His Family Breathes Love for Him

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Somewhere back in my earlier posts I mention that I am in recovery from Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces). Well, today I have to say big freakin deal...I was sitting here at 11:00 p.m. tonight thinking about going to bed but was not quite tired enough. As I scrolled through the listings in my DVR, I saw that Oprah's interview with Michael J. Fox was on today. I have only, at this moment, seen the first 10 minutes; and the crappy day I thought I was having is nothing, nil. My recovery from Agoraphobia is nothing, nil, my quitting smoking is nothing, nil...my giving up excessive drinking is nothing, nil. What Michael J. Fox and his family are living is
"everything to everyone." I am sitting here now so blown away by the courage and fortitude that man has; and I am so grateful that President Obama has signed the bill that is going to help Michael have the life he so deserves.
There is so much love in his life. Just breathing the love his children and wife have for him must be his miracle drug. I have yet to read his book, but it is so on my list right now.

It's amazing that whenever you think things are bad in your life; something always comes along that makes you remember how grateful you are for everything and everybody in your life. All I can say is Thank you, God...thank you...thank you, for this wonderful human being, that is Michael J. Fox.

I am touched, motivated, and blessed that I was not ready to go to sleep, and took the opportunity to listen to this interview. If you haven't see it I hope they will repeat it (I'm sure they will). But, in the meantime, just remember to be grateful everyday for everything.

THE BODY KNOWS A LANGUAGE

Image by D LeRoy via Flickr“The body knows a language the mind never wholly masters.”
Brenda Miller

Brenda Miller is a Professional Coach and a Spiritual Teacher. I received this quote in my email this morning from Oprah’s Mission Statement Newsletter.
To experience Radical Forgiveness is to open yourself to a new way of looking at your world.
To experience Radical Forgiveness is to heal your life!
Radical Forgiveness Coaching assists you to achieve inner peace by helping you to release all those old victim stories and self-destructive patterns that have kept you out of joy, stolen your life, and blocked your abundance. And it's done in a way that is safe, quick, and therapeutically non-invasive.

When I read that quote it brought back the messages I have been hearing about forgiveness lately. I wrote a few posts on my blog about it awhile back and it still resonates around me. Believing that I had forgiven many people and myself for things that I carried with me for years, I find that there are more. When you wake up as I do everyday, beginning with gratitude and right on to the motivational speech I give myself each morning, and you believe that you have forgiven all….there it is… clearly resonating in a pain somewhere in the body, sometimes the head, the back, a shoulder, and often the neck. All these places that I had always believed were signs of stress, I realize now that they are actually more leftover emotional baggage that I am still carrying. Hoping each time that you make a discovery about yourself, that it is the last one, is truly a futile practice. So I turned it around today…now they are blessings. When I looked back and realized in the past week or so, that I recognized mistakes that way, and how easily it translates for forgiveness…it was clear. I’m not sure that is the point that Brenda Miller was trying to make with her quote…that is what I perceived from it, and I am grateful to her for that….“It is always a blessing to find the purpose of pain.”

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IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE WALK!

Image by Farruska via FlickrIn a conversation today, with a friend, I remembered that I have always said, when people are “thinking or feeling” that others dislike them, or are talking about them or they believe they do not like them, this is what I think “unless you tell me that you do not like me, I will assume that you do.” I have always played that in my mind. I developed it a long time ago when I was trying to find “self-confidence” in myself. I find it funny now that I was actually looking for confidence in myself. If I was believing or thinking that others did not like me or were talking about me, then I was lost in “ego”. Most grow up believing that “ego” is a good thing about a person. Most have always believed that when a person has a good “ego” they have a good sense of themselves, they are confident, but, how do you have a good “ego” when the “ego” is what separates you from God. The “ego” is where you go when you are not “within“.

Being “within” is peace. I have been recovering from Agoraphobia which manifested as panic attacks. Funny, because Agoraphobia is a state of fear, as is anxiety. But “within” there is no “fear”, and there is also no “ego”. The simple fact that I know that is enough to separate myself from the “ego” and remain within. Quieting my mind.

