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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3635439172069314882018-06-21T09:32:55.558+01:00Falling PetalsMoon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-88643738463559045042018-06-04T18:38:00.003+01:002018-06-04T18:45:14.380+01:00Mid-2018 Reflections

Last year I did a post called Reflections writing a bit about how I was feeling then. You can read that here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2017/05/reflections.html

It was last May, so it's already over a year since I wrote it. I thought that since we're now halfway through 2018 I'd do a mid year reflection post. (Seems strange that we're already in June!).

On New Year's Eve I wrote a post called Letting Go of 2017 which you can read here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2017/12/letting-go-of-2017.html

I always find it hard after the excitement of Christmas; New Year doesn't seem that exciting to me and then January is bleak because all the celebrations are over, and it's winter and cold.. I like spring and feel better as the weather lightens up, but this year it seemed to take until May for me to feel like I'd really "eased into" the year. I enjoy following seasonal cycles and celebrating the wheel of the Year, so I think a lot about how the seasons affect me. As I wrote on my other blog The Seasonal Life, winter seemed long this year but now summer is finally starting. During 2018 I'm reading Debrorah Blake's A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft and Kate's West's The Real Witches' Year, both of which have meditations, spells or just something to think about for every day of the year.

I wrote about how I feel during the year in my Letting Go of 2017 post and I also said that I would try to accept how I am and go gently. I do struggle with accepting things. There's a concept called Radical Acceptance which I don't know much about, but I'm going to look into. The website it's on is about Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT) which I've read a bit about. (It's mentioned in the book Heal Your Mind by Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz and Louise Hay, which I'm reading at the moment). I've tried Cognitive Behavioural Theray (CBT) but not DBT, so I'd like to look into that more. There's also another concept (unrelated to CBT or DBT) called Radical Self Love which I first heard about through Gala Darling. Check it out here: http://galadarling.com/radical-self-love/

And as I was writing this, I came across this post of Amina Makhdoom's on a similar theme of accepting yourself: http://www.lunchwithcinderella.com/blog-posts/create-a-new-story

I've been feeling up and down with anxiety and depression lately. At the beginning of the year I took a Food and Mood course at my local mental health resource centre, about how food affects your physical and mental health. I enjoyed that. If you're interested in the subject of "food and mood" here are a couple of links about it:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/food-and-mood/#.WxVWeooh0dU

https://www.mindcharity.co.uk/wellbeing-article/food-and-mood/

I went to a stress and anxiety group for a bit after that and also have just done a Five Ways to Wellbeing course. I'd like to carry on doing some courses and things like this. I set myself some loose goals in February, including learning more about self help for anxiety/mood management techniques, learning about food and nutrition and continuing to study the Law of Attraction (LOA) and magic/Wicca, so I'll see how I get on with that. I've also been to a few dance workshops (Bollywood and belly dance) and hope to do more this year.

As for the blog I started my Feeling Your Emotions series last November, and so far this year I've done two posts on anger- Anger (Part 1) and Anger- Part 2. I'm currently working on a post about sadness and depression and hope to have that finished soon. I also celebrated Falling Petals' 5th birthday in February; here's the birthday post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2018/02/falling-petals-5th-birthday-fave-posts.html

So this is just a reflection on the year so far. I'll probably do another a post at the end of the year. Hope you enjoyed this post and that 2018 is going well for you so far! If not there's still half a year to go, so try not to put too much pressure on yourself. (Which is something that I tend to do, but am trying not to!). :)

Photo: Lancing Beach. Moonsparkle 2018. Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-57438375439515536592018-05-28T22:09:00.002+01:002018-05-29T14:03:22.403+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Beltane
Eurovision
Sunny, hotter weather (summer is starting!)
Roses on the bush outside my window
New series/season of Teen Mom 2 starting
The Tribal Remix show I went to with my belly dance group
Having Harry Ramsden's fish and chips
Free reservations on non fiction books at my local library

Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-63962417721781253352018-04-30T18:33:00.000+01:002018-05-10T22:04:35.643+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Easter
Leftover chocolate eggs!
Blossom trees
Spring properly starting
The lovely summer like weather we had a couple of weeks ago
Joy Challenge with Amina Makhdoom- been doing it all month
Going to a Turkish restaurant with my belly dance group BD4U
Doing a tribal fusion/gothic belly dance workshop with Lianna Greene

Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-75400631005896754722018-04-15T21:18:00.000+01:002018-04-15T21:21:45.336+01:00Feeling Your Emotions- Anger (Part 2)

In February I wrote my first post on the Feeling Your Emotions series on the subject of anger. You can read the Introduction post here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/feeling-your-emotions-introduction.html

I decide to write two posts on Anger and you can read Part 1 here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/feeling-your-emotions-anger-part-1.html

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so if you're having mental/physical issues please seek medical help in addition to reading this. :)

In the first post I wrote about anger itself and how suppressing it can be bad for you. I also talked about accepting anger. This post will focus more on releasing it. It's taken me a while to get back to this, since, as I said in my first post, I don't think anger's an easy subject to talk/write about. But I'm trying my best. :)

First of all, here is a good article I've found about anger management:  http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/anger/anger-management.htm

It focuses on anger prevention by identifying the things that trigger you and make you angry and then dissolving them. The author Gary van Warmderdam, says that false beliefs are what cause patterns of anger. He does offer the Self Mastery program if you want to go further. You have to pay for it but you can sign up to get a free sample. (I did the free version a few years ago and I think it's time for me to review it).

A method that Gary has for managing anger is taking an inventory of your beliefs. You can find a link to that article here: http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/core_belief_inventory.htm

For more on beliefs, in particular from a Law of Attraction (LOA) perspective, visit this post I wrote in 2015: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/beliefs-and-believing-loa.html

If you're unable to work with your beliefs just now. I would suggest going back to trying to accept your anger (see first post). I personally have felt angry at myself for being stuck in the same old patterns with health anxiety, and always worrying. But it doesn't do any good to get angry at myself. So this is something to work on myself.

Next this is an NHS article on controlling your anger:  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/controlling-anger/

Releasing anger

Louise Hay (best known for the popular self help/spiritual book You Can Heal Your Life) suggested releasing anger by physically letting it out, using methods such as punching a pillow or screaming and shouting. (Obviously in a safe environment).

As I mentioned in my first Anger post, Melody Fletcher also has a process for releasing anger in her book Deliberate Receiving. It's about the Law of Attraction but I think it's a useful read for anyone interested in looking at and dealing with their emotions. In that post I linked to some of her articles on releasing anger. Here's a post by Melody Heal Your Life (Louis's site) on 3 ways to release anger:  https://www.healyourlife.com/3-ways-to-release-anger-constructively

And here are some more of Melody's posts on that subject:

 https://melodyfletcher.com/2012/12/11/the-dos-and-donts-of-anger/

https://melodyfletcher.com/2012/07/24/questions-about-anger/

https://melodyfletcher.com/2011/07/31/why-people-who-walk-slowly-in-front-of-you-are-so-damn-annoying-and-how-you-can-stop-wanting-to-punch-them-in-the-head/

Video on anger release: https://melodyfletcher.com/2017/05/26/anger-release-what-if-anger-doesnt-flow-30-day-video-challenge-26-of-30/

In Part 1 I linked to Celestine Chua's anger series on Personal Excellence. Here's the link again for the first post and the rest of the series: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/anger/

Now I'd like to focus specifically on Part 3, where Celes writes about she let go of her anger:
https://personalexcellence.co/blog/anger-part-3/

She also mentions becoming aware of triggers, which is what Gary says in the Pathway to Happiness Anger Management article. She looked at the root cause of her anger, then worked on her inner wounds.

Celes also shares her guide to dealing with anger which you can read here: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/how-to-deal-with-anger/

Here are a few more posts about letting go of anger:

https://www.jordangrayconsulting.com/2016/11/get-rid-of-your-repressed-anger/

From a Taoist perspective: https://personaltao.com/healing/resolve-anger/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/roya-r-rad-ma-psyd/emotional-healing_b_3305704.html

Releasing through mindfulness: https://upliftconnect.com/release-anger-mindfulness/

This is aimed at men but it's probably worth everyone having a read: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/releasing-anger-healthy-way-not-gateway-violent-behavior-pnrtn-lbkr/

Relating to women and anger but an interesting read for anyone: https://www.prevention.com/mind-body/emotional-health/healthiest-ways-express-anger

http://www.gateways-to-inner-peace.com/repressed-anger.html

Affirmations: https://www.healing-affirmations.com/release-transform-anger/

Summing it up

I hope this post was helpful and that you're able to find some value in the links provided. As I said in my Disclaimer, if you have serious anger issues I'd advise you to see a doctor/and or therapist because I'm not qualified, I'm just exploring anger from a layman's (or laywoman's!) perspective. :)

One more thing I wanted to add is when looking at anger, the subject of forgiveness comes up. I've struggled with that but I know it will benefit me to forgive both myself and others. Here are a few links on forgiveness:

https://www.louisehay.com/forgiveness/

https://kajalpandey.com/feelinginnerpeace/

http://www.everydayloamagic.com/blog/forgiveness-the-forgotten-fire-starter

https://melodyfletcher.com/2018/04/08/do-you-need-to-forgive-yourself/

That it's for now! Next post will probably be on the subject of sadness. Might do a separate one for depression.

