Gratitude - Foundation of ALL

Here in our day place and trip, we are face to face with the symbol and energy that underlies our joyourney, that of Gratitude. 

Here again I am drawn to a gorgeous hotel whose very foundations are centered on gratitude as witnessed in this photo, and as linked to the following website: 

http://www.gogratitude.com 

In Lynne Twists “Soul of Money” book I am rereading and youtube clip I am revisiting she speaks of Sufficiency and the two branches of Gratitude being: 

GreatFULLness – infinite possibilities, the experience of life that’s one with all (God), that’s so fulfilling it flows over to being in….

THANKSgiving – for absolutely overflowing, and so grateful that all you want to do is to give and share and serve and make a difference, giving back to….

GreatFULLness…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvosTss4gg

So here I am, at the delightful family owned ‘MyWay’ hotel, Hua Hin Thailand, in the GreatFullness of life, living in the flow of the fullness beyond my wildest 5Star dreams, taking relaxed and inspired time to share and inspire.  

As Lori and I walked the beach yesterday we witnessed many a washed up starfish and were reminded of the story of the man throwing them back to “make a difference” to the ones he was able to save, not all of them, but enough!

Vendors and Real Estate Vending

We didn't get out of our hotel til noon, but had by then caught up with our darlings and blogs. I'd had a swim after brekky which we had early at 7am...since I'd been awake from 5.30am and reading outside on the balcony.

We wandered down the road til we could find a hotel to walk thru to the beach (we being on the other side of the road) and came to a white sand beach that reminded me of both Manhattan/Redondo and also Surfers Paradise with slightly less highrise/hotels, and had only gone a couple of hundred meters before we saw 2 massage Vendor ladies and finally - spontaneously got our on the beach massage together...not like ‘on’ on the beach, but on the proper wooden frames they use. Next along came a horse vendor that we'd read about...you can rent them $15 for 30 minutes. I was tempted and may do a ride tomorrow.

All sorts of vendors bring all sorts of stuff to try to sell you, but have official status to do so, wearing a permit. I was holding back....in ‘dont buy on first day’ mode, but Lori brought a dress, and got herself a pedicure. In the end we'd walked the 4 kms of the beach to get to the real heart of the action. Once there, about 6pm now, we were just happy wandering up and down all the little streets full of market type stalls vendors, bars shops shops and more shops..If I get asked to have one more thing made for me, 'special price for you, overnight be ready, special tailored...anything" I'll just have to have another massage!

Lori took a video of me watching my best Thai food to date, prepared for me, from the back of a rickshaw type mobile food station by a vendor woman, who when given a tip a quarter the value of the food was my new best friend. Understand I handed over $BHT40!

Whilst in the full flow of our travel day yesterday I calmly showed Lori a text that had come through from Patterson, saying property number 2 had been sold, confirmed by words from his follow-up email thu:

 

“Real Estate Agent did an open home on your ** street property today and had 10 people through....two very keen.  She said within 1 hour one called in an offer to settle within 10 days. I said **$$’s counter and it could be his.  She is on the way for me to sign the deal.....

 

I will keep you informed of your new life as it happens!  Trust you are having a great day.”

 

Here I share with you my new life as it is happening, my finding50, new life years to explore, to enhance, evolve and inspire 50 more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blog on Bus to Bangkok and Beyond

We’ll we’re not on Koh Chang now Dorothy.

A 6am wake up saw us ready and waiting for the promised taxi at 7am, which didn’t show up till 8am. An hours trip then in the back of a pick up to get us to the ferry for another hours trip to the mainland…all going smoothly enough. Another taxi to get us a half hour to the bus stop and fortuitously just in time for a bus departing for Bangkok at 11am. So here we are and for the first time I’ve broken out my battery power to pen a blog and listen to a Wayne Dyer/Marianne Williamson CD, sharing an earphone with Lori.

How appropriate that Wayne is quoting T S ELLIOTT “At the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know that place for the first time.” 

Eight hours into our travel day and probably another eight to go!

