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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale
I have five older sisters and an older brother – kind of. The sisters are my blood, the other is a brother of the heart: When life didn’t give me any brothers, I needed to improvise and there he was. I talked to him today on the phone and he told me some great news - he recently reunited with the love of his life from college. They just got back from a birthday getaway in San Francisco to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. I was so happy for him as since this first "full meal deal" girlfriend, all subsequent women were nothing but table scraps. When I hung up the phone I smiled. He sounded so content.
Then I got curious – whatever happened to the emotional undulations of this extremely passionate person? I called him back, “Are you able to be with her now because you are more able to be with yourself?” “Absolutely,” he answered. He had spent so many years after his first girlfriend unsuccessfully looking for love outside of himself. When he exhausted the idea of love as external, he turned around and there she was again. He claims the change was first within himself and then his world rearranged to support him in a new and more expansive way.
I have another friend whose husband often teased her with deprecating remarks. She recently landed an amazing new job and the last time I saw them together, her husband was filled with nothing but complimentary remarks. I commented on the change in him and she said, “The change was all in me.”
So is that it then? Change yourself and change your world? Albert Einstein attested, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Whereas you can doubt the validity of the law of attraction crowd, you cannot deny the word from one of the most brilliant scientist of our era.
I have a friend from high school who always used to say to me, “You are so creative.” In her view, I could paint, write, arrange flowers, take and develop photographs, and cook or bake up a storm. She saw herself as not the creative type but when I looked at her, I saw what an amazing and happy home and life that she had created for herself and her family, including a loving relationship with her husband. This latter manifestation of her creative abilities has eluded me to this day.
What I know is that I once feared being a single mom with every cell in my body. I cannot deny the possibility that my very thoughts and fears brought me to the reality in which I am now living. Here I stand and not only do I feel less scared because that which I feared has happened, but I also realize that I am breathing, loving, and at times, feeling great joy. Now that I have entered the place that I feared I would create, the question is, what is the space that I actually desire to create?
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” Become aware of your thoughts that are heavy, restrictive, contracting, and imprisoning. What would it look like to turn the key of your mind and open up to more light, expansive, free thinking?
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale
I have five older sisters and an older brother – kind of. The sisters are my blood, the other is a brother of the heart: When life didn’t give me any brothers, I needed to improvise and there he was. I talked to him today on the phone and he told me some great news - he recently reunited with the love of his life from college. They just got back from a birthday getaway in San Francisco to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. I was so happy for him as since this first "full meal deal" girlfriend, all subsequent women were nothing but table scraps. When I hung up the phone I smiled. He sounded so content.
Then I got curious – whatever happened to the emotional undulations of this extremely passionate person? I called him back, “Are you able to be with her now because you are more able to be with yourself?” “Absolutely,” he answered. He had spent so many years after his first girlfriend unsuccessfully looking for love outside of himself. When he exhausted the idea of love as external, he turned around and there she was again. He claims the change was first within himself and then his world rearranged to support him in a new and more expansive way.
I have another friend whose husband often teased her with deprecating remarks. She recently landed an amazing new job and the last time I saw them together, her husband was filled with nothing but complimentary remarks. I commented on the change in him and she said, “The change was all in me.”
So is that it then? Change yourself and change your world? Albert Einstein attested, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Whereas you can doubt the validity of the law of attraction crowd, you cannot deny the word from one of the most brilliant scientist of our era.
I have a friend from high school who always used to say to me, “You are so creative.” In her view, I could paint, write, arrange flowers, take and develop photographs, and cook or bake up a storm. She saw herself as not the creative type but when I looked at her, I saw what an amazing and happy home and life that she had created for herself and her family, including a loving relationship with her husband. This latter manifestation of her creative abilities has eluded me to this day.
What I know is that I once feared being a single mom with every cell in my body. I cannot deny the possibility that my very thoughts and fears brought me to the reality in which I am now living. Here I stand and not only do I feel less scared because that which I feared has happened, but I also realize that I am breathing, loving, and at times, feeling great joy. Now that I have entered the place that I feared I would create, the question is, what is the space that I actually desire to create?
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” Become aware of your thoughts that are heavy, restrictive, contracting, and imprisoning. What would it look like to turn the key of your mind and open up to more light, expansive, free thinking?
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