Photo: Moonsparkle 2016, 2018.Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-17000377818740587042018-03-19T22:05:00.000+00:002018-03-21T15:11:45.600+00:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Having a nice birthday
Birthday wishes from friends and family
Going out for a meal at a Turkish restaurant with my belly dance group
Birthday meal at Nando's
Coming across books I want to read at the library
Daffodils and snowy daffodils! (We had more snow yesterday).
Oestara tomorrow
Cake!Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-84587456686328909102018-02-25T20:06:00.002+00:002018-04-28T18:07:59.805+01:00Falling Petals' 5th Birthday + Fave Posts

Today is Falling Petals' 5th birthday. Wow, can't believe it's been 5 years! I started this blog on 25th February 2014. You can read the first post here: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/welcome-to-falling-petals.html

As I said in the first post, the name inspiration came from Liza Dalby's book The Tale of Murasaki which I was re-reading at the time, about the real life Japanese author, poet and lady in waiting Murasaki Shikibu who wrote The Tale of Genji.(I actually just finished reading the book again). One of her poetry subjects was the seasons, e.g. the cherry blossoms in spring. She also observed seasonal changes like I do on my other blog The Seasonal Life.

On my About page I mentioned how when I first started FP I planned to have a more spiritual/philosophical type blog (compared to Star Sparkle Blog, the only one I had at the time which is about entertainment) but I was unsure exactly which direction it would end up in. I started writing more about self help/personal development, the Law of Attraction (LOA) and spiritual concepts, and then in 2016 I decided to make it a resource where you can find lots of information about self help/personal development, LOA and related subjects. I'm continuing to build up my Resources and Helpful Articles pages. (You can find them any time on the sidebar to the right if the blog). Although I post less often here than my other blogs- once or twice a month on average- I try my best to provide helpful content. :) Blogging here has helped me to express myself and work through things and I hope my post can help others too.

In celebration of FP's birthday here are the most popular posts and my favourites so far. (I've listed the popular ones by the most views).

Most Popular/Viewed Posts

Top 10 Self Help and Personal Development Blogs and Sites:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/top-10-self-helppersonal-development.html

Raising Your Vibration (Or Feeling Better): http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/raising-my-vibration.html

Law of Attraction: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/law-of-attraction.html

What Is Possible? (LOA) http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/what-is-possible-loa.html

Romantic Love (part of The Love Project series): http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/the-love-project-romantic-love.html

My Favourites

LOA

Manifestation Methods: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/manifestation-methods.html

Dealing with Manifesting Fears: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/dealing-with-manifesting-fears.html

 Manifesting and Resistance:  http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/manifesting-and-resistance.html

Beliefs and Believing: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/beliefs-and-believing-loa.html

Manifestation Story: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/manifestation-story.html

Acting As If: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/acting-as-if-loa.html

Pinterest as an LOA Tool: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/pinterest-as-loa-tool.html

Affirmations: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/affirmations.html

Design Your Universe- Part 1: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/design-your-universe-part-1.html

Design Your Universe- Part 2: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/design-your-universe-part-2.html

Self Help/Spiritual

Meditation Alternatives: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/alternatives-to-meditation.html

Judgement: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/judgement.html

Spiritual Tools and Practices: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/spiritual-toolspractices.html

My Spiritual and Magic Resources: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/my-current-favourite-spiritual-and.html

Healing

Anxiety Resources: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/anxiety-resources.html

Healing Mind and Body: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/healing-mind-and-body.html

Healing Health Anxiety- Part 1: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/healing-health-anxiety-part-1.html

Healing Health Anxiety- Part 2: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/healing-health-anxiety-part-2.html

The Love Project series

Note: Not all posts are listed, click on the Love Project label at the top of the blog, or on an individual post to see them all. :)

Introduction: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-love-project-introduction.html

Self Love: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-love-project-self-love.html

Self Love/ Romatic Love: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-love-project-self-loveromantic-love.html

Romantic Love: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-love-project-romantic-love.html

Self Love/Romantic Love: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-love-project-self-loveromantic-love.html

Friendship: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-love-project-friendship.html

Family: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-love-project-family.html

Another Romantic Love one: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-love-project-romantic-love.html

Romantic relationships and anxiety: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-love-project-romantic-love.html

Feeling Your Emotions series

Only 2 so far.

Intro: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/feeling-your-emotions-introduction.html

Ange (Part 1): http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/feeling-your-emotions-anger-part-1.html

That's it! Whether you've been reading this blog for a while, visit occasionally or have just found it, thank you. I hope it's been useful to you in some way. I plan to continue exploring self help and spiritual type subjects here. :)

Photo: Blossom trees in Hove Park. Moonsparkle 2016, 2018. Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-76582882006413873282018-02-11T18:14:00.002+00:002018-04-15T21:19:09.301+01:00Feeling Your Emotions- Anger (Part 1)

In November I started my Feeling Your Emotions post series. You can read the first post here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/feeling-your-emotions-introduction.html

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so if you're having mental/physical issues please seek medical help in addition to reading this. :)

As I mentioned in the Introduction, I'm starting with the more "negative" emotions first, the ones that are perceived as negative. So let's start with Anger. (I won't capitalise it for the whole post, just when I first introduce it). It's taken me a while to write this, i don't think it's a particularly easy subject to write because we're taught that it's "wrong" to be angry. But it's very important to discuss these things and express our emotions. I've decided to split it up into two parts, so for today I'll write about anger itself and accepting it, then the next post will be about releasing it.

A lot of stuff I've read says that suppressed anger can be bad for you. In itself it can be very destructive and if you hold it inside then it will hurt you. Depression is often called "anger turned inward". If you have depression (as I do) you may find it helpful to explore that more. I'll look more at sadness and depression separately later (grief might need its own post) but for now here are a few links on depression and anger:

http://www.transformationalwriting.co.uk/blog/depression-can-repressed-anger-cause-depression

http://www.emclear.com/Emotions/Emotions_depression.html

http://www.emclear.com/Emotions/Emotions_anger.html

And here are a couple more posts on anger itself:

 https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/anger/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/about-anger/

I have felt a lot of anger in my life, part of it is probably due to an unsettled early life. And then being bullied at middle school and having friendship problems as a teenager. I went through a bad anger phase when I was depressed as a teenager. I am better now but still now I sometimes think, "I'm just so angry!". You may also be angry if you feel like you don't have a voice. An example of this is if you're in a group termed "minority", such as a non white person in a predominately white country, a woman in a mostly male workplace or a gay person in a country where being straight is seen as the norm. (That is probably most countries when it comes to being gay to be honest, although it would be nice if I'm wrong. And things are slowly changing which is good). :)

There are many other reasons you may feel angry- due to childhood trauma, because you're in a dangerous situation, you or someone close to you is ill, you feel trapped and your life isn't working out how you thought it would, because of all the violence and injustice in the world, or lots of other things. The main thing behind it seems to be that you're hurting and feel powerless. So let's look at accepting anger next.

Accepting your anger

Anger is seen as unacceptable and bad, especially in women. Women have traditionally been silenced and in particular those of us termed women of colour, (a person of colour is generally thought of as anyone who is not white/not fully white). Below are a couple of links about women and anger; and black women and women of colour and anger. It may relate to you (like it does me, since I am a mixed race woman, Cameroonian and English) or it may not, but you might still like to have a read because it's good to read viewpoints from people different to you. These can come across as quite hard hitting but I think they need to be included.

