{"id":41,"date":"2008-07-11T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-07-11T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:21:41","slug":"abundance-and-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Abundance and Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone. Welcome Back to my TPC Blog.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a meditation class the other day and we were doing a meditation on manifesting. I really thought I had a handle on the whole &#8220;acceptance&#8221; thing until this meditation kind of blew me away.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason when I was going into meditation I started seeing Native Chiefs and Elders and horses and such and I thought this a little strange because I don&#8217;t usually get this. Bobby seems to follow more the Native path. I noticed that they were surrounding me in a circle and then they started to send me blessings for abundance and good wishes for my manifestation. This was totally a miracle to me but I surprised even myself when I got up in my visualization and said &#8220;no don&#8217;t waste this energy on me and my abundance send it out to the world instead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This really freaked me out a little. The energy they were sending was beautiful and for some reason I couldn&#8217;t accept it. I somehow felt unworthy of this abundant energy that spirit wanted to give to me.<\/p>\n<p>Logically I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;<em>what am I doing<\/em>&#8221; but it was a good realization for me that I still push away abundance when it wants to come in.<\/p>\n<p>(As an aside where does all the manifested stuff go when we don&#8217;t accept it? Hmmm.)<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking for some reason about a Sunflower. Did you know they follow the sun? They literally soak in the rays and when the sun moves they move their head to get some more.<\/p>\n<p>At no time does the sunflower say. Well I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m worthy today I&#8217;m going to give a little more sun to the sunflower beside me and I&#8217;ll wither a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson being here for me is that I&#8217;m going to live my life more like a sunflower. I&#8217;m going to soak up the good energy and when it starts to wither I&#8217;m going to arrange my life so I can soak up some more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I know life is never meant to be 100% groovy all the time. The pendulum always goes back and forth. It&#8217;s balancing the highs and lows thats the hard part.<\/p>\n<p>We have been brought up (well my age group) to believe that we do not deserve to have an easy life. Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all be sunflowers and soak up the good stuff. I&#8217;m thinking with all the unclaimed manifestations out there  the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>Quote for today:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<font size=\"3\">Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It&#8217;s what sunflowers do.&#8221;  Helen Keller<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Until we meet again, Sharon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone. Welcome Back to my TPC Blog. I was at a meditation class the other day and we were doing a meditation on manifesting. I really thought I had a handle on the whole &#8220;acceptance&#8221; thing until this meditation kind of blew me away. For some reason when I was going into meditation I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[431,37,428,426,424,427,425,34,280,3,180,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}