Making Everything Beautiful

It's so easy for us to fling our words around frivolously without thinking about the impact they might have.

In this modern technological age, many new developments in science, neuroscience and positive psychology show us how our words actually create our reality and impact not only our own health and well-being, but also the health and well-being of the planet.

One of these groundbreaking insights came through the work of the late Dr. Masaru Emoto whose experiments with water give a powerful picture of how our words, thoughts, and feelings really do shape our world.

Dr. Emoto gathered water samples from all around the world. He then took some samples and spoke beautiful words to them, such as "love" and "thank you", and then froze the samples. When he looked under the microscope at them he saw that beautiful crystals formed on the samples.

Then, he took samples and spoke violent words to them, such as, "You fool" and "You make me sick", and then froze the samples. But, these samples did NOT form crystals. Instead they look deformed and distorted.

He did similar experiments using thoughts and emotions, and experienced the same results.

The water samples that were sent positive thoughts and emotions formed beautiful crystals and the samples exposed to negative thoughts and emotions did NOT form crystals and instead look distorted.

His research shows that our words, thoughts, and emotions can change the molecular structure of water.

And, he also pointed out that our bodies are made up of 70% water. Similarly, our planet is comprised of 70% water.

Um...I don't know about you, but the implications here BLOW MY MIND!

He said that the words we speak, thoughts we think, emotions we experience, all have and effect on our health and well-being.

And, on the health and well-being of our planet!

Holy Shiitake!!!

But, I resonate with this so much! I can feel in my body it's true. I've experienced it in my own life.

And, if you sit with this insight for a minute, you will know it to be true as well. You've experienced it yourself in your own life, too.

Our words matter.

They set into motion responses, actions, and reactions that will produce results consistent with the energy of the words we speak.

So, what kind of life do you want to create? What kind of world do you want to live in?

Only you can answer this for yourself.

I'll end these show notes with a quote from the book, The Hidden Messages of Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto:

"I know it sounds like I'm saying that it's all in your mind, but what I'm actually trying to say is that when you drink water with a feeling of gratitude the water itself is physically different than when you drink the same water with clouded feelings in your soul. Our emotions and feelings have an effect on the world moment by moment. If you send out words and images of creativity, then you will be contributing to the creation of a beautiful world. However, emitting messages of destruction, you contribute to the destruction of the universe. If you become aware of this, you will no longer be able to speak words of anger to those around you, or blame others for your own mistakes and weaknesses. You have the capacity to change the world in a moment. All you must do is make a simple choice. Are you going to choose a world of love and gratitude, or a tortured world filled with discontent and impoverishment?"  (Bolded Emphasis Mine)

It starts with us. It starts with love. ❤️

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

BlinkNow Website

The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto

Kyle Cease Website

Kyle Cease YouTube Channel

Eckhart Tolle Website

Eckhart Tolle YouTube Channel

SuperSoul Sunday

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

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It's important that we acknowledge ourselves when reach a milestone. When we experience a win.

This is Episode 25! Today, marks the halfway point of the first year of the Making Everything Beautiful podcast!

Holy Moly!!

So, today, I am celebrating that I stuck in there and didn't give up. There were a few times I felt like it.

But, I didn't want to be another abandoned podcast with only 7 episodes.

I made a commitment to this dream/mission that I would keep showing up and giving love and being of service whether or not anyone was listening.

That the results are not my responsibility. The Universe is responsible for the outcome.

My job is simply to show up, give the best of who I am to the work, and let Life take it from there.

I ran across a quote just before I started this podcast in January that actually inspired my to get busy and get my message out there.

That I have NO guarantee how many days I have left on this planet.

"The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life." Buckminster Fuller

This quote lit a fire under my butt. I wanted so much to live a life that felt good. That I loved.

And, that's why I began this podcast.

To do what I really wanted to be doing with my life. To live the kind of life I wanted to be living.

So, I just started.

With no website. No FB Page. No Instagram.

I just started recording a few episodes and figured out how to upload them to a podcast hosting platform and submit them to Apple Podcasts and some other places.

It was a messy beginning. But, I took action and began.

My dream is now out there in the world where it could possibly add value to someone's life.

That's the whole point!

And, if YOU are sitting on a dream/mission of your own, don't wait for perfect. It will never happen.

Don't wait for when you are ready. You never will be.

Just start.

Do it messy. Do it afraid. Do it imperfectly.

Just get it out there where it can be a contribution to the world.

You can improve and develop it as you go.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Martin Luther King Jr.

All we need to do, is show up for the next step.

That's how dreams come true. One step at a time.

It starts with us. It starts with love. With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

BlinkNow Website

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For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web! 

