Magic Bliss

Lately I have been thinking about prayer a lot. The word is nice to say but what does it mean? The definition of prayer is: “An address to God OR A God in word or thought, an earnest request or wish”. That is rather broad I think. But I like how it says “A God” meaning it is up the the person praying to decide which God or Goddess they will pray to.

In the “Wellness Workbook” which I am working through now I believe in chapter 4it talks about giving a small prayer before a meal just to remind your body to slow down, enjoy this food that is going to nourish you and that it was grown from our Mother by aid of a BEing just like us who worked hard to be able to feed our Planet. I have done something kind of like this for about 2 years, but it isn’t something I do at every meal. When I do it I put my hands, face down over my meal, when it’s hot to be able to feel the heat from my food. I then close my eyes and say thanks to whomever made this food possible, thanks for the energy it will give me and “tell” my food where it needs to go to nourish a certain section of my body. I had thyroid problems for a long time, I still do but not even as much as I used to, so I would ask my food to target my thyroid gland and my blood to help me get healthy again. I do believe this worked…

I have been really interested in looking at prayer in a way that isn’t “religious” but spiritual. I am definitely into any and all earth-based religious beliefs, so what kinds of prayers can I say or teach others that come from earth-based religions. I then turned to Native American prayer. They are the ones that have all the prayers for and about the Earth. I also have been reading a website called “world prayers.org”. I will put up a link to this awesome site on my blog. Please check it out, I learned a lot.

There is one Gaelic prayer that has been adapted and shortened but I love it and want to share it with you; I am trying to memorize it and use it in every aspect of my life.

Deep peace of the running wave to you…

Deep peace of the flowing air to you…

Deep peace of the quiet Earth to you…

Deep peace of the shining stars to you…

Deep peace of the infinite Peace to you…

So this something I want to say to folks as they pass me by, who like they may NEED some healing or to my friends and loved ones. To farmers who grow my food. I am fortunate enough to live in the Northwest and around here we really do love our farmers and love eating local so I will direct this to them a lot!

I found this prayer, or affirmation that I fell in love with, please read it, and FEEL it…

We give You thanks for food and drink

and all that You provide;

Flowers, Mountains, stars above,

Family by our side.

Grant that we might hear Your voice

and always be our Guide;

from now until the end of time

may we in You, abide.

Amen and Blessings

*A mealtime blessing by Steven Parker*

I also found a wonderful Native American prayer that says…

I do not think that the measure of a civilization

is how tall it’s building of concrete are,

but rather how well it’s people have learned to relate

to their environment and their fellow man.

*Chippewa Medicine Man-Sunbear*

I think these are some prayers and affirmations that can easily become apart of your every day life. Bring this love of the Earth and our Planet into your daily consciousness. It’s not hard to simply give thanks even for the smallest things. Don’t take things for granted, I did at one time in my life and I felt empty. Now I accept that I was wrong and foolish then and know to change my ways. I have and will remember to keep doing and saying the prayers of peace that are in my heart and soul.

“Rise up on this magnificent day and bring to it your smile”  this is by Me, Melissa Magic,  tell your friends, it makes people smile!

~~xoxoxo, blessings~~

I found out today I am not going to be able to go to the “Gem and Jam”. An awesome music event that coincides with the Tuscon Gem Show. It’s the country’s largest(maybe the world, even!) gem and mineral show. The Gem and Jam part is a small “festival” that happens on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of Feb. at a few different, small venues in Tucson. Great music, DJ’s and people who area all conscious and have wonderful energy will be there. I went last year and had a blast. I met some sweet people and saw the most jaw-dropping rocks, crystals, gems and stones that I had ever seen before. Not to mention the Bassnectar show was one of THE BEST I have seen. It was  the energy in the room, the feel of the place and the soul-jarring rhythms that were being pumped out of the DJ, himself. I loved that night, all the dancing and talking and loving my fellow BEings!

So now that I can’t go I am upset of course, but I am feeling the money crunch. I need to stand by, make some money and let myself be an adult about this. I get to go everywhere all the time and see shows and festivals, missing one will not kill me… I hope anyway!! I am going to ask a friend to take some pictures for me so I can put them up on my blog page and for a personal endeavor I am going to embark on. I want these pictures for a sort of “soul collage”, I think they will work fantastic for this.  A friend of mine completed one of these and it showed her many things she had not yet really discovered about herself. I KNOW deep down I need that to happen as well.

