THOUGHTS ON TRUST
“Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” - Lao-tzu.
Without trust all you can be in life is alone.. Just think, How could you drive anywhere unless you trusted the automobile will run safely and the drivers to follow traffic rules? Would you go to work if you didn’t have trust in your company to pay your salary? Or, if you are the employer, would you hire anyone without the trust that they would carry out their responsibilities?
Trust is the glue that holds society together,
What’s astonishing about trust is we are born with it. Smile at an infant and it returns the smile. It trusts you, a stranger. Its mind is not yet influenced by prejudice and its heart is not yet clogged by fear. As adults, we find it difficult to be completely trusting, for it makes us vulnerable - 'After all, if I offer myself to another, they may betray me'. The result may be disappointment and pain.
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -- Golda Meir.
The first person we need to learn to trust is ourselves. When we trust in ourself, we are reliable, dependable, and trustworthy. As a result, we grow in confidence and others place their trust in us.
Trust is a choice. It is the choice to move away from fear and toward respect.
Rohit Bhalunkar
All Is Well
You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be no other way... The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous—you attract more of all of those things.
Excerpted from a workshop in “The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham” on Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Freely Choosing to be Yourself
Our values are what define the choices we make, the actions we take, the life that we create. They are a set of subtle and not so subtle beliefs, ideas, and ways of seeing the world that we deeply subscribe to but may not even be conscious of. And if we're not conscious of the values of the conditioned self, they are going to inhibit our capacity to be truly awake. So it's imperative, if you want to be an agent of conscious evolution, to bring the light of awareness to this level of your self. What are your deeply held values? Are they your values? Did you freely choose them? Probably not. Very few people freely choose their own values. Many of us who have grown up in a postmodern world where the freedom of individual is valued above all else assume that we have freely chosen our values, but it's very rarely true. So this is why the culturally conditioned self is a subject in all of us that needs to be made an object in the light of our own awareness, so that we will be in a position to begin to freely choose who we will be. We have to, in a sense, die and be reborn again. This is what rigorous and serious spiritual practice is all about: learning how to freely choose to be yourself.
- Andrew Cohen
Quote
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, they are the only ones who ever have."
- Margaret Mead
Green Shifting
A paradigm-shifting suggestion comes this month from former IONS employee Jason Norris, who is now involved in the "green funeral business." For those who want to align their afterlife with the current life values, it's worth considering a green burial. Every year the cemetery industry buries over 827,000 gallons of embalming fluid, 104,000 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 1.6 million tons of concrete, and 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods. Jason is happy to talk about Green Burials with anyone who is interested. You can reach him at Forever Fernwood in Mill Valley, CA, 510.691.8005 or
Jason@foreverfernwood.com
Past Life Regression in Israel
Georgina has been invited to Israel in November to teach Past Life Regression.
If you are interested in joining the class in Jerusalem,
contact our office and we
will give you the necessary information.
Your voice is your messenger....
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Let's begin to make a difference today with our words. William Arthur's words are wise, "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
We are all standing on the shoulders of others. We have reached our present station in life because of the help and encouragement we received from others. The best way to return that favor is to constantly encourage, inspire and guide people we live our lives with and around.
Rohit Bhalunkar
We REALLY are what we think!
"But there is more to it. Physical contact is not a requirement when it comes to rewiring. Repeated thinking can also trigger a series of reactions which result in brain rewiring. Scientists have investigated the formation of synapses as a result of 'thinking about doing something' and found that, from a neuronal perspective, thinking can be as useful as doing. This evidence led to an interesting fusion of interests between Buddhist meditation (through the Dalai Lama's interest on the influence of the mind over the brain) and the scientific research on brain plasticity and the formation of neural networks. It seems that brain plasticity is a flexible topic as well as a flexible concept."
PBS has done a series of programs on this, check out these links for more information.
