Top 6 Soul's Thought of The Day For March 2002
Top 6 Soul's Thought of The Day For March 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#2/The magic is...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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The magic is in the acceptance of who you are regardless
of what is and isn't working for you in your life right now.
The magic is in grasping the growth while feeling profoundly
deep grief.
The magic is in the continued search for understanding.
The magic is in your desire to live the very best life that you can.
The magic is the dawning of new day and the spirit with which you
greet it.
The magic is what you make it. It is the boundless pursuit of revelation.
The magic is you unfolding just as you are meant to -- because -- ....
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Thought of The Day for Tuesday, March 5, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#3/The hardest to learn...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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"The hardest to learn was the least complicated" (Indigo
Girls) Why do we so often make things way harder for
ourselves then we need to? Many things that are
difficult or hard are truthfully not complicated.
Things seem or get more complicated when we put
them aside -- when we abdicate the personal power
and control we have and that we owe to ourselves
to take responsibility for.
Too often, if we aren't careful, we end up trying
to control events around us, other people, and
our environment -- all the things that we really
can't control. This is what makes the difficult
seem impossible. This is what leaves the
difficult looking so complicated.
To simplify your life then, decide to take
responsibility for your personal power and
appropriately exercise it. Take responsibility
for what you can control about yourself -- your
thoughts, the way you are with others,
how you treat yourself, and the actions that
you take.
The hardest thing to learn is surrender to
that which we have no business trying to
control. It is the least complicated fact in
the change that so many of us need to
work harder at completing as we continue
to heal and seek more happiness in our
lives.
Taking personal responsibility, even when
others around you can't, don't or won't, is
the hardest thing to learn but the least
complicated thing to do ... in the end.
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#4/The edge...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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There is a place where the past pushes the here and
now. There is a place where hurt and anger --
woundedness -- threatens to cloud what can be
precious insightful growth. There is a place where
we fight for our lives, figuratively or literally.
This place is an edge. It is an edge in what will
be a sharp turn when we are ready to make that
turn and take that next big giant step forward.
Forward into the kind of growth we've worked for.
Forward to a place of self-love, self-esteem and
self-respect that our shame used to keep us
from. Heal the shame that binds you. Dare
to figuratively and emotionally step courageously
over that edge, whatever and wherever your edge
may be.
One of the most profound edges I've stepped over
in my healing journey is the edge of negative versus
positive. I have turned that corner, let go of holding
and worshipping the negative to the exclusion of
the positive. I have burst through the cognitively-
distorted negative core belief that I was so unworthy
or undeserving of the positive that all that could
feel safe was the familiar negative. No more.
Free yourselves also. You really can make this
choice. Shame binds. Choice liberates.
Accentuate the positive. Use affirmations. Believe
that you will learn how to feel deserving if it doesn't
quite feel real yet.
You were born into innate purpose and promise.
You deserve to fulfill your potential as well. You
really are okay. Affirm that. Say, "I AM OKAY".
No conditions, no buts, just "I AM OKAY".
The edge is scary. The edge is exciting. In any
healing journey there are many edges to be
encountered and crossed over, let go of,
surrendered, left behind and walked away from.
Know that there is a place where your desire for
peace will out-strip your need to re-visit past
negative binding shame and all the illogical
beliefs that go with it.
When we accept our woundedness as part of
our being human we no longer need to feel
"less than" and defective. Accept that you
are not, nor will you ever be perfect. Step
over the edge that awaits you. Dare. Risk.
Free yourself. Woundedness is not a cross
to bare it is just a part of life. It is the edge
that stands between the positive and the
negative, the past and the here and now.
Choose wisely.
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Thought of The Day for Thursday, March 7, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#5/Sign Posts...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Sign posts are the calling cards of purpose. They are the
beacons of the direction we need to follow in our lives and
the harbingers of all that is to come.
Recognizing the sign posts is the key to growth. Sign
posts identified are purpose realized.
Sign posts come in many different forms as we travel
the highway of life. They can be people who come into
or who leave our lives. Sign posts may be the acquisition
of understanding and knowledge and the application of
said which is wisdom. Learning to act and choose wisely
requires that we are paying attention to that which seeks
to teach us.
Sign posts are the calling cards of purpose.
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Thought of The Day for Friday, March 8, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#10/Alone: Solitude versus Loneliness...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone
and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
--Paul Tillich
To live and to lead a healthy life it is beneficial to have
alone time. Being alone is a part of life for most of us,
from time to time. Whether we choose to be alone or
not, there are times when we life will offer us the experience
of being alone with ourselves. It is up to each one of us
how we experience and perceive that aloneness. We have
choices. We can feel the pain of loneliness and feel bad
about ourselves and our being alone or we can feel the
glory of wonderous solitude. Comfort with yourself for who
you are will drastically reduce, if not eliminate, any experience
of loneliness.
The road that runs between loneliness and solitude is the
road of recovery. The off-ramp is self-awareness. It is the
key to the kind of comfort needed when one is alone to
be open to the experience of solitude in all of its accompanying
glory.
The attitude that you have -- how you think about yourself --
when you are alone is what makes the difference as to whether
you experience loneliness or solitude, pain or glory.
In each case, there is stillness. A quiet time of pause. Learn
to sit with this stillness. Let it relax you. Let it energize you.
We do not have to busy every minute of every day to prove our
worthiness. There are lessons to be learned from the pain of
loneliness. There is worth in solitude and stillness. There is
joy and bliss to be found in the serenity of solitude.
I will seek each day, for a period of time that is workable for me,
to sit with myself, by myself, to be alone, to be still. I will slowly
increase my comfort with my own company. I want to know that
glory of solitude. I need these welcome relaxing peaceful breaks
from the hectic pace of my everyday life. I deserve to know this
solitude.
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Thought of The Day for Monday, March 18, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #3 -#11/The box...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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The box I will refer to here is the box of "conventional" or
"popular" thought. For example, if you have been diagnosed
with any form or aspect of mental illness your diagnosis or
label will leave you being perceived as being in the box of
what ever you've been diagnosed with by most professionals.
The diagnosis, the label becomes a box of expectations. They
file people into into boxed thoughts according to category. Much
of this may well be subconscious.
Both the professional and the client need to learn to think
outside of the box. The client has to also learn how to behave
outside of the boxed set of behavioural expectations that
often go along with the perception of any given label.
The good news is that when we begin to move beyond the box
we can heal and free ourselves. Our lives do not have to be
lived, indefinitely, to the expectation and/or definition of any
diagnosis or label.
Don't allow yourself to be treated like some boxed set of
symptoms. Don't lose your personhood to your challenges.
You are a worthy person in spite of any box that anyone
can mentally stick you in.
The box represents the pathologizing of humanity. It is an
inhumane response to very human needs. It is the system's
way of making those with certain issues or vulnerabilities
"diseased" while referring to others as "normal". Neither
are true. We are not "diseased" because we may be
challenged. No one is "normal" really. Therefore, step out
of this boxed way of thought. Free yourself.
We are all individuals who experience things differently.
What is "normal" for me, might not be "normal" for you
and visa versa and that is OKAY. Give yourself permission
today to think, be and live outside of the box. You really
are free to make this choice.
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, March 20, 2002
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