NiaDivas

It's so good to hear of your journey and insights.  Those are challenging situations to ride through. Your owner (Jill) sounds insightful to recognize complaints. Please hug her for me.

My travels back and forth on my owner's wrists have also slowed down. Within the first hours after I arrived on L's wrist, I went back and forth so many times that I was tossed from hand to hand, an E-ticket ride!  When L was at the Nia Blue Belt Intensive training, my travels slowed down a lot.  From the first day, participants (there were 42) were invited to call on the four energy allies -- don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, always speak impeccably, and always do your best.  These may sound familiar to you since your owner (Jill) teaches a fantastic workshop on these, referred to as the four agreements.  The workshop is called Conscious Living.  Anyway, during the Nia training, with such tremendous group support, my owner didn't get ruffled much and I changed wrists maybe once.  That atmosphere has held since my owner and I returned from the training, though she tells me that she misses the aligned environment.  On the drive home, my owner's first complaint was that there was not a Brown Belt training (next level) in 2008 that she would be eligible for.  I encouraged her to home in on Blue before fussing about Brown and not to worry--I think she heard me because she hasn't complained about that since. :-)  Then, yesterday, she complained about the possibilty of snow -- she didn't want to miss teaching her Nia class. It didn't snow after all, and I heard her thoughts whisper to her that it had been a wasted and pointless complaint. Well, I'm contentedly riding around on her left wrist for now.

This postive way of viewing oneself and turning around the way one thinks of things is liken to a quote I once read. "It is not that things are good or bad, it is the thinking that makes it so'. Good to read articles like this that supports the positive way of organizing one's thinking.