Top 5 Soul's Thought of The Day For February 2002
Top 5 Soul's Thought of The Day For February 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #2 -#1/The gift of difficulty...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Difficulty and challenge are everywhere in life. They have
always been and will always be. What many fail to grasp
and then hold on to is the reality that with these difficulties
and challenges comes such gifts. Yes, gifts.
The gift of difficulty will show you who you really are. It
will give you an entirely new way of thinking about yourself
in relationship to the universe. It gives us the impetus we
often need to search out the very purpose that is the gift
that connects to us to each and every one of our days,
meaningfully despite difficulty or challenge.
Embrace that which is difficult and challenging in your life.
Welcome it in. It is opportunity knocking on your door.
Don't leave it out in the cold. Join in the living day, every
day. Give to the day the best that you have to give and
the day will likewise give back to you.
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Thought of The Day for Monday, February 4, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #2 -#2/Life in the Trenches...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Life in the trenches is an every day reality. Each and
every day in some minor or major way we are faced
with trucking through our emotional muck. When the
pain comes we are deep in our own trenches. We
can feel isolated, discouraged, without hope.
It is when you are in the trenches of life, emotionally,
that you must remind yourself, gently, that the pain
that is part of this experience will pass when you
decide to let it go. Grieve. Embrace your pain.
Life in the trenches does not have to be all sad,
or all challenging. It doesn't matter how deep a
hole I may have dug there is a tunnel from
there, where I am standing, to where I want/need
to go.
Life in the trenches, is the emotional life that we
all have going on inside us simultaneously with
the life that we often are just going through the
motions of on the outside.
Set your soul free. Let the light shine in the
darkest place of your trench. Eagerly walk
toward the tunnel that will take you to where
you need to go inside of yourself to meet
your own emotional needs.
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Thought of The Day for Thursday, February 7, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #2 -#3/The high road...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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"There is a high road and a lower road to any place we
want to go." (Melody Beattie - "Stop Being Mean To Yourself")
It is the high road that facilitates our self-esteem and self-respect.
It is the high road that is often most difficult to choose to travel.
It is the high road that will most challenge you to expand your horizons.
It is the high road that will serve you best.
It is the high road that is about maturity, even in the face of pain or loss.
It is the high road that is the gift of nurture, understanding and compassion.
It is the high road that you soul longs to travel.
It is on the high road that you live in the here and now.
It is the high road that is the pathway to your future.
The lower road is the road is the circular patterned, not
well-thought-out road that leads us back to the hurts,
behaviour, and loss of all of our yesterdays. It is the
lower road that keeps us stuck in trying to win instead
of trying to learn. In trying to win one will only find
growing, painful and multiplying loss. There is no
victory in the low road. The low road is often an implusive
and not well-thought out choice. There is no new challenge in
the low road. The low road will not enhance your esteem,
respect or growth. Stop taking the lower road. Aim for
the high road and celebrate each and every time that is
the vehicle of your travel through your issues and your
painful emotions.
It is the high road that leads to healing and recovery.
It is the high road that will show you the way to joy.
Two roads, many choices. Choose wisely.
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Thought of The Day for Friday, February 8, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #2 -#6/Personal Responsibility...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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I've seen many definitions of personal responsibility. The
best one so far is in the book "Earning Your Own Respect"
by Thom Rutledge, M.S.W., (Look for a review of this book
soon on my web site in the book reviews section).
Rutledge lists seven components of responsibility:
Self-Esteem
Congruence
Motivation
Power
Purpose
Courage
Humility
We have responsibility to ourselves and responsibility to others.
If responsibility is something that you are trying to improve
Rutledge recommends writing down a list of people that
we have to be (and/or want to be) responsible to.
I believe it is important also to define our goals and to
then look at how our actions and priorities are either
working toward the meeting of our goals or how they
may be working against our goals.
Setting goals and working to accomplish them is a
large part of our responsibility to ourselves.
Responsibility is a key part of mental health. If
we abdicate our personal responsibility we sabotage
any chance we have for peace, happiness and
contentment. Abdicating personal responsibility
is re-abandonment of our authentic selves.
Live authentically. Be kind to your "authentic self".
Do not settle for less than who you know you
really are. Choose to be positive. Being negative
will not do you any favours. Your glass is half
full.
Personal responsibility allows us to have the kind
of self-esteem, congruence, motivation, power,
purpose, courage and humility that it takes to
be authentic and to meet our own needs.
Being personally responsible in all areas of your
life, regardless of what those around you choose
to do, is taking the high road. It is music to your
soul. It is the melody of your purpose fulfilled.
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Thought of The Day for Monday, February 18, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #2 -#7/Grace...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Grace is the gift of accepting the good with the bad and
the happy with the sad. Grace is blessed serendipity.
Grace is acceptance, in the here and now, of all that
you are experiencing. Grace is the will and the determination
to grow no matter how devastating the challenge.
Give yourself the gift of Grace each and everyday by being
centred in your spirituality. Being true to what we believe
and applying the ethical and moral obligation of those
beliefs is how we achieve the kind of congruence that
sets us free from our pasts and our pain, over and over
again.
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, February 20, 2002
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