Ahh, spring is in full bloom! This is such a beautiful time of year. Flowers are so delicately and divinely showing their colors, the sun is shinning and there are smiles everywhere to be found.

Winter keeps us homebound and indoors. When we become so usded to the indoor life, we tend to forget to reemerge come Spring time. Can you relate? If so it is time for you to get out and smell the roses!

Reasons to get outside and enjoy life:

Waterfalls- check the web and see where the closest one to you is!

Hiking- even a mile day hike will make you healthier and happier!

The Ocean- walk down the beach for an hour. If you don’t feel better about your day and yourself, then maybe you should stay for the sunset.

The Forest- when is the last time you hugged a tree? Exactly!

Get out of bed, get out of the house, turn the computer off and leave the office! Shake those limbs and move your feet! Spring is here!

Unfortunately these two words tend to describe the generally selfish and materialistic culture in which most of us live. They result not in self-help but in dependency. Our education and our role models do not encourage us to help ourselves to grow, change and expand our capacities as human beings. Real self-help means recognising that no one else is responsible for our thoughts and feelings, and that we are only ever victims because we choose to be. Our destiny is always and only in our own hands - despite all apparent evidence which may indicate otherwise. Learning to help ourselves is also a prerequisite to extending a hand of assistance to others. We all need a leg up from time to time, but once there, we are always on our own.

Power On

Each day we all need to recharge our spiritual battery, otherwise the light of our consciousness becomes dim, thoughts become fuzzy, and decisions are impregnated with doubt. Power is available inside and outside. Inside us we have a spiritual centre, at the core of our consciousness, pure radiant spiritual light. This is what we are. However it is now blocked by our attachments, the record of all our life experiences and many learned beliefs and perceptions. Outside us we have the sun of spirit, the source, invisible to our physical eyes but only one second away when we are able to quieten and focus our mind. Meditation connects us to both sources of power - that’s why meditation is the way to access the real vitamins and the minerals that spirit craves. The vitamin of pure love and the minerals of truth and wisdom.

Take time to empower yourself today.

 Sit quietly and connect your mind to each source and allow yourself to recharge and renew.

To create the future we desire and need a spiritual language; we must speak from the heart and in the language of the soul - a language of trust, faith and higher values, of inner growth, love and listening.

Attitudes

When you extend pure love to everyone with selfless motivation that is an attitude of kindness. When you send good wishes and pure feelings to those who are in deep sorrow, that is an attitude of mercy. When you see the virtues rather than the weaknesses in people that is an attitude of compassion. When you bless and uplift someone even as they defame you, that is an attitude of forgiveness. When you tolerate a situation and take responsibility as well as give cooperation even when not appreciated, that is an attitude of humility and self-respect.

Every second, every moment and every breath of your life is nurtured by attitude.