About women and anger(please note: strong language in article): https://gwynnraimondi.com/on-rage-fear-and-the-status-quo/

About black women/women of colour and anger specifically relating to racism: http://www.wildmysticwoman.com/poetry-prose/uses-of-anger

This is Celes' anger series on Personal Excellence. (I'll link to Part 3, where she talks about healing it, separately in the next post.

https://personalexcellence.co/blog/anger/

Here's a post from Suzanne Heyn on how to deal with the fact that life often isn't fair: http://suzanneheyn.com/life-is-not-fair/

In her book Deliberate Receiving Melody Fletcher has a section on anger (Chapter 8, Understanding Our Emotions). It's about the Law of Attraction but a good read even if you don't follow that because it goes in depth about emotions. She says that anger in its natural state is like when a toddler gets upset and frustrated because they can't do something (like put building blocks together and he/she rages for a bit and cries, but then has moved on and forgotten all about it. But in adulthood (and as older children and teenagers) we tend to suppress it and not let it out naturally.

She also writes about releasing anger (Ch.11, Using Your Emotions to Release Resistance), by doing things such as writing a letter to the person you're angry at (it's not advised that you actually send it though), going for a walk or punching an object like a cushion. If you can't get access to the book or would rather not read it, here are a few of Melody's posts on the subject of anger and releasing it:

https://melodyfletcher.com/law-of-attraction/law-of-attraction-articles/the-power-of-anger-why-its-ok-to-be-angry/

https://melodyfletcher.com/2012/03/06/negative-emotions-anger/

https://melodyfletcher.com/2013/05/27/what-to-say-when-others-wont-let-you-be-angry/

Ok, that's it for now. In the next post I'll talk more about coping with and releasing anger. Hope this post was useful. :)

Photo: Copyright Moonsparkle 2015, 2018. Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-66889190654544203622018-01-21T15:03:00.000+00:002018-01-21T15:05:14.969+00:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Leftover Christmas chocolate!
Early Easter chocolate!
Neighbours coming back after Christmas
Corner House Resourse Centre (for mental health)
Uncle Sam's milkshakes
Boni Lonnsbury's The Map workbook- I've wanted it for years and then she had a sale before Christmas which made it more affordable for me
Watching the new IT and making popcorn the other night
Magical year books- Deborah Blake's A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft and Kate West's The Real Witches' Year (been wanting the last one for ages!)Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-18869104780957928302017-12-31T20:00:00.000+00:002018-01-18T15:25:17.074+00:00Letting Go of 2017

We're at the end of 2017. Christmas and the end of the year always seem to come round quickly to me! It doesn't seem that long since I wrote my Reflections post but it was 7 months ago. Now that it's the last day of the year I thought it would be helpful to reflect on how 2017 has been and release it. (I started writing this a few days ago but it's now New Year's Eve!).

Note: This is assuming you're following the Western yearly calendar. I know other cultures have different calendars (such as the Chinese one), and I also follow the Wheel of the Year and with that New Year was Samhain (around Hallowe'en), so I also did some reflection then. You could just do your own reflecting and releasing whenever feels best to you. :)

While I love Christmas, I don't like New Year so much. I've never done as much for that. And I find the time after New Year depressing because all the excitement is over and we've still got most of winter and cold weather to go. I tend to take a while to "settle in" and adjust to the new year. But I think that rather than pushing myself to be different, I should just try to accept how I am and go gently. So if you're not in a really happy, positive mood either, don't be hard on yourself. :)

2018 is a universal 11/2 year in numerology. 2017 was a "1" year which was about new beginnings and 2018 is supposed to be about lessons/insights, love and relationships. 11 is a "master number". I don't follow numerology really closely but I find it interesting to read about the universal year and my personal year number. (I've forgotten what my new one for 2018 will be, I'll check later).
You can read more here: https://consciouslifenews.com/2018-numerology-forecast-112-universal-year-lesson-taughtlessons-learned/11146485/#

And sign-up for a free energy attunement here (done remotely): https://whispersfromthesoul.com/free-event-new-years-energy-attunement-2017-2018/

Reflection

It's been a weird and unsettling year on some levels, with all the instability, racism and violence in the world and the constant news stories on it all. Things have been unsettled both here in the UK and in America since the UK voted for Brexit and Donald Trump was elected as President in the US last year. And there have been the terrorist attacks in the UK, elsewhere in Europe and America. The biggest ones here were the London Bridge and the Ariana Grande Manchester Arena concert attacks. There was also the Grenfell Tower fire in London in June and the recent California wildfires.

There has been some more positive news with the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in November. It's good to hear about a love story and I also find it nice because Meghan is mixed race like me and she's around my age (so maybe it's not too late for me to find the love of my life!).

My personal year started off badly with my girl cat dying. :( Also my health anxiety (HA) has been up and down, it was worse during the summer. I've felt a lot of stress and anxiety during 2017. On the other hand I had a good summer in some ways, going to the beach, the countryside, the pub and Brighton Marina.

This year I started a new post series called Design Your Universe, based on the Law of Attraction (LOA). I also did another post in my series The Love Project, on romantic relationships and anxiety.
I started a new series on Feeling Your Emotions which I plan to expand on in 2018. And I've been active on my other blogs Star Sparkle Blog (entertainment) and The Seasonal Life (seasonal living and Wiccan/pagan sabbats).

Some positive things- I took part in Amina Makhdoom's Joy Challenge in April which was a lot of fun and I had a story published in June. I made some positive online connections. I also went to a few belly dance workshops and other events. There were some beautiful sunrises and sunsets. (I mainly saw the sunsets since I'm more of an evening person!).

If you'd like to do your own reflections and/or review your year, here are a few links:

https://personalexcellence.co/blog/year-end-review/

(This is from 2014 but you can apply it to to this year too, or any year): https://anuschkarees.com/blog/2014/12/16/your-year-in-review-50-questions-to-help-you-reflect-appreciate-and-get-excited-for-2015

http://notesonbliss.com/your-year-in-review/

I especially like No. 1, What can I think the Universe for? in the Notes on Bliss post. I'm going to write a gratitude list for 2017.If you'd like to do one too you can write it how Elyse suggests, for example, "Thank you Universe for my great friends, new job, summer picnics and beautiful sunsets" etc., you can just list it which is what I'm going to do, or whichever way you like! :)

Releasing

Just writing down how your year has been may be enough to let go of it for you. I believe that "writing it out" really helps. However you may prefer to do a more formal ceremony. I follow some Wiccan principles, so any ceremonies I make up tend to be influenced by them, but you can design your own ceremony however you like. :) You can base it on Wiccan, Druid, shaman (Native American, African etc) or any other techniques you like. I'll try out some of the ideas in the post below

I just saw this post on Blessing Manifesting which gives you some good magical ways to let go of the year: https://www.blessingmanifesting.com/2017/12/magical-ways-let-go-2016.html/

Tess Whitehurst has a New Year blessing ritual you can do: https://tesswhitehurst.com/simple-new-year-blessing-ritual/

I may try some of these things out, I'll see how I feel.

Also here are a couple of Sarah Prout posts on letting go:

http://sarahprout.com/letting-go-of-the-past

http://sarahprout.com/15-things-to-give-up-new-year

Resolutions, Goals and Intentions

The start of a new year is the time for New Year's resolutions. I'm not so keen on these, or setting them myself because if I don't achieve them then I feel that I've "failed". So I'd rather not put too much pressure on myself. But if you enjoy setting resolutions/goals and they work for you then that's great. :) I think for me I'm going to take it slowly and maybe set some loose goals. I have set them in the past and I have a Life Life (aka Bucket List). If you don't feel like setting new goals then now might be a good time to review your current ones and decide if you'd like to keep them, let any go or add new ones.

You could also set intentions. I think these are slightly different because they seem to less concrete; you can set them for how you'd like to feel, e.g, "I intend to feel happy and peaceful during 2018" and "I intend to draw abundance into my life". They tend to be used in Law of Attraction circles. A goal might be worded in a different way such as, "To make £5,000 extra a year". Here are a couple of links on the difference between goals and intentions:

https://yogisurprise.com/intention-vs-goals/

https://christieinge.com/difference-between-values-intentions-goals/

 If you want to make some resolutions, goals and/or intentions then check out these links:

http://sarahprout.com/2014/12/manifesting-miracles-how-to-rock-goals-dreams-wishes-and-desires-in-5-easy-steps/

http://sarahprout.com/7-steps-to-setting-powerful-intentions

https://personalexcellence.co/blog/making-resolutions/

 http://notesonbliss.com/10-ways-to-achieve-your-goals/

I did a list for Goals, Dreams, Wishes and Desires on New Year's Eve 2013 (inspired by a Sarah Prout article similar to the first one I've linked to) but I didn't manifest much off it. I may do some form of this but as I said above, I'm not going to make it too much of a pressured thing.

