Hi All,

Today the angels talk about why so many are tired and overwhelemd and what we can do about it. I'll share a story about getting my mojo back, and losing a few pounds the easy way :) Not a diet plan, but more like let's make this fun! Tips included as always.

Have a blessed & beautiful week :)
♥ Ann

by Ann Albers in Phoenix, AZ

My dear friends, we love you so very much,

We love you. We honor your courage for being on earth and sharing your light at a time when so many of you are tired, overwhelmed, and feeling far less tolerant of behaviors you once allowed in your lives. Your hearts are so beautiful. We know you wish to uplift others, but many of you are growing into the realization that, while you can be an influence, you cannot lift those who won't lift themselves.

For those of you who have spent a lifetime taking care of others, it is new to put yourself first. Many of you harbor secret guilt over tending to your own well-being, even though everything in you is calling you to do so. Many of you feel angry about the constant demands of others.

When you find yourself tired, cranky, bitter or upset about others who don't value your contributions, it is a sign from your soul that you have gone beyond what is reasonable and healthy. It is time to pull back, reclaim some of your own time, energy, and resources, and refill your well. It is a time to prioritize your own joy.

You need not feel guilty for taking care of yourself. You need not feel bad about having things that others do not. And while it is beautiful to share from a sense of fullness and abundance, sharing from anything less will deplete you.

When you feel blessed and fulfilled, you share from the eternal stream of love that flows through you. When you feel depleted, it is time to plug yourself back into the infinite before your well runs dry. It is time to take care of yourself.

You are all starting to realize that you can only change your own vibration, and while it feels joyful to support the light within others, it will feel exhausting if you try to support what is less than light.

Helping a person who is genuinely appreciative and believes in the good will often do real good. You are part of their manifestation—energy responding to energy. Helping a person who isn't sure about the good universe, but is truly seeking help, may do them real good as well. They are calling for assistance and you may be the answer to their prayer.

However, helping a person who demands things of you may soothe them for a moment, but most likely will have no lasting impact whatsoever. So if you give to those who are not in a loving space, do it only from your own fullness, your own joy, and only for the sake of loving—not to pacify them, quiet them, or get them to change.

When you give for the sake of loving, you feel good about yourself. When you give for any other reason, you become dependent on the reaction of the receiver.

For example, if you give to prove your love, the other may or may not understand your love. They may continue to expect or demand. Far better for you to understand that you are a loving being and no matter how hard you try to prove it, no matter how much you do for another, you cannot "make" another feel loved.

Or, if you give to prove you are a good person, the other may or may not validate your worth. They may not even thank you or appreciate you. But if you know that you are a good person, and give only for the joy of giving, then you won't care about their acknowledgment.

When divinely guided, the act of giving is a joy unto itself, and when that joy is not authentically present, the giving is not divinely guided.

Dear ones, you are not responsible for making anyone else "see the light," convincing them to live in a healthier manner, or ensuring that they create a more loving reality. You can influence or inspire a person willing to look for inspiration. You can offer loving advice to someone who truly wants to resolve their problems. But you can't make anyone change if they are not yet ready. Even those of you taking care of a child or an elder can influence their outlook if they are willing, but ultimately, they are responsible for their own happiness.

You serve your soul and the souls of others best by first tending to your own light and caring about your own well-being. You lift others up by lifting yourself first. You pour your love into the world best from a full cup, and when your cup is not full, the greatest gift you can give to life itself is to take care of yourself, be kind to yourself, and love yourself without condition.

Consider this permission from heaven, dear ones, to create your own happy and inspired life, no matter how those around you choose to live their own. And if you're not happy and inspired, permission to rest, refuel, and find whatever small kindness or pleasure you can, for it is in allowing any love in your heart and life that you allow more love.

From your eventual fullness, you will naturally support the love, light, and truth of others when they bring it to the surface. You will naturally uplift those seeking inspiration. You will offer helpful advice to those seeking solutions. You will effortlessly comfort and soothe those who are open to receiving such love. And you will find that you naturally withdraw your energy from those who are not seeking true solutions and simply want company in their misery—even if you live, work, and interact with them.

In a space of caring for yourself, being true to yourself, and honoring your natural feelings, you will navigate 3D reality with your 5D compass. You will be able to live in and enjoy the material world, guided and informed by the energy of love within you. As you focus on feeling appreciation for what you can, you will become magnetic to more of it. As you imagine how you want to feel, you will attract more of what supports those feelings. As you look for what inspires you and brings you good feelings, you will have less bandwidth for what does not. And as you focus on what there is to love about others, often you will find them showing you more of what there is to love.

Dear ones, your current lack of tolerance for drama is simply a desire to see through the eyes of your soul, who knows that all challenges can be overcome, and there is love to be found along the way. Your unwillingness to be a sounding board for those who don't want solutions is coming from your desire to spend your energy where it can be most beneficial. Your fatigue is a signal that your body or mind needs rest. Your overwhelm comes from trying to pay attention to too much all at once, rather than embracing the moment and doing what calls to you now.

Although many of you say that you do, you don't really want to escape from Earth.

You want to find a way to open to the life force that fuels your spirit, energizes your body, and helps you solve your problems. You want to stop feeling responsible for everyone else and to start being more responsive to your own spirit. When life is tough, you want comfort and soothing, and when you feel on top of the world, you want to share in ways that feel natural and wonderful to your soul.

