Perspective is everything.

It’s the difference between feeling good and feeling bad.

Perspective can make you trust or doubt.

Perspective can make you expect good things to unfold for you, or it can make you expect things to go wrong.

Perspective can make you feel like a failure, or it can make you feel good, worthy and perfect just the way you are.

Perspective can re-write your past into one that was just as it should have been and create your future into one that's full of joy, meaning, and richness.

So when I say “Everything is never as it seems”, I mean that your perspective in the moment determines your interpretation of your reality. The same state or condition can be interpreted as one that's benefiting you or one that's to your detriment; but the condition or situation is the same.

It’s your interpretation of it that determines the meaning and the outcome.

Outlook on Life, Ingredients for lifeChristine MeyerOctober 14, 2016Comment

11 Ways To Ignite More Positive Thoughts

Just as you can go far and wide online, your mind also has the ability to go to all sorts of places.

The difference is, you often manage the places you go online with more intention than you do your thoughts.

Sometimes you let your thoughts go in all sorts of directions for no other reason than it’s what you always do. It's a habit.

The more you think about anything, the easier it gets to keep thinking about it in the same ole', same ole' way.

Your thoughts attract not only what you're thinking about but also more thoughts similar to the ones you're thinking.

Thank you, Law of Attraction.

So if you're thinking about something (which makes it easier to think more thoughts like it) how do you get out of the loop of similar thoughts if you don't like the thoughts you're thinking? (was that a brain-twister of a sentence, or what?)

One way is to make a decision that you’re going to think only if what you're thinking about feels good. Any subject that doesn’t feel good when you're broaching it, you don't think about. (ie...politics anyone???).

Another approach is to feel good and then think. When you feel good, you're more likely to think about stuff in a way that matches-up with the good-feeling you have. If you feel good and stumble upon a thought that doesn't feel good, for the time being, get off the subject. Getting off the subject when it doesn't feel good is like jumping off the train before it crashes. That's a good thing.

Ingredients for life, Outlook on Life, Self-AwarenessChristine MeyerOctober 7, 2016Comment

This F*ck It List Will Help You With Your Bucket List

You may have one of those lists full of things that you want to be, do, lick, have, sniff, squeeze, see, play-with, drive, live-in, and possess that you've thrown into a bucket.

Said list represents things you want to experience before you stop breathing for good.

I'm all for a good Bucket List if that fancies your tickle. I want you to do all of the things that your heart desires in this lifetime and beyond, so I've created a F*ck It List that just may help you to fulfill that Bucket List.

1) F*ck working so hard at changing anyone's opinion of you.

People (you included) can only perceive through their own lens. When you try to convince anyone about anything about you, you've allowed their perspective of you to hook you in to needing to convince them.

You're not responsible for making someone else's experience of you be different than what they expect.

While they may hold an opinion of you that's different from what you'd like it to be, let them have it. You don't have to push against the opinions of others. You'll be way happier if you don't.

LET EVERYONE HAVE THEIR VERY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF YOU THROUGH THEIR LENS.

Ingredients for life, Following Your Path, Outlook on LifeChristine MeyerSeptember 30, 2016Comment

Nothing Changes If You Keep Telling the Same Stories

You tell stories all day long…about everything.

Stories include the meanings you attach, the conclusions you make, the assumptions you assume, the feelings you have and the feelings (and thoughts) you think someone else has.

Stories are often based on the beliefs that you have.

Stories are the things you think and talk about.

The stories that you tell can include and are not limited to:

The government is…(doing the best that it can with what it’s got, trying to control us, sucks and is out to ruin this country).

My kids are… (cooperative, lovely, monsters, downright annoying).

I am...(smart, insightful, good at, bad at, stupid, not good enough).

He/she/they are...(interesting, fun, gorgeous, clever, not-like-me, odd, mean, ignorant a-hole).

My job is…(awesome, the best ever, I hate it I wish I never had to come back here again).

