Showing posts with label columnist magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label columnist magazine. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Inspirational Book Reading Gives (Always) Nutrition to the Children's Soul

Mia är tillbaka som krönikör för Nära! Vi är så glada för detta och hälsar henne varmt välkommen tillbaka! I sin första krönika för i år tar hon upp hur viktigt det är att barn inspireras och känner en passion för det de läser.

Mia is back as a columnist for Nara! We are so happy for this and wishing her warmly back! In her first column this year is she brining up how important it is for children to be inspired and feel a passion for what they are reading.

Tack fina Team Nara <3 span=""> Jag vill passa pa att tacka min fd redaktör Linda Nellfors en underbart duktig tjej med ett stort tålamod och hjärta. Min forsta krönika for i ar och ett nytt samarbete med en ny fin redaktör Emma. Det känns toppen <3 span="">
Kronikan, Inspirerande läsning ger (alltid) näring till barnens sjal hoppas jag att ni läsare finner inspirerande. Har ni några frågor eller funderingar sa längtar jag att fa svara pa dem.
Dela gärna och inspirera vidare.
That's Amore!

Thank you beautiful Team Nara. I want to take the opportunity to thank my former editor Linda Nelfors, an amazing talent girl, with a lot of patience and a big heart. My first column for 2017 am I having a new great talented editor Emma. It feels great!

Please share my message in the column to family, friends, moms and dads. Lets inspire!

That's Amore!

CLICK HERE TO READ THE COLUMN 

Sunday, September 13, 2015

The Dogs are Cleaning their Energy Fileds Several Times a Day

Hur kan hundar vakna varje morgon och vara i det perfekta nuet 
och alltid vifta glatt på svansen? Mia Mattsson-Mercer skriver om 
hundars energifält, dess aura, i hennes senaste krönika
"Hundarna rensar sina energifält flera gånger om dagen!". 

Läs det fina budskapet hon fick av en gatuhund på Näras hemsida: tidningennara.se/Mia20150910

My weekly column in Tidningen Nära,
How can dogs wake up every morning and always be in the
perfect flow, tail going happily? 
This week I write about the dogs energy field, aura, how they are cleaning
their energy fields several times a day. 

Read what the wise dog could teach us about aura cleaning on following link www.tidningennara.se/Mia20150910

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Love and Light Wins over Darkness




As early as just three years old, Olivia put her little hands on my stomach when I mentioned to her that I was in pain. She never used the word “healing”, but placed her hands with confidence where my pain was. There were no words!

As a nearly nine-year-old girl, she still knows about the ability that she has in her hands.  Olivia is praying daily for our dog Sven who often has seizures.  In my busy world, passing her at “mommy speed,” I tell her that it is super-sweet of her to think of him.

Frankly, I look at Olivia with a mixture of curiosity and admiration.

"Mom, would you like me to teach you how to pray?" she asks me.
I ask her if I should put my hands together and close my eyes.
"No you do not close your eyes but look up to heaven and speak with a clear voice what you want. Do not be afraid, mom, because then the wish will not be fulfilled."

I look enquiringly at her.  "Olivia, do you know who God is?"

"Yes, it is He who listens when we listen?" she replies

"Do you mean God listens when we are talking?" I ask.

She shakes her head in a “no”.  "You also communicate when you are listening"

I do not understand what she means, but during my morning meditation, I realize the truth of what she has said.  When I am quiet and listen I think and I send simultaneously.  Intuitive words get to be both answers and questions flowing simultaneously.

"Do you know what the darkness is?" I ask her gently one day when we walk together in the woods.

"Yes, it is The dark God!  But Mom, do not be afraid, because he will like you then.  Think happy thoughts and you will have the bright God in you!"
I stare at Olivia and almost trip over the tree roots in front of me as I walk.  I have never heard those words from someone before.

It felt amazing to hear these incredibly wise words come from my Olivia.
Proudly, I look up to the sky as Olivia has taught me to do. 

My lips move silently.  "Thank you Bright God for my Olivia."  I whisper.

