Spiritually Speaking

I’m sorry. I can’t go into detail right now. Not because it’s too personal. I just don’t remember. This is the reason it’s so important to write notes. Most of the time I didn’t feel the need because the most significant synchronicities stayed with me. Since the last time I blogged, for about three or four days of that time, the number seven kept reaching out to me. I’m still seeing sevens, just not as often as I was.

Do you ever do that? Have things on your mind that you want to remember but just don’t feel like writing them down, knowing that you should? I do that more than I should.

Well, how about that. I did a search on the number 7 and visited the Wikipedia page for it. A link there led me to another page on Wikipedia for Seven Jeans. Right before doing this search I had been reading a blog by a woman who had left me a comment on Mae’s Muse. Sara has Fybromyalgia, which I had never heard of and my heart goes out to her. I don’t know how she deals with the chronic pain. If you want to know more, she has a couple of articles about it on her blog.

At the bottom of Sara’s blog is the information of who designed the template she is using. There is also a link to a sponsor. The sponsor is Active Sandals who sells…Seven Jeans. Cool, huh?:)

Don’t you just love synchronicity? I sure do.:)

Oh, it’s Spring here in the USA, which means butterfly season is upon us. I haven’t seen any yet, but I’m sure it won’t be much longer. They’re more plentiful when the temperatures are in the 80s. Butterflies warm my heart and soul.:)

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“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” ~Wayne Dyer

I actually wrote this blog entry a couple days ago. I needed to reboot my computer and then I got busy with other things. However, what I wrote also applies today because once again my DailyOM horoscope was pretty accurate. Not as accurate, but close enough. Maybe that’s because, after about a month without it, I finally got my chocolate fix.

Oh my goodness, talk about rich, dark chocolatey, blissful ecstasy. Chocolate heaven. A woman just shouldn’t be without it. Ever.

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I read the DailyOM…daily. It has an inspirational message, horoscopes which are always more spiritual than other horoscopes, and they also have excerpts of spiritual books. I don’t always read all three every day because there are times when I don’t have an interest in what is there. I’m open-minded but I don’t believe everything that others believe. And sometimes the messages just don’t apply to me.

But this isn’t about what I believe or don’t believe. Lately my horoscopes from the DailyOM haven’t been true for me. Perhaps at another time in the past or maybe in the future they do or will, but for the particular day, no, they haven’t.

So today I read my horoscope and it was so accurate and not only that but it was such a timely message for me. You know how you have a situation where you are unsure of an answer of what to do and you think you are all out of options? And then you get a message from the Universe, such a song on the radio at just the right moment. Something you hear from a friend or a loved one. Or even a stranger. Or, like me, your horoscope.

The horoscope was a reminder for me to not react negatively to a situation I’m going through. When I react negatively, it closes my mind to any solutions that are there waiting to come out into the open. Subconsciously the answers are right there, but stress and worry can cause a block and therefore those answers will remain hidden which will cause more stress and worry.

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ~Epictetus

I don’t always react in the most positive way. And sometimes I can be even downright childish. I don’t yell as much as I used to but I still cry when I’m frustrated or angry. Even that has subsided some.

Reacting by yelling, arguing, name-calling, in other words, be irrational, can cause stress which can lead to illness. It can also stop a person from being able to find solutions, which, when you don’t think there are any solutions to a problem, can lead to even more stress. It’s a never-ending cycle that can be prevented by just changing your thinking and by, instead of reacting, take time to think of what needs to be done, calmly and rationally.

Writing out my thoughts helps, too. Which is why I wonder why the heck I haven’t been doing it more often. Heh. But I’ve decided that beating myself up for that isn’t helping me, either.:)

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