Cultivating Gratitude by MsPeg Torbert

05/08/2012

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The energy of the last few days, even weeks has been strong indeed in my life.  It has catapulted me into a grand change and I am wholly grateful when I look around my life and see all of the abundance that has been gifted to me and my children.
Life may not always be fair, or easy as it were, but I am so pleased to know that when I work hard and stay consistent, I have inner peace and balance in my heart and soul.  Do you?  Find that your life is peaceful and filled with abundance everyday?  I wasnt always so in tune or in balance as I am today.  It took alot of work, and self awareness.  

One thing I am being heavily pushed toward these days in Meditation. I mean HARD hit to get more time in in meditations.  I am making sure to find it each day, and memories of meditation time many years ago keeps coming to the forefront.  Learning to pay attention and interpret what I see during those quiet times didnt always come easy either.  Its all a process of trust and belief in the Universe around us, and in the connection we all share.

There is no time like the present to get a start on inner peace and self awareness.  I work at it every day.  I no longer need to write as much down as I used to. You shouldve seen my house years ago. I had sticky notes and papers taped all over my house to remind me to think positive and to put out the right thoughts to bring in what I was seeking.

The word GRATITUDE is now engraved in my every thought, and day and meditation.  I am filled with it for everything I have in my life.  Even to include the hard times.  Spiritual Maturity is gauged by how we act during the good and the difficult times alike.  Not always easy, but I can attest to the flow being more positive than otherwise when I put out more of the GOOD STUFF! 

Cultivate Gratitude in your life on a daily basis.  Even the smallest of things.  I heard recently from a friend who is in his 70s that every day he wakes up is a good day, regardless of anything else.  He begins with gratitude for breathing.  I find my joy each day in seeing my childrens faces upon waking.  The sounds and smells of showers taking place. The food in the cupboards and fridge when we come downstairs to have breakfast each day.  

It has been a lesson in miracles for me since the year 2012 began.  My life has seemed to just soar higher than ever before.  Do you know what it means to find your gratitude no matter what is going on in your life?  I learned that lesson finally and I believe that I have been given the new house, the new furniture, the new clients, the new neighbors, and even my vehicle fixing so simply FINALLY after so much time, because I let go of the control and gave over to gratitude for everything.

I am grateful for you here, right now, reading my blog! heehee, thank you! I truly appreciate you being here! 

Have a beautiful life! Be kind to yourself first! It matters most!!!

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."  Melody Beattie

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."  William Faulkner 

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." Kari Barth 
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Even Alone, We are in this Together by MsPeg Torbert

04/13/2012

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There is a fine line from the movie PS I LOVE YOU, and Kathy Bates is the one who says it.  "Even if we are in this alone, then are together in that too."  A broad statement.  Making connections to the whole of society in a few simple words.

I have been thinking alot lately of those people who feel they are walking this walk alone.  Whatever life has thrown at them, and for some reason they feel that no one cares, or knows, or gives a damn.  I know myself, on many occasions, that feeling was in my head too.  I can honestly say though, not for a very long time.  With the connections to so many that I have made, and the in tune energy flowing so freely, it doesnt take long for one friend or another to ask if something is wrong.  They sensed it and make a choice to ask.

That is what amazes me so these days that we are living in.  Technology has seemed to take away the human to human face to face amenities away, making it so easy to connect via the multitudes of choices from cell phones to internet.  There is a swap though I have sensed.

Much like someone who loses eyesight will have a definitive change in the hearing and smell, we have crossed a line of communication with friendships and bonds around the globe.  Feeling alone is almost impossible if you are connected to the world via the super highway.  (make no mistake, I am not speaking of "lonely", that is totally different animal)

We do have the ability to move mountains so to speak.....that mustard seed theory isnt a joke.  Tying it all together then is simple.  Alone, its much more difficult to look at the vast changes in the world around us and even begin to think about exacting the work necessary to make a mark.  Connected to the greater whole though we become a massive ball of light energy capable of changing large scale events in the world.  Our light source is MEANT to connect to those around us walking the same walk and feeling the same feelings.  We are NOT supposed to be Alone, or feel Alone in this world.  Once we truly grasp this concept, then the true development of man kind begins.  (well, I do feel it has begun, we are just waiting on late comers to join in)

Transitioning our lives in this time of great technology will prove to be the premium choice for us all.  Alone, Solitary, Hermit, Isolated, Individual, Sole, Friendless.....all words in our vocabulary that denote being the ONLY ONE dont seem to hold as much weight to me anymore.  That statement is never more true than it is now, that is we are all alone, then we are together in that too.

I am a firm believer in like minded souls banning together to change the world for the common good of the whole.  Pollyanna, Rose Colored glasses, ah maybe, but I still believe in and have faith in human kind. 

We are after all, the people we have been waiting for all along.

Have a magical weekend ahead!!! 

Many Blessings~

MsPeg
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RELEASE by MsPeg Torbert

01/26/2012

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Do you ever feel like expressing yourself and the words you are used to using just dont fit? So then you find some more, learn new definitions, implement new vocabulary and soon they fade in desired explanantion? That is how I feel so often these days.

With the changes going on inside of us....from the DNA on up....it may very well feel like our skin is two sizes too small as well. I sense a strong urgency in the universe....the movements are quick and fast paced. The massive transformation is needed to make space....ensuring that everything indeed does fit. Most everything that can be upsetting is the level of letting go of the old ways....the feelings and emotions attached to people, places and things.

There are physical aspects that go along with this transformation....being dizzy, feeling either hot or cold and not being able to attain the opposite, eating habits in a flux.....making it feel a bit weird to feel you need to eat more often....specially when you want to lose weight....the truth is the morphing process wears us down and we need to re-fuel more often.

Mid April will bring a flow and a rush with it that began in the summer of 09. As if something is finally being gifted to us for all of arduous work in the last few months. Being willing to let go of the old is allowing the new to flow into us. Like a fire purges the forest, so does this cleansing of the old allow for new growth.

I contend that the worry of standing on the cliff....knowing the immenence of the impending jump....that to stand there fretting is staying in the old....the willingness to jump is about the knowledge in truth that we know that the f.e.a.r. is unnecessary.....for the worry is not in jumping or landing....it is in THE EXPERIENCING OF THE FALL. What wonderment is about us during this free fall stage....and indeed, we are NOT going down, but, rather, UP!
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Thanks-Giving by MsPeg Torbert

11/19/2011

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Good Morning to you on this fine Saturday! I have been working hard already this morning, and I have found some things I wanted to share here today.  


Of all the areas studied in the relatively young field of positive psychology, gratitude has perhaps the widest body of research. Grateful people have been shown to have greater levels of positive affect, a greater sense of belonging, and lower levels of depression and stress. Furthermore, efforts to make people more grateful have their own benefits. Gratitude is clearly an important part of a “good life”, and it therefore demands further careful research. Each of the studies profiled here has strong scientific merit, and their results should give us a sense of cautious optimism as we move forward in the study of thanks-giving. 


Think about that as you live your daily lives.  I practice gratitude, daily. Sometimes its not always easy, but well worth it.  There is so much to be thankful for, and not just during the holidays.

Enjoy your life!!! Its worth getting happy about!
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