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Community Without Performance
What people are often really looking for when they say they want community When people say they want community Many people say they want “community.” What they’re often looking for […]
From Heartbreak to Fulfillment: A Journey Guided by Intuition
From heartbreak to a career I love—learn how trusting your inner compass can guide you to work that truly resonates and brings lasting fulfillment.
From Caterpillar to Butterfly… and Beyond
What if life’s challenges were doors to new possibilities? Clear silent agreements and do the inner work to create your dream life.
Why Insight Isn’t Always Enough – And What Finally Frees You
By Sandra Sweetman SSDD Moments: Recognizing the Loop We have those moments – times when we get a big “aha” from identifying what I call an SSDD moment: same stuff, […]
And Greatness is for All
This morning, as I was journaling, a simple yet powerful phrase arrived unannounced:“And Greatness is for ALL.” Over the years, I’ve learned that when messages like this come through, seemingly […]
The Permanence of Impermanency
It’s summer here in Canada, and I’ve gifted myself a new kind of summer experience: my own version of summer camp. Rather than staying at our ever-nourishing family farm full-time, […]
When Science Meets Spirit: The Power of Ritual for True Release
Not everything that transforms us can be measured in numbers.Some truths live in the space between science and spirit—in the quiet moments of intention, in the stillness after letting go. […]
Why Listening to Yourself Could Revolutionize Your Productivity Approach
Ever felt like your relentless drive for productivity only leaves you feeling more overwhelmed and stuck? The truth is, finding harmony between effort and rest is essential for overcoming resistance […]
Surrender and Co-creation
I received this question from one of the people in our Ease Into Being community today:“I would like to ask about surrender vs co-creation. I always set intentions and co-create […]
Big Love
It is soon to be another anniversary of the re-birthday of an amazing soul I have been blessed to love. This person came into my life when I was least […]
It’s Wednesday and It Could be Monday!
Looking online I see so many memes that show pictures of grumpy cats or frustrated people because it is only Wednesday and not Friday. For sure there are often times […]
The Gifts of Imperfection
It has been quite a while since I have posted an article here as I have been busier than usual as recently I have been setting up our new community […]
Let’s be co-creative!
The other day my grandson came in from the yard with an amazing five-leaf clover! He often finds ones with four leaves and this five-leaf clover was a first for […]
I’m just fine, thanks for asking!
This month I am offering a new webinar to introduce people to Heart Metta and the theme is how we can embrace change without it causing us the stress that […]
Embracing Change
When I was a kid I heard this joke: two caterpillars were looking at a butterfly flying past them and one said to the other: “You’ll never get me up […]
Testing the Waters
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a networking meeting and one of the topics that was suggested for discussion during one of the break-out sessions was “What […]
Equinox, Balance and Harmony
To those of you celebrating a Spring Equinox, and to our friends in the Southern Hemisphere who are heading into winter with an Autumn Equinox I send warm greetings!The Equinox […]
Selfish or Unselfish
I imagine that most of us would agree with thesaurus.com with regards to the synonyms for selfish in the above photo. When it comes to our own definition of what […]
Where is Home?
We are used to phrases like ‘Home is where your heart is’ and ‘Home is where you hang your hat’. For many people who have had a challenging time feeling […]
Making Friends with an Inner Rebel
Last week in one of our classes we discussed our intentions for this year and also talked about goals to assist our intentions to become reality. I shared some of […]
Celebrations
Are you a person who celebrates Valentines Day or is it simply another commercial venture? It is fun to get chocolates and/or flowers or a gift any day of the […]
Lessons To Unlearn
In our latest Heart Metta Playshop ‘Welcoming 2022 and the Year of the Tiger’, I was guided to ask the question – “when I say tiger what comes to mind?” […]
The Definition of Excitement
The other day my four year old grandson noticed there was a bump under my sleeve and he asked me what it was. I told him it was a tissue. […]
Embracing Change
A few days ago I asked my WhatsApp group what change they would like to embrace this year that they thought would be the most challenging for them. Several people […]
The Gift of Connection
As I sit down to write today, December 25th has passed, most gifts usually given at this time of year have been exchanged as whether people celebrate a traditional […]
Songs and Miracles
For the past two days a song sung by Annie Lennox has been going through my head all day long. I woke up with it and went to bed with […]
Full Moon and Call to Action
The last full moon of the year is December 19 and for the past few days I have heard from several people that they have felt more emotional or situations […]
Looking Forward
How does one keep positive when surrounded by negative news, alarming information and being unable to literally move forward without any restrictions? Perhaps restrictions were always in place and we […]
Divine Timing
If we were to ask people what the words Divine Timing mean to them I imagine we would get a variety of explanations. In Cantonese I have heard the worlds […]
Even such is time
When I was thirteen I learned a poem in school by Sir Walter Raleigh that became one of my favourites and back then I didn’t really know why. Today, as […]
Pro-peace or anti-war?