I have a fond memory of being in Tucson… I was just walking down a major road near one of the many hotels that holds a gem show when I met a man playing music and handing out flyer’s trying to promote himself and his music. He was an older gentleman that had the spirit and the heart of a young child. I talked to him for over an hour just standing on the side of a street with thousands of cars passing by and not even caring what was going on around me. So this is what I miss about any event of this stature, the commUNITY is the force that calls me to these things(and the music of course). I can’t find this feeling anywhere that I have lived or stayed for awhile. I love my friends and the family I have created for myself but a commUNITY,  as a bunch of strangers all bobbing to the same beat, feeling the same thing and hearing the same amazing sounds I am and interpreting them just as I am, but DIFFERENT!?!? This happened in Tucson last year and I knew it would(and will) again. I just will be there in spirit, faithfully so!

The gem fair is fabulous, especially if you are into crystals and the like. I learned so much and I would go back again any time to this event. I just have other things that came up that prevent me from going. I found a job finally! This is important and amazing in this crazy economy. I feel so lucky to be able to go to work everyday. I have a sense of pride and I am looking at this job differently than I would have in the past. Normally jobs like this one would be just another job, well I have grown in such a way that is allowing me to look at this a deeper learning experience, and I need to stay present in this fact everyday! I am proud of myself for saying this. I have a tremendous work ethic and from what I am seeing in the Northwest right now I am truly lucky to have a place to go to, and use my knowledge and gain even more.

Everyone that has work and has a job to go to should realize how lucky they are to have income. I am not preaching but I am just putting this out information out there, hoping everyone realizes how nice it is to be able to have a job. Things like this can slip through our fingers so quickly, let’s remember to not take things for granted!

Sorry for the ‘preaching’… I was writing about The Gem Fair and look what transpired from this.  So any how, have a tremendous  time if you go the Gem and Jam or just the gem fair in general. Or if your like me have a tremendous time at WORK! Learn something new, feel grateful, smile at strangers and at co-workers for a change. Use the time there to better yourself, you are awonderFULL human being and you are loved!

peace…bliss…sacred, spiraling love!!

Melissa Magic

I am thinking that it has been about a year being off the Wheat and Gluten wagon. I never thought I would be doing it. I thought I would just try it for awhile, but “awhile” turned into a year and I am grateful I did it! I had a million health problems(ok, not a million) but enough that made me turn to this way of living. I was losing weight drastically, I was losing my hair(that was due to thyroid problems as well), my stomach, back, and intestinal tract all hurt every day! I started looking at all of my diet. I am a vegetarian, so I ate a lot of vegetables anyway. But I was also eating burritos bread, cracker’s, cereal, a lot of all of these things. I changed first to taking crackers and bread out of my diet. Woah, my stomach stopped hurting, and I was feeling like food was “sticking” to me, again. I then changed everything! No soy sauce, no flour tortillas, no burritos unless they were on corn tortillas or just ‘naked’. I stopped eating cereal like wheat chex and various others. I never really have (since I was like 8)eaten boxed cereals, except chex and a flax cereal I really enjoyed but it had wheat in it, so I said no more. I stopped eating all the vegetarian substitutes for meat. Like fake “turkey”, no more “taco meat”, and no fake bacon. I was really sorry to say goodbye to english muffins, as it was a staple for years. But once I started feeling better I didn’t miss any of these!

If you look at pretty much anything these days, it has wheat, wheat gluten, whey or the like… It’s crazy that we are bombarded with this grain! I now rice is also in a lot of things but i feel like wheat is in things that SHOULDN’T even contain this grain. It’s a filler, put in by the corporate food world!

I am convinced that it is in too many things because it fills things up.  When we eat too much of one thing we can have “too much of a good thing”. I guess this is true for anything in life, right?

