Dream Seeds...A reflection

positive...
secure...
focusing...
planting...
dream
seeds.

Today, I am aware of feeling secure and positive allowing myself to ask what I truly want out of life...Today, I am aware that these dream seeds are actually taking shape and blossoming...and some have already come true. Today, I am clearly visualizing what I want as I step into the path of my dreams.
Today, I also reflect on my week and the messages that have come from within. I have been so aware of the "allowing" I have been doing and I am conscious of my growth. I am aware of the colorful fun that is taking place...the laughter which is restoring and stimulating me...I am aware to greet each new day by being awake and taking note of fulfilling my dreams. I am aware of the strength that flows in and around me that allows me to continue a forward motion without fear.
Today, I am aware of all of my dream seeds and the messages that I hear.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: As you reflect on your week...what dream seeds are you aware of?

Allowing...

lighthearted...
intuitive...
growing...
steadily...
consciously
allowing...

Today, I am consciously aware of allowing...how much I am allowing myself to grow into the direction of my dreams...by not worrying or fretting about an outcome, I am placing faith in my messages...in my growth...in my intuition... I am allowing myself to be guided consciously and steadily by my heart toward stars that are thrilling to believe in...life-affirming and allowing me personal growth.
Today, I am aware of how much I am allowing ME to be ME!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: What free-spirited allowing can you do today?

Colorful Fun!

laughing...
restoring...
stimulating...
awakening...
with colorful
FUN!

Today, I am aware of the presence of colorful fun in my life...of laughter...of banter...of creativity...of words...of believing...of dreaming. Today, I am aware to allow myself to engage in the playfulness of life...to relax...to enjoy...to create with the energy of all this colorful fun that surrounds me. Allowing it to restore my energy...stimulate my mind...and reawaken my spirit.
Today, I am aware of the presence of colorful fun that allows me to release the tension that I sometimes feel...to let go of the anxious feelings that sometimes haunts me...and to be truly in the moment...bringing a feeling of contentment...joy...and love into my life. Today, I am aware of the presence of colorful fun in my life...and today I dance...sing...and allow it to over take me!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: How can you allow some colorful fun to be present in your life today?

New Day...

awake...
aware...
taking note...
fulfilling...
my dreams...
in this
new day.

Today, I am aware of the new day...the brightness of the possibilities that are before me...taking note to stay present and believe in all that my heart is speaking to me. Today, I am aware to blossom with these positive feelings...to be observant and honor them today. I am aware to be open...to be awake...to listen...to believe...to be strong... For this new day allows me to take note
to fulfill my dreams and see what is before me. Today, I am aware not to let fear over take me, but to blossom with the opportunities of the day..to witness the explosion of dreams that dance before me...to hear the words that are spoken...to believe in myself...and to see that so many positive things are suddenly within my reach. Today, I am aware of this new day and how I acknowledge and except it with an open heart.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: How can you be aware in this new day to see the brightness of possibilities exploding around you?

Strength...

aware
of
the
strength
that
flows
within.

Today, I am aware of my strength...of trusting it to lead me to dream big and aspire. Today, I am aware that it is this strength that allows me to see all that I am achieving...all that I am dreaming...all that I am capable and able to do...where I am at this moment and what hopes I have for the future. Today, I am aware of the strength that flows within me...and I am aware that I am letting it carry me toward my stars. Today, I am aware to let this strength carry me...
support me...lead me. Today, I trust myself and my strength.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you feel your strength today?

Ribbons...A reflection

in gratitude...
in creativity...
in dreams...
in love...
wrapped up
in colorful
ribbons.

