Featured article in Heartbeats E-zine July 2012

From Fear Into Trust  

Somehow I volunteered to write an article from Fear into Trust. So I wrote the piece and basically it was a description of what fear and trust are and how they work in our experience. Then I added some wisdom of how not to let yourself get stuck in fear. I thought that would make me look good and you would not know that I am stuck in fear now. You see, somewhere a part of me holds a belief that I cannot let others know when I am feeling fear - that I must not "air my dirty laundry". Now there's a phrase I haven't heard in a long time.

 

Then Verity, the e-zine Editor, suggested that instead of just an impersonal article, I add an experience of my own to share with others. So I sit down to re-write and find that I am resisting doing it, but what I am really resisting is allowing my fear to surface. Well, the Universe somehow gives me exactly what I need, exactly when I need it. The message is to walk through my fear and you get to share the experience with me as I do it.   

The first thing I need to do is acknowledge that I am feeling fear. That way I am not resisting the feeling, and that all of my feelings are valid. By accepting this and not pushing against it, I remove some of the power it has over me. As I say this I can already feel my breathing becoming less restricted.  

So now I must ask what part of me is in fear, and why? The answer: It is my mind, and the reason is that I have moved to a new location, and I am not established here, so I cannot see how the future is going to play out. Ouch, I am a coach, and I know that fear can only be of the Future, that means I am not living in the Now. I coach people about this, how can I get caught up in it myself?  

The next realization is that the part of me that is in fear exists only in my mind, and is being fed by thoughts that exist in my Belief System. The belief that I have to know what is going to happen next so that I will not be taken by surprise, that I must be in control of everything about my life.... on and on and on. Oh, this speaks so loudly to me as I keep hearing "Ye of little faith", "Let go and let God".  

There is a part of me that does not feel safe and that part of me goes back a long way to childhood, when I did not feel safe and could not intellectually explain why. So that is the part of me that is now activated as I feel this fear. Now I can visualize that little boy who is frightened and meet him with the adult compassionate part of me that does know it is safe, and that the beliefs I had then do not serve me any longer, that worrying about something that has not happened yet is only going to keep me stuck in this fear, and keep me from taking any action that will put me into the solution and get out of the problem.

   

As I feel these feelings I can notice the emotions rising up and coming to the surface because that is what was meant to happen at the time I originally felt them. I can now meet them with love and compassion just as if I were in front of any child that was expressing these feelings to me. As they pass through I can now move forward and take the steps that I am in control of, and then TRUST, (ah there it is) that the Universe will do its part, and somehow it will work out for my highest and best.  

I can now let go of having to know what that is. The trust that I was looking for was always there - it was just buried under the fear. But once I let the fear surface, the trust was no longer hidden behind it. My fear was being fueled by my thoughts on an intellectual level, but the emotion was activated by my inner child. So I say to him "Now, now, Little Man - this is just a feeling and it does not feel very good, but I promise you it will pass."

Thanks for sharing this experience (LIVE) of moving from fear into trust. Oh yes, and my Little Man thanks you too.

Joe Marchetti

Licenced Heal Your Life Workshop Leader and Coach  

joe@finallyunderstandnow.com

During an EFT session this morning, I was left with a question.  The session involved some tapping on the sole (soul) of the foot.  This happened to be the area where the physical pain exited.  The question I was left with is why do we call that part of our foot the sole(soul)?  It would make more divine sense to call the area at the crown chakra the soul.  After discussing it with Doreen, this is the answer that came to me.  Our soul is always living in the now, one way of reminding us of this is to say “look at where your feet are, because that is where YOU are, if your mind is someplace else you are in the past or the future”.  So the message is “look down at where your feet are, and meet them with your mind, because that is where you ARE.  This is how we can bring our body, mind, and soul together in the same place, THE NOW.

Something to feel about, not think about. To you, From me

Hello FUN blog followers and visiters. I love that you are here and thank you!!

I remember as a kid saying this over and over and over, feeling it was profound.....


Yesterday was today, today is tomorrow and tomorrow will be today.

Now I would say it this way.........

Today is tomorrow, tomorrow is today and yesterday never was.

We are all moving forward into the experience of our life.

