Smile!

Here are more words of wisdom from Beliefnet.com. This is so simple, yet so profound that I had to share it. As I read this I gave myself a mental slap on the forehead--duh! This is what has been missing from my positive thinking and progress. This also fits in with my last post about repeating the words "wealth, success." One reason I like doing that is because the words make your mouth form a smile. We could all use more smiles.


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A Simple Way to Feel Good
Smiling changes your attitude, raises your confidence, and makes you more attractive.
By Devlyn Steele


As we rush through our busy days accomplishing our tasks—work, kids, shopping, cleaning, and eating on the go, we often complain that we don’t feel good. There is a simple, quick, and effective way that you can feel better throughout the day and also be more attractive. All you have to do is smile more. Smiling changes your attitude, whether you realize it or not. If you have any doubts, next time you feel down, start smiling and thinking positive thoughts and see what happens.
You can’t help but have a better attitude when you smile. Smiling also raises your confidence. Smiling affects our emotions because of a brain-body connection. It triggers scientifically measurable activity in the left frontal cortex—the area of the brain where happiness is registered. In fact, there is science dedicated to the study of facial expressions and responses called FACS – Facial Action Coding System. Your face has 44 muscles between the skin, cartilage, blood, and bone that you contort, flex, and move. This lets you make over 5000 different types of expressions. That’s a lot of expressions! And each will have a different affect on your feelings and those looking at you. Admit it, when someone is smiling aren’t you drawn in? Don’t you enjoy that person’s company more? We all do. Smiling is a very important part of connecting and getting to know someone. As your life-coach, I offer you this push. I want you to smile. Go ahead. “SMILE!” Great! Let’s do it again but this time breathe in through your nose, let it out through your mouth and smile as you let the air out. Doesn’t that feel good? The breathing is very important. Your nostrils are attached to the limbic system. The limbic system controls your emotions, and when you breathe in deep through your nose it has a calming effect on you. So breathe in and smile. Let’s add a final touch: “positive thinking.” It doesn’t hurt to get excited and say out loud to yourself, “I feel good and I am taking control and finding my opportunities!” Go ahead and do it. Feel that positive energy in your body and the release of tension. Now that you know how good smiling is for you, make a conscious effort to use this smile exercise a minimum of six times throughout your day. When you smile remember to breathe in through your nose and think positive thoughts. This I guarantee will make a positive impact on your day and in your life. In fact, the result from this simple exercise will have a huge effect. Here’s a basic fact about energy: it is attracted to energy of a similar frequency. So when you smile not only will you make yourself feel better, you will also attract positive energy into your life. So smile!



Isn't that great advice?



Want to know another way to attract positive energy into your life? Send smiles to other people. A great way to to that is to send cards to people every day. There's no need to wait for a holiday or special occasion. I have special gratitude cards and postcards in my online shop just for this purpose at http://cafepress.com/karmicbulldog. So what are you waiting for? Send somone a smile today!



Till next time, be prepared for the best!

Say Yes To Success

I want to pass on another little tidbit from the book, "The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind," by Dr. Joseph Murphy. There is a ton of useful information in that book but one that is so easy and fun is to just repeat the words "wealth, success," for about five minutes several times a day. I say it's fun because the words make your mouth form a smile--especially success. Go ahead, try it and see. And, according to the book, repeating the words will compel your subconscious to succeed. I do it while washing the dishes, cleaning and preparing meals. Those tasks didn't used to make me smile but they do now. I also keep the clear mental image in mind of what my life will be like once I'm rich and no longer need to do my own house cleaning.

Another tip is to repeat the word "wealth" over and over like a mantra to lull yourself to sleep. I've been doing this every night for about a week and it really works to get me to sleep. I don't know why it makes me sleepy, but it does. Though, it's not meant to be a sleep aide. It's supposed to get your subconscious to bring about wealth, and the best way to get messages to your subconscious mind is in a sleepy state. If you're struggling to find answers, ask your subconscious to reveal them right before you go to sleep. You may dream up the solutions or they may come upon awakening, but eventually you'll get the answers. I've done this successfully before and will continue to do so.

I still suggest you read the entire book to get the most benefits, but you can start with these and see if they help. I'm sure they will if you believe they will.

Until next time, be prepared for the best!

And while you're at it, visit my store at http://cafepress.com/karmicbulldog and get some gratitude cards to send to your friends, associates and loved ones. That's another way to bring more into your life to be grateful for.

Using Affirmations

I wanted to pass along this bit of information I read about at BeliefNet.com.

Affirmations are a simple tool we can use to feel better about ourselves. By repeating aloud or silently the positive things we want...Read more

I've used affirmations before and always felt pretty good while doing so. But then I seem to get off track and forget. Then I'll feel okay for a while, but my goals keep slipping further away and I wonder why. I think I really need to do the affirmations on a daily basis. Right now I'm using some that I found in the book, "The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind," by Dr. Joseph Murphy. I'm still reading it and suggest you read it too. It's fascinating how our subconscious is really capable of anything if we give it the right messages. And affirmations are one way to do it. If you repeat something enough, your subconscious makes a note and makes it real. There are many examples in this book that can only be described as miracles. I'm only half-way through and am looking forward to learning more. Meanwhile, I thought I would pass on the above link to give you some affirmations to help heal old wounds. I've written about it here before. We need to rid ourselves of all the junk and old beliefs that keep us from acquiring the abundance that we truly deserve.

I'll be back with more later, but try the affirmations. At the very least, they'll make you feel more confident. And confidence leads to other positive changes.

