Dear Ones,
Today is the day that you can start a new life. Every day is one in which you can begin anew. Whatever was bothering you yesterday is in the past – make new choices today.
Do you feel that way when you wake up in the morning? If you start your day focused on what is wrong with your life or what you don’t have, then you are gathering in the stale energy of yesterday and coloring your day with that staleness. Train yourself to have as a first thought each morning that you have much to be grateful for in your life. Think of something that makes you smile. Look at your new day through the lens of gratitude that you woke up!
Too many people are stuck in the ruts of their own making, lamenting the fact that life is so hard for them. They are choosing to be victims when there is no success that blossoms out of victimhood. If this describes how you have been in the past, make a decision to choose differently tomorrow when you wake up. You do not have to be the victim of the circumstances of your life, but you do have to be conscious that you are constantly making choices. If you feel put upon or filled with suffering then you are missing what is good around you and in you. Find one thing, that’s all it takes. Find one thing for which you can be grateful. It can be as simple as a friend or family member who loves you. It can be a pet’s presence in your home. It can be that you have food to eat for breakfast. Find that one thing, and your whole day will be colored with The Light.
Model this behavior for others. Find something positive no matter what is going on around you. Start playing the ‘At least…’ game. What can you find to say to contrast doom and gloom and victimhood when it feels as if you are surrounded by it? ‘At least the sun came up this morning.’ ‘At least both of my feet are working as I step out of bed.’ ‘At least we’ll have a great story to tell our friends after this is all over.’
Teach your children the ‘At least…’ game. Make it fun. Play this with your friends. See what you can find to say ‘At least…’ about. This creates an amazing energy of looking for something good to be grateful for. And Like Attracts Like. If you put some energy into gratitude, you will attract more things to be grateful for. If you can find something positive you will energize and attract more positive things into your life.
It’s never too late to change your ways. Start with how you think about your day from the first moment you are awake. Go to bed with gratitude for the day just ending and look forward to waking up to positive thoughts in the morning. The more you practice this, the more you will want to live your life this way. When you greet people with the smile on your face that this positive thinking will produce, you will find that they respond positively to you. If they are grumpy then acknowledge that maybe they are having a bad day and allow them the space to be where they are. That kind of response is not about you. Be generous enough to give people their own energies, their own feelings. But be sure that you do now allow yourself to be dragged into grumpiness because someone around you is having a bad day. Maintain your positivity.
Keep a Positivity Journal. Record positive thoughts – no complaints allowed! You might have heard of a Gratitude Journal. This goes beyond gratitude but certainly feeling gratitude is positive! Use this journal when you are feeling low to boost your thoughts back into the higher vibration of positivity. Don’t forget to be lighthearted – sometimes all it takes is a small chuckle and you can dispel negativity. Try this for this week, and see how you feel after a week of being Positive!
And so it is.


MUSE-INGS: What Are You Waiting For?
October 5, 2010 — RosemaryI really hear this message! It’s so easy to procrastinate, to put off bringing in or doing something that we REALLY want and the excuses we use can be pretty lame. How often have you done this yourself? I know I’m guilty!
When I move to the right house, when I have the right partner, when I have $X in the bank, when I get a new job… It goes on and on. There are so many good reasons to postpone doing something. And yet if we are thinking about doing that ‘thing,’ whatever it is, there must be some energy available to it in the moment, some energy to support the thought. Thoughts are things, right? And thoughts, as everything, are made up of energy. So it follows that there’s some energy there.
In 1974 I was waiting to move into the perfect house on the water before getting pregnant, but finally decided that I wasn’t getting any younger and that maybe I had the wrong priority. We ended up finding the perfect house on the water the same weekend I got pregnant with my daughter and moved in months before the birth. Funny how that seems to work, isn’t it?
So what are you waiting for? And what can you do today, right NOW, to move in the direction of what you desire?
I have so many ideas floating around in my head for workshops, classes, teleseminars and all they are waiting for is for me to get them on the calendar. What holds me back? If I’m honest, it can be a fear of committing to the calendar. Maybe there is a little insecurity about, “What if I schedule it and no one signs up?” And yet is it fair to people who want to take the workshops, classes and teleseminars for me to withhold myself from them because of my ‘stuff’?
There are some magnificent artists who feel they aren’t good enough to sell their artwork, and yet the rest of us would love to purchase it, given the chance. There are some amazing singers who think it’s okay to sing in the shower but are afraid to share that talent in public. There are books and articles waiting to be published because the author judges them ‘not ready’ or ‘not interesting enough’ for sharing with others. I’m thinking that this becomes pretty self-focused — maybe we are given the talents and abilities that we have so that we can share these with others.
In many cultures, storytelling is an art and everyone is expected to share around the campfire or the town square. People don’t judge, they just share whatever they have to share. Can we adopt that attitude in our society? Let’s agree to just share, not judge or wait for the perfect time. We can agree to accept whatever the response is, without judging ourselves or others, and allow the impetus to come from within, to just share what is inside us. If there truly is a stumbling block, an obstacle, then we can decide to accept help, to do the personal growth work or the spiritual work, and then to move forward.
Take one step today. If you would like to examine the blocks or obstacles, then make an appointment with a counselor or coach and do the work. But figure out that one step and then take it. It can open a floodgate to the energy you were looking for to keep moving!
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