This weekend in the paper there was a story about a woman who had parked her car on the side of the highway and walked into the lanes, getting hit by a truck and ending her life.
How sad is it that she didn't think she had any other choice to make? The truth is, there are always choices to be made, from what to eat for breakfast, to getting away from drugs or alcohol, to realizing that there are beautiful things for us in this world regardless of how bleak it looks today.
We must choose to find our happiness... in the smallest and largest sense...diligently, purposefully move toward happy. Who knows what might have awaited that woman had she chosen to move through her pain rather than be engulfed by it?
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Reflections Today
I'm in one of those moods where I am thinking about a million things in life today. Doug says he doesn't have to follow my blog, because he is living it. Which is true, because I'm telling him everything I am thinking today and driving him nuts.
My friends wrote their book and have a book launch today. I feel very inspired because I haven't been writing lately, and now I want to get back to it. If you want to check it out, it's on www.speakingyourtruthbook.com and available on Amazon. How cool is it that people you know have made their dream - and your dream - come true? I love that it's so totally possible and you KNOW someone who's made it happen. It feels real.
To leave you with a quote:
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose." - Anne Bronte from "The Narrow Way"
So what if I read that quote in a gripping Dean Koontz novel.
My friends wrote their book and have a book launch today. I feel very inspired because I haven't been writing lately, and now I want to get back to it. If you want to check it out, it's on www.speakingyourtruthbook.com and available on Amazon. How cool is it that people you know have made their dream - and your dream - come true? I love that it's so totally possible and you KNOW someone who's made it happen. It feels real.
To leave you with a quote:
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose." - Anne Bronte from "The Narrow Way"
So what if I read that quote in a gripping Dean Koontz novel.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Change
Here it is, Tuesday morning, and I'm on the second day of NOT sleeping as long as I want, eating whatever I want. In fact, on Sunday, I had an epiphany that I've often had - do something different and get different results.
Life is good, right? I have no complaints. But I still need change - I need to move my body more, stretch, start the day off feeling good, which translates to a full day of feeling good.
Darn, it's hard to change! But I have gotten up at 7, turned on the tv, and done yoga off the freebie channel from Comcast. Deep breathing, positive thoughts, no monkey mind for at least a half hour while I am feeling my body pop and snap until it's warmed up...when it FEELS GOOD, you keep doing it!
I wish those tortilla chips didn't feel so good :-)
A little change yes. But change it is. Can make a big difference.
Here's to your change today!
Life is good, right? I have no complaints. But I still need change - I need to move my body more, stretch, start the day off feeling good, which translates to a full day of feeling good.
Darn, it's hard to change! But I have gotten up at 7, turned on the tv, and done yoga off the freebie channel from Comcast. Deep breathing, positive thoughts, no monkey mind for at least a half hour while I am feeling my body pop and snap until it's warmed up...when it FEELS GOOD, you keep doing it!
I wish those tortilla chips didn't feel so good :-)
A little change yes. But change it is. Can make a big difference.
Here's to your change today!
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Conscious Living
I went to the opening of Journeys for Conscious Living last night. A group of 4 people dedicated to helping people live more consciously through seminars and other media. There was a channeler there and I loved this advice. She responded to a question asked about how to live consciously when we are all living with a barrage of negativity, either at home, in the news, at work or the general feeling in the air that sometimes we feel from the world itself.
The channeled entity, "White Eagle" said to sit quietly for 10 minutes and imagine honor, pride, good, beauty flowing into you for as long as you can, until you feel "full." Then let it radiate, shining out of you. Don't try to push it out. Just shine.
Love it. Will definitely try it on those days when, as she said, I am feeling "in the smog of life."
The channeled entity, "White Eagle" said to sit quietly for 10 minutes and imagine honor, pride, good, beauty flowing into you for as long as you can, until you feel "full." Then let it radiate, shining out of you. Don't try to push it out. Just shine.
Love it. Will definitely try it on those days when, as she said, I am feeling "in the smog of life."
Friday, August 6, 2010
Writing
With the help of a great support group, maybe I can finally publish one of the many books I have started. I have a boxful of journals that have moved from CT, to FL and now to CO. In them are ideas that I love, hate and am embarrassed by!
Why does it seem so hard to see ourselves as the biggest, grandest version of what we could be, dream of, hope for? Do we think we have to be humble or maybe it's that we don't believe in ourselves as much as we pretend...?
I have hoped, dreamed and tried to be a writer for about 10 years, maybe more. It's been in me for a long time. The hardest part is letting it out to BE.
Why does it seem so hard to see ourselves as the biggest, grandest version of what we could be, dream of, hope for? Do we think we have to be humble or maybe it's that we don't believe in ourselves as much as we pretend...?
I have hoped, dreamed and tried to be a writer for about 10 years, maybe more. It's been in me for a long time. The hardest part is letting it out to BE.
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