Last night, while enjoying the best home made lemon pepper wings courtesy of my BF and a four hour chat-fest marathon with two of my dearest friends, I periodically said "I have to send you the link to this video!" as we discussed our lives and plans for 2019. So I thought I'd put all the links in one place and share them with you all as well!
YouTube is my constant companion in the studio. It wasn't always this way. In college and grad school, it was the radio or CD's. Eventually my iPod on a speaker, then of course Pandora. Music transitioned to comedians for a long while, then almost two years ago I started to explore lectures - Ted talks mostly - dealing with some of the personal issues I was trying to comprehend.
As I learned more, understood more, about the psychology and pathology behind the personalities that threw my personal life into a tailspin, every talk, every explanation, every answer eventually led me back to an ultimate truth: I am in control. My thoughts, my reactions, my life.
One of my favorite lectures, and he has another one I will share in a later post, is about Love. Well, the familiar kind of love we seek. And, more importantly, cultivating and nurturing a better kind of love. I find this talk especially important as a mother, because I would like to live an example of powerful, nurturing, unconditional love to both of my children, so that they seek that type of love in their future relationships.
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person - Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton talks about loving the entire person, good and bad, and letting go of expectations that Perfect Love means perfect Understanding - without words and communication! Our partner should just KNOW.
Also, more profoundly when this is present in both individuals in any relationship IMO...
"the core of what Love is is the willingness to interpret another's behavior"
THAT is when a relationship can truly thrive.
As A Man Thinketh by Earl Nightingale
Law of Attraction...maybe you've heard of this? Maybe you were just thinking about it and now you're reading this? (Yes!)
James Allen wrote "As A Man Thinketh" in 1903. Over these past two years, my goal has been to Understand. As I delved into healing my heart and my head, the Law of Attraction was referenced by almost every spiritual leader, life coach, Oprah, Jim Carey, Wayne Dyer, etc etc etc that I listened to. And this law is expalined in writings way way way before any Instagram Influencer acted like they were the first one to share it with you. Wayne Dyer talks about the Tao, which also speaks of this law, and those texts are from almost 2000 years ago.
I love this video, and it was helpful to read the original text as well. Ultimately, our minds are magnets...and we are always attracting what we think about, good or bad. With that kind of power, why think of anything bad again?
"We're all self-made, but only the successful will admit it"
Whoa.
Watch this one...again, and again.
Change Your Life in 19 Minutes with Earl Nightingale
and if you like that you should watch Napoleon Hill, author of "Think and Grow Rich"
Napoleon Hill Laws of Success
OK I'm quickly realizing that I have about 50 videos saved and I can't share them all in one post but as you watch these, you will see more and more that speak to the same principles. I find time becomes irrelevant in the studio as I listen to these positive speakers over and over. Repetition is so important, as well as understanding where these beliefs come from and how many scientists, theologians, doctors, etc have confirmed almost all of these ideas on the quantum level. Energy is what moves the universe. Thoughts, feelings, have more power than we are ever led to believe.
I'll leave you with one section of a four part conversation between Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra "Beyond Miracles"
Wayne discusses the spiritual, Deepak the scientific...and really, to me, shows that once you see the miracle of who we are and what we are made of on the smallest scale, you can't NOT believe in an Infinite Wisdom, an Infinite Intelligence.
I highly recommend all 4 parts of the conversation, but this was the section that really resonated with me, because here's what I think we all need more of, for ourselves and for others: the ability to believe in our ability to change. And, our understanding that we are all made of the SAME things.
Deepak explains how quickly our cells re-generate, change, become new. We are not the same body today that we were one day ago, one year ago, ten years ago. Yet, our memories remain. Where exactly, then, are these memories stored? The cells that were in our brain as a young child are no longer here as an adult, yet our memories remain.
There's a magic in our minds. There's mystery and beauty and SO MUCH to learn about ourselves.
So many this list becomes a brief overview of what I would like to work on going into 2019
Love: Learn to communicate, learn to understand where every person I love is coming from. Why they feel the way they feel, why they react the way they react. It's amazing how quickly fights and misunderstandings can be fixed with communication. And, it's important to teach this empathy to my children, and also to teach them to expect it from those who love them.
Success: Have a desire (goal, plan, etc) and let this desire inspire my thoughts and actions every day.
Unlimited Potential: Our bodies and minds are always growing, always in the process of changing and becoming new. Believe that I always have the capacity to grow and improve and change...and so does every other person I meet.