I went out today for a power walk. Looking at me, you would never call it that. But, for me, the effort is great to actually do it. I was trapped in a mental illness for more than 4 years, that kept me confined to my home like a prisoner. I did not need locks on the door to keep me in, my mind was doing that quite well. The simple joy of taking a walk outside, something we all take for granted, was to me, today, the greatest blessing I could receive. When I was done walking I just stood and watched, practicing not labeling my vision. What peace, what joy….and to think, it was just a simple walk.

IMAGINE...A WORLD FULL OF FRIENDS!

Image via Wikipedia "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile,
make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
Anonymous

When I first read the quote above, I thought, the author was referring to death, but then, as I read it again, I realized that death is not the only separation between friends and family. In the course of our life, (even though life is only the dash on your gravestone between your date of birth and your date of death, according to Eckhart Tolle)we naturally come in contact everyday with someone new, it can be a quick "Hi, nice to meet you," or it can be the beginning of a long standing friend or life partner. All of the connections should be made in the same way. I believe that it is important to treat everyone as if they will become your friend. Make no assumptions about what you see in their face. "It is not your business what others think of you", that is the greatest lesson I have ever learned, again from Eckhart Tolle. If you treat every person as though they are about to become your life long friend, you will have no regrets.

A life with no regrets should be the life we live everyday. Not to diminish that sentence with an old adage, but "make everyday the first day of the rest of your life." Make it a point to greet every person you meet, with the mind set already planted, that they will become your friend. Imagine, a world full of friends....WOW!

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not

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The Law of Attraction teaches that we are what we think about. Our thoughts become things. Ask, believe it will happen, and we will receive. Change our thoughts to change our mind. This list is endless

I spend a great deal of time protecting my thoughts from the perils of "unmanaged" information. I go to great lengths these days to be particularly aware of what information, noise, or action is taking place. I work at quieting my mind and staying on track with positive, knowledgeable thoughts. It is actually becoming habitual, and my focus does not have to be so acute, but the journey to get here was incredibly interesting. It involved watching the movie "The Secret" more times than I dare to mention, then writing every word of it, and finally watching many more times with the captions and the sound on. I applied every method of learning that I could to it. Somewhere along the way I recognized the idea that if we all tried to learn this way, illiteracy would vanish. We would have exceptionally higher numbers, of English as a second language, graduates. It would be much easier for people to develop other languages. We can apply this method to everything we choose to learn. It is by no means new, and I realize that, I just think that it is a lost tool and should be renovated for modern means and used to help develop languages in illiterate countries, and also here in the U.S. also. Teach people to read and learn whatever language they choose, by using all of the senses at each level. Again, not a breakthrough for humanity, the technology I know exists, it is just a matter of encouraging others to learn this way. Imagine...everyone could have a universal language, life as we know it would change in quite dramatic ways. But, of course, being so simplistic...why would it work? Funny thing is, that is exactly why it would work.

OK, IT'S TIME TO TAKE A WALK!

Image via WikipediaFor the last 10 or so days, I have been fortunate to be introduced to Autism and Aspergers, and the amazing Moms and Dads that raise children that have this disorder. The umbrella of Autism is so expansive that I doubt that "I" will ever know all of the signs or symptoms, but these parents are so informed and pro-active, it is a joy to see. I have gone to different blogs and been introduced to these amazing people and their children, I have seen movies, photos, art work and parents sharing, either through video or on paper, what it is like for them to live under this umbrella. I was hesitant there and the word "cloud" came to mind, but that is not what I saw. I saw parents that realize the blessing of these children, see their beauty, and thank God everyday to have them. I don't see the regrets or frustration, although I'm sure there is a lot, but what they share is the joys, and I believe they do it for other parents without even realizing that is what they are doing. They certainly do it with no thought of reciprocity, and that alone, is an accolade to each of them.

I have not experienced what they live everyday, but I know it takes very special people to do this, and I know that God had a hand in that for sure. I hope they all feel that way, although I'm sure, like all parents, they have the days where they wonder where God really is. I have seen God's work in these 2 weeks and it is a miraculous and beautiful thing, and I just want to applaud each of these parents for their love, fortitude, and the courage to put themselves out there for others, it takes special people to do that.

I hope if you have not seen the efforts that are being put forth to change the legislature around this disease, that you will educate yourself more and let your congressman know what changes you want implemented. This is a more than worthy cause, but even just to meet these amazing people, you should take a trip through the blogs of these people that are blogging for Autism this month. You should start with Momologue

Take five and dive right in, see what it is all about and offer support where you can.

