Gratitude: Begin each day with thoughts of gratitude. It it is very important to start each day with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation.
Quiet Reflection: Sit quietly for a few moments and feel the feelings of gratitude and thankfulness. Begin to express gratitude for the things that YOU do have; your life, your sight, your hearing, your heart, your lungs and for today waking with a sound mind. (Feel free to create your own list of things that YOU are grateful for).
Allow this feeling (of gratitude) to move throughout your body. While YOU are thinking these positive thoughts and feelings, breathe, long, slow breaths. Begin to practice quiet reflection for a 5 minutes today.
Remember, your thoughts create your reality.
Personal Development: Review the Empowerment Pledge
I will work on myself.
I will work on my issues, concerns hurts and pains.
I will, with support and assistance,
strive to develop the tools necessary for me to become a better person.
I will welcome growth within myself,
by acknowledging that I am becoming better,
everyday, one day at a time.
Make a commitment to reviewing the pledge daily or create your own personal pledge. Reviewing the pledge daily will help YOU to consistently focus on working on YOU and your Personal Development goals and dreams.
Personal Development Goal: Today, I will working on myself. I will put forth the effort to work on myself and achieve my stated goals. Continue to keep this thought within your mind as YOU go through your day today.
Today, develop and review your list of I AM Statements, directing your focus and intent on the thing(s) that YOU are or would like to become.
I AM:
- Working on myself
- Peaceful
- Disciplined
- Focused
- Healthy
- Positive
- Great
- Special
- Unique
- Working toward achieving my goals
Empowerment 365 Review:
Today, review your list of I AM Statements and continue to practice monitoring your thoughts, feelings, moods and emotions during your day today. Think and feel as if YOU have already accomplished your goal (make it real) see it as being achieveable. Carry this positive thought/feeling with YOU throughout your day today. Focus your attention on the good, unique and special things about YOU. Make at least one of your I AM Statements, your dominant thought/feeling today. If your statement is "I AM Positive" remind yourself to think and feel Positive all day today.
The Way YOU Feel: Today, feel great! Direct your thoughts toward making the way YOU feel the most important thing in your life today. Practice feeling good today, as much as YOU can, for as long as YOU can.
Today's Activity: Review your I AM Statements. Choose a statement from your list that will be your dominant thought/feeling statement for today.
Quiet Time: In your quiet time take a few minutes to relax, review goals and list of I AM Statements. Remember to feel gratitude for your life and your health.
Focus: Today, focus on your I AM Statments, love YOU more, show gratitude for the things that YOU do have and feel good about YOU.... Do these things today, each day, everyday, one day at at time.
Healing Old Wounds
A young woman sits alone sobbing, stuggles with unrelolved experiences/issues "wounds" from her past. Emotionally drained and exhausted and contemplates ending it all. Even with a great job, home, husband and children, she often feels worthless, lost and alone. Within she is full of unrelolved issues, anger, negative emotions and frustration. Although, efficient at work, an excellent mother and wife, (unconsciously) she finds ways to harm and destroy relationships with people that she loves and cares for the most (never really letting anyone get close to her). In an effort to cope, she has created masks, altered her character, shops, drinks, dabbles in soft drugs and involves herself in every organization or activity that she can find in an effort to get away from the lingering hurt, unresolved feelings of doubt, mistrust, disappointment and anger from "that past experience" that was never fully resolved or healed. As she sits alone desparate for answers, she suddenly realizes that the masks and all of her activities were not enough to ease the pain that she feels within and lives with each day.
Take Time
Take time today to forgive and begin healing old wounds. We all need to heal past wounds and properly put an end to those painful experiences and events that continue to haunt us consciously and subconsciously.
Today, take a few moments to "let go" heal and properly bury an old wound from the past.