HEARTWARMING PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE

Last Wednesday I flew to Sweden. A crazy wonderful trip, the same day.

I left my house 04.00 in the morning, drove to the Stuttgart airport, flew to Dusseldorf changed plane to Copenhagen. Train over to Malmo, Sweden to the train-station. Are you with me?

At a favourite coffee place, I met my wonderful Friend and also my chief editor Madeleine. Amazing, brilliant, smart and loving woman. She inspires me as a woman, mother, person and writer.

When I walked back on the train going home, my thoughts were going through our conversations. I thought to myself, everyone should have a person like her in their lives! 

A very good Friend that is a very important key person to me, and my children's life.

Madeleine is the chief of the Magazine Tidningen Nara and you can read my columns on the their web. 

And, I promised her I would also write for 2017 . 

Something very interesting. See the silver leaf or Angel Feather that I am wearing. 

That was a wonderful Christmas Gift from my nine-year-old son for Christmas. He went to the store in Germany himself and bought the necklace, with his own money. 

Madeleine looks at the silver leaf/feather and says, "Wow, I have the same necklace as you. I bought mine in New York six years ago."

Even if it was  many crazy hours traveling, --and I was home by midnight, --but it was totally worth every minute.

That's Amore!

The Children Knows Already the Universal Truth

In raising my children, I've never taught them any specific Religon. I raised them to be polite, truthful, helpful and loving children. To respect People, Animals,

Nature and Life, as most major Western religions in one fashion or another.

I wanted them to find their own truth, their beliefs, not to have me as a parent directing or forcing them. Children are amazing with their brightness, if we only listen to them. Many times we are in hurry, we get frustrated when our child is taking to long explaining about something they dreamt about, or explored in real life.

When my children saw someone being bullied, I wanted them to step in and say NO! (or go quickly and get an Adult.)

And if someone was mean to them, to try their best to understand that it wasn't anything about them. Anger comes from an unhappy heart.

We travel a lot and meet many different kind of people and try to observe their beliefs. Our little town where we live is filled with the inhabitants of many different cultures.


Suddenly, at an age of thinking, reasoning and questioning everything, Olivia and Max became aware of life in a different, more determined way.

We had a small fire in our house, not long ago, and after a year with many"life bumps " my tired mind said in a self pity way (I don't like self pity parties)

"I don't think God loves me!"

I thought I was alone with those words in the room, when I suddenly hear my daughter (11 years-old) say behind me,

"Why wouldn't he, he created you!"

IN THE WRITING MOOD

In the writing mood.

This is how my writing table looks like.

There is so much to write about that my mind is spinning around. I want to write about children rights, how you like me go from victim to survivor, and now....a warrior.

Then I want to write about my favourite work, rescuing animals.

I love sharing my stories and I always hope it will inspire and help someone.

That's Amore

SPIRITUAL FEATHER

After the fire the feathers that I had received every day were gone. I thought to myself,  perhaps my Guardian Angels took a break after rescuing my home, and 12 dogs.

Three weeks from no feathers, until last Sunday when I climbed out of my car. It was pitch-black, but I saw it immediately between my feet. There, the gorgeous feather laid.

I have faith in Life and Universe.

That's Amore

DECEMBER 1

Unbelievable day today. Happy December 1!

Incredible wonderful weather today!

6 C and sunny, no wind. It was magic walking through the woods. Some birds were singing beautiful up in the tree tops. We felt free and the mind felt free!

Olivia and I said, making turns;

Look what God created
Look what Universe created
Look what Holly Spirit kept
Look what Mother Nature is all about
Look at ArchAngel Michael is protecting
Life is wonderful when you see the holiness

That's Amore!

MY WEEKLY COLUMN for MAGAZINE NARA

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                      Animals do not Fear Death 

You can read the column in Swedish here, Tidningen Nara

Animals do not fear death

Death may scare most of us humans, but it does not scare the animals. For the Other side and Life are the same for them.

Life will never end!

