Staying motivated & positive

Date 2 August 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I must stay motivated and positive so that I keep any negative thoughts at bay. I am keeping myself busy and that’s helping me shift any negative thoughts. I’m not a negative person by nature and tend to stay upbeat and positive, so I am trying to stay motivated and ...
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Making progress

Date 31 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
As I start today’s blog, my thoughts don’t seem to be heading in any direction. Maybe when I start to type something, things will become clear. When something troubles me, it’s usually there in my mind. I always try and see the positive even when I’m dealing with such negative…
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Yet more problems

Date 30 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
When I was a little girl I used to struggle with bad thoughts. Now those thoughts have come back through yet more health problems and I am struggling to stay well. For a few days now I have had a problem with my eye. It has now been confirmed that…
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Feeling a little blue

Date 27 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I’m feeling a little blue today. I’m sure I’m being tested on my health. I also can’t change the way I do things and yet there are days where I feel I must defend my corner. Growing up, I would start something and lose interest. It was never intentioned, but…
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Constructive criticisms

Date 25 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I remember attending prizegiving for my daughter many years ago, at which the headmistress talked to the girls about constructive criticism. She was trying to impress upon them that the harder they worked in school, the more they would achieve. She was referring to the girls who didn’t work during…
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Finding our own way

Date 22 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
How many of us will spend our lives living someone else’s life? That means living with dreams and goals that are not ours or ever achieved, instead basing our lives on what other people expect or want for us. Instead, we must find our own way. It is human nature…
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The problems with denial

Date 21 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s both sad and understandable why most of us choose to live in denial over things not yet resolved that we need to deal with. But I also know that if we chose to address those things, we would begin to change so many aspects of our personalities, our relationships…
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Recent thoughts on my CP

Date 19 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Up and down days seem to come and go. Something seems to have marred my mood this morning. Watching my daughter take part in her first Race for Life UK cancer research event has brought back bittersweet thoughts about my own struggles with cerebral palsy. It was a long way…
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The importance of patience

Date 18 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
How many of us lose our patience because we haven’t got time to listen? We’re focusing on the wrong things, making things a priority, instead of people. The world is moving quickly and in order to keep pace we’re moving with it, but it doesn’t help when others aren’t moving…
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The cost of being naive

Date 16 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
One of the choices I made, back in the day when I considered myself to be naïve, I am now dealing with again. Having been to the hospital yesterday, it has now been confirmed that what I thought was swelling around a skin tag left from surgery, is a cyst…
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The teaching of Karma

Date 15 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I was always aware of the existence of something bigger. Although I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, or what I now know to be Buddhism, I was already living by some of its teachings and beliefs. Now I use it in everyday life. It helps…
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Another problem to deal with

Date 13 July 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I feel as though I am emotionally being tested right now on my resilience and patience. Having gone through minor surgery twice in about a month, I am now having to consider the possibility again. Many years ago I had a blocked hair follicle removed by a doctor who was…
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