Help me purge. Why am I feeling so emotional? So full of restlessness? . . . my heart's racing with nervous energy . . . what do I need?

When we're feeling anxious, we need to express . . . to release pent up energy, to allow for creativity. We are seekers of expression . . . and when we don't find healthy release or expression, we form unhealthy habits or addictions.  We might smoke, eat, work, exercise, shop, curse, drink, or sleep to numb painful emotions.  The mind needs to be busy so why not help it out by finding healthy expression?  You might like dancing, piano playing, artistic expression or connecting by playing a game or doing some type of physical release. Cleaning and cooking are effective ways for releasing pent up energy but doing too much for others or too much of anything, for that matter, without recharging and nurturing the self, can leave us completely depleted . . . feeling frustrated, unappreciated,  and stuck.

So, when we're feeling overwhelmed or cluttered, it's a good idea to purge.   Just start purging your personal space. Take fifteen to thirty minutes to scan or look through your clothing, your books, and your personal possessions.  Get an idea of what's what so you can decide to keep only those things that truly give you joy. The rest -- simply release.  Thank those things that have been with you up until now and just let them go. Donate or have a yard sale.  

As you begin releasing material attachments, you will feel lighter.  Tossing the old creates new space for more closely examining what you've been covering up with stuff. Stuff muffles your true heart's desires.  It's difficult to reveal how we're feeling when we're so overstuffed.  Stuff keeps us trapped, it makes us feel stuck, frustrated, and maybe a little angry.  When we are so looped in a negative cycle of saving or hoarding and organizing and re-organizing our stuff, we're left with no space to be -- to think clearly, to dream, to create, to feel.  Instead, we feel irritable and blame ourselves for feeling low on energy, scattered, overwhelmed, and disorganized -- which can lead to feelings of sadness, anxiety, and depression.

Depression is the opposite of expression; it's pushing down what you really need to expel and express.

Our society, especially our schooling system, teaches suppression. Suppression of thought, emotions, and imagination are byproducts of living in a power structure with a system that must control the masses. Transcending today's oppressive forces can be quite overwhelming.  But by learning how to focus within, by doing daily work to stay ahead of the clutter,  you can get back in touch mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, realigning with your true Source of power to feel alive and in control.  It's the little things that help us get back on our path, to get us back feeling attuned, back to feeling balanced and joyful -- It takes intentional effort.  It's a simple step-by-step process.  With willingness and determination to step into your true desires, you can feel in rhythm with life.

Life brings challenges or problems. . . . problems are opportunities to grow.  Obstacles can oppress and agitate us or motivate and inspire us. If we can become of strong mind, especially by keeping our mind fixed upon God, we can learn how to focus upon those things that He wants us to do.  We can begin doing all things -- in our mind, in our heart, with our hands, and with all of our energy - to align and attune with our higher Self.
 
God wants us to find happiness living on this earthly plane. Joy can enter in if we just let life breathe through us. By continuing on non-reactively, by not responding to every little thing, we can learn to send love to fear.

Love starts with slowing down and learning how to be gentle with ourselves.  Love can help us overcome fear. It's only with self love that we can ease up and overcome the small stuff.

Every day is another test.  Sometimes we get the lessons, sometimes we don't. If we don't judge; if we don't worry; If we can simply shut the mind off for just a little bit, we can start to begin opening the heart so that love may enter.

If we could try to live each day as though it's our last, we might better deal with each issue at hand.   Each circumstance can be less haunting, every moment can be lived as though it's the only moment that matters.  If we could open up our heart to the “present,” we might live more willingly, more excitedly, more passionately, without judgement and expectation, filled with hope for allowing life to unfold and lead the way.

Today, start tossing some old stuff.  Begin by breathing consciously . . . allow positive thoughts to fill your mind.  Find gratitude and appreciation.  See each breath as a gift. Allow your breath to calm and ground you.  Feel anchored in your truth. Feel calmer and be present for others.  Become a silent witness.  Listen for your inner voice, the whisper from Spirit.  With patience and practice, feel the breath of life support you.  Allow life to completely unwrap itself.  Open up.  Fill yourself with the highest energy, complete acceptance and appreciation.

Life is richly delicious. Refuse to waste precious moment stewing over the past, stirring up regrets, or anticipating unnecessarily about the future.  Instead, step into faith, stay in the present and meet life right from where you are.  For where you are in this very moment is to be fully alive.