My mind wants me to change "and yesterday never was" to 'and yesterday is gone' but my guidance is telling me to leave it as is ♥

Something to feel about, instead of think about............Happy Monday♥

In love and light…………..
Namaste’ & Blessings,
~♥~ Doreen Marchetti ~♥~

HYL Teacher, Coach, Artist
♡♡♡ Angel Messenger & Medium ♡♡♡
http://www.finallyunderstandnow.com/

2011 Natural Living Expo was great!

Hello everyone!!
We saw many people we knew and made lots of new friends these past few days. At the very end of the show we asked an attendee that was at our booth to draw a name for the winner of $50 and the winner was a wonderful woman named Lynne. I called her cell phone and since she was still in the Sturbridge area she drove back to the convention center and we gave her, her winnings!!
We plan on going back again next year as vendors and speakers. Now for some pictures. Only a few as the days were busy.

Friday setup for the weekend expo. Enjoy the picture tour.

@Heaven on Earth with author Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz, author of Your Soul's Plan gave a talk about his book tonight at Heaven on Earth in Pembroke MA. He is in MA to speak at the Natural Living Expo this weekend. The talk from 7 to 9pm and was very interesting and informative.

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words......

We are off in the morning to Healthy Living Expo

Joe and I are excited to share what we do with all of the wonderful people attending this great event. I will be taking photos before, during and after to share with my blogger, facebook and twitter friends.

Namaste' & Blessings
Doreen


blog post with pictures each evening starting tonight!

We are off in the morning to Healthy Living Expo

Joe and I are excited to share what we do with all of the wonderful people attending this great event. I will be taking photos before, during and after to share with my blogger, facebook and twitter friends.

Namaste' & Blessings
Doreen


blog post with pictures each evening starting tonight!

There is nothing like a haircut (photo shows haircut I just got) to bring up old limiting beliefs!! Getting the haircut I want has been an ongoing issue in my life. I get this desire, urge if you will, to get a short haircut. The image in my mind is more full with long layers, like a cap of hair. In my mind it's very pretty and natural, not like the picture which is cut close with short layers. I even bring photos to the salons to show the hair stylists. I also look through their books to show them what I want and even what I do not want. I have spent a lot of time over the years showing and explaining what "I do not want" in a haircut and guess what? I have just about always ended up with this same shaped haircut......Ugh!! (what we focus on is what we attract) Although once I did get a great short haircut and could never get it again, even from the same hairstylist. I guess that was one of those times when the Universe was showing me it is possible but first there is work to do.


This time, when the same haircut with it's attached feelings came around again, I did my work around the feelings coming up. This time I asked myself the questions..."Why do I feel the way I feel about this haircut?" "What are these feelings showing me about me"? "What gifts (known as old limiting beliefs about myself) are the emotions in strange wrapping paper (called a haircut) here to show me about me?"


In the past I would have focused on the hair stylist (aka: the holder of the mirror) instead of the feelings/emotions showing up (what the mirror is reflecting). In the past I have used tremendous energy and precious moments of my life avoiding my feelings and blaming the mirror holder. I have felt, dealt with and released so many old limiting beliefs I held about myself (we all have them and they were formed from conception to age 7) I was surprised by the depth of what I was feeling around this haircut. Journaling helped a great deal.


Here is some of what came up as I wrote with guidance from my Angels and Guides............


Q--What is up with my hair? Why do I continue to get the same haircut no matter who is cutting


my hair?


A--Your hair is directly connected to your feelings of self worth and fitting in. You are correct


you have the same haircut you got each summer at your Aunt's house. Even that was not the


original occurrence with your hair


Q--What was?


A--A baby, long before you knew you even had hair.


Q--How does that apply if I didn't even know I had hair? How would any limiting beliefs be


formed around hair when hair was not in my experience?


A--It was all of the comments and how they made you feel. When you became aware of your


hair you made the connection.


Q--OK, I still don't know anymore now than before this dialog. What is my self work in this? I


would love to heal this and have a great haircut:-)


A--(no answer came.................


Until the next day...................more journaling


What is coming up for me is the past........SURPRISE! LOL


In the summer when I would go to Quincy to stay with my Aunt Madeline she would bring me (or maybe Mary started it, I don't know). Anyway, I would be taken to this beauty salon and get a Pixie, aka: scalped! I loved my hair long and they didn't want to deal with it so they had it cut off every time I stayed with one of them.


I went to the hair stylist this week with pictures of the haircut I wanted on my iPad so she could see what I want. I even showed her the picture of what I wanted again before she started cutting my hair and I got what you see above, not what I wanted.


