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I found this blog “What The Bleep Do I Eat” by Annette Nack as part of a 30 day Blogging Challenge started by Connie Ragan Green

This is a 21 Day Gratitude Journey started 12 days ago (I think) by Annette. And, although I didn’t stumble upon it until today, there is absolutely no reason why we can’t start our own personal 21 day Gratitude Journeys today!!! I encourage you to go to Annette’s Blog and see what a great idea  she has and how she’s structured it – she even gives you assignments each day so that you can keep on track. Way to go Annette! Thank you for doing this.

Remember to use your Gratitude Journal for this (and post your comments on her blog or ours … or even both). Don’t have your Gratitude Journal? Pick it up here.

Get started and let us know how you’re doing!

Terrie

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This is a great post – you have to read this. Thanks to  Tiny Buddha

10 Happiness Tips for People Who Have Been Hurt

by Lori Deschene

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Unknown

Maybe someone hurt you physically or emotionally. Maybe you’ve survived something else traumatic–a natural disaster, a fire, an armed robbery. Or maybe you’ve just come out of a trying situation, and though you know you’ll eventually recover, you still feel pain that seems unbearable.

Whatever the case may be, you’ve been scarred, and you carry it with you through many of your days.

Most of us can relate on some level to that feeling. Even people who excel at taking personal responsibility have at least one story of having been hurt. Though some of us have endured more serious situations, you really can’t quantify or compare emotional pain.

To a teenager who just had her heart broken, the pain really seems like the end of the world. In fact, Livestrong estimates that every 100 minutes, a teenager commits suicide–and that the number of suicides in high-income families is the same as in poor families. Presumably, not all of those teens have suffered incomprehensible tragedies. What they have in common is pain, born from different adversities and circumstances.

When you’re hurting some people might tell you to “Suck it up and deal” as if that’s a valid solution. They may say “It’s all in your head” and assume that reasons away the pain. But none of that will help you heal and find happiness from moment to moment.

Like everyone, I’ve been hurt–in both profound and trivial ways. I’ve dealt with it using the following ideas:

1. Define your pain.

It’s not always easy to identify and understand what’s hurting you. Some people even stay in abusive relationships because it’s safer than acknowledging their many layers of pain: the low self esteem that convinces them they deserve abuse; the shame over being treated with such cruelty; the feeling of desperation that convinces them there’s no real way out.

The first step toward finding happiness after having been hurt is to understand why you were hurt; to get to the root of everything that makes the memories hard.

2. Express that pain.

There’s no guarantee you’ll be able to communicate how you feel to the person who hurt you; and if you can, there’s no guarantee they’ll respond how you want them to. Say what you need to say anyways. Write in your journal. Write a letter and burn it. Get it all out.

This will help you understand why you’re hurting–and what you’ll do in the future to avoid similar pain–so you can feel empowered instead of victimized. Research has actually proven that people who focus on lessons learned while journaling find the experience more helpful than people who don’t (focus on lessons).

3. Try to stay in the present.

Reliving the past can be addictive. It gives you the opportunity to do it again and respond differently. To fight back instead of submitting; to speak your mind instead of silencing yourself. It also allows you to possibly understand better. What happened? Where did you go wrong? What should you have done?

In other words, it allows you to torture yourself. Regardless of what you should have done, you can’t do it now. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, you may need professional help to avoid revisiting the incident. If you don’t, you need sustained effort. Fight the urge to relive the pain. You can’t go back and find happiness there. You can only experience that now.

4. Stop telling the story.

It may seem like another way to understand what happened; or maybe it feels helpful to hear someone say you didn’t do anything wrong and you don’t deserve to hurt. In all reality this just keeps you stuck right where you are: living your life around a memory and giving it power to control you.

No amount of reassurance will change what happened. You can’t find happiness by holding onto a painful story, trying to place in new, brighter light. You can only find happiness when you let it go, and make room for something better. You don’t need another person’s permission to let go and feel OK.

