A New Day - Live in the Light with Love and Gratitude.
- Apr 19, 2015
- 4 min read
Each day we awake to the opportunity of a new beginning. As the sun rises we have the chance to start new, be who we dream to be - live in the light. This gift fills me with love and gratitude. Once I was in a dark place, a place where dreams did not existed. I was too busy filling my roles of being a wife, a mother, a daughter, a worker bee, etc. I tried so hard to make life perfect, to make everyone happy, to be everything I ought to be, it was exhausting. I started to think about life, about my purpose. Wondering - What is this life? Thinking - This is a living hell. It must be hell it is so hard, so difficult, so painful. This time in my life was very dark and it was a very low place to be.
I’m opening my heart to tell you this because I believe there are many people that are in that place right now. If you are one of them and you are reading this please know there is a way out. There is hope when you live in the light, when you live with love and gratitude; I found it and so can you. Through awareness you can find love and gratitude and begin to live in the light.
Gratitude
Do you ever think about your thoughts? Who controls them? Do you? Can you choose them?
Yes, you can. In fact it’s one of our greatest gifts, being aware of our thoughts can be very powerful. It starts with an intentional thought.
So let us start by taking a few deep breaths.
Be aware of your breathing. The mind might tell you this stupid, please do not listen, just breath.
Breathe slowly and on purpose, count to 10 like we were taught as children, to curve our anger.
Now start to think the phrase “Thank You”
Say it again and again; say it as many times as you like either mentally or out loud it doesn’t matter just keep breathing and being grateful.
Being grateful is so powerful, you are allowing yourself to receive, allowing yourself to live in the light. You can do this exercise as often as you like. At night before going to sleep say Thank you for a great day, thank you for a good night’s sleep. When you awake before your feet even hit the floor say thank you for the great day that lies ahead.
Through gratitude I believe that you will find the life you are meant to live one of Peace, Love and Joy.
Now that we are starting a new day, starting to live in the light, the universe will respond in kind to your gratitude. Things will start showing up, you have to trust, just trust – I know it’s hard. The tricky part is to be aware of the things coming to you and to trust in them. If something comes to your attention more than once or differently 3 times you must consider it, so long as it is not harmful to you or others.
For me it was the opportunity to go to a yoga class for the first time, books on spiritual teachings jumping off shelves at my feet. The book the Secret was a big part of my healing because I realized I had the right to dream again. Take some time think about your past dreams that have come true, we are never too old to dream. Repeat the breathing exercise, feel gratitude for the dreams that have come true in your life.
Love Love being the highest form of energy.
We are meant to love others. For most of us it gives our lives meaning and purpose, it is a great gift.
However, there can be a very big problem if we do not know how to love ourselves first. If you are not loving yourself first, if find you’re doing for everyone else sooner than later you will be running on empty. The emptiness is where I found myself, that dark place. I truly believe that this can cause depression and a number of diseases to the body. This is the body and the mind trying to wake us up, trying to get our attention.
If what I have said hits a cord within you, than you have already begun to awake. Know that it’s not your fault, most of us where not taught to love ourselves. We were taught that is selfish and shameful behavior, that we do not deserve our own attention. These are old thought patterns that we have said over and over again to ourselves, until they became beliefs embedded into our subconscious.
The very best Book I ever read about loving oneself is "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay. I keep this book at my bed side, pick it up whenever I am feeling overwhelmed. I have gifted many of them, carry it whenever I am doing healing and always have it with me as I teach yoga classes. It is a great tool to help you in finding A New Way of being. In this book Louise talks about doing mirror work where you look into a mirror and into your own eyes and say I Love You. Please try it for yourself. Can you be aware of any negative thoughts, or why it this so hard?
Loving yourself is a very big step and one that is leading you to live in the light. It is a step in a new direction and one with a purpose, love is the most powerful energy, it is compared with the energy of God. Some say it’s the same thing. I believe by loving yourself you are giving a great gift not only to yourself but to the world and to the universe. Trust that in kind it will be given back to you ten fold.
I have been guided to create this Energy Collection – Living in the Light. These designs have an energy to them, an energy that I believe can help us in creating the harmony that we seek. Love & Gratitude is the highest energy - it is of Giving and Receiving. Namaste
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