Rainbows

I feel so grateful to be able to see rainbows when it rains.

I sit and try to find words to say.

Some days you can talk for hours about everything and some days it is hard to complete a thought. I am gonna do what I do when I need a boost, read motivational quotes. 

I remember being in Iceland when I studied there and the first few days were such a trip that I almost got  upset. Then I looked up quotes about being positive. It really does help. I read insights from other people and realize that I also feel these things.  People are all connected. We have all felt pain, we have all experienced loss and we all have known joy in some form.

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
– Dalai Lama

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie

“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama

 

I am grateful for stir fry, workaholics (the show), patios, celery, veggie burgers, clean laundry

Yellow brick road

It seems like people talk about the yellow brick road figuratively by telling you the solutions to your problems. I think as people we sometimes seek these solutions from others as a way of stalling our own actual personal work.

I enjoy thoughts, ideas and input a lot but occasionally I think I get extremely wrapped up in other things to escape from myself. It is hard to admit when I am doing it because I don’t think I always notice. There is no true knowing, it is more about the feelings that creep up around the back crevices of my mind.  I get anxious, sometimes irritated for no reason, I get extremely picky with things I don’t really care about and  my muscles all feel tight. For me these are all symptoms of not getting enough alone time.

I think people can discount the importance of hanging out completely alone and checking in with your feelings. It is like having a relationship with yourself. If you don’t ask yourself how you feel about everything that you are doing, then sometimes you end up doing things you don’t really want to do. You can get stuck in a section of life that doesn’t speak to your soul and I think it can depress people without them even knowing what it wrong.

Any good relationship is built on trust and honest yet kind truth tellings.  So why do we keep promises to others but not ourselves? Why do we value others opinions more than our own at times? And lastly, why are we so much crueller to ourselves than we would be to a good friend? 

We need to be our own best friend. We need to keep promises and be kind to ourselves when we feel down.

If we communicated well with ourselves I think we would have a much happier time in life. Truthfully, I think people are only capable of loving other people as much as they love themselves.

I am grateful.

Creativity

So I am sitting in the park with my dog and I have a serious moment. I ask myself,

 

Q:Who do I want to be?

This is a question that any person from any walk of life could ask.

                                                            So what is the answer?

The answers and the complexities of the answers  will vary but is seems what they often have in common is either something or someone you apparently aren’t.                      Don’t get me wrong. It is important to have goals and be working towards positive progression but I feel too often we overlook wanting to be who we are

when we are.

I think if we could feel satisfied with our current states and we could focus more on enjoying them. Also remember that at some point in our life we will maybe look back to now thinking of it as “the good old days..”

What is the easiest way to stay in the moment and feel grateful for everything?

I have come to believe that trying to make a habit of expressing yourself somehow creatively or doing an activity that makes you feel happy, joyful and cathartic can help. Some activities to try:

                                       Writing, drawing, painting, singing, dancing, listening to music, stretching, finger painting, walking your dog in the park, playing dress up, debating, playing a sport; Anything where you decide you want to do it and you genuinely feel better after doing it.

Sometimes people don’t express themselves and they bottle up all their feelings and mask their emotions. And then one day, they explode. Or have a melt down or a break down, or worse, they simply die inside, never to reappear in this life. They let their spirit get so broken and beaten that they simply give up any hope of ever escaping the misery that they have accepted for themselves. Too many people box themselves into a category of being someone who doesn’t deserve happiness or love so they settle for unhealthy at times abusive situations out of comfort of the familiar.

Moral of the story, express yourself. Your thoughts, feelings and actions are important and you deserve to be happy. Allow yourself the luxury of being ok with who you are now and using creativity in your life to inspire new goals. People who don’t encourage you in these areas maybe are the people who don’t know how to do it themselves. Be strong and leave them behind. You discovering your peace could inspire them to find theirs.

A: I want to be me

I am grateful for cantaloupes, grapes, harps, basketball shorts, lemon tea, electronic pianos, buildings with lots of windows, and groceries.

The in between

Sometimes it can be hard in the days that blur together and you wonder what you are doing with your life. You think about everything you should be doing , all the things you should have accomplished by “this point” in your life.

BUT seriously that is ok. Life isn’t always a crazy party or some wild trip, or a huge achievement award. Maybe it would be fun if it were but it is filled with all types of experiences and feelings. If it was then the trips and parties wouldn’t seem as vibrant or exotic anyways.

