Hi ,

Living with Jeff Gee is an amazing experience. He is rarely unhappy, sad or depressed. Me (Val his wife) on the other hand, well I come from a different mold. I quite often wake up with negative thoughts. Maybe it’s the writer in me that’s always looking for the drama of life. In fact, I am in a writing class at the moment, and learning that the main element of writing any story is conflict: (want + obstacle), someone wants something and there is an obstacle to getting it.

In life I find the same is true. We want something and there’s an obstacle to getting it. I’m too thin, too fat, too old, too young, don’t have enough money, have too much money, don’t have enough education, have too much education, can’t find the right person to fall in love with, the right person turned out to be the wrong person…etc., etc. Of course, all these obstacles are in our heads, even if it’s about not having enough money, we are the ones who decide to do something about it, or just get depressed.

So this morning I woke up with some negative thoughts such as: ‘What is wrong with the world? Why do we have to have all this conflict? Why can’t we all have enough money, education, health etc.” And as I mulled over these thoughts, they got so bad that my body actually began to feel sick. And I thought, “This is probably the kind of thinking that gives people heart attacks or makes them ill.” Because I did actually feel ill.

And here is the amazing thing. I hadn’t even gotten out of bed yet! I had not put one foot on the floor and I was feeling miserable and depressed just because of some negative thoughts. Fortunately because of all the enlightened people that are in the world who have been teaching us how to change our thoughts for years and years, I was able to ‘plug’ into that different energy. I switched my thoughts to positive ones. Here’s how the conversation in my head went. “There’s nothing going on. I am alive and well. It’s snowing outside and I am safe and warm in my house. I have a job, I earn money…” And so on. Very soon, I had switched from the animal brain to the human brain and I began to feel better. My body felt better and I actually felt like a completely different person from the one who had been lying there only a few moments before, feeding all that negative energy.

So today and for the rest of February, let’s switch it up. Let’s feed our positive thoughts so that we live the life we were always meant to live. So that we are the ones who smile at others, so that we are the ones who bring enlightenment to the situation. Let’s be amazing as we move into 2008. Small steps, one at a time to make a lifetime of joy, happiness and freedom from stress.

Rock N Roll

Jeff

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