I will play with ideas. I will look at them from a variety of perspectives, examine them from all sorts of points of view. I will pull on them, test them, throw them up in the air and wait to see how they land. I will combine and recombine them, shuffle them and test them
Today I realize that my perfectionism is born out of anxiety and a desire to maintain a sense of control. In a dysfunctional household one feels lost and out of control- there is a subtle sense of chaos in the atmosphere that feels as if it can erupt at any time. One tries to do
Today I will allow my mind to connect with the mind of a Higher Power. The best things in life are free. I have the same access to a universal mind that anyone does. I will create quiet time in my day. I see that my mind can live where it chooses to live, that
Today I recognize that I tend to produce in my life what I feel is true for myself. Thoughts have a creative power of their own, and if I look closely I can see my thoughts come to life. I create the possibility of what I would like by first experiencing it in my mind.
I will enter willingly the state of inner emptiness. I will sit and wait, embrace the silence, welcome the void. The void that I sit in is potentially rich and alive-to avoid it would be to avoid a mystical moment. A visit into a realm beyond. Even the beyond is only a deeper level of
Today I am willing to allow my life to be good. Now that I have faced my pain, denial, delusion and resentment I have cleared out the debris and deadwood that kept me in an arm’s-length relationship with life. Today I see clearly that I was a person filled with anger and hurt and that
Carl Jung described the shadow self as that part of ourselves that we attempt to deny-that we cast into the shadows of our own psyche or being. The act of denying or hiding a quality from myself can actually strengthen it inside of me. There are also positive aspects of myself that I sit on,
Today I see that my life is up to me. How I choose to live, what I will accomplish, how I conduct my intimate relationships and how I treat myself are in my own hands. I am no longer afraid that pain and anxiety will return me to a state of helplessness and vulnerability. Let
There is an ancient Chinese curse that says, “May all your wishes be granted.