Thursday nuggets!

I RELEASE ALL FEAR

Today I let go of my fear of anything, and I trust God to take the fear away. The way that I let go is simply by knowing that fear does not exist. I truly know that fear is simply Ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life. To release this deluded perception, I must know that I am always filled with, and surrounded by, unconditional love. Whenever I experience fear, I can bring forth this unconditional love, and immediately the fear will disappear. Today I release all fear.

ASSIGNMENT FOR DAY 12
Write five to ten affirmations of joy and prosperity for yourself. Repeat them throughout the day.

Affirmation: I embrace only peace.
Remember to keep your word today.

************************************* Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.                               ~ Jimi Hendrix  ************************************* A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.                                     ~ Mark Twain *************************************

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived. Not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering...what determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger...                                    ~ Victor Frankl

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REALIZE THIS...

No matter what you do or whose you are or what office you hold, you will never obtain unanimous approval for whatever you do, or position you hold.

There will always be someone, waiting or scheming to reject what you say, to do or push against what you say or teach and mandate.

Lack of approval will only distress you, if you allow it to.

Know this one thing to be true...any emotional power anyone has over you is the power you decide to give or have given to that person.

Never let the fear of disapproval of others prevent you from doing the right thing and neither entertain it.

Never or at least try not to, as much as it is humanly possible as Leaders, allow yourself to be pushed against or lose your composure.
                        ~ Vonn Brown

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A Note from the Universe

Of course, these are crazy times to be alive, when virtually anything could happen next, fortunes are made and lost overnight, friends come and go, and lovers glimpse eternity between fear and ecstasy.

That's why zillions upon zillions of souls, more than you will ever know, said, "No wa-y-y-y, José."

And it's why a few brazen billion, said, "Whoooo-Hooooooooooooooo!"

You all have so much in common,
    The Universe

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The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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Do you know what your purpose in life is? The most successful people have a clear idea of what their purpose on this earth is, and they make sure they pursue it.  People that don't know their purpose in life flounder around and miss the enjoyment of doing something they were put here to do.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith

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Daily Teaching from The Power

The Law of Attraction is a Sticky Business

The law of attraction is a sticky business. When you rejoice in another person's good fortune, their good fortune sticks to you! When you admire or appreciate anything about another person, you're sticking those qualities to yourself. But when you think or discuss negative things about someone else, you're sticking those negative things to you too, and you're putting them into your own life.

The law of attraction is responding to your feelings. Whatever you give, you receive, and so if you stick a label on any person, circumstance, or event in life, you are sticking the label on you, and that's what you will receive. 

Wednesday nuggets...

I GIVE AS I RECEIVE

I know that giving and receiving are the same thing. It is just as joyous to give as it is to receive. It is just as joyous to receive as it is to give. When I give joyously, I am healed by doing my function of making a contribution to another. When I receive joyously, the giver is healed by doing his or her function of making a contribution to me. Today I give as I receive.

ASSIGNMENT FOR DAY 11
See at least one person as a child of God. Show this person unconditional love.
You will feel honored to be in his or her presence.

Affirmation: I wish peace for everyone
Remember to keep your word today

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This moment right here and now is a moment that you can use to start living your ideal life. This tiny moment has that great power. So much so, the word moment could be re-named momentum - because it offers the momentum to change your life.

Happy new day everyone! Tap into your moment-um right now to start living the life you want to live RIGHT NOW - thinking positively, aiming yourself to where you want to go, not facing backwards to regrets and resentments from the past! 
                        ~ Karen Salmansohn

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I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?
                        ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

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‎The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
                        ~ Wallace D. Wattles 

