The Power of Positive Thinking

If you haven’t seen the film  Groundhog Day, go out and rent the DVD the moment you finish reading this post.

This movie contains everything you need to know about positive thinking, personal growth and happiness.

In the film, actor Bill Murray plays Phil, an arrogant weather forecaster who spends the night in Punxsutawney, where he is to do a broadcast the next day.

He wakes up the next morning, does his story and is annoyed to discover that he is trapped in Punxsutawney for a second night because of a snowstorm that comes in after the groundhog ceremony.

When he wakes up in his guest house room the next morning, it is the morning of the day before all over again. Everything that happened to him the previous day all happens again. Phil gets stuck in a time wrap. He is trapped in the date of February 2 over and over again.

First Phil takes advantage of the situation, learning all he can about the people around him and manipulate them but after a while the pleasure he gets out of this wears off. The town never changes; the events and the people never change. Only Phil can change.

He goes through a difficult time and even considers suicide but later he decides to change himself because he understands that he can not change the world around him. Any change that occurs must be inside of him because only he can change – all the other characters repeat exactly what they did the day before. Slowly, he goes through a transformation.

Having suffered himself, he is able to empathize with other people’s suffering.  In other words, he accepts “winter” as an opportunity. He begins to take piano lessons from a music teacher who is continuously surprised at how good he is, since she always believes it is his first lesson. He learns how to be an ice sculptor. And he becomes more generous. He recreates himself by focusing all his attention on inner change, on becoming a more loving and giving person.

Suddenly, he feels true fullfillment. He starts sharing all this new energy with everyone in town. Eventually he ends up with the girl of his dreams and the nightmare ends. He brakes the cycle and finds himself in a brand new day with his true soul mate.

The changes around him occur because he has changed.  His worst day of his life turns into his best day, and the only thing that changes is his thinking and his actions. This is one great lesson in personal transformation.

Julia Simavi 

Either Happiness is no where or Happiness is now here…

Happiness can mean different things to different people. For example, for one person, it may mean being in a loving relationship, whereas for someone else it may mean having financial freedom.

When we seek money, or a good job, or a good relationship, what we are looking for is happiness. If we go for happiness in the first place, everything else will follow.

The true equation between happiness and wealth is this: that happiness is wealth. Happiness is really all there is and all there ever will be; all else is only a means to happiness.

“Happiness is what greases the wheels of life. It’s also what opens the floodgates, marshals the forces, commands the elements, raises the sun, aligns the stars, beats your heart, heals what hurts, turns the page, makes new friends, finds true love, calls the shots, waves the wand, connects the dots, feeds your mind, frees your soul, rocks the world, and pays compound interest.” – Mike Dooley- Notes from the Universe 

Don’t Worry, Choose Happy!

Julia Simavi

Marion Mill Preminger was a celebrity during the mid-twentieth century. I had not heard of her before reading her autobiography, All I Want Is Everything, but apparently she was quite famous for her beauty, charm, and Hollywood life style.

She was born in Hungary in 1913, Marion was raised in a castle, surrounded by wealth, servants and the notoriety of an aristocratic upbringing.

At a Viennese ball, she met a handsome young man, the son of an Italian doctor. They rushed into a marriage that lasted only a year.

She battled addictions to alcohol and drugs. She made three unsuccesful suicede attempts. Finally she left California and returned to Vienna. There she met Dr. Albert Schweitzer who was visiting Europe from his home in Africa.  Schweitzer fascinated Marion. He invited her to go back to Africa with him and work as an untrained staff member in the Lamberene Hospital.

She left her life of status and ease and moved to Africa. The girl who was raised like a princess became a servant. She changed bandages, bathed bodies and fed lepers. She gave her life away to the poor, and because of it, found the happiness she’d craved for so long.

In her autobiography, All I want is Everything, She wrote, “Albert Schweitzer says there are two kinds of people. There are the helpers, and the non-helpers. I thank God He allowed me to become a helper, and in helping, I found everything.”

Julia Simavi

When you come to focus obsessively on your debts, you can only see lack and deprivation. Here is a simple way to begin to reverse this. Sit down with a pad of paper and list the “things in my life I appreciate and enjoy” Now list everything you can think of.

You might say “How can I do that when I am in so much debt and pain. I don’t have anything and everyone else has much more than I do!”

That is the point. All you can see is your suffering and what you don’t have. You’ve become blind to what you have.

Please do not wait to clear your debt to make the list. Do it now!

Making the list will help you improve your emotions and clear your vision. You’ll change your energy and vibration and become more internally connected with what you want to create in your life.

Just for a minute, think of all the things you are grateful for, such as, loving friends, partners and family, pets , good health, great holidays you’ve had as well as everyday items such as a comfortable home, electricity, TV and clean water when you turn on the tap.

The list, in fact, could go on and on. So how does that make you feel when you think of all these things? Doesn’t it make you feel good?

It’s a straightforward choice and we have the ability to choose how we feel. 

We all, each of us, have talents and skills, tools and abilities, aptitudes and experience that are unique and valuable. We can see with our eyes, hear with our ears, analyze with our minds, touch, and taste, teach, love, and learn. We have friends and family; we are surrounded by opportunity if we look for it.

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears” Anthony Robbins 

After you have done your list, put it in your wallet. The next time you feel down, tired or stressed, take your list and be grateful. 

I will share my “Today’s Gratitude List” with you… 

My healthy, loving son

My family- all of them!

My wonderful friends

My dog, Snowy

My home

My office- all in white and orange ( In healing work, orange is used to raise energy levels )

My education

My job

My boss- I mean it!

My life, health, ability to think

My ability to express myself

My books

My belief in God

This Blog 

Blue skies

Who are you thanking today? Who are you grateful to? For? 

Go ahead. Be Thankful.

 Julia Simavi

It’s the law of nature, selfless giving does not go unnoticed.

Giving is the secret to keeping money, success, health, love and happiness circulating in your life. We all realize that giving on any level feels really good but if we give with the expectation of receiving something in return, we are not really letting go of whatever it is we are giving.

When we do not let go completely, we create resistance that can block the inbound flow of energy.

There is a quote in the book by Neale Donald Walsch, “Conversations with God”;

“Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another. There is a universal law that plays its effect here. When you give what you want to another you cause yourself to notice that you have it and since reality is a matter of perception, it is your perception that has caused you to imagine that you do not have it. When you give it to another and cause them to have it, you suddenly come to the realization that I could not give it to them if I did not have it to give. Suddenly you become aware that you had it all along.”

Look at Bill Gates for example. He is the richest man in the world, he makes more because he gives more. A basic law of this world is the more you give (with a passionate and loving heart, with no expectation) the more you receive.

And don’t think that it is only money you can give. You also can give your time. Time like money, is energy and we can make a gift of our time by taking action to help others. In fact the most powerful forms of giving are non-material.

I say giving selflessly, completely, and utterly is the ultimate happiness.

Julia Simavi

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