capoeira, from an outsiders view...

It is always so special when we are exposed to an experience that we may have encountered before, but due to our shifts and changes within our self, we are able to create a much more meaningful experience than we had before. This is particularly special when we can use this time to acknowledge the amazing changes that we have moved through, too...

Here is what I wrote, as I sat and watched the beautiful art of Capoeira:

Sitting here watching Capoeira and it is like nothing I have ever seen.

These people move so beautifully, whilst having to be so connected to one another. The physical connection they have is so intimate, but, most importantly - and above and beyond this physical connection - they connect through their energy.

As soon as they begin to feel unsettled or ungrounded in their interaction with one another, they seem to draw themselves either to each other, or to the closest, most-grounded form of energy near them. This 'other' form of energy seems to be 'rooted' by this spiritual, earthly music, which is inspiring and perfect.

They then physically connect, ground one another, and continue with their movements.

Simply by being here, spectating, I feel grounded and connected to my own heart, my mind, and my soul. Perfect. xx

pulling on the heart strings

I'd simply love to share with you all a beautiful, beautiful song that I've been listening to this morning. I would have heard this song before, I'm sure, but with the way that I'm feeling just now, the song really is moving into my chest, making me truly feel...

I'm feeling more love and am finding it much more easier to connect to the emotions that I left lay dormant throughout yesterday, which did ware me out... I am now acknowledging what I'm feeling, and it's perfect.

Listen to | Bon Iver: Roslyn

share your stories!

Spreading Love and Light would love to hear and share your own stories of spreading love and light...

While the intention of this Blog is to share my own stories with you all, I would absolutely love the opportunity to share some stories of others.

Tell me about the simple sign you found on the footpath, the amazing, inspiring person you just met, your day-to-day job, how perfectly plans fell into place for you, or the changes that seem to be taking place around you...

Whether it is about you or someone you know, share with us the amazing-ness we all hold within ourselves!

email me at: spreadingloveandlight@hotmail.com

love, love, love and light xx

let me paint you a picture...

Last night was an eventful, eventful evening for me, full of love, light, music, smiles, dancing, and shifts... And as the evening came to a close, I found myself laying in bed with an amazingly beautiful image, that allowed for me to fall asleep peacefully, after what could have caused a restless night's sleep...

A situation at the end of the evening left me feeling vulnerable, sad, and let down, and I thought that all my problems would be solved if I made my way to bed to sleep on it and wake up in the morning with the storm having settled. Alas, as I lay there, I was tossing and turning, feeling absolutely terrible.

Then, suddenly - as though my angels had created this for me - I saw a clear image in my mind and I had taken a step back from the situation, watching myself in this visual as a bystander...

I was jumping on a trampoline in absolute bliss (I have the most fondest childhood memories of jumping on our trampoline in the backyard), and I saw this as an image of me enjoying my night, dancing away, smiling and laughing. Then, out of nowhere, all of these bodies began to appear around the trampoline, which were bodies and faces of people who, throughout my life, have caused tension, or anger, or sadness for me.

I watched myself continue to jump contentedly on the trampoline, acknowledging those around me, but choosing to ignore them. I then watched as these people began to pick up small pots of coloured paint and throw the paint on the trampoline below my feet, ruining my experience, making everything messy and slippery...

These people were throwing any negative emotions they felt my way, and I began by feeling as though everything was ruined, so I got myself off the trampoline and stood at one end, watching these people - with smirks of  'success' painted across their faces - continue to throw paint on my trampoline, my Divine path, that I had been travelling full of love, light, joy, and bliss.

 I then looked closer, and saw this beautiful painting emerge from what began as an attempt to throw dark energy my way... And as a smile grew on my face at the beauty of this gloriously-coloured image, the people began to slowly disappear - one by one - from around the trampoline.

And I was left with my Divinely-created path, filled with more colour and creativity than ever before.

I then did a meditation to acknowledge the emotions I was previously feeling, and to ground myself. And, peacefully, I slept... x

Difficult Times | Some advice to share...

an aspiration...

Every now and then - and, consequently, more often the more connected we become to ourselves - we are blessed to cross paths with someone who is inspirational, full of love, and grounded, spreading love and light as they travel their Divinely-created path...

