Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ~Maxwell Maltz
Whenever we find inspiring information or inspiring people that we believe have something of value to offer…something that can truly Elevate Your Life… we feel an obligation to share with you.
Today we are very excited to share one of our “Inspirations” with you. We would like to introduce you to one of our dear friends from East Lothian, Scotland…please meet Carol Finlayson. This article is written by Carol and, after you read it, we feel confident you will understand why we love her and wanted to introduce her to you. We are truly honored and blessed to have friends like Carol who have so much love, wisdom and talent to offer the world.
So we hope you will not only read, but also be lifted by her loving insights. Thank you, Carol, for allowing us to share your love with our readers. Like a raising tide…When we work together…We lift all boats.
So, are you Ready?… Let’s all get Lifted!!!
Self Esteem: Why It’s Important and How to Get It ~Carol Finlayson~
Having self esteem should not be taken for granted, even though anybody can have it and it doesn’t cost a penny. The thing about self esteem is that you have to achieve it yourself, nobody else can do it for you. In this day in age, with all the pressures and pitfalls one encounters in their lives, many people lose hope and confidence in themselves. Once this downward spiral has begun, it can be very hard to get back to a state of happiness, but all is not lost. At any point in your life, you can make a positive change to find your self esteem again, and keep it for good.
How to know when you’ve lost your self esteem
When you have self esteem, you will be confident in yourself, feel in control of your life, and be happy with the way you perform at the workplace and in social situations. It’s a feeling of empowerment that comes when things go the way you want them to in your life, and you know you have the ability to achieve things yourself.
Unfortunately, there are many people in this world who do not feel like this. Suffering from low self esteem is not something that happens overnight, it somehow creeps up on a person and over time becomes more of a problem. Eventually one day that person is going to realize that they are unhappy, and are lacking self esteem to help them become happy again. The important step at this junction is to realize the problem and not ignore it. Putting it off, and saying things like, “It’s my work that’s getting me down, it will get better eventually,” or, “I just need to find someone to build a relationship with and then I’ll be happy,” will only make the recovery process longer. If you really want to be happy again, you need to act now.
Why having self esteem is important
Self esteem is feeling good about yourself, and everyone has the right to feel good about themselves. When you don’t feel good on the inside, you project a negative feeling to other people, which can further exacerbate the problem. Psychologists have carried out vast amounts of research into the feelings of self control and self esteem, and the results showed that people with high self esteem can perform tasks better and are much better equipped to fight psychological problems that may affect them. Many people have succumbed to addiction through having low self esteem, and working to get back self esteem is one method for how to help an alcoholic family member or relative who wants to quit drinking. In fact, many psychological problems and mental health issues can be a result of having low self esteem. So high self esteem is important for a healthy body and mind, and can be achieved if you really want it.
How to get your self esteem back
If you are suffering from low self esteem then you have already completed the first step in getting it back, which is realizing you don’t have it! Now the hard work begins, because you need to identify all the things that contribute to you having low self esteem. Things that make you feel bad about yourself, whether it’s sometime to do with your appearance, your love life, your career, your level of fitness, or a whole plethora of other reasons. Think hard and try to identify everything that is stopping you from having the level of self esteem you deserve. Once you have done this, a big change has to be made to change the things that are causing unhappiness in your life. There are a variety of methods to help you do this, like creating a belief board. A belief board is a collection of image put in a place you will regularly see it, like at work or near the television, and these images give a visual message about what you want to change. Think of it as a motivator, and by putting images of what you want to achieve as time progresses it will help you achieve those goals.
There are many different ways you can recover your self esteem and many people find that meditation and yoga work for them. It really is about finding the way that works for you and sticking with it, having the power to really want it.
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Carol Finlayson is a coach, confidante and creative catalyst, inspiring many people who want to get more out of their lives. Carol leads people on incredible adventures to discover what real happiness is…. read more about her here
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Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. ~Napoleon Hill
By now we’ve all heard the saying “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” If you’ve ever wanted to change or improve anything in your life you’ve probably either consciously or unconsciously entertained the possibility of failure.
What if we told you that there’s only ONE way to fail… but there are limitless ways to succeed.
To help make this point more clearly, we have combined one of our favorite video’s entitled ” Famous Failures” with one of our favorite poems entitled “Don’t Quit” in an effort to both inspire and encourage you.
We hope you’ll continue to seek until you find that success is the only real possibility… failure only become a realty when you quit. When you don’t give up.. You cannot fail. You can Live your dreams, right here, right now… Do you want to know how??? It’s really quite simple, you must begin at the beginning. Have a dream and hold on to it… BELIEVE in YOU and refuse to quit… Watch the video, read the poem and Live ‘YOUR LIFE’ like ‘YOU’ Own It!
The poem, Don’t Quit, is a short poem that was written many years ago by Edgar A Guest, however, Mr Guest’s words still apply today. We hope you enjoy his thoughts in this inspirational poetry and that it brings you encouragement as you read the verses.
If you are feeling stressed, let this poem encourage you to keep going!
Don’t Quit by Edgar a Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low but the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit…
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit!
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many failures turn about
When we might have won had we stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow…
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out…
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem the worst that you must not quit.
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I believe that, if you’re reading this, you already have what it takes to become successful beyond your wildest dreams.
You are seeking out the answers, and by seeking, you’ve proven that you’re head and shoulders above 97% of other people.
Today, I wanted to share a short lesson about discovering what truly drives you, because this will guide you as you create the life ahead of you.
Uncovering your Life Path
Have you ever felt like there was an invisible wall in your brain preventing you from being able to understand what you REALLY want?
If the answer is yes, I believe I may know the answer.
You see, whether you realize it or not, there are thousands of beliefs that you harbor in your mind about the world which you’ve never really examined.
They’ve probably made their way into your head as a result of past experiences, especially emotional ones.
Some of these beliefs are really helpful (like the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street or cooking chicken before you eat it).
Other beliefs may actually be sabotaging your efforts in the world (it will be next to impossible for you to ever become rich if you think that money is the root of all evil, and you’ll be unhappy in relationships if you think everyone is out to get you).
Now, the first step to happiness in any endeavor is figuring out what’s going to make you happy.
Sometimes our passions just fall into our laps, but why leave things to chance?
You already have the power living inside you to start a process that magnetically attracts your passions to you. It all starts with your current state of mind.
And today, I would like to share a short but powerful exercise that will illuminate some of the most important aspects of your life. There really is something magical that happens when you write down your goals and dreams, instead of keeping them just in your head. After being written down on a page, your thoughts suddenly become more real… almost tangible…
Even if you’ve done an exercise like this before, you may be surprised at how much has changed since then, or how different your insights are in your current frame of mind.
Treat Yourself By Taking 5 Minutes To Uncover a Truth About Yourself:
1.) List 5 activities you wish you could do each week.
2.) List 5 features about the person you want to become.
3.) List 3 emotions you wish you could feel on a regular basis.
You may want to consider…. material items, desired emotions, pursuits that give you satisfaction, as well as your spiritual connection with the universe. When you write your answers down, you are making the decision to start thinking about your life in a purposeful way. That means you’ve taken the first step to creating your life the way you want it, instead of simply being an observer, always on the lookout, just waiting for things to happen.
What next?
Now that you have gotten a bit clearer on what you really want, how do you achieve it?
I want you to take one step, even a tiny baby step, right now, toward making one of the things you’ve listed become closer to reality.
