Positive Words for a Negative World~Right Up My Alley

What Do Your Words Say About You?

Your words, both spoken and unspoken have a powerful influence on creating the world you live in. You might say what you think is what you experience. 

The old children's ditty 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me,' only got it half right.

Words can hurt you--especially your own.

Your words are the single-most important factor determining how well you'll get through life's challenges. 

So what's up your alley? When you consider your inner alleyways, what road signs do you have to guide your way through life? Is your world a friendly or hostile place? 

If like attracts like, what are you attracting into your world through your inner thoughts today--positive or negative experiences?

Is Your Inner Alleyway a Place of Darkness or Light?

Consider your most frequently repeated phrases and words as you go through the day. What words stand out? If you were to turn them into street signs what options would they show you have for life? 

Which grouping of inner alleyway signs below most closely fits your inner world?

A Dark Alleyway

👎Self-fulfilling Prophecy Circle 
😡Dark Place Circle
👎Doomed Drive
😡Anger Alley
👎Glum Pass
😡Railroaded Way
👎Pissed Off Pass
😡Dead End Cul-de-Sac 
👎Blind Alley
😡Screwed Street
👎Loser Lane
😡Let Me Down Drive
👎Rejected Road
😡Rage Road
👎Poor Man's Pass
😡No Use Highway
👎No Hope Terrace
😡Jumping Thru Hoops Cul-de-Sac
👎Left Behind Blvd

A Bright Alleyway

💓Serenity Lane
💙Peaceful Place
💚Harmony Lane
💓Tranquility Terrace
💛Sunshine Lane
💜Good Fortune Road
💓Destiny Place
💙The Merry Mall
💚Good Nature Way
💛The High Road
💜Good Outlook Vista
💓Sunnyside Up Way
💙Starlight Terrace
💛Sun Way
💓Lucky Star Way

What do your words say about your view of the world around you? Is it a friendly or hostile place to live?

Take a Detour Around Negative Thoughts to Positive Ones

If you live in a dark internal world but want to create a brighter one--or if you usually live in a brightly lit world but have recently hit a dark patch--begin your journey back to a brighter outlook by first consciously noting and accepting the words you currently live by before you strive to improve them.

Once you acknowledge the negative talk leading your thoughts, consciously embrace an attitude of compassion and forgiveness towards yourself--then graciously let the negative self talk go. 

Accept there isn't anything wrong with you because you harbor negative thoughts. We all do. The issue is when you want to create a more positive environment for your life it starts with changing the words you use to frame your life experience.

What We Dwell on we Create

What we think about all day is what leads us; What we dwell on we create. 

If you want to create a positive path for your life, tune in to what you want in your life and spend more time thinking about how to create it through actively engaging in activities that move you down your desired path. 

Choose your words carefully knowing what you think about you attract into your life. 

As If!

You are the one who makes decisions for your life and the faceless 'they' can only influence your decisions if you let them. You are the driver of how you deal with the world. You decide whether to deal with the world as if it is hostile or as if it is friendly.

'As If' thinking is a very powerful tool that can work for or against you. Since you're in charge of your thoughts you are the only one who can turn your negative 'As If' thinking into positive 'As If' thinking.

Practice Experiencing the World 'As If' it is Friendly and Full of Light

When you catch yourself fighting that invisible enemy out to get you on your way to a brighter future--pause--and practice acting as if the world is a bright and friendly place. Find your way to Good Outlook Vista.

Start by playing 'what if'--what if everyone in my world was out to help me achieve my greatest desires?

What if today was the day sunlight filled my day? 

What would your world look like? 

What options and opportunities would open up for you? 

For example:

'If everyone in my world is out to help me achieve my greatest desires' then:

💓Everyone who posts a job I want is writing the position with me in mind.

💙Interviewers want me to stand out as a candidate. They're secretly rooting for me.

💚When I'm laid off or unhappy in my current position, the universe is lighting the way for me to create a better situation. I am now free to invite creativity and more challenging work into my life.

💛Wherever I go I meet people who are looking to be my friend, my partner, my client, or employer.

Seek Help from a Trustworthy Person 

If you have difficulty transitioning from experiencing the world as hostile to friendly, seek the assistance of a person in your life you and others know to be trustworthy and ethical.  Sometimes it helps to practice seeing the world through another set of eyes--ones you can easily trust and safely learn from.

This is Your Year to Shine

This is your year to shine! If last year failed to provide you with a positive and energizing environment in which to contribute your gifts and build loving relationships, find ways to get a fresh start. 

There is no time like the present to go out there and give generously of your gifts.

What are you waiting for? That friendly world with people who mean you good is waiting for your contributions and gifts.

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.
                                                            
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Lightarted Living: Outlook Bright and Sunny~Turning the Corner

Lightarted Living: Outlook Bright and Sunny~Turning the Corner: Weather Report: Outlook Bright and Sunny Weather or not you've been going through tough times, trust you're about to...

