LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE

I received this below in an email today and when you feel down read this through, it kind of puts life into balance and perspective.

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Good advice from someone who knows what she is talking about

Written by a 90 year old

This is something we should all read at least once a week- Make sure you read to the end!

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short enjoy it.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the future.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye, but don't worry, God never blinks.

16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to be happy. But it's all up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative of dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all throw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you want.

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

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HOPE AND TRUST

'THE WISH CARD' FROM 'THE MYTHIC TAROT' DEPICTING PANDORA OPENING THE BOX SHE WAS ORDERED NOT TO LETTING OUT ALL PESTILENCE TO MAN, BUT 'HOPE' REMAINED

I don't normally post my poetry on here as I do this on my other site Astridestella.org however when there is so much negativity around, it's easy to loose hope. I know it's hard to stay positive but this is the very thing you must do. One of the laws of the Universe, is "The law of attraction, (like attracts like)" Therefore negative energy attracts more negative energy and likewise positive energy attracts more positivity. So by keeping positive you will keep hope alive and more positivity will come your way. Just for one day at a time, just give it a try and say today I'll be positive, tomorrow I can think how I normally do, but when tomorrow comes do the same again, believe me it does work.

HOPE AND TRUST

There's dark clouds on the horizon and the sky maybe grey

But nothing will faze me whatever comes my way

For I have hope in my heart and hold trust in my soul

And these are my weapons to defeat negativity in the world

For although it seems dark all around within me the sun it shines

So storms my blow and do their worst for I just know I'll be fine

It's not an easy path to tread, many hazards are there to make you trip and fall

But with a little courage you too can believe and what you really need you can have it all

Doubt is negativity's weapon don't concede and let it in

Believe in your heart and know you deserve for then Hope and trust will dwell within

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LIFE IS NOT FAIR~A MESSAGE OF HOPE

Clients often say to me, "Why am I receiving all this bad luck? I've always lived my life right and yet some people have all the luck it's just not fair!"

First of all life isn't fair it's not meant to be, life is meant to challenge and test us. There is much more to life than just what you see with your physical eyes for whilst we are on earth we are spirit in a human body. The human body is just a vessel for our soul but when we pass over to the spirit world at the point of death, we have no need for body.

We have many life times and we set our own challenges to gain experience, sometimes these experiences won't be nice and when we are going through tough experiences we are being taught a very tough and important lesson. It is a time for spiritual growth. We are taught how it feels to be on both sides of a situation, to learn empathy, understanding, compassion and patience. There is a common saying, "How can you hope to understand unless you have walked a mile in another's shoes."

Don't envy that person who seems to have it all for their tough lessons and adversity are yet to come, you are further up the ladder than they are and an older soul.

A MESSAGE OF HOPE

I am the stillness of the night
As darkness shadows gives forth to light
Symbolically this shows life's balance
Of darkness and lights dalliance
In life and Universe there's yin and yang
A balance created since time began
Remember this nothing lasts or stays the same
For like the tides moved by the moon
The cycle of darkness is over soon
Henceforth comes the joy of the dawn
Delivering a message of hope to everyone

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What this poem is saying, these tough times won't last, once you realise this is a learning experience you will find life a lot easier to cope with and life is full of cycles good and bad. Spirit won't dessert us in these tough times, for we will be given strength and help will come to us in many ways. Other souls will cross our path put there to help us. All we need do is trust and believe that everything will be OK and have a positive mindset as soon as you take this attitude  the gloom will lift and life will become so much easier.

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ASTRIDESTELLA'S PHILOSOPHY~ NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!

It's coming up to this time of year again when we make New Year Resolutions. For me there is always something new and exciting about the new year. Its full of promise and it's a bit akin to be given a chance to wipe the slate clean and starting over. Most of us look back on the old year and say, "Oh I hope the new year will be better", but instead look back over the old year and see how far you have come. It's doesn't matter if its been a bad year, its been a learning curve, and although you may not yet realise it , you eventually will. You will see how you have grown stronger, your ability to cope will have improved, you will think more and become more resourceful, but even better you will have a unique ability to understand and be able to help those souls who will cross your path, who are not as strong as you and you will be able to help. Sometimes all the help someone needs is an ear and ear to listen and not judge, it helps others see and understand what their problems are and through doing so it can help those to help themselves. This is the basis of good counselling, its not about giving advice, nor telling someone what to do about their problems, its about listening and being empathetic in a non judgemental way, this then ables people to take stock of their life and see their problems from a different view point, instead of panicking and they think, gosh here is someone who listens and understands me. I'm a great believer in, "Never let anyone go without the better from having seen you". Believe when I say the reward is in the giving.

Many resolutions don't last because we set the stakes too high, so instead of trying to achieve a lot, try to do a little on a daily basis by the end of the year you will be amazed on how well you have done. Be kind to yourself to help others first you must take care of yourself, that doesn't mean you become selfish, but that you are in a strong and healthy position to give you the strength and stamina to see the tasks through. So set reasonable, achievable goals and you will do much better than you ever expected.

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ASTRIDESTELLA'S PHILOSOPHY A CASTLE IN THE AIR

IT IS POSSIBLE TO MANIFEST YOUR DREAMS

 

CASTLE IN THE AIR

I go to sleep and hope to dream
Of fairy tales, happy endings and castles on hills of green
Where a princess fair kisses a toad warts and all
Who turns into a handsome prince with glass slipper at a ball
But fairy tales are not life for real
As for kissing a toad I'd probably squeal
However if we do not aspire to hope
The mundanities of life we could not cope
All things tangible first begin with dreams
It doesn't matter how chances remote that they seem
A wish, a dream is a concentrated thought form it has to start somewhere
All the greatest plans of man began at first as a dream a 'castle in the air'

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Basically what this poem is about is HOPE and no matter how remote our dreams and plans are we can achieve them if we desire them badly enough. We can have anything we want in the Universe with one condition and that it is not detrimental to anyone else. This means, we cannot have anything that belongs to someone else. Every great building first begun as "A CASTLE IN THE AIR" that is it began with a dream, a thought, a plan and that plan was put into action. The thoughts were written down and drawn up and then physically it was created. The Universe gave us HOPE and was given to us for good reason to help us manifest our dreams our "CASTLES IN THE AIR"

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