Until next time, be prepared for the best.

A Reason To Smile

I just got back from my cousin's funeral. He died two months to the day after my brother-in-law. They were both diagnosed with cancer within a couple of months of each other too. And my brother-in-law was 54. My cousin was 53. They also had similar types of cancer. Though my brother-in-law seemed to beat his and then had a stroke. But the point of this is not to wonder why some people live to be 100 and others get taken away much earlier. The point is that life goes on and I had a reminder of that in church today. There was a little girl--probably just a bit younger than my 2 year-old daughter--a couple of rows in front of us who kept turning around and smiling and making noise, as most kids her age do. Some people probably would have frowned on parents bringing such young children to a funeral, but I was so glad she was there. My kids were at home with my husband, and I was thankful I didn't have to drag them along, but at the same time, when I saw that girl it made me smile.



Usually I don't find anything to smile about during funerals, but I was grateful that I had a reason to today. First, my sister's cell phone rang--she thought she remembered to shut it off, but apparently forgot--and that brought me out of my second round of crying. Then as I was on the verge of tears again, the little girl made her happy noises and I smiled instead. It reminded me that life goes on and there will always be children to make us see why we have to go on even when things seem unbearable.



So next time you're somewhere in public and are disrupted by the cry of a baby or the high-pitched yell of a child, instead of wondering why their parents didn't leave them with a babysitter, remember to smile. Children know how to enjoy life. We can all take a lesson from them, have as much fun as possible and make the most of the time we have. You never know when it could be up.



Till next time. Be prepared for the best.

Be A Love Finder, Not A Fault Finder

This was the advice given to me by my energy therapist last night and I thought I'd pass it along. I have a tendency to be a perfectionist and as such, I can't help but find fault with just about everything. And I don't like this but it's something I've always had to live with--up until now. Those words, be a love finder, not a fault finder really made me laugh. I guess because it sounded silly at first. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me. If I'm constantly finding fault with things, people, circumstances, I'm not fully enjoying what's good about them. Or the good things about myself. There is good in everyone and everything--if I choose to look for it. But I won't find it if I'm concentrating on what's wrong.

So today as I was cleaning the kitchen floor, which I always complain about because it seems to be a dirt magnet, instead of lamenting about my husband, dogs or kids bringing the dirt in, I said those words in my head. You're a love finder, not a fault finder. Even as I write this it makes me smile. Something about those words make me laugh. And if I'm laughing, I can't be complaining. It takes me out of the moment and makes me think about what's good, or why I love my family. This has been a helpful tool for me so far, and I intend to keep thinking of those words whenever I find something to criticize. It reminds me of all the things I have to be grateful for. As I'm sure you already know, the more gratitude you have, the more you'll attract into your life to be grateful for. And for some reason, the phrase makes me laugh. Maybe you will too. Why not give it a try? I hope you find it to be of benefit. If it doesn't work for you, why not try finding something else to make you laugh? It works. Laughing beats complaining every time.

Till next time, be prepared for the best!

Getting Clear

I'm finishing up "The Attractor Factor" by Joe Vitale and I highly recommend it. Right now I'm working on getting clear of all old beliefs that have held me back and kept me from acquiring wealth, health and happiness. Especially the wealth. This book has some great exercises that are easy to do, take only a few minutes and really work. My favorite one is The Script which was borrowed from the book "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die," by Karol Truman--another book on my to be read list. All you do is pick a belief you have that you want to be rid of and replace it with a new belief. You read the script out loud and it works. If you don't believe it will work, work on your belief that it won't work and replace it with the belief that it will. I found I have so many beliefs that have been ingrained into my head since early childhood that I need to repeat this exercise for each one. But it works and I'm still working on getting clear. You have to be clear in order to attract what you want. If there are any blocks, abundance can't reach you. EFT has helped a lot with that, but sometimes people don't realize what their beliefs are or that they're holding them back in the first place. So doing some EFT to try and get to the core beliefs that are getting in your way and then using the script would be ideal. But the book has other ways to get clear such as Karmic Surgery, which involves using yagyas. Yagyas have been used to perform genuine miracles. According to the book, you can get more information about them at http://www.jyotish-yagya.com. I haven't checked it out yet but I plan to when I finish the book.

I know this doesn't qualify as a miracle, but I read my scripts a few times yesterday to rid myself of old beliefs--especially my doubts that I can attract wealth. This morning as I got my daughter dressed I silently wished I could watch the Nascar race at Pocono today. Since I don't get cable TV, I haven't been able to watch many races this season. If you think I'm living in the dark ages because I don't have cable, I also have some friends who don't even own a TV. I guess their lives are full enough without being informed about the outside world. Anyway, as I was changing my daughter's diaper I just said that I'm sure somehow I'll be able to watch the races soon even though I don't know how. Then while listening to "Racing Rocks," with Ricky Rackman on the radio, my husband said he thought he heard that next season NBC would carry the races again. If you don't know, they used to carry the races up until this season. I could follow along a bit while they were on Fox, but then they switched over to TNT and now ESPN so I've been out of luck. But at least maybe I can watch them in the future. Then while I checked Nascar.com to see who was leading the race today, I see that they're now offering live free web casts of the races! I can watch Nascar again. Coincidence? Maybe, but I prefer to look it as a sign that I am manifesting what I want. It's a small manifestation, but it's a start. Once you start to believe good things are on the way to you, more come your way. So simple it's easy to dismiss. But don't. I'm glad I didn't.

Till next time, be prepared for the best! And if you haven't already, read "The Attractor Factor."