Steps To Happiness Everybody Knows: You can't be all things to all people. You can't do all things at once. You can't do all things equally well. You can't do all things better than everyone else. Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's. So: You have to find out who you are, and be that. You have to decide what comes first, and do that. You have to discover your strengths, and use them. You have to learn not to compete with others, Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*. Then: You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness. You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions. You will have learned to live with your limitations. You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due. And you'll be a most vital mortal. Dare To Believe: That you are a wonderful, unique person. That you are a once-in-all-history event. That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are. That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish. And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down. ....author unknown, from the Bridge, by Values Realization Press

There IS such a thing as "can't"! It always seems a little strange to have to say this but it needs saying: avoid impossibilities. You are not going to grow another limb, change your eye color, reverse the aging process or get rid of 20 pounds of fat "overnight". I am using silly examples to make my point here because although hypnosis sometimes seems like magic, it is not. Trying to achieve the impossible will not physically harm you, but it does do serious damage to your subconscious acceptance of self-hypnosis and any suggestions you may be working with. After all, if you are not consciously taking this seriously, why should your subconscious? But wait a minute! Self-hypnosis can be used to achieve things that may not have been possible before. So how's a person to know what is and what is not possible? How do you determine where the line is between possible and impossible? How do we define what is do-able and what isn't? These are tough questions to answer. For example, common sense says that a woman cannot enlarge her bust size. Yet many women claim to have done just that with self-hypnosis. To conclude on the business of what is possible and what is not, you'll have to use your own judgment. As a rule of thumb, approach everything gradually and just keep ratcheting upward until you have reached the limits of your possibility. Dwell Not Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now, in this instant of time. From this moment onward you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. ....Eileen Caddy