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* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

Renewal. Refreshment. New Start. New beginning.

This is what was coming up for me as I was listening to the rain outside my window, just before I began to record this episode.

I've been working through a financial challenge for about a year now and the rain was bringing up the feeling of longing for a time of renewal, for a new start, for an end to my year long challenge.

So, in this episode, I am dealing with myself as I move through the emotions of wanting to be past the challenge, yet still being in the challenge.

I bet you have been here before, too. In the middle of a challenge and you can't see how it going to work out.

It can feel like we are in a pressure cooker.

Like diamonds, which are created by intense heat and intense pressure, the challenges burn away the impurities, the parts of us that aren't helpful to us anymore.

I've learned that it's in the pressure cooker of challenges that we experience the greatest transformation in our lives.

Life is soooo AMAZING! As I was recording this, life showed up and reminded me that my source of renewal is right here in me.

Not in any condition outside myself. Not in a job. Not in a person. Not in a certain amount of money.

Life unfolds perfectly for me and for you. It knows just how long we need to remain in the pressure cooker in order to become the people we can be for the world.

To be the highest version of myself. That's what I want. I'm sure that's what you want, too.

So, I welcome this current financial challenge. There is something the Universe is teaching me through the situation.

And, when I emerge...I will be an even brighter light for the world.

I'm going to need some better sunglasses!

Thank you, Life. ❤️

It starts with us. It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

Pencils of Promise Website

Episode 7: In the Darkness- Living with Uncertainty

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* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

Courage isn't always those big moments...

like Mel Gibson, as William Wallace, in Braveheart, fighting for his country, or firemen rushing in to a burning building to save someone.

Sometimes, it's a quiet, softer experience that rests inside you, as you take one more step, make it through one more day.

And, some days, it can feel like a gargantuan feat to take one more step and get through one more day.

I've been there more times than I can count.  I'm sure you have, too.

But, do we know where the true source of courage lies? HINT:  It's not in the head.

Our source of courage exists in the same place where true Love is found.

From the other worldly place inside each of us where our spiritual essence dwells. 

It is not of this world and can only be accessed from this spiritual seat inside us.

Actually, everything we are seeking is found there.  It is the source of all things.

So, that is where we can tap into our courage when it is needed. 

When we must face those BIG scary things.

And, when it can be challenging to take just one more step.

In this episode, I share what I've come to know about courage.

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow."  Mary Anne Radmacher

It starts with us.  It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Pencils of Promise Website

The Promise of Pencil by Adam Braun

The Landmark Forum (The seminar that began my transformation)

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* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

I had such a frustrating day today! Holy Moly!

Something that should have been simple ended up being such an ordeal.

Have you ever experienced this? I'm betting you have, if you are human.

I certainly don't experience life as being all perfectly smooth days without challenges. Definitely not!

Actually, life would be pretty boring without challenges to cause growth in us.

Today was just that kind of day!

Listen in as I relate how the Universe grabbed me by the collar in the middle of my exasperating experience and what happened as a result.

It has a happy ending. I promise. I just LOVE happy endings. 😊

It starts with us. It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

Pencils of Promise Website

*I am not an affiliate for anyone. These are not affiliate links.

For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web!

Join me LIVE every Thursday at 1pm EST on the Making Everything Beautiful FB Page!!

* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

Reminders. Wake up calls. These are opportunities Life gives us to recalculate and make adjustments. Life loves us that much! It helps us remember what is of true importance.

We often get caught up in all kinds of silly, insignificant things that don't really matter in the greater scope of it all.

Life just gave me two such reminders in the span of two days.

I share these experiences and what beautiful insights they brought to my life. I know they will resonate with many of you.

I was reminded of the fragility of our humanity when I received a call that someone I adored passed away that morning.

Life also gave me another reminder of our oneness as spiritual beings as I was invited to a 4th of July cookout with my kids, in which their father was also going to be there.

Having not communicated with my former husband for over two years, I wasn't sure how that was going to go.

Yet, I chose to go and be the space of love. I chose to not see an enemy. But, recognize the Divine essence in everyone, including my former husband.

To see myself in the other and the other in myself.

Profound, to say the least!

Life is soooo AMAZING!

It starts with us. It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

Pencils of Promise Website

Pencils of Promise YouTube Channel

Marie Forleo's Interview with PoP Founder Adam Braun

The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun

*I am not an affiliate for anyone. These are not affiliate links.

For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web!

Join me LIVE every Thursday at 1pm EST on the Making Everything Beautiful FB Page!!

* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

Do you ever feel like you are inadequate?

Like you aren't enough? Ever feel like giving up? What's the point anyway?

That's just how I'm feeling as I record this episode.

