This year has started out just fabulously.  Not to say I haven’t had issues – I absolutely have.  But, I am THRILLED that my issues are coming up for me so that I can clear them.  It feels so great to start a new year being happy and already starting to thrive.  I’ve never felt this before.  And in just the last few weeks, I feel like I’ve reached a new level to my healing or consciousness or … something.  I can’t think of what it would be called.  But I am more aware and conscious of creating my life, and am more able to remember the things that I have been learning, experiencing and practicing for this last year.  I just can’t say enough how grateful I am for the help I have received this last year and how well I am doing!  Life is amazing, when you’re conscious of it and are purposefully creating it!

I listened to two of Carol Tuttle’s blog talk radio shows this morning that I wanted to mention.  The first one is from 9/21/09 “2 important things to ask God that will completely change your life”.  This is a very short one, but I loved how she says that when we ask God for things it’s like saying, “If you have time to help poor little me”, or “if you ever get around to it”, and that is saying that we don’t really believe that He will help us or believe that we’re important enough for Him to help us.  So she says to say instead basically, “Thank you, God, for helping me with this thing” and in that way we are knowing that He is helping us and thanking Him for the help.  And then she gives 2 things to ask Him for specifically to help us get on with learning and fixing ourselves. (I’ll just let you go and listen to it instead of me writing it out.  It’s a really good podcast.  Well, they all are.)  The second podcast I have been listening to today is from the week before, 9/15/09 “Clearing the Issues that are Keeping You Fat”.  She talks for a few minutes at the beginning about how we need to make our emotional maintenance a daily practice, and likens it to our physical bodies.  We are pretty good at taking care of our bodies, brushing our teeth, showering daily, etc.  These things are daily practices, but if we were only to do them once in a while, we’d get tooth decay or get other physical illnesses.  Same with people who are a master at something, like Michael Phelps.  He doesn’t just get out in the pool and say, “Ok, I’m good with that time that I got, that’s all I need to do,” but he keeps practicing and working on maintaining that time and even getting it better.  So, with our emotional health, we can’t expect to just read or hear some great advice or knowledge and expect to be a master at it.  We have to practice at it every day.  Carol still practices these things daily, and she considers herself a “master”.  So if even the masters have to practice daily, then we definitely have to practice to get these things solidified in our brains!  Anyway, I just loved hearing that, because I am definitely guilty of saying in the past, “I have heard these things so many times, so why am I still not getting it”, or “…still not able to get to my issues quicker”, or “… stay happy” or whatever.  I am so grateful that I heard this podcast, and so grateful that Carol has these weekly shows as another way that she provides support and shows everyone that she cares so much!