So what I haven’t shared is the last two days that took us from White Sand Beach resort to a Fisherman’s Village in the south of Koh Chang called Bang Bao. No fancy pools here, a beach in the distance, but what truly drew us in and excited us was a pier that seemed that stretched about 2 km’s into the water, surrounded each side by shops that once closed are peoples lounge and bedrooms, kitchen and dining all in one! Beyond the shops, multi-colored, ‘varying in degrees of seaworthiness’ boats were lined up taking tourists on island, fishing and diving trips. What really amused us was this sign...a forbodeing one perhaps...."Hell 'ath no fury, like a body neglected??" (Given I was wearing my StarkHEALTH cap at the time!!!

We were divinely guided to a wonderful place to stay called Buddhaview, and through the floor planks came a constant reminder that we were living,

eating and sleeping over water. What a delightful contrast from resort living to feeling like this was some real and ancient lifestyle we were getting a peek at. This part of the island promised both sunrises and sunsets, but instead brought us the first and

 only rain and clouds of our trip.

Our bus is the long slow regional kind, not the motorway express, and the contrasts are extraordinary. As countrysides flash by, it seems more care, colour and capital goes into exquisite temples and grounds, than housing. And yet this is the making of a culture, stee

ped in faith first, living with less as more, a shrimp and a smile more valuable and available to most, than the banquets and 5 Star comforts we’ve been enjoying. It brings us to awe and appreciation for our abundance in all forms.

Now with batteries literally recharged, in body and computer, I can report our safe arrival in Hua Hin, about 220kms south of Bangkok on the opposite coast from where we’ve been. A 16 hour day, without knowing the how of it, without getting lost or ripped off,  or worse pissed off – we felt supported and guided all the way. We calmy arrived at our destination, with only the name of a hote

l a friend of a friend had given us. Grateful to be safe in our room, it was lights out just on 10pm. To recap:

6am wake, walk to 7am taxi..wait for it til 8am for hours trip to 9am ferry 45 mins, 10am taxi 45 mins to 11am bus 6.5 hours to Bangkok, another 45min taxi ride between bus stations, in time for quick dinner and catch 6.30pm bus to Hua hin, arrive 9.30, find taxi to hotel, get horizontal by 10p. The most amazing thing was our transport costs for the whole day only added to the equivalent of $50NZ (4 taxi’s, 1 ferry and 2 busses – over 900km’s)

Could we have done it any other way, - WHAT and miss all 

the fun and flow and Grace and ease…..well, we’re not young backpackers understand…..We are of the age when a good a challenge as this makes a damn good story, and our achievement can give us a grateful giggle, and our readers some inspiration for what’s possible following a speed manifesting mojo – ModusOperandi MoreJoy!

Same day, but for two different expressions of the same experience, go to Lori version:

http://speed-manifesting.blogspot.com 

 

 

 

Making a Difference

My morning started beflore daylight, when, not sleeping I got up to read myself back to sleep. However upon finishing reading I noticed it had become light enough to take a morning walk, and enjoy the peace and beauty of this place.

I set out with an intention to walk to the other end of White Sand Beach and back, to see how long it would take. A Somewhat disturbing contrast to the beauty, was how much trash was strewn.

Well, in living this go with the flow lifestyle, I am ever present to any and all opportunities and inspirations, and one surely presented itself. My morning reading had opened and reminded me of the power and value in making a difference, and not buying into, ‘that’s just the way it is’ (Lynne Twist).

In that moment, there before me was a girl with a sack picking up some rubbish, In that milisecond of decision time, I overrode my origional intention to keep going as I was nearly half way back, instead stopped to join her. Moments later as she went her way and I mine,..now with a handfull of rubbish (treasures thrown out and returned by the tide), I was gifted a large trash of a sack to put what I’d gathered into - Now my new mission became to fill the sack and that would be a good deed done for the day.

Without any words a couple of people started to do the same, coming up to me with the trash treasure they too had found, helping me fill my sack. As I kept walking homeward, and picking up stuff thrown idily, I found myself in a more mindful, serviceful place…and so too I imagine did others as more miraculously joined in this new and silent reverence for nature.

The more people joined us the more fun it became. A worker whose job it was to take care of ‘just his patch’ was drawn much beyond his usual duty, bringing the now dozen of us more baskets and sacks and taking away our collection. What had started as one person and a sack had became more than a dozen people and a truckload full! Looking back, we had amazingly cleaned a good kilometer of beach.

I got to chatting with one Thai woman from ‘the North’ who told me she had gone to America to study for her MBA in business, married an American, now living there with a child. She introduced me to her brother and two sisters who had simply, organically, heartfully, become part of the magic of making a difference.