I was asked today how I can walk by a pizza place or a bagel shop without yearning for stuff like this. well my reply was that to me, it’s really not worth feeling the yucky, nasty way I feel after I eat these things. Yes, I like them but my body doesn’t like me to like them and, well my body is right and I like looking better and in the long run, I know it’s right! I can eat pizza if I make it, and bread too, yes it’s DIFFERENT, but I like the fact I can eat those things in a different fashion. I am into cooking and recipes, so I think of it as a challenge anyway. There are places if you are just patient and really dig around that you can eat. I eat a lot of raw foods anyway, but now it’s more apart of my lifestyle. All and all it’s a good thing for me.

If you are at all thinking you may want to go wheat-free, just to”do” it, or because you know you “need” to(you’ll know, oh you’ll know!!) try it first! don’t go full throttle at first. Little by little, introduce different things into your life, like quinoa noodles with spaghetti sauce(read the label or make your own)! It’s actually really tasty and WAY better than regular old noodles, really!

Peanut butter, casher butter and apple butter are some of my best friends! I eat these on or with fruit, veggies and on corn chips. You can still eat hummus plates when you go out, just order carrot sticks instead of the pita that ALWAYS come with that appetizer. Just slight changes and you’ll be fine.Always find yourself reaching for crackers,(wheat thins,etc..)? Eat popcorn instead with some zesty pepper seasoning on top. Way better!

There are a lot of fun, new interesting ways to do things, just be a bit creative and all will be well. No worries, and your body will sure thank you!

I go to Trader Joes for things. They provide a list, (if you ask) that shows all their gluten-free, and wheat-free items. This is so helpful to a new gluten-free shopper. Bob’s Red Mill is also a place to look into, check out their online store, they have what you are looking for, I know they do! Bread fixin’s and pancake batter, and tips, it’s great!

I have even found a spot in Portland that has great gluten-free, wheat-free items. The place is on Division stree in the Southeast part of town, called Papa, G’s, great food and they do different items daily and weekly and all of their ingredients are listed! There are actually a bunch, I will list the ones I know of:

~Grolla- North Portland restaurant, I know the owner’s and one of them is Gluten and wheat free!!

~Andina Restaurant

~Bellagio’s Pizza

~Old Wives Tales…. I recommend this yummy spot!!

~Mississippi Pizza Pub

~The Coffee Plant

~Vita Cafe

YAY!! I love these places and you should too! They have options for everyone!

There are some National Chains that have stuff too I found these:

~Bonefish Grill

~Boston Market

~Chilis

~Outback Steakhouse

~Claim Jumper

~PF Chang’s

You will have to ask but that are all listed as having stuff I can eat! Good job, this is great for everyone! I don’t really eat at National chain places since I live in a place that is so abundant in the food category. We are truly blessed to be here in the Northwest! I am thankful everyday that their are farmers, and all kinds of people that still care about food and it’s production!

I am off to dance with my hula hoop… I am listening to a favorite song of mine and I can’t seem to sit still… Often my blog ends this way…

Oh well, at least I am to do this and not something horrible and non-mind expanding!

Good luck on the food journey. Once you are on this road, you are on it eternally, and like I said it’s not super hard. Just pay attention and know you are making your body happy!

Light..bliss..joy..peace

Melissa Magic

I was thinking a lot today about being on the road,seeing the country and listening to your favorite tunes! I love that feeling. This is one of my favorite things to do in all the world! I love being on a road trip. It seems to bring out the best in people(ok, the worst too…) I have seen them both happen, It seems to bring out the best in me, for sure!

I have no idea why on such a crummy weather day I was thinking about this. Actually it makes sense. I love sunshine and dancing and hula hooping ANYwhere outdoors, so I guess I was trying to boost my mood! There was no sun today, just wind, rain, snow, millions of clouds and sad, long faces on folks in general. A little ‘fake’ sunshine that I created in my head, sure helped.

I was putting together my list of favorite road trip music, kinds of music and artists and songs. There is certain songs that bring back memories to me when I hear them. Like every time I hear Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” and “White Summer”, I remember being on the road traveling all over the Southern States with a friend after the Bonnaroo Music Festival this past summer. We had some of the best times you could possibly imagine. I loved that whole Summer! I love thinking about me Hooping under the sunny rays while I was standing in front of “New Mastersounds” playing one of the best live shows I have seen! I have been fortunate to have seen a ton of live music over the years, and that rocked my world! Now when I think about dancing, or being at a Festival, I remember that show like it was yesterday…

Making your mind think of pure bliss and positive fun times when you are in a rut, or are having a bad day, sure helps. I know that my mind is POWerful and at these times I realize just how much I can create for myself by thinking positively and go forth with a smile!