Natalie admits that she originally was doing everything the hard way before she learned how to speed up her efforts dramatically. She shares how she managed to make her dreams come true and explains how you can achieve your dreams too, only she’ll teach you the ‘easy way’ to make that happen.
Let me give you hint: she’s learned a truly unique mental training technique that magnifies her efforts. You don’t want to miss this!
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What are the latest scientific studies revealing about EFT -Meridian Tapping?
Have you have struggled to convince somebody you know or even yourself that Tapping works? Well new science is making the argument for what we all knew to be true for so long. Last week, Nicolas Ortner – Creator and Producer of the documentary film “The Tapping Solution” wrote an article which was published by the Huffington Post, in which he shares some of the new science that is once and for all silencing the few remaining skeptics on EFT.
“The Tapping Solution” is a breakthrough documentary exploring EFT, a combination of Ancient Chinese Acupressure and Modern Psychology that provides startling results. The film includes luminaries such as Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Cheryl Richardson, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Norm Shealy, Bob Proctor, Carol Look, Dr. Patricia Carrington and more!
Yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and herbal remedies; these are just some of Eastern medicine’s contributions to our decades-long search for ways to live well with fewer pills and less-invasive health care. Toward that end, I’m excited to report that there are promising new findings in the field of energy psychology, specifically about a practice called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, that is taking our search for holistic solutions to an exciting new level.
What’s unique about EFT is how it combines Eastern wisdom about acupressure, or “meridian points,” in our bodies, with traditional Western psychotherapy.
The practice consists of tapping with your fingertips on specific meridian points while talking through traumatic memories and a wide range of emotions. “Acupoint tapping sends signals directly to the stress centers of the mid-brain, not mediated by the frontal lobes (the thinking part, active in talk therapy),” explains Dr. Church, Ph.D., who has been researching and using EFT since 2002. Because EFT simultaneously accesses stress on physical and emotional levels, he adds, “EFT gives you the best of both worlds, body and mind, like getting a massage during a psychotherapy session.”
In fact, it’s EFT’s ability to access the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of your brain that initiates your body’s negative reaction to fear, a process we often refer to as the “fight or flight” response, that makes it so powerful. “By reducing stress,” adds Church, “EFT helps with many problems. There’s a stress component to sports performance, business and financial pressure, and most disease. When you reduce stress in one area of your life, there’s often a beneficial effect in other areas.”
Church estimates that 10 million people worldwide have used tapping, and what’s so exciting is how incredibly quickly it’s alleviating issues like depression, anxiety and insomnia, as well severe PTSD, physical pain, even illness.
At this point you’re probably thinking what most intelligent and sane people are — how is that possible? How can tapping on “meridian points” resolve serious health issues? As an EFT practitioner and the producer of the movie The Tapping Solution, it’s a question I’ve been asked repeatedly over many years. In fact, you’ll often hear me refer to EFT as “this strange tapping thing.” Fortunately, there’s very real science (and results!) behind it.
In partnership with Dr. David Feinstein, Dr. Church has been able to confirm that tapping on specific meridian points has a positive effect on cortisol levels. Cortisol, known as the “stress hormone,” is integral to our body’s “fight or flight” response. Originally designed to help us survive life in the wild, the “fight or flight” response was essential when our ancient ancestors were faced with sudden, brief danger like, let’s say, a tiger. However useful in short bursts, releasing cortisol too frequently, as we seem to be doing in response to the ongoing or “chronic” stress of modern life, may have serious, even scary, impacts on our physical, mental and emotional health. In fact, living in this kind of biological “survival mode” may be making us more vulnerable to everything from cancer to heart disease, and more.
In Dr. Church’s study, 83 participants were separated into three groups. One group was guided through an hour-long EFT session, the second group received an hour of talk therapy, while the third, the control group, received no treatment. The group that did an hour of EFT demonstrated a 24 percent decrease in cortisol levels, while the other two groups showed no real change. The EFT group also exhibited lower levels of psychological symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and others, as measured by the Symptom Assessment-45 (SA-45), a standard psychological assessment tool.
Research suggests that EFT may be so effective because of its perceived ability to balance out the nervous system, leveling off the activity of the parasympathetic and sympathetic regions. Responsible for promoting cell regeneration and relaxation, the parasympathetic region helps to slow your heartbeat, support digestion, and more. The sympathetic system, on the other hand, prepares you for vigorous physical activity by speeding up your heart, constricting your pupils, and so on. As noted in Church’s study, imbalance between these two regions is associated with a long list of health issues, from high blood pressure and heart problems (most often seen in those with an overactive sympathetic region), to depression, fatigue, and weakened immune response (in those with excessive parasympathetic activity).
In his study findings, Church asserts that EFT, which he refers to as “acupoint treatments” produces “a neutral emotional state,” which, biologically speaking, is the gold standard of health and wellness. It’s also the state of well-being people have sought to achieve for millennia through meditation, prayer, yoga, and other mindfulness practices.
Dr. Feinstein, a clinical psychologist who uses EFT in his own practice, adds that EFT is an “unusually precise, rapid, and direct for shifting the neurological underpinnings of a range of psychological problems.” In fact, he adds, ” the number of therapists using EFT has been rapidly increasing over the past decade, and now peer-reviewed research is showing that their instincts have been right. Surprisingly rapid outcomes with a variety of disorders are being documented.”
The results of that documentation can (and will!) impact millions of lives in incredibly powerful ways, which is why I’m excited to share a host of new studies with you in future posts. ~Nick Ortner
Nick Ornter is the creator and executive producer of the hit documentary film, “The Tapping Solution.” His new book on EFT will be published by Hay House in April 2013. To get a copy of his free eBook, “Tapping Your Way to Health, Happiness and Abundance” visit: TheTappingSolution.com For more by Nick Ortner, click here.
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Today we bring you something special! Before you lies the entire collection of the Human History story which was previously spread across 5 episodes of spirit science! This special featured video is brought to you by a man named Andrew Golden, who has compiled all of these videos in 1080p for your viewing pleasure! Get out some popcorn and dim the lights, this is gonna be good!
Our history is not what we think! Over the past few thousand years, we have warped our own history. Our versions of the past has been mistranslated, changed, altered, and skewed to fit our understanding of reality, and completely left our many things that we cannot explain. Today, we are going to look at an alternate version of our history, a version that was recorded across many ancient tablets and artifacts throughout time, which have only recently been uncovered. Enjoy
This story may be a little cosmic, it may not even be true, but you will have to decide that for yourself. Based on the work of Drunvalo Melchizidek in the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life.
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The past few years, with an absolute peak in 2006 as the movie ‘The Secret’ was exposed to hundreds of thousands, an ever growing number of people are slowly waking up to the knowledge that there may just be more to life than the often robot-like existence of daily routines they lead.
With movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’, and books like ‘The Attractor Factor’ by Joe Vitale and the resurfacing of ‘The Law of Success’ by Napoleon Hill, people increasingly realize that they can have much more success in life, if only they knew ‘the secret’ that all these sources talk about. Still, although hundreds of thousands of people have seen the movie ‘The Secret’, why are so few people living their ultimate lifestyle? Why aren’t all those people living the success they long for so bad? The success that all these movies promise them?
Is there an additional secret to movies like ‘The Secret’?
The obvious answer is ‘yes’. If there weren’t, every person having seen the movie ‘The Secret’ would be living the lifestyle of their dreams, would be ‘attracting’ everything they long for, and would be ‘manifesting’ everything they desire into their lives ‘without any conscious effort’.
