Simplify the SeasonWritten by Megan Corwin
Let's take a look at a typical Christmas To-Do list: bake cookies, buy and make gifts, attend office party, church commitments, address and mail cards, clean house for guests, decorate...it goes on and on.... The holidays are meant to be a time of joy and family celebration. But all running around we do can zap fun. Here are some ideas to simplify season. Gift Giving: * Purchase a family gift rather than gifts for individuals. * For extended families, draw a member's name out of a hat and give only one gift. Limit present amount. * Make soup, beverage or cookie mixes. Package in a pretty jar or container with instructions attached. * Have family members create a wishlist on amazon.com so there's no guessing what they want, purchasing is easy, and there are no trips to crowded mall. * Start a collection. For example, a few years ago I began purchasing nativity set figurines for my mother. Each year she gets a new item to add to her collection. Again, no guessing - I always know what to buy for her.
| | Imagination is PowerWritten by Melissa Zollo
Imagination John Lennon entitled a song "Imagine." Thoreau once said: "Go confidently in direction of your dreams! Live life you've imagined." Neville once said: "Imagination is very gateway of reality." Exactly what is all of this talk about "imagination?" Imagination is a redeeming force. It can transform all of unlovely image making and violence in world. IMAGINATION IS POWER! And YOU HAVE IT! Your life is fueled by imagination. Anything and everything is possible to an awakened imagination! Therefore you have power to be anything you dream of being. All great thinkers, artists, healers, and inventors have relied on Power of Imagination to solve problems and overcome obstacles. Get Out Of The Past & Into The Present! As you revitalize your connection to Power Within and capture feelings of well being you will free yourself from fearful, insecure sensations. Since everything in Universe is connected on a vibrational level, it is vital for you to become aware of your emotional reactions and moods. Your feelings hold key to unlocking prison door to past. Most of your negative emotional moods are result of what happened to you in previous times. Do you want to live your life chained to a past memory or move into present moment? Feeling down and depressed can be caused by a media headline, money matters, personal problems, or business ventures. You have ability to release yourself from what you don't want and replace it with your heart's desire. Life Is A Banquet Life is a banquet, so why are so many starving to death with unfulfilled desires? Laziness, complacency, no time, fear of unknown -- you name it and excuses line up. It's up to you to change your thinking, and impress your subconscious mind with beneficial images of success. Learning Principle of Imaging will give you tools to develop skills needed for changing fabric and texture of your life. Doing this allows you to shift from undesirable patterns from your past and feelings of being disempowered into habits that empower you. Everybody Wants A Better Life Everybody wants a better life, but if you do same old things in same old way you will get same old results. If a farmer plants corn seeds, he gets corn; he doesn't get tomatoes. If you plant failure, poverty, or violent ideas, it is impossible to harvest success, wealth, or peace. If you want to change results you are getting, you must change your images and very thoughts you are thinking, because thought is creative. It takes courage or pain to stop sabotaging yourself and begin to change old mental and emotional habits. How to begin? First you must have a desire for something greater then outcome of your old habit. You must have a dream. Awareness of being holds key to letting go of what you don't want, and replacing it with what you desire. The World The world is a series of pictures, frames in a piece of film, or states of consciousness. What you are conscious of is real to you because you think and feel it is real. Your world is your very own personal mirror, forever mirroring your thoughts. It is your dream or your nightmare. Your choice! You are dreamer and dream maker of your life. You are a co-creator with Power Within. You live in an evolving cosmos, yet origin of universe exists in you. You are operant power in form, capable of riding waves of bliss and infusing every moment with joy. If your life isn't filled with joy, passion and peace and you want to change it, I encourage you to look at cause of your experience and begin to function imaginatively. The Art of Intentional Creation There is an Art to Intentional Creation and Personal Fulfillment. All you need to help boost your moods and change your experiences is an understanding of how Power of Imagination makes achievement of goals and healing of memory possible. Everything is first created in your own imagination from an idea and then it is projected out into world as experience. Look out at your world and you will see what ideas you have been thinking upon with feeling! If your experiences aren't fulfilling, or what you had hoped for, then perhaps it is time to awaken your potential and discover Power Within!
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