Take Care of You!

Release what no longer has value.

Simplify, appreciate and care for what you have.

Take time to value all you are and all you have.

DO WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.

YOUR BEST BLESSES US ALL.

Affirmations:

Letting go is fun, safe and easy.

I free myself to joyfully be myself.

I stop weighing myself down.

I forgive myself for limiting myself.

Take Care of You!

Do you have more than you can care for?

Is your time full of useless activity?

Are you filling your space with unneeded stuff?

Do you stay so busy you have no time to enjoy?

When we have too much, we neglect it.

When we do too much, we get tired and cranky.

When we hurt too much, we shut down or numb ourselves.

When we accumulate too much, it loses its value.

Assess what you are doing with your life.

Look at how you care for your family.

Notice the state of your home, bedroom, kitchen and living room.

Ask yourself what you do with your time and all your stuff.

When we have too much, we lose appreciation and real care.

If we cannot be fully responsible, we blame others and feel guilty.

When we lose our positive mind, we forget to be grateful.

When we neglect our self appreciation, we stop taking care of ourselves.

Are you taking the time to love you?

Do you respond to your own needs with kindness?

Are you patient with your mistakes and forgetfulness?

Do you take time to nurture yourself and enjoy life?

Too much is too much!

Even taking five minutes to stop and breathe is helpful. 

Getting up in the quiet of the morning with a cup of tea can bring clarity.

Taking a shower with mindfulness can set the tone for more patience.

Being willing to read one page of inspiration before bedtime will calm your mind.

Learn a simple quiet time practice.

The clouds, sunset, walk in your yard can be moments to fill you with peace.

Begin to undo and release whatever is heavy, difficult and hurtful to you.

Open your heart to feel love and joy and gratitude again for anything and everything.

Seek out healing sounds and sights, interactions and inspiration.

Find joy in watching whatever you can fully appreciate.

Give your peace and kindness to those who need help.

Relinquish focus on what brings you disappointment and despair.

You can forgive, undo, erase and let go of what you do not need.

You can value, enjoy, appreciate and focus on what lifts you up.

Lighten your life and you will lighten your mind.

Loving you, 

Betty Lue

Letting go can be fun, safe and easy.

Learn to let go with love and gratitude.

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Purposeful Living

Your life is important.

Treat it with care.

Value what is valuable.

DO WHAT YOU LOVE.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO.

Affirmations:

I do what I love and share what I have.

I always have plenty to give and to share.

I let go and learn what I really want to have.

I find meaning and purpose in sharing the very best in me.

Living On Purpose

When we live with purpose daily, we feel happy, whole and free.

When we stop using our body lovelessly, we are healthy, energized and productive.

When we relinquish past regrets and grievances, our mind is open for creativity. 

Life is a powerful instrument of creativity, enjoyment and service.

Learn to live each day with thoughtful creation.

Learn to give your energy to have more, do more, share more and enjoy more.

Learn to bring your most conscious and connected self to each moment.

Learn to be your best self in all circumstances and watch your life grow.

Life is meant to be lived with meaning and purpose.

Life is here to be blessed with clarity, choice and communication.

Life is enhanced with our commitment to give all to have all.

When we live our life purposefully, we experience the blessings of health, happiness and fulfillment.

We can squander our time, money and energy and receive no return.

We can let life slip away with no awareness of its true value.

We can sleep and dream, but never experience the full joy of experiencing.

We can eat, drink and be merry, but never really know the fullness of Gratitude.

We are here to learn what to value and how to enjoy our lives.

We have the opportunity to explore and experiment to see what is Good for us.

We can create and erase again and again.

Vision and manifestation come with our freedom of choice.

Often we live and share what is popular or valued by others.

We may live out our parents wishes for us.

We often choose what may create fame and riches.

We even oppose society and set limits on ourselves.

The real key to living on purpose is to begin again without prejudice. (pre-judging)

The opportunity is available to give up where we are stuck and tied to former choices.

We can claim what seems fun, safe and easily flows through our lives.

We can find inner peace and joy in what is right there ready for us to choose.

Learning to discern what seems natural and joyous may be a foreign concept.

Relinquishing the concept of a difficult life of hard work and struggle is our highest option.

As we learn to undo the obstacles in our way, we stop resisting, denying and blocking what is good.

Living with meaning and purpose comes naturally, when we listen within to our joy.

Know you can and will be happy, when you live what is on purpose for you.

Know you will have confidence and enjoy what you are doing and how you are living.

Know you deserve to have a life that is fulfilling everyday in a very honest way.

Believe in yourself and live your dreams.

Show Up.

Pay attention.

Share the Highest Truths.

Let go of Attachment.

Living life with heart and meaning.

Always Loving You,

Betty Lue

“Life is for learning.

Education leads out of ignorance.

The more we learn, the more we know.

The more we know, the better our resources.

The more  resources, the more choice we have.”

The more choices, the more enjoyable life can be.”

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Earth Day Gratitude

Let us respect the Earth that is our home.

We are all stewards of our land and its bounty.

RESPECT AND VALUE WHAT SUSTAINS LIFE.

OUR CONSCIOUS INTENTION MATTERS.

Affirmations:

Everyday I honor my earth home and its beauty.

With each breath, I give life to myself and all creation.

Life is filled with grace and glory, when I Love.

I am in love with the beauty and goodness I see in everyone and everywhere.

Earth Day Gratitude

Be grateful for the beauty.

Be grateful for the bounty.

Be grateful for the belief.

