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The Gorgeous YOU Channel!!!

You are your own TV!!! Your thoughts are the programmes.

When you sit in front of a TV that has a selection of many channels and something is on that you don't like, do you just stay sitting there watching the scary/boring/upsetting channel? Of course not- you change the channel to something you prefer to watch.

The thoughts that go through your head all day are like TV programmes- you choose what to think and you can change the channel! You don't have to watch the Bull**** Channel, the Distorted Thinking Channel, The I Want To Do The Behaviours Channel, The Paranoia Channel... switch onto something that feeeeeeeeels good!

You are not your thoughts- you are the observer of your thoughts. We create our own reality! Everything that happens to us is neutral until we label it "good" or "bad" e.g. if your partner has left you, you could say...

"Boo hoo he was my one and only, I'll never find anyone like him, he ruined my life, I'm so lonely" etc etc or...

"Thank goodness he's gone at last- he wasn't good enough for me anyway. Wuhoo I'm free; I'm so delighted to go out with my girlfriends and flirt with the guys at the bar" etc

(Easier said then done of course, but just an example of how we really create our reality. Our thoughts create our reality, not what happens to us.)

When you are watching the TV, watching the actors... you don't jump in and BE the actors do you??? You know it's not real! You can choose to enjoy what you see, maybe learn from it... and if you don't enjoy the programme, put your attention on something else.

When the Gorgeous You commercials come on, what is the commercial going to be like? Is the commercial selling your gorgeous self going to be like " 'Gorgeous Me' is fat, ugly, unattractive" etc??? Of course not- it will list the qualities to sell your amazing self!

So the question is....... what are you going to give more airtime to? The bull**** images in your head... or something more nourishing or positive?

Take care,

Not quite the 24 hour Positive Channel yet but getting there- Carol



(Article influenced by writings by Barbara De Angelis and David Schwartz)

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Loved this!! Today driving bk

Submitted on October 30th, 2009

Loved this!!

Today driving bk to dublin i caught myself thinking of nothing really or of worrying about condition stuff and i just stopped and thought about the autumn leaves and wat was going on outside. I loved your piece about the channels, when i switch to a i feel good and i am good enough channel its so much easier to deal with than im crap, fat and ugly channel, Thanks a mil for this

cara xx