Author: Anne

Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke.  Your body doesn't know the difference.  Words are energy and cast spells, that's why it's called spelling.  Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.  What you're not changing, you're also choosing.  Quote from Bruce LeeBruce Lee was a martial artist, martial arts instructor, Hong Kong actor, director and philosopher.REFLECTION:Are you aware of what you say to yourself?Are there changes you need to make in what you say or don't say to yourself?REMEMBER: what you're not changing, you're choosing!Do you want to make a different choice in your self-talk?

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."Quote by Melody BeattieBorn Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was a full-blown alcoholic by age 13, and a drug addict by 18.Beattie authored 18 other books including Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go and Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want, published in 2010. Several of her books have been published in other languages. REFLECTION:Make a gratitude list.Looking through the lens of gratitude, has some memory shifted to acceptance? How can you embrace gratitude to create more order, clarity... peace?

PEACE IS THIS MOMENT WITHOUT JUDGMENTDo you think peace requires an end to war? Or tigers eating only vegetables? Does peace require an absence from your boss, your spouse, yourself?... Do you think peace will come some other place than here?  Some other time than Now? In some other heart than yours?Peace is this moment without judgment.  That is all.  This moment in the Heart-space where everything that is is welcome.  Peace is this moment without thinking that it should be some other way, that you should feel some other thing, that your life should unfold according to your plans. Peace is this moment without judgment, this moment in the Heart-space where everything that is is welcome.Poem by Dorothy Hunt    Info about Dorothy...  https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKhuntD.htmREFLECTION:As many begin to gather with family and friends for the Holidays, consider creating a space of peace... moments without judgment. How would you days be if you could release that "it should be some other way ... that you should feel something else?"What if your life is unfolding exactly according to plan?Can you create Heart-space today and the days going forward to offer peace without judgment.HAPPY HOLLIDAYS!!  Enjoy being with yourself and others in the coming days.