Friday, September 16, 2011

Focus On What You Do Want

Never stop dreaming. Never stop believing. Never stop wanting. Focus less on what you do not want, and even on what is happening NOW that you do not want. Instead imagine, dream and ponder ideas of fancy, desires and possibility.

Your dreams attract all the atoms in the universe into perfect alignment, so that when what you want is ready for you, you shall step into that future reality and experience your dreams in your now.

And when that dream is had, you shall then dream another, and then yet another, and yet another still-creating-through thought all your days through...

With much love...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

You Program Your Children To Be What You Are-So Know What You Are

It has been said that children don't do what they are told. Instead children do what they have been programmed to do on a vibrational level. Whatever vibration or emotion the parents hold within them, the parents will by the laws of nature transfer those vibrations onto their children.

If a mother is deeply insecure, and yet on the surface runs a Fortune 500 company, no one else around her may be able to tell that under the savvy exterior lies a self doubting creature. But beneath it all, in the energy shared between she and her child, the truth will flow, or at least her inner flaw that is detached from her ultimate truth will flow.

We are all layers of beliefs, but at our core lies only one eternal truth. At our core we are all light energy, pure and limitless. Fear does not exist here.

Layered upon that truth are all the beliefs that have been programmed and conditioned into us by those we have met in the material realm along our life's path. If we fear others, it is because we have a layer that is labeled, "Fear Others" we need to peel off our Selves. If we fear the unknown, we have a layer that reads, "I Am Not Capable of Change". If we do not trust others, that is because there is a layer that blankets our mind that reads, "I Don't Believe In The Good of Others, or That I Am Worthy of Trust". And all these layers have come about because of the beliefs we picked up along the way that were innocently programmed into our thinking and thus are now a part of our vibrational offering by way of an unobserved belief.

The best way to arm our children against the disease of a damaged perception of self is to know what we think about our own selves as parents.

What kind of internal dialogue do we listen to in our heads everyday as we go about our day?

What kinds of words do we hear our programming shoot out to us as we stand in front of the bathroom mirror? How de we describe our selves to our selves?

When we are alone in the car with our children what kinds of topics do we discuss with them? Are they negatives or positive thought vibrations?

But most importantly, what emotional information are we sending our children through us on an emotional level?

Is their world a safe place?

Are we in love with our selves?

Do we trust others? Can they trust their inner guidance system?

Do we see mankind as a whole innately good?

Can we soothe our own feelings without blaming others for why we are or feel or do what we do?

Do we lash out when others don't do what we want them to do or what we think they should do, or feel, or think?

The answers to these questions will help you not only understand who you are on a deeper level, but it will help you know who you are programming your child to believe they are....

With much love....

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Battling Collective Consciousnesses En Route To Individual Consciousness

Conception is liken to the Big Bang. First there was nothing, and then out of nothing came everything.

Only conscious beings can be observers. Reality as we know it is the result of our observation of it. Therefore we are all tied into consciousness more intimately than we may realize by the mere fact that we share perceptions of reality at all.

Reality is the result of observation. War is a reality because we can observe it, ponder about it, speak about it and involve ourselves in it. If there were no one to observe a war, would the war exist at all?

Quantum physics tells us that atoms do not exist in one fixed place. In fact atoms are spread out, and are unmeasurable until a CONSCIOUS observer decides to measure it. Atoms behave according to what the observer believes it is seeing or should see.

There are those who doubt reality exists at all, because according to quantum mechanics, the very act of observing particles changes them. What then does that mean to the average human conscious being?

It means that you are in control. It means we beings are not feathers in the wind. It means that we see what we expect to see. It means that collectively throughout history there have been general laws or ideas handed down throughout time that have been somewhat solidified and accepted by the 'mass consciousness' as what we call reality. As a mass consciousness we have learned to accept that the sun is a sun, and that the sky is the sky. We have been conditioned to collectively learn the languages we speak, the ideas we hold in our heads and the traditions we follow.

As a whole we represent a mass consciousness which is why so many believe in wars, separateness, division and supremacy over others. We can pick up a newspaper and relate to what we read because we have been conditioned to adopt the collective ideas of the generations that came before us. We believe what we believe and do what we do because we have been roped into a collective consciousness that has been past down from generation to generation.

There is a general societal consciousness that includes our collective consciousness on issues concerning government, religion, and even entertainers. Then there are more subjective collective consciousnesses like those that our particular families believe in.