I lent out a favorite live show recently to a friend and now that I think about it, it’s taken a long time for him to get it back… and I miss it! It helps me get things done and brings me back, yet again to a wonderful time in my life. Music really plays a role in my daily life, and I am thankful everyday that I have my hearing! It’s something you take for granted, but I try not to because of things like this. I remind myself often that I am truly blessed. If you can hear and LOVE music thank your Angels and Goddesses (or Gods) that you are allowed to here the music that comes from peoples hearts and souls!

I want to extend out to you a list of great(in my opinion) bands tolisten to you while on the road. I know there are thousands, but here are some of mine. I could write a ton more on this subject!!

~Widespread Panic (any LIVE show is better than any album). These guys Rock!

~Bassnectar (His name says it all)…

~Led Zeppelin

~The Doors

~Ween( every album is different) ummm… Chocolate and Cheese!

~Seb Fontaine

~ Van Morrison (*any*)

~The Descendents

~NOFX(Yep, different I know, but I can’t help it, I like them!)

~Janis Joplin

~Johnny Cash

~The Traveling Wilbury’s

~NIN(Pretty Hate Machine)

~The Grateful Dead

~Motion Potion(DJ that mixes oh, so well!)

~Bluegrass (mixed”tapes” of different bands)

~Metallica (OLD Metallica!)

~Pink Floyd(did you think I would forget??)

~Talking Heads (David Byrne is a genius!)

~Paul Oakenfold

!~ MIXED TAPES and CD’s!~ full of old and new…

I guess I will stop here, there are so many more and I know the minute I stop typing I will think of 10 that I SHOULD have wrote down! Oh well, more for later then, right?!

I still think it’s funny that I am thinking of Summer and road trippin’, in the middle of Winter! Makes me so happy. I would load some pics of my summer road adventure but they are not on this computer so …. well that is too bad, huh! I have some great shots of big and unknown artists and bands from all over the world. I was lucky to watch so much talent unfold in front of my eyes!

I guess now that I literally am salivating over summer camping and Festival season, I will end here and go do some work. If I wasn’t in the Northwest where there is only clouds and NO sun, I would go outside and be happy about it. It takes me a lot to LOVE the rain… I like rain when there is a slight mist and a rainbow appears and it’s rather warm and there are fairy’s and dragonflies fluttering around my head… Listen to me and my fantasies, geez! Am I spoiled or what?

Have fun thinking of your own fun road trippin’ music and amazing times. It’s good to get out of your head like that, isn’t it?

Love and joy upon your (impending) travels!

*~Melissa Magic~*

I feel compelled to write about this topic because it has come up in conversation a lot since 2009 began. Everyone I know and whom I come into contact with is going through a major life change and can feel a “shift” in the energy around them.

I have had numerous conversations with friends, loved ones and people I just met and everyone has the same type of life shift thing happening to or around them. I know this happens a lot during the beginning of any new Year but this year to seems a bit different. So I really started to pay attention to the story’s my friends were telling me.

I started looking into Chinese Astrology and what it means to be a certain animal sign. This year’s animal sign happens to Ox. An ox is very strong willed, very strong in general, and earnest. They can be quiet when they have to be, they are good listeners, and they are very diligent. Guess who is an Ox? Our new President, Barack Obama! That explains a lot, to me anyway. We are embarking on a new journey, with a capable leader who came to be in the year that happens to be HIS New Year!!

I could feel a change, a “shift” in the way things were getting done. Things are happening at a faster rate. Action. Plain and simple, is what’s going on. No more stagnant energy. No more stagnant relationships. Things that were half done are getting DONE or are getting discarded entirely. And this brings me to the point about my friends and family.

