Caring

Affirmations:

I care for everyone as myself.

I live because I care.

I dare to care and feel blessed by caring.

We are healed, when we care with trust and freedom.

Does Anybody Really Care?

Sometimes it hurts to care.

Sometimes it helps to care.

Sometimes we don’t know how to care.

Sometimes no one wants to care.

Caring is an essential human quality.

When we stop caring, we are numb.

When we stop caring, we feel separate.

When we stop caring. we stop helping.

When we stop caring about ourselves, we cannot care for others.

When we stop caring for ourselves, we need someone to care for us.

When we need someone to care for us, no one may know how to care.

When we leave caring to others, no one may be there to care.

Everyone needs to learn to care.

We learn to care by experiencing someone caring for us.

We learn to care by feeling how good it feels to care for someone.

We feel caring by giving care for others.

Let us care for the earth.

Let us care for the foods we eat.

Let us care for the animals.

Let us care for the trees, plants and flowers.

Let us care for the dawn and the sunset.

Let us care for the natural scents in the wind.

Let us care for the air we breathe.

Let us care for the environment we live in.

Let us care for kindness.

Let us care for doing good deeds.

Let us care for our words.

Let us care for sharing encouragement and gratitude,

Let us care to teach others how to care.

Let us share how loved we feel when others care.

Let us demonstrate our caring by treating everyone well.

Let us live our caring by always and only sharing the best we know.

When everyone gives their best, we all feel better.

When everyone cares their most, we all feel loved.

When everyone does good deeds, we all feel blessed.

When everyone cares, no one will be left out and alone.

I love you for caring,

Betty Lue

What Are You Saying?

Affirmations:

I forgive all misperceptions, mind and others.

I choose to be conscious of my loving intention.

I pray all I say and do be used for Good.

I trust all things, even mistakes, can work together for Good.

Watch What You Say!

Words are interpreted by those listening.

Words are heard through the filters in the mind.

Words can be received with love or with fear.

Words can be heard both cloudy and clear

When you speak, speak with intention.

When you share, share with love.

When you help, help with respect.

When you give, give with gratitude.

Often people are saying only what the listener wants to hear.

Some people speak to receive approval and appreciation.

Others say what they need to hear for themselves.

Some simply talk to fill the silence.

Pay attention to the setting, private or public.

Listen for the language of the listener.

Attune to your intention to connect or disconnect.

Recognize the emotional state and language of the receiver.

Many other components of speech are done intuitively.

Often people don’t even notice who they are talking to.

If there is an agenda or intention for the communication, it may not be heard.

Often there are inappropriate times or ways of speaking with others.

Some notice body language and others tone of voice.

Some receive the message through facial expressions.

Some actually connect and believe every word.

In communication, there is no way to control what the other receives.

Communication is a fine art.

Communication is complex and often inadequate.

What we perceive is what we believe.

What we hear it translated by our past experience.

It is valuable to know our intention before we speak.

It is helpful to have some knowledge of the other.

It is useful to be clear about the desired outcome for the words spoken.

It is healthy to clarify what was actually heard by the receiver.

Some key questions for each communication:

What is the intention of this conversation, phone call or text?

What do I want to other to receive from me?

How do I want the outcome to be?

Do I need to listen first or share first?

Is this communication for a specific purpose?

Do I want to be helpful or demanding, positive or negative?

Do I just want to dump my own toxic material and hope for the best?

Am I here to bring calm or disturbance?

Do I want to share love or fear?

Stop before you speak and ask, “What is my desired outcome?”

When you make a mistake, it is always helpful to apologize, forgive your error and learn what is better.

Let’s respect and appreciate each communication and the words we use!

Thanks for caring, 

Betty Lue 

Goodness

Affirmations:

I choose to give and receive all Good and only Good.

I remember only what is good and whole and beautiful.

I trust in the Good in all things.

I easily forgive and erase everything that is not for the Highest Good of All.

Trust in Goodness!

Remember the days when we trusted in Good.

Remember when we lived free as children.

Remember when we only knew peace.

Remember the time we knew everything would be OK.

The thoughts we hold in mind will be made manifest.

The truths we trust are true will always be our truths.

The places we go with gratitude for being will be there for us.

The way we think creates what is our experience.

When we question, we see what is questionable.

When we doubt, we will perceive what we do not trust.

When we fear, we gather evidence of what we fear.

When we feel weak, we look for our weaknesses and find them.

It is true that what we seek, we find.

It is not true that we are not responsible for what we find.

What we seek becomes our chosen reality, because we seek it.

When we are willing to relinquish what we do not want, we will no longer find it.

How can it be that we shape our reality?

1. We see it because we look for it.
2. We find it because we need to be right.
3. We make it appear because we create it.
4. We amplify it with out energy.
5. We attract others energy to make it so.
6. We conceive and believe until we achieve.

When we remember only Good, we live with Goodness.

When we appreciate only Good, we expand the Good.

When we forgive what is not Good, we erase all that is not Good.

When we recognize the intrinsic Good, we celebrate and encourage Good.

Is it not time to let go of fearful images?

Is it not time to extinguish attack thoughts?

Is it not time to undo false truths?

Is it not time to stop laying weak and small?

Let us choose to seek and find only Good.

Let us forgive our fear and see what is clearly Good.

Let us choose to tell the Highest Truths.

Let us stop being victims of our own imagined powerlessness.

We can choose to give and receive only what is Good, Whole and Beautiful for one and all.

Now is our time! 

All Together we create,

Betty Lue 

First Things First

Affirmations:

I love myself just the way I am.

