Love can hurt the heart so profoundly that it becomes so palpable that you can touch the blood that the valves carry it.  You can feel the heart beating and thumping inside your thoracic cavity as though the heart is twenty sizes bigger and heavier than it actually is...

When love is reciprocated, the heart is light and jovial.  The heart actually makes you feel like you are flying and soaring high above the highest mountaintop.  You feel invincible and free and you feel that the possibilities are endless.  When love is reciprocated, there are no impossibilities and there are no limits.  

Why does an organ in our thoracic cavity that oxygenates our blood and pumps back into our bodies so that it carries through with our other vital life functions - also responsible for feeling invincible and also heartache.  

Heartache is not even a close description - it's more like heart anguish.  

How do we get over an emotional heart attack such as a heart break, only to recover and be soaring to the moon again with another love?

The heart is resilient and has a tremendous capacity for love.  It's stores for love are abundant.  Even when we feel an emotional heart attack, we dip into our love reserves and make withdrawals.  It doesn't matter how much we take out from our reserves, because as we love more and more it continues to make deposits back into the reserves again, ten-fold.  

How many times in a lifetime are we allowed to take withdrawals from our love deposits?  Is it an infinite amount of times?

Why does our heart hurt more when someone interferes with our ability to love?  Is it like putting a kink in an oxygen tube when we need it to breathe?  

Faith and the belief in God is the everlasting life force that allows our heart to continue its resiliency.    As long as we love our loved ones, they will continue to love us, but only when we have an undying faith in God.  

If you don't have the capacity to love and believe in God, then how can you expect anyone to love and believe in you fully?

Never stop.
Never stop.  
 Always Love.  
Always Love. 
 

Staying in the mOMent...

Staying in the moment and being grateful isn't always an easy thing to do.  We get caught up in work, family dynamics, school, driving, and traveling.  We are constantly on the move and being lead into all sorts of directions, so how can we manage staying in the moment?  When we are being lead into different directions, we also have to plan for the future also.  Planning for a future event or time can create anxiety because the future is the unknown.  What do we know about the future?

The art of staying in the mOMent is to pause periodically through the day and catch up with yourself.   

Ask yourself: 

•  "How are you doing RIGHT now?"

• "Where are you right now?
• What are you doing right now?
• How are you feeling right now?

Breathing in a deep breath may seem like nothing at all because it is an involuntary process, but because it is an involuntary process it actually helps to take in a VOLUNTARY deep breath.  

On our lunch hour (or half hour as we now have them), or after work, or on our day off go for a quick walk to change the brain chemistry and the air in our lungs.  

Even when we go to the supermarket or to a mall, take a stroll around the parking lot or stop along the way at a lake or park and just take a breather from your routine.  

Adding this to your routine will help you live a more productive life and you will find that you can actually BREATHE a little easier.  Your stress level won't even feel as heavy.  

Try it, what do you have to lose -  Except stress and anxiety? 

Take a mOMMMMent and take back yourself! 
 

Harvesting While There Is Snow

By Carol Harblin

To get what we want we have to break from a rut.  Deep within the freeze of winter we really don't want to change much of anything nor do we want to even emerge from our warm homes, but sometimes we need to unearth ourselves during the deep freeze in order to attain more buds and blooms at Spring.  

Shouldn't we receive more prospects and advancements from an employer we have worked for at least five years?  When we have been hard workers and keep our nose clean, never call in for a sick day or personal day and just report to our job and do everything that is expected of us, and even beyond...shouldn't we reap more than the status quo?  Aren't we worth more in life than a low paid job for five years?  

Even if we leave behind good people or good clients, isn't it worth our own life and heart and soul to move toward greater prospects?  Who conditioned us to stay in a thankless job that pays less than peanuts?  I know that society has conditioned us a little with the notion that we should be grateful for the job we have if we are working...but aren't there a lot of jobs out there?  

I am one of those people who got handed a job because I HAD due to certain personal situation, though I was already holding a job.  
Alas, five years later I still hold that same thankless job that I was forced into because of someone else and I have not advanced vocationally one iota.  My brain and my skills are sharp and I require stimulation, challenge, inspiration, and financial motivation.  If an employer pays a lower amount but still requires more of you then the motivation begins to dwindle.  It also begins to feel like indentured servitude.  

Part of my harvesting of my Spring is to create the time and future that holds positive prospects for me.  I have many buds on my trees and I want to assure that every bud blossoms into a beautiful flower and leaf so that I can live in the ways that benefit me instead of deteriorate me.  

Harvesting my Spring while there is snow during winter ensures that my present and future are secure and resonating with me.  I planted seeds this winter and after a couple months, I have been seeing the green buds and the tips of the blooms peaking up through the soil.  

I have to keep nurturing my soil and loving the process of what is blooming.  Just because buds are emerging and tips of green are peaking through the soil doesn't mean that I can stop working.  My work is just beginning.  It  is a different kind of work because it is work that is working for me and it is work that is helping me to bloom into the person I am discovering through my metamorphosis.

LOOK OUT WORLD, HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!