Thread: It is the Time of the Eye: Homemade Blueberry Pancakes

Re Ivy's Garden of Wondering Thoughts The past has no power over us. What is important in this moment is what you are choosing to think and believe and say right now. For these thoughts and words will create your future. Your point of power is in the present moment and is forming the experience of next week, next month, next year and so on. No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts. Even self-hatred is only hating a thought you have about yourself. You have a thought that says, I'm a bad person. This thought produces a feeling and you buy into the feeling. However, if you don't have the thought, you won't have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed. Change the thought and the feeling must go. Resentment, Criticism, Guilt and Fear. These four things cause major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibilty for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame. Whatever is happening out there is only a mirror of our own inner thinking. I am not condoning other people's poor behavior, but it is OUR beliefs that attract people who treat us that way. If you find yourself saying, Everyone always does such and such to me, criticzes me, is never there for me and treats me like a doormat, abuses me then this is YOUR PATTERN. There is some thought in you that attracts people who exhibit this behavior. When you no longer think that way, they will go elsewhere and do that to somebody else. You will no longer attract them. The past is over and done. We cannot change that now. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish of us to PUNISH OURSELVES in the present moment because someone hurt us in the long ago past. If we choose to believe we are helpless victims and that it's all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief, and we will just go down the drain. It is vital that we release these foolish, out-moded, negative ideas and beliefs that do not support us and nourish us. We need to choose to release the past and forgive everyone, ourselves included. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive, but the very fact that we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing process. It is imperative for our own healing that we release the past and forgive everyone. This affirmation sets us free. The very person you find it hardest to forgive is THE ONE YOU NEED TO LET GO OF THE MOST. Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior. It's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know HOW to forgive. All we need to do is be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows. We understand our own pain so well. How hard it is for most of us to understand that THEY, whoever they are that we most need to forgive, were also in pain. We need to understand that they did the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at the time. I find that when we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without our even trying. Loving and approving of yourself, creating a space of safety, trusting, deserving and accepting, will create organization in your mind, create more loving relationships in your life, attract a new job, and a new and better place to live and even enable your body weight to normalize. Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. From the opening chapter of You Can Heal Your Life , by Louise L. Hay. A book that is very close to my heart.