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September 25th, 2024

9/25/2024

ThE SUpERpOwER OF GRATITUDE

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

Today, I acknowledge the golden light of autumn.
I am in gratitude for this slowing-down season, a bridge to winter time.
As we step into a time of harvest, I reflect on all the bounty of this past year.
I am so grateful for the times I have spent with my dear family, those far away, and those right here with me including pets!
I am so thankful for the joy and forgetting-of-time I relish at the river in the summer, and whenever I am immersed in nature.
I am thankful for every way I have grown in inner strength, love, peace and trust – through challenges, and through my daily contemplation.

I relish the abundant cornucopia of good that is my sacred life. So thankful.
By Deborah Perdue, from Daily Gratitude Reflections, Vol. 2

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Wishing you a wondrous upcoming October filled with blessings!

Love and Light!
Deborah, Your Gratitude Gal

Living in the Oneness is a goal of mine. I get there, immersed in peace and bliss often with my morning spiritual practices, which I will share here along with other ideas for you. Maybe some of what I offer will resonate with your own heart and soul. You can give any of the ideas here a chance. It is my goal to share love and light in this world, and to help transform the world by shining light where there is darkness whenever I can.

7 UPLIFTING PRACTICES

1.Start each day with spirituality. Whatever your religion or path to your Higher Power is, devote time each morning to focus on that. Make your coffee or tea, and settle in for some quality God time. You can start with just a few minutes, and maybe expand it as you feel called. Here are some things I do each morning, you can pick and choose. I read and contemplate pages from inspirational books, some of them Daily Guides. I sometimes listen to quiet instrumental background music that sets the mood to be silent and listen. I meditate some mornings longer than others. There are many amazing meditations you can find on YouTube or Insight Timer (an app I recommend).You can change it up, or keep listening to the same ones that lift your heart. Each morning I pray as well, for people who have asked me, and for my own life. When I do these practices, long or short, I feel connected to the Oneness. I feel connected to God.

2.Take Stillness Moments throughout the day. You can use a timer, on the hour for example, and that will remind you to take time to center yourself. This can really helpif you’re always busy and running around, and even if you’re not. Breathe and be thankful.

3.Take meditative walks. Being in nature rejuvenates me, and I savor the beauty of the seasons. Right now, fall leaves are starting to change here in the U.S. I know in the Southern hemisphere, Spring is beginning. Watch what’s around you, be present. Feel the Oneness in the living world, we are all part of it and when we take time to notice, we get anchored in unity and harmony.

4.Enjoy a gratitude practice. You can journal, and/ or you can stop and give thanks at any time. You canwrite things down, or speak them silently or aloud. It’s a powerful practice to be thankful right when you awake, and before you go to sleep. I have been a gratitude aficionado for 15 years or longer, and I can attest to the superpower of appreciating everything. You can never run out! Gratitude can be infinite like the universe upon universe that we live in. It’s definitely an antidote to depression and upset.

5.Learn a Mantra. It can be very helpful to find a mantra, or make one up, that means a lot to you, that you can remember and say to yourself if ever you are feeling bothered or upset by the outside world. Here is one I use: God is the Love that I AM. I repeat it as needed,sometimes during the middle of the night when I wake up and my mind is too active to fall back to sleep.

6.Use Movement Spiritually. Practice yoga, Tai Chi or Chigong. There are YouTube videos you can use to guide you. Dancing is also very freeing. Listen to music you love while moving that body.

7.Try a Burning Bowl Ceremony. Forgiveness and letting go of grievances is so essential to freeing yourself. This practice can be for someone else, or you. Write down things you would like to release or let go of, then have a sacred ceremony and put each piece of paper in a bowl, lighting the paper up to release what no longer serves you until they are all consumed by fire (Obviously be safe doing this!) Alternatively, you could put the pieces of paper in a bowl, and then send them down a river. I have done both, and this is a very powerful way to heal.

September 07th, 2024

9/7/2024

S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R

Fall is a time of bounty and harvest. Our gardens gift us profusely with apples, pears, pumpkins,
tomatoes and zucchini. Summer is waning in September. How grateful I am for cooler temperatures, the golden autumn light, as leaves start changing to yellow, gold and orange. It’s a time to really savor and appreciate all of the bountiful blessings.

Every day of the year is really a time of bounty. Just look around and you can’t miss the absolute abundance that exists in nature. Watching a PBS special on mammals recently, I became once again filled with awe at the Universe’s ability to create such magnificent diversity in the animal world. I keep learning about mammals I didn’t even know existed, adapting to their environments. For instance, there is an underground mammal named the Star Nosed Mole, whose nose looks like a colorful orange flower. Nearly blind, they
use their noses to feel and touch. So much splendor and diversity in Mother Nature, and in our lives. Wow.

I don’t know about you, but I am not always able to receive all the gifts of abundance that come to me. And I’m not always ready to accept all that the Universe (or Spirit) wants to present to me. A long time ago, I read something that impacted me a lot. Ernest Holnes talked about whether we are ready to accept a thimble full of our good from the ocean of plenty, or if can we accept a bucket, or a waterfall of Good instead? This made a big impression on me. I’ll take the larger vessel to receive my abundance, please.

Still, sometimes I get stuck in lack thinking. At times, I believe there is not enough, this happens most often when looking at a low amount in my checkbook. How can we let the abundance of the universe permeate our being and let go of lack thoughts? I suggest simple positive affirmations “My life is bursting with joy, love and prosperity.” Meditation helps too. Here is one by Jess Heslop on Clearing Negative Blockages & Limiting Beliefs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9j1nVRPe4Q Listening to beautiful music with powerful abundance lyrics helps me too: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cpbUHlpkg

Let’s all open more and more to the amazing unlimited bounty of life and harvest all the good!

Southern Oregon in the Fall. Thank you, subscriber Cindy!

How grand it is to live in a universe with such infinite bounty
I am grateful to live my life opening my arms wider and wider, to receive all the good that is constantly offered to me.

I am thankful for the teeming life on this planet and beyond.

I feel humble when I ponder the diversity and grandeur that has been created.And I gratefully give of the plentiful gifts and love I offer.

By Deborah Perdue, Daily Gratitude Reflections, Vol. 2

My friend Karen Tate is offering a webinar you may be interested in. Here is the link for more info:
https://mailchi.mp/3ad35bcf75e7/tools-for-trans- formation-newsletter-from-karen-tate-12792940

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September 25th, 2024

ThE SUpERpOwER OF GRATITUDE

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

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