Stop Judging, Just Notice

There will be a never-ending flow of external circumstances that you will meet with everyday. Some you will label as negative and others you will label as positive. No doubt you will take the positive circumstances for granted – placing those moments on the back of the shelf. It will be the negative circumstances that you choose to give your undivided attention to. You will give energy to those negative experiences; and that energy will be charged with anger, doubt, frustration, sadness, disappointment, and sorrow or fleeting moments of all of these. This energy determines your vibrational resonance, which in this case is extremely low. Thus you attract more of the same – more vibrationally low experiences.

You may determine that your low vibration was caused by those negative circumstances. You may also determine that because of those negative circumstances, which was not your fault, leave you feeling powerless and helpless in those circumstances. This unfortunately, has become a fallacy of most people’s thinking. Granted, you have no control over anyone else’s behaviors and choices; but you do have control over your own. You can choose to determine that the external circumstance is not negative or positive, that it just is. Nothing that happens in life has any inherent meaning unless we assign it one.

How different would you feel and behave is you chose to see that same external circumstance as either positive or having no meaning at all? This kind of thinking would not leave you feeling all those negatively charged emotions, and thus you would act on your more positive feelings. Think how different your life would be if you would stop judging the external events in your life and just notice them as a stepping stone along your path of life.

Nothing in this life happens to you, it happens for you. Anything for you can only lead to your greatest and highest good. But you must make the conscious choice to be in the noticing and not in the judging. When you assign labels you are judging. When you can just notice without assigning or attaching a label or meaning, then you create an unlimited amount of freedom and possibility in your life. When you can just notice what is going on in your external environment, and not judge it, you will no longer feel powerless or helpless in those situations. Being in the noticing creates more awareness, more freedom, more power, and much more inner peace in your life.

Just for today, don't judge... just notice.

Friday's Purposeful Question

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“In order to stay awake and be able to create a future that reflects our goals, we need to question the present. We need to question every choice we make and look at the positive or negative consequences of our actions if we are to align our daily actions with our deepest desires.” ~ Debbie Ford, The Right Questions

Author and teacher Byron Katie says that when you question your stressful thoughts, the freedom that comes out of that graces the world for all of us.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions. So, what questions are you asking? 

"Look closely at your life. Are you satisfied with the choices you are making? How can you choose more wisely?"

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." ~ Decouvertes

It's Your Choice!

"There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or the ugly. Both are there, and what we focus on and choose to see is what brings us feelings of joy or feelings of despair." ~ Lloyd Newell

One way to look at life and the world will bring you happiness, peace and joy. The other way will bring sorrow, gloom and doom.

It is all about choice. You have that power – to choose.

You can either choose peace or you can choose this – this, being gloom and doom.

Choose wisely.

Friday's Purposeful Question

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“In order to stay awake and be able to create a future that reflects our goals, we need to question the present. We need to question every choice we make and look at the positive or negative consequences of our actions if we are to align our daily actions with our deepest desires.” ~ Debbie Ford, The Right Questions

Author and teacher Byron Katie says that when you question your stressful thoughts, the freedom that comes out of that graces the world for all of us.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions. So, what questions are you asking? 

"How are you exercising the Power of WE in your life?"

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." ~ Decouvertes

Blog Action Day ~ The Power of WE

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead

Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages to blog about one important global topic on the same day. Past topics have included water, climate change, poverty and food with thousands of blogs, big and small, taking part. This year, close to 2000 blogs from 108 countries, using 43 different languages, have registered to take part in Blog Action Day.

This year, the theme is the Power of We. The Power of We is a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world, either for their own communities or for people they will never meet half way around he world.

What I particularly love about Blog Action Day is it is the Power of We. Blog Action Day partners with some amazing organizations that are working to create a more peaceful and loving planet. This is the Power of We in action; people and organizations working together to make a positive difference in our world.

Just a few of the organizations are Greenpeace, founded in 1971, a small team of activists sailing from Vancouver, Canada, ignited their vision of a green and peaceful world.

Oxfam, an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in more than 90 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty. Oxfam works directly with communities, seeking to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.

As a child, I thought a heifer was the nickname for an aunt. Then, I found out that every woman my mother was pissed off at was a heifer. Needless to say, Heifer International, founded in 1944 with just one cow, has a mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth.

These organizations, along with the many people who work, fund, and service them, are the Power of We. There are many things that are going on within these and other organizations, but I believe the Power of We begins with awareness. None of these organizations would survive if it were not for people power, "we" power.