************************************* Moving out of victim consciousness requires taking self-responsibility. Having the ability to respond to whatever arises in our experience means that we not only shift the situation, we shift our consciousness as well.                         ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith ************************************* A Note from the Universe A philosophical journey from here to there... Do you think that if $10,000,000 were to be suddenly deposited into your checking account, that over the following months and years you'd have fewer and fewer challenges? Or do you think, perhaps, that your challenges would simply evolve and change?  Right, evolve and change.  And do you think that with your extra $10 million, you'd gradually be presented with more and more opportunities to be happy? Or do you think, perhaps, that your opportunities would simply evolve and change?  Right, evolve and change.  Now doesn't that answer everything?  Beeb, beeb -      The Universe *************************************

This is always true: What I think and how I feel, and what manifests, is always a vibrational match. But here's the big kicker: What manifests isn't manifesting instantaneously. So, you've got all this buffer of time leeway that makes you sloppy... If you thought a negative thought and a brick would instantly fall on your head every time, you'd clean up your thinking. But you're not here to be punished about your thinking. You're here to use your thinking—and your focus—to create.        
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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Decisions are what change your life.  Yes, education is important, as are friends, health and so on.  But decisions are what cause you to change, and change is what brings you what you want. So ask yourself, what decisions can you make right now, that move your life ahead as a result of them and do it right now.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith 

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Daily Teaching from The Power

If you imagine the people in your life as your Personal Emotional Trainers, it will help you with any difficult relationships. It's the tough trainers who make you stronger and determined to choose love no matter what, but they're also giving you a message. They're telling you that you've gotten yourself onto a negative feeling frequency - and you need to feel better to move off it! No one can come into your life and affect you negatively, unless you are already on the same negative feeling frequency. If you're on a feeling frequency of love, it won't matter how tough or negative someone is, they will not and cannot affect you!

Each person is just doing their job, just as you are doing your job of being a Personal Emotional Trainer to others. There are no enemies, there are only some great PETs, and some tough PETs who are making you great. 

Tuesday nuggets

I AM OPEN TO RECEIVE ALL OF GOD'S GIFTS

Today - all day - I literally walk around with my hands open to receive. I am not surprised when I realize that I am receiving without having to do anything. When someone offers to contribute something to me, I accept graciously. Knowing that each gift is a gift from God, I experience profound thankfulness and gratitude within myself; God hears my thankfulness and gratitude, and responds with more gifts from many sources. Today I remember to keep saying to myself "I am open and receiving all of God's gifts."

ASSIGNMENT FOR DAY 10
Walk around all day with your hands open to receive. Imagine your
spiritual self walking around with hands open to receive.

Affirmation: I see world peace.
Remember to keep your word today.

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Judgments are based on a belief of separateness, which stems from fear. When you are busy judging something as bad or wrong, you are in reality judging a part of yourself as bad or wrong. When you believe us as all one, there is no separateness - no need for judgment. 

“Love is the absence of judgment.” Dalai Lama XIV

                        ~ Thru the Eyes of the Soul

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
                        ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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‎When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.
                        ~ Catherine Pulsifer

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A Note from the Universe

Did you know that it's perfectly OK, even highly ideal, to claim all is well amongst doubt and confusion? To be happy in spite of challenges? To laugh at problems? Dance without a partner? Sing without a rhyme? Talk to inanimate objects? 

Oddly, most don't. 

You so rock, 
    The Universe

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My Thoughts Join a Powerful Swirling Vortex of Attraction... In the same way that the Law of Attraction is responding to the thoughts, words, and actions that you are offering here in your physical reality, the Law of Attraction is always responding powerfully to your Vibrational Reality. When the Law of Attraction, the Universal manager of all Vibrations, responds to the clarity of Vibration offered by your expanding Inner Being, the result is a powerful swirling Vortex of attraction.
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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Develop an attitude of gratitude as Motivational Speaker Glen Hopkins suggests.  Take some time to review the way your life is working for you, rather than focusing on the problems you have.  Once you have found some good in your life, make an effort to share part of it with someone else.  If you give something to someone else for no other reason than to help them, or make them feel good, you walk away much happier than you were before.  Right now, make list of 5 things you are fortunate to have in your life, and then find a way to pass on some of the rewards you have reaped from these things, on to someone else.  Then you are on your way to even more happiness.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith 

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Daily Teaching from The Power

Personal Emotional Trainers can use all kinds of situations and tactics to challenge you, but the thing to remember is that every challenge is presented so you will choose love and turn away from negativity and blame. Some trainers may challenge you to judge them or others, but don't fall for that trap. Judgment is a negative and it's not giving love, so if you can't love the good in someone or something, simply turn away.

