F UNDER LETTER FROM THE
AMY BELL
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The Exciting Pink Season One Finale! A few years ago I participated in a workshop put on by our very own Samantha Timbers. It was a new program she created called “Cloud Goals”. In the weekly sessions she encouraged the group to think of a goal and then imagine how it would feel to live that goal full on. The goal I wrote the “feelings” for was something totally different than this magazine, however, what I wrote ended up being the pillars for it. In this editorial I am going to go over the pillars and explain them a bit more so you will begin to understand the magnitude of my mission. These tenets run deep in my cells and my wish is that we all incorporate them daily.
We are perfectly in tune with our spirits We are aligned, we are purposeful, we are free. Sometimes it doesn’t always feel like that though. Like right now I am wondering why the hell my Spirit feels it’s necessary for me to have “frozen shoulder” right in the middle of production? I spoke to my mentor, also a columnist, Moira Bush and she reminded me that
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when there is restriction in our arms it points to us “carrying” something heavy around. Like guilt or burdens of life in general. I have been over and over this in my mind and it’s my feeling that this Pink Edition, being about love and money, has me working through some serious shit right now. Which leads to our next tenet.
We are completely connected to our souls I don’t believe if I was completely connected to my Soul I would have this shoulder issue. I think being connected to Soul is directly connected to the amount of self-love we’re giving ourselves. For the last three years I have been working my ass off. Long, long hours at the computer, hunched, tensed up and basically an ergonomic nightmare lol! I supposed this in itself wouldn’t be so bad if I was doing yoga or stretching every day, but that wasn’t me. I felt that if I took time away from work, I wasn’t contributing to the finances of the household. In an attempt to be productive and financially stable - I completely neglected my Soul’s desire for
