ODE TO JOY

“The single greatest thing you can do to change
your life today would be to start being grateful
for what you have right now ~ Oprah Winfrey”

Those of us who are familiar with “The Secret” understand the law of attraction, to the extent that whatever feelings you have within your entire energetic system are the feelings you are attracting to yourself. For example, if you are filled with worry, you will attract more worry. If you are filled with anxiety, you will attract more anxiety; dissatisfaction attracts more of that, and so it goes.

By the same token,

JOY attracts more joy. Feelings of happiness and elation are contagious and attract more of that happiness and elation. When you have the feelings of peace and serenity throughout your body and mind, you will naturally attract more of that. Gratitude attracts more gratitude and all things related to being thankful—expansiveness, an energy of allowing and openness. Kindness attracts more of that energy and likewise with LOVE attracting more LOVE.

A friend recently sent me a great quote: “When you complain, you become a living, breathing
crap magnet.” What an awesome quote!  If you take a close look at your life… can you see periods when you fell into this pattern and things just kept getting worse and worse?

I sure have. And I know that most often, I have noticed this in my relationships.

As soon as you start focusing on the stuff that bothers you, the relationships start to take a turn for the worse, don’t they? It is the best and fastest way to see that “what you focus on expands.”

That is why I wanted to share this quote with you. It left a sting in my belly because I had to admit
that sometimes I am a crap magnet. At least now that I am aware of it, I can also choose to snap
out of it as quickly as I see it.

What is even better is that the opposite is also true: “When you express gratitude, you become a living,
breathing money magnet.”

Things in our lives don’t just “happen”…we create our results, either consciously or unconsciously. I’m not here to say that YOU created the snow storm or the flooding conditions; but…you do create your reactions to these situations. It IS your job to create your own results of these circumstances.

Understand this: your “job” is an inside job… To change the world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How you feel inside becomes contagious to everyone and everything outside of you! Did you imagine how easy it could be to do your part to change the world?!?!?

May you choose to feel JOY.

And…may the joy be with you!

With love and blessings
Sheila