Did you know it’s ok to change? Did you know it’s ok to say, I’m sorry? It’s also ok to acknowledge your flaws. A flaw is something you can change. So is denial. I am surrounded by people who are fearful of my personal growth journey, to the extent they don’t want me to apologize [...]

Did you know a difference of opinion is not a personal attack? I was thirty years old before I knew this, and only in the last year have I really understood it. I used to get so irate when others disagreed with me. I found myself getting into arguments quite often online and off. Why? [...]

Complaining about things you can’t change is useless. The next time you are up against something you cannot change, look at it from another angle: yourself. All you can change is your behavior and your perception. Is there another way to look at the issue or problem?Is there something else you can do?Have you tried [...]

John Halcyon Styn is on it with this videocast. He talks about how our path and our words speak our sermons whether we like it or not: Online Videos by Veoh.com This blog entry written by Trula. Thanks for visiting Seed & Flame!

I am in such a great mental state of being. I am attracting such good into my life, such joy and energy. I have always been a high-energy person but lately this energy has been dynamic and purposeful, not frantic and hassled. I am moving away from feeling I won’t have enough time to do [...]

2 big goals of mine are to be a gentle mother and a good wife and part of that is learning how to communicate with compassion. I also aspire to be a good family member and a good friend. I struggle with communicating effectively with people but I believe non-violent communication is the way to [...]

Every Moment Is Precious(Author unknown) To realize the value of ONE YEARAsk a student who has failed his exam. To realize the value of ONE MONTHAsk a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE WEEKAsk an editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the value of ONE [...]

Are you living as if you have nothing to lose? How? Yes, I am living each day as if I have nothing to lose by living each day to the fullest and striving towards my goals. I have learned a lot from being a creative person and I apply what I’ve learned to every aspect [...]

An internet acronym that used to annoy me is ‘IRL’ which means ‘in real life’ or time spent offline. I used it myself for years although it bothered me until I figured out that I could simply say or write ‘offline’ instead. Duh! Why did saying ‘in real life’ annoy me so much? Because it [...]

Thinking about this song from Sunday school childhood: This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine! The lyrics went something like this: This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!Let it shine, let [...]

I live in an affluent area in an old rambling house with many things wrong with it, and every now and then I feel a glimmer of envy at all the new nifty big houses and everyone seems to have a brand new SUV or hummer or whatever…everyone seems to have satellite TV, a brand [...]

I am always growing and changing and learning as I grow. Thriving can be a painful and scary experience because it can mean cutting off the dead weight in your life, or forcing your mind to consider new ideas and ways of being, or even finally, finally, picking off the old scabs of ancient wounds. [...]

My days are so busy lately, it seems like I wake up and it’s time to go to bed. the days just fly by. Today I exercised, went to the bank, the post office to drop off site orders and orders for my amazon store, came home and worked on writing projects for close to [...]

Do you find it hard to make friends? How about meeting new people? Do you wait for other people to make overtures of friendship to you, then feel ignored or left out when they don’t? Are you ready to take responsibility for putting yourself out there and actively trying to make new friends? Ok, read [...]

I was reading over at Ariel’s blog, she recently got back from The Global Well-Being Forum where they talk about happiness around the world and economics and psychology and stuff. She posted that she’d been asking around about women and happiness, and asked on her blog, How happy are you? Here is part of my [...]

Last night I briefly visited a community website for moms that I am a member of. I haven’t been able to visit the site in a bit because of my writing and work schedule, and as I skimmed the pages of posts I have missed I noticed a lot of crisis threads. A few in [...]

If you ran the world, what changes would you make?free food, education and health care for everyone! and I’d put a cap on personal income, like the most anybody could make would be a quarter million dollars a year. Any excess would go into the general fund for everyone to have free food, education and [...]

I’d like to discuss how you allow your religious or spiritual beliefs to guide your lives. I know so many people who claim to be this or that religion but who don’t live by the tenets of their faith. It’s like their religion is more of a social outlet or community outlet for them than [...]

I limit my interaction with toxic family members. I really just started doing this last year, and the benefit to my mental health, to my very life, has been amazing!! I would recommend this to anyone who has family like this. Something that has helped me with maintaining or setting up boundaries with my family [...]

I have read a lot of good books about communication including body language and personality styles and shyness, all of which helped me to understand how to talk to people, in particular to American culture. There are things I have learned that still make little sense to me. For example in this culture most people [...]

Do you get in your own way socially? I sometimes do. I will give you an example. I used to assume that all the people in my town were aloof and social snobs and just didn’t/wouldn’t like me. So by getting in my own way I just mean by assuming that people in my town, [...]

I have been able to get over physically as well as mentally my oversensitivity to others’ words and actions through therapy and by asking myself what’s the worst that could happen if what I believed to be was true was in fact true. If someone declined my offer to come to tea because they really [...]

I got this from Avert Your Eyes, and of course I tried it. Oh, this freaked me out good for a few minutes.———————————————-This will boggle your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can’t. It’s pre-programmed In your brain! Without anyone watching [...]

Emotional vampires are hard. I used to feel that I attracted negative people into my life. I sometimes still feel this way. I think I am a magnet for them because of my childhood; I think this was the case for me. Isn’t is astonishing how when you wake up you can spot dangerous people [...]

Who are your favorite kind of people?I LOVE people who are positive, open-minded, optimistic, generally happy and who enjoy living and all that life has to offer. I like being around people who exude sincerity, kindness, and appreciation for others and who can handle being around people of diverse backgrounds. I like people who handle [...]

It seems like lately online and offline I have been running into folks whose mission in life is seemingly to complain, complain, complain. People who wallow, just wallow in unhappiness and self-inflicted misery. Nothing is ever right or good enough in their world and they whine about everything and do their best to pull everything [...]

Who do you most admire in life and why?My maternal grandmother experienced a lot of unhappiness in life but she truly enjoyed life and more than any other adult in my life showed me how to live in the moment; to be happy in the moment and not put off happiness until things are perfect. [...]

When you put ‘positivity enthusiast’ into google this site comes up #1!!! Yay! That makes me feel awesome, especially because I have just gotten started writing about positivity on this blog. That means I must have lots of positivity throughout this blog without even meaning to! Henceforth, ahem: Positivity enthusiast is a phrase coined by [...]