Word of the Year

You also may have heard about choosing a "word of the year" which is where you pick a word to be your theme for the upcoming year. Some examples are "Love", "Rest", "Play" and "Joy". You may prefer this to setting resolutions or intentions but it's also good to do in addition to those. I did this at the beginning of 2017 and my word was "Connection". I think it did work because I made some lovely connections online (as I mentioned in the Reflections section above). I'm going to do it for 2018 but I'm not sure yet what my word will be. If you'd like some help with finding your word, Susannah Conway has a free email course which you can access here: http://www.susannahconway.com/word/

I'll have a go thinking of my own but if I get stuck it will be helpful. (Presumably it will stay open for a little while).

Susannah has a free workbook called Unravel Your Year as well, which I've just downloaded. Find that here: http://www.susannahconway.com/unravel/

You might also enjoy those other posts on choosing a word:

http://www.elizabethrider.com/word-of-the-year/

https://www.blessingmanifesting.com/2017/12/choose-word-of-the-year.html/

Finally here are a few more posts for the New Year:

https://conniechapman.com/powerfully-prepare-new-year/

https://tesswhitehurst.com/7-magical-ways-to-make-this-your-best-year-yet/

https://positiveprovocations.com/2017/12/20/8-positively-simple-rules-for-a-happier-2018/

http://notesonbliss.com/15-truths-about-life-guide-inspire/

I included the Notes on Bliss one because it's good to have some inspiration for going into 2018. I especially think that No. 6. (Transformation is a process) is a helpful one to remember.

Update 10/1/18: Here are a few more posts I came across about reflecting on your year and then setting new goals/resolutions (they're from 2016/17 but you can apply the information to 2017/18 or whenever you read them):

https://stronginsideout.com/the-step-before-making-new-years-resolutions/

https://stronginsideout.com/loving-new-years-resolutions/

http://www.livingbeautifully.com/end-of-year-review/

http://www.livingbeautifully.com/how-to-plan-your-year/

Hope you had a good Christmas or other festival if you celebrated, and that this post helped you in some way. :) Do you have any traditions for releasing one year and welcoming another? Happy New Year! :)

Photo: Hove Park. Copyright Moonsparkle 2017.

Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-390637748034178002017-12-18T21:20:00.002+00:002017-12-18T21:24:19.063+00:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Yule coming up
Christmas
Christmas decorations and trees
Secret Santa that I've been playing as part of Amina Makhdoom's FB group
Pinterest sections- makes it easier to organise my boards!
McDonald's festive range
Starbucks' gingerbread lattes
My new fleeces-good for colder weatherMoon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-2958148340314915212017-11-27T21:11:00.001+00:002017-11-27T21:21:09.186+00:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Bonfire Night fireworks displays
Late autumn golden sunshine
The gratitude challenge I've been taking part in, in Amina Makhdoom's FB group. (It's based on Pam Grout's Thank & Grow Rich book).
Infinite Possibilities book by Mike Dooley
Christmas decorations and products in the shops
Sunny days and blue skies (not a fan of colder weather but we've been having some sunny days)
Hot chocolate
Getting the Cadbury's choc advent calender I wanted!

Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-59873633318651700402017-11-12T16:18:00.000+00:002017-11-17T20:14:22.144+00:00Feeling Your Emotions Introduction

I'm starting a series of posts about emotions and how it's important to get in touch with them. So this is the introduction post. :)

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so if you're having mental/physical issues please seek medical help in addition to reading this. :)

In a lot of spiritual books and articles on websites people mention how your emotions affect you. If you keep them bottled up then they can get stuck and cause you problems. For example suppressing your feelings can cause you to become depressed. Some people talk about the mind/body connection and say that how you feel can cause physical illness. I believe this. An example is Louise Hay's work. For more on that visit this post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/my-current-favourite-spiritual-and.html

Life can be difficult and scary. You may feel overwhelmed by all the violence, terror and injustice in the world. I know I do sometimes. Hopefully by understanding and getting in touch with our emotions we can help ourselves to process things better. So I'll focus on emotions such as anger, sadness, love, grief, happiness/joy etc. For now here are some resources to help with understanding your feelings/emotions.

Books

Deliberate Receiving by Melody Fletcher

In this Law of Attraction (LOA) book Melody talks about using you emotions to guide you in terms of manifesting. Feeling good means you're closer to what you want and feeling bad means you're further away. She goes quite in depth into emotions and how to move out of negative emotions such as depression and anger into more positive ones like hope and joy/happiness (or what we perceive to be positive and negative emotions), so even you're not into LOA it's probably still worth it having a look at the book for those two chapters (Ch. 8 and 10)

The Emotional Compass by Ilse Sand

I just finished reading this and I found it helpful. Ilse looks at different emotions and writes about finding your primary feeling in the present and distancing yourself from your thoughts. She also has a website: https://highlysensitive-hsp.com/

Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley

This is another Law of Attraction book and Mike has a chapter on emotions (Ch. 3) and how they can teach you what beliefs you have about yourself and the world.

Websites

First of all I recommend these articles on emotions by Melody Fletcher (see above):

https://melodyfletcher.com/law-of-attraction/law-of-attraction-articles/the-purpose-of-our-emotions/

https://melodyfletcher.com/law-of-attraction/law-of-attraction-articles/the-emotional-scale-how-to-deliberately-feel-better/

She also has loads of posts on her site under the category of Emotions: https://melodyfletcher.com/law-of-attraction/article-categories/emotions/

Kelsey Aida also has a post about emotions from a Law of Attraction perspective: https://kelseyaida.com/theinspirationalblog/the-abraham-hicks-emotional-guidance-scale

I referenced this article in my second post on Healing Health Anxiety: http://suzanneheyn.com/what-to-do-when-youre-scared-of-your-emotions/

Here are a couple more good posts by Suzanne Heyn:

http://suzanneheyn.com/the-body-stores-emotions/

http://suzanneheyn.com/quickly-easily-release-negative-emotions/

This is an Effortless Life post on the power of negative emotions: http://theeffortlesslife.rocks/the-power-of-negative-emotions/

And finally an Amina Makhdoom one on how to feel better:http://www.lunchwithcinderella.com/blog-posts/emotional-amnesia

Hope you enjoyed the introduction and found it helpful. I plan to do this series over the next few months. I may not post that quickly because it depends on how I'm feeling with my anxiety and stuff but I will try my best. :) First post in the series will probably be on anger. Think I'll start with the more negative emotions first!

You can also access the Resources and Helpful Articles pages any time by clicking on the highlighted links here or on the side bar. :)

P.S. Here are a couple of songs on emotions just because I love music! (The second one is an album teaser so not that long).

Katy B- Emotions

Jennifer Lopez- Emotions

Photo: Lancing Beach Green. Copyright Moonsparkle 2017.Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-41001548036568149552017-10-23T19:02:00.001+01:002017-10-23T19:02:25.039+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Autumn
Autumn leaves
Library books
Walking in the woods
Pumpkins
Pam Grout's Thank and Grow Rich- currently reading the e-book which I bought on offer
Getting new fairy lights for the lounge
Hallowe'en/Samhain next week Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-9004531541177337892017-09-25T19:43:00.001+01:002017-09-25T20:00:16.780+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Claire Baker's September Celebration which I'm currently taking part in. Did it last year as well. :)
Madron
Trees starting to change colour
September roses
South Coast Shimmy
My camera working again when I've been having problems with it!
Sunsets
Belonging to online communities

Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-68533132202722441292017-09-17T18:56:00.002+01:002017-09-18T21:04:23.175+01:00My Current Favourite Spiritual and Magic Resources

In the past I've posted about spiritual practices. Today I thought I'd share about my current favourite spiritual and magical resources, books and websites. :)

Books

The Map by Boni Lonnsburry

I've written about this before in my post about the Law of Attraction which you can read here:
http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/law-of-attraction.html

 I've had The Map since it came out in 2013 and it's one of my favourite LOA books. To be honest though, I haven't seen big dreams manifest yet but that could be because I haven't worked with my intentions daily. It is good though for inspiring me and helping to shift energy.

