It's going to be easier and easier for me to wake up in the mornings. Then I'll have time to do some exercising.
I've been doing my Meditation each morning for several weeks now. I love it. I visualize and cleanse and do some forgiveness work.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sloppy Joe
I made homemade sloppy joe tonight, and not only was it super tasty but also I truly enjoyed making it.
James wanted me to get Manwich when I went to the store the other day so they could have soppy joes for supper. I searched up and down those aisles but just could not find it. Oh well. So tonight I googled "Manwich recipes" and found one to follow. Perfect! Turned out I didn't have very much ketchup. Oh well. So, I looked at the ingredients listed on the ketchup bottle and perfect--I can make my own ketchup. We need ketchup for the french fries. Oh well. We can eat french fries without ketchup. So I threw in a bit of this and a bit of that and hoped it tasted like Manwich. The sauce tasted great to me, but I don't eat sloppy Joe's, so I have no idea what Manwich tastes like.
James then came home and started unloading his bag of stuff he had brought from work. And perfect, he had a huge bottle of ketchup!
James loved the meal and I loved cooking it.
James wanted me to get Manwich when I went to the store the other day so they could have soppy joes for supper. I searched up and down those aisles but just could not find it. Oh well. So tonight I googled "Manwich recipes" and found one to follow. Perfect! Turned out I didn't have very much ketchup. Oh well. So, I looked at the ingredients listed on the ketchup bottle and perfect--I can make my own ketchup. We need ketchup for the french fries. Oh well. We can eat french fries without ketchup. So I threw in a bit of this and a bit of that and hoped it tasted like Manwich. The sauce tasted great to me, but I don't eat sloppy Joe's, so I have no idea what Manwich tastes like.
James then came home and started unloading his bag of stuff he had brought from work. And perfect, he had a huge bottle of ketchup!
James loved the meal and I loved cooking it.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
All of the good things about today
- Resolved Adobe Acrobat issue on coworker's computer
- Resolved other computer issues on another coworker's computer
- Safe drive home in the snow
- Yummy deviled eggs which turned out perfect and were so easy to peel
- Fun time playing in the snow with my wonderful kids and my awesome husband
- Beautiful snowflakes falling outside my office window all day
- Very productive day at work
- Able to do a soul journey with Denise Linn through the archived radio shows
- Leftovers for dinner
- Great progress on the newsletter
- Lying in bed with my husband after the kids went to sleep!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
My life is wonderful in every way I can imagine
Yesterday evening I was reading my You Can Heal Your Life book by Louise L. Hay. One of the exercises she suggests is saying "I approve of myself" over and over. Here is the excerpt:
On my drive home this evening, I began doing some affirmations. I started with "I love and accept myself", "I forgive those who I perceived to have hurt me", and some others. I said each several times as I have been doing lately. Then I began to get a little pumped. I came up with several more and continued, saying each out loud several times and with feeling. I really meant each thing I said. Eventually I just focused mostly on one, "My live is wonderful in every way I can imagine". I said it over, and over, and over, and over. I said it the entire drive home, occassionally saying a different itteration of the same thing, "In every way, my life is wonderful," "Everything in my life is wonderful," etc. And every time I said it, I really felt it, and I began to feel so happy knowing that this is the truth for my life. But here's the really cool part, as I repeated it, my mind would think of something to try to tell me why my life isn't wonderful, but because I was saying this--believing this--again and again, the thought (belief) would immediately pass. It would just dissolve away. And then some other doubt or fear or negativity would surface, and same as the others, immediately and gently faded away.
So just as Louise had said, this was my mantra and all sorts of things surfaced. And the greatest part is I didn't have to figure out what to do with these things that surfaced, they just took care of themself.
For the next month say over and over to yourself, "I approve of myself."Two things about this struck me. One: thinking of this as a "mantra". I've never known how mantras work but have always found the idea to be interesting. Two: this exercise being able to bring up everything that is buried in your consciousness. I wondered "what am I supposed to do when all of those things that are buried in my subconscious come up?".
Do this three or four hundred times a day at least. No, it's not too many times. When you are worrying, you go over your problem at least that many times. Let "I approve of myself" become your walking mantra, something you just say over and over and over to yourself almost nonstop. Saying, "I approve of myself" is a guaranteed way to bring up everything buried in your consciousness that is in opposition.
