice to be heard.

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When you notice a word, a song that pops into your head, a plant, a flower, an animal that suddenly comes across your vision.  A license plate with a number or a word that suddenly strikes you.  Pay attention, the universe is trying to tell you something.

Have you noticed any messages?  How is the universe communicating with you?  Come and share in the comments below, love to hear from you.

Blessings

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A Guidance Card for Today

It’s amazing how the universe will always bring you to the exact place where you need to be.

For the first time in a couple of months I’m feeling really light, I’ve been inside a very heavy energy, so much so that it affected my days in many ways, it even affected my writing which I haven’t been able to get into.

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I’m taking a class with Victoria Smith “Coffee with the Oracle” and today we were to pull five cards and do a reading.  The cards felt so heavy that I couldn’t really get into the reading and I left it for later.  Then I remembered that there was an interview video to listen to from last week, that I totally forgot about, so I decided to listen.  (Which by the way was great.)

After listening to the interview I felt like I needed to pull a card for today.  So following my inner guidance I used Lisa McLoughlin’s deck “Life Design Cards” I asked the question – what do I need today to guide me that is for my highest good and that of all –  and this is the card that fell out as I was shuffling. The instant I read the guidance on the card I felt a heaviness lift from me, it took me out of that heavy energy and brought me into play, rejoice, celebrate.

Yes, the universe always knows.

Let me know how this message makes you feel, love to chat.

Blessings

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