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    Daily Gratitude: This is a process but an important one. As 2025 draws to a close, why not practice going through the doors of your mind?

    Scary huh?

    Yes but it’s totally worth it and jt becomes so clear when you reach the other side. If you actually can reach that point at least once, the joy you experience might just be the incentive and impetus for doing it again.

    Use the visual of being in a room. You feel a draft and you’re not comfortable at all in that draft. It’s cold, it’s windy, there’s allergens blowing into your face and nose, there’s an odor that’s extremely noxious.

    You don’t like it, you don’t like how it makes you feel, you just WISH it would stop. “Why can’t I be warm and cozy?” “What can I do?” “This sucks!”

    Well, for starters, you can close the door. That’s the door of negativity by the way.

    “Wow it’s stuffy in here. What can I do?”

    In your mind see yourself walking over to the other door – it’s the one opposite the door you just closed.

    See yourself grabbing the handle and turning it. Do this slowly. Now pull the door open. You can be brave and stand right in the middle of the doorway or if you’re a bit timid, you can back away a bit to feel safe.

    Open your arms and feel the gentle breeze. Take a deep breath and feel the sweet smell of your favorite flower or herb (or any other odor that turns you on). Feel the warm air in your lungs and imagine the powerful oxygen flowing through your body. Spreading energy to all your organs.

    Which door do you prefer and why? One is the portal through which the negativity in your life comes boisterously blowing into and through your life making everything seem yucky and miserable. The other door is the opening that bathes your body in positive energy.

    Whenever you have a negative thought trying to take residence in your mind, go to this visualization and intentionally shut one door and open the other. Make yourself think of something that makes you happy or that you think is good!

    Keep working at it and eventually your mind will be wired enough that you’ll be able to use the remote instead of having to walk across the room to the doors. Those of us old enough to know will remember that a right of passage in our childhood was “being the remote” – “Joey! Go change the channel”. This is no different

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    Daily Gratitude: Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I am so thankful for all members of Team Terrie! You have been through so much with me this year.

    I have done so well with all the “issues” I’ve run into only because of you all.

    What have i learned? That relationships (with people not things) is the most important aspect of your life. Also that often we put our attention into other things because we’re afraid of relationships or of getting very deep into them. I mean God forbid we should let others see who we really are.

    People use the phrase Impostor (or for old folks like me – imposter) syndrome. But usually they are talking about it in terms of a career, a job. To me, it’s much more pertinent to look to see if you’re displaying it in your relationships. You know – that old “you wouldn’t like me if you got to know me” ploy.

    Yes it’s scary but it’s so worth it. Be thankful for all the people in your life. Let them know that you are. Let them know what they mean to you.

    Then go enjoy whomever you’re with today!

    Happy thanksgiving

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    Message 319

    Happy Thanksgiving

    This message is dedicated to all of you who listen to me ramble every day and to those who then come up with coherent thoughts they share.

    I have a couple of suggestions for today.

    first i encourage all of you to dig deep and be thankful for your own qualities – in other words, your parts. And your body and its organs. Without the miraculous functioning of your body and its systems, you wouldn’t be here. And even if you’re experiencing some health issues, be thankful for what IS working in your body and for your brain.

    Find the qualities, the virtues, the feelings you have deep inside. For at least one day, bring them to the surface and give them (and you) space and appreciation. You’ll most likely feel very silly especially if this is the first time you’ve ever done something like this. so you can do it to yourself or even in writing. I just want you to be grateful for your thoughts and feelings. I know for me, being grateful for my feelings is hard because i dont really have any good idea of what they are. But i’m working on it.

    I also feel we should all use this day to begin to get ready for the holidays and the new year. How? By letting go of a lot of the garbage that has accumulated this year. The “shoulds”, the “i cant’s”, the “i have tos”, the ‘what would people thinks”, the “it’s my responsibility”s, the “if i don’t do it, who wills”, the “I’m too olds”, the “I’m not smart enoughs”, the “i dont have enough moneys”, and whatever other limiting beliefs and thoughts you have. why not use the next month to do some spring cleaning of your mind.

    This wil help you have a clean slate to begin the year? and maybe it will go hand in hand with your post thanksgiving challenge for the success hotline.

    When was the last time, if ever, that you did an inventory of your beliefs? Not just, i believe in the republican or democratic party or in capitalism or any of that stuff and while it’s important, what you really want to know is what’s underneath those beliefs. Often time, you’ll be able to uncover shame and guilt feelings that date way back and have formed the thoughts and beliefs that follow.

    i know i have a very strong guilt part or feeling or belief from when i was 13 or 14 MONTHS old. I may have told you and i apologize if i did. I had a baby brother who was 6 weeks old when i was 13 or 14 months. my mother put him down for his nap TO FEED ME. and when she went to pick him up again he had died of SIDS (sudden infant death). I doubt they accused me or even thought to but given that my mother must have been emotionally unavailable with difficulty taking care of a 5 1/2 year old and me, I’m sure my soul was riddled with guilt. I won’t go into it more but there are many thoughts and beliefs in me that have come from that experience.

    Unearthing such root causes is freeing and can lead to healing of the soul and the body.

    Write down what you believe in. Thanksgiving, or any holiday, dinner is a great place to start since there’s usually representatives from various stages of your life that if you let thme, will stimulate a memory that might help you in this.

    i’ll close with a humorous quote i saw this week. it said sonething like “Be sure to bring up politics at Thanksgiving. it’s the best way to save money for Christmas”

    on that note, i wish everyone a happy thankgiving and send out my gratitude to you all.