This is the time of year when we make promises and plans to do better in the next year. Be sure to check out this article on Go Red for Women: 5 Heart Healthy Resolutions for the New Year.
Heart Healthy Resolutions
Thought for Today
I have a hypothesis that emotional intelligence is a function of imagination. In other words, your ability to imagine the future is what drives your decisions today. — Scott Adams, Creator of Dilbert comic strip. [Source: Imagination and Emotional Intelligence Sep 30, 2013]
January Follower of the Month Julianne Victoria
The first follower of the month for 2014 is Julianne Victoria. She blogs at Through the Peacock’s Eyes where she offers insights for spiritual living. http://juliannevictoria.com/ Please take a minute to visit and say hello.
Living from our Heart
The new year is a time of new beginnings. Many of us will make our New Year’s resolutions to better ourselves. These goals of betterment often include things like losing weight, eating better, looking better, working out, etc. Those are great goals, but often driven by external influences.
Instead if we turn within and begin living from our hearts, we can transform our resolutions, our goals in live, into acts of love. When we love ourselves, we take better care of ourselves. When we love others, we have compassion for their struggles and goals.
Living from the heart is living from the inside out. May we all in the new year emit Love and Light from our hearts and Be who we all truly are: Beautiful from the inside out! That is the only resolution we truly need.
About Julianne Victoria:
I am a writer, healer and spiritual counselor. I hope to teach and inspire others on their journeys and in this life. My main blog is: Through the Peacock’s Eyes, Insights for Spiritual Living
2013 in review
Bob thought you might like to see the annual report for Espirational from Word Press. Thank you for your help in contributing to these numbers.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Thought for Today
“The real purpose of meditation isn’t to tune out and get away from it all but to tune in and get in touch with your true Self – that eternal aspect of yourself that goes beyond all the ever-changing, external circumstances of your life.”— Deepak Chopra M.D. [Source: Seven Myths of Meditation]
Thought for Today
“I came to believe this much: good words are worth the work. Well-written words can change a life. Why is this? Words go where we never go—Africa. Australia. Indonesia.” — Max Lucado [Source: The Write Stuff Max Lucado on Writing]
Healthy Living A to Z: A is for Attitude
Our attitude influences our physical, mental and spiritual health. Underestimating the power of attitude can be dangerous. Choosing the positive requires attention and effort. Even those who seem naturally happy work at staying positive. These are two tools to help us move to a more positive state of being:
Surround yourself with positive people. Thoughts are highly contagious. Hang out with negative people and you will become negative. Find a group of positive people and you will find staying positive much easier. Watch the online communities you join as well.
Be aware of your thoughts. Affirmations are a useful tool for changing our way of thinking. These are “I am,” or “I can” statements which recognize the hidden powers of the subconscious mind.
Attitude is the foundation of everything we will do during this lifetime. It is important to make that foundation a good, positive one.
Coming up This Year…
Beginning tomorrow Healthy Living A to Z will cover a letter of the alphabet every other Friday throughout the year.
My newest eBook The Gluten-Free Good Life Is available in the in the Kindle Store as well as the Espirational Bookstore.
I have started an art site as we prepare to move to a small town with an active art community.
Have you enjoyed meeting other followers through the Follower of the Month? I am having trouble contacting people. If you are interested let me know.
Monthly heart health quotes, videos and links will continue this year.
On the personal side, we are caught in a referral nightmare concerning Bob’s eye problems. Please pray for us as we try to disentangle from this mess and discern what is really going on.
That’s the announcements for now. Anyone have plans for the New Year you would like to announce?
Day of New Beginnings
Pray for Peace
Every year on New Year’s Eve I invite you to join me in praying for peace on earth, but first in our hearts. Let us pray. Lord make me a channel of your peace…
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