Maat E's Mental Health Message:
Pursue your purpose! Each new week offers another opportunity to start fresh or to build upon our unique dreams and passions. If we are already making progress and things seem to come together easily, then we know all is in divine order. If what we're expecting is not quite happening or obstacles seem to keep getting in the way, then we can take the indication that the chaos still needs to settle and be sorted out. Once this occurs, we can pursue our purpose with passion and go for what we were born to do with every ounce of everything we've got. The plans and details will all fall into place.
Have a blessed day. Peace Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message:
Reach-out today! We are all divinely connected even when it feels like we are alone. In our moments of isolation and distance it can be such a challenge to reach-out to the people we love. We act grumpy, confused or move with self-doubt that the warmth we put out may not be met with love. It is the reaching out not the taking in that fosters the love. However, some of us also get stuck on our ability to receive. Reach-out today! Much peace and more love. Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message: 9/17/09

Let's be thankful for our troubles. Better yet, be thankful that our troubles are not worse." If we don't believe they can get worse, notice how we feel after each time we complain. Now these thoughts do not discount that we all are worthy and deserve to acknowledge when things are hard. This line of thinking also does not suggest we compare our problems to anyone else and make judgements. If we can just remember that things could be worse and at some point, if we have faith in our Higher Power's ability to teach us life's lessons through experience, things will definitely change. If our thoughts change our circumstances change. May something change for us all today and things get better because we know they could be worse. Peace Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message:
Be loving to the people you live with! Are we yelling at our sons, daughters, spouses or mates and saving being nice for our co-workers, pastors, friends and strangers? If so, we cannot expect to have peace in our own house. The universe will just keep surrounding us with more of our own ugly ways. We can't see the Divine in the people we live with because we carry resentment which shuts down the capacity to forgive and love. We can combat this by seeing our loved ones the way we want them to see ourselves...with understanding and forgiveness. If the Creator can do it for us we can do it for each other. Be loving to the people you live with today. Have patience. Be blessed. Peace, Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message:
Keep it Real! Real loving, real open, real kind, real courageous. Our reality is that we are both spiritual and material beings. With that as our nature we are in a position to manifest many things seen and unseen. The Divine Spirit within is pure love and needs us to demonstrate its reality. Every time we are loving it gives our Spirit a chance to shine and affirms there is more to life then what can be physically seen or touched. Send real loving energy to someone today, maybe even to a person who has been mean spirited and therefore needs it the most. If you are in need of a touch of reality, sit still, take a deep breath and feel that there is love coming your way. Have a blessed day. Peace Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message:
We can use our suffering and our struggles to help us grow and be closer to God. Sometimes people feel guilty or criticize others when they only talk with God during times of trouble or need for help. It is ideal to have a daily practice or ritual for being in touch with one's Higher Power, yet if having problems is what it will take to foster a spiritual relationship, then go with it. In fact, when we have long or repeated suffering that may just be a call to move us closer to our Divine Self. Use whatever the problem is today to grow in your spirit.
Be blessed. Peace, Maat E.

Maat E's Mental Health Message:
Make losses life lessons!
When we lose loved ones (and possessions) it can be excruciatingly painful. We go through the usual stages of denial/shock, anger, depression and eventually we accept and heal. It can be helpful to allow ourselves to experience the full range of emotions. They will not last forever and the crying will stop. Until then, we can only be where we emotionally are. If the question of "Why?" comes up shift to asking "What?"...What is the life lesson, the blessing that this event can bring. Ask "How?"...How can I get though this? There is a divine growth lesson in all of life's experiences, especially ones that bring us grief. Healing can be found in the lesson of the loss. When we are ready for it, the lesson will appear.
Have a blessed day full of life, health and vitality.
Peace Maat E.