An Attitude of Gratitude

Motto for the week: your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
Kahlil Gibran.


Have you counted the blessings of your broken heart?
Most often we try to hide or deny our heartache because we believe that it would be just too painful to pull it out and look at it.
In accordance with our greatest spiritual truth, the times that held the most heartache also offered the greatest opportunities to learn and experience the unconditional love and Divine order of the Universe.


What is a broken heart really?
This emotion is a result of a shattering of illusions around a subject that has now left a void and we then feel we have lost something or someone.
These unbalanced emotions can lead to illness if we do not balance them with an attitude of gratitude and love.
As human beings, we all attach illusions to the people we love and when the physically depart from our lives, through a separation or death, our human nature causes us to feel shock, betrayal hurt, grief and pain. This is because we focus on what we believe we have lost.
However when we open up our hearts to the blessings of that experience and we look to see what we have gained in wisdom, strength or knowledge about ourselves, we begin to see the bigger picture.
Broken illusions are blessings…..
Yes , whether we believe this or not, illusions block the path to our innermost truth.
We live in a perfect and ordered Universe. Energy is never wasted and all of us live within this energy.
We need to understand that this world exists within two polarities, dark or light, negative or positive, grief and pain and love.


To experience the one, we need to understand that we will experience the other. We cannot deny this or hide from it. Embracing and accepting both sides enable us to live fulfilled lives, ride the waves of circumstance and we learn to live or truth with love.
Illusions hold us captive from living full lives and standing in our truth. Much like a co-dependent relationship, we are shackled to our illusions and many people cannot break free and stagnate. Stagnation is the death of our souls desire to learn and grow.
Illusions create much unhappiness until we experience the breaking of one. Through each broken illusion, we have the opportunity to experience a truth.
When we judge a person or situation, we label it good or bad and one or the other wins out. This lopsided view blocks our truth.
Emotional pain and physical illness exist because we believe that they are giving us something that we lack.
However we are created a whole and have those very things we believe we lack, within us but we need to discover this within ourselves first.
Circumstances are much like stones-you can use them to build on, or you can let them weigh you down.
For every sorrow there is an equal amount of joy. For every lesson there is an opportunity to experience unconditional love.
By rejecting the lesson, we get stuck in a destructive cycle of ingratitude and we block out the love and truth from our lives.


This week, make a list of the negative things that you have felt and experienced through a heartache and the look for the positive things that you have been shown through this experience. This may take some time. For some of you, your mind will initially shut down and tell you there is nothing positive in that experience. Persevere and look deeper, ask family or friends, as they are neutral and will be able to see both sides that you may not. Then think carefully about this. How have you grown?

Being Authentic

Motto for the week : Authenticity; the forbidden piece of us is what you have to wake up to- not the illusion you created- but the authentic you that needs to be found.  – Dov Baron

Are you ready to be authentic? Are you ready to find the real you? Who are you underneath your mask? Are you ready to admit that you wear one and are you willing to dig deeper to show what it reveals about you? What are your gifts when you return to your authentic core?

This is a time of awakening, no longer can we just sleep and see things from only our perspective. Our society has taught us to trade our truths, our authenticity for the approval and love of others. For a long time, we have been too polite, too kind, too afraid to rock the boat. Well, this week is a big wake up as to what is happening in the Universe. Energies are shifting big time and for those of you who want to be on the leading edge of this incredible time, you will be digging for the buried treasure that your beings hold, the magnificence which makes you YOU!

The first step is to wake up from where ever you have been, to know what this place is and to know what you are waking up to. This is a process that has already begun and most of you have felt it in some way or another. Usually any awakening is preceded by some discomfort and turmoil, so that you get the message. A Universal knock on the head, a breaking down of relationships, finances, careers, deaths, health.

It is time to tap into your authentic truth, not what you have been reading in books, but what truly lies within you. These are powerful times as the energies are supportive of such actions.

The work required is that of SELF. You do not need to do anything else with others. Work on yourself, be honest with yourself, be prepared to accept the role/s that you have played and where you have contributed your part to the relationship fiascos and dramas in your life. This does not mean that you should criticize or beat yourself up, but rather take a gentle approach to your past and this aspect of yourself that may have played the role without even being conscious that this has been an old pattern. By taking this responsibility to remove blame and healing begins.

Look at the masks that you wear to those around you. What are you trying to hide? Are you afraid of upsetting others if they knew your true feelings?

There is one thing that stands in your way and that is FEAR. Whether it has to do with what others think of you, or that you wish to avoid conflict, all of this is based on putting others first and you last and therefore disempowering yourself. This creates frustration and anger within you.