At least, isn’t that what you would think after watching movies like ‘The Secret’?
Let me tell you what the problem is, what is also the cause of so many people still not achieving their desires and dreams, and what is also the additional ‘secret’ or ‘edge’ to the movie ‘The Secret’ and others. The problem rests in a psychological phenomenon called ‘selective retention’.
In simple terms, ‘selective retention’ means that you only remember the things you want to hear. In other words, you filter out the things you’d rather not hear. Let’s relate this to the contents of movies like ‘The Secret’ and other films and books with regard to this subject.
What we can agree upon is that all these movies like ‘The Secret’ and books like ‘The Attractor Factor’ are about a Universal Law called ‘The Law of Attraction’. According to the Law of Attraction, you can supposedly attract and manifest anything you want or desire into your life, based on what you focus your thoughts.
That’s the secret, according to the movie ‘The Secret’.
What I can tell you upfront is that the Law of Attraction is real, but only to an extent. There are very important nuances to its application, which movies like ‘The Secret’ either don’t tell you about, or which you filter out through the psychological process of ‘selective retention’.
The actual nuances and details of the application of the Law of Attraction are a subject to be discussed at another time and another place. For now, it’s important to realize and acknowledge the one thing that most people are missing from movies like ‘The Secret’ and the whole range of other products dealing with the Law of Attraction.
You see, movies and books dealing with the Law of Attraction often overemphasize the word ‘effortless’. You are led to believe that you can attract things and manifest things into your life without any conscious effort from your side.
Quite likely, ‘effortless’ is exactly what you want to hear. Who wouldn’t like to do nothing while bringing about the most profound changes? People are hardly ever satisfied with their circumstances, so they desire change.
However, although they desire change, at the same time they resist change. Sounds like a paradox, but it’s true. Because as soon as any effort is required to actually make the change they desire come about, or to overcome the resistance experienced to make that change come about, people ‘cop out’. Do you recognize that?
Maybe you do, or maybe you don’t. But that’s exactly why so many people don’t achieve any success, although they’ve seen the movie ‘The Secret’ and supposedly know about ‘the secret’.
Through their ‘selective retention’, the only thing that they remember and engrain is that ‘no effort is required’, and they filter out the part that says they should actually take inspired action. As a consequence, many people think that if they just think positively and try to focus on positive emotions most of the time, everything they desire will magically manifest into their lives while they’re sitting on the couch watching movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’.
They think suddenly some distanced relative they never heard of before in their lives, will leave them a legacy of millions of dollars while they’re eating potato chips and ice cream, as they keep on watching the movie ‘The Secret’.
Or they visualize themselves as a Scrooge McDuck-equivalent, swimming around in a pool of money. Perhaps they include the Money Bin too. And they expect a big bag of money to fall out the sky.
As a side-effect, they get bigger and unhealthier, and more and more miserable because nothing happens to make their lives better. Apparently, even a movement has come about that believes that you can apply the Law of Attraction to create a body they’ve always dreamed about. They think they’ll look lean and muscular without effort through ‘attracting’ their dream bodies by visualizing how they want to look. I kid you not.
Let’s reintroduce some common sense. Butt sitting never got anyone anywhere. The Law of Attraction that the movie ‘The Secret’ and other sources are about is real, but to reap its benefits and seize its fruits, you need to know how to apply it in your life, and you need to know the nuances to its application.
You can’t just start thinking positive thoughts and feeling positive emotions and wait for all your desires to magically pop up while doing nothing. That’s the missing link to achieving your success from the knowledge of the movie ‘The Secret’ and other films and books. The true secret is ‘inspired action’.
Doing nothing doesn’t help you. You need to act. You can get clear on your intention and then go do something else to get your mind off it. It’s during those moments of ‘silence’, the moments that you’re not obsessed with what you want, that you suddenly get ideas, inspirations, hunches and so on. You must act on those inspirations.
The ‘act of acting’ alone will make you turn on the switch of the Law of Attraction, so to speak. Then, through an interplay of other Universal Laws that the movie ‘The Secret’ and a whole range of books on the Law of Attraction forget to mention, the Universe will start rearranging itself according to your thoughts, emotions and actions. You’ll get new ideas, meet new people, stumble upon new knowledge, and so on, all of which you can use in your actions that lead you to your envisioned goal step by step, through a chain of events.
And that’s how the changes you desire come about.
Your job is to recognize what exactly to act upon. For that, you need to know exactly how the Law of Attraction works in reality, in conjunction with other Universal Laws, and how things actually manifest into your life so you actually recognize your opportunities. There’s not a great number of other Universal Laws, only a few main Universal Laws that automatically cover all minor and subsidiary Universal Laws.
By understanding the nuances of the application of the Law of Attraction in conjunction with some few other universal principles (or Laws) as boundary conditions, you can make all your dreams come true. You just need to overcome your ‘selective retention’ and acquire the knowledge of just the few additional nuances you must understand to really achieve the things that the movie ‘The Secret’ and others talk about.
True enough, it does require some effort, but by applying these Laws correctly you make the Universe work with you, instead of against you. And as you ‘get the hang’ of this application, the conscious effort required from you will keep on decreasing.
But you’ll always need to act. Nothing is going to happen if you don’t act. That’s the additional secret to the movie ‘The Secret’. You just need to learn how to bring those inspirations about, how to recognize them, and thenwhat to act upon.
And there are simple ways to do that. Welcome to the Revolution.
What… You mean haven’t heard about the Revolution??
The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life.
In essence, the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’ that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application.
GET three FREE ebooks that provide more free information on the Great Revolution, and on the ‘universal principles of life’ (the true ‘Universal Laws’) can be found at http://www.revolutionizaffiliates.com/go.php?a=1234&p=17
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The only thing that you will take through the pearly gates is what you’ve given away…Love is not Love until you give it away.~Anonymous~
The Highest vibration of Love is Agape Love, which has been defined as the Unconditional Love of the Divine, because it is always giving itself to its creation, moving through us and all creation as life itself and never asking anything in return.
Agape Love is absolutely indiscriminate and Unconditional. We do not have to Do” anything to earn it…The Gift has already been given. Agape Love is of and from God, whose very nature is Love. God does not merely Love; He is Love itself. If the source, God, of Agape Love is indiscriminate, holding back from none, why do we human beings, who are recipients of this Love, discriminate and hold back our Love from certain others? Perhaps it’s because we are unaware that the Spirit inside of us can trump the ego at any time and in any place. The Ego Self is busy keeping score, trying to separate those who are unworthy of our Love from those who are worthy, you know…being judgmental…and identifying with the thought of “lack” almost as if there were only so much Love to go around.
Anthony DeMello, in his book, The Way To Love, describes God’s indiscriminate and unconditional giving nature this way: “Perhaps this is why we are encouraged to be like God, ‘who makes his sun to shine on good and bad alike and makes his rain to fall on saints and sinners alike: So you must be all goodness as your heavenly father is all goodness.”
As we become aware of the “Presence”, the Goodness of Agape Love flows “Through us” and finds its way into the world becoming Goodness in the form of Love in our daily lives. Love begins as Divine Essence, is gifted to the human core of existence, our Hearts, as a gift or presence if you will; we need only be aware that we have the potential to be open and a willing vessel through which it flows. Awareness and perception are everything.
Anyone who does not Love does not know God, because God is Love. 1 John 4:8
As a way to make this awareness more perceptible, consider spending time outside among the beauty of the Garden we call earth. Stand in the sunlight and feel its warm, penetrating presence sharing itself with you and holding itself back from none.
