Specialness

Affirmations:
I honor the uniqueness in each one of us.
I value you for being who you are.
I treat others equally knowing everyone is worthy of Love.
I love, respect and appreciate myself and others.

You Are Special!

People often forget their own specialness.
Not everyone notices their own value.
People seek other’s approval and appreciation.
Everyone needs to acknowledge their own worth!

When we can see what is good about ourselves, we are able to see the Good in others.
When we can appreciate the gifts in our own life, we will be aware of the gifts around us.
When we can realize the value in us, we understand the value in everyone as we are.
When we can live and give our own specialness to others, we awaken the specialness in others.

We are gifts to one another.
When the package is covered in wrapping paper, no one sees the gift.
When the treasure in each package is the form, we think the body and personality are the treasure.
When the gift is what we give and what we do for one another, we may miss the essence is Love.

Perhaps if we are looking for money and get a teddy bear, we feel not valued.
If we are looking for a teddy bear and get money, we don’t feel loved.
If we value a home=cooked meal and get a store bought cake, we may not feel happy.
If we value someone who listens to us, and get a noisy party, we may not feel valuable.

When we look for feeling special, we find people give in the ways they feel special.
People usually give to others what they want for themselves.
People cannot give more than they actually know within themselves.
We can show and tell others what we want, what we prefer, what feels good, and they may listen!

Being loved is special for many.
Being safe is special for others.
Being helped is special for some.
Bing treated with kindness and care is special for others.

It is time we learn to treat ourselves really well.
It is important we make ourselves happy.
It is essential we feel worthy of what is our natural good.
We are loved just for being Who We are.

When we look to others to get what we want, we may be disappointed.
When we give to others what we want, we are always fulfilled and at peace.
Life is for giving and we are the gifts to one another.
When we feel content with ourselves and our lives, we share with others our peace and happiness.

Thank you for being special in my life.
We are partners joined in love and giving with joy.
You are a gift to me.
And I thank YOU!
Betty Lue

Change and Chaos

Affirmations:
I ground myself in being truly helpful.
I center myself with loving intention and actions.
I maintain my sanity with trust in Goodness within.
I release what is no longer valuable and remember what is whole and loving.

When Stuff Happens…..

Things may fall apart, so they can fall together.
Disintegration often yields integration at a higher level.
Change may create chaos, so we can find a new level of order.
Losing everything may give a new perspective on what is truly valuable.

When stuff happens, what do we do?
Most of our reactive behaviors come from what we learned to do as young children.
Some have a temper tantrum and fall apart.
Some get very quiet and get to work.
Some are amazed and delighted by the mess.
Some keep asking why is this happening to me.
Some take a vacation or go to sleep to come back refreshed.
Some fall apart and feel sorry for themselves.
Some get drunk or high to avoid the pain and confusion.
Some cannot get respond until they get themselves together.
Some seek friends to talk with.
Some need alone time to figure our what to do.
Some feel relieved to get out of their stuckness.
Some feel energized about the new beginning.
Everyone handles catastrophe and change differently.

For some people, comfort and order provide sanity.
For others, their routine and familiar patterns represent who they are.
Safety and security often means love.
And when not safe and secure, we feel loss of love.

Whether people are traumatized, we need to understand and help stabilize.
It is important to respond with safety, security and love.
Often children simply need a familiar object to cling to.
Others may need a good home-cooked meal or good bed to sleep in.

Whether losing home, job or relationship, it is essential we understand the needs.
Whether abrupt or planned out well, everyone needs to feel safe, secure and stable.
When the basics in life are uncertain, everyone needs a way to find their center.
When we put the pieces together, everyone will begin to feel sane and safe again.

To help ourselves and others, we can contribute comfort and reassurance.
We can encourage familiar songs and foods, and positive dreams and memories.
It is always helpful to ground others with touch and taste and sound and sights.
Everyone will be reassured differently, so gently explore what brings comfort.

Remember to not judge but offer peace and understanding to yourself and others.
Grateful for the profound love, safety and comfort we offer one another,
Betty Lue

Renewal

Affirmations:
I breathe and live fully and freely.
I am alive in Spirit and inspire others with my aliveness.
I joyfully work and contribute, participate and enjoy my place in the world.
I do what is mine to do with generosity and gratitude.

Time for Renewal

Are you breathing deeply?
Are you appreciating what you have?
Are you listening for your calling?
Are you opening your heart to serve?

When we know we are fully alive, we live fully.
When we are feeling gratitude for all we have, we give freely.
When we are listening to our heart, we know where to go and what to do.
When we are willing to serve, we attend to the people in our lives.

How often we get caught in the drama and create even more for ourselves?
How much do we take in others fearful thoughts and images and forget the goodness within us?
How much time to we spend listening to the bad news and hurtful words and forget to listen for love?
When do we give our time and energy and resources to what will do some real good to create only good?

Everyday, we have opportunities to encourage others hopes, plans and dreams.
Within everyone there are stories of renewal of hope, faith and love.
We can remind ourselves of how empowered we are to turn judgment into forgiveness.
When we turn to where we are going rather than where we have been, we can see the way.