I have never experienced the other side for us humans. But I took part of the "Animal" Other side ones. The strong experience happened to me in the early 1990s and since then it has always comforted me when I work with sick animals.

In my first book, "Listen When Animals Speak" (Forum 2000) I wrote about my experience. At that time, I went to a masseuse who also worked with Body Harmony. That made me curious. "You can experience the past life," said the female masseur to me. I did as she said, but without much expectation. I breathed deeply and direct everything felt very pleasant. I just was!

Suddenly, a black and white muscular stallion cantered behind my closed eyelids in full figure. He was handsome and proud and had enormous charisma that gave me security and confidence. The stallion had control over all the other horses cantering around and finally they gathered behind him. They were all in a valley where the grass was green and juicy, and I saw everything so clearly, even dewdrops on each blade of the grass!

 I had never seen such a fantastic green grass before. The colors were magnificent and there was a great calm. The horses cantered past me and finally came Sigge, my horse that I had been euthanized a couple of months earlier. I could feel his presence so strong!

When I opened my eyes, I was totally confused and almost in a small state of shock. It had been like for every thought I was thinking, it became as if my eyes were zooming up like a camera lens. Everything was so peaceful and beautiful, that I wanted to go back there again. I longed!

I realized that life is not merely a loss, death and grief. There is a reason for everything, even death. A new door opens for those who leave the Earth, but also for those who remain.

A Labrador communicated to me just before she left her Earthly life: "We give you our whole heart and love, regardless of who you are. We give unconditionally love to our owners, as to all others we meet during our time on Earth.

In the life time without end! "

That's Amore!

ANIMAL WISDOM

Most of you people are afraid of the pain but also facing your fellow beings pain. You flee many times and judge it to be a drama you do not want to be involved in. A person's pain is not only his or her lessons; it is everyone's lesson. It shows if you are judgmental, if you runaway, or if you are the one who helps. A life lesson is not only negative, but when you include fear, it becomes negative.

Animals Mindfulness 

De flesta människor är rädda för smärtan men även inför era medmänniskors smärta. Ni flyr undan många gånger och dömer det till att det är ett drama ni inte vill bli involverade i. En människas smärta är inte bara deras lärdom, det är allas lärdom. Det visar om ni är fördömande, om ni ryggar, eller om ni är den som hjälper. En lärdom är inte endast negativ, men om rädslan träder in blir den till negativ.

Djurens Mindfulness

Alaska a Beautiful Place

It was a long flight but we finally made it to Alaska. What an amazing place, we definitely want to go back and do some more hiking. The air was light to breath, the daylight was amazing until midnight, the nature was fantastic. We were invited to a wedding that I wouldn't miss for the world. A very special woman that I met for the first time in North Carolina 2004 together with her family.

I was so amazed that my children got to met her, this sparkling warm hearted woman.

Of course I got Happy Tears during the ceremony. I couldn't help thinking how fast time really goes and that we don't know anything about life--future. Only to dream big and have Faith.

Thank you beautiful Ashley for having me watching your big day, together with your lovely husband Mr. Castro (did I mention I went to Sarajevo?)

Broken Souls has Strong Healing Ability to other Broken Souls

One family wanted to adopt a dog from my organization. The family was immediately very open about what their family situation looked like.

I was extremely grateful for their openness, it meant that I could quickly find a dog that matched their energies. A few months earlier, their daughter had tried to commit suicide. Now the family felt that a dog could help their daughter to "heal", of course, along with their doctors and therapists. But, they reasoned, to have a four-legged friend who slept with her, agreed on walks, someone to confide in, and was there full of love, would be beneficial for her. Also, the demand for routines upon their daughter if she was responsible for a dog would additionally help to ground her and help her to heal.

Of course the whole family wanted a new family member, the time was right for all. There were many cute big dogs with a high-energy factor, but I had an overweight little brown female dog who had spent two years in a cage down in south Italy.