Today I wasn’t looking for heart stones…though I did find two to give away to the MBA woman and her brother. Today, whilst not looking I found…more than 50 Inspirations - 50 kilos of trash as treasure. More connection to the heart and soul of people than I could have dreamed, more inspiration than I can express herein. I found not heartstones, but heartsouls, and my heart heaves a greatFULLness.

50th Birthday Rerun

It feels like I’m having a rerun of my 50^th birthday day…being doing and having all the things that inspire and support me in my perfect day of dreams come true.

 

My morning started at 5am with a read and walk – on purpose in service (see making a difference s

tory), then led to sharing Exercises with Lori. It then moved into a yoga practise and meditation…all before 9am, when it was then time for a lovely breakfast.

 

After breakfast to get back to our room we pass by the massage tent. I had chatted to the girls after dinner last night and found out they are available there from 8am to 8pm and that a good day was giving about 5 massages each. My immediate response was to want to take care of them too, so the post breakfast flow led me to them to do just that.  The girls Pen and Supap enjoyed life ‘on the table’ just as I had set out to do this trip – to receive many massages, but also to spontaneously gift them. This moment was echoed in our stay at Faasai, where I had gifted massages to Bronwen and my therapist Kan. Herein lies the heart and soul of my Thailand trip.

 

What better to follow then to just have a morning massage today. Perfect timing as it turned out to be a much quieter, connective experience, some of which was missing in the experience yesterday afternoon. Lori, by the way got her perfect massage in the quiet and the magic of her perfect sunsetting time.

 

So here I am still before noon, spending time to capture and share some of my inspirations. The work lies with Lori now helping and teaching me to get these stories, and piictures and videos posted for your entertainment.

Magical Massage – Moments and Musings

Having just finished today’s massage and having moments of reflection therein (ok guilty to all of you my clients who I encourage to get out of your head) I’m drawn to my keyboard to let inspirations fly from fingers to the keys.

Thai massage - The same technique, two very different settings and yet an equally effective result…….. At a physical level.
For me though the real, extra value comes from the level of connection a therapist is able to make between her self, Source and client. The more present, focused and intentional the therapist is able to be, this better and deeper connection, leads to a more soul satisfying experience.

At Faasi my massages were inside, in a lovely spa ‘sala’, in seclusion and silence, save for the soft soothing sounds of spirit-filled music.

Here at Grand View Resort, I deliberately chose to experience an outdoor setting, nothing much between me and the sea, the sun shining down, the warm wind blowing and my wonderful therapist.
Yet the scene was set up for two persons to receive at the same time and I was excited at the prospect of Lori to be joining me. When one speaks of flow, and things don’t quite go as imagined, the very essence is to let go and let flow. Lori, bless her completely, got busy doing my technical support, and I found myself beside a stranger…. who happened to be the aforesaid Dee’s mother. Well - talk about a family affair. Dee, her sister, her 2 children and husband, her niece brought to my session a very different SSSSSSShhhh!!! Social, spontaneous sharing of chatter and laughter,

Even the therapists were having fun, interacting, freely chatting - quite unlike the Silent sacred space I’m used to providing for my own clients, and that which I enjoyed at Faasai.
So what is my inspiration in these musings? That there are many different roads to Rome, and no one way is the perfect way, that all ways when experienced with awareness allowing, acceptance and appreciation are perfect. Perfection lies in choosing to be with people, places and things just the way they are. As author Byron Katie would say in her book of the same name “Loving What Is. Both settings, and all of my massages experiences here in Thailand have surpassed my expectation and been perfect.


On a special note going back to Faasai and sharing the different types of massage I had there, I received 90 minute ‘The Royal Thai’ treatment one evening, and got up early the next morning for a 90 minute Ayervedic treatment. Royal Thai included being rubbed with hot compresses that were filled with the freshest of herbs, fruits, flowers, ginger, salt and secret spices, lovingly grown, gathered and ground by Bronwen and her staff. The Ayervedic session included a pre and post session hot shower, Swedish style strokes rubbing on specially formulated oils for my body type, a steam and another rubbing covering in a special herbs and spice and everything nice blend.

My body could not be any happier, my heart any more warmed, my soul nurtured.

I’m already coming back for more and I haven’t yet left. Please someone call my Mum Dad and Darling…I’m not coming home till I’ve had my full of 50! 50 Inspirational, magical massage moments.

