The Inner Elf

  

Dear Friends,

  

My own Inner Elf gets very happy at this time of the year,  not just because I’m a Taurus myself

but because Mother Nature seems finally to get her gladrags on after a long time of sitting around in her dressing gown.  

Being outside is exciting again: trees and shrubs start to look bushy and fluffy, refreshing showers leave everywhere so greeeeen and makes me want to jump up and pull cherry blossom from the trees like I did as a kid (I do try to restrain myself  now more’s the pity)…..

  

Springtime kind of has this effect on everyone, getting us thinking about  the long, light evenings ahead, our new projects, colourful clothes and travel plans.

   

The Inner Self is what Linda Goodman called the Inner Elf – a so-called ‘Elemental’ or Nature Spirit.

 This part of us has the amazing intelligence and power to do all sorts of things for us without our even having to ask: all of our automatic physiological tasks, habits, skills,emotions, memories and short-hand responses are remembered for us by this amazing ‘Genie’.

All we need to do is call up what we want with a command (thought or words) from our Conscious Mind and the genie, the Elf, does our bidding.

It is a non-judgmental Elf, doing whatever we bid, whether we unwittingly ‘ask’ for something  negative or something positive. Its job is only to serve and obey.

The ‘Master’ is the Conscious Mind. Its job is decision-making, goal-seeking and information gathering.

It sifts through available information to help us decide what we want, but then having given the mental or spoken command for it to be done to the Elf, the Subconscious, the Master sits back and relaxes.

Well that’s the theory.

In practice, we are so hell-bent on being in control of  HOW we reach our goal, that we find it difficult to trust and let go of the reins.

We keep going back, we turn our thoughts over, we worry, obsess and generally confuse our Inner Elf with mixed commands, procrastination and anxiety.

When we receive the confused results of our mixed messages, we then proceed to berate our(s) Elf, put our(s) Elf down and help it feel just as bad as it’s possible to make someone feel.

Is it any wonder that eventually we feel out of sorts, anxious,worried, perplexed or confused?

Maybe we need to relearn who does what and let everyone do their own jobs and then don’t forget to say Thank You!

The Elf loves praise

The Elf works best without interference: having no sense of past, present or future and no understanding of  deductive logic, the Elf works in tandem with the Higher (s)Elf to produce miracles for us if we will but allow it, leave off controling it, get off its back by stopping the worry or the anxious thoughts that only confuse it by giving a new ‘command’.

The lovely ‘fairy tale’ of the Elf and the Shoemaker gives us a fantastic metaphor for the power of our own Elf to help us achieve our goals. The Shoemaker had no idea of how his work was always completed by morning, he just knew what he wanted to be done and miraculously it just happened.

I hope you are enjoying the Taurus time of the year and remembering the power of your own Elf to help you mine your inner crystal store and bring it to the surface where you can enjoy its treasures.

If you enjoy the ‘Earthbaby’ image and would like a hand-finished personalised print for a Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn Elf in your life, please contact me at www.vickycoombes.com or  visit www.visualhoroscopeart.co.uk for other personalised art  and more details of how to order.

  

  

    

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