Seeing this blog after a rather long hiatus, I see the photo of the little girl on the swing. My Holly-bolly, age 18 months….. a face of pure unadulterated JOY. I LOVE this picture. : )
M x
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Gratitude Party Games (con’t)
And the games continue! This month we are following Pam Grout’s THANK AND GROW RICH! Today we are preparing for day four (tomorrow). I aim to get the next day game out the night before!
DAY 4
Be grateful for insignificant and impractical things!
“When you’re on the frequency of joy and gratitude, the universe is free to line things up, work things out, pull rabbits out of hats.” Pam Grout
St Nectan’s Glen, Tintagel, Cornwall
The Power of Gratitude
Welcome to the 2017 GRATITUDE CHALLENGE! This is our 11th year of running this little happy challenge, but the first year we are running both the little booklets of gratitude AND doing the party games from Pam Grout’s THANK AND GROW RICH: 30 day experiment in shameless gratitude and unabashed joy. If you have not had the pleasure of reading this book, or trying out her universal games from her others, don’t miss out!
DAY ONE PARTY GAME: 2 steps
EVERY MORNING BEFORE RISING
step 1: Admit that “something amazingly awesome is going to happen to me today!”
step 2: Come to believe in blessings and miracles
Each morning, no matter how you feel or what is happening, say it to yourself or better out loud! Come on you KNOW you can!
DAY TWO PARTY GAME:
SO for tomorrow, collect photos of all of the wonderful things in your life be they your home, people you love, things special to you etc and make a VISION BOARD of all the things you ALREADY HAVE and are truly grateful for. WHY? Because “when you give up your linear worldview, your playground expands.”
AWESOME Right?
So next day is day three….
DAY THREE
Choose to actively ‘allow’ everything that occurs in your life, whether its mundane or ordinary. i.e.: I allow the sun to shine through my window. Or, I allow this lovely spearmint toothpaste to freshen my mouth.
“Cultivate a childlike attitude towards your creations. Ponder them, wonder about them, but most of all love them. That’s how you claim dominion over your life. Behold I have created this, and I call it good.” Pam Grout
Spend some time working the allowing muscle to help in your larger life manifestations!
There will be more to follow as the days come. There are 30 days of party games to work your way through! I highly advise buying the book and taking part, you really get the background and the great energy through from Pam Grout as she writes and shares the journey through how to practice gratitude in your life.
Mx
The Radical Notion of Rest (reblog from Elephant Journal)
I read this today (Rest) and LOVED IT. So often we make ourselves so busy for the sake of busy, but rest is vital to just about all that we are. When we are rested, we are rejuvenated, alive, vital, competent, able, creative, loving and open. Connected.
The concept of rest is a radical notion, and as with anything that leads to a sense of wholeness within ourselves, it is an experience worth savouring : ) Rest is not sleeping, it is unplugging in whatever way takes you.
Go on. You know you want to : )
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Sitting on the bench…..
Finding the inner spirit of joy can often be difficult for many when you are stressed and exhausted. Who we are when we are not that person, can be remarkable!
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PREGNANT MUMS TO BE! MTHFR and your genes…. bet you haven’t heard much about this!
This is an excellent article about the MTHFR gene by Lauren Vaknine.
“If you have the gene mutation MTHFR, it means your body, especially your liver, does not process vitamins, minerals and nutrition in the right way and instead of converting them into their natural form to enable you to absorb what your body needs, it converts them into toxins. You can have the Homozygous gene or the Heterozygous gene. If you’re Homozygous, you’ve really got it bad, it means your body converts 70% of these nutrients into toxins.”
This can affect your baby while it is growing in your womb! A simple blood test can really help! This is well worth your time to read and print out and bring to your midwife.
http://www.laurenvaknine.com/mthfr-the-gene-mutation-that-could-damage-your-unborn-baby/
Crawling is so important! Did you? Have your children?
We have had so many talks to grandparents and parents about how important the crawling stage is for a child! Please have a read through the great blog post via Pathways Family Magazine Online : )
Ban on Handhelds for Kids?
I came across this article in the Huff Post Online earlier and I must say, she makes some salient points. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cris-rowan/10-reasons-why-handheld-devices-should-be-banned_b_4899218.html) I find in my own practice that children who spend too much time online or gaming (especially violent games) are seriously struggling with social skills, they can be highly reactive and inappropriately so, very physical and aggressive, and suffer terrible posture. This leads to headaches, middle back pain, and general digestive discomfort as well. And these are the under 10s!
I like the chart Cris Rowan suggests at the end, however, I would say that my two girls use my iPad for games and to watch films etc when we are travelling. We have a time limit that their father and I have agreed on. They start each day with 10 minutes. For every item on the ‘to do’ list then can gain extra minutes. Our ‘to-do’ list looks like this:
make bed +1
Eat breakfast +1
Brush teeth/hair, wash face, ready for school +1
All homework done on time +1
Special projects up to +5
And so on, up to a max of 30 minutes in a day after school each. They can however lose points for not doing the above, and for fighting (-1) or mouthing back (-5) etc. They know the list as they came up with it, they are 7 and 4 years of age. It isn’t hard, we don’t write it down, its a running list that the girls make sure we know just how many minutes they have! We don’t own a telly, and so aside from reading, playing outside, playing in their room, they are allowed to play certain games. But the games we allow them to play are fun type maths/phonics/reading books etc drawing games and the latest is minecraft. I think it is important for them to be able to keep up with their peers technologically. I want them to feel confident (even at 7!) that they can do just as well as their friends in class when using a computer program, that they are tech savvy enough to figure it out and not fear it. If there is something all the kids are into TV wise and its ok with us, they can watch it on i-player.
So I think it is a matter of making sure that time limits are instituted, and imprinting on young children that violent games are not acceptable. We know from the playground who is playing them at home by the way they react to other children and how aggressive they can be.
We also use several little gadgets to aid in reducing the EMF waves as well, which are attached to the wifi unit and to my phone and iPad. (see http://www.energydots.co.uk) because i do have real concerns about brain growth phases and the effects that radiation has on my children not just at home, but everywhere these days!
What do you do in your home?
M
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