So if you feel like it, purge.  If you don't, breathe.  Accept things as they come.  Allow. Savor it all.  Taste the sweetness.  Taste the bitterness.  Taste it all.  

Open your heart.  Open up and enjoy the"present".

                           SOAR = “Shake me” “Open & Allow” “Reveal all”

The Lord speaks to me.  He speaks to and through all of His children.

By asking the Lord to speak, He allows me to open up my heart.  He provides the opportunity to listen.  As I hear His words, I am able to "see." Opportunities are given to each of His children; but we often fail to hear . . . consequently, we fail to "see."

We can see children with our physical eyes. I see children; our children. I can see a world filled with difference. With problems. My problems. Your problems. Acknowledging things outside of myself allows me to create a sense of identity.  But if I see only from this limited outside perspective, I lose my true Self.  I begin to see separately. I become divided. I allow fear to keep me living in comparison, in competition. I never feel full enough. Living externally is disempowering and disconnects me from my true Source. When living disconnected with Self, I allow the world to perpetuate a sense of fear.  I allow my self to turn to a false power system for guidance and that steals my energy.  Instead of relying on mySelf, I allow others who do not have my best interest at heart to prey upon my sense of lack.

No, NOT TODAY!  Today I am grateful for my physical eyes God has given me for which to see.  

But leading up to today has been a different story. . .  something was missing.  For I felt like I needed more.  I was always exhausted from working so hard.  I was tired of the daily cycle.  I felt depleted.  I felt empty.  I was searching without but I needed to search within to do the INNER WORK -- to learn to stop blaming and to dig deeply for what it was that I needed.

I NEEDED TO FIND GRATITUDE.  Gratitude helped me to truly see everything as ONE,  to perceive Oneness -- with a pure heart and with a pure mind.

I needed to face the TRUTH about myself.  I needed to take a good, long look in the mirror and see that when I am critical of others, it's because of what they trigger within me. 

With gratitude in my heart today and everyday I now choose to face Truth.  I've dropped the labels, the designer tags, and realize that I am nothing more than a pulsating organism --  an energy being remarkably designed to exist, overcome, survive, and thrive.  I am built to evolve quite naturally, quite harmoniously.  I am endowed with the gift of free will, which sets me apart from animals in that I can make CHOICES.  AND most importantly, I am not alone, separate, or in competition with anyone or anything . . . I am connected to and guided by a higher power, a higher Self. 

I take responsibility for the fact that I have FREEDOM TO CHOOSE how I wish to live. 

God, please open my heart and mind, lend faith to hear Your message.  For I know my prayer is not necessary as You already know everything about me; my wants, my longings; my purpose. Prayer is my choice, my ritual, my way to connect.   Today I pray to use His words to fill my mind and my heart with purpose, direction, love. In meditation I will listen. I will listen with my mind and with my heart.

We come here in choice, to reincarnate in flesh in order for spirit to play out what it needs to get closer to home. It's difficult getting out of our own way, from not realizing that we are not the faults in which we believe. For it is our beliefs that limit us.

Thank you for gifting me with choice. Realizing that the choice is mine to choose sorrow over joy is reassuring.   Thank You for the knowing that I can ask You for what I need . . . faith, strength, courage, love, forgiveness, acceptance, compassion, understanding, and mostly, for seeing the point of interest in everything; to see likeness instead of difference.

No longer afraid to go down to my knees, I am thankful that I know how to go within, into the most private space in order to speak with You directly. I need not go to church or to temple. I need not fear humiliation or shame for I have found truth through trusting in You, in the intimacy of our sacred bond, in our private relationship, in the knowing that you do not judge and that all I need do is open my mind and my heart.

To ask in prayer, not for what I want, but instead to get out of my own way and to trust in You lets me purge and make room. Prayer helps me to re-train my mind, to eliminate the thoughts I would wish not be viewed by all. Prayer cleanses my mind and opens my heart so I'm ready to listen and hear direction through meditation. With my little self out of the way, I can access my higher Self.  My higher Self permits new space, a clean slate, for allowance, for guidance, and for love to flow freely.

I have greater appreciation for life and love with inner focus. Your loves allows me to love and appreciate myself and fuels love and appreciation for all things created by You. I now see beauty in all things, animate and inanimate. I freely send love and receive love abundantly. For You allow me to see faults as gifts, uniqueness as a blessing, and encourage me to become my best self.

