Our Higher Self: Gratitude and Discovering Joy

https://youtube.com/shorts/dHqiVz1uGNs?feature=share As we move rapidly toward Thanksgiving here in the US and the beginning of the Holiday Season around the world, I find myself a bit more reflective, and focusing energy on gratitude.  One of Inspirited Living’s Daily Introspectives captures the sentiment for me.   It is in the gratitude for our many, many, blessings, that we discover joy. Gratitude comes first. The joy comes only after the realization of gratitude; from our appreciation for, and awareness of all of our blessings.  Gratitude and Discovering Joy: What are You Grateful for Today? It’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of the changing season.  What we need to get done… and how much more there is to do.  When we get caught in the doing, we forget to be in the moment, and notice all that there is.  All that we have to be grateful for.   Let’s do a little [...]

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Our Higher Self: Planting for the Spring

We are supported this week by the reminder that there’s a reason for every season. This spectacular Dutch tulip garden has planted it’s bulbs and is starting to sell it’s tickets for the spring. The varieties, colors, and designs are stunning, and the flowers that burst into bloom are being planted from humble brown bulbs right now.

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Our Higher Self: How Music Flows Within Women

We are uplifted this week by a French cellist, who is rescuing and recording music by female composers.  Héloïse Luzzati’s YouTube channel (The Jewel Box) has complex, uplifting, and rarely heard music by women. The story from Positive News magazine notes that “just 5% of the music played by modern orchestras in 2020-21 was composed by women.”  The Jewel Box is a delightful contribution intent on improving that statistic.

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Our Higher Self: Inspirited Living’s Introspectives

Each week I send out four thoughts that string together to make one larger one on Friday.  We call them Inspirited Living Introspectives. They are thoughts that help shape, and even shift our perspectives. Sometimes Inspirited Living Introspections are thoughts that I’m working with myself. And, sometimes they’re related to things I’ve noticed in the collective. Our Higher Self: How Energy Flows, Meditation, and Yoga Nidra This week I was thinking about how energy flows.  We know from our science classes that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It simply flows from one place, one person, one spirit to the next… flowing through all living things. When it gets stuck, or held too tightly in our bodies, we feel anxious or tense. When it gets unblocked and can move, we experience relaxation and relief. That’s the connection to Our Higher Self, Our Soul Self. When we become aware of [...]

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Our Higher Self: Letting Go of Perfection

Photo by niko photos on Unsplash Last week, I wrote about Our Higher Self, our Soul Self Our Soul Self, Our Higher Self. “Some people call it our Soul. Some people call it our connection with God or a Creator. Some people call it our connection with the Universe or the Spirit part of us.  In my mind’s eye, our Higher Self is the part of us that is connected to all things.   It’s the energy that flows through our bodies just as it flows through every other living thing … it’s what we all have in common.  It is what we share and bonds us.  We each use it differently, making each one of us a unique expression of The Divine.   The Higher Self lives is the spirit part of us. It flows through us and resides in us and with us.  It draws us, leads us, [...]

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