By Lynne Cory
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What if the many annoying things we encounter during our lives are the building blocks of our future which make us the amazing gift we are today, just as the piece of gritty sand in an oyster eventually creates the beautiful pearl?
By Lynne Cory
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What if when I speak badly of another, it affects me negatively?
What if when I speak well of another it affects me positively?
Connie Jackson
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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By Lynne Cory
What if he takes care of all of the stray and lost and hurt animals that show up at his business?
What if when he passes over, they all lovingly come to surround and greet and thank him for his kindness and escort him to his next place? My husband
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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?
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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?
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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?
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By Lynne Cory
What if I focus on all of the things that I don’t have, and more and more things that I want don’t appear?
What if I appreciate all of the gifts and talents and things that I do have, and more of my desires show up in my life?
By Lynne Cory
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What if he was facing bad health problems and a serious surgery?
What if his car kept needing his attention?
What if his car was giving him the gift of distraction, keeping him busy and his mind off of his coming surgery?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there is a big difference between getting angry when we see abuse or unfairness or bullying and being continually angry about everything?
What if one is human compassion and the other is illness making?
By Lynne Cory
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What if energy transfers are real?
What if you are frustrated and angry and I am happy and optimistic and we go to lunch and I listen patiently to your many issues?
What if when we say good-bye, you feel elated and I feel drained and must go home and take a nap?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the better I can make you feel when you are scared, the better I will feel when I leave your side?
What if I leave you laughing?
By Lynne Cory
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What if debt can ruin my life by putting me in a fear mode with the worry and stress and sadness, enslaving me and tying my stomach in a knot?
What if I try to soothe myself by eating?
What if getting out of debt became a number one goal for my health?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there is a difference between judging you and observing you? What if when I see how you act, I get angry and frustrated and want to yell at you for being so stupid? This is judging. What if you are doing something outrageous and I merely observe you as I would an exotic white tailed zebra? This is not judging.
By Lynne Cory
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What if we have wars against drugs and wars against war and all we create is more of what we are fighting against? What if a war on peace created more peace? What if we always get what we focus upon?
By Lynne Cory
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What if we have the choice of how and when we die and who is around us?
What if those left behind cannot understand the reason or the choices or the manner of death chosen by those who have left?
What if everything is perfect?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is OK to show my emotions – either sad or mad or glad – because I am a human being with many changing emotions?
What if by honestly sharing with the world how I am feeling, another person could see that it is OK to show the world how they are feeling, perhaps excited or fearful or hopeful or depressed or accomplished or angry or content and each one is perfect?
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What if one of my houshold bills was increasing each month and I decided to go into the business and ask if there was some way that it could be decreased and I set the intention that I would be appreciative, no matter how much they could reduce it?
What if the lady behind the counter gave me a big smile when she told me what she had done to reduce my bill a great deal for the next six months?
What if my appreciation of what was to come made what was to come even better?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the lesson is not in what is happening to us but in how we react to the situation?
Connie Jackson
By Lynne Cory
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What if I focus on the object I am desiring and not on the money I need to obtain it?
What if focusing on the money is focusing on fear and keeps me from getting what I want? Connie Jackson
By Lynne Cory
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What if I met someone and they had an angry scowl as they spoke which made me think they had a bad attitude?
What if I saw them quietly reading and saw the same scowl?
What if this is how their face is shaped and I misjudged them?
By Lynne Cory
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What if through the years our friends come and go as our interests, hobbies and goals change?
What if it does not mean we don’t care for them but simply that we are taking different paths through life?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I just stopped over-thinking everything?
What if I just let it flow? Susan C.
By Lynne Cory
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What if the Bible was a book about how life was lived 2000+ years ago?
What if it has been translated over the years by many different people all removing some things they did not feel appropriate and others adding their own beliefs to the stories?
What if many people still find great comfort reading the Bible?
What if living 2000 years ago is very different than living today?
What if there are many similarities?
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By Lynne Cory
What if in every situation where my buttons were being pushed and my negative emotions were flaring, I sat quietly and followed this feeling back to my childhood to find where it had originated and once I had located the source, I could heal myself?
What if I found abandonment or loss or rejection from an early age and realized that I had been carrying this for decades and once I realized from where this originated, it healed? Connie
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By Lynne Cory
What if you have friends who have had their company’s money embezzled by an employee yet they did nothing about it and you wondered why they would just fire the employee and not prosecute them so that the employee would not do this to someone else?
What if I now have someone in my business embezzle a lot of money?
What if I realize that this was an experience that I created to learn to speak up for myself, to listen to my intuition and to not take the easy way out but take command of my life?
What if I fired her, went to the police, hired an attorney and spent a lot of money but nothing ever happened to her?
What if this person was an angel, teaching a class, who helped us be more aware and drew the rest of the company into a tight bond?
By Lynne Cory
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What if every breath we take contains information from our higher selves?
What if when I breathe shallowly, I turn the volume down and cannot hear the messages?
What if when I am hesitant about a subject, I stop and take a few deep breaths which turns the volume up and allows my inner intellect to show me the best way to go and makes my path easier to see?
What if this is why meditation is so important?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there was someone in my life who could easily help me and make my life a lot a lot less worrisome with virtually no effort on their part but they chose not to do so?
What if I went around thinking dark, mean thoughts about how selfish they are and how they want it all for themselves and how Karma will catch up with them someday and no one will help them and blah, blah, blah?
What if one day I realized that they were great teachers for me and had made me stronger by holding back their assistance because if they had helped me I would still be depending on them today and now I am grateful for their strength in not helping which gave me my strength?