The world will seem far kinder and easier to navigate if you permit yourself to simply be who you wish to be in a given moment, release yourself from the need to change others, and allow yourself to receive love one breath at a time. You need not escape the world to find peace, dear ones. You need not force yourself to feel good about what is not. You need not save, fix, or give into the demands of anyone else. You simply need to breathe and to find the love where you can most easily see it.

From that sense of being loved, you can then listen to your natural impulses to care—first for yourself, and then for others in a way that gives you joy. Sometimes your caring will be active service. Sometimes it will be quite joy.

You serve the world best by remaining true to yourself.

Permission, dear ones, to refill your well, and once again find the joy that life has to offer. Permission to "serve" by simply being the beautiful soul that you are, without expectation of how that must look, what you should do, or who you should be. Right here and now, you are more than enough.

God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Hi Everyone,

There really was no mystery about the extra pounds. I typically eat healthy, natural foods with only a little sugar. And although I don't have any judgment about weight one way or another, I was no longer comfortable, and I like being comfortable!  I wanted to recalibrate, but haven't had much time to hike or exercise. And so I sat and thought about how it felt to be my regular shape, just to get in the right vibe, and suddenly recalled a story in Autobiography of a Yogi in which Yogananda thought himself thin. That seemed like the perfect solution!

I put myself on a program twice a day for two to three minutes each. I sat and simply recalled feeling smaller. I remembered the lightness of hopping on rocks in the creek, the feeling of getting dressed without feeling as if I were stuffing one of my larger pillows into a small pillowcase, and how good it felt when I could do endless sit-ups. I recalled the deliciousness of fresh berries, a fresh veggie sauté with lemon and herbs that filled me up so much I didn't need dessert. I focused on the wonderful feeling of Spirit's love on my skin that I have been experiencing regularly, and the warmth of the sunshine on my face. I spent those few minutes every day focused on anything that made me feel good being in a body.

Within days, I lost my taste for excess sugar and started craving fruit again. I didn't even think about chocolate except for my usual two pieces a day. Suddenly, I couldn't wait to get up and do my yoga and sit-ups. And, while I don't have a scale, I know what I see and feel, and within two weeks, half the additional midsection had disappeared. To make things even better, I started "stumbling" on videos to correct my posture :)

This wasn't rocket science, of course. Less sugar equals fewer calories, but the process did not involve suffering or feeling deprived, as it usually does. I don't have the bandwidth currently to do my day-long hikes once a week. But simply because I wanted to feel comfortable and was willing to take a few minutes a day to focus on feeling good in a body without worrying about how and when the changes would unfold, the vibrational universe went to work. My brain rewired, my cravings changed, and I'm on the way back to my usual size. 

The moral of this story isn't about weight loss. Iti s more about loving yourself through the heights and the valleys, and simply recalibrating when you're not pleased. Mine happened in a way natural to me. Some of you might get impelled to see a doctor to get your hormones or thyroid balanced. The guidance is different for each of us, but the commitment to do something self-loving like sitting for a few minutes a day and thinking thoughts that feel good is pretty powerful. If I were obsessively focused on everyone else, I guarantee I would not have made even that little time for myself.

So, whether you feel the weight in your body as I did, or the weight of the world, as so many of us do, the process of lightening up, be it literal or metaphorical, is still the same: start by loving yourself enough to care for your feelings. Make space in your mind for thoughts that feel good and space in your day for things that feel good, no matter how small. Scale is irrelevant. The way you feel is what matters.

And from that commitment, your energy will start to return. Your joy will begin to renew. And your body will be allowed to resurrect itself since that is what bodies are programmed to do, with all the new baby cells being born every second.

Here are a few things that will help you get your mojo back when you feel tired, overwhelmed, or disconnected, or if you just want to feel a bit more inspired in life:

1.  Grant yourself grace

The angels always insist that the first step on the road back to feeling good is to accept yourself as you are. Stop fighting your natural feelings and healthy instincts. If you're tired, rest when you can. If you don't feel like being as "available" as usual, pull back where you can.  Do something that allows an overworked mind to take a breather—get outside, read a book, take a digital reset. Stop trying to live up to others' expectations or even your own. Don't try to feel good about things that don't. Instead, find things that do.

The more we stop fighting ourselves and surrender to what truly feels right in the moment—kind and loving, no matter how small—the more we open up to the flow of life force once again.

2. Get rid of artificial deadlines. Question the to-do list.

So many times, we think we have to get things done when we don't. And while we might really want to accomplish many tasks, the real must-do list is often much smaller than the want-to-do list. I have things on my list that have been there for a few years, and I haven't been inspired to handle them yet. I'll get there. Pushing yourself never feels good.

When you're feeling a little deflated, it is best to pare the to-do list down to only the real must-dos and let the rest wait till you have more energy or inspiration.

3.Enjoy life's simple pleasures and focus on what feels good

On the road to inspiration, we have to start small. Enjoy your coffee, or your cat. Enjoy walking your dog or reading a few pages of a good book. Enjoy an interesting video, or shut your eyes at night and feel the relief of "time off." Walk around your house and enjoy the memories inspired by the objects you have, or enjoy the texture of a blanket on your couch. Make or get a healthy meal and take time to savor the flavor.

Or take a few minutes a day as I often do to focus on how you want to feel. Indulge in a fantasy. Recall a time you felt great and. relive it. Just a few minutes here and there of feeling good does wonders for your spirit and your day.

Start small and simple when you're trying to rekindle your spark. Little pleasures are like little sparks of love that, when added up, will fuel the flames of inspiration once again. Every time we look for something to enjoy, more will reveal itself.