COUNSELOR'S CORNER: Positive investments in living life

Never hang on to a resentment.

Forgive everyone.

Spend quiet daily time in prayer and meditation so you can experience God.

Do not invest in a condemning God.

Invest in loving everyone.

Those who are consistent in love, discover a loving God.

Underneath all anger is a deeper feeling that needs to be embraced.

Embrace pain and brokenness.

Everyone was once an innocent child.

Pets are to show us how to love.

It is in the present moment where I will discover God.

When I run away from my emotional pain or my joyful pain, I run away from myself.

We obtain friends by kind acts of love.

Criticizing other people does not bring other people closer to us.

Other people are not thinking about us as much as we think they are.

I am not as important as I would like to think I am.

To worry about how other people think about me is a useless occupation.

Love heals people.

Anger hurts people.

Affirming words nurture people.

Condemning words bruise people.

People are more inspired by loving actions than by negative words.

Be always loving.

Look for goodness in everyone.

Tell others about the goodness you see in them.

How do you want to be remembered? What positive impact do you want to leave with people?

People are best remembered by how well they have loved others.

People are remembered by their kindness and their humble receptivity and awareness that God is always loving towards everyone.

The present moment is the only important moment to discover love and to experience God.

Remaining angry and resentful harms me and harms others. It is a waste of time.

Anxiety results when I hang on to the past or worry about the future.

Depression results when I press down on what I need to feel.

I can only heal what I can allow myself to feel my emotional pain.

The journey toward God begins in many moments of positive silence and consistent, humble openness to what I am thinking and feeling. 

Happiness begins with gratefulness.

I am always being guided by God but I must be grateful and loving to listen correctly. 

I will become lonely if I stop being loving toward others.

Every person is trying to find God but often we are afraid to first be silent and let God’s Love embrace us and teach us.

Humbly sharing our journey through life with others becomes a gift to others and helps us to go deeper and more honestly with ourself.

Listening to the journeys of life by other people is a gift to us.

Sharing my journey through life without  preaching can be a gift to another person.

Life is very short. We are all on this journey through life together.

Life is to discover God and Love so when my short time on this earth ends, I will be receptive to believe and embrace the joy and peace of the next life which is forever.

I have been created to live in joy forever.  A life based on love helps me to believe this and be grateful.

Everyone is blessed but my purpose in life is to realize and be grateful for my existence and bring more gratitude and love into my life and everyone I meet.

Life is love being activated in this moment. Life is to surrender more in this moment. Life is to become more alive in love in this very moment.  Life is to experience God in this moment.
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Fred Cavaiani is a licensed marriage & family therapist and limited licensed psychologist with a private practice in Troy. He is the founder of Marriage Growth Center. He conducts numerous programs for groups throughout Michigan. Cavaiani is associate editor and contributing writer for Human Development Magazine. His column in the Legal News runs every other Tuesday. He can be reached at 248-362-3340. His e-mail address is: Fredcavi@yahoo.com and his website is FredsCounselorsCorner.com.