Be the Love

Here we are at the beginning of February.  January has passed and we are in the second month of 2011. What has happened for you so far?

Have you stuck to those resolutions you made or have they already fallen by the wayside?  Maybe you didn’t make any resolutions and decided to just go with the flow.  If so, how is that working for you?  Well whatever it is that’s occurring for you, I invite you to do something different….This month why not take the next four weeks off?

No working on your goals, no giving orders to the Universe in the hopes it’ll deliver what you want, no…well anything.  Instead, as February 14^th is Valentines day and this month is all about Love, why not spend the next 4 weeks thinking about and feeling nothing but that?  That’s it.  Just Love and Gratitude.  Your boss is being a pain in the rear, just send him love.  You don’t like your co-workers, just send them love.  Your Mum, Dad, sibling, best friend is being too demanding/getting you down/has let you down, just send them love.  Your car, is playing up, your computer is on the blink, your mobile phone needs replacing just send it Love.

Spend this whole month Loving and being Grateful for everyone and everything.  And, most importantly, with yourself, send yourself Love.  Do you think well of yourself?  Treat yourself well?  Or maybe you don’t like yourself, punish yourself or put yourself down?  Not this month.  Just send yourself Love.  If you’re on a diet go off it.  If you have a punishing rather than enjoyable exercise regime, ease off.  Instead, for the next four weeks, just be loving to yourself and grateful for the body you have.  Be grateful for your mind, your thoughts, and your feelings, for all that your body is capable of and for all it that does for you.  Send Love, Be love.

You can send Love by just sending loving thoughts in your mind, or picture pink energy going from your heart to wherever you want to direct it to or at.

On waking every morning send out loving energy from your heart to everything and everyone around you and do the same at night before going to bed.

Ok, ok, I know it sounds crazy! But you could be amazed at the results. Positive thoughts, feelings and emotions are far more powerful than negative ones and they have the power to improve your life much quicker and with more ease and grace than does your usual, painful struggle to make things go your way.

Why not do this just for the next four weeks? And if you find yourself falling back into your usual patterns of annoyance, anger, impatience, dislike, of putting down others and even more harshly putting down yourself, just remember this month your all about the Love and once again affirm your Love and Gratitude for all.  Do it at least for the first week, even you have to fake it, pretty soon you’ll find it becomes much easier.

Why not do this and let me know your results? I really want to hear from you.

What Are Your Challenges Trying to Teach You?

Recently I found myself puzzling once again over a personal challenge that I seemed to come up against repeatedly.  Do you know those problems that you just can’t seem to find a solution to?  So I decided to sit down and tackle it from another perspective.  I decided to figure out, what is this issue trying to teach me?

Here’s what I did…I wrote out what I was experiencing, when it started, what caused it, and finally…and this is the bit where I had to do some work…what was it I had to learn from this situation?  It worked.  Through this exercise I was able to get some clarity; I wasn’t exactly happy but at least I now understood why this challenge kept cropping up for me.

This method can be used on any problem, challenge or issue you are dealing with and on any obstacle you are facing in any area of your life.  Listing the what, when, where and how may seem easy but don’t dismiss it because even sitting down and doing that can bring some clarity.  But being willing to look at the situation to find what deeper issue you need to become aware of is where the real gift lies.

What can you learn from the challenge or problem you are currently dealing with?  Perhaps it’s that you need to be willing to compromise or accommodate others more?  That you need to be more trusting?  That you need to act with more integrity?  That you need to take more action in your life or be more creative?  That you need to be willing to ask for guidance and accept help from others?  Or that you need to be open to different outcomes rather than stubbornly refusing to consider anything other than what you want.

No matter what the situation there is a gift in it for you, you just have to find it.  It could be teaching you patience, inviting you to discover your creativity, helping you to become organised and structured or asking you to be more flexible and adaptable.  Whatever it is, be willing to uncover the gift and accept it.