GRATITUDE: Develop an attitude of gratitude and watch the world around you change for the better. Is your cup half empty or half full?
This mermaid has swum into your reading today to remind you to be grateful. She says it’s easy to be grateful for the good things in life, but imagine if you could be grateful for everything, knowing that the universe never makes a mistake? Contemplate this concept, even if you find it a little challenging.
The act of being grateful is almost like a magic spell. Counting your blessings is another way of expressing gratitude. No matter what your situation, know there’s always someone somewhere who has even more challenges than yourself. It might not make your current experience any easier to deal with, yet it does help to put things into perspective.
If you find the thought of being grateful difficult due to your current state of mind, then start each day counting your blessings. Even if you can only find one thing to be grateful for each morning, this is a positive start.
Once you start to notice your blessings, you’ll find more appear and you can then express your gratitude sincerely. Moreover, when you focus on your blessings and attract more, counting them becomes totally easy and you’ll become ever more grateful.
The perfect state of gratitude arises from not expecting anything from life. Often, we can feel hard done by. Maybe you sometimes find yourself saying that life isn’t fair. This doesn’t mean giving up, far from it! Rather, it means surrendering to life and fully entrusting the universe to provide whatever you need, while accepting everything with humility and gratitude.
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CONTEMPLATION: Contemplate your current situation and allow your thoughts and feelings to flow. Use your mind in conjunction with your heart and think things through before making decisions.
Enjoying her time in contemplation, this mermaid uses her creativity to look at various outcomes and scenarios. The beauty of this is that it can be a fun and creative process, allowing you to imagine you’re experiencing the things you’re contemplating without doing anything in physical reality. It’s a bit like trying before you buy or commit.
This situation calls for you to think deeply, using your wisdom and imagination to arrive at wholesome solutions. Your feelings may be a bit confused right now and you’re prone to follow your heart, which is usually a good thing. This situation calls for you to use your mind in conjunction with your heart and think things through rationally before coming to any decisions, especially potentially life-changing ones.
Contemplation is a type of meditation, only it entails engaging with your mind instead of trying to stop the thoughts. When you use your mind and heart wisdom in unison, it’s possible to make major decisions in life knowing you’ve covered all angles and explored several options and outcomes in the safety of your own imagination.
Perhaps someone close to you is contemplating their future. Let them know the importance of staying in a positive state of mind when going through this process, as what we project can come into being. So, it’s wise to be mindful of this as you contemplate and play with the possibilities.
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FREE SPIRIT: Express yourself and allow your spirit to feel free. Be aware of the confines and restrictions placed upon you by yourself and others.
This mermaid says it’s fun to feel free! This doesn’t mean shirking your responsibilities, though. It’s important and possible to find a balance between fulfilling your wild and free spirit while honoring your responsibilities, especially when others are involved or are relying on you.
Being a free spirit might kindle romantic thoughts of a nomadic lifestyle. Although this might not be practical for you, it’s still worth considering ways you can express this desire – for example, by taking a backpacking holiday or something similar.
Do you feel free? Your work or home life might bring feelings of restriction. If this is true, take a look at how you can change things. Talking with loved ones about how you’re feeling can be helpful. You could find they offer to help with the chores and your domestic responsibilities, freeing up some time for you to do the things that make your heart and soul sing.
Honor your free spirit for this is who you really are. The material confines of modern society can make our spirit feel stifled. We’re pushed through the education system from a young age, then we’re expected to choose a career path and work a nine-to-five job. But there’s no one-size-fits-all path. Often, we’re not encouraged to express our artistic side, which can make us feel even more trapped by the confines of society.
Now is the time to allow your spirit the freedom it needs. When you’re in a harmonious relationship with your inner spiritual needs, everything will naturally fall into place in a harmonious way for the highest good of all.
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