REMEMBER LIFE WITHOUT A CELL PHONE?

Remember life without a cell phone? Actually I don't, I'm much too young for that...Right!
We were watching a movie after dinner yesterday and some question came up. The kids and I (I really should stop calling them the kids, they are adults now)have this habit of trying to name the actors in the movie we are watching and what else the actor has been in. I never really noticed that we do this, but yesterday it was different...Usually someone runs to the computer and finds the answer...because we all have to be right (there is a lot of "EGO" going on here, in good fun) Well, this time my daughter reached for her cell and looked it up on there...she also found out what time the movie she and her boyfriend were going to started, without ever leaving her chair. I know to most that is no surprise, and it really was not to me either, but I recognized the habit. I was in the presence.

When you are aware of the issue, you are awakened, you are free from "ego" and in the presence. I like my presence to be with my children. There is a lot of love and joy there. The kind of joy you get when you see them for the first time, or they reach their first milestone, go to their first day of school, go on their first date, their first prom, the first day they leave home for college, the day they get married and then their first child, or my first grandchild. It is an endless circle of complete and utter joy. Ok...there are days when you wish they would just go out and experience one of those firsts and give you the peace you need, but in a very short time, you are wishing them back. That is why I love the holidays, birthdays and anytime we are all together. That is where my essence lives and my success, it is in that presence.

GOD WILL ANSWER MY PRAYER!

From Oprah’s mission statement 04-01-2008

"Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of
communing with God, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer."
Bo Lozoff

The average person may read this and think “Finally, I have found a way to make my dreams come true, all I have to do is help a few people and then GOD WILL ANSWER MY PRAYER” And then, when their dreams still don’t come true, the first thing they do is turn on God. Seriously, I know people just like this, they lament all the time about how much they do for others and then when they need something it’s not there. Hello…it says “loving and caring”, that is a continuous state of being. That does not mean when you took care of your neighbor’s dog while they went away…It means service for God. Doing for others should be a priority. Of course, you do for your family everyday, I know… we all do that, but that is a choice we make when we choose to have a family. Loving and caring for others is a lot broader than that, it is the essence of you. It becomes you, it is you, and it is just a thought in your mind that gets it going, that shifts your consciousness enough, to move in the direction of those IN NEED.

Loving and caring for others can come in many different ways, it can come by joining service with others to help others, it can come by giving a neighbor a break once a week when they need respite from the kids, the issues of their home life, or just because you love them. It should be innate in all of us, and it probably was, until our parents decided to interfere with nature, as did their parents. We are born without sin, with the essence of God himself, and we learned to shed that as the years went by, learning things the old way. It is time we teach our children the “new” way by setting an example. Set an example of loving and caring for others. Show our children that the true essence of God is in all of us and we should be standing up to the plate every chance we get.

If you want to see the true essence of God then you should visit this blog and join in service to help with this undertaking. Some of the most amazing Moms I have ever seen are part of this giant undertaking and they can use all the help they can get. They can use others blogging for Autism for the month of April, they can use new resources and people to spread the word. Whatever you have to offer, share it here or there, but share it, make a commitment to shift your consciousness for others and then sit and wait…. for the within to answer the call. Stop waiting for what God is going to reward you with, learn selflessness, learn humility and put them to work in the service of causes that need you. There is something for everyone to do in almost every experience we have. There are millions of people, some without homes, food, clothing, shelter and love…help them without expecting reward. You already have the reward, it is in your heart, be grateful for it every morning and every night, everyday.

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.

THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT

The Law of Attraction is still acting like a sneaky little devil, because I am…ACTING. Funny thing, I was just journaling about what is happening today and why I am seeing a lot of negative things taking place and this went through my mind:

“I am looking for the missing link. If I continue to look for the link, I will never find it, I will just create more ways to look for it. I am so grateful to have the missing link, God. Thank you. With All My Love, Thank you, God.
LOL, God (LOVE OUT LOUD).

When we go looking for something, we will only find more of what we are looking for. Like when someone says, “ Hey man, I am just trying to find myself”. What they are saying is they do not know who they are. But if they “realize” that they do not know who they are…THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT for that moment. “Believe it is in your future and live in the present, you already have everything you need.”

