<![CDATA[AUTHOR DONNA RINELLI - Blog]]>Sun, 12 May 2024 15:05:05 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Spring Ahead]]>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:11:09 GMThttp://authordonnarinelli.com/blog/spring-ahead
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Spring is a time to think about what it is that needs to grow. By doing this you plant seeds to help cultivate and build. It could be a material, inner growth, connecting with people or just simply building a shed.
   This is the time of year that allows us to gather and plan our new found project. I must say since the pandemic I have been putting a crazy amount of overtime into work. So being a Respiratory Therapist it made sense to do just that, but it put me in a position of going full steam ahead for two years and feeling guilty when I slowed down. I guess you could say that it was the stress that was in my life that made me realize that I needed to give myself my time back. See, I had been a custom to having four days off a week and at times would work multiple days in a row to have eight off. I was accustomed to having my time to have projects. I can see how through an extended period of time, how someone could loss themselves through conditioning themselves to change drastically.  By now you can tell what I need to work on this year, finding myself and understand that I need to nurture myself, by bringing myself back into the home. While others were couped up at home, I was  not. But it will be fun to get out more and take walks on the beach and breath the clean air, now that I have the time.
What is it that you need to work on and start planting? Perhaps, you have multiple desires this year. We must remember that humans are just another species on earth and belong to nature. By working on what you need helps you to have growth in the future, so go ahead and plant that garden.
]]><![CDATA[Transport Smoothly Into the New Year 2022]]>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:00:00 GMThttp://authordonnarinelli.com/blog/transport-smoothly-into-the-new-year-2022
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 It is New Year's Evening, and I am in the kitchen with my adult daughter making shrimp tacos, while listening to smooth jazz on our Alexa. In my front yard the only lights that remain softly glowing are yellow and red LED lights that are wrapped around a magnolia and large pine tree. In the window pretend flames flickering from battery-operated candles. All the Christmas joyful characters, once sporadically placed in the yard, now lay in their assigned boxes until next year. The only thing left is to bring in the new year. 
     This time of year is when we put down the sweets and think of a healthier atmosphere. We ponder over the things we want to change and make promises to ourselves that we hope we will keep.
      Although it has been a crazy year here in my home, I look forward to next year as being soft, soothing, with healing in my life. Yes, I have my regular News Year's resolution, but 2022 I want to be different. As I look at my life, each moment deserves to have its time to live. Live in the now and know that these moments will bring memories of some kind. For the moments that just drift by without any recollection are moments of contentment basking in my appreciation for the good in my life. Yes, there will be challenges, and some can be seen all the way from here, but from moment to moment build strength for the challenges that are to come.
     What is a perfect year really? With life comes the good with the bad. A balance of both positive and negative. It is how we see events and cope with them. The sad ones are the hardest and it tends to get us out of our center, dimming our aura of energy that surrounds our physical body. We may spend the rest of the year getting back to our center, learning the lessons that are drastically forced onto us. It is those positive moments that we tend to miss due to anxiety, dread, and sadness. 
      As hard as it may be, holding on to those moments, for that moment can help heal those sad situations we feel inside and bring you closer to your center. When we look back to the year of 2021 lets learn by remembering the good times and how the past is now gone and live in this moment. We can say we were present during the sad moments. But can we say that we were fully present during the good moments of 2021? If so, good for you but if not, lets learn from them in 2022 and remember to fully be present during great times and feel it knowing this will be the only moment at that moment. Tell ourselves to be present at this moment feeling each second as it passes, feeling time pass like a smooth soothing wave, soaking up each second of the atmosphere. If we can soak up some joy in our life, we might be able to feel it in our hearts stronger in the future when we remember them. 
      When I am in that place where I am absolutely in the moment being in the now and feeling everything around me, it brings me back to how I felt as a child. Your views of 2021 were and 2022 will be different from mine, but one thing that we all have in common is that we are alive. Let us live it with as much appreciation for each moment as we live our daily lives. 
]]><![CDATA[Pre-Injection of Some Holiday Cheer]]>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:55:00 GMThttp://authordonnarinelli.com/blog/pre-injection-of-some-holiday-cheer
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                   Pre-Injection of Some Holiday Cheer

