Each Monday I shuffle and draw two cards from two sources, a box set and a deck. The box set boasts encouragement, self-love, goals and focus while the deck affirms our individual power. I then use the two cards to guide me throughout the week. I place the cards on my refrigerator as a visual reference and I write them daily in my journal as written reference. If I find myself experiencing unwanted emotions or challenging thoughts I refer to the cards drawn. I have found this to be an empowering and powerful exercise. One that I decided to share with my readers.
Affirmation
Maintaining our hygiene is one of the best ways we can show ourselves some love. This includes our work/life balance and our sleep routine. How can you radically love yourself this week?? Quiet time, a movie, creative time in your studio. These are a few ideas to get your juices flowing.
Encouragement
Speaking of love…how ironic this weeks encouragement is more self-love!
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Each Monday I shuffle and draw two cards from two sources, a box set and a deck. The box set boasts encouragement, self-love, goals and focus while the deck affirms our individual power. I then use the two cards to guide me throughout the week. I place the cards on my refrigerator as a visual reference and I write them daily in my journal as written reference. If I find myself experiencing unwanted emotions or challenging thoughts I refer to the cards drawn. I have found this to be an empowering and powerful exercise. One that I decided to share with my readers.
Affirmation
Asking for help is not being needy. You may be surprised by the eagerness others display when asked for help. If your plate is full, I challenge you to ask someone to help you. This can be done by delegating a simple task to a coworker or asking the family for help with the household chores. It doesn’t require a crisis to reach out for help.
Encouragement
With every morning comes new possibilities. We decide what we allow. Are you open to new possibilities? Do you welcome them? Subtle or more obvious adjustments can make a world of difference in our daily routine but you must be willing to receive them to reap the benefits.
Each Monday I shuffle and draw two cards from two sources, a box set and a deck. The box set boasts encouragement, self-love, goals and focus while the deck affirms our individual power. I then use the two cards to guide me throughout the week. I place the cards on my refrigerator as a visual reference and I write them daily in my journal as written reference. If I find myself experiencing unwanted emotions or challenging thoughts I refer to the cards drawn. I have found this to be an empowering and powerful exercise. One that I decided to share with my readers.
Affirmation
This week’s affirmation reminds us to get still. Whether we realize it or not there is a constant chatter in our mind. It’s that nonstop voice that filters the world we see. It’s the voice that tells us the sky is pretty or that a property is a mess. This voice isn’t the truth. It is our personal filter. The truth in silence is the sound of a bird chirping, the wind blowing across our face, the lightning that we see. The truth triggers our senses. It doesn’t need a detailed description. Everyone has a voice and that voice’s filter is different for each of us, however, the truth found in silence is the same. It is felt not moderated. It is seen. It is heard. It is.
It isn’t easy to describe what the truth found in silence is like. First and foremost it is an inner knowing that doesn’t require words.
Encouragement
This week’s encouragement coincides with our affirmation prompting us to take time to ourselves. Even if you have been unmotivated and lazy, you deserve a break. A break from the constant chatter. A time frame where you allow yourself to breathe and not think. Time to listen to the truth in silence. Give yourself permission.
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Each Monday I shuffle and draw two cards from two sources, a box set and a deck. The box set boasts encouragement, self-love, goals and focus while the deck affirms our individual power. I then use the two cards to guide me throughout the week. I place the cards on my refrigerator as a visual reference and I write them daily in my journal as written reference. If I find myself experiencing unwanted emotions or challenging thoughts I refer to the cards drawn. I have found this to be an empowering and powerful exercise. One that I decided to share with my readers.
Week of April 10-17, 2022
Affirmation
There is an overwhelming amount of information on cells but I am particularly interested in the connection between spirituality and cells. Here are some facts I found interesting.
1. The Cell is Conscious of its own existence and knows its internal condition and knows it external environment.
2. The Cell is Intelligent and it has the Cognitive abilities like perception and memory to acquire information, to retain information, to recall information, and to use information in the performance of its complex tasks in a sequential manner.
3. The Cell has the ability to show characteristics such as mutual cooperation, mutual tolerance, and display functional subordination and subservience while being independent.
4. The Cell grows, divides, and develops into a complete organism while it acquires substances and energy from an external environment and it continuously transforms matter to build matter of its own kind for its own benefit to sustain its existence with its own identity, individuality while the Organism represents a social group or a biological community. The Spiritual nature of the substance brings this functional harmony and unity by bringing together its Essence and Existence.
Oftentimes we expect happiness to slap us in the face when really it’s found in small moments. Next time you are having coffee, make time to enjoy it and not just drink it. Sit and sip. Actually taste. That’s joy. That’s how simple it is to make time for. Feel the sunshine on your face. Close your eyes. Breathe. Joy.
Share with me what your simple joys are. Did you know that about cells?
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Each Monday I shuffle and draw two cards from two sources, a box set and a deck. The box set boasts encouragement, self-love, goals and focus while the deck affirms our individual power. I then use the two cards to guide me throughout the week. I place the cards on my refrigerator as a visual reference and I write them daily in my journal as written reference. If I find myself experiencing unwanted emotions or challenging thoughts I refer to the cards drawn. I have found this to be an empowering and powerful exercise. One that I decided to share with my readers.
April 4 – 10, 2022
Affirmation
Fear has stealthy ways of holding us back. This week’s affirmation reminds us that the things we love are more important than the things we fear.
Encouragement
For the encouragement card I drew, You are believed in. If you find yourself struggling with confidence this week just know that while you may not believe in yourself, others believe in you! Sometimes we have to borrow the confidence of others to push us through to the other side. And that is ok.
The challenge this week is to be aware of your fears and to have the confidence to push through despite fear.
What is a fear that has been holding you back? How will you combat fears that arise this week?
If you are new to this camp, I have been dying to transition careers. It’s been three years and I’ve not been successful. And I have a year and a half left to go. It is my goal to be out of the food and beverage industry by time I am 45. At this point I think it’s safe to say fear is holding me back.
I’ve been looking for work from home jobs in line with customer service but job sites are ridiculous. They rope you into submitting your email address for multiple sites and redirect you and loop you and…you get the picture.
The other day I decided to stretch because I have been feeling stiff and just from doing neck rolls, I have paid a price. I suppose I am holding stress in my neck and when I stretched it released the toxins leaving me sore as all get out. It feels like something popped on the left side of my neck, in the shoulder area leaving me in agonizing pain. No fun. I am ready to wake up and feel like myself. This ongoing yuck I’ve been in needs to disappear. I have run out of ideas for combating it. And believe me, I’ve been creative.
The culmination of what seems like my life has to be the beginning of my S.A.D. Yay. I suppose the quicker it comes, the quicker it goes. April is typically the worst month. It’s creeping up. I feel as though I am taking it all actually quite well considering the weight of it all. Exhale. I remind myself. Exhale.
Perhaps I will turn this type of post into a weekly wrap up type series. I like to categorize my ramblings.
Revenge of Eve 