I am grateful for being able to see things clearly once again (I broke my glasses last week and had to do without them for 6 days

I am grateful for being able to see things clearly once again (I broke my glasses last week and had to do without them for 6 days

That’s an interesting site. Thanks.

I did think it was interesting.
It was one of my task avoidance - activities on Saturday.

Good question! My self-loathing, not worthy messages are far more than occasional … :/. Have you thought about listening to tapes to sort of re-program those messages? Agreed, it’s hard to quantify. Hopefully, you’ll get some good suggestions.

Maybe find an affirming meditation, and if you take the time to go through it, then you earn the points. Like a chakra cleansing… takes a while to go through all them colors. Seriously.

OK, an affirming meditation it is.

I have Louise L. Hay: (1) Anger Releasing; and, (2) Forgiveness/Loving the Inner Child. Both purchased last year sometime and as yet unlistened to … :/ Lemme know if you’d like to borrow either.

We could have tea in the garden and listen together? I need more of number 2. BTW. Good night.

We could try that if you like. But they’ll make me cry, I bet.

Crying is okay. ♥

Crying is great. I think some great female bonding is about to occur!

Oh gosh, so yum!! I am inspired to make soup tonight!!

Ron,
I’ve been using that roasting tecnique, pouring off the fat and then putting a couople of cups of water to lift the brown stuff off the pan. I put that with the bones in the stock water and it gives flavor and color. Then I through all kinds of odds and ends— from the veggie family. Beet greens gve a reddish tint to the stock and I’m imgining— lots of vitamins and minerals.

Paula, you were talking about soups. . .use this stock to make a very simple kale soup- literally the stock and a bunch of kale chopped p and thrown in for about 10-20 minutes. Poach an egg, put it in the bottom of the soup bowl, ladel the kale soup on top. This is so good I have it for breakfast some days. Enjoy!

Oh my Gosh, mouth is watering! And it sounds SO healthy! I will have to try it :-) Thanks Guys and Gals!

Oh, yes, this is lovely!
Thanks for posting it, Bridget.

I knew about this from an on-line course.
How did you come across it?

Link was in email from local yoga studio.

I thought of you when I read email. They are offering a “Make Your Own Vision Board” workshop. I’m too cheap of course.
When I read about you struggling with your magazines I thought:
If Mary Ann and I lived close we could clear off half a table at one of our homes and make our own vision boards.

And we would have frozen yogurt with Madagascar vanilla.

Yeah, we could! And it would be fun!

That’s the kinda thing I’m thinking of, when I pore through the magazines and tear out photos. Then there’s what’s called ‘soul collage’… and regular collage… and decoupage… and it just keeps going!
Then there are illustrated mind maps…. it never ends!

See why I have to look through the magazines? :-D

If it were me, I’d go for that Vision-Board workshop.
Especially if you’re nearing a transition (like retirement), or if you have dreams, or want to dream . . .

(As for the workshop, I don’t think the materials are a big part of the cost in this kind of workshop. It will be some pieces of bristol board or foam board or the like, and some images somebody’s torn out of old magazines, or the pile of old magazines itself. The thing about a workshop is that you actually DO the thing that you’d never get around to doing on your own at home. And they give you some prompts or food for thought. But then again, I’m a bit of a workshop junkie. :-)

Yeah, we’d have frozen yogurt with Madagascar vanilla!
And Ceylon cinnamon, if we wanted it.
And maybe a teensy weensy tiny drop of Bailey’s on it, too.

oh, yes.

So when are you coming up here then? :-D

I have been trying to write one thing I’m thankful for at the end of each day….maybe you could extend that to writing one thing you are happy with yourself for….that way even if you’re beating yourself up you get a little boost. =) Thanks for the fruit!

great idea! I’m in: 3 gratitudes and 3 descriptive positive feedbacks to self.

I second what Erin says. I do the rule where you list things you’re grateful for, but mostly I list all the good things I did that day. Eventually it gets you in the habit of viewing yourself through a positive perspective.

Check for bruises before going to bed?

Check for bruises before going to bed?

I like the reminder idea… I use a service that emails me a couple of times a month with a few photos I took the previous year.

