Happy Healthy New Year, LOVE!

This year provides infinite potential.

Bask in Growth Energy.
Bask in the Energy of Universal Love.
Meditate on it.
Create more Good Stuff.

Although there are a variety of challenges and celebrations happening:
Focusing on doom and gloom, negativity and destruction is a practice that does nothing to uplift or to shift the air and the environment. Lovingly disassemble and release these unproductive thoughts, cycles, behaviors and patterns.

This year, mindfully and faithfully envision the Spirit of Universal Love continuously flourishing for the Good of All Creation.

The Universe gifts us infinite possibilities. 
For anything to manifest, the idea first swirls in the Mind of God.
Then the idea swirls in the mind of humankind.
What do you wish to see this year?
I vote for Universal Love.
May the idea of Universal Love swirl in your mind.
Envision it and feel it raining down on you. on me. on us.
Grab it!
Savor it.
Embody it.
Share it.
Universal Love makes everything better.
Universal Love is Energy.
Use Energy Wisely.

Love and Light.

Brothers and Sisters, Unify!
You are me and I am you,
Are you surprised by this news?
C’mon, I know you are feeling it too.
We have work to do.
Our mental, our physical and our spiritual health are amplified.
Our relations, communications and financial states are being fortified.
You know it, child of the Divine, you are so wise,
You know what we focus on expands, hence this enterprise…
We build
It grows,
We live,
It lives.
We shine,
It shines
We love,
It loves
United Spirits is
US
We Be Unified

You are Powerful.
You can demonstrate healing now.
Affirm: Wellness, is.

Ask, "What is mine to do?"
Do It.
Don't give up.
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A griot is a storyteller that informs the tribe.  

As a griot for your family, work-site and community, which stories are you planting?  Are you sharing health-building, wealth-building, confidence-building tales?  Are you sharing how to be Grateful, how to be Compassionate, how to be Loving and Inclusive, even as we, Mama Earth's Citizens face stormy weather and uncertainty that drenches and dampens the spirit at times? 

Soul-deep and rich stories about living life, basking in the soil of infinite resources and infinite support and sharing that which heals and uplifts, are all available in our gardens, so to speak.

What tools do we access within ourselves to value the compost of experience?  Do you expect and enjoy the rain water's healing capacity for restoration and rejuvenation and plant seeds of hope and faith in rich fertile soil?  What stories stimulate your remembrance that the blooms inevitably show up amongst decomposing plant matter with grace and beauty?

If you find that uplifting stories are challenging for you to access and then share, what do you need to release and be open to, to realize your gifts as a Griot in the Garden of  Life?  How do you accept all the available cycles and sow peace and joy and THEN... harvest all of this peace and joy With your Tribe? For your Tribe?

This beautiful gardening practice begins with me. 
This beautiful gardening practice begins with you. 
How exciting! 
I am grateful and give Many Thanks for you!
You are a Modern Day Griot in the Garden!

Today I cried.
I cried for my ankles.
My cry was humble.
My cry was love.
My cry was graceful.
How does this tiny area hold up my ENTIRE body.
If I didn't have ankles where would my feet be?
If I didn't have ankles, just how, I ask you, would I be supported?
How would I run?
What would happen to the short sock industry?
Seriously.  I loved up on my ankles.  
I never want to forget them.  I never take them for granted.
I prayed today for my ankles and I WILL do it again!
While praying today, I lavishly rubbed my ankles, feet and toes
and gave thanks to my Whole Body.
I gave my ankles extra attention and my tears did flow.
"Thank you for carrying me Dear Sweet Ankles!"
My sweet, sweet, thin and powerful ankles answered.
"You are welcome!"

A blessed, new day dawns -

a Blessed, Recharge, Rejuvenation and Restart.

Blessed Rain.
Steely gray clouds
fill up the sky with dark blues,
and silver...

Rainy days cleanse all things
and washes away the build up,
preparing the way for
brighter days.

Blessed Sun. 
Sunshine streams warmth,
newness,
hope,
adventure
and discovery.

No matter whether blessed sunny or blessed rainy days,
dewy flowers will bud perfect for smelling. 
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Ultimately, new colors and fragrances blossom. 

God shows up in all things.
What does that look like?

How Big is YOUR God?

Big enough to support you through 
recharge, rejuvenation and restart?

Through sun and rain?
What does that look like?

a blessed new dawning day

​United Spirits Village Newsletter
unitedspiritsvillage@gmail.com

Welcome to December.  The weather is perfect for warm beverages and toasty chats with people we love.  This is also the ideal time to reflect on what worked throughout the year, to take forward those celebrations and accomplishments, expand them in the new year and keep the flow moving, so to speak.
 
