What Does Sleep have to do with Heart Health?

Posted by Esther on Nov 10, 2011 in Health Info | 0 comments

Read what this article by Dr. Michael J. Breus has to say about the proven connection between sleep and heart health …

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/insomnia-heart-disease_b_1083854.html

Tips for Handling Stress & Anxiety

Posted by Esther on Sep 1, 2011 in Health Info | 0 comments

Here’s a link to a great article written by Deepak Chopra about the effects of stress on the brain. The article includes several useful tips for coping with stress and anxiety:

http://www.thevisualmd.com/expert_panel/deepak_chopra_md/weekly_health_tip_stress_and_the_brain

Today’s Self-Questions for August 26, 2011

Posted by Esther on Aug 26, 2011 in WomanSpace Self-Questions | 0 comments

It would be my guess that most of us aren’t really cognizant of the personal   beliefs and notions that are really fueling our day to day thoughts and actions. Asking yourself probing questions and spending the time and energy to a listen to the answers can be enlightening, to say the least.  So, that being said, here are today’s questions for your womanspace:

What do you want that you think you can’t have, and what makes you think you can’t you have it?

What do you want to do that you think you can’t do, and what makes you think you can’t do it?

What Do You Want to Do?

Posted by Esther on Aug 26, 2011 in From Trouble to High Places | 0 comments

Today, do something new and bold and fabulous.

Write a poem or a song.

Write a real letter to someone you love.

Plan a fund-raiser for a family in need.

Design a new email campaign for your business.

Rough out a book proposal for the book you’ve had in mind to write.

Create a plan for a women’s workshop.

Come up with an idea for a new non-profit organization that deals with the issues of community that you are most passionate about.

Sew a new outfit.

Paint a room. Or a single wall . . . or a chair…or a picture.

Do something that can serve as a symbol of your readiness to move your life forward.

Take a step, one baby-step, forward toward your High Places.

Yes, you may.

Hello world!

Posted by Esther on Aug 5, 2011 in Moving Forward | 2 comments

Welcome to the new Re-Inventing Your WomanSpace web spot !

Well …  here I am over at my new home on my new self-hosted WordPress site while all my old website files are waiting to be cut and pasted into wordpress pages, and all of my old blog files and posts are still over at wordpress.com waiting for me to read and read and read until I figure out how to import them.  Ugh … Right now i feel the same way I felt when I moved into my physical house… the one I’m living in now:  A little bit excited and a little bit overwhelmed, waiting for my stuff to arrive and fill up the house and make it into home. Thinking of the potential of this place and daydreaming about all the things I can do (write about) here …  and wondering what I can put up at the windows until the curtains are ready…

Ok … so we’re here to Re-Invent our WomanSpaces, right? To talk about what’s real, wild, fermented and sweet in our lives — not about blog software and the latest related meltdown of my sanity.

So, let me open the door of my new home to you and rummage through the boxes for a few matching cups and saucers so we can have some tea. You go turn on some music — something we haven’t heard in a while ~~~ huhmmm, how about a little of Carole King’s Tapestry or Ella Fitzgerald’s “A Tisket,  A Tasket” ~~~~

… And let’s settle ourselves into lovely and deep, comfy armchairs and just BE for a bit … while I figure some of this out.

Love and Light

Esther

With Whom Are You Walking?

Posted by Esther on Jul 12, 2011 in From Trouble to High Places | 0 comments

Today, think about the people around you. Do they stir a high energy within you, or do they make you sink down into the lowest places of yourself?

Is there someone who seems to help you to step up higher into yourself every time you talk to them? Is there someone who intimidates you? Is there someone who frequently belittles you? Is there someone who seems to understand you without your having to go through undue explanations about things? Is there someone who makes your mind and spirit feel good?

As you become more and more aware of the nullifying effect that some people have on your ability to move forward, you will come to understand the importance of associating with people who are a positive force in your life. You will free yourself to be able to offer some Love to everyone you come into contact with . . . yet you’ll also know when to stop short of throwing your beating heart to hungry lion-folks.

You’ll be free to give of yourself to anyone who has a true need, but you’ll also know to think twice before offering your last bit of water to those who have a habit of, somehow, cracking every glass they own.

You’ll be free to love others strong, yet, you’ll know to be wary of those who keep refusing to heal . . . and seem to ex-pect you to stay in their unhealed zone with them.

In all of your relationships, listen carefully for the intuitive voice of your spirit-woman. Pay attention, and she will tell you everything you need to know.

Staying in relationships that we know aren’t good for us makes it harder for us to move forward out of our Trouble.

Trying to walk, for too long, with people who aren’t going in the same direction we are, just drives us deeper into Trouble.

*****
Excerpt from From Trouble to High Places: Meditations For Women Who Are So Ready to Cross the Bridges That Lead to Joy! Copyright 2009 Esther Davis-Thompson

Are You Ready to Receive More?

Posted by Esther on May 18, 2011 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Nothing good can happen for us until we, first, open ourselves to the possibility of receiving our good and then proceed to lay the spiritual groundwork of believing for it to happen. Not our best health. Not true wealth. Not a peaceful life. Not healthy, happy children. Not a beautiful home or a lovely garden. In fact, nothing much really. Unless we are willing to pray, to believe and focus, to ponder, to analyze, scrutinize, and then take the steps required to purposefully mutilate a current state of being, in surrender to a new momentum led by our spirits, we can’t move beyond the place we now occupy.
New energy to move forward . . . new focus and concentration . . . the ability to press forward, upward, and on toward the place we want to be . . . new power in any form has to come from our Creator.

New blessings come only from our Creator. 

So, when your personal reserves are running low—when there is something that you need—do you think you should ask for more . . . from your Creator? 

When you can feel yourself being defeated by some aspect of your life, do you remember to ask the one who created you for more power over your circumstances?

When you feel your body failing, do you ask for more health?

When you don’t have enough money to do what you need and want to do, do you ask for opportunities to create more wealth for yourself? 

When you can’t come up with a new idea or a better solution to the problem that’s presently pressing you hard, do you sit in Spirit, and ask for more . . . ?

Do you sometimes feel as though you lack the strength to walk toward the desires of your heart?

Your spirit-woman, who hears directly from God, lives strong in you. Listen . . . and learn from her.

How would she go about walking out the life that you envision?

What would she do first?

What would she do next?

And, after that?….