Being mean never works. When I’m mean to other people, it damages the relationship. When I’m mean to myself, it makes me cranky and sad. Today I release the mean! I look for ways to uplift myself and others. If my thoughts are veering toward mean, I pull them back to...
If I’m approaching an event or circumstance and imagining the worst, I can catch myself and do something else instead. I can imagine things going better than I could have imagined. I can imagine being on the other side of the event or circumstance and having a big...
Whether it’s my biological sibling or a person I’m thrown together with via circumstance, I know what it’s like to have someone get under my skin. Today I take their residence under my skin as an opportunity. An opportunity to increase my empathy. An opportunity to...
As I open to more and more good in my life, I sometimes come across internal elements that appear to be blocking me. This gives me an awesome opportunity to explore this part of myself. What is the blocker’s message to me? How can it get its needs met without harming...
My feelings are a rich and varied. Today I make room for all of them. If I feel anger, I simply allow myself to feel it. Where do I experience it in my body? What is happening in my mind? In my heart? I do the same thing with every feeling I experience today. As I do...
If I think nothing challenging is ever supposed to happen to me, I’m setting myself up for a lot of pain. Hard stuff happens. The key is how I handle it. When I remember that Spirit is always with me, even in the midst of struggle, my struggle is soothed and lightened...
