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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
How’s your outlook on life right now?
Are you facing any challenges?
I know, I know, I shouldn’t even ask. We all have challenges of some type or another -- even if it’s just to decide whether to get the caramel mocha macchiato or the decaf brevé cappuccino with cinnamon and cocoa on top!
On the more serious side, how do you handle the challenges when they come up? Are they overwhelming or a piece of cake? Do you treat all challenges the same or are some more trying than others?
A friend of mine used to say challenges are just inconveniences. We likened them to a sneeze, a temporary interruption. Sure, they get a little messy sometimes but it’s usually not too big of deal. Or is it?
A lot depends on our perspective.
If we look at everything that doesn’t go as planned as a crisis, we’ll constantly stress ourselves out, as well as those around us. This stressful energy will negatively impact everything else going on and more than likely create even more challenges!
But if we DECIDE everything will work out, and that we can handle whatever comes our way, we’ll have a much calmer and positive outlook. Our enthusiasm to handle the situation will impact those around us who, more often than not, will want to help just because of our gracious approach. The combined positive energies create circumstances for everything to run smoothly.
The question is: How do we go from reacting in crisis mode to deciding things will be just fine?
Quite honestly, it can be a learned behavior – just like learning how to drive a car, brush our teeth, or cook a favorite meal. At first it’s a little awkward and we have to check each step of the process. Are we doing it the way we’re supposed to? Is it working? Are we putting our energy into the process in an efficient manner and expecting the best outcome? After a while, it simply becomes habit.
One thing which has helped me and many other people over the years take a positive faith-based approach to life is a practice called Spiritual House Cleaning.
Basically, once a month (or whenever needed) sit down and write a letter to God. Pour your heart out over everything you’re dealing with, big and small. Then officially hand it over to God. Seal the deal by placing it in a God Jar. Once in the jar, it’s in God’s hands and out of yours!
You can learn more about Spiritual House Cleaning at:
http://www.sfpnn.com/shc1.htm .
Have a great day and know that with a little Heavenly Help,
you can handle anything!
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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1.
What kind of day will today
be?
The
kind of
A little pro-active positive programming can go a long way
in creating our heart’s desires. All of
our thoughts have energy. Energy
attracts like energy. Think about your
desires for today. What would you like to experience in the next 24 hours? Allow yourself to see it manifesting in your
mind’s eye and feel it happening in your body so the energy of your thoughts
and emotions draws it to you. Affirm it on the lines below!
Today, I desire
and experience…
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I affirm the following positive reality:
“I am an open and clear channel for God’s
blessings.”
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2.
“It’s
human feeling and emotion that affects the stuff our reality is made of – it’s
our inner language that changes the atoms, electrons and photons of the outer
world.”
— © The Divine Matrix – by Gregg Braden
3.
Why "THE ENCHANTED SELF"
We have known that in any state of enchantment there is some
degree of magic and the unknown: the
Many scientists of human behaviors recognize that we do not yet and perhaps never can fully understand human nature. I have become more and more convinced that we do not. For example, what interests me is that we do not fully understand pathology in our science of psychology while we have not tried hard enough to recognize and understand what I call enhanced ego-states, or happiness.
When I first began to analyze data from the women I interviewed, I kept trying to understand how their enhanced adult lives evolved from the childhoods they talked about. I found that although there seemed to be some clear connections, many others were not clear at all. This mystery further influenced my choice of THE ENCHANTED SELF as a term to express these positive ego-states.
The capacities of these women to reclaim positive aspects of their childhood while discarding the dysfunction that was often also present was astounding to me. It seemed as if a magic wand had been tapped on the women's heads in their adult lives. I say this because many of the women were not naturally introspective. They did not seem to be aware that they had been able to reach into positive aspects of their childhoods to realize their adult dreams and to live vital lives much of the time.
For example, Sally had grown up in a cold, dysfunctional household. She had promised herself that as an adult, she would do things very differently from her parents. Her mother was a busy business woman who was cold and distant, while her father was extremely engaging to strangers but quiet and removed at home. In childhood, Sally was able to find her ENCHANTED SELF through her grandparents. As she got older, she would go back to their home after school, where she was nurtured with milk and cookies and allowed to watch television in a happy, comfortable environment until she had to go to her home.
Sally talked lovingly of her visits with her grandparents. With pleasure she mentioned being with them, and when she was left alone there she would "dance with a doorknob" as she rocked and rolled to a teenage show that she watched on TV every afternoon. She often felt let down when it was time to return to her own home.
In adulthood, Sally no longer "danced with a doorknob," but she found ways to honor her pledge to create a more meaningful and warm family life for her own children. Her children are adolescents now and feel free to bring their friends to spend time at her home. She doesn't push them away as she had been pushed away. Rather, she enjoys watching TV, playing games and talking and sharing with them as well as with their friends. On Saturday and Sunday mornings, she lies on the bed with them, laughing and gossiping. The capacity in her adult life to spend this joyful time with her teenagers overcomes the isolation she felt in childhood. Sally integrates the warmth and spunk of the times she spent at her grandparents into her adult ego. For Sally, there is no need to analyze this situation. She simply feels pleasure in having corrected the damaging childhood she'd experienced.
