My purpose is to explore and express my love of beauty and the beauty of love. Here’s some of what I’ve come up with.

Mind-blowing Limiting Belief Analogy – my Trailway “Discovery”

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Way too often we play small in our lives. Beliefs we adopted from parents, teachers, society, life experience, etc. keep us from truly exploring and expressing all we were meant to be, do or have. Limiting beliefs sabotage our lives!

This lesson was brought home to me through a mind-blowing geography-based analogy as explained in the video above.

Imagine quitting on a dream when what you wanted to be, do, or have was just around the corner. Or even worse, imagine quitting on yourself when your next stage of evolution as the individualized expression of the Divine being that you have always been was just about to emerge… Not a fun picture, eh!?

Don’t give up! Don’t play small! Don’t sabotage the miracle of your life!

Enjoy the journey and know there are more destinations ahead. As long as you’re alive, you’re growing, evolving, discovering, being more of who you were always meant to be.

And that’s one amazing being! A truth from birth to death and beyond.

A False Truth Based on a Misunderstanding

When I first got my hybrid bicycle, 5 years ago, I was thrilled to finally  be able to travel the Trailway – a cross-province gravel path built upon the old railway bed.

Someone told me that this trail near my new home went all the way to Paradise, a neighbouring town.

Actually, they said it went all the way to the ocean in Conception Bay South, but that there was a section between Paradise and CBS that could only be done on foot or ATV for now.

She then explained that this rough section started after the 2nd pond.

So I headed out on my own one day 5 years ago to find the ponds. When I got to the second one about 2.5 hours later, I rested, then headed back home downhill in 1/3 the time on a slight downhill. What freedom! What joy!

I was thrilled with my success.

I then told my friend Leslie about it and we cycled it a few times every year since. She assumed I was telling her the truth, adopting my belief that Neil’s Pond was the end of the road.

But when I looked on a map for the spelling of the name of the first pond for a video in July, I was confused to find out that the first pond was actually called Brazil or Neville’s Pond – not Octagon Pond as I’d believed, having remembered my source’s mention of Neil’s and Octagon Ponds.

So where was Octagon Pond? Looking at a map on my iPhone, my jaw dropped. Octagon Pond was after Neil’s Pond, behind the big Sobey’s grocery store.

My original source of information had meant that Neil’s Pond was the small pond and Octagon the big. Brazil Pond must have been a puddle in her mind. Either that or I misunderstood something.

But for 5 years, I believed that Neil’s Pond was the end of the road…. Yikes! 

So this year, I went beyond Neil’s Pond, not 5 minutes away by bike to the real end of the road, the 3.8km loop around Octagon Pond.

Mind-blowing. For me anyway.

It just kept repeating in my mind for weeks after I discovered the real truth – “Where else can this be happening in my life?”

Yes, I’d enjoyed the journey. Yes, I loved my time at Neil’s Pond. But there was more! There was bigger! There was Truth!!! Right around the corner!

Have fun resting your awareness on your life to see where your limiting beliefs may have stemmed from a misunderstanding, falsehood, or ego protective mechanism to keep you small.

Then bust those limiting beliefs and allow yourself to be, do, and have all the goodness you can imagine or more.

You deserve the truth!

Other Cycling Mini-Movies

Cycling is such a source of pleasure & freedom for me. It’s also, as is all of life, a source of philosophical tidbits.  You can read more about what my time with Sephira (my bike) has taught me in another post here.

If you’d like to join me on a few other bike rides as I learned to use my camera and iMovie app, here are 4 other short videos I created earlier this year. It’s never too late to learn new skills – get creative, have fun, and enjoy the journey. 

I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel as I don’t post everything on my blog.

  1. May 10 – First Cycle of the Year (1:46) – watch it here.
  2. May 16 – Going With My Flow (4:39) – watch it here.
  3. June 5 – A Letter From the Sea (9:34)  – watch it here.
  4. July 13 – Sunday Cycle to Neil’s Pond (4:08)  – watch it here.

 

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A Moment of Wisdom

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The Event -> Judgment -> Feeling -> Reaction Cycle

Are you like me? Do you have days when you’re much more your human self than your Spirit Self? I’m sure you do. This video story is about one of mine and my efforts to re-align with that Divine Essence within all of us.

It was a perfect opportunity to see the Event, Judgment, Feeling & Reaction Cycle that one of my mentors, Dr. Greg Baer of RealLove.com often talks about. He teaches unconditional love in the most practical way I’ve experienced.

So listen to my story in the video above and come back to see how it relates to a few of Greg’s stories below.

Real Love Story: The Splasher

One of the stories he tells is of a woman’s reaction to being splashed at the pool.

At first the splashing was hitting her feet, which was a bit annoying. But then it got worse and started to get her pants and then her top wet. She was really pissed off and got up to go tell that inconsiderate swimmer to stop it.

