I made a vision board today. I have been reading Louise Hay after a friend recommended it and she talks of healing lives in general. While this sounds radical for lives that don't need deep healing, there is a lot that can be incorporated in everyone's lives.
The real radical thought for me has been the one about the Law Of Attraction...meaning what we think about gets us more on those lines. i.e. if we are thankful, we get more to be thankful for.....negative thoughts breed negative circumstances.
I am not sure how much I can jump to bridge this gap - have to say my logical mind is skeptical. What does convince me is how good I feel when I am thinking positive thoughts, and for that reason alone, this way of thinking works for me. So I spent an hour or two this evening cutting away from old copies of Good Housekeeping and Inside Outside to put together a personal vision for the year ahead.
And the creative work, seeing the physical evidence of my creativity (wielding the scissors - judiciously is an extremely creative process!), some nice pictures instead of a mess of pictures/miscellaneous movie stubs/run bib numbers and an already set up spot to use are all great by-products already. Now if everything in that vision comes true (in my lifetime....forget one year), I will be even more thankful than I am now. The possibilities are SLIM, in the right way - everyone who knows of my 'diet/exercise/drink water enough to require a personal bathroom on rent' program will know exactly what I mean ! :-D
And in that thankful, centered and peaceful state of mind, shall go and do my performance appraisal form for the year. Repeating in my mind.....'thankful'. The word echoes in my skull....reminding me of the new office that is not full enough to absorb sound yet! :-D
G'night!
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2 comments:
A regular dose of Lousie Hay certainly helps! It helped me when I was recovering from the worst blow ever in my life 9 years ago.
For a deadly book on the Law of Attraction, check out The Secret. It's beyond inspirational and things really started flying my way just by reading it! http://www.thesecret.tv/
My extremly unemotional and superpessimistic dad has seen big changes in his health...he's ga-ga over the book:)
Hmm.. need to find this book. Sounds very interesting.
But I do believe in this principle in general. It also helps in dreaming up and staying hopeful. That's a big criteria anyway for moving on in life. Stephen Covey calls it 'The first creation', where the actual happening of the dream or vision is the second creation. He argues that what we live out as adults are already what was put in by adults, peers, environment, our attitudes etc
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