A dog with high energy to a home that are working so hard to heal, would not be good --- its high energies could activate and add more stress for the the family and situation. The family needed a cool dog who knew what she wanted, loved life (and food) and to only wanted belong to a family.

When Iris arrived to the family, she chose right away the daughter's bedroom to become her bedroom as well.  Is it that a "broken" soul recognizes another's "broken" soul?

The dog Iris also had a claim to the daughter, “I'm there for you, but you also need to stay alive and be there for me."

When the daughter woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, Iris sat up in her basket and waited calmly until she came back.

Every day I received updates from the family about how much they all loved Iris.

"Mia, we never dreamed that our daughter would feel as good as she does after only four months after our beloved dog's arrival. "Iris therapy" really worked 100%. Best dog Ever!”

This business of "Rescue Dogs" really has a double meaning and paradox: is it we who save them, or is it they who will save us? Who really saves whom?

They ended their email: “We just got the dog we wanted, quiet, contact seeking, loving and ‘personal and wacky’ in a wonderful way. Greetings, family Iris "

When we see each other's inside strength and beauty, discounting the outside of temporary weakness, then we can help and be helped. This is what is called unconditional perfection in the circle of life. About everyone's right to live, love and seek happiness!

That's Amore!

The Iris family gave me permission to publish their story

Trasiga själar hjälper varandra till läkning

En familj ville gärna adoptera en hund av mig. Familjen var med en gång väldigt öppna med hur deras familjeförhållande såg ut. Jag var oerhört tacksam över deras öppenhet, det gör att jag snabbare kunde finna en hund som matchade deras energier. 

Ett par månader tidigare hade deras dotter försökt begå självmord. Nu kände familjen att en hund skulle kunna hjälpa deras dotter till att ”läkas”, naturligtvis tillsammans med andra läkare och samtalsterapeuter.

Att ha en vän som sov tillsammans med henne, gick med på skogspromenader, någon att kunna anförtro sig till och som fanns där full av kärlek. Dessutom ställdes det krav på dottern, att hon också skulle finnas där med rutiner som infaller när man skaffar en hund.

Naturligtvis var hela familjen med på att ha en ny familjemedlem, tiden var mogen för alla. Där fanns många gulliga stora hundar med hög energifaktor, men jag hade en överviktig liten brun hundflicka som suttit två år i en bur nere i Italien.

En hund med hög energi till ett hem som arbetar med att läkas, ska inte ha höga energier som kan aktivera och tillföra mera stress. Familjen behövde en cool tik som visste vad hon ville, älskade livet (och mat) och att få tillhöra en familj.

När Iris anlände till familjen valde hon med en gång dotterns sovrum till sitt sovrum. Är det så att en ”trasig” själ känner igen en annans ”trasig” själ?

Men hunden Iris hade också ett krav till dottern: Jag finns där för dig, men du måste också stanna kvar i livet och finnas där för mig.

När dottern vaknade mitt i natten för att gå upp till badrummet satte sig Iris upp i sin korg och väntade lugnt tills hon kom tillbaka.  Varje dag fick jag uppdateringar med hur mycket de alla älskade Iris.

”Mia, vi kunde aldrig drömma om att vår dotter skulle må så bra som hon nu gör redan efter fyra månader efter vår älskade hunds ankomst. ”Iris-terapin” funkade verkligen till 100 %. Bästa hunden!
Det här med ”Rescuedogs”, får verkligen en dubbel innebörd: Är det vi som räddar dem, eller är det de som räddar oss? Vem räddar vem egentligen?Vi fick precis den hunden vi ville ha, lugn, kontaktsökande, kärleksfull samt ´personlig och knäpp´ på ett underbart sätt. Hälsningar Familjen Iris”

När vi ser varandras innersta styrka utanpå den temporära svagheten, kan vi hjälpa dem och de hjälper oss. Detta är vad som kallas villkorslös fullkomlighet, i livets cirkel. För allas rätt att leva!

That’s Amore!
Mia Mattsson-Mercer

Mia har fått godkännande av familjen att publicera deras historia.