Living Out Loud

Follow your heart

A Thought for the Week

"Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitve, it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. . . At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought." ~ Deepak Chopra

 

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart." ~ Unknown

 

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Be still

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"If water derives clarity from stillness, how much more so does the mind."  ~  Chuang Tzu   "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."  ~  Deepak Chopra   "In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom!"  ~  Gabrielle Goddard

Create what you want

A Thought for the Week

 

 

"My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny." ~ Elaine Maxwell

 

"The best way to predict your future is to invent it. It's up to you." ~ Frank Maguire

 

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." ~ Karen Ravn

 

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Nurture your dreams

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"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." ~ Joseph Campbell  "If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." ~ Henry David Thoreau "Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations." ~ Ralph Charell

The Reiki way to living in the now

Just for today, I will not anger

Just for today, I will not worry

Just for today, I will be grateful

Just for today, I will work with integrity

Just for today, I will be kind to others

How powerfully simple, and simply powerful are those statements?

These are the Reiki principles, and the "just for today . . " element is crucial.  No need to make a lifelong commitment.  Just make a commitment for right here, right now.  That's all we really have anyway!  And the beauty of it is, that in making that simple, short-term, commitment everyday, you could actually be making a life-changing commitment to yourself over and over - but without any pressure.

You could so easily apply this principle to any new behaviour you want to adopt.

Just for today - I will speak my truth without worrying about the judgement of others

Just for today - I will make healthy food choices

Just for today - I will meditate for fifteen minutes

And on and on it goes.  The possibilities are endless.  When you choose to do something that serves you well just for this one day, and you notice the benefits afterwards, there is an increased likelihood that you will choose to do it again tomorrow. 

And choosing to do something right now is very different to deciding to do something now and forever.  In deciding to adopt a new behaviour for evermore, you remove the element of choice in the future, and turn it into a "should".  That then leads (at least in my case) to resistance.  But I think that adopting the Reiki way will lead to far greater success in developing new habits.

Just for today, I choose behaviours that serve my highest good.  What do you choose?

Make the world a better place

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Free Hugs

 

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."  ~  Anne Frank

 

"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and then make a change."  ~  Michael Jackson

 

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."  ~  Mahatma Ghandi 

Find the Good

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"Find the good.  It is all around you.  Find it.  Showcase it and you'll start believing it." ~ Jesse Owens

"Where there are friends there is wealth."  ~ Plautus

 

"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."  ~  Vincent Van Gogh

 

"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."  ~  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 

 

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life

a Thought for the Week

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day." ~ Bob Feller

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." ~ J.B. Priestly

"Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true." ~ Unknown 
 

"The future is always beginning now." ~ Mark Strand

 

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Feeling abundant = Being abundant

A Thought for the Week

"Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you - and through you." ~ Wayne Dyer

 

"When you have too much month for your paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you, and focus on the abundance and not your lack, and as night follows day abundance will come to you." ~ Sidney Madwed
 

"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."  ~  Eric Butterworth 

Let go and let God

a Thought for the Week

"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." ~ Epictetus

"The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden." ~ Unknown

"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ Emmanuel Teney

"Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities."  ~  Deepak Chopra