Beat the Blues

My mom used to have a little poem posted on the refrigerator called "Just for Today". I well remember the first line, "Just for today, I will be happy."
It sounds easy, but we all know it is not that simple. Here are some ways to help you lift your spirits.
1. Laugh! Yes, laugh! Find something to laugh about. Read jokes on line. Listen to funny music. Call a friend and say "tell me a good joke."
2. Get outside. Even if you just sit on a front porch stoop, it will feel better than wallowing in your self pity inside the house. Watch the birds.
3. Be active. Go for a short walk around the block or around the neighborhood.
4. Do something for someone else.
5. If you absolutely insist on wallowing today, do something productive while you are busy with your self-pity. Clean out the garage. Clean out your car. Do something. Accomplishing will make you feel better no matter how grumpy you are during the process.
6. Memorize something happy. Find a poem or an affirmation or lyrics to a happy song.
7. Divide the next hour into ten minute slots. List six things you could possibly accomplish in that hour -- and do them!

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Joan Adams and sister Betty DeLorme have compiled a great electronic book on different approaches to staying on a
high vibrational plane, how to lift your mood when feeling blue, how to take action when you are feeling sad.

I am proud to say that I wrote a chapter for their book called: "Thoughts Are Alive!!" Each chapter gives direction on Banishing The Blahs, liftingyour mood and boosting your spirit! In fact, the act of reading these chapters immediately rises your mood, whatever it is you are experiencing!

Here is a link to buy Joan and Betty's book right now!!
Banish the Blahs and Be Happy

I thought I'd make a list of my own personal favorite mood enhancers to add to the treasure chest:

1) Turn off the Television. I like to be up on what is happening in the world, but watching the news is a downer I no longer wish to participate in. The pundits tell people how to think based on their own prejudice, they tell people how to vote, and in essence, no longer objectively report the news.

2) Sit in your favorite chair and bask in a sun beam.

3) Meditate with your favorite cat resting on your knee.

4) Seek out periods of silence every day.

5) Concentrate on the Life Force present behind each in and out breath, all day long. These are private and joyous
three dimensional moments you share only with yourself and can be done no matter what is going on around you.

6) Prevent depression--avoid Crazymakers.
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7) Do not participate in gossip or join others when they are complaining. You will feel much better by avoiding the
negativity.

8) Start your own blog and write several posts a week. Do this only if you love to write. This will help you because
you are sharing your talents with the world.

9) Encourage people to comment on your blog. That way an open discussion ensues and you feel connected to your
audience.

10) Sit, walk and sleep with your dogs.

11) Create a "dream board" as Joan describes in her electronic book called "10 X 12." This is a free Electronic
Book and you can have it by going here:
Ten by Ten 10 Things I want to Do Be Accomplish See by 2012

12 )Amanda Goldston recommends an "Ideal Day Fun Card" in Joan and Betty's book. This involves first of all writing down everythingyou can think of that you would BE, DO, or Have every day that brings you joy and also is Fun!!
Then you find pictures that represent these things and paste and laminate these pictures on a 3X5 card and carry it around with you. Everything on this card should make you smile! Touch the card in your pocket several times a day. The power of this visualization tool is evidenced by your dreams and visions manifesting faster into your life.

13) Go out at night and gaze into the starry sky. Learn the constellations and pick them out. Identify the so-called ecliptic and recognize the Astrological constellations there: Aries, Pisces, Gemini, Cancer, Leo etc. Star gazing is even more fun with a telescope. Naturally you will want to do this at a location removed from the bright lights of the city.

14) Figure out when a lunar eclipse is going to happen. Then make sure you are available to in-joy it. This celestial event is soothing, calming and meditative. My husband and I recently watched an eclipse together and we agreed that
that this was wonderful quality time. Time slowed down, we held hands, and watched the moon in all of her phases until she was dark, except for a faint outline of the moon's circumference. I read that this particular eclipse saved Christopher Columbus and his crew so many moons ago. He read in his Almanac that an eclipse was going to occur the following night. He and his crew were held captive by the Indians who threatened to kill them. Columbus said: The moon will disappear then will return because you allowed us to live. And the rest is his-story.

15) Stroke your dog and/or cat and kiss them. Throw balls for your dog. Massage her back. Clip her nails. Brush her coat. Watch for the look of gratitude which beams from her joyful face.

16) Learn to fully embrace life. Allow resistance to What Is to simply melt away. Be in the moment where you find yourself. Allow that moment to expand and realize that this is the only moment, not a series of moments on a linear time belt. It all is right Now. Learn to experience this and allow it to grow.