Today, I am aware of the ribbons of gratitude...the ribbons of creativity...the ribbons of dreams..
the ribbons of love with all their specular colors that twirl around me. I am aware that all I need to do is be present to take in all of these pleasures. As I reflect on my week I am aware to trust my intuition and nothing can go wrong... guiding me to the adventures that await my life. I am aware to rejoice in my individuality... that no other can lay claim to. I am aware to honor my hearts' wants and discover the joy that I can bring to myself and others. I am aware of the importance of communication in all of its forms, both silent and spoken...Today, I am aware of the ribbons that swirl and twirl around me and I unwrap them and bring the gifts both inside and let them continuously flow outward as I breathe deeply.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: As you reflect on your week, can you grab one of your own ribbons that twirls around you?

Trust...

mountain
of colors...
of joy...
of happiness..
mountain
of trust.

Today, I am aware of trust...I am putting my mind aside and trusting life. Making sure to be aware to trust that it is anything but ordinary...making sure to be aware to trust that is is full and overflowing... . With trust comes a mountain of color...of joy...of happiness...I am aware that there is nothing that cannot be seen from the top of the mountain (for it is there that I am closest to my dreams) There is nothing that cannot be done from the top of the mountain (for there is where my strength is) There is nothing that cannot be believed at the top of the mountain (for that is where one is closest to the stars)...and there is nothing that can be taken away from me (as long as I am aware of trust). Once you embark on the path of trusting yourself...your voice.. your words...your creativity...your messages...your heart...your life....you soon realize that you cannot lose real treasures...for those are yours and they live in the mountain of trust that resides in your heart.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you be aware of your mountain of trust today?

Individuality...

your voice...
your hands...
your eyes...
your strength...
your creativity...
REJOICE in
your individuality.

Today, I am aware of individuality...how there is no one in this world, that can lay claim to your voice (and how you speak your truth)...your eyes (and how you see the things around you)...your creativity (for life ... for love...for art). Today, I am aware of individuality and how much happiness it brings to me both from within and from those around me. How by sharing who I am with my words...my creativity...my heart I am perhaps able to touch someone else. To bring a smile to another face...bring joy into another life...to sing to another heart...and to share a message from mine. Today, I am aware of individuality, and the respect that I hold for the uniqueness that is singular. Rejoicing in my own individuality and with others who willingly touch my soul.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you find a way today, to be aware of your own individuality...and then share it with someone else?

my hearts' wants...

joy...
happiness...
challenge...
pleasure...
discovery...
dreams...
my hearts'
wants.

Today, I am aware of my hearts' wants...the things that I am aware to manifest to my life and the things I am still dreaming of. As my awareness brings me to this place today, I discover that my creativity is being painted in many different ways. I am aware of what brings my joy...my happiness...I am aware of the challenges and the pleasures that appear before me...I am aware that I am discovering dreams that have just begun to appear and are forming shining stars before me. I am aware that my heart is guiding me in a direction that brings great faith...peace...joy and happiness. By listening...truly listening to my hearts' wants I am setting myself free to fly...I am paying closer attention...living my life from a different angle...giving myself my power. Today, I am very aware of my hearts' wants...today...I honor them fully.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you hear your hearts' wants today? Can you be aware to let them guide you?

Communication

communication...
creatively...
silent...
spoken...
heartfelt
dreams.

Today, I am aware of communication...the written form...the spoken form...the silent form. Communication with myself and with others. Today, I am aware of communication, and how at times it is the only thing that keeps me grounded...how at other times silence brings me closer to my heart and my dreams...Communication, and how sometimes it can be misunderstood and other times just the slight touch of someones hand can be the most profound communication necessary. Communication....how being solitary in the creative place is one of the most important parts of my day...other times during the day, it is the verbal word that causes my heart to sing...and then there is the written word, that I can hold on to bringing me to heights where the stars dance. Today, I am aware of communication, and how I listen with my heart for it...hear it with my ears...see it with my eyes...and often long for it.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Who can you communicate with today to ground you?...Yourself? Another?

Share My Badge....