That's Amore!


Picture; Olivia helping me at our Hospice with a former caged dog.

#weeklycolumn #tidningennara #spirtualism

Thursday, February 14, 2013

HAPPY VALENTINE ALL MY FRIENDS

Happy Valentine. May all love glow and inspire you to get closer to your dreams and goals (the same thing)

My Swedish Column In Magazin NARA. Happy Valentine Reading.

CLICK HERE

Friday, January 25, 2013

MY WEEKLY COLUMN 'IN WISDOM THERE IS NO AGE'


FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

MY weekly column in Swedish Magazine NARA CLICK HeRE FOR SWEDISH OR SCROLL TO THE END

IN WISDOM THERE IS NO AGE

I can see the great love from my children's footsteps in the snow as they laughing, make beautiful snow angels. I smile when I see them throw themselves into the snow again and again to make different patterns.

Life with children is a gift. Much great advice comes from my children, and several times a day they challenge my own capacity to reason about my own faith. I laugh, and ask them when did they grow up so fast to know such common sense? They are old souls who sparkle and remember.

We re-program our children, and we likely do not think about it. Many of us forget the wisdom, but we are searching and we can find our way back again.

Community, school, friends and parents all make their own impressions on a child about which way is best. We want what is best for our children after all. We forget that children also inherently possess wisdom. And we can remember more if we listen to the children's words.

Sometimes I can see how the children are trying to tell their parents about something important to them. But parents wave it off with a blithe "we know what's best for you." Hearing what is best for you often during growing up can trigger insecurity and the individual will always ask for what is best for him. It can cause us to continue asking others about "what should I work with? or "what do you think?" (Balance of course; we have to in some way teach children what is best but not to forget to tell the consequences) Since we have been taught from the beginning to hear from others what is best for us.

I currently struggle with chronic Lyme disease that is affecting my nervous system. For six months now,  I have also been battling pneumonia. Often, I have terrible pain, or exhaustion. I try not to show my children what is happening to me, but of course they know. Wise eyes cannot be deceived.

Olivia (seven years), with her little hands asks me where she should put them on my body so that I'll feel better.

When I fall because of my illness, Olivia is by my side and comforting.  She says, "Mom, it's okay to fall.  I fall sometimes!"

But what made my heart overflow with love was when Olivia said, "Let us pray to the great (Spirit) to help you to feel better. I know they are listening. "

Olivia's grandfather lives away in the United States and he has recently lost his sister. (seventeen years days earlier, her husband of 60 years died). I told my husband to fly over from Germany to the U.S. to be with his parents. My husband squirmed. Olivia noticed it and exclaimed, "Daddy! If you were sad or had problems, then your father would be there for you. "

I smiled inwardly when I saw how the words that came out of our daughter's big heart had a purpose, and with power pierced through his closed and clouded heart.

Wisdom has no age. If we only could close our eyes and listen more often, we wouldn’t judge the source behind the wisdom. And we could allow our own hearts and souls to decide what  the lesson is for us instead of looking down on the children. 
That's Amore!

VISDOMEN HAR INGEN ALDER

Jag ser den stora kärleken i mina barns fotsteg ute i snön när de skrattandes gör sina vackra snöänglar. Jag ler när jag ser dem kasta sig i snön om och om igen för att göra olika mönster.   

Livet tillsammans med barnen är en gåva. Många goda råd kommer från mina barn och flera gånger om dagen utmanar de min egen kapacitet till förnuft och tillit. Jag skrattar och frågar dem när de växte upp så fort i förnuftets skola. De är gamla själar som gnistrar och kommer ihåg.

Vi omprogrammerar våra barn utan att vi kanske tänker på det. Vi är många som glömt visdomen, men vi letar och finner vägen tillbaka igen.
Samhället, skolan, vänner och föräldrar, gör sina egna tolkningar om vilket som är bäst. Och många gånger vill vi ju endast våra barn det allra bästa. Vi glömmer att barnen också besitter visheten. Och vi kan också komma ihåg mer om vi lyssnar till barnens ord.