Friends are ending their relationships left and right!Ones that they have been in for many, many year’s. Like I said, things are no longer stagnant. My friends were not completely happy, and their relationships were not fulfilling in the right ways so they are ending them. I think that is amazing, since it is one of the hardest things you can possibly do. Change is scary, and big and makes you go down a road that you have never been down before. There is no map, no one there to guide you, just you, holding your heart and looking ahead. The year of the Ox, or “Ox people” are completely strong, and can overcome hardship. They feel that can cross any bridge that happens to be on their path, and without hesitation, as well. When they feel something deeply they go with it. Reading more and more into this year I am understanding more and more about why my friends are able to do these things, and go through these changes.

It’s interesting to think that 2009 is when we swore into office a new, powerful President, isn’t it? It’s his year! “The Ox is the sign of fortitude and hard work. Such people are dependable, calm and modest. They are tireless in their work, patient, and can endure any hardship without complaint.” When they have their mind set up something, they do not move away from that goal. Thank God/Goddess! We need someone who doesn’t give up or doesn’t just “pass the buck” on to somebody else. I read something that says that Ox people are very eloquent and are great at speaking out loud, not afraid to say what they think is right. They speak their mind! It’s great that they have an authoritative air about them, especially important in being the President of this Country.

I’ve read many times that we are in a crucial year for change and I do believe with all my heart that this is right. Change is going on all around me. Even within me. I feel more powerful and more sure of myself.

I like the energy that I see being swirled around and around. Everything is connected, I have known that for years; but when I see and hear that others are finally seeing that too, it’s empowering and very fulfilling!  We are in the midst of great things and positive shifts in our consciousness. Look around, you can see and feel it. I am noticing more and more people that are “waking up”. The masses are feeling the pull of our Mother,our Earth, our connection, and it’s really amazing! Eye’s are opening up, becoming brighter, hearts are too. That I think is the most important.. Our Hearts becoming open. Open to love, to connection, to the positive vibration that we were all born to be able to feel. And NOW is the time for that to start happening.

I am excited to be alive in such an amazing new year! The whole year seems to be pointing only to bigger, better, happier things and brighter futures for us all.

Let’s all remember to allow room for more love, more eye-opening experiences. Create new relationships.  Make new traditions. Smile. Try something new. Use your voice. Dream bigger, and brighter. Take action. Just BE, the fascinating creature you were always meant to be, don’t wait anymore!!

In love,

*Melissa Magic*

I am realizing today that my awareness of all sorts of things is getting bigger and bigger(and better). I am aware of all my feelings, all the time! I seem to be aware(even more so than normal for me) of others  as well. I can FEEL what someone is going through to the point it hurts, if they are hurting or I am extremely happy if they are truly feeling happiness. This is something I have always done to an extent anyway but lately, wow!

I want to describe my awareness as the size and girth of the Ocean. I have an ocean of awareness going on iside and around me and my soul. I think that I have begun to take a real look around myself and really try to “see” what is going on around me. Ever since I started that I became more open to feelings and energy going on around me.

I am doing some exercises in a book that I will recommend to everyone that wants to get some help on the journey that we are all on. It has opened me up to thinking of myself differently and obviously since that has happened I am more true to me, so I am seeing things more clearly. Read and do the exercises in the “workbook” it’s called “the Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting” Workbook, I received this book a few years back and forgot about it and now I am glad I found it again. It came at the time  that I had a million questions about me, my life, this journey, the path that we, as humans are all on, and how to feel more connected to everything. I am learning a great deal and feel that I  am onto something really big here!

The awareness that I am feeling is due to the part of my brain that I opened  after having it be shut for so long. It’s like when you go outside after being cooped up all winter long with no sunshine and no soft breezes,  you finally get outdoors, your soul is thanking you and feeling so ecstatic! It feels like that, right now!! I feel charged! I feel my POWer!