Some trainers may test you by provoking you to feel revenge, anger, or hatred. Turn away by looking for the things you love in life. Some trainers may even hit you with guilt, feelings of unworthiness, or fear. Don't fall for any of them, because negativity of any kind is not love.

                        "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
                        Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
                        Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
                                        ~ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
                                        Baptist Minister and Civil Rights Leader 

Monday nuggets...

I DESERVE PROSPERITY

Today I know that because of who I am - a child of God - I deserve all of God's gifts. They are my inheritance. When I open my mind and heart, I see myself as a very wonderful person who deserves everything that is good. And when I say, "I deserve prosperity," meaning it with my whole heart, I allow prosperity to come forth, to complete and fulfill me. I deserve prosperity.

ASSIGNMENT
Be dedicated to laugh. The more you laugh, the more prosperity comes to you.
Laugh all day long. If people are with you, make them laugh, too.

Affirmation: My planet Earth deserves peace.

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BE the LIGHT you wish to see in others for it begins with YOU! 
                        ~ Shelly Wilson

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
                        ~ Denis Waitley

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If I could define Enlightenment briefly, I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
                        ~ Wayne Dyer

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Scott Peck, in one of 'The Road Less Traveled' books said that disengaging from your thinking mind and being able to watch your thoughts is the first step toward true psycho-spiritual growth. Until a person can do that, he/she is their ego and the ego is him or her. Objectively watching thoughts gets you going - and growing; it's as simple as that.
                        ~ Jay Morgan

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You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
                        ~ Neale Donald Walsch 

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A Note from the Universe

Baby souls see what's wrong.

Young souls see what's right.

And old souls, know better. 

I know you, 
    The Universe

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The things that we would be asking ourselves is, "What proportion of my day am I in vibrational harmony with my desires, which means, how much of my day am I happy, glad, eager, fulfilled, satisfied, complimentary? And what percentage of my day am I ornery, irritated, frustrated, or blaming?" And you don't have to do 100%, you don't have to do 90%, you don't have to do 80%. If you could even get around 55% feeling better, than not feeling so good — you'd have significant movement in what begins to happen in your experience.
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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Always leave some money on the table.  Always leave the people you have been dealing with a good feeling about dealing with you, so that they will want to deal with you again. Look at getting a sale, or completing a project as the beginning of a relationship, rather than a one-time affair.  In that way, you become an ally, someone to bring in on future projects, etc.  Make people feel good about dealing with you and they will come back to you and your life will move ahead faster.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith

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Daily Teaching from The Power

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
                ~ Aristotle (384-322 BC)
                Greek Philosopher and Scientist

PETs

One way to take the sting out of confrontational or difficult relationships is to imagine people as your own "Personal Emotional Trainers"! The force of love presents you with a whole array of Personal Emotional Trainers, disguised as everyday people, but they are all training you to choose love!

Some people may be soft Personal Emotional Trainers because they don't push you very hard and they're so easy to love. Some people may be tough Personal Emotional Trainers because they push you to your limits, as some personal physical trainers do, but they are the ones who are making you stronger to choose love no matter what.   

Weekend nuggets!!!

TGIF! There has been the most AMAZING sunset these past couple of days at dusk...so i just had to share this photo again...enjoy these particularly juicy nuggets and have a fabulous weekend!! :-)

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I AM VIGILANT FOR THE LIGHT

Today I am more aware of my thoughts, and I choose thoughts of the light rather than of darkness. Regardless of how attractive the thoughts of darkness may look - or how rewarding Ego says they will be - I know the difference between light and dark thoughts. Today, I repeat the words "I am vigilant for the light" to myself as many times as possible. I choose light over darkness and love over fear. Today I am vigilant for the light, all day long.

