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Cindy Lou’s Corner

Wishing and Praying

Have you ever just wished to happen.” And if you feed your
for something or meditated on a mind these ideas, it will work
desire or even prayed for it? with you to make them happen.
Of course you have! At some You live experiences
point in our journey, we all have. through the relentless scenarios
Either out of frustration, you tell yourself. Most of the
desperation, fear, or all of the time its about lack, hardship, or
above. fear-based scenarios. And you
Sometimes we get exactly wonder why you are not
what we asked for, or something enjoying your life as much as
better. Sometimes at first, we you would like.
think our wish or prayer didn’t The next time you wish for
get answered, because it doesn’t something or pray for something,
look anything like we had hoped for. Those can be a little pay attention to what shows up and celebrate it and own it.
tricky, because they often turn out to be something we never Your ability to make changes in your life will become
thought of and are much grander than what we expected. effortless and the problems you will need to solve will be
In amongst all the wishing and praying we do in our upgraded to ones like these: “How do I spend a million
lives, things are unfolding at a rapid speed. Our mind needs dollars, or what vacation do I want to take? Do I want to live
things to do, stories to conjure up and drama to create. on a beach or in the country? Do I want to own a business?
Because our mind functions best under creating and solving You can never get away from having problems and trying
problems, we miss the magic and the power of our ability to to solve them. It’s a daily activity. Simple ones such as: What
create instantly or pretty close to instantly. do I want to wear today? What do I want to eat today? To
When we pause our mind and acknowledge what we more stressful ones like how am I going to pay my bills?
have created, it starts to form a habit or a pattern in the brain The trick is to train your mind to use its ability to create
that says “I did that, that’s so cool. I asked for it or prayed problems, to create scenarios in your life you truly want to
for it and it happened, Wow!” With this simple but profound experience. Create good problems to solve! And voila! You
realization the mind says “Oh yeah, what else would you like start enjoying life to the fullest.

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