They try to make me go to Rehab....

Recently, Russell Brand wrote on his blog about the death of Amy Winehouse.  He said,"The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief."  This statement reminded me of the book I had to read for my Life Coach training.  It was a book about "soft addictions".

"Soft addictions or Purchased relief" can be drugs, alcohol, food, tv, clothes, cable, movies, constantly checking the internet, emailing...anything that takes me away from the joy of the moment of now.

One of the gifts that my brother, who as I like to say, was the image and likeness of God having an experience as a drug addict, taught me was 1.) love is the only thing that really matters and 2.) unless you are living fully present in the moment, you are more than likely practicing some type of addiction, be a soft addiction or hard addiction. So, whenever I hear about someone dying from an overdose or an addiction, it's a reminder to check-in with myself and ask, am I fully living or living fully (filling my life up with a bunch of stuff to pass the time away)

That's my two cents.....

Who's the Expert

Yesterday I heard the meteorologists (experts) say that there was going to be a substantial amount of snow. I heard Dr. Phil (expert in pop-psychology) tell one of his guests that he, the guest, was getting a 2nd chance and that there aren’t anymore chances after that. I also heard doctors (medical experts) theorize a prognosis for Rep. Giffords. And if I would have flipped through the channels, any longer than those 5 minutes, I am sure I would have heard more experts telling me, “like it is” and how it’s going to be.

I started to think and ask myself a question. Who is the expert in my life? Who or what am I listening to? Who am I allowing to determine my present experience of life?

On this day, I claim My power and lovingly create my own reality. I pray:

In this moment, I give thanks. I give thanks for this beautiful day. A day I choose to call beautiful. I give thanks for every reader of this prayer, realizing and recognizing that they are part of this beautiful moment. So, in this awareness of God’s beauty as everyone.
How grateful I am to know that there is only One Power and Presence, this Power, this Presence is God. How grateful I am to know that I am the divine expression of God. In this Oneness, I know that each and every reader is a divine expression of God.


In this awareness of union and that there is no separation, I know that the Creative Power of Spirit is right where I am. The Creative Power of Spirit is right where we are are. I know that this Creative Power is mine and that I can make use of this creative power in every moment. I choose to use this creative power now. I choose to know a world that is beautiful, a world that works for everyone. I choose to experience a world that works for everyone. I choose to see a world that works for everyone. I choose to know that the expert of my life is God. I lovingly know that I have the awareness and understanding to knowingly and lovingly shape my world and my experiences.
I give thanks for this beautiful life. I give thanks for the reader and their beautiful expression of their world, knowing it is all good and all God.


So I release the word into the law of Goodness. I let go and let Love. And so it is. Amen.

I claim My own power and lovingly create my own reality.

Feeling Good

Today I woke up and decided to feel good. Then that voice, the so-called voice of reason, said, “You've got to be kidding. Do you realize what you have to do today? Do you realize that this is going on in your life? Do you realize that you have to talk with this person today? Do you realize this person is in pain today? Do you realize (fill in the blank)?”

I answered the voice back, (I have some of the best conversations with myself), “Yes, I do realize that all of that stuff is going on (I respect the illusion) and it may be my immediate experience. I acknowledge that. And yet, I choose not to worry about it.”

I am not putting my head in the sand - avoidance is a form of fear. When I am in a state of worry, fear, shame or doubt, I feel like crap. I realize that all the crappy feelings make it harder for me to hear my Higher Self. It makes it harder to hear the soulution, which could be something as simple as Peace. So, today I choose to feel good and I use the two things that help me to do it, prayer and music.

And so I look away from what I see with my physical eyes and I look with the eyes of Spirit. I pray:

Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be as God in this prayer.

God is all that there is.

I am one with God.

So in this state of awareness, of Union I realize that everything is perfect.

I realize that in God there is perfection.

In God there is peace

In God there is the simplicity and beauty of life.

And I choose on this day to dwell in God.

I choose to look upon each experience with the eyes of God

I choose to listen and hear each sound with the ears of God.

I choose to express with the words of God.

I choose to feel good and feel connected with my Source with my goodness, with God.

So I release anything that doesn’t feel good to my heart.

I let go of worry, doubt and fear and allow my Self, my Higher Self to speak.

I am eternally grateful for this day.

I am eternally grateful for this goodness.

I am grateful.

I feel good.

And so it is.

Amen.

All is well.