What if I chose the hard way?

by Lynne Cory

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What if someone we know has gone in a hard direction and gotten themselves into some bad trouble and is struggling right now?

What if instead of talking with others about their poor choices or pitying them, we send them love and compassion and friendship and hope?

What if we visualize them under a golden spotlight every time we think of them so they could see their path more clearly and find their way more easily?

What if we knew they were on their perfect Divine path for their highest learning in this lifetime and that everything is as it should be?

What if I went to a party?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I went to a loving family gathering and overheard a person bad-mouthing someone that I love?

What if I wanted to hurry over to some of the other people at the party and begin bad-mouthing that “bad” bad-mouther but as I was on my way to begin this, I caught myself and thought, “I will then be the same as the person I am annoyed with,” and I changed my thinking and went on to have a good and positive time?

What if I become forgiving?

By Lynne Cory

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What if forgiving you frees me?

What if because I am angry with you, I stay all tied up in your energy and every time I talk or think about the situation, I recreate it and get mad all over again and eventually begin to make myself ill?

What if I could accept the concept that I am creating my life and all the experiences in it, to learn about myself? What if these frustrating people who come into my life are really great teachers and how can I stay mad at a teacher?

What is my natural state?

By Lynne Cory

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What if it is our natural state to be happy and have an enjoyable life?

What if we are the ones who cover this up with our sadness, disappointment, worry, fear, greed, stress or anger?

What if I cannot be happy and sad at the same time and I “pick” happy?

What if we release all of this competition and striving and negativity and just enjoy our time here?

What if your belief comes true?

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By Lynne Cory

What if you believe that your housekeepers always break your things and do the job half way and even steal your stuff and when you hire them they break your things and do the job half way and steal your stuff?

What if I believe that the people I hire to help me in my home are great gifts who will take the best care of my possessions and clean in places I miss and leave my home energy feeling even better with their presence and they do?

What if what I focus on, I create?

What if she talked on and on?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I have a friend who talks endlessly about herself and rarely takes a breath so others can “have the ball” in the conversation?

What if because others never “get the ball” they choose not to play with her and shy away from her friendship leaving her with fewer and fewer people to talk to and so she talks more and more to the few who will listen?

What if this sweet soul needs and deserves attention and acknowledgment but she never allows the space for others to give it to her?

 

What if we create the other side too?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I believe that I create my life and my world on this side of the veil with my thoughts and beliefs?

What if when I die, I continue to create how my afterlife will be?  What if those who believe in heaven and hell will create a heaven and hell for themselves? What if those who believe that this will be the end will create the end for themselves? What if those who believe that life will be a continuance of here will create a similar experience of here?

What if there was a new law in the Universe?

By Lynne Cory

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What if it became a universal law that when a person was running for office and they degraded their opponent, he or she would be immediately disqualified from running?

What if this new way of doing things made them as well as all of the voters focus on the good things that each had done and the great things they hoped to achieve and because of this focus, more good was done?

What if my significant other is driving me crazy?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I have a spouse, a child, a co-worker or a friend who is DRIVING ME CRAZY with some of their “awful” personal characteristics?

What if I sit down and make a list all of their negative qualities and then look at the list and go, “OH NO” because I also have these same qualities?

What if I list all of their positive qualities and then see that I have the same positive qualities?

What if I realized that I could not see a quality in another if I did not have that quality in myself?

What if I loved myself?

By Lynne Cory

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What if, as my dear friend, I treated you with respect and dignity and honor and did all that I could to make your life happy and fun and put your needs on top priority and admired your achievements and nurtured and encouraged your goals and soothed your pain and listened to your desires and really loved and cared for you?

What if I did the same for myself and made myself my best friend?

What if I met a homeless person?

By Lynne Cory

What if when you look into the eyes of a homeless person asking for money on the sidewalk, you are actually looking into the eyes of one who is here to teach compassion? What if you could bless them as you pass even if you have nothing to give but a smile or a good wish?

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A woman recently came to me in a supermarket parking lot and I thought she wanted my basket but when I looked into her clear blue eyes, I knew she wanted money. As I gave her some, I told her that she was an angel who had come to help me appreciate my life even more. I told her that we could very easily be in each others shoes, me asking her for help. We hugged and I felt like I was walking on clouds all day.

What a gift she gave me.

What if the cook’s mom died?

By Lynne Cory

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What if the waitress just had a fight with her boyfriend and she is still furious? What if the cook’s mom just died and he is filled with grief? What if the hostess cannot pay her bills and she is racked with fear? What if all of these emotions go into the food we are being served at the restaurant?

