Shopping with Spirit... a few days ago I went to our local health food store and observed myself loading up on Vitamin C and Bee Pollen Lozenges lightly thinking 'just in case'. Like on automatic pilot I found my body walk over to the shelf and put into my basket little sachets of Vitamin C, a bag of Superchews (also Vitamin C), and Propolis Lozenges (Bee Pollen) all to strengthen the immune system. I watched it happen and thought ''That's odd. We are all healthy - there must be something rolling towards us...''

The very next day my daughter's throat started hurting a little, so I gave both of us VItamin C - and in the evening again - in addition to our fresh food. The next morning her throat was hurting really bad and she asked me whether I could go get some lozenges for her... and I just grinned and reached behind me where the bee pollen lozenges  (disinfecting and immune strenthtening) already waited for her. She was more grateful than surprised. Pretty cool, right? Again, we both took the Vitamin C in the morning and evening. And the following morning the throat was fine again.

INTUITION IN ACTION vs. TAKING INSPIRED ACTION. The first was what I have just shared with you. The second would be, had I thought ''buy Vitamin C...!''  and then chosen to take the inspired action to actually DO it. This was more like automatic inspired action without my thinking/choosing process: My higher Intelligence just walked me over, had me go through the physical movement of loading the items into the basket, and while I witnessed it, it was the most natural thing to do. Quantum Being with future memory of things to come. It was just the thing to do. Period.

I didn't doubt it either, because there was no thinking involved other than my wondering about why that may be needed - more like a curious child that wonders how something works. I was fully present. A great example for letting your heart lead, because my mind would have seen no logical reason ''for something we didn't really need at the moment'' and rather spent the money on something 'more important or more fun'... but my heart knew that this was exactly what we needed to support our bodies in doing their best work - with success. What a great help it has been, especially with my daughter being in the middle of the exams of her last year of school where every day counts and it is important to be fit and fresh and able to think clearly.

So, be inspired, let your heart lead and when something like this happens to you, just TRUST that your higher Intelligence knows what it is doing - even if you don't.

Here's to your health and happiness,

with gratitude for the Love that guides us
(and goes shopping with us if we let Her)



☆✩ Tanya ✩☆

''Your TRUE LOVE awaits you beneath an old oak tree!!...'' 

The unfoldment of one synchronicity after another is teaching me so much. My magical story teller sister Rosa wrote me this eye-opening inspiration, sharing another one of her clear intuitive insights. 
''When I went to the Inspirational Storytellers site, I saw the photo of the old oak tree and right there - beneath it - was your story. I felt that THIS is your true love (in one sense). Metaphorically, writing and telling your stories is your true love, and following it led you to share with so many others through this new community. It is my intuitive sharing for you. '' (Rosa)

Her insight went through and through and hit home, because writing, journaling, and poetizing the world comes so natural to me, that I did not give it value and importance - but is 'so me'... and everything that brings so much as a smile to your face, has value.



Giving is like breathing... can't only breathe out, You have to also breathe in - receive - and let the flow circulate! Only giving is as disruptive to the flow as only receiving - it is about BALANCE.

So, while I was so busy during the past few years learning and absorbing all I can about contributing to and creating a new economy through doing what I love: inside first, then the outside is a natural result and reflection of that inner economy. How does what I love add value to my own and someone else's life? How can I circulate my gifts and receive as well (can't only be giving!). It had never occurred to me that writing, speaking, and story telling is my TRUE LOVE, my passion, my most fluent and powerful way to express my creative Spirit for the benefit and blossoming of my own life and the life of others. When I let my true love flow through to you and others, then I can feel that love since it flows through me first.

And then that same day, I met a woman who works with kids and adults with a speech impediment, specialized on those gifted souls who have a stutter - which can have many reasons. An enriching exchange ensued  about so many things I had no idea about, when this sentence hit home. She said:''You know, there are so many people struggling to gain some form of control over their speech. We don't even realize that communicating with ease is such a gift - let alone have great mastery over language. Often what comes most natural to us, we give no credit at all, we can see it as little as our nose, ears, or forehead - unless we have a mirror. 

Is there something that you long to express? that you love, love, love doing - and could be doing all day long ?  

I assure you, there are people out there waiting for that very expression to inspire them. What you seek seeks you also!
So, here's a little challenge for you.

