Obviously, these gifts are from the God/dess/Universe – I am only providing some keys to receiving them. Not to mention, they are already yours! Still, in this lifetime we have the opportunity to spiral ever-closer to the center of them, which the exercises below will allow you to do.

Please re-gift by sharing with anyone you think may enjoy them. Since they come from an Infinite Source, they will never run out. Besides, what we send out comes back to us multiplied – so, literally, the more the merrier!

(At any time, please feel free to repeat any of these activating exercises to refresh its associated gift.)

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The Gift of Serenity

To activate this gift, drink at least 8 ounces of pure water. Then, ideally in a serene natural setting (but really anywhere where you won’t be disturbed will do), sit comfortably, with your spine straight, close your eyes, and place your left hand over your heart, and your right hand over it. Begin to simply notice your breath as it goes in and out. When your breath naturally begins to deepen and slow down, on the inhale, think: “I breathe in serenity.” On the exhale, think: “I breathe out everything else.” Repeat at least two more times, and then continue for as long as feels right to you.

Additional benefits of this gift: clarity, stillness, energy, self-love

The Gift of Authenticity

This gift is about being in alignment with your most ideal life path. To activate this gift, draw a bath and dissolve one cup of sea salt in it. Light a white or off-white candle and perhaps a stick of incense. Hold your hands over the water and say: “This water, like the sea from which the salt within it came, represents the ocean’s darkest depths. I call on the spirit of the ocean deep to infuse this water with joyful flow and fearless authenticity.” Get into the water and relax deeply. When you feel ready, with your eyes, closed, think: “I follow my bliss. I know my bliss. I live my bliss. I am my bliss.”

Additional benefits of this gift: joy, harmony, inspiration, enthusiasm, flow

The Gift of Synchronicity

Each life has its own unique rhythm and flow. And, when we are in alignment with that flow, everything just seems to work. More often than not, we “just happen” to be in the right place at the right time, and both seen and unseen worlds seem to be conspiring to help us with even the tiniest things – and this is synchronicity. To activate this gift, put on instrumental or chanting music that relaxes you, uplifts you, and helps your energy flow. Stand comfortably with your spine straight. Relax and take some deep breaths. Hold your arms out as if you are about to hug someone. Turn in a counterclockwise direction three times, each time saying, “I now clear the decks for divine support and harmonious flow.” Then stop for a minute and take a centering breath or two. When you feel ready, spin in a clockwise direction three times, each time saying, “I am perfectly supported by the Universe!”

Additional benefits of this gift: harmonious travel, abundant parking spaces, miracles, helpful people, luck

The Gift of Creativity

We are a species characterized by creativity. There is no one through which divine creative energy does not want to flow. And when it flows, we feel joyful and relaxed, comfortable in our own skin, and able to transmute our challenges into blessings and our struggles into beauty. This nourishes our health, along with every other aspect of our life. To activate this gift, hang a prismatic crystal (like this one or these ones) in a sunny window so that it splashes rainbows throughout the room. (If you don’t have a sunny window, simply stand in the sunlight with the crystal.) As you gaze at the dancing rainbows, say, “Divine light shines through me in a way that it shines through no one else on earth. I reflect rainbows! I dance with the Infinite!”

Additional benefits of this gift: healing childhood issues, healthy relationship with children, playfulness, uniqueness, fun, laughter

The Gift of Romance

Whether we are in a partnership or not (or whether or not we desire to be), romance and sensuality are essential nutrients for the well-rounded happiness of human beings. To activate the gift of romance in your life, in the morning, on a Friday during a waxing moon, obtain one pink rose and one red rose. Change the sheets on your bed, make your bed, and then strew all the petals from both roses across the top of your mattress. Leave them there until before you go to sleep. Then, collect them and place them at the base of a tree (or in a flower bed or compost bin if you’re in a city).

Additional benefits of this gift: friendship, relaxation, inner and outer beauty, attractiveness, peaceful sleep

The Gift of Radiance

Your essence naturally shines brightly like the sun – why hide it? Instead, allow your beautiful, nourishing light to radiate forth, sharing warmth, healing, and sustenance with the world. To activate this gift, stand outside, in bright sunlight while the moon is waxing and in a fire sign (Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius). Place your hands over your heart as you become aware of the blinding brightness of the sun. Close your eyes and acknowledge/visualize that your heart light is even brighter than the sun. Open your arms outward like you’re about to hug someone and see this light expanding from your heart and filling your entire body and aura. Say, “I shine like the sun. I am known. I am seen. I am loved.”

Additional benefits of this gift: positive attention, respect, fame, success, charisma

The Gift of Abundance

To activate the gift of abundance, as soon as you awake on the morning of a new moon, get out of bed, lift and open your arms as if you are about to receive blessings from the heavens. Lift your face and visualize golden coins and sparkly golden light coming down from the sky and completely surrounding your entire body and energy field. Say, “I happily receive wealth and abundance.” Then, bring this energy deeply into your being by then placing both hands on your heart. As you feel this abundant light pulsating within you, say, “I am wealthy and prosperous beyond my fondest dreams.”