Then look for a flower or tree or any other object and observe it receiving the same source of warmth and light.
After our observations, we realize that the blessing of the energy from the Sun is as present for a weed as it is for you and I and the flower or bird. Everything benefits from the glory of the same light.
Visualize the magnificent Sun and its’ Light as Infinite Love offering itself to all unconditionally. Can we receive Love as freely as we do the sunlight?
Can we elevate and extend Love to others as indiscriminately as the Sun’s Light falls on all creation…Lighting and Loving all that “Is” …Begin with You…offer and receive this ‘Indiscriminate Unconditional Agape Love’ into your Heart…You will be able to Feel what we really are at the Core of Our Being…Elevate to a Higher Love…then Give it Away…it is “The Gift” that is Eternal.
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New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models…surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works…promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
There are many people who engage in the every day activity of false beliefs and in so doing they experience an outcome less desirable than what leads to happiness. This false belief of not knowing our true selves as Divine Beings has bound our mentality in chains of ignorance. Our mental condition of false beliefs causes feelings of sorrow, pain, and death to take form or manifest in “dis-ease.” The great delusion of the world is ignorance, which consists of unsuspectingly taking things for what they are not.
“There is one God…One Father…One Creator of All…Who is Above All, and Through All, and in You All.” (Eph. iv:6.) This excludes the possibility of there being another Life, Substance, or Power. There are no powers that are not good, “for the powers that be are ordained of God.”
A belief in two powers, one Good and the other Evil, one warring against the other, and a belief that Matter is Life, and has powers and laws that are opposed to Infinite Spirit, is the division which causes all emptiness. The belief that we have a lower and higher nature, one against the other, or that each of us has a Lower Self and a Higher Self, each striving to rule, is as a house divided against itself; this belief has brought desolation, division and delusion upon humanity; and has engendered feelings of separateness from God or Goodness. This illusion of separateness results in jealousy, hatred, and enmity one against the other.
When we seek …we shall find…the Light of Truth, we by its light view ourselves as we truly are, Soul and Spirit, and when we do we realize the Oneness and Divinity of the life of all things. In this pure view of ourselves, we have the ability to finally recognize, that we have always been Soul and Divine Nature.
We have never been separate from it and it is false beliefs that prevent us from even entertaining the possibility of knowing the Truth about our Soul and Spirit. It has always been present, as the best part of us. It is not possible for one person to have the potential of this experience and this potential be lacking for another. We are more alike than we are different. It is available for everyone so if you do not have conscious contact with your Spirit, it must be because of ignorance. The scripture says, “My people perish because of a lack of knowledge.”Hosea 4:6, indicating that God’s Pure Potential is available for everyone.
The true nature of Our Spirit is our Loving Kindness and our Laughter and our Compassion and Enthusiasm and our Contentment and our willingness to give unconditionally.Our Spirit is all of the Goodness that humanity possesses. Our Spirit is our Pure Potential. It is the part of us that is Magnificent. We have Divine Nature inside of us just like the acorn holds the Divine Nature of the Oak tree and the flower seeds hold the Divine Nature of the many unique and beautiful flowers that bloom.
This realization carries with it the power to fill the Heart with Universal Love and Universal Love leads to awakening, which is a Truth in the sense of perception and awareness that lends itself to Inspiration, Happiness and Peace of Mind, Strength and Harmony…. Harmonic Equilibrium. Intuition is the eye of understanding, which perceives but ONE Power, ONE God, and ONE Substance, Faith, and ONE Law…Love. The Light of the Soul emanates from the center of our being as our Divine Nature or Pure Potential in the form of Living Love, which is our original God given core of Love.
No matter what you do, the spark of Divinity lies within waiting to be awakened through Loving Intention and Attention. Perception and awareness is everything.
How often we miss what is immediately present within us, as close as our next breath…it’s right under our nose!!
When you seek an understanding of your Divine Nature, your Spirit, you will come to know that it is possible to exert power over thoughts; you must learn to control your thoughts before you can become master of your expressions or conditions. This can be accomplished only by denying a place for thoughts that are not in unity with Divine Being and your real self.
It is a law, as fixed as the eternal law of mathematics that as a man or woman thinks in their heart so is he or she in manifestation. The nature of the beliefs that we hold in memory and dwell upon, bring to us the experiences of our earthly lives, either of pain or pleasure, sunshine or shadow. It is by our own thoughts and recognitions that we create our conditions of happiness or suffering.
From where does your breath and heartbeat come?
What do you believe and why?
If you don’t know, be quiet and ask the Beloved for help… then listen. Ask and ye shall receive is Truth.
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Welcome to Planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. You are a magnificent creator. – Abraham/Esther Hicks
Few things are as important to ‘attraction’ (or rather your act of ‘creation’) as what some scientists call the ‘ultradian rest response’.
You may have never heard of this before, but it’s one of the keys to bringing about in your life what you want to see. You see, there is a great difference between ‘thinking’ and ‘knowing’.
Thinking is a purely intellectual activity. It mainly takes place as electrochemical processes in your body and brain.
‘Knowing’ on the other hand, transcends intellect. It is what is often called ‘intuition’. Intuition is often defined as ‘immediate knowing’, without the conscious use of reasoning. There is no sequence of thoughts following up on each other leading to an outcome. It’s just there, instantly.
Bang! You suddenly get it. “It’s the Aha moment!” It appears to be stemming from a whole different source of awareness compared to the ‘rational mind’ or intellect that we tend to use so much in our lives.
In our modern societies, we find ourselves under so much pressure to ignore intuition and to rationalize everything that happens. We’d rather go with our ‘heads’ than go with our ‘hearts’. We learn this from an early age in our education system, which puts the main focus on the left part of the brain, the intellectual and analytical part. As a consequence, if you’re like most people, you tend to ‘overrationalize’ everything.
You regularly get the feeling that you want to do something, and it really makes your heart sing. But then your intellect rears its ugly head, and suppresses the ‘intuitive knowing’ you just experienced by using the limiting thoughts and emotions that have been dominating your being and thinking for long.
You start to think and feel things like:
“Oh dear, who am I to think I can do that?” “Oh my, what will my mother say?” “Goodness, what will the boys at the bar think if I do that?” “My parents will probably get angry with me for not doing something with my education…”“That can’t be right… Scientists say that this is not true. Who am I to think otherwise?”
Thoughts like this have ruled most of us for all of our lives and forced us into submission. The repetition that has been going on for years has created ‘habits’ to go with the ‘head’ all the time instead of the ‘heart’. The moment you have intuitive knowing and your heart starts to sing, you immediately begin to doubt it and you’re pulled back into line. “I can’t do that, it’s not responsible. What about my job?” “I’d love to do this, but…” “If I could ever do this… Nah, I can’t do that. I must have gone mad.” “What will the neighbors think?”
You’re systematically pulled in line, back to the image of artificially imposed norms of what ‘society’ or others think you are supposed to be. It is ignoring the deepest core of yourself, and the intelligence of the magnitude that you are deep inside. When you look at it this way, it’s not a surprise that your intuition is often at odds with what you think.
The intuitive knowing stems from a source that has a much greater overview, the bigger picture. It sees what the ‘knowing’ and associated action will lead to. The rational intellect always has a limited perspective that is quite likely even colored by societal and religious ‘norms’, or ‘bad memories’ of certain events, which itself are often limited interpretations of what were actually stepping stones into a whole new reality.
Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., an internationally renowned psychotherapist, teacher, and pioneer in the field of mind/body healing. In his book The Psychobiology of Mind/Body Healing, he describes how during an ultradian rest response your body goes into a mode that makes you more receptive to the unconscious parts of your being:
“This is the time when it is easiest to access our own intuition, your own internal imagery. Thoughts are most likely to be closer to the unconscious. This is a time when the unconscious wants all the energy it can get. If you train yourself to just watch and observe and not intrude, you are going to fall into what is called ‘reverie’ or ‘hypnagogic state’, what I call a more naturally intuitive state.”
So when do you ‘know’ instead of just ‘think’? How can you distinguish?
“Do you find yourself losing concentration during certain times of the day? Perhaps it comes as a sudden touch of fatigue, or a subtle mental fuzziness. All of a sudden, you feel droopy. Your eyes may tear. You can’t stop yawning or you sigh. Maybe you find yourself staring out the window, your mind far away from the tasks at hand. If somebody speaks to you, you find yourself startled by the sound of their voice. Or you don’t understand what was said the first time and ask the speaker to repeat himself.”
According to Dr. Nadel, these are signs that your body is entering the ultradian rest response.
At the time that this occurs, your body is most attuned to your intuition, as the four main regulatory systems of your body (endocrine system, autonomic nervous system, immune system and neuropeptides in your brain) are aligned to the unconscious, which provides access to greater levels of yourself.
The clearest memory of experiencing an ultradian rest response for me was during a final math exam back in high school.
I had trouble with one of the questions and finally drooped away. It was like I temporarily switched to the realms of ‘no-time’, staring out of the window without being conscious of what was happening around me. Then suddenly some kind of realization kicked in, and I suddenly knew how to solve the question that I didn’t seem to understand at first. This is not something uncommon.
Everyone experiences this all the time, most of us daily. The trick is to recognize it. Even some of the greatest minds in modern history accepted the importance of intuition: The only real valuable thing is intuition.~ Albert Einstein It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. Henri Poincaré (one of France’s greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists)
According to Dr. Nagel, ignoring the signals of the ultradian rest response or trying to suppress them can cause you to become irritable, uncomfortable, and even depressed.
However, she emphasizes that if you allow them and flow with them, they can be moments of great inspiration. Here’s what she says:
“This is the best time to take a break rather than forcing yourself to push through the fatigue. You can think of it as your intuition break, time to take a deep breath, close your eyes, and allow impressions from your intuitive right hemisphere [right brain] to flow through your mind. You are working on a project and would like help from your intuition, this is the time to ask for it. It is also a good time to meditate.”
Meditation is not a must. All you need to do is trust your intuition and listen to your inspirations. True enough, you are blessed with an intellectual mind too. But it shouldn’t dominate your intuitive knowing and suppress it.
The thing is that ‘attraction’ doesn’t happen like things just falling out of the sky and right into your lap. It often works through inspirations to do something or go somewhere. Your inspirations and hunches point you towards things you can do to bring about the changes in your life that you desire. Ignore them, and you won’t ‘attract’ what you want. But follow along with them, and magic happens.
And finally, always realize this… ‘Intuitive knowing’ is unique to the knower, which is you.
What may feel good for you, doesn’t have to feel good for others. Everyone is unique. You will be inspired to do something that is best for you, and that matches what you want. That can be totally different from anyone else.
Besides, not everyone wants the same thing, at least if everyone would follow their true ‘wants’, not the ‘wants’ imposed by the image of what others think you should want.
No one should judge or ridicule what another feels is good for him or her, as long as the person never seeks to impose anything on anyone else. That is the freedom of life we need, that will change everyone’s life radically, and the whole world with it.
OH… I’ve gotta go now. I feel an ultradian rest response coming on… Welcome to the Revolution.
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“The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.”~Morrie Schwartz
Let’s face it: For most people… trying to “manifest their desires” through thinking, visualizing, acting, and so on according to the prevailing principles of leveraging the ‘Law of Attraction’ to their advantage seems to yield little result… if any result at all. It seems towork for some people, while it doesn’t for others. It seems to work under certain conditions, but not in others. In fact, results seem totally arbitrary… hit-or-miss… not even marking a 50/50 chance of success.
We do hear about the relatively small amount of positive results but we don’t hear about the alarming failure rate that’s the dreadful reality for the majority of the millions of faithful practitioners around the globe.
So what’s the deal with that? Are we missing something here?
As you probably know, you’re often taught to focus on what you want. And obviously, focusing on what you want is much better than focusing on what you don’t want. Judging from the results for most people, the ‘focusing on what you want’ in the way people are currently doing it hasn’t led to consistent manifesting. So could it be that there’s an element that doesn’t get the emphasis it requires? You can bet your sweet a** there is. That element is ‘Love’.
“What, you mean how I love my spouse?… You mean I need to do the wild thing for this stuff to work?… Why didn’t you say so, I’ll get started right away?!”
Well hold on “Tone Loc”… before you rip-off all your clothes… I’m not really referring to that kind of love. What I’m referring to is a more Universal game of Love… which is a whole different ballgame compared to the regular game of lusting for someone and ‘getting busy’.
Let me explain… First of all, it would go too far to get into a full exposition of the nature of the ocean of consciousness that we call ‘The Universe’ here, and how you’re an inseparable part of it… true enough we are all unique points of perception… seamlessly connected to the whole nonetheless.
Our other articles go into more detail on that… and especially our upcoming ‘Crack Your Egg’ program goes into a mind-blowing amount of detail of the mechanics of that.
For the purposes of this article, ‘universal love’ is the balance of awareness, stillness and peace of mind which can take on many forms.
“Universal Love” may be considered to be:
Acceptance of yourself for who you really are…
Acceptance of others for who they really are…
Freedom to express uniqueness… without seeking to impose anything on anyone else…
Projecting this at yourself, ‘Universal Love’ is the freedom for you to be who you really want to be… the person you truly are inside… which is not necessarily what others think you should be.
Projecting ‘Universal Love’ at others is the freedom for others to be who they really want to be… the persons they truly are inside… not what you or anyone else think they should be.
‘Universal Love’ in that regard is never seeking to impose anything on anyone (including yourself), it’s simply allowing unique creative energies to manifest themselves naturally, without artificially imposing norms coloring the definition of how that should take place. (This is part of what we call the ‘Law of Love’.) And this is exactly what most people seem to forget in life… I mean, let’s be honest: What are you trying to “manifest” in life? Your Heart’s true desires? Or the externally imposed symbols that are collectively decreed to be the essentials of ‘success’?
People get into the ‘Law of Attraction’ thing because they want to live the life of their dreams… But let me ask you: What is the ‘life of your dreams’ anyway?
Is it living the artificial image of what others think you should be?
Of course not. It’s the life of being who you truly are inside, and the happiness and abundance in any area that come with living that image.
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”~Morrie Schwartz
The thing is this: You already know at the deepest level of your being what you desire. And so there’s no need to put any additional focus on it. You’re automatically doing that, once you reconnect to the core of who you really are and love yourself for being that!
Now… to make that reconnection, you need to remove the obstacles to the awareness of who you really are. In other words, you need to crack your egg. Once you do that, you give full expression to your true nature… the unique expression of consciousness that you really are.
So here’s what’s going wrong for most people:
Most people get interested in the ‘Law of Attraction’ because of the possibilities they see for effortless personal material gain and selfish interests.
Now, don’t get me wrong, because there’s nothing inherently wrong with material wealth, as has been clearly explained in earlier articles.