My childhood was…(happy, playful, downright shitty).

Ingredients for life, Following Your PathChristine MeyerSeptember 23, 2016Comment

Things. Are. Good. Now.

Outlook on Life, Ingredients for life, Following Your PathChristine MeyerSeptember 16, 2016Comment

You Can't Google That Shit

Imagine….the very best personal assistant completing every one of your requests and fulfilling all of your desires.

This assistant of yours knows Everything you’ve ever wanted and has the networks, connections, resources, means, and the know-how to bring it all together.

Your assistant is also aware of how all of the pieces fit together, exactly where you need to go, who you need to talk to, and what needs to be combined for you to have everything you dream of having to live the life that you want for yourself.

This assistant is equipped with the best memory; receiving and remembering every request you’ve made and has intimate knowledge of everyone of your preferences and nuances since the day you were born (and before) and has access to everything there is to be known. (It's way better than Google).

Your assistant is the most efficient, reliable, resourceful, connected assistant you could ever envision. There’s nothing this assistant can’t do.

Now picture your cell phone. Imagine that to communicate with you, your assistant texts you every minute of every day, providing you with information about where to go, who to talk to, what to do, what to think about, what you need to know and what to say.

Sucks for you if your phone is off.

Ingredients for life, Outlook on LifeChristine MeyerSeptember 9, 2016Comment

Happiness Is Like...

Happiness is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth.

The point is, only you can feel what you’re feeling; no one else can. And only you create the feeling for yourself; no else does it for you.

Others can observe your manifestations, but only you know how it feels to you.

How you feel is at the heart of any creation.

How you feel (or how you want to feel) is why you want all things that you want.

And also why you don’t want the things you don’t want.

You want what you want because you’ve attached (or associated with it) a feeling that you believe you'll get you as a result of having it. ie., "If I have this, or if this happens, I'll feel like (fill in the blank)."

So when you think about what you want, try identifying how you think you would feel if you were living it, having it, driving it, or kissing it.

As in - right now having the experience of it.

Describe it in emotional terms. "It feels free and fun. It feels easy. I feel successful. Successful feels prosperous. Success feels like choices and possibilities. Choices and possibilities feel exciting and expansive. I feel proud. I feel zealous. I feel excited."

Go on...keep delving into how it feels. There's no right or wrong way to do this. Just go for the feeling of it.

Freedom, Outlook on Life, BeliefsChristine MeyerSeptember 2, 2016Comment

How Do You Like Me Now?

No matter who you are, you’re “in relationship” with someone.

That can be someone you're living with, in a romantic relationship with, a friend, a relative, an employee, a boss, co-worker, a child or even your dog. It can also be the people you mingle with in traffic, at the store, restaurant, or bar.

And certainly yourself.

The way to good relationships is not by pointing out faults or by putting attention on the things that bother you. Neither is a good relationship cultivated by needing the person you’re in relationship with to change or to be different than they are.

What you focus on expands and what you think about becomes your reality whether you like it or not.

If you want things to be different, it’s up to you to focus differently.

Beliefs, Relationships, Self-AwarenessChristine MeyerAugust 26, 2016Comment

There's No Peace In Struggle

Seven years ago, when the process of delivering our daughter Franki began, I befriended nature and went with the evolution of it.

As the hours passed with little or no progress, I braced myself forcefully against the physical sensations (aka excruciating pain) and the more I resisted what-was, the worse it seemed.

I thought, "This business of having natural childbirth is not for me" (which is likely why I ended up in the hospital having an emergency C-section. But that's another story).

Somewhere along this journey of childbirth, I became aware that no matter how much I tensed against it, THIS WAS HAPPENING. The only thing I could attempt to do was to make peace with the process of the inevitable.

This baby was coming no matter how I approached it.

Ingredients for life, Outlook on Life, BeliefsChristine MeyerAugust 19, 2016Comment