http://brooknoel.com/reading-room/living-today/ Start Living the Life You Want, Today! Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://brooknoel.com/reading-room/living-today/#comment-2246 Marie Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:52:58 +0000 http://brooknoel.com/?p=293#comment-2246 What a timely message for my family, personally. My 12 year old daughter had asked me this morning if I had heard her crying in bed last night. I had not and asked her what she had been crying about. She was crying over the fact that her father had been seriously and permanently injured in a car accident when she was 5, and all that she has missed with him because of it. I told her that I think it's very important to think about those things to help her deal with the emotions that come up, but that when I find myself thinking too much about the past, and maybe find myself getting really upset about things I can no longer change, that I have learned to make myself "switch gears", to try to turn off those thoughts, because they are serving no purpose other than to upset me. They don't fix anything or bring new light to an issue. I think I will have her read today's "Good Morning Inspiration" after school and talk about it with her. It will be a good tool to use to help her see that we all think about the past , but that we should try to not dwell on the negative things we cannot change. What a timely message for my family, personally. My 12 year old daughter had asked me this morning if I had heard her crying in bed last night. I had not and asked her what she had been crying about. She was crying over the fact that her father had been seriously and permanently injured in a car accident when she was 5, and all that she has missed with him because of it.
I told her that I think it’s very important to think about those things to help her deal with the emotions that come up, but that when I find myself thinking too much about the past, and maybe find myself getting really upset about things I can no longer change, that I have learned to make myself “switch gears”, to try to turn off those thoughts, because they are serving no purpose other than to upset me. They don’t fix anything or bring new light to an issue.
I think I will have her read today’s “Good Morning Inspiration” after school and talk about it with her. It will be a good tool to use to help her see that we all think about the past , but that we should try to not dwell on the negative things we cannot change.

]]> http://brooknoel.com/reading-room/living-today/#comment-2245 Julie P. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:41:39 +0000 http://brooknoel.com/?p=293#comment-2245 Wow...this came at a time when I really needed to hear these words. Thanks Brook! Wow…this came at a time when I really needed to hear these words. Thanks Brook!

]]>