My prayers extend beyond myself, for our children must find You and gain inner vision. With You, our children will know how to live. With faith in themselves, they can trust the universe.  They can turn to You to ask when in need. They will know how to do all things first to please You as You will instruct them how. They will know how do be self-governing so that they may discover purpose and peace. For by choosing You, they know where to look to unlock inner wisdom for realizing their highest potential. They will live joyfully, acting in accordance with what's best for all. In this way, they will be prepared to face all of life's challenges as each challenge comes from You. They will be unafraid to ask You for help and in so doing can become helpers themselves.  They can become the fine leaders this New World so desperately needs.

Love can be confusing -- language makes it so. Language limits love to the literal and prevents experiencing love to its full capacity.  Only through experience can we understand love.  The Greeks knew better to allow greater appreciation for love as they defined love more broadly, in terms of agape and eros, as two love varietals – not just one. Agape love allows an appreciation of love of Creator.  Despite how each chooses to define that which creates, we are creators.  Despite physical differences, we are all similar.  We are non-physical beings experiencing an earthly existence with hearts that beat alike, with blood that bleeds red, and with organs serving similar functions. God equipped each of us with x-number of breaths for which to live out our purpose.  If not for the color of our skin and the differing beliefs that each espouse, we may not realize difference so easily.  

Despite the Gods we worship, we worship. Despite beliefs, we believe.  Despite the languages we speak, we speak. Despite the longings we possess, we long. Despite feelings, we feel. Despite choices, we choose.

Despite feelings of loneliness, unworthiness, incapability, and lack of love, we are love.

Despite feeling loved or unloved, we wish to receive love. 

Love is a choice, and I choose to love – I choose God, for God is love. God will help me overcome all fear. Although God will not interfere with my choices, His will is that I learn not to waste time pursuing earthly sensory pleasures, pleasures that may have no merit in spirit. For God is sorry to have brought us into this world of suffering and offers the gift of will for the way out. He offers countless opportunities for each of us to find peace and love, and it can only be found through Him. For His will is our will, and we must realize that the mystery is none other than this truth.

It's important for my children to understand love. First, in realizing the nature of esteem or caring. Esteem can be understood in the caring for pets, family, or friends, and esteem is extended as they care for things outside of themselves, in relationship and with purpose. This sense of care will enhance an overall feeling of general love.

But love moves beyond esteem, as we must learn self-esteem. In today's world, caring for the self should always be learned at home, taught by parents, but it often gets left in the hands of fate. Children must learn to move out of childhood responsibly, be better able to govern themselves so the world doesn't have to do it for them.

Self-love will allow our children to turn away from the temptations of the world, for the world will call to them as it preys on those most vulnerable. My prayer is that our children find inner strength, inner vision, and self love -- which comes from you Lord.  For faith will introduce them to their inner world, a familiar world which will echo loudly – calling them back into remembrance from whence they've come, igniting that inner longing for the safety of a true home, a home which allows them to realize that they have choice. They can choose to find strength from You in exchange for a sense of peace and love for which they can extend to others.

Today's world is challenging.  Marriage is difficult, especially with such lack of self-love and the need to survive and to work hard. As challenges mount, our children's needs will be especially great, particularly the need to find inner strength. Inner strength will be what they'll need as they search for a place to retreat. When they discover an inner haven found within the deepest recesses of their soul, within their heart, they can learn how to control their own mind.  Self control and self love will allow them to feel love and to conquer fear, hostility, anger, and hatred. Your unconditional love, gentleness, compassion, kindness and guidance will allow our children to cease searching outside themselves ever again.

We must move beyond the survival of the fittest.  In this New Age, we are required to do much more than physically endure. There's more tohealth and overall well-being than eating plant-based whole foods, drinking clean water, and properly exercising the physical body. Survival calls upon moral and spiritual strength like never before. Learning how to nurture the self with sensitivity to the feelings of others will allow our children to extend love to the family unit, seeing the purpose of love beyond the self.

Familial love comes with challenges, all very necessary for the soul to awaken and to work itself out. But the family unit is a microcosm of our larger family. My prayer is for our children to look to the larger family and to serve the collective needs of the greatest good.

And so it is.

xo
Blessings,
From ​Jewels Heart

Speak to me please. I am praying that you hear me. I call on all Angels, Ascendant Masters, My beloved Guru Paramahansa Yogananda. To Saints of all religions, Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, dear God and to all whom have passed, please come to me now. I ask in the highest, most loving best for healing, for understanding, for clarity, for purpose, please come to me now.