On my drive home this evening, I began doing some affirmations. I started with "I love and accept myself", "I forgive those who I perceived to have hurt me", and some others. I said each several times as I have been doing lately. Then I began to get a little pumped. I came up with several more and continued, saying each out loud several times and with feeling. I really meant each thing I said. Eventually I just focused mostly on one, "My live is wonderful in every way I can imagine". I said it over, and over, and over, and over. I said it the entire drive home, occassionally saying a different itteration of the same thing, "In every way, my life is wonderful," "Everything in my life is wonderful," etc. And every time I said it, I really felt it, and I began to feel so happy knowing that this is the truth for my life. But here's the really cool part, as I repeated it, my mind would think of something to try to tell me why my life isn't wonderful, but because I was saying this--believing this--again and again, the thought (belief) would immediately pass. It would just dissolve away. And then some other doubt or fear or negativity would surface, and same as the others, immediately and gently faded away.
So just as Louise had said, this was my mantra and all sorts of things surfaced. And the greatest part is I didn't have to figure out what to do with these things that surfaced, they just took care of themself.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Asleep in about 5 minutes
During my morning meditation today I envisioned tonight's bedtime. Long story short, after only a couple minutes in bed with my daughter she rolled over and fell sound asleep.
Friday, January 9, 2009
One good thing
Throughout the day whenever I would think of this evening or weekend I was very happy. I really was looking forward to coming home and being with my kids and my husband. The drive home was happy and expectant rather than full of worry and dread as it had been for a while in the past. I'm so glad that I am living my life and looking forward to it.
It's going to snow this weekend, so James and I are planning to take the kids sledding! It is going to be such fun. I spent so much time cursing the snow, but now I am psyched about it! I think sledding is going to be a blast. The kids will absolutely love it. I bought two sleds earlier this year. We have one of those round, red disks and another long one that seats two (or we can probably squeeze three). It will be wonderful exercise that will get our breath flowing and our blood pumping.
Well, make that two good things.
It's going to snow this weekend, so James and I are planning to take the kids sledding! It is going to be such fun. I spent so much time cursing the snow, but now I am psyched about it! I think sledding is going to be a blast. The kids will absolutely love it. I bought two sleds earlier this year. We have one of those round, red disks and another long one that seats two (or we can probably squeeze three). It will be wonderful exercise that will get our breath flowing and our blood pumping.
Well, make that two good things.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
As fun as in Kindergarten
I spent the last couple of days finding and saving pictures from the internet to do some collaging. I thought it would be helpful as many have suggested for continuing to bring about the things in my life that I want--manifesting as it's often called. I also found pics of things the kids like and some things I know James will be manifesting or that we will be manifesting together.
It was very pleasant to feel that as I began to think more and more about the things I wanted in my life I was getting excited. And I really felt like good things can and will and are happening to me. At times in the far away past and then in the recent past it was a struggle to even imagine being happy. Now I'm so giddy about all the goodness that I'm talking about it to myself on my drive home from work each evening. Why I even could have felt badly back then seems like a mystery to me now.
So, we and the kiddos put together their collages after dinner tonight and then displayed them by each of their beds. This was such a wonderful thing to do with them. Once they were tucked in with lights out (except the Christmas lights which just might become a semi permanent fixture) I hurried downstairs so I could do my own.
I had so much fun it was like being a kid again! I was so into it, and my brain was gaga with visions of vacations to Sedona and happiness and love and excitement in the most wonderful marriage and updates to the house and being a yoga queen and baths in huge whirlpool tubs and letting go of all the junk inside and soaking up sun with solar panels and more and more and more (and even an Ivy colored 1970 Hemi Cuda).
It was very pleasant to feel that as I began to think more and more about the things I wanted in my life I was getting excited. And I really felt like good things can and will and are happening to me. At times in the far away past and then in the recent past it was a struggle to even imagine being happy. Now I'm so giddy about all the goodness that I'm talking about it to myself on my drive home from work each evening. Why I even could have felt badly back then seems like a mystery to me now.
So, we and the kiddos put together their collages after dinner tonight and then displayed them by each of their beds. This was such a wonderful thing to do with them. Once they were tucked in with lights out (except the Christmas lights which just might become a semi permanent fixture) I hurried downstairs so I could do my own.
I had so much fun it was like being a kid again! I was so into it, and my brain was gaga with visions of vacations to Sedona and happiness and love and excitement in the most wonderful marriage and updates to the house and being a yoga queen and baths in huge whirlpool tubs and letting go of all the junk inside and soaking up sun with solar panels and more and more and more (and even an Ivy colored 1970 Hemi Cuda).
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