No what I'm really saying is pay attention to your positive THOUGHTS and focus only on those.
Bugger the NEGATIVE thoughts (which I sometimes do, because I forget, but each day I feel myself getting better). Gratitude will just natrually come.
Its really up to you if you want to pay attention to your gratitude only, but, what I'm really saying is pay attention to your positive thoughts.
Hope that helped a bit and while we are on that subject Steve thank you much for your questions they really make me think.
Hope that helped a bit.
Jual
Nov 20, 2009 Rating
Beautiful by: Cristina
Lol Jual, yes not only you but all of us have been given a new topic or project to complete... the way we each go about it may differ, but I believe in the end we're all searching for stable happiness, regardless the circumstances, and for making the world a better place for us all.
It is my experience that negative thoughts and feelings come time and time again. What I have found though, is that we can either be trapped by them and go down straight into our personal hell of suffering, or we can observe what is without getting entangled in any mess.
Observing our thoughts creates, little by little, a sort of detachment from oneself which allows for a space of peace which wasn't there before.
Don't forget to tell yourself that you're doing fantastic. When one embarks in this personal journey is easy to feel like one is not doing good enough - and because it's an internal journey it's not likely that anybody would come up to you and say, "Hey you know, you're doing great". So tell yourself, cause you are truly doing great :-)
Loads of love to you, and thank you for sharing these bits of your life. I appreciate you doing that :-)
Nov 19, 2009 Rating
Pay attention to the good by: Anonymous
Hi Steve,
Just replying your question, and basically yeah!
And pay attention to your thoughts, I suppose.
Like I say, I am not use to this 'gratitude' thing, and everyday I learn something new and still I forget to give gratitude or thanks for those small but precious gifts! ( Oh thank you for your site Christina, I love it)!
Its like reading a book. If the first two chapters are dumb and boring and you can't follow the story line, well you probably put it down and swap it for a more interesting one. Well my thoughts were a bit like that, dumb and boring, (cause I started slipping back into my old ways, without me realizing it till it was to late!)
And you know a few days before that,I had a kind of a mind flash but it was just a couple of questions, about why do I keep thinking bad thoughts and seem to be doing the same old boring thing over and over again ?
And I don't know maybe the Universe answered my question by me having my dream about my grandmother.
And it never ever crossed my mind about 'paying attention to my thoughts', maybe it did, but it never sunk into my brain properly, till I had my dream...
So from now on (just to self help myself to, cause Christina and people like her are helping spiritually, and emotionally I want to meet them half way).
You see this is like a new project for me and it maybe easy for some but its a challenge for me.
Its like I've been given a new topic to complete and by god is my witness I will complete this.
So yeah, be grateful for all the good things that come into our lives, and pay attention to our good thoughts and not the bad thoughts and give thanks for them.
LOL
Jual
Nov 19, 2009 Rating
Attention - of course! :-) by: Cristina
Jual, what an amazing way to receive the message that all we have to do is to pay attention to this moment, and choose our way to look at life - that's in sum what it comes down to, for me...
