Blog #107 What Inspires You?

What do you love to do?
Where do you get your ideas?
Where do you find your inspiration?

We can find inspiration just about anywhere we find awe and wonder in our life-being in nature, art, books, music, singing, drawing, writing, poems, doodling, dancing, TV, movies, meditation, conversation with a dear friend, day dreaming, and praying… and in just about everything we do.

When we are down or sad or feeling stuck, it is a good time to go and get encouraged and inspired.

Meditating for a few minutes really helps. Just grounding yourself and running your energy; you can take a look at if what you are feeling is your energy, or someone else’s energy in your space. Then grounding off all the energy that’s not yours, it clears your space and you feel like yourself again. Then call back in a big gold Sun your own life force energy and fill yourself up. Enjoy the freedom to be right here right now in present time. Easy and effortless

I also like to go out in my backyard and sit in the Sun for a few minutes and say hello to the birds and play with my puppies, they always make me laugh; and laughing shifts any stuck energy almost instantly, I feel better and more positive.

Being inspired as you walk around your home is such a healing. Having beautiful paintings or photographs or sculptures; I love Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, my amazing friend’s paintings and drawings by Alita Hetland, Mary May, my sweet niece Karen Nauenberg, my wonderful cousin Silvia Simmons and incredible photographs from my brother Rick and my awesome husband David. I have my underwater pictures from Hawaii swimming with the Wild Spinner Dolphins on my office wall, and sculptures of angels and dolphins and of course our sweet family photos which all bring in so much love, light, peace and insight.

Walking through and looking at the beautiful art work on my walls, it is like receiving amazing hello from friends and family and Spirit as well. A message that we are loved and our loved ones are all around us.

Having the incredible opportunity to see the Beyond Monet –The Immersive Experience with dear friends and my husband here in San Diego was so powerful and touching. It felt like I was a part of Monet’s living paintings; incredible like being in a dream with everything flowing and moving with beautiful music. I highly recommend if you get a chance to go see it.

When my husband and I went to Paris a few years ago, we were fortunate to take a two hour trip out to Monet’s home and have a tour of his house and see his beautiful gardens and lily pond. To see where he lived and all the inspiration all around him, it gave me a feeling of understanding more of what he was expressing in his paintings and who he was.

Get inspired and see where it takes you. :)

Photo from “Beyond Monet - The Immersive Experience” of Monet’s beautiful Lily Pond painting