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Hey Guys!

Wanted to share our local photographers in the valley. We come together once a month to share and learn from each other. Then once a year we gather for a christmas party. This is our local PUG with Pictage. Each state has a group of local photographers that share like minded professions. We also have a huge convention every year usually in LA. Hanging out with the buds Elizabeth and Billy and the Largos! That’s Me on the right! The image is courtesy of Melissa Jill which is also another fantastic photographer. See if you can find Waldo! (me)..hehe..

Have a beautiful day!!

Michell Jonas

Photography by Michell Jonas

I stumbled across this on my Daily Om and wanted to share this will all of you. Sometimes, especially during the holiday’s, we can feel alone. But this aloneness also helps us grow into nourishing relationships within ourselves that reflects on others.

Enjoy!

Michell

Being Alone
A Relationship With Self

The most important relationship we have in our lives is with our selves. And even though we are the only ones who are present at every moment of our lives—from birth onward—this relationship can be the most difficult one to cultivate. This may be because society places such emphasis on the importance of being in a romantic partnership, even teaching us to set aside our own needs for the needs of another. Until we know ourselves, however, we cannot possibly choose the right relationship to support our mutual growth toward our highest potential. By allowing ourselves to be comfortable with being alone, we can become the people with whom we want to have a relationship.

Perhaps at no other time in history has it been possible for people to survive, and even thrive, while living alone. We can now support ourselves financially, socially, and emotionally without needing a spouse for survival in any of these realms. With this freedom, we can pursue our own interests and create fulfilling partnerships with friends, business partners, creative cohorts, and neighbors. Once we’ve satisfied our needs and created our support system, a mate then becomes someone with whom we can share the bounty of all we’ve created and the beauty we’ve discovered within ourselves.

As we move away from tradition and fall into more natural cycles of being in the world today, we may find that there are times where being alone nourishes us and other periods in which a partnership is best for our growth. We may need to learn to create spaces to be alone within relationships. When we can shift our expectations of our relationships with ourselves and others to opportunities for discovery, we open ourselves to forge new paths and encounter uncharted territory. Being willing to know and love ourselves, and to find what truly makes us feel deeply and strongly, gives us the advantage of being able to attract and choose the right people with whom to share ourselves, whether those relationships fall into recognizable roles or not. Choosing to enjoy being alone allows us to fully explore our most important relationship—the one with our true selves.

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Photography by Michell Jonas

It’s Gonna Work Out
by Margot Zaher and Jafree Ozwald

The Perfect Process…
It really doesn’t matter when something negative happens to you on any one
specific day. It is all blessed fuel for your spiritual awakening. Your
ego will of course be judging your experience as wrong, terrible or
consider it to be the dramatic victim of all creation (if you allow it
to do so). Anything that arises that is not in perfect alignment with
what is “supposed” to happen (according to the ego) the mind throws a
mini or major fit. So when you get triggered by something or someone,
you can stop and re-center yourself on the thought that “everything works out perfectly in the end”.
The contracted experience you are having will all of the sudden feel
easier to handle and you will more consciously work with the feelings
that are arising in that moment.

The strangest thing about life is that it really all does work out
perfectly in the end. In the midst of suffering your mind will not
trust, believe or agree with this. Yet, the truth is that from the
vantage point of your soul, everything is always divinely orchestrated
to perfection no matter what happens. The whole Universe is conspiring
in awakening you to experience the truth of who you are, and sometimes
will attempt to give you a growth experience that your ego doesn’t like
at all! The only reason we ever experience things are not working out
in life is because the mind/ego cannot always see the bigger picture
from the perspective of one’s soul.

The truth is that everything always works out perfectly in the end.

When you hold onto this thought for an extended period of time, it soon becomes a mood,
attitude and an approach to life. By diving into the feeling that
everything in the future will work out to divine perfection, you can
relax, explore your spiritual essence deeper and actually enjoy your
life! With practice you will discover the hidden blessing that any
challenging situation was trying to offer you, and the opportunity for
the growth that was buried within it.

We will all be blessed from time to time with situations that are
threatening to the well-being of our ego. When these circumstances
arise, you can easily remember to relax and remember that in the future
the deeper understanding of why this situation had to emerge for you
will show itself clearly. Deep down inside your infinite Divine Self
knows that every experience in life is perfect because there does not
exist a “wrong” experience.

Everything is part of the play on the stage of life which your soul has chosen to participate in as an
observer, actor and producer. Your ego may sometimes love the scene,
while other times reject it completely. Just know that everything is
temporary, and that suffering only occurs when you are overly attached
to how a scene “should” be happening. Everything is divine. You are
here to explore it all and enjoy the large diverse variety of
experiences that arise.

And another!!!!

Here are more of the portrait images of her little one!! Isnt she adorable!

Love, love, love,

Michell

Hi All,

Wanted to share one of the latest family portrait session that we did out at Point South Mountain. They are a beautiful fun couple sharing a great time with there little baby girl Fiorella. I did her baby shots back in Feb. And they turned out beautiful! I will post a couple of those as well here on the blog. If you are wanting family portraits or anything for the holidays, last call is the beginning of this week in order to get back by the holiday. So book soon! Limited space is available. And if you want to be on my newsletter, we have great specials on there til the end of December. You can sign up on the front page at the upper left hand corner to join the email list. I will send you out the latest smokin deals right now!!!

Until next time!

Michell Jonas