I am tired of this showing up. I am open to tapping into the old limiting beliefs still being held as energy inside my body. I am still drawing this haircut to me. These haircuts are being done FOR me, not To me. Every single time I have been given this haircut it is and was an opportunity to look inside, to look at what the mirror was reflecting to me about me.


Here is what came up when I let the old limiting negative beliefs surface..............


Nobody listens to me.........What I say doesn't matter...........They know better than me..........I cannot articulate my desires............Nobody understands me no matter how much detail I use in my explanation of what I want...........I am not understood...........People lie and say something looks good when it doesn't..............My perception and the hair stylist's perception of the same photo are way off..............My father never told them to stop........Nobody had my back.....I had to stand up for myself or I was doomed............If I had a mother they wouldn't do this to me, she would care about me and stop them.............I was easy prey because I had nobody to protect me.........I must become tough and protect myself.............


I know what is, is. My hair is what it is until it grows. I know that I will go to the wedding this weekend and have a blast even though I have this haircut. I know that what my hair looks like says nothing about me, it's just hair, it's not ME. I also know that the many feelings and self limiting beliefs I formed from conception to 7 years are what is coming up.


Just now I had a memory of my mother brushing my hair and saying what nice hair I had and how she loved to brush it. I was around 6 in this memory. It was after my mother died when I was 7 that her sister's showed an interest in me. Madeline couldn't get pregnant and Mary had a son but wanted a daughter too. Even though they said my sister was prettier they stopped having her sleep over because she wet the bed. I didn't, so I was the "pretend I have a daughter girl" until Madeline had her own. I got to stay there a couple of times after my cousin was born but then I was not invited to stay with them anymore. She had a real daughter now and didn't need me around. When they had another way to fill their needs (my cousin) I was thrown back like a fish that wasn't good enough to keep.


Lot's of awareness of old limiting belief in this experience for me..........


......by cutting my hair off they took away a connection to my mother, something about me that


my mother loved.


......I wasn't good enough to have around just as I was.


......They would have been happier with my sister but settled for me.


I remain open to all of the "gifts in strange wrapping paper" this haircut is bringing to me. I am light and love allowing the release of old limiting beliefs to leave my body. The old negative energy attached to these beliefs about myself, and the emotions attached to those beliefs, no longer serve me in any way. I release them now and invite the energy of love and light to flow into the space created as they leave my physical body and my experience in this lifetime.





To all of my past, current and future clients..........


I live what I teach and I love that I do!!


You can do this too!


And so it is!



With tremendous gratitude to my hair stylist for this gift in strange wrapping paper (haircut), I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being who you are in my experience.


Doreen


Finally Understand Now

Conscious Breathing Meditation

This is a very quick and effective meditation that you can do anywhere, anytime that you can close your eyes for 40 seconds or so. The intention here is to release your (in-tension) and transform it to (out-tension) or (inner peace).

Close your eyes, take a deep slow breath in through your nose, and as you do this say in your mind, "I am". Release the breath very slowly through your mouth and as you do say "At peace". Repeat this. Then on your third in breath, hold it for 3 seconds repeating "I am, I am, I am" in your mind. As you release the breath saying "at peace", feel that peace throughout your mind and body. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! Enjoy the serenity.
Love and blessings
Joe

Heal Your Life Workshop

We are excited to announce our next 2 day, Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life workshop!!

October 9th and 10th..........9am to 6pm both days!

Go to our Website to learn more and to sign up. Special pricing ends Oct 1st.


Namaste' & Blessings

Doreen & Joe

James Twyman Event

what a great night with James Twyman!! Joe and I were fortunate to be part of a group that received advanced copies of his book The Barn Dance coming out in September, then attend this evening discussion the book.

To see pictures go to... my facebook page and friend me


Namaste’ & Blessings,
Doreen Marchetti

Louise Hay: Heal Your Life®
Workhshop Leader, Teacher & Life Coach
~Certified Angel Messenger ~ Certified Hypnotherapist
~The Wish™ facilitator ~ EFT Practitioner
~Spirit Artist ~ Reiki Master-Teacher
"Healing the world one heart at a time"

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I trust myself and I trust life. All is well”. ~Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life® Teleclass

Hello to each and every one of you that visits here. I have exciting news...................

Join me from the comfort of your home, one hour a week, for six weeks and learn how you can Heal Your Life® from the inside out. Discover where limiting beliefs came from, get in touch with your inner child, learn how to express your emotions, free yourself from what is keeping you stuck. Using affirmations, you can replace the limiting beliefs with a positive new outlook on life.