If you’ve read our earlier articles, you know that these material objects are frequency patterns anyway… mere illusions just like everything else. It’s okay to enjoy them. No problem at all.
However, they become a problem once they’re seen as the very things that should testify to your alleged ‘success’ in your desires for the confirmation of other people that you’re okay. This desire for other people’s approval inherently implies that you think you’re not okay, which means that you lack self-love.
After all, if you’d love yourself for who you really are, you wouldn’t have a desire for others to confirm that, would you?
It’s important to realize that it’s never materialism or the desire for personal gain that manifests your desires. As long as your desires are motivated by such selfish interests, you can visualize all day long… but you’ll never get what you really want.
Again, the material objects themselves are not the problem. They’re just frequency patterns that are okay to enjoy. But the missing element to consistent manifesting here is LOVE.
That’s what “Love” has got to do with it.
Do you think that your efforts in practicing the principles of leveraging the Law of Attraction will work for you if you don’t even allow yourself to live your life the way youreally want to live it deep down inside?
Love is not a feeling or emotion. It’s the essence of who you are.
You may have been taught that you need to think positive thoughts to attract positive things…You may have been taught to think thoughts that make you feel good, give you warm feelings, and so on.
However, most people are forgetting to pay attention to the one thing that completely outperforms any artificially created positive thought… ‘
Love’…the universal freedom to express consciousness in your unique and natural way.
Achievement derived from this state of being produces a sense of fulfillment and joy that’s much more enduring than achievements (if they occur in the first place) resulting from selfish aims.
The State of Loving yourself for who you really are and allowing yourself to express that in your life is the starting point for anything you choose to enjoy from there… even material wealth.
The difference would be that you have no need for it anymore in order to confirm that you’re okay. You’ll already know that you’re okay. You can playfully enjoy it if you choose, but you’ll have let go of the ‘wanting it at all cost’.
So where to start?
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”~Morrie Schwartz
Well, ask yourself: What are your strengths? What do you excel in? What are your unique talents? What can you do better than most others? What are your passions? What makes your heart sing? What can you do for hours, that makes you lose track of time and fills you with energy and joy?
Whatever your answer is, make time for that in your life.
Then see if you can use what you’re doing for the benefit of others… no matter how small-scale your reach is at first.
Enjoy the flow you’ll experience. And then just watch what happens in your life! As the Beatles song goes: “All you need is Love!”
Welcome to the Revolution.
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. ~Richard Wagner
These days you can hardly go through any articles, books, DVDs, movies, films, documentaries with regard to self-improvement or self-help without coming across at least one mentioning of some ‘Universal Law’.
Suddenly, there appears to be a Universal Law for everything. Like we haven’t got enough Laws to deal with already!
There is truth to these ‘Universal Laws’, but in most cases, a little nuance is in place.
Please read on, as the remainder of this article will clear it all up.
There are Universal Laws that guide your life behind the scenes of ‘physical reality’. These are actually rather ‘universal principles of life’. That would be a more appropriate qualification.
However, the qualification of ‘Universal Law’ has taken on a life of its own. The word ‘Law’ appears to be a magic word… Almost a magic wand that casts a spell on anyone who reads it that puts them in a hypnotized state thinking that what it says must be true. After all, it’s a ‘Law’ isn’t it? A ‘Law’ is always right. No more thinking required.
Today, subjects like the ‘Law of Attraction’ are at an all-time high of popularity. We’ve got the movie ‘The Secret’ and a whole big bunch of people trying to leverage on it by proclaiming themselves as ‘experts in the field of the Law of Attraction’, or ‘masters of attraction. Yes, there’s that magic word (wand) again.
And simply because people seem to like ‘Universal Laws’, every now and then a new ‘Universal Law’ makes its entrance. People come up with new ‘Universal Laws’ all the time. And likewise, new ‘experts on the Law of Attraction’ and ‘masters of attraction’ proclaim themselves every day.
Yet despite so many people having seen the movie ‘The Secret’ and knowing about the Law of Attraction, there is only a very, very small number of people who are actually living the life of their dreams, or ‘attracting their desires’, or ‘manifesting their dreams’. Yes those are some other ‘magic words’ from today’s common terminology.
How come?
How come, with all that knowledge, with all those ‘Universal Laws’ already written and told about, and with all those new ‘Universal Laws’, ‘Spiritual Laws of the Universe’, ‘Subsidiary Laws’ and so on coming about each and every day on the Internet and elsewhere… How come with all the people buying those books, DVDs, movies, films, documentaries, and so on, are still not ‘attracting their desires’ or ‘manifesting their dreams’?
I’ll tell you why. Most people have heard something about it, but have no real knowledge about the matter. They are aware of the fact that there are ‘Universal Laws’, or rather ‘universal principles of life’ that work behind the scenes and guide the courses of their lives.
However, most people have lost track, because so many who think they know what they’re talking about (while they don’t) come up with these new ‘Universal Laws’ all the time.
There may be some truth to all these different ‘Universal Laws’. But what they really do for genuine seekers for the truth like yourself is not much more than making things way too difficult and complex to apply.
And if that isn’t enough already, often another big problem comes up when you start reading about the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the ‘Laws of the Universe’. The ‘experts’ who speak or write about them tend to do so in such an overly symbolic fashion, that few well-thinking people can make any practical sense of it. What you find is nothing but ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’.
Listen; there are universal principles of life. ‘Universal Laws’ if you will. However, when it comes to applying them to your advantage, we are in desperate need for some clarity.
Let me show you what I mean. I can come up with hundreds of ‘Universal Laws’ if I want. Here are a couple of them…
Introducing the Universal Law of Ping Pong
It says you have to use ping pong balls if you want to play table tennis.
Introducing the Universal Law of Rain
It says that when it rains, things get wet.
Disappointing, eh? But they did sound interesting at first, right?
See what’s happening here?
The mere qualification of ‘Universal Law’ makes the statement sound interesting already, while the true deeper meaning of the ‘Universal Law’ is nothing more than a standard, blindingly obvious platitude.
So let me give you another Universal Law right now, to satisfy your probably insatiable need (or so you may think) for knowledge of all ‘Universal Laws’ to improve your life, ‘attract your desires’, and ‘manifest your dreams’ once and for all:
Introducing the Universal Law of Bollocks
It says that it’s all bollocks.
That’s right, it’s all bollocks. Bollocks! There are universal principles guiding your life. If you want, you can call them ‘Universal Laws’. I’ve done so in my books and articles, because that’s what people are looking for these days. If I would apply other terminology, people would never even be looking at it. Simply because they think they need ‘Laws’.
But it’s all bollocks, because before this whole game we call ‘human life’ started, we didn’t get an instruction manual on how life was supposed to be lived.
We didn’t get a Code of Law full of ‘thou shalt not’s’. The purpose of the whole thing was to find out the universal principles and realize that through applying these principles, YOU can have full control over whatever it is you want to create.
The purpose of the whole thing was to find out that the world ‘outside’ is only a mirror showing what’s going on ‘inside’. All this time, the whole thing has been about finding out that you create your reality experience yourself.
Yes, that’s right, you ‘create’, which is much more than ‘attracting’. But that’s something you’ll discover as you get more experienced in the conscious living of your life and in the engineering your own success by applying the true and simple universal principles of life. Or yes, ‘Laws’ if you will.
What you call ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are qualifications of your own. You are the one who deems things to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’. That’s merely a judgment from your individual perspective. When you’re not satisfied with your reality experience, you need to create something else that you are satisfied with.
