I may be all alone here, but I think Valentine’s day is a lot of fun. I don’t use it as a day to be sad if I don’t have that ‘one’ special someone, in fact I do the opposite. I use February 14th as a day to be grateful for all the special someones I have in my life that I love and love me!
I’ve been tossing around some fun ideas of I want to give people as a token of my affection and appreciation. Even if they aren’t my ‘lovers’ they are the loves of my life and they deserve to know that every single day, but most especially on a day designed for sharing that exact sentiment.
I was also thinking about how nice it was that teachers made each student give a valentine to each classmate back in grade school, even if they weren’t a friend. I miss that idea. Maybe I will pick up a box of Disney Princess Valentine’s Day cards to share with everyone?!
I received the miraculous gift of being trained and attuned to practice Reiki Healing yesterday and I am so incredibly humbled and grateful for the experience. The magnificent
Lisa Levine trained a group of 5 of us and it was just an amazing day. Here are some highlights:
1. I can now properly describe what Reiki really is (which is a HUGE relief!)
2. I can now practice Reiki on myself and others
3. The universal life energy is forever sealed in me, I will be able to carry this life force, and share it for the rest of my life (and maybe lives to come!?)
4. Atole, the sweetest, Reiki attuned, dog in the whole world spent much of the day learning with us
If you are interested in being a guinea pig in my first few weeks of practicing and playing with Reiki energy, please let me know. I would love to set up some appointments and see this baby fly! If you have any questions about Reiki pleasefeel free to ask — I am open to help and share as much as possible about this powerful healing tool and universal life energy!
Leah: i NEED these
http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog/shopping/shoe-story-balenciaga-wedges-pt-2/
Mom: Nobody “needs” high suede wedges!
Leah: i do
i NEED
like oxygen
and mascara
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Jazzi McG named hers ‘Food’, we NEED food. So there Mom! (Rational thinking must not be genetic!)
Oh, PS: Brilliant animated gif Ms. McG!
I am starting to take a more active approach to my health and happiness. Doctors, some forms of therapy and even my yoga practice has become a more passive experience to becoming healthier and more fulfilled. In an effort to take control I have started going to
Lisa Levine, an incredible Reiki master, for both Reiki and breath work. Lisa is helping me unlock my highest self, the person inside all of us that can help us get through the rough times and who shines though during the easy, breezy moments of life. Lisa is also an incredibly talented artist, above is some of her work from her site. You can also
buy t-shirts with her art!
I’m going for Reiki 1 training this weekend so I will be able work on my own healing and begin to share my knowledge with other people. I am so excited!
Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is an ancient laying-on of hands healing technique that uses the life force energy to heal, balancing the subtle energies within our bodies. Reiki addresses physical, emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances. The Reiki practitioner serves as a vessel that supplies healing energies where they are most needed by flowing out of the practitioner’s body through the palms of the hands and sent through to the recipient.
I have a blue wall in my bedroom (it was supposed to turn out navy blue, but it actually more closely what I call “painter’s tape blue” ICKY!) that has been looking uglier than usual lately. Low and behold, I was struck with a brilliant idea. I am going to repaint the wall with
chalkboard paint, they now make it in all colors and hopefully the blue they have will dry and look much darker than my current color, and use the wall for inspiration, ideas, doodles and little pieces of happiness.
Above are some chalkboard inspirations from one my all time favorite movies
500 Days of Summer and the Coldplay video for their song
Strawberry Swing.
Thanks to
greedy girl I have found the dress I want to wear to my brother’s wedding, and the dress that I would preferably like to wear every single day for the rest of my life!
The Mushira Dress from NOT JUST A LABEL is the most amazing dress in the entire world. It is perfect for the lighthearted, full of life and love-type wedding that Noah and Leila are planning.
And to top it all off this is what the designer has to say about the dress:
Mushira means Bride in Ethiopian….: The Mushira dress was inspired by the bride from Ethiopia and the singer Ebony Bones. Draped and cut in London, it is a one of a kind piece. Both inspiration and materials were sourced from Ethiopia, Nigeria and London (Dalston, Ridley market). I tried to express how my heritage changes and how I observe Western Culture.
Could it be any more perfect?
Give to Haiti first, but then give to me! I am accepting donations to help make me the fabulous sister-of-the-groom that my brother and future sister-in-law deserve for their happy day!
I learned in yoga part of the essence of yogic philosophy is ingrained in the concept of “Attention without Tension”. I was immediately struck by how poignant that thinking is for my life, and probably for many people. Usually when there is something I have to pay a lot of attention to I very tense, I even get tension headaches. But this way of looking at it helps lift that weight. I feel like I can now apply the same level of attention but release the sense of impending doom/tension that gets the better of me.
Arnold Patrick Martin’s ‘Ring Tension’, above, is a beautiful piece the exemplifies, to me, this idea of how tension and attention can, and should, work together rather than being diametric and opposing opposites in our lives! know I have to apply a lot of attention to, I get very tense of me. Phew!
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