You never know when a pleasant surprise is going to show up Dear One.

The best thing that you can do to encourage one, to attract one to you, is to start right now anticipating its arrival!

What if today, instead of focusing your energy, your attention, your efforts on trying to avoid that which you do not want Dear One, you focused it on creating, seeking out, acknowledging, and celebrating that which you do want instead?

What is the matter with you Dear One?

What is the matter with your ideals? What is the matter with your face?    What is the matter with your friends?  What is the matter with your relationship?  What is the matter with your wardrobe?  What is the matter with your career?

Absolutely nothing or absolutely everything?

The answer is totally and completely up to you Dear One.

Absolutely no one else.

Do you want to know the best way to relieve stagnation Dear One?

Move.

• Your spiritual body is connected to your emotional body
• Your emotional body is connected to your physical body
• Your physical body is connected to your spiritual body

Move one Dear One, and you will be creating room for movement to occur across them all.

• If you are physically restricted, meditate
• If you are emotionally closed off, walk, run, go climb a rock
• If you are feeling spiritually disconnected, laugh

There is no reason at all what so ever for you to address physical stagnation physically, emotional stagnation emotionally, or spiritual stagnation spiritually.

Create movement, allow movement to occur at your point of least resistance Dear One, instead of trying to force it to occur at your point of greatest resistance, and you will have found the key that will open the door to releasing stagnation across all areas of your life.

Why would you ever want to concern yourself with a subject such as punishment Dear One?

It really is not necessary you know.

Universal laws exist in perfect balance.  Your point of attraction, what you project, what you put out there, what you focus your attention on, is what you get back.

That is true for everyone Dear One, you as well as them.

What you put out there, you will get back, and what they put out there, they will get back.

Why would you ever want to intentionally invite something as purely negative as punishment in your experience?  And yet, that is exactly what you are doing when set out to punish another.

You are inviting/attracting/asking for punishment in return, as certainly as if you were inflicting it upon yourself.

Never mind about trying to punish them Dear One.  Their actions will take care of that nicely, all on their own.

You are the one who determines what your point of attraction is, so might we suggest focusing your attention on something a little bit more pleasing to you instead.

And to touch on the subject of children and punishment for a moment – let us remind you that children learn by example.  They are watching what you do and learning from what they see.  Is punishment really the lesson that you want to be teaching them?

Consequences are not the same as punishment.  You can teach a child that their actions have consequences without teaching them how to punish.

Shine.

Do you want to know which of your relationships are sustainable Dear One, and which are not?

If you do, ask yourself this question:

• At its core, is the connection one that is based on a foundation of growth, or one of attachment?

One of the two is sustainable, and the other is not.

It’s just that simple.

But remember this; that letting go of the attachment does not necessarily mean letting go of the relationship.  It could mean that.  But it could also be the start of something new, something different, something really great.

If you are waiting for things to get better before you think a better thought Dear One, you could be waiting a long time.

If you think a better thought right now, things would start getting better right now.

So, it looks like you’ve got a decision to make.

Do you want things to start getting better now or do you want to continue to wait?

If you truly want things to be different Dear One, if you truly don’t want more of the same, you’re going to have to start thinking differently, speaking differently and acting differently then the way you have been.

There is nothing that any force in the universe can do to help you until you do.