My friends, I hear you calling……I am calling you over here with me, pack up your troubles in yer ole kit bag, leave ‘em at the door before you jump on the plane.

Seaview, Service with Sincerity

I’m sitting to write from my perfect possy, poised at my balcony overlooking the gardens of the Grande View Resort, to the sea and beyond.
Lori and I are booked in an hour to have side by side massages, after arriving here, settling in and having a delicious lunch, of you guesses it Thai food.
The Resort owner Terry, who we met yesterday and who went out of his way in a most friendly way, gave us an even better deal, than we’d negotiated yesterday, upon arrival today (Tuesday 21sst April).
I remarked to Lori that we had found another ‘Bronwen’. Terry, like her had that WOW factor of, by being heart centered people person’s give first and foremost from a place of sharing their abundance, love of their land and creation upon it.
As we checked in and handed over a NZ passport, he delighted in telling us his son was in NZ studying. It came down to his 16 year old nephew, being in 6th form at Cashmere High School, Christchurch – an area I’ve recently lived in. I will definitely make a connection with him when I get home.
Making connections is what this trip is so about, connecting to the heart and soul of the country and its people.
Just making a booking for our massages, a girl receiving one engaged me in conversation, brilliant English speaking, it turns out she’s married to a Swedish man, lives in his country and works as a translator of Thai to Swedish. She, her name Bee, has a friend in NZ who has been begging her to come visit, I passed her my card with NZ address and told her it was a sign that she must come.

Anyway to back up to our day only half spent but fully lived, Lori roused me at about 6.30 am to come be by the pool and beach at our resort, further down the coast of Koh Chang at Kae Bay Beach. Its so much quieter there, less touristy, and with pool, palms and the sea, all was magnificent. I took a swim in the pool followed by doing my morning exercises (Energization Exercises) looking seaward, allbeit the rising sun behind me (we’re on the coast for sunsets, with big rainforest covered hills inbetween.

I then took a walk along a white sandy beach and started to discover my third collection of heartstones, these ones not stones but lovely sculpured pieces of coral. In finding and choosing them I knew that this my third collection would be about passing them on, so with each one picked up, I picked a friend to whom I would give one. If you’re reading this you’re a likely recipient!!

After a swim in the sea and a short dip in the pool again, I enjoyed a liesurely breakfast with Lori that included some of the sweetest fresh pineapple I’ve ever tasted,…by then its only about 9.30am and my day is so full of a simple yet profound peace and flow.

In no hurry to be anywhere, we spent a couple of hours by the pool reading and swimming, before finally packing to move to our next experience up the road a bit, now at White Sand Beach, Koh Chang.

With time to spare I invited Lori to a gorgeous Tea house, and ordered a Tibetan Butter tea mystery choice that was yummy, with Lori having a fresh Lemon grass one. Again we witnessed the owner going out of his way with special touches of unexpected sweet treats. It was a very special place of which these photos attest. We were heartened to read the wisdom of the Dali Lama.

Our ease of transition to this resort was a simple as flagging a taxi, asking him to go out of his way to get our bags down the long driveway to our resort, and on to our next one, all done with a smile, and in grateful service.

Hearts Abound - A tear in a tablecloth

In developing my focus for sets of heartstones from different places, I’m starting to notice how many different ways hearts are showing up– since starting my third collection of heartstones.

After this mornings walk I sat a table for breakfast and noticed my reaction to a tear in the tablecloth…go on you might guess I was less than accepting…until I looked again and noticed it was perfectly ripped in the shape of a heart, which brought instant inspiration acceptance and joy.

I set out to capture its uncommon beauty, and kept adding to it, taking a bracelet from my wrist and encircling the now precious piece of art, enhancing it.

I shared with Lori how my bracelet was a combination of three different bracelets girlfriends had given me, and that I’d restrung them to make one new piece a day before getting on the plane, thus taking a piece of them all (bracelets and girlfriends) with me, I know they will have a heartfelt moment upon seeing the photo captured image.
Then I set out to play with the heart shaped coral pieces from my morning walk.

