It is all about me!

I cannot do anything about other people's unhappiness or grievances with me or others.

This is their own personal responsibility to tend to and has absolutely nothing to do with me or others.

What I can do is to continue to want better feelings, experiences and circumstances for them. I can continue to see them as being happy, healthy, frolicking beings loving and enjoying their individual lives.

The pay off for me thinking of others in this manner is a deeper more enriching personal life experience.

Creating objects of beauty

I am so appreciative of my talent and love for cross stitching!

It provides me with a wonderful avenue for quiet, meditative interludes.

I enjoy removing myself from the endless buzz of daily life.

I love the journey of the unfolding of a new pattern.

I enjoy the splendor of the colors.

There is nothing more satisfying or more beneficial to me, than doing something for the joy of it.

Being worthy

I recently became aware of the fact that I have been allowing myself to feel my worthiness. I use to parrot this phrase before, while still putting other people's desires before my own.

It wasn't until I was called selfish one too many times, that I began to grin like a selfish cat.

Yes, I am finally being the worthy being I was born being.

I am the center of my own universe, just as you are the center of yours.

I have been picking and choosing what makes me feel really, really good, what rings my bell and what will be most fun and interesting for me in the moment.

In choosing what brings me the most joy, I am actually living my dream. I am not just dreaming it, or hoping for it, or preparing for it; I am living it.

What type of chatter do you listen to?

Fortunately I spend most of my time alone, which means I am not privvy to any sort of chatter outside of what is going on in my head.

When I do have opportunities to converse with others, I am interested in what's good in their lives. What new, exciting, inspiring things they experienced and what are they looking forward to.

I enjoy when we verbalize our appreciation for all the good that is going on around us.

I adore uplifting conversations.

Ocassionally someone will whine about their co-workers or mate and the thought in my head is you are going to get more of that and sure enough the next time we meet that person will have more to add to the previous whine.

We can either chatter about what's good in our lives and in the world and thus create more good, or we can chatter about what's wrong and create more of that.

The choice is always ours.

Cultivating happiness

What makes me happy?

The immediate answer is anything and everything that pleases me!

How do I cultivate happiness in my life?

By feeling my way to it.

It is a path that we all have access to at all times, and contrary to all the false teachings I use to guide myself with, it doesn't come from anyone or anything outside of my very own attention to the way I feel.

My feelings are my only guide to my happiness. I'm always deciding how I want to feel and by choosing the best feeling thought, I am usually, mostly, quite happy.

750 Words

I practice stream of consciousness writing on a daily basis. I've been doing it for a number of years now, give or take a week here and there. Mostly I enjoy the process with gel pens and a spiral bound notebook. A month ago, I discovered 750 words which allows me to do the same process using my keyboard.

At first it was very difficult as I could not get use to typing my thoughts as fast as they were flowing. It felt awkward, compared to the smooth rhythm of pen on paper.

However, by day three, I became used to the process and now I am at day 17 and I find it to be utterly comfortable.

I am very appreciative of Buster Benson for creating this outlet that is so convenient for those of us who are focused on evolving and expanding ourselves.

He is contributing to humanity more than he can ever know. Like me, Buster is a born uplifter and anything we can do to guide our fellow beings back to the basic knowledge of Joy is what we are here to do. Don't you just love that?

Positive Expectations

I was going over some notebooks for recycling and saw I had made a lot of entries around the subject of positive expectation.

At one point, I was making daily lists of positive expectations. I was enthralled to read these again, as a lot of them had materialized in wonderful ways. Positive Expectation is quite powerful as it sets the tone for life experience.

I notice when I have positive expectation, I am confident and knowing it will come about. I just expect it to be the best, whatever it is.

Even when it turns out not to be, the thing that follows is usually much better than my best expectation of the previous thing.

In other words, nothing ever really goes wrong and everything keeps getting better and better.

I am now inspired to dedicate a new notebook to daily lists of Positive Expectations!

Being kind to me.

Are you allowing the wellbeing that you are identifying to flow into your experience?

I am and I want to allow even more of it.

It is interesting to note that even when I am not allowing my wellbeing to flow, new ideas are being born in that moment which continues to take me forward into even a better life than before the new idea was born...

I've just got to go and when I don't I get earaches and headaches. See how that works?

So firstly I have to begin by making peace with where I am.

That's easy. I've being doing that all week. Suddenly the most important thing in my life right now is me.

Self appreciation is big on my list. Now I mostly take care of myself before I do anything else:

Meditation, naps, appreciation lists, participating in activities I enjoy, first and foremost. I was doing all these things in reverse order before. Now I find that I no longer have to do most of them at all, as there are others who are willing to do it for me.

The resources of the universe are at my fingertips once I practice being kind to myself.