When she stood up, however, she could see over the lawn chair that had been blocking her view, immediately realizing the man was drowning.

Her initial judgment had caused her to be angry. Correcting her judgement with the truth immediately changed her feelings and her reaction.

Instead of telling the guy off, she quickly took action to save his life. No anger or blame left at all.

Real Love Story: The Bumper

Another story is of a man happily walking in the park, enjoying all the sights, sounds, and smells.

He accidentally brushed against another nature lover, who stopped, exchanged a few pleasant words about the weather and beauty before they both went on their way.

The man was still in his own world and accidentally brushed against a woman who was so involved in her conversation with a friend that she didn’t even notice the bump.

A third man, however, came into the park already angry. So when the same man brushed against him, he considered it an attack, jumped back with great drama to make his point, twisted his ankle and had to be carried out of the park on a stretcher, screaming and blaming that man for his injury.

And to take the story even further, a fourth man, severely empty, afraid and depressed came into the park with a gun, already determined to leave this world. So when the man brushed against him, he took it as proof that no one loved or even noticed him, and told the man that what he was about to do was his fault. Then he shot himself.

Was the man who bumped into people responsible for any of the feelings and reactions of those 4 other people?  No. He was responsible for being a bit careless, yes, but it was the judgment these people made that caused their feelings and reactions.

The event was the same in all 4 cases. The rest depended on how empty or afraid these people were, or how loved and loving they were feeling.

Event -> Judgement -> Feeling -> Reaction ->

And as I mentioned in the video, it’s a cycle. It keeps going on. Whatever reaction you have will influence some of the events in your life. You get the picture.

Dr. Baer has a whole series of books on Real Love – from the basic to Real Love in marriage, parenting, at work, etc. I’ve read them all and recommend them.

Peace Be With You

I hope my story (which wasn’t as dramatic thank goodness) and those from Dr. Baer’s books help you become more aware of the judgments, feelings and reactions in your life.

May you do what you need to raise your vibration, feel loved by your Team of Divine Helpers and other people, and have a happy healthy life.

If one of my art or intuitive service offerings can nourish your transformational journey, it’ll be my pleasure to serve you.

Peace be with you!

Limited Edition Spirit Calling Cards

These are the cards I featured in my video.

Created as a fundraiser, this 88-card deck is a great way to tune into your intuition for guidance in your day.

You can use them by yourself or with others to stimulate creative problem-solving and decision-making. I make several suggestions of how to use them on the instruction sheet.

They’ve become an integral part of my spiritual practice. May they serve you too.

I only have 11 Limited Edition decks left. 111 signed & numbered decks will ever be in existence!

Each combination of images & words can open up limitless possibilities for you. 

Buy yours here for $111 Canadian (~$80 US).

 

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To the Cape Shore & Back – a visual meditation

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Welcome! For the next 47 minutes, sit back and relax with me on the Cape Shore of this beautiful island I call home.

Allow Mother Earth’s healing energy and Newfoundland & Labrador’s scenic beauty to soothe your soul and nourish your transformational journey.  

What a blessing this trip was for both myself and my friend Leslie. May it now be one for you too.

Ask and You Shall Receive

Thank you to my friends and long time art patrons Gordon Martin & Linda Chantal Hewitt of People Places & Things for arranging this trip for me.

They manage several Airbnbs, including Gordon’s cottage which you experienced in my Affirmations for a Happy Healthy Life video. As an aside, it featured three of their 8 Dominique Hurley original paintings.

If you recall, I’d asked Gordon if I could stay a few days at his cottage. He gladly said yes and was happy to receive the gift of my photos to help with his promotional efforts.

I’m a firm believer in Ask & You Shall Receive.

I’d asked Source & my Team of Divine Helpers for inspiration, which led to the idea of contacting Gordon.

Now he’s the one asking me to take more creative retreats at the other properties in his care. What a win-win!

I may not have had my 2-month retreat in Ireland due to COVID, but I’m feeling blessed and rejuvenated, finding creative ways to travel & practice my art in these interesting times.

Thank you also to Irene Collins Carr, the owner of the Airbnb in St. Bride’s for agreeing to have my friend Leslie & I stay there for 3 nights. What a beautiful location and a beautiful home! If this video inspires you to book it for your own Cape Shore holiday, contact my friend Gordon here.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank my friend Leslie for accompanying me. We travel really well together, plus she has a car and loves to cook. Those healthy vegan meals were a real treat. The desert you see in the video was a roasted rhubarb cake with vanilla cashew cream filling on a coconut crust, decorated with edible pansies from her garden. Yummy!