I have been journaling a lot lately and I truly think this is something that gets overlooked by people. I say do it! Everyday write 1 or 200 sentences about life, you, time,space, our world, your world, wants, needs, desires, etc… It opens up the doors needed for you to be able to say ok, I CAN have these things, I DO create my own reality.  I have a ton of people in my life that truly live this way and having them in my life also helps me progressonto  the path I see for me,it’s a bit too far away…. but I SEE it,I feel it, I heart. and I TASTE it… really! The book I was speaking about has many exercises focusing on these types of things; wants, don’t want’s, and the wants that we attache “buts” to. We all do it, I hear myself and others do it all the time. I know now how unhelathy it is. I want this, ok go for it, then you put the BUT in there and you have just squished that want. I get it now… no more “wants, but”. An example of this would be me saying I want this car..BUT I don’t deserve it/need it because??! well why? If it is an impracticalwant, then yes you can say this, but if not, why? I totally deserved that car, needed it and it was a great thing for me to have. I just felt like I didn’t deserve it, for many, many reasons and it was just the part of me that was wrong and egoic. We all have that nasty little voice in our  heads that say the things that make you think twice, even though, more often than not, your gut say’s yes! Humans have the oppurtunity to think, we have a very powerful mind. we’re lucky but it can be a curse too, look at what it does to half of us, or more than that….  Don’t let your mind take over your gut, your heart, your feelings. You(I) need to learn to take over my mind, let my inner POWer take over and push my ego aside.

It’s an an easy thing to say, but it’s hard due to the fact your mind has been in charge since we(I) can remember…

I know I am capable, especially bow that I have felt this new awareness. I have felt it with not only heart but my soul too. It’s a a wonderful feeling and I don’t want it to go away. That said, I know it wont. I am allowing the true me to take over and lead from my heart and not my mind.

Aaaahhhh… I feel lighter, I feel like I have no worries, no cares, just hopes and dreams that are carrying me to my next destination…

Take it one step at a time.

Be truthful.

Love yourself.

Thank your heart.

Don’t worry about failing.

Never stop dreaming!!!

*~Melissa Magic*~

Today I thought I would write about things that add to my everyday bliss and add to the Earth’s positive vibrations. I have chose to be around and expose myself to things that are positive, creative, knowledge and are not fear-based. Unlike everything you see in main stream media, there are websites out there that choose to report only “good” news. We can all still keep up with politics and local and national news but we don’t have to buy into their ideals. We don’t have to be scared, being scared or in fear constantly is not good for our hearts, our breath, or our minds. I am reading this amazing book called “Wellness Workbook”. I not only am reading it, I am doing a lot of the exercises in the book. They discuss fear and being scared and how it effects our BEing to the core. “Weather the danger is real or imaginary makes little difference. Fear will create tension, and tension will affect the ability to breathe. What we percieve, believe, trust, and fear in our minds will spill over into the body and manifest in some way. There is simply no place where the mind stops and the body starts and vice versa.” That is a part of the book talking about being scared, and tension. I love books that show you and teach you things in an easy manner, this is one of those books.

One of the websites I look at for positive news on our world and on on our planet is the goodnewsnetwork.org. I have learned about people doing great things to save our planet or kids who are learning and then teaching other kids about recycling and saving Mother Earth. It’s empowering to know there are people out there reporting on things we can relate to. I know I can’t relate to anybody in Hollywood or whoever’s on the cover of US Magazine,or in the tabloid’s. Can you? I mean I don’t know them, will probably never meet them, let alone become their friend, so why should I be so interested inwhat they are doing? Which, from what I understand is not much, other than partying a lot and showing off designer clothes…. Wow, what substance….

I also look at my daily inspiration I get on my email everyday, that one is called, thedailyom.com(there is a link on my blogroll). I just recently started writing more positive vibes-type stuff on something called hubpages.com. I will put up a link to that as well. It is pretty cool, I found some great writing on health and wellness and even about some great bands and shows.

So I guess we can all learn to look a bit deeper for better news. I did and am glad I did too. I am tired of all the news channels ONLY reporting on these things. There is so much more out there and I want to know about those too!

Now that we have a new President, fear-based stuff may not have as much power in our media. Our old “leader” lived and breathed fear, you could tell, you could see in on his face. Barak Obama is at least happy, with a smile and carries an air of good energy about him. That is not fear-based, it’s courage and power. He has those things in his favor, so we have positivity in ours for once. Maybe American’s will not be laughed at quite so much….

I hope this has made you think. Don’t fall into the media trap, it’s crap. Whoa, I just made a rhyme, cool!!

