Looking for Inspiration

                Tonight when I sat down to write my blog, I discovered that all of the ideas and topics that had been swimming around in my head and screaming for attention during the day had suddenly disappeared. No matter what I did the words wouldn't come, and the night was ebbing away. In an effort to track down all those inspirations, I employed a technique that I recommend to my hypnotherapy clients to help them overcome writer’s block: I took a few deep breaths, visualized that I was sitting at my desk and writing the stream of words that quickly, easily and enthusiastically bubbled up from my subconscious to my conscious mind. Then, I walked away from the computer for a few minutes and then found another activity to distract me for a while I waited for my new inspiration to take hold. I decided to catch up on some social networking on Facebook. Within a few moments, I came across tonight’s inspiration—or, many inspirations—in the form of a quote of the day from Bruce Lee: “Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”

                Suddenly inspired, I scrolled through previous posts, looking for more quotes and muses for future blogs and essays. If you follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Calminsense-Hypnotherapy/) you may have seen some of these quotes before on this page, or will in the future. Many of these QOTDs are beautiful examples and illustrations of the work I do as a hypnotherapist, so I will probably draw on them in future essays.

                In the meantime, I hope you enjoy and find as much inspiration reading these quotes tonight as I did in sharing them with you.

“When you forgive you don’t change the past, you change the future.” Kissing Fish

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” Dalai Lama             

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” General Knowledge’s photograph

“You are stronger than you think.” Crystal Moradi

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” Markus Zusak

“Surround yourself with people who know your worth.” Curiano.com

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” Letters of Gratitude

“Just because your fears have stopped you in the past doesn’t mean they have to do so in the future. Believe in your talents. Trust your gut. Have faith in yourself.” Helene Lerner

“Happiness isn’t the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather starting over.” Nicole Sobon

“When you are truly comfortable with who you are, not everybody will like you. But you won’t care about it one bit.” Lessonslearnedinlife.com

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Ann Landers

“Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken.” Anonymous Mother Superior’s prayer

“It’s not just enough to swing at the ball. You’ve got to loosen your girdle and let ’er fly.” Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” Rose Kennedy

“Worry is one of the best techniques I have to avoid my feelings.” Anonymous

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” Mignon McLaughlin

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” Jeannette Rankin

“I don’t think about what I missed, I think about what I had.” Katharine Hepburn

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” Doris Lessing

“Things come suitable to the time. Childbirth. An’ bein’ in love. An’ death. You can’t know ’em till you come to them. No use guessing an’ dreading.” Enid Bagnold

“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colors the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.” Elizabeth Bowen

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” Margaret Fuller

“An uttered word cannot be taken back.” African Proverb

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” Chinese proverb

“Nothing icky lasts forever.” Deborah Norville

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” Ruth Rendell

“However great the flood, it will ebb.” Irish proverb

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” Erica Jong

 

Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.

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