You see, I've been struggling with feeling like I'm not good at podcasting.

I'm just a beginner at all this.

My equipment isn't the best. I'm still figuring out what in the heck I'm even doing with this podcast. Why would anyone want to listen to me, anyway?

At least, that's what's been running through my head today.

At this point, I have a choice.

To listen to those thoughts and give up. Or, to chose to be reminded of what is true.

That it's ok to be a beginner. That no one masters anything without practice. That mastery takes time.

It takes doing something over and over and over and over.....more times than can be counted.

"The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things." Mike Dooley

When it comes down to it, though, we must remember that there is only one of us in all space and time.

There is something truly special that we are each here to contribute.

There are no extra people. We each have a place at the table. A part to play in the greater human experience.

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. " Martha Graham

These words inspire and empower me to keep going forward. To keep showing up.

To do it one more time. And, one more time. And, one more time.

To keep the channel open.

To allow my expression to shine forth like the sun.

And, by recording this episode, I did it one more time.

It starts with us. It starts with love. ❤️

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

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* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

Some angels walk around in human form.

This episode is a tribute to two real life heroes that I personally know. These angel ladies are a shining example of turning pain into purpose.

As Bryant McGill said, "When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to choose how to put yourself back together again."

WE choose whether we will be a victim of our circumstances or if we will use our painful experiences to be a space of love for others and help them heal.

Listen in as I share the inspiring and beautiful stories of how these ladies embraced their own pain and then turned it into service for others.

They are proof that angels, indeed, do walk amongst us.

It starts with us. It starts with love. With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

Women for Women International

Zainab Salbi TED Talk - Women, Wartime, and Dreams of Peace

Kute Blackson Website

Kute Blackson YouTube Channel

You Are The One Book by Kute Blackson

*I am not an affiliate for anyone or anything. These are not affiliate links.

For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web! 

Join me LIVE every Thursday at 1pm EST on the Making Everything Beautiful FB Page!!

* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️ 

These words by Elizabeth Gilbert, brought comfort to me today as I was loving myself through a painful day.

"I came here to live a life fully, all of it. And I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take the whole thing. Because, I don't want to have come all this distance to live a human life and miss the experience. So, I just want to show up for the whole ride." Elizabeth Gilbert

Life often doesn't go the way we'd like. Some days are great and others, not so much.

But, I know that I'd be so bored after a while if every day was a great day. No variety. No growth. Being stuck in a stagnant place inside myself.

It's in the valleys of life where we learn how to go deeper. Where we deepen our relationship with the Divine being inside ourselves.

While the mountain top experiences are awesome and I totally enjoy them, I want to experience the whole range of emotions. I want to experience the whole human experience.

I wouldn't trade a minute of my life. Not a minute. It's all beautiful.

Settle in and listen as I share how this Father's Day brought up some old pain that needed my loving attention.

It starts with us. It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in today's episode:

Healing the Inner Child FB Live

The Landmark Forum (The seminar that began my transformation)

Super Soul Sunday: Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls

The Sheri and Nancy Show Podcast: Elizabeth Gilbert- Becoming Love

Kyle Cease Website

Kyle Cease YouTube Channel

*I am not an affiliate for anyone or anything. These are not affiliate links.

For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web! 

Join me LIVE every Thursday at 1pm EST on the Making Everything Beautiful FB Page!!

* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️

It's time, to talk about time.

Many of us are not living our life from an empowering perspective of time.

There are three kinds of time that drastically impact our lives.

They are clock time, psychological time, and Divine time and they are very different from each other.

Clock time is what we normally think of when we think of time. What time is it? Our appointments. Calendars. What time we have to be somewhere.

Psychological time has to do with past, present, and future.

Divine time is the timing of the Universe. Which functions in Its own dimension or realm. It is of the Spiritual realm and has nothing to do with our earthy concept of time.

Whichever one we are viewing our life from at any given moment will impact our experience of life.

Join me, as we discuss this mind-blowing and fascinating topic.

You will never see or experience time the same way again!

It starts with us. It starts with love.

With Much Love, Darlene Michele

Links mentioned in this episode:

Women for Women International

Zainab Salbi TED Talk- Women, Wartime, and the Dream of Peace

Eckhart Tolle on Time

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Website

Eckhart Tolle YouTube Channel

Landmark Forum

Tosha Silver Website

Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver

Change Me Prayers by Tosha Silver

*I'm not an affiliate for anyone.  These are not affiliate links.

For more goodness, visit Making Everything Beautiful on the Web! 

Join me LIVE every Thursday at 1pm EST on the Making Everything Beautiful FB Page!!

* Intro and Outro song by Tamir Leibovich ❤️