By Lynne Cory
What if the one who drives you crazy is actually a great teacher?
What if you live or work or play with someone who has totally different political or religious views or financial ways or health practices and the other person knows that their way is the correct way and the only way to live?
What if they are teaching me compassion or might they need acknowledgment?
What if I am stiff in my beliefs also? Do I need more flexibility in my thinking?
By Lynne Cory
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What if my daughter heard a quote worth passing along?
What if when we are children we learn lessons and then take a test?
What if when we are adults we are given the test and then learn the lessons? Lori
By Lynne Cory
What if I go to an exercise class with a friend and she gets very frustrated because she chooses a spot to stand and then people come in after her and try to invade her space?
What if she is telling me that “they are so territorial” and it drives her crazy?
What if they are a mirror for her showing that she is quite territorial, too?
By Lynne Cory
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What if how I treat myself, my family and my friends is a portent of how I will see my children handling their lives as they grow and mature?
What if what I am doing is modeling a way of life for those who think the parent’s way is the right way?
By Lynne Cory
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What if some people would rather have drama and misery and chaos in their life than calm peacefulness?
What if they are more comfortable hearing about others’ trials and tribulations than their happy times and would rather describe all of the things going on in their own life that are of sadness rather than joy?
What if this way of thinking was familiar and a habit for them and they are perfect just as they are?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I am watching someone speak who is very “judgmental” in their thinking and positive that their way is the only way?
What if I am judging you judging them? Am I not the same, a judge judging a judge?
By Lynne Cory
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What if we could be truly happy for another when they get a promotion or a new car or a magnificent home or look fantastic in their new clothing or have a happy, loving relationship?
What if we knew that they must be thinking happy thoughts to achieve all of their desires and that we have an equal opportunity to be happy and achieve ours also?
By Lynne Cory
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What if my life was actually a movie with me as the director as well as the star and everyone else was a supporting player that I have chosen to be with me to learn and grow?
What if some I have chosen to be loving and some to be mean and some to be generous and others to steal from me?
What if when I died, I got to choose an entirely new cast for my next life play?
What if next time, the serial killer chose to be a kindly medicine man?
What if there is no more to judge than if this was the movie that it is?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there is no need to be concerned about Mother Earth warming herself for awhile?
What if our planet is balancing itself and we are going along for the ride?
What if over the vast millions of years, Mother Earth has warmed and cooled herself numerous times but we have only been able to measure a small number of years and so we get sad and fearful?
What if we cannot see the BIG picture but only this brief moment in time?
By Lynne Cory
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What if all of my failures are just about fear? What if I fear that I cannot go to Tibet because I may not be able to breathe at the high altitude or buy a new home because the prices may go down again or purchase a new car because I might get laid off or ask for something I want because they might say NO or cannot do this or that because what would they think of me and hold myself back by always second-guessing myself from a base of fear?
What if I just let it flow easily and if it came into my mind – went for it?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is best if I only share my hopes and dreams and goals with those that I can trust to support and encourage me?
What if I treat my dreams and goals as if they are the precious, valuable treasures that they are?
Dr Ciri
By Lynne Cory
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What if we have a shouting match over the phone?
What if the next many messages are garbled or not quite right?
What if we need to clear the phone if we want it to work correctly?
(Dear ___, Please remove any negativity from this phone so that all future communications will come through clearly.) Connie Jackson
By Lynne Cory
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What if throughout my day, I write or say silently to myself that I am the best______________? What if I am the best writer, painter, doctor, salesperson, mother or whomever I want to be?
What if soon I began to believe it and what I believe soon manifests? Dr. Celeste
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What if a man came into my little shop and within a few moments was telling me that he did not want to live anymore? What if he mentioned that his wife, the love of his life, had died 7 months earlier and his one son had been murdered seven years ago and his other son had died of a brain illness two years ago and he had loved them all and was just existing until he passed?
What if there was nothing I could say that would make him feel better but I could lend a compassionate ear as he spoke? And what if as he spoke about how much he loved his family, I was able to see again how blessed I am to have all of my family with me here on the planet? What if he was an angel showing me how fortunate I am? What if he decided to stay? What if he decided to join them?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I closed my eyes and sat in meditation for awhile and asked for an animal to begin walking towards me and then just observed as my power animal appeared?
What if my power animal has many of the characteristics of me and I can call upon it in my meditation for guidance? My animal was a sheep (shy, quiet, easy-going, friendly).
Connie Jackson
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By Lynne Cory
What if all of this drama and trauma and turmoil and stress in our life is just a habit that has been repeated over and over for years until it has become our dominant way of living?
What if I have been focusing on the past and what went wrong with my parents and my siblings and my jobs and my husbands and my health and my neighbors and the government and my finances and how awful it was and now, subconsciously I can hardly wait until something goes wrong again so I will have something to share and commiserate about with my family and friends? And, because I am focused on things going wrong, what if I am never disappointed?
