Psychic Insights  

1. Beliefs become reality. It’s good to question your beliefs from time to time. Do they still serve you? Or are your beliefs holding you back? As Anais Nin said, “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” The way one person sees something may be totally different than how someone else sees it. And that’s all due to our internal belief system that has been set up since we came into this world. Next time you sense anger, fear, or worry coming up, look inside yourself and see what beliefs are helping to create these feelings. Now ask yourself if you truly need to hold on to the belief. How much happier and freer would you be if you let it go and adopted a more positive and constructive belief system?

2. Put up a picture of yourself as a child. Talk to it often. Very few of us can say that we had ideal parents, or that our childhood was wonderful in every way. Each one of us has an inner child that is wounded, angry, lonely, or sad in some way. Find a picture of yourself when you were smiling as a kid. Frame it. Set it on your nightstand or hang it on a wall that you pass by often. Look into the eyes of the child you were and offer a smile in return. Send loving, healing thoughts to your child self. This may sound like a silly thing to do, but you’ll be surprised at the amount of emotion that erupts when you dare to look into your own eyes. Do you feel bad for the child in the picture? Sad? Do you feel the child is weak and pitiful, and it makes you angry and disgusted just to see that face? Any negative feelings that come up are clear indications that work needs to be done, issues need to be faced, and emotions must be healed.

3. Set small goals and accomplish them every day. How many times do you fall into bed at night feeling you got nothing accomplished? There’s a long list of things you’ve wanted to do, but somehow you forgot about them, got sidetracked, or by the time you remembered you were too exhausted to even care. Make a list of your top goals for the following day. Try to include no more than five things since you don’t wan to feel defeated before you start. Tackle each one in turn until you’ve got the list cleared out. Then when you settle down to some well-deserved relaxation time, you won’t feel guilty! Do this for large projects and long-term goals too. Break them down into tiny steps that are easy to follow. Pretty soon you will have accomplished what you set out to do.

4. Don’t let a bad mood or worry color your days--and especially your nights! Good and bad feelings only control our lives if we allow them too. Naturally, we’d love to have positive thoughts constantly dancing through our minds! Too often though we see life through the glasses of a bad mood or worry. When we do this, nothing seems right or good any more. Our problems appear insurmountable, and people seem completely impossible to get along with. If they had a gold medal for worrying, I’d be the Olympic champion every time. There are times when I lay in bed awake allowing every worry--real and imagined!--to parade through my mind all night long. Lately though when I catch myself in this worry-wart mood I put on the brakes and laugh at myself. After all, what in the world can I accomplish by worrying? Worrying is passive. It gets you nowhere. And it has never, ever solved or prevented a single thing! Then I change my worry to wonder. I ask myself, “Hmmm…I wonder how I can overcome this obstacle? Maybe I could try this. If it doesn’t work, I’ll try something else.” The following morning I put my plan into action. Now, this is doing something! I’m actually moving forward and creating change in my life! Next time you find yourself worrying or in a bad mood, realize that it’s simply a quirk in your thought patter at the moment. Stop yourself right there in your tracks and change your line of thinking to that of wonder. “I wonder why my boss is in a bad mood today? Maybe he’s under a lot of stress.” Or, “I wonder how I can pay my cell phone bill this month? Maybe I can take the bus to work or share a ride with someone a couple times a week and save on gas money.” By changing your mind to that of curiosity and wonder you allow growth to take place. Give it a try next time you find your mind spinning wheels. See what you can come up with that will create changes.

5. Wear sunscreen. Okay, this seems almost silly, but do you use it? I live in Tucson, Arizona, and I can tell you that about 90% of the people out here don’t even seem to know what sunscreen is! Who wants to look 60 when they’re really 40? Who wants to risk skin cancer? Who wants to look like Samsonite luggage?! There are some things in life we can’t prevent, but some things are very preventable. Taking care of yourself is easy once you get into the habit. I wear sunscreen whenever I’m out. I even buy face powder with sunscreen in it. Of course, I have my grandfather to thank for my skin care rituals. He worked for a real estate company for 20 years and was in charge of putting up signs for companies. He was out in the sun nearly every moment of his work life. And he had skin cancer covering just about every square inch of him! Back in the 70’s nobody knew about or cared about sun damage. We used to slather ourselves in Coppertone oil and bake ourselves! Now we know better. You only have one body in this lifetime. Take care of it as best as you can.

Dr. Kelly

www.ThePsychicSoul.com

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