These days we seem to have many situations which incite protestors and many challenges to surmount. I am not sure if they are more abundant or whether it is […]
Great Expectations
It may be easy to notice when we are pressured by others or when we feel stressed trying to live up to the expectations of others. Noticing the stress, becoming […]
Worries and Concerns
There may be challenging moments in our lives where one would have to be a robot not to be worried. You may be given really scary news that could be really alarming. I’ve been there and somehow some part of me went “okay the outcome looks really dreadful and yet maybe it won’t be as bad as they say.” And sometimes, the outcome may be as unwanted as predicted. If anyone were to tell me nothing unwanted ever happens, in my opinion we must not be on the
Mama said…
Some of you may have heard of the song that starts with ‘Mama said there’ll be days like this’ – it’s a real oldie (1961) and this morning as I sat down to write it popped into my mind. Hearing that in my head took me back to my pre-teen youth club days, now that’s really going back in time! I was having a good morning, lots of sunshine, all was bright and cheerful so I wondered why those words popped into my head. The song is about a person who is reminded by her mother not to
Is the future cast in stone?
Recently I came across a BBC series in their Reel section discussing this very topic. It gives two equally convincing theories: one that the future is already predetermined and that the future has already happened in the block universe and the other theory indicates that there are variables and infinite possibilities of the future in the block universe. One suggests we have no free will at all even though we appear to make choices and the other suggests infinite
The Happiness Quotient
One time I was visiting a friend in Georgia USA and we had gone to get some groceries. I came out of the store beaming from ear to ear […]
What is a weed?
If someone were to ask you what a weed was – what comes to mind? Is it an unwanted plant in your garden, lush wild flowers other people call weeds? […]
September Equinox 2021
For some, this Autumn day is the harbinger of a time to be more introspective, recharge and gather energy for the rest of this year as well […]
Divine Plan, Prayers and Action
Many years ago, I was at attending a sacred geometry class and one of the other students who was a Jesuit priest said to me “you are so devout”. I […]
For those we love
A week ago a good friend of mine made her way to her new life beyond this one. It had been a hard time for her family to watch […]
Blissing In
This past week seems to have been a mixed bag of energies with moments of joy and laughter for some and deep anxiety for others or a mixture of both! […]
Worries and Concerns
My mother was a very complex person (aren’t all mothers?). She was a natural born worry-wort and would do her best to assist me to avoid pitfalls. It was good […]
Patience and Irritation
In talking with several people this week it seems like many are experiencing trying moments, including myself. It isn’t necessary to talk about the actual situations as although the […]
Self Care and Caring for Others
Last week during one of our classes on SWEET and maintaining energy integrity, several people were surprised to learn something about themselves. These were people who would say they look after themselves, have a healthy lifestyle and take time for themselves. I think if you asked them they would say they have a clear sense of what wellness means to them and as a rule they practise self-care. Here’s the surprise they discovered.
THE SWEET RETREAT
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The teachings of a Sunflower
Sunflowers and I have had a budding relationship. Okay, pardon the pun, the words came to me that way and many of you know I have a kind of corny sense of humour. Years ago sunflowers spooked me as with their turning to follow the sun, I felt they also appeared to turn to follow me! That was a little creepy to my young and vivid imagination. I really wasn’t sure I wanted them in my garden and could admire them from afar.
Self-Care and Wellness – A SWEET perspective
If I were to ask a group of people what their idea of self- care was and whether they thought this was important, I imagine I would get all sorts of answers, some similar and some completely different. Sometimes we are in alignment and other times, in our efforts to assist others or in being over-achievers we may end up off track. I see some people who are running on empty energy-wise and they say to me, “but I look after myself, I buy myself anything I want, I have my spa days and I exercise even when I’m exhausted.”