Yes, it’s frightening to be totally honest with everyone that you meet. It requires of you to strip away the layers, to be vulnerable and open. Yes, some may not like it, they may call this arrogance, but in truth what this kind of authenticity brings you is the following;

You will never again stagnate in relationships. By being totally truthful( with kindness of course) you take the guess work out of what does he/she think of me. You will receive an instant reaction and if you do not, what you receive is total freedom that you have spoken your truth and you will no longer walk around with unexpressed or suppressed emotions, which takes a toll on your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual state as you ponder and analyze, worry and stress. You will only attract in those people and situations that resonate with your core truth. No more betrayals, as you will never take things personally as being in your truth takes away all expectation of others and allows you to see them with compassion and love.

We only expect if we do something that is not from our authentic self, expectation comes from an attachment to outcome. Attachments create more fear and place us in bondage. Whether we are attached to the past, a person, a situation, regrets all this holding on serves is to block up the energies of the wonderful, new things that wish to enter.

Is it any wonder that so many people look towards escapism? Whether it’s work, food, alcohol, sex, drugs, love addictions to name a few, this society has created a people who feel a need to escape from the pressures and restriction placed upon them.

Awakening means that no longer will we be content to just superficially skim the surface of our experiences, but that we feel something is missing, there is a bigger picture.

This week we are being asked to begin by developing an awareness in all the areas we may not be authentic, then without judgment of self we can begin to take steps towards a more authentic life.

PS: If you do not feel ready to take such steps, this is also okay and part of your journey to explore and discover. Whatever path you take, may it lead you to a place of happiness, love and peace.

Have a blessed week.

2012- The Shift in Consciousness

The over all energy associated with this year is one of awakening, feeling good and understanding that negative emotions are just contrast and are necessary to help us to know what we do not want. Having said that, the focus needs to be on what we do want and the good feelings that come with this. This is a good year for meditation on a daily basis, or some other practice of inner work to stay aligned with the Universal flow. By doing this regular tuning in, it helps maintain a sense of peace and calm not matter what occurs around us.

There is a need for patience, to take it slow, to think about what we want and to take the time to allow it to happen without trying to control or resist the process. Yes, it’s about getting to know ourselves and not relying on others for happiness and fulfillment. Such relationships will not work out and if at any time we try to fill a void within us, through some external pleasure, whether through love, seeking acceptance, alcohol, sex, drugs, food etc we will quickly realize the futility of this as the quick fix these external pleasures provide will be short lived. The key is to do everything in moderation whilst focusing on the best life experience we can have. There are 24 hrs in a day to have an exciting adventure, that’s the way to see life.

Nature is necessary and we all need to get out more and connect. A change of scenery helps create those shifts we are looking for, so weekends away should be on the list. A main area that requires focus is to watch the stress levels. All illnesses manifest through a constant vibration of irritation, anger or stress. Finding outlets for this can be very beneficial this year.

Approach 2012 with consistency and a steady pace and it will pay off. Money and love will flow more easily this year, provided we do not resist this process. It is a time for more fun and social gatherings offer plenty of new opportunities.

It would be beneficial to not buy into any of the fear being created by the dooms day prophecies for December. Believe this that we will long prosper after 2012 and this is just a very exciting cycle that has begun and continues to evolve just as we will.

Old fears may be linked to a mass consciousness that reflects back to endings of ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria. There are no repeats only new experiences for our planet and we will continue to thrive despite world chaos and natural disasters. We are after all able to create our own realities, so it is really up to us as to how we wish to see our lives, from an angle of what we want or what we do not want. The secret is that we receive what we want when we learn to let go. That is our free will and we get to choose our own experience.

Many Blessings

Tanja

Opening the Heart Center

LOVE IS MAGIC- IT’S THE SECRET POWER ALL WHO LOVE POSSESS WITHOUT REALIZING IT!

The energies are indicating that after the recent breakthroughs that we have made, we are being guided to go back to our hearts and to unconditional love.

The angels are asking us to invest some time in ourselves, to not get so caught up in the dramas of life, especially these recent dramas we have all been facing.

This does not mean that the challenges end here, but rather that as we prepare for the coming challenges that lie ahead, we tap into the most powerful energy that we have available to us at present; the power of love.

Now is the time to stay very focused in the present moment, in the now and to fully connect and clear our heart chakras. By opening up our heart centers, love can shine through and lift us up above our issues that we are experiencing with ourselves and others. From this higher perspective of love, we can love even those who have hurt us as this kind of unconditional love transcends all faults and ego issues.

As we allow our heart centers to open, we re -connect to All that is and the feelings of separation in consciousness, which keeps us separate from each other lifts.

