Author: Ki McGraw

While carrying out dead plants to compost, I stepped in something nasty. I realized it as I started to return home. I couldn’t easily clean my boot outside but didn’t want to track it in so I stopped and took my boot off in the cold night before I entered inside.

I share with you the details of my life, as they speak volumes metaphorically. We all step in it, the nasty filth of some excrement, or the drama and trauma of relationships or the conflict of political division. The question is: do we take the responsibility to clean our boot or do we make more of a mess as we track the crap all over?

What have you stepped in lately? Have you cleaned your boot yet? Ki to Happiness takes responsibility for whatever she steps in.

No, I am not requesting prayers myself. That being stated, I do appreciate everyone of them, and thank you. I wanted to bring up my approach to praying for others, since today prayers were requested of me for a family in need.

I am always happy to respond immediately to a direct request with prayers. Without a direct request, I keep my prayers to myself although I pray for our world, the Earth and our global circumstances. In this way, I keep a respectful boundary regarding my spiritual involvement with all.

When do you pray for others? When do you have others pray for you? Ki to Happiness prays for specific others as requested.

I love to help people and serve them in my capacity as a teacher, as well as a holistic counselor. I’ve had to learn how to facilitate others in finding their way. Not my way, although my path informs my efforts.

I started out as a young adult, seriously determined to move through my material so I could be an agent of possibility. Others may also or may start late, with little commitment or capacity for change. As I care for any and all of them, I remember to respect their timing and ethically offer options so their consent teams with mine toward body-mind-spirit integration.

What ethics guide your care? How can you best embody your respect of other’s timing and choices? Ki to Happiness remember that there is A Way for each of us.

When I first experienced yoga, as a kid, I didn’t get what the big deal was. Easy simple movements in which we were to breathe left me wanting the challenge of ballet and it’s jumps and turns. Any movement I preferred to sitting still and waiting to grow up.

As an adult, I continue appreciating any movement and now that I’ve “grown up” I find the value of sitting still in meditation. Science is catching up with our need for movement throughout our lifespan. Simple, safe, stress-free movement affirms life force within.

How would you like to move today? What would best affirm your life force? Ki to Happiness moves on and on…

I learned this morning about my dear former associate who is on a feeding tube with dementia and multiple cancers. In addition to our years working together,we played music together, in our off hours. I hear her playing, one of her cousins original tunes, which was entitled Tap Dancing on the Moon.

When we parted ways, I left our Midwestern association to follow the path of yoga around the world. Along the way, I stopped to fulfill her projection of me as “future Dr. McGraw” which she called me when I had only my first Masters degree. I am wrapped in my memories of her, which I wear like the cloak she gifted me decades ago, and pray to mother Mary seven times a day, making sure to invoke God Almighty, not just any old God, as she insisted during our last visit.

How do you honor those who have influenced your path? When you’ve parted ways, what do you bring with you? Ki to Happiness sings the old songs and prays.

I received an email yesterday that brought up for me a desire for instant gratification. I couldn’t get any. It took me back to the many times that I have needed to wait and feel uncomfortable feelings.

Sometimes, when we are hungry, we eat junk food instead of slow cooking. Never shopping when hungry, always having a nutritious bite on hand and sipping warm water protect me from eating crap. Similarly, praying, sipping in my connection to spirit and balanced breathing all satisfied my needs until I got the gratification the email brought up in me.

What do you do with yourself when you cannot immediately get your needs met? Where do you turn to with your uncomfortable feelings? Ki to Happiness turns to Divine Mother/Father in prayer and breath.

Lately I’ve been noticing little mishaps. Any one of them may have become true problems, but instead, each has resolved itself. What remains is a sense of gratitude for this protective benevolence that surrounds me.

I have opened myself up to get the message from my higher self to slow down, rest, and witness resolution. in doing, so I am aware that I have help, I am not alone, I don’t have to do everything, and that, in fact, I’ve never done anything alone. Every head bump, tech glitch, misstep has been healed, straightened out and reformed into faith and confidence in the Invisible Helpers that intervene in Divine timing.

Who helps you? How patient can you be?Ki to Happiness rests and witnesses all prayers answered in Divine Timing.

My mom posted about Brittany Griner’s release from Russian imprisonment in exchange for a Russian imprisoned in the USA. I appreciate her knowing about this news before me and recognizing it’s significance enough to share it. I immediately sent the information on to my husband, who is an avid sports fan, especially regarding any of our Seattle teams.

I blog about it to express my wonder at the world we live in, the difference in cultures and laws, the need to respect other’s ways so we learn. Traveling taught me to leave my expectations at home so I could embrace the ways of my hosts. I recognize that we are guests, so right or wrong, if I go someplace else, I do so accepting their ways of being for a time.

How good of a guest are you? How do you need to behave in order to be welcomed back? Ki to Happiness wants to be a good guest on the Earth.

On this last full moon of 2022, it’s a perfect time to let go of aspects of the year that have already served their purpose. Releasing fear, stress, anxiety allows space for creative expression which Gemini craves. Using this energy in this way will give us a head start on welcoming 2023.

Whatever personal material this moon brings up, we are wise to look at it head on. Without diverting from the truth, what may be revealed wants to be manifested. Writing, singing, dancing, speaking with others are all sociable Gemini’s preference.

What is being revealed to you with this full moon? What do you need to let go of in order to allow it’s expression? Ki to Happiness lets go of fear and says “ Let’s Go!” to Love, Unity, Harmony, Peace, Abundance, Forgiveness, Beauty and Joy.

Since Thanksgiving, I’ve had a strange sensation in one of my front teeth. Instead of putting it off any longer since it wasn’t getting better I went to see my dentist. She took a look at the root and reassured me that all is well, perhaps a slightly sprained ligament from biting into my homemade crusty French bread.

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in the orthodontists chair having had multiple sets of braces and retainers from age 6-17. Back then it was believed that my roots were potentially compromised which I was warned about. Now, that warning is updated to reflect the new awareness that my roots are strong and healthy!

What old warnings need to be updated in your life? What roots need to be examined? Ki to Happiness replaces old fears and warnings with new awareness of healthy roots.