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=P30Yx&m=1dnnpsMYZljnxj&b=LZjZNpkj2Q_1PkPt.9BB.QDavidson & Golemantwo leading thinkers discuss emotions and neuroplasticitywww.morethansound.netScience of the Brain: How the Mind Works
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=P30Yx&m=1dnnpsMYZljnxj&b=ukrZgrAYDbLP.YOEogGKzQ
Your active brain
"Even if you try to clear your mind, say by listening to a song, you're making memories about that song," memory researcher John Wixted, chairman of the psychology department at the University of California-San Diego, tells The Union-Tribune.
The newspaper adds that, in his book The Odd Brain, anthropologist Stephen Juan writes that the average brain on the average day generates about 70,000 thoughts. Many of these thoughts - including those that never rise to the level of consciousness - become memories.
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All talk ....
Wherever you are in the world, talk is cheap.
Election speeches from all corners of the earth all promise the same thing.
Peace and prosperity. Ha!
This may be the opportune time to consider how much of what we say is only dust and noise.
It doesn´t carry intent or a committment or call to action.
Shut out the noise and watch behaviour to discover the truth.
Thems my thoughts anyway.
Georgina
'Memory cell' holds record of Earth's history
Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday 04, March
A tiny zircon crystal extracted from a three-billion- year-old rock in northern Ontario is being hailed by Canadian and U.S. scientists as a primordial "memory cell" containing a previously unknown record of the Earth's early history. The researchers also believe their microscopic time capsule could provide a new tool for testing whether life has ever existed on other planets. The zircon was extracted from an outcropping of deep-earth rock known as the Kapuskasing Uplift, a rare geological feature near the city of Timmins in which ancient rock that's normally 30 kilometres below the planet's surface is exposed
Getting Going!!
As the days get longer, it seems easier to get started. Whether it's a chemical reaction to the light, or the promise of summer, it just seems that ideas now move into action. It's a 'beginning time'. And whether the beginning or starting of an idea is small or large, it IS a start. And a start means action. Action is what gets us where we need or want to go... and we're moving into action time! Yeah!
The new Workshop Workbook has emerged from my mind and is now down on paper and ready to be published. As is the
Discovering the Interlife -- second in my metaphysical book series (another one waits inside the brain neurons..... I can feel it inching forward!!!)
Watch this space!
Something to think about.....
Through the night comes the light that brings the day.
Through your mind goes the thought that forms the clay.
The clay forms the who and how you are
Always remember to form a star....
Everything you do, everything you say has your name on it.
Be proud
Quote -
There are always those who thrive when masses are dying of sickness.
There are always those who thrive economically when economic decline seems to be the order of your nation.
There are always those who are clear-minded, in environments of confusion.
You do not need everyone or anyone else to align with your desire—only you need to align with your desire.
Abraham Hicks
Children and Animal Cruelty: What Parents Should Know
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Your Legacy
In his book, the Eighth Habit, Stephen Covey says that there are four key parts to love.These are to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.
Throughout the last few years, many leading social figures have started to contemplate leaving a legacy.Bill Gates, for example, has pledge $48 billion of his $50 billion fortune to charity. Similarly, Simon Cowell has pledged to donate $180 million of his $200 million fortune to charity after his death.
As we enter the weekend, take some time to contemplate what legacy you will leave this world. It may not be a financial legacy, but might be a great piece of art, a beautiful garden, a website that you have donated a lot of time and care to or, quite simply, some beautiful children who will go on to add happiness to many lives.
Once you have decided what your legacy will be, take some time to imagine how much benefit the world will get from it. This, ultimately, will make you realise just how important you are in the grand scheme of life.
From a reader - On the Power of Faith
Situations come into one's life that will say; Its now or never - either God's word is true or it isn't.
As in one instance some years ago my cat of 16 years, Lady Sloopy, would live or die. In one brief moment the retinas in both eyes, completely detached causing complete blindness. As well, her heart rate was too fast and there was something wrong with her blood count.
Immediately I began to pray, to put my faith out for my girl - speaking, healing. I chose not to believe the 'bad report' of her doctor and asked him to pray in agreement with me. He said, "Are you serious?"
I said, "I am", and proceeded to pray with Sloopy in my arms, speaking in the authorityI have as a believer and as a child of God.
