Tag: Norman Vincent Peale

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the comfort food of holidays. Thanksgiving is warm slippers, a hot mug of coffee, non-glitzy, down-to-earth, deep sigh of relief, wholesome goodness. Thanksgiving is a cozy, fuzzy blanket, wonderful smells wafting in the air, the fading beautiful colors of a summer well spent. Thanksgiving is easy laughter, easy going energy, a building of anticipation of a fabulous feast and an exciting holiday season ahead. Thanksgiving marks the start of the end of a year. It is the awards show of the year, where the award receivers are looking back at all which the year has brought to them, and thanking everything and everyone who deserves to be thanked for helping to get the award receivers to this point of evolution and elevation in their own lives. Thanksgiving is the joy of a parade, the celebration of man’s best friend, and the communion and camaraderie of fans of the same teams. Thanksgiving is the reminder that there are few feelings better than the overwhelming reassurance of all of our blessings constantly provided to us. Gratefulness is probably the largest ingredient of love, and Thanksgiving makes this fact abundantly clear.

As I say (and I feel deeply) every year, thank you friends and readers for supporting and being a vital part of my blog. I love this blog and so by extension, I love you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Now go get going on your turkey . . . . . See you tomorrow!

Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.

First 90 Seconds

The words aren’t flowing for me today. I’m a little jittery from probably too much coffee. So, I’ll just pass on this interesting tidbit of knowledge which I read about recently, that makes a lot of sense to me. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, (trained at Harvard, no less), found that all of the chemical reactions in our body in response to an event that has happened in our lives, occur within the first 90 seconds of an event. Any reaction after that, is an emotional response to a thought that we are having. So if I wallow in the thoughts that summer is practically over (boo hoo), and some of my kids are out of our safe, little cocoon of a home, and are probably being swallowed up by germs at their college campus, or in their various daily outings, as I write this, my body and my emotions will be reacting to those thoughts, on constant loop. My body reacted appropriately during the first 90 seconds of waving good-bye to our grown young men sons, and the tears sprang from there. Now it is up to me, to change my thoughts, so that my body (and my mind and my spirit) and can rest up in positive, peaceful energy, and thus always be ready for appropriate, natural reactions, when necessary.

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Quote by Norman ...