We can begin to feel authentic feelings of empathy for everyone and everything on this planet. We begin to realize that we are all dealing with some sort of pain, that we are in no ways separate from our fellow man, and as we begin to tune into this frequency of love, gratitude and understanding result and we are able to see the changes within and around us.

During times of stress, our minds work overtime trying to analyze and find solutions to our dilemmas. This of course keeps us very far away from the energy of love.

An exercise to do during the time ahead is to consciously connect to the heart and chest area. To allow ourselves to detach from the mind and to fall back into our bodies, into our hearts.  We can try to concentrate on the energy we hold in our heart center, to see if there is anything blocking the love that is there. We can also focus on the energy of love outside of ourselves, be it the love we feel for our children, partners, family etc and to bring this feeling into our heart.

It is important to differentiate between conditional and unconditional love. Conditional love is usually about mirroring aspects of ourselves in others, making them special in some way. This is only superficial and is ego based. This is not real love as it carries with it expectation and an identity. This can be seen as exclusive love, whereas unconditional love is inclusive of all, including ourselves. To practice this, we can develop an awareness for this kind of love and we can seek it in everyone around us, so that whether the person is a stranger, we love them the same way as we do our loved ones. This removes the ego identity from love and takes us a step closer into true, authentic love.

This is a good time to review how far we have come. Look back on the ways we have handled our challenges and the patterns that have been present. This week ahead allows for a pause, so that we can reflect on this and so that we can remember to do things differently in the next challenge.

We need to look at ourselves to see where we are reaching deeper and where we are being superficial, as a superficial mind often comes up empty handed, much like superficial actions leave us with nothing.

Reaching down deep and getting in touch with our innermost self, requires lots of love. However we have love all around us and love is all there is, it is the true essence of peace and it is the vital ingredient required to remain centered and clear headed in the storms of life.

Once we reach this degree of authentic, unconditional love, anything is possible, everything changes. We no longer need to label our lives and experiences as good or bad. We can simply realize that we can live our lives in any which way we choose, that all can be ours, provided we tap into true love.

Death- a Complete Surrender

Life is to be alive, to live and to love, but what is death? How do we as human beings understand the loss and the pain that comes with such finality? How do we overcome the loss of a loved one, a friend particularly if it was sudden? If there were no good byes, no closure- how do we deal?
I have faced death and loss, yet again recently. It was sudden, unexpected. he was so young, had so much to live for, was busy doing and getting on with life. he has so much unfinished business. Suddenly he was gone. One minute here the next minute he ceased to exist. This was not a slow process, like illness often is, where one can prepare oneself for the inevitable.
After the shock and the disbelief, came an immense sadness, for his life that would now never be. In this sadness I realized that letting go required complete surrender. To feel and to be completely present, without trying to get away from the pain. Surrendering means letting go completely, without the questions as to why things happen. In letting go I could grieve for a life lost, but I also could be grateful for how he touched my life in all the good ways.
A loss like this reminds us that we are human, that we are fragile and we can end, but we will also have lived, touched and changed the people we have interacted with, even creating a lasting impact on this planet. This energy lives on, our love, what we have created cannot die and when we are able to release the attachment to the physical  we are begin to understand that nothing is ever truly lost, it just transmutes into something different.Everything is energy and therefore continues to exist.
There are many symbolic endings to be faced in our lives, many things will have and will continue to come to an end.
 Our greatest fear may well be that we fear the loss of love in our lives. In order to avoid this pain, we will often either run from it, denying its existence or we run into it, almost drowning in suffering. However when we begin to just be, when we accept how we feel, when we feel the pain and the loss, we walk through this, the end result is peace and love, for love is all around us, it can never end.
RIP my friend, until we meet again on the Other Side.

Being able to sense the presence of people that have passed, I have become aware that it is as much a journey for them as it is for us. Ours is to let go of them, theirs is to begin a new journey on the Other Side.We can help to send them on their way peacefully, by sending them Love and Light from our hearts.

Many Blessings Tanja

Shifts and Changes on Earth

Motto for the week:  Don’t get too caught up in the drama of life, go to that place within and be still.

There are powerful planetary shifts taking place around us at present and naturally this affects our lives. On Friday a powerful Tsunami was responsible for the devastating havoc that took place in Japan. Saturday morning, explosions destroyed one of the buildings at the nuclear power plant. Tsunami warnings have been issues to 19 countries which could be affected by this disaster. This is only the beginning and most of us are aware that more such terrifying events will follow. So what does this mean for us? Do we now live in fear, worried that we are next? Do we feel powerless or just ignore that its happening?