Good Sunday Morning...
I am wishing all who enter here today, a wonderful creative day along with my heart felt wishes that you begin and end your day by listening to your hearts' message. I would like to take a moment to thank all of you who have written to me with your personal wishes for this blog...it does my heart good. Thanks to all who visit, and especially to those who leave a comment. Comments need not be your affirmation page...they can be words of promise to yourself...words of encouragement to me and others...just a friendly hello. It is my hope that you find these affirmations of my heart a voice that you can listen to...a prompt to help you listen closer to yourself...an inspiration to begin your own affirmation journal. I have created a badge out of the banner that I use here on this site, please feel free to connect this banner to your blog to share these words with your friends. The flying heart has been has been a signature of mine for 10 years now, it symbolizes the flight that my heart is taking and is placed somewhere on every piece of art I have done...along with the words: Fly on the wings of your dreams, which has also been a very important affirmation for me. I sincerely hope to connect with each and every one of you, and others through our connection of creativity...of dreams...of writing...of messages of joy for ourselves and each other.
Below you will find a few instructions on how to connect to the banner.
In order to use the From the Inside Out badge located in the sidebar, simply right-click on the image and save it to your computer. Different blogging applications have different ways of adding images to your blog, but all have help sections which should be able to direct you to instructions on how to do it.
May you continue to explore...believe...and listen to the messages...From the Inside Out!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Cheerful....A Reflection...

whims...
fancies...
color...
joy...
excitingly
cheerful.

Today, I am aware of being cheerful. That by allowing my whims and fancies to take me down my path I am full of color...full of joy...full of an exciting cheerfulness. That I am full of surprises even to myself. Today, I am aware of being cheerful! So as I reflect on this week with this cheerful outlook I feel the comfort that surrounds me and wraps its warmth around me lovingly. I feel the balance of my heart and my dreams. I am aware of the calm that comes from my patient soul. I am aware that all of these are so much clearer if I stay in the moment of time. Today, I am aware of being cheerful...cheerful for honoring the messages of my soul.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: As you reflect on your week, what made you cheerful?

Comfort...

warmth...
gratitude...
dreams...
love...
surrounded
in
comfort.

Today, I am aware of comfort. The way that comfort surrounds me with its brightness...its warmth...with my dreams and my love. Today, I am aware of the way that comfort makes me feel. A feeling of security...unconditional love...blanketed... familiar...happiness...joy...home. Today, I am aware of comfort and the amazing warmth that it brings to my life. The wonderment of being aware of the familiarity and the ease of comfort...nothing forced...nothing taken for granted. Today, I am aware of comfort and how that comfort that is flowing from deep within and generating outward is allowing me to feel whole...to listen...to sing...to dance...and to reach my dreams. Today, I am aware of comfort and how it swirls around my heart holding me gently.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you feel some comfort from deep within today?

balance...

heart...
dreams...
creativity...
growth...
all coming
to a
balance.

Today, I am aware of balance... How it appears at this moment that my dreams...my creativity and my heart messages seem to be so balanced lately. This balance is allowing me to be full of great happiness and joy. In allowing myself to stay more in the present, I am aware that the emotions that I feel are more intense...the creativity is more vivid...the messages are stronger...my growth is more apparent...and love is more abundant. Today, I am aware of balance and how I am celebrating each day a little more...with a little more zest...a little more truth...a little more growth. Today, I am aware of balance and how this balance is allowing me to see myself through new eyes.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: How can you bring a little more balance into your life today?

Patience

calm...
encouraging...
compromise...
with my
patient soul.

Today, I am aware of patience...and how it is useful when so many things appear before me...differences that come up...differences of opinion...differences in feelings...differences within my own mind...differences in interpreting the written word. Today, I am aware of patience...being patient with others, but also with myself. There are tools to help you to be aware to be patient..."count to 10" before speaking..."let go of negative thoughts" and my friends..."wait 24 hours before taking action". All of these are good tools to allow patience into your life. I am aware to be calm...to encourage myself ...and to compromise more with others. Today as patience speaks with me I am aware that it is a key factor in communication with myself and with others...easing me...calming me...allowing me to view all sides...allowing me to grow...allowing me to blossom. Today, I am aware of patience...and how useful it is to diffuse my tensions and listen to my heart.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: How can you exercise a little patience in your life today?

