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Love in Your Head

On this day, we invite you to practice the Love in Your Head pose gifted to us from Elie, age 6.

“Close your eyes. Breathe and get still. Pour love into the top of your head. Not just one thing you love! Pour everything and everyone you can think of that you love into your head. Keep going until your head feels full of love and joy.”

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Love is the most powerful activator for positive change to manifest on this planet.

Thank you Elie, for being the light of awareness. You are living wisdom. You are Love.

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    to be quite exact.
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    you won’t find distract.

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    To Fulfill!

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