My mum used to say to me “Good manners cost nothing” and the same applies to kind words.
Kind words unlock even the most steely of hearts. Kind words convey caring. Even a person whose heart has been hurt will respond to the compassion found in kind words.
Every kind word spoken is a gift to the receiver but also to you the speaker.
Today look for opportunities to express kind words that are sincere, thoughtful and warm.
Challenges in our Lives
Living life is not always easy. Many of us have challenges in our lives which we are trying to overcome. There is often a life lesson to be learnt in the challenges we are presented with, if we can but see it. This does not make the challenge any easier, but sometimes in knowing the lesson, we feel less of the victim.
When we understand the lesson to be learnt, we do not feel so much of a victim. Then we approach the challenge in a different way. This often makes learning the lesson easier.
Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming. Challenges are opportunities to learn life lessons. They are not meant to be so hard that they break you, but they are meant to be ‘challenging’. This is sometimes needed to get you to listen.
When you feel overwhelmed; step back, take a few deep breadths and re-assess the situation you find yourself in. Listening to the calm, rationale voice within you. It can be enlightening. You will be surprised at how objective and fair that voice is. However it can take some diligence to hear the voice over your anger, frustration or fear.
Meditation and reflection. Inner peace can be achieved by anyone through meditation and reflection. It need only take five minutes of your day. You can do it in any location – on a train, sat in a parked car before you go into the office, walking at lunch time. Good meditation re-vitalises you much like sleep does.
“At Your Soul Family we seek calmness and the wisdom to be found there. We do this by building and painting a map back to our unconscious mind, higher-self or soul. Your Soul Family seeks to show others how to do this too.”
At Your Soul Family (YSF) we look at you holistically – at home and at work. First lets look at how you may personally achieve calmness and wisdom outside of work. In this context work is the activity you do to earn a living, run a home, raise children, charity work, voluntary work…