By Lynne Cory
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What if I attended a gathering and kept noticing that everyone was talking to each other and I felt left out?
What If I was sitting there with my arms crossed and others could read my body signals that I was unhappy?
What if I opened my heart and began thinking loving thoughts about those around me and began to make a slight effort to speak with them and gave what I wanted to get – a pleasant conversation?
By Lynne Cory
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What if everyone did what they promised to do or else did not say it?
What if I promised to visit you in the hospital but got too busy?
What if I said you could rent my house but then I stalled you on forever?
What if I told you I had a job for you and made it happen?
What if I said I would call you tomorrow and I did?
By Lynne Cory
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What if being religious means a group of like minded loving people attending a synagogue or a temple or a church and praying or chanting and raising the vibration and feeling blessed?
What if being spiritual means walking on the planet with an open heart filled with compassion and love for all and feeling blessed?
What if whatever is the best way for me is the best way for me?
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By Lynne Cory
What if I could speak to another person in my thoughts and they would hear me just as strongly as if I spoke to them with my mouth?
What if I wanted someone to know that I love them and all I had to do was talk with them in my thoughts telling them how much I love and appreciate them and how glad I am that they are in my life?
What if I can tell that we have connected when I feel a tingle in my heart?
By Lynne Cory
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What if you are very religious and spend part of every day and sometimes entire days at your place of worship?
What if your God or your Source would rather see you enjoying your life, doing human things in joy for yourself and other humans and animals, instead of being inside a building each day?
What if you get great solace from your religious practices?
By Lynne Cory
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What if your spouse is always complaining about politics and the economy and most things in general?
What if I am constantly complaining about his complaining? Am I not the same?
What if I stopped complaining about his complaining and just allowed him to vent?
What if that made a surprising difference?
By Lynne Cory
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What if in the next 25 years or so, our amazing planet shifts to the 8th dimension where we no longer have to communicate with speech but just “know” what the other person is thinking? What if many other planets have been always doing this?
What if because of this, we will now speak our truth as there will be no way to lie? What if this will be both harder and easier at first but as time goes by, we will get used to it?
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By Lynne Cory
What if someone delivers criticism poorly and I take this opportunity to tell them, “I think you made some valid points, but I would receive them better if you didn’t raise your voice”?
What if they said it more kindly the next time? Brahma Kumaris
By Lynne Cory
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What if my goal was to have fun and make others smile today with my smile or a compliment or a funny face?
What if I left a “wake” of smiles behind me?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is OK for species to become extinct?
What if they have served their purpose on the planet and because of their demise something else will take their place in a different way?
What if our planet is constantly evolving and everything is in perfect order and all is well?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I have a friend who has a hard time seeing anything good in any situation and makes himself very hard to be around?
What if I would like him to be able to find some joy in his life and worry that if he does not, he will make himself ill?
What if I am seeing the worst in someone who is seeing the worst, am I any different? What if I begin to make myself ill?
What if I just love him for the amazing person that he is and let him be?
By Lynne Cory
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What if emotions I do not express through my body will then manifest in body illness?
What if I don’t cry when things are very sad and get lung problems? What if I hold back what I need to say and get throat issues or just can’t stomach a situation and get digestion problems or someone is galling me and I create gallstones or I cannot find joy and develop heart problems?
What if once I find what is needed to be said or done, my body issues begin to evaporate? What if I do not choose to get better?
By Lynne Cory
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What if little good can come from eating with someone I do not like?
What if eating with this person can make me fat because they will be draining my energy and my vibration will go down and I will begin feeling tired and then I will be eating more to keep my energy up?
What if it is best to eat with those I enjoy or else alone? Connie
By Lynne Cory
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What if a whole group of people were picketing outside an abortion clinic and they wanted to kill the doctor?
What if they were wanting to kill a person they felt was killing people – are they not the same?
What if we cannot see the big picture and it is not our job to judge anyone?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is no one’s job to make me happy but me?
What if it is not my job to make you happy either?
What if a great gift I can give you is for me to be happy?
What if a great gift you can give me is for you to be happy?
By Lynne Cory
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What if people hurt us because of their egos and insecurities and beliefs and histories?
What if they are doing the best they can with what they know?
What if they might have our best interests at heart but we cannot see it?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the Universe keeps bringing us the same lesson in various forms until we deal with it?
What if the lesson gets harder and harder and harder each time until we have no choice?
By Lynne Cory
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What if my grandson went into a little store and bought a few items with his new birthday gift card and the clerk overcharged him a lot but my grandson, like many of us, didn’t look at the tag but just signed it and left? What if he discovered the overcharge shortly and returned to the store but the same clerk said “TOO BAD, you signed it”?
What if what we don’t do in integrity will repeat on us 100-fold? What if it is not long before we see the little store having a larger problem that we could not even imagine?
What if I wish for them that they see the BIG picture soon?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the Universe only brings us the sadness, trauma or devastation when we have all of the right tools in our toolbox to deal with this situation and are ready to grow and learn from the experience?
What if I used the wrong tool for awhile until I figured it out?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there is enough time?
What if everything is unfolding and happening at just the right time in my life?
What if I will get done what I am supposed to get done?
By Lynne Cory
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What if my anger and bitterness toward you can keep me energetically attached to you and this emotion lowers my vibration and I have to eat more just to keep balanced which makes me gain weight which makes me even angrier?
By Lynne Cory
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What if enthusiasm, humility and integrity (in many jobs) can trump skill and looks and education in getting the new position (where a person with a good brain, much compassion and using their intuition is doing the hiring)?
What if you started at the bottom of the ladder but your attitude got you to the top?
By Lynne Cory
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What if one of the reasons that twins have similarities is that they both received the same beginning information in the womb, the same fears and doubts and hopes and joys and lessons for their lives?
By Lynne Cory
What if my neighbor was praying that her alcoholic husband would find help?
What if he got arrested for a DUI and was forced into rehab?
What if the Universe was answering both of their prayers?
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By Lynne Cory
What if there is the same value in helping my child or helping my neighbor or helping a homeless person or an animal in need? What if helping is helping?
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By Lynne Cory
What if I am an “unborn” soul choosing to come to Earth and have picked a loving set of parents to help me when I arrive?
What if when I get here, I find that I am just not quite ready to stay in this dense energy and must return? What if my parents find me lifeless in my crib and blame themselves for doing something wrong?
What if nothing is wrong and I am sad for making them sad but I just could not stay and I know that I will see them again someday?
By Lynne Cory
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What if he lost his job and his home and his girlfriend all in one week?
What if this made him sit up and take notice and because he began to stand on his own two feet, his life changed and he ended up in a flowery meadow on the corner of Success Avenue and Easy Street?
By Lynne Cory
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What if each day instead of sad, dramatic, fearful experiences, we shared our happy, fun, joy-filled stories?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I could not see your anger, sadness, fear, jealousy, struggle, beauty, compassion or joy if I did not have it in myself?
What if you are helping me to see a better view of myself and where I might focus more for healing?
By Lynne Cory
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What if each day, I put an imaginary golden line of love on the floor: around my body or in front of my desk or across my front door or the gate to my business?
What if I set the intention that no one with negative purposes can cross this line?
What if I watch with amusement when the power of this line begins working immediately? Connie Jackson
By Lynne Cory
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What if one of my friends has a hurt ankle and she focuses on that ankle and complains to everyone about it and stops her life for weeks and the ankle gets worse or slowly improves?
What if another of my friends has stage 4 cancer and she goes to her chemo and rests a few days and then is back living life to the fullest with laughter and love and her health improves each day?
What if each person is perfect and life unfolds by how we look at it? For Paule