Warmth

Hey to all…Hope you are well.

I’m smiling.

• Because it’s 40 degrees (30 degrees warmer than a few days ago).
• Because the sun is out.
• Because the ice is melting.
• And because seeing the rays of light just makes me feel lighter mentally and warms my heart.

And once again, I’m reminded that warmer climates just make me feel more alive.

And yet it should not be that way. I’m actually very aware that thought determines our experiences and because of that, I’ve been trying to cultivate warmth in my thinking and in my day in and day out in spite of what external weather reports announce.

So here’s some things that make me feel warmth regardless of whether it’s 10 or 90 degrees out there:

• remembering to live in the now
• singing
• playing music
• writing a poem
• taking a very long hot shower
• giving myself a pedicure
• pretending to give myself a manicure
• talking to a close friend
• talking on the phone to my mom
• playing with Berkeley
• writing in my journal
• blogging
• reading a good book
• listening to my faves on pandora

But vastly more than all of these, the singlemost thing that makes me feel warmth perpetually is managing my thoughts: getting in there and weeding out the blue meanies that attack, squelch my joy, admonish, ridicule, condemn, and defend with conviction my precious uniqueness as an expression of the one Being.

We are each vital, needed, worthy, unique, precious, adored, valued. No matter what that past will bark. No matter what fears the future tries to loom. Right now. This moment. We are each a treasure.

And realizing that and defending it sometimes can feel like a 10 hour workout each day. But no matter.

This mental defense is the most important work you will ever engage in. And with it, you can go forward and accomplish all that are the givens about your day.

If you wanna know more about how to ‘do’ this self defense thought by thought, just drop a comment. Or email me at tre at thought by thought dot net.

Nothing–weather wise, people wise, thought wise–should ever freeze your sense of your individual worth and purpose.

No matter what, no matter if you’re feeling afraid, doubtful, stressed, anxious, bewildered or stagnant, nothing can permanently rob you of your inherent liberty to live the life that is uniquely yours.

If you are weighted down, and if you are feeling completely cut off from any sense of value, worth, or purpose, if you feel dried up and unloved and insignificant and anonymous and like your life doesn’t matter, if you can do nothing else, do this: know that the very thoughts imposing themselves in yours and insisting on all that negative muck are heinous lies and absolutely not true, not for a single moment.

Banish them as if they were theives coming to steal your possessions. And if you have no possessions, banish them anyway. You are not a victim, you are not a weak woman, you are not an insignificant worthless excuse of a daughter, you are not a ridiculous excuse of a mother, you are not any of the blaring accusing labels those voices are screaming.

Shut them up. Even if you scream back at them out loud “shut up you are not convincing me.”

Whatever it takes, shut up the mean accusations. Spend every conscious moment doing so if that is what it takes.

You are this moment the idea of Divine Love. And with that, you have this moment every single ounce of an awareness of how vital you are, how significant you are, how worthy you are, and how capable you are of doing what is set forth for you to do. You are not worthless. Not ever.

My favorite author, Mary Baker Eddy writes this:

“All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love.”

Your life is this manifestation.

All that barks otherwise is complete heinous lies that hold no power over you to the degree you squelch them in your thinking.

Stand up to everything that admonishes, scolds, dictates, orders, shuns, or speaks in any violent, angry, shouting way at your thoughts.

You are not weak. You can shut all of those accusations up.

You have this moment all liberty, grace, strength, courage and innocence to defend your womanhood or manhood. Go forward. You are more than okay.

Wanna touch base on any of the above, just leave a comment or email me.