Outlook Bright and Sunny~Turning the Corner

Weather Report: Outlook Bright and Sunny

Weather or not you've been going through tough times, trust you're about to turn the corner to better days ahead. When rainy, cloudy days show up, put on your heavy weather gear, look past the overcast days, and keep slogging your way to brighter days.  

Here Comes the Sun

And Somewhere over the Rainbow is right around the corner.

Forecast Your Future: Blue Skies and a Sunny Disposition

Whatever challenges you're facing, picture yourself turning the corner with sunny days ahead. Imagine the best and soon you'll be experiencing the best. 

If you need a moment to regroup after being hit with yet another obstacle to moving forward, do something to refresh yourself, and then refresh your vision for blue skies and a sunny disposition, and continue to actively move toward your blue skies life.

 💓Create a bright vision for your future and nothing but blue skies do you see.

💓Keep your eyes firmly focused on the sun coming out and look for 'somewhere over the rainbow' on rainy days.

💓With your eyes clearly focused on good things coming your way...soon the sun will be shining so bright and everything in life will be going so right.

Good Fortune Forecast

In every life a little rain must fall. By resetting and refreshing your sights on rainy days you remind yourself you have what it takes to create the life you want, and you make it easier to actively keep playing the game of life.

Don't let a rainy or cloudy period get you down. Accept rain and clouds as a natural part of life and deal with them by looking beyond them. 

Find a way to make today a good day. Never lose sight of good things coming your way.

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day. 

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Lightarted Living: Feeling Low? Five Positive Thoughts to Pick You Up...

Lightarted Living: Feeling Low? Five Positive Thoughts to Pick You Up...: "A man is what he thinks about all day." Ralph Waldo Emerson If your thinking has you in the doldrums, think about so...

Lightarted Living: Feeling Low? Five Positive Thoughts to Pick You Up...

Lightarted Living: Feeling Low? Five Positive Thoughts to Pick You Up...: "A man is what he thinks about all day." Ralph Waldo Emerson If your thinking has you in the doldrums, think about so...

Feeling Low? Five Positive Thoughts to Pick You Up

"A man is what he thinks about all day." Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your thinking has you in the doldrums, think about something else.

Mindfully choose positive thoughts to ponder.

Consciously and deliberately turn your attention 

to positive thoughts that make you feel vibrantly alive.

"Cultivate a vibrantly alive peace." Eckhart Tolle

Bogged down by the unkindness and evil doing in the world? 

Be the change you want to see in others. 

Begin with your own thoughts and actions. 

Consciously and deliberately focus on cultivating a vibrantly alive peace within you.

Begin each day by imagining what it feels like to be vibrantly alive inside. 

Sit with that thought a while. A sense of peace naturally follows.

We're all better able to meet the challenges of the world 

when we're calm, energized and centered.

"First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do." Epictetus

If you're feeling low because you're not where you want to be in life, 

turn that gloomy thought pulling you down into a positive vision of 'who you would be'.

Consciously and deliberately ponder 'what would make me feel vibrantly alive?',

and then do what you have to do to step into that vibrantly alive life. 

If you're not sure what you want, guess--and then actively test your guess by 

acting 'as if' it's what you want and take a step in that direction. You'll discover the truth 

of what makes you feel vibrantly alive by stepping into life and testing the waters.

A journey of a thousand miles towards living the life you desire begins with a single step. Vow to take a step each day that makes you feel energized and hopeful.

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." Ben Franklin

Sure, life can be hard. But when you engage in life with energy and persistence 

you feel vibrantly alive as you conquer those seemingly daunting hurdles 

on your way to a fulfilling life. 

On a day you're feeling low, consciously and deliberately rest and refresh your energy. 

Put your worries down and do something that engages your attention positively.

When refreshed, get back out there with renewed energy and persistence 

to conquer the things that make you feel vibrantly alive.

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." Nelson Mandela

To feel vibrantly alive, let your life be lead by hope, not fear.

Consciously and deliberately determine what gives you hope 

and keep moving towards it. 

When you find yourself in a moment of fear, take active steps to undo the paralysis 

that sets in. Take a step--any step--to get yourself unfrozen. 

When you experience yourself actively overcoming the inertia created by fear, 

you'll gain a sense of strength, hope and determination 

putting you back on a positive and vibrant track.

"Fall down 7 times, get up 8 times." Japanese Proverb

To be vibrantly alive, align how you desire to live and how you're living in the moment. Choose to act consciously and deliberately to maintain your strength, hope and persistence. And when you're feeling low, no matter what--

if you fall down 7 times, get up 8 times.

A Fun Fact

Many of you ask where the images come from for the art. This photo of bark, moss and such was taken by Lee Bryant. It is the background for the first five images in this post. Each of the images is a 'tile' from the original art that is enlarged and messed with some more. 

