Find your glimmers and make the world a better place. The Alchemy - December 8, 2024
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Transmutation. Pen on paper. October 8, 2019
Energy Update
Many are FEELING upside down and inside out.
Upside down: the energy around us has us feeling knocked off our feet, a bit flat, stuck or stalled, perhaps with despair.
Inside out: there’s energy of anger and rage within us that, like a little (or big) volcano, is looking to explode.
While we’ve got ALL the feels, it is important to know this is the planetary energy and the collective energy. It is not our energy. Oh yeah, we’re feeling it. But it is not ours to take on … unless of course we choose to.
So, let’s not choose that path because it will just lead to more of the same around us and in us.
Instead, can we find our glimmers?
Glimmers are everyday micro moments that elicit happiness, gratitude, or peace. Something that helps us smile. They can help us feel safe. These help tell our nervous system that it is ok to feel calm.
Some examples of glimmers are noticing beautiful clouds, listening to or singing along with a favorite song, feeling a soft sweater, smiling at kids playing, laughing with a friend.
Glimmers can change us. And glimmers can make the world a better place.
Did you just roll your eyes at me? Have I actually looked around at the world?
Consider this. Have you ever connected with someone, even briefly, who is just happy, smiling, and joyful? How’d you feel after that? Probably happier, a little more smiley, and a little more joyful or grateful
Likewise, have you ever connected with someone, even briefly, who is grumpy, angry, and lashing out? How’d you feel after that? Probably grumpier and angrier.
We leave a trail of our energy whereever we go. Glimmers help us change the world for the better - one smile at a time.
Micropoetry
Message from Chardon
You have a saying: “It is through the cracks, that the light comes in.”
As you maintain your connections, emotions, and vibrancy in the chaos, you create cracks in the veil.
As you become more of who you came here to be, you create cracks in the veil.
As you practice love and seek oneness, you create cracks in the veil.
As you notice the beauty in your world, you create cracks in the veil.
As you help and encourage another, you create cracks in the veil.
The veil is this cloak around the earth which keeps you feeling separate. The cracks puncture through the veil and allow the light to come in. The cracks allow the realness of life, not this 3D facade, to come in.
And like a rain that falls on everyone, this reality, this light comes in and is available to anyone who desires it.
The realness of source.
The realness of love.
The realness of life.
Upcoming events
(schedule through The Reiki Center):
What is Possible? An interview of Chardon by Katharine Daniels, Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, Reiki Master, and owner of Bright Life. To accommodate scheduling, this will be a replay only registration (no live-stream), which will be available by December 15th.
Winter Solstice Celebration at The Reiki Center. This year's theme is Transformation! Yours truly, with another, *will* be reading The Very Impatient Caterpillar as part of the celebration AND a new poem, so this is going to be fabulous evening! Join us to acknowledge your journey of transformation from who you were to who you are becoming. Bring awareness to all that you have accomplished and hold gratitude for the light you shine. Saturday, December 21, from 6:30-8:30 pm. No cost to join, but please register so we can be better prepared for the evening.
By the way, if you missed the November 16th message from Chardon, The Transformation of You and the Journey to Becoming you can sign up to watch the replay by sending me an email or contacting The Reiki Center and we’ll get you added for the replay. It will be available through January 2.
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