Ibland kan jag se hur barn försöker berätta för sina föräldrar om något viktigt. Men föräldrarna viftar bort det med ”vi vet vad som är bäst för dig”. Det kan leda till att vi fortsätter fråga andra om vad vi vill och kan under vår egen uppväxt, då vi är lärda från början att från andra få höra vad som är bäst för oss.

Jag kämpar med kronisk borrelia som satt sig på mitt nervsystem. I sex månader har jag också dragits med lunginflammation. Ofta har jag en fruktansvärd smärta, eller är trött. Jag försöker att inte visa mina barn vad som händer med mig, men naturligtvis vet de. Kloka ögon kan ingen lura.

Olivia (sju år) kommer med sina små händer och frågar var hon skall lägga dem på min kropp så att jag ska må bättre.

När jag trillar på grund av min sjukdom, finns Olivia vid min sida och tröstande säger: ”Mamma, det är okej att trilla, jag trillar också ibland!”

Men vad som fick mitt hjärta att svämma över av kärlek var när Olivia sade: ”Låt oss be tillsammans till den stora ”Spirit” om hjälp att du skall må bättre. Jag vet att de lyssnar.”

Olivias farfar bor borta i USA och han har nyligen mist sin syster. En vecka senare dog hennes man. Jag bad min man att flyga över från Tyskland till USA för att vara tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Min man skruvade på sig. Olivia märkte det och utbrast: ”Pappa! Om du var ledsen eller hade problem, då skulle din pappa finnas där för dig.”

Jag log inombords när jag såg hur de stora orden som kom ut från vår dotters stora hjärta, med kraft borrade sig igenom hans stängda och rädda hjärta.

Visdom har ingen ålder. Om vi blundar och lyssnar ser vi inte vem som är källan till visdomen, utan vi låter endast våra egna hjärtan och själar få avgöra vad som är lärdomen till oss.

That’s Amore!

Mia Mattsson-Mercer

Saturday, January 19, 2013

ENCOURAGING WORDS ARE A WONDERFUL GIFT




My weekly column in the Swedish Magazine NARA

Encouraging words are a wonderful gift

Words can be beautiful, encouraging and at the same time influence and give a person a meaning in their life without us knowing or realizing it.

Words can also do damage and destroy someone without the speaker being aware of it. Not until I became seriously ill, did I realize how beautiful words of encouragement could have the capacity to make me smile again.  They make me  feel something warm inside grow. That feeling grows into  a power and a longing!

At this moment am I struggling with a disease that consumes my power and quite often my self-esteem. I work twice as hard with my mental abilities and myself, but sometimes it can be difficult to have that extra measure of fire. My longing to live again is greater than ever. I want to go on adventures!

Rarely, but still sometimes, the pain is so severe that life doesn’t feel meaningful anymore - even if that thought only lasts a brief time, it’s there whispering in my ear. During crises the whole family will also be tested. Marriage will be measured to determine if it is strong or weak.

Something very unique are my two small children (seven and five years old) who are lovingly interrogating me all the time. Their eyes search mine to give and get support.

Friendships are being put to the test, too. Some friends cannot stand to see someone they love and admire to be weak, even for a moment. Some do not have the time to provide friendly comfort and words of encouragement. Others become closer and show who they really are and make sure you do not forget it.

Martina is a special friend that helps me with rescuing dogs in Italy. We have the same ability to see the animal spirits and energies. We have known each other for five years. I took Martina under my wings. I saw in her a great soul and wisdom.

Martina has been more or less by my side all these years. Our passion to save animals is big and collaborative. When I share my knowledge with Martina she has never received it without taking it into her heart, saved and incorporated it. She has grown rapidly and wonderfully. Several times I have joked with her, "You must be my daughter!"

Despite my illness, we are soldiering on in our work.  Sometimes I cry of despair for not being able to be out in the field, rescuing and working as I did before.   She hears my despair and desire and stands by my side quietly, no unnecessary words between us.