It's hard to say exactly when these states become internalized as THE ENCHANTED SELF. More than likely, this will vary from person to person and is highly dependent on variations in cognitive development, particularly in memory. However, even for those people who have had less than adequate parenting, there are moments when children feel good about themselves: the baby is elated as she takes her first steps, the toddler feels joy as she rides a tricycle 20 feet down the driveway. Children are excited the day they first earn their own money for small jobs, the day they save a kitten from a tree and return it to its grateful owner, the day they successfully down the bully on the playground.
Of course, as one acquires more language, one may hold onto these positive moments and remember them. Also, the capacity for a sense of well-being has been experienced and, can be tapped into again in adulthood. This capacity to draw from positive memories seems especially magical when we realize that most people's moments of pure childhood joy have been surrounded by dysfunction.
I hope you will take some time to think about the magical qualities of the human mind to sort and reclaim the positive in our experiences. Rather than throwing out the baby with the bathwater, look for the golden moments in your own childhood-when you felt strong, powerful, happy, elated or perhaps full of potential. Honor them by recalling them, telling them to your children, or others and maybe finding ways to go back to them again!
I hope you enjoyed my explanation of THE ENCHANTED SELF. The above comes from my first book, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy, which can be purchased from Amazon or directly from me. I have many case studies in the book as well as lots of activities so that you can go on your own personal journey of enchantment as you read chapter by chapter. This book makes a great present for yourself or a friend.
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice
since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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4.
“No wonder prayers work
miracles! They put us in touch with the
pure space where the miracles of our minds become the reality of our world.”
— © The
Divine Matrix – by Gregg Braden
5.
ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By
NO PROBLEM
For a brand new driver, it was a minor trauma, at least.
Emma was miles away from home on one of her first solo adventures with the family sedan. She had driven carefully, parked cautiously and locked the car doors dutifully – just as her parents had instructed her to do. As she walked away from the car she savored the delicious feeling of independence that only a driver’s license and a fully fueled vehicle can provide.
But now, as she returned to the car, she experienced the dark side of motorized freedom. For some reason, the car door wouldn’t unlock. She pressed the button on her key ring remote control again. No unlocking sound. No little red light flashing on the control. She pressed it harder, as if sheer force would be enough to overcome whatever mechanical problems were going on with the car (I know, that’s a little like talking louder and slower in order to be better understood by someone who doesn’t speak English – it makes you feel like you are doing something, when in reality you’re not achieving anything but heightened frustration).
Still nothing. No mechanical “click-click” sound. No red light.
She tried to keep her composure, but she had no idea what to do. She’d never had any kind of mechanical failure in all her . . . well . . . hours of driving experience, so there was no personal precedent from which she could draw. So she called her mother.
“Mom,” she said, “I’ve got a little problem here.”
Her mother, who was already nervous about sending Emma out alone, skipped right over “minor trauma” and went right straight to full on, Big T “Trauma.”
“Emma, are you OK?” she asked anxiously. “Is anyone hurt? Is the car OK?”
“I’m fine, Mom,” Emma replied. “I didn’t have an accident. The car is just . . . broken.”
“Broken?” her mother asked. “Won’t it start?”
“I don’t know,” Emma said. “I can’t get in to start it.”
Emma explained her predicament. Her mother was relieved . . . and stumped.
“Well, I don’t know what to tell you,” she said. “Maybe the battery has gone out on the door opener. I guess we could bring the spare keys out to you. Let me ask your Dad.”
Emma’s Mom called her husband, explained the situation and asked if he had any suggestions of what Emma could do. The father hesitated, then asked: “You’re joking, right?”
“No,” his wife said. “She’s really stuck out there, and she’s getting cold standing outside. Should I take the spare key to her?”
To his everlasting credit, Emma’s father considered his next words carefully. But you have to know that his gut instinct was to laugh out loud. This was a real-life situation just crying out for a punch line, and he had the perfect opportunity to make his wife and his daughter – his BLOND wife and BLOND daughter, no less – feel pretty . . . well . . . you know . . . blond. This joke could be told and re-told, much to the everlasting embarrassment of . . . well, two of the people he loved most in all the world.
And it was that last thought that prompted him to suppress the laugh and to gently suggest that perhaps his wife should instruct Emma to use the actual key to open the car door.
“Oh . . . DUH! . . . of course!” his wife said, embarrassed and relieved all at once. “Sorry about that, Hon. I should have thought of that!”
“No problem,” her husband said.
Which, come to think of it, is exactly right. It COULD have been a problem, if the husband had taken advantage of the opportunity to tease and belittle and humiliate his wife and daughter. But instead he chose to be kind, compassionate and loving – hence, “no problem.”
And precious little trauma, either.
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— © Joseph Walker
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