A Bright Future

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You can outgrow the wounds of the past with a deep appreciation of yourself, your courage, sensitivity, resilience, and desire for a better life.  You have enormous power and potential to become the person you were meant to be.  Appreciate your strengths and resilience.  Trust your inner voice — it tells you that you do not need to have value poured into you from outside sources.  Your vessel is full and ready to “runneth over.”  As you feel the light of your core value within, you can make it shine out of you, to illuminate all your days.

— Steven Stosny, You Don’t Have to Take It Anymore, p. 316

Necessary for Healing

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Forgiveness can wrap up the grief, but it does not prevent the inevitable and necessary suffering.  When there is a serious injury or loss, there is no way to avoid pain.  If you want to have a satisfactory future, you will need to feel the loss and then let go of the hurt it has caused you.  You need to forgive.

Even if you decide to divorce after a betrayal, you will still need to forgive….  When you forgive, you are able to be at peace even though rejection, disloyalty, and dishonesty have been a part of your life.

Your best chance for successful future relationships and overall happiness is to forgive your former partner.  Forgiveness is not a substitute for grief, nor does it preclude the pain caused by your partner’s cheating.  But it does gently allow your grief to ebb so that you can move on and live a successful life.

— Dr. Fred Luskin, Forgive for Love, p. 21

New Opportunities

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So now you have the opportunity to keep your life gaslight-free and go on to a new future.  You have the chance to rework or leave unsatisfying relationships and choose new relationships that feed your sense of self, your vitality, and your joy.  You have the chance to become a stronger, more solid person who charts her own course and lives by her own values.  Most important, you have the chance to discover what you truly want — in your work, your home life, your relationships, and yourself.  Freed from the Gaslight Effect, you can make better choices, choices that are right for you.  As you begin this exciting new portion of your life’s journey, I wish you strength and spirit and all the luck in the world.

— Dr. Robin Stern, The Gaslight Effect, p. 233

Enriching the Universe

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We enrich the universe with something far more valuable than money when we contribute love.  One act of caring may have more effect, more power than we can realize; here finding entry into a lonely heart, there encouraging and giving hope to a confused mind.  The universal love story is written line by line with simple acts of loving people doing a kindness for someone who’s having a hard time.

— Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love

Working Together for Good

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If you’re a child of God, the ordeal you’re undergoing, however wrong or unfair or heartless it may be or may have been, in His providence and skillful hands will be used to take you somewhere good — deeper into His heart, to a place of greater dependence and trust, more perfectly refined into the likeness of Christ.

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Forgiveness, p. 107

A Gift to the World

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A sacred choice is an extremely personal decision for each of us.  Only you can make that decision.  By listening to your spirit, by having a good relationship with God — it’s amazing how much easier this is once you change those tribal beliefs about who God is and what God thinks of you — and by being willing to heal yourself, the choice will be clear.  And thanks to the ripple effect, everyone around you will feel your happiness and high vibration.  What a wonderful gift to give the world.

— Christel Nani, Sacred Choices, p. 306

Living in tune with your spirit

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Trust me when I say, if something raises your vibration, you will know it.  If you think you are not sure, it’s because you are afraid to admit that your vibration is lowered by a particular person, activity, or way of life.

It takes great courage to start living vibrationally because it will require you to be rigorously honest about where you are putting your energy in life.  And before you start thinking I am condoning a self-centered way of life, consider this:  How self-centered do you think you become when you are resentful, angry, and conflicted because you are doing something you don’t want to?  Quite a lot.

Living vibrationally doesn’t mean avoiding the things you dislike — it means living in integrity with your spirit.

When you live vibrationally, you can take responsibility for your happiness.  If you feel trapped, find and change the tribal belief that is trapping you.  If you feel resentful, look at the situation you have chosen in order to remain true to your tribe.

— Christel Nani, Sacred Choices, p. 283-284

Healing Others

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Remember that I want you to be wildly happy, incredibly successful, and filled with passion and spontaneity.  Listening to your spirit will accomplish all of it.  And when your vibrations are good, you are sending out the best possible energy to the rest of the world.  The fact is, your good vibrations are healing to others.

— Christel Nani, Sacred Choices, p. 279

Affecting Others

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Each of us has a profound ripple effect on those around us.  When you are happy, you raise the vibration around you.  When you are resentful, you can drag down an entire party.  How do you want to influence those around you?

Your vibration is energetically broadcast to those around you — and to your children.  If you don’t want to get unstuck for yourself, do it for them.

— Christel Nani, Sacred Choices, p. 251