5. Forgive yourself.

Maybe you didn’t do anything wrong, but you blame yourself. Or maybe you played a role in creating your current situation. Regardless of what happened, you need to realize what you did is not who you are. And even if you feel immense regret, you deserve to start today without carrying that weight. You deserve a break.

You can either punish yourself and submit to misery, or forgive yourself and create the possibility of happiness. It comes down to whether you decide to dwell or move on. Which do you choose: anger with yourself and prolonged pain, or forgiveness and the potential for peace?

6. Stop playing the blame/victim game.

Maybe you were a victim. Maybe someone did horrible things to you, or you fell into an unfortunate set of circumstances through no fault of your own. It still doesn’t serve you to sit around feeling bad for yourself, blaming other people. In fact, it only holds you back. You can’t feel good if you use this moment to feel bad about another person’s actions.

The only way to experience happiness is to take responsibility for creating it, whether other people made it easy for you or not. You’re not responsible for what happened to you in the past but you’re responsible for your attitude now. Why let someone who hurt you in the past have power over your present?

7. Don’t let the pain become your identity.

If everything you do, and all your relationships center around something that hurt you, it will be harder to move on. You may even come to appreciate what that identity gives you: attention, the illusion of understanding, or the warmth of compassion, for example.

You have to consider the possibility there’s a greater sense of happiness in completely releasing your story. That you’d feel better than you can even imagine if you’d stop letting your pain define you. You can have a sad story in your past without building your present around it.

8. Reconnect with who you were before the pain.

It’s not easy to release a pain identity, particularly if you’ve carried it around for a long time. It may help to remember who you were before that experience–or to consider who you might have become if it hadn’t happened. You can still be that person. That person who doesn’t feel bitter or angry so frequently.

If you want to feel and be peaceful and happy, start by identifying what that looks like. What you think about, what you feel, what you do, how you interact with people. Odds are this process will remind you both how you want to be and how you don’t want to be.

9. Focus on things that bring you joy in the moment.

You don’t have to focus on completely letting go of your pain forever–you just have to make room for joy right now. Start simple. What’s something you can enjoy in this moment, regardless of what pain you’ve experienced? Would sitting in the sun bring you joy? Would calling your sister bring you joy?

Don’t think about the totality of the rest of your days. That’s a massive burden to carry–haven’t you hurt enough? Just focus on now, and allow yourself a little peace. You’ll be surprised how easily “nows” can add up when you focus on them as they come.

10. Share that joy with other people.

People often isolate themselves when they’re hurting because it feels safer than showing people their vulnerability. What they fail to realize is they don’t have to feel vulnerable all the time. You can choose certain people for support, and then allow yourself time with others without involving your painful story.

You can share a meal, a movie, a moment and give yourself a break from your anger or sadness. You don’t have to carry it through every moment of your day. Don’t worry–if you feel you need to remember it, you’ll still be able to recall it later. But as you allow yourself pockets of peace, shared with people you love, you may find you need that story a lot less.

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Everyone deserves to feel happy. Everyone deserves a little peace. One more thing we all have in common: we can only provide those things for ourselves.

Read more about Lori Deschene. Thank her for her wonderful post

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I found this wonderful post and am putting it here because it is metaphysical for sure – you all know that Anne and I talk about how the Universe Loves Action and this says it in a great story. We also teach you that you MUST make decisions – otherwise the Universe is volleying back and forth trying to figure out what to give you – if you change your mind today and then again tomorrow and then back again, how is the Universe supposed to know what you really want. You need to make decisions. You can work on them and then refine them but you have to decide. Then it will be so much easier for you to take action because you know now what you want and the Universe is helping you with this.

Read this article and apply it to your everyday life:

Success Is A Decision

by Martha on April 16, 2010

I met an elderly gentleman recently who had been the owner of a very successful catering business during his heyday.  As a student of success, I always like to find out exactly what makes an entrepreneur succeed.

Here’s the story he told me:

One day, he came home and told his wife he had good news and bad news.  The good news was that he had just told a man he would buy his catering business.  The bad news was that it cost $250,000.

He asked his wife how much money they had and she said $1500.