Here is a link to Joan and Betty's book to lift your mood now!!!
Banish The Blahs and Be Happy

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I was happy to attend the teleinterview of Joan Adams and Betty DeLorme 7/8/08. Charlie Leetham did an expert job in interviewing these two energetic ladies, whose laughter and
love lit up the telephone lines and cellular phone towers all across the globe!!

Betty and Joan are sisters and several other family members attended the call. They all were full of life and exuded great vitality!

By the end of the call, my vibe was revved up! I wanted to go dancing! But instead I found my favorite jazz station on the radio and called my brother and had a wonderful chat!

Two of the Electronic Book contributors were on the line besides Joan and Betty, and they were Buz McGuire and me. Buz is the author of "The Power of Release" and is the Executive
Director of the "Viral Happiness Initiative," and both raise your energy as you read them.

Everyone on the call had a Southern accent accept for Charly with her Australian, (and me with my East Coast USA). This gave a musical quality to the call which was melodious
and soothing, adding to the good will and beneficience of everyone there.

When Betty was discussing the need to celebrate everything in our lives, her optimistic spirit was what I was listening to. And yes, celebration is so important. Noticing the greatness
and all the miracles of life, slowing down enough so that these gifts are noticed in their entirety, that every color, smell, emotion are embedded forever in memory.

Everytime I successfully start an IV, I do an inward little dance!

Today I picked juicy, plump red delicious rasberries off the vine and ate them all.

That in itself was a celebration!

Joan discussed the synchronicities and magic of how the book came to be. Betty and Joan decided around the holidays of 2007 that they would write and compile this project, and by March 2008, all the contributors had submitted their unique gifts, and family members pitched in to help put it all together.

It sounded like one of thse miracles of creativity where you allow all good things to come to you because of happiness and receptivity to the creation at hand, focusing and loving every moment.

Charly asked about the contribution of Todd Silva, "Give Away A Dollar A Day." This great idea came to Todd in an AHA!! moment and has started a small movement that has every potential of growing over time.

This is how it works: You take a dollar bill and tuck it in unsuspecting places so that someone finds it at a later time.

Joan said it's like finding a four leaf clover, which transported my mind to my dear mother, who absolutely loved to pick four leaf clovers. You couldn't take a walk with her in any timely fashion because she'd end up crawling around a clover patch looking for those elusive four leaf beauties. The amazing thing is, she'd always find 1, sometimes 3 or 4.

So Todd's latest Give Away A Dollar idea is to tuck a dollar in a gas cap, so that a person doesn't feel so badly about the gas prices. Joan said she likes to drop a dollar behind the dog food in a store to contribute to the coffers of someone's beloved four legged companion!

The idea of spreading feelings of abundance and prosperity is what makes this method a real mood enhancer. You are giving away "only" a dollar, but in the act of giving, happiness
becomes a new found habit because you are giving energy in the form of money every single day.

This metaphysical act creates more and more abundance.

Today I walked the "Grotto of Lourdes" in Emmitsburg, MD, where Mother Mary is said to heal the pilgrams who go there. This place is regarded as a Power Spot on this planet and plane of existance.

Power Spots are real and they raise your energy!

Walking the "Grotto of Lourdes" reminded me of a labyrinth where you are able to stop at each station of the cross with beautiful statues of Jesus as The Sacred Heart and Mother Mary and all the Holy Saints and Apostles at various surprising places behind an old growth tree or at one place a purple "Veronica" peeked out behind a prominant bush.

And there were two beautiful chaples along the way where you could sit and meditate and pray. Nature in all her beauty was gracing this lovely place.

I lit a candle and asked Divine Mother to help me with a "problem" that has stalked me for 35 years, more pressingly for the last seven. And naturally it's too early to say what the miracle will be but my perception has changed about this so-called problem.This is a miracle in and of itself, says A Course In Miracles.

I even got a rosary to use as I finger the beads while doing Kriya Yoga.

We all had a wonderful time. My companions had spent their formative years in this Grotto so they felt as if they had come home.

I also felt totally uplifted by the experience!! By purposely going to a place where healing is known to occur, transcendence pulled all of us into higher and faster vibrational fields where
forgiveness and love are naturally present.

My challenge of 35 years didn't seem real in this plane of reality. In fact, it no longer feels like "it" has any power over me at all.

Instantaneous healing?

Letting Go/Letting God?

Touched by Mother Mary?

No matter what, the Blahs were Banished today.

This and much more are the gifts of keeping the mind open for joy and transformation.

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