Comments on: Shopping for Effective Attitudes

By: Davina

Davina — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:51:35 +0000

Hi Patricia.
Good things come in small packages :-) Thank you.

Hi Cricket.
That’s a good point about choosing to see a situation in a different way. Just that action of shifting a point of view can shift a feeling. Let me know how these questions work for you and the boys.

By: Cricket

Cricket — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:48:53 +0000

Last but not least I am trailing up the end. I struggle with this myself. Being a mom of two I am constantly trying to see the positive in everything because I expect that of my children. When one of us is negative it seems as though all three of us are. I feel that one has a choice to of how to view a situation and some/or most of the time one must make a valid decision of how to react.

These are some powerful questions to use.

By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker

Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:49:43 +0000

To be such a small act, a smile can have such a profound effect upon you and others. Love the article. Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker’s last blog post..Fear Is My Friend

By: Davina

Davina — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:31:58 +0000

Hi Kim.
We can make choices about how we feel, but it’s sure not easy sometimes is it?… At least it’s not easy to be conscious of how we ARE feeling and that we can actually make a choice. Emotions run sneakily on a subconscious level. Like I mentioned to Dot, sometimes just remembering what it feels like to smile can soften the awareness and to remind you that you can make a choice.

What just occurred to me is that deep down all we want is to know we’ve been heard. On some level, as weird as this sounds, remembering just the energy of a smile opens the door so you can listen to yourself.

Hi Cath.
Welcome back! I’ve missed you. I hope you are fully recovered from your infection. Thanks for popping by.

Hmmm…. I don’t think you can actually switch your critic off or on. Just your perspective of him or her… or it. You can only just notice the critic and decide what you WANT to do rather than what you SHOULD do. I bet you are behind on a lot of things — they feel like shoulds because there are so many of them and you don’t know where to start.

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:51:09 +0000

Hi Davina- This is excellent. I managed to shut my inner critic off, like the Tolle book told me too. But now I’m wondering if I should switch him on again, then maybe he would make me do all the things I don’t feel like doing.

I only just started back blogging yesterday and I don’t think I’m going to manage to come up with a quote in time. I feel quite brain-dead right now. But I am looking forward to reading them all.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:45:48 +0000

I'm like Vered in that I've tended to be more of a cynical person than a positive one. I've started to let that go and have learned that I can make choices about how I feel. I'm certainly not full of rainbows but I've learned to not let little things bother me so much. I call them little earthquakes (after the Tori Amos album) and say to myself is this a big earthquake or a little one. I don't like it when strangers tell me to smile. It's intrusive and they have no idea how I might be feeling. It might be true grief and sadness not just normal grumpiness and I would never be smiling when I was experiencing those emotions. I guess I could spend more time telling myself to smile :-) Kim Woodbridge’s last blog post..February Special: 15% off All Services (I Love My Clients)