The Map is centred around intentions (you can read more in the LOA post above). You're supposed to say you intentions every day but I forget to do them that regularly. Now I'm thinking I should go over them and re-write them if I'm no longer inspired. You can read about intentions in this post: https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/sample-intentions/

My favourite techniques in the book are Grateful For Now and Then and Working with your Past Selves. Grateful For Now and Then is where you write 10 things you're grateful for now and 10 future things you're grateful for as if they've already happened. I don't think Boni writes about it on her site but here's another post she wrote about gratitude: https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/gratitude-technique/

And the Past Selves technique is where you go back in meditation/visualisation and "meet" your past selves (child, adolescent and young adult) to talk them about your dreams and see where they could be stopping you moving forward. There are more details in the book but Boni writes a bit about it here:  https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-map-2/

Boni also goes in depth about beliefs and how they can hold you back. I've done her exercise for changing Core Beliefs and they have helped me. If you're interested in reading more about beliefs here's a past post I wrote about them: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/beliefs-and-believing-loa.html

There are 7 steps in The Map: Step 1- Own your divinity (realise that you are a powerful creator who can create your reality), Step 2- Clarify your dream (get clear on what your dreams are and what you want to manifest), Step 3- Flow energy (do techniques to get energy flowing for manifesting such as the ones mentioned above), Step 4- Take action (take inspired action that feels good), Step 5- Look for response (take notes of any signs and manifestations and respond to them in a positive way), Step 6- Stay in joy (feel as happy as you can) and Step 7- Ask for help (ask angels, spirit guides etc for help in feeling better and manifesting you dreams/creating your reality). You can read more on The Map basics here: https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/the-map-to-a-delicious-life/

Also there is an index on the right of the homepage listing the steps and linking to posts where Boni writes more about them. For more information check out the book. :)

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

I first got this book from the library last year and had it out for ages! I got my own copy last Christmas, lol. It's about how the mind is connected to the body and changing your thoughts and thinking positively to heal physical and mental conditions, and change your life for the better. It's along a similar line to the modern LOA books but this was originally written in 1984 (the year I was born!) lol.

Louise writes about how our beliefs and patterns can hold us back in life and cause problems, both physical (such as illness and health conditions) and emotional (relationship and friendship problems). There are exercises you can do such as mirror work and affirmations. one exercise combines both, where you look in the mirror and say a statement such as "I am willing to change". Another affirmation you can say is, "I am willing to release the need for...whatever the problem or addiction is, i.e. overeating, worrying, bad relationships etc".

Other techniques include forgiveness and visualisation. There's also a section from Louise's book You Can Heal Your Body where you can look up your problem and see the emotions that are linked to it and could be causing it. For example, eye problems may be because you're afraid to look at what's around you, what's going on your life. Or back pain could be because you feel unsupported in your life. There are affirmations provided for you to say. As I've mentioned before I have health anxiety and worry about my eyes a lot, so I try the affirmations related to eyes and for anxiety.

For more on affirmations you can read a post I wrote last year: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/affirmations.html

Louise sadly died recently but her legacy lives on in her books and Hay House, the publishing company she founded. She was inspiring because she turned her life around and lived to her 90s, enjoying her life.

You can read more about Louise and her work at the links below:

http://www.louisehay.com/

https://www.healyourlife.com/

www.hayhouse.com

The Good Energy Book by Tess Whitehurst

Tess is an author, energy worker, intuitive counsellor and feng shui consultant. She works with magic and spiritual techniques and has written several books. In addition to The Good Energy Book I have Magical Housekeeping and Holistic Energy Magic but this is my favourite. :) It's about energy techniques such as clearing, cleansing and shielding. Exercises include a daily self-clearing technique, a daily shielding technique, home protection visualisations and smudging rituals.

As well as clearing and protecting yourself, Tess writes about things you can do to protect and clear your pets, home and objects. There is information on clutter clearing and cleaning. (For more in depth information on those two subjects check out Magical Housekeeping). She also talks about personal spiritual allies such as angels and spirit guides and goes quite in depth on the subject of earthbound spirits, a topic which can be quite scary but she explains about them and gives you techniques for detecting and clearing them and protecting yourself.

I've been working with the self clearing and shielding exercises, although not every day! I find they do help me to feel better. I also do the home protection ones sometimes. My favourite chapter is No. Ten: Good Habits and Spiritual Maintenance which is about cultivating positivity by practising things such as forgiveness, identifying and releasing limiting beliefs, journalling and using affirmations. And Chapter Nine: Blessing And Fine-Tuning The Space. There's a Sweetness and Light Home Blessing (aka Sugar Cookies Blessing) which I plan to gave a go at. I already did the oatmeal cookie ritual in Magical Housekeeping earlier this year and enjoyed it.

Tess also has a website (see below).

If you;re interested in magic and Wicca then there are some resources listed on my other site The Seasonal Life (all about celebrating the sabbats and seasonal events): http://livingseasonal.blogspot.co.uk/p/useful-websites.html

Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life's Magic by Mike Dooley

My current favourite LOA book! Leveraging the Universe started out as an audio programme and was later published as a book. It's by Mike, the founder of TUT.com, which sends out Notes from the Universe, daily encouraging emails. It's all about the Law of Attraction. I think Leveraging the Universe is good because it suggests both practical methods of achieving your goals (what Mike calls "old school") e.g. physically taking action and metaphysical/more traditional LOA type methods too, like visualisation and affirmations.

There are several exercises to do. A good one is The Triangle Exercise, where you draw a triangle and on the left side you write things you can do to achieve your goal/make your dream come true, then on the right you list what the universe can do to help you. So for me in the case of manifesting a relationship, things I can do are join dating sites and talk to men more, and things the universe can do are line me up with certain people and inspire me to try something new.

My favourite chapter is 4. Step 4: Leveraging the Universe where Mike suggests exercises such as writing a script you can read to help you visualise (a process called "scripting" by Abraham Hicks) and listing things you can do to help you prepare for your dreams coming to true and to feel as if they already have aka "acting as if". You can read more about acting as if here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/acting-as-if-loa.html

I recommend this book for both practical and metaphysical ways to manifest your dream/s.

How to Be Well by Abby Wynne

How to be Well is by shamanic psychotherapist Abby Wynne. I first came across this book in a post by Jessica Dimas but I didn't end up reading it till almost a year later! I saw it in my local library a few months ago. I've been working with the book a lot and plan to get my own copy in the future.

Abby writes about how energy (both other people's and our own) affects us physically and emotionally. She mentions how you can form energetic ties to people you're close to and also pick up on people's energy and the energy of a place. There are exercises for cutting ties and clearing your energy. If you haven't heard about these subjects or before, or don't know much about them then How to Be well is a good place to start. However if you already know about energy it's still a good book for leaning more. :) It explains how emotions, thoughts and stuck energy can cause physical and mental conditions, similar to what Louise Hay talks about (see above).

One tool that I've found very helpful is the Wellness Scale. It's where you measure how you feeling on a scale numbered 1 to 10, 1 being really depressed and down, anxious etc. and 10 being really happy, positive and just feeling good. (Or the equivalent of that for you, what feeling bad and feeling good means to you). Abby encourages you to take a reading of where you are on the scale "from your body and not your mind and there's breathing exercise to do before you take a reading. I've found the Wellness Scale useful for seeing how I feel throughout the day.

There are chapters about healing yourself, healing your relationship with others and healing your inner wounds. I like the grounding and In Gratitude for my Body exercises (which are in Chapter 3: Healing your Relationship with Yourself). I also like the ones for reclaiming your power from other people in Chap. 4: Healing Your Relationships with Other people. And Chapter 5: Healing Your Inner Wounds has some good exercises, such as one for releasing built up emotion, (Clearing out your Inner River), Healing an Inner Aspect of Yourself and forgiveness. I've done Forgiveness: Part 1 but haven't completed Forgiveness: Part 2 yet.

Chapter 6: Maintaining a Good Baseline Wellness Score contains tips for mindful eating, watching what you say, watch and listen to, having a daily spiritual practice and meditations. As I've mentioned before in my post on spiritual practices I don't believe you should force yourself to do something every day but it definitely helps to have some good of regular routine of spiritual exercises. Abby finishes up by writing about LOA.

This is a good book for learning more about and working with energy and healing yourself and your body.

Websites

Tess Whitehurst

This is the website of Tess, the author of The Good Energy Book (see above). It's full of posts on magical tips and techniques for celebrating the Wiccan/pagan sabbats aka the Wheel of the Year, quick and easy spells and rituals and energy clearings. As well as written posts there are videos where Tess guides you through meditations or clearings.

