Feeling Your WAY…

FEELING Your WAY…

As a human BE…ing  living our life, it is amazing how FEELINGS create our reality most of the time! Our mind loves to think through all of the scenarios of what is happening and what we THINK might happen next. It’s an easy mindset to “set into” our daily lives when we are not even aware it is happening! I have had lots of experiences in my life that point that direction way too often. And yet…am I changing that picture often as well? I do think I am doing that, but probably most of us never perfect the skill.

It was VERY good for my husband Doug and I to get away for a week, traveling up to Eagle River, Wisconsin and be with Marj! What an incredible time we had enjoying beautiful weather and big rain storms as well. Perfect. It’s just like life. Marj and I had some very special times together and we’d like to share some of them with all of you! I’m sure that each and every one of you can relate on the level of your own family, friends, or community events that might have been happening in and around you! The FEELINGS that I experienced reminded me how VERY important it is for each of us to not only recognize the feelings that surface, but embrace them as well!

For myself, I needed to grieve our absence last summer when Doug was so sick and in the hospital and then followed by our brother Bill’s death. Marj was able to share the time with Bill’s family coming to her home which was near by and so available after Bill’s death. Sadness set in briefly and it is so good for me to recognize the benefit of allowing those feelings to set into my BEING. The feeling of contentment set in wonderfully as Marj and I sat down staring at the lake to read and nap! But, as usual, mostly conversation!

A feeling of LOVE set in as I gazed upon the past visits when Jim was there too and the four of us would have such amazing card games each night. Marj, Doug & I played cards one night filling our evening with laughter. We had wonderful conversations all about our grandchildren and how very proud we are of all of their accomplishments. Considering my oldest grandson graduated from college and is headed to his new job as an engineer at General Motors Corp, it sometimes makes me feel a bit OLD. But then talking about the fact that Marj is soon to welcome into her family another new grandson …we decided we should not feel OLD…but young and blessed to welcome in a new little life!

Heading out to a wonderful restaurant to eat by another lake was simply glorious. Happy feelings of calm and peace simply sat in our hearts as the evening progressed. We were enjoying families with children running around in the grass having a grand time. There was even a newborn child next to us bringing joy into Marj’s heart as she thought of the upcoming birth of her newest grandson. Her words, “I’m going to be doing that soon!”

When we consciously FEEL those feelings, recognize their meaning, and place them into our life…we can THRIVE! If we are MINDFUL of our self talk…we can change our existence in a good way! After all…we ARE talking with the Universe and the Universe is responding!

Marj and I had lots of laughs remembering times past when Doug and I arrived at their summer home in our trailer after two weeks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Panic was an emotion then as we almost backed the trailer into a big hole and then had to cut down a small tree to get parked by her garage! BUT…again, just “remembering” doesn’t mean re-living old emotions. In life, we ALL have times that were difficult in a myriad of ways. But, there is not ONE thing to be gained by holding on to difficult experiences and living with that emotion.

In a recent post by the HeartMath Institute, they shared their expertise about EMPOWERING OUR LOVE. They listed some key practices that we can all easily put into place in our lives! And if we join others in our efforts so much the better! I loved the ideas and thought you might enjoy them too! It will help us Feel Our WAY though life and feel we are contributing to our communities, our country, and others around the world in a very important way!

Care Focus: Empowering Our Love

1. Breathe Love through your heart area. On the in-breath, imagine breathing in divine love. On the out-breath, radiate love and gratitude through all your cells and out to others and to the planet.
2. Now, envision yourself and more people throughout the world taking steps to be more compassionate, caring, kind, and cooperative with each other. See this increasing connection with their heart’s intuitive guidance and direction. This is Love in action.
3. Now let’s radiate love into the planetary energetic field, seeing people and nations getting along more with each other and creating the best possible outcome for the wholeness. 
4. Let’s close by radiating our collective love and compassion to all who are suffering from wars, famine, displacement, natural disasters, and other major stressors. See the radiation of our collective heart energy helping to lift the planetary energetic field and especially the hearts of those suffering hardships. ~ Shared by Sara Childre, President of HeartMath Institute

Our LOVE to help you SHARE “YOUR” Feelings to all around you! 

And the biggest joy of all LANDED right in our hearts and in this photo it looks like it settled on the table at sunset! Can you see the heart shaped orb? Belief is the key…my heart full of love had landed for me into this photo taken the night before we left!

LOVE from Terry & Marj