Inspirational Snippet: Miracles Are Everywhere

I wanted to share this morning's message I placed on my Soul Star Healing Facebook Fan Page.  As many of you know, each day I place message from my guides, angels and/or my higher self for your highest and best good.  If you wish to connect with me on Facebook to receive these messages, please click this link:  https://www.facebook.com/soulstarhealing.

Today's Message: Miracles surround you in every moment of every day. It takes a quiet, reflective mind to see what is there and capture the miracle in the moment. If you are harried and rushing around, the miracles are not so easily noticed. We ask you to slow down today, take long deep breaths between the many things that you feel you need to do and look around you at that moment. We bet you will see things you hadn't noticed before including little miracles. And so it it..~EstaRa

This message is so important to see and listen to in your day to day life.  Life can be so stressful and it is easy to get caught up in your daily routine, but it is necessary to your balance and well being  by stepping out of that cycle from time to time. Since my car accident, it hasn't been so easy for me to notice things because my days are more stressfilled than they were prior to the car accident.  You would think, I am home relaxing and enjoying the break. Well, let me reassure I am not nor have I been.  In between going to the Chiropractor two times a week, Physical Therapy two times a week and various doctor and healing energy appointments, I have to find time to just be.  Quite often the time I am not in appointments with doctors and such, I am really exhausted from going to those appointments or in really bad pain and I need to come home and rest.  Lately, there is this one saving grace that I have, I  do remember now and again to stop what I am doing, breathe and look around me.  When I look around my apartment, in the morning sometimes I see something that I have had for a long time and notice how grateful I am to have it.  Or I may see something someone gave me as gift that may have been sitting there all along, but just noticing it in that moment, I feel the love they have/had for me when they gave it to me.  Other times, I will notice as I am driving to my appointments how careless some drivers have become, and then I will be stopped at a traffic light and see a young man help an elderly woman carry something.  It shows me how miraculous and giving humanity can be. I believe we sometimes forget. 

This car accident has showed me through my community of clients, students and friends just how giving and miraculous humanity can be.  Makes me grateful to be human to experience such things. (I know this is a bit of joke when I say I am grateful for being human--some of you will get this and others will not, but those who do know that I sometimes find it hard to be a human in this world. I will leave it at that.)  Just to let you know it is really simple to discover mini miracles.  Step outside and see for the first how the birds fly by you or how the cutest little chipmunk scatters as you walk by or stops to say hi. Or when you have your morning beverage (mine is usually a lovely, smelling herbal tea), just sit with your beverage and do nothing else. Watch how amazing that will make you feel.  If you look really closely at this picture, you will see there is, in fact,  a double rainbow.  I took it when I went on my trip to Hawaii. 

My wish for you today is to stop, take a long breath and notice what is around you.

In love,

EstaRa

Love Your Body, Pamper Your Body, Heal Your Body

While cooped up in my apartment after my car accident, I discovered many beautiful things.  One was a big box of body pampering goodies.  The box arrived the day after my accident from a dear friend, she had mailed it to me in time for Valentine's Day as a gift!    My friend brought it upstairs and we left it on the floor in a corner by my desk.

I have to say it was a treat to "find" the box about a month and half after it was delivered. I was so excited to open my box of goodies.  Oh my--were they ever a box of goodies.  A very dear soul and friend of mine, Llisa, has been making homemade soaps for sometime now; and just recently she decided to start a new business and get more creative by making more than just soap.  These products are amazing!  She uses top quality, organic ingredients to make her products in her home in Maine. She uses pure essential oils that are not only great for your body and healing, but safe for you and the environment. So not only are they incredible, but they are local to New England and amazing.

So let me tell you a little about what products she sent and my experience with them. One of my favorite things was a heart shaped soap of Lavender, you all know me and hearts, so I was already won over by the shape, but it smelled just as good as it looked.  The scent last through the entire time I had the bar.    A couple other soap scents that she sent along were:  Lavender & Patchouli, Palmarosa, Orange, Patchouli & Petitgrain, Grapefruit, Orange and Balsam. These soaps seem to last much longer than soaps I have purchased in the past and the scent lasts too. These soaps are so worth getting because of their many healing benefits with regard to the Essential Oils alone, and how they heal/balance/help you mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually; but the fact that these are homemade with Real, Pure, Natural, Organic Ingredients without the "preservatives" (that major mass marketing companies use to make them last longer) makes them better for body, mind and soul!   As to which soap you should buy, well that is a question to ask yourself in terms of what you want to feel/experience.  For example:  Lavender Essential Oil is so great for the soul.  It can uplift you by providing balance as well as calm you during times of stress, whereas, Patchouli is great for improving dry, cracked skin amongst grounding and balancing you.  I also got a sample of her Flower Power Body Powder which is wonderfully smelling and silky feeling.  It is a great alternative to body powders that use Talc as their base.  There are all kinds of connections to health issues related to use of talcum powders besides who doesn't want to smell amazing scents that are non-toxic?  Llisa also sent along some sweet smelling bath tea, but I have not yet been able to use it due to my body in recovery--getting in and out of tub right now is not exactly easy to do.  However, I can't wait to use it in the future.  It really is as easy as filling the tub with hot water, adding the teabag to it and enjoy being cooked with everything nice.

