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Law of Attraction meets Attitude of Gratitude - by Oprah via macaroononastick on Flickr :)

Kitties in the Can

These little darlings have been with me for ten days now. They're six weeks old and what a treat they are to have in my life.

I'm a kitten foster mom for Theresa Foley's non-profit spay-neuter rescue organizations: The Key West Cat Society and the Venice Cat Coalition.

Join our Facebook page: the Sarasota Kitten Club to be in the conversation all revolving around saving cats and kittens in Florida (and simply loving them). Buy a T-shirt (my art is on the T-shirt), send a donation, send love. It all goes to help the cats who love us back unconditionally and add countless moments of joy to my life.

If you live in Sarasota County or nearby areas and are interested in adopting one of these babies (or others), please call me at 941-993-7001. - Raphaella

Heartful Art Studio Moves Indoors for the Florida Summer

Florida is hot in the summer. Reading my friends' facebook pages, I'm gathering it's hot all over the country these days.

I realized today that, because of the heat, I wasn't getting to paint as much as I like because my studio was set up outside in the lanai. By 9am on any given day, the heat and humidity maxed me out. Today I was inspired to create a solution. I carved out a 5' x 6' space in a corner of my bedroom, laid down some indoor/outdoor carpet to protect the floor tile, and created an indoor studio.

I'm excited about my new space. I have so many new galleries and shops around the country wanting original art (woo-hoo!) that I have a lot of creating to do. Now I have a more comfortable place to create.

I'll probably move back outside in the fall and winter months because I love painting outside when it's lovely weather. Hey, maybe I'll create Studio 2 and have both. Sounds like fun to me.

"Feel Good for the Sake of Feeling Good" - quote from Abraham-Hicks seminar

I have my phone alarm set for all the times that Abraham-Hicks are scheduled to have a seminar broadcast on hayhouseradio.com and this morning was one of those times. Today's broadcast was a seminar from Chicago on May 25, 2002. I LOVE these seminars and always gain new insight while listening. This one was all about the benefits of doing "virtual reality" which is spending a few minutes visualizing a place, feeling good there (not trying to fix anything while there) and that's it. "Get in, feel good, get out" as Abraham would put it.

Twice a day my phone alarm rings to remind me to take five and do these visualizations. I thought of Paris today and walking down des Champs-Élysées. However, the memory of an actual day doing just that when I traveled there some years ago came rushing into my mind along with the feelings I'd felt then. I knew that wouldn't work for the practice of the exercise because I was bringing reality into my virtual reality place. So, I picked a new place. I went instead to my tried and true Serengeti and feasted my eyes on a beautiful lion with a full mane who turned to look at me as I gazed upon his beauty.

That felt so nice and reminded me of my little foster kittens who are consistently a source of love for me. It's interesting, as I'm writing this, and you are reading this, you might get the impression that the practice of doing a virtual reality exercise (as taught by Abraham-Hicks) is something to do when you're feeling down to help make you feel better. Au contraire, it's a place to go to simply practice the vibration of feeling good and to practice vibrational alignment with well-being. The idea is that by doing so, you get so good at feeling good and so good at recognizing the vibration of feeling good and so good at making the feeling good vibration dominant in your life, that you can maintain that vibration, which is the vibration of allowing, no matter what is happening around you.

Practicing virtual reality is just another game of life which I love. I wish you moments of feeling good for the sake of feeling good. Be well.

Abraham-Hicks Publications re Allowing vs. Earning

We would like you to release the word "achieve" or "earn" from your vocabulary and from your understanding, altogether, and we would like you to replace those words with the word "allow". You're wanting to allow your Well-being, not achieve it. It's not something that you need to earn. All you have to do is decide what it is you would like to experience, and then allow it in order to achieve it. It isn't something you have to struggle for or try for. You are all worthy beings. You are deserving of this Well-being.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Detroit, MI on Saturday, July 8th, 2000 #468

Our Love,
Jerry and Esther (abraham-hicks.com)

Memorial Day special - United States Marine Corps Hymn

I first created this poster in honor of my father and his comrades who served in WWII in the bomber squadron VMB611. It's a poster and is available in two sizes: 5x7 and 8x11 and will be two for the price of one through the end of June 2010 in honor of all veterans of all wars. The links will bring you to my website's online store. Simply mark the quantity you want and I'll send you twice that number. Or call us at 941-993-7001 and complete the sale offline for 50% of website price and discounted shipping. Bless you and your families.

My Cat, Diana ... justifying her existence

There's an Abraham-Hicks seminar I remember where they were talking with someone who made the comment "I am worthy" and Abraham said they didn't need to justify their existence. Then Abraham told the story of Party Cat who jumped in Esther and Jerry's window during a seminar and laid down in the center of the room and flipped over on his back like my Diana. They asked Party Cat what he was doing and the answer was, "this is about as far as I go to justify my existence." I always think of that when I see my Diana laying on her back and it reminds me I don't have to earn my being alive. I am alive. I am who I am and where I am. That's it.