I feel such profound love, appreciation and gratitude for everyone, for everything, for all that is my life! It is with infinite love and gratitude I express appreciation for Karen and Sherri’s encouragement and support of my Spiritual Art, Soul Art, Journal, and Collage Workshops and for shining their light in support of “Awakened Heart” and “Family ∞ Love, Together we make a difference.” We are all connected and to understand our link to water enables us to embrace life with the attitude of infinite love and gratitude. It is with great JOY I accepted the invitation to present my Soul Art Collage Workshop at the 7th Annual Best Practices “Ripples of Gratitude” Resource Fair.
Both Sherri Jaye and Jane Young connected with me via the World Wide Gratitude forum in 2006!!! What drew me to WWG was the desire to connect with others who choose to be positive in gratitude and live from the heart. WWG provided a space to cultivate habits of love, appreciation and gratitude shining light on our life experiences blessed us with wonderful opportunities to co-create, for individual inspiration and growth.
It was through my sharing of my life, my spiritual journey, art and my being one of Dr. Emoto’s Hado Instructors that Sherri connected with my “Awakened Heart” painting. Sherri felt its vibration resonated with the 2007 Resource Fair’s theme “Healing the Heart.” Karen and Sherri honored me and my vision of healing and peace by displaying the “Awakened Heart” framed prints and the “Awakened Heart” cards throughout the Resource Fair.
My presenting the Soul art Collage workshop at the 7th Annual Best Practices “Ripples of Gratitude” Resource Fair in Los Angeles February 11, 2008 also gifted me an opportunity to enjoy several days with my daughter, Heather. In this wonderful movie Jane Young entwines both beautifully. I felt guided to share Jane’s monthly inspirational movies with Sherri Jaye and imagine my delight in experiencing Jane’s breathtaking visual meditation inspired by Dr. Emoto’s work with “Messages from the Water” and “Love Thyself” play continuous throughout the morning!
In the 7th Annual Best Practices in Counseling Resource Fair’s theme, “Ripples of Gratitude,” Karen L. Timko, Coordinator of Primary Intervention Counseling Services and Elementary School Programs shares from the heart! “Ripples of Gratitude, has given me the opportunity to explore the role that gratitude plays in our work and our lives. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin root gratia meaning “grace,” “graciousness,” or “gratefulness” and is generally understood to be an appreciation that one has benefited from the efforts of another. Relatively new studies are revealing that there are practical applications that can yield very positive results for us and for the students and families we work with. According to the research project on gratitude and thankfulness conducted by Emmons and McCullough, simply keeping a gratitude journal led people to report that they exercised more, regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic about the upcoming week. Participants who kept gratitude lists were more likely to have made progress toward academic, interpersonal, and health-based goals. In another 21-day intervention, participants reported great levels of high energy, positive words, a greater sense of feeling connected to others and more optimistic rating of one’s life. There is also growing evidence that gratitude and related states may positively impact cardiovascular and immune responses as well.”
Sherri Jaye, MS, LMFT PIC/PSA Counselor and Resource Fair Chairperson shares from the heart! “While I was thinking about this, the theme “Ripples of Gratitude,” came to me. I believe that if I can share my happiness, my experiences, my deep and sincere feelings of gratitude with others, that they will feel my joy, peacefulness, gratitude and then feel better themselves, and thus spread this ripple effect to others.” Dr. Emoto says, “It’s only when you like who you are, feel grateful for your existence, and respect yourself that you’re able to have the same feelings toward other people. The nature of vibrations is such that negative resonates only with negative and positive resonates only with positive. No matter how much you say and think good things, you can’t give off good vibrations as long as you have a distorted image of your substance. When we shine and keep sending out positive vibrations, they reach the people and the water around us, and eventually they spread like ripples all over the world.”
Blessings of all things good always in all ways with infinite love and gratitude, Eveline Smith
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