To my surprise, I am leaning toward OhLife for this. I signed up yesterday to check it out, got the first prompt and finally got around to writing something just now. The simplicity (replying to the email vs visiting a web location and having to log on etc) surprised me.

As I next wanted to Play My Turn, there was the box for my Gratitude Rule and I could either cut and paste what I’d written or simply type (as I think Rachel said) ‘see OhLife entry’.

What I notice is that I typed more words and seemed to take more time to think about it and compose my Grateful List when I did it in the email (could be that it’s my habitual way to type things, it’s self-correcting and a font that I like?)

Normally, I just put brief thoughts in the HM box—frankly, I admit abashedly, sometimes it’s just to Get It Done—whereas this seemed a more thoughtful and reflective solution, which is what it’s all about.

p.s. I’m rubbish with paper journals these days, Bridget. That would be my FIRST choice and I have a collection of beautiful ones, each with about three pages written in…and then abandoned. (sob) I admire anyone who can do that consistently. I do wish I still could!

I haven’t had much luck with paper journals either, though for the last month I have successfully used the muji chrononotebook (http://www.muji.us/store/chronotebook-am-pm-scheduler.html ) to keep daily notes about my time. Maybe I will use that for my gratitude list.

I’m another one who does this electronically. I use my livejournal, set the entry to private so only I can see it, and tag it with a designated tag I’ve chosen for these things. You could do a similar setup with any blog or microblogging service.

I’m another one who does this electronically. I use my livejournal, set the entry to private so only I can see it, and tag it with a designated tag I’ve chosen for these things. You could do a similar setup with any blog or microblogging service.

I confess I have been rubbish with OhLife. I don’t know why. I am grateful, Bridget, for the info on retrieving the HM info; at the moment, that sems to be the closest thing I am doing to keeping a daily journal (though more long-winded than ‘tiny’ lol) and can only conclude that it’s more fun to be ‘writing to friends’ and tracking what I do back to me goals and aspirations. I will check out live journal, though, just for fun, too, Pennie.

I’d love to know, too.
I haven’t found a way.

Cut and paste as you write them, apparently. Or have a photographic memory.

That’s something for the site to include in the next version, yes?

Oooh, saw this posted on another group and never got around to looking at it…now I have, thank you!!

When I had “track spending” as my rule for last month, it asked me what I spent my money on. I discovered, though, that you can just enter a few words and then it will register as accepted. So I’d just write “I spent money on stuff” or “I kept track of it elsewhere”, and it accepted it as that I’d tracked something. So, long story short, if you wrote “I listed grateful things elsewhere”, it should be okay.

other people can’t see what you’ve written! (At least as far as I know, can someone else confirm this?)

If I were you, I’d just type in “I’m, grateful, for, my, new, grateful, notebook” every day :P

I’m glad I know about this because I considered “list grateful things” and I’d do it in my 750 words.

You can just write:

la
la
la

in the box and it should count it. (Just don’t use that workaround to skip a day!)

That sucks.

i think Health Month is taking the reward approach rather than the punishment one. because you get 10 bonus points for taking your turn online. ;)

:) It occurs to me that I could just not list grateful things on days I’m going back to… But of course I’m not going to not list grateful things!

grateful for having enough sleep.

It is rainy and cold outside and I have a warm house.

It being well above freezing two days in a row!

I’m always always always grateful for hot water. Today specifically I’m also grateful for all the music I can carry with me. The marvels of modern technology make me smile sometimes.

Ordering a new dress off the Internet in a size smaller than I normally get and having it actually fit.

Being able to be genuinely happy even when I am sick and in pain. I can smile and mean it. And I am smiling right now.

I’m grateful for all you folks. I was just feeling a bit frazzled, but checking in with Health Month made things feel better.

Nope. You’ve still got nine life points (the heart thingies) and those are what keep you in the game. Surviving the month is like completing a level.

If you lose more life points, and you feel like your levels are getting dangerously low, you can make a request to be healed on the game wall, and then other people can give you their fruit to give you more life points.

Thank you!

No problem!

:) I’m just gonna say that “Plants vs. Zombies” is totally something to be grateful for. :D

i don’t think they are, i did the grateful rule last month and they were private. i think. :)

Yes, that helps. Cool!

Sounds like fun! I’m going to try it in February. :)

Ah okay, thanks so much! I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to go back and look. :)