If you are laughing now, you would be sharing the same emotion his wife had.

However, he told me, he  had a strong feeling  he could make that business BOOM and he had decided that he was going to be successful.

What happened next is a testament to sheer tenacity and a wholehearted belief in himself.

Knowing there was no bank that would loan him the money, he made a list of everyone he knew.

He started at the top of the list with the person he thought would be the most receptive.  It was a bar owner.  The gentleman told me he was never a drinker but had made friends with the bar owner and the owner liked him.  After hearing the gentleman’s story, the bar owner laughed and said he didn’t have $250,000 to loan.  The gentleman then said, “How much do you have?”  Now, that was a man on a mission!

Long story short, two days later, the tavern owner called to say he could loan the gentleman $20,000.  He was on his way! That gave him the confidence he needed to call the others on his list.

Through those phone calls, he managed to secure the entire $250,000 to purchase the business.

Now, that would be a story in motivation and inspiration just by itself, but there’s more.

In two and a half years, the gentleman had paid every penny of the money back, plus had bought a building for $150,000 and owned four catering trucks.

He was delighted to tell me the story.  I was more than happy to hear it.

After the story, our conversation centered on WHY all this came about.  He admitted that once he made the decision, doors began to open up.  Then, once he had acquired the business, he worked with a passion, and the profits rolled in.

Have you made the decision that your business will be a success?  Or are you HOPING it will succeed?

There’s only one answer that’s right!

Peace,

-Martha

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Thanks so much To Martha Giffen for putting this so wonderfully.

Terrie

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What a phenomenal week we had! And the support from all of you made it even better. We were very busy (but not as busy as we’ll be when we get ready to launch the membership site – guess I need to stock up on my sleep now ).

We finished the four week series on The Art of Making Things Happen which was terrific and gave people a typical E.S.P. method that Anne is famous for – no, not the ESP you’re used to but our E.S.P. – Easy, Simple, Practical! This method will get you going in any direction you desire.

Last Tuesday was such a treat! We had our inaugural guest speaker for Everyday New Thought Community Membership site. Reverend Lippert is an amazing speaker who practices what she (and we) preach and last week she gave everyone a lesson on Seeding Your Way to Financial Freedom. Although there were technical difficulties on the webcast, everyone was so supportive and most hopped on over to the phone.

Because it was so good, I decided that we should offer the replay to everyone. So…if you’re interested, here it is. When you’re done listening you could benefit everyone by providing some feedback on our feedback page (just click on the words “feedback page”). I know that Reverend Lippert would love to hear what you thought.

Here’s the replay:

Terrie

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Hi folks,

Anne and I have been busy working on the membership site and boy do we have a whole lot planned for you! I’ve told you some of it but there is so much more than we’ve
even mentioned. The programmers are working on it right now, almost as we speak……

So, anyway, that’s why we haven’t posted much – but I know that Anne posted something

the other night so you might want to check out Anne’s blog later.

What a treat we have for you this coming Tuesday. As part of Everyday New Thought
Community Membership site, we will have a panel of experts. One of these experts is
none other than Reverend Cynthia Lippert! She is a phenomenal speaker and will
definitely keep your interest.

She will be teaching methods to quickly increase individual incomes through seeding.
She gives new insight into the purpose of giving to the Universe through using the
Universal Law of Supply and Demand. This will be TUESDAY 6 November 2007 – yes, you
can ELECT to have financial freedom….

Times are 5:05 p.m. pacific, 7:05 p.m. central, 8:05 p.m. eastern.

Register now to reserve your space and seed your own financial freedom.

Here’s what she’ll cover:

-Recognizing financial gifts in another form

-Why everyone needs to demonstrate

-How you can increase your own supply

-The real reason for giving

-How meditation helps your ability to receive

-How the Universe shows you gratitude

Listen to Anne and I discuss this upcoming show:

Seed your financial freedom seat NOW.

