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GRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT TIME #7: The Ho’oponopono Blessing
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today, I am so excited to share with you one of the most helpful and effective tools I can give you for your toolbox. It is a beautiful Hawaiian Blessing called The Ho’oponopono Blessing and you use this, quite honestly, anytime your heart feels upset. Should you be upset with someone or someone is ill or someone has passed away and, perhaps, that relationship was kind of rocky when they went to be with the Lord, in any circumstance, this blessing is so effective and so helpful when said with a genuine heart.
Close your eyes and think about that person and then you say to yourself, or out loud, “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.” I’m sorry because we all play a role and you need to have empathy to begin any sort of healing. Please forgive me because we all contribute to our own circumstance. I love you because love always heals and thank you because everyone in our life is a teacher for us, somehow, some way. Instead of being upset with someone, Ho’oponopono them instead and heal your own heart and heal that energy between the two of you. I hope that this brings you great healing and great love to your heart.
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GRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME: Aura-soma Bottle Healing Work
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today I want to talk to you about an amazing healing option that I have found along my grief journey. A few weeks ago, we had talked about how our emotions make our bodies physically sick and I experienced that first hand and found this aura-some bottle (or one of the aura-some bottles) to help heal my emotions and help heal my body. These bottles are comprised of a combination. The top half is comprised of essential oils and crystal energies and natural coloring. The bottom half is comprised of natural coloring, crystal oil, herbs and water. Together, you shake them up and put them on every day with an affirmation. It is a healing part of your soul. If you find a local aura-soma practitioner, they will have you, out of 107 bottles, they will have you select which one you’re drawn most to and it is going to help bring your emotions and your being into equilibrium.
When I was in the darkness and the deep darkness of my grief, I constantly had pink eye. I went to the Western doctor and got drops. I went to the acupuncturist and tried to be healed and for a year and a half, I had constant pink eye. It wasn’t until I was told by my Reiki practitioner that my emotions needed to be healed in order to heal my pink eye that I then picked up my aura-some bottle. It was a pink bottle, at the time, which ironically healed my pink eye. But every day I put it on and I learned how to love myself. The pink bottle is actually about loving yourself and not criticizing yourself. One of the dirty little secrets that they don’t tell you about grief, they talk about all of the stages-that you have denial and anger and sadness. However, self-criticism is a part of that and how awful that we beat ourselves down. When we are already down, we then kick ourselves when we’re already down. It’s terrible that we would do that to ourselves but we can find ways to heal and I can not tell you how much my aura-soma bottle healed me and helped me and got rid of my pink eye. When I was done with my pink bottle, I did not have pink eye and I have not had pink eye sense and it’s been several years. It’s been a miracle for me and I hope it can bring healing to you too and to all of your emotions.
So please in the comments down below, I can’t wait to hear about your aura-soma bottles. Please let me know how they are and please subscribe to my channel so you can be alerted to my healing of next week and I hope you have a wonderful day. Take care.
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GRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #5: Buddhist suffering, compassion & Angel Birthdays
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week is my mom’s 6th Angel Birthday. It is really hard to believe that that amount of time has gone by and that my life is where it is today and it’s all because of this major life change. You know, I never would have planned my life to be this way but I think, sometimes, when we just put our lives into God’s hands, he takes us places that we would have never imagined or dreamed of but it is His plan. With that plan though there tends to be grief and suffering and hardship and so I want to share a Buddhist teaching that has been so helpful for me. It’s that suffering teaches us compassion and understanding. It is actually the reward. They refer to it as the reward from all of that suffering and hardship. The reward is understanding and compassion which then ultimately leads to our happiness. And I know it’s a tough road and it’s a hard road. It’s very lonely. We have to do it ourselves. I’m sure that you feel that way right now with your loved one. But I want to share with you something that came from that hardship and that suffering. My book, Angel Birthdays. It is one of those things that I feel brought purpose to the pain and I KNOW that there is no pain without purpose and I know sometimes that’s really hard to grasp when we’re in thick of our grief but there is a beautiful glorious plan and celebrating it as an Angel Birthday can be a unique way to help you heal. It provides tangible activities. In the book, the children host an angel birthday party. They get balloons and they write messages on them and send them up. They bake grandma’s favorite cake and sing Happy Angel Birthday loud enough for her to hear. And the presents for the party are actually memory boxes and they fill the memory boxes up with their keepsakes and their love letters- all to remember their grandma. It brings healing and a softer way to talk about that day. I know it has been life-saving for my family and for my girls and just an easier way for us to talk about it. Enjoy giving gratitude and sending love and cherishing your loved one with your angel birthday. I hope that you go and you celebrate and you give that love and that gratitude and I wish for you healing and compassion and understanding and happiness. I hope you have a wonderful week. Take care.
GRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #4: Heal your emotions just by holding your fingers
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today I want to talk to you about something I find fascinating. We are going to help heal our emotions by holding our fingers. Each of our organs is associated with a different digit on our body and grief resides in our lungs and large intestines. Perhaps right now you may find that you are experiencing more respiratory issues or asthma or having issues with your large intestines. That is all completely normal. It is our emotions that make us sick and if we can start to heal the emotions, it will begin to help our physical bodies feel better. So today I will give you a little tip that will take two minutes and I hope you find it to be really helpful. So, grief and sadness, as we said, reside in our lungs and large intestines which is associated with our ring finger. Sometimes we can be married to that pain and to that sadness and it is really hard. So I’d like for you to wrap your fingers around your ring finger and either hold it for two breaths or hold it until you can feel the pulse return back into that finger or until you find yourself soothed and relaxed and maybe naturally exhale. That’s one of the things that when we are grieving, we tend to feel tight and heavy and we have a really hard time breathing in our lungs because it is so filled with grief. Hopefully this exercise will help you catch a better breath. So that is the quick version of just holding our ring finger. Should you like to do an extended version of this exercise begin with your thumb and then you will do the next four fingers leading up to the ring finger. So hold your thumb and then move onto your index finger, then to your middle finger, and then end on your ring finger.
Each of those fingers all represent a different emotion and as we know when we are grieving we are filled with all sorts of emotions so a quick way to know the five emotions is Get rid or WORRY F-A-S-T, fast! Get rid of your worry fast! Thumb is worry “F” is your pointer finger which is fear. “Hey! Look that guy just went that way!” It’s not a coincidence that we use our pointer finger to point out things when we are afraid and full of fear. Anger is our middle finger. Again, not a coincidence. Our ring finger is grief and sadness and our little finger feels very insecure compared to all of its taller family members. He is trying to prove himself and is crying on the inside and laughing on the outside but feels like he needs to prove himself. So we hold that finger when we are feeling that way too. The palm of our hand just provides an overall sense of peace. So if you are feeling any of those emotions just do the same thing, wrap your fingers around it and hold it until you feel soothed.
I can not wait to hear how this way for you. Please leave your comments down below. Please subscribe to my channel so you are alerted when my video is uploaded next Thursday and I hope you have a great week.
For an extended version of these exercises, check out this great site: www.balanceflow.com/stress5.htm
Grief: Healing Grief Two Minutes at a time #3- Building Trust Again
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today I want to give you a tangible solution to an intangible situation. So often, when we are grieving, we find ourselves really afraid. I know I found myself wondering who God was going to take next after I had lost all of my loved ones. It’s a really hard time to lose that faith and to lose trust in what is supposed to happen. Although one day I realized I would become whatever I thought about and I was completely focused on my fear. So I wanted to find a way to turn that around. So I bought one of these. It is a little rock that says, “Trust.” I put it next to my bedside table and I looked at it, morning and night and I sometimes picked it up and held it and just asked God for more trust and to help me find that because I certainly didn’t have any. It has been quite a journey of growing that trust every day. But I feel like this tiny little rock has made a significant difference in my life and in my heart in helping me trust that there is a plan. And trust that it’s all going to be ok. And so I want you to give it a try. It will only take two minutes and I can’t wait to hear your comments down below. I hope you get yourself a little trust rock. I’ve included a link down below:
You can go ahead and purchase one and make it easy. But I hope for you that it brings some grounding and some trust and some healing to your heart. I wish you a really great week. I will see you next Thursday. Be sure to subscribe so you are alerted when my video comes up and have a great week. Remember it’s not the end of the road, it’s just a bend in the road. Have a great day! Take care.
GRIEF:HEALING GRIEF TWO MINUTES AT A TIME #2- LOUISE HAY’S SENDING LOVE AHEAD OF YOU
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to Healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today, I want to talk to you about socializing. One of the things that is one of the hardest parts of grieving is having to socialize. We might not be ready to move forward, but events in our lives and people in our lives are moving forward and that is really hard to handle. So, sometimes we just need to find a coping mechanism to deal with that event to help us get through it.
Today I want to share a tip with you that has been incredibly helpful for me. I learned it from Louise Hay and it is sending love ahead of you. Now I want you to close your eyes and picture wherever it is that you need to be today, and I want you to fill it with hearts and love and great energy. And if there is someone there that is going to be particularly challenging for you, I want you to send them extra love and extra blessings. I have even gone so far as to when I drive up to that place, I envision my own personal red carpet unrolling in front of me with red and hearts and love carrying me all the way to the destination. And it’s not so much that you have changed the people that are there, although sending love and good energy is always helpful, it’s more that you have changed yourself. And that when you arrive, perhaps you arrive a little bit softer and a little more gentle, a little more authentic, maybe even a little more vulnerable. But it then allows the people you are there to receive you in whatever place you are in today.