For many, this is where the Law of Attraction comes in. According to most, this one states that what you focus your thoughts on becomes your reality. There’s truth to this statement, but there’s more to the story. Positive thinking and visualizing aren’t going to cut it.
There are certain boundary conditions to take into account, certain ‘universal principles of life’. Without attending to these conditions, your attraction efforts will be sabotaged. And this is exactly what most people who have seen ‘The Secret’ and have tried to put the ‘Law of Attraction’ into practice are experiencing.
But the last thing you need are instructions that are either overly symbolic, or too complex to apply. What you want is to keep things simple and straightforward. Or else you may get lost in the details. You want just enough straightforward knowledge for simple application of the principles, while still having a total view on the big picture that is comprehensive enough to not forget about any universal principle or Law for that matter.
If you want to make life simple for yourself, to start pulling the right strings at once to create the life and destiny of your dreams, then don’t waste another second on trying to find out every small, detailed, insignificant ‘Universal Law’ someone came up with today. You’ll be like a cat chasing its own tail: a never-ending story that leaves you exhausted and depressed.
Neither should you merely think positive thoughts and then wait for things to happen. There’s a little more to it. Just a little, nothing complex, but still extremely important.
Just keep it simple.
There are 6 main Universal Principles (or Laws) that cover all universal principles automatically. Attend to them all, which is a simple thing to do without much effort required, and you’ll be living more than your dreams before you can even consciously realize you created such an incredible experience!
Keep it straightforward and easy-to-apply. The game of life wasn’t intended to be complex and difficult. The game was supposed to be simple and easy, and most of all FUN! And there’s a simple road to it, and it’s just a small decision away. Welcome to the Revolution.
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You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. -Juvenal
One of the most exciting changes that could mean a breakthrough in health centers on the term mind-body medicine.
Twenty years ago, the equation was definitely body-oriented. If it was conceded that the mind plays a part in health, doctors generally had disparaging things to say about psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect. Neither seemed like “real” medicine, and no medical school curriculum taught otherwise. It was a source of dismay, in fact, that alternative approaches even existed.
What was not realized, as the mind-body connection turned into hard science, is that the polarity needs to be reversed entirely. It is the mind that dominates the body, that acts as chooser, controller, and governor. Instead of being incidental, your state of awareness plays a huge part in how your cells function.
We need to reinvent the body as a creation of consciousness — that step, which was taken thousands of years ago in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, would clarify so many mysteries surrounding faith healing, energy work, acupuncture, Qi Gong, and spontaneous remissions of intractable disorders like cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
So far, the breakthrough hasn’t occurred, not on a completely reliable basis, secure enough so that using the mind as healer becomes more predictable and efficacious than drugs and surgery. The reason that we don’t have mind-based therapies at every hospital are complicated. Rather than go into them, let’s ask the most salient question.
What can you and I do to promote wellness based, first and foremost, on consciousness?
To answer that question, you need specific goals, as with any long-range project.
Goal #1: Free yourself from the past.
Goal #2: Address bad habits and addictions.
Goal #3: Find the core of the self.
Goal #4: Maintain a program for personal growth and evolution.
Goal #5: Become aware of how your environment – at work, at home, in your closest relationships – mirrors who you are inside.
I’ve tried to state these goals as objectively as possible, without leaning toward one method or another. There are countless techniques available in the American supermarket of medical and health advice. But the reason that people come away frustrated and confused is that the specifics of what they are doing today — going to yoga class, drinking wheat grass juice, reading Buddhist sermons — becomes haphazard without an overall vision.
These five goals give you the bare outline of a vision, which you can fill in by turning each into a question:
1. What am I doing to free myself from my past?
2. Am I honestly confronting my bad habits and addictive tendencies?
3. Do I make choices from a secure center, knowing who I really am?
4. Do I have confidence that I am evolving and will continue to evolve?
5. Looking around, how does my world, including everyone I relate to, reflect what’s going on inside?
These should be approached as medical questions, because even if you aren’t asking them — especially if you aren’t asking them — your body is eavesdropping all the time. There are three levels of reflection that give feedback to you: your thoughts, your physical condition, and the external world. They are linked and fused, which is what makes holism possible.
If you could ignore your thoughts, your body, or your circumstances, letting one or two go while concentrating only on what’s left, holistic medicine, or holistic living, would be a delusion. Consciousness isn’t compartmentalized; it is whole. Your self is the hub from which everything emanates. All experience, physical, mental, and spiritual, occur in consciousness.
I think we’ve outlined a good beginning for switching the mind-body polarity. (Readers who wish to approach these issues in depth may want to look at my book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul.) We are immersed in a materialistic worldview, and although skepticism has been quieted somewhat by the flood of research confirming the mind-body connection, there will be resistance to seeing consciousness as central to well-being.
But even if you decide to put your faith entirely in mainstream medicine and its focus on drugs and surgery — a choice that fewer informed people make nowadays — there is no doubt that positive lifestyle changes are unassailable for preventing more and more illnesses. You can’t make such changes without confronting most if not all the goals I’ve outlined. They are key if you want to send the best messages from mind to body.
Since you are sending such messages constantly, why shouldn’t they be the best?
About Deepak Chopra -
Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as “Hollywood’s man of the moment, one of publishing’s best-selling and most prolific self-help authors.” He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of “bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east” remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India’s historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton. His latest book is “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul.”
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.~Brian Tracy
This is an antidote to victimization. It establishes that you are seen and provided for.
The more you notice the truth of this principle, the less you will believe that you are a victim.
Looking around, it’s obvious that life is orderly. A bee flies from flower to flower, eating and pollinating in accordance with a magnificent, ordered scheme.
Millions of years of evolution have exquisitely matched bee and flower so that neither can exist without the other.
Why, then, do we believe that our own lives can’t be effortlessly sustained?
One major obstacle is that we see ourselves as victim. Our bodies are subject to aging and death. Accidents are unavoidable. Catastrophe and disaster looms just around the corner, controlled by a whimsical destiny. And simply imagining the terrible things that can happen to you brings as much suffering as the events themselves.
Being a victim is the logical result of being in constant danger.If God sustains us, then surely he must reverse this whole scheme of random accidents that puts everyone in peril. This is a tricky point, however, because we are also surrounded by abundance in Nature.
Optimists point to our green earth overflowing with life, nourishment, and beauty.
However, can a loving God really supply us with life’s good things one day and pain the next? Most people who feel grateful to God tend to deny that he is also responsible for disease, calamity, and death. Yet an all-knowing, all-powerful deity can’t be responsible for only part of what goes on. Either he sustains everything or nothing.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ~Eileen Caddy
The way to escape from living under a God who brings pleasure one day and pain the next is to realize that God isn’t a person.
We only call God “he” because our minds resist thinking of God as a total abstraction.
In truth, being total, God has to be abstract. You can’t wrap your mind around the All. Instead, we wrap our minds around the things we notice, and choose to believe in.
To the extent that you notice God in your life, acknowledge him with gratitude. God doesn’t need to be thanked—after all; he already has everything, including thanks.
But by choosing gratitude you are selecting a benevolent aspect of the All on which you want to focus. The purpose of gratitude is to connect you to a higher vision of life.
Whatever you pay attention to will grow.
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life.
Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the more threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.
