Accept and Celebrate!

Posted by Margi on Apr 29, 2011

I received this email the other day. It’s a great reminder of how much our world can focus more on the light of others and ourselves. No matter what you experience or come across in life remember that love shines brightly to get you through any difficulties, any negative thoughts or judgments. We are all doing our best and that is always good enough. Don’t be so hard on yourself or others. We are all on this journey together, traveling similar paths with our own beautiful colors. Peace

 

 

PASS THE BISCUITS – author unknown

 

When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then.  And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work.  On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage, and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad.  I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed!  Yet all my dad did was reach for his Biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school.

I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits.  And I’ll never forget what he said:  “Honey, I love burned biscuits.”

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned.  He wrapped me in his arms and said, “Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she’s real tired.  And besides… a burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!”

You know, life is full of imperfect things… and imperfect people.  I’m not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else.  What I’ve learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults and choosing to celebrate each others differences, is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship. 

 

 

Love is in the air…

Posted by Margi on Feb 14, 2011

  

 Happy Valentines Day!

Simple reminders from our Angels…

When in need, place hand over heart and reconnect with your SELF. 

Feel the love and light move through your body, mind and soul. Envelope.

Before you fall asleep at night, visualize the world encompassed in radiant peace.

~ Breathe in harmony ~

 KISS

Keep it simple sweet

Gift yourself a heart’s promise

Follow your dreams

Treat yourself today, and all days of your life

Smile

Your presence is a gift to the world.

Enjoy the present ~

 

 

Gratitude to Idea Go for heart in hand photo:

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=809 

 

What are you Thankful for?

Posted by Margi on Nov 23, 2010

                 

   Gratitude keeps the spirit alive and rejuvenated!

           What are you grateful for in your life?

                            

           Happy Thanksgiving Sweet Angels!

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Images: Filomena Scalise

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=851

 

 

Sacred SELF

Posted by Margi on Jul 29, 2010

What does sacred mean to you? Does it mean nurturing yourself? Taking a break from time to time? Treating your body well? Caring for your mental health? Or perhaps taking time to reflect on inner peace? To me, sacred means all of these things and more. But where do we find it?

Once a year, I take a short break from my work to gift myself some time to recoup from day-to-day shifts. This year I am in Bend, Oregon cat-sitting, which I love. As each day unwinds, I find myself coming back to life, which is ironic, as I came here to take a break from life. But is there really such a thing as a break from life? Are we not life itself?

As I look out into the valley of tranquility—the vastness of the desert and trees that surround me—I feel invigorated. And it’s because I’m reconnecting with my sacredness and enriching my body, mind, and soul, all at once.

What a great gift for the spirit!

I believe that we all need to remember to respect ourselves – our “SELF” – on a daily basis, as well as within each step we take in life. How easily we forget what we need most: the sacredness of nurturing our inner beings and reviving the harmony that we crave. As I care for this cat, I am aware of the joy it’s bringing me and that she is actually nurturing me. I chuckle at the warmth she gives me as her head quickly turns at each bug that flies by her, teasing her in the moment. She is living the moment. She is in her own sacredness. She’s living life! And she doesn’t think twice about it—she’s just enjoying it.

When was the last time you took time to connect with your sacredness? I invite you to gift yourself, even for just a moment, to observe something sacred in your world. When possible, maintain this action wherever you are and wherever you go. It’s the best gift you can give yourself!

Live, love and laugh.

Life can be and is good! No matter what!

To Perceive or not to perceive?

Posted by Margi on Mar 30, 2010

Happy Spring! Enjoy the blooming flowers and trees all around us! What a grand time of the year!

My past month’s experiences have brought me to this blog’s topic: Perception.

The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz is a book I’ve had for quite some time and—as we all know—sometimes a book’s timing is directly tuned to our own personal experiences and situations in life. There are times when we pick up a book and it doesn’t click or feel right at first, but when the right timing comes along we may view that same book with fresh eyes. Reading The Four Agreements combined with watching a documentary called 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama got me to thinking.