So, give it a try and let me know down below in the comments how it was for you. I hope it was helpful and it helps you through maybe some of your upcoming social events. Be sure to hit the subscribe button while you are there so that you’re alerted to my videos that are up every Thursday and I wish for you a great week. Hang in there. It’s not the end of the road, it’s just a bend in the road. I hope you have a great day. Take care.
GRIEF: HEALING GRIEF TWO MINIUTES AT A TIME #1: Introduction & Letter Writing
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome to healing your grief two minutes at a time. I have lost a tremendous amount of people in my life. I’ve lost both of my parents, all of my grandparents, my brother and my cousin and I found myself in all of those experiences in a lot of grief groups. I found myself reading a countless number of books. I listening to hours and hours of speakers all trying to heal, and to find a way, anything, that would bring healing to that time and to that space.
But I found my healing in a multitude of places. I found it in Christianity. I found it in Buddhism, in Spirituality, in New Age and, I found, as I was going through all of these different experiences, that I had a crazy collection of ideas and suggestions that might bring you some peace too during this time. Because I know this time feels very hard and lonely and challenging. And trust me. I have been there and I still get there. I still have days. But all of these tips have certainly helped me along the way so I am here to share them with you.
So my first healing tip is to write a letter to your loved one. Write whatever comes to mind: how much you miss them, how much you love them. Give them an update on your day, what you would normally talk about. There’s a part of your heart that really needs to share that experience with them still. So have at it. Get that paper and just let it flow.
Once you finish that letter, I want you to pull out another piece of paper and write a letter from them to you. My favorite show in the world is Super Soul Sunday and Deepak Chopra was on there and he talked about how our loved ones live here when they are alive but they continue to live here when they have passed. So let’s give them a blank slate to talk back to us. So pull out that piece of paper and let it flow. Let your loved one speak back to you and I can not wait to hear what they have to say.
Please in the comments down below, share your experience. Share how this was for you and what your loved one said back to you and how it helped.
I wish you a great week and be sure to tune in next Thursday. I will be placing these videos up every Thursday to kind of help us through the weekend. So, hang in there. This is not the end of the road, it’s just a bend in the road. And be good to your heart and to yourself. Have a great day. Take care.
Write your own Valentine first this year!
It’s the season of love. What we do for love…we give Valentines, we give flowers, we give gifts. Give. Give. Give. But where does that leave you if you don’t have anything to give in the first place? This Valentine’s Day, I want you to give to yourself first. As busy parents, we are on Pinterest trying to create the perfect gift or Valentine for our children or are otherwise riddled with guilt that we “bought” them from a store. If someone followed you all day long and wrote down everything you did today for your family and friends, what would be on your list? I bet it would be pretty amazing and pretty long. I want you to start with writing your own Valentine first this year. Take ten minutes and write yourself a thank you note. Thank yourself for the lunches packed, for the clean clothes on your children, for making sure their bodies are cared for both inside and out. You may find it challenging in the beginning. You may find that the first few minutes are uncomfortable and awkward. That’s ok. Keep going. Start off with the most basic compliment. Once you get going, let it flow. You deserve to be thanked because you are awesome. Put that incessant broken record in your mind of the Lego movie’s song, “Everything is awesome” to work. It’s not just that everything is awesome but YOU are awesome. You are raising other human beings and teaching them how to give of themselves authentically to this world. That makes you, as a parent, a pretty amazing being.
But what would happen if you did this every day? How would that feel? How do you think you might change? Give it a try. Before you go to bed at night, thank yourself first. Thank you and your body for getting everything done today, for being everywhere you were supposed to be. It’s even better if you didn’t make it to everything. Thank your body for giving you a different experience or teaching you a lesson that will better prepare you for your future. Say thank you for the chance to have had one more day to make a difference. You’re just laying there anyway, so let’s turn this time into your grand finale of the day. Give yourself the credit and gratitude you deserve and begin filling your own heart with love. If you can’t be your own favorite Valentine first, how much love will you really be giving away anyway?
Heal Your Hurt with Compassion
Has someone in your life hurt you? Does your heart break every time you think of a certain situation? Want to make it better? Send love to it! Find out more in my article, “Healing Your Hurt with Compassion.”
Top 10 Warning Signs of Grieving Children
Have you recently lost a loved one? Are you worried about how your child is handling his or her grief? Take a look at my Familius Publishing guest blog “Top 10 Warning signs we need to watch for in our grieving children.”
The most important thing is to hug them and love them and hang in there. There will be brighter days and it’s ok if today is not one of them.
Top 10 Warning Signs for Grieving Children