Dear Andrea:  All I hear about is how bad our country is (unemployment, health care, education etc.)  My Dad and Husband died in the last 4 years from long standing illnesses and each was a nightmare.  It seems like people don’t care about people anymore and it sounds like it will only get worse.  I can’t get a job, my son and daughter are single parents and can’t get jobs either we are all living together. I am really starting to get scared for our future and our country.  Are things going to get better? What is your feeling about this?  I have been reading your blog almost everyday lately I feel this connection to you.  I know you have had a lot of loss also.  I had this strange need to write to you.  Please tell me is this country going to be ok?   I feel like we all need to take a stand and do something !!! Pray more I just don’t know anymore–Thanks, Domino

Dear Domino:  I feel hopeful for the country and the economy. You’re making a lot of sense.  You’ve had a lot of loss and trauma.  It’s not easy to move past that, especially when there are other people in the house and everyone is going thru their slump at the same time.  That can be very challenging, but I know you’re all up to it.  Really.

I’d say the most important thing is to not watch or read the daily news.  That engages your thoughts on what the newscasters are worried about.  I don’t need to worry about another country or terrorism or the economy.  I need to instead make myself think about what is going on right in front of me that is working and going well.  It may take some looking, but pay attention to it when you find it.

Like I’m healthy and my family members and cats are healthy and I see my neighbors in the store buying groceries so I know they’re eating.  I see them driving so I know they have gas in their car.  We see each other on our daily walks and that is a fun little social time in the neighborhood.  Little things like that.

I remind myself many times during the day that the troubled times are just a stage, that this too shall pass and we will be on to happier times.  I’m not making that up, that has been my experience through the years so I’ve come to expect it and now I look for it. The big point of making yourself change your thoughts and release resistance is that when you are worried, you don’t have access to helpful thoughts and suggestions because you are not in the vibrational mindset to receive them.

It’s kind of like all the good stuff we want, the happy life, the health, the emotional security, is on 93.9 FM but when we’re worried, our station is tuned to 1030 AM and stuck there.  All the good stuff is waiting for us to tune to 93.9 FM, but watching the news and listening to our neighbors complain keeps our station tuned to 1030 AM.

All it takes is the tuning of the dial and the way we do that is to find things to appreciate about our life, find things that make us happy, watch shows that make us laugh, listen to music that puts us in a good mood, be around people that uplift us.

This means limiting the time we spend with well meaning but misled friends and family who don’t realize that when they complain, they are attracting more stuff to complain about.  It’s true whether you believe it or not.  And if they are attracting that, and you are hanging out with them, you can get caught in it too.

We can begin to tune our dial by doing something simple and fun that is out of the ordinary for us, that takes us out of our routine.  Things like going to a little city park, walking along water, visiting the Springs, sitting in nature watching squirrels and birds, walking through a farmer’s market, even visiting flea markets or antique stores just to window shop.  When we do things like that, if they are enjoyable to us, that helps us release resistance.  when we release resistance, our minds have less worry.

When our minds have less worry, they are open to receiving intuitive thoughts and ideas that can point us in the right direction to lead us out of where we are into more of where we want to be.

Keep me posted.  I care!  You know why?  Because I know that we really are all connected and that the least thing I can do to help anyone else helps me, too.
For real.
hugs
Andrea