Earlier in the year, I visited Spain, which, hands-down, is the most amazing place I have visited yet, and I can't wait to return... One beautiful afternoon, my friend and I spent some time in a quaint, little cafe, hiding in the small streets that back away from the beach in Barcelona. We had planned to have a coffee (or in my case, a red wine...) and then spend the rest of the afternoon exploring some of the sights of Barcelona.

Needless to say, we were given an opportunity to change pre-made plans and experience something beautiful and inspiring...

The Spanish lady who owned this cafe was of similar age to us, and her energy was just so intriguing. My friend and I made our way off our plastic chairs outside on the side of the street, and inside to the bar where we were served red wine and offered olives and an amazing conversation...!

As we sat, we were in absolute awe of this girl's story - following her dreams, feeling free, and being completely true to herself and her heart's desires. And her gorgeous best-friend arrived shortly after to help her with running this cafe that she had created and succeeded in on her very own.

So there we were, four friends, sharing love and light, and finding inspiration.

There are a handful of people in this world who I aspire to be as similar to as possible, and this Spanish girl is one. Thank you, beautiful one. xx

simple.

Just curiously...

1 song - I will ride my bike from my place to Gloucester Road, Bristol

2 songs - I will move through my chakra meditations

3 songs - My coffee will be warm enough to drink

4 songs - I will ride my bike from the train station, home

5 songs - I will walk from my place to Castle Park for coffee

simple.x

here comes the sun, and it's alright

So this beautiful autumn day began with some cloud, which was perfect...

Alas, I chose to believe that the sun would eventually push it's way through (the energy just feels too amazing today...!). I made my morning coffee, and after having announced that one of my beautiful readers would be reading 'The Ringing Cedars' by the beginning of next year, I felt amazing and ready to head outside to my front courtyard to sip, think, and pull myself some angel cards...

And then imagine my delight that, after I sat down on my steps, the sun came out! Brighter and warmer than ever, full of beautiful, glorious energy. I smiled, closed my eyes, thanked my angels, and watched them smile back at me with encouragement.

Not surprisingly, and as always, today is going to be a good day. x

afterthought...

I thought to myself that I would leave you all with three posts today, but after having completed the last two, I'm thinking that that is enough to leave you with... Mill and seethe over these posts, and I would absolutely love any feedback or questions you might have.

My 'Blog' juices are overflowing, though, so be prepared for many more posts to be coming your way very soon...!

love, love, love and light xxx

(Come to think of it, this is actually three... x)

Just by the by, my favourite post for you to read or re-read, click on, and view...

How To Be Alone

learning to 'feel'.

And so as I've been encouraging you all to 'feel' your emotions as they appear, here is exactly what I mean...

Over the last couple of weeks, there have been some huge energy shifts happening on this earth. I've already asked if maybe you've been feeling more nervous, had butterflies floating through your stomach, perhaps your health has changed, or you've simply been feeling as though you can never catch up on the sleep that you may need... These are all signs that you are feeling the shift that is occurring, the rest is up to you whether you choose to embrace and acknowledge these changes in yourself, or whether you choose to move on with how things were.

Your choice is completely up to you - the timing must be perfect for us before we choose to move forward with our energy levels,  and I am going to now give you the opportunity to move through a meditation that will help you 'feel' any emotions (particularly more negative emotions such as anger, guilt, regret etc...) and use this energy to magnify and push your shift in becoming the more amazing 'you'.

First of all, acknowledge whatever emotion you are feeling - for example, 'guilt' - 'feel' this guilt and become aware of the situation surrounding it. Close your eyes and run the energy of this guilt up and down your spine, see the white light of this guilt move up and down your spine. Finally, embed this white light of emotion at the base of your skull, then push it out through your third eye chakra (between your eyes, on your forehead). See the light leave your body then send it white light of your own from your heart.

Repeat this as many times as you need before you begin to feel acceptance and innocence within yourself.

One thing I do know is that we need to stop viewing negative emotions as something bad. In fact, quite the contrary - and I was only just reminded about this from magicmaree - we should acknowledge these feelings as something exciting, because at the end of feeling these emotions, we will have shifted ourselves.

Everything is Divinely orchestrated, you amazing readers xx

much better...

It's time...! And as magicmaree says, hasn't time simply flown by lately...