Time...

time...
budding...
blossoming...
flowing...
nourishing...
honored...
time.

Today, I am aware of time...the passing of time...how time stands still...goes to fast..doesn't go fast enough. Today, I am aware of time...how I spend it..where I spend it...how there never is enough of it...or how it creeps by slowly. Today, I am aware of time. Aware that time must be honored in all of its stages. That one must be a bud before one can become a flower. That growth takes time and there are many stages to that growth. That time allows me to be nourished...to regroup...to rethink...to reconnect. Time...today, I am aware of it. I am aware to not stand to far back into the past but to smile with the paths that have brought me here...to not project myself to far into the future, for it will arrive at the exactly the right time. Today I am aware to stay in the present, this day...this moment...this time! Today, I am aware that this is the perfect time and I flow and grow with it.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: How are you aware of your time today?

WELCOME To From the Inside Out...

I would like to take this moment to Welcome all the new visitors, and of course a warm hello to those of you who visit daily. This journal has been on going for several years now, and is a place where I share who I am with myself and with you the reader and hope that you will find inspiration and encouragement as you need it. I have received so many mails asking how I do these affirmations, so I am once again posting this older explanation for those who need a little extra guidance. The one thing I do know...is that there is no right way...or wrong way to do them, as long as you listen to the direction that your spirit...your muse...your soul...is taking you... My heart is open to each and everyone who visits...please feel free to leave a comment...a thought...a word....an affirmation of your own. From one creative soul to another...I wish you all a glimpse into your true self.

WHAT IS AN AFFIRMATION????
An affirmation to me, is a question I propose to myself every day and then listen closely to the answer to that question...the answer comes from deep within me.
An affirmation is a personal practice where you honor your heart...
An affirmation mirrors the gentle stirrings of your soul...
The more you do this the more comfortable and aware of your own voice and your own skills you become...
The more you do this the more messages you are open to...
And the closer you come to your true self...
JUST HOW DO I GO ABOUT DOING AN AFFIRMATION????
First: you must be willing to be OPEN to the messages...
Rhythm: you must be willing to find your own creative drumbeat...it could be in the morning to cleanse and clear yourself and start your day....or it could be in the evening as a reflection...
Time: you must be willing to claim some time for yourself...
Place: you must be willing to provide yourself with a place where you can collect your affirmations , your artwork, and your spirit...it can be loose papers, it can be a special journal, it can be anything you wish to place your thoughts on, the one thing it needs to be is a place where you honor who you are....so make it a special place.
So, begin to focus on the FUN you will have while you become more aware of your voice and the messages you have to give to yourself...
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Unlocked...A reflection.

opening...
revealing...
unlocking
my heart.

Today, I am aware of unlocking my heart...of opening up and how it deepens me...and my connection to my soul. Revealing who I really am for others to see...for my self to know. Connecting authentically to my love...my creativity...my message. When you unlock your heart you begin to create space for creativity... for love...for compassion...for trust...for life. Today I am aware of unlocking my heart inviting others to experience what is in my soul. Today, as I reflect on this week I am aware of the dance of life that I move to...I am aware of how my happiness is entwined with my strength and my growth...I am aware of the dreams that appear before me, without doubt...Today, I am aware of unlocking my heart and listening to the messages of my spirit...to put them into action...and to dream.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: As you reflect on your week what can you find that unlocked your heart?

Dancing...

movement...
connecting...
dreaming...
listening...
with my
body and soul
I am
dancing.

