What are you going to choose to talk about today Dear One?

• The things that you love or the things that you hate?
• The things that you have or the things that you don’t?
• The things that make you feel strong or the things that make you feel weak?
• The parts of you that are hurting or the parts that are healing?

The story that you tell is the story that you create.

So, what words will you use in the telling?  What are you going to choose to create for yourself today?

Be optimistic today Dear One. Practice your optimism.

• Think positively
• Speak positively
• Act positively

Move through your day believing, trusting, knowing that everything is going to be ok, that everything is going to work out.

Why?

Because being negative does not serve you in any positive way.  And more importantly, because being negative just doesn’t feel good.

Do you really need a better reason that that?

Everyday might not present you with an obvious opportunity do something great Dear One.

But everyday will present you with a great opportunity to be present.

And today we want to strongly encourage you to take it.

Because it is only when you are fully present that any level of greatness can ever be achieved.

Don’t try so hard today, Dear One.

Take a deep breath and allow instead.

You have a very powerful and potent healing tool available to you at all times, Dear One.

One that you can use anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstance.

Do you want to know what that tool is?

It’s words.

Do you want to know how you can use them to heal?

Speak nothing but loving, kind, caring, and compassionate ones when talking about yourself and everyone else around you today, and watch as their magic unfolds.

That wall that you’ve just run into Dear One, that one that you keep banging your head up against, you should know, that it’s not actually a wall.

It’s a door.

And the reason that the door is there Dear One, is not to keep you out.

It’s there for you to open.

And it’s not locked.

The more you allow yourself to trust Dear One, the more you practice trusting, the less you will struggle.

Our words are not always going to be comforting Dear One, because comfortable is not what is always going to serve you best.

(But they will always be supportive, encouraging, optimistic and filled with unconditional love.) 

Joy is not rooted in comfort.  Joy is rooted in movement, in progress, in forward motion, and most importantly, in growth.

Think about your greatest moments of joy Dear One.  Think about where they came from. Did they originate out of comfort, from comfortable circumstances, or from something else?

It is not our job, our goal, or our intention to make you feel comfortable.

It is our honor, our pleasure, our delight to you to help you grow, to learn, to acquire knowledge, to move forward, to make progress and experience as much joy as you possibly can.

And making you feel comfortable has very little to do with that.

• You are not allowed to be shallow.
• You are not allowed to be cruel.
• You are not allowed to be offended.
• You are not allowed to hate.
• You are not allowed to run away.
• You are not allowed to hold a grudge.
• You are not allowed to tell a lie.

Who made up these rules anyway Dear One?

Was it you?  It was certainly not us.

Not one of these things is true you know.

You are allowed to indulge in each and every one them if you should choose to do so.

But recognize that is a choice Dear One.  And whenever you make a choice, we want you to do so consciously, intentionally, ready to take full responsibility for the impact of that choice on yourself, on others and on the world around you.

What you put out there is what comes back to you Dear One. That is a universal law.

Do, be, or say anything that you would like.  You have our permission.  You are allowed.  But do so with full awareness of the fact that with every choice that you make you are establishing a point of attraction for yourself, you are extending an invitation out to the universe to send you back an energetic match.

So, yes, you are allowed to do anything that you would like Dear One.  But now that you understand the rules, do you still want to?

When you choose to ignore guidance, Dear One, or your own intuition, or a hunch, and take action instead based on some other seemingly compelling force, and things don’t work out – and you realize that if you had only trusted yourself, they would have – do not punish yourself for that choice.

The experience of learning from not doing something is just as valuable as the experience of learning from doing something – because in both cases you are learning from experience.

When you find yourself in the midst of this particular kind of learning scenario, our hope of you is that in addition to whatever it is that you have gleaned from your trial and error experience, that you will also have learned to trust in yourself more.