Evidence of how things work

I recently returned from cruising a few islands in the Caribbean which was an enlightening experience in many ways.

While the islands are geographically in close proximity to their neighbors, they have distinctly different vibrations.

I decided on the onset that I would go ashore, based on how I felt. This worked out extremely well for me.

On one island I did not set foot at all. While others I toured readily or just kept to a single beach.

I am enjoying beating my own drum and seeing how the Universe responds to that. It is not my intention to make the rest of islands beat to my drum, nor the people in my life, food, music or anything else.

I am boring like that; not trying to change the world or its contents, not for or against anything. Just flowing right along, picking and choosing who and what I want to play with in the moment.

So you can imagine, my absolute delight in meeting a couple from a vastly different culture and feeling as if we had known each other for billions of lifetimes!

We all came to this realization simultaneously and the cool thing about it? None of us even noticed it at the time. For the rest of the cruise we kept meeting each other in the most natural of all ways to us, but uncanny to the rest of the world - We would just think about the other and that person would show up. This was how we communicated on the ship. We did not have each other's room numbers, nor did we ever attempt to connect any other way except through pure thought.

When we did meet we always enjoyed the most exhilarating time together.

This is the Universe answering my request of helping me rendezvous with like minded people in the most fun, humorous and delicious ways!

See how that works?

Cooperative Component

I adore how the Universe is a cooperative component for me.

I am so glad I took the time to train myself to feel my way.

I enjoy taking the time to line up the energy.

I want to continue to focus on living a good life.

A good life is one that feels harmonious in all aspects.

Harmonious thoughts followed by harmonious feelings results in a harmonious world.

Most of all I celebrate knowing that I must first feel good.

Contributing to happiness

The other day, I was asked to make a contribution to some charitable organization.

I declined, as the organization did not ring my bells in the least.

Abraham teaches that my own happiness is the most significant contribution I could ever make.

This means that if I am happy donating, then I should do that, as it will benefit me.

I will be creating a path to allow in more Well-being to flow.

It really doesn't matter what I use as my excuse to get happy. As long as I do, I am certain to experience more happiness, flow, ease and well-being.

In my case, donating did not feel good (happy), therefore that would not have contributed to my life in any way.

In fact, had I done it, I would have probably spend time resenting the act and myself which would translate into me pinching off my wellbeing.

Reaching for happiness is always my goal, because that is how everything else benefits from my contribution.

I am highly appreciative of my willingness to come into this physical world and to have set up Abraham as my reminder.

How cool is that?

I came. I had guidance. It was guided out of me. I was determined to find it again. Abraham enters the picture and my life has never ever been the same again.

Abraham has taught me about who I really am.

I am pure, positive energy and I am good.

They have taught me about the laws of the Universe and how it works.

They have taught me everything I need to know about vibration.

Most importantly, they have taught me about my guidance system, and how I ought to BE.

I continue to listen to their messages which help me to understand on a daily basis who I am becoming and how I am to line up with that.

Life is good!

I am a hedonist.

I woke up with the realization that I am a hedonist.

I was quite delighted by this idea, as it is my natural state and my preferred state of being.

I like being free to do as I wish, when I wish and how I wish.

More often than not, I am inspired to great ideas in almost any area I set my thoughts upon.

The inspiration manifest as impulses to take action and I always follow along.

I spend a great deal of time talking about the things I enjoy, enjoyed or am about to enjoy.

This means that I don't participate in a lot of conversations!

I don't watch the news, so I can't contribute to those conversations.

I don't believe in religion, politics, global warming, security and a depressed economy either. So the only thing that is left for me to talk about is what brings me pleasure.

I do believe that I came for the joy of it and I really live that way now.

I pick and choose the things I want to do, the people I want to interact with, the foods I want to eat, the flowers I want to grow, the bread I want to bake, the places I want to vacation, the books I want to read, the movies I want to watch, the music I listen to and so on.

Every action is based upon how I feel. It is the only guidance I heed.

Feeling good is Everything to me.

Here's to Joy!

For the past two week, I anticipated the nightly 2010 Olympic Winter Games with great eagerness.

It was thrilling to share in the energy of the games, as well as to celebrate with each player his or her privilege of competing at the games.

The enthusiasm was always high and very contagious as it eeked out via my flat screen on a nightly basis.

It was entertaining to spend so many hours blissing and basking in the joy of each moment. Truly, every moment was joyful!

I found myself rooting for the team or individual who was having the most fun in the moment. I sang the Canadian and American anthems whenever they were played.

Many of the participants played for the joy of it.

I watched for the joy of it.

At the top of the week I opened a bottle of champagne, and everytime a gold medal was won, I poured a sip.

When a silver medal was won, I had a piece of chocolate and for bronze I had cup of tea in my finest china.