Good news to you and pass on the good story’s you see and hear, keep up the good vibes!

Bliss,

~Melissa Magic~

I was thinking about creativity today. Being creative is possible in so many ways. Creative writing, is one way.  Creativity can come out in a million ways, and all these ways foster growth of your spirit and expansion of your mind. When you sit down to a project, you have to brainstorm on ways to accomplish your work, or art. This is an amazing way to keep your mind moving, to create is a way of life.

Which ways can you be creative? In art, easily. Art in any form, be it painting, drawing, singing, dancing, acting, sewing, photography, writing are all ways to remain close to your true self, to express your soul. When you create something, you decide to put yourself out there where other’s can see “you”, the real you, and you don’t even care. Because you are doing what your soul asks, you are feeding your self and adding to your own, mesmerizing BEing!

I make everything from cards to sticker’s, t- shirt’s, Daily Deliciousness Cards, hair falls and herbal care. Everytime I make something new I feel like I truly accomplished something. I fed my soul and that is all I need to survive(oh, that and money…)

I wish we could all do exactly what we loved all the time and make money at it! The world would ne full of happy, creative souls and I can also envision a barter system taking place… this is my dream, so I can ‘dream’ however I want… I want what that person created and he or she wants what I made, so we’ll exchange and WahLAH… everyone gets what they want and are happy about it! Yay! I bet art would come to a whole new level, if this were to happen. I wonder…. This does happen to an extent, in a lot of sub cultures of any given city across our country right now. But, what would it BE like if all society had to deal this way? So many people have forgotten how to be creative. They are merely robots, sitting in these little rooms doing the same tasks everyday. Nothing changes,EVER! I know some jobs can’t help but be repetitive, but when you get off work you can re-awaken and CREATE! Most people don’t sadly! They stay on robodic mode, more and more until it becomes natural.  I would die, really… my soul and I would shrivel up, no more Melissa Magic!

I guess I have pointed out enough for today. Just create, make art, keep your  mind active and express your souls desire. You’ll be happy and feel closer to your true BEing!

*”Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”*    ~Arthur Koestler

…art happens

Melissa

♥ Today I got the privilege to chat with and exchange story’s with a friend I haven’t connected with in such a long time. Things have been rough in this wonderful woman’s journey lately, which is why I found it so perfect that we got to hang out and just TALK!

2 really powerful souls called together to share story’s and emotions, and advice for one another, today has been ultra-fabulous so far! Thank you Ang for allowing me to share my thoughts and ideas and heart with you on this oh so Sunny Tuesday! We both benefited from our meeting today. I got to re-affirm my feelings that have been coming to me more and more lately. I am a good listener and I have really great positive energy that I want to share with the world! I am hear to listen, learn and be of service to my fellow Goddesses(and God’s too). I want to hear your story’s and feel your pains, and see your heart grow. I am learning and re-learning my hearts desires and I love to be apart of that in anyone’s life(journey).

We spoke about things that I have been holding in and have been thinking about sharing with other people. She allowed me to do that. I feel very elated right now to be apart of her new growth that she is experiencing. She is re- awakening to her true self and I feel like I am one to truly understand that since I have (rather newly)came into my true, beautiful, goddess self! I love sharing these new feelings and these new adventures with her.

She made me remember my journey and the newness that is still upon me. I am welcoming the fact that my learning is never ending, and I am not scared, just excited and in love with the life I have before me! I have a group of wonderful people that I get to share this with, some are close by, others are very far away, but I seem to hold all of my loved ones close… so they feel near no matter where they hang their hat! My friends just happen to be all over the place, some are in Wyoming, in Oregon, in Utah, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusettes, Louisiana, New Jersey, Arizona,California, Hawaii, South Carolina, New Mexico, Thailand, Colorado, Idaho…. let’s see, I hope I haven’t forgot anyone… If I have, I love YOU ALL!!

I feel like a butterfly who is beginning to take flight. I think this is what it would feel like? I wrote then re-wrote a poem that I will put up now because I feel it is appropriate with the feelings that are flowing today, so here goes enjoy!!

~~Wings~~

Echo’s of shadow’s linger in my mind

Far away voices

old untouched feelings bring new sensations of love and hope.

