PEACE...JOY...LOVE

When no one is there...

There comes a time when you're going through something troubling...but there's no one, and I mean no one, around to help you.  All of a sudden, your counselor is on vacation, your friends are too busy, and your mom just wouldn't understand.  But, despair not, for this is the time you've been waiting for.  This is the time you've been practicing for.  This is the time to stand on your own two feet, go within, trust your intuition, and figure it out yourself.  The training wheels are gone...and now it's time to ride that two-wheeler like a big girl...lol!! 

Don't be afraid, just watch and you'll surprise yourself...you're a lot stronger and wiser than you give yourself credit for!  Now you'll realize that everyone else didn't necessarily know all the answers...they just held the key to unlock the answers that were already within you.  Everything you need is already within you at this very moment...and now the key is in YOUR hands.  So, use it...step out on faith...and see how far you've grown!! 

You can do it!!  :)

Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight

Below is a truly remarkable video about neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. She had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

We are so much more than the labels we've allowed others to give us or that we've given ourselves.  There is so much more to life than worry, stress, heartache, pain, and suffering.  It IS possible to be happy, truly joyful, amidst all the negative that surrounds us.  We all, each of us, have a positive purpose here on earth.  We're here for a reason, not haphazardly.  You have something to offer this world and you also have something to receive from this world. 

We are sooo much more...WE ARE, YOU ARE, I AM....I AM THAT I AM...

Please watch and leave your comments below...

My Stroke of Insight

by Jill Bolte Taylor

Accepting Yourself (Daily Om)

March 25, 2008
Accepting Yourself

A Dynamic Choice-Maker

There is no such thing as a good person or a bad person. There are choices and actions that lead us in different directions, and it is through those choices and actions that we create our realities. Sometimes we choose or do something that takes us in the opposite direction of the reality we want to create for ourselves. When we do this, we feel bad—uneasy, unhappy, unsure. We might go so far as to label ourselves “bad” when a situation like this arises. Instead of labeling ourselves, though, we could simply acknowledge that we made a choice that lead us down a particular path, and then let it go, forgiving ourselves and preparing for our next opportunity to choose, and act, in ways that support our best intentions.

Many of us experienced childhoods in which the words good and bad were used as weapons to control us—you were good if you did what you were told and bad if you didn’t. This kind of discipline undermines a person’s ability to find their own moral center and to trust and be guided by their own inner self. If you were raised this way, you may find yourself feeling shockwaves of badness when you do something you were taught was wrong, even if now you don’t agree that it’s bad. Conversely, you may feel good when you do what you learned was right. Notice how this puts you in something of a straitjacket. An important part of our spiritual unfolding requires that we grow beyond what we learned and take responsibility for our own liberation in our own terms.

You are a human being with every right to be here, learning and exploring. To label yourself good or bad is to think too small. What you are is a decision-maker and every moment provides you the opportunity to move in the direction of your higher self or in the direction of stagnation or degradation. In the end, only you know the difference. If you find yourself going into self-judgment, try to stop yourself as soon as you can and come back to center. Know that you are not good or bad, you are simply you.

...taken from the Daily Om