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| Treasure Box |
Whenever you need a piece of Golden Wisdom to help you through the day have a look here in this Treasure Box of Quotes & Stories for inspiration to lift your spirits. New items added regularly.
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* To download or view a really special, one page relaxation exercise that has worked for hundreds of people, as well a other interesting documents,just click on the following link: Breath Relaxation Exercise
* Give your spirits a lift with some messages from dogs Click Here.
* The heart of Relationship Counselling is helping two people connect and stay connected at a deep emotional level regardless of the situation.
* Never give up trying to learn more. There is always a way to make your life better, even if you don't know how that can be done right now. Someone, somewhere, will have the solution for you. Keep looking.
* True healing heals both the heart and the mind and helps them work together.
* Resilience refers to the capacity to remain organized in the face of challenge, to cope actively, to maintain positive expectations during periods of stress, or to return to positive functioning after a period of maladaptation. (John Omaha) This can be learned.
* "The common eye sees only the outside of things,and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect." (Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc)
* Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open! (James Dewar)
* Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde)
* A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. (Francois Rabelais)
* Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. (Robert Frost)
* A diamond is really just a small and insignificant piece of coal that has adapted "brilliantly" to extreme pressure. A pearl is the product of pain, conceived as a result of irritation, born of adversity, nursed by adjustment.
* Try being an optimist - it's a better way.
* Many of life's circumstances are created by 3 basic choices: the disiplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey. (Charles Millhuff)
* You're not helpless - try something else. If you don't know what to do then ASK someone who might know. If they don't know, then ask someone else. There is always an answer but you have to go look for it.
* If you can learn what it truely means to love, then you have the secret of life itself.
* There is a chance, that no matter how bad you feel, things can get better.
* The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change - Carl Rogers
* There is a self soothing technique called "The Butterfly Hug" which can help in times of stress. Simply fold your arms across your chest, right hand resting on left shoulder, left hand on right shoulder, and gently tap your hands on alternative shoulders - first the right shoulder and then the left, then the right etc. Close your eyes and imagine that the beat of your hands on your shoulders is the beating of beautiful butterfly wings on your shoulders, comforting you, bringing love and beauty to you at this moment. Continue for a few minutes and you will feel calmer and more relaxed.
* "The repeated denial of who you really are is a profound form of emotional abandonment."
David Grand from Emotional Healing at Warp Speed.
Once there was a scientist who found some cocoons of a giant moth known as the Emperor Moth. When the time came for the moth to emerge from the crysalis, he noticed how the young moth struggled and struggled to try to get through the very small rigid hole. Because he was a kind man, he took a pair of scissors and gently cut the hole to make it easier for the moth to get through. The moth came out easily into the world, but to the scientist's dismay, instead of the magnificent creature he expected, the moth who emerged had a large mis-shapen body and very small wings, and of course was unable to fly.
The scientist was appalled, and vowed not to interfere with the next moth who was struggling to emerge from his cosy cocoon, but to stand back and observe. As he watched,he noticed that, as the moth struggled and struggled to push itself through the small hole, the fluid in its large body was being forced by the struggle into the wings and body. When the moth finally emerged, the wings were huge and the body long and skinny, which is as it should be with an Emperor Moth. The man watched facinated as the moth stretched and dried its magnificent wings, and then flew away.
Sometimes, we may ask ourselves, "Why are we are having this experience?, when things seem not to be going our way, and life seems very hard. It helps to remember the story of the Emperor Moth, who, without the struggle would not be the magnificent creature that it is. You have to wait to see the whole picture before you can judge. Sometimes we don't know what Life has in store for us, and what training we need to cope with what is coming!