Daily Gratitude: This is the one kind of fasting I believe in. You have to do everything you can to keep all
These negative things from inhabiting your brain….and soul.

It takes work. You have to be conscientious at noticing when you have entertained some of that negativity.

It helps if you allow yourself a set period of time to monitor your thoughts (internally voiced as well as external ones). Write them down. See if you can identify any patterns. That might make it easier when that monitoring period is over. You might be able to determine particular periods when you might need to be more vigilant.

Once you have an idea of what you need to pay attention to, figure out what you are going to use as replacement thoughts and beliefs. You have to be prepared with adequate material. Again it helps to have them planned.

This is a step by step process and you shouldn’t rush something this important. When I finally decided to give up smoking, I took a month to figure out what I was going to do instead of smoking. I thought of every possible scenario and what I’d do if certain things popped up. It worked and that was 30 years ago.

You can do this fasting! Don’t wait though. Start your planning now.

Daily Gratitude: Scarcity and Lack are two of the most destructive beliefs you can cultivate. It’s vital that you work hard to eliminate those beliefs.

It’s easy to see how you might think that scarcity exists if you concentrate on poverty. But when you put energy and attention on poverty it just leads to more of it.

It’s also something you can’t really control when it’s beyond your experience (such as in other countries ). I’m not saying to ignore the sorrows of others, just that you should do what you can do in your own world.

Think of unmeasured supply. There’s always enough. It may just not be visible yet. And it won’t be until you recognize the universe always provides. When things seem to be going the wrong way, decide that the answer is right there like Easter Eggs you might have tried to find when you were young. Your job is to uncover the golden egg (so to speak). How? Y believing it’s there.

When you believe it, you will see it. This is an important concept to remember and repeat whenever you begin to believe in lack.

Daily Gratitude: Ponder this quote for a bit. What does it say to you?

Can you identify with it? Are you living or just existing? Be honest with yourself. This is one of the most important and deepest questions you can (and should) ask yourself.

If you’re not living but just existing or if you’re not living as fully as you’d like, are you going to do something about it?

Can you write down in what parts of your life:
• You are fully living,
• You’re partially living and
• Those in which you’re just existing.

Take your time with this. It’s too important to hurry.

What can you do about the areas you’ve just identified and aren’t happy with?

Make a plan.

It should consist of tiny steps – small ways you can improve your feeling of living. They should be specific such as “I’m going to do x,y or z two times in the next two weeks”

Hopefully you’ll do that thing twice in two weeks. If not, though, don’t treat it like a New Year’s resolution and beat yourself up for not doing it.

Simply try again with something that you think you might enjoy doing. Experiment. You can’t be upset because an experiment didn’t give you the results you wanted. You got information from the experiment so as long as you make use of that info, you’ve made progress.

Maybe not condemning yourself and being a bit easier on your mind and body will make you feel better and perhaps even a tiny bit closer to living?

What do you think?