Additional benefits of this gift: luxury, financial windfalls, unexpected blessings, gratitude, present moment awareness

The Gift of Resilience

Weathering the storms of life builds character, seasons our life experience, and invariably brings us back to the things that matter most: family, friends, and feeling connected to Mother Earth and all her many inhabitants. The gift of resilience helps us to send our roots deep so that the buffeting winds only make us stronger. To activate this gift, stand so that your spine is aligned with the trunk of a flourishing, vibrant tree (it’s OK if it’s in it’s most wintry, leafless state as long as you know it’s healthy). Feel your feet on the earth and energetically send your roots deep into the earth, like the tree’s. Then visualize/feel yourself growing upward from the top of your head with the tree. When you feel that you are sufficiently merged with its energy, say: “My roots go deep and my branches reach high. I am vital, I am strong, I endure.”

Additional benefits of this gift: health, longevity, giving and receiving support from others, healing longstanding family and past life issues, keeping calm/carrying on

The Gift of Balance

Once you have activated all the other eight gifts, weaving them together in a balanced, harmonious way will infuse you with a feeling of profound wellness and bliss. To activate the gift of balance, when the moon is in Libra, sit comfortably, with your spine straight. Relax, close your eyes, and take some deep, cleansing breaths. When you feel ready, visualize a sphere of glowing white light encompassing your entire body. Give yourself a gentle hug and declare: “I am serene and authentic. I experience synchronicity. I express myself creatively. Romance and radiance, and abundance are mine. I am resilient. I am balanced. I am free. All is well in my world. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Blessed be. And so it is.”

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Tis the Season of Gifts, whether we like it or not! I have learned that when I approach gift-giving ‘from the heart,’ it transforms a forced march into a series of delightful opportunities to deeply connect with my loved ones and my community.

Hearfelt gift-giving often begins in our local communities, where our gift-dollars can support the talents and efforts of those who live around us.

Gift-certificates from local businesses can make fabulous one-of-a-kind gifts that honor your loved ones’ unique tastes and interests. These include restaurant or garden center certificates, club memberships, and yoga, dance, or art classes. Services from local salons and spas are often special treats, as well as tickets to the theater and other live performances.

Our local artists and crafts people make their living creating beautiful jewelry, clothing, pottery, and handicrafts that are essentially original art at affordable prices. When we know the artist, it deepens the meaning of the gift as we share the story of how it was made, what inspired the artist to make it, etc.

YOU may be the artist or gift-maker! Instead of shopping, you may find it is much more fun to spend time in your kitchen or studio making your own love-infused gifts.

Re-gifting has also become a popular way of keeping things ‘in the flow.’ When you receive a gift that you’d rather not keep, consider who would love it and pass it on! Collectively, we seem to be losing all interest in accumulating goods that do not make our hearts sing.

And, heartfelt gift-giving can reach outside of our local communities into any other community in the world via the many organizations who are helping people improve their lives. One of my favorites is KIVA, who gives micro-loans to help people fund their businesses. As soon as the loans are paid back, the money is available to be loaned again. Several years ago, I gave $25 in honor of each of my family members and these gifts have now been re-loaned 29 times, and counting – truly gifts that keep giving!

Whether you shop locally or globally, enjoy the flurry of synchronicities that await you! Your heartfelt choices carry your loving intentions and expand the meaningful connections you have with those you love.

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This time, I transform a clear plastic bathing suit holder into art that gives me a glimpse into my spiritual journey. I stack images of owl, sun, dove, and rose, and nest them in a rainbow of colored tissue, breathing life into a collage I name “Chakra Muse.” She is born from the inside out, the unseen becoming seen, a mirror capturing the sacred dance of my soul. The whole process fills me with joy.

I hang her in my writing studio and am astonished by how much she empowers and illuminates the space. “Now, that’s Good Feng Shui!”

Would you like more Good Feng Shui? Create it! You are a born creator and nothing energizes a space like your own creations. Making art is one of the innumerable ways you can build and sustain Good Feng Shui in your home. Everything you live with – flowers, food, books, clothes, tabletops, planters, linens, pictures, dishes, furniture – are all ready to jump out of the box and into the wildly imaginative hands of your creative spirit.

How have you created Good Feng Shui in your space? I’d love to see pictures of your handmade art or other ways you’ve expressed your creative imagination in your environment. I’ll send a signed copy of my latest book, The Three Sisters of the Tao to the first 3 people who send me pics. Let’s inspire and delight each other!

Here is  a poignant musical and pictoral tribute to Japan, with the Letter from Sendai included:

In the Light of Love by Miten & Deva Premal – Tribute to Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWAZVZG1TA

On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:59am, Susan wrote:

From my cousin Anne in Sendai, Japan where she has lived for the past decade teaching English.

First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.

Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an
earthquake strikes. People keep saying, "Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another."

Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on.

But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun. People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.

And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.

They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend's husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don't. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,

With Love in return, to you all,

Ann