Working with a Positive Attitude Partner

One of the keys I have found for successfully changing my mindset is to have a Positive Attitude Partner. A Positive Attitude Partner needs to be someone who will lovingly support you by reflecting back to you any of your negative self-talk. It’s important that you also get to reflect back to them as well when they are talking negatively about themselves. We frequently get into a habit of talking negatively about ourselves or as we speak we judge ourselves, all on auto pilot. By having a loving, supportive Positive Attitude Partner we have someone that helps us notice those …CONTINUE READING HERE: Working with a Positive Attitude Partner

Are you using Powerful Affirmations?

When it comes to feeding my mind I like giving it the best possible food I can. Now in this context I’m talking about the information I feed my mind. I’m so fussy about what goes into my brain, I rarely ever read the news or know what is going on in the world. I find that most of what we hear in the news or on TV tends to be focused on the bad things that happen in the world and violence. I have friends who call me and update me, when they feel there is something going on …CONTINUE READING HERE: Are Your Affirmations Getting You the Results You Want?

Tapping the Healing Medicine of Circle Gatherings

Throughout the ages, people have recognized that in the universal language of form, the circle spells unity, wholeness, and oneness. In a love-infused circle, layers of tension and fear melt away that we didn’t even know we were holding. At last we can simply be. Something deep within us that had closed down amidst life’s business now begins to unfurl. This sense of expansion brings relief, gratitude, wonder, and awe. Finally, we begin to hear the quiet voice of wisdom. Circlework, the practice I teach, is a spacious experience that includes time to connect both with ourselves and others. Movement, …CONTINUE READING HERE: Tapping the Healing Medicine of Circle Gatherings

Affirmations Not Working for YOU?

Are your affirmations working for you? Most people who do affirmations regularly, don’t actually get the results that they are wanting and for many they give up. I remember a time in my life that affirmations didn’t work for me. I studied the power of the mind and the power of positive thinking. I created positive affirmations. I said my affirmations at least once per day, while looking into the mirror, because that is what I had learned was supposed to work. Yes, I saw minor changes happen in my life, but the effect certainly wasn’t what I was anticipating, …CONTINUE READING HERE: Affirmations Not Working for YOU?

What is Happiness?

How do you define happiness? Are you happy occasionally, all of the time, or somewhere in between? Here are my thoughts and some suggested ways to be happy all of the time (well at least most of the time :-)))! According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, happiness is defined as: a state of well-being and contentment: joy a pleasurable or satisfying experience It has been my experience that most people define happiness using the second definition above and that for the most part, they are not happy. In the US and Western culture in general, we have come to define …CONTINUE READING HERE: Finding Happiness

Achieving Your Goals

At the first of every year many people set goals. In most cases they set goals for what they want to achieve in the next 12 months. They then jump in feet first and go for all of them at once. Within a week or two most people have stopped all of their activities toward those goals and are right back where they started last year and the year before and the year before… You know what I mean. According to statistics 45% of people make New Years resolutions while only 8% are successful at achieving them. Here are a …CONTINUE READING HERE: Achieving Your Goals

Struggle, Strife, and the Stinkin' Thinkin' that Often Causes It

How much stinkin’ thinkin’ have you been up to lately? You know what I mean . . . Complaining about the lemons the Universe seems to have sent to you recently, Having an interaction with someone that didn’t go the way you were expecting and obsessing or gossiping about how “wrong” the other person is, Getting all caught up in how you feel victimized by “the system” – whether that be government, your job, or something else, Immediately jumping to conclusions about why someone said or did something that contains a negative opinion about the action or the person, or …CONTINUE READING HERE: Struggle, Strife, and the Stinkin’ Thinkin’ that Often Causes It

What's More Important Than...

In my opinion the top three most important things in life are Love, Health and Happiness. To me without those three things life is a struggle. Yet many people live their entire life looking for love and happiness in all the wrong places and according to the Center for Disease Control in the United States about 50% of our population have one or more chronic diseases and 8% on average are depressed. When I think of health and what most experts recommend, I regularly hear about the importance of eating nutritious meals and exercising regularly. I agree that those two …CONTINUE READING HERE: What’s More Important Than…

Handling Toxic Relationships with Ease

Ever wonder if there is an easier way to deal with difficult people? Or people who just think differently than you? There are plenty of times during the year when many of us feel obligated to interact with dysfunctional family members, or at the very least family members who push our buttons. Many of us are also in situations where our relationships at work, school, church and other organizations are toxic as well. Here are my two favorite tips for handling tough and even toxic relationships, to help in making things work with ease and grace even in the toughest …CONTINUE READING HERE: Handling Toxic Relationships with Ease

The Secret to Letting Go of Every Fear

By Guy Finley Are you afraid of some condition in your life? Here’s a life-transforming secret: that seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful. This is why if you will become conscious of your condition instead of afraid of it, you will change forever your relationship with fear. It is only within this special kind of inner-relationship that there is real safety, because now you are interacting with fear in an entirely new way. You are no longer letting it dictate to you how to act or what to …CONTINUE READING HERE: The Secret to Letting Go of Every Fear