And as I continued releasing my faith for her healing, speaking prophetically, it seems as if in no time her total restoration began to manifest and my lady could see!!
I called her doctor and we went bak to the clinic the next morning. He looked into her eyes with the device and said, "ITS A MIRACLE!! The retinas, have re-attached!!"
I do believe in miracles.
They are a large part of my life and for many whom God has brought into my path these last 28 years.
My faith is not from 'religion'.
God is not a religion.
I've a relationship with my Father. The more time I spend with Him, in His Word, the more I will know Him as He is and no other voice will I follow.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Faith is an action word.
I put it in my spirit mind and then speak it out in the authority I've been given by God, as a believer.
I know in whom I have believed and I seek His face daily.
His Word is His power, His will for our lives.
What He does for me He will do for anyone.
He is love.
Be blessed in The Year of New Beginnings!
Jan
A thought -
With every thought we think, we are either adding to the Light of the world or to the shadows.
Interesting quote from Al Gore
"When enough unexplainable new phenomena pile up, there is sometimes a shift in consciousness that moves us quickly and suddenly to recognize a new pattern that explains all of these things that have been mysterious in the context of the old way of thinking. That’s what we’re on the cusp of right now."
-- Al Gore
Knowing what is....
Anyone who looks at the meaning of their life is bound to ask some vital questions:
Have I truly made a difference?
Have I accomplished all that I'm capable of?
Has my life mattered?
Who and what am I really, and what is my life mission?
Our development as individuals--our self-actualization--depends on our ability to connect with something larger than ourselves, something that transcends our day-to-day existence.
For everyone it's different. For each of us it's important.
We are our heritage.
I'm discovering mine ... what's yours?
New Year ...
New opportunity for choice .... what will I choose to do this year that will change my life?
What is it about my daily, weekly, routine and thought patterns that needs to change so that I can become more of what I want to be?
The quote below sums it all up.....
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor RooseveltAnd you?
Good Riddance Day
New York City celebrated Good Riddance Day.
This was a day in which thousands of people wrote down everything that they wanted to say goodbye to and placed them in large paper shredders that were available to the public.
As we spend the last few hours of 2007 looking forward to 2008, it is worthwhile to spend some time listing everything that we want to say good riddance too.
This could be anything from an unhealthy habit to a difficult relationship, from a lingering bad memory to a negative thought pattern.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2008.
A Lesson in Respect By Zelig Pliskin
Printed with Permission of Shaar Press
Do you really want to learn how to treat another person with great respect? Then learn from business people and fundraisers. Watch how they treat their wealthiest clients. Listen how they speak. Observe what they do to give this person royal treatment. Then model these patterns with each person you encounter. Impossible to do?
Then at least do this with some people some of the time. And start with individuals who are least likely to be treated this way by others.
You never know. The very one whom you feel could never do anything at all for you might be a person who will transform your life. Today, he is penniless. At some point in the future, he might be wealthy. Today, he does not have clout. One day, he might be in a position to save your life. And even if he never has any money or never is able to do anything for you in a material sense, spiritually he elevates you.
Try this experiment. Each day for one week speak to one person as you would the wealthiest potential client you will ever meet. Compare the difference in how you treat him with this consciousness and how you would otherwise have treated him. This difference is what you need to work on to close the gap.
Recognize the spark of divinity in each human being. Your respect for the children of the Creator is ultimately the respect you show for the Creator.
Your personal honor is based on the honor you show others. How honorable do you want to be? You might claim that it’s important for you to consider yourself a valuable person. And if it truly is important then this will be manifest in how you treat others. Treating others with disrespect or contempt diminishes you.
Treating others with honor and respect elevates you. Elevate yourself. Treat others with tremendous respect and you instantly are higher than you were before.
You are independent of how anyone else treats you. You are totally dependent on how you treat others. Treat them as multi-billion dollar clients and customers and your net worth goes up where it really counts.
Forgiveness
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Isn't it time to let it go.... shake it out..... forgive without regret and move on with easy steps?
