Please take a minute today (whenever you read this) and send some light and love to the people in Boston. True enough, somebody will find something to say about helping the people of Boston become stronger, more aware and closer; but today when you are reading this, they are all in desperate need of your prayers and good thoughts.
Please take a minute right now to share this with anyone you know.
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Thank you.
Online - All the Time
We live in the wired age. The digital age. The internet age. Connected every single minute of every single day. 24/7, online – all the time.
We have the infinite knowledge of billions of individuals, of millions of generations past, of countless seekers and teachers available at our fingertips whenever we want. Not to mention, things like Words with Friends and Angry Birds.
So with this enormous amount of wisdom available to us whenever we want, why are some of the most frequently searched for items “positive thinking tips and tricks”?
Frankly, the sheer number of websites talking positive thinking tips, or ideas or quotes is absolutely mesmerizing. Literally, hundreds of millions of pages online, all filled with information about this kind of thought.
This positive thinking idea is on the minds of a lot of people. I mean, a lot of people. But there is something really strange about the idea of positive thinking online.
We live in a negative thinking world. Maybe we don’t want it to be that way, but many of our societies teach negative thinking as a life value in the guise of pessimism or pragmatism. We teach our young people to be afraid. Our news programs are filled with sad and angry stories, our TV programs are filled with hate and murder and lies and all around ugliness, and those are just the “comedies”.
The strange thing is that the Universe is not negative in nature. You don’t have to prove you deserve a wonderfully positive life; that is your birthright.
We are taught negativity; we are not born with it.
Sounds sad. And in fact it is kind of sad. For instance, searching through Google for this phrase
yields around 209 results.
But searching for this phrase
brings back around 22,200 results.
That’s over 10,000 times more results for pages, articles, blog posts talking about positive thinking being bad for you. Now, truth be told, those are not huge numbers of webpages, but the idea that 10,000 times more information is available talking about the negative aspects of positive thinking provides an interesting viewpoint of our society.
Of course it can.
Just the same way as negative thinking can change your life. But that kind of change is not going to happen overnight. Well, truth be told, it is going to happen overnight, but you might not notice it right away.
Our world as a whole, drip, drip drips negative thoughts and ideas into our lives, so it just stands to reason that if we want to reinforce positive thinking in our lives that we use the same sort of tactic.
Because a single step, a single thought at a time is a remarkably effective way to change almost anything, and changing negative thinking to positive thinking isn’t any different.
Here at ALifeOfLight.com, we concentrate on positive thinking. No secret there, that idea is all over our website. And if you want to change your negative thinking to positive thinking, and make sure that your positive thinking is effective, we offer a way to do that.
Everyday, Monday through Friday, we send out an email message to anyone who subscribes. Its free, its fun and it’s absolutely, unashamedly positive in nature. We’ve been doing this every day for almost 6 years. Lots and lots of people are on our email list and you can be too if you want. Just fill in your name and your email address and you will be able to open and read short positive messages in your email everyday too.
Positive Thinking Tips
No pressure, if you want some positive messages showing up every day, great, if you would rather not, no worries. Truth is, this kind of thing is not for everyone and there are people who are really bothered by reading positive messages and don’t really want to change their way of thinking.
But if you do want to make a positive change, and change in a way that is effective and simple, then get yourself signed up and start your positive change right now.
Nice things people say about ALifeOfLight.com and the daily messages:
| Sometimes, I feel like you are reading my mind. But, I guess that it is the universe that is reading my mind and sending the answers through you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Janine |
| Dear Michael, I hope you know how totally refreshing your ALOL messages are and how much they mean to me. I am so grateful for them. Claudia |
| Good Morning all!Your daily dose of added positive confirmation, reinforcement, and just plain inspiration some days always adds extra light to my day. Thank You.I always look forward to your daily arrival with anticipation.
Wanda |
| Damn, you’re good!John |
One of the habits that I wanted to let go of in my life was that of thinking negatively. For most of my life I had a struggle with how to overcome negative thoughts. I was raised in a family where every day was a struggle with the activities of daily living and the idea that the Universe was kind and benevolent was simply not taught in my house as a kid.
It took some doing for me develop the habit of thinking in a positive manner; in a way that allowed me to enjoy my life. The truth is, that I really wanted something more positive for my life but I wasn’t quite sure how to get it.
The steps to becoming a positive person are relatively simple, but are often in direct opposition to what we are taught by the authority figures in our lives.
Those are the steps I took to make “positive thinking made simple” become one of the core ideas of my life.
And what I really found that keeps many people from changing in this way is enough of the “gotta wanna” quality. The results of the change have to become important enough to be worth the energy we put into changing. So you really have to “gotta wanna” to allow that change to occur for you.
So yesterday, I was cleaning out some clutter from my closet and I came across this poem I wrote almost 20 years ago about this very subject – positive thinking made simple and I thought it might be kind of cool to post it here for you to read.
Please take a look and let me what you think in the comments below. And if you really like, please consider sharing it with your friends.
I Just Don’t Care
When I don’t care how others look
It’s easier to see
Inside their hearts to find the way
Their souls want them to be
When I don’t care what others say
Its easier to hear
Their truthful pains disguised inside
Their words of doubt and fear
When I don’t care what others think
It’s easier to pay
Attention to the important things
That show up every day
The world turns on, it does not stop
For oiling or repair
And I’ve much to gain, with less stress and strain
In my life
If I just don’t care
It’s not that I never get negative thoughts, it’s that I know how to let go of them; quickly and easily. I can overcome those negative thoughts because I can practice the idea of
That change became a part of my life, and it has been so much better to think positive thoughts as a habit. I takes some doing, but it surely is worth it.