Wishing you all love, success, and unlimited potential in 2019!!
YouTube is my constant companion in the studio. It wasn't always this way. In college and grad school, it was the radio or CD's. Eventually my iPod on a speaker, then of course Pandora. Music transitioned to comedians for a long while, then almost two years ago I started to explore lectures - Ted talks mostly - dealing with some of the personal issues I was trying to comprehend.
As I learned more, understood more, about the psychology and pathology behind the personalities that threw my personal life into a tailspin, every talk, every explanation, every answer eventually led me back to an ultimate truth: I am in control. My thoughts, my reactions, my life.
One of my favorite lectures, and he has another one I will share in a later post, is about Love. Well, the familiar kind of love we seek. And, more importantly, cultivating and nurturing a better kind of love. I find this talk especially important as a mother, because I would like to live an example of powerful, nurturing, unconditional love to both of my children, so that they seek that type of love in their future relationships.
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person - Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton talks about loving the entire person, good and bad, and letting go of expectations that Perfect Love means perfect Understanding - without words and communication! Our partner should just KNOW.
Also, more profoundly when this is present in both individuals in any relationship IMO...
"the core of what Love is is the willingness to interpret another's behavior"
THAT is when a relationship can truly thrive.
As A Man Thinketh by Earl Nightingale
Law of Attraction...maybe you've heard of this? Maybe you were just thinking about it and now you're reading this? (Yes!)
James Allen wrote "As A Man Thinketh" in 1903. Over these past two years, my goal has been to Understand. As I delved into healing my heart and my head, the Law of Attraction was referenced by almost every spiritual leader, life coach, Oprah, Jim Carey, Wayne Dyer, etc etc etc that I listened to. And this law is expalined in writings way way way before any Instagram Influencer acted like they were the first one to share it with you. Wayne Dyer talks about the Tao, which also speaks of this law, and those texts are from almost 2000 years ago.
I love this video, and it was helpful to read the original text as well. Ultimately, our minds are magnets...and we are always attracting what we think about, good or bad. With that kind of power, why think of anything bad again?
"We're all self-made, but only the successful will admit it"
Whoa.
Watch this one...again, and again.
Change Your Life in 19 Minutes with Earl Nightingale
and if you like that you should watch Napoleon Hill, author of "Think and Grow Rich"
Napoleon Hill Laws of Success
OK I'm quickly realizing that I have about 50 videos saved and I can't share them all in one post but as you watch these, you will see more and more that speak to the same principles. I find time becomes irrelevant in the studio as I listen to these positive speakers over and over. Repetition is so important, as well as understanding where these beliefs come from and how many scientists, theologians, doctors, etc have confirmed almost all of these ideas on the quantum level. Energy is what moves the universe. Thoughts, feelings, have more power than we are ever led to believe.
I'll leave you with one section of a four part conversation between Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra "Beyond Miracles"
Wayne discusses the spiritual, Deepak the scientific...and really, to me, shows that once you see the miracle of who we are and what we are made of on the smallest scale, you can't NOT believe in an Infinite Wisdom, an Infinite Intelligence.
I highly recommend all 4 parts of the conversation, but this was the section that really resonated with me, because here's what I think we all need more of, for ourselves and for others: the ability to believe in our ability to change. And, our understanding that we are all made of the SAME things.
Deepak explains how quickly our cells re-generate, change, become new. We are not the same body today that we were one day ago, one year ago, ten years ago. Yet, our memories remain. Where exactly, then, are these memories stored? The cells that were in our brain as a young child are no longer here as an adult, yet our memories remain.
There's a magic in our minds. There's mystery and beauty and SO MUCH to learn about ourselves.
So many this list becomes a brief overview of what I would like to work on going into 2019
Love: Learn to communicate, learn to understand where every person I love is coming from. Why they feel the way they feel, why they react the way they react. It's amazing how quickly fights and misunderstandings can be fixed with communication. And, it's important to teach this empathy to my children, and also to teach them to expect it from those who love them.
Success: Have a desire (goal, plan, etc) and let this desire inspire my thoughts and actions every day.
Unlimited Potential: Our bodies and minds are always growing, always in the process of changing and becoming new. Believe that I always have the capacity to grow and improve and change...and so does every other person I meet.
Wishing you all love, success, and unlimited potential in 2019!!
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