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Ann on Monday, November 30th, 2009 |
No CommentsI have been harping on Challenges and Problems lately.
They are so important because your attitude is important. If you have a good attitude things tend to fall into place. This is the law of attraction working.
I have been paying attention to my attitude and what has been going on this year. There were times I was sinking in my financial problems not seeing a way out. When that happened I usually could not see how next months bills were going to be paid. But then I would tell myself, I was not going to go there and everything would be ok. I would have to force an attitude adjustment on myself. When I did that, soon something would happen and money would come through.
I deliberately noted that the attitude change came before the problem cleared up.
What has been the challenge is to keep that positive attitude. All year I have vacillated between the two. Feeling optimistic then feeling pessimistic. That is my main challenge. What is yours.
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Ann on Sunday, November 29th, 2009 |
No CommentsAs I mentioned yesterday, you can have challenges and you can have problems. Challenges are a more optimistic way of looking at them. Challenges give a sense of hope that you can rise above the situation. Problems sound more ongoing something that you never quite get rid of.
You can turn your problems into challenges. This is not always easy to do. It requires you to stay hopeful and optimistic even when you do not feel like it. Thinking of your problem as temporary can make you feel more hopeful right away.
If you are jobless, or homeless or your relationship has just fallen apart, it is not the end of the world. It may feel like it right now but there is a tomorrow and you can stay hopeful of the possibilities of what is to come.
Dream big. Think about the best possible outcome. Who knows, you may get 4 job offers tomorrow, someone you hardly know may offer you free housing, you may literally run into someone who develops into the perfect relationship.
The main thing is to remain positive and optimistic.
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Ann on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 |
No CommentsWhich do you have problems or challenges.
Do you hear the difference in the two words?
One makes you feel limited; it is like a thorn in the side, an irritation that is always there that you cannot get rid of. The other is more optimistic; it is something to rise above, to be conquered.
Which would you rather have in your life?
I am often guilty of seeing problems instead of challenges. I am working on the more optimistic challenges instead of dwelling on the problems. It is hard work and I don’t always succeed but at least I do see the difference and am trying.
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Ann on Friday, November 27th, 2009 |
No CommentsSome people think that God does not talk to us mere mortals. That He only talked to the prophets of old.
I don’t believe that.
He talks to us all the time.
Some people are in such alignment with God that they don’t know that God is talking to them. They take it as their own thoughts. In other words they own the thoughts.
Others are on such a different wavelength that they have to be hit in the head before they finally ‘sit up and take notice’. That is when they realize their thoughts are coming from somewhere else. I think this is what happened with Neale Donald Walsch in his Conversations With God books.
Others start to seek Him out, usually after they realize they are hearing such thoughts and they realize they are not from themselves. I am not getting all psycho on you. This is meditation. These conversations leave you at peace with yourself and the world. If you are more upset afterwards, these thoughts are not of God. God leaves you will peace, joy, love, harmony, the fruits of the spirit. He also leaves the judgment up to us, He does not judge.
Just realize that God is talking to us all the time, no matter where we are. It is our choice whether to hear Him or not.
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Ann on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
No CommentsIf you live a thankful life, you will live a happier life.
Go on a walk today while the Turkey cooks and before the game starts and look at everything through new eyes.
Be in the moment. Be grateful for what ever you see. Be grateful even for the cracks in the sidewalk. Ask those with you to be silent and just listen to the sounds around them for a few minutes. Then be grateful that you can hear such sounds.
Come home and have a Great Day.
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Ann on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
No CommentsI just watched “Mr. Bean’s Holiday”. It was rather silly, but every once in a while you need a silly movie.
I started thinking about his holiday. It was not what he wanted or how he had envisioned his vacation. But it sure would be one he would remember and cherish the rest of his life.
Have you ever had a vacation like that? I have. A good friend and I took a 7 day vacation one Thanksgiving to a Jack Tar Village in St. Kitts. We love telling the story of the clock that lost 10 minutes an hour that we did not realize until 2 days latter and we tried to fix but caused it to explode, about the tub’s water valve that came off in our hands shooting water all over the place, the sliding door that would not close and trapped the attendant on the balcony who came to help us with it. Then there was the broken electrical line that blew out the electricity to the rooms but don’t worry the resort had back up generators, for the casino. Every day and almost every hour was an adventure. For families these vacations are bonding experiences. These events become inside jokes.
