Hello Dear Friend!

I am participating in “The 100 Day Project” this year.
To the 14 - yes- 14 lovely people actually subscribed to this blog you will be getting an email from me for the next 100 days. In that time you may very well be sick of me but If you stick with me we’ll be together daily until May 10th. The way this year is starting off who knows what could be happening in the world by May 10!

I am participating in #the100dayproject as a way to hold myself accountable to making something everyday. My project is to put phrases or quotes I want to remember or think about further in my art journal. Some days I will write something to go along with the journal entry some days I will just send a picture. Today I am starting off with a wordy one!

Day 1/100
"My thoughts about _______ do not mean anything. "

This phrase is from lesson 10 in "A Course In Miracles", a study I am trying to work my way through.

This particular lesson really helped me. After I repeated this phrase filling in the blank with all the things I am currently worrying about I really felt a sense of peace about it all. I suggest you do it too, repeating the sentence filling in the blank with your current stressors.

The things that I worry about, the things that keep repeating in my mind and stress me out have specific meaning only to me. They have a totally different meaning to the people or things I worry about.
Often the meaning I give things and the meaning given by the other person are totally different. This leads to miscommunications and misunderstandings which actually lead to more stress and and worries.
When I take a step back and look at it from the outside with some perspective I see that really I am just playing my own movies in my head and assigning parts. Everyone else is playing their own movies too with different roles and interpretations of events.
Just think how much easier and less conflict we would have in the world if we could all look at things this way. If we could all step back from our worries and drama, knowing that the perspective, the meaning, the bad, the good are all emotions and definitions we put on situations. In reality, things just are as they are - not good or bad- they just are.

Thinking of my worries that way brings me peace.

Thanks for reading this post until the end! I will see you tomorrow. :-)
XO Beth