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Most of my family lives in
Gramma, Grandpa and Prince Joey get along fabulously! At five years old, Joey is incredibly perceptive, very active, and usually quite affectionate. He loves watching his favorite shows with Grandpa and planting in the garden with Gramma. And walking the dogs around the block with either Gramma or Grandpa is sheer pleasure.
So you can imagine Gramma’s surprise when she picked Joey up from his father’s and in the car Joey pointedly told Gramma how he needed to be in day care because there were no children for him to play with at Gramma and Grandpa’s, that he needed more sufficient stimulation, and he should not get dumped off at his father’s! Out of the mouths of babes!
Uh…Needless to say Gramma had a long conversation with Joey’s father shortly thereafter. By now you’re probably wondering what this has to do with living a positive life and you’re about to find out!
As I mentioned earlier, kids are incredibly perceptive and
they tend to reflect back everything, and I do mean everything, they hear. (Including phone
conversations between their parents!)
As Dr. Barbara says in her article later in today’s issue, “children are our witnesses to ourselves.” If we say it, they’re going to repeat it,
whether or not we want them to. And that
can be a real eye opener.
But what if we’re not around children much? What if we don’t have others there to repeat back to us what goes on within our own mind and what comes out of our mouths? Then it’s up to us to take a good look at ourselves.
We would never say anything to intentionally hurt a child. Yet what would we hear if we listened to our own self talk?
A good parent or grandparent uses words of praise, encouragement and inspiration with children, but do we give ourselves the same gift? More often than not, we try to talk ourselves out of our dreams instead of following them. We punish ourselves for not doing things perfectly instead of congratulating ourselves for a job well done or the effort we put forth.
And what about conflicts? “Gramma” made a point not to speak badly of Joey’s father, and tried to resolve the situation in the most peaceful manner as not to upset her grandchild or put him in the middle of a potentially stressful situation. Do we use the same kind of resolve for inner peace with our own conflicts? Do we avoid power struggles and putting ourselves in the middle of bad circumstances while setting clear guidelines and boundaries?
There was trend several years back to acknowledge our inner child. This is not a bad thing! Just like five year old Joey was able to truthfully reflect to Gramma what had entered his consciousness, enabling her to work out a challenge before it became a problem, we could all use a little help becoming aware of our own conscious and unconscious thoughts and behaviors. Paying attention to our “inner child” can give us great insights to our fears and passions, strengths and weaknesses, joys and heartaches.
If we treated ourselves with as much love, respect, and awareness as we do little children, and made a point to always do the right thing for everyone’s wellbeing—including our own—we just might become better people for it. And maybe even allow ourselves to truly enjoy life again and really feel good about who we are.
Smiley faces for everyone today! :-) Great job on being YOU!
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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1.
Happy Birthday,
May you recognize and cherish the blessing of each
day and experience the true joy and reverence of life!
2.
(Fill in the blanks.) Today, I
desire and experience…
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I also affirm the following positive reality:
“If God could tell me just one thing, it
would be, ‘I LOVE YOU.’ ”
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3.
“Focus on radiating out into the
Universe those feelings of joy and happiness.
When you do that, you will attract back to you all things that bring you
joy and happiness, which will not only include an abundance of money, but everything
else you are wanting.”
— © The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
4.
IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE
It is time to celebrate!
Let's rejoice that most of us live in a world where we have a chance to
be free. We can be women of wisdom,
women of charm, women of humor, compassionate women who care for others and
still care generously for ourselves.
Here's some of what I am celebrating today. I'm celebrating my newly designed website, www.enchantedself.com Come by and e-mail me. Of if you prefer, come
and visit my blog,
Another thing that I'm celebrating
is my new book, THE TRUTH, My Secret Diary, I'm Ten, I'm Smart and
I Know Everything! It went to press last week.
Everything about this book is different from my earlier books. It is
written by a girl. She is ten in the beginning of the book and eleven at
the end. It shares wisdom and knowledge about life from a whole new
vantage point. That of a child! It is amazing what children know
and we have forgotten.
I saw a sign today that
summed up some of my feelings about children. It said, "There are
many earth angels in the form of children." How true. In so
many ways children are our witnesses to ourselves.
