Thursday, September 02, 2010

Life Works

How does your life work for you?

Life is an accurate demonstration of what we ask for.
Life agrees with our thoughts, mistakes and all.
Life gives us time to undo what is false.
Life fills us up and gives us time to empty.
Life provides a puzzle to keep us engaged.
Life streams many forms of communication.
Life presents multiple choice, to do and be or not to do and be.
Life plays our life story and the stories we tell on the big screen of life.
Life highlights our inner drama, fears and passions.
Life displays, in alarming detail, what scares us.
Life changes the channels in an instant with our will.
Life provides heroes and villains, helpers and distracters.
Life lets us write our own script from our own imaginings.
Life can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our level of responsibility.

What is your life for you?
Do you own it or try to make someone else responsible?
Do you make it real or see it as an entertainment or source of  learning?
Are you able to forgive yourself (and others) for the mistakes held at true?

Do you value what is valuable in your life and create more of what is valued?
Or do you value what you fear and dislike by your attention (obsession) with your disgust?
Do you remember the truths of creation and give attention and appreciation to what you want?
Or do you dismiss the Good and spend time and energy obsessing, defending and fearing the bad?

Are you willing to be a constant source of screening and editing the movie you watch every day?
Or do you play “dumb” and allow others to write, produce and star in your life story?
Are you willing to imagine the best parts or do you take the scraps and feel sorry for yourself?
Do you stay conscious enough to play only those parts that please you and insist on editing as needed?

In the end we will see, it is we ourselves that are writing, producing and directing our life.
We will stop and enjoy the parts we play and the lessons we learn.
Each day is a new movie with a new script, if we so choose.
Each relationship is a new love story, in which we can receive or reject the love we want.
Each lesson to learn can be easy or hard.
Each line we speak can be one of gratitude or criticism.

Life is a gift.
We have a life in which we can play, or  pray or call it a day.
Wrap it up anytime or keep the cameras rolling.
What we see in the media is merely a reminder of what we ourselves are choosing or losing.

Take a moment to see what is true.
Show up.  Pay attention. Tell the truth to yourself. Let go and choose again.
Come to your life with eyes wide open.
Notice what your life really is showing you.
Be responsible for what you think and say and do.
Quickly let go of all errors and choose again for the Good.

Life is working for us. (Unless you choose to believe you are a victim of your life!)
Loving you in waking up, 

Betty Lue
To be willing to Wake up and Remember, you must first and foremost, Love Yourself!
From Louise Hay ©1988

How To Love Yourself
1. STOP ALL CRITICISMCriticism never changes a thing. Refuse to criticize yourself. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you approve of yourself, your changes are positive.
2. 
DON’T SCARE YOURSELFStop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts. It’s a dreadful way to live. Find a mental image that gives you pleasure (mine is yellow roses), and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.
3. 
BE GENTLE AND KIND AND PATIENTBe gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with yourself as you learn the new ways of thinking. Treat yourself as you would someone you really loved.
4. 
PRAISE YOURSELF
 
Criticism breaks down the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing.
5. 
BE KIND TO YOUR MIND
 
Self hatred is only hating your own thoughts. Don’t hate yourself for having the thoughts. Gently change your thoughts.
6. 
SUPPORT YOURSELF
 
Find ways to support yourself. Reach out to friends and allow them to help you. It is being strong to ask for help when you need it.
7. 
BE LOVING TO YOUR NEGATIVES
 
Acknowledge that you created them to fulfill a need. Now you are finding new, positive ways to fulfill those needs. So, lovingly release the old negative patterns.
8. 
TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY
 
Learn about nutrition. What kind of fuel does your body need to have optimum energy and vitality? Learn about exercise. What kind of exercise can you enjoy? Cherish and revere the temple you live in.
9. 
MIRROR WORK
 
Look into your eyes often. Express this growing sense of love you have for yourself. Forgive yourself looking into the mirror. Talk to your parents looking into the mirror. Forgive them too. At least once a day say: “I love you, I really love you!”
10. 
LOVE YOURSELF...DO IT NOW
 
Don’t wait until you get well, or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship. Begin now, and do the best you can.