Citrine, crystals, and creativity!

One of the things that a lot of people struggle with is creative mojo. Whether you keep losing your motivation or your creative well is dry, crystals can be good creative helpers.

Citrine is a beautiful stone that is yellow to brown in color. Citrine is a great 'summer' stone that carries with it the power of the sun. It energizes and enhances creativity, giving you that extra push to create.

One of the best things about Citrine is that it doesn't need to be cleansed, it transmutes and grounds all negative energies. This makes it a great, protective stone, especially if you work in a negative environment or if you are around negative people. If the people around you are sucking you dry of creativity set citrine pieces around your work area.

Citrine is also a great stone of abundance, it helps you to manifest prosperity and success while also encouraging you to share your amazing gifts and talents. This stone encourages self expression and individuality in your creativity. It helps you to be bold and beautiful and uniquely you in what you do.

If you have your own business or are thinking of starting a business I can not recommend this stone enough. It will help you foster all of those wonderful qualities that you need to be self assured in what you are doing.

Here are ways to use citrine:

The easiest way is to carry them around in your pocket or set them around your studio or workspace. You can also get them in the form of jewelry or make them into jewelry. Set them around your home for a specific purpose (research crystal grids!). Sleep with them in your pillow case or add them to your bath.

Hold them while you meditate or sit them on your sacral chakra (the chakra most associated with creativity) to let the crystal's vibrations work their magic. Chakras are energy centers in the body that correspond to different feelings and workings of the body. Crystals are a great way to align these centers so that energy can flow through your body in a way that it is supposed to, allowing you to embrace your creativity.

What things do you do to get your creative juices flowing? Ever tried crystals? I'd love to hear how you get yourself in a creative mood!

If you are interested in more stones to help you be a Creative Goddess, then check out my Sacred Journey Through Summer e-book, all about summer, passion, and creative energy and how to harness it. You get info on several more stones as well as oils and rituals and spells to help you be a passionate and creative you. 

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Listen to your heart, not the insecurities.

"Listen to your heart." Sound advice right? Most of the time. I'm a big fan of listening to your heart and listening to what you feel deep down inside. Your heart holds a whole lot of wisdom.

I've talked about my relationship with a married man and what a disaster my first foray into love was. The entire time I told myself that I was listening to my heart. I was being brave and fighting for the love that I felt. I was going against what everyone else was saying to me because of that wonderful thing called listening to my heart.

It was all a lie.

My heart wanted to be loved fully and completely. My heart wanted to be put first and made to feel special. My heart was ready for commitment, to be a family with someone, to hear that a forever was possible. My heart wanted a ring, my heart wanted a wedding, my heart wanted my love to stand in front of the world and say how much he loved me and how proud he was to be mine.

My heart was screaming for all of that.

It didn't get a damn thing.

I wasn't listening to my heart, I was listening to my insecurities in the guise of heart-speak. My insecurities wanted someone in my life, it didn't matter who or how they treated me. They wanted attention no matter how or why it was given. They wanted to feel less alone, at least sometimes. They were needy and clingy and as long as I was being kissed and cuddled they'd sell out my heart in a heartbeat.

"My heart doesn't love you. My insecurities do."

That was basically what it boiled down to. It was easier to listen to my insecurities than to listen to my heart speak. I betrayed my beautiful beating heart, I ignored its voice by telling everyone (and sometimes myself) that it was happy, that it was getting everything it wanted. I never want to make that mistake again.

What does your heart want?

Really, really, really?

Are there any situations where you're letting your insecurities speak over your heart? Are you remaining true to what it wants even if it speaks softly and timidly?

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Sacred Journey Through Journaling: Elisa

As you know, I've released a mini e-course called Sacred Journey Through Journaling. I have had such amazing responses to the prompts and I really wanted to share them. Send me yours at Dominee@blessingmanifesting.com. This one comes from my wonderful friend Elisa at MagicallyPositive.com

How have your feelings for yourself evolved throughout the years? What are the things that you most love about yourself? How can you improve your relationship with yourself?

My feelings for myself have evolved great over the years like a roller coast very up and down more downs than up’s until recently.

Last year I decided it was time to turn my life around I was sick of living with a head full of negative and most of that negative was aimed directly at myself and it hurt, it hurt so much I considered ending it all many times but there was a couple of things that made me grasp hold again and not give up the first being my daughter I want to turn my life into a positive one not for her but to show her how it can be done and be a great example for her and secondly I always felt I was worth more I just had no idea how to find myself worth and begin to love myself, and then I read Brandon Bay’s ‘The Journey’ and wow that changed my life completely, I have read and love so many self-help books over the years Louise Hay is a big favourite of mine and her books have helped me so much but it was The Journey that gave me the final piece to my puzzle and I was able to pick up the piece and heal myself from within and not just band aides I healed myself completely so much so that I found unconditional love an trust within myself and it is the most awesome feeling ever.

I really had started to wonder if I could ever truly love myself and I found that yes I can by healing myself from the inside out and healing all of my from the child me through to the teen me who needed a lot of healing to the adult me I healed all of myself layer by layer and it felt so amazingly awesome and that feeling has just grown and grown in leaps and bounds ever since it has been 1 year now since I did all of my healing and my life has changed so amazingly I am living my dream life doing want I want to do and loving every day of it and I just can’t say enough how awesome that is.

Everyone needs to find their trigger to pure blissful happiness and unconditional self-love because it is truly awesome when you do and life becomes full of the most awesome sparkly rainbows.

You can also find Elisa on Facebook and Twitter!