We’re also both grateful to Tyrone A Batstone, caretaker of the Airbnb and paramedic at the Cape Shore Ambulance next door, without whom none of us would have experienced the beauty of the brook in St. Bride’s and Gooseberry Cove. There were no signs and driving in our direction, we would have completely missed these. So thanks for the tourist tips, firewood, your dog Skipper and fireside company Tyrone!

If there’s something you’re missing in your life, focus on the essence of it and ask the Universe to show you a way. Then live moments of that feeling every day.

I’m sure my appreciation for my neighbourhood and the thousands of photos I’ve shared of its beauty on social media, inspiring others to get outdoors is part of why this has all unfolded.

Live in the Feeling Tone (the L.I.F.T. practice as one of my teachers Derek Rydall calls it) and open to receiving. But don’t forget to ask.

Stay tuned for future blessings emerging from my creative collaborations and co-creations.

One Step At A Time

I can’t believe how much we saw, did and experienced in 4 days! I’ll admit, I was overwhelmed when faced with thousands of photos and videos on 2 cameras (iPhone XI pro and SLR).

But I like to finish one project before starting another and had another staycation booked in less than a week.

So I took a deep breath (not to lose the blissful feeling from my trip) and tackled this project one step at a time.

This resulted in 7 mini videos that I shared on Facebook and Youtube in the week prior to this post. Then, it was much less daunting to put them together into one project, improving on some editing choices along the way as I’m still learning all this stuff.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by any project in your life, I wanted you to know you’re not alone. Just take it in bite-sized chunks, one step at a time, and celebrate each win!

Whether de-cluttering your house, raising a child, creating a new piece of art or doing your taxes… one step at time…. and breathe deeply. You can do it!

New Music

If you’ve been following me for years, you know that I’ve been using the same 5 royalty free songs purchased from Christopher Lloyd Clarke in my meditation and scenic videos.

I still love those tracks, but am happy to report that this video features a new addition to my collection, “Enlighten Me”.

Now you may think it strange to have Tibetan throat singing, gongs and singing bowl instead of Irish jigs for a Newfoundland & Labrador video…. but being out in nature brings out a combination of my mindful zen nature and childlike curiosity & wonder. So in my mind, this new music was perfect for it. Let me know if you agree in the comments below.

P.S. I’ll be publishing every 2 weeks instead of weekly for the rest of the summer. If you’re in the mood for more, enjoy browsing my blog history and website. There’s lots to explore. Enjoy!

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Flatrock Waterfalls – One of Mother Earth’s Powerful Energy Vortexes

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There are places on this planet that you know will instantly recharge you. The waterfalls near the East Coast Trailhead in Flatrock does it for me. Can you feel it in this video? Breathe in the beauty as you experience it through my eyes along with “Across the Sky” by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.

The first time I went, I could almost see the energy vortex. I could certainly feel it. It’s the strongest energy I’ve felt in Newfoundland & Labrador.

One of the reasons I like this island so much is that it rarely gets too hot. Even though we’d had frost warnings at the Summer Solstice, we also had a Humidex of 33 Celsius (91.5F) on June 23rd. That’s too much for me.

So at 6am, I headed to my friend Leslie’s to drive out together to Flatrock (25km) for a bit of a nature soak before the heat, before the grocery store opened, and before my full workday.

We stayed 2 hours.

I confess. Although the camera often helps me to be more present, my new film-making passion gets me so creatively excited that I sometimes forget to slow down.

Luckily, I really enjoy filming time lapses, which means putting the camera on a tripod and leaving it there for an hour or more.

So that’s what I did.

While Leslie went hiking up the cliffs to journal, I took my boots & socks off to ground, bare skin on the rocks. With the waterfalls to my left and the ocean to my right, I was in my happy place.

Making sure I spend some time every day skin to skin with Mother Earth has done wonders for me. If you haven’t seen The Earthing Movie, I recommend it. I always knew about the power of nature, but wasn’t aware that our rubber soles stopped the flow of healing energy.

Where’s your go-to spot when you need to recharge? Your backyard? neighbourhood trail? I’d love to know. Please leave a comment below.

P.S. When I don’t include the actual sounds of the water or other nature elements, it’s because it was too windy. I’ll have to figure out a way to get better quality audio for you. Still learning. 🙂 

P.P.S. It’s time I purchase some new royalty free songs to use in my meditations & videos as you’ve been hearing the same 5 for several years. If you’d like to contribute to my creative life, check out my online shop for oracle decks, intuitive services, original paintings & prints. Thanks!

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Courageous Creativity Interview & Mandala Meditation

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How wonderfully generous of Amanda Mauk to share with us the video of our interview from her Courageous Creativity Summit. If you missed my Intuitive Painting, Intuitive Living talk or would like to experience the Mandala Meditation again, here’s your chance.

You’ll also hear more about my background and both intuitive living & painting. I do get enthusiastic about it all!