First and foremost, I am thrilled that United Spirits (US) celebrated our 8th Friday Night Celebration and Happy Hour on Zoom.  We have had visits from a total of 23 different people who have shared their hearts, listened to music, danced and grown together.  This celebration is a way we reflect on the present, strategize to release emotions or “stuff” we wish to dissipate from the past week, as well as envision what to improve within our selves for the next day and week.  I have enjoyed it and know others in our group have as well.  Please feel free to tell us about your Friday Night experience.  Better yet, email us and let us know you wish to celebrate with us
 
Guess what?
United Spirits is forming exciting Evolutionary Engagement Pods for empowerment and growth in the new year:
 
Village Authors – Write the book that is in your soul, the one that you have been yearning to express for a while.  Now is the time.  We will meet weekly to learn and apply writing strategies one paragraph at a time.  Let us share, give and receive helpful feedback.  Our goal is to publish our books by December 2021.
 
Spiritual Leadership and Coaching Academy for Peers – this circle creates the unique and powerful “FIT” curriculum, to apply to our own lives and support others with Evolutionary Spirituality practices and mindful techniques.
 
United Spirits Village – Apply your great architectural, design, and service ideas to this live and work, sustainable village.  Support the completing of the business plan to present to other individuals, organizations, businesses and enterprises.
 
Wealth Building and Investment – Yes!  Strategize funding and growth as a Wealthy Tribe.

Hi Love.

As this year wraps up, I encourage you to reflect and be grateful for all things that you did well. 
You did that!
Celebrate.

Did you love yourself?
Did you manage to stay healthy - mind, body and spirit?  relationships? environment?  finances?  communication?
​Did you love and hug others?
Did you screw up something, but learned from your mistake?
Did you cook a new recipe?
Did you fly a kite really well?
Did you pay your bills on time?
Did you complete another year at your place of employment or in planning or building your business?
Did you learn something new?
Did you teach someone else?
Did you regain your balance after a challenging situation?
Did you raise some kids?
Did you apologize when you were or were not wrong?
Did you forgive?
Did you finish that "thing" you've been working on forever?
Did you eat fruits and vegetables and stay hydrated?
Did you talk through a difficult conversation?
Did you recover from a dis-ease?
Did you dance your ass off, for hours to really GOOD music?
Did you stand up for equality and equity?
Did you treat other fellow humans as if they are a part of you?
Did you invite wisdom and abundance fully into your life?

What is something you did well?

No matter what it is that you did, CELEBRATE!

Take that party into 2019 and keep it up!

I'm proud of you.
Happy New Year's

Have you noticed that Love is the answer for everything?  When you are elated about life - health, wealth, love and prosperity are flowing, love is at the center of the warm fuzzy, proud and productive feelings.

What about when you feel un-well in mind, body or spirit... or finances... even relationships?  Have you noticed how prayer works?  Have you noticed how being positive works?  Have you noticed how sharing with a loved-one or even a stranger who is listening intently seems to lift the burden?  Have you ever smiled at someone you don't know and see their light brighten?  Give thanks to all your body parts for working together and supporting your goals.
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Love is Medicine!

Even when Sweet Life brings up challenges and hurdles for us to figure out, seeing the situation with an open heart, faith and positive energy not only makes you or me feel better, but this also raises our awareness to a higher state.  In a higher state of being and mind, we have access to the best ideas, we step outside of the situation to see that we are still whole, perfect and complete. We realize our part in the scenario and come up with the strategies to change the conditions and even extract a lesson.

If someone cuts you off on the freeway, try sending them words of safety and protection, because you want them to get to their destination safely.  When someone shouts at you and hurls unkind words, remind yourself that you are not the target and our human brothers and sisters sometimes have hurt and pain in their hearts from past trauma and situations that we didn't place there...or maybe we did.  If someone threatens you, know that you are their angel in that moment, diffuse and neutralize the anger and fiery energy and send soothing waters of comfort and strength to their soul.  Forgive yourself and others and let love flow, because there are no other alternatives.  When dis-ease threatens your livelihood, don't give up!  Dance, laugh, stretch, pray, have a date with your loved one and feel your body's cells respond with delight.  You can and will recover. Real talk.

This is a crucial and perfect time to practice our healing abilities.  This is the moment to be healers.

Love and claim your healing.

We are healed.

Love is Medicine.