Guest has asked for advice on healing emotional wounds. Taken from Abraham-Hicks audio CD Relationships & Co-creation.

Find Light Within The Darkness

"Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart."
-- Myla Kabat-Zinn


“Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.”
-- Barbara Rose


“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”
-- Barbara Rose


“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.”
-- Dalai Lama

A Short Video on the Effectiveness of Intentionally Changing Your Thought Patterns

Our brain is a bunch of plastic ... with lots of ridges, or neural circuits. To read more and comment, go directly to 'Beyond Blue' at http://www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue.

The Deeper Sorrow Carves Into You, The More Joy You Can Hold--Kahlil Gibran

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. -- Meister Eckhart

We are the ocean -- vast, deep, powerful and rich. Nourishing and nurturing. Dive down into the dark stillness of being. Sense the rising and falling of surface thoughts and emotions, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent. Always shifting. Always in motion. Draw back and watch the waves of your life at play. Know you are the unfathomable depths -- surface agitations can’t disturb you. Know that you are bigger than the little things that aggravate you.


The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.-- John Berry


"It’s best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life."
-- Dalai Lama

Via:  Higher Awareness

Why Do People Self Injure?

...This may be the aspect of self-harm that is most puzzling to those who do not do it. Why would anyone choose to inflict physical damage on him or herself? There is evidence that self-injurers, when faced with strong emotion or overwhelming situations, choose to harm themselves because it brings them a rapid release from tension and anxiety. These situations cause an increase in physiological arousal, and self-injury quickly drops that level of arousal close to baseline. The self-injurer may feel release,but even if s/he feels guilty or angry afterward, it won't be an oppressive, pushing, demanding tension-filled feeling like it was before.  Click anywhere in this sentence to continue reading...

Via: Deb Martinson