What if before we begin eating our meal, we bless the food and ask that only the food that is for our bodies’ highest good be absorbed and the rest be easily eliminated?       Dr Ciri

What if there was no parking?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I had planned for weeks to go with some friends from out of town to a beautiful location, and when we arrived there was nowhere to park and we drove in circles for awhile but a parking space never became available?

What if instead of getting angry or frustrated, we knew that the Universe was leading us to another location that was even a better place to enjoy and spend our time?

What if we listened and had a marvelous day filled with laughter, love and good food at the new surprise location?                                       

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What if I slipped and got angry?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I slipped and found myself judging you and thinking harsh thoughts about why you do not do better with yourself?

What if I stopped and took a breath and put myself, as best as I could, into your shoes and tried to see life from your perspective and found that you are doing the absolute best that you can with the knowledge and resources and beliefs and history that you are working with?

What if I took another breath and began mining all of the amazing qualities that I see in you?

What if we could not eat dinner?

By Lynne Cory

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What if he is of one political party and reads the newspapers and watches TV and gets all riled up and red-faced and curses at the members of the opposing party and calls them crooks and liars and scoundrels?

What if she is of the other political party and screams back that his people are losers and morons and idiots and can’t he see that they will ruin the world?

What if these two nice people cannot even enjoy a meal together because of someone they have never met nor will ever meet – isn’t that absurd?

What if I smile like Mona Lisa?

By Lynne Cory

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What if by doing all of this soul exploration, I finally have a core belief that all is well and whatever I need is on its way to me effortlessly and that amazing things I could not envision are about to happen and my easy job now is just to be happy and appreciate the great things that have happened and that are happening each day?

What if because of this belief I have a secret smile that I cannot remove?

What if I inspired your great grand-child?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I am on this planet to gently inspire and guide others through tough times so they can find their way and they can gently inspire and guide others through tough times so they can find their way and then they can gently inspire and guide others and on and on through the generations?

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What if the journey is terrible?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I am having a stressful, miserable experience manifesting my desire? What if the end result turned out like the journey – miserable?

What if my creation unfolds easily and joyfully and I am so pleased with the outcome – happy?

What if how the journey to get there goes is how the result will be?

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What if Glenn came to dinner?

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By Lynne Cory

What if our family got together at a restaurant to celebrate my grandson’s 25th birthday with his brother and mother and aunts and uncles and cousin?

What if his dad, Glenn, had passed away 4 years ago and as my grandson and his brother were getting out of the car, their deceased dad’s favorite Bob Marley song came on?

What if we all smiled when the waiter came to our table and said, “Hello, I’m Glenn and I will be with you tonight”?

What if we all felt his loving presence with us at the party? What if everyone pays a little more attention to the signs that are all around us?

What if she was blinding herself?

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By Lynne Cory

What if a  woman was speaking with me and she mentioned that for years she has been wearing herself out reading difficult and unpleasant documents day and night because she wanted to make changes in the world that she felt would help humanity?

What if she has now been diagnosed with a very serious eye disease?

What if her dear eyes would like to look at something joyful for awhile and get a break from all of this misery and stress?                   Betty

What if Karma got me all wet?

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By Lynne Cory

What if on a recent trip, one of our group was late continually and the rest of the group got annoyed and I chimed in with my negative opinion?

What if a few hours later, in the pouring rain, I got separated from the group and could not find my way back and made them all wait and had to stand on the corner in the rain for 20 minutes until they found me?

What if this was a great lesson for me to give others the benefit of the doubt and know that we are all doing the best we can?

What if she continually corrected her words?

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By Lynne Cory

What if I was on a tour and one of my co-travelers continually corrected the pronunciation of the foreign guide leading us and it annoyed me?

What if I found myself wanting to change someone who was wanting to change someone – am I then the same?

What if I blessed them both and realized that they had co-created their experience and my job was to look out the window and enjoy the scenery?

What if the milk comes after the eggs?

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By Lynne Cory

What if death is like the forward-moving black rubber belt at the grocery check-out counter?

What if the great-grandparents check out first and then the grandparents and the parents and then the children and next the grandchildren?

What if it is such an overwhelming shock when this order is broken?

What if we all got the same?

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By Lynne Cory

What if everyone on the planet made $24.50 an hour for whatever skill or talent or job they offered the world (from the woman selling neem sticks on the streets of Varanesi, India to the President of North Korea), so everyone made the same hourly wage?

What if that made all jobs equal and important and freed people to do what they love?

What if I enjoy an 8 course meal?

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By Lynne Cory

What if for my best health I ate breakfast like a King with abundant rich food and lunch like a Prince with moderate food and dinner as a Pauper with small servings of simple food, always remembering to bless my food?

What if because of eating with this awareness, my weight stabilized and my sleep was uninterrupted?