GRATEFUL FOR A NEW LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for a new life.

I am letting go slowly of that which doesn't serve me.

I derive such joys from the activities that I do.  Even the chores give me joy.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR EACH NEW HEALTHY DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for each new and healthy day that I have.

I will practice yoga, meditation, and reiki.  

I will walk outside!!!!

I will do some shopping.  I need to purchase a new pair of walking sun glasses.

I will read my newest book.

I am grateful to the Almighty for my healthy life.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL TO THE ALMIGHTY FOR MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for my life.

I am no longer pre-diabetic!!!!!   The Almighty worked with me to keep me healthy.

I am so grateful for this. My checkup was good. The numbers were normal and I am grateful.

Today I will walk, practice yoga and do some more Passover shopping.  I will meditate on my new cushion and practice reiki.  My newest book seems really good.

Tonight we will see a film and go out to dinner.  I will still use all the no-sugar tricks that I learned but I will eat dinner calmly.

I am grateful just "TO BE."

Thank you Almighty!!!!!!

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty for this new day.

I finished my book last night and was up a lot of the night thinking about it.  It's the Long Island Read by Jody Piccoult called, LEAVING TIME.

This morning I will practice yoga.

This afternoon I will go for my checkup.  I hope that my glucose level has gone down.  Its in the hands of the Almighty but I certainly did work hard to do this.

It's raining.  I will probably walk this afternoon.

Thank you Almighty for taking care of me.

I am grateful.

Later:   Thank you Almighty.  My glucose level went down to 93 in lieu of 102 making the A1c 5.6 instead of 5.8!!!!!!

I am beyond grateful!!!!!

GRATEFUL FOR ALL MY BLESSINGS

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of my many blessings.

Yesterday I attended services at PJC and walked.  I decided to spend the afternoon on the couch reading my book.  It is something that I never did while living in this house.  When those daughters were here there was always a crisis and up until July 31, 2012, he needled me so that I was constantly nervous and agitated.  What a blessing to read a book quietly in the living room.

Today I am up early to complete some chores and then to practice yoga.

I will walk and continue my Passover shopping.

We will go out for dinner tonight and I will have dessert.  Tomorrow is my check-up.  I hope that there will be many desserts in years to come.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of my many blessings.

Thank you.

Later:   I enjoyed practicing yoga because there is always something to take off the mat.  Today the instructor spoke of softness and strength and how there has to be a balance in order to be healthy.  I have always had to be strong because of the very nature of my life.  It is only recently (and that's why I loved yesterday so much) that I have learned to be soft with myself.

GRATEFUL FOR KNOWING THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS...................

I am grateful to the Almighty because I am practicing MINDFULNESS and I know because of Him, how to live in the present and appreciate the moment.

I'm not saying that this is easy.  It's not.  However, living in the past doesn't change a thing.  Living in the future is something that you make up.  Living in the present helps one focus on BEING and BREATHING and that is what makes one enjoy life.

If something bad happens,  I will always remember that this too shall pass.

Today is the Sabbath.  I'm going to services to pray and then to enjoy a beautiful day.

Thank you, Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR FAITH AND NOT FEAR

I am grateful to the Almighty for a new day.

I am continuing to live in the present.............in the now and in the moment.

Today I will work on having FAITH rather than FEAR.  Tonight is the beginning of the Sabbath and I will enjoy the present moment.

I must say that this is not easy BUT without it I can feel myself becoming depressed.

I have strength and fortitude.  I have faith in the Almighty.

I will live in the present moment.

Today, there is walking and yoga.  Yesterday I had a manicure and today Lauren is blowing out my hair.  My Memory Workshop was fun too!!!  I am enjoying my new book also.

Life is good.

I will live in the present and have faith.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR YOGA

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has sent me to yoga.

I write about and talk about yoga principles BUT today is the day I slowly begin to internalize them.

I will begin by adapting my life off the mat with the way I adapt the poses on the mat.  This means that I will begin by getting rid of If Only......................

I will begin by living in the PRESENT and not dwelling in the PAST also.  I will stop discussing the PAST too.

I will start with these two principles, internalize them and move forward.

Thank you Almighty for this.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR LEARNING TO ADAPT

I am grateful to the Almighty for learning to adapt.

In yoga, I adapt poses because I have broken a knee and an ankle.  It doesn't bother me at all to do this.  I acknowledge the facts and I accept them.  It is what it is.  I accept what I can not change.