Here are a few of my favourite posts and videos:

http://tesswhitehurst.com/always-time-for-magic-5-little-ways-to-fit-magic-into-your-possibly-very-busy-life/

http://tesswhitehurst.com/my-20-best-magical-and-holistic-beauty-tips/

http://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-thorough-aura-cleansing-meditation/

https://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-air-element-meditation-for-clarity-and-calm/

Amina Makhdoom

I discovered Amina's site Lunch With Cinderella last year. It's about the Law of Attraction. Amina is known as the Sunshine Manifester and she believes in manifesting with ease and having as much fun as possible, 0% Effort, 100% Return. Every year she runs the 30 Day Joy Challenge where you focus on a goal you would like to manifest and then every day for a month you do something that brings you joy. The idea is that concentrating on what makes you happy helps things flow into your life.

I first did Joy Challenge by myself in June 2016. My goal was manifesting a relationship. I saw some progress quite quickly but it didn't work out in the end. This April I did it live with Amina and others in the Joy Challenge Facebook group. I had another relationship goal and it didn't manifest for me unfortunately. But I did have a secondary goal of a new family car and it turned out the current one could be fixed! So while I can't say your dreams will definitely come true if you take part in Joy Challenge, I would say it is worth because it's a fun experience and I did some progress. And some others saw their dreams come true. Amina likes to give out prizes and this year we all got a Louise Hay I Can Do it! calendar for signing-up! I also won a Joy Box during the challenge, which consisted of a reiki candle, Anita Moorjani's Dying to be Me Book, Flying Wish Paper, a Choose Joy silver ring and a paperweight. Plus I took part in an exchange where you offered free gifts to people. I sent a participant Adeline Yen Mah's Watching The Tree which is one of my favourite spiritual books, and I received Pam Grout's E-Cubed. It was definitely a fun experience and I'd like to do it again next year. For more on Joy Challenge visit this link: http://www.lunchwithcinderella.com/30-day-joy-challenge.html

Notes On Bliss

Notes On Bliss is run Elyse Santilli. She blogs about spiritual and personal development subjects like self love and forgiveness, manifesting and abundance, beliefs, feeling happy, meditation and creating miracles in your life. I especially love her post about how she changed he life. You can read it here: http://notesonbliss.com/how-to-change-your-life/

And these are some more of my fave NOB posts:

http://notesonbliss.com/ways-to-manifest-your-desires/

http://notesonbliss.com/get-the-universe-on-your-side/

http://notesonbliss.com/miracles-now/

http://notesonbliss.com/who-you-really-are/

Hope you enjoyed the post and found it useful. :) What are some of your favourite spiritual and/or magic resources?

Photo: Lancing Beach. Copyright Moonsparkle 2017. Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-50600620277302041502017-08-21T22:17:00.003+01:002017-08-21T22:17:42.000+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Lammas
Last proper month of summer
Travis Eric's LOA course- I got to try it out in return for helping with content suggestions.
Baking
Reba Linker's 100 Days of Healing
Going to the library
New notebooks!
New series/season of Teen Mom 2 starting

P.S. I haven't been posting much lately but I'm currently working on a new post about my favourite spiritual books and resources, so stay tuned! :)

Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-5194466284596004172017-07-23T14:51:00.000+01:002017-08-10T15:50:11.812+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Summer! We've been getting nice, summery weather lately.
Iced coffees
Everyday LOA Magic's A State of Happy course- currently taking it.
My boy cat. <3
Positive online connections
New series of Teen Mom UK starting this week
The book How to Be Well by Abby Wynne
Brighton Marina

Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-4763521411410199602017-06-26T19:23:00.000+01:002017-06-26T19:51:01.068+01:00Design Your Universe- Part 2

This is a follow on to my post Design Your Universe- Part 1 which is about using of the Law of Attraction (LOA) to create the life of your dreams. This is a work in progress for me and I'm doing a series of posts on the process.

Note: This is what I've been doing and it's not the definite way to do anything, so just take what you resonate with :)

In my first post I outlined two steps:

1. Feel better.
2. Change your beliefs and believe that your dreams can come true.

I may add more to this in the future but it's what I've been working on for a while now. Please see the original post (linked above) for more on them.

In Part 1 I said that I would write more about tools in Part 2. So here we go. :)

Acting As If

This is a concept I found hard to understand at first. It's where you "act as if" you already have the thing you want. I read about it a lot but it took a while to sink in. I felt like I "got it" more after I manifested the perfume I wanted, at a cheaper price. It always seemed out of reach for me because it was expensive at £32 but I ended up buying a smaller version for £17. (Note: I understand that expensive is relative, for some people this would be cheap! It's interesting to think about how we all have different mindsets and situations). :) You can read more about the perfume manifestation story here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/manifestation-story.html

Looking round Marks and Spencer (the department I bought the perfume from) is still something I like to do now. It's a more expensive shop so I don't often shop there but it feels kind of luxurious to browse. If there's a shop that feels kind of "out of your league" you could browse there and maybe buy something small. I've bought bath stuff from Marks in the past and a couple of months ago I bought some rose hand cream. (I realise not everyone is a fan of Marks, e.g. my mum thinks its products are overpriced and not as good as they're made out to be! lol).

One of my dreams is travel; I'd like to go on holiday to Miami and Hawaii. So something I've been doing lately is looking up prices for flights to those places. And (closer to home) I'd like to go to the Lake District. My grandma was born there, so I'd like to see where she lived and I also want to see Hill Top farm where the author Beatrix Potter lived. So I started looking up bus/coach prices to the Lake District. Another thing I did was look at the World of Beatrix Potter website and sign-up to the newsletter.

Also a couple of other things I've done are singing-up to a Hawaii newsletter and pinning to my Miami and Hawaii boards on Pinterest (especially guides and travel tips). I have technically been to Hawaii because I've been to the airport while travelling to and from Fiji as a little girl, but it's not quite the same as actually staying there and setting foot outside the airport!

If you're into Pinterest you may like this post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/pinterest-as-loa-tool.html

And for more on acting as if visit this post:  http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/acting-as-if-loa.html

Affirmations

I mentioned these briefly in the first post because they can definitely help. They are useful for changing your mindest although if they feel like too big a "leap" from where you are currently then they won't help so much. You can change the wording so they feel more believable. E.g. rather than saying, "I am financially abundant" you can say, "I am opening to financial abundance",

 I was inspired on this front by Kelsey Aida's post. You can check it out here: http://kelseyaida.com/theinspirationalblog/how-to-use-affirmations

There are different ways of working with affirmations. I was saying mine out loud in recent months but lately I've been writing them down. Choose whichever method feels more powerful for you. :) I received a Louise Hay I Can Do It 2017 Daily Affirmations calendar as part of signing-up to Joy Challenge (see below) so I've been looking at them every day. If they resonate then I write them down to look at later. I also belong to the Facets of Joy Facebook forum where we work with Louise's affirmations. You can find the link of this page: http://facetsofjoy.com/resources/

For more on affirmations read my post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/affirmations.html

Gratitude

I read about gratitude for years but wasn't that into it until I did the Personal Excellence Gratitude Challenge in 2013. I enjoyed that and afterwards I started a gratitude journal. I intended to write in it every day but it's less often than that. However I think the best thing is to just do what works for you.

A few months after I started this blog I decided to post a monthly gratitude list on here as well. You can read the first post here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/gratitude-list.html

I find that writing a simple list of what I'm grateful for works best for me. Writing sentences like Rhonda Byrne suggests in The Secret, such as "I'm so happy now that I have a working car" seems a bit forced. (Just for me personally). I also like Boni Lonnsburry's Grateful For Now and Then technique here You write 10 things you're grateful for now and then 10 things you'll be grateful for in the future.

I also wrote about gratitude in my post on spiritual tools and practices. (See below).

Joy/Happiness

One thing that many spiritual/manifesting teachers suggest is being happy, not only to manifest what you want but just to all around feel better. Boni Lonnsburry calls it "staying in the joy". Something that's empathised is that we all only want the things we desire because we believe they will make us happy. So ultimately all we want is to be happy. I belive that's true.

I admit that feeling and staying happy is a challenge for me. I've had depression since I was a teenager and also OCD and anxiety. I used to be very unhappy and these days I do feel better but I still struggle. Perhaps one thing I could do is use an affirmation (see above). I'll try that and let you know how I get on. You can try it too if you like :) Affirmations to try:

I am becoming happier each day. (I think I read this one somewhere).
I am finding it easier to feel happy.
Being happy is easy for me.

An affirmation I've seen is something like: I'm working my happiness like a full time job! (This might be one of Kelsey Aida's).

