🙏This morning I woke up-as I do most days- with extreme gratitude in my heart.
🙏The difference was today is a very emotional one and the tears of gratitude unapologetically flowed out of me like a babbling brook.
🙏10 years ago today cancer left my body. For good. I said good riddance to a disease that took over my life and my body for 3 years.
🙏The journey since that day in 2011 has been an ever-changing and surprising one, filled with change, adjustment, recalibration, adventure, learning, healing, love and forgiveness.
🙏As I have watched a few very close to me suffer from the disease and leave this life, I can’t help but take my survivor’s guilt and transmute it into gratitude for each breath I take in every single moment and for each beautiful sunset I am blessed to witness.
🙏I have learned so much on this extraordinary 10-year journey, and in celebration I want to gift to you today a few important lessons I have learned along the way:
1. Don’t sweat the small stuff. If it won’t matter in 5 years, let it go. Spend your energy wisely and focus on the big stuff. That is where you are needed.
2. Be present. Find a mindful exercise like meditation to help you quiet your mind so you may be fully present for and TRULY LISTEN to those around you; be still so you may discover what gifts of wisdom your Higher Self, nature and Spirit wants you to hear.
3. Do your Shadow Work. Facing your demons will be the hardest but most rewarding challenge you will ever embark on. Once you learn to heal, forgive and love yourself fully and unconditionally, you will be able to extend that unconditional love outwards, become a magnet to blessings and begin to change the world.
4. Practice gratitude. Nothing can help you switch gears out of a negative mindset like mindfully expressing gratitude for what is in front of you. Never let a hug, a kiss, a connection, a conversation, a meal or a good belly laugh go unappreciated because the only thing we are promised is this very moment.
Namaste and blessings,
Sara
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Sara Murphy
Meditation Teacher, Intuitive Spiritual Guide & Healer
BA Child Studies, Psychology
Dip Jour, Dip DH
Holographic Usui Reiki Practitioner, IARP
EMAIL: saramurphy@live.ca