ASSIGNMENT
In the morning after reading the lesson, sit quietly and ask yourself whom you resent. The first person who comes to mind is the right person. Make an attempt to contact this person; talk face-to-face, call on the telephone, write, or meditate and clear the resentment.

Affirmation: I am vigilant for peace.
                        ~ Bijan Anjomi

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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
                        ~ Leo Buscaglia 

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
                        ~ Denis Waitley

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
                        ~ Rumi

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Meditation can make you more aware of your biologic aliveness. Go deeper and you discover your metaphysical aliveness...the eternal you. Go there often and you develop Presence, fully residing in your body, in touch with your biologic and metaphysical energy. Reside there and you have Enlightenment...
                        ~ Jay Morgan

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A peaceful man is not completely free from the pinch of life's aggravations. He simply declines to give them power and refuses to be held captive by them.
                        ~ Dodinsky 

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In the Christian tradition, the Epiphany is the celebration of the revelation of the divine in human form. Epiphanies are awakenings, deep insights that come from that which is both what we are and yet larger than ourselves. They are the moments when we wake up to something that reveals the Sacred Wholeness, the essence, the meaning that has eluded us. It's a good day to be open to seeing what we have not seen before, to open to and give thanks for moments of awakening. Epiphanies are revelations, moments in our lives of which we can say: "After that, everything was changed,"- because our way of seeing was widened and deepened forever.
                        ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Thoughts

The Creation Ground of Experience 

During the day we can monitor our thoughts to see if we are investing our energy where it isn't useful.

Our thoughts are powerful forces in the creation of our experience of life. You may be able to recall a time when frustration that was based on a misunderstanding completely evaporated when your understanding changed. This is because our interpretation defines our experience, and it can change in an instant. Our only true reality is the present moment, so rather than merely accepting that life is happening to us, we can harness the power of our thoughts to actively create a positive reality. For example, we can choose to appreciate beauty around us rather than focusing on traffic or look for admirable qualities in the people we deal with rather than focusing on the negative. By choosing how to interpret and define each moment with your thoughts, you truly create your reality.  

Throughout the day, we can monitor our thoughts to catch ourselves in the middle of investing our energy elsewhere ~ such as into belief in limitations ~ and instead pull our focus back to the infinite possibilities of the present. Taking a deep breath will help us center our thoughts on being in our bodies right now. Regular meditation allows us to gain mastery over our minds so that we can still our thoughts to focus on the pureness of being. If we mentally dwell on the past or the future, we may miss the experience of living in the present moment. Setting and visualizing goals is wonderful, but we can bring our thoughts into our current experience by taking steps to create them now.  

Our minds are powerful tools that we can harness to create our reality. Through them we move the unformed energy of the universe into form, which gives us direction for our words and actions. Each thought is like a stone dropped into a lake, sending ripples out into our world to affect all they touch. We can choose our focus and how we invest our energy, which gives us the power to design our lives to be whatever we choose in each and every moment.
                        ~ Daily Om

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A Note from the Universe

What you can do with your life has little to do with what's going on in the world.

And everything to do with what you see as possible. 

Grrr-r-r, 
    The Universe

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The perfect contrast of your time-space reality will continue to stimulate your thirst while also holding the promise to fulfill every desire that has been inspired. And so, whether you are focused upon contrast in this moment—and so, are in the process of asking for more—or whether you are focused on your breathing in this moment and are allowing what you have asked for, it is all part of the process, and it is all on your path.

