Use Your Imagination to Create the Self You WantWritten by Gerri D Smith
Copyright, 2003 Words - 571"Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling -is creative. To degree that it is fervently held as truth, to that degree will it be made manifest in your experience." -Neale Donald Walsch In your business and in your personal life, if your mind was a huge, blank sheet of paper, what would you fill space with? Would you use it to create positive or negative thoughts? Using your mind as a blank sheet of paper gives you chance to create new goals, and to reach for new heights. A blank page gives you an important guide that pushes you toward self motivation and inspiration. You can change your blank page at any time. Your God given imagination is there for your to use to create business and personal life you want. You can create a new beginning. It's your choice and not anyone else's. You can use it to erase any negative thoughts, feelings, or opinions. When someone tells you you can't do something, can you separate fact of their statement from their opinion? Use your imagination to create a better, more useful outcome. Understanding that there is a great distinction between two may decide your success or failure. How valuable is their opinion? What is truth behind statement? Being able to determine difference between facts and opinions when you hear them is important. Always consider cost of having someone else's opinion prevent you from doing something that is not based on facts. Do facts out-weigh opinions? Or, are opinions more important than your desire to be self you want? This is like knowing that just because it's raining outside, it doesn't have to be a bad day. One is fact; other is an opinion. Use this guidance whenever you find yourself hesitating to make a decision in your business or in your personal life.
| | Parenting Yourself When You Have Small ChildrenWritten by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
PARENTING YOURSELF WHEN YOU HAVE SMALL CHILDREN By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.There’s no doubt about it - parenting small children takes a lot of time. So much time that it’s very easy to forget about your child within. Yet you cannot be a really good parent while forgetting about your own feelings, needs and well-being. Haven’t you noticed that if you do not take care of yourself by having enough time for yourself you are much more irritable with your mate and children? Whether your job is being with your children all day, or you work out of home all day, or you work in your home and tend to your children all day - you need some time for yourself. When my children were small it was challenging to find time for myself. I worked at home, tended to my children, and had very little money for household help. Yet if I didn’t have time to myself to read, take a bath, do creative stuff or just stare at a flower, I had a hard time being a patient, loving and fun mom. What I did at that time is seek out adolescents who loved playing with little kids. I hired them (for not a lot of money - they were delighted to earn a little spending money and get to play with children as well) to play with my kids while I was in house taking time for myself. After an hour or so of restful or creative time, I was filled up enough within to be able to give to my children. When I didn’t take this time, my own Inner Child would feel unloved, unimportant and resentful. A part of good parenting is letting your children know that their needs are neither more nor less important than yours. In past, children were supposed to be seen and not heard and were given message that adults were more important than children. In more recent times, many children are given message that their needs and feelings are more important than adults’ needs. Neither message is based on truth of equality of each soul. For children to understand this equality, parents need to role model loving their children and loving themselves - not one at expense of other. If children are taught that adults are more important then children, children learn to be caretakers, putting themselves aside in deference to others. If children are taught that children are more important than adults, they learn to be brats, demanding attention and not caring about others. This is just one of reasons why it is so important for parents to take responsibility for caring about themselves - for lovingly parenting child within.
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