Oprah

Hello all,

Photo of Mum and I

Last night was an adventure. Having the quickest dinner possible at Earls, we raced to the Saddledome to see Oprah for 7pm. 

Oprah came out in a spectacular emerald dress embellished with a tad bit of sparkle with a white cowboy hat. Albeit, the cowboy hat did nothing for her appearance, she still looked spectacular and skinny.

The premise of this was motivation in combination with her life story. Her life story starts out with a whisper from god that her being had sensed something bigger than being a maid/housekeeper for white folk. As described, "her being was bigger than her personality, life situation, or even what others thought of her". She started out speaking to her church at age 3 then eventually recited spectacular monologues and religious novellas. When speaking about her early years, the undertone of the South came out loud and clear. She knew she was destined to be on the radio/TV even though her family did not have one. Upon winning Miss Fire Safety, the radio that hosted that pageant hired her to be a radio host.

The biggest motivational technique she employed was the image of a thread. The thread weaves together your life - all success, failures, marriages, divorces, and the greatness in life you possess. According to Oprah, if you are struggling in life, whether emotionally, not knowing your greater purpose, or knowing what to do next, you should look to what the thread of your life has been and, consequently, some greater power will lead you to your bigger purpose. Her speech was very laden with religious undertones, which was unexpected in my opinion. To find the thread in your life you must find inner stillness. Inner stillness is the ability to recognize the whispers, gut feelings, and inner sensations that something is not right/wrong/indifferent.

With all motivational speakers, she employed words such as "You become what you believe. What ever follows "I am" will become truth." For example, if you say I am exhausted then you will become more exhausted. The trick to this analogy is that you cannot go from extreme to extreme (exhaustion to hyperactive) but to take small steps like I am getting my second wind. This technique came from Pastor Joel Osteen who I presume is someone close to Oprah.

Success in her opinion is having more rights in your life than not. It is not measured by financial, personal, or emotional stones separately but the entirety of life in combination. It is a little hard to hear her speak about saying that financial stability and wealth do not matter in life for happiness but the point was well delivered. Everyone should find inner happiness and stability before they can transfer this out in your personal energy space.

Life speaks in the whispers of your body. Sensations or gut feelings should never be ignored. Life speaks first in whispers which is symbolism of a message, then pebbles - lesson, brick - problem, brick wall - crisis, and the falling brick wall/earthquake - disaster. You should learn to be internally still to recognize these symbols in their lives. Everyone should find an hour (more like twenty minutes) to just focus on yourself a day to maintain inner stillness to recognize the experiences in life or something to that extent. Everything you do is already done to you - higher power has a divine path for you in life. Even if you do not understand why something is occurring take the lesson and let is pass through.

With regards to attitude, gratuity is the greatest changer of your attitude. If you are thankful or gracious, life will go your way. Issues (trials and tribulations) are just the manifestation of knowing who you are in life. This statement does not make sense at first, I understand that. However, take a think about it and soon you will come to your own interpretation of what it means.

Children do not want you to criticize them, all they want to see is your eyes light up. Criticism in children slowly kills their souls. Your children can only be under your energy influence for so long that when they start to create their own energies/destinies, you have lost that connection. Take away point - stop criticizing and just embrace your children, we are wonderful people who will make our own paths in life.

Overall, Oprah is hilarious and spoke continuously for just over two hours. I would recommend seeing her.

Just a side not, books she mentioned:

- Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman

- Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

AFN

Brittany