The deeper truth is, that beyond what our societal consciousness programming may be, and beyond what our familial consciousness programming might be, there is "us" and our divine right to see reality as we want to see it.

People hate because they have been programmed and conditioned by a collective consciousness that has taught them to hate.

War exists because all involved are a part of a collective consciousness that believes in the act of war.

Poverty exists because collective consciousness deems poverty a reality, and thus those who have been taught to believe in it, see it, absorb it as a part of their 'perceived reality' and thus experience it.

If our collective consciousness never believed in wars, or hate, or poverty, then our observation and thus reality would be void of such things.

The key is to know this truth and to study its laws so that all beings come to know they are free to attract to them all that they desire simply by changing their perceptions of their reality.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

How Can I Make A Difference In This World

I am one who believes that each of us has been born with one goal only, and that is to become all that we can by following our bliss. Our reason for being born is to to love ourselves as is if we were our own creator.

If you created you, there would be no need for you to look outside yourself for validation or worthiness. You would not fall mindless victim to societal programming or docrtine. You would go forth into every day seeing the world and others through the eyes of your source; YOU.

No matter who you are or where you live, no matter how young or how old, or how rich or how poor, how physically fit or not you may be, YOU can make a difference in this world, right here and right now.

Learn to practice seeing beauty wherever you are. If you are in traffic, notice the majesty in the skies. If you are in a small apartment, feel the softness of the sofa beneath you, or appreciate fully how expansive your lungs get when you take a deep breath. If you are on your phone, appreciate the technology it took to get these words from my mind, onto my computer, then to my blog, up onto the internet and into your palm.

Practice refusing to gossip. Practice not reading the newspaper or clicking on negative news sites on the internet. Practice NOT comparing yourself to others who seem to possess things you desire or the way they look. Practice walking and staying focused in your own mind as others pass you by. Practice tuning into your own thoughts. Create your own thoughts. Practice telling your mind what you want to think. Stop living by default on old unchecked thinking that has been laid by childhood programming.

Your mind is your own. Question EVERYTHING.

If you want to make a difference in this world, start right now by turning your mind towards appreciating, something-anything right where you are. Raise your emotional vibration higher and away from anything that drags you down.

Practice-practice-practice until seeing beauty is your norm, because when you do, you transform not only YOU but you become part of the shift in human consciousness that is leading towards a better more loving world.

When you stop giving your attention to news about wars, murders and so on, the wars stop inside your mind. Your perception of the world changes for the better and by doing so you become an inspiration to all those who know you right where you are.

The world is made up of me's and you's. If I make the best out of me, and in some way inspire you to be a better you, and you in turn inspire someone you know to be a better them, eventually we will have created enough of a positive shift in human consciousness to bring about a more peaceful world.

YOU are worthy.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Evolution of Man...The Argument

Undoubtedly you, like myself at more than one time or another, have found yourself smack dab in the middle of a conversation about human evolution. I have met some who believe we are still evolving in a physical manner. I have heard it said that once we humans had tails, feathers and gills.

I was born a curious soul who instinctively questioned everything. While I was emotionally aware that my curiosity inconvenienced and certainly annoyed the teachers and caretakers in my life, this innate need to have information make sense to me on an intellectual as well as soulful level, was not something I could pull away from my self.

It confused me to think that humans were once apes. Why then do we still have apes?

It confused me to think that we were once fish, although I agree that in utero we all certainly breathe in water.

It confused me to think we all once had feathers or fur, although in utero all embryo's are covered with a thin layer of fine hair, some might call fur.

And although some might argue the tail theory, all embryo's do appear rather reptilian in stages of development.

And as my father believes we were once all just some sludge, I must agree that at conception, and in the hours that proceed, microscopically all our beginnings are rather sludge and amoeba like.

As I grew and began to own rights to my own thinking mind, I was freed to ask as many questions as I wanted, and was thrilled that I could find the answers that suited me all on my own. How I bless the internet!

What I have now freely concluded and joyously report to have discovered my minds opinion does not stand alone is, that evolution is a reality.

However, the evolution of man as a whole has far less to do with his physicality and instead has absolutely everything to do with his mind.

Evolution of man is not about whether or not he ever walked on all fours, or ate pits and wood. It is about the ever growing expansion of the human mind and its ability to go beyond its prior limiting conditioning, programming and beliefs.

