How to turn find something positive about the negative stuff that you experience?

I've felt a bit down today and started just browsing the internet - guess what - I've just found a lovely game - Count Your Blessings! Things always come to you when you need them, don't they!

I've played it again and again and again - it's so addictive to try to find which answer is more uplifting and you can choose it as your favourite!

You can try too! Don't worry about those 45 seconds you get for each answer - nothing bad happens if you take your time lol - I've tried, trust me!

Here is what they say about it:

Count Your Blessings is the “fun, feel-good game that has everybody talking!”

Scientific studies prove that “counting your blessings” is the number one path to happiness – the problem is, we often forget! This game was invented to help people and families everywhere spend quality time remembering to count their blessings. By playing this game, and adopting a gratitude mindset every day, we can all lead happier lives.

Happy playing!

http://www.countyourblessingsgame.com/play.php

Ready to plant your Dream Seed?

Well-Come, Beloveds!

We’re Gathering to Birth a New Reality by Planting Dream Seeds Within Ourselves And at the Heart of Humanity.

More on this in a moment.

First, realize this is a power-filled time on the planet.  The Quero Apache tell us we’ve entered the ‘Year of Birthing New Reality’.  We’ve also begun the 7th Day on the Mayan Calendar, a time of planting seeds to birth a world of Peace and Illumination.

Globally, we are witnessing the Great Shift of the Ages. As antiquated institutions based on competition, heirarchy and the illusion of separation crumble, a new civilization is now rising … one based on cooperation, harmony, conscious-creation and Love-filled awakenings of the Heart.

Now Imagine . . .

Each and every being on the planet carries a Dream Seed, held sacred at the center of our Hearts, present and ready for our attentions to bring ideals into reality.  We’ve created this sacred space to gather, plant Dream Seeds, and share wisdom as we embark on this journey of Birthing New Reality together.

We’re nearly ready to launch our new 42 Day Program — The Blooming Humans Heart Peace Project — coming January 1st!

Until then, we’ve prepared a garden space to begin planting Dream Seeds, and to prepare the landscape of our Hearts to Bloom, Rise and Thrive!

Here is a simple plan: click here.

My today's Note from the Universe

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all, Mila, it's actually a metaphor for the time it takes for you to allow yourself to be happy with who you already are, where you're already at, and what you already have - no matter what.

Just do it,
    The Universe

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The "no matter what" part is big, Mila.

Getting into the Vortex by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Getting into the Vortex Who Calls the Shots? by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Is there a way of staying positive around “lackful” others? Here is Abraham’s reply to a student who asks: How can I remain positively focused when my mate is predominantly focused on lack and makes no effort to be positive? And it gets to me—it’s hard not to also feel lack. Abraham: We know that it is easier to feel good when you are seeing or hearing something that causes you to feel good, but it is extremely liberating to show yourself that you have the ability to feel good in any situation even when those close to you do not. You will discover that it is far easier to learn to direct your own mind than to arrange, through action, the people with whom you spend your time. Even if there is only one person who is with you often whom you need to train, you could not train him or her sufficiently. And, of course, there are many more persons than one to whom you are having an emotional response. When you do become adept at directing your thoughts to things that are pleasing, the unpleasing people (or unpleasing aspects of those people) will leave your experience. It is your attention to the unwanted that holds it in your experience. Many people disagree about that when they first hear it, because they believe that negative things are in their lives because someone else is putting them there: “My abusive husband asserts himself negatively into my experience.” But we want you to understand that if you use your power of focus to withdraw your attention from the negativity or abuse, and put your attention upon positive aspects, instead—the abuse cannot remain in your experience. It is empowering to discover that any and all negative aspects stay in your experience only because of your attention to, and therefore continuing invitation of, them. We acknowledge that holding positive thoughts in the midst of negative conditions is not easy. Especially in the beginning. The best time to begin to make the effort to direct your thoughts really is not when you are the middle of a negative situation. It will be easier for you to reach for better-feeling thoughts when you are alone: Begin by trying to remember when you did easily feel good about this person. And if you cannot find that beginning place, then choose another topic altogether. The first thing that is necessary to break a negative trend and start it in a more positive direction is the acceptance that your thoughts do create the reality that you live. Next you must accept that you do have the power to direct your own thoughts. And then, what is required is a willingness to direct your thoughts in the direction of what feels better until that pattern is established within you. One of the most exciting things about beginning the process of deliberately focused thought is that the Law of Attraction will bring you evidence of your improved thought immediately. And while old patterns may be hard to break, and you may slip back into those old patterns from time to time, the evidence of your effort will be undeniable to you. And, before long—with much less effort than you spend trying to dodge negative conversations, or train another into better behavior—all of your relationships will improve. For more than 20 years, New York Times best-selling authors Esther and Jerry Hickshave tapped in to Abraham—the inspiring, heart-warming, stirring, thought-provoking and life-changing interdimensional voice that answers life’s most perplexing questions. And for more than 20 years and counting, they continue to take their message—The Law of Attraction—to all corners of the world to anyone who would listen. Now they bring you their new meditation book and CD. Getting into the Vortex is available everywhere books are sold, or online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In it, Esther and Jerry reward you with four powerfully guided daily meditations for general well-being, financial well-being, physical well-being and relationships—based on the Teachings of Abraham® Click here to learn more about Esther and Jerry Hicks’ and Abraham’s adventures.