Where's The Brains?
Halloween. All Hallow’s Eve. Samhain. Witches. Ghosts. Zombies.
All connected and all in good fun. Lots of small children and even some “big in size, but kids at heart” children gather in groups, searching the quiet darkened streets for treasures and treats.
Wonderful traditions, easy going fun, maybe a little bit of eeriness in the air, but in general a time of frivolity for all.
“That’s cool”, I hear you thinking, “but what does this have to do with A Life Of Light? It doesn’t really sound like a regular light-hearted story of light and positivity.” Just keep on reading for a moment and you will see how all the parts get connected.
So let’s think about zombies for a minute here.
Those undead nightmare monsters, doomed to live (or not live, as the case may be) forever. Stumbling around the world, scaring regular living people half to death, in search of brains, creating a break in the normal flow of life.
People are born, they live their lives and then they pass. It’s smooth, it’s easy and it works well this way.
Just to Cause Trouble
But zombies bring big shovelfuls of sand and grit and deliberately throw them into the smoothly working, well oiled cycle of life and death. They have already lived, and died, and now are shuffling around the earth, doomed to wander, and destroying the normal way that energy flows.
Zombies are not really alive; they are forced into a caricature of life. Into a badly fitting horrible sort of second rate existence. If you take a regular person and stand them up next to a zombie, you can immediately tell the difference.
There would be no doubt in your mind which is the real person alive and full to the brim with vim and vigor, and which would be the zombie, standing there in a bad imitation of real life trying for all the world to pretend like they fit in.
But you would know which was the real human being living the real life and which was just a zombie living an imitation life powered by somebody else’s energy. No doubt about that in the least.
Every day we wake up and we have energy for the day. Now, true enough, we might have more energy on some days and less on others but there is no doubt that we have some. We know this because we know we are alive. And there is no doubt in our minds that we are so.
And we get to choose that day, in that very present moment and in a succession of present moments that we experience as we live through that day, how we are going to spend our daily energy.
In happiness, and joy and gratitude, living each of the day’s present moments as they present themselves in succession.
OR
Trying our darndest to use our current supply of present moments to re-animate our past days to make them be something different than they were.
And if someone had the opportunity to watch you as you were using your life energy to sail through a beautiful line of present moments, or working hard to make your already past days appear as though they were alive; do you really think they would have any problem telling the difference between
this delightful day you are living in
and the day from your past that you are trying to re-animate into a zombie day?
They would be able to tell the difference in a heartbeat. And so would you.
Which Day Would You Rather Live?
That is why when you are living in the present moment, your days are light and free and fabulous. And when you grit your teeth in a determined attempt to revive the “already lived once” days of your past, it feels entirely different.
Living in the present moment prepares you for a delightful day today and even more delightful experiences tomorrow. Living in the zombie days of your past, does nothing for you but suck the energy out of the day you are living in right now and send it back in time.
And you know what, you already lived through that old day once.
Time to use your energy to live today, a beautiful wondrous experience, filled to overflowing with extraordinary and delightful present moments.
Have a wonderful day today, you deserve it.
Tapping For Abundance
In times when the financial situation of the world is difficult, when many people are out of work and having great problems paying even their day to day expenses, we look for ways to get more money.
A lot of times we try things like working more than one job, or running our own businesses in addition to the work we already do to bring in an income. But the truth is even when we get more money coming in, we often wind up having more bills to pay so the money flows out just as fast.
We wind up on the same treadmill except now we are running faster and faster and can barely afford time to have a little rest.
We need more money in our lives but get stuck in trying to figure out what to do to get some. Lots of times, this is because we are trying to fix the wrong thing. We think that by simply getting more money in our lives, we will automatically feel better and we will be better off. But that’s just not true.
We need a real change in what we are doing, and that kind of change always starts with a change in how we are thinking and feeling.
EFT tapping for abundance is one way you can make a change in your thinking and in how you feel. It’s a relatively simple process, once you learn it. The trick is in finding the right person to learn from. And there are a lot of really excellent EFT tapping teachers.
Many EFT teachers specialize in teaching people how to do eft tapping for abundance. Margaret lynch, Brad Yates, Carol Look, all of them have programs which show people how to tap to bring more money into their lives. And when you do go looking for a teacher to learn from, you need one whose style suits you.
So here’s a suggestion. My name is Michael Shook and you are here on my website ALifeOfLight.com reading about tapping for abundance. And I might not be as famous as those other people I just mentioned, but I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and I am pretty good at it. And, even better, I have a series of free videos which you can watch to see if my style of teaching will suit you.
The free videos are an introduction to a video course I developed called Tapping For Abundance. It is a course that does cost money, but I figured it would be good to make some free videos to see if you even like doing this.
Like a free sample, and if you like the free videos and start o see some results, then maybe you would like to get the entire course. My course has gotten some really excellent reviews from regular, everyday people who used it to bring more abundance into their lives. And by that I mean they got more money. And they were really happy.
So how about this. Just click the link below here and sign yourself up for the free video series and see if you like it. See if our styles get along together and you can make a decision to get the main course after you try out the free videos.
So go ahead and click this link now and get signed up: