Week end post

If you feel yourself as a lightworker, this video is a gift.
I hope it helps you as much as it helped me, every word resonates with me, a miracle. It explains so much of my negative feelings of the past weeks. Gratitude with a capital G!!

May you be happy,
May you be well
May you be safe
may you be peaceful and at ease.

The capability to admire the smallest manifestations of Life brings depth and meaning to our lives.
Be well and breathe deeply.

Sunday Metta

Recently i discovered this simple and beautiful prayer on Grace Forrest's blog : "May you be happy, may you be well, may you be safe, may you be peaceful and at ease".
I adopted it immediately because i felt it as a way to spread benevolence in the univers for all beings.
If you want to know more about this practice , sharon Salzberg wrote a very detailed article about it.
So friends, this is my prayer for you today "May you be happy, may you be well, may you be safe, may you be peaceful and at ease". Just saying it is soothing.

And i will add to it some personal wishes. May you find light if some dark thoughts sadden you.I am especially thinking of you, american friends who didn't vote for the candidate of hate, my heart is with you.

May you be loved.

May you have some good books  to read.

And may you have some cats to share your home with.

Be well!!

My words for this new year

Choosing a word for the year is something i usually don't do but at the end of december while pondering about  this new year and making plans, the word "visible" came to my mind. That was it! I wanted to be more visible and that's a lot for me because as a hypersensitive person i tend to hide more than to attract attention. But to my great surprise, i feel  capable to be visible wich mainly means to be more present on the internet, write regularly on this blog, participate to some events and dare to let comments on the blogs i read. It can seem very little but for me it is a huge progress and i think this is the benefit of focusing on  my spiritual practice during the past year.

 As for many people, 2016 has been a very difficult year for me: my father's illness,and the loss of my three very old and beloved cats( two of them died in january and the third one in november)made this year a terribly painful one.Add to this the international situation with a regular lot of bad news and you get the picture of a globally dark year.
But inspite of  moments of discouragement and  days of depression, i held on to my spiritual practice and made it my first goal during the year and it worked. I begin this year with a peaceful mind,  and for the first time in my life, some confidence in myself. That should be enough to make this new year an interesting one don't you think so?

 I am done with  my first word, but there is a second one: "concentrate" and i owe this one to an excellent blogpost written by Teresa Robinson aka Stargardener "Concentrate on one thing" . No more fluttering, i want to concentrate on one project at a time! Thank you Teresa!!

What about you dear readers, did you choose a word for the year? Here are two  very interesting blogposts on this topic:

First one by  Lise Lamoreux  of the blog "Be Present Be Here" ,she chose "Attention"

Second post by Carole Leslie of  Zendotstudio , she has choosen several words , Being is one of them, i let you discover  the others in her brilliant post.

I will finish this post blogger friends , with a quote i chose in E.Tolle's book "A New Earth" :

" Knowing yourself is to be rootedd in Being, instead of lost in your mind."

Thanks for visiting.

Peace is the way

Last week was hard for many of us, especially  those living in the USA, but even if i am not an american citizen, i was under shock when i read the news. It took me a while to go beyond sadness and discouragement but i am on board again and i know that even if there is little i can do, i will do it. I will do my share with determination because i don't want to look at  the world we all live in sink in darkness without doing all i can. I believe in peace, kindness, compassion, respect and love and  I know we all have enough inner resources to make the world a better place all together. All we need is a peaceful mind and an open heart ,  they are the fertile and easily available ground we need to grow seeds of hope, light and creativity. It is why i consider my spiritual practice  more important than ever and i see my task to spread peace around me more sacred than ever. This is where i find light and hope because i know deep within me that peace is infectious and it is known too that all brains are connected, scientists have proved it, so what are we waiting for? Let's spread peace and work peacefully to make the world a better place ALL TOGTHER.
For those of you who are sad or don't find peace and hope, i collected beautiful blogposts that flowered on the internet as an answer to despear and fear and i want to share them with you because they brought me a lot of comfort and hope in humankind. Here they are:

First one is Seth Apter's, a great artist and such a kind spirit.

Mary Jane Dodd , so much wisdom in her words!

Kathryn Dunn, great artist  very dear to my heart as an animal lover.

Kelly Rae Roberts who founded   the beautiful movement #Artistsforlove with some kindred spirits.
The idea is to use one of your art work to call for love and tolerance,  Every creation can be downloaded  for free . You'll find my participation below.

I hope you will find some light in these readings and i will do my best on this blog to spread peace and positive thoughts in my humble but sincere way because i care about you all my friends.
I will end for today with this beautiful mantra OM SHANTI OM  (I radiate peace).
See you soon!