Dear child, we are here. Always. On your breath; we come whenever you call. Thank you for your devotion, thank you for your tender-hearted love and appreciation for the Spirit realm. We are here, not necessarily seen, but always felt. On your breath, in your heart and deeply within your being, you feel us. We speak to you daily. Our voices are within you. You must only align with us and we come eagerly, always ready to assist you.

Stay true child. Do not delay. Do not derail. Keep on with Us. You know we are with you. It's not important to convince anyone of our presence. As long as you feel us, you are doing your work.

Remember to listen, in stillness, just listen. Go within to your heart, we will help you discover want you need to look at, what you need to revisit and accept and integrate. For all your parts are within, all the parts you've disconnected from or have forgotten. Replace no disconnected part with habit, simply go within and stay. In staying within, we will heal and help and lend peace to your tired self. There's no need to be tired or frustrated, we are here for you and want to help you find your place, to feel loved.

Love is a beautiful feeling. We all crave it, we all desire it, we all are deserving. But love gets us into trouble. We want it, but we forget that we must give it in order to receive it. Give it unceasingly child. Without hesitation. Always come from the heart and your life will unfold beautifully, as if by magic. That's the secret. Despite your needs, the needs of your inner child that have failed to be met or failed to be nourished, overcome -- overcome the need to need and simply be. Be here. Be now. Be love. You are safe.  You are loved.

For you are capable of loving the world. Even if you don't want to give love, try it. Once you open your heart to places where you've normally kept it closed, the world will open doors for you.  

The world has standards for which you are not. You have unlimited potential, unsurmountable realization for which to achieve. Realizing the Self needs focused discipline and deliberate action and knowing that you are worthy.

A joyful life can be realized when we do our interior work.  Interior resources are treasures that await us and can bring about whatever life we choose to imagine.

So . . . It's time.  It's time to gift yourself time.

You deserve at least 15-20 minutes a day for yourself. It is a must. Time spent daily to escape life's schedule of busyness, to simply breathe, relax, and envision the life you desire is NOW. With just a slight shift in focus, you can bring about emotional and physical improvement.

Can you envision the life you truly want?  

What is your current life like?
What does an extraordinary life look like?  
What would you do if money were not an object?  
If you only had a few months to live?  
What do you need to feel alive?

How would an extraordinary life make you feel?
Can you go there now? Go to where you can envision how living the life of your dreams feels; go there everyday for at least 15 minutes a day. Surely you can carve out fifteen (15) minutes to dream in a twenty-four (24) hour day?

Making your vision come alive inside of you will give you the strength and courage to realize it. You can achieve anything; it simply needs your focused mind power. A disciplined mind is a mind that can FOCUS intently, intelligently.

The world is always offering what we don't want, what we don't like, or what is wrong. Negativity is all around us. Life is always bringing us change, contrast, problems, challenges. Change is a constant, a fact of life. We grow old and age, that's going to happen. The economy changes, yes. Problems will always be there for us. But how we're choosing to face them, how we see them, how and why we are reacting to problems can be at the root.

So, what's your problem?  
What are you saying to yourself?  
Are you ready to face your truth?
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Real change takes courage, guts, honesty, risk, and willingness to turn FEAR into LOVE, starting with self-love.

There's so much treasure living inside you – and if you're reading this, you are ready to bring it out! If you learn to self love or prime yourself every morning and then again before bed, there's no limit to your expansion and power.

Are you ready to break out of the box?

You can break free – starting with just 10 minutes a day -- just by changing your pattern of focus, by moving your body, by changing your language, by taking action.

There's treasure within you and your job is to find it.

Believe it is there.
Believe that you are going to find it and that it is worth finding.
Become obsessed.