If you are depressed and/or have been very unhappy you may want to start with the first two because they don't seem like as a big a jump from where you are. E.g. if you have severe depression you may find it hard to believe that being happy is easy for you because so far it hasn't been! But you might find that stating that you're finding it easier to feel happy is more believable. (For more on that read the Affirmations section above).

If you have health anxiety (excessive worrying about your health) you may find these posts useful:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/healing-health-anxiety-part-1.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/healing-health-anxiety-part-2.html

Last June I did Amina Makhdoom's 30 Day Joy Challenge and then again in April this year. You do it with the intention of manifesting a goal by doing things you love every day. My goal was related to manifesting a romantic relationship and I did meet someone last summer but it didn't work out. This time I haven't met anyone yet but I'd recommend Joy Challenge just for the purpose of feeling better/raising your vibration. A secondary goal was to find a new family car and it turned out that the current one could be fixed!

Joy Challenge runs once a year but you can do it any time by yourself like I did. It's fun doing it "live" and participating with other people (plus the prizes are good!) but it's good doing it by yourself too. For more details check out this link: http://www.lunchwithcinderella.com/30-day-joy-challenge.html

I'm also currently taking part in Journaling For Joy, another Amina programme. It's based around the Joy Journal book by Rebecca Kochenderfer. (Note: That's the American Amazon link but it is also available on Amazon UK and probably other international Amazons as well).

You may be like me and actually be afraid to be happy in case something bad happens. This is an issue for me and it's probably more common than you'd think. In that case a thing to do would be change your beliefs behind it (Inspired by the work of Boni Lonnsburry). So if I have a belief like this: If I get happy then something bad will happen", I could change it to, "If I get happy then something good will happen". Another could be, "It's safe to feel happy". Boni talks about beliefs in her book The Map and also has articles on her site Live a Life you Love. I wrote more about beliefs in the first DYU post (click the Design Your Universe-Part 1 text at the top of the page). Also check out these posts:

My post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/what-is-possible-loa.html

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/wording-beliefs-a-case-study/

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/how-to-change-a-belief/

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/doors-beliefs-technique/

I've done the exercise in the How to Change a Belief post several times and I do feel it's made a shift.

Here are some posts on being and staying happy:

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/how-to-stay-happy/

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/how-to-have-a-happy-day-every-day/

http://notesonbliss.com/48-ways-to-feel-happier/

http://notesonbliss.com/happy-life-and-soul/

http://notesonbliss.com/true-happiness/

http://kelseyaida.com/theinspirationalblog/things-happy-people-do-differently

http://www.lunchwithcinderella.com/blog-posts/find-the-joy

Tips I would give are:

Try to focus on the things that make you happy. Two of those things for me are books and music.

Take note of what makes you happy and then do more of it. (I read this somewhere).

Also think about the things that are making you unhappy and see if you can change them.

I may do a more in depth post on happiness in the future because I think it's quite an important subject.

Meditation

I've mentioned several times how I'm not a huge fan of meditation! lol. I even wrote a post on meditation alternatives. However I do sometimes do it. I seem to get on better with guides meditations such as ones from Gabrielle Bernstein's May Cause Miracles book/programme. Also I find audio meditations more helpful. In the past month or so I've been doing a meditation from Tess Whitehurst's The Good Energy Book and I've found that it's helped me to feel better. I aimed for doing it daily but it's ended up less often. I don't think that's really important though, as long as I'm doing it sometimes. Mine is probably shorter than it's meant to be (a couple of minutes or so) but I just do what feels best for me.

If you're interested in traditional meditation here are a couple of posts about it:

https://personalexcellence.co/blog/how-to-meditate/

http://suzanneheyn.com/how-to-meditate-find-inner-peace-and-purpose/

Or if you'd prefer here's my post on alternatives: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/alternatives-to-meditation.html

Spiritual Practice

At the beginning of the year I did a post on spiritual tools and practices. You can read it here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/spiritual-toolspractices.html

I talked about quite a few of the topics covered here. As I said in the post, my spiritual practice isn't consistent but that's ok. One thing I forgot to mention that I've been doing for a few years now is looking at my Doreen Virtue Healing Words from the Angels book every day. I open it up randomly when I get up and look at the pages to see what messages I have for the day. (Usually look at both pages). Oracle cards are another thing I use. My decks include Doreen Virtue's Magical Mermaids and Dolphins and Angel Therapy and (more recently) Lucy Cavendish's Oracle of the Mermaids.

I don't think you "have" to have a spiritual practice (I don't believe in forcing yourself to do something like that if it doesn't feel right) but it can certainly help. So if you're drawn to any of the things I've mentioned- or anything else that resonates- then you might want to consider making it part of your own spiritual practice. Daily, weekly or monthly even. :)

Ok, that's about it for now. There was more I wanted to say but this is quite a long post already, so I think I'll leave it for next time! Hope you found this useful. Look out for another post in the series in the coming months. :)

Photo: Copyright Moonsparkle 2017.

Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-8875552057616481632017-06-25T19:07:00.002+01:002017-06-25T19:10:38.849+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm gratful for this month:

Roses in my garden
Library books
Litha/the start of summer
Mayberry Garden Centre
Candles
Summer drinks
Rose and honeysuckle hand cream- I recently found a tube I'd lost a while ago!
Tess Whitehurst books

Bonus:

My local vets. :) Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-69963986213940860122017-06-05T19:32:00.002+01:002018-03-15T22:31:21.496+00:00The Love Project- Romantic Love (Relationships and Anxiety)Back in December I did the latest post in The Love Project series, on the subject of romantic love. You can read it here:  http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-love-project-romantic-love.html

Then I wrote about feeling shame over being single. Today I want to address anxiety in relationships. As I've mentioned before I have anxiety. The main issue I have is health anxiety (HA) but I also have general anxiety and a bit of social anxiety. This can make it hard to socialise and connect with others. I'm also wary of forming relationships due to negative past experiences with friendships and probably because of my early family life as well.

Dating with anxiety

I've not been on many dates and when I have met up with someone it was more of a friendship thing. I was extremely nervous when I did meet up with a man but at least I know I am able to do it. Going on dates is something I'd like to explore more of, so that's what I've been thinking about lately.

I recently did an online search for "dating with anxiety" and I came across a couple of useful sites. I find it helpful to see others sharing their experiences with anxiety and in particular dating with anxiety. One blog I found it called The Anxious Girl's Guide To Dating. There are some good posts on there. Here are a couple:

https://anxiousgirlsguidetodating.com/2015/08/05/ask-what-you-want-wednesday-facing-your-fears/

https://anxiousgirlsguidetodating.com/2016/10/04/breaking-habits-we-dont-even-know-we-have

I've recently been doing some journalling exploring my fears (inspired by the first post) and plan to look at my relationship patterns and habits (as suggested in the second post). I have looked at my patterns before but I think it will be good to have another look.

This is also another good article that I found through the Anxious Girl site:  https://themighty.com/2016/10/to-people-with-anxiety-who-think-they-cant-date/

Something I've been doing recently is writing down all the things I believe are blocking me from moving forward in my love life. You might like to try it if you're experiencing similar issues. I'm still adding to the list at the moment and I'll look back over it later. Even something as simple as that can help to shift things. In fact I have felt a shift about what is possible for me lately.

Being in a relationship with anxiety

Once you're in a relationship you can face some different challenges. If you have anxiety and you're already in a relationship you might like to read those posts for some advice:

http://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-and-intimate-relationships-how-to-stop-anxiety-from-stealing-the-magic/

https://www.myhealth.london.nhs.uk/managing-anxiety-depression-relationships

https://themighty.com/2017/03/anxiety-relationship-help/

And if you're on the other side and you're dating someone who has anxiety, you may find this post useful: https://www.talkspace.com/blog/2017/02/dating-someone-with-anxiety-what-you-need-to-know-and-do/

I hope this post was helpful to people in a similar situation. (Or supporting somebody in one). :) I may write more about this subject in the future. If you have anxiety then check out these links below:

For more on HA:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/healing-health-anxiety-part-1.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/healing-health-anxiety-part-1.html

Anxiety in general:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/anxiety-resources.html

http://theinspirationlady.com/ways-manage-anxiety/

https://anxiousgirlsguidetodating.com/2015/04/09/getting-to-the-bottom-of-things-how-core-beliefs-can-drive-anxiety/

And don't forget you can visit these pages any time on the blog by clicking on the links on the sidebar:

Resources: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/p/resources.html

Helpful Articles Library: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/p/ive-been-into-self-help-since-i-was.html Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-78674337387839761042017-05-21T20:20:00.003+01:002017-06-06T15:41:35.275+01:00Reflections

In March I started a series of posts called Design Your Universe about the Law of Attraction. I've written one post so far and you can read it here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/design-your-universe-part-1.html

Since then I've been planning to carry on but I've been feeling held back in my life lately by my anxiety, in particular health anxiety. I've started the second post but it's not ready yet, so I thought I'd do this post instead. I'll write about my thoughts on creating the life of your dreams and how you can feel held back by challenges, especially mental health.