So get out your crayons, paints, collage images – whatever feels right for you. You can start on an ordinary sheet of paper to sketch out what you might draw / create later, or keep it small.

As I guide you through the 3 circles, you can stop the video to work on each part or wait until the end of the meditation to flow with the feelings & memories of your experience.

Your way is the right way. Trust yourself & have fun.

If you have follow up questions or comments about any of it, jot it down below and I’ll gladly answer it for you.

P.S. You can access the 75-minute Intuition into Action tutorial I talk about by signing up here. That will also get you on my bi-weekly art & inspiration letter that I’ll send to your inbox. 

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Affirmations Video for a Happy Healthy Life

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May you be nourished by the healing energy and beauty of Mother Nature during this 15-minute video inspired by a staycation at The Country Experience on Hawco’s Pond in Deer Park, Newfoundland & Labrador.

For an even more powerful experience, repeat the affirmations out loud, allowing yourself to feel their truth in your life. Then breathe deeply and expand that feeling out into the Universe as you watch.

Celebrating Life

As much as I craved solitude for my first monthly creative staycation (which resulted in A Prayer for Our Times), I was thrilled to share this experience with my good friend Leslie Bridger.

The timing was perfect as June 14th was Leslie’s rebirthday, 15 years after a near-fatal bicycle accident in Toronto. Doctors had little hope for her when she came out of her induced coma, but she not only recovered from her physical and brain injuries, she turned her life around.

Sharing her love of life and belief in the healing powers of Mother Earth and the Elements has become her mission. She came out of her coma understanding that we are all interconnected Divine Beings, like points of light on a giant web. Her love for humanity is great – a wonderful influence on me.

I already knew she was a perfect traveling companion, having house-sat together in Nova Scotia for a couple of weeks in 2017. I don’t say that because she loves to cook and I love to eat! It does help, though.

We also understand each other’s need for balanced activity time together and time alone to work on our projects – my video art, her book.

I couldn’t have asked for a better staycation. Indeed, it was just what my Spirit Calling Cards suggested on the morning of our departure:

The Gift of Life

You don’t have to almost die to realize you deserve to live the life you were born to live.

With COVID-19, more people have taken the time to reflect on the preciousness of life. After the shock of having been kicked off the hamster wheel, many have simplified, prioritized, re-organized their lives to focus on what truly matters. Some didn’t have a choice!

From small changes to major life decisions, they’ve sought the opportunities emerging from these challenging times.

What about you?

Wherever you are on your transformational journey, life invites you, through experience, to make the choices that serve your Highest Good. Only you can make those choices; only you can take that responsibility.

What’s right for you may not be what’s right for everyone else. Listen in and follow your intuition, one inspired step at a time.

And if the “buts” of your ego try to keep you small, acknowledge them and creatively love your way through and past them.

For example, my ego was telling me not to spend on staycations at a time when income has only been trickling in and I have thousands of dollars tied up in credit in Ireland since my 2-month trip was cancelled due to the pandemic . I knew, however, how instrumental a change of scene and break in routine could be for my creativity.

So, thinking outside the box, I offered friends who owned or managed properties, the opportunity of receiving photography of their sites in exchange for 3-night stays. Win-win!

When you set your heart on a goal and make life-affirming decisions, the Universe provides. Stay open to miracles! Ask and you shall receive.

Which affirmation from the video spoke most strongly to you? Please share it in the comments below.

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A Warbler’s Tale of Temporary Insanity

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My house sister Orinda has always had a connected relationship with our neighbourhood birds. There’s a seagull that pecks at her window if she’s in bed too long. The ravens from across the street come when she caws, announcing a new batch of suet in the winter. Often, a lone sparrow will sit with her for hours at the end of the day in mediation. And hundreds of little feathered friends relish at her seasonal buffet featuring David Suzuki’s peanut butter & seed recipe.

This is the first year since I moved here 6 years ago, however, that a yellow warbler has demonstrated such strange behaviour. 

Orinda had already been aware for a few hours that he had come as a messenger to get her attention before I came on the scene. She’d been listening for its important message, knowing he was there to fulfill her need for peace.

I shot a short video, fascinated, in between simply watching and listening in for what message he may be conveying. We were mystified. Is he eating bugs? No. Is he trying to get in? Is he trying to tell us something?

I even practiced my budding animal communication skills, but they were tainted by Lassie movies, thinking he wanted me to follow him because his mate was in trouble, stuck in the chimney or lying somewhere around the house. But my walkabout turned up nothing.

In our open minded curiosity and desire for clarity, we kept asking.

I even posted a short clip on Facebook and heard back that he thought his reflection was his competition and that he was fighting for his mate. Ah…..

The next morning at 6am, when I came upstairs from recording a Divine Storytelling Time intuitive reading for a client, he was already there.

And he stayed there, repeating the same patterns of flight until about 9pm. What energy! What determination! What futility!