This six week teleclass is based on the intensive 2 day workshop I facilitate. I am licensed to teach the work of Louise Hay and I am a licensed Heal Your LIfe® Life Coach. This teleclass allows you to experience healing, forgiving and loving yourself from the privacy of your home. I understand deep hurt and vulnerability. And I understand fear, fear of exposing your deepest self in a group setting. This course is designed to help you do those things in a group but also where you feel most safe, your home. Someday, you will join us in person to exerience the 2 day workshop. I just know you will.

Another reason this teleclass is being offered is for those people aching inside for something more. You know that feeling? There are so many people that cannot go out or join in a group for many reasons. Offering this valuable self healing class, allows everyone to come together to learn, share, heal and grow as individuals. There is nothing more awesome than learning to love and accept ourselves because once we can truly feel love for oursleves, then and only then, can we truly love others.

What you need to participate in the TeleClass..

1.. You Can Heal Your Life® by, Louise L. Hay Click to order

2.. Ordering From The Cosmic Kitchen by, Dr. Patricia Crane Click HERE to order, if needed (once at the site, scroll down and click on The Cosmic Kitchen)

3..A journal

4..one hour each week for yourself to attend the class

5..a quiet space to participate in the class

6..the desire to be willing, to love yourself

Each class is on Monday

1st Class ~ 2-22-2010

2nd Class ~ 3-1-2010

3rd Class ~ 3-8-2010

4th Class ~ 3-15-2010

5th Class ~ 3-22-2010

6th Class ~ 3-29-2010

**Class times are 12 pm to 1 pm ~OR~ 7 pm to 8 pm **Eastern Standard Time**

~please find out what time that is in your timezone~

6 weeks for $129
To sign up click HERE Be sure to choose the morning or evening teleclass

Once payment is processed you will receive the "Call In" informaton for the TeleClass (please call in 5 minutes before the start time)


Call or email Doreen with any questions...508-728-9740
doreen@finallyunderstandnow.com


with Infinite Love & Gratitude, Namaste'
Doreen Marchetti
Finally Understand Now.com

Life is a joy to experience as it unfolds before me.

Exciting news!!

Joe and I are excited to announce our new venture. We have joined with a fellow Hypnotherapist, Scott MacDougall, and formed 3hypnotists.com. Please go to the site, check it out and pass the address along to everyone you love and care about.

We have been so busy, which is a good thing. Things are going well and we should have more time to blog and keep the websites updated and interesting. Boy the internet takes a chunk of time, doesn't it? We are on Facebook too.....Doreen Shea Marchetti and Joe Marchetti. I am also on Twitter.... 1creativemonkey.

Have a wonderful Holiday Season.

with Infinite Love & Gratitude, Namaste'

Doreen & Joe

Hello from Doreen & Joe

Joe and I would like to share this wonderful meditation by Doreen Virtue. Give yourself the gift of 10 uninterrupted minutes to watch this beautiful video she made from her home in Hawaii. And as you watch listen to the loving message she shares.

With Infinite Love & Gratitude we share this video

Click here with love and blessings!!

Conscious Breathing

Conscious Breathing: "How often are yo so caught up in the daily 'to do' list that if it weren't for your sub-conscious (reptillian) brain would you forget to breathe? Conscious breathing is the conscious decision to breathe in deeply and as you do saying 'I am' and as you breathe out saying 'at peace'. It is amazing how this small act of self love can center you and from the center you can choose to go in any direction. You are also making a direct connection from the conscious mind to the sub-conscious mind, they are operating as one. It feels natural, peaceful, and joyful, and most of all loving, and that is our natural state of being. So make sure to add the time on your 'to do' list to breathe consciously, and let's call it the 'to be' list. AAAAAHHHH!
Love and blessings
Joe"

Yes!! A Real Post. Ok, it's a copy of my newsletter. Time is short right now, I am doing my best....I am BEING my BEST! Enjoy

Joe and I are excited to tell you about our new adventures. We just returned from a trip to Chicago where we learned The LifeLine Technique. We also have a pretty full calendar of events to serve you better with more variety in healing modalities. Enjoy the newsletter, I know we will hear from you soon. with Infinite Love and Gratitude Namaste' and Blessings.... Doreen & Joe Marchetti Finally Understand Now.com