They help us see if we let them, what is right and what is wrong. What is
worth remembering and what is trivial. They know what is
a waste of time and what is worthwhile. They know when we lie and
when we try to get away with things. Let's celebrate our children and let
them help return to the essence of what is best and most rejoicing about ourselves. After all, we were all children also.
You are so important to me!
Each of you who follows the Enchanted Self are so dear
to me. You have helped my vision come into reality…a world where each
woman can be true to her talents and her potential. A
world where each woman can feel free to Sing the
Song of Her Soul! Every time you feel free and alive with all
of your special vitality the heavens dance and we all feel good. So let's
celebrate some more!
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice
since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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5.
“Look for the positives in You. As you focus on
those things, the law of attraction will show you more great things about You.”
— © The
Secret by Rhonda Byrne
6.
ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By
NO FAVORITES
I just realized something: I
wasn’t Mom and Dad’s favorite.
I know. It’s hard for me to believe, too. I mean, it always seemed so clear. So evident. So obvious. I was the youngest of their eight children
and they let me do all kinds of things my older brothers and sisters couldn’t
do. I had them all to myself from my
sophomore year of high school on. We
weren’t just family, we were friends. Buddies. Soul mates. I hardly ever complained about Dad’s
snoring. And I pretended not to notice
when Mom cheated at Yahtzee.
Mom all but told me I was her
favorite the morning Kathy, my youngest sibling, got married. I guess it’s OK to admit now that I was
pretty upset about Kathy leaving home.
For most of my life she and I had fought and tormented one another (the
incident during which I tried to kill her with a crutch comes to mind) but we
had grown pretty close during the last few years we both lived at home. Why would she leave just when things were just
starting to get pleasant?
That morning was kind of tough
for me, in an overwrought teenage emotion kind of way. And Mom knew it. Just as she was heading out the door to help
Kathy get ready for her wedding, Mom paused and gave me a wink and a smile.
“Let’s get this over with,” she
said confidentially, “then you and I can have some fun!”
OK, she didn’t exactly say
“let’s get rid of this baggage and then finally we can focus on you!” But that’s how I interpreted it. From that moment on I knew that I was the
favorite child.
Until
yesterday.
Yesterday was Jon’s 15th
birthday. Jon is the youngest of our
five children, and if a parent is permitted to say so, he’s a great kid. Not perfect, by any means, but a joy in so
many ways. He’s fun and lively and he
doesn’t seem to mind hanging out with his parents once in a while. Yes, I know that will change during the next
couple of years. But for now we enjoy it.
Anita and I have learned a
little during the process of raising five children, so we do a few things
differently now than when our eldest children were teenagers. We are also more stable financially – not
wealthy, but not quite as hand-to-mouth as we were 15 years ago. As a result, Jon has more freedom and nicer
toys than his older siblings had when they were his age.
For example, we got him a
little motorized scooter for his birthday.
Nothing fancy – just fun. Jon was delighted and couldn’t wait to take
it out for a spin. He’s a long, gangly
kid, and he looked kind of like Ichabod Crane – sans
Headless Horseman – tooling around on his scooter.
Watching him, I couldn’t help
but think how much his older brother Joe would have enjoyed something like that
on his 15th birthday. Of course, 12
years ago motorized scooters hadn’t been invented yet, and even if they had
been we couldn’t have afforded one back then.
Still, I found myself wishing we would have been able to get Joe
something like that.
That’s when it hit me. The older kids tease us about how Jon is our
favorite, and how we spoil him. While
there may be some truth in the “spoil” part (although I think that is
overstated), there is absolutely no truth in the “favorite” part. We love Jon.
We adore him. But we also love
and adore Joe and Amy and Andrea and Beth.
They are all our favorites – every one.
Put a plate of steaming
Like most parents, I think, I
couldn’t choose a favorite child. And if
I couldn’t choose, it’s a pretty safe bet my parents couldn’t choose
either. Which means I
probably wasn’t their favorite – buddies, soul mates and Yahtzee
notwithstanding.
And that’s OK, I guess. In fact, it’s kind of comforting. Because if I don’t have a
favorite and Mom and Dad didn’t have a favorite, probably God – the Perfect
Parent – doesn’t have favorites either.
No matter how clear, evident or obvious it may seem that He does.
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— © Joseph Walker
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