Consider as The Power of Yes tells us on page 16,  “Life guides you to YES.  A good way to approach life is when a situation occurs, ask yourself what is this person trying to teach me?”  Doing this will allow you to be fully present in this moment.

This year,, “What is your contribution?  How do you give back? Oor pay it forward? ”  At YES Worldwide, we have chosen a project near and dear to our hearts, helping survivors of sexual abuse speak out and find the justice they have been seeking. Our goal, through Victims Get Vocal, a non-profit 501c3, is to raise public awareness about sexual molestation crimes and how our justice system can do a better job prosecutingattackers and holding them accountable.  You can find out more about our project at www.victimsgetvocal.com.  What is your contribution?
~ Christen Brown

The Los Angeles Times Newspaper had an article this past week about Twitter and moods.  It was a fascinating article about a study by Cornell University, that researched for two years about the patterns of human moods and twitter.  They researched 2.4 million people around the world and concluded that people “woke up happy but that their mood deteriorates as the day progresses.”  The purpose of the study was intended to use Twitter to study behaviors, not emotions.

Of these patterns the positive moods and behaviors in the world were in the morning and at midnight.  That morning peek came later on the weekends, when people could relax and sleep in on their days off.   Also with a change in season moods improved as days lengthened and moods got worse as the days shorten in the fall and winter.

Overall, we wake up happy, so let’s keep this positive Yes mood and establish a daily routine that can remind us to stay chipper and content throughout the day.

Reporting from the Pacific Northwest, Kathy G. Segale guides us to OWN Network for a sneak peek at a Documentary Film entitled “Serving Life” by Forest Whitaker

In this two hour Film we go behind the scenes into a Maximum Security prison
where a Hospice program is offered to dying inmates. Healthy men who are in for life with no chance of parole are nursing their dying inmates and being given an opportunity to give back.

I was in tears watching these hardened criminals lovingly caring for their dying fellow inmates.

Trained by Hospice to perform the daily acts of living such as bathing, and toileting their fellow inmates with life limiting illnesses changes these inmates lives significantly. 
These are intimidate care giving activities, which is emotional for these men to do to one another. Some are accepting, some men, not so much. 
Over time the love and friendship come together and these two criminals become bonded to each other and accept the care and love. 

The Hospice trained inmates are able to give a gift of themselves and feel self-worth, some of them for the first time in their life. . The inmates feel that this is a way they can pay back to others for their wrongs.

Forest Whitaker said: If you allow people to nurture the light that is inside each one of us, that light can grow through compassion for others.

He says don’t give up on yourself, care for the people who are around you and see how you are touching their lives. A very inspiring story available on Own Network.

by Christen Brown

Consider the impact that words have on your emotional state. Since you think a word before you say it, you have an internal experience of each word you say. The word “yes” needs to be thought and spoken often because it activates positive power.

Life is set up to help you grow and saying “yes” does far more than affirm your position. “Yes” is the activation that gets your “mojo” working. Say “yes” and you can almost feel the forward movement. YES opens the doors that fear slammed shut, while building momentum in a positive direction. When you learn to live in YES, you live from your heart in concert with the greater movement of life itself. With YES you learn to accept what is, and open to what could be.

What are you saying “yes” to right now?
What thoughts are you thinking?
What emotions are you experiencing?
Are you saying “yes” to yourself?

There are tremendous benefits to living in YES. The most important one being, that, in YES, life itself becomes your teacher. You live in an Affirmative Universe where you enthusiastically do the work you are here to do. YES guides you to open your heart and expand your mind, so that when you say “yes” to life, life says “yes” to you.