“A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release
the impediment and it’s free to soar to unprecedented heights."
– Alan Cohen
It’s difficult sometimes to accept that everything you tell yourself is simply a story. You know, the story you tell about how life is ... Views: 1321
“Depressed people have good memories for bad stuff.”
– Brian Johnson
A few years back, one of my mastermind partners surprised me by declaring it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
My first reaction was Yes!” Followed almost immediately by “Huh?”
Seems like that ship has ... Views: 1290
"Laugh and the world laughs with you." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Therapeutic Value of Laughter.Laughter is a fascinating phenomena that brings relaxation, a state of Well-Bring, and relief from pain, while exercising our entire body. As early at the 14th century, the medical community was ... Views: 994
Once upon a time there was an unusually optimistic little boy named Max. Max’s parents were worried that he was actually incapable of seeing the world like a normal kid, so they decided to take him to a psychiatrist to see if she could talk some sense into him.
The psychiatrist was getting ... Views: 1342
“There is no Non-Physical Source of darkness, sickness,
confusion or evil. There is only the Stream of Well-Being
and it is flowing toward you at all times.”
– Abraham-Hicks
Limiting beliefs – we’ve all got them. You can’t grow up human without absorbing some of the limiting beliefs of ... Views: 1348
“All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention
of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.”
– Sri da Avabhas
LOVE! Millions of songs have been sung about it. Countless poems, movies, books and plays have been written about it. Untold numbers of notes, ... Views: 1380
“It is fun to think on purpose and to see the results of those deliberately chosen thoughts.”
– Abraham-Hicks
In a recent interview about the Law of Attraction, I was asked what I consider to be the biggest hang-ups deliberate creators experience in successfully manifesting their ... Views: 1530
"Nothing is more important than that you feel good. When you feel good, you can create not only your ideal physical condition but everything else you desire in life." - Abraham-Hicks
If you're anything like me, you've been dieting most of your life, i.e., trying to deprive yourself of the ... Views: 1455
“Once we realize that any thought, any condition is temporary,
with no power, no charge except that which we give it,
we can go back to our natural state
which is joy and amazing awesomeness.”
– Pam Grout
In my previous article, “What Negative Emotion Really Means", we determined that ... Views: 1459
“Get your hopes up!
Expect something good to happen to you every day.”
– Joyce Meyer
“Don’t Get Your Hopes Up!” We’ve heard that advice all our lives. Family, friends, books and movies have all warned us not to get our hopes up. It’s part of our popular culture. You may even say it ... Views: 1646
"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was." - Mohammed Ali
What do you expect? Do you expect to be able to eat whatever you like and not gain an ounce or do you expect to gain five pounds just walking past a bakery? With positive expectation of your perfect body, you attract ... Views: 621
“If all you did was just look for things to appreciate,
you would live a joyous, spectacular life.”
– Abraham-Hicks
I recently read the book, Pollyanna (written in 1913 by Eleanor Porter), and was delighted to find that this is a book about the Law of Attraction. Through a process called ... Views: 2074
“Remember to put your own oxygen mask on
first before assisting others.”
- Airline Attendants
Does the thought of putting yourself first shock you? Scare you? Make you angry?
I know some of you are saying, ”That's crazy. I have a family to take care of."
Others are saying, "That ... Views: 1473
Do you see yourself as beautiful / handsome? You can, you know. And you don't have to be a supermodel to do so. Seeing your beauty is a choice. Choosing to see your beauty and to love your appearance will actually make you more beautiful. What you focus on expands, remember? It's the Law of ... Views: 864
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Samuel Johnson
As a child, I was quiet and shy and I thought Self-Confidence was something you either had or didn't have - like being tall or having red hair. Actually, I thought it was something that the "lucky" people had. ... Views: 926
My sister broke her wrist a few months ago and, although she is still in pain and has nowhere near full use of her wrist, both the surgeon and the physical therapist are telling her not to expect much more improvement. After talking with her by phone, I wrote her a note to further encourage her ... Views: 1398
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What, you too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C. S. Lewis
As I returned home yesterday from a lunch date with my dear friend, Ann, I was inspired to write about the magic of friendship. Ann and I worked together several ... Views: 817
"Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away." - Sri Chinmoy
Got stress? With the high levels of uncertainty and insecurity all around us these days, it seems like the perfect time to ... Views: 995
"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." - Charles J. Givens
Momentum - "The Big Mo" - is indeed magical. The front-runner in a political campaign is said to have ... Views: 1112
“Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness.” – Soren Kierkegaard
How can something as simple as walking be considered magical? For starters, walking is refreshing and rejuvenating. It’s like hitting the re-set button to re-fuel and re-charge you for ... Views: 1400
“Even if I am locked in a prison cell and hated by the entire
world, my spirit can still be that of a king.”