If man were not an evolving collecting consciousness, we might still believe the world was flat, have never traveled out of Africa, and might still be burning intuitive people like myself at the stake.

Life is good for you and for me.

Man is evolving ever so slowly, but evolving nonetheless...It was not so long ago women could not vote and Martin Luther King was shot for believing in unity...

There are hero's amongst us, and you my friend are one of them. In you is the same seed that lived in hero's like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Amelia Erhart and Margret Brent.

Claim your right to help improve the world by expanding your own small version, water downed opinion of YOU...and become a greater part of mankind's ever growing evolution of consciousness.

It was the reason you were created at all. A utopia is on the way. One day all boundaries and foolish ideas of separateness shall fade. Until then, alike minds like mine do what we can to spread the message through our gifts...whatever they might be.

You are loved! You are one of us, whether you embrace that or not...And WE, those of us who consider ourselves children of the universe await for you to awaken to who you truly are and why you are....

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Why Your Life Sucks Now

As an Intuitive Coach specializing in the Law of Attraction, I attract those into my experience who are ready to go beyond that which they are experiencing in the here and the now;what humans call time space reality.

There is something going on in their life they are not pleased with and wish to change. It is not uncommon for me to hear, "My life sucks."

As one whose life is dedicated to the evolution of human consciousness, I understand that as a mind thinks so shall the life become. Circumstances are ALWAYS the result of how and what a person is thinking, which is ALWAYS motivated by emotion.

One who is in conflict with their inner being, who has been conditioned to play mind games with others in an attempt to gain power back over their lives, often winds up as one who actively participates in self sabotage. I know of a world record holder in a sporting event, who once told me he loathed himself on a consistent basis. He struggled with depression and obesity as well as drug addiction. No one would know the war this highly gifted human being was fighting. But he did. And I did.

If your life sucks now, it is because you believe it does. It is because you are not the master of your own thoughts. Instead you are a slave to your thoughts, which are nothing more but notions and ideas that have been impressed upon you through cultural, religious and familial conditioning. Until you AWAKEN to your inner being, you will thrash about this planet feeling very much like a victim rather than the glorious, magnificent, creator you were intended to be.

Humans are the leading edge of all that is. As we look back in time, we can see the evolution of man expanding. Originally all mankind began in Africa. Slowly man migrated out of Africa and ventured across the oceans to expand. Had man not been expanding on a conscious level, the world as we know it, would exist only in the lands of Africa.

Over centuries, man's mind expands and as it does human consciousness elevates to a higher vibration. Many of us already know there are no boundaries. There is no separateness. At our truth there is only energy. And we are all simply extensions of that energy who have been created with the purpose of pulling human consciousness forward.

I am thankful for the gift of the internet, and all social media outlets that allow for the spreading of such blessed information.

If your life sucks, it is because you have never known consciously the true reason for your existence here. But it is my promise, that if you practice and study creation, your life will change.

If you study the law of attraction and if you practice listening to music infused with binaural rhythms, and if you learn to STOP all negative thoughts the minute they begin in your mind, eventually you will gather up enough momentum in your positive emotional stream and find your life turning around.

You were born with a gift. The gift is your imagination. If you are not imaging yourself into peace and harmony, you are turning away from your truth. You are thus turning more towards the dark than the light.

Your life does not suck. You just think it does.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

How Do We Help One Another In This Time

For those of us who have bucked the mass consciousness of man and whom have decidedly chosen to take the road less traveled through deliberate creating of the lives we do want by focusing on feeling good now, how do we too, help one another in this time space reality with their focusing upon their own vortex?

How do we enlighten, entice and encourage those amongst us who are still burdened with doctrine, and stinging with the fear inflicted by the less conscious humans?

How do we help one another learn to become allowers of good feelings, and appreciators of blessings seen as well as unseen, when the collective negative consciousness of man is so prevalent?

When we were first born there was no resistance in our vibrational energy that was not pulling us towards a wanting and fulfilling of greater contentment. Our desire then was to simply "be". As infants we intrinsically knew what it was to be in alignment with our source, and deeper why we were born at all.

You were born to be free. You were born to come here and to learn what those things were and are that bring you joy. You were born to find appreciation in everything your eyes laid themselves upon. You were born not only to receive love but to give it as well. You were born to feel good, all the time, and when you don't you are pinching yourself off from your source as well as your reason for being at all.

