Begin Again

Affirmations:
I am new again today and every day.
Life inspires and renews me.
I offer forgiveness to begin again brand new.
The past is gone: I am free to choose again.

Ever-Renewing Life

Do first things first.
Start with the basics.
Do what works for you.
If it doesn’t work, stop.

Start each day with what feels Good and Right.
Begin each relationship with what works.
Live your life as if every moment matters.
Recognize that you are at choice and in charge.

When you make a mistake, correct it.
When you hurt someone, apologize.
When your are hurt or offended, forgive.
Erase the past and choose what is better.

Every day is a new day.
Every word is a new word.
Every deed is a new deed.
When we are new in each moment, we can choose again for what works.

People carry the past as thought it was their best.
There is always constant and never-ending improvement.
We think, speak and behave in better and better ways.
To be conscious is to be conscientious and live with conscience.

When you are critical, you have failed to correct your own errors first.
When you are complaining, you have forgotten to take responsibility for yourself.
When you are minding others’ business, you have neglected to trust them.
When we are clear, clean and sober, we can offer our help with consideration.

In relationships, each interaction can hurtful and angry by rehashing yesterday’s mistakes.
Each day can be a new day by erasing, deleting, forgiving and seeing each other new again.
Respect is seeing things differently and allowing changes to be made by each individual.
Forcing change through criticism and complaint only yields resentment and resistance.

Consider how you can relinquish all attack and see others with love, trust and respect.
People change when they feel valued, appreciated, encouraged and forgiven.
Holding resentment and judgments keeps the pain and problem in place.
Putting out negative thoughts, feelings and actions, create pain and more of the same.

Beginning with hope, faith and love opens the way for transformational change.
Each day can be renewing with inspiring words of forgiveness and affirmation.
Our lives can be constantly seeking the best in ourselves and inspiring others.
We can always begin again with the best we know.

Loving the Best now and every now.
Betty Lue

Pain and Problems

Affirmations:
I seek and find the way that works for me.
I relinquish all need to complain, criticize and worry.
I allow myself the freedom to choose what I can do.
I trust the power of love with wisdom within me to easily solve all problems each day.

Stop Covering Up the Pain

Stop pretending and see what is really there.
Stop covering up the holes and fill them up.
Stop numbing yourself and face what is missing.
Stop being lazy and get to work.

In a world of quick fixes, we often want a pill or pleasure.
In a world of experts, we often want someone else to give us the answer.
In a world of specialists, we may seek another to do the fixing.
In a world where we play victim, we often seek others to blame.

It is time we face our problems.
It is time we see what is wrong.
It is time we look for original cause.
It is time we start taking responsibility.

Most solutions for problems are based on what we can do ourselves.
Most problems have come from not taking care of the basics.
Most people have forgotten or never learned how to be responsible.
Most of life, liberty and happiness is available now.

Have you loved yourself today?
Have you appreciated where you live?
Have you shared the food you have?
Have you gone to work and helped someone else?

Do you know how to prepare a simple meal, wash your clothes and make your bed?
This is what an 8 yr old can easily do.
Do you pick up your clothes and put your stuff away everyday?
This is what a one year old can easily learn to do.

Do you do your chores without a fuss, resistance or resentment?
This is what a 4 year old can easily do with encouragement and love.
Do you answer people with respectful words, saying “please” and ”thank you”?
This is what every little child learns from listening to respectful adults.

Have you learned how to love easily and well?
Have you learned to use your body with appreciation and kindness?
Have you done the work you need to do each day to feel good about your accomplishment?
Have you taken time to really value who you are, where you live and what you do?

When you look at your life, do you see what you can do?
Ask YourSelf each day how you can respond to each area of pain and/or problems.
Look at your life as a university to learn how to respond to life’s lessons.
Observe, study and practice what works to find your path to alleviate pain and problems.

Learn from everything and everyone, all the time.

Appreciating us all as we learn from one another and from ourselves,
Betty Lue

Basic Needs

Affirmations:
I respect my needs and the needs of others.
I love, trust and respect myself.
The more I love, trust and respect myself, the more I love trust and respect others.
The more I love, trust and respect myself, the more others love, trust and respect me.

What Do You Need?

What do our children need?
What do our families need?
What do our partners need?
What does our world need?

When we are giving ourselves what we need, we will be happy, healthy and fulfilled.
Life can be simply fun, safe and easy when we honor our own needs and the needs of others.
What we “need” is totally different from our “wants”.
People are often taking care of what they want, but neglecting their basic needs.

It is time we return to basics.
It is time to learn to begin at the beginning.
It is time to listen to what is important.
It is time to honor ourselves and others.

Needs are not pleasures.
Needs are not whims.
Needs are not temporary happiness.
Needs are basic and primary to being and feeling safe, secure and strong.

We each need to be fed and sheltered and safe.
We each need to be educated and socialized.
We each need to be loved and to belong.
We each need to have something to do.

The priorities for children are not entertainment and toys.
The priorities in families are not chores and doing homework.
The priorities in partnerships are not partying and sexual intimacy.
When the media feeds us with what sells, we often forget and neglect the basics.

In a privileged and affluent nation, we have impoverished ourselves and our children.
When we work to provide temporary pleasures, spending time and money on nonessentials, we make ourselves poor in love, inspiration and healthy living.
We need Love, Love for ourselves, for others and for the beauty and bounty all around us.
We need gratitude for those we love and those who love us.
We need to know we are safe and secure, with a bed to sleep in and bills paid.
We need to eat regular meals prepared by someone who cares.
We need relationships that are respectful, reassuring and valuing who we are.

Good living comes from feeling grateful for the people in our lives and showing we love them.
Good living is taking care of our bodies, our clothing, our homes and what we have that serves us.
Good living is reading a book to our kids and tucking them in at night.
Good living is laughing at ourselves and enjoying the fun we have everyday.
Good living is breathing deep the fresh spring air and being grateful to be alive.
Good living is thanking Creator, Source, Universe for the unlimited life we have.
Good living is remembering Who We are and why we are here.
Good living is natural for those who see and trust in the Good that is theirs.

Let us remember to give ourselves and others the basics we need with full appreciation.
Life work when we take care of our needs.
Loving ourselves,
Betty Lue