How to Feel Gratitude

Do you feel constricted when you feel criticism? Do you feel lighter and open when you feel gratitude? 

 Yet isn't it difficult to consciously change criticism to gratitude?

To make this change, don't focus on the emotion. 

Instead notice the physical feeling of criticism (or other negative feeling). Notice the constriction. Now imagine it loosen up. Feel your chest and solar plexus expand. Sense it transform to physical openness. Imagine the deep breath you can now take. Keep breathing deeply.

Now think of something you feel grateful for. It can be small or big. Link that thought to the deep open breaths you feel.

Do this often and gratitude will be easier to access.

Have an abundant month!

Mother's Time Alone - Good for the Family

*Guest Post written by Janice

I absolutely adore my children. With that being said, I also enjoy personal time to myself. If because of the busyness of life, I skip my alone time, I can feel the negative effects in my mind, heart and spirit. There is something within me that yearns for the space and place to be solitary and do as I please, whether that is just time to reflect and meditate, take a bath or go for a run in the woods. The activity doesn’t matter so much as does the habit itself. I need this time, and as I grow more and more into my role as mother and wife, I realize how much I benefit from the act of being alone for a moment each day.

Visualize Success in 1 Minute

Last week I showed you my first Mind Movie to help visualize success. That one was three minutes.

My next one, called Celebrate Success, is one minute long.

Access it here on YouTube. 

Enjoy!~Leigh

Listen Well to Build Relationships

Relationships are created with one person listening, and the other speaking. Create stronger relationships - focus on listening.

The first century AD philosopher Epictetus said, “We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.” In the need to be heard, be acknowledged or be correct, people forget that listening is one of the easiest paths to honest, authentic communication with another human being.

Have you ever been upset with someone and, in anticipation to meet them, created a defensive argument in your mind ready to start the second you see them? Perhaps you simply wanted them to see your point of view.

What would happen if you enter the conversation with a conscious resolve to hear only their perspective for the first five minutes?