For those of us who accept and delight in the knowledge that we are each creators of our own life experience, we have already come to know that peace is ours and can be ours whenever we desire. We know that what we focus upon we cause to grow. We understand that one negative thought if focused upon will draw to it another negative thought. We understand that as each negative thought attaches to another, the energy to it increases dramatically, and so do the negative emotions that keep us unhappy and unfulfilled, complaining, whining, depressed, anxiety ridden, and looking for someone to blame for why WE feel the way we feel.

We all feel the way we feel because of the way we choose to THINK. And what we think we CAN control.

I have found that the best way to help one another in this time space reality stay closer to their vortex, is by staying as near and as deeply into my own vortex as I possibly can.

When in my vortex, I am in my zone. I am joyful, joking, light hearted and appreciative of all things whether they seem good or bad. I know that bad things serve me as well as good things, because through the contrast of the bad, I get to expand my ideas of what it is that will make me even more happy.

We help one another by being examples of "In The Vortex" creatures, who are chronic appreciators of all that is. And by example, and through the great connectors like blogging, twitter, facebook, and other online social media outlets, we bridge our broader more conscious minds and help tip the scales towards greater good for all mankind.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Reaction Creation

The same letters that make up the word 'reaction' also make up the word 'creation'.

Whatever you react to you, you are actively going to create, whether knowingly or by default.

If you are reacting to a negative situation at work, you are 'attaching' yourself to the negative emotions your thought process has learned to 'react' to.

There is no doubt that unless you 'switch your focus' the situation in front of you will only worsen. Road rage is an example of how one person interprets slow moving traffic as a negative emotion and has it manifest as frustration. Unless the person experiencing the road rage deliberately chooses to stop 'reacting' and thus 'negatively creating', the negative emotions will attract to him/her someone who is on the same frequency as frustration. As the two worlds of negativity combine an unnecessary road war erupts.

And to think...our world is held together in the cosmos by air and men/women on planet earth really, really think that slow moving traffic is something to fight about.

If you are happy because of an upcoming event, in your mind you will experience positive emotions. You might feel happy, joy, anticipation and hope. And while these emotions spew within you, you begin to see yourself enjoying the event. You are reacting and thus creating in your mind through the power of your own thoughts.

The key that many men yet to take hold of and use to their advantage is the fact that all you need to live a happy life is within you. Your mind has the innate miraculous ability to create through imagination all that he/she desires to experience.

We fail as the masses to understand that it is not the 'thing' or the 'person' that is going to make us happy. Its not the new house, or the new car. What we seek is the idea of what it will 'feel' like to have the new home, or new car. But waiting for the 'thing' to show up in your time space reality before you learn to 'allow' your self to feel what it is you believe these things will summon within you, is like not allowing your body to use its arms or hands to get through life.

Your mind is all you need. By learning to react less or not at all to negative situations, you learn to stop creating the negativity that has a way of cycling in your life.

By learning to imagine wonderful things you'd like to experience in your time space reality, you create through the power of imagination. In doing this, you train the universe to key itself up to your vibrational offerings and thus cause the universe to react to your imagining thoughts of creation.

Sit back, fuss less, react less, and imagine more....

Your cosmic sister,

Lisa

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Who Am I And Why Am I Here?

Good for you. Your thoughts are working for you. You have asked, and you have received. Your conscious mind has asked, "Who am I and why am I here?", and now here you are, discovering that as you have asked you have received.

Your offering was the question. The question was summoned through thought and that thought was evoked through emotion. That emotion created energy or a vibration. The vibrational offering of the question, resulted in its vibrational equivalent resulting in the answer. And here it is, the law of attraction working for you whether you are aware of it or not.

Many millions of years ago a great energy event caused the formation of our galaxies. Earth is but one speck of dust in the universe, or perhaps even multi dimensional universes that may exist. Our reality of what a universe is, can only be defined what can be physically detected, and because our technological ability has limits, so too do many of us limit our reality of what is or what might be.

We humans have been sadly conditioned to pay far too much attention to 'physical reality'. Most of us were programmed into giving up our rights to our pure connection to self for the sake of worrying about what others might think of us. Our parents, in fear we might embarrass them, through covert as well as overt manipulative tactics, did their very best to squeeze us into their idea of what perfection was to them. Whether our parents owned tiny homes in trailer parks, or lived in castles in the Alps, more than likely whoever our parents were, they unknowingly infected us with the disease of soul alienation.