What is best for me is best for others.

I take impeccable care of my whole Self daily.

I live the message I give and all wake up and remember.

Take Care of What is Yours!

With so much need in your world, take care of you.

With so many questions to be answered, listen to you.

With so many places to go, be at home with you.

With so much to be given, give first to you,

You are Important.

You are the seer and the listener.

You are the healer and the comforter.

You are the gift and the giver.

When you have not seen what is right and true, you may not have listened to you.

When you are not comforting yourself, you may remember to heal and be whole.

When you have not received the gift, you may not realize the gift you are.

Care first for you precious Self and the Gift You Are.

You are the message and the messenger.

You are the example and role model.

You are the loving and beloved.

You must treat yourself as the precious Being You Are.

Honor your Calling.

Live your Purpose.

Follow your Dream.

Be true to you.

When you allow yourself to be distracted, delayed or detoured, you lose your way.

When you deny yourself the listening and peace you deserve, no one can hear your message.

When you continue on the road and leave your Self behind, you get confused in purpose.

When you linger too long with those who don’t care, no one is caring for you.

Give yourself the care you deserve.

Take time with yourself to listen to your message.

Be where you are with peace and renewal.

Honor the Gift you came here to give.

Give your Self the Abundance of Love you are here to receive.

Leave not your whole and holy Self and take great care of you

This is your place and your time to truly Love You.

I am loving you always,

Betty Lue

From Louise Hay ©1988 

HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF

1. STOP ALL CRITICISM

Criticism 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 YOURSELF

Stop 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 PATIENT

Be 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.

Appreciate!

Affirmations:

I appreciate you for reading and living these reminders.

I am super grateful that this is my calling and my gift.

I praise all Good in us all for All We Are and Do with One Another.

I give thanks that gratitude words exquisitely well.

The Key to Everything Is Gratitude and Praise.

Give thanks for all things.

Appreciate all you have experienced.

Be grateful for what you know.

Appreciate who you are.

Give thanks for what you have.

Give thanks for what you want.

Give thanks for what you are not.

Appreciate being thankful.

It just occurred to me!

My freedom comes from being grateful.

My abundance comes from being thankful.

My loving relationships come from appreciating everyone.

I believe the key to all Good is being Grateful for all Good.

I trust the key to having all is giving all to all.

I see that saying "Thank you" is what keeps the good coming to me.

I know that with appreciation come growth, expansion and increase.

Start an experiment in your life, your home and workplace.

Say thanks to everyone for everything.

Start a trend with those you live and work with daily.

Appreciate openly every little thing.

Speak your appreciation with words.

Show your appreciation with smiles.

Give your appreciation with notes and gifts.

Allow your appreciation to flow abundantly for everything.

Everyone benefits from thankfulness.

Everyone is blessed with gratitude.

Everyone is filled with acknowledgment.

Everyone is encouraged with appreciation.

Everything is increased with our appreciation.

Everything is sustained with our gratitude

Everything is bettered by our praise.

Everything is enriched with our mindful blessing.

We ourselves grow in faith, love and happiness when we are grateful.

We are more aware when we give praise.

We are filled with more happiness, health and prosperity.

When we give more appreciation, we have more to be grateful for.

Do an experiment for 30 days!

Challenge yourself to say “Thank You" to everyone everyday.

Notice the results in you and around you.

Watch your health, happiness and prosperity increase.

So very grateful we are friends on the path to true prosperity and fulfillment.

Betty Lue

Help Others Help Themselves!

Affirmations;

I am happy to be truly helpful.

What is best for me is best for others.

I choose always to share the best I have in thoughts, words and deeds.

I give and receive all good and only good.

Help Everyone Help Themselves!

When we are healed, we are not healed alone.

When we help another, we are helping ourselves.

What we do for ourselves, we do for others.

What we do for others, we are doing for ourselves.

This universe shows us how to heal.

We are here to heal all of us.

When we live with healing in mind, we experience inner peace.

When we share our peace of mind, we demonstrate healing.

Life experience shows us what is helpful.

We observe the results of the help we offer.

We notice what works and what doesn’t work.

We choose to do what is truly helpful and all benefit.

Help is not helpful if it creates fear or resistance.

Help is not helpful if it disables or weakens the other.

Help is not helpful if we sacrifice and weaken ourselves.

Help is helpful it is empowers and creates no judgmental awareness.

A rule of thumb to use:

1. Wait until you are asked or invited to help.
2. Create a confidential and private space or help anonymously.
3. Be clear about the time involved. (Set limits).
4. Ask specifically what is needed.
5. Listen within and listen first to the other to see what is best.
6. Give only what is asked for and open to be received.
7. Share what feels positive, encouraging and reassuring.
8. Ask if there is anything else that is wanted or needed.
9. Listen to and receive your own counsel and guidance.
10. Do not share, remind or ask about what you have given.
11. Be grateful for the opportunity to be of help.
12. Do not give if there is no appreciation or it makes things worse.
13. There must be conscious appreciation to be of value.

Remember what is helpful to you may or may not be helpful to another.

What you give is always a gift to yourself.

To be helpful must demonstrate your faith and confidence and trust in the other.

Treat and talk with others as you want to be treated and talked with.

True helpfulness is equal, honest and responsible.

True helpfulness is respectful and kind.

True helpfulness is direct, specific and without expectation.

Seek only to be truly helpful for the highest and best outcome.

Be truly helpful by giving what you would want to receive.

Reminding you with Love,

Betty Lue