Over time, your appreciation for the question will become equivalent to your appreciation for the answer, and your appreciation for the problem will become equivalent to your appreciation for the solution. And in your newfound ease with what-is, you will find yourself in the state of allowing what you truly desire. And then, all manner of cooperative components will reveal themselves to you in a delicious co-creative dance of Deliberate Creation.
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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Spring or not, it is time for some Spring-cleaning of your values.  Time has past, you have grown, changed, etc, and yet you probably have kept many of the same values, ideas, etc that you always had.  Take some time to think about what really matters to you now, and compare it to what you thought 5 years ago.  Chances are you will find some areas, you have new opinions on, and yet you may still be acting in ways that do not matched these new values.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith

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Daily Teaching from The Power

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."
                        ~ King Solomon (Circa 10th Century BC)
                        Biblical King of Israel, in Proverbs 11:17

When you are on a feeling frequency of love, then only people who are on the same feeling frequency as you are can come into your life. 

You know some days you feel really happy, some days you feel irritated, and others you feel sad. You can be many different versions of yourself. A person in a relationship with you can also be many versions, including happy, irritated, or sad. No doubt you will have seen them being many different versions, but every version is still that person. When you're happy, then only the happy version of other people can come into your life. But you have to be happy to receive the happy versions of other people!

It doesn't mean you are responsible for other people's happiness, because everyone is responsible for their own lives and happiness. What it means is there's nothing else for you to do but to feel happy yourself, and the law of attraction will do the rest. 

Thursday Nuggets!

I AM WILLING TO SEE THE LIGHT

Today I am willing to see the light, which is always available to me; I allow it to come in and brighten up my day. I see it even in the darkest situations. By opening my eyes and my mind to the light, I experience joy, love, happiness, prosperity and abundance. I am open for miracles to happen. I am willing to see the light, every hour of this day.

Affirmation: I know only peace inside.
                       ~ Bijan Anjomi, Effortless Prosperity

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Your future has nothing to do with getting somewhere you think you need to be. It has to do with the awareness that getting there means being here.
                        ~ Carl A. Hammerschlag

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 A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
                        ~ Hugh Sidey

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Worry not only distracts, it attracts. It becomes an accidental visualization for the thing you do not want.
                        ~ Karen Salmansohn

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Here are 4 steps I’ve recently identified in my own process for genuinely getting past disappointment:

1. Let it out.

One of the hardest things to do in a world where everything is immediate—we are all under external pressure, and time is a scarce resource—is to just let yourself experience a feeling.

Even at the most difficulties times, such as grieving, on average we only allow ourselves 1 to 2 weeks off or work, and then we mostly expect to get back into normality again.

Human beings are not very good at allowing the experiencing of emotions in full without trying to speed up the process. The only time we have this ability in its purest sense is when we are young children who have yet to be told or taught what is socially acceptable.

Children will tantrum and cry and scream, or laugh until it runs out and they are genuinely ready to move on.

I’m not suggesting we lock ourselves away for weeks at a time whenever we have been disappointed, but to be aware of any sense of obligation to “just get over it.”

Allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling without any agenda of speeding up the process. Whatever you are feeling is OK. Take some time to just sit with your emotion and experience it without moving to fix or change it.

Genuinely experiencing emotions, no matter how painful, is one of the beauties of life. Don’t shy away from these moments. Be present in them.

2. Get some perspective.

The wonderful thing about letting it out is that you have given yourself that time. You have said to yourself, “I care about you. I want to allow you to feel what you need to feel and I do not wish to push you or cajole you.”

You have treated yourself like a friend and allowed yourself the space you needed to experience your feelings of disappointment.

Once you’ve done that, it becomes much easier to get some perspective. After you give yourself space to feel, you’re able to give the situation or individuals involved more room to breathe.

Perhaps the person who you feel disappointed by doesn’t even realize they’ve done something to upset you. Maybe they’re stressed out and don’t have the emotional bandwidth to think about it because they aren’t allowing themselves time to experience their emotions.

Giving yourself space to be as you are prepares you to allow the same to other people.

Having a broader perspective than your own view on a particular situation is always helpful. The critical point here is that you have to mean it. Rushing onto gaining perspective before you’ve allowed yourself to be with how you feel will be artificial and will not last.

3. Know your own heart.

Disappointment can ripple through to the core of who you are. If you don’t know what your core values are, you may not have a framework to support you when you experience negative emotions.

