Play

Play is not just for children. Adults that never play become very stale in your everyday life. Your creativity is on a starvation diet. Play is how people create new businesses, new ideas, write novels, articles, paint and create art. Writing poetry. Allows more money to come through the door.

It can be a form a meditation too. Play can be done indoors or outdoors. It is a way to problem solve, its much harder to brain storm for solutions when you always under stress. It allows you to actually relax and just be. I allows things to start to flow and come to you naturally.

It allows people to share together time too. This time of connecting to yourself and finding out who you are again. We can get lost in the fast lane of life with the constant responsibilities. Play allows you to actually breathe. A lot of us have forgotten how to actually breathe, relax and play.

When we never take time for ourselves, we start to lose our identity of who we are? It can take a long time to explore that journey when you've lost that connection with yourself. We start to buy into the labels that people put on us. By playing, we are allowing ourselves to just be! To just exist and escape from all the drama and pressure of everyday life. It allows us to find another way to express ourselves and find solutions to make ourselves happier.

It helps us examine if we are truly happy or just going through the motions. If you start to see patterns that keep repeating in your life. Take a step back and see if you see the connection to why or what is making this happen. Allow yourself to take the time to play with different solutions to it and try some different things. If one thing doesn't work. You can always try a different approach. Play also allows us to take time to check in with ourselves to see if we are happy or not. What makes our soul sing? What makes you feel like your trudging through mud? Just take the time to see what answers come to you.

Penny J. (MN, USA)
Raven Hawke, Llc
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Prosperity

Prosperity can mean different things to different people. Some assume it means money right out the gate. Others it can mean having enough. It's all about perspective. How you were raised, ethics, belief systems and what makes you, you!

Not many people in the US know that in most religions it's considered a sin if your not prosperous or wealthy. The idea behind this is that you are expected to live up to your true potential. You are expected to live a life of happiness, creativity and prosper in all areas of your life. This includes relationships.

This lack mentality that some religions teach is a disease or a chain to keep you from reaching your true potential. When you are prosperous in all areas of your life. You are able to give so much more of your time and other things that help your communities flow.

This flow is Universal energy and intelligence. This is not religion. This is a natural law. This is happiness and love at it's most highest. It is not judging, it is allowing the person to reach their potential.

Prosperity in relationships that allow you to grow as a person and are emotionally supportive. This means it allows the individual to make mistakes and learn from them and not judging them. It also means that they don't try to save the person from themselves. It is taking one step at a time and finding out which steps work and which do not.

This is about personal growth as a individual and them finding their path through life and happiness.

Penny J. (MN, USA)
Raven Hawke, Llc
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A Prison of Our Own Making

Some people believe that a prison has bars and it is a place of punishment. Sometimes its not just criminals that are in prison. Sometimes very good people, think that if they do something for themselves it will be a bad thing.

I witnessed many people that stay in a job that makes them miserable because somewhere along the way they lost their own self worth or never had it. This also happens with marriages as well. Our society is so driven by guilt that is it a wonder the high suicide rate.

When we sacrifice ourselves in such a way, our souls start to slowly die. It is a touchier worse than the death. It is amazing the norms that we've excepted to fit into what we call society.

The question is who decided these norms? Is it cultural? Religion based? Why is it we feel that we must fit in so badly. Was it our parents? Their parents? When is it we finally have the right to decide for ourselves?

I have watched people stay together out of obligation. Each in their own personal prison. One thinking they have to stay because they have a handicap that they can't be independent. The other refusing to allow the person with the handicap to become independent. One begins to wonder who is the one with the real handicap.

Only after the death of one of them is the other finally free and independent. So much time wasted, that could have been better used for happiness. We all are capable of learning and changing. We have to first choose too.

These oppressive relationships that hold us down serve no purpose. Do we really have to hit rock bottom to see that we are capable of so much more. I once met a person that said, Rock Bottom was death. I beg to differ. Rock bottom, is that invisible line that once someone in our life crosses it there is no going back. We each have a line of how much we will put up with. Once someone crosses it. We are done with them or we will change. 

We are all adults that can choose for ourselves. We must reclaim our personal power or lose a piece of who we are bit by bit.

Penny J.
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)

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