Live, Live, Live
I spoke earlier about my path. ALWAYS BE LIVING IN THE MOMENT FOR THE MOMENT IS YOUR LIFE. This is my favorite. It was the first step into my realization. It means to be mindful while navigating the ebb and flow of life.
My favorite movie, Auntie Mame (the one with Roselyn Russel), was created from the book; Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. It so inspired me that it has become a yearly tradition to watch it as part of my birthday tradition.
It is about a woman who is a seeker of knowledge and enlightenment, and a seeker of fun, pleasure. She takes in her orphaned nephew. One of the first things that she says to him “I am going to open doors for you, doors that you never dreamed existed.” And the philosophy that goes through the whole movie is “LIVE LIVE LIVE! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!” She is who I want to be when I grow up, so I took this message to heart because she is right.
She created her family with artists, entertainers, and philosophers, people who are supportive of being and living their own truth. They may not always agree, but they do support each other.
I watch this movie at least once a year to remind me of several things:
- Friends (My definition- are chosen family.)
- Experiencing, exploring, and experimenting are all extremely important.
- Attitude.
- Feeling Good. Self-care and Self-love.
- Financial wealth gives you choices and tools.
Mame Dennis loved life and lived it to the fullest. She loved the people who she chose as family, her friends.
She went about it with energy and thoughtful living with what shapes she wanted. It was a balance of being selfish enough to actually live life and balanced it with helping not just her family but also great causes. How does this relate to how I want to live?
- Be thoughtful about being in the moment and find beauty, truth, and love.
- Find people with whom you can be yourself and share ups and downs.
- Always be you, but don’t stop there! Seek more by exploring different interests, never stop building who you are.
- Find the connection to either people, animals, ideas, art, nature there are so many things and you don’t have to choose just one.
- Learn from the past, live in the present, and hope for the future.
So, I want to feel good by spoiling myself and helping other people, connect to something or someone with whom I can share.
This is a common formula to manipulate your own mindset.
Yes, the best person to manipulate, even knowingly, is yourself. Make yourself feel good by doing something every day for just you. Do something for someone else. Share this connection with someone or something that you like or love. Try something new at least once a week.
It’s like I am continuing in my growth and expanding my experiences offering more choices and options.
There are other ways to make one feel good or set the stage to achieve what one wants, but it really starts with the mindset, attitude, and gratitude...
A Little Magikal assistance
Setting the mind is truly the key to achieving eudaimonia.
One example: Over Christmas, my daughter bought me some crystals that are to improve my aura towards abundance. This, I have a constant tug of war about because of poverty and the pandemic. I felt guilty that we were doing okay, that we were able to work on growing. But honestly, we weren’t doing so well that we could really make a difference in others’ suffering. In my opinion, guilt over something you as an individual are powerless against is a waste. So, using these stones to help reset my mind toward abundance. Abundance will help me and others as well. This is how I have come to use them. I have cleansed and charged the stones and I carry them with me and sleep with them under my pillow. Within a month I received a raise from work, which really boosted my mental attitude.
Some would say that it was just timing and nothing else, but I would say that it is mental focus, being grateful, happy, and realizing where I am blessed. It is not a zero-sum game. If I am blessed it does not mean that someone else has lost so that I could gain, but it does mean that I must share with others both materialistically, emotionally, and spiritually. In other words, I have love aplenty, happiness in myself to spare, and a realization by sharing that it only grows. By first counting my blessings and then sharing in them and, I am just multiplying in them sending great vibrational positive energy which will come back to me even more powerful, creating a circle. Just like we found a full moon spell for abundance and after we performed it, my daughter got a raise at her job as well.
The products that we provide some may call it Wiccan, some may call it witchcraft, some may call it new age, some may call it magic. What it is about are vibrations and mental attitude. Everything vibrates; every molecule and atom. From the air that we breathe to the furniture that we sit on, and to food and water that we utilize. Even colors have their own form of vibration! So by doing certain things with certain materials at certain times you are sending out vibrations to the universe. This does not mean that what you want will magically appear, but it does mean that you are committed to it. You are dreaming, hoping, but this is just a tool to help, not the full Monty. You will still have to work towards your goal in other ways.
I am focusing on abundance right now because there are certain things that I want to achieve, but signs are starting to show that it is bearing fruit, things are starting to line up. I will continue with both vibrations and with my own hard work in other ways. I will know in about a month if it is totally working or if I have to be flexible and try a new tact. Are you seeing the trend here? I am learning, listening, looking, experiencing, experimenting, loving, exploring, and evolving. These aren’t major achievements in my life, although for many I am sure it is a struggle. If you have at least one of these available to you, it is still incredible progress, and you can still gain a lot from it.
I am also laughing too but I will talk more about that at a later date.
The above anecdotes seem oversimplified, but it is exactly what happened. Knowing how to use these tools and doing the other work with them is like magic. Creating something is not just wishing for it and it will appear. These are tools to assist it coming into being.