Attitude Healing

“Face piles of trials with smiles…” - Moody Blues, from In The Beginning.

A lot of our difficulties, whether they be spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical, come from having bad attitudes. If we’re often thinking negative things about the world we live in and the people who share this world with us, it is bound to darken our auras and have a negative effect on us. In fact, our negative thoughts about other people or events have a far greater impact on us than on anyone else. And if there really is someone out there trying to make us miserable, the only way to escape from that misery is to rise above it by thinking good and positive things, feeling spiritually exalted, and not allowing ourselves to be sucked into the pit of despair. This is what I speak of when I write about attitude healing.

A long time ago, in December 1990, I was homeless - a single mother with two babies ages 7 months and 19 months, and a seventeen year old. I was an escapee from a relationship in which I was battered. I left an extremely bad housing situation hoping to find something better, and was without a home for over a month. At the same time one of my neighbors who had become a close friend did the same thing. She had a four year old son at that time. We stayed in hotels and some nights I even stayed in my car. We both applied for new rentals and hers became available sooner than mine did. She offered to let me stay with her until my rental was ready since she knew I was in as deep a financial bind as she was.

Everything went well for us for a few days until Christmas Eve, and then the stress got to be too much for my friend, and she started yelling at me because she didn’t like living with my teenager. I quickly gathered my things, not knowing where I’d take my three children, and prepared to leave her home since that’s what she wanted. Before I left I turned to her wondering what to say, then suddenly felt the cares of the world lift off of me. Suddenly my heart was flying above the situation. I honestly felt like a white bird flying through the sky, filled with compassion and love. I expressed that love to her in the kindest words I could manage, acknowledging her stress and prior hospitality, and promising my friendship was still available when she was ready for it. (And yes, we did continue as friends in the months to come.)

That moment wasn’t the first time I’d experienced that “flying above” feeling of loving despite the hostile expressions of others, but it is the time I always think back to - the time I remember as my most conscious moment of emerging from the web of emotional entanglement into the freedom of spiritual, world-embracing, unconditional love.

I thereby challenge you to allow yourself to be filled with love no matter what terrible things are happening in the world or in your life. You will free yourself from stress and negativity as the healing joy of blissful love permeates your being and gives you the peace you need for health and well-being.

Heal your attitude; heal your life!