– Daisaku Ikeda
It seems too simple, I know. It’s so simple that we want to make it more difficult, more esoteric. However, the simple truth is that the only way to feel good ... Views: 1155
"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box." - Erma ... Views: 1381
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there." - Richard Bach.
Imagination is the process of harnessing and utilizing the creative power of the mind. Imagination resides in the boundless realm of the mind where you can travel anywhere at the speed of thought. When you soar ... Views: 3883
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
The process of setting intentions is a powerful way to design and create your life in exact accord with your desires. In the process of identifying your desires and then focusing the Energy of your thoughts in that direction, you are applying ... Views: 787
"The problem is not your thighs, Sweetie, the problem is your head." -- Carrie on Sex and the City
You've heard it said that you are what you eat. Don't believe it. You're NOT what you eat. You're what you THINK. It's not the food. It's what you believe about the food. What you believe about ... Views: 812
“Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic – every bit of it. No exceptions.”
– Abraham-Hicks
In my ebook, Think and Grow Thin, I make this bold statement at the end of each chapter:
Your thoughts created the body you now have.
Your thoughts can ... Views: 1143
"And the universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces multiple copies of your thoughts." - Neale Donald Walsch
According to the Law of Attraction, you're a giant magnet constantly attracting into your life whatever you think about. If you apply this understanding to weight loss, ... Views: 714
“The purpose of life is joy.”
– Abraham-Hicks
We hear a lot about unconditional love these days. And most people are pretty much in favor of that. So I say - What about unconditional joy? What about joy that's not dependent on conditions? Doesn't that sound like a good idea too? ... Views: 1978
"Now and then, it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
I'm about to tell you something very important. Here it is: If you want to lose weight because you think you'll be happy when you do, fugitaboutit! Beware of any "I'll be happy when..." ... Views: 864
“You are here to experience outrageous joy.
That is why you are here.”
– Abraham-Hicks
Indeed it IS a wonderful world! But, full disclosure, it wasn’t always such a wonderful world for me.
Prior to embracing the Law of Attraction, I tried many things to feel good and enjoy my life ... Views: 1316
When you feel negative emotion, it always means there is a desire
within you that you are contradicting with some other thought.”
– Abraham-Hicks
It had been a wonderful Thanksgiving in every way. The weather was gorgeous and clear, in the high 60's. The food was abundant and delicious. ... Views: 1196
I can tell you it didn’t immediately feel wonderful when my internet went down. Again! After I’d already had three service techs come out in one week [including one appointment that lasted more than 3 hours], each one assuring me I would have no more issues. It didn’t immediately feel ... Views: 1323
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
- Goethe
The title of this article is, of course, a take-off on the popular 1978 book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Over the years, my own answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people has changed ... Views: 1432
“I have plenty of time to do what I need to do.
Time expands for me.”
– Louise Hay
According to quantum physics, time doesn’t actually exist. In fact, Einstein postulated that past, present and future are all happening simultaneously.
While that may be true, most of us live by the ... Views: 1169
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
– Albert Camus

You know, we can have the most enlightened beliefs about life and how life works but they can remain pretty much theoretical until we have an opportunity to practice our beliefs. [YAY Contrast?]
For example, I have for many years been ... Views: 1494
"Financial abundance is simply the Universe's response
to consistent thoughts and feelings of abundance."
- Abraham-Hicks
Ever since I first heard about the Abundance Journal process -- probably six years ago now – I’ve been doing it daily. It’s actually one of my favorite processes ... Views: 1746