For example, one of my core values is open-heartedness. I wish to keep an open heart and be ready to share love and kindness with others, irrespective of how they might behave.

I would like to always try to choose to act with love and kindness towards others, rather than with negativity.

When someone disappoints me and I feel like closing and withdrawing, I remember this core value, then pause and make a choice.

I wish to be an open-hearted person. These negative feelings are feelings, and they will pass. Do I choose to remain open-hearted, or do I choose to follow the easier instinct and close off?

More often than not, I choose to be in line with my values over the automatic response to the situation. It doesn’t happen every single time, but most.

Knowing your own heart and your values gives you the freedom of choice. You can choose to be driven by what happens to you, or you can choose to live in line with your principles.

The latter has helped me to overcome disappointments and negative situations in a healthy way. The challenge of disappointment allows me to practice living closer to my values, and stops me from being swallowed up by it.

4. Practice acceptance.

As human beings, even though we know that some things are bound to happen, we’re not always willing to accept them.

Every time I am disappointed, I feel overwhelmed by my emotions. I’m inclined to withdraw and blame others, wanting to wallow in my disappointment. Each time, I have to accept that I will feel these things again.

I have to accept that I will continue to be disappointed—that it is a part of life, part of being human. I also have to accept that I will probably continue to struggle to accept this fact, at various points throughout the rest of my life!

This step is a lifelong challenge and fundamental to dealing with disappointment. I will be disappointed, I will disappoint, you will be disappointed, and you will disappoint. Life will be disappointing—but it will pass.

Practice acceptance and we may suffer less as it is happening and notice the good things in life more.

Disappointment is a part of life, but all parts of life can help us grow. And all parts of life, even the negative ones, can steer us toward the light, if we take control and never give up, believing in the invincible and radiant love always present in our hearts. We can be present and aware even in the midst of negative emotions and therefore life more fully.
                        ~ Raeeka 

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A Note from the Universe

What if, from now on and forevermore, people stopped using the word "evil" and replaced it with "ignorance"?

Yeah, less fear, more better; global transformation. 

Let's, 
    The Universe

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You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy—frolicking and eager—that's who you are. And so, if you're always reaching for alignment with that, you're always on your path, and your path will take you into all kinds of places. We will not deny that you will not discover miracles and create benefits and be involved in creation, and that you will not uplift humanity—we will not say that you will not find satisfaction in so many things that you create, but we can't get away from the acknowledgment that you are Pure Positive Energy that translates into the human emotion of joy.
                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks                        

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If you are involved is something that isn't working, consider doing the exact opposite of what you have been doing. Sometimes doing exactly the opposite of what you have been doing up till now can turn out to be the perfect solution. The natural tendency for a person, when they find themselves in a situation that is not working, is to try harder.  Perhaps that is the time to reverse course and see what happens.
                        ~ Edward W. Smith

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Daily Teaching from The Power

The Secret to Relationships

Life presents everything to you so that you can choose what you love. And part of the gift of life is that you're given all kinds of people, so you can choose what you love in those people and turn away from what you don't love. You are not meant to manufacture love for qualities in a person you don't love, but simply to turn away without given them any feeling.

Turning away from what you don't love in someone means you're relaxed about it, and you know life is giving you a choice. It doesn't mean that you argue with them to prove they're wrong or you criticize or blame them, or that you want to change them because you think you're right. Because if you do any of these things, you are not giving love - big time! 

New Year, new Wisdom Nuggets!

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.                      

                        ~ Albert Einstein  

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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.  

                        ~ Rumi  

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Miracles are the natural way of the Universe - our only job is to move our doubting minds aside and let the miracles flow. 