Letting go of resentment and regret allows your mind, body and spirit to lift and move with the ease of a well trained athlete - which we are when we free ourselves.
It's time - let it go!
STRESS---TIME!!!
Research has shown that multi-tasking doesn't work long term.
It causes major stress and a 'make do' attitude that life doesn't deserve.
Who ever heard of a great artist or sculpture multi-tasking??
Think about chunking up (a good NLP term) your tasks, and see which are priorities, which are urgent, and which give you a quality of life.
And remember to ink yourself in to each day.... you need time for you!
p.s. watch out for the new book on Time Mapping - title yet unknown!
Life ...
... may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance!!!
I couldn't have said it better ...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Computer
It's a new moon - a time to re-evaluate who and how we are.....
We all have a value or values that we consider to be essential — values that we believe are fundamental to ourselves and the world. These are values which we believe the world needs to publicly express more of. If you're such a person, then your Gateway is the blossoming of this particular value in the world. If one of your values is listed below then begin living a more fully exemplary life in and of that value. If your value isn't included, add it to the list. If you're having trouble discovering your value, try this little exercise:- Arjuna, head of the Living Essence Foundation, asks the following question, "You have five minutes to live...what's the most important thing to you?"
- Beauty
- Order
- Harmony
- Love
- Compassion
- Forgiveness
- Honor
- Being and doing good
- Generosity
- Graciousness
- Kindness
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Joy
- Dignity
- Respect
- Excellence
- Persistence
- Charity
Podcasting....
As we start our series of podcasts, it dawned on me, that just two years ago I would not have known that word, never mind the concept or how to do it. There's lots of chat about how time is moving faster, but I wonder if it is? I wonder if what we're doing is just filling up the time we have with more new.....
New technology, new words, new discoveries, new methods of communications (although I believe that some of these new methods really don't communicate........they just talk at you.... like I'm doing here - which is a whole other subject.... the art of communication -- but I digress)
Managing time these days is like carrying an overfull cup of coffee to your table..... you have to be hyper sensitive all the time to everything around you as you move towards your destination in case you lose some of what you're carrying...no wonder there's so much stress around.
What gives you stress.....?
What's in your overflowing cup?
Quote
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated - it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
What I believe....
All forms of thinking can be tolerated, but some forms of behaviour should not be.
As always .... it's the behaviour that counts.
The value you bring:
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.- Jim RohnWhen I read this quote earlier this week, I realised that although 'just showing up' has a value - it's not the true value of who you are.
If we had to sign every hour of our life with our signature, if we had to - in fact - be visibly responsible for each hour, signing each hour of our life, like the piece of art that it is, then how we live our lives, hour by hour, would be demonstrably different.
Them's my thoughts, anyway.
Thoughts become actions ...
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
A note from the Universe
First, as a child, it seems like the entire world is there for you and you rush to drink from its every cup, sometimes wondering to yourself how anything could ever be more fun.
Then, as you grow older, if you're observant, you realize much of what you enjoy was made possible by the contributions, work, and labor of those who came before you, and you're taken aback, disappointed even , because with maturity you can now see cracks in the façades, imperfections in the details, and 10,000 ways it could have all been done better.
At which point, folks typically choose one of two paths: Spend a lifetime lamenting how far from perfect things are. Or, to one degree or another, roll up their sleeves and pitch in. And should they choose the latter with gusto, they will come to know, to the core of their sacred being, that the differences they might make in the world cannot be made by another. And then they will discover the answer to their often-wondered childhood question.... That the most fun one can have in time and space comes from making such a difference, and that the joy derived from serving is 10,000 times that of being served.
More from science on the Mind-Body connection
Just returned from the One Day University event in New York; all speakers were professors from Ivy League Universities.
Shawn Achor Harvard Fellow discussed Positive Psychology and the Science of Happiness.
He talked about how science has proven that we are what we think.
He gave the two following examples:
1. London England cabbies who have to train for a year to know every street in London develop a much larger hippocampus in their brain - which is the part of the brain used for spacial mapping.
