Being Grateful
It’s easy to hone into what we don’t have or what we can’t (or no longer can) do. It’s another thing entirely to appreciate what we have and to use that power to strengthen the things we CAN do! I’m forever grateful for the ability to keep a positive attitude, to appreciate both highs and lows because I choose to see the benefit in both.
Time to Give Up
Give up Self pity / Self-Victimisation – You are the Creator of your own story. Don’t make yourself a victim in it. Instead, rise above it and take the reins back with loving self respect. For this is not to minimise past experience, but to not let it define you either (minimise your true worth). But to learn to master your own mind and emotions so that others won’t be able to.
Embracing Change
Understanding and accepting that the only constant in life is change, enables us to embrace it. Because change will keep knocking until we open the door – willing or unwilling!.. Time = Change! Both are inevitable! The pain we feel in life is due to our own resistance to change. Resisting the constantly powerful flow of life, means to invite complications. If we don’t choose to embrace change, we default to suffering through change (the catapult effect) a by-product of not accepting responsibility for our own choices and decision-making
JOY (Just Open Yourself)
Don’t give anger a platform for it betrays us at the first chance – leaving us to shrink in our core – meanwhile the door is left ajar for more anger to sneak in. Recognising our own triggers stops dead any ‘influencer’ who attempts to undermine our power, it teaches us how to live inside out (soul conscious) because unconditional love is internal and eternal. Soul consciousness is joy – it’s the feeling of inner fullness – the true meaning of contentment!
Keeping it Practical…
Change can be uncomfortable but it doesn’t need to be chaotic and stressful – that’s a choice we rarely recognise as our own. When we realise and accept that the only constant in life IS change – we can learn to flow with it (rather than fight against it or pretend it isn’t happening). Fact is, change happens around us and within us – all day, every day. We can’t prevent it! So no matter how awkward – it pays to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Worrier to Warrior to Peace…
Worry nags at us – a thought at a time – allowing a storm to brew inside as chaos reigns and everyone loses. The more we practice Self Awareness – to turn inward, again and again and again – enables us to pay attention to what’s going on inside. The more we check inward, rather than focus on or blame what’s going on outside – the easier we can combat worry and the quicker we can return to our essence of peace
Just keep going
When self care and healing slow down or worse – come to a halt – we’ve missed the many signs leading to that point. We may even have ignored or denied some signs because it was easier at the time, but in so doing, we compromised ourselves on many levels. When we ignore the ‘writing on the wall’ we tell ourselves that we are not worth it. Worse still, we tell others that we are not worth it… But we are worth it
Dare to be different
All my life, others have had a problem with me being different and continually try to squash my enthusiasm – and for years I blamed myself. I’ve been called a rebel, a nut, a looney, a dreamer, a trouble maker, a hippie, a space-cadet (beside all the racist slurs that kept me firmly chained in my box). I’ve been called paranoid, crazy, staunch, harsh, unrealistic and ‘too’ sensitive. And for many years I believed them – all these people can’t be wrong, it must be me, I’m the problem!
BE the Change
The end of a year is always a wonderful time for reflection. Equally important is to steady ourselves so to flow into the new year with confidence and ease. So lets start this wonderful new year by looking within, to see where I as an individual can BE the Change, in my own life and collectively around the globe 🙂
Choosing Calm
Did you know that to understand and to accept, that calm is a choice and that stress is a choice, can be just one wonderful way of taking back your power? One of the most important decisions we can make in our life is to choose our responses to stress, or anger, or anxiety… We live in the midst of a stress epidemic (it’s called the ‘silent killer’ for a reason) and nothing highlights this more than the lead-up to Christmas. Stress not only reduces kindness and productivity, since we can’t function effectively under duress, but it also impacts our clarity and judgement (people do some questionable things when stressed) then justify it to the hilt.