Come lunchtime, sitting down with Lori, I noticed a leaf, perfectly formed in a heart shape. Sadly I might not get that back through customs, but at least I’ve held it for a moment and captured it for a lifetime…and will share it with you here, thus connecting your heart (my reader) to the soul of this joyurney

Thaiday

I just coined a new word its Thaiday in Thailand and every day is a Thaiday...meaning its a day of massage and resting and reading and swimming and walking and napping and eating and having fun in a blissed out sorta way.

I sooooo wish you were here, and now that I've paved the way I can so recommend people to come here to Faasai – the website doesn’t do it any justice.
Andrews recommendation was spot on PERFECT and Bronwen the resort creator/owner has been a wonderful host.
I woke at..who knows...early and went for a swim when it was sooooo quiet and still, and I just swam and floated peacefully and medatively for ages, uncaring of the time. When I got back to our room Lori was up and in conversation with Bronwen, and time just passed in new friendship, as we went on to have breakfast together.

I then got ready to give Bronwen a massage (seen here with gifts NZ Tui massage wax, Yellow finding50 flower and Yogananda book) and after her Lori. Lori hasn't had many massages, and cetainly not a Gayel one. Both girls loved it, and for me it wasn’t work.

We got to watch and help my therapist prepare fruits and herbs and leaves, salt, ginger and stuff for a “Royal Thai massage” which I'm having later..a 2 hour session. I've had a one hour Thai a massage every day cept one when she was fully booked….waaaahhhh.

Anyway, just chatting to you is a lot easier than trying to write for a blog, so I'm just gonna chat, more Gaylel-like of me!

Our days here are really so free flow. Our technology has been a challenge and I haven't been able to get videos or even photos up as easily as I'd hoped, but I have recorded so many clips and taken so many photos that it all can just wait til the perfect time. It may all just end up as a compilation video when I get home…who knows. Its also that I've mostly switched off to any ‘have to’ and and just being present…tuning into enjoying and capturing the moments of magic..of which there are so many.

The beach is just 5 minutes walk away and we enjoyed and captured a lovely sunset last night. The mornings are magical from our deck and we look out over fabulous greenery, all sorts of different trees, flowers, smells. There are lots of water features and special little places here, very feng shui’d, with Bronwen being an avid gardener and steward of the land.
We are starting to look at moving on tomorrow to our next location and new adventures.

Finding 50 Foods

Food Fabulous Food - What was it we asked for?

Can you hear the tune in your head….from the stage show Oliver?

Such was the tune of our experience today of beachside dining - Thai style.

With no language or absolutely no clue upon being presented a menu, Lori and I decided to just have some fun.

We had started our day with an intention to have (more) fabulous Thai food come our way. …in my search for finding 50 fab foods. As we had walked to the beach we could see food stalls and sitting areas that could only loosely be called restaurant/dining rooms. Al fresco for sure, all flies for certain!

We decided to get very brave, diving into the unknown menu, by simply pointing to various items and awaiting the surprise of what would show up. Understand - there were no pictures, no clues, only lovely Thai squirls of language.

I had seen squid hanging across the road, flapping not only in the breeze of the sea, but clouds of dust and car exhaust – thankfully I couldn’t see from that distance the flies…and thankfully I am alive to tell this tale…you see, what you don’t know won’t, in most cases, kill you.

You might guess that 3 of our 5 dishes turned out to be squid!!! One other a whole dried (by the same means???!!!) fish, and another a lovely salad – not of the lettuce kind, unrecognisable, but very tasty.

We ate like Kings and Queens, very aware we were having a 5 Star food experience on a shoestring for us, but what might amount to a weeks wages to a local. Such awareness brings us humility and even deeper gratitude for our abundance and ability to be in this place, at this time enjoying such richness. Another Dream, made Real – Rich, exciting abundant Lives.

Aaaaah, but what is a meal without dessert! As full as I was I went in search of an icecream, not something easily found, therefore something perhaps to add to my list - Finding50 icecreams, hmmmmm. When hope was fading, as a speed manifester magic remains forefront, and just as we turned the corner an icecream bearing man on motorbike appeared. Talk about magic mobile manifestation, delicious at that.

A Most GREATful TREATful day

We had fresh mangoes from a tree today. Freshly fallen but warmed by the heat of the day, they alone would be enough of a 5Star experience.

So starts my second day in Thailand, now settled into this amazing resort of Faasai – “Where the forest meets the sea”. The creators and owners of this resort spa are a Kiwi Bronwen, married to a Thai - Surin. A week out from leaving NZ, and not having clear direction on where to start, my friend Andrew had connected us. Just the Flow and Grace and ease I was looking for!

