People Come Into Your Life For a Reason, A Season Or A Lifetime:

Today on Facebook I made a post stating that "Everyone who enters your life comes to you at precisely the time that you most need to learn the lesson they've come to teach."  I received some "great" feedback this morning from my Facebook friends which inspired me to include this passage today in my blog. I don't know who the author of this passage is but the message speaks the Truth.

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When  you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you  physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be.  Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.  Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent  up has been answered  and now it is time to move on. Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They  usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.  Believe it, it is real.  But only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.  Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.  It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime. 

PASSION

Like the moon, passion waxes and wanes.  Sometimes you're highly motivated. Sometimes you aren't.  Passion has its peaks and valleys, so if you base your actions on your level of passion, your results will depend on your emotions.  One of the greatest gifts of our humanity is our capacity to experience and respond to our feelings. Whether it be tears of joy and sadness, anger, conviction, love or compassion - if it causes you to scrape your knees or fall into that raging river called life, passion is your birthright.  It is within you. It is yours to discover and master. Passion is a gift of the spirit combined with the totality of all the experiences we've lived through.  It endows each of us with the power to live and communicate with unbridled enthusiasm.  Passion is most evident when the mind, body and spirit work together to create, develop and make manifest our feelings, ideas and most sacred values.  Passion enables us to overcome obstacles (both real and imagined) and to see the world as a place of infinite potential.  The passionate spirit looks at every occurrence and discovers the possibilities of what can be, what should be and what will be.  Passion shapes our existence, fuels the fires of inspiration and makes the heart and mind open to changes all around us.  It is food for the soul, a spark that illuminates our purpose and mission for being here.


Passion is yours to experience and revel in and it starts from the inside out!

Stress

Stress is a major cause of not allowing yourself to FEEL your emotions and has become the most potent poison in the world. we are constantly occupied with worrying about the future or regretting the past. Stress takes up so much of our attention that we are losing all self-awareness and therefore the ability to heal ourselves.

When we take steps to eradicate stress and establish balance in our bodies we create natural beauty, health and radiance inside and out. When we removeToxins and stress from our lives, we free our energy to rid us of anything that does not serve us. We also create an internal awareness to stop, look, listen,

and feel.  In this process, we find that sacred place inside us where everything is still, questions are asked and answers are found – the place of self love. 

Don’t Conform To The Rigid Beauty Ideals – Be You!

Instead of trying to conform to the rigid beauty ideal promoted in the media, EXPERIMENT with finding a STYLE or look that EXPRESSES something UNIQUE about yourself and feels good to YOU. When you exercise, PAY ATTENTION to the RHYTHMS and SENSATIONS you experience in your body as you MOVE. While exercise is often promoted as a way to lose weight and achieve an idealized body shape, it also often helps us FEEL GOOD in our BODIES, which in turn can help us ACCEPT and even CELEBRATE how we LOOK.

Self Talk

Thoughts play a critical role in determining your emotional responses to events. Your thoughts about yourself have a direct impact on your feelings and behavior. Increasing the amount of positive self-talk can improve your exercise program-and your life in general. Whenever you think about something, you are, in essence, talking to yourself. Self-talk serves as the vehicle for making perceptions and beliefs conscious.

Negative self-talk increases stress. Positive self-talk helps you calm down and control stress: For example: 

         Negative                                 Positive

   "I can't do this."                     "I'll do the best I can."

   "I hate it when this happens."   "I know how to deal with this; I've done it before."

   "Everything is going wrong."     "I can handle things if I take one step at time."

To help you feel better, practice positive self-talk EVERY DAY - in the car, at your desk, before you go to bed or whenever you notice negative thoughts.  Remember: Positive self-talk helps you relieve stress and deal with the situations that cause you stress.