Card of the Week for March 16th!

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OK, first things first! THANK YOU ALL for your wonderful comments and participation in this activity! I am sooooo jazzed up about this! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for joining in!

I had such a hard time picking out one comment that stood out above the others. They were all so wonderful and insightful. So, I decided that I would put everyone’s name in a hat and draw out the winner of the free reading. Actually, I think I will do this every week now, because it just seems like its going to be tough to pick out one comment from so many great ones.

So…drum roll please…….

This weeks winner of the 5 card reading is J.C. !

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Now, the card for next week comes from the same deck as last week — Wisdom for Healing Cards by Caroline Myss. BTW, have you ever check out Caroline’s website? Lots of great articles and free video and audio lectures to be watched and listened too. Great way to while away the hours on a cold winter afternoon!

This weeks card (I swear this is the card I pulled from the center of the deck…..) :

Release the need to Complain

Today’s lesson: Honestly assess whether you’re a complainer. No matter whether you share complaints with others or keep them to yourself, this tendency is a way of looking at a situation without seeing the potential blessings. Your goal: to release the prediliction to complain, and instead, see the positive side of things.

So, please feel free to comment on your thoughts about this card and how its advice effects you in the coming week. Comment and get entered to win a free reading.

Light and Love

Sister Bridget

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9 responses to “Card of the Week for March 16th!”

March 16, 2008

Simone Greene

But I have Sooooo Muuuuch to complain about right now!
Actually I was hit with this when I was going through a health situation ten years ago. Someone mentioned that people were tired of hearing about it a lot sooner than I would be tired of talking about it. 🙂
And I did go the other way with it as well, not talking about it at all because I’m not good at asking for help, either.
But there is a difference between complaining and asking for help. Part if it can be very specific, like asking a friend to help me practice my interview skills, rather than just complain about my job.
Also at times I have felt it to be a very important thing to help the world by letting everyone know what a jerk someone is. But you know, jerks have a way of making themselves known to others, and don’t need my help there.
Anyway, before reading this today I had not seen the connection between complaining and dwelling on the negative. But it’s absolutely true, when I think about negative people it’s the complainers who come to mind. If that is the fact for other people, then it is for me as well.

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March 16, 2008

Schweety

Wow, release the need to complain! This is a very empowering card! At first I would say I am not a complainer and then I would think again and go, oh my, I truly am but I think each of us are in so many ways, even if we are trying to be positive, it is so hard. There are maybe a few handful of people I share my complaints to and I just realized that by sharing those with others, that I am empowering them to hop of my pity party wagon and pretty soon I have a freaking negative train just because of the thoughts and feelings we are all sharing. And yes, I am so focused on my situation that I dont see the potential blessings that are happening around me. It took me a longgggg couple of months to really see that I needed to work on me before I could put myself into my spellwork, and that was tough, but I have realized on many levels that I need to work on my complaining, and instead put them toward what I can be grateful for around me. This card just solidifies this for me. Thanks Bridget!

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March 16, 2008

AB-

Sister Bridget!!!! You made me laugh!!!!! Today I wrote an e-mail to my best friend saying that it was the last one I’ll send where I complain about my health and situation… and actually the subject of the e-mail was “I don’t complain any more!”
You are great! I’ll be back at the end of the week to comment on my changes!
Congrats JC!!!!!!! 🙂 Im very happy for you!

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March 18, 2008

foxyfox

this is funny! There was a time that I used to complain alot. But i realize by complaining, I am using so much energy and drawing in lots of negativity as if a cloud is over me. I stopped doing that. Then i saw the same thing happening in some of my friends and such behaviours almost made them very ugly. Maybe next time one wants to complain, try to do it in front of a mirror, then one will think twice for sure!

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March 20, 2008

Kat

Sister Bridget, that card sounds like it was meant for me…..lol….I have to admit that I do a lot of complaining instead of looking for any kind of positive. That has a lot to do with my Bi-polar also. I can’t blame it all on my depression though. It seems that when anything good has happened for me, I was always looking for the bad, and trust me I found it. I guess you can say that that is all that I do look for because it seems like that is all that I get is bad and when I get good, I can’t believe it. What that card means to me is that I should try to look for the positive. At least try to.

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March 21, 2008

Alba

Here I am to report back!
THANK YOU for a great week! I thought about “no complaining” all week,and I realized that it’s a matter of being conscious about it… I wrote it in the fridge and had little notes in my purse, closet, car and bathroom, and I wrote it in my cell phone so every time I used it I could see it… repetition and consciousness!!!!
So, I had a great week. It might have been a mixture of the white bath and this, but it was very good compared to last week… even though I had no communication with HD!!!!!!!!
Love you…
AB-

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March 22, 2008

JC

Ok I admit it I catch my self complaining alot. Even when I don’t mean to. What I have started doing when I catch my self complaining or thinking about complaining is to go to the care pages that I follow and read back over the new posts and old posts. It shows me how much worse things could be. So I spend time praying for the children that haven’t passed and the familys of the ones who have instead of complaining. All of the care pages I follow are of children with cancer. Cancer Sucks. So I haven’t really released the need to complain just found a more constructive way to deal with it. Thank you again for these awesome projects Sister Bridget. It helps alot. Love ya.
JC

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March 22, 2008

Falcon

Did this card speak to me or what?!?!?! I know I complain, and often when I am I think I’m just releasing stress, whether to a family member or friend. But later in thinking over the conversation I realize it was just me complaining. I know I need to find the positive in things that I do or do not complain about because I know there is a lesson in there for me. I know it will take a lot of work to really focus on the positive in situations that I may not like, but I am ready and willing to take on that challenge. I know that is something I need to, want to, and will change about ME.

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March 24, 2008

yogaangel

I may have missed the cut off for this topic. I have noticed that I go thru waves of complaining. I think we all to tend to be cheerleaders for other people and it comes to us a lot easier than doing it for ourselves. I notice I tend to go into complainer mode after I expend a lot of pick me up energy on my friends… I never seem to get it back. Folks think because I give them pretty good advice, that I am strong and don’t need support back. When people don’t offer it to me, instead of asking to be heard, I start to complain. I hope that they will hear my cry for help. The complaining just feeds off of itself and is hard to break once it gets started. I want to move towards taking care of my own emotional needs first. If I feel taken care of emotionally, then my need to complain should decrease. 🙂

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