Be grateful for Being here.

Of all the places we could be, we are here.

Of all the lives we could be living, we live here.

Of all the songs we could be singing, we sing here.

Of all the beauty we could be beholding, we are here.

Do you really appreciate where you live?

Do you really receive the pleasure of being on this planet earth?

Do you take the time to say 'Thank God' for the privilege of living in America?

Do you actually see and enjoy the beauty around you?

No matter what season, there are always miracles of nature.

No matter what the weather, there is always amazing beauty.

No matter where you live, you can see with curiosity and wonder.

No matters what you might imagine, with forgiveness you can feel gratitude and grace.  

Stop judging, comparing and evaluating, and you will see the Good.

Stop neglecting and ignoring, and you will find the gifts.

Stop fearing and worrying, and you will recognize the blessings.

Stop taking in negativity and pessimism, and you will step into each day with hope and trust.

Life is what we make it with our thoughts and attitude.

Thoughts and beliefs create our perception.

What we see comes from what we look for.

When we are grateful, we look for the Good.

The seeds we plant today will grow with our loving care.

The beliefs we hold in our mind will emerge of like kind.

The attitudes we carry will reveal themselves in our lives.

Our fears and prejudice will be there, unless we weed them out!

We are responsible for what we experience.

We are capable of changing our thoughts and words.

We can choose peace and relinquish attack.

We can choose love and forgive all fear.

We are the channels of love on this earth.

We are the miracle workers with love in action.

We are the blessing and the blessed.

We are here to give tribute to what is Good and Beautiful and Whole.

Let us utilize today and everyday to honor our calling.

Love one another and the earth home on which we live together.

Blessings increase with our appreciation.

Betty Lue 

May you be happy.

May you be safe.

May you be strong.

May you live with ease.

May you love yourself well.

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True Service

Stop giving to get your needs met.

Give from a place of wholeness.

There is no need to martyr yourself for others.

What is best for you is best for all.

BE TRULY HELPFUL.

SERVE YOURSELF FIRST.

Affirmations:

I am here to be truly helpful.

When I give my best, I experience the best in me.

The more I say YES to the best, the more I have the best.

I love unconditionally, give from my heart and remember the Good in life.

True Service

Do you ever wonder why you are asked to help?

Do you every feel overwhelmed with taking care of others?

Do you resent having others ask for your time and energy?

Perhaps you are asked, because you are most willing and able.

When you consider all those in need, are you not the most capable and willing?

When you are asked, do you consider it a complement that you are being chosen?

Or have you placed yourself on others' lists with needs of your own?

When you help others, you will find you will be helped yourself.

We are all teaching and learning together.

We are here to recognize our own needs, prejudices and misunderstandings.

We attract those to us who will show us what we need to heal and learn.

When we give conscious attention to those who ask, we learn about ourselves.

Our resistance to another shows us the resistance and/or fear within ourselves.

Our attraction to another’s needs shows us our own willingness to learn and heal ourselves.

We can quickly begin to understand what we are learning by listening to our own responses.

We can easily heal our needs by contributing to another’s needs.

Such is the nature of human interaction and relationship experiences.

What we perceive within another exists somewhere within ourselves.

What we say to another is also being said for our own learning and healing.

When we are helpful to others, we are touching, teaching and helping ourselves.

The encounters we have with others can be informational and inspirational for us.

When we deny or judge others, we are denying and judging that which is within us.

When we welcome others, we are being open and welcoming to ourselves.

What we give we will receive, when we are aware.

Everything can be perceived as a blessing or a burden.

What makes helping and service a positive and useful experience is our own self awareness.

When we are able to respond to all things with kindness and compassion, we feel blessed.

When we resist or reject others, we are increasing our fear and negativity.

When we learn to soften our responses to ourselves and others, we experience more safety and peace.

Is it time to first take impeccable care of you?

Provide yourself with the best you know and extend your well-being to others.

Give the best you have and feel yourself strengthen your wisdom and wholeness.

Be awake and aware of the opportunity to love and serve others with what is within you.

Encouraging us all to contribute what is within us to share.

Be confident, certain and committed to do what is good for you and all.

Blessings increase ,when they are shared.

Betty Lue

Helping, Fixing, Serving

--by Rachel Remen (May 29, 2000) 

Service is not the same as helping. Helping is based on inequality, it's not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your own strength to help someone with less strength. It's a one up, one down relationship, and people feel this inequality. When we help, we may inadvertently take away more than we give, diminishing the person's sense of self-worth and self-esteem.

Now, when I help I am very aware of my own strength, but we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all our experiences: our wounds serve, our limitations serve, even our darkness serves. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in the other, and the wholeness in life. Helping incurs debt: when you help someone, they owe you. But service is mutual. When I help I have a feeling of satisfaction, but when I serve I have a feeling of gratitude.

Serving is also different from fixing. We fix broken pipes, we don't fix people. When I set about fixing another person, it's because I see them as broken. Fixing is a form of judgment that separates us from one another; it creates a distance.

So, fundamentally, helping, fixing and serving are ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak; when you fix, you see life as broken; and when you serve, you see life as whole.

When we serve in this way, we understand that this person's suffering is also my suffering, that their joy is also my joy and then the impulse to serve arises naturally - our natural wisdom and compassion presents itself quite simply. A server knows that they're being used and has the willingness to be used in the service of something greater. 

We may help or fix many things in our lives, but when we serve, we are always in the service of wholeness.

--Rachel Remen, from Zen Hospice

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