We need to examine our stories and emotions that we repeatedly get caught up in. Work at getting to the root cause behind your stories. Why did you react the way you did? What was happening at the time? What has happened in your childhood that might of triggered your reaction?
This can be painful at first, but slowly it becomes somewhat enjoyable. Why? It is freeing. You feel lighter, happier. As you let go of your perceptions, you free yourself from negative emotions and beliefs that no longer suit you. It is painful when you realize you spent precious time holding on to a perception instead of trying to work on yourself and your relationship with George.
My mother is almost 92 years old and was taken to a hospital what seems like a month ago in one breath and a day ago in another. In truth she has been there for a few weeks.
Zombie-land is a place we all have lived—and still do at times, possibly even all the time. We think that we think our own thoughts, beliefs, and opinions but in truth we bought into what we were told. Zombie-land is the world created by our socialization and blind faith in the authorities we meet throughout life. You cannot leave Zombie-land until you start questioning everything. Our world lives by the ego's rules—Screaming Mimi's rules—and we are taught to follow them. Mimi thinks she is the Queen, but it is time to dethrone her. For it is Mimi (the ego) who rules Zombie-land. When we dethrone Mimi, we get out of Zombie-land.
Every time I think I am ready to start talking about the next step of Theresa's Plan to Save the World, something pops up. Yesterday I was told some sad news about someone I have been judging quite a bit over the last few months. It really doesn’t matter what I was thinking and, I'm sad to admit, saying about this person—the only thing that matters is that I was judging.
If we make the choice to start learning to see as God sees, to allow the still small voice to direct our ways, it will lead to happiness, joy, and everything wonderful.
Those two words, self-fulfilled, are beautiful together. That is what leads to a content life. You have to have a full life, not a fragmented one. I think the same applies to a mid-life crisis. One begins to wonder, What’s it all about Alfie? I am so happy I went through this in my younger years when I left the work field to be a full-time mom. That was a great gift—I just didn’t know it at the time.
The joy that comes when you find the better way is what I want to share with others—not by preaching, but by being, by sharing. All of us have had difficult and painful times in our lives. As you learn about the better way, you find true joy. Someone once said to me that it is in the hard times that she learns and changes the most
Realizing we are all one with source/God will open up the door to gratefulness. Looking at you, I know you are just like me, an extension of Love in form. How beautiful, how simple. That is all I need to see, God everywhere and in everything. When I am with a negative, special relationship, gratitude can ooze out if I would just put on another pair of glasses and see it differently. It is that relationship that can help me see what is in me, what I need to change, where I am still projecting. Be grateful for every lesson no matter what your ego has to say about it. Each lesson is a chance to bring you home.
It is amazing how often I have let the ego take control. I mean, it should be a no-brainer. Peace, Joy, Love, Guilt, Fear, or Shame. A major source of the ego’s off-balanced state is its lack of discrimination between the body and the thoughts of God/Source. So, when the ego runs the show, I leave the peace that surpasses all understanding. No wonder Paul said: I do what I don’t want and don’t do what I do want.
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