If you could actually stand in someone else's shoes, to hear what they hear, see what they see, and feel what they feel, you would honestly wonder what planet they live on, and be totally blown away by how different their "reality" is from yours.
You'd also never, in a million years, be quick to judge again.
Just sayin'

What if, all that you had to look forward to were the things that are free, like sunrises, wagging tails, holding hands, and your imagination. Would it all be worth it?
Probably.
What if you could trade-in some of your free stuff for fabulous wealth, fulfilling work, gorgeous looks, or anything else that your heart desired?
Would it all be worth it?
Does a bear sleep in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic? Would you like syrup with your French Toast?
Visualize. Before the price goes up.

Purpose brings joy

"Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up." -- James King

We are not just physical and emotional beings but rather multi-faceted and multi-dimensional spiritual beings having a human experience. Our joyful purpose is truly activated when we realize who we are and why we are here and act upon that realization.

Perception defines our reality

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." -- Henri Bergson

Our entire universe is energy -- vibrating waves of pure potential. The electromagnetic vibrations of our consciousness interact with the energetic potential that exists everywhere as the life force to ‘collapse’ the waves and create matter. So the patterns of our minds create the form of our world. By simply observing a form, we influence it. We in turn are influenced by others. This challenges us to be more aware of the quality of our being and the vibrations we transmit.

"There is no reality in the absence of observation." -- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The human eye has an inherent defect — it sees. It looks for things that are real, tangible, and easy to comprehend. And if it can't be seen and explained, it's ignored and forgotten. Yet when you change the way you look at things, and open up your mind to new, unexplored ideas, you open yourself up to a new world of possibilities.

The Best Day of My Life

The Best Day of My Life
~Jack Ensign Addingtion
Irrespective of conditions or circumstances, this is the best day of my life!
I release all the yesterdays and I have no anxiety for the tomorrows.
Today I quietly go into the closet of my mind and shut the door and there I commune with my Father who is heaven within me. In this quiet place I feel his Love surrounding me, permeating me.
I let the love that fills my heart go out to each person I meet today. Just as God loves all of us, so do I love all my brothers and sisters.
I love this day. I eat the right foods. I think the right thoughts. I live the right life.
Right action is taking place in all that I do. I am in the right place, doing the right things at the right time.
I see storm clouds gather. I hear the cry of multitudes. Enemies may gather against me but nothing comes nigh unto me. I am sustained, protected and guided in all that I do.
I let the Spirit of Truth within me teach me what to say. I let the joy of the Lord be my strength. My eyes are opened wide to the wonder of God’s beautiful life. I marvel at the way God works miracles beyond all comprehension. This is the best day of my life!
Thank you Father. And so it is.

The Best Day of My Life
~Laredo’s version
Irrespective of conditions or circumstances, this is the best day of my life!
I release all the yesterdays and I have no anxiety for the tomorrows. Today I quietly go into the closet of my mind and shut the door and there I commune with God who is heaven within me.
In this quiet place I feel Divine Love surrounding me, permeating me.
I let the love that fills my heart go out to each person I meet today. Just as God loves all of us, so do I love all my brothers and sisters. I love this day. I eat the right foods. I think the right thoughts. I live the right life. Right action is taking place in all that I do. I am in the right place, doing the right things at the right time, rightly compensated for my activities.
I see storm clouds gather. I hear the cry of multitudes. Enemies may gather against me but nothing comes nigh unto me. I am sustained, protected and guided in all that I do.
I let the Spirit of Truth within me teach me what to say. I let the joy of God be my strength. My eyes are opened wide to the wonder of God’s beautiful life. I marvel at the way God works miracles beyond all comprehension. This is the best day of my life!
Thank you loving Creator. And so it is.


I find Laredo’s version of this empowering text more suitable to me and decided to post both for your comparison . Please feel free to give me your input with a comment.
Thank You
Alice

I statements reveal your consciousness

I acquired these I statements from a great journaling group, completing and reviewing them will give you some real insight into your consciousness.

Go for it and see what they reveal.