It did, however, give me plenty of chances to play wildlife cinematographer. Another day of fun behind my camera – all the while my heart was listening for messages and reaching out to him in his useless behaviour.

But was it useless? At some point, I shared my interpretation of the messages I was receiving with Orinda.

She delighted in them, acknowledging that both he and the meaning I’d allowed to come through were an answer to her prayers.

So here it is. If you see a reflection of yourself in here somewhere, then may it help alleviate your suffering and bring a layer of peace to your day.

Namaste.

A WARBLER’S TALE OF TEMPORARY INSANITY

Have you ever gotten so caught up in a mental spin
Convinced there was something outside of you to fight about
Wasting your time
Wasting your energy
Wasting your peace of mind
For an illusion of your own making?

Have you ever found yourself defending your perspective
Arguing the measure of your rightness,
Competing for affection,
Jealous of a threat that never existed?

Have you ever butted heads
Fighting to be heard
Only to realize after days of going nowhere
Exhausted from repeating the same mistake
Reliving outdated patterns of thought or behaviour
That all this time
You were the only one there?

What a revelation
To awaken to the truth
That all you saw & believed
Was only a reflection of your own mind
No one was stepping on your toes
No one was clipping your wings
No one was invading your territory
Or pushing against your boundaries
No one was threatening your chance at love
Except you, yourself.
That’s who you were at war with
Battling your inner demons
Projecting your fears upon the world
You made it all up!
Face to face and
Fist to fist with your ego.

Insanity, Albert Einstein said
Is doing the same thing over and over again and
Expecting different results.

And that, dear yellow feathered friend
Is what you’ve come here to show us
Day after day
As you fight your own reflection
Competing with a non-existent foe
For a prize long gone while you were too busy trying to hold onto it.

Oh darling yellow warbler
It’s time to let go of your self-defeating efforts
You’ll never win against an imaginary adversary
Choose love instead
Choose life instead
For your mission here is done.
Our hearts reach out to you
Healed by your message,
Your wise & true teachings.

And once we’d understood the lesson you were here to demonstrate
We tried to deflect your reflection
But you only perched on our wisdom
Staring at your false belief
Swinging from your stance of self-sabotage
To come face to face again with your misperception of reality.

Oh blessed winged one
Please stop this temporary insanity
Don’t wear yourself out
Leaving yourself defenceless against the real enemies.
Can’t you see how your own thinking and doing
Drew them to you in the first place?

And until you find your way
Back home to where your mate awaits
We’re so grateful to know that
Someone has your back.
So sleep well tonight and rest your weary wings
And please don’t come back again and again and again tomorrow.

Thank you dearest messenger
And goodnight to you
Fare ye well
To where your return is awaited.

For as the Course in Miracles says,
On the card my house sister pulled to shed further light
Upon the true purpose of your visit for her:

“You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God
No one else can fill your part of it
And while you leave your part of it empty
Your eternal Place merely waits for your return.” T167

So please return to your nest.
And here, we too, shall rest
In Peace reborn

 

P.S. This was the truth of the moment. In the next few days, its messages morphed according to Orinda’s state of being. The original message wasn’t fixed in time. Its message for you may be completely different. Have fun exploring the layers of meaning-making or meaning-revealing.

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Seaside Solitude – A Video Contemplation at Middle Cove Beach in the Rain

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Exercise

You’re invited to use this video contemplation as a tool to help you connect to your inner guidance. Here’s how.

Ask your soul & Team of Divine Helpers a question and listen in as you experience this rainy morning at Middle Cove Beach, a few minutes from St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada.

Access your intuition through the symbolism of the sights and sounds.

Give yourself the space to feel, hear, see, remember, know, smell & taste – whatever channel your intuition finds to speak to you.

If the meaning isn’t immediately clear, dig deeper. Analyze your insights and data through reflection or journaling.

Notice any inspired actions that rise to the surface of your consciousness and Act upon them. Remember, intuitive guidance is useless unless you act on it.

Then Allow your life to unfold, knowing that every inspired action acts like a piece in the puzzle. Embrace the mystery and keep on moving on.

Like the waves of the ocean, living intuitively means repeating these 5 Steps over and over again – a dance with your Higher Self and your Team of Divine Helpers. Enjoy!

So Glad I Did!

Here’s where I ended up on my first Offline Sunday – a new habit to help me disconnect from the Internet to reconnect on a deeper level.

There must have been hundreds of people there in the 2 hot & sunny days before, but I found myself in blissful solitude for 2 hours communing with the elements and playing with my iPhone camera on a very rainy morning.

Truly, making movies has become one of my favourite pastimes. There’s so much beauty to explore and this is just one more medium for me to express my love of beauty and the beauty of love.

