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August 5, 2013

Gratitude as healing.

I have been angel whispered a new healing technique that works beautifully :-) !


I link to the gratitude I feel when I am healed.

The relief I feel then, the joy and the love.
The gratitude. Inner smile.
That I feel "after".

I visualize and then deeply feel all of these.
And there I am. My before, my now = this envisioned after.

So far I have been blessed enough to only have had the chance to work this love on headaches. I have sinus headaches that act up now and then. They can get pretty awful.

And I have had to turn to pain meds in the past.
Now I turn to gratitude.

Woke with a bad one today and through out my day I linked to this gratitude (that I feel after a headache passes) and tonight I am feeling 100 % wonderfully fine :-).

Headache and pain med free :-) !
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Published on August 05, 2013 12:08

August 4, 2013

Assisi

The Assisi facebook group used my photo of Assisi today :-)

click here to view: Assisi .
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Published on August 04, 2013 10:16

Elsewhere

   :-)we returned todayfrom 6 days in the woodsat Elsewhere:-)booksboardgames and cardslaughter and good convosdelicious foodstillness:-)
 
 




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Published on August 04, 2013 09:40

July 29, 2013

Todi

 My new favorite place on the planet :-)a lovely hotel by the town of Todiin Umbria in Italy.  






 






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Published on July 29, 2013 03:06

December 15, 2012

Please see Sandy Hook.

My higher self is gentle with me.

I had intended to sleep in this morning.

I can, you see, for my life is trauma free.

For many this was a night of no sleep.

You see?

I had intended to sleep in this morning, but I woke from a nightmare in the early hours.

In this dream my 10 year old daughter was going away to boarding school.

My higher self dared look at the 'school' part of the equation that =s killing but not the rest.

For it knows how my mamma's heart would ache.

My higher self is gentle with me.

In this dream my daughter and her father had agreed that she would go to a boarding school.

Mondays to Fridays.

A ferry ride away.

It was beautiful there (much like heaven you see?) but far from me.

Out of reach.

You see?

I felt such grief in this dream.

Such sadness.

And I shared this with her in the dream.

"I love you, I want to be with you.
Please do not go."


Stay

(live)

here.


This morning there are mothers who have lost their little hearts

out of reach

they do not have the weekends with them

they have nothing

now

but a heart breaking grief.

Today my heart is with them.

See?

And with the little hearts who walked out of that school with their eyes closed.

Closed because they had seen things that little eyes are not created, not made, not programmed to see. Angels computing hell.

Too much.

I hold their hearts as they learn to open them again.

See, you can trust. ?


And today my heart is with the rest of us.

As we face (I hope) the fact that we have to yet to see how we need to relate to one another.

How we need to care for one one another .... enough ..... completely .... so that we do not have to live through trauma like this.

So that we can create, can see a world that we can trust.

See?

x

Cathrine Lødøen.
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Published on December 15, 2012 07:19 Tags: love, sandy-hook, school-shooting

November 18, 2012

Much much much ......

Much much much



Mmmm all this beautiful life.

Mmmmm my life.

I have been gifted a life!


Gratitude .


Stop for a second and breathe it in, in gratitude.

Life.


Yesterday I was resting in a very comfy space. I took a moment for myself while at work.


Stillness all around me. Feeling good about my fun and fulfilling day at work and my lovely plans for the evening. I looked up and there was a poster on the wall. One I had not “seen” before. It was an overview of sea life in this area. So many different shapes, …


it caught my breath


… so many different colors. So many, much, wild, beautiful, full life!


I was so moved by this poster that on other occasions I had overlooked. (Maybe even thought of as boring).


So much beautiful life and all is so, so perfect.


Later in the day I was told about a banana tree illness that is going to make bananas extinct. Overwhelming. So much so that the others in the room just laughed at it when the story was told. It was not until I looked into my 10 year old’s eyes when I told her about this, that I saw the real truth and sadness in it. She wants to work with orangutans in Borneo and for her this was just horrible, horrible news. She put me on the task to find out more about this lack of life so that she and I could "do something". "We must do something!"


She loves life without having to be reminded of it.


My 12 year old is walking around in a cloud of "why is our life so good?". "I am used to it and I take it for granted but now and then I see it and it is amazing."


And every time he does …. so do I :-) …. Gratitude for his words and love and … this life.


I slip from this into my yoga class. Already in the car going there I feel a joy and a calm at my core as I am driving. Knowing what state I will soon slip into I become it. I am there already (we always are). It was a beautiful 2 hours and when I arrived home my daughter pointed out "you are so happy, you have no wrinkles, let’s go cuddle" and my son insisted that yoga can't be good for me as it gives me too much happy energy ;-) .


We all fall asleep smiling. Knowing life is so, so good and that we are here in all this amazing, beautiful, colorful much much much life :-) . We are.


This year has been a good one.



This morning I drive to acupuncture. In the car I feel a rush of gratitude. I find myself thinking "I love my life!". I pull over and I call my husband to thank him. For taking care of us in such a way that I can have this day off from work to just do this ...... take care of me .... just be. I am beyond grateful. "I love my life, thank you" his reply is "what is not to love" .... he laughs at the obvious fact that we sometimes overlook. "You are very welcome, I love you and our life."


I go to acupuncture and I am gifted something very beautiful.

As she takes my pulse she informs me that a visual of a butterfly pops up.


"Are you aware of how much you have changed?" She tells me the butterfly is on the inside and outside. The change I longed for a few years ago has not only manifested but has settled into something that has now become me.


It is here.

I am here.

Inside and out.


We constantly change.

That we become something different is the only thing that is the same :-)

we hold on in fear sometimes

to places, people, jobs, emotions

we hold on

when letting go is truly what is easy.

And change is what will happen.

Cocoon to butterfly.


As I rest on the acupuncture table I am mindful of the fact that even though I am resting I am holding on. As if it takes effort to rest on a table. The table is meant to hold me not the other way around.

And in this I see that I have a ways to go still

but we always do, it is ok

that is the joy ride

life brings us new opportunities for change.


It is the same always.


She then hands me a very precious gift - this beautiful acupuncturist of mine.

She hands me a label.


We are good at holding on to them as well.

Words, definitions, “truths”.



Though often we give ourselves negatives ones.

Others as well maybe.



She informs me that she rarely writes on my chart anymore.

After 5 years (+) she knows me so well that she knows which needles to set where when.

She knows the story I have told myself. She knows which labels I hold on to. (She helps me pry them off with her needles and love.)


"Today I only wrote 2 words on your chart:

Calm / beautiful. "


Today I am going to allow myself to cling to a label. Not let go. I am going to tell myself that story all day.



How often do we hand people gifts like that? No Christmas gift will beat that. How often do we gift people with the chance to see the beauty in themselves? I am very grateful. Oh the life she saw in me ... butterfly .... colorful much much much ....... I am grateful.



Thank you for all these angels in my life :-) !



The other day a man fell on me. His whole body (heavy, heavy body - not weight - but story - sad eyes) landed on my foot.


He looked into my eyes

to see which label I would now hand him to cling on to.


I smiled and looked deeply into his eyes and told him that everything was fine, I am fine, you are fine and everything is going to be ok.


There is much much life out there.

See it, breathe it.

Don’t overlook.

Be grateful.


Help others to be.

Show them their beauty ... much much much ............



Thank you.
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Published on November 18, 2012 06:58 Tags: gratitude