Monday, November 21, 2011

Grumpiness or Gratitude?

If you are not living with gratitude, you must not be loving your whole self well.
If you are not feeling appreciation, you may have neglected to create what you want.
If you are not enjoying where you live and how you live, you may have lost your way.
If you are not full of curiosity, wonder and delight, you may have wandered away from home.

When grumpiness comes, it is reminding us of what we are missing.  
When dark clouds seem to follow us, we must have taken the wrong road.
When we seem to be discouraged and disappointed, we must have appointed the wrong people to lead.
When we feel victimized, depressed and resentful, we must have forgotten how to love ourselves well.

What will it take to get back the good happy feeling?
What do we need to do to remember how to enjoy?
What can we change to live our life impeccably and purposefully?
What can we do to live abundantly and with full appreciation?

We victimize ourselves.
We stop taking care of the One we are.
We live with deception and false beliefs.
We fool ourselves into thinking we can be untrue to our own values and still be happy and healthy.

Guilt will be our punishment.
Guilt is what stirs our negativity.
Guilt is projected onto blaming others.
Guilt comes when we lost our way and stop listening and loving the Good in ourselves.

Yes, we know what is right when we listen inside.
We know what I truly best for us.
We know we can be Good and see Good and choose Good and live Good.
When we forget the Good, we feel guilt.

I am talking about you and me, all of us, who are unhappy and depressed, discouraged and punished.
When we are not feeling happy and delighted, encouraged and blessed, we have left the Good way.
The Good Way is the Godly way, the giving way, the abundant way, the honest way, the inspired way.
And deep within everyone, we know what is the good way, the best way, the healthy way to live and love.

So when we are grumpy, it is time to stop, to listen within and to follow another leader.
Follow the voice of peace, to end the fighting and disagreements and blaming and guilt.
Listen to the voice of forgiveness and love, of trust and freedom and support to be all we can be.
Speak words of encouragement and support, appreciation and enjoyment, respect and thanks.

What you give to another, you strengthen in yourself.
What you live shows others, what they can do for themselves.
What you think about others reinforces your thoughts about yourself.
So think Good thoughts, speak loving words and do kind deeds, serving the Good way for everyone.

Let us be grateful that we can forgive our wrong turns and immediately choose again the loving way.
Loving  you,  
Betty Lue
This really works!  Try it and watch how good you can feel.
30 Days to Enlightenment  and Waking Up
30 Days to Healing and Seeing things Differently!
This exercise has a profound impact on how we see and live our lives.
This daily practice will heal and transform your life
With continued practice, there will be a spiritual awakening.
Forgiveness heals our perception and gives us Response-Ability.
Choice empowers us to Create our Experience Consciously.
Gratitude expands what we Choose and increases our Joy.

Daily Practice:
Begin each morning with a pad of lined paper and a pen.
Write and say 30 forgivenesses as they come to mind. 
Simply write “I forgive”…and let the rest just come from within. 
(No need to understand or feel anything.)
I forgive you for being mean.
I forgive myself for letting anyone hurt me.
I forgive my body’s limitation.
I forgive myself for being late.
I forgive everything.
Make the sound “AAAH” for 1-2 minutes.
Imagine that you are opening your mind.
Now write and say 30 Choices. 
I choose to be happy. 
I choose to be free.  
I choose to do what I love. 
I choose to forgive….
In the Evening (before bed)
Write and say 30 Gratitudes
I appreciate the energy I have.
I love being happy.
I am grateful I have you in my life.
I thank God.
Make the  sound “OM”  the Universal sound for Love and God for 1-2 minutes.

PS Even a few of each is better than none.  
Do what you can and trust it is working.
Loving You always, 
Betty Lue