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February 2008's MANTRA:
"Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life" Ever notice the negative effect some people, possibly even your own family, may have
on you? Ever believe that what you are thinking about them might be contributing to your unhappiness or disappointment with them? Let's face it, many times we make assumptions about other
people or their behavior or motivations, and we are wrong. It happens to every one of us all the time, yet we are the ones who hold the power to change things. Many more times we fall short of learning not
to make those assumptions at all and the cycle continues…until we get a clue. In his book, Become A Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, Joel Osteen states, |
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"When you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you will draw out the negative. It's up to
you." More often than not, we fail to see that if we treat people without respect, that negative state we experience is exactly the effect they will have on us. Yet we have the capacity to change our
thoughts about them and bring about a change in that dynamic we have with them. If we are unhappy with them, the change we require of them might happen quicker if it started within ourselves.
Byron Katie, author of the best-selling Question Your Thinking, Change Your World, writes about how our external world is nothing more than the internal we project. Our relationships with others, with
family, with parents or friends are our projections and nothing more. When we realize that what's in our lives has been created by us, it should help us recognize that we must not afford the luxury of a
negative thought.
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Gifts for the Heart, Mind & Soul
from Mantras
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