The very fact that the emotion in you has been created that has you pondering such an incredible intense question like, "Who am I and why am I here?", is evidence enough of your alienation to your very own soul. Had it been that you are one who is in alignment with ones own soul, there would be no need for you to have the energy of pondering such a question.

You are not alone.

And there is no shame in that. There can only be more positive on its way to you, for you have begun to embark on the expansive, and glorious journey of owning ones own mind through conscious and deliberate pondering of thoughts of your own choosing.

Most humans sadly do not even realize they can question how their mind thinks. They do not wonder why they do what they do or say what they say. They simply create their realities by default, wind up depressed, angry, irritable or alone, and then blame others for the situations and circumstances they have found themselves in, detached from the truth that they attracted, through the offering of negative thoughts, the equivalent of those negative thoughts in physical form that they are now experiencing in real time.

You are not here to create life by default. You are here to expand, and to acknowledge the fact that through the power of your mind; through mental focus you can draw to you all that you desire. The same energy that created this universe created you. In spite of where you may live, and what horrendous circumstances you may have found yourself born into, you can overcome. You are a great creator and through the power of your focus can get yourself out of anything you are in that does not please you. You were intended to attract to you a life that pleases you, although you may have been programmed to believe in what others think of you and want for you.

You are here for the same reason a tree, a rose or a bird is here. You are here to expand. You are here to use all the incredible gifts that being a human being has to offer to your advantage. You are here as pure focused energy, in physical form to use your unlimited brain power to its fullest potential opposed to not using it by not asking such life changing questions like, "Who am I and why am I here?".

You are here to learn to ignore reality, especially the oppressing realities that have been imposed on you by family, organized religion, as well as society. You are here to learn to create, through the power of your human ability to generate visions in your mind about how it is you would like your life to be, and to stay focused upon those visions until they manifest in your real time, in order that you may have all that you desire.

You are here to learn to be as a child again. Children are those who want only to play, who respond only to whatever it is that draws them nearer to their 'vortex, or their matrix, or their center, or themselves.' Children seek only to play, to laugh, to have fun, and thus wish to be happy rather than to worry, obsess, or to be sad. It is innate in us all to laugh, and to love. That is who we are, and why we are.

We are here to own who we are. If we are a rose, we know we are a rose and reach towards the sun because we know by how good it feels that by reaching towards the sun we get to 'expand' and be all that life has called us to be. If we are a tree, we do not worry about what the fern or the sun thinks of us. We simply keep on being a tree. If we are hummingbirds we do not develop OCD because we wished we were eagles. We simply go on being hummingbirds.

We humans are not happy because we do not use our conscious minds for what it was created for. Unlike other creatures on this planet who do not have the ability to question or create their own realities through deliberate thought, we humans have been conditioned to worry and obsess about others rather than to champion and harness our true purpose as divine creators.

Who are you? You are the stars, the oceans, the moons, and the birds. You are the cosmos seen and unseen. You are the wind, and the rain. You are all that is, and all that will be. You are an extension of all the energies that are responsible for the creating of the universes. But you have been taught to believe in circumstances instead.

You have been taught to pay attention to the negative circumstances in your life, circumstances that were created by the negative thoughts of those who came far long before you entered this time and place.

It is time to change the direction of your life, and in so doing serve humanity by helping others come closer to the knowing of who they truly are as well. As you expand and rise above, you uplift others. Through your example the world gets lighter. It may take time to get your life to where it is you want it to go, but in time, with enough attention paid to what you do want instead of paying attention to what it is that you don't want, life will begin to reveal to you more positive experiences.

You will no doubt have those who taunt you along the way. As you begin to ignore what is, and as you practice staying within your mind, inside the walls of your creative vault, others less aware than yourself may desire to discourage you out of envy. As you begin to transform and rise above those who are less willing to let go of their victim mentality, you may irritate them through the contrast of your sudden ability to be more positive. Others may turn from you, mock you and even say you are crazy. Create anyway.

The greatest creators of our time were all called crazy at one point or another. Einstein was considered by some to be far from intelligent. Van Gogh, Tolstoy and Wolf have all been labeled as crazy, and yet the works of these creators are ones this society has learned to cherish.