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.

SNEAKY LITTLE DEVIL!

The Law of Attraction is a sneaky little devil. I was trolling blog sites today looking for the missing link to the monetary part of my quest and I ran across a couple of sites run by parents, families and friends of Autisim and Aspergers. Naturally I felt compelled to offer service and made a point of putting it on my ODD website.
Funny thing is, it is exactly what I was looking for, who knew?

That is exactly how it works. What you are putting out to the Universe comes to you. I thought I was looking for the solution to a problem I was having and by finding those sites, I realized...I do not have a problem. I have everything I need in my joyous and grateful life. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to help others and the Universe knows that about me.

These people need our help so lets give it to them.


Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET.

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe, and you will receive
It all begins with baby steps.

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THIS ONE IS FOR ME!

Tomorrow signifies the 1st anniversary of the 1st day of the rest of my life. It was 1 year ago tomorrow that I quit smoking and if I have accomplished one thing it is that. I am so glad to have been able to share that with my Aunt last year. Remembering our final 2 conversations, and the message she sent to me, has made me feel blessed to have known she was proud of me. What I have in my life right now, is all anyone could want, although there are things I know I will complete that will bring a sense of peace to myself and to others.

I am glad to have spent this past year looking within and finding the secrets that were always with me. The messages that I had to find, the journeys I had to take, the feelings I had to work through and suffer through only to be blessed on the other side. God has given me a lot of challenges in my life and I am most grateful for each and every one of them, because the other side of all of them, left me with so much more than I could have imagined, as the little girl, living in the sadness that was our life. I am so grateful to have been chosen to live this life and I am spending the rest of it showing my gratitude through OUR GRATITUDE in every way I can.

I will write my blog each day and share my experiences with others and I will complete the cookbook for my family and complete school to be able to help others find the blessings in their life, as I have in mine. I Thank God for the chance to do it all.

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: The Secret.

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
AAsk, Believe and you will receive.
It all beings with baby steps.

IT'S ALL IN THE VISION

When I first began to apply The Law of Attraction to my life, I made my first vision board. I took all the magazines I had around the house and started clipping pictures out and taping them to a poster board. It hung in my living room and everyone that came through wanted to know what that mess was on my wall. I didn’t care how it looked and I actually didn’t take a lot of time making it. I just found all kinds of things I thought I would like in my life and pasted them on there.

The beauty of the vision board is that it continues to change, but remember to always keep the first one you make. That’s the one that will bring your real dreams to you. The ones that you made and only half believed. Those are the ones that you will see come true because you are not focused on them, you are focused on the next ones already. As soon as you put that on the board and begin to attract it, begin adding more and more. This becomes an endless process, always changing, because you are an endless process, always changing, and it is your message to the Universe that is coming back to you.
The first ones are the ones you will be most surprised and excited about and when you find you are not, then change them, make them bigger and begin to focus bigger.

Several of the cast of “The Secret” the movie have their own Vision boards now, and they are all in different formats. I still like my first one and since I moved, it is in a room I am not using, it just sits on the bed in there and occasionally my cat Pogo sits on it. I let him, because for some reason it is really indestructible. I still want a lot of those things but they are not as important to me as the ones I put on there for others and I realize that some of them have come true and the joy I feel from that is just so overwhelming, one of those dreams was for Pogo and I’ll be making that come true for him very soon.
LUCKY CAT!

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
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LIVE IN THE NOW!

I send a newsletter to my family everyday that has a joke for the day and some words of inspiration. While collecting material for it, I ran across this joke:


The End Is Near!

A local priest and a pastor were fishing on the side of the road. They thoughtfully made a sign saying, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" and showed it to each passing car. One driver who drove by didn't appreciate the sign and shouted at them, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"

All of a sudden they heard a big splash, looked at each other, and the priest said to the pastor, "You think maybe we should have just said 'Bridge Out' instead?"


I have been thinking all day about the way things are expressed to us and by us. It reminded me that there are so many interpretations of the bible, philosophies on life , opinions, judgments. They are all just words. I came to the conclusion at the end of my day after checking out different sources, that all there is or should be, is the present. What we think, feel and do right now is what matters. Only the NOW matters. Everything else is old, used, and not working, usually, so rather than change how we think, feel or see things, we should just BE, I think Dr. Phil puts it best when he says, “How’s that workin for ya?” When things aren’t working, change your mind…TRY LIVING IN THE NOW!