So, how can we continue this power of we? Volunteer, donate your time, talent or treasure to any of the organizations that tirelessly work to make a positive and peaceful difference and care for creation.

Just think, almost 2000 blogs posting about the Power of We, calling attention to, raising awareness of, and creating a global shift in our world. Now that is the Power of We.

Blessings of peace,

Friday's Purposeful Question

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“In order to stay awake and be able to create a future that reflects our goals, we need to question the present. We need to question every choice we make and look at the positive or negative consequences of our actions if we are to align our daily actions with our deepest desires.” ~ Debbie Ford, The Right Questions

Author and teacher Byron Katie says that when you question your stressful thoughts, the freedom that comes out of that graces the world for all of us.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions. So, what questions are you asking?

"Which of your friends are toxic and which are nutritious?" 

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." ~ Decouvertes

Be A Friend

If you call on your friends only when you need something, you will soon find yourself without friends.

There is a great deal of wisdom in the old saw, “If you want friends, be a friend.” Friendship means giving without expecting anything in return. Busy, successful people are not searching for new friends. If you want to be their friend, you must make the effort to befriend them. Let them know that you are interested in them as people, not in what they can do for you, and you may find that you have made a true and loyal friend.  ~ Napoleon Hill

Friday's Purposeful Question

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Author and teacher Byron Katie says that when you question your stressful thoughts, the freedom that comes out of that graces the world for all of us.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions. So, what questions are you asking?

"What are you willing to do to create total and full belief in your dreams?"

“You can tell whether a woman is clever by her answers. You can tell whether she is wise by her questions.” ~ attributed to Naguib Mahfouz

Just Believe You Can!

“Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.” ~ Wally “Famous” Amos

A belief is a thought you keep thinking over and over again. Over time, that repetitive thought becomes your belief. If you have grown up hearing that money is the root of all evil over and over, then eventually you will believe it. As we grow up, we are inundated with all sorts of thoughts that have formed our belief system. However, most of those thoughts really don’t serve us today. Most of those thought are based on negative or faulty assumptions. Yet, we keep thinking those same faulty thoughts and they become the basis of our faulty belief system.

Have you ever stopped to question some of the beliefs that you entertain? Have you ever sat down to ask yourself if money really is the root of all evil? Why do I believe that? How has it served or limited me and my relationship with money? Of all the beliefs most people entertain, the biggest and most limiting are around the areas of wealth and finances. This is also why the majority of us have great difficulties in the areas of wealth and finances.

What if you simply stopped, took a few deep breaths and asked yourself, “What if I believed there was unlimited wealth and I could have everything I truly desired?” Yes, I know, at first it sounds strange and very foreign; and your mind is throwing a fit over this new thought. But just keep mentally verbalizing this new thought. Notice how you feel when you think this new thought. What part of your body seems to tense up? Is it your shoulders? Do you get a knot in your stomach? Simply notice the feeling, don’t judge the feeling – just allow the feeling and notice. This is very telling of your wealth consciousness. On the wealth consciousness scale, you were probably at an all time low. But if you continue to entertain this new thought, creating a new belief, you will soon raise your wealth consciousness and thus your financial status.

  

What do you truly desire? Do you believe it is possible? If not, then it is not possible. If you truly believe it is possible, then the sky is the limit for you.

I remember when I first believed I could create anything I truly desired. At first, it was foreign to me and my mind began to kick and scream. Today, I really believe it because it happens for me time and time again. When I am in need or in want of something, I simply tell my subconscious mind and it immediately brings into my conscious awareness all the ways to make it a reality. The first time I really became aware that I possessed this power, I felt so liberated, so empowered! It was as if I had been imprisoned all these years in a dark room and finally set free to see the light! Truly a powerful feeling!

When you really believe you can, then you can. As Henry Ford once stated so wisely, “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right!” Truly whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. But you must believe you can – believe you can achieve and receive it.

The moment you activate your powerful belief, your subconscious mind goes to work to bring into your conscious awareness the solution. Before you activated full belief, you were not aware of those solutions, even if they were right in front of you all the time. I have seen this time and time again in my own life. Now, it is instinctive for me; my system is juiced and ready! All I need to do is verbally or mentally think about what I desire, and the solution is made clear to me almost immediately. I have used this for small things, like how to store certain items or repair something.  For me, it works like magic. But I needed to cultivate a practice of believing in the power of my desires and know that if I had the desire, I also had the way to manifest the desire. That is a spiritual law of the universe – and that is your power of belief. So for today, just believe!