Watch this with your eyes but listen with your soul. Do you see yourself within this? If you find that you are often a bearer of bad news or your instinct is to criticize, try something new right now. Let’s do it together and see the difference it makes in our lives.
Make it a wonderful week…
Love,
Compliments are nice.
It feels good to hear words of approval from other people. Perhaps someone loves your shoes, the way your hair looks or the way you led a project at work. Many of us want to be acknowledged when we do something well.
The compliment I have been receiving as of late is, “You have a glow about you…” I love that. Not because they are stroking my ego. What I feel when I hear someone say that has nothing to do with vanity. In fact, it has nothing to do with my external appearance at all. I have found the key to that glow is a simple approach to life:
Give love, omit worry.
When you learn to “give love” and “omit worry,” your perspective on everything changes. You no longer obsess about minutiae or try to change other people or circumstances over which you have no control. Let’s break it down into two parts.
When it comes to people and situations that agree with us and our opinions, this is pleasurable and, as a result, easy to do. But what of the people and situations that challenge your spirit? Analyze how you give love during those times. I have had to make a conscious effort to do this when dealing with two people in particular. I have known one of the people for years and once considered the two of us to be extremely close. I have only known the other person for a matter of days. This reveals challenges in life know no boundaries because it is all the same. It is all energy. Rather than allowing hurt inflicted by others to infect me and shape how I move about the world, I consider that they, too, have been hurt at some point in their lives. I consider that the situations in which I felt hurt were not truly about me. It was about them. I have come to terms with things and decided that I will not give either of those people more of my precious energy. Returning their negativity would be futile and it would only drain me and leave me with less energy for my purpose and my path. Instead I give them love them from a distance and move on with my life.
Today marks the start of a weekly feature on this blog. Each Sunday in 2012 around sunset (CST), I will post a video. The videos will be inspiring, enlightening and positive. My prayer is that they will give you a bit of energy as you end one week and begin another.
Here is the first of the year. It is powerful and if you listen with your heart, you will hear an incredible message.
Love,
At 5’ 9” and a curvaceous size 12, I am living the quintessential Zaftig Life and loving every minute of it. During my years of experience as a food and lifestyle writer and editor, I have learned the importance of balance and moderation. I believe the key to joy is self-acceptance and living and loving life fully.
That is the path to Zaftig Zen, the state of being where curvy women are their most confident and beautiful.