I am:_______________________
I want:______________________
I wish: ______________________
I miss: ______________________
I fear: ______________________
I hear:______________________
I wonder:____________________
I regret:_____________________
I am not:____________________
I dance:_____________________
I sing:______________________
I cry:_______________________
I am not often:________________
I make with my hands:__________
I write:_____________________
I confuse:___________________
I need:_____________________
I should:____________________
I start:_____________________
I finish:_____________________

Flowing with Life's Rhythms

by Lynn Morrell


Could striving for life balance be reaching for an ideal which is an illusion? What I mean by life balance is having the various aspects that make up our lives, flowing smoothly and easily. What about when new experiences come into our lives that create uneasiness and chaos, invited or uninvited? During these times do we still need to be striving for balance? If so, then during this time of reaching we are no longer being present to what is happening in the now...we are trying to BE something else. It almost seems as though this striving is a form of resistance to what is, which could intensify the feelings of unsteadiness and chaos. Some years back, I was a single mom working part time. My youngest son became extremely ill. My life became way out of balance. I could hardly keep up with what needed to be done. There was an internal sense that I was not "doing it right." So I went to a book store and picked up a book on life balance. As I read through the book the words felt like a slap in the face. What I needed was a hug!!! Life balance started looking like something people who had their act together could have--not me because obviously I didn't have my act together. But in truth my life was in a new rhythm. I had to find the new heart beat--the new pulse! I had to become fully present to what was happening rather than striving to have things different. Some moments felt balanced others felt like I was falling off a cliff. I eased up on my judgment of how my life was "supposed to be." Some years later my son's health returned and life moved into new possibilities--there was a new rhythm. So, maybe our lives are more about being present to the ebb and flow--the ever changing seasons. Maybe when we are 90 years old and we are looking back on our lives from the broader perspective we will see a balance--a balance in all of the uneasiness and chaos--a balance in all of the ebb and flow. We will see years that we raised children, years that we took care of ill loved ones, years that we played, years that we focused on careers, years that we were in relationships, and years that we were not and we will see the balance was there the whole time--we just did not have the broader view. I give you permission to be fully present with where your life is now. There is no balance that you need to strive to have--because it is natural to who you are. It is already there--it just might be challenging to see it in the details! So, enjoy flowing in and out of the ever-changing rhythms of life.
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Journal Explore & Know

Journal and explore your awareness through your writing and know. The answers you seek the direction you want, and the power to be whoever you want to be is existing within you. Your dreams are not yours by mere whim. They've been meticulously matched to the gifts you're now developing. Designed to lure you within, where your true power lies, and then out into the world, beyond imagined limitations and fears. Trust yourself. Listen to your heart. You have the right stuff, you know what to.

I Am The New Year

Life, I am the new year.

I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.

I am your next chance at the art of living.

I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months.

All that you sought and didn't find is hidden in me,waiting for you to search it out with more determination.

All the good that you tried forand didn't achieveis mine to grant when you have fewer conflicting desires.

All that you dreamed but didn't dare to do, all that you hoped but did not will, all the faith that you claimed but did not have -these slumber lightly, waiting to be awakened by the touch of a strong purpose.

I am your opportunity to renew your allegiance to Him who said,'behold, I make all things new.

'I am the new year.

Author Unknown

New Year 2009

I was about to wish that your every dream for 2009 come true. That you find yourself surrounded by friends, laughter, and good times. I almost wished that your every cup runneth over financially, romantically, spiritually, and creatively. That good health be your faithful companion, peace your guarded ally, and love your perpetual guide. When suddenly, it dawned on me that as an infinite, powerful, fun-loving gladiator of the Universe, with eternity before you and the power of your thoughts to help shape it... it's you, who will be granting wishes this year.

"The successful man is the average man, focused."

--Source Unknown--

Simply remember you focus and don't get down on yourself if you don't believe you have achieved "enough.", and your success rate will continually improve.

None of that Sissy Crap

Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship. You will see no cutesy little smiley faces here- Just the stone cold truth of great friendship.

