I overheard a conversation my husband was having with a friend explaining why he had beverages chilling on the porch in winter. He was trying to teach the younger friend about saving resources by chilling the liquids outside so that the fridge doesn't have to work hard to chill the warm liquids. Which is a great idea! However, the wording my husband used was because he is cheap. The wording teaches this young friend the poverty mindset. 

If my husband had worded it as being resourceful it gives it a completely different and open energy. Being resourceful offers a feeling of hope and creativity. This is the energy where new inventions are birthed.

We don't realize some of the wording we use and then impart that onto someone else, especially young minds that look up to us. This creates a belief system in lack. We all do it but it's important to pay attention to what we say and believe. Awareness is key to catching a belief of lack and fear. 

Give some thought to how you have been creative, inventive and resourceful in your life and how that has lead you to something amazing. 

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How do you connect to nature?
What happens to you when you connect in nature?
How do you elevate your connection to the Universe... you spend time in nature and love it's beauty.
Nature has its own wonder, its own beauty that the Universe created and how can you not grow great appreciation of all it offers. When you spend time in nature you move into a sense of gratitude for all that has been created and how each thing is unique in its perfection and imperfection. Just spending time outside helps you to understand how complex and yet how simple things are. The ability to be curious and open to nature helps you to be open to the possibilities that you would never think were possible. 
When you are with nature you become what nature is, your true authentic self. You just are; just like the sun is what it is, and the moon is what it is and the plants and animals are just what they are. There is no questioning they and you just are your authentic selves. 
That is why it is so easy to connect with the Universe and open to messages. Nature is the perfect place to meditate whether you like to sit or walk in nature it is all a meditation, your divine connection.
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When you are looking for connection to the Universe you need to learn to be open and understand that everything that comes to you is a message that comes in the form of a sign or symbol. The symbols that you receive journal about them .

What do you do when you can't go out into nature, find a way to still connect with it, that may mean going into your backyard, going out on your balcony, opening a window. Nature is still there even if its not in a park, forest, or beach. There are so many ways you still can connect with it by growing plants, watching wildlife, watching and listening to the birds. If you can, stare at the sky to watch the sunrise, sunset, clouds, stars and the moon. Listening to nature sounds, real or recorded will also help you to connect. When you can find ways to immerse yourself with nature it shifts your energy to a higher vibration. 
When you meditate you can also connect with nature through visualization to bring you to anywhere you would like to go. Your body and mind will not know the difference and so you will lift your vibration.
I love using the essential oil of cedar to transport me into nature. I feel grounded and taken to a place of comfort. Finding those tools that help you to open up to feel like you are one with the Universe is helpful when you are just starting out. 

Nothing like home renovations to trigger an empath, the need for a sacred space is imperative to an empath, and when it is disrupted, it can be difficult for an empath to recharge.
Clutter will make you tired, and you will find it difficult to think when you do want to get things done.

Our furnace stopped working in March, and this snowballed to start a basement renovation. The basement had been my workshop space for my career as a makeup artist, hair, and wig artist but this all needed to be moved throughout our home. 

This, triggered me into several discoveries may be, it is time to let go of this career and all the equipment I need for it. It took me down, memory lane as I started to get rid of things and move them. 
I grew up in a cluttered home and often I would be embarrassed and I would run all over the house to clean up before the company came over.

I never understood why this seemed to be a family trait, but I did know that it was an important lesson.
Clutter has a way of creeping in over-time. I wanted to understand why this appeared to be a family issue. I needed to get to the bottom of it once and for all. 

I believe I understand now that clutter was a way of being safe as an empath.
The energy from the stuff helped keep the noise of other people's emotions away, as well as our connection to our own emotions so that we never had to deal with them. 

The clutter brings up several factors:
The stuff itself gives you something to complain about; it takes up time and space so that you can't have time to do the things you love. 

The other thing about it is that every object in your home has the energy that it holds. 
When an empath is away from clutter and the busyness, it can become uncomfortable because other information is now able to get through, the energy, of people, spirit, the earth, and your own higher self.

When an empath is ready to let go of the stuff that has been keeping them safe, they often will need help to do it. The emotions can flood in while letting go and, a support person, a friend, family member or a coach are beneficial to help them process the information and the letting go. 

They feel so deeply with every item and, any change can be difficult. An empath has difficulty in releasing items because they still have value, even if it isn't of use to them anymore, they understand that it can be useful to others. They don't want to waste something when someone can use it, create money from it and most especially not pollute the planet by just throwing it away. 

An empath is very compassionate towards people because they see the value of everyone no matter what the person has been through, their class, their abundance, their stature, age, gender, and lifestyle. They see value in everything. They are often loyal to people for too long because they understand that everyone is capable of having a great life. They want to believe the best of people.
 
The other reason it is also difficult for empaths to let go is that they want to be helpful to others, always prepared to help, the MacGyver that can pull anything out of nowhere. They don't feel like they are enough, not feeling worthy. So, if they have what you need, they will give it to you just to be helpful or liked. 
When you begin to feel worthy, the stuff is easier to release.

I think in my process of looking at this, I realize I came from a family of empaths, who felt so deeply, and had a lack of self-worth that became their self-protection which was passed down, from generation to generation. 

Much Love,

Samantha 💖

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An empaths childhood​

You were often told as a child that you were too sensitive!

You were sensitive to the news, stories, and events that adults didn't feel affected by.

You deeply wanted to fix things that make the world a better place for all, It would affect you by feeling it in your body and you would easily cry.

You were often bullied because you cried so easily.

Often feeling physically sick or depressed especially when you felt unheard when you tried to express your concerns and even solutions.
You are amazing at creative ideas and solutions.

You were told not to worry and that you are too much in your head
 This caused you to begin to doubt your intuition, not trust what you were feeling and you started to believe that you were too sensitive.

This is how we began to doubt our abilities to feel and know what is true.
We were told to toughen up, or don't worry about things that are happening in the world. As a child, this is so difficult because in our purest form we care so deeply and want to fix the world but just didn't have the capability to know how to do it.

When we became old enough, we just didn't know that we had the capability to change things. Over time many empaths began to numb out their sensitivity by keeping background noise on all the time like music or TV, eating too much, drinking too much, shopping too much or anything that would keep them busy to not feel.

At some point, an empath will come back to the realization of who they really are but often is through the dark night of the soul or some major event that wakes them up.

This year 2020 is helping us to remember that we are sensitive and caring people. It gave us time to pause, it gave us time to feel, it gave us time to see what is not working in the world and can't be ignored anymore.

It is time to remember this is who we are as an empath we feel deeply and care about others.

There is nothing wrong with being sensitive and that gives you great power to change things in the world and to heal yourself because you allow yourself to feel. 

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Samantha Vidal💖