I had an epiphany today while practicing yoga.  The same adaptions that I do on the mat I can do in real life.

I have decided to move forward with my very own life.  It is true that I don't have decent daughters, BUT I have an incredible life since I retired and I need to be in the moment and enjoy my life.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this epiphany.

Thank you!!!

GRATEFUL FOR MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

I am grateful to the Almighty for my accomplishments.  He has helped me to be strong so that I can no longer be upset.

I made sure that those "so called daughters" are not invited to my Seder.  No longer will I have to fear their insults and nastiness.  I no longer needed a Muslim at my seder also.  I'm proud of me.  They didn't believe in it.  I was upset as to how they acted and its over.  Hopefully PJC will host not one but two seders.  If not I will have a quiet one at home.

Today I will practice yoga.  I will walk.  I also have a book club to attend on a wonderful book called, I AM MALALA.  Tonight I will practice yoga at a restorative yoga class.

I am grateful to the Almighty for helping me to move forward and quiet my life.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR MY BLESSINGS

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of my blessings.   

He has helped me to become the authentic person that I am.  He has helped me to look inside myself.  He has given me insight into myself.  I have asked myself questions. Who I am?  What do I want?  What do I need?  I have tried to calm and quiet the mind so that I can find my truth and my inner voice.

As a result of this, I have become the independent person that I am today.  It is a slow process.  There is much to learn and I am ready for the challenge!!

Today it snowed and it is Spring!!! I will practice yoga and then walk. It's supposed to be warmer this afternoon so I can walk outside.  A new book awaits me.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of my blessings.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR CALM AND QUIET.

I am grateful to the Almighty for my new life. 

He has sent me to yoga where I learned how to calm and quiet my brain and so I was  able to hear my inner voice.

This has allowed me to understand my inner truth so that I can become the authentic person that I am.

It has allowed me to show perspective so that I can rid myself of the negative and concentrate on the positive.

Yesterday, as a result of this, I attended services, enjoyed kiddish with friends.  I was able to walk, to read, to see where my doctors office is through side streets and finally to see a wonderful show at PJC.

Today I will practice yoga and walk.  Chores will be done.  I will read.  On this first day of Spring it will snow too!!!!  I can either make dinner or go out to eat.  Passover chores will begin.

I am grateful to the Almighty for my life and for showing me the way to calm and quiet.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR YOGA

I am grateful to the Almighty because He encourages me to practice yoga.

Yoga feels as if I was going to a therapist.  The philosophy really helps me to survive.

Yesterday I heard the instructor say that one should give oneself permission to do less.  I had heard this many times before but had not absorbed it.  Yesterday I did!!!!!  One can only relax if one gives oneself permission to do less.  No birthday celebrations, no seders.................... I can truly relax because it was me structuring all this and no one cared.

The instructor spoke about the fact that it is not our responsibility to hold everything together.  That is a freeing thought for me.  When I let go of Jewish holy days for them and enjoyed them for myself, I felt so much better!!!  Now with birthdays and seders, I did the same.  Why must I hold it all together at this point?  Either one believes or one doesn't!!!  Either one is respectful or one isn't!   It's time for me.

Today I will attend services and walk.  I need to take a ride to the doctor to see how to get there using Jericho Turnpike.

Tonight is the show at PJC.

I am grateful to the Almighty for sending me to yoga.

It has made me understand life and eliminate abuse.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE NEW ME

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has helped me to become the new me.  He has made the impossible...............possible!!!!

I have so many strategies to deal with the realities of life. I know how to be centered and balanced.  I realize that change and transition always occur.

I treated myself to a new bag yesterday as well as almond lotion.

Last night we went out for an amazing dinner because the blood test is over.  I won't do that again BUT it was wonderful.

Today I will walk and practice yoga.

I'm getting my hair blown out.

Tonight i Shabbos.

I am grateful for all the good in my life.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE GOOD IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the good that He has given me.

This morning I took the blood test for the sugar that I have been watching.  I really hope that the number goes down.  I worked very hard to do this.  We are also checking my thyroid. With the help of the Almighty, nothing will be wrong. Amen!!!

The appointment was over early.  That will allow me to go to yoga, walk and go to the mall.

Adventures await.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A WONDERFUL NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty because I am alive, healthy and happy on this beautiful new day.

It is a day where I will walk and practice yoga.  I will attend my Yoga Book Club too!!! I have already started another new book for the next book club.

