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Playfulness
"I enter the day with the intention to play, looking for ways
to laugh as I celebrate April Fool’s Day. I really pay attention
when a child or a friend plays a joke on me. My inner child looks
for simple ways to play, joke, and have fun. I am playful and like
to laugh."
-- from Seed
Thoughts for Loving Yourself
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By Suzanne E. Harrill
By Kay Posselt
By Bob
Reasoner
By John Price
By Mary O’Malley
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Young children love this
colorful affirmation book with star graphics and its small
size. These easy-to-read, rainbow-colored pages are great
for building reading skills. Included is the Children’s
Self-Esteem Indicator and lists of thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors of low self-esteem.
Children are encouraged to tape record the
affirmations so they can play it back to themselves. For
children ages 2-9.
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Greetings from the
Editor:
New Life
April is a happy month for many of us, as
spring is ushered in. It is a time of flowers and sunshine and
the feeling of rebirth after winter. Consider allowing April
to be a time of new beginnings. What is new on the horizon for
you and your life? My family is meeting in Galveston for a
couple of weeks to enjoy the spring weather in April, as
spring arrives a little later in Colorado.
Fortunate Blessings,
Suzanne
Relationship
By Suzanne E. Harrill
Consider you are already perfect, right
now, just the way you are. "Huh?" you might be
saying. Imagine you are a soul born here with a body to
experience life and grow in awareness. You begin in
"preschool consciousness," copying and assimilating
the beliefs and values of those around you. At first you learn
to "fit in." Since there are limited experiences and
results, choices and decisions are usually unconscious and
made randomly. You do not realize that you have free-will
choice and create your day and your life by making choices and
decisions moment by moment...
(read
the article)
By Bob
Reasoner
Implicit self-esteem refers
to those aspects of the self that are represented in memory
via routinized associations that are not readily available to
introspection. This is another approach to the assessment of
self-esteem, along with many of the other concepts of
self-esteem reported in the literature.
Recently questions have
been raised about the validity of self-report measures of
self-esteem since they can only tell us what people believe to
be true about themselves. We know that behavior is determined
not only by conscious thought but also by emotional reaction.
As a result, there is a growing interest in measuring
information that people may not be willing or able to report
because it is at the unconscious level...
(read
the article)
By Suzanne E. Harrill
MONTHLY ON LINE AFFIRMATIONS.
Affirmations to support self-esteem and spiritual growth
now available in monthly installments. This is an updated
edition of the seed thoughts and affirmations in the book,
Affirm Your Self Day by Day.
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the whole story)
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by John Price
To answer the question we might say that
"lack" appears as an empty bank account, the absence
of a loving relationship, futility in achieving life's goals, or
a short- age of vitality in the physical system. Looking at lack
from another perspective, let's imagine a hole in the ground or
an empty cup. It looks as though nothing is in the hole or cup,
but that's not true because "nothing" cannot exist.
Therefore, there is no such thing as lack, scarcity or shortage.
The hole and the cup are filled to overflowing with omnipresent
creative \energy, and so is our bank account, the
"space" between our relationships, the seeming
"vacancy" in fulfilling self-expression, and the
perceived "void" in the physical body.
In essence, where there seems to be nothing,
there is something, which means we don't have to worry about an
insufficiency that doesn't exist. Looking at things from the
Divine Perspective of our Withinness, we see there are no
problems that have not already been solved, no needs that
haven't been met.
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the whole article)
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Poetry
by Kay Posselt
A grain of sand
slipped into my shell,
grated my nerves raw,
made me know what’s foreign
might not be nice.
It is not nice
to try so hard,
to put everything on the line,
to push as hard as I can
without so much as a nod.
A cold slap would feel better.
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whole article)
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By Mary O’Malley
I was graced for years by an
exquisite willow tree outside my bedroom window. One
spring evening as I was getting ready for my son's 18th
Birthday, a rainstorm moved into the Northwest and I was drawn
to look out the window. The willow was in the beginning
stages of putting on her summer dress of vibrant green, and the
sky framing the willow was black and stormy, as rain danced
horizontally past my window.
Suddenly, the clouds opened up on the
horizon, allowing the setting sun to bathe this stormy sea with
its vibrant light. The myriad rain drops on the willow's
branches were immediately transformed into individual prisms of
light. It was so breathtakingly beautiful that tears came
to my eyes. As I looked out the window on the other side
of the house, there was a double rainbow, crystal clear against
the dark and forbidding clouds. I knew as I watched this
gift of beauty that it was a metaphor for human life.
Without the stormy sky to frame the opening for the setting sun,
the beauty of the willow would not have been highlighted, and
without both the rain and the sun, the rainbow wouldn't have
been born.
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the whole article)
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Humor) |
Submitted by Janet Carroll
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