I’m sick and tired of complaining. I’m sick and tired of
hearing myself complain. In fact, I’m so fed up with it that I’m willing to
complain about how we human beings are so prone to complaining! How’s that?
Stay tuned and I’ll elaborate on that.
Complaining about this or that is a way to blow off steam,
which can be healthy to a degree, but ultimately, it isn’t very helpful-for you
or anyone around you. Lift yourself up no matter what your present life
circumstances are, face the day head-on, and notice which thoughts you tend to
put most of your attention on. Whatever the nature of those thoughts, the
consequences manifest not only in your feelings, but eventually in the world
around you.
Power flows wherever your attention goes. Power is Life
Force, or Spirit. When your attention is focused on negative thoughts, negative
experiences result. So whenever you notice yourself repeatedly attending to
negative thoughts, practice shifting your attention to thoughts of gratitude.
Consider the blessings in your life. What are the things that make you happy?
You may find a discrepancy between what makes you happy and what you’re doing
in your life right now. If that’s the case, choose to alter one or the other:
Either change your life and start doing what makes you happy, or change your
thinking to enjoy whatever is happening in the moment. It’s up to you.
Spirit comes through in a variety of ways, and I always look
for repetition, whatever the source of the guidance. The oracle cards often
provide a takeoff point in discerning any of the responses to any concerns or
questions when I need spiritual guidance, yet Nature herself also provides this
when I listen. I’ve found this to be particularly true with spirit animals,
those that repeatedly show up in either symbolic or physical form. Symbolic
such as through visual input, like dreams and images and written messages from
the Messages cards, or via the auditory channels, such as hearing my nephew
repeating the sound his cousin had made trying to pronounce.
My friend described how she was writing out ten statements
of gratitude each evening as a means of sustaining the focus of attention. I
haven’t been as systematic, but when I pause after catching myself – ”without
blame, shame, or judgment – complaining either in my head or out loud, I do my
best to shift my attention to what I have in my life that I’m truly grateful
for. Power flows where attention goes. Another outcome of this is that other
things for which I can be truly grateful appear, following the universal law of
attraction.