Tonight is my Sisterhood Book Club.

My weight is back to normal.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the good in my life.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE GOOD IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the good in my life.  It is the Almighty who looks down and takes care of me.

Yesterday was a wonderful day filled with yoga, walking, chores, a pedicure and I finished my book.  I know how to handle my time when i am around him and I even had time to print out my Passover lists.  I signed up for the first seder and the Fashion Show at the synagogue.

Today I will again practice yoga and walk.

I will start another new book.

I hope to get to the mall today.  We are going out to dinner and I am going to see a lecture on Barbie called Icons of Female Beauty.

Each day is filled with interesting things to do.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this.

Thank you.

LOOKING FORWARD TO A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has helped me to look forward to each and every day.

I love the adventures that I have and the new things that I do.

Yesterday I attended a Shoulder Workshop at the studio and it was amazing.  I made chicken for dinner and watched Part One of And Then There Were None.  Tonight is Part Two.

Today I will practice yoga.  I will have to walk at The Home Depot as it is raining.  I'm going to PJC to hand in money for the Sisterhood Fashion Show and the first seder.

I have a pedicure scheduled for today.  I will finish my book too.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all my adventures and especially that I can look forward to a new day that I plan for myself with joy and things that I want to do.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE BLESSINGS IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of the blessings in my life.

You have helped me to make the IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE for me.  I am an entirely different person.  I reply.  I don't react.  This gives me so much more time to enjoy my life and even to have new adventures.

He is the same.  He is still on a quest to say the one thing that will set me off so that he can enjoy himself at my expense.  It's not happening.  Yesterday I told him that it would be absurd for me to look for another property out east so that I can create a doll house with the same emotional abuse inside.

I absolutely love my new life.  Today I took my yoga class.  I did some chores because I am going to take a Yoga Shoulder Workshop later.  I will come home and walk and tonight I will finish my book, A LITTLE LIFE, for the Yoga Book Club on Wednesday.

Thank you Almighty for the blessings in my life.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR RESTORATIVE YOGA AND CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS

I am so grateful to the Almighty for allowing me to attend the Restorative Yoga and Crystal Singing Bowls Workshop.

I learned two important statements.

When someone says something that you don't like you must let it go like a cloud passing by.

We are supported by Mother Earth and she will not fail us.  In my case I am supported by the Almighty and He won't fail me.

Thank you Almighty for this experience.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR A SABBATH ADVENTURE

I am grateful to the Almighty because I will be attending services today.

I will also be going to a yoga workshop this afternoon called, RESTORATIVE YOGA and CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS.

I am grateful for both experiences because they will help me emotionally deal with change and transition and keep me balanced and centered.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR THE GAPS IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for the gaps in my life.

I went to yoga yesterday and the instructor spoke of how the ancient yogis viewed the human mind.  They learned visual and then incorporated the information into their minds.  Then there was a gap.  If a gap is short, it shows that the information has been learned already. Time seems to go by quickly.  If the gap is long, the person is learning the information and time goes by slowly.

I realized that I am a life-long learner and the gaps are have are long.  This allows me to learn throughout life and time feels as if it is going by slowly as I continue to learn.

I liked that very much.

Learning new things has helped me to survive the many changes and transitions in my life.

I am grateful to the Almighty for this.

Thank you!!!

GRATEFUL FOR CHANGE AND TRANSITION

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the changes and transitions that have occurred in my life these last fours years.

These changes have allowed me to become the authentic person that I am.  It's not that I have become a new person.  I haven't.  I have become the authentic person that I am.  I was just beaten down into submission by people in my life.  However, yoga has allowed me to learn and to contemplate who I really am.

It was the Almighty who sent me to yoga.

I am grateful that the Almighty did this for me.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR A BUSY DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has created a busy day for me.

I am getting a manicure today and the finally I will be able to attend the Memory Workshop. Its's going to be in the 70's today making it a great day to walk outside.

We purchased the chairs that I had seen in The Home Depot for the backyard patio.  I will enjoy this a great deal.  He mourned throwing away the old chairs.  I am so glad that I moved away from him emotionally.  He would have torn me down.  I reply to what he says but I never react.  I have let go of that which doesn't serve me.

I made a chicken for my dinner last night and will have the res of it today.  It is time to open up my heart to kindness for me and that is exactly what I'm doing.

