Simplify the Season

Written 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, cleanrepparttar house for guests, decorate...it goes on and on....

The holidays are meant to be a time of joy and family celebration. But allrepparttar 130522 running around we do can zaprepparttar 130523 fun. Here are some ideas to simplifyrepparttar 130524 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. Limitrepparttar 130525 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 torepparttar 130526 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 Power

Written by Melissa Zollo


Imagination John Lennon entitled a song "Imagine." Thoreau once said: "Go confidently inrepparttar direction of your dreams! Liverepparttar 130520 life you've imagined." Neville once said: "Imagination isrepparttar 130521 very gateway of reality." Exactly what is all of this talk about "imagination?" Imagination is a redeeming force. It can transform all ofrepparttar 130522 unlovely image making and violence inrepparttar 130523 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 haverepparttar 130524 power to be anything you dream of being. All great thinkers, artists, healers, and inventors have relied onrepparttar 130525 Power of Imagination to solve problems and overcome obstacles.

Get Out Of The Past & Into The Present! As you revitalize your connection torepparttar 130526 Power Within and capture feelings of well being you will free yourself from fearful, insecure sensations. Since everything inrepparttar 130527 Universe is connected on a vibrational level, it is vital for you to become aware of your emotional reactions and moods. Your feelings holdrepparttar 130528 key to unlockingrepparttar 130529 prison door torepparttar 130530 past. Most of your negative emotional moods arerepparttar 130531 result of what happened to you in previous times. Do you want to live your life chained to a past memory or move intorepparttar 130532 present moment? Feeling down and depressed can be caused by a media headline, money matters, personal problems, or business ventures. You haverepparttar 130533 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 ofrepparttar 130534 unknown -- you name it andrepparttar 130535 excuses line up. It's up to you to change your thinking, and impress your subconscious mind with beneficial images of success. Learningrepparttar 130536 Principle of Imaging will give yourepparttar 130537 tools to developrepparttar 130538 skills needed for changingrepparttar 130539 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 dorepparttar 130540 same old things inrepparttar 130541 same old way you will getrepparttar 130542 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 changerepparttar 130543 results you are getting, you must change your images andrepparttar 130544 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 thenrepparttar 130545 outcome of your old habit. You must have a dream. Awareness of being holdsrepparttar 130546 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 arerepparttar 130547 dreamer and dream maker of your life. You are a co-creator withrepparttar 130548 Power Within. You live in an evolving cosmos, yetrepparttar 130549 origin ofrepparttar 130550 universe exists in you. You arerepparttar 130551 operant power in form, capable of ridingrepparttar 130552 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 atrepparttar 130553 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 howrepparttar 130554 Power of Imagination makesrepparttar 130555 achievement of goals andrepparttar 130556 healing of memory possible. Everything is first created in your own imagination from an idea and then it is projected out intorepparttar 130557 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 discoverrepparttar 130558 Power Within!

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