Every difficulty is a wakeup call.
Every hardship is a time for doing our best.
Every trauma is an opportunity to practice our faith.
Every hurt is an invitation for learning to forgive and heal.

Each time we have a setback, we can see it as a request to move forward.
Every time we lose hope and experience despair, we can get up and do something hopeful.
When we find ourselves lost and confused, we can get out our inspirational compass and seek direction.
When we have forgotten who we are and our purpose here, we can sit down and explore our lives.

To be alive is a gift to be given.
To ask for guidance is essential.
To listen to our heart is a requirement for clarity.
To honor what is inspiring and good for us brings joy.

Each person has a reason for being.
We are teachers and gifts for one another.
We are never alone but rather all one
We have answers for each others questions.

In our individual expression we play our unique parts.
In our togetherness we are united, whole and complete.
We are renewed in spirit by the love of each other.
We are rejuvenated in purpose as we work together side by side.

Loving our wholeness are we join in possibility and prayer,
Betty Lue

Thoughtful Creations

Affirmations:
No one and nothing can bring me down.
I am unlimited in creative potential and peace.
I am free to create my own life whole and good and beautiful.
I am grateful for the power of choice.

Be Where You Are With Gratitude!

Notice where you are.
Look for what you appreciate.
What you value you increase.
Observe what is good for you.

What you attune to, you will create.
If you connect with what is wrong, it will stay.
If you connect with what is “right”, it will stay.
If you love what you have, you will enjoy it more.

Simple, but true.
What you love, loves you.
What you observe is your creation.
Where you put your attention, you experience more.

When something is not to your liking, change it or change your mind or change your viewpoint.
What you choose to look upon, gives you the perspective you have chosen.
When you choose to criticize or complain, you only increase your irritation with it.
Choose to look with appreciation and enjoyment, and watch the complaint disappear.

You look in the mirror daily or more.
Choose to find fault with everything you dislike and you will feel down.
Choose to find what you value and appreciate and you will feel better.
The more you value the good in you and your life, the more the Good will increase in your sight.

The process of bringing hope and faith and love into your life is determined by you.
You can seek hopeful and faithful thinking and images and words and hope and faith will increase.
You can choose to love everyone around you and the loving responses of them will increase.
It is by our choice that our life is enhanced no matter what our apparent condition.

Life is a product of our thoughts.
We can slip into negative thinking and be unhappy with life.
We can lift mind into thinking positive thoughts and be happy with life.
Right where we are, we are at choice and can change our mind.

Optimism can become a new habit.
Pessimism is learned.
Make it a daily practice to change your mind.
Discover how you can create a better way of thinking.

Choose to have hope and share hope with others.
Choose to have confidence and share your faith with others.
Choose to seek thoughts and words that inspire.
Your hope, faith and inspiration will change your life.

Believing in You,

Betty Lue

Be Happy!

Affirmations:
I choose to be happy today.
My happy vibration is creative and responds with love.
The more I am grateful, the happier I am.
I freely share my happiness with those who value being joyful.

Let’s Be Happy!

Let’s be happy being here now.
Let’s be happy loving what we do.
Let’s be happy taking time to be helpful.
Let’s be happy being me and being you.

We can always find an excuse to be happy.
We can erase our unhappy thoughts and choose happiness instead.
We can reach out with love and gratitude.
We can change our mind and attitude.

We can create a healthy meal or special surprise.
We can walk in the woods and stand in the rain.
We can talk to the birds and never complain.
We can enjoy our creations, beautiful and good.

We can sing out with joy and cry happy tears.
We can have fun in daily vocation and enjoy our recreation.
We can watch the sunrise and enjoy the miracle of creation.
We can be inspiring and inspired by how amazing life is.

Happiness is our natural state.
When we think negative or judging thoughts, we feel unhappy.
When we think positive or forgiving thoughts, we feel happy.
When we allow our mind free rein, it can choose either direction.

When energy gets blocked with damnation, we get stuck in flooding of emotion.
When energy flow is open with forgiveness, we easily see higher ground.
Thoughts generate what we feel.
When we think positive thoughts, we experience happy feelings.

Simple, but true.
We are responsible for the feelings we have.
We are in charge of the thoughts we think.
When we allow our thoughts and feelings to simply be, they may go in an unhappy direction.
When we consciously choose our thoughts and feelings, words and behavior, we can be happy.

Simple tools to find your happiness…….
Think about someone you admire.
Sing a happy song over and over.
Ask: What can I do to be helpful?
Remember to follow the loving way.
Write our what you want?
Create something good for yourself.
Look around and enjoy the present moment.
Reach out and care for someone.
Count your blessings one by one.

Writing to you everyday is my happy way to play!
I love you and I thank you.
The more we get together the happier we will be.
Betty Lue


“We are really advocates of just getting as happy as you can be—which takes care of everything. Even if you don't have reason to be happy—make it up. Fantasize it. Make a decision that you're going to be happy one way or another—no matter what. "No matter what, I'm going to be happy! If I have to ignore everybody; if I have to never watch television again; if I have to never pick up a newspaper again, I'm going to be happy. If I never have to see that person's face again, I'm going to be happy. If I have to see that person's face, I'm going to find something to see in that person's face that makes me happy. I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be happy."
---Abraham