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Embrace The Now

4/29/2015

Hello My Friends! A new season is upon us and it feels so good. We know that summer is on her way and the shades of winter are being opened by the feel of a new season.

I was listening to a speaker the other night as I drifted off to sleep. However, before I went wherever it is I go when I sleep the speaker stated something that I awoke with the next morning: Embrace where you are now! Embrace what ever it is that you are being challenged with. Embrace it. Let it come into your soul and your heart and truly embrace it. What does that mean I asked myself?

What it means to me is "embrace this time in my life as it is. Not as I dream it to be." Right now. I mean right now. We all know that nothing remains the same and each and every day offers a new opportunity for something. However, the task is to embrace it and not allow it to overwhelm you. Take a realistic look and embrace the place where you are right now.

I know it can be challenging because we desire that it be different. It's not different and for this time it may not change for a moment, however, embrace it. Think about embracing your situation as it is. Just embrace it. And you know what..you will immediately feel different. I guarantee it. YOU WILL FEEL DIFFERENT. Something will occur to you on how to change the situation that is upon you. You will feel differently and quite possibly see and feel a new hope, a new joy and less burden. EMBRACE YOUR SPACE!! That is your task. Embrace!

Until the next time,
-Peaceful thoughts,
Dorothea

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Progress Not Perfection

4/22/2015

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Hello My Friends! Hope all is well with you and you are moving in the direction that best suits you. That is all you can ask of yourself. With that being said, it is most important that you are striving for progress and not for perfection.

Progress is so important. Within the hallways of progress we encounter many "small things" that eventually lead to perfection. That is why you may want to change your focus, not on perfection, but on progress. Progress can be seen immediately. You know when you have made progress. You feel when you have made progress. You can see when you have made progress. Those small steps of progress is the perfection. Those small steps eventually add up and soon you realize that you have perfection. You have perfected that thing that you want to be perfect because you were striving for progress and not perfection.

Start small with your progress. Why small? Because by starting small with your progress you have visible evidence that you are moving toward your goal. And as the saying goes "love is in the small steps." Imagine when a child is learning to walk. Those small steps eventually lead to walking with perfection. Life is the same. Life wants us to take small steps so that when we perfect what has been in progress we can feel very good as we know that the perfection was a series of small progressions.

It's that simple. Let's begin to strive for progress and not perfection. Enjoy each step and before you know it, the perfection is there. It's that simple....yet letting go of striving for the perfection is what becomes the challenge. Keep it small. Keep it manageable. Wrap it with love.

Until the next time,
-Peaceful thoughts,
Dorothea

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Stress

4/14/2015

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Hello My Friends! Hope you have been well. I've missed all of you! I'm back from my vacation. I realized I hadn't spoken of it prior to being away, however, I'm back.

While watching Super Soul Sunday on OWN, I heard the most interesting description of stress: "Stress is wishing the moment you are in were something different." Wow! That resonated with me and I had to pause and give it thought. Stress is wishing the moment you are in were something different. That made so much sense to me. I had to sit with that statement for a moment and truly give it thought.

When we are experiencing stress that is exactly what we are wishing for. We so much want that situation to be gone...to be done...to be finished. Well, when we view it from that angle we can see that it is up to us to change our pattern of thinking and be in the moment that we are in. That moment can be the worst moment of our lives, however, the moment is upon us and we are hoping against all hope that it would disappear. For those of us who have lived long enough, we realize, that isn't going to happen. The stress will remain until WE HAVE RESOLVED or PUT TO REST the worry and fear surrounding the situation. That is a very challenging thing to do especially when the situation appears unbearable.

Hold on!! This too shall pass. Hold on!! Help is on the way!! Hold on!! You HAVE NEVER BEEN NOR WILL YOU EVER BE ALONE! Hold On!!

Yes, it may appear that this stress is or has overtaken our lives, however, it hasn't and it never will. We all move through our trials and tribulations. We all move through the sections of our journey that we wish would fade like a dream. Sometimes it fades, however, most times it simply stops hurting as much as it once did and becomes manageable.

I believe that is the key. The key it seems is to be able to recognize the pain we are in, the sadness we feel and the hurt that is a constant companion and MANAGE IT. Quite possibly if we manage it and understand that it is a part of the process...just maybe the stress will depart from our souls more quickly. I don't have an answer...do you?

Until the next time,
Peaceful thoughts
-Dorothea

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