As I mentioned before, there is a HUGE shift occurring in the world around us. This shift is taking place inside all of us. For some, the experience is subtle, and for others this shift is drastic. Throughout this shift, it is important to observe and notice the reactions, feelings and thoughts that we have about these energy shifts and frequencies of change. The concept of perception is what drives our outcome. It is not what you perceive as much as how you perceive. The HOW is the effect. The HOW is the main ingredient. It is our connection with our reactions that effects and influences the aura/behavior in our energies.

If you perceive something in your life outside of you, it affects the energies inside of you, creating aftereffects that may be positive or negative. We have enough negative perceptions in this world to fire up a storm. Take a good look at your personal perception meter – do you find yourself observing with criticism, judgment, or opinions that attract and invite heavy negative energies into your field? Or do you strive to observe and perceive aspects in your life as they are by simply observing with compassion, kindness and/or non-judgment?

10 Questions For the Dalai Lama has a part in the movie that shows a Buddhist monk living in the woods. He walked through a path amongst strings of what are called prayers flags. They are strung from one tree to another, and there were so many! My first thought was how could anyone deface the beauty of nature with material objects strung all over? Boom! I had judged. So I turned inward. And then I tuned into my guides who reminded me that the way those monks live makes them feel peaceful. Being at peace in their habitat included the intentional visual effects/reminders, or prayer flags, around them. Some of us enjoy or prefer things such as altars or pictures, but these monks chose to utilize prayer flags in their living space.

In The Four Agreements, the first agreement is to be impeccable with your word – to speak with integrity. My judgment of the monks was a snapshot of me in a state where I forgot the power of integrity. But instead of being hard on myself, and falling into a trap of self-loathing, I forgave my judgment and recognized that I was judging and perceiving from only my own state of mind (and what is good for the goose is NOT always good for the gander). It’s okay for each one of us to perceive things differently. Though we all have our own thoughts about the things we are exposed to, it is our reactions and how we perceive things that matter. Once I acknowledged the how of my perception and corrected it, I remembered that we all create our own worlds. What we do and do not like about what is outside of us does not matter…what matters is that we all give each other the right to have our own perceptions – and in honoring that is how we gain and have peace.

Nature of Change

Posted by Margi on Oct 31, 2009

 

Change and experience are the reason for being, as they are the most natural states of the human experience. Nature is natural, therefore, changes in our lives are simply that: NATURAL. But what happens when we come across natural changes that feel heavy, difficult, or challenging? Do we fight? Argue? Shout? Pull our hair out? (Well sure, that’s natural too!)

 Remember, our frustrations in life are not really about the fact that change is occurring. After all, change is inevitable. What we can do, however, is create a much more natural way of handling change, living with shifts, and allowing the process to undergo a more peaceful, calming, enlightening, and empowering state of existence while experiencing life.

 Are we really meant to suffer, to live in pain, to be angry, depressed, or frustrated? Not unless that’s what we choose. Accepting and allowing the journey of life will usher in a lighter sense of our life experiences, despite the changes involved. Life is about movement, motion, and consistency—and that consistency is change!

 Change is inevitable – it is a guarantee for existing. You are energy, and energy is constant and ever shifting. The times have accelerated, and our energies are shifting more quickly and rapidly due to our collective vibrations moving into higher frequencies. The closer we come to reaching the point of knowing who we are, in our awakening experience, we can let go of that familiar gnawing previous question of Who am I, which allows us to relax in our experience of: Who I AM.

 We are now recognizing ourselves unlike we’ve ever known, and it’s enlightening. Our energies are coming together and creating a much lighter life. We are feeling the light shining through us, from us, of us. We are seeing, feeling, and knowing this light to be truly real. This is Reality! Welcome yourselves, for you have arrived!

 Instead of letting the illusion of fear, angst, and darkness overrun your life by creating the unrelenting energy of chaos, it’s time to allow the natural process of Light, Love, and Joy to move through you naturally. Give this Light permission to float you along in the changing currents of life.

 Some days the currents will be high and powerful, and other days, calm and peaceful. Either way, when your inner compass points in the direction it chooses from its own nature—or natural state—change will be recognized as an experience in motion, which again, is a very natural state of nature.