Okay so I told you all about the first few products that I love and enjoy using, but the number one thing that I think I love the most is her Whipped  Avocado Body Butter with the scent of lemongrass essential oil.  OMG--it is amazing! It is probably one of the best things I have let my body experience.  Not only is this luxurious to your skin, but it is extremely cleansing and healing to your lymphatic system.  Your Lymph system is not often talked about until you have a problem with it, such as cancer that impacts your lymph nodes.  But, did you know that virtually every part of your body is covered in lymph tissue/fluid?  So using this product not only smells great, feels great but it is assisting your body to cleanse the lymph system through the Lemongrass Oil (which is known as a lymph detoxifier amongst other things).  As an fyi--every injury to your body injures your lymph system so it is really important to keep it healthy.  For me, this is helping to heal my car accident more than I may even know!  This product I call my new happy!

So needless to say, this box of goodies was a box full of love-your-body pampering.  Not only were the scents heavenly, but the powder and creams made my body feel loved and blissful! I never thought I'd say this, but I  love my job of healing!!

Oh ya, one last thing....you want to know how to get in touch with Llisa and her amazing, homemade body products?   Her website (not quite ready yet) is: www.Llisas.com (yes her name has two L's).  Her email: llisabengtson@yahoo.com and her phone number: 207-342-2211.  Good luck and may you find your new happy too!

PS If you have  product that you feel is green and safe for the environment that you would like me to try and evaluate objectively and review, feel free to contact me or send it along.

Step by Step We Heal

So as you all know, I had a car accident on Valentine's Day this year.  Really hard to forget not only because I still have some bad days with pain, but also it is the Day of Love and how ironic that on the day of Love, I am knocked down for the count.  I've had many revelations as to why this happened and my guides have told me that I will never know the full extent of reasons until possibly ten years from now.  I am not going to go into what I think the reasons are spiritually, mentally, emotionally or even physically at least not now at this moment, but what I would like to talk about is how the process of healing is coming about and what has happened.

I didn't have treatment for two months and the doctors didn't want to give me medications when that is what I truly needed especially at the beginning to get the Inflammation down.  Well, because treatment was delayed so has been my recovery. I have been blessed by amazing friends, students, clients who have helped me stay in my apartment and get by thus far. I no longer want to use medications and I am looking for many alternatives to what traditional medicine provides.

During this time at home, I have had the pleasure to experience some great healing opportunities through my spirit and through alternative therapies. In addition, I have had people share products with me that have been wonderful and healing or just plain what I want.  I would like to write a little more so my plan is to share with you what is helping/working for me.  I also want to share products I was given to help me during this time.  Maybe each of you will benefit from my experience too. 

As an aside  sometimes the journey is really difficult because you are meant to be something greater than you even know.  I would like to point out that while it has been difficult these last several months, I am also becoming more aware of what my future will look like, including the changes I am making.  Truly, creating your future is the first step to healing and making it happen is the next.  I believe everything is possible--I healed myself once before so I know I will do it again.    Step by step my journey is becoming more and more interesting.  There is much to be said about healing your life and I look forward to sharing more with you.

Inspirational Snippet: I love you

I wanted to share this morning's message I placed on my Soul Star Healing Facebook Fan Page.  As many of you know, each day I place message from my guides, angels and/or my higher self for your highest and best good.  If you wish to connect with me on Facebook to receive these messages, please click this link:  https://www.facebook.com/soulstarhealing.

Today's Message: When you say the words I love you, do you feel it? Do you mean it? When you hear someone say the words I love you to you, do you feel it? Do you allow those words to creep into all parts of you? Do you allow the softness of the words to fill the depths of your soul, all parts of your body ? Or do you simple hear, but not listen and feel. Those words are meant to be felt and owned. Today, tell someone that you love them and allow yourself to impart that feeling of love. And when someone tells you they love you, allow yourself to accept it with no conditions/strings/worries/fears..just pure energy of being loved. Feel my words: I love you.~EstaRa.

Something I want to bring to your attention.  We don't often allow ourselves to hear those words because we are: too busy, feel too unworthy, afraid to hear them, allow our brains to come up with reasons why someone is saying that, trying to find the ulterior motive, or we are just simply afraid to accept that we are loveable.  See yourself today only as a loveable, worthy being of light and each time you hear those words even in a song on the radio allow that love to fill you as if it were food for your soul (because I will let you in on a little secret--it is food for your soul)!   The words I love you hold so much more power than you can imagine so I hope you can feel the words as they are said to you and send the love as you say the words.

My wish for you is to feel the words: I love you.

Love to you,
EstaRa

Inspirational Snippet: Trust Yourself

Inspirational Snippet: Trust Yourself

I wanted to share this morning's message I placed on my Soul Star Healing Facebook Fan Page.  As many of you know, each day I place message from my guides, angels and/or my higher self for your highest and best good.  If you wish to connect with me on Facebook to receive these messages, please click this link:  https://www.facebook.com/soulstarhealing.

The message I wish to share with you today is very important in discovering who you are, why you are here, what you are here to do and how you can heal yourself in this lifetime.  You must develop a lifelong relationship with your mind/body/spirit.  As I always teach, it begins with loving yourself; perhaps taking steps to really love yourself is the way to go and today's message will help you make that first step.

Today's Message: There is no one more deserving of your trust on this planet than you. The relationship you have with yourself is of utmost importance in these times for it is the one thing that will assist in your healing mentally, emotionally,physically and spiritually. It is really important to reconnect with yourself especially if things in your body seem out of alignment the importance raises to a priority. Whether you trust yourself or not, it impacts the messages you are sending to yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. So my message to you today is not just love yourself, begin a relationship of trust with yourself for that might be the step in the direction of loving yourself.~EstaRa


My wish for you is to renew your relationship with yourself everyday by trusting what your mind/body/spirit has to say to you.

Love to you,
EstaRa