Bronwen (the social liaison one) and Surin have gone out of their way today to look after us. The mangoes were on additional land they've brought and are developing. After our mango treat(1), we went for a swim in one of their spring fed lakes. It had those little fish that 'bite' that are popular in many spa treatments now...we got them 'au naturel' Talk about 5 Star (Treat 2) and all part of the free and natural surrounds! We then picked 'wild' foods - flowers from trees which we got to eat as a banquet tonight (Treat 3), curried, with all sorts of herbs and leaves from their grounds. We were shown ants nests in trees and told they were delicacy, which indeed, that night were also served.

On return to their resort we were shown through their magical ‘wild garden’ and shown species of exotic and rare trees. I got to see cashews growing in the wild. (Treat 4)

Our well-timed stay was serendipitous because of it being the Thai New Year celebrations (Treat 5). Bronwen’s sister Marina and husband Mike were here for their last night having spent a month’s ‘time out’, so we enjoyed their company and included in their farewell banquet.

Marina and Mike took me on a walk up to a shrine that was pretty special (Treat 6), and from there I walked to the local beach... which was on our list to do today, but we just got so fill up with the flow of all the magic I've just described. Oh yes amongst it all I had a couple of swims in the pool (Treat 7) here at the resort and a couple of good reading periods (Treat 8). WOW, what a full and fabulous day that flowed from a no agenda place.

And not that I’m done with treats - No 9 was to have my second Thai massage, fulfilling on my desire to have a massage every day possible. Not that Bronwen is biased and not that I have anything to compare it to, but I truly feel I have stumbled into the best Thai massage therapist in the country...

In my early morning inspiration, I had read and shared with Lori, from my gratitude journal that a year ago I was in Portugal with my darling Patterson at a palace, where we'd had our 5Star afternoon tea. A waterfall at that Palace had taken me right back to a feeling of being Yogananda's Lake Shrine in Los Angeles, and the spring fed lake there, so this mornings spring fed lake swim was equally 5Star….

As I seek – I find; so many 5 Star experiences all around me.

Finding 50 Heart Stones

As part of my mystery romantic trip with Patterson, I found myself lakeside of Whakatipu, Queenstown. Whilst Patterson had been treated to a couple of hours sailing on an Americas cup yacht on the lake, I had made it my meditation to be Finding50 heartstones. Whakatipu’s lakefront is a place I’ve known as a treasure trove of stones that when you look come in all shapes and sizes of hearts.

I had so much fun, single pointedly focused on finding a collection of heartstones that I will make up into one “Queenstown big heart” as a piece of art – each stone holding the memory of each year of my life, which I will document separately.

As an aside, I had a magic moment relating to heartstones en route to Thailand. Whilst on a stopover in Sydney reboarding the plane there was one magazine left on a stand that felt like it was there ‘just for me’. The first article I opened to was a story of a woman photographer who had documented in photography one thing every day which she could find to be grateful for. There, amongst her images was a beautiful collection of heart stones.

Now today, day three in Thailand when we finally get to spending time at the beach, the first thing I look for and find is a heartstone, and so, the more I look, the more I am able to find…”Acres of Diamonds”. I delight in imagining each stone being priceless gems and how rich I am……such abundant beauty for all to seek, find and enjoy. Indeed I am - injoy, rich of spirit, in imagination, in present moment awe and awareness of so much to be grateful for.

This evening I will return to the beach to complete collecting 50 heartstones for my heart of art project number 2 “Thailand big heart” – with each stone representing and ‘holding space’ for each year of my next 50 to come.

Getting out of my own way

A whole and separate blog seems appropriate to mention the biggest treat of all from my treat filled Day 2 at Faasai that I didn’t have room enough to mention amongst such a full and fulfilling day.

Whilst I was absorbed in the magic of so many treats, back at home the waves of communication were not breaking on my serene shore. Setting up communication with my world back there had proved difficult and I had surrendered to just being here. So, I’m sorry I haven’t been talking to you…yet!

Meanwhile Patterson had been emailing and phoning, leaving messages that I didn’t get, and in hin

dsight, fortuitously I simply wasn’t supposed to get.