The echo’s are deep in my head, no longer are they in control,

my heart is leading me with a new awareness

A feeling like a butterfly who is now free, opening her wings and taking flight, almost like the first time.

Nothing is holding me back,

Just holding me up!

I have gratitude flowing out of me like rays of sunshine through bright, gorgeous tree’s.

My heart is saying thank you to all who will listen,

My eyes can no longer see those eerie shadows….

~*bless*~

So there I am, put out there for all to see. Even if no one reads this I feel powerful and sure that I am capable of doing what ever is needed in this life. I feel sparks coming out of my mind and heart and I like that feeling! I am worthy of Success and Health and POWer. we all are, but for so long I was held back by unseen forces. No more though. I think my energy can only take me up, up, up, and i am ready for whatver comes my way. I will create only the best for me and help to foster even more love on this planet. Love creates more love, like attracts like, and being true to yourself brings only the right things to your attention. Now that I know AND understand, I feel much better.

Today I feel like I can do anything and I only wish for everyone out there to feel the same. We all can do amazing things, now just do these amazing things with love… Mother Theresa said that, and it’s so very true, don’t you agree?!

Pass this on to loved ones, and friends that may need a pick-me-up or just a reaffirmation that all is well and good. We are creatures that are blessed with a mind and a heart, use them both to change our world, your world, for the better.

Off to step into the sunshine, I am a sun-worshipper and I can’t help but be called to the rays, they feed my soul.

Bliss is near, grasp it….

~Melissa Magic~

Isn’t it the most amazing feeling to be apart of history, right here, right now!? I think this is the only time in my life that I can seriously say that I am excited about politics. I am excited because the new President, may very well still be a politician, but he’s a NEW politician, that at least is a smart person, with ideas(his own!), and a wife that is also very intelligent, and since they have young children, they are in tune with issues our last “leader” wasn’t in touch with.

He can look into the camera and still talk, AT THE SAME TIME! He speaks with a voice that doesn’t seem to faulter, he’s a confident, smart,younger man that happens to be a politician… it’s hard to trust “them”… I think this is something that a lot of us are going through. I don’t like to say I support one of these groups any more than the other because there are crooked people involved in all aspects of politics, no matter what. Who has the most money? Who has so and so backing them? You get the idea…

Anyway I think this is a wake up call for all American’s, no matter your race, your religion, your gender, your belief system, I believe we all see the need for a change, and this is it. Obama has asked people to step up and “do something”. Well people did, they voted, they told other’s to vote, they spoke out, they held rally’s, he made people believe that we are involved in our own country,(again finally!!) Things can’t begin to become even more wacked than they already are, in my opinion.

When something becomes new, or if new energy is brought into an already existing project, things are bound to take a turn only for the better. We are on the brink of something new, alive, real and true! I am putting my hopes out there to the universe and I believe many, many others have done the same. Our environment, our Mother Earth, our Angel’s, the Faery realm, the universe itself recognizes the shift in our energies, our ‘good’ vibes;  since it’s such a change,our Mother really likes this feeling, she will definetly make a big effort to help us stay this way. Our human race is used to feeling numb, but we are actually “programmed’ to feel only good things, vibes and energy’s. Now that those feelings are almost universal, we will have a greater chance in keeping the frequency’s up. Let’s keep this going! Don’t stop talking about what you belive in. Don’t stop writing letter’s, locally and nationally. Keep emailing those Senator’s, Governor’s, any and all of them. We are in a good position right now to help turn our country around. Even just put good, positive thoughts out there toward our government. I know this is tough, I can’t hardly bring myself to do this, but I know it will work. So for 3 days in a row now, I have put forth what I like to call a “magical energy spell” directly to the White House and to Obama. I basically just say out loud to the universe to please watch over the new people and new energy’s that are now working in our goverment. Please, don’t laugh! Our minds are so much more powerful than most of us think. I know it helps, plus, I FEEL good when I’m done!

I hope everyone watches the inauguration, either alone, with a partner, in a bar full of people, in a church, anywhere JUST WATCH! Just FEEL the newness and I know we’ll all feel a little bit more like we apart of our country again…

Melissa Magic