The book that I'm reading for the Yoga Book Club is awesome.  It's called, "A Little Life."

I am grateful to the Almighty for bringing me into the light.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR A NEW DAY

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has created a new and beautiful day and I am alive, happy and healthy and able to see it.

I am doing well on my "gain wight diet." I have gained 4 pounds.

I purchased new earrings yesterday.  I also attended my book discussion and enjoyed it.

I will practice yoga this morning and walk.  I will do some chores too.  I will practice Reiki also.

I hope to get to The Home Depot to buy chairs for our patio as wells a little table.  (Later: We did.)

Thank you Almighty for a new day.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR REIKI PRINCIPLES

I am grateful to the Almighty because I have begun to practice Reiki on myself, my doggie and also him.  I have also learned the Reiki principles.  This has so enhanced my life and made it richer.

I am grateful that the Almighty has sent me to practice yoga.  This has made me so much calmer and able to deal with the many changes and transitions in my life.

Today I will walk outside.  I will practice yoga.  Tonight I have a book discussion to attend.  The weather is beautiful.  We might take the dog to the park.

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has watched over me and I am continuing to evolve into a happy and contented person.

Thank you Almighty.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR KINDNESS TO MYSELF

I am grateful to the Almighty because I am learning how to open my heart and be kind to myself.

I am experiencing joy in every day.  When I experience another emotion I think about joy and bliss.

Today I will practice yoga in two classes.  I will give Reiki to myself, Matzah and Martin.  I will walk outside too!!!!  My new book is amazing.

I went to Weight Watchers yesterday and have gained back my weight.  

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of my blessings especially that I am learning to be kind to myself.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING

I am grateful to the Almighty for everything that He has done for me.

He has made the impossible, possible for me.

I am now a teacher of Reiki 1!!!!

Today I will walk and practice yoga.  I will be going to Weight Watchers.  My weight is where it should be and I am so grateful!!!

My new book for the yoga book club is quite good.

I am grateful to the Almighty for everything.

Thank you!!!!

GRATEFUL FOR CENTERING

I am grateful to the Almighty because I practiced yoga and learned about centering.

Life is always in change and transition.  I must learn to accept this and have faith that things will turn out all right.  Centering myself against the twists and turns in life will help me stay balanced.  I will then be grounded and grow.

Last night Rabbi Jay and Jenn's Shabbat Across America was wonderful!!!

Today I'm going to a full day of Reiki training.  I will become a Reiki I person by late this afternoon.  I am very excited about this.

Tonight we will go out for dinner.

My weight is going up.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all that He has given me.

Thank you Almighty.

GRATEFUL FOR THE SABBATH

I am grateful to the Almighty because tonight is the Sabbath and I can experience all the joy that the Sabbath will bring.

We are going to my friend's synagogue to participate in Shabbat Across America.

Today it snowed!!!!  It's not too much so I will be able to practice yoga at my 2 classes.

I love my new lavender highlights.

Life is good.

Thank you Almighty for the Sabbath.

I am grateful.

GRATEFUL FOR THE JOY IN MY LIFE

I am grateful to the Almighty for all the joy in my life.

I am learning, with His help, to love myself.

Each day is a wonderful day filled with joyful activities.

Today I will practice yoga in 2 classes.  I will go to ID and my entire head of hair will have lavender highlights.

Tonight we are going out for dinner.

I am grateful to the Almighty for all of these things.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR THE MOMENT

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has placed me in this moment.

I am aware of everything around me and am enjoying each moment.

Today I will walk at The Home Depot and practice yoga.  This afternoon a pedicure is in store for me.  I'm really enjoying my new book.

I am grateful to the Almighty for these moments.

Thank you.

GRATEFUL FOR BEING AWARE

I am grateful to the Almighty because He has made me aware of all the wonderful new things in my life.

I am a whole person.  I can have more joy as one person than I ever did as a couple.  It is like taking the impossible and making it possible.

My weight is back to normal.

I will practice yoga this morning.  I will be able to walk outside. I'm really enjoying my new book.  Tonight I have another yoga class and a Sisterhood meeting.  I speak to friends all the time.  I have signed up to be a Level I Reiki Practioner.  The training is this coming weekend.  I have also signed up for 2 Yoga Workshops.  My friend Jay is doing a Shabbat Across America dinner and service this Friday and we are going.

I am in the moment and loving it.

Thank you, Almighty.

I am grateful.