Infinite Love and Gratitude Joe and I were honored and privileged to attend Dr. Darren Weissman's, Conscious Body- Conscious Mind training. This three day, intensive class, marks the beginning of our journey to becoming Certified LifeLine Technique Practitioners. This Technique also known as Infinite Love and Gratitude is a profound method of healing. Here is some information about the LifeLine Technique for you... The following is directly from Dr. Weissman's website. Why reinvent the wheel? If you want to learn more, click on our picture with Dr. Darren and you will go to his site. Your body is a self-healing organism...what if you could finally unlock its natural ability to heal...what if you could thrive? The LifeLine TechniqueTM is a life-changing integrative healing system used to evaluate your body, mind and spirit. It uses muscle testing to identify the emotional, biochemical, structural and spiritual source of a symptom (the root cause). Once the root cause is identified, it can be released...freeing you to heal. The LifeLine TechniqueTM allows you to connect to and release anything causing pain or stress in your life: Physical symptoms Chronic pain Illness Stressful experiences or memories Addictions Fear Patterns of dis-ease Anxiety Relationship problems Patterns keeping you from succeeding in your work or life. And much more... You may have experienced many of the following techniques on their own. With The LifeLine TechniqueTM imagine getting to experience the kind of transformation that can only come from combining the best of these energy healing modalities into one: 5 Element Based Acupuncture - The Five Elements help us to understand that the natural flow of energy that takes place in nature also occurs within your body. Chakras - Energy centers in your body that connect your body to the collective consciousness (the universe or source). Each chakra is associated with acupuncture meridians, physiological functions and certain beliefs. Color Therapy - Every color has a vibration and frequency of energy that can dramatically affect your health, inner harmony and emotions. Shamanism - An ancient healing tradition that embraces ceremony, vision quest and pilgrimages to powerful places in nature to strengthen, unify our lives and promote healing and love. Homeopathy - A complementary and alternative medicine modality that looks at your entire physical and emotional health and treats the root cause of imbalances with natural remedies. Chiropractic - Non-invasive treatment of the musculoskeletal system and nervous system that focuses on alignment in body, mind and lifestyle for overall health. Total Body Modification (TBM) - A system of natural health that uses muscle testing and reflex points to eliminate roadblocks to health and unlock your body's natural ability to heal. Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) - Helps you identify and resolve stuck events (real or imagined) that are affecting your ability to have optimal health and well-being in mind and body. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - A system of creating success, health and well-being through changing your thoughts, behaviors and belief systems. Psychoneuroimmunology - Scientific and medical disciplines, including psychology, neurosciences, immunology, physiology, pharmacology, psychiatry, behavioral medicine, infectious diseases, endocrinology and rheumatology, focused on interactions between the nervous and immune systems, and the relationship between behavior and health. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) - An integrative health approach combining psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies to help you heal from trauma or loss. Applied Kinesiology (AK) - Also called muscle testing, AK is a diagnostic or therapeutic tool that identifies the root cause of symptoms you are experiencing. The LifeLine TechniqueTM like YOUR healing process, is an evolutionary journey. This means that is it continuously growing and evolving as the collective consciousness grows and evolves. Abraham Hicks I'm so excited!!! Joe and I are signed up to see Abraham in action!! October 10, 2009 in Danvers MA. Esther and Jerry Hicks do an amazing job of traveling all over the world so that we can experience Abraham not only through books, video and audio recordings, but in person too. Well, as in person as you can, when I am referring to a collective consciousness of beings, not in physical form. For those of you not familiar with Abraham/Hicks, click on our F.U.N. logo in this article and you will go to their site. Check out our Calendar of Events We have so many wonderful methods of self healing & Love to share with you. Our calendar on our website is updated and full of wonderful opportunities for you, your friends and loved ones. Click on the F.U.N. logo to go directly to our calendar page. Here is some of what we are offering at Finally Understand Now (our Brockton home office) & Collective Souls in Acushnet MA. ... Louise Hay, Heal Your Life® 2 day Workshops....we are offering our two day workshops on two consecutive Sundays instead of a Saturday and Sunday. Joe and I are hoping that offering the workshop this way will enable more people to fit it into their schedules. This workshop is life-changing and really worth giving to yourself. Just about all of the other modalities we are trained in, and offer to you, draw on the work of Louise L Hay. She is a leader in the Holistic Healing world and also the publisher of the majority of self-help and spiritual books on the market today. We have dates scheduled for our original 2 day Heal Your Life workshop, and for all of you that have attended that we have more. We are now offering an advanced 2 day workshop titled, Love Yourself Even More. Since this workshop expands on what you learned and experienced in the original Heal Your Life® workshop, it is a pre-requisite to have attended the original Louise Hay, 2 day Heal Your Life® workshop in order to sign up for this one. We are offering both at Collective Souls in Acushnet MA. If you would like to host a workshop at your home or business, please email doreen@finallyunderstandnow.com it will change your life! The Wish.......amazing!! open to 12 participants. Make it a ladies night out, or a couples night out. You will be amazed at the miracles that happen in your life after playing this "game". Playing in a group is a powerful experience. Give it a try, I'm positive you will be blown away by the power of this "game". We also offer this "game" @ Collective Souls in Acushnet, see website for details. (want to host The Wish at your home or business? email doreen@finallyunderstandnow.com) Individual Hypnosis & Past Life Regressions are available. Group Hypnosis & Past Life Regressions are on the calendar being held @ Finally Understand Now in Brockton and Collective Souls in Acushnet. EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, an amazing tool to learn and have at your disposal 24/7. Another healing modality with amazing and sometimes miraculous results. Being offered @ Finally Understand Now in Brockton and Collective Souls in Acushnet. Intuitive Angel Card Readings Check the calendar to find out when I am at Collective Souls offering readings. I am also available for individual readings as well as local home parties. contact doreen@finallyunderstandnow.com There are even more workshops/classes listed in our calendar of events on our F.U.N. website. Click on the logo to go directly to the calendar. All events require pre-registration. *******Special Offer******* ****I will be adding LifeLine Technique sessions to our calendar ASAP, right now we are working with volunteers. Want to volunteer for a LifeLine treatment? email doreen@finallyunderstandnow.com or joe@finallyunderstandnow.com. We have openings for a few more people email quick to get one of these limited volunteer spots.****

