Tag Archives: Forgive

Emotional Hurt

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.  – Ovid

what hurts you?

We carry a lot of emotional baggage. People and circumstances have hurt us. Actually they’ve not hurt us, we’ve allowed hurt to occur. Self-knowledge is key to uncovering such issues.

awareness & acceptance

Two ways out of it are awareness and forgiveness. Awareness of what actually happened and our part in the allowing the hurt. Forgiveness can be understood as acceptance. We accept how a certain person is, they are what they are, we let them be, we accept them for what they are and move on.

Daily Affirmation: Today I understand how I allow myself to hurt.

Recommendation: The Ultimate Happiness Prescription by Deepak Chopra

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Independence Day!

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.  – Albert Camus

July 4th!

July 4th is the day Americans celebrate Independence Day! Here’s to everyone’s freedom! Are you freer today than you were a year ago, 10 years ago? Are you happier today than you were last year this time?

freedom

If not, what’s holding you back?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM free.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

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Self Importance

You can do important work if you do not become self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave yourself out.The Urantia Papers

self

When we have a balanced concept of our own selves, we can handle life and its vicissitudes just fine. We know how to be happy or at least we know what to do to be happy. If we have low self-esteem, we wallow in self-pity and we tend to lash out and blame others. We aren’t happy with who we are and that colors our world-view.

getting in our own way

There’s another way we can get in our own way. It’s when our ego gets too big, we deem ourselves so important that the self becomes the end itself. We focus on our needs constantly, we do that to the detriment of everything else important to our lives. If we leave ourselves out of any situation or undertaking, we can be far more efficient.

Daily Affirmation: Today I focus on others and the job at hand.

Recommendation: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Erase Fear

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.Dorothy Thompson

nothing to fear but fear itself

We must vanquish fear. Especially the kind that freezes us into inaction and causes us to shrivel up. We were meant to expand our horizons and metamorphose into beautiful butterflies. We can’t do that if we’re fearful of growth and change.

apply PSTec

There’s mental work that’s necessary to erase fear and then there are tools available that can help in addition.

The fear pattern creates a neurological path in our brain which becomes very hard to erase. Often no matter what people try the automatic pattern takes over and defeats them.

One way to erase such a pattern is EFT (bottom of the page).

Another amazing way is PSTec, I discovered it lately and have used it successfully for myself and some coaching clients! Check it out here: www.pstec.org.

Here are instructions for using PSTec:

  1. Download these instructions (PSTecinstructions.mp3) and this audio (PSTecFile01.mp3). They’re both from this page: http://pstec.org/instructions.php.
  2. Listen carefully to the instructions first.
  3. Then figure out what emotional issue (fear, sorrow, depression, limiting belief etc.) you want to try PSTec on first. Decide the intensity level on a scale from 0 – 10.
  4. Listen to the 2nd audio now.
  5. For tapping on the right side, use your right thumb and right middle-finger, tap them against each other.
  6. For the left side, tap with your left thumb and left middle-finger.
  7. When asked to tap both sides, tap both the right and left side, at the same time, and rapidly.
  8. That’s it. At the end figure out the intensity level of that same issue again on a scale from 0 – 10.
  9. Repeat steps 3 thru 8 for the same issue until the intensity level goes down to a 0.

 

Daily Affirmation: I AM love. Fear loses its hold as I love.

Recommendation: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley

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The Perfect Gift

The only gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson

lost in fog

We’re lost in a material fog. One which focuses mostly on our needs. Also one which keeps us inside our heads.

gift yourself

Let’s get out of our heads, drop into our hearts and live through that unfathomable gateway! Now let us put our attention on others. What do they truly need? A true need can only be met by another person, not a thing. Let us be that person to others, let us give of our own selves.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM the gift, I listen and I serve.

Recommendation: The Compassionate Mind

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Release The Brakes!

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. Mary Manin Morrissey

what brakes do you have on?

What extra baggage are you carrying around? Examine the flow of negative thoughts that you might experience daily. Those are your clues to the burdens that weigh you down. Journal these negative thoughts and uncover the pearls of wisdom that you will thus uncover.

let go and cruise

As you become more aware of that which holds you back, join the free flowing stream of the river of life. Enjoy the exhilarating freedom of living a fearless, forgiving and soaring life!

Daily Affirmation: Today I am free, I consciously leave my hurts and fear behind, I surge ahead!

Recommendation: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

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Expectations & Assumptions

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.  – Henry Winkler

our experience wells

We’re born into families, cultures and stories; through them we shape our lives which include our fears, assumptions and expectations about everything and everyone. I call these our ‘experience wells’. The benefit of staying in these wells that we’ve created is safety and familiarity. If we have to grow, get along with others and break away just as butterflies do from their cocoons, we must be able to climb out of our wells.

breaking away

First recognize that everyone else lives in their own experience well. For your own peace and sanity you must come out of your well, see the world and reality for what it is, and not from the circumscribed view from inside your well. For a relationship to be healthy, all involved must come out of their respective wells and be able to embrace each other in love and forgiveness.

Daily Affirmation: I am embracing truth. My focus is on forgiving and on appreciating the beauty that lies within all.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind

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