Daily Bloom-Quote-Thanksgiving

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse"
Henry Van Dyke

Daily Bloom-Quotes

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."   

Thornton Wilder

Daily Bloom-Quotes-Thanksgiving

"Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet.  Believe in man.  Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place.  There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. "

Phillips Brooks

 

Daily Bloom-Quotes-Thankgiving

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.  

Melody Beattie

Daily Bloom Meditation-Self Confidence

"Self-Confidence is the key to the universe."

-Carrol Wrackley 

As the days come and go and the holidays season approaches, it is easy to get caught up in what I like to call "the woods".  The woods is a metaphorical place that we go when we let out self confidence dwindle.  We take one negative thought or occurrence and run away with it.  Into the dark woods we go without a sane thought in our minds! It is easy to let our thoughts spiral down into the darkness when we are under a lot of stress.  We don't have our usual strength to fight the negative thoughts off when we are already in a state of distress.  

We can recognize these self-defeating thoughts and battle them before we get lost in "the woods."  When I notice myself thinking negatively there are a few things that I can do to get that jolt of self-confidence I need to continue:

1. Tell a friend! Friends always understand our crazy thoughts and they will be able to tell us that whatever negative thoughts we have aren't true.

2. Help someone! Lending a hand to others through volunteering or simply holding the door for someone helps us to escape our own mind for enough time to hopefully jar us out of our self-defeating state.

3. Practice telling yourself positive affirmations! Tell yourself the opposite of what you might be thinking.  If you think that you are never going to be good enough, combat that by telling yourself that you are already more than good enough!

These simple steps that only take a few seconds can help to save you from minutes, hours and even days alone in the "the woods." Do yourself one of these small favors today to keep your self-confidence soaring!

Today I will remind my self that I am more than good enough!

Wishing You Well Today and Always.

Daily Bloom Meditation-Affirmation on Anger

"I express anger in constructive ways
rather than destructive ways.

I converse with others I am angry with
in a calm way, rather than aggressively,
and if I cannot speak with them in person,
I release the anger
without turning it inward on myself."

By:

http://www.umsonline.org/Affirmations/59aff.htm

Daily Bloom Meditation

"I am an objective person.
I live in a state of non-judgment toward others,
the world or myself.

When I find judgment within myself,
I re-adjust myself until
a state of non-judgment
becomes habitual."

Wishing You Well Today and Always.

http://www.umsonline.org/Affirmations/44aff.htm