You see I’ve been in a temporary and very unfamiliar financial hole lately…The kind that would have me say, like so many others I imagine, “Am I crazy to head off on a trip I don’t feel I can afford ‘just now’”” Yes I was tempted to play the ‘When I…then I’ game – the one that has us saying, “When things are sorted/when I’m financial etc, then I will…..” fulfill on some of my dreams.

Prior to my leaving NZ I had two properties on both the rental and or sell market, in order to stop the bleed on a financial situation that was ‘hurting’. With high mortgage rates and non -occupancy on both properties, something had to give, but after 1-2 months nothing had shifted.
The moment I shifted my self from the situation…yes, by travelling 1/3 way round the world, the energy shifted enough for an offer of a sale on one property to come through.

Pattterson’s text that finally got through was one of simply saying “Offer of $$$ looks good could all be done by 1 May y or n? To which I replied “counter with $$$ and within an hour I had confirmation of a sale. TALK ABOUT SPEED MANIFESTING. Upon finally being able to access emails I saw previous correspondence that, had I known it’s contents would have made my counter response a different one, and possibly screwed up the excellent result.

I see that I was perfectly withdrawn and saved from any worry or drama, by just being willing to be put in this place of bliss, and to live with intentionality of life being that of flow and fun and Grace and ease.

I reflect on the courage it takes to live ones dreams despite not knowing where the means (Money) is coming from, delighting in the phrase and philosophy that “It is coming from where it is now”

I reflect on the magic of being led to this amazing place, having dreamed of coming to Thailand but having no clue where and a week out hearing about this place from a friend.

Just taking each step and the next step and the next is my Modus Operandi for this my Finding50 year off to celebrate..… Making Dreams Real…Rich Exciting Abundant Lifestyles

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MY Celebration Day, Week and Year

MY Celebration day

I could say my big 50th birthday celebration day started, filled in and ended like any other day, every day being special. That is because I planned my day to include all that I hold dear. Each day that I dare to do that which Inspires, Enhances and Evolves my life, it confirms that I’m living my dreams. Every moment spent in appreciation of this fact gives me more.

So what is Finding50….. but 50 things that make my heart sing on a daily weekly monthly yearly basis, and beyond.

My day was the most picture perfect dream realised in a picture perfect location, in picture perfect weather, with picture perfect balance in the fun and fancy of having friends and family flow in and out throughout my day sharing presence, bearing presents.

Sunrise meditation and yoga gave foundation to my day in a very special way, making the Ultimate connection to Spirit and Nature. It was a most magnificent sunrise, and the warmest calmest day of the whole summer. Breakfast followed, and then a walk to and in the hills, back down to the beach, along it and home. More food and friends flowed for lunch before an afternoon of various R and R’s…….spa treatments including foot spas for all, and massage time for me, free time for others. Dinner was delivered and more friends continued to flow in and enjoy.

As planned it was an open hearted - open home warm welcoming day for friends and family to come and share, ending in Pyjamas with a movie and slumber.

As I reviewed to remember all who had dropped in I realised my day had included 50 people!!!!!!! Beyond that there were many who couldn’t make it who’d sent well wishes in cards, emails and other means. My special thanks to 5 friends who had travelled from Auckland and stayed a few days, to Gary and Cory from Aussie, and to friends afield who I just knew were with me in spirit.

My heartfelt thanks to my darling Patterson who made much of my special day possible, to my parents who made my whole life possible, and to friends near and dear, far and wide who touch my life in so many wonderful ways.

My Celebration week that followed

Patterson had organised a mystery week away leaving Sunday, and soon I found myself surrounded by the majesty of Mt Cook and staying at the Hermitage, what a 5 Star way to continue my birthday celebration. A 6 hour round trip hike from the base at 762 m to mountain hut at 1800m, left my legs wobbly for the next three days, but the memory continues to make my heart sing, with every picture still-framed in my mind. Time then in Queenstown with continuing picture perfect weather, was spent on our mountain bikes, taking a tandem paraglide flight together, and enjoying a wilderness 4WD, hike and jetboat trip in and around the Dart river region. Time in Dunedin was spent exploring the city and Otago peninsular before heading safely and satisfyingly home.


My Celebration year to follow

I head off of Easter Monday initially for three weeks in Thailand starting at the FAASAI resort and spa, for the first of my massage research projects, and from there…….well, I’m just open to be guided and supported for finding my 50. Watch this space!!!

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