Laughter

¨People who laugh actually live longer than those who don´t laugh. Few people actually realize that health varies according to the amount of laughter.¨ by James J. Walsh

Have you laughed today? Too often do people go through their day without laughter. Be mindful of this today and make sure to include plenty of laughter to your day. :)

Speak Your Truth

Speaking your truth is important for you and for your health, especially the throat and the thyroid.

Though you may not want to hurt other people´s feelings by speaking your truth, you are doing yourself a favor in that you are resonating  at your highest potential, AND though you might be at first hurting someone´s feelings, you are truly doing them a kindness too that will resonate with them in time too.

Stengths, Gifts

Everyone has different gifts. What may come easy to someone else might not to you and vice versa. As an outsider you can identify such strengths easier in others than they might themselves.

Take time today to share your appreciation of someone else's strength to that person. Whether they are or aren't aware of their strength is not important. Either way they will appreciate you noticing it. :)

Cycles

Engineers and people who follow logic are used to thinking in a linear fashion, i.e. if you have these parameters this is what will follow based on data and facts.  Life has a way of following its own rules as does nature.  The patterns seem to be more cyclical than linear.

It applies to human nature as well.  Emotions make you 'unpredictable', though, what if, even in this human experience there are repeating patterns that are not linear, but cyclical, meaning that they repeat themselves? The forms may vary, but if you look closely, every person's patterns are deeply entrenched. Even when you are consciously working on yourself, you find that you will recognize these patterns (take two steps forward), address them (another step forward), and then retest/retry the old pattern (take a step or two back?).

The good news is: IT IS ALL OKAY! There is nothing wrong with taking a step back and seeing where you are at, meaning what does it feel like being the 'Old You" vs. the 'New You'? If you are a linear thinker, you are still one to two steps ahead of where you were before! Either way you are learning and that means you are changing/evolving.  :)

Weakness

It is one thing to be judgmental of yourself and another to gently admit to yourself (or someone else) that you have a weakness. The first approach is destructive to you and your core, with no way out.  The second is a realization and conscious approach that leads to healing through seeing, accepting and changing.

The more you see yourself realistically, the freer you become.

Dance In The Path Of Greatness

"You dare to dance in the path of greatness!" is what Paula Abdul told Adam Lambert after one of his performances on American Idol.

I love that quote. Today dare to dance in the path of greatness.  Challenge yourself to do something out of the ordinary, or do something you already do but better, using a new approach or perspective for example.

Teachers

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." by The Dalai Lama

Inspiration and learning can come from different types of people.  It is not only from people who reach for the stars and achieve great things that you learn.  Many times you learn more from people who challenge who you are, who make you feel uncomfortable and push your limits. They stir up emotions and thoughts in you that require more immediate attention due to the imminent 'threat' they pose to you.

Nevertheless both paths lead to the same place of enlightenment.  :)