It's amazing to consider the intriguing IDEA that we each have a very specific individual destiny - one that plays itself out over the course of lifetimes, and which ALWAYS has a happy ending...eventually! Because everything comes from Source, articulated very individually, quirks and all, and returns to Source. In that process is a unique story for each of us.
Right? No other possibility!
"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."
Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
(Sent in by Don Strong)
A homegrown motivational video by Chuck Cirino "to myself," Sent in by Steven Overstreet. Its final phrase jarred me, got me thinking.
Wonder how it would be for people to create motivational art for themselves...Interesting idea!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
A Thousand People Singing HU!
HU is a sound, like OM, which is a representation of the energy stream that flows through all of life. Using it can put you in touch with the Flow very quickly. It is an ancient mantra, and is found in many mystic traditions throughout the world. Some people use it as a meditation aid: to still the mind, to feel life's Oneness or even for help in making a decision.
It is pronounced either hoo or hue (hue being the more preferred version that I'm aware of). It can be sung at any time, in any situation. It can be sung at any tone, with any variation, in breaths long or short. The spiritual path of Eckankar ("co-worker with God") refers to it as "A Love Song to God." There is evidence that this may have been the first word humans used to address the divine.
You can even sing it silently. There are many interesting tales about things that happen with people when they're singing HU, for themselves or for others. It usually serves to calm someone's distress or to reorient a situation. Occasionally it creates a connection to some interesting visual/sound/meditative phenomena.
This is a link to an audio clip from the website for Eckankar. It includes a recording of over 1000 people singing HU.
It is pronounced either hoo or hue (hue being the more preferred version that I'm aware of). It can be sung at any time, in any situation. It can be sung at any tone, with any variation, in breaths long or short. The spiritual path of Eckankar ("co-worker with God") refers to it as "A Love Song to God." There is evidence that this may have been the first word humans used to address the divine.
You can even sing it silently. There are many interesting tales about things that happen with people when they're singing HU, for themselves or for others. It usually serves to calm someone's distress or to reorient a situation. Occasionally it creates a connection to some interesting visual/sound/meditative phenomena.
This is a link to an audio clip from the website for Eckankar. It includes a recording of over 1000 people singing HU.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Some Real New Year's Resolutions
I really like what these two girls did. And I hope you will, too!
In this first very rockin' video a young woman confronts all the mean things she's been told, or has told herself, about herself. She decides to love herself anyway, completely "as is."
In this second one, another young woman takes this inspiration and runs with it. It's possibly even better than the first video.
I greatly admire their technique and think it's worth trying. Therapeutic, definitely!
In this first very rockin' video a young woman confronts all the mean things she's been told, or has told herself, about herself. She decides to love herself anyway, completely "as is."
In this second one, another young woman takes this inspiration and runs with it. It's possibly even better than the first video.
I greatly admire their technique and think it's worth trying. Therapeutic, definitely!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Christmas Eve Birthing Miracle
On Christmas Eve of 2009, Mike and Tracey Hermanstorfer were at the hospital in Colorado Springs as Tracey was giving birth to the couple's third child. Then, suddenly, everything went wrong. Mike watched helplessly as both his wife and unborn son died - and then later revived - in the delivery room.
Click here for the video story.
"My legs went out from underneath me," Hermanstorfer said. "I had everything in the world taken from me, and in an hour and a half I had everything given to me."
Which reminds me...the first, best and cheapest way to enhance our lifestyle is to keep track of our blessings: everything that we already have, and everything that's going RIGHT!
Click here for the video story.
"My legs went out from underneath me," Hermanstorfer said. "I had everything in the world taken from me, and in an hour and a half I had everything given to me."
Which reminds me...the first, best and cheapest way to enhance our lifestyle is to keep track of our blessings: everything that we already have, and everything that's going RIGHT!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Spiritual Vitamins: The Starbucks Love Project
Yes, I know it's Starbucks, thus potentially trite and superficial...but in the spirit of playing all-out I simply must post this video as our first Powerful Happy Thought for 2010! It is just that wonderful.
This video is so full of detail and perfect purity, I'm pretty sure I can watch it every day this year and still feel its amazing effects. See if it does the same for you!
Also, if you go to the search engine and type "Starbucks Love Project" you will see all sorts of interesting links related to how they made the video and why.
Happy New Year! How it progresses is largely up to us. And, splendidly, we've all got each other!
This video is so full of detail and perfect purity, I'm pretty sure I can watch it every day this year and still feel its amazing effects. See if it does the same for you!
Also, if you go to the search engine and type "Starbucks Love Project" you will see all sorts of interesting links related to how they made the video and why.
Happy New Year! How it progresses is largely up to us. And, splendidly, we've all got each other!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Welcome to Jewels of Happiness!
Hi, this is my project to find and share one genuinely happiness-inducing thought every day in 2010!
I can't do it all by myself, though. I'm going to need your help...
Please send me your inspirations: links, poems, lectures, stories of miraculous occurrences, and if they zing me just right, they'll be posted, along with whatever identification you want to use for yourself (please specify when sending so I don't have to chase you all over the place.)
What we need is material that makes you feel genuinely, ineffably happy. Or inspired. Or like you might for this one moment have a handle on things in this crazy ol' world.
Send your contributions to: gotgoddess@yahoo.com If you send them to the comments section below, I will read them, but I'll probably delete them after. Comments are only for the selection of the day, OK?
Jump in with me, let's play together and keep our spirits high!
Love and Laughter,
Adrienne
Goddess of Mischief and Mayhem,
High Priestess of A'Ha
I can't do it all by myself, though. I'm going to need your help...
Please send me your inspirations: links, poems, lectures, stories of miraculous occurrences, and if they zing me just right, they'll be posted, along with whatever identification you want to use for yourself (please specify when sending so I don't have to chase you all over the place.)
What we need is material that makes you feel genuinely, ineffably happy. Or inspired. Or like you might for this one moment have a handle on things in this crazy ol' world.
Send your contributions to: gotgoddess@yahoo.com If you send them to the comments section below, I will read them, but I'll probably delete them after. Comments are only for the selection of the day, OK?
Jump in with me, let's play together and keep our spirits high!
Love and Laughter,
Adrienne
Goddess of Mischief and Mayhem,
High Priestess of A'Ha
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