 I think the best way to come at the boring times of your life is with love and compassion. It is ok to sit in your pj’s and watch crappy sitcoms and eat chocolate. Maybe for a day a week or even a month but you will feel better. The self-healing isn’t always about huge realizations about your psyche and childhood, sometimes it is just loving yourself when you would normally be judging yourself.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. Give yourself a hug , everything is going to be ok.

Often times when you are feeling the worst you really just need a nap and a huge glass of water. I am grateful that I live a life where this is an option. I am grateful for clean water, beds, cozy blankets, pillows and chocolate.

Starting

Starting something takes guts.

It is so hard to remove yourself from “the comfortable” long enough to splash paint on the wall or even wear new shoes. People tend to confine themselves into little tiny cages and voraciously police themselves into staying inside.  They usually don’t notice that there are NO locks and they are the ones  holding themselves, inside.

Everyone has been told at some point that “they are their own worst critic” , but what does this really mean? If one stops to think about it, the truth can be quite scary.

We criticize ourselves worse that any bully could dream of. We are too tall, too fat, too too thin, too stupid,

                                             incapable of having a real relationship with anyone and possibly too much of an idiot to ever attain happiness. That is pretty harsh.

Is that really true? Have we beaten the joy straight out of our hearts? And if this is true, how do we find the treasure map which tells us where to journey and reclaim our life? I  am seeking this myself. I am trying to recreate my map and stay positive on my journey. I am not totally sure where it ends, actually, I don’t think the it ever ends but every time you start trying to be a better version of yourself the better you become at discovering how to travel. Movement is the most important part. Change and evolution. Stagnation can mean death if people become  consumed with their own apathy.

I think people need to come together as a community  and start a movement. We need to start to value and fight for our life. We have become more apathetic than inanimate objects and the only way to really communicate anymore is through this computer machine that has become our collective memory.

I had to watch a tutorial video and get help to figure out how to even use this blog thing. I am so determined to create passion and joy that I will stop at nothing. I want to motivate people who have become frozen into a world of sad critical apathy where people don’t even have enough energy to have a mental break down. They just pop a pill and stay working at a job they hate too many hours a week so they can get money so that they can buy all kinds of crap hoping it might fill the void inside themselves. Some say this void is lack of god I believe this void is the joy that people have put last on their priority list.

We need to reclaim the “pursuit of happiness” and lose the fear of failure and trade it for an undying need to care about life. To enjoy and live and love in joy.

PROS: Joy,Passionate happiness, butterflies in the stomach, living, smiling, laughing, snorting, loving, hugging, crying, jumping, tripping, dripping, feeling out of control (in a good way), hot, explosions, colors, flavors, enjoyment, peace.

CONS: Uncomfortable, hard.

Gratitude

I try every day to notice everything I am grateful for because I find that the more things I feel grateful for the happier my day becomes. I read somewhere that it is impossible to feel gratitude and a negative emotion at the same time. This is awesome advice. It totally works too. I have been doing it for some time now.

Today I feel grateful for:

My girlfriend, my dog, coffee, walking in the park, clean laundry, sunshine and my eyesight.

Those are just a few.

I am grateful to be healthy and alive!

Lucky

My life is so amazing and I constantly feel grateful for everything. I have more than anyone could ever hope for and I really feel so lucky. I am healthy and have so many awesome people in my life and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed with joy that it feels like I am glowing neon day glo beams of light.

I really wish that I could give everyone a hug and tell them how awesome they are.

I really think if everyone could get really excited about their life that they would be much happier.

I have this visual of fireworks exploding in the sky mixed with the gasps of joy that people make when they see a really fancy dessert.

Thank you. Thank you universe!

Motivational

So I decided to start a blog because I feel that this is possibly the best way to reach a large group of people.

Even a small group of people would be cool.

Ultimately I think that any way a person can make someones elses day/life better in even a little way will increase the positive energy in the world. My goal is to spread love and positive energy for as long as I live. I believe people can live their lives happily and enjoy their life regardless of the stresses of the world. I choose to to be happy every day. I believe happiness is a conscious choice and I practice observing compassion and love as an everyday challenge. It can be really difficult at times but I can honestly say I have a general sense of peace, love and happiness and for this I am so grateful.

My hope with this blog is that possibly someone, somewhere could gain hope or inspiration.