 I love the smell of the holidays. The fragrance of fresh pine, baked goods, chocolate, mint, and vanilla mixed with other tasteful treats that linger in the air. It is not only on the actual day, but also the preparation before the gatherings is in the atmosphere. The sound of music penetrates our mind digging deep into our memories of happy thoughts. Could that be why people seem more loving this time of the year? The holidays have a happiness that brings you back to what it was like as a child and the excitement of the world around you.
      As I look forward to the holiday cheer, I think of loved ones who are no longer with us. How things change and keep moving forward. Remembering past holidays and knowing how important it is to enjoy the event that is happening now. By living in the moment and being present to what is happening around us today.
​      We have changed how we receive our Christmas items as well as how we shop. It is exciting to see what the future has instore for us to enjoy together as family. We now can eat together as a family, while being in separate places on video chat. Just think no one needs to be alone for the holiday due to sickness, transportation, work, or travel expenses. 
      I am not too keen on the gift giving or receiving aspect of the holidays. I drench myself into the free stuff like music, lights, and gatherings. It reminds me of when you had to wait to watch a special movie before VCR tapes came along and we had no such thing as the internet. Once a year it made it special to watch the Wizard of OZ. The whole town would make special plans to settle in and watch together. The holidays make it special to me because it only comes once a year. Electrical candles in the window give off a glow of light that says hello and flashing lights in yards give an exciting warm cozy energetic feel.
      Family and friends make the holidays, gathering once a year to catch up with one another's life, helping to keep the strong ties tight. These are special moments to remembered and talked about around the dinner tables for many years to come.  

      


]]><![CDATA[Lifes Direction]]>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:38:23 GMThttp://authordonnarinelli.com/blog/lifes-direction          Who is Out There?
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In the middle of contemplating over a subject that has been needing my attention for a while. I began to wonder if I am the only one who thinks about law of attraction, when it comes to making change in one’s life. From one book to another and different lectures of how to get there. I, at times think of an idea, changing my life in some way. Or I start a new project and shortly after wonder how the world knew. Around me are the immediate responses from the universe and atmosphere around me begins to grow with people, places, and things. A quantum moment is in action, the way the proton changes when you focus on its presence. Only moving in a different direction when you focus your attention on it. It is when you do not focus, that it simply keeps going in the same direction. Like life when we choose to stay in a certain community, job, or relationship. Contentment can at times make a person feel as if the world is moving around them. While they stew in the same old routine, then boredom sets in. That is why I like to change things up in my life and always have different interest at hand, so that I keep my eye on the ball of life, making it a bit more exciting rather than stewing away in my own juices. Spice up the stew a bit. When my mind gets involved in a task, I first am in deep thought as I go along.
             Suddenly I notice certain words around me, or the right person, time, or place comes along and falls into my lap. Then I begin to quickly find a way to get what I need for each step that I take though this new journey. But, in the past I totally thought each step was impossible, finding them to be easier with the right kind of energy is around me. Could it be when we believe strongly our focus is there more. Like finding a four-leaf clover or having itchy palms, then knowing money or good luck is coming. 
              Energy in the past might not have had the right kind of combination to unlock and open the doors. When the energy has the right numbers to the combination of what is desired, it has no choice, but to go into action. Then we may feel we are smooth sailing, but we might change the combination when we lose focus and get distracted. It is like a GPS following us around with a calculator, putting in coordinates with each decision made, while we focus on the prize. It could be that the pathway is prepared and goes into action with fluctuations daily. One way or the other, we can always depend on creating our own reality by doing the work. Once we find a way to get the energy to make a change, we can then see results. 
        Can a strong belief carry us through a yearning of wanting something so bad, that we can physically make it come true? Or do we having a stronger power leading us along the way such as a guarding angle standing next to us, or a long-forgotten spirit guide helping us through our path. Might just be the Holly Ghost giving us free range, grading us by the choices we make. Could it be an alien nation is watching us from afar, waiting to see how we act or react? Like an experiment being observed. Could our elders be watching us in the afterlife? Either way if we want something extremely bad enough, just like the song by the Rolling Stones says, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well, you might find you get what you need.”
​        What separates us from those who accomplish big tasks in the world, like Elon Musk for instant sending rockets into space. When you see people creating amazing tasks you cannot help but think, that there are other forces out there. So, the next time you want to create your own reality, remember what the movie Star Wars says, “May the force be with you.”  This may be all that you need.


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