What are your holidays like? Are the chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Sometimes before the
Thanksgiving dishes have been cleared away, we are out the door and digging deep
into our pocketbooks and spending lavishly on things we don't even care about.
The Sales are on and we are determined to survive the personal trials of "mall
shopping". The bells are ringing as we get deeper into debt or upset because we
can't find the right gift, or be with the right person. As plans are being made,
depression sets in because we have to be with certain family members, or not be
with them. As the holiday music plays on, we feel more anxiety and so we splurge
on party food and drink or we starve ourselves from the stress of being lonely
and frustrated.
Oftentimes it is somewhere in January that we realize
we haven't implemented a simpler and happier way to experience the
holidays.
We wonder, what was that all about?
Is this holiday
everything you'd like it to be or have you hit a rock bottom low and are you
just going through the motions?
Your Emotions
rock!
Life is one great big music
scale. Nothing rests. Repetition of negative past holiday memories plus putting
your focus on the lower emotions will result in your life or your holidays
sounding like a broken record. If you persistently return to what frightens,
saddens and upsets you, you deny yourself relief in the moment.
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- Misery blocks happiness.
- Fear collapses confidence, denies vision and shuts
down creative growth.
- Worrying about things causes you to compromise
your dreams, leaving you enslaved and chained to old habits.
- "Stress Provokers" increase your sense of panic
and anger often for the wrong reasons.
- Anger dissolves good decision-making.
- Hate halts normal healthy life and slams the door
on possibilities.
- The vibration of distress attracts distress. Hurt
attracts hurt. Pain attracts pain.
What to do? Here are a few
suggestions:
- Calm down. No one can do this for you
- Heal yourself and you will have the energy to deal
with life's challenges.
- Stop the guilt. Guilt is a sign that you aren't in
tune with the Source Within.
- Practice feeling grateful for something, even if
it is the ability to dream.
- Just say yes to what you want and need to do for
yourself.
- Just say no to what you don't want and can't
afford to participate in.
- Resolve to free yourself from living life
according to the demands of others.
- Seek thoughts that inspire happiness, courage and
joy.
- Practice feeling content amidst the holiday
hullabaloo.
- Communicate rather then repress or suppress what
concerns you.
- Focus on the solutions. Go out and look at the
stars!
- Go unwrap your sense of humor. Laughter is the key
to a long & meaningful life.
- Decide to cherish yourself then walk in the
direction of your dreams fulfilled.
- Remember, you are a living miracle.
- Treat yourself like a precious gift and you will
be living in the true Spirit of the holidays!
Imaginative,
dynamic thinkers and dreamers know that they have the ability to uplift their
thinking and feelings even during the most challenging
moments.
They choose to do this because they know
that peace, joy, love, compassion, and good will towards others is a gift to
themselves.
Visionaries know how to change the direction of their
thoughts. They choose to walk the path of joy because it is this path that
allows them to have, do and be all that they dream of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Always do
what you are afraid to do." Are you afraid to feel your pain and let it go--
enjoy yourself and move on-- live your dreams-- and best of all-- love yourself
in spite of adversity?
This Holiday Season Believe in the Magic Within
and give the most sacred gift of all--the gift of an image. No matter who or
what you are imaging about, allow yourself time to relax and center yourself in
the spirit of love. If your image is to experience loving relationships and
fulfilling companionship or better health, or more prosperity, or the right
career opportunity, turn within to the Source of All That Is. Whether your
challenges are emotional or physical open yourself up to relief and
healing.
Moving through pain, letting go, and capturing the feeling of
love is your assurance that the blessing of a new birth is on the horizon. For
as you believe the unbelievable to be true, you express the greatness that is
truly within you.
The story of Christmas is about believing the unbelievable.
In order to give birth to your heart's desires you
must believe and feel as though you have already received the gift. If you have
a desire for something, you must shape a new belief in harmony with your dream.
Why? Because you only permit or accept things within the fixed limits of your
beliefs and reactions. It is vital to dwell in feelings that are in tune with
the realization of your dream because "like attracts like". It is important to
detach yourself from all thoughts and feelings that would have you go in the
direction of experiences you no longer wish to participate in.
The
Secret of the Law of Consciousness is that you are able to singularly conceive a
new idea and without the aid of any man or woman, feel it to be true. Once fixed
in consciousness this new concept will express itself in the world of
experience.
Consciousness is your "Womb of Wonder" capable of being
impregnated with new impressions.
The Imaginal Dynamic allows you to
discover a great secret and apply it to your daily life. If you will persist to
apply the Principle of Imaging and the Law of Attraction you will experience the
truth behind every manifested result, birth or dream.
The moment you
discover that your "awareness is your savior" you will turn your focus away from
your problems. You will consciously replace the false images that haunt your
memory.
As you shine the Light of Consciousness the Great Stars of
Faith, Hope and Love will warm and stimulate all your desires into
fruition.
Copyright 2002, Melissa Zollo http://www.presentmemory.com
is the author of "Discover the Power of Imagination and the Art of Intentional
Creation" and "How to Unleash the Power With and Attract Money" CD audio
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