A lot of self help and Law of Attraction (LOA) information talks about positive thinking. But it can be really hard to feel positive sometimes due to life events, illness (physical and/or mental) and just the ebb and flow of things. Lately I have been up and down. My health anxiety (HA) had improved a bit but it's got worse again. 2016 was a hard year with various personal things and then 2017 started badly with my girl cat dying. :( I've been trying to feel better but struggling a lot. If you're feeling the same you might want to check out these pages for resources for dealing with challenges and feeling better (both updated regularly):

Resources page: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/p/resources.html

Helpful Articles Library: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/p/ive-been-into-self-help-since-i-was.html

 And if you're struggling with HA you may find these posts useful:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/healing-health-anxiety-part-1.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/healing-health-anxiety-part-2.html

I've felt stuck in my life for a long time. In my journey to feeling better and creating my dream life I've explored different subjects such as LOA, feeling better, gratitude, healing your mind and body, judgement, possibility, relationships (with yourself, romantic, friendships and family), beliefs and spiritual practices. It's helped me to work through all this by writing and I hope it's helped others too by reading. :) I plan to post more about these and similar subjects in the future.

Another thing that has helped me is magic/Wicca. It first interested me when I was a teenager and since 2010 I've celebrated the sabbats (Wiccan/pagan festivals). It helps me to feel more connected to something. I may write more about the subject of magic in the future, but for now if you're interested in that check out my Resources page (link above) where I list some magic links and my blog The Seasonal Life where I write about celebrating the sabbats: http://livingseasonal.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm also currently doing an email course about overcoming any challenge from the website Uncover Your Joy. If that sounds like something you'd like to do, here's the link: http://uncoveryourjoy.com/

It seems weird that we're almost halfway through the year already! I hope that your year has been good so far and wish you a happy rest of 2017! Hope this post was helpful. :)

Photo: Buckingham Park, Shoreham-by-sea. Copyright Moonsparkle 2017.Moon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-41680894849721348152017-05-15T20:14:00.001+01:002017-05-15T22:00:05.985+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Sunny spring weather
Spending time with my boy cat. :)
McDonald's New York Stack burger
McD's new Raspberry Ripple drink
Tess Whitehurst's The Good Energy Book
Receiving a Joy Box I won during Amina Makhdoom's Joy Challenge!
Eurovision!
Doing a performance with my belly dance group BD4U

Bonus:

Winning Luna Press Publishing's' flash fiction competition! My story is Dream Time. :)

Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-6146066595064194242017-04-09T21:09:00.001+01:002017-04-09T21:12:29.992+01:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Having a new computer mouse and keyboard
Spring!
Flowers and blossom trees
Warmer weather and longer days
Easter coming up
Amina Makhdoom's Joy Challenge
Inspiring sites and blogs
Choccy eggs! lol

Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-76911858252628020272017-03-05T22:18:00.002+00:002017-06-26T17:44:36.508+01:00Design Your Universe- Part 1

Note: The title of this blog post was inspired by the symphonic metal band Epica's album!

I've had this post in mind for a while, the basic gist of it but had to put it all together. I've decided to do a series of posts, so here is the first one. :)

Designing your universe

I think this can be a good way to describe the Law of Attraction (LOA). There are other phrases such as "manifesting" and "creating your reality". For a basic explanation of the Law of Attraction you can read this post: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/law-of-attraction.html

I first became really interested in LOA in 2010 when I read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Although I think I had heard of it before then because in 2008 I started a "Vision Pad" (like a vision board), and in 2009 I wrote a Life List (aka Bucket List). I started more actively working it with in 2011. I have seen my life change in some ways, I've lost weight and I am more confident than I used to be. And I have manifested smaller things like a PS3 and a BlackBerry (things that once felt quite far out of reach to me because of the price). But other stuff like a relationship and holidays to Miami and Hawaii hasn't happened (yet!). I suppose the biggest thing I manifested is being in a music video. I'd wanted that for years and in 2012 I was in my belly dance group's music video for a dance called Celtic Star. It wasn't a professional one for a band but I still count it! lol.

I wish I could say, "Here's my success story! I designed a fabulous life and here's how I did it!" lol. I can't do that but I thought it would be good to do a post/s about the process of it all, the work in progress.

When you first come to the Law of Attraction you probably do it because you want to have something (often physical, e.g. a job, a relationship, a car etc.) and/or to feel better. Then if you go deeper it starts to become more than that. I think it's about creating change from the inside and becoming the kind of person who has the life you want. We'll look at processes to help with this later on. :)

LOA links

First here are some Law of Attraction posts that go a bit deeper into things:

http://sarahprout.com/manifest-anything-law-of-vibration

http://www.cocreationcoaching.org/design-perfect-life-law-attraction/

http://traviseric.com/abraham-hicks/

http://traviseric.com/abraham-hicks-experience-part-2/

Changing your mindset

I believe this is very important. With LOA one of the first things you learn is that your thoughts create your reality. If you have anxiety (like me) this can be a scary concept! You can start to worry that you'll think the "wrong thing". But I don't think you need to panic because it doesn't mean that you'll have the thought, "What if I get run over by a car?" and then it will happen. The more I've read, the more I've learnt that it's about vibration, your feelings. These posts explain it well:

 http://www.deliberatereceiving.com/purpose-of-emotions.html

 http://www.deliberateblog.com/2011/11/27/can-you-avoid-accidents-using-the-law-of-attraction/

So if you have anxiety and/or depression, or you tend to think negatively then it can help a lot to change your mindset. The first step would be feeling better. Here are some links to help with that:

http://www.deliberateblog.com/2011/07/17/the-vibrational-ladder-how-to-feel-better-in-4-simple-steps/

http://www.deliberateblog.com/2013/11/11/tips-to-drastically-raise-your-vibration-without-having-to-hire-a-coach/

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/how-to-stay-happy/

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/how-to-have-a-happy-day-every-day/

https://www.livelifemadetoorder.com/blog/loa-action-tips-pulling-vibrational-ladder/

https://www.livelifemadetoorder.com/blog/law-attraction-protecting-vibration/

My posts:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/my-healing-tools.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/raising-my-vibration.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/healing-mind-and-body.html

Then the second step is changing your beliefs and believing that your dreams can come true. (I'm still working on both of these). Here are some more links to help you get started:

https://www.livelifemadetoorder.com/blog/law-of-attraction-changing-beliefs-evidence/

http://sarahprout.com/beliefs-to-help-attract-what-you-dream-of

https://www.livealifeyoulove.com/change-your-story-change-your-life/

 http://sarahprout.com/transforming-your-mindset

 http://goodvibeblog.com/manifesting-with-identify-shifting/

My posts on this subject:

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/beliefs-and-believing-loa.html

http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/acting-as-if-loa.html

Next time I'll talk more about tools you can use. I will just mention affirmations quickly because they can definitely help. Check out this post for more about them: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/affirmations.html

These are a couple I'm working with at the moment:

I manifest miracles today and every day

My possibilites are endless

And I came across this one on Pinterest the other year and loved it, so I wrote it in a notebook:

 Dream. Believe. Create. Succeed.

I'll finish up with this article what it's like when you're changing yourself and your life: http://suzanneheyn.com/expand-beyond-yourself/

It's a pretty good summary, I think.

Hope this was helpful and thanks for reading! :)

Photo: Copyright Moonsparkle 2017.Moon Sparklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-363543917206931488.post-41677741969829410112017-02-12T20:49:00.001+00:002017-02-12T20:56:09.357+00:00Gratitude ListThings I'm grateful for this month:

Imbolg
Hans Sloane drinking chocolate- Good for this time of year
Getting a bit of snow!
Early Easter choc, especially Cadbury's solid eggs! lol.
True movies
Going for walks around the block
Stella Seaspirit's Own Your Witchiness Challenge starting tomorrow: http://www.stellaseaspirit.co.za/own/
Pancake Day coming up

Bonus:

Falling Petals' anniversary. It's 4 years this month since I started this blog! Check out the first post here: http://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/welcome-to-falling-petals.htmlMoon Sparklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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