Read more about Reverend Lippert:

Rev. Cynthia Lippert is one of the most dynamic women in the New

Thought movement. She and Anne Kunath were instrumental in founding

the United Divine Science Ministerial School after which she founded

a Divine Science church in Wichita, Kansas. After four years she

retired from that position and traveled extensively teaching in a

variety of New Thought churches including Religious Science, Divine

Science,Unity and other independent denominations. Cynthia is

currently Senior Minister of Unity of Wichita.

Rev. Lippert’s effervescent personality combines with her how-to

method of teaching that enthralls listeners as she explains methods

and techniques to Make Things Happen in Your Life. Her topic on

Tuesday, Nov 6 will be Seeding Your Way to Financial Freedom.

Rev.Lippert is President of the International New Thought Alliance,

serves on Unity’s Journey of Renewal committee, is District President

of the South Central Region of INTA; on the Board of Trustees for the

Knox Center of Wichita, a multi-cultural alcohol and drug treatment

center. She has been a guest speaker at each INTA Congress since

2000; she is speaking at the Universal Foundation for Better Living

Annual Panorama of Truth in 2008 in Cancun, Mexico. and is a

published author.

Rev. Lippert held an executive career in the information technology

industry prior to entering the ministerial school.

Register now and remember that it’s TUESDAY 6 November 2007!

Talk to you soon.

Terrie

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Dr. Mary Beth Olson’s teleseminar is tomorrow tonight – TUESDAY!

Register now

Learn about these fascinating topics:

The Aramaic Speaking Jesus
Moses and the Burning Bush
Moses and the REED Sea
Noah and the Flood
In which Bethlehem was Jesus born?
Women in the Church
The Gnostic Jesus
The Beginnings of Christianity
The Beatitudes from the Aramaic
The Difference between the King James
   and the Aramaic Bible
The Temptations of Jesus
The Seven Last Words
Who REALLY wrote the Gospels?

Register now

Join us Tuesday night, 17 October 2006 at 5 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Central, and 8 p.m. Eastern.

This $50 value is No Cost to you! We are so grateful that Dr. Olson is going to give us her time on the teleseminar and then all weekend long at the Church here in San Antonio.

Register now:

Talk to you tomorrow night!

Terrie

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I intend to write about the power of portability later but I discovered something that I want to share with everyone.

Audible.com has audiobooks for really decent prices. I put them on my IPOD (or any MP3 player) and then can listen whenever I want – even to and from work in my car.

I was searching the recently added books and found Edwene Gaines’ book “The Four Spiritual Law of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance” – and it’s narrated by Edwene.

Go to Audible and check it out. Last week as I flew to and from New York City in 36 hours, I listened to TWO complete books on my IPOD. There is no way I would have been able to read two books on that trip. Think about it and stay tuned for my Power of Portability post.

Terrie

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This coming Tuesday  October 17, 2006, we’ll be conducting a teleseminar with Dr. Mary Beth Olson, master of the Aramaic Bible and culture. This will be at 5 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. Eastern.

Dr. Olson combines the Aramaic culture in Jesus time and in today’s world as she expertly describes and teaches the real meanings of the stories we have all heard. Her love of the philosophy that Jesus taught and her unique ability to bring the stories to life create a  fascinating workshop that captivates her students.

These are some of the topics she’ll be touching on (the things she doesn’t cover in the teleseminar will be covered in her workshops at the Church of Today here in San Antonio this coming weekend- CDs will be available – contact me if you’re interested):

•        The Aramaic Speaking Jesus
•        Moses and the Burning Bush
•        Moses and the Reed Sea
•        Noah and the Flood
•        In which Bethlehem was Jesus born?
•        Women in the Church
•        The Gnostic Jesus
•        The Beginnings of Christianity
•        The Beatitudes from the Aramaic
•        The Difference between the King James and Aramaic Bibles
•        The Temptations of Jesus
•        The Seven Last Words
•        Who REALLY wrote the Gospels?

Delightful surprises are in store as you hear the translation  as Mary Beth  gives the definitions from the 2000 year old writings in Aramaic.

Join us. Remember it’s NO COST to you.

Terrie

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