These events show that the earth is not stable or predictable and neither are our lives on it. We can stand together and unite our energies in Oneness to bring peace and healing to our planet, but we are also being made aware that we need to make changes in our personal lives and most are feeling themselves pushed to do this by some unseen force.

With Uranus re entering Aries astrologically, releasing some powerful, eruptive warrior energy, this too could have an effect on planetary energies. So, what do we need to do or be aware of in our lives?

The angels ask us to live our lives with more awareness, so that we too can shift from our old energies, negative habits, belief systems into a new more enlightened and more centered way of being.

As we know, change is never comfortable and it requires us to release certain ways of being which we have become accustomed to and then we enter a stasis period, a transition period- and this can be the hard part- as it is often a period of nothingness, a feeling of not having solid ground beneath our feet, we may experience a real sense of loss, as space is created for the new, a waiting period  and patience with self and the process is required.

Everyone of us has felt this over this last year and the angels are urging us, as this year comes to a rapid end, to be aware of just what it is that we are needing to release.

We need to see this period as the final piece of the puzzle before a new reality manifests for us.

Just as the final labour requires one last push, before the infant is born, so do our manifestations require this period before we see the results of our efforts before us.

Now is not the time to give up, to become doubtful or to give in to our fears, as our goals are in sight.

The angels say that if we clear the old ways that no longer serve us, we will harvest the fruits of our labour.

They say that this is the only way to ensure a complete shift, which will take us to a new chapter in our lives.

For many this may feel uncomfortable and strange at first. Human nature is to fear when we can no longer hold onto outdated beliefs and it is important that we let go and go with the flow. Resistance creates more struggles and we will see this in the people around us, who are confused, unwilling to change and who don’t see the way forward.

The energy over this next week, may bring in some sort of conflict, often within, and light will be shed on matters that up until now may have mystified us.

Seeing things from an elevated perspective can give us a clearer picture of where we are going. We are always on the right path for us, no matter how far we may believe we have strayed from our true path. The very place that we find ourselves at right now, is bringing to us the most valuable lessons.

Are we seeing our world as abundant and filled with opportunity or are we seeing a lack thereof. This is our choice, this is free will. How we see our lives is up to us. We can see the hardships and trials as stumbling blocks or we can see these as real growth. Ultimately all of us will benefit from the issues we currently face. This week we can find solutions and answers to recent conflict, as the energies shift.

Love and Light Tanja

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The Month of Love

Hi All,

With all this focus on love on the 14th Feb, what do you do? Do you hide away, ignore all the red hearts and gifts, or do you take part in this tradition wholeheartedly? Whilst we can't escape Valentines day, and we each have our own views around this, one thing IS for sure....we all need a little more love....starting with self-love...so lets remind ourselves of who we are, our uniqueness(yes, theres only one of us) and how special we are. Many Blessings

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Motto for the week:  "Three things can't be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love."- Yiddish proverb 

February is known as the month of LOVE. Lovers give each other gifts and show that they appreciate their partners. It’s meant to ignite romance and bring back the spark for those who need to be reminded.

Love is something that we all seek and need, whether we like to admit this or not. Some of us may be single during this period, some may dislike this time, because no matter where you look, sparkles, red hearts, cards and flowers follow you.

Ultimately no matter where we find ourselves in the game of love, the key to loving is to have an open heart and to be able to give and receive love freely.

This is an interesting concept, considering that this is the period where we are dealing with past issues, hurts and disappointments to do with past love, friends and even family. Having been hurt often closes the heart to love again. There is distrust present and we block the flow of love because we fear being hurt again.

We are being urged during this period, to look at how we love ourselves, if at all. It is time to take stock of how we are treating ourselves and whether there is old unforgiveness present as we judge ourselves too harshly.

As a practitioner, I see many clients and almost everyone is harder on themselves than on others. Most put the needs of others before themselves and they treat others with kindness and love, even when those are undeserving of it. However when looking at themselves, they have all but abandoned their needs and in some cases sacrificed their souls.

Why is it that love which is all to clear in its many forms, is often hardest when applied to oneself?

Our relationships teach us about ourselves, parts of ourselves that we have yet to discover, parts we deny, parts we disown. All these aspects of self are mirrored in those around us.

Sometimes we may be baffled at what is reflected back at us. We are not jealous. However when looked at closely, we have all been jealous of someone or something at some point in our lives. Could this be a part of ourselves we have denied or disowned and now is magnified and reflected at us through another? Each time we disown or not acknowledge a part of ourselves, we don’t love ourselves enough.

This week let us look at and discover all the parts of ourselves that make us who we are and lets bring them together and let us love the whole “us”!!

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