Fathers, Present and Absent
My father and I had a very interesting arrangement which must have been a soul understanding. I only saw him for the first three years of my life and there was a huge gap of forty three years before we met again. When we reconnected we had only had two times that we actually met and sat down together. The first time we met he came and visited us here at our farm. The second time was at his home in Ottawa. The reason I’m mentioning him is because something he said to me on that second visit has stuck with me since he said it in 1996.
Mercury in Retrograde
Yesterday as I sat down to write the article for today, words came to me really quickly and easily. At this moment I cannot even remember why I stopped writing and when I write, all my pages are automatically saved in the cloud so I did not give it another thought and I went about the rest of my day. Today as I looked through everything I could not find that page at all! It isn’t in my drafts and seems have to have disappeared into another dimension!
Solar Eclipse and New Moon Energies
This Thursday some of us, weather permitting, will be able to see the solar eclipse which occurs with a new moon. Not being an astrologer, the perspective I offer comes from a place of being aware and sensitive to energies and frequencies, and I intuit what may be expected and offer ways to deal with these frequency shifts.
There’s knowing and then there’s KNOWING…
As I sat down today to write my post for this week I realized that the two topics I had in mind were actually for some other time. Instead, my intuition pointed me in a different direction and since I have learned it is really wise to listen to it I find myself writing a post that has yet to have a title! I guess this is what they call ‘being in the flow. I have learned to listen to this inner voice. Sometimes my mind has overridden this intention and those were times where I discovered that listening to my intuition would have been more efficient if nothing else!
Lunar Eclipses and You
We are about to have our first lunar eclipse of this decade. I do not have an astrology background and I leave that to the astrologers to share their knowledge […]
Heart Metta Playshop: Getting out of our own way.
Do you feel stuck?
Are things progressing at a much slower pace than you desire?
Do you feel unsure about how to go about changing your present circumstances?
Is your present situation ‘okay’ and yet you feel it could be more fulfilling?
Are you ready for more clarity and direction and a leap in a more positive direction?
Join Sandra for this three hour online Heart Metta Playshop:Today I am getting out of my own way!
Here, there and everywhere!
It has been over a year since most of us have had to deal with severe travel restrictions and it has been decades since I have been in one location for so long! For some of you, this restriction is being lifted while for others, including myself, we are still in lockdown. So with our ongoing limitations of travel why did the phase ‘here, there and everywhere’ pop into my mind when I sat down to write today?
The New Moon of May
Another new moon is here and with it, new beginnings. Here at the farm there are signs of new growth everywhere. The daffodils are blooming in the woods and many of our trees and bushes are in bud and others are already blooming. The photo in this post is of an apple tree that is over fifty years old. Its trunk is all gnarled and cracked in places and yet each year it flowers and still produces apples.
Divine Timing
What is Divine Timing? Some believe in destiny – the stars align for a certain event and it takes place. Others may believe it is all in God’s hand and whatever happens is the will of God and will only occur then. Others believe in fate, it is cast and there is no escaping it. To me, there is no right or wrong answer, it is a matter of what resonates with us. In my own experience I have found co-creation exists for me. We can work at manifesting what we want, when we want it, as much as possible and if we are resonating
What’s the point?
The Little Engine That Could – most of us are familiar with that story. Keep on going and eventually you will get there. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, again. All those affirmations and people suggesting to you “Fake it till you make it”. These sound so good in theory, getting everyday results we want may not be easy at all and affirmations could even have a detrimental effect because they appear so far from the existing situation!
Synchronicity, Serendipity, Universal Networking and Random Acts
I know people study game theory, people have jobs doing risk assessment, they review as much as possible carefully and make decisions based on their findings. I sense I have a different kind of ‘game theory’. Some of my loved ones call it my being ‘woo-woo’ (an upgrade from ‘whacko’ from previous years). I hesitate to give it any kind of label. What I am very comfortable with is listening to my intuition.
What do you see?
What do you see in this photo – a pretty yellow flower with nutritious leaves for a salad or a weed? One person’s salad addition is another person’s weed. You could pick this out of the ground and enjoy it or be upset this flower is growing where you hadn’t intended. What is your daily attitude when life isn’t exactly the way you’d like? Is it energy enhancing or energy depleting?
What kind of boss are you?
One time many years ago I overworked my body and was really depleted energetically. I had been holding space during a disaster recovery project and I had no idea I was overdoing it. My body got so out of whack I could hardly keep water down, let alone any food. When I returned from that trip a friend of mine who is a Qigong Master said to me “ Sandra, I don’t understand you. I see you are such a good tenant when it comes to your apartment, you look after it as if it were your own place.