1. When you are sad --I will jump on the person who made you sad like a spider monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.
3. When you smile -- I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in.
4. When you're scared -- we will high tail it out of here.
5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining, ya big baby!!!!
6. When you are confused -- I will use little words.
7. When you are sick --Stay away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have.
8. When you fall -- I'll pick you up and dust you off.
9. This is my oath...I pledge it to the end. 'Why?' you may ask -- because you are my FRIEND!

Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.

Do Less

By Author Unknown
Do less thinking, and pay more attention to your heart.
Do less acquiring, and pay more attention to what you already have.
Do less complaining, and pay more attention to giving.
Do less controlling, and pay more attention to letting go.
Do less criticizing, and pay more attention to complimenting.
Do less arguing, and pay more attention to forgiveness.
Do less running around, and pay more attention to stillness.
Do less talking, and pay more attention to silence.

Every Failure Is An Opportunity In Disguise

As much as we would all love to live an easy life with endless resources and finances, most people might admit that life would be pretty monotonous if there were no obstacles or failures. Evidence of this might be seen by watching the celebrity gossip television programs, where the rich and famous of Hollywood seem to bounce from one crisis to another, seemingly bored of living the good life. How many times have you watch such stories in the news, and thought what you would do to benefit humanity if you could have their vast resources of wealth, power and influence. How many times have you been puzzled when trying to understand their mindset? Success begotten without any hard labor or without crossing any insurmountable barrier is hardly remembered even by the most successful people. To compare it with something which we experience every day, we would not value sunlight if it was not snatched by darkness of the night. While no one in this world is spared from ill fortunes and his share of bad luck, disappointments and failures, what separates men from mouse is the individual ability to deal with failures. While some succumb to their past rejections and present failures, some rise above it and strive harder to perfect their processes to achieve success. The second group always visualizes the entire spectrum of life – with its due quota of ups and downs and sees every failure as another opportunity thrown at them which has the potential of future success. This relentless pursuit of happiness and success despite all the hurdles which might come in the way, eventually take these people high on the ladder of accomplishment. The people who are tormented at the sheer thought of failure, past or present, are usually left behind. What is it that makes successful people look beyond their set backs and re-set their goals with renewed enthusiasm and vigor? Here are some of the ways by which people can achieve this skill:• Treat the past as over and future as illusive. This means that you have to act for the present moment, which is all that you have in front of you. If you let your past failures come in your way of thinking positively for the future, you would be perennially haunted by what obstacles may occur in future. The key is to treat any set-back as an opportunity to improve the way you do things. Once you start believing in what the present is offering you, you tend to be more focused on making the most of your opportunities. • Believe in yourself. We all know about the rejection which Graham Bell faced from the scientific community when he invented a new way in which we could communicate. If Bell had given up on his belief and resigned to his failures, we would have perhaps never reached this far as we have today in the field of communication. Failures, negative criticism, set backs are all intrinsic part of success. If you believe in your ideas and can firmly stand by it, you can look at every failure on its face and see the sun that shines behind the barrier. The talent or ability to take every failure in the stride is an important asset in any organization. It is really the leader’s responsibility to coach his employees and team members the importance of remaining steadfast in their approach to achieve respective career and personal goals. Set backs would come and go and would continue to do so, so long as you are involved in some kind of activity in life. There is a saying that when it rains, it pours. Nothing can be truer than this saying, when it comes to being flooded with set backs. Where we go wrong is that we fail to notice the silver lining around the cloud. Motivational Magic is a mindset that gives special attention to building and reinforcing this type of thinking. People are given the tools to develop a more positive outlook towards life and to go beyond failures with a smile and head held high. The whole idea is to derive new enthusiasm from our adversities. Reaching deep within to tap into an inner power that you never worked with ever before. Reverse the negativity, and let us not turn the whole adversity experience into a vicious cycle where we perform sub-optimally in the face of adversities to invite more failure. If you have tried hard, try harder this time pushing down all the adversities which hinder you and success could be round the corner. Overcoming the adversities of life can reward you with an exhilerating feeling of strength and accomplishment. While most people run from adversities, the true leader embraces adversity and uses it as a slingshot to propel themselves forward. Mount Rushmore was inspired by such leaders, incredible men who accomplished amazing feats by harnessing the power of adversity. Allow your adversities to unlock your greatest opportunities for personal achievement and extraordinary accomplishments!
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The Detached Observer

