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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 450860" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>Years ago I had read something by the psychic Jane Roberts which in essense said said your beliefs create your reality, and if you don't like your reality, you need to change your beliefs - every thought becomes reality. Don't know why that had such a profound affect on me, but I picked it up as my life mantra. Maybe it was being raised by someone whose thought process was totally negative about anything and everything and always, always had a fear about the unknown - I don't know -but those few words I read changed my life.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if I am exactly "joyful" -am not sure what that means - but for the most part I am content, happy, enthusastic and I smile, a lot. There have been days, shoot, months that it was one foot in front of the other to make it to bedtime, but would think that is a normal process throughout life-bad times make you grow but you have to be ever viligent to make sure you don't get sucked into a black void. When I feel I am doing that, I reach for Jane Robert's book "The Nature of Personal Reality" -its a kick starter for me to get out of that dark place. </p><p></p><p>When SO and I went back to Ohio in May to see my mother one last time, she was mostly out of touch with reality. At one point she opened her eyes, looked at SO and said "I would never pick a fight with that guy" and then looked at me, pointed at me and said "but THAT one, THAT one is another story" She said it in anger, everyone laughed (but me) and thought it was such a funny comment. Then my cousin reached over to adjust that oxygen thing in her nose, my mother, still angry, slapped her in the face, and drifted off again. I remember thinking how sad it was she wasn't even with it, and still had all that negative energy running what was left of her life, this is what bitterness does to someone. I may not inow what joyful exactly is, but definetly know "joyful" wasn't in her vocabulary LOL</p><p></p><p>LDM, I don't do a Gratitude Journal, but both SO and I carry a small "Gratitude Rock" in our pocket/purse. When one of us starts getting into the woe is me mode, or a slide into any kind of negativity, the other will ask "where is your rock" -a small reminder not to go there. Silly I know, but it works</p><p></p><p>Marcie</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I don't know if I would like to be 'happy" 24/7 - that to me would be unnatural.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 450860, member: 47"] Years ago I had read something by the psychic Jane Roberts which in essense said said your beliefs create your reality, and if you don't like your reality, you need to change your beliefs - every thought becomes reality. Don't know why that had such a profound affect on me, but I picked it up as my life mantra. Maybe it was being raised by someone whose thought process was totally negative about anything and everything and always, always had a fear about the unknown - I don't know -but those few words I read changed my life. I don't know if I am exactly "joyful" -am not sure what that means - but for the most part I am content, happy, enthusastic and I smile, a lot. There have been days, shoot, months that it was one foot in front of the other to make it to bedtime, but would think that is a normal process throughout life-bad times make you grow but you have to be ever viligent to make sure you don't get sucked into a black void. When I feel I am doing that, I reach for Jane Robert's book "The Nature of Personal Reality" -its a kick starter for me to get out of that dark place. When SO and I went back to Ohio in May to see my mother one last time, she was mostly out of touch with reality. At one point she opened her eyes, looked at SO and said "I would never pick a fight with that guy" and then looked at me, pointed at me and said "but THAT one, THAT one is another story" She said it in anger, everyone laughed (but me) and thought it was such a funny comment. Then my cousin reached over to adjust that oxygen thing in her nose, my mother, still angry, slapped her in the face, and drifted off again. I remember thinking how sad it was she wasn't even with it, and still had all that negative energy running what was left of her life, this is what bitterness does to someone. I may not inow what joyful exactly is, but definetly know "joyful" wasn't in her vocabulary LOL LDM, I don't do a Gratitude Journal, but both SO and I carry a small "Gratitude Rock" in our pocket/purse. When one of us starts getting into the woe is me mode, or a slide into any kind of negativity, the other will ask "where is your rock" -a small reminder not to go there. Silly I know, but it works Marcie I don't know if I would like to be 'happy" 24/7 - that to me would be unnatural. [/QUOTE]
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