Procrastination – clear this with Heart Metta.
I had a mini breakthrough last week and it brought me huge A-ha moment. Long story short, I had bought an insert for my desk months ago, thinking it would help organize the stuff in my desk drawer. The insert arrived and every day I would see this thing sitting in the corner of my room. It was hard to miss since it was 18 inches wide and 14 inches deep! That thing sat there for five months. I would look at it and give myself the usual “ I’ll do it soon.” I really wore my crown of procrastination well. Looking at it for yet another time, I asked myself why I had not organized my drawer. Nothing obvious came to mind, I really had no excuses or reasons.
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Enter vs. Shift, Enter
If at first you don’t succeed… go about it differently!
How many times do we assume something is unattainable, some things can only be done by ‘experts’, some things are beyond our ability to learn? I have been irritated at myself at times when my attempts to get something to work seemed in vain (hello WordPress!) and when I asked people to assist me, their solutions were so simple and obvious! In previous years I would have wanted to kick myself. These days I deal with those situations with a lot more kindness to myself and I add these three words “obvious to them”.
New moon, new beginnings…
Recently I broke an old pattern of procrastination. I am not sure when that old pattern was established; whenever I created it, I did a really good job! Often we go into our heads to analyze, dissect and cross-examine all the reasons why we do or omit to do something. I have discovered the best results occur and habits and patterns change when I ask myself this one question: “Does this attitude and behaviour serve me?” When we decide it no longer serves our best interests and our best interests matter it is a lot easier to shift to a new way of thinking and behaving. When we change our internal reality, our outside world changes too!
『あなたの夢を叶えるお話会withサンドラ・スイートマン』
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
夢見ることができれば、それは実現できる。
-Walt Disney (ウォルト・ディズニー)
私たちが日々思い描くもの、
それがどんなに大きなものでも
どんなにささやかなものでも、
私たちはその思い描いた夢を「受け取る」ことが出来ます。
夢を思い描くことは、日々を期待に胸を膨らませ、
新しい旅を、あなたの日常にもたらせてくれるでしょう。
勇気や好奇心そして自信を呼び起こし、私たちが思い描く
心から望んだものを受け取る旅に出かけましょう。
May Peace Prevail
For the past several weeks a group of us have gathered each evening to focus on the intention of promoting peace and harmony to an area we hold dear to […]
農場からのご挨拶
私はよく、人々からこんな質問を受けます。どうしたらプリンスエドワード州にある私たちの農場と、香港や東京のような忙しい都会で、同じように快適でいられるのか。
まず私は「私のすべて」が自分はどこに居るのか知っていることを確実にします!ある人にとっては、これって少し変なことのように聞こえるかもしれませんが、あなたがご自身のエネルギー・フィールドの管理についてもっと慣れ親しんでくれば、あなたのすべてが同じ場所と時間帯に存在しているかどうかチェックできるようになります。私は、休暇をあまりにも楽しんだため、その場所にご自身の一部を置き去りにしてきてしまったのに、時差ボケから回復できないと思っていた人たちに会ったことがあります。
Greetings from the farm
People often ask me how I can be equally comfortable on our farm in Prince Edward County or in busy cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo. First of all I make sure ‘all of me’ knows where I am! This may sound a bit strange to some – as you become more familiar with managing your energy field you can check to see if all of you is present in the same place and time zone. I have met some people who enjoyed a vacation so much they left a part on vacation and then thought they didn’t get over jet lag 🙂
Heart Metta™ Book Now Available in Japan
I am thrilled to announce that my book on Heart Metta™ is now available in bookstores in Japan. People have been asking me for years whether I have any books […]
Welcome to our Japan visitors!
ハートメタへようこそ。もうすぐ、日本語のページを追加いたします。無料のハートメタ Eブックと、最新の日本語で書かれたハートメタニュースを受け取るために、ご連絡先フォームにご入力ください。ありがとうございます。サンドラ
Love and Gratitude!
It is with great excitement and pleasure that I write this first post of news, knowing this website will be live when you read this. What started out as a […]
Introducing our Heart Metta™ team.
As far back as 2008 I was sharing Heart Metta™ with other practitioners in several countries. It was only last year though that I felt it was time for me […]