Positive Thinking......

Good afternoon :))

Okay...so yesterday I think I did a bit too much on my feet :( woke up in pain this morning :( am resting it up again, hope I haven't spoilt the healing that was under way already...

So last night before turning in I saw on Twitter that Olympian diver Tom Daley has 'come out' and I feel so happy for him that something he has obviously been tormented about for quite a while which was disturbing his inner peace and happiness he has finally decided to do the right thing and just be honest about himself...this is like a follow on from a previous post coz it has been what I have been talking about.  Well done Tom and many congratulations that you now have proper inner peace and happiness, the more high profile people do this the more courage it will lend to those mere mortals who for whatever reason are still too frightened of being true to themselves and those they love.

This brings me to the Power of Positive Thought...of course dear Reader I shall explain how I have been brought to this at this point....statement:  Approx 2 weeks ago my daughter-in-law had a birthday party, my partner and I attended as did my daughter, her boyfriend and my other son and his lady, who brought her two children along...as the evening progressed my younger son and my daughter got completely hammered but the bonding between all three of my children was a delight to behold, each of them had a great time and altogether we had an excellent family fun evening.  It was unfortunate that my partner had allowed herself to get upset by something/s my daughter had said/done and had decided that she would not participate in the dancing and general jollity of the event and so stayed in a small room off the hall where the dancing was being held.  With her was my younger son's lady and one of her children - an 11 year old daughter ( clingy and controlling at the best of times, downright monstrous at the worst), her other daughter a delightful 9 year old was having a whale of a time joining in with the general celebrations and dancing etc.  I am not digressing here merely setting the scene for you.

At the close of the evening we said our goodbyes, I had arranged for my daughter to stay with my son and his wife as I was extremely worried in case she might be sick in my partner's car for which I felt I would no doubt get the brunt of and I did not want our weekend to be spoilt like this.  As it happened we had our own 'stuff' to sort out with me not understanding why she would not allow herself to get into the spirit of the event and enjoy herself and her for some unknown reason not understanding why I wanted her to be with me and enjoy the evening with me.  (Actually, as I write this and read it back I do wonder if I were a Reader what on earth I would think about this as it would seem to me that she may not be in love with me after all, but dear Reader I DO KNOW she loves me, she just has a hard time allowing herself to let go in that direction at times).

Sooo, apart from our little discussion which took a couple of days to get over my younger son's lady actually broke up with him that night!! Now, there is no doubt about it, he was very drunk, and by all accord was sick on the way home (not in the car I hasten to add) but all in all he was quite ill and we could not understand why she broke up with him over it.....He had only a few months back nursed her through a really bad time after she got completely wellied and threw up all night everywhere and he looked after her very well.  SO what was the difference??

The following days were really upsetting for him and I know I have never seen him brought as low as he was then, he very nearly took his own life as it hurt him too much at that point to carry on...thankfully on writing a 4 page suicide letter he found the will to carry on and started reading a book he has had for a few years but never read... that book changed his life around.  You may think that I should have got him to read it way before this point in his life but as the saying goes you can lead a horse to water......The book is called The Power by Rhonda Byrne, it is all about the power of positive thought and it is a subject that has always been very close to my heart but of course who would listen to their mother when they can learn through bitter experience?

Since I have seen the complete change in him I have indeed been re reading it myself and implementing it in my life too and it is working well.  I have even managed to introduce it to my partner as I feel it will do her the world of good too. Let's face it who wouldn't benefit??  So now going forward we are going to be completely more positive about things and watch this space coz I shall report on each and every thing that I see coming my way through this power that we can all harness and use - it is not a special thing it is there for our use, to help us get the type of life we would like to have, it is all possible and within our grasp if only we want it enough and can visualise it.  Imagine it and it is yours, if you let a doubt slip in then you won't get it :(