About Finally Understand Now With Infinite Love and Gratitude....... Finally Understand Now 23 Electric Ave Brockton, Massachusetts 02302

I'm working on an update

In the meantime enjoy a poem Joe wrote last year. It helps explain how we named our business Finally Understand Now aka: F.U.N.

F.U.N.

For most of my years life was a challenge, to say the least

It seemed as though it was on my back, like a great big ugly beast

Worrying if I had done good enough, would I make the grade

Agonizing about what was ahead, is the only time the past would fade

If I made a mistake, I pulled out that emotional bat

Then let everyone else punish me, I became a doormat

The future must be perfect, no mistakes can there be

More worry, more turmoil, high expectations I placed on me

Stoneface they called me, if I smiled I would crack

Worry, tension, anger, and sadness, a four stage attack

Then something happened to change my thinking, I started to console

Something made me realize, that I wasn’t in control

There are only two words to think about, they simplify life so well

They are Me, and Now, upon nothing else I need dwell

So when thoughts of controlling others, past or future come, I try to not allow

Because I feel the peace, and freedom, I Finally Understand Now.

©Joe Marchetti 2008

How and why do affirmatiions work?

Have you ever wondered why or how affirmations work? Here is my understanding. We have created many of our behaviors and thoughts by way of repeated messages that were told to us, or that we told ourselves until they became true for us. Affirmations are the very same thing with a different name. When we are changing our thoughts, and behaviors via affirmations, our conscious mind filters what is allowed to get into our sub-conscious mind. After repeatedly saying affirmations with emotion they too become true for us. Eventually they get through the filters and enter the sub-conscious and voila! a new way of thinking and a new attitude. So it is necessary to say affirmation often, very often, and when you add the emotion, you have a recipe for success. One very generic affirmation written long ago is "Every day in every way I am getting better and better".
Love and blessings
Joe

Row Row Row Your Boat

Let go and let God. I believe this means not obsessing or worrying about the outcomes of situations. To stop trying to control every result. To have faith (sometimes blind faith) that there is a higher power at work and that eveything happens for a reason. Our spirit knows this, it is our mind that has difficulty with it. However, it also does not mean that we do not have to do anything. It is our job to row the boat, (do the footwork) and our higher power steers the boat (guides us in directions). We cannot row and steer at the same time, and our higher power does not row. If we do nothing we go no-where, when we do the work and allow ourselves to be guided, and accept that where we are is exactly where we are suppose to be we are now-here. Like the song says Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrilyLife is but a dream
Love and blessings
Joe