Lightarted Living: BE ALIVE! Bathe in the Bold Beautiful Colors of Life

Lightarted Living: BE ALIVE! Bathe in the Bold Beautiful Colors of Life: Be Alive! Be Fully Alive! Fall Down? Get Back Up Life is filled with ups and downs. While we all love the up times we all dread the down times

Bathe in the Bold, Beautiful Colors of Life

Love Yourself

Love Your Life

Trust Yourself

Trust Your Life

GLOW

BE ALIVE! Bathe in the Bold Beautiful Colors of Life

Be Alive!

Be Fully Alive!

Fall Down? Get Back Up

Life is filled with ups and downs.

While we all love the up times we all dread the down times.

All of us will experience our fair share of down times

causing our spirits to flag and our colors to fade.

But to live life to the fullest we must persist in 

getting back up everytime we fall down.

Facing trouble head on with grit and gumption

is what makes us feel fully alive. It is the overcoming of

obstacles and getting on with pursuing the life we desire

that paints our lives with bold, strong colors.

While we never welcome the dreaded down times,

each time we successfully navigate out of 

the doldrums of life we feel vibrant and fully alive.

You are Never Alone 

in Your Struggles

Believe in Yourself

You are Strong and Resilient

You have what it takes to get through 

whatever life throws at you.

Whenever you experience one of lifes challenges

--an illness, layoff, loss of loved one, or divorce--

take all the time you need to sit in your grief and sadness. 

Slowly allow the strength and energy you 

possess to rise up and wash over you, 

lifting and brightening your spirits. 

Reengage in life in ways that brighten your soul.

Allow yourself to bathe in the bold beautiful colors of life.

Stand Tall

Be the Brightest You!

Bring Your Best to the World

The World Needs You

Bathe in the Bold, Beautiful Colors of Life

Love Yourself

Love Your Life

Trust Yourself

Trust Your Life

GLOW

Lightarted Living: BEHOLD the Promise of Spring

Lightarted Living: BEHOLD the Promise of Spring: BEHOLD THE PROMISE OF SPRING The gentle frost of winter lingers; The fallen leaves a cozy bed for fairies. BEHOLD the coming of Spring! 

BE DELIGHTFULLY CONTENTED 

Be delightfully contented in life;

Be delightfully surprised by life.

Let morning find you reaching for blessings,

And evening reaching for the stars.

Every day is a blessing filled with challenge

Every night an opportunity to recharge.

Take what is yours for the taking;

Choose to be fully ALIVE.

BEHOLD the Promise of Spring

BEHOLD THE PROMISE OF SPRING

The gentle frost of winter lingers;

The fallen leaves a cozy bed for fairies.

BEHOLD the coming of Spring!

The Winter fairies effortlessly breathe fairy dust into the air,

Sprinkling their BLESSINGS 

And dusting the future with PROMISE and HOPE.

The warmth of Spring always follows the chill of Winter.

Soon the SUN will come out to brighten your days once more.

Whatever now is chilling your soul

Will soon disappear to make way for new opportunities.

BE STILL

and TRUST life will refresh with the promise of Spring.

UNDER COVER OF NIGHT

Under cover of night,

A LOVE story unfolds,

As the spirits caress the earth.

The spirits gently create 

an atmosphere of LOVE and TENDERNESS.

OH JOY!

Be at peace,

Knowing all is well with your world.

Tonight the faires weave their soft web of blessings

To bring renewed hope for good things coming your way.

Tomorrow is a new day

Filled with promise and delights!

BE DELIGHTFULLY CONTENTED 

Be delightfully contented in life;

Be delightfully surprised by life.

Let morning find you reaching for blessings,

And evening reaching for the stars.

Every day is a blessing filled with challenge

Every night an opportunity to recharge.

Take what is yours for the taking;

Choose to be fully ALIVE.

Lightarted Living: Wake Up! Blessings are Waiting Outside Your Door

Lightarted Living: Wake Up! Blessings are Waiting Outside Your Door:  

 

Wake Up!

Blessings are waiting outside your door.

Open the door with open arms and an expectant heart.

Wake Up! Blessings are Waiting Outside Your Door

 

Wake Up!

Morning has galloped all night to get here

For another day of loving.

Ola!

Ciao!

Bonjour!

Cheers!

G'Day!

Wake Up!

Blessings are waiting outside your door.

Open the door with open arms and an expectant heart.

Wake Up!

Receive this glorious day filled with wonderous delights.

Wake Up Sleepyhead!

Bring your most vibrant self with the biggest heart to engage with the day.

Be Bold!

Be Loving!

Be Kind!

Be the Sun for others!

Lightarted Living: Calm and the Grace of Time are the Secrets to Healing

Lightarted Living: Calm and the Grace of Time are the Secrets to Healing:  

When the stresses of life put you off kilter, remember 'gentleness can accomplish what force can not'. Calm and the grace of time heals. You can't hurry the process. 

Relax and let time work for you.

Calm and the Grace of Time are the Secrets to Healing

 

"In times of joy we all wish

we possessed a tail to wag."

W.H. Auden

I love seeing the joyful wag of a dog's tail. It conveys so many things--

'I love you', 'I'm happy', 'good to see you', 'welcome', 'thank you'.

I especially love seeing the sleepy and contented wag of a dog's tail with 

an energy that's soft, calm and slow. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and it calms and refreshes my tired mind.

Let's Rest Now

One night last month, as I allowed my tired mind to wander, I spied my dog, Hannah, resting on the rug. As her soft eyes met mine, a smile opened on my face that was answered by one of those soft, calm tail wags from Hannah. 

"Let's rest now," she seemed to say. "Tomorrow's another day. Tonight is for healing rest and tomorrow we wake refreshed."

I needed that soft nudge from my soft-hearted girl. Life had been crazy after my gentle husband, who had been admitted into the hospital for extremely low sodium levels, was administered a drug 'Haldol'  to "calm his agitation" that did the opposite and set him on a continuous loop of negative thoughts of suicide and mayhem for two more weeks in the hospital. 

Waking after Winter

Unhurried

Pensive Blooming

Quiet and Calm

Vivid

Bold

Self Assured and Present

Announcing Spring

Basking in the Sun

Susan J Meyerott

Calm and the Grace of Time

After getting out of the anything-but-calming hospital environment, it took a month in the controlled and calm environment of home to gently heal his brain from the injury caused by this drug and allow him to return to his previously balanced and vibrant self. And it's taken another month for him to re-establish his normal patterns of daily living with exercise and good nutrition to strenthen his body and spirit.

Many things can throw us out of balance, from everyday little stresses to the stress of being given a drug that's incompatible with our body. 

No matter the source of the stress and injury to our brains, time and calm are the key ingredients to healing the wounds--large and small.

For instance, you can't look for lost eye glasses with intensity; you must gently relax your mind and let the glasses reappear as you go through your normal rythmns of life.

When the stresses of life put you off kilter, remember 'gentleness can accomplish what force can not'. Calm and the grace of time heals. You can't hurry the process. 

Relax and let time work for you.