[Barbara's Daily Message] Joy of Passion

Do you know what you are passionate about?

What gets you excited and gets you up in the morning?

One of our unique perspectives we bring to this world is our passion

We may share a common passion with others but how we carry it out will be unique

If you don't know your passion, go searching!

Look for what "normal" things get you excited as you go about daily life

And dream with it a bit, see if you are able to grow it into a passion

When you know your passion, spend time with it

And bring some joy into life.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Be Joyful

Being joyful comes from appreciating and loving what you have in life

Rather than focusing on what you don't have

There will always be something you don't have, always.

But what you have already won't always be there to appreciate

So enjoy and appreciate it now, today

And be joyful!!!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Turning Reactivity into Proactivity

Ever have that headless chicken feeling?

Running round in lots of different directions but not really getting anything done?
Being reactive to the world around us results in this busy but undirected experience
Living with the light means knowing our own mind, listening to what is going on
And choosing our response
This is being proactive in our world so we retain a degree of control over our own situations and experiences (meaning we don't usually have full control!)
Listen to yourself and your own choices, know what you want as well as listening to the light and other people's opinions.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Being selfish!

We all want to help

We all want to make a difference

And when everyone knows that they will come asking for help

And we help!

But when it's too much for us

When our energy is low or we have other commitments

By all means do the best to balance things out

But don't sacrifice oneself in the conflict, have a hint of selfishness

To make sure you are meeting your own needs and then share the rest...

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Sleep

Are you getting enough sleep?

When we are tired we become slower and more lethargic
Our judgement and decision making can be impaired
Making it more difficult to go to bed and get to sleep
Meditation is a great way to switch off before you go to sleep
And really allows us to sleep well
Ten minutes of meditation before going to bed will bring more restful and better quality of sleep afterwards
Try it for yourself and see!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Looking After Yourself

Following the light journey

Brings an awareness of the quality of our interactions with others

And this means we need to pay attention to what we're doing

And how we are being to be the best of ourselves with ourselves and others

To be your best remember to look after yourself

Get enough rest and sleep, keep active and eat healthily!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Dreams

We can spend our lives living reality

But this doesn't change the status quo
Spending some time dreaming about how we want our life and the world to be
Brings a new perspective to life
And helps change and improve our reality!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Being overwhelmed?

Ever feel overwhelmed?

Like you're walking through treacle?

Or rabbit eyes in the headlights?
Want to switch off and hide under the duvet?
Remember two things:
Will it matter in a month or two? Usually No!
And you can only do one thing or take one step at a time - just make sure you are in your mental helicopter when you decide what your one thing or step is!!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Balancing Act

We live a balancing act

Balancing work and home
Up and down
Family and Self
Freedom and focus
Always balancing
Always busy
Remember to balance yourself first
Take time out to create your own space and create inner balance
Then everything will be pulled into balance with you
Rather everything pulling you out of balance!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Feedback is a Gift

Ever received feedback from others?

How did you handle it?

Didn't know how to? Just mumbled thanks, felt embarrassed or ignored it completely?

Did you welcome positive feedback as reassuring or self validating but negative feedback as reinforcing your weak areas?

Or do you welcome all feedback as an opportunity to grow and develop?

We need to recognise and accept that while we aren't perfect almost everyone is trying to do their best as much as they can

Based on this, feedback is either supporting doing your best or it can help you to work out where you can get better so you can do your best, even better.

And if you can look at feedback through this lens then feedback becomes a gift to help your best become better

And if your best becomes better, isn't that a blessing in our world!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Clouds

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher a storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky" Rabindranath Tagore

How do you see your troubles, something put in your way to stop life?

Or to make life interesting and to bring experience and learning into your world?

The person we each become in future does not come from everything being the same today

But from the clouds that come and go as we live our life

Welcome the clouds and the gifts they bring.

(And know they are the gifts we need.)

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Living

Being, doing, seeing, living

It's all here in our lives

But what are you spending your time on?

Being is being you, accepting and loving yourself

Doing is taking action when needed

Seeing is seeing yourself and others and what they really need

Living is all of the above, together!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Love

Love, Love, Love
Easy to say but easy to share?
Sharing love with others is harder if you are not loving yourself
Those who want to help tend to sacrifice themselves to do so
But this isn't a sustainable strategy or good role modelling
Not only do we want to share love with others
But we also encourage others to share
To do this we all need to love ourselves first!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Our Path

Life, our reason for living

Is carved out from our experiences
We don't know when we start how our path will grow
So we discover as we grow where we're headed
The life we have brings us the tools we need to follow our purpose
With the light we can follow our path and purpose with more guidance.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Light Your Way

We are all living life
Day by day living how we think we should
Living with the light means our path is lit up

With the help and guidance of the light our path is easier to take

Let the light light your way.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Focus

[Barbara's Daily Message] Focus

What is focus?

Almost everybody sees it as a narrowing down of our attention onto one spot or thing

Our attention drawn to something

This feels physically and mentally tiring

What if focus was the opposite

An opening up of our attention

And allowing what we want to lend our attention too to come to us

To enter our attention rather than send part of us away from ourself

This way our focus is freer, more relaxed and we can be more open to what is going on around us.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Believe in Yourself

[Barbara's Daily Message] Believe in Yourself

Where do you get your sense of self worth from?

Some of you may answer:

I don't have one

Or from others opinions of me

Or maybe from your parents

Or even yourself!

It may be easy to listen to others but you end up riding the roller coaster of positive and negative feedback

It's also easy to be self critical but where is the help in that

Mentally telling yourself off all the time is just a hindrance that makes us miserable

What if you genuinely recognised and accepted what you had done well

And felt satisfied that you had done your best

If we do this we can genuinely appreciate and value what we have done and our contribution

This creates self belief and self worth

Start recognising your own actions and efforts for the wonderful value that they bring to this world.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Emotional Fatigue

When life is tiring and you are tired with life what do you do?