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From The Masters newsletter 2-21-2008
SELF-CONCEPT/SELF-CONFIDENCE

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
Steven H. Coogler

"What you see is what you get, and who you feel like is who you really are."
Denis Waitley

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
The Secret

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.

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ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL?

Is it a false sense of security to believe, although you cannot see it, that you have enough faith in your ability to overcome any obstacles, and that you are financially successful? If you do not believe, does that make you a failure?

It is only by putting yourself out there that you can, even remotely, begin to believe in yourself. Anyone can sit in front of a computer and appear to be successful, but to actually feel it, is to walk into a store and change how you think about money. I did that two days ago and again today, and for the first time, I did not overdraw my checking account. Does that make me successful? No, what makes me successful, is the fact that I am no longer afraid of money, whether I have it or not. I am successful when I have found what is important in life and money really has nothing to with it…or everything to do with it.

Success is a mind set that naturally, begins first with a thought like everything else. When you think you are successful, and believe you are successful….YOU ARE. You cannot be successful until you have thought it.

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember:
THE SECRET

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.

What You Think of Me is None of My Business!

I recently wrote about how I feel when my mind is open. I am like a sponge, and whatever is being said or done around me is being taken in. That is The Law of Attraction. When the people I love are dealing with their own personal life issues and they come to me for advice or help, I try to be there, always. But what should be seen is that not all of us, are ready to fight our demons, at the same time. All in good time, should be our mantra, one day at a time, it takes baby steps are the messages we should play in our mind. We only experience what we have first “thought”to experience. When situations in our life are not working for us, taking on someone else’s issues is not where we should be. We should be in our thoughts, moving at our own pace, changing what we need to change. Choosing how we want to live our lives, and who we want to be. Being led by anyone or anything short of God himself, may not be right for some of us.

We make our own decisions, yes, but when we take the time to quiet our mind and allow,we are being led by within. I believe that when we are trying to lead others, when we have not completely found ourselves, we lose sight of our own issues. Seeing our own issues through the eyes of others is one thing, but defining ourselves by the opinion or reaction of others is not the direction I want to go. How about You? I love the line from Eckhart Tolle“What you think of me is none of my business”. I prefer to find my answers within. The people around me are free to take from me whatever works for them, but my purpose is not to change who they are, it is to accept them from within. This is a judgment free zone here. Transitioning from “The Secret”to “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,“has been the perfect segue for me. I hope others will follow my lead to get there.

I am sorry to say, I do not know where I got this, but it is something that I have recently adopted:

Today's Quote

Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?

-A Course in Miracles


Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this,
THE SECRET:

Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.

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"I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS."

I was posting an excerpt for a new release from HCI Books, on my OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS Blog Site, when I began to read a couple of lines that reminded me of how overwhelming (yet beautiful) the acknowledgment of “The Law of Attraction” can be, in the course of a single day. The excerpt (Life Lessons, Loving the Life You Live by, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Jack Canfield, and Mark Victor Hansen) suggests that, even though you see these wonderful things going on around you, when a friend asks how you are, you immediately begin to relate the negative things that took place in your day.

I was talking to my friend Michele, about this last week, and I suggested that we take a lesson from Oprah who said, when people ask how she is, she says “I have no complaints”. So now when Michele and I see each other, we ask, “How are you” and if one of us forgets to answer with “I have no complaints”, the other one points it out, and we find a source of humor in our day, and begin to remember the tiny miraculous little things we noticed during the day, instead of burdening each other with the negative. One thing that gives Michele great pleasure is her daily post from Mike Dooley’s Daily Notes of the Universe. She tells me everyday what her email said and she gets great strength and pleasure from it.

We should all pay more attention to the little, firebug like messages which flit past us everyday. Those are the things that should take our attention, because those are the unnoticed signals that we are getting within. The Law of Attraction is all around us and the more we find of it without, the more we will get from within. The more we share it with others, the more it will come back to us, ten fold every time.

Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:

THE SECRET

Thoughts do become things.

There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.