Just right

I found this booklet to write my lists of appreciation in. I think that the title “Things are really looking good so far” is perfect!

I really appreciate this notebook!

How to fall asleep

This is what I learnt from Abraham Hicks.  Settle down into bed, enjoy the confort and the feel of your bed and think of and appreciate all the good things from the day.  I start with breakfast.  I always eat an orange first and I love the taste and the juicyness of it.  Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day (always has been).  Then I think of the morning, conversations - words exchanged by email.  My work; I work for myself from home and am fortunate to be doing something that I love.  I carry on through the day, like that, but I'm usually asleep before I get to appreciating lunchtime!

Since I started this practice I've slept better than I have in several years.  What do you think? let me know if you try it.

A list of 10 things I appreciate today

It’s important to appreciate yourself. It’s better to live your life as a happy person. Taking time to appreciate the little things will put you on the road to a better life. Why not give it a go and see what happens? You have nothing to lose. We have so much to be grateful for.

Spring flowers

Longer hours of daylight

Sunsets

Oranges

Bird song

The wind in the tops of the trees

Me time

Working at my own pace

The internet

Peace and quiet

Lunchtime light

The sun left a special moment today as I was eating my lunch.  Once you start looking, it's easy to find beauty to appreciate everywhere.

Better and better!

I’m not sure how long ago it was, perhaps a couple of years at the most. Funnily enough it wasn’t the link that I was sent that I followed. I saw a lady’s face on one of the videos in the right hand menu. I thought that she looked like someone I’d like to meet and decided to click on her video. She was Esther Hicks – but who was Abraham? I did a search on Wikipedia and learnt more.

I started listening to videos as I worked. A lot of what Esther was translating from Abraham fit in with what I’d learnt reading Al Koran’s books. What Abraham said took what I knew further and deeper. I couldn’t believe it – here was the continuation!

The Magic grows

Over the years I read and reread ‘The Magic of the Mind in Action’ getting as much as I could from the extracts included in the book.

It wasn’t until computers arrived in homes and the birth of Amazon that I actually managed to buy myself a copy of ‘Bring out the Magic in Your Mind’. I even loved the design on the cover! It was a delight to read. Al Koran wrote as if he was talking to me personally.

I’ve since read the book many times. I lent it to my younger son and he felt that it was helpful too. I gave him a copy of his own in the end as I didn’t want mine to disappear. I discovered that other people online were inspired by the book too.

Then one day someone sent me a link to YouTube videos about positive thinking which pushed the ‘Magic’ even further!

My Mind holds Magic

About 40 years ago I picked up a book in the supermarket which caught my eye because of the title; ‘The Magic of the Mind in Action’ it was by a mentalist (mind reader, magician) who called himself Al Koran. His real name was Edward Doe.

The book contained letters that had been written to him by readers of an earlier book that he wrote ‘Bring out the Magic in Your Mind’. With quotes from the first book he used the letters to show that people really had managed to change their lives through positive thought. Reading the words of Al Koran and the stories of the changes people made in their lives really inspired me.

 I lacked self confidence and had been inspired by two other books in a small way a few years before. ‘Anybody Can Do Anything’ by Betty Macdonald and the title of the other book remains a mystery after all these years. All I remember about it was reading that many people do not know how to say ‘No’. I didn’t read much of that book but I was armed with the idea that I didn’t have to comply with the bidding of others.

 I had started to make changes.