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Laughter is chemically good for our physical and emotional health, and it is good for the soul!

People tend to get into boring ruts. Sadly, it is rather normal for many of us. But it’s simple; we have become too busy to remember to make time to have fun.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored…boredom is a choice.
- Wayne Dyer

In “The Artist’s Way”, one of the weekly practices is the Artist’s Date. This is when one is to set aside time every week to do something…anything… to “fill the creative well”.

Each time I allow myself to do this a childlike side of me emerges. I use the time to play and doodle. I giggle like a kid as I sit on the sand holding bread overhead for the sea gulls. I become absorbed in making mud dams with the spring run off or observing the industrious activity of ants. One of my favorite things is to wander through galleries and shops which I typically do not make time to go into. I allow myself to touch and inspect the construction, color and texture of things with the curiosity of a child.

Over the years I have noticed that this time offers many blessings. I notice many things around me, most of which have been there all along. And I experience peaceful and subtle changes inside of myself. I connect with my Soul. And I have fun!

Today I do one new activity, which pleases me.
Today I have the curiosity of a child.
Today I laugh at myself.
Today I have fun!

Certainly what one considers beautiful is in the eye of the beholder. Yet a few things are constant when is comes to beauty which pleases the spirit. These are Life Force, calmness, light, balance and harmony.

So if you desire to make your home and work place supportive to your well-being and inviting to your spirit. Here are a few hints:

Life: Living things have a life force, a vibration not at all unlike our own Life Force. Plants are a great way to increase the living vibe in the places where we spend much of our time. Plants clean the air too.

Calmness: Environments where we are not over stimulated support our ability to access our own inner stillness, to slow down and hear our inner voice. And when we enter these spaces our body remembers the calm it experienced the last time(s) it was in this space and more readily return to the state of calmness.

Light: One of my energy Medicine instructors taught us that cleaning spreads light. Cleaning up a space makes it feel liter and lighter.

Balance: In the view point of many of the healing arts, the elements of either, air, fire, and earth are know to offer differing qualities, or energies, to a place and our energetic bodies. Balancing these energies in the form of the materials an item is made of, as well as the placement of items within space are helpful in making a space inviting to our spirit.

Harmony: Running water releases negative ions into the air and calms the physiology. Have you ever noticed the relaxed feeling you feel when at the beach or by a river?

Today I love myself enough to care for my environment.
Today I slow down and feel the beauty around me.

The mind is often racing with thoughts. Rarely do we make time to connect with the stillness within. Deep peace and healing are always within reach, just a pause and a breath away.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, and planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

- Brenda Ueland

To bring balance to our system it is important to make a daily practice of nourishing your connection with your soul.

Today I pause and breath deeply.
Today I turn off the mental chatter.
Today I listen to the stillness of the Universe within my Self.

Approaching life with a light heart smooths the road.

When we take ourselves seriously we expend energy in the vein of concern, stress and heaviness. And we vibrate a quality of energy that draws more heaviness to us.

Yet, if we allow ourselves to see things through new eyes, we energetically shift gears in all aspects of our being-ness. And the Universe responds to our having changed the quality of our vibration from heaviness to that of lightheartedness.

Try this by shifting your awareness from automatic “doing” to conscious “being”. Slow down, stop what you are doing, and breathe in and out fully a few times. Feel your feet, and your skin against your socks. Intend to ground yourself to the earth’s electromagnetic field. This allows us to center our self within our Being. Then from this awareness, pause and intend to view things in a lighthearted way.

From this state of centered being-ness, we allow for our energy to be expended in supporting our growth and development.

Today I slow down and center myself.
Today I see things through new eyes.
Today life is easy and flowing.
Today I find joy in lightening up.

Often in this materialistic world we are valued for what have or what we do for work. It is rare to be outwardly valued for who we are as a Soul. Our intrinsic value is limitless.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do,
rather in the inward things we are.

- Unknown

The essence of who we are is everlasting.

Today I pause to value who I am.
Today I outwardly value others.

Once we see things through the eyes of another, hearts open…..and hatred can dissolve. We become one.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To nourish the Soul is to be in the vibration of love.

Today I look deeper and open my heart.
Today I forgive myself.
Today I forgive others.

When we face the challenging “stuff” in our life, we tread on fertile ground to grow.

This a an honoring of your Soul journey.

Ask for guidance in seeing what truth is concealed in your
personal challenges…

- Unknown

Today I ask for guidance.
Today I bless my difficulties.
Today I find courage.
Today I take action.

We can get so revved up and out of focus that a good old slowing down is of GREAT value.

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

Slowing down, being “in the moment” brings with it balance and calm. In these moments we can hear our Soul.

Today I count to ten and breathe.
Today I take delicate care of myself.
Today I listen for the rhythm of my Soul.