Send love letters

Making the time to take pen in hand and express our thoughts is valuable.

It requires concentrated thought.

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 45

Don’t let other people put thoughts in your head.

Respect the power of words and thoughts, both your own and others.

How easy is it to to be unaware of the process, to walk around with other people’s words in our head, taking them as truth, taking them as your own, letting their ideas about us control our lives and our beliefs.

“Words are powerful. Don’t let other people put them in your head. And choose carefully the words you speak to them.”

So much stress comes from not listening, not trusting our inner voice. So much confusion comes from trying to act before we have heard, before we are guided.

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 39

Take time to notice what’s right in ourselves, in others, and in the world around us.

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 38

Whatever your project is, or ”learning a lesson on your journey, learn to live comfortably with unfinished work.”

Whatever you’re working on, whatever you’re in the midst of doesn’t need to be finished, in perfect order, with all the loose ends in place” or tied together.

Enjoy all the stages of the process you’re in. The first moments when the germ of the idea finds you. The time before you begin, when the seed lies dormant in the ground, getting ready to grow.”

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 37