The external world claims to be real, but it, too, is an image created in consciousness and projected outward. Once you realize that you alone are the projector of reality, you will no longer be dominated by external events. You will correct the mistake that lies at the very root of victimization: a belief that the movie controls you, instead of the other way around.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
The celebration of Valentine’s Day is one of the best examples of polarity that there is on the planet.
When the male population was asked for their opinion of the holiday, their comments were generally the same in that their response was that they thought celebrating one day for “Love” was foolishness. They stated that they loved their partners every day and to make one day a holiday was ridiculous and simply a venue for marketers. On the other hand, women stated that they thought it was a ‘Lovely” idea and that receiving gifts and attention from their significant other was a wonderful thing to experience.
In addition, it’s a well-known fact that if the male does not make an effort to gift his woman, her feelings are hurt, she does not feel significant and she can and does draw the conclusion that “he” is selfish or an ass, or both.
The consequences of these thoughts by the feminine, spurs the act of thoughtfulness by the masculine on this day and the profits to the marketplace are HUGE. There is also the possibility of the “Third Side” which is …Give and you shall receive !
Esther Howland, the woman who produced the first commercial American valentines in the 1840s, sold a then mind-boggling $5,000 in cards during her first year of business. The valentine industry in the United States has been booming ever since.
Today, over 1 billion valentine cards are sent in this country each year…according to the Greeting Card Association. The happy day is also celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. Eighty-five percent of all valentines are purchased by Women. In addition to cards, there are billions of boxes of chocolates and bouquets of roses purchased mostly by Men for the February 14 holiday. . .The ironic part of this story is that the two names symbolizing this “Love” day, Valentine and Cupid, are names of MEN. How many of us actually know any history regarding why we celebrate February 14? Where did Valentine and Cupid come from anyway??
I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
Cupid…everybody is familiar with the boy armed with bow and arrows who pierces Hearts. The arrows were aimed at the gods and humans alike and the wounds inspired Love or passion in every victim. These wounds produced desires and emotions causing them to fall deeply in Love.
Cupid was the son of Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of Love and Beauty. He was sometimes portrayed wearing armor like that of Mars, the god of war, perhaps to suggest ironic parallels between warfare and romance or to symbolize the Invincibility of Love. He was generally viewed as beneficent because of the Happiness he imparted to couples both mortal and immortal.
There is a very interesting story about Cupid and His mortal Bride Psyche in Roman mythology.
Venus was jealous of the beauty of Psyche, and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal. But instead, Cupid fell deeply in love with her. He took her as his wife, but as a mortal she was forbidden to look at him. Psyche was happy until her sisters persuaded her to look at Cupid. As soon as Psyche looked at Cupid, Cupid punished her by leaving her. Their lovely castle and gardens vanished too. Psyche found herself alone in an open field with no signs of other beings or Cupid. As she wandered trying to find her Love, she came upon the temple of Venus. Wishing to destroy her, the goddess of Love gave Psyche a series of tasks, each harder and more dangerous than the last. For her last task Psyche was given a little box and told to take it to the underworld. She was told to get some of the beauty of Proserpine, the wife of Pluto, and put it in the box. During her trip she was given tips on avoiding the dangers of the realm of the dead and was also warned not to open the box. But temptation overcame Psyche and she opened the box. Instead of finding beauty, she found deadly slumber. Cupid found her lifeless on the ground and quickly gathered the deadly sleep from her body and put it back in the box. Cupid forgave her, as did Venus. The gods, moved by Psyche’s love for Cupid, made her a goddess. Cupid has always played a role in the celebrations of Love and Lovers so it seems appropriate that he is the most famous of Love signs and Valentine symbols. Love is most frequently depicted by two hearts pierced by an arrow…Cupid’s arrow.
The “Valentine” part of this holiday came from the Catholic Church who recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome.
When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men.
Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
It is traditionally a day on which Lovers express their Love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards known as “valentines.”
The day first became associated with Romantic Love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of Courtly Love flourished. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. Though no longer considered a Saint…Valentine is still the talk of the town…at least for today!!
So, here’s hoping that you Love and are Loved Every Day and that you and your Special Someone let each other know how very special each of you are to one another…not just today, Valentine’s Day, but Every Day.
Smell the beautiful flowers, taste the fabulous chocolate, smile and perhaps, even blush a little when you read the Loving Thoughts of your man or woman…Love is all there is and Love makes the world go ‘round. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler
“I love you.” - What an emotional high these three simple words can bring – if they are spoken from the Heart.
The thing is, some people have a difficult time saying it comfortably without the words tripping out of their mouths. You’d think they’ll morph and turn into ogres, the way they squirm and go around beating the bush before finally saying the words. Then there are also those who openly say the words but don’t really mean it.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t matter if they do or don’t say the words. What matters is that a relationship remains honest and happy.
What are the things that make a relationship work anyway? The same factors work for all kinds of relationship.
Whether it’s a relationship between lovers, among family members, friends, office workers, and business partners, the same foundations apply for it to work. If a pillar is missing, the whole thing crumbles.
Three pillars make up the foundation. We call the three Pillars:The Relationship Tripod. Each will be discussed in length in the proceeding paragraphs.
The Companionship Leg
First, it must be understood that a relationship requires at least two people for it to exist, let alone work. You must be visible to the other person. If the relationship is long distance, you must at least feel that the other one is there. It won’t do any good to take the other’s existence for granted and count on the other to check up on you. You must also show compassion. If you keep up the show of indifference, it just spells failure. The other person needs to sense your feelings for them. Show them kindness, gentleness, sensitivity – anything that shows you care for them. It’s not that hard to say “I’m always here for you,” is it? Whoever receives this show of affection must give something back. Everyone must do his or her part in a relationship because it’s a give and take condition.
The Compromise Leg
In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault
As mentioned earlier, a relationship is a give and take situation. Not all people are made alike; even if two people are so uncannily similar, there might still exist small differences that could spark an argument. This is why an agreement has to be reached on every argument, whether petty or vital. All kinds are important, especially when it comes to a relationship. Someone has to win and someone has to give in. This is why the discussion of differences is so essential. Discuss the disparity: What is the problem? Why is it a problem? Who should compromise and adjust to the problem? All these should be resolved. Conceding sometimes doesn’t make you a loser; rather, it goes to show how important a relationship is to you. “I guess you’re right.” These words could be the balm of your disputes.
The Communication Leg
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.~Miles Franklin
There would be no discussion of differences, no showing of affection, and no saying of words without communication. This third and last leg is probably the most vital in a relationship. It enables us to know what the other party feels and what is needed to make the partnership work. It gives us the ability to say the words that are wanted and needed. In short, the other two legs won’t happen if the last one isn’t present. Just a small act of communication could go a long way in improving a relationship.
You can do simple things like writing a small note on a piece of paper, or writing short emails at least occasionally. Do something to give truth to your existence and your relationship. Don’t take this for granted, because a lot of relationships crumble due to lack of any contact. Take the long distance relationship, for instance. A lot fail, but some succeed because they contact each other almost every day. Even business associates keep contact by sending each other progress reports.
Any form of relationship is like a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump puts it.
Some tastes good and some don’t. Overall, the experience of having a box of chocolates gives you a good feeling because eating each and every piece of chocolate gives an experience – an experience of bitterness, sweetness, or even bitter-sweetness. You may not get every flavor that you desire in a box.
So if you are looking for a relationship that is easy on the heart and mind, get ready for the harsh reality. It entails the effort of everyone involved for it to work well. And that includes You.
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The way to escape from living under a God who brings pleasure one day and pain the next is to realize that God isn’t a person.