I am like the sick dogs we rescue, and do not want to be a burden to those I love, I try to fight on in silence. But she knows the truth. Today I got a letter from her that I have framed in a beautiful silver frame.  I am inspired!

"Trust
It was the third of December I think three years ago.  Animals Without Limits volunteers delivered food to Adriana's shelter where there are 400 dogs in cages. It was the first time for me.

"Smile please! "You told us," You must be strong and smile or else the people in this shelter will not like us and want us back. "

And we smiled, until I stopped outside the cage number 65. Still today, I think it was the most painful thing I've seen. A wonderful dog, seventeen years old (thirteen years in the cage), sad eyes, unfocused, lying on a cold damp concrete floor, waiting to die.

I cried!
I cried so much that you could feel my pain and you said to me: "Save her!"
I was scared. I dared not do it alone.

But you, Mia, had faith in me.
"Save her! I will help you! "
This is how the best gift could ever come into my life. You do not know it Mia, but I am still forever grateful for your words that gave me the strength to dare to save a life.

Please Mia
Smile today!
/ / Your friend, Martina <3 o:p="o:p">

During these following days, I ask you readers to think about who might have said something important to you that made you grow and receive courage. Write a card to that person and tell them how their words became a gift, fertilizer to your growth as a human. And, go and mail it.   Today. Don’t wait another day.  Give someone a smile today.  You too can change a life!

That's Amore.



Friday, November 18, 2011

WEEKLY COLUMN IN TIDNINGEN NARA

This week it is about Olivia meeting homeless people and their dogs. Her way of viewing them and Universe. Hope you enjoy!

Olivia amazed by the homeless people and dogs, click here for more reading.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

COLUMN IN SWEDISH MAGAZINE NARA

My weekly column in the Swedish Magazine Nara. A journey from 1999 to now with the birth of Animals Without Limits by a little dying dog. Hope you will enjoy the story.

Tidningen Nara and you also read the column translated into English below;

My first encounter with street dogs occurred many years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria. Two dark brown eyes would change my life and many others' lives. I worked full time as an animal communicator and often flew around Europe to various clients. I had my own office on the well-known Gardet in Stockholm, and the waiting list for my services was long. But something in my heart did not feel quite right and no matter how hard I tried to explain the feelings, my friends didn’t understand what I meant. "You've got it all! You are already changing many lives! " they said.

By a "coincident" I flew over a weekend to a world conference down in Sofia, Bulgaria. The subject was the sterilization and castration of stray dogs. I had no expectations or hopes since I had no knowledge in that subject. Inspired by the lecturers and the participants knowledge that they shared something suddenly began bubbling inside me.

Later that evening we were a few who would go out to eat. I went in advance out to the street, suddenly it was like someone touched my soul and held on. My eyes were drawn into a dark entrance staircase, where two dark brown eyes searched mine. A street dog hunted my eyes, he conveyed that he needed help. He could not walk, but there was nothing self-pitying from his side, more a kind of waiting. No despair, but more patience in him.

There was something big behind the chestnut-colored eyes, a wisdom I had never seen before even though I had met hundreds of dogs previously. It felt as if I had been there for several minutes, but it was only for seconds.

Suddenly something snapped inside me, I sobbed over my despair that I could not take him with me. I could not take him to a vet, could not even find a home for him. The only thing I could do was listening to his story, and then turn my back on him.

My heart was broken, the hopelessness of abandoning someone who needed help. I had only experienced security at home in Sweden, never before had I seen this side of life.

I ran up to my room at the hotel and cried for hours. I did not want to go out. Later that night I took out pen and paper and began to write. On 23 October 1999, on my 36th birthday, Animals Without Limits was born, on that hotel floor. Thanks to a stranger's soul that had communicated with my soul. A seed within me began to germinate, and since that day we (AWL) have been able to help thousands of injured, stray dogs.

Angels are working in different disguises toward different souls. When we open up our subconscious, we meet our teachers. That's Amore!