Posts Tagged lessons

Gratitude Shifts Memory

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

The Coin by Sara Teasdale

Into my heart’s treasury
I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
Nor a thief purloin, –
Oh, better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.

Do you think of all of your memories as “lovely things?”  Each of your memories came with a lesson. Are you able to accept all of your lessons whether good or bad, with gratitude?

Often your lessons are presented to you by individuals who come into your life.  Can you say that you appreciate each individual for the lesson that they have presented to you?

What would happen if you spent time looking for the lessons?  Would you be able to shift your thinking to gratitude for each lesson presented? Would gratitude help you to let go of any bitterness, anger or upset that you may have felt?

Not everything that happens to us feels pleasant in the moment.  Just as the symbolic heart’s treasury is full of pleasant moments, the body can also be a storage location for your upsetting emotional experiences.  Over time, the unpleasant emotions stored in the body become problem areas for pain and disease.

All disease is an indication of “dis-ease” or unresolved issues that are stored in your body. If you think of your body as having many pathways for the movement of healing energy then you might want to consider disease to be like a road block.  Until you get movement at the blockage point, your body’s natural flow of energy remains blocked leading ultimately to major “dis-ease” in the body.

Now let’s look at a way to avoid creating blockages in the body.  The Universe presents you with many challenges that are really just opportunities for growth.  In order to take advantage of these opportunities, you can begin to look at what triggered your negative emotional response; what your true feelings are about what happened; what memories the event brings up; and what you need to let go of to put you back in the flow.

If you can step back when you have been triggered into upset and contemplate what the lesson might be in all that is happening, you may then be able to see the lesson being presented.  Once you recognize the lesson then you can replace any negative emotions with feelings of gratitude for the lesson received.

Feelings of gratitude can help turn an initially upsetting event into a lovely memory of a lesson learned.  This would eliminate creating blockages in the body that ultimately destroy your health.

Often the first sign of “dis-ease” is stress and tension in the body.  If you are experiencing this, you may need assistance in recognizing and releasing issues. An intuitive energy healing session can help you.  In an environment of unconditional love, you feel comfortable enough to look at issues that you may have avoided dealing with for many years.

May you have many lovely memories blessed by gratitude for lessons learned, so that the energy in your body is freely flowing with perfect health.

Self-Forgiveness – The Ultimate Charitable Act

Friday, April 9th, 2010


How often do you make yourself miserable with self-criticism and/or self-punishment over even minor faults or failings?  Do you spend your time blaming yourself for this and that and feeling guilty for what you did or did not do?

That type  of thinking keeps you in the past so that you are living your life in fear of the consequences of future acts and thus immobilizing yourself.  When you are wrapped up in blame thinking, you don’t enjoy the present.

Self-forgiveness will restore inner peace.  Forgiving yourself releases you from a part of yourself that would keep you in a loop of blame, shame, guilt and fear.  If you learn to forgive yourself, you activate the law of attraction which brings to you that which you send out.  If you wish to bring only forgiveness and love into your life, then you must send out only forgiveness and love which begins with yourself.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes mistakes are made, because we were never taught the appropriate action, and so we made an assumption of what was right.  Sometimes mistakes are made because we are not focused or taking time and care with what we are doing.  In reality, all happens according to a divine plan that brings us the lessons we need.

Ideally we learn something from our mistakes and don’t repeat the actions.  Self-forgiveness requires self-reflection that helps you to find the lesson.  Self-reflection helps you to see what happened and why along with what you can do to keep from doing the same things over and over.  Acknowledgment of the lesson stops the mistake from having power over you.

Years ago while teaching, I had a student who would hit himself in the head each time that he made a mistake.   Truly he felt himself deserving of punishment.  I asked him what he had learned from his mistake and he explained.  After a short chat, he never again felt the need to beat up on himself for his minor mistakes and learned how to forgive himself by focusing on what he had learned.

Taking responsibility for who you are and what you do allows you the opportunity to make more positive and lasting changes in your life and in your relationships.  You can resolve to change your behavior and act differently in the future, thus becoming self-responsible which leads to self-respect and self-love.

Self-forgiveness includes self-reflection on the lesson learned and self-responsibility for changing behaviors.  Self-forgiveness helps you to focus on the positive parts of your actions and restores your inner peace, thus allowing you to love yourself no matter what.   It also helps you to manifest forgiveness and love from others.  When you master self-forgiveness, then your heart will be more open to forgive others, too.  Thus, with self-forgiveness you heal the world and yourself.