The Scatter Love Project

I've talked about how much I love real mail (who doesn't?) and how much I specifically love Postcrossing. Well, in a similar vein, I've come across the Scatter Love project. If you're an instagrammer you probably know the mastermind Chantelle as @fatmumslim, who also create the #fmsphotoaday challenge. At any rate, the concept behind Scatter Love is a set of 10 beautifully designed postcards meant to spread joy across the world. Why not? As you send them out and/or receive them, photograph it/you and tag #scatterlove. How fun to see these little cards travel across the planet!

photo from Fat Mum Slim

Click here to buy and play along! The graphic designer Emma lives in London, Chantelle lives in Australia, and I live in the US...so for me, including shipping, it's right around $20 and simple with PayPal.

{scatter} love,
me

Live + Learn: My first full month of practicing The Desire Map

{ this post is part of the desire map series // you're invited }

I wrapped up my first full month of daily Desire Map practice. I reworked my core desired feelings a number of times before January even started, but I think I still need to fine tune them even more. I can't shake the sense that the words I chose aren't yet reaching their most powerful, evocative depth. For February I decided to use my 2014 power word (OPEN) as an umbrella for my CDFs. I'm also changing my CDFs from a static list of words into a mantra:

"Your desire is a prayer. Be open to magic, abundance, creativity, freedom, health, and spiritual alignment."

About two weeks into January I also learned a powerful lesson about the paradox and conflict between my some of my CDFs, and how to stay focused on the long game. I made decisions that I felt would manifest abundance and freedom, but I ended up moving so far away from health and spiritual alignment that it wasn't worth it. I was temporarily free and I felt an abundance of time and space, but the aftermath of my choices actually made me physically ill. In turn, that made me upset and disappointed that I probably knew better and still made the wrong decision. My core, my aligned and balanced core, was way off kilter. It's going to take time and a lot of practice to understand which choices are completely true to the long range intentions of my CDFs. Live and learn.

What lessons have you learned in trying to live your CDFs every day? 

Love and the long game,
me