It can be a lonely existence. Creators who find consolation in their creating are not well understood by the masses. Because creators are born to create, and because creation is the birthing of subjective imagination, often what the creator has found excitement in is so personal it us unable to be shared by others. Others less imaginative who are more concerned with how others might judge the creation, are frustrated as well as frustrate the beauty of the creative process in the creator.

Times have changed. Had the internet been discovered centuries ago, great artists like Beethoven, Van Gogh, and Einstein would have been able to keystroke themselves into an online social network of creators much like themselves, and thus would not have suffered the stigma so stinging as the labels of crazies as they had.

You are a creator and that is why you have found this article. It is not by chance that you have been drawn to it.

If you are not happy with where you are, ignore your present reality, and begin creating in your mind the life you imagine that would bring you joy, happiness, contentment, peace and love. Find the feeling you are looking for and focus upon it. And when others ask you to stop making yourself happy, hear yourself say, "I know what I know and I know I don't want this, and in order to get what I want, I have to imagine it first." Just as you cannot drive through a fast food restaurant and expect the person at the drive thru window to know what you want without you first telling them what it is you do want, you must instruct the universe in very much the same way.

Decide what you want and then focus upon it in your mind through the miracle of creative imagination until you can feel your life turn in the direction of your wanting.

You are here to create and to uplift not only others here now, but future generations as well. And in the discovering of your true purpose, you help others discover theirs, just as I have helped you discover your true purpose, through the delicious discovering of my own.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Why Do Bad Things Keep Happening To Me

This blog has been a lesson on how to take control over your mind. As my life sped out of control down its slippery slope, I came to a point on that road when I realized the slope was being paved by my very own thoughts. The very process by which my mind functioned; its thought process, was accelerating the speed of my emotional crash. Once I realized my thoughts were the reason I was in the negative emotionally overwhelming hell in the first place, somewhere out from the ever most edges of my mind, was the idea that if my thoughts got me in, then my thoughts could get me out; out of wherever this abstract, subjective, negative place might be.

I have learned that I am an expanding thought human being, meaning that I was meant to come here and to expand my thoughts, and that when I am put in a position where growth and expansion are thwarted, I am filled with daunting negative emotion in the form of frustration. When I feel I am not heard, or when I feel that others are exploiting or drawing attention to what they or society might consider a flaw, or when I am being lied about, or when my relationships are ones that are not permitted to grow in love and warmth, I am easily frustrated.

For years I swallowed that frustration and tried only harder to "fit in" or "be what others might have wanted me to be" all in the tattered hopes of feeling loved and validated.

I have since learned that the only love I needed was the delicious love of self. The only opinion that mattered, was the opinion I had of me, and until I fully swallowed how "incredibly good" a human being I was, my thoughts would always be "other directed" and peace would never be mine.

I have learned to treat my personal thoughts, especially the frightening ones like conversations with good friends. When I hear my mind playing with a fearful thought, I hush it away with the whispers of a nurturing mom. I have learned to go easy with my fears rather than to allow the fear to grow or to feel guilt or shame for having them gallop through my mind.

I have trained my mind NOT to value others as good or bad or situations as good or bad. Things are the way they are because of the choices I have made about them somewhere along my journey. My perceptions are the result of my childhood programming as well as an unobserved mind. If ever I have been depressed, it has been on the heels of lining the people, and situations up in my life in columns labeled "good and bad". My depression has always been attached to thoughts that have been eaten by my obsession to judge and compartmentalize my life into good and bad columns. Freeing myself of the need to judge anything or anyone has opened my heart to more love than I ever imagined possible.

It also helped me stop judging me.

And when not so pleasant circumstances find their way to me, or when things don't always go as I planned, I use the contrast of what I wanted to happen as a backdrop for what I do want to happen in the future.

When I find myself feeling a negative emotion, rather than attach to it or deem the situation as good or bad, I say to myself, "Hmm, I really don't like the way that negative emotion feels. I would much rather feel appreciation, contentment or joy. I better let that negative feeling go, and find something to love and appreciate right now, even if that's just the skin on my body, or my ability to see, to walk or to taste or touch. I would much rather attach to the joy of some part of me than to attach myself to that which feels so dead, depressing and empty."

When things do happen I would have preferred not to happen, I do my best not to label or judge it, knowing that labeling anything or anyone as bad only flames the fires of depression, and negative thinking.