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Sacred Journey: Spirals

Hey there gorgeous soul. Today is another stop on the Sacred Journey, yours and mine. I'll share with you how things are going with me, in my personal life, and you can do the same. You can always feel free to comment here and I'll respond with my own wisdom, or with gigantic hugs.

I love hearing from you.

So this is where I'm at right now. I released my latest project and just like last time I'm descending into darkness. And you know what? That's totally okay. I've realized that this is part of my spiral. See that beautiful picture up there? When I'm creating something I dance among the brightly lit and vibrantly colored tiles and everything feels beautiful and perfect. I feel on top of the world. When I finish my project and release it out into the world I get post-project-blues. Do you ever go through anything like that?

Suddenly what I did doesn't seem good enough and I begin to doubt myself.

I go down the spiral, walking in the in-between. Walking in the dark. I know that the spiral will end and that I will find the brightness again, but the descent down is still dark and lonely. At times like this I do a lot to realign myself with where I want to be. I sleep a lot and spend time relaxing and doing things that don't put demands on my time or stress me out.

I also take a deep look at my feelings and why I feel them.

Some emotions are worth keeping and others just need to be let go of. Lately I've been concentrating on dealing with my "base" emotions. Take insecurity for example, when I feel insecure suddenly I feel this wave of other emotions. Feeling insecure about my work suddenly starts this domino effect of other emotions that really have nothing to do with how I'm really feeling. They just see the opening and they rush in. I sift through them, tossing away the emotions that are just there to be there out of old habits that I'm letting go of.

This part of the spiral leads to wisdom.

I'm contemplating a new tattoo! I've fallen in love with the idea of having a teeny heart tattooed on my wrist as a tangible reminder of the love that I have for myself. Even I sometimes forget to love myself. It's always good to have a reminder!

So how are you doing this week? I'd love to hear from you!

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Of the Dark Moon and Cycles of Rebirth

If there is one thing that I have become used to in my life, it is cycles and spirals. Everything waxes and wanes with me. My energy and creativity seem to heighten when it's colder, I have more drive to do things in the early morning and it wanes as the day grows.

A spiral that I used to find extremely difficult was the spiral of my emotions. 

Up and down, up and down. It was hard for me because I had no idea how to deal with emotions in any other way but to cry about them. Every time I felt something bad or someone hurt my feelings, it crippled me for days. I felt like I was going to be sad forevvvvvvver so what was the point of living?

To be fair, I was so busy being upset about the bad stuff that there wasn't a lot of embracing the happiness. In the last year that has changed so much.

The bad stuff still crops up but the good stuff, the happy moments, I bask in it. The unhappy moments, I've learned to cherish those too. That's where I get a huge amount of wisdom and knowledge about myself. Those moments show me where there is work to be done. I know that there is a balance and that the cycle will come full circle.

The card I want to share is from the Wild Wisdom of the Faery Oracle and is Dark Moon. 

This faery is shrouded in contemplation with an air of sadness. She represents the darkening -- the time of self-assessment, when we struggle to understand what is going on around us. She feels withdrawn, fragile, and raw. She needs to look within to answer the difficult questions in her life. She needs to take the time to ponder, to sit, and to understand what she feels.

From this time of contemplation she will emerge, wiser than before. She will emerge stronger and more determined to live the life she was meant for. She will flourish again.

For now she experiences the dark night of the soul and it is necessary and good. Wisdom will be born and she will live wild and freely again.

Do you allow a balance to exist between your emotions? Do you honor the cycles and spirals of what you feel and what goes on within you?

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I wish to share my love.

Happy wishcasting all of you amazing people! For those of you that don't know, every Wednesday the fabulous Jamie Ridler gives us a prompt that we blog about and then we all go to each other's blogs and leave a comment like: "As you wish for yourself, so I wish for you also."

It's really nourishing to read other people's wishes and have mine supported as well. Even if you don't have a blog, feel free to visit around and support the other bloggers.

Today we are asked: What do you wish to share?

My answer is simple. I've blogged about my thoughts on love and why I feel like I'm a bad friend but when you really get down to it, even though I might not show it in the very best way, I have a lot of love to give. As I've gotten older, I've realized that there is this well of maternal love within me. It wants to nurture and soothe and heal and I want to share that energy with the world.

I think what I most love about wishing to share my love is sharing it and not giving it away. Often times we give our love at the expense of saving some for ourselves. 

I wish to share my love with everyone who needs it. 

I can't think of a better gift for the world.

Lots of love to you!

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And the Winners are...

Hello you amazing, wonderful, people!

Can I tell you a little secret? Your support absolutely amazes me. I think we had almost 70 entries to the give-a-way! You tweeted, and facebook'd, and my newsletter is bigger than ever and all I can do is let out a huge, dreamy, sigh and think to myself "Wow do I love those people."

I really want to start doing give-a-ways every month. You deserve the gifts and the appreciation!

So drum roll please!

The winners of the Sacred Journey Through Summer contest are...

Nancy Norbeck: Journey Through the Seasons

Luvschweetheart: Sacred Journey Through Summer e-book + workbook

Monia: Sacred Journey Through Summer e-book + workbook

Sibylle: Sacred Journey Through Summer e-book + workbook

The Herbal Goddess: $10 off Discount Code

Bex: $10 off Discount Code

La'Saundra: $10 off Discount Code

Jodi Chapman: $5 Amazon.com gift card

Elisa: $5 Amazon.com gift card

Trece: $5 gift card

You might have noticed that the prizes went from six prizes to ten. That's because you guys went above and beyond and I wanted to show my appreciation. So I also through in three $5 Amazon.com Gift Cards and an extra Journey Through Summer ebook. The prizes will be landing in your inbox shortly and I hope that you enjoy! 

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