Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Positivity cannot be created by thought alone. Neither can it be forced. One of the key tenets of the self-help movement has been the numerous concepts presented to us about the “power of positive thinking”. What many take away from this notion is that if you think positive, you will create a better life for yourself. The problem is, that’s only half the battle, so to speak.
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Do you ever find that you are asking yourself why or why not a lot? Often the topic can be similar, but it’s just a matter of approach. Why take that chance? Why not take that chance? Why is a question we ask constantly, pretty much all of our lives. Why is the sky blue? Why are those people holding hands? Why did he/she/they dump me? And
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Are you happy? We often shy away from this question. Why? Because when we look at the world around us, and all the troubles going on, we might just find that having our own happiness makes us feel guilty. It is one of the most ludicrous things I can possibly imagine. Why? Because just about everything we are doing with our lives is to find things that
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The heart and head will sometimes pull you in different, opposing directions. Your feelings will try to take you one way, while your thoughts attempt to take you another. Oddly, despite these both coming from you, they can make you feel as if you are an outside observer. When you can reach that place, and be the detached, outside observer, you can best determine how to synchronize
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Getting head and heart in sync can build tremendous positivity. However, getting the head (thought) and the heart (feeling) aligned can be challenging. One way to get the head and heart in sync is to be more mindful. Mindfulness, or awareness, can take us to all kinds of incredible places. This is not awareness of the outside world…it is awareness of ourselves. It is a matter of
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Being kind and supportive towards others is a sign of strength. Somewhere along the way, this has gotten lost. From the highest offices in the land to the poorest poor, we have become more uncertain and unkind towards strangers. All too often, people keep to themselves. But more than that, they are unwilling to reach out to other people for various reasons. Whether it is their intent
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Patience can be a real stepping stone in generating more positivity. When we are patient, we allow for the time that may be necessary for change. When we do not focus on why we need this thing or that right here, right now…we can better focus on the thing coming to us. More often than most of us realize, patience pays off far more than impatience or
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The answer for me is simple. I want to be better because I know I am not at my best. What does that mean? That means that, on a deeply personal level, I am aware that I am not all that I can be. There is room for improvement, and I can be better than I am in many ways. Why be better? Because I desire more
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. To be better, the first step is to define the most important question – better than what? Better than whom is irrelevant. Why? Because the only person we ever need to be better than is our present self. Further, in truth, we cannot generally be better than anyone else. We are, in the grand make-up of the universe, all equal. Yes, when it comes to certain athletic
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Selfishness is not what you think it is. This can be particularly challenging, because a great deal of the way in which we perceive our universe attributes much to selfishness. And while there are certainly some tremendously selfish people out there, much of what people see as selfish is not. I want to begin with a broad definition of what selfishness is NOT. Selfishness is not taking