What if I gently shift from drama to peace by thinking and telling fun stories instead of tragic ones? What if I focused more on what is right in my life than on what is wrong? What if I gave everyone the gift of a happy ME?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is none of my business how others relate with each other?
What if it is only my business how others relate with me?
What if it is more difficult to stay out of others’ business than it is to get in there and gossip or “fix it”?
What if watching the drama of others unfold is actually a lesson for me?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I am reading something or listening to another and am touched emotionally and the tears start falling uncontrollably?
What if I am hearing the truth as it touches my soul? Connie Jackson
By Lynne Cory
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What if on planet Earth we have so many variations of human beings that cause many to judge? What if on other planets, there is only one gender, only one skin color and everyone is equal in knowledge and finances?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I want something desperately and I wait and hope and do manifestation processes and still NOTHING? What if the Universe knows that the timing is not right and that something even better is in my future if I can just wait a little longer? What if that train I was hoping to board crashed just down the line? What if I ended up taking a cab and arrived unscathed?
By Lynne Cory
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What if everything I have been told about religion, finance and politics has been untrue? What if it is a much more tangled web than we know? What if I knew of the greed, cruelty and unfairness that is used in creating those myths and I became angry and spiteful? What if I only need to focus on my life and how I live it? What if peace is what I strive for?
By Lynne Cory
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What if life is like having a miners hat on my head and everything the light touched became mine? What if everything I focus on really does become mine? If I focus on health I get more. If all I speak of is my illness, more will certainly come. If I am jealous of your new possessions, none will come to me but if I can wish you well, I open the door to many treasures coming my way. What if I am careful where I direct my light?
By Lynne Cory
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What if other earthbound souls can braid with our soul when we are going through times of extreme terror or illness? What if this is different than a walk-in who takes over our body completely? What if these BRAIDS are here for our highest good to share our body while protecting us in our times of need? What if, as we get older, we can release them so that they can continue on to help another soul in need? What if we thank them for their service and appreciate all of their kindness and see them drifting away? We then can fill ourselves with self-love, self-appreciation and self-confidence knowing that we can now move forward “under our own steam”.
By Lynne Cory
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What if I have the ability to dream it, the Universe has the ability to create it? What if I am the only block in the creation of my desires? What if I can see what am I am thinking by what is in my life both positive and negative? What if that is the hardest work, thinking in a positive direction when I cannot yet see it?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I measured the % of compassion that I showed to myself and others today instead of the weight I had gained or lost? What if the higher my compassion ratio, the closer to my ideal weight I became?
By Lynne Cory
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What if all of the pleasant and unpleasant experiences that are happening in my life are created by me (often unconsciously) to further my soul growth? What if I just took a few breaths and asked for clarity? What am I to learn from this? Could it be to slow down, to realize that everything is in Divine timing, or that what I want is being postponed so that something better can manifest? Maybe the rude ones are helping me to show more kindness? Maybe an illness is showing me an emotion that needs healing?
By Lynne Cory
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What if frogs around my property are a sign of a balanced environment?
By Lynne Cory
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What if we have a maximum capacity for our planet and we are only halfway there? What if we are a funny species who gravitate towards already overcrowded areas while leaving vast empty spaces all over the planet? What if it will take another million years to fill?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the land would not sell because 100s of years ago many Indians were surprised and then massacred at this site and their haunted souls still remain? What if I blessed the land and asked for forgiveness for the cruelty they experienced and told them that we would love and care for their land? What if this released them to the Light and my purchase went through?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the situations we encounter during our mother’s pregnancy and during the first few years of our life, set up the lessons we are to work on for the rest of our lives?
What if our mother feels inferior or abandoned or rejected during her pregnancy and we pick that up as our own life lesson?
What if once we are born our parents are busy, fearfully and exhaustedly, trying to “make ends meet” and we take on the belief that there is not enough?
What if we chose these people to help us learn the lessons that we need for our best growth during this lifetime?
By Lynne Cory
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What if it is a sign of respect to look you in the eye when I am speaking with you? What if it is a sign of respect to not look you in the eye when we are speaking? What if it is a sign of friendship to shake your hand when I greet you? What if my culture disapproves of shaking hands? What if I am casually sitting on the floor? What if it is a sign of disrespect to show the sole of my foot to you? What if I gobble up all the delicious food on my plate trying to show how much I enjoyed the meal but my host is embarrassed that he did not feed me enough because that is what an empty plate means to his culture?
What if in this great big world, we are insulting and hurting the feelings of each other by our innocent lack of knowledge of the different cultures and traditions? What if instead of judging, we gave others the benefit of the doubt that they were doing their best with what they knew, as was I?