DANCE AS IF NO ONE IS WATCHING, SING AS IF NO ONE IS LISTENING, AND LIVE EACH DAY AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST......
~ IRISH PROVERB

Today, I am aware of dancing...the movement of both my body and soul. I am aware to listen to the music of my heart and turn up the volume. I am aware to let myself be free...free to know that it doesn't matter if the music is fast or slow...all that really matters is that I listen...that I hear it...that I move with it. I am aware that the dance can be done all alone or with others...I am aware that by NOT joining in...by NOT hearing the music...by NOT moving with the rhythm that I am NOT being fully aware. Today, I am aware of dancing..Today, I hear the music... Today, I laugh...Today, I sing...Today, I dance with my heart. (and it doesn't matter if anyone is watching!) For today, I am aware to dance with my life!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you hear the music of your heart that allows you to dance?

Entwined...

entwined...
happiness...
heart...
growth...
strength...
entwined
with love.

Today, I am aware of being entwined....entwined with happiness..entwined with growth...entwined with strength...entwined with my hearts' love. Today, I am aware that by honoring this, I realize how happiness is something that we all deserve...it allows us to grow and fly upward...outward...inward. Today, in this the spring of the year, I am reminded of the strength the tree has to blossom once again after a cold hard winter...soon finding its branches full of beautiful growth. I am reminded of how the bird sings its' song every morning welcoming a new day...I am reminded to be silent with myself and listen to my heart. Today, I am aware of how entwined I am with all of these things...and how I am in offering them to myself and others. Today, as I take the steps toward happiness I am aware that I am entwining all of these feelings...these emotions..these insights...these dreams...these realities... this growth...this love... my strengths..closer to my true self...my true creativity...my true love...my true desire...my true dream. Today, I am aware that by doing so, and by being aware the bird of happiness offers me my heart.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: What are you aware of today, that entwines you to your true self?

dreaming...

dreaming...
without doubt.
dreaming...
exactly the same dream.
dreaming...
openly.

Today, I am aware of dreaming...dreaming the same dream without doubt...openly and honestly with myself. Today, I am aware of dreaming...and the guidance that is coming from within. As I allow these dreams to manifest I hold the future stars within my heart. I am holding on to the courage to continue the steps that I am taking. Holding on to my truth and trusting myself ...my intuitions...my inner wisdom...my quiet...my creativity...my joy. Today, I am aware of dreaming...and allowing those dreams to come to a place without doubt or fear...And I listen closely today, as I guide myself to grow with trust openly toward those dreams.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: Can you listen to the message of your dreams today?

Sharing my heart....

honesty...
love...
creativity...
beauty...
from
within.

Today, I am aware of sharing...sharing the positive and negative...honesty and love...creativity and beauty...Sharing the loveliness of a new day. Today, I am aware of sharing...sharing the best person that I can be. For I am aware that when the sharing comes from within...deep within your soul you truly begin to share the foundation of who you really are. All the outward appearances are stripped and only your heart is exposed. Today, I am aware of sharing and the force that flows and grows outward with this rare emotion...attracting like with like...love with love...creativity with creativity...beauty with beauty...sincerity with sincerity. Today, I am aware of sharing from my soul...and the way it helps me to grow...helps me to sing...helps me to rejoice. I am aware of the force that sharing has brought my way and how by honestly sharing I allow myself to grow not only within...but I allow myself to grow with others.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: What can you share today honestly..with love from within?

Flowering...A Reflection

flowering ...
dreams.
flowering...
warmth.
flowering...
no longer
a seed.

Today, I am aware of flowering....of opening up to my dreams...my creativity...my warmth. Today, I am aware to be an open blossom, no longer a seed. To stretch myself and grow. Today, as I reflect on this week I am aware that I must be aware to be trusting, as this gentle wind glides me with thoughts of new adventures. That by being focused in the moment that I will be aware of all the abundance around me. That by being aware of the gladness of my heart, I am more content and joyous. Today, I am aware as I reflect on this week that the glowing warmth that is coming from deep within is true and beautiful. So today, as I reflect I am aware of the good and positive events that are happening, and I am aware to honor them with all of my heart.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

PS: As you reflect on this day and this week what message can you hear to allow you to no longer be in your seed?