 You’ll find change, or changes, in life are nothing more than love in motion, which is a gift from GOD, the Universe, and You! Gently step out of your own way when it comes to accepting God’s gifts, and fully open your arms to embrace what is rightfully yours. Resisting equals death. Fighting against change opens the door for fear to take hold, which inevitably creates all of that uncomfortable chaos.

 Again, change is natural, so remember to consider, and to understand, all of your experiences—positive and negative—as a natural part of life. Until we fully grasp the concept that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, we will continue to experience un-ease, which is disease, or DIS – EASE.

 Give yourself the gift of choosing lightness instead by acknowledging and repeating this affirmation: I am Spirit, and I have the courage and power to accept life and its natural “Nature of Change,” which is simply the all-encompassing process of God’s love in motion.

 Love is all there is…be kind to yourself.

Hello Earth Angels and Welcome!

Posted by Margi on Oct 13, 2009

I am so excited and grateful to my guides for leading me to this new concept. I am laughing as they create a greater work load for me (however this doesn’t feel like work because I love what I do). With my guides leading me, I am thankful. So here we go…

This new project really feels like a birth for me, and I am ecstatic. After years of fighting to bring joy back into my life, it is finally coming to the surface, and I am experiencing it once again. I am inspired to share with you the thoughts, ideas, and inspirations of my guides and what I have learned from them.

The main reason my guides and I have decided to write these upcoming posts is to inform you and give you the knowledge needed to find your own peace. We aim to help make sense of why things happen in our lives and what it all means. We’ll help you understand how to handle the things that happen, as well as how to incorporate them into your life. I will be focusing as much as possible on the NOW, including whatever it is that the guides feel you need to help relieve any heaviness in your heart. We will focus more on your individuality than on the world, as your individuality is simply a reflection of the world. It is more important to shift your energies, as the world’s energies will shift, as needed, in the process.

With some of my own personal experiences lately, I have learned to trust myself to do the best in any given situation, and if my best in some cases seems not “good enough” (notice good enough) that’s okay because it’s all a part of the experience and growth of the soul. As long as I know I’m moving in the direction to lighten my soul that is all that matters, and being kind to myself along the way is the most powerful gift I can give myself.

I listen to a radio program called “Coast to Coast” (a link may be found in the sidebar), and am often enlightened about the information I receive. A gentleman named Dr. Lester Carter, once said, “It’s okay for me to be just who and what I am. Sometimes you’ll find when you’re around me, that I’m feeling good. Sometimes I’m not. Sometimes I make wise decisions. Sometimes I don’t. If you call my hand on it, so be it. Let’s just talk about it.”

And that is what this site is about: talking and sharing about the topics at hand that come along in life, in addition to nurturing spirituality and the soul. It’s about allowing each individual person to be who they really are, and not who someone else thinks they should be.

Dr. Lester Carter also mentioned that if a person has a gift, it’s not right to hold it back. This is why I felt the need to create this site. So my gift to you, to the world, and to myself, is to allow you to be as authentic as possible and to never have to apologize for being yourself.  All things are part of the greater good – our experiences. If we don’t have these glorious experiences we will never learn and grow. It’s about waking up to who we are. Authenticity! This is what enlightenment truly is! Knowing your I AM.

Today, I promise to myself to awaken to my authenticity.

I AM that I AM.

You may at times like the things you read on my site, and at other times you may not. That is just fine, because the most important thing is that I am honest with myself, and therefore, honest with you.

We all have our own perceptions and perspectives, and this doesn’t make for right or wrong. It just allows us to be who we are, and again, there’s no need to apologize. This site was created for you to learn to be your own creator, and to feel your own empowerment as you experience and create your own enlightenment. This site is here for you to construct a safe space to come to, in order to help you enlighten your soul. This site serves as a cyber coffee shop, or a quiet garden if you prefer, where you can come and take a load off of life and just be yourself.

I plan on writing about all sorts of topics relating to lightening up. That is why my loving guides asked me to name this site: Soul Enlightenment (a catchy but oh-so-true title). So please enjoy what we have to offer. I invite you to acknowledge your first gift, and that is to always remember that life is about love, and that love is about never having to say you’re sorry for being who you are. After all, life is about what and how we are all meant to be. Life is about EXPERIENCE, and now it’s time to live it—with joy!

Namaste,

Margi

 

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