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Here are some gift ideas for your self.
Make a
commitment to journal each day. Choose questions that will help you
work through an issue that is particularly challenging for you. For
example many people lack joy in their lives. Remember that Joy is a soul
element, the more you have the greater your personal frequency.
My questions
would be each night as follows:
- What
brought me joy today?
You do not have to know why. If you do understand what brought
you joy then it will be easier to recreate.
- What held
me back from experiencing joy today?
Expectation, control, rushing,
etc. In hind sight was it worth the emotion and ego you expended?
How could you realistically redo the day, changing only your part
in it, to experience greater Joy and success? How will this impact
how you will function tomorrow?
- How could
I have transformed this situation to experience joy?
Think about how your perception, expectations, and emotion directed
your focus. You always have free will; no one can control how you
will react to a situation but you. Take time to react the way you
want to react. Even being verbally attacked by someone gives you an
opportunity to respond using soul elements. If you react with
compassion, rather than anger and defensiveness, then it will be
easier to find the truth in what took place. You will feel better
for not having sunk to their level.
- Were you
relaxed as you moved about the world and focused on being in the
moment or were you rushing ahead to what might happen next?
Was all of this anticipation necessary? Where could you have cut
back? What was a waste of your time? Remember that anticipation
and emotion can create manifestation. You don’t want to create more
issues than you have to. Practice being calm, let go of fear based
action and deal with an issue in the moment that it arises. It
makes no sense to anticipate a conflict that might never take place.
If it does you will be on the defensive before the first words are
spoken and if it doesn’t you have lost anyway because in your energy
you have still had the conflict. Real or not it, will infect you.
Do not preplan excuses. If you must visualize a conflict
always visualize both parties resolving the issue using the soul
elements in the most harmonious way possible for both parties.
Never, ever, visualize anger.
- How did I
create joy for others today?
Watch how you communicate with others around you.
Are you critical or supportive? Are people comfortable around
you? Do you smile? When you communicate appreciation for others
and confidence in their abilities, you can create joy in them. Even
when you have to offer criticism to employees or coworkers. The way
you do give this criticism is powerful and provides you with an
opportunity to express positive reinforcement. Do you respect the
input from others and show that to them?
- How can I
create joy for myself and others tomorrow?
Sometimes this is as easy as having a new joke handy or helping out
when you see the need.
- How did
utilizing joy affect my life today?
Were you less defensive, more open, did you attract new
opportunities or avoid pitfalls? Did you have more energy, get
through things faster or remember things easier? Did you enjoy what
you did today? People get in the habit of feeling dread for no
reason which, after a while, steals the joy from the very things we
used to enjoy, especially work. When you wallow in the negatives of
your job you will hate your job more and more. Change how you feel
and react to it and you will change the job itself. Never leave a
job until you have resolved your feelings towards it.
Remember that
Joy is a soft pink energy that bubbles like laughter. Try visualizing it
before you go to bed each evening until you get the hang of it.
Look at the
attitudes you have about Joy. Do they hold you back from experiencing
it? Joy does not need to have a reason; you feel it when you are
accepting of the moment. If you feel it, accept it, invite it in, don’t
analyze it to death or squish it like a bug. Your world does not
need to be perfect to experience joy. Joy can happen at any time. Joy
can happen anywhere. All you need to do is accept it. The more you
focus on it and expect it, the more it will arrive.
As you do this
exercise daily you will begin to look for Joy throughout the day so that
it will be easier to answer these questions each night. Make a promise
to yourself that you will experience Joy each day even if you have to
focus on it and visualize it to do it. After a while it will just be
there.
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Take the time to appreciate and accept the good in others. See each
person you meet as a chance to appreciate and accept something new.
Learn to give honest compliments with no expectation of response or
reward. Remember that acceptance of all allows us to surrender and
eventually ascend. When you accept others unconditionally the reward is
all yours.
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Celebrate your failures as stepping stones to success. As long as you
learn from them they will be your greatest gifts. Guilt will only bring
you more Karma and struggle. Accept what is and you will transform what
will be.
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Live in the moment. This is important and rarely done. Consciously be
aware of what is happening, utilize your senses, and pay attention to
detail and your senses. What smells are in the air? Can you feel the
seat on your butt or the fabric on your sleeve? The more in the moment
you choose to be, the more in flow your life will be and the less hold
your ego body will have. Don’t make the mistake of passing random
judgments about everything. Just experience it, accept it, and move
into the next moment.
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