Go ahead have some fun...see if you can find the art images of people and beings in the photo.

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.


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Lightarted Living: A Belonging Ode to Otter~A Good Dog Gone

Lightarted Living: A Belonging Ode to Otter~A Good Dog Gone: Ode to Otter~A Good Dog Gone Really,  I should have been wearing the tag  And  It really should have r...

A Belonging Ode to Otter~A Good Dog Gone

Ode to Otter~A Good Dog Gone

Really, 

I should have been wearing the tag 

And 

It really should have read:

Moey

I belong to:

Otter B Hound Doggie Boy Oh Boy!

Planet of Love and Joy

Heart of the Universe

Really, 

That's what I should have said.

I Be-Longing for the 💓 of my Universe

     

Really, 

I should have been wearing the tag 

And 

It really should have read:

Moey

I belong to:

Otter B Hound Doggie Boy Oh Boy!

Planet of Love and Joy

Heart of the Universe

Really, 

That's what I should have said.

Lee Bryant aka Moey 

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.


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Lightarted Living: Hafiz~The Sage Drops Keys; The Small Man Builds Ca...

Lightarted Living: Hafiz~The Sage Drops Keys; The Small Man Builds Ca...: Dropping Keys Hafiz 1310-1390 The small man Builds cages for everyone HE Knows While the sage, Who ducks h...

Lightarted Living: Hafiz~The Sage Drops Keys; The Small Man Builds Ca...

Lightarted Living: Hafiz~The Sage Drops Keys; The Small Man Builds Ca...: Dropping Keys Hafiz 1310-1390 The small man Builds cages for everyone HE Knows While the sage, Who ducks h...

Hafiz~The Sage Drops Keys; The Small Man Builds Cages

Dropping Keys

Hafiz 1310-1390

The small man

Builds cages for everyone

HE

Knows

While the sage,

Who ducks his head

When the moon is low

Keeps dropping keys all night long

For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners.

Thank you to my sage and rowdy brother, Royce, for introducing me to Hafiz's "Dropping Keys" at the very moment in time we had a Super Blood Wolf Moon!

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Lightarted Living: Saying Good-Bye to a Weary Old Dog

Lightarted Living: Saying Good-Bye to a Weary Old Dog: When Tomorrow Starts without Me  By David M Romano "When tomorrow starts without me,   And I'm not there to see; ...

Saying Good-Bye to a Weary Old Dog

When Tomorrow Starts without Me 

By David M Romano

"When tomorrow starts without me,

 And I'm not there to see;

The sun will rise and find your eyes

All filled with tears for me.

I wish so much you wouldn't cry

The way you did today,

Remembering how I'd lay my head

In your lap that special way.

I know how much you love me,

As much as I love you,

And each time that you think of me,

I know you'll miss me too."

"When tomorrow starts without me.

Please try to understand,

An angel came and called my name

And petted me with her hand,

She said my place was ready, 

And it was my time to go.

But, as I turned to heel away,

A tear fell from my eye.

It seemed almost impossible,

I was leaving you."

"I thought about our lives together,

I know you must be sad,

I thought of all the love we shared,

And all the fun we had.

 Remember how I'd nudge your hand,

And poke you with my nose?

The frisbee I would gladly chase,

The bad guy, I'd "bark and hold"."

"If I could relive yesterday,

Just even for awhile,

I'd wag my tail and kiss you,

Just so I could see you smile."

"So when tomorrow starts without me,

Don't think we're far apart.

For every time you think of me,

I'm right there, in your heart."

Laisser-Passer, Otter--Go Gently into the Night

Otter, the weary old dog, gently eases into the place of freedom and perpetual deer chasing. Come this way, Otter. Welcome to Laisser-Courre, the place where dogs are loosened. You are loved and you will be missed. May there be many deer to chase.

Definitions from Old French Dictionary 

Laisser-Aller: Ease; Freedom; Unrestraint; Easiness; Yieldingness

Laisser-Courre: The place where dogs are loosened. Laisser-Courre refers to the place of hunting so we interpret it as the place where dogs are loosened in the great perpetual hunting place in the sky where they experience the ultimate unrestrained freedom to run.

Laisser-Passer: Permission to go. In the end we must yield to the natural course of life and give them permission to pass on to the next life.

A big thank you to David M Romano for such a comforting poem.

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Lightarted Living: How to Easily get from Here to There: Vincent the ...: How to get from Here to There with Ease Meet Vincent--a truly helpful cat.  When his human, Sue Flynn packs for a trip to visit t...

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Lightarted Living: How to Easily get from Here to There: Vincent the ...: How to get from Here to There with Ease Meet Vincent--a truly helpful cat.  When his human, Sue Flynn packs for a trip to visit t...