In the first post of this series, we covered the first step of making Super-Amazing-Incredible Affirmations: Composition. (If you missed it, you can check it out here.) Now that we have our Super-Amazing-Incredible affirmation, there’s another key component to...
I love affirmations. Affirmations – positive, affirmative statements in the present tense designed to shift your thinking around a specific issue – have improved my life a thousand fold. But let’s be honest. Affirmations get a bad rap. People diss them. They...
Dear Meli, What do you do when you feel down? Most of the time I feel pretty good about things, but sometimes, so seemingly no reason, everything looks bleak. What do you do when the glass suddenly looks less than half full – and cracked?! Suddenly Sulky Dear Sulky,...
There are lots of words it’s better to avoid. Mean words. Nasty words. (I’m not going to say any of them, because that wouldn’t fit into the category of avoiding them, now would it?! There is also a word that appears to be utterly benign, but is not....
Dear Meli, A word I hear a lot in spiritual circles is “surrender,” especially in relation to surrendering to a Higher Power. I have a hard time with this concept. “Surrender,” to me, sounds to me giving up. What is your experience with this?...
Actually, the title of this post should be: What Do You Do When One Door Slams in Your Face and Knocks You on the Ground and Your Head Is Spinning and Then You Get Up and Try to Find Another Door But There Aren’t Any and You’re Totally Freaking Out...