Be Your Own Fairy Godmother

A wish is a mental contrast between what you perceive and what you want. What if you could change what you perceive? If you change what you think about the circumstances, you have a wider range of options for your response, and your response is what makes you happy. On a rainy day, it’s easy [...]

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In the Elusinian mysteries, Persephone brings spring into the world as the Kore, the Maiden, and all rejoice as she returns to visit her mother Demeter, goddess of grain and plenty. But in the fall, Persephone returns to the underworld where she rules as Queen What is in her carry-on as she rides the chariot [...]

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Stuck energy, as in the kinds of resentments that we hold on to long after the damage was done, keeps you from getting what you want. Forgiveness does not mean allowing the same behavior to happen again, nor does it mean to trust that other has changed. What it does mean is to release your  [...]

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A new word to day from Crossroad Dispatches: Eudaimonism. eudaemonism, also spelled eudaimonism, or eudemonism, in ethics, a self-realization theory that makes happiness or personal well-being the chief good for man. The Greek wordeudaimonia means literally “the state of having a good indwelling spirit, a good genius.” The indwelling spirit of each of us is that Genius, [...]

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Keeping thoughts focused on what you want is a key to being your own fairy godmother. Why is that so hard? Don’t we know what we want? Of course, but we also know what we don’t want, which often is the situation that we see before our very eyes.  It’s easy to think habitual thoughts [...]

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Today is the summer solstice–the longest day of the year. In far northern climes, the sun does not set, but only circles the horizon. Further south,  (way further south where I am), it’s the official beginning of summer, and it’s just very hot. Fire ceremonies have always been part of the summer solstice celebration–bonfires are [...]

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An inner demon is an inner demand that we act in a certain way. Inner demons are only stories we keep telling ourselves. The more I tell the story, the more it become true, the more the Universe makes it true by bringing it into my experience. Change the story by doing something different.

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