Joleene DesRosiers

Disease is not a death sentence. Being diagnosed with a disease doesn’t mean it’s all over for you. If anything, it’s an awakening to just how fragile life is and how abundant the goodness is within it. Life is what we make of it. At least that’s what breast cancer survivor Janet Rebeor, Oswego County, says. And it must be handled with as much humor as we can muster.

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Joleene DesRosiers

Feeling stuck is uncomfortable. It can hurt, make us feel worthless and even restrict our range of motion. And because it’s such an uncomfortable feeling, it can leave us in a place where we merely exist in life; a place where every day is only about going through the motions.

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Joleene DesRosiers

To visualize a positive outcome for a particular experience that’s up and coming in your life is to accept that the power of the mind is more profound that you ever could have imagined. That means you are the architect for any given experience in your life and you get to create the outcome any way you like.

Scientists have been investigating Mental Imagery Research for decades; publishing profound studies showing that the brain doesn’t know the difference between real action and imagined action. Here’s a visual exercise for you to do right now to show you what I mean:

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Joleene DesRosiers

Mary Randazzo is an artist. She can paint with the best of them, creating images that pour from her soul onto the canvas with great ease. But she hasn’t always been an artist.

Just about 25 years ago, Mary was driving through a great canyon in California when she passed a giant, majestic tree. It stood old and withered against the rising sun, but Mary saw its beauty, nonetheless. She decided she was going to take a picture of the tree – and then paint it. She had never, ever painted before. It was something she always wanted to try but never did. A camera lay ready, next to her on the passenger’s seat

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