Maybe that is the way we should look at the hardships in life. Not as hardships but as bonding moments. Just take them in stride and go with the flow. Then when you get to the other side you can look back on it and say “wow, that was exciting” and you will have something to talk about.
In other words, don’t have died before you die. Live, Love and Laugh.
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Ann on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
No CommentsWatch out. Stress can lead to a lot of problems. Sometimes when stress is not acknowledged, mainly because you do not even realize it is there, it will show up in other forms. Its most common form is a physical ailment due to a decrease in the immune system such as the shingles I have recently been dealing with.
Stress can also mess up your hormones. That is why a woman who is stressed will quit having periods. I have also found out that the stress that messes up the hormones can also cause hot flashes for a woman (guilty again).
Stress is insidious in our society. If you can keep it from bothering you, it won’t affect you as much physically. How to keep it from bothering you? Meridian Tapping is good, but if you do not even realize you are being stressed you won’t know to tap for it.
If you can keep a fun and playful attitude about life and what is happening around you and even to you, you will fare much better. So it is an attitude adjustment that is required. Just need to realize that life is suppose to be fun not a drudge. So play with life, play with energy, experiment. Maybe that is something I can tap on.
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Ann on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 |
1 CommentIt has been a week and a half since my Shingles started showing up. I have been taking a lot of IB and doing a lot of meridian tapping. Saturday and Sunday my system started rebelling about the IB so have cut back on that substantially and am actually feeling pretty good. The rash is looking a lot better and I even felt like going for a morning walk this morning.
I felt a shift in the pain yesterday morning when I started tapping for my skin. I wanted to send it love and support. It has been good to me and I have tried to take care of it. I thanked it for being such good skin for me and I was sorry that this virus was attacking my first line of defense. When my skin suffers I suffer. I felt some better after that and did not even need any pain medicine last night.
I really do think the tapping has helped me. I decided I don’t want this pain or this ailment and I don’t need it. That brings me to why do some people insist on holding onto their pain. When I told people I had shingles, they were very sympathetic and would tell me about some they knew who had shingles several years ago and still had the pain from it. Why were these people still holding on to the energy of pain?
I work with people, helping them let go of their pain. But some people want to hold on to the misery, the pain. Why? What do they gain? Attention that they wouldn’t get otherwise? Pity? But the pain inhibits you in living your life to the fullest.
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Ann on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 |
No CommentsSometimes we need to just sit back and watch the world go by. My dad loved doing that. He was a people watcher. He loved to go to the mall and just sit and watch the people. Sometimes he would sit in the garage and watch the people going up and down the road.
My husband and I go walking in the mornings and there is often some one sitting on their front porch or in their garage watching the world go by. We always say “Hi” to them and if we are too slow with our greeting they will yell out “Good Morning” to us.
This gives a person a relaxing start to the day. It is a reassurance that the sun also rises, that life goes on.
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Ann on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
No CommentsI know about the “Law of Attraction”. I have seen “The Secret”. I just seem to be having trouble implementing this.
Something has been coming across my “desk” lately that is screaming at me about how to modify my thinking. When something keeps cropping up, I have learned that I need to pay attention to it.
Several different webinars and seminars I have heard lately have pointed me to the same thing. In fact this is the same thing I use to practice when I was young. What is this “thing”?
As the law of attraction says, what you think you attract. It is often hard to think positively when everything around you seems to be falling down on you. These lectures have reminded me that I use to create a desirable outcome by imagining all the ways something could happen.
For example, when I lost my ring as a teenager, I imagined all the ways it would be found and returned to me. It was found and returned but in a manner that I had not imagined.
That happened many times and I always thought God had a sense of humor, as the method was always one I had not expected.
I have decided to go back to that tactic. I have a good imagination. If I can imagine dire thing happening, I can imagine great things happening.
Will you try this with me? Let me know if anything good and unexpected happens in your life.
