Soulshine

I’ve often heard it said “His/her love is for the taking.” But I prefer to think of it as “His/her love is for the receiving.” Love is something that we are always free to receive. The problem for some of us is that we won’t allow ourselves to freely receive the love that is freely offered to us. So here’s a mantra for today, and I intend to mantra-me with it all day long and invite you to do the same: All love is mine for the receiving. Today I choose to freely accept the love Of God, of myself and of others I am worthy of all love And I am worthy of sharing love With everyone and everything.

Who makes you happy? In reality, no one can make you happy. People in your life can enhance your happiness through sharing your interests. Or they can add to your frustrations by pushing your buttons. But no one can be responsible for your happiness or your misery—aside from you. One of the biggest problems for codependents is that we too often enter relationships looking for everlasting happiness. We expect that the person we choose to attach our dreams to should be responsible for making us happy. In our minds, we fantasize that he/she will be focused solely on us, will spend every waking hour with us and will do everything in his/her power to insure that we are as happy as we can possibly be. In other words, we assume this person will meet all of our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual needs in the same way that we plan to meet all of his/her needs. In our little dream world we will smother each other with attention and we will both drip with the honey of happiness. R...