                        ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie  

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I AM AWARE OF WHAT I SEE  

Today I am aware of what I am looking at and what I am watching for. Am I more interested in looking at an accident and someone getting a ticket on the freeway, or do I enjoy seeing the sunlight filter through my window? Do I experience more powerful emotions watching someone fight than I do watching a child sleep? Am I interested in all the shooting and violence on the news, or do I notice people holding hands and expressing joy? When I realize that I have a choice of where and upon what I cast my gaze, I will choose to see only positive things. What I see affects my mind, and it is my mind that creates the world outside of me. Today I am aware of what I see.   

Affirmation: I see peace everywhere.  

Remember to keep your word today.  

                        ~ Bijan Anjomi, Effortless Prosperity 

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‎Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.  

                        ~ Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx  

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.   

Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.   

Let reality be reality.   

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  

                        ~ Lao Tzu  

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Notes from the Universe 

Dwelling on the unimportant, stressing on the unintended, and freaking over the unknown simply doesn't work... and are a bit like lighting a match in a dark room to make sure no one accidentally sprinkled any gunpowder on your bicycle, kept under the stairs, near the back porch, in January.   

Actually, some of that wasn't really important, but hopefully it distracted from any stigma you may have attached to freaking over the unknown.   

You're so adorable,  

    The Universe  

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Have you ever seen a complete stranger across a room, street, or hallway, and sent them a silent, "I love you," just for the good it might do?   

I have.   

But then, to me, they're not really strangers.   

Then again, neither are they to you.   

Stranger than fiction,  

    The Universe  

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If you were able to look back at your most brilliant successes, stunning comebacks, amazing catches, and smokin' ideas, and you were to find that virtually all of them seemed to materialize out of thin air, when you least expected them, and that they had exceeded even your greatest expectations at the time, how excited would you be about the new year and whatever else I've got up my sleeve?   

Hubba, hubba -   

    The Universe 

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Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, "It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I'm wanting to see, to look for things that feel good," and the more you develop the habit of that kind of vibration—the more the Universe understands that that's who you are! And so, the more you have access only to those kinds of things!  

                        ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks 

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Knowing what you want out of life is the single most important thing you can do. The time you will have here on earth is predetermined in many ways, but how you spend your time here on earth is a lot more under your control, than most people think.  Take time to develop goals for what you want out of life, and then develop a plan to move toward those things.  You will find happiness even before you attain your goals, because you will realize that you are on your way to good things.  

                        ~ Edward W. Smith  

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Daily Teaching from The Power 

I want to share a story I received that demonstrates the care we must take in our relationships. A man's wife had left him and had taken their children with her. The man was devastated, he blamed his wife, and he refused to accept her decision. He continued to contact her, determined to do everything he could to change her mind. He may have thought he was acting out of love for his wife and family, but his actions were not loving. He blamed his wife for their marriage ending. He believed that she was wrong and he was right. He refused to accept his wife's decision to choose for herself. Because he would not stop contacting his wife, he was arrested and sentenced to jail. 

The man eventually realized that he was not giving love when he denied his wife her freedom to choose what she wanted, and that he lost his freedom as a result. The law of attraction is the law of love and you cannot break it. If you violate it, you break yourself. 

I am sharing this story because the ending of intimate relationships is very challenging for some people. You cannot deny someone else's right to choose what they want, because that is not giving love. It is a bitter pill to swallow when your heart is breaking, but you must respect everyone's freedom and right to choose. What you give to another person you receive yourself, and when you deny another person's freedom to choose, you will attract negative things that deny your own freedom. Maybe the flow of money to you to you decreases, or your health weakens, or your job takes a downturn, because all of these things would affect your freedom. There is no "other person" for the law of attraction. What you give out to others, you give to yourself.  

Giving love to other people does not mean you let people walk all over you or abuse you in any way, because that's not giving love either. Allowing another person to use you doesn't help that person, and it surely doesn't help you. Love is tough, and we learn and grow through its law, and as part of that learning we experience consequences. So it is not love to allow another person to use or abuse you. The answer is, get yourself onto the highest frequency of good feelings that you can, and the force of love will resolve the situation for you. 

                "Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it." 

                        Rene' Descartes (1596-1650) 

                        Mathematician and Philosopher