And yes, my new rain gear is waterproof. Yay! I sure tested it that morning.

Of course lifting my jacket to wipe my camera lenses on my shirt didn’t keep me completely dry, but I was happy.  lol.

When you equip yourself for the weather and obstacles, there’s a whole world to discover. I’m so glad I listened that morning when my soul said “To the sea!!!”.

What is your soul calling you to do or be? What space is beckoning you to come and discover it (or discover another layer of you within it?)

Make time in your schedule this week to disconnect and reconnect. You’re worth it!

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A Prayer For Our Times – Video From NL’s Irish Loop

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Mother Nature is a wonderful healer. Her breath, her beauty, her heartbeat, her love, and her bounty are constant sources of inspiration. In this 16-minute offering, she shares so generously of her energy through the beauty of  Newfoundland’s Irish Loop and the prayer for our times she inspired. May it nourish your transformational journey, a balm to your soul as you continue to navigate your way through the crises of 2020 and the new world they are birthing.

I’ve included the prayer below in the 1st person in case you’d like to recite it for yourself.

Intention

This sojourn by the sea was an answer to a Spirit Call for what turned out to be an energetically powerful time of rejuvenation, channeling and simply being in bliss:  2 sunny days of hiking & photography followed by 2 cold grey days working indoors, looking out at Ship Island and listening to loons call.

This was social isolation with style! Just 40 minutes from my home in St. John’s, my friend Elaine’s Whale Watcher House & Apartments is located in St. Michael’s on the Irish Loop of the Avalon Peninsula, on the road between 2 sections of the East Coast Trail: Tinker’s Point Path & La Manche Village Path. At the time of writing (May 29), I’d just witnessed my last of Mother Nature’s sunrise intuitive painting parties over the ocean before returning to the city. It was perfect!

After 2 months of walking in my neighbourhood, I needed time by the sea. Painting “Salacia – ocean goddess” wasn’t enough. Breathing in the beauty and grounding myself on the East Coast Trail was definitely top of mind.

The fact that a minke whale was feeding right outside my room when we arrived confirmed I was in the right place.

In addition to connecting to Nature, I thought I’d be spending time writing 12 prayers inspired by 12 of my paintings for a new series of posts. That didn’t happen! Not yet anyway.

Frustration

On my 3rd morning, after meditation, energy work, yoga, Spirit Calling Card journaling, and frequent contemplations of the ocean, I just wasn’t inspired to work on my project. (A hawk just landed 6 feet from me on my balcony roof as I was writing this. One of my childhood totem animals. Wow!) I’d spent time preparing by opening my channels, but then tried to force things into being. That didn’t work.

I was getting restless, being so goal oriented but without results.

So instead of writing, I kept joyfully editing my photos and working on making a movie on my iPhone, one of my favourite new creative playtime activities. 

I thought it was done once I’d paired the imagery with music as I’ve done in the past – creating a nature meditation.

Revelation & Tears

At 9pm, I lay my head down, ready for sleep. I decided to play my video one last time in gratitude for all I’d seen and experienced so far.

As I watched in my semi-awake relaxed state, the symbolism of the scenery started speaking to me. I could hear the words of a prayer come through my inner hearing.

Energy so strong was coursing through my body like an inner buzzing vibration from head to feet focused more strongly around my heart. I was trembling and wasn’t sure my body could handle that much energy.

I had to switch on the light and write a few sentences down. Switching it off, I kept watching my movie, tears in my eye, humbled at the presence of so much love & inspiration in the room.

I realized I’d been standing in my own way with pre-conceived notions of what I was supposed to be doing while here. I was trying to force something on paper when what I had been doing – following my bliss in the moment through the creation of this video – was exactly what was meant to happen. Intuitive video making – one layer at a time.

It wasn’t about making it happen… it was about making it welcomed…

As the words kept flowing, I remembered a friends’ recent suggestion to use voiceover, something I didn’t know I could do on my iPhone if I also wanted a music track.

This co-creation is what my Team of Divine Helpers and soul wanted to share with you when I’d been guided to come here to pray for humanity. It wasn’t 12 prayers to go with my paintings (a Left brain decision with undertones of marketing for my artwork).

It was 1 long prayer coming through the offerings of Mother Earth. So very humbling indeed.

On and off, I tried putting it aside to sleep. I’m the kind of gal who likes my 8 hours!

But no! Between frequent cold visits to the balcony to watch a blanket of stars like I hadn’t seen in years (couldn’t quite capture it with my iPhone but you get a taste of it near the end) and scribbling all that was coming through, I was up until 4 am.

Going back to bed yet again, I asked my Team to ONLY wake me up for the sunrise if it was important for me to see/record it. Sure enough, 1.5 hours later, I woke up in a bolt and was back outside filming a 2-hour time lapse that the iPhone turns into a 30 second video. These were my first nature time lapses ever. Fun!

