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Thoughts! What powerful things these are — our thoughts. Sometimes we relegate our thoughts to some vague bit of information that pops into our mind and then disappears. Oh, but they are so much more powerful than that.

All those words and ideas that flow through our minds can shape our lives and drive us toward success and happiness — or failure and distress. How you think has a major effect on what happens in your life. Your thoughts can determine how well you perform and whether your goals and aspirations will have a positive outcome. When you maintain an optimistic outlook and make an effort to harbor only positive thoughts, you begin to create the circumstances conducive to achieving what you desire.

Positive thinking can help you to feel like you truly have control of your life. Those daily challenges won’t be nearly as overwhelming because you will believe that there will be a positive conclusion. Staying positive does not mean that you ignore difficulties or disregard limitations. Instead, it means spending time focusing only on the thoughts that are conducive to your well-being and progress.

Do you want success in your life? A good way to help that happen is to think positively. When you feel more certain of your worthiness — when you know that success is within your grasp — you’re much more likely to approach life’s challenges in a relaxed manner and look for solutions rather than dwelling on problems. You’re more likely to imagine positive situations or outcomes and disregard the thoughts related to giving up, failure, or roadblocks. What the mind expects, it finds.

I’m probably making this all sound so simple — it is — and it isn’t. Sure, you need to do some work to develop a positive mindset. It’s not in our nature to think positively, it takes practice. Whenever you notice a negative thought coming into your mind, make a conscious effort to immediately replace it with a constructive, optimistic one. Be persistent with this and you will condition your mind to make the switch from negative to positive more easily.

As I said at the beginning of this article, you have the power. The power to be as happy, content, and successful as you make up your mind to be. Staying positive may not have an immediate effect on your situation, but it will likely have a profound and instantaneous effect on your mood and the quality of your experiences. In order for positive thinking to change your life, it must become your predominant mind-set.

When you start having good thoughts — when thinking positively becomes a habit — you’ll see your self-confidence grow by leaps and bounds and you will believe that you have the power to to achieve what you want.

Shanti ….
~~~ DBL-R

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2. My personal relationship is rekindling in a more authentic way.
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4. My emotional, psychological, and mental factors are improving day by day.
5. My spiritual path is active and strong as I am loving God more and more.
6. My energy level is up, up, and up.
7. I AM LIVING IN THE NOW!!!

Out of all of my miracles number 7 is the best. I am no longer a victim and for that I say thank you Jafree for blessing us all! Much love.” ~Muriel Walker, Gainesville, Florida

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One of the topics that I think about often is what it means to be entering another phase in life — and pondering whether such changes are the end of a phase or whether they are a new beginning.

Have you ever gone to a celebration for a couple who have reached a milestone in the number of years they’ve been together — or to a celebration of someone’s life after they’ve passed on? Quite often, the family members will pool all their photographs together and create a collage and display it on an easel for everyone to enjoy. Invariably, these collages are a visual representation of the beginnings and endings in the lives of the people involved.

Isn’t life a lot like that — a series of beginnings and endings that seem to run together like the pictures in a collage?

Even though these life phases seem to run together, if you think about it, each new beginning is preceded by a closure of the current stage of life. Often, we can’t see the significance of an event or the importance of a lesson until we have reached some sort of closure. Or, we may have completed a certain phase in life or path of learning and want to honor that ending. We need to know that we’re finished with something and it’s this sense of completion that frees us to open the door to new beginnings. Closure serves to quiet the mind even when questions have been left unanswered — it signifies the end of an experience, and acknowledges that a change has taken place. We’re finished with that part of life and are ready to move on.

This closure isn’t truly a finality, rather it’s more of a transition from one phase to another. It’s a way of telling ourselves that we’ve done our best and we need to leave the past in the past and bring forward the lessons learned into our next phase of life.

Closure can help you let go of feelings of anger or uncertainty regarding your past. You should honor your experience – whether good or bad – as a necessary step on your life’s path. Closure allows you to emotionally lay to rest issues and feelings that may be weighing down your spirit. When you create closure, you affirm that you have done what was needed, that you are wiser because of your experience, and you are ready for whatever life wants to bring to you in the next phase.

This last quote that I found really sums up this rather confusing topic.

Shanti ….
~~~ DBL-R

P.S. Here’s a website I thought you would be interested in. Learn more about your inner wisdom by using the 90-Day Manifesting Program. You can get your copy of this program — and any of the other guided manifesting meditations at my Enlightened Beings E-Store. Here’s what one person had to say about this …

“I’ve been on the 90 day course for a few months now and am really starting to notice some amazing changes in myself. I feel healthier, I got a promotion at work, I’ve started developing my online business plans that I’ve had for years, and so much more. Thanks Jafree. Please keep the inspiration coming. Best regards. ~Jeremy Gard, Brisbane, Australia

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Yesterday turned out to be a busy day and I was away from the computer most of the time. On Tuesday I worked as a Voter Rights volunteer and that took up a good portion of the day. As a result, I haven’t done the writing that I had planned.

I do have a great story that I can pass along to you — it’s an old favorite of mine. I don’t have knowledge of the originator of this story, but it’s still a good one. I hope you enjoy it.

I’ll be back in a day or so with some more original work.

The House We Build

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter:

“This is your house,” he said, “my gift to you.”

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that, we would have done it differently.

Think of ourselves as the carpenter. Think about our house. Each day we hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life we will ever build. Even if we live for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity.

We built our life today. It is the result of our attitudes and the choices we have made in the past.

We can build the life we want. It will be the exact result of our attitudes and the choices we make today and tomorrow. ~~~ Author Unknown

Shanti ….
~~~ DBL-R

P.S. Here’s a website I thought you would be interested in. Learn more about your inner wisdom by using the 90-Day Manifesting Program. You can get your copy of this program — and any of the other guided manifesting meditations at my Enlightened Beings E-Store. Here’s what one person had to say about this …

“Thank you for your amazing Manifesting Program! With so many wonderful exercises it is hard to pinpoint exactly what turned my life around, but I get the sense that after using the manifesting mantra, “Quiet mind, open heart, relaxed being,” I felt a tremendous shift in my awareness and consciousness that lead to some very wonderful manifesting in my life. Within the last two months of starting all of my daily meditation with this “magical mantra” I have manifested a new home, which me and my kids love, my list of clients has tripled–tripling my income, I have gotten thousands of dollars in referral fees and finally, my novel which had sat dormant for two years has began selling like hot cakes again online. Perhaps the most important aspect of using your program is the confidence, faith and inner peace which permeates every area of my life. I wake up every day, feeling plugged in and connected to my source and I have never been happier or more fulfilled with what I now create. Thank you so much for your program it is truly a blessing to the planet and anyone who is fortunate enough to have it!” ~ Sincerely, Eric S Lee, Colorado

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