            17 Ways To Take Action in 2018:

1. Realize your purpose. Why do you want a specific outcome? What makes you hungry? Ask yourself . . . where are you really living? What are you passionate about? What hurts you, moves you? Just write. Don't edit.
2. List your emotions you've been experiencing in an average week. Don't think, just feel. Write. (worry, fear, pain, anger, shame, embarrassment, joy, eagerness, hopeful, loving, creative)
3. Notice or become aware of your bad habits. Decide to start new. What's keeping you addicted to your patterns of behavior, identify what you're saying to yourself and what you are doing. What is the identity you have created? How are you living to conform to this identity? Notice your posture (slumped or straight), your facial muscles (tight or loose), your breathing (shallow or deep). Pay attention. Notice what you're eating. Notice how you are feeling.
4. Put yourself in a position to do or die. Do something new. Schedule to talk in front of a crowd, sign up to run a 5K race, risk. Be forced to move forward.
5. Decide what you must do. Stand up, raise your standard. Refuse to tolerate. Live life on your terms.  Have daily vision. You have the gift to choose: a new career, new love, grow a garden . . .
6. Renew your mind, read good books and apply what you learn.
7. Write. Journal. Put your thoughts onto paper. Tell the truth.
8. Move your body at least 10 minutes a day. Get your blood pumping, flowing. Movement brings us alive. Move and feel. Better yet!  Shake up with TRE® (tension & trauma releasing exercises) and wake up. Change your physical state and change your emotional state.
9. Refresh your spirit. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Spend at least 10 minutes a day in gratitude. Start with feeling gratitude for yourself, your spouse, your children, and slowly send that love and gratitude out into the world. Broaden your gratitude circle.
10. Serve. Give back. Give time, smiles, flowers, letters, encouragement . . . This is the secret to stamina. Connection is the best medicine, the best book ever read, and it's free.
11. Create positive language. Do affirmations. Pick a phrase or mantra, “Everyday in every way I am stronger and stronger.” Recite this often. Go for a brisk walk and breath in deeply, exhale and say your mantra. Doing this for just five (5) minutes will shift your mind, body and spirit.
12. Go on a positive rant. Feel love. Say, “I am love.” Expand this, “I am kindness.” Expand to “I am an infinite creator.” Keep going. “I am peace, light, serenity, forgiveness, warmth, strong, flexible, full, lovable, capable, appreciated . . . Keep going. Just 1 minute of positive affirmations will lift your spirit and have you SOARING in no time.
13. Form the habit of positive focus. The brain doesn't know the difference. If you change your focus, change the way you move, and change your feelings, you are in control.  Your brain will begin to look for or focus on how you feel about yourself.  
14. Use your voice. Hum. Sing. Open your throat chakra, release whatever you're holding back. Better yet, walk and hum. Sound and movement are a powerful release, a guaranteed mood lifter.
15. Commit to simple rituals. Rituals equal results. Do something, the same thing each day. Go for a walk first thing in the morning. Breath and give thanks before jumping out of bed. Write what you're grateful for (just 3 things) each night before going to bed. Wake up and greet the day, say “thank you.” ask for guidance, ask what the Universe wants you to do today.
16. Create a soothing atmosphere. Place fresh flowers around the house, play soft spa music, diffuse essential oils http://mydoterra.com/juliettegamble
17. Pray. Give thanks. Meditate to listen and receive.

God Bless
xo
From Jewels Heart






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Self love, self love, self love . . . we need it if we want change -- within or without.

So how?  How can we love, care for and nourish the physical body and the soul?

It starts with listening to yourself . . . pray often . . . ask for help . . . be open to receive, believe what you ask is happening. . . and then let go and give thanks.

Do forgiveness work.  Release or un-cord from the thoughts and feelings tying you to old beliefs.  Our past lives can get in our way . . . the past is so deeply encoded that it persists and haunts us.  Many of us carry this vague feeling, a feeling we just can't quite simply point our finger on.  Maybe it was that in a past life you were enslaved or punished for voicing your truth, so in this life your soul signed on to repress truth, to vow a life of poverty and suffering. When you're feeling out of sorts, it's okay.  It is your soul telling you to get back on track -- to take stock of how you're feeling so that you can make change.  It's an opportunity to release negative attachments (thoughts, feelings, people, chemicals), to release all negative energy that's tying us to feeling badly, unworthy, unloveable, and incapable.  

Imagine white light surrounding you,  allow that light to encircle and protect . . . give it your fears, let the light carry away your fears.  Imagine your fear being carried away on angel wings.  Consciously affirm, "I choose to detach from all past life energy binding me to a life of lack, impoverishment, and suffering.  I choose to live positively now,  trusting myself, with courage to listen to and follow my heart's desire."

It's quite a simple formula. And it takes daily practice.  Practice and action.  One faithful step at a time.  

Miracles are always occurring.  They come in God's time . . . at His pace . . . everything occurs or aligns when we choose to quit resisting and begin allowing.  

When we're able to flow, we don't get caught up in the highs or in the lows . . . 

We give thanks!  We are grateful!

We smile! Become a smile millionaire!

Share your smile today. Share love. . . time. . . faith. . .passion . . . dreams. . . life.

Please Listen to Your Heart and Share with Me:
Todays Love Prescription:
Give 8 heart-to-heart HUGS
Enjoy 3 Big Belly Laughs!



​xo
From Jewels Heart