I spent the rest of that cold windy day writing and editing until I came out of my creative cocoon at 4pm to scale the eroded cliffs next door to  ground myself on that horseshoe beach you see in the video.

That’s what it’s like to be in the zone – fed by Spirit (in-spired). It took breaking my routine and being out here to do it. And I’m so glad I did. I had to make the inner space for it. I often achieve this zone in the studio painting, but not with quite the same intensity of energy. That was something else!

P.S. The next day, I listened to the video again and was still happy with it (even not minding the trip up on the words “miraculous” and “diva” instead of “deva” that I didn’t know how to fix) – but I’ll admit it sounded so much better in my sleepless state of creative ecstasy. Again, to me this is a sign that although the poetry of it could use some refining beyond the first few drafts, it’s the energy that comes through and between the words which offers its gift as much as the language and imagery. That’s how I feel about my paintings too. It’s perfection in its imperfection and my job is to simply allow it to come through me.

May it serve you well. It certainly has me. Thanks be to God!

Prayer For Our Times – in the 1st Person

If you like this prayer – yes, it’s a long one – I recommend you record it in your voice and play it once in a while – making it your own.

A PRAYER FOR OUR TIMES

As I venture from my home
To embark on the road less traveled
May I greet my neighbours anew
To rebuild a compassionate community
Grateful for the rebirth of caring
Fresh ways of seeing
Healthier ways of being.
May I choose to garden a perspective of gratitude together
And be here now to colour our oneness with my laughter.
For on the shores of our planet’s beating heart
Treasures abound
New dreams are found.

 

May I rejoice in the flow of my passion
To shine & align in my own true fashion.
May I dance in the ebb & flow
At One with humanity
A witness to the glowing love & courage
Carried by the flow.

 

As I once more embrace life & loved ones.
May I breathe our planet’s cleaner air
My bosom rising and falling
To the rekindled rhythms of my soul.
May I allow this Life Force to grow within my being
Connecting me to my inner guidance, my intution

 

Thank you dear God & Goddess, Mother Earth & Universe
For your comfort when the tides are low
And your bounty when the tides are high.
As I relax into the layers of transition
May I celebrate the unity that follows change.
May I trust in the purity of my emerging health & prosperity.
May I welcome and receive guidance
To harvest and keep growing from my truth.
May I intuitively shift from my challenges to meditate on healing.
May I find balance in the fruit of my solitude
As I begin to awaken.

 

May my miraculous life be nourished
By Nature’s freedom of expression.
May I be still and contemplate,
What once I passed by or took for granted.
The treasures are already at my door.

 

May I attract complete wisdom through imagination and inspiration.
May I stretch my creativity as I seek in the direction of my mystery.
May I reflect upon the teachings of love to manifest clarity.
May I continue to explore through time
The light of my dreams and the dreams of my Light.

 

May I continue to rise above the harsh grounds of my challenges
As I journey onwards from this shore.
May I transform my memories to reveal the depth of my purpose.
And always feel at home at my core.

 

Walk on my beloved self, walk on,
May I be of service to friends and family along the way.
For no man or woman is an island
Separated by a sea, lost or astray
So walk on, beloved self, walk on
May my heart alight with the burgeoning hope of a new era
Reflecting on these times gone by:
The grief, the fear, the gifts & the blessings.
May I let go of what no longer serves me
To make room for the people, places, things, and feelings that do.

 

May I always know where I am welcomed
To explore and express my love of beauty and the beauty of love
Here my seat awaits
A gathering of those known and unknown,
Delights to discover.
May I always feel at home in the world
Knowing I’ll forever be nourished & loved.
May I take time to rest and relax
May I feed my body, nourish my soul.
To reconnect to my Higher Self
And take sight of my vision floating
On the calm waters of my shore.

 

And if I’m harkened back to the hidden beaches of my past
May I not be afraid of what I might find there.
May I uncover the clues to my destiny
Beachcombing amongst the garbage washed ashore.
May I remember what gave me the greatest joy
To bring that back into the expanse of my days ahead.

 

May the sun rise in my morrow with gentle splendour
To call me forth from my slumber
So many treasures await for me to discover
As I unlock the gifts of my shadows
To love myself forever more.

 

May I connect to my Team of Divine Helpers
In this, the the time of awakening.
There’s no need to journey alone.
Ask and I shall receive
Connect and the doors will be open unto me
I Welcome at my side:

* My Soul and OverSoul (I Am Presence),

* My Support Teams,

* My Guides in this dimension and beyond,

* My Ancestors,

* Nature Spirits and Devas,

* The Inner Earth Elvin Kingdoms,

* The Angelic Realm,

* Star Races and Star Councils I have a connection with.

