by Hollye Dexter | Sep 28, 2013 | answered prayers, how to be happy, life lessons, positive thinking, reclaiming joy, ridding your life of negative energy
–>Letting Go of What Doesn’t Serve Me:Recently I read a story about a nun who had prayed every day for 30 years for God to take away a lifelong problem she’d had. Finally, one morning as she was praying once again, she heard a gentle voice in her head- I...
by Hollye Dexter | Sep 25, 2013 | answered prayers, gratitude, how to be happy, life lessons, positive thinking, prayer, ridding your life of negative energy
–>”We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”-Albert EinsteinFor months now, I have been in a funk. And then I got sick of it. This is how it started.All year I had been looking forward to summer. I was...
by Hollye Dexter | Jul 1, 2012 | better sleep, Dalai Lama, how to sleep through the night, ridding your life of negative energy, ridding your life of negative people, the power of positive thinking, tuning out the media, yoga
I’ve just completed a week-long Negativity-cleanse, in which I tuned out the news, didn’t watch any negative TV (no cable news or politics), didn’t listen to news on the radio.All week I read positive, uplifting books and listened to music. I did yoga four times this...
by Hollye Dexter | Jun 28, 2012 | Dalai Lama, happiness experiment, making good decisions, ridding your life of negative energy, the power of positive thinking
The Dalai Lama says that before you make any decision in your life, you should ask yourself, Will it bring me happiness? We make decisions every day, often based on fear, avoiding pain or conflict, because we think it’s the “responsible” thing to do, because we...
by Hollye Dexter | Jun 27, 2012 | Bill Moyers, Good news, gratitude, gratitude journal, negativity cleanse, ridding your life of negative energy, the power of positive thinking, tuning out bad news, tuning out TV, Turn off the TV
Yesterday was Day 2 of my Negativity-Cleanse. Or perhaps I should rename it my Happiness experiment.Tuning out the bad news allowed me to have a great day. Interestingly, the only negativity that came up yesterday was from inside my own head. As I sat down and began...
by Hollye Dexter | Jun 25, 2012 | Fahrenheit 451, positive attitude, Ray Bradbury, releasing negative thoughts, ridding your life of negative energy, the power of positive thinking
I recently re-read Fahrenheit 451, on the day of Bradbury’s death. It had been probably thirty years since I’d last picked it up. In reading it now, I was disturbed by how close our society has come to what he envisioned. He described wall-sized televisions that...