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Nourishing your spirit is not unlike nourishing your body and is just as important. What you put in directly relates to how you feel, how much energy you have and it shows on the outside as much as how it affects your insides! You could call this blog ‘food for thought’. 🙂

I don’t think there’s anyone out there who would starve themselves on purpose. You get hungry, you eat! Your body needs food, water, vitamins and nutrients to survive. When you give your body everything it needs you physically feel better and have more energy to get through your day. If you don’t eat (or drink) , your body becomes stressed, it growls at you, you may feel light-headed, nauseous and you lack energy. The same goes for if you eat huge portions or foods that aren’t good for you . High fat, fried, sugary foods or eating an amount of food that would feed a small army leaves your body feeling much the same as when you are hungry although you may have to include feeling bloated and lethargic to that mix!

You know you need nourishment and healthy foods to survive and feel good. Have you ever considered how and what your spiritual energetic body needs for nourishment as well? Do you feed your spirit each day with nourishing thoughts and replenishing your energy or do you starve it and allow any old thing to come in and weigh you down? Do you wait until you are worried, sick, stuck or overwhelmed to feed your spirit & soul what it needs? This is very much the same as dieting and depriving yourself then bingeing! Trust me when I say it doesn’t work! The growth process goes much smoother and moves faster when you give yourself what you need every day.

What and how you eat affects spirit & soul as much as what and how you feed your spirit & soul affects your physical body. It is very much a symbiotic relationship! Nourishing spirit & soul is as easy as doing things you enjoy, keeping positive thoughts in your mind and of course a daily meditation practice.

There is ongoing scientific research on meditation and its effect on the body. The findings prove in measurable terms what many of us already know to be true. Did you know that studies done by Yale, Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital have shown that meditation increases gray matter in the brain and slows down the deterioration of the brain as a part of the natural aging process? Quieting the mind and feeding your spirit clears out ‘free radicals’ and acts as an antioxidant for the soul!

An interesting non-scientific study done and experienced first hand by yours truly, ME, is that when you feed your spirit what it needs, you no longer need to feed that child like voice in your head that constantly tells you it needs REAL “food” for comfort (or any other emotion you feed) to try to feel better. That little voice does not have a body so feeding it only leads to YOUR body getting larger and in a sense covers up what really needs nourishment….YOUR SPIRIT!

Connecting to the earth, the universe and your body creates a natural flow and clears out & nourishes the spiritual body all at the same time. There are no calories to keep track of and no portion is too large! Nourishing spirit and bringing in more of your spiritual essence changes everything from your mood to your body and increases how much energy you have to create! If you don’t believe it, check out the science that proves it! Better yet…in the words of a famous commercial in the States; Try it, you’ll like it… 🙂 ~Shine Your Light Debbie

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Debra is a gifted clairvoyant reader, spiritual healer and intuitive coach providing insight and guidance to clients around the world. Based in Chicago, Debra also leads meditation workshops that help people awaken to their own truth and spiritual gifts. For more information please visit her web site SpiritLightInsight.com

Valentine’s day is almost here and love is in the air~ While this day is supposed to be a romantic, affectionate, love filled day for expressing love, giving gifts, cards, etc for many it is a day that glares and magnifies the loneliness of not having a significant other.

One can’t define how, why or who we love and there really are no adequate words to describe it. Love is a feeling, a vibration, an energy and until you actually experience it, it is mystifying and elusive. Love in its purest form exists within each one of us. Love is a state of being! The real mystery to finding love comes in the form of a question; Do you love yourself unconditionally?

I know that’s a loaded question to ask but it goes right to ‘the heart’ of the matter at hand! Many of us spend time seeking love from another when it’s really about opening our hearts to the one that matters most…OURSELVES. Vanity and ego aside you really are the most important person who can love you! When you embrace all of you and what’s in your heart then surround yourself with that vibration every cell and organ in your body feels loved! Your aura exudes love! There is love in the very air you breathe!

Being in your flow and bubble of love you are complete. If you are looking for someone to complete and validate you, you might want to begin by looking inside yourself to see where you feel incomplete, invalidated or if there is an empty place that you trying to fill up. Listen for that little voice inside your head and notice if you are beating yourself up. Be aware of what you tell yourself and where you judge yourself! Become aware of who you believe yourself to be and if you feel worthy and deserving of the love you seek. If you don’t have unconditional self-love and honor yourself, no matter who loves or validates you, it will always feel like something is missing!

If you’ve ever wondered why people seem to find love when they aren’t looking for it here lies the answer! Those people have turned love “inside out” and start living, giving, loving and honoring themselves. In essence, they open up to loving who they are and begin romancing their own spirit and soul.

Our toughest critic is usually ourself. If you are constantly critiquing or judging yourself…STOP IT! If you feel, tell yourself or believe something needs ‘fixing’ …STOP IT RIGHT NOW! If you’ve looked for love in all the wrong places and no one seems to be ‘the right fit’ …STOP RIGHT NOW and take a journey within to find those places where you don’t quite feel like you fit!

This is not to say that you should not want to share your life and the love you have in your heart. When you are complete and vibrate from a place of love it vibrates outward and ECHO‘s back to you. So let me ask you…do you want more love and romance in your life? Do you want an amazing and Grand Love Affair ? If so…begin romancing yourself!

Fill up with and surround yourself with love! Shower yourself with droplets of affection! Whisper sweet things to yourself! Buy yourself flowers! Write yourself a love letter! Light candles! Send yourself a valentine! Whatever love and romance means to you treat yourself to that very thing!

Give the most romantic fantasy you’ve ever had to yourself! Treat yourself as you want someone to treat you. If you can’t treat yourself the way you wish to be treated, why should someone else?

Starting today open up to loving yourself with no conditions. Romance your spirit and soul. Make every day Valentine’s Day and look for love in all the right places. The right place to look for love is inside you!~Shine Your Light Debbie

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Debra is a clairvoyant reader, spiritual healer, intuitive coach and teacher helping people worldwide to awaken to their truth and heal the human spirit. For more information, to schedule a reading/coaching session and information on upcoming workshops & events please visit her website or send an email to Debra@SpiritLightInsight.com