2. When people learn braille, the nerve/brain connection to the first finger of their right hand - which they use to 'read' braille, develops and becomes larger.
We knew that!
Wondering about Karma
Is Karma the Power of Intention taken to its highest degree or is it something 'put upon' us? Is it what we've earned? Or is it what we're given?
What I do know is that it is ultimately our choice how we use what we come in with.
How we use what we've got makes us who we are this time around. The more I write about the Interlife, the more sessions I facilitate,(
www.lifebetweenlivescanada.com) the more I understand that it is always about choice.
What You See Is What You Get!
Science hasn't fully explained how or why visualization works. But the fact that it does is enough for most major air forces in the world to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in flight simulators.
Frankly, if you're aiming to achieve a major goal, who cares if you know how or why visualization works - just that it does! In our world, visualizing is called
hypnosis!
And there's no doubt that visualization is a proven success technique used by achievers in every field, from athletes to actors to astronauts. None other than golfing legend Jack Nicklaus is said to have always played a course in his mind before actually beginning a game. Most competitive skiiers do the same.
If you want to know more about hypnosis or self hypnosis, just connect with us - we're here to help you!
Our Emotions
Most people are unaware of how addicted they are to their emotions, and how the brain perpetuates those addictions automatically. In short, webecome slaves to our emotional addictions without even realizing it. By observing our patterns of thought, and learning how to 're-wire the brain' with new thought patterns, we can break the cycles that keep us trapped and open ourselves to new possibilities for growth, happiness and emotional satisfaction."
-- Dr. Joe Dispenza
Something to ponder
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena," said Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again . . . because there is no effort without error and . . . if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Are you really an addict?
The word 'addict' has become a adjective in all sorts of inappropriate ways.... people say
they're addicted to popcorn, for instance, or to a type of perfume or hand cream. Hopefully
they're not.
The definition of an true addict is:
"Someone who can choose when to start using, but not when to stop using".
So be careful what you say about yourself!
Are you really an addict? Or is it a habit you would like to lose? (hint, hint, hypnosis helps!)
Another question: is addiction a disease or a mental desire/habit? Consider this -- alcohol is out of the body system in 72 hours, cocaine the same. Many pills and methamphetamines haf half-lives so they take longer to leave the system.... but they do leave. Nicotine is out of the system in 48 hours.
What do you think?
Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA In Sperm, Genetic Damage
Science Daily — The science has long been clear that smoking causes cancer, but new research shows that children could inherit genetic damage from a father who smokes. Canadian researchers have demonstrated in mice that smoking can cause changes in the DNA sequence of sperm cells, alterations that could potentially be inherited by offspring.
"Here we are looking at male germline mutations, which are mutations in the DNA of sperm. If inherited, these mutations persist as irreversible changes in the genetic composition of off-spring." said Carole Yauk,Ph.D., lead author of the study and research scientistin the Mutagenesis Section of Health Canada'sEnvironmental and Occupational Toxicology Division.
"We have known that mothers who smoke can harm their fetuses, and here we show evidence that fathers can potentially damage offspring long before they may even meet their future mate."
Males, whether they are mouse or man, generate a constant supply of new sperm from self-renewing spermatogonial stem cells. Yauk, along with colleague sat Health Canada and McMaster University, studied the spermatogonial stem cells of mature mice that had been exposed to cigarette smoke for either six or 12 weeks to look for alterations in a specific stretch of repeated portions of DNA, called Ms6-hm, which does not contain any known genes. The "smoking" mice were exposed to two cigarettes per day, the equivalent --based on blood levels of tobacco by-products -- of an average human smoker, according to research previously published by one of the study's co-authors.
