Hello! This is Cynthia Sue Larson of RealityShifters dot com
and I'm here to talk to you about about
loving the life that you live.
I've got a great quote for you-- this is something from a book that I
just read that I love
called, "Nothing Short of Joy." It's a book by Julie Bond Genovese.
As you can see, she's a little person. Maybe you can't tell in the book
cover, but
she's a dwarf. She was born with conditions that led her to
experience a lot of trauma in life-- Situations that many people
might have gotten bitter, judgmental, and
upset about.
Obviously, these are tough times for a
person to go
through life
seeming different, because most people in the world today,
rather than seeing who's really inside,
tend to judge people by how much money they make, how they look, and
all kinds of surface things that
in the final
analysis, are not all that important, really.
I love this book, and
there's a quote in this book that I just adore. I want to say what it is.
It's just fabulous! I want to quote quite a bit of it, actually.
"Those who I thought were my enemies became my allies. Pain moved
towards healing.
Hate turned to love. Fear to joy.
I'd
once
judged my life
as inadequate
but from my soul's perspective,
it had always been magnificent.
It turns out
that in the great celestial card game
there's no such thing as a bad hand.
The full circles of life had brought me home.
Being born different was not a curse.
In the end, it was magic."
I am just so impressed with this book!
It's actually in the form of an autobiographical
tale, but
I think the point is
that all of us can learn
how to overcome things that we might be feeling upset, bitter,
angry, righteously
furious about.
Because certainly we all face
situations when someone has done us wrong, when something has gone badly.
When there's been yet another kind of a disaster in the world or in our personal lives.
The trouble is if we fixate on that kind of thing, and get to a place where
rather than moving forward
and keeping ourselves light
and clean and forgiving and good on the inside, we can get
pretty contaminated.
I think that there's a great lesson from the example
of Julie's life.
That's why I'm
very impressed with the book and very pleased to
enthusiastically recommend and
endorse it for you.
Things have happened to me this month. The reason I love this book
and it resonates for me
this month I had all kinds of mechanical failures happening in my life.
Everything from the car to the computer to the telephone to the internet...
including being
out of phone service for a couple of weeks
in the second half of July.
The internet was also off. What I learned
during that time
which was somewhat less than ideal in a number of ways is that
some of the things that I really needed to do and wanted to do, but probably wouldn't
have done
were able to happen.
I could take more time
being with my family during the summer.
I had a little bit more time with my friends.
I got some amazing projects accomplished
that wouldn't have happened at all
if I hadn't had this kind of a
sabbatical.
So I'd like you to take a look at your life
and notice things that you might think are imperfect. Things you might be
actually angry about.
Take a look at
how it's possible that there is quite a blessing
in the midst of what otherwise could seem
like some kind of a disaster.
maybe someone you're angry with
has given you a gift,
even though it may not seem like it at first glance.
Rather than getting upset with a company like the phone company
or British Petroleum
or people that are doing things wrong
in some other fashion,
how about appreciating
what we are experiencing and what we're benefiting from even in the midst of seeming catastrophe.
This is something we can all
improve on. Learning to be happy.
Learning to find joy.
LIke the title of this book,
"Nothing Short of Joy."
Even when dealt
what seems like a very difficult
hand of cards,
to come up a winner
with one's dreams coming true.
Not that that's what keeps us going, but that sometimes with our good attitude--
loving ourselves,
learning to
pull forward and keep a
very positive perspective
can make a tremendous difference.
If you, like me, love to read stories that are inspirational
and that help you
move onward and upward, then I'm sure you'll love this book.
It also reminds me of a picture that I've shown in the past of
an illustration from my book, "Aura Advantage,"
which is the down side of holding anger inside.
So many of us, when we get upset about the economy or one thing or another--
there's so much to
be upset with--with politics
and this, that, and the other--
we can get kind of twisted out of shape.
That's never a good thing to do.
Just like with dental hygiene, we need to clean our teeth,
floss, and so forth, we need to do the same thing energetically.
It's vitally important to our own health and well-being
and the well-being of our families and our world.
Until next time,
I hope you keep finding out just how good your life is,
how good your life has been,
and how good your your life can get. Thanks a lot!