Giving ENOUGH time to yourself is a form of self love.

When you hurry yourself, put yourself under pressure, don’t let yourself relax; you are:

• not priotizing peace within your body and mind

• not treating yourself with love or respect.

Tensing and stressing your body only leads to more tenseness and stress in your body.

The good news is, this is very easy to change!

If all it takes if 5-10 extra minutes a day that you give yourself -

To eat your breakfast slowly and fully chew your food, 

To walk in a calm, relaxed rhythm,

To talk with clarity and peace -

then why not take those minutes? 

Claim them! Claim them for yourself as a form of self love; of self reverence; of self respect. Plan it into your schedule, and re-set your alarms. Take as much time as you need to get your things done, to go slow, to take a breath before you start your day, to say a prayer to end your day.

How do you think others feel when they see you in a hectic, worried, and stressed state?

And how, instead, do you think others feel when they see you in a calm, peaceful, and relaxed state, doing things in your own time with a smile on your face?

Our goal is to go about our daily lives in the most beautiful and most connected way as possible, right? 

So let’s start by giving ourselves enough time.

Let’s take this next beautiful month day by day at a slower, but more conscious pace.

This picture features a cute little flower that took all the time in the world to open up exactly when she was ready, with no rush whatsoever, in her own divine timing.

Sending you all so much love for November,

Ananda

What web are you spinning for yourself?

Sometimes I get really in my head and have too many thoughts, and one of the best ways that I have found to allow things to flow again is through going on walks.

I had been thinking about my role in life, about how I love to create art, that I love to write, that I love to travel, but I at the same time feel quite “behind” in many aspects of my life. I asked the question, “How can I create a life for myself where I live in a state of abundance and love, while doing the things that make me the most happy?”

I looked up and saw a HUGE spiderweb. A perfect spider web; part of it attached to a street sign, and the other to branches of a bush. Right in the middle, sat a large spider. 

I’ve had a slight fear of spiders my whole life (which has gotten better throughout the years) so my usual thought when I see a big spider is a small “ahhhh!” and I step away. However, this time, my very first thought was, “look at how brave she is!”

Despite the road, the people walking by on the sidewalk, the wind, the dust, and the falling leaves, the spider sat there proudly, in the middle of what she had created for herself. Despite all outward circumstances, her tiny size, and her fragile threads, she didn’t have a single fear or doubt. 

(Isn’t that interesting, that only we humans were given the capacity to ‘worry’ about the future?)

I felt in that moment that she was a powerful symbol for me to learn from. 

She created her own world; a master of manifestation. She spins in her own divine timing, then waits diligently right in the center of her masterpiece, knowing that what she needs will come directly to her. The threads of her creation literally made out of a material from her own body. How miraculous is that? 

I felt deep respect for this spider and for all spiders, gave great thanks, and went home.

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What web are you spinning for yourself?

Are you proudly seated right in the center of your creation, or are you hiding off on the side? 

Do you let circumstances distract you from doing your art, your true work on this planet, and if so, why? 

I love you all, and I wish you a beautiful October,

Ananda

A Startling Vision

I had a vision.

I entered into a large, enclosed room. At first I didn’t see anything, but as I looked closer, I saw movement in the shadows at the other side.. Then I saw stripes, and heard powerful breath. I realized… I was sharing the room with a tiger.

Panic swept through my body. I frantically glanced behind me, and the door that I had come through to get here had completely vanished.

My eyes darted back to the tiger. He smelled my presence, and turned around to look at me with intense, predatory eyes. 

He got up and started making a big circle around me, and I could feel how he was deciding how he would kill me and eat me.

There was no place to escape. 

I shut my eyes in terror, and started to pray feverishly. I tried to influence him telepathically by saying in my mind with desperate hope, “he loves me, he doesn’t want to eat me, he wants to keep me alive!!!!” But I could sense that not only did these prayers put me into more panic, but that the tiger was getting more and more enraged because of them. 

I tried again to telepathically control him by putting images into his mind of him wanting to ignore me, becoming disinterested, or even being disgusted by me, but this didn’t work either. When I opened my eyes, I realized that the tiger was now only a couple feet in front of me. 

As he prepared to pounce, I realized that those would be the last breaths that I would take.

 I shut my eyes. 

“If I shall die now, I will die with grace.”

I felt myself…… let go. 

“I accept my death. I accept my fate. I shall leave this world with love. I fill myself with love. I accept. I love myself. I love the tiger. I am grace. I am peace. I am made of pure love.”

Silence.

Suddenly, I felt warm and soft fur caress my right hand, 

… and then the weight of a huge head as it was slowly rested onto my lap. 

What? 

Deep gratitude and awe flooded my every cell. Tears came from my eyes as I opened them again. 

The tiger’s body was circled around me, and he looked up at me with huge, relaxed, angel eyes. 

He purred so loudly that the vibrations shook me, reassured me, and healed me.

The scene dissolved, and I was back in my bed on planet earth.

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What I have felt when asking myself for the meaning of this vision, is that searching outside of ourselves gives our power away. 

If we want to make ANY change in the outside world, we have to change who we are first. 

The moment that I changed my inner state to one of love and acceptance instead of control, the scene shifted irreversibly, and it would have been impossible for me to see the tiger in any other way than love after that.

I wish you all a beautiful Febuary and love you so much,

Ananda