Get more sleep?

Take a holiday?

Do more exercise?

Or do you look at what is causing the fatigue?

Assess whether the cause is short term or long term?

And work out what you can do to reduce the impact of the cause(s)?

It's important to balance short term needs (sleep, food, exercise, work)

With long term needs: having reasonable goals, prioritising what you do and don't do, having regular time to yourself and switching off from the numerous commitments

Remember, looking after yourself and having downtime are the foundation to everything else.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Listening?

Are you listening?

On a daily basis are you hearing what is going on around you?

Or are you tuned out and only focused on what you are doing?

Listening is about actually hearing the people, the animals and nature that are talking to you

We can be so focused on our internal dialogue that we miss everything else

Hear half a sentence and ask someone to repeat themselves, respond badly to a comment you misheard or hurry home and miss the nature's signs of the next season.

Being in a calm, relaxed place is important but so too is placing your attention on both within and without

Take some time to listen and genuinely hear what is going on, and see what you prefer.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Your human side

Dear Light Angels,

Remember to develop your human side
Your spiritual side is important and drives your path
But your human side is your way of sharing the messages with others
Even if you are on the right path
Having positive interactions with others shares the path
Difficult, awkward or negative interactions drives people away
Be prepared to spend time on your human side to get better at interacting with others.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Fast or Slow Lane?

Life in the fast lane or life in the slow lane?
That seems to be the choice, be in or be out
What if there isn't a lane, just a path for the journey we are on
We get to choose and decide our path and the speed we travel along it
And it can change, one decision today doesn't need to last forever
As we grow and learn so our path changes and the speed we travel slows down or speeds up
Be true to yourself and live life at your own speed.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Decisions, Decisions...

Why do some people seem to be very comfortable making decisions while others aren't?

The verb to decide comes from the Latin decidere which means to cut off

So making a decision means to cut off all other options and choose one

Rather than just stating or wishing for a preference

Choosing to go with the flow is fine but sometimes we will need to make a choice and decide what we are going to do or not do

We unfortunately aren't here to predict our own future so we have to make a judgement without knowing if we are right

Those that are comfortable making decisions are comfortable with not knowing the outcome beforehand, making the best decision they can at the time and then learning from it

A analogy for living perhaps?

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Benefits of Learning

Dealing with difficult experiences can be tough

Experiences have certain energies about them

Good experiences add energy to our own energies

Tough or negative experiences are there to learn from

And can feel like they drain energy if we don't recognise them as a learning opportunity

Remember to step back from the experience to see the bigger picture

So you can learn from it and improve yourself and your life

When this happens the energy changes and adds more back to our energies than we originally "lost"

So learning builds your energies!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] What is our Power?

What is power for us light angels?

Not the TV tricks nor super human efforts

But leading by example: how we interact with others (and ourselves) and how we behave, sharing and directing our energies for the benefit of people, our communities and our planet

When we harness our powers we can leave a trail behind us for others to follow
Moving everyone slowly but surely in the right direction.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Feeling Busy?

We'll always have multiple things we could do in every moment
As we look back in time we think it was better then, while it would have been less before
People would often have had more than one thing to do
So then you get the conundrum: what do you do?
Some people try to solve the problem by multitasking (stretching your attention out across things, doing each slower and some badly)
Some get overwhelmed and either do nothing/a little bit or get very stressed out by it and still doing nothing/a little bit
Or others try to do everything by speeding up or working longer hours
In fact, none of these solutions feel great
What to do then???
The real answer is this:
We can do one thing at a time
Yes, just one thing
We can either look at our phones/ipad/pc/tv or we can listen to our children, husbands, wives, partners...
We can work or we can take a break, we can be active or sleep, we can drive or text...
We can pick one thing to do and when that is done, we pick the next thing
When we accept its just one thing, then another, life is a lot simpler
Are we busy, not really, just lots of options to choose from.
Pick those that are best for you!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Role Models

As light angels we are role models

We try to live our lives the right way

As humans among humans

Showing what is possible

To be kind, generous, compassionate and loving

Role modelling demonstrates what is possible despite day to day pressures

Even if you don't feel its making a difference know that it is

Keep up the good work!!!

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Mentally Switching Off

Are you worrying about the things you have to do

A big long list and its always getting longer

Whatever is going on is made worse by the worrying

Learning to switch your brain off is a key skill in life to develop

Meditation is one way of learning how to

While learning to meditate, even a poor meditation session is better than none

And the skill takes time to develop

Practice daily and enjoy the down time.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Being at Peace with Sensitivity

Being sensitive to energy
Being sensitive to spirit
Is not generally seen in a positive light
This can often result in us feeling embarrassed or anxious about this aspect of ourselves
But being able to feel, sense or experience more in this world
Opens us up to new perspectives, understanding, tolerance and open mindedness
And result in us feeling at one with this world
Through this connection to the global energy web which supports and guides us!
Use this connection to "feel at home" and create an inner peace with this aspect of ourselves.

Barbara x

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[Barbara's Daily Message] Overcoming Emotional Fatigue

When you've got a lot to do

You can get overwhelmed by it

The emotional load can be very draining

And this causes fatigue, tiredness, poor sleep, stress, anxiety, etc...

Taking care of your own needs becomes very important at these times

But this doesn't change the circumstances

When things get too much, when its all in your face

Getting in your mental helicopter is vital

Getting up and away from everything and then look back down

Get perspective and give yourself some mental space

Then you can look at everything, be realistic, prioritise, decide what to do

And get yourself off the hamster wheel.

Barbara x

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