 

May I tread gently and bravely
My every step a blessing, a prayer.
May I know that as varied as my pathway may be
There are those who love and support me
Walking alongside
May I know not loneliness in my solitude.

 

May the signposts to my healing
Bring me back to my Light within
From where I can illuminate my inner and outer landscapes
For my Good and the Highest Good of All.

 

May I emerge from my isolation
More familiar with my own design
May I revel in the symphony of my soul
My unique voice blending harmoniously
Into the choir of a community reborn.

 

May I stand tall
For I have the strength of giants at my back.
Ancient wisdom coursing through my veins
Divine unity at my beckoning call
Whenever I am ready to be joined again
Of my own free will.

 

May I breathe this beauty in as a mirror to my soul.
May I smile as I feel within every cell of my body that I am already home.
Let me take my shoes off and stay awhile
My feet firmly on the ground
Feeling the healing energy of nature rise within me
As I reconnect to the truth of who I am.

 

For we are all the light and the love,
Breathing as one,
Holding each other’s hand,
Holding each other’s dreams:
To be seen, accepted and loved
For the spirits we are in human form.
Each with our own design,
Each following our own path
Together intertwined.

 

May I walk on
Guided through my challenges
Rising above them with ease & grace
Stronger yet lighter for what I’ve left behind
Shedding the skins of old patterns and behaviours
That encumbered my gait.

 

May my attention be drawn to the light ahead
The evolving vision of my life unfolding
And the planet ascending.
And when I feel overwhelmed by the gap between here and there
May I take a leap of faith
Trusting that a bridge will appear
There’s no reason to fear.
May I simply pause to appreciate the spaces in between
And the vastness of the beauty all around.
May I see how far I’ve travelled
The precious footsteps of my passage through time.

 

May I embrace the mystery
As I enter the portal to the blessed unknown
May I choose love over fear
Rooted in the knowledge that I am
An individualized expression of the Divine.

 

May I walk on
Loving the grooves and textures of my journey
May my path be clear
My head held high
To find my way back to community.
May I always be provided for
May I welcome those at my door
May I be of service through the very gift of my presence.

 

And when the clouds darken my skies once more
May I remember I am vaster than the passing weather
And that light always comes to fill the darkness
And when the sun sets upon my day
May I rest my head in peaceful slumber
Wrapped in the warmth & comfort of a prayer answered.
May I know that I’m protected in the glow of Divine Love
As the stars cultivate my gratefulness
Multiplying my wishes & dreams come true
To be welcomed back unto me.

 

And if the night hangs heavy upon my mind
May I remember that as the sunrise I will find
Love, peace, joy, health, wealth, happiness and freedom.
May I continue to appreciate the promise of an open path of compassion.
Dream on, beloved self, dream on.
May I never sleep alone.
Loved by the sun and the moon,
The earth and the sea
Loved by the Heavens above and within me
For that is where is found the love & beauty of my heart
With a song so pure
Resonating with the original sound of OM.

 

Namaste

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Guided Meditation to Calm the Fear

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In early April, I asked my Team of Divine Helpers to co-create with me a visioning meditation that would help you cope with the waves of fear washing over the planet during this Covid-19 pandemic.

I released this channeled “Lighten Up with Love” guided meditation on YouTube a few weeks ago, but if you don’t receive my bi-weekly e-zines in your inbox, you may not have seen it yet.

I was surprised at first that they guided you to start by looking at the fear in your life before turning to look at the love. I myself felt a spike of discomfort, mostly because I didn’t want to worsen your anxiety levels.

I can now see, however, that a short but good look at the fear first can help raise your awareness of its effects on your body, mind & spirit, but also of the root of it.

Is it truly what’s happening in the world that is causing your fear or your beliefs, thoughts, your choice of media, worry about the future, etc. that is fuelling the flames?

I’m not belittling what’s happening. This isn’t about denying or diminishing the level of tragedy and the need to process grief as we let go of our expectations, plans, and souls that have transitioned Home.

It’s about recognizing that we have choices on which perspective to fuel – love vs. fear.

Activating the power of your Observer Self, you’ll increase your awareness of the effects of both fear and love on your body, mind, and spirit in these challenging times. Awareness is key to transformation. From this awareness, you’ll fuel your spark to shine so brightly as to spread Light & Love around the planet, helping yourself and others to choose what’s in the Highest Good of All.

Fear will eat away at you. It weakens your immune system.

May this meditation help reduce the effects of fear and boost the benefits of love.

By raising your vibration and visualizing how love can be just as viral, may this offering brighten up your inner and outer world as you continue to journey through this time of transition.

Are you ready to redirect and retrain your thoughts, your words, your beliefs, your actions, etc. towards the light & love that are aligned with the Greater Truth? 

Allow your Light to shine brighter to let go of the layers of fear and spread the effects of your love in your life and around the planet.

Peace be with you.

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