• What you would really, really love (!) to express, do, or be? Write it down.
• pick ONE, and 
• take ONE step into that dream today - and if that is: 'carve out 15 minutes to dream about it'
• come back and share with us in the comments below: What's your True Love? What was your first action step?

Insight without inspired action is lost value! Insight with inspired action is making your dream real. 

TRUE LOVE has so many facets, why not pick one - and BE it?

sprinkles of joy for your cell-ebration,

☆✩ living inspiraton Tanya ✩☆

Now, how do I get from acorn and oak tree to strawberries? I just love, love, love this image. It brings me joy and it so matches how I feel right now: I am in total strawberry bliss - only that my strawberries are all these little miracles and connections that have appeared in my life: So much magic has happened since my dear friend Rosa, had sent me the note: ''Love awaits you under an old oak tree'' just a few days ago. (See two blogs below under 'Marvelous Metaphor: An Oak Tree brought into Creation'). Her acting on her intuition to share that sentence with me has set in motion sooo much: I paid attention to a metaphor in a book I was just reading with an oak tree and acorn, then decided to write the blog below, searched for images, and while doing that found http://inspirationalstorytellers.com/ - a great website, I was speechless: This felt like I had stumbled into a garden full of blossoming kindred souls: A website full of inspiration, story tellers, stories, poetry, and more. 
I contacted the founder, Lynne Ralph, to let her know how much I appreciated her site, and - both very (!) tuned in - we instantly recognized our soul connection and divine appointment and trusted our intuitive knowing that we were put together for a purpose greater than us. What we each are about matches and complements what we are here to do. 

The past few days flew by while I was immersed in updating my LinkedIn profile, opening my first twitter account, assembling a short bio and more, so that they would have the necessary links, photos, and info needed. And today 'Inspirational Storytellers' published my first blog ('Marvelous Metaphor: An Oak Tree Brought into Creation; see below) on their site and welcomed me into their storyteller community. Wow! That feels so good! And all that because Rosa followed her intuition to share that sentence with me, and I followed a whole chain of intuitive nudges to land on 'Inspirational Storytellers' website and then get in touch with the founder, Lynne. A whole lot of 'just do it'... paired with resonance and alignment. 

Taking inspired action will always reap some kind of reward, whether that is sheer experience or - like in our case - a whole new creative adventure. 

Of course, it also helps when all players are this open to stepping into the Unknown and totally trust the way it feels, trust that when something feels this guided that there is more to it. And listen we did... all three of us. But listening is not enough - we have to act upon it, too.

They love my work and want to help me get my creative work out. I love what they are about and how they contribute to the world: What/who you seek - also seeks you. So true every time! We are so aligned, even use a lot of the same words, and I live currently in the UK, while she lives in New Zealand. With the internet such long distance connections are easy, because consciousness has no distance, and you can feel whether someone is authentic or not, which is why more and more you will see that those creative spiritual enterprises and people will succeed, who are authentically being themselves. People don't want fakeys anymore. That's great news!! Let's be ourselves. And, if you don't know who that is, invite your Self onto a creative adventure and find out.

We are pondering co-creating and co-leading a themed writer's workshop together in Italy in 2014  along with the Inspirational Storyteller team. Which is mind boggling since I am also in the middle of  preparing my own retreats and packages, and had just (!) decided to go to Kaua'i in September and to keep Italy open for this summer 2013 because of other dates that are not clear yet. And there Italy is again, calling loudly. Ok, Italy, we are coming: A themed writer's retreat in 2014. My own visionary  Intensive/Retreat in Italy summer 2013 is for really spontaneous visionaries and creatives, because I have to keep it open until all other dates are settled... but sometimes, a last minute choice brings sweet surprises. 

Every step reveals the next, so take inspired action, but don't plan too far ahead and let go of any expectation or projection or you may block the magical outcome that is there for you... because the universe can think much bigger than you, trust me! When you feel a true calling to something, then who knows what the reason is... :)

Just one big fat WOW - and WOW! again. 
with total strawberry bliss,

☆✩ storyteller Tanya ✩☆

Check out Lynne's Inspirational Storytellers here   http://inspirationalstorytellers.com/ 
Check out Rosa's Creative Dream Companion here  http://www.creativedreamcompanion.com/