A lovely video that made me smile - Cafe Del Mar - Ministry Of Sound - Beautiful (Ambient Mix)

Vital Affirmation - free affirmation cards

Affirmation Cards - Free Positive Affirmations

Learning to dance in the rain

Life isn't about
waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain!

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. It became an Internet sensation viewed by millions, an international media story, and a best-selling book that has been published in 35 languages. To this day, people everywhere continue to talk about Randy, share his message and put his life lessons into action in their own lives.

Randy died July 25, 2008, at the age of 47.

THANK YOU, RANDY!

Source: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
With gratitude to Delphina Fon U.

The Heal Your Life Online Course - Louise Hay (excerpts)

In Lesson 6 of the Heal Your Life Online Course, Louise Hay talks with host Diane Ray about the importance of self-love, gratitude, and much, much more! To complement this lesson, Louise Hay has put together the You Can Heal Your Life Special Package

Source: http://www.hayhouse.com/

Louise's powerful affirmation:

All is well, 

Everything is working out for my highest good 

And out of this situation only good will come 

And I am safe.

Don’t talk about "my headach" and "my arthritis" – you don’t want to be a permanent part of you - your body is perfect and this is just passing through your body. And my body is returning to perfect health

Love your body. Give it good food, good exercise and think happy thoughts.

If you’re sick – your body is telling you that something you were doing was not good for your body. 

In hospital: Every hand that’s touching my body is a healing hand.

Do not choose to be a victim, that only gives your power away.  You’re a willing participant in your health care.

The body, like everything else in our lives, is a mirror of the thought we think and the beliefs we hold, the body is always talking to us if we just take the time to listen.

 

If there is a part of your body that is aching or hurting or in pain - just put your hand on it and think of, picture love coming though your heart through your arm into your hand onto the part of your body that you’re holding . And send love into it. Sending love even into a toothache will help enormously.

Affirmations about our body:

I love my body, I listen to my body, I appreciate my body, I take a good care of my body.

I enjoy the foods that are best for my body; I love every cell of my body.

I make healthy choices and my body responds with joy.

Life shows me new ways to improve my health.

I give my body everything I need to be vibrant and filled with energy. 

My body knows how to heal itself and I support my body in every way.

Perfect health is my divine right and I claim it now.

I love my life and life loves me.

 with love and gratitude to Louise Hay and Hay House

Looking for fun and being happier - in crazy, new places

Sometimes, Mila, having more fun and being happier comes from looking for each in crazy, new places; instead of waiting for them to come from where you've found them before or where others are now finding them.

And I do mean crazy. Not just from the old standbys of travel, adventure, and romance, but from stretching, reaching, and growing. Accepting new responsibilities for your happiness, totally accepting others, and grasping even higher ideals. Philosophically taking yourself to places few have ever dared before.


Red hot smokin' love,
The Universe

TUT - A Note from the Universe

A super-secret, double-reminder for all fearless flowers:

If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world.

You see, Mila... I do all the hard stuff.


The Universe

I AM A LOVE MAGNET -

 Love Magnet - Valentine's EFT with Brad Yates - Tapping into Love Beyond Belief

My Declaration of Self-Esteem
by Virginia Satir


I AM ME


In all the world there is no-one else exactly like me.

Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes, because I own all of me.

I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me and other aspects that I do not know, but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do - I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me - I am me and I am okay.


Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Artwork © Christophe Vacher