Sit in a quiet place and take a few deep breaths and become relaxed. Bring to mind a situation in which you reacted with anger, fear or withdrawal, but pretend it wasn't you who was reacting. Pretend it was someone else. This helps you detach. Then observe how this other person experienced the situation. Just watch without judging. Just allow what was, that you are now experiencing through memory, to be as it is.
Apply this process of witnessing as often as you remember to do so to different experiences as they happen. First practice moving your awareness outside of your physical body. Then you can advance to detaching from emotions and then from thoughts and concepts. Only as you detach from reactions, illusions, vanities and effects can you really see the truth and reality of your life. Only then can you truly experience freedom, power, love and the divine. Only as you see events for what they are, can you go beyond them.

This exercise comes from Higher Awareness.

Unique Method of Dream Interpretation

Carl Jung discovered the unique method of dream interpretation. I continued his research, discovered the meaning of more dream symbols and the existence of a wild and primitive conscience that causes craziness to our conscience.If you learn how to interpret your dreams by using this scientific method, you will be able to penetrate the hidden world of the unconscious and anti-conscience, in addition to understanding how your human conscience works. What does this mean? This means that you will penetrate your mind and start understanding why you behave the way you do, why you think and feel the way you do and so on. You will then start understanding your mistakes and to correct them and develop your conscience. This means that you become more intelligent because you start paying attention to other psychological functions that you have at your disposition. You can learn many things and better judge the world: these are the functions you never use because you are always dominated by only one fully developed psychological function, which you prefer, and another one that is only partially developed and only partly helps you. In the beginning, your dreams will help you develop you conscience by showing you all the aspects of reality that you have to consider when you make your decisions or judge someone. For example, if you belong to a psychological type that is extroverted and based on sensations, you will care only for the way you feel, the food you eat, the clothes you wear and all the material pleasures you can have.What can happen to you? A lot! If you don’t think logically or analyze your life seriously, you’ll surely face many problems in your life. On the other hand, if you don’t pay attention to your feelings but only care for the gratification of your senses, you may get involved with someone you don’t really love but who can give you the material pleasure you desire…only to discover later that you cannot live with that person no matter how much money they may have. If you don’t pay attention to what you “can guess” about each person, to the impression and the feeling they give you, you are ignoring a very important psychological function whose functionalism is a mystery—intuition. This psychological function is in fact the ability to predict the future without any logical explanation besides the impressions that you obtain about someone or something. This psychological function when completely developed can help you actually guess, for instance, the person who will buy your products and who will never do that. You can understand from the beginning who is the right person for you and immediately decide the next actions to take.When this psychological function is not well developed, you receive no help in your decisions. You cannot guess anything about what you are trying to examine.Therefore, when you completely develop your conscience through dream interpretation, you start discovering the hidden meaning of reality that you could not see before because you were too ignorant and based on only one entire and one partial psychological function each.On the other hand, when you completely develop your conscience and eliminate the dangerous influence of the wild and primitive anti-conscience, you discover how reality is prepared and how you can transform it according to what will bring you good results. You acquire a “third eye” that can read and decipher the symbols existent not only in dreams but also everywhere else, and you will be guided to solve all the problems of your life. When you reach this level, you will learn the meaning of many other things that you now ignore. You will learn how to think according to another system of logic that is completely different from the selfish logic that you use now, in addition to understanding the meaning of life and death.You can learn all that you wish by interpreting your dreams, and you can interpret everything that happens to you in your daily life just as you interpret dreams, and thus have more information about reality, other people and the future.
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Without planning and follow through, a To Do List is only a wish list.

It's not your fault.

It's not your fault that difficulty is the order of the day and the future looks bleak and cloudy.


What is your fault, however, is believing such a negative reality.

Finding Personal Success

Finding Personal Success"Every day, we accomplish something. Reminding ourselves, 'I did that!' is one way to let the small 'ups' help us get through the big "downs."