Yauk and her colleagues found that the rate of Ms6-hm mutations in the smoking mice were 1.4 times higher than that of non-smoking mice at six weeks, and 1.7 times that of non-smoking mice at 12 weeks. "This suggests that damage is related to the duration of exposure, so the longer you smoke the more mutations accumulate and the more likely a potential effect may arise in the offspring," Yauk said. According to Yauk, previous studies have shown thatMs6-hm and similar locations of non-coding DNA are sensitive to damage from radiation, mutagenic chemicals and intense industrial air particulate pollution. While the researchers did not specifically study the protein-coding regions of DNA where genes reside, Yauk notes that previous studies correlate mutations in non-coding regions with those in coding regions, and that some repetitive regions of DNA (not examined in this study) are associated with genes. "It stands to reason that mutations could also interfere with genes, but our ongoing research looks to clarify the severity of DNA damage throughout the genome," said Yauk. "So, while some men say they'll quit smoking after their child is born, this represents a good reason to quit well in advance of trying to conceive."Among the next steps in gaining a better understanding of the germline genetic health consequences of smoking, Yauk and her colleagues plan to study how altered DNA manifests itself in the children and grandchildren of male mice that are exposed to first hand smoke. They also plan to study the effects of second hand smoke on male mice as well the possibility that the eggs of females are affected by smoke. The results of their study are published in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.Yauk's colleagues include fellow researchers from Health Canada and Martin Stämpfli, Ph.D., and his laboratory team at McMaster University. Funding for this research was provided by grants from the Canadian Regulatory System for Biotechnology and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news releaseissued by American Association for Cancer Research.
Another Quote
When God makes a person what is most important is the heart and soul. The outside is just decoration.” - Muhammad Ali
Another quote
"In a yet unexplained way each human being contains the information about the entire universe or all of existence, has potential experiential access to all its parts, and in a sense is the whole cosmic network, as much as he or she is just an infinitesimal part of it, a separate and insignificant biological entity."
- Stanislav Grof
Interesting Site
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Before You
Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward
Don't you agree?
I believe that all children should be taught the basics of metaphysics in school. They already know it - from the time they are born..... but after about 7 years old, or earlier if their home life isn't ideal... they forget.
In ancient times, all through the centuries in India, Egypt and Greece it was taught, generation to generation. They understood that all mental states are accompanied by vibration. We combine with what we vibrate - and as we say it today, "what we think about - we bring about".
Albert Einstein said -
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe",a part limited in time and space.He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelingsas something separated from the rest -a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.This delusion is a kind of prison for us,restricting us to our personal desiresand to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prisonby widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creaturesand the whole of nature in its beauty.Nobody is able to achieve this completely,by the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberationand a foundation for inner security."
Getting Beyond Stuck
Since childhood, we have learned to do what it takes to not be wrong. To please, or be approved of in some way or other. And that need to be approved of, can keep you static, in the mistaken belief that if you do nothing, you can’t be wrong. This fear holds you hostage so you perform below potential in order to remain comfortable.
Successful people don't have this stumbling block. They have worked through it. They feel free to make mistakes, to try many things. Some work and some don't. If something doesn't work, they simply try something else. They know that we only learn from mistakes! They know that a mistake is only about the action not about the person.
For the complete article please visit:
http://www.thehealthyvillage.com/hypnotherapy/getting-beyond-stuck.html
Your Not-So-Secret Admirer
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
Heart Attacks and drinking Warm Water
The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.
Taken from
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St. Theresa's words:
"The Divine has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which the Divine compassion is to look out to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now."
YOUR KIND OF WORLD - Jim Lord
For most people, those words conjure up worrisome images of war, poverty, environmental degradation. A shared sense of looming disaster is fuelled by constant attention to the heartbreak of September 11, the devastation of tsunamis and hurricanes, and countless other calamities actual and feared.
Many people believe that civilization is descending to new depths and the very existence of life on earth is at risk. With good reason. We can find ample evidence that we’re making a mess of things.
Against such a backdrop, how can anyone honestly believe the future might turn out well?
My sense of urgency springs from an entirely different source. Surprising as it may sound, I believe humanity is poised to ascend to new heights–and indeed has already begun to do so, in ways often invisible to our view. As you page through this book, I think you’ll find plenty of evidence to support this unusual claim.
The world I see is vibrant, vital, and filled with promise. When I take a good hard look at this reality, I experience a new kind of urgency, founded on confidence and hope. Of course, you will decide whether to buy this premise.
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