Tonight, I had the last glass of champagne in honor of the Ice Hockey teams- both of which played exceedlingly well.

As you can well imagine, I milked the games for all the fun and joy I could personally experience.

Now that the games are over, I hope to carry out this ritual of celebrating myself and everyone just for the joy of it because it feels good and because the better it gets, the better it gets!

A toast: To the Joy of this moment!

Appreciation

This week I've been beating the drum of good weather in my neck of the woods and sure enough that is exactly what I've been experiencing.

This morning, as I was journaling in bed, while looking out the bank of windows in my bedroom, I was mesmerized by the big fat fluffy snow flakes.

It was so beautiful to watch them dance their way to the ground.

Later on, as I was preparing olive bread dough - olive because it's a good way to make sure I am eating my MUFA's - it was hailing 8mm beads. This was fun to watch too!

They were raining down in perfect, white spheres, which was abruptly followed by about ten minutes of sunshine, followed by a slight rain and now itis perfectly dry and quiet.

I like knowing that the Universe responds to my drum beat. Whatever I offer appreciation and praise for, is exactly what my world manifests.

Nothing is better than knowing that Universe responds to my vibrations every single time!

Questions from OWN

Do you have any regrets?

No, I have no regrets. To regret means that I have misused the purpose of my life.

Does Everyone have an inner voice?

Yes, we each have our own guidance,  the most important voice ever.

What are your hopes for yourself in the future?

To continue to live a joyously expansive life. 

What brings you joy?

Anything that feels really, really, good.

How do you approach a big decision?

I will think about how I will feel when this decision is made and if it feels like a big fat ‘Hell Yes!’ I’ll go for it. If it does not ring my bells, then it’s not for me.

Once I’ve made a decision I will list a hundred reasons why this is good for me, and I will not ever make a  ‘con’ list.  

The only thing a pro and con list does for me, is to split my vibration, so that the decision end up being a  fifty/fifty success.

Lining up with a decision is what makes it successful.

My feel-good word list

Abundance, Bliss, Clarity, Delicious, Energetic, Fun, Gorgeous, Harmonious, Inspiring, Jazzed, Kind, Lively, Marvelous, Nice, Optimistic, Prosperous, Quintessential, Resourceful, Spunky, Terrific, Unique, Versatile, Wonderful, ‘Xciting, Yes, Zesty.

Intentions

I notice when I deliberately set my intentions for the day, everything I intend, presents themselves with ease.

Usually I am not even in the mood at the time of writing these intentions, but I write them because I know they are beneficial to my wellbeing and because I do enjoy them.

For example I wrote today's list of things while I was still in bed-

Today I intend:

To workout on the Precor for 25 minutes.

Wii fit for 30 minutes.

Download some audiobooks from the library.

Create some new jewelry for my vacation.

Work on a scrapbook page.

Transcribe a workshop.

Cross stitch.

Read a chapter.

Meditate for 15 minutes.

Manage the wellbeing group.

It’s almost the end of the day, and I noticed I got ninety percent of the list done without even thinking about it.

The inspiration came to create six pairs of earrings and one bracelet which I did in two hours.

What are you intending?

My Ithaka

I use to think my life’s purpose was all about getting to Ithaka, until I discovered the journey itself is Ithaka.

My journey so far has been full of adventures and discovery of both wonderful and contrasting things.

Initially, I was afraid because I didn’t understand how and why certain things were happening.

As I asked for and became open to the answers, I began to see differently.

There is only wellbeing or me cutting myself off from the wellbeing.

There is only my connection to Source, or me cutting off that connection to Source.

After that revelation, my voyage became quite blissful and at some point I began traveling through Ithaka without being aware of it.

I am living, moving and having my being in Ithaka.

How else can I explain the lovely days of my life?

The expanded thoughts I think?

The pleasure I derive when I think of loved ones?

When I stop at their shores and I choose what I want to buy?

I don’t have to live in those shores to love and appreciate the best things about them. Instead, I take what I want and leave the rest.

Taking in the best of everyone and everything is what Ithaka is to me.

If I should ever forget my way, get lost, or thrown out, it’s all right as I know how to find my way back to Ithaka.

My Red Mittens

I was thinking about those Red Mittens as I watch the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and the lyrics of a rap song by Classified which talked about the Canadian flag, Keep it high, keep it visual. The waving mittens were certainly keeping spirits high and visual. It was hard not to feel the essence and exuberance of their enthusiasm as I took in the games via my flatscreen.

I feel so much appreciation for the spirit of the games...

Then this morning my door bell rings.

It is the our post mistress who needed my signature for a package.

Contents of said package?

Red Mittens commemorating the 2010 games.

How blessed am I?

To think a thought with ease and then to have it manifest without me whispering a single word to another human.

This is creation at its very best.