You have all been on my mind, and I have continued to add blog entries and ideas to my journal. But, sadly, my journal fell on to the train tracks, and I have been busily trying to re-trace it, but I think that it may be gone forever... Like everything else that happens to me, though, I do take this as a sign because I have been moving through a huge shift in the last couple of weeks and my angels are obviously telling me that I need to leave all the energy that has been placed in that journal behind and move forward with my new frame-of-mind and energy, which is exciting... ;-)

Have you been feeling more nervous lately? More butterflies flying through your stomach in situations that this would not normally happen? Well, if this is the case, you're shifting, too! Embrace this and acknowledge and use this new frame-of-mind you're now carrying with you.

Perhaps you have a creative project that you've been thinking about of wanting to explore...? Go for it!

Oh wow. I am just so excited writing this post because I know that I'm making you think and I hope that I'm also inspiring and encouraging you to be the most amazing person that you are... And on that note, please take the time once you've finished exploring my posts to read magicmaree's latest post because I am certain that something within there will resonate with you.

Jot some ideas down to begin with. Take some time-out for you. You, you, you! You're beautiful and you're amazing, and I am so glad that I now have the time to let you know this...

I promised myself that I would send you all a few messages today, and this is the first, so sit back, relax, and start 'feeling'.... love, love, love and light to you xxxxx

a message from me to you...

A blog that began as a poem, but evolved into a message from me to you...

To experience a love within your heart that radiates immense joy. Joy for love, life, and the beauty within yourself. You are amazing and have so much to give to the world. Everyone around you is intrigued by these gifts that you carry. And yet you still feel as though you haven't fully become aware of these gifts yourself.

Trust in yourself because they are there and are ready to blossom. And while you may not feel as though your amazing-ness is showing strong enough to be acknowledged, it already is. Trust in your heart that you are well on your Divine path, travelling with so much grace and love and light. And the fact that you are simply aware of your amazing potential, and how beautiful life is, is already shifting and moving you along your path to fulfillment.

Fulfillment within your heart, fulfillment within your soul, and fulfillment in your relationships. Everything is perfect, and you have the ability to create the most perfect life for yourself. There is no right or wrong - these values have been created by society - there are only choices that you choose to make and take to create happiness for yourself.

Life is beautiful, and you are amazing, and everything is perfect. Embrace it all and see the love radiate from within your heart - you will then begin to experience curiosity from others - others who are intrigued, sometimes confused, and maybe even feel challenged or intimidated. And this intimidation may sometimes create anger and conflict, but this is needed because only cyclones can break down concrete barriers.

You will be 'shifting' these people, encouraging them to create a life for them self that they envisage to be even minutely as amazing as yours. Never move away from your path to make others feel less uncomfortable because such meetings and relationships are created for a reason. Once again, and as always, remember, everything is perfect and has been Divinely created.

Be true to yourself and the rest will follow on from there. You deserve it.

"When we realise how perfect everything is, we will tilt our head back and laugh at the sky."

- Buddha

Send out only love and light and watch prosperity blossom!

be true to yourself

I chose to begin this Blog for a few reasons, the main being that I wanted to share my thoughts and views publicly, in a non-intrusive way so that those of you who may be curious about spiritually awakening yourselves could access the information I'm sharing in an environment that is safe and familiar.

I also chose to begin this blog so that I could explore my way of life through a means that was also non-intrusive to those around me. I have only just begun to explore these thoughts, ideas, and beliefs in the last year, which means that some of those amazing people who were, and still are, so very close to me, find it a little difficult to 'be' on this same wave-length as me...

I have learned that there is a time and a place for different thoughts and ideas to be expressed. However, at the same time, I have also learned that I must continue to be true to myself and never hide or 'blur' what I think just for the sake of others. I have also learned to trust those who love me, and that they will embrace the 'new' me - particularly when they can see how happy and content I am within my heart... x

Since acknowledging this, I now feel so grounded and full of love, which encourages so much growth and 'shifting', which is simply amazing!

Be true to yourself and trust that those who love you and are worthy of your love will always embrace you and your gifts. Sending you all love and light xxx

good morning!

Waking up to sunshine flowing through my window and the beautiful sound of a blackbird singing outside my window... Today is going to be a good day :-)

Time for some inspirational music, a cup of tea, a bath, and some meditations. xx

What will I listen to? Holly Throsby...

My bath? With crystal essences...

Meditation? Moving through my chakras....

And how could you create an amazing feeling in your heart if you've already begun your day?

Click here and watch 'How To Be Alone', and watch the smile grow of your face and the love radiate from your heart...

xxx