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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Potential
Some people try to make themselves content functioning below their full potential just to remain 'important' and 'relevant' in their present peer group.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Energy
Love is an all encompassing positive energy that affects your body, soul and spirit.
Fear is an all consuming negative energy that destroys your body, soul, spirit and every good thing in your life.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Locations
It is important in life not to be at the cab stand, waiting on a taxi, when your ship comes in! Be at the right place, at the right time, ready to do the right thing.
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Departure
If death is what the future holds for me, then I should hope that my departure will be as unencumbered, as was my arrival.
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Destruction
Fear is the most destruction force in the universe! It destroys absolutely everything it has influence upon, absolutely. It survives by masquerading as other manifestations that keep us dealing with the 'symptoms' without ever addressing the problem...it! Our ignorance of it and apathy towards it lead to our own emotional and spiritual demise.
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Religion
Religion, by definition, is inclusive in its admission, but exclusive in its membership.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Conditions
Our relationship with God is conditional.
Condition One: God is love
Condition Two: God loves mankind
Condition Three: God demonstrates His love for us
Condition Four: God expects us to demonstrate our love for Him.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Clear
Some decisions in life are clear, but we let doubt and fear cloud the way and fog our mind's ability to make accurate choices.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Program
Be careful what you allow your children to watch. It's not called TV 'programming' for nothing.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
My Recovery Plan
I would like to thank all those who have assisted me with advice and information in my search for a plan to address my present heart condition.
Just in case you did not know, I have been having issues with my heart since 2005. Recently, my cardiologist recommended I undergo a heart bypass procedure.
After lengthy research and consideration, I have decided to give the alternative or integrative methods a chance to work before I elect to have the bypass surgery.
I will take a six month period of time to employ a comprehensive approach to alleviate the symptoms I have from my heart condition. Even though I have made this decision, my research is ongoing.
I know that the condition I have is serious. And I know what I have proposed to do is somewhat of a gamble with time. But I would not be pleased within myself should I submit to such a drastic procedure, which in itself does not guarantee results, without first exhausting less invasive approaches that could equal or surpass the surgical results.
About the bypass surgery, Mr. Hardouin, one of the people I consulted with said, "It will add years to your life."
But as I thought about the pros and cons about getting the procedure, I was struck with the thought of what I want the outcome of my life to be. What good would it be to extend my life without it having more meaning? With that in mind, surgery or not, I have decided I need to focus on adding more life to my years.
Sometimes the routine of living causes us to take the routine for granted, as though it will always be here. But the truly tenuous nature of life is like a venomous serpent, waiting to strike. And in that moment of striking, we realize all we should have done, all we should have said and all we should have been...all, in an instant. The gift of having to consider ones mortality provides an opportunity to ponder, measure and workout what is truly important and then live it!
My approach is comprehensive in that it addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of good health.
Physically there is a way that your body wants to function to achieve its optimum performance. In the final analysis, that performance is the outward result of the chemical reactions that take place inside the human body. There is no magic formula as the 'perfect balance' is different for each individual. But certainly we can say it is a matter of giving your body more of the good things it needs and less of the bad it doesn't. As simplistic as this sounds, truth is always simple.
In this physical realm I include fasting, hydration, diet, supplementation, elimination, detoxification, sleep and exercise. Oh, also a very minimal amount of prescription medication. While I believe in the efficacy of the use of prescription medications on a short term basis, I believe long term use should be limited to those pharmaceuticals that are truly essential to maintain health. The reason being is pharmaceuticals are extremely powerful whose long term use has unnatural effects on the human body.
Emotionally the plan is to surround myself and infuse into my life positive people, things and experiences. Life is too precious and short to let negativity, in any form, suck the life right out of you!
First and foremost, the passion of true love is the primary elixir of life that makes life worth living. Without passion, life is certainly futile. There is but one way to acquire such passion in true love. That is, you must give it first! Only after I have tilled the soil and planted the seed can I expect to harvest any yeild.
As stress is a major causative factor in my current condition, stress-reduction techniques will be a major part of my recovery. This primarily means more relaxation and down time. It means the spa day and the pedicure in that nice chair.
Spiritually, simply means doing the things which pertain to God that we all know we should be doing. It also means doing the things God has been calling me to do for quite some time. I think this speaks to us all. I think each of us, in our quiet time with ourselves, know what the 'right' things are we should be and could be doing with our lives. But usually, we find a way to not do them. No matter which of the myriad excuses we use, the bottom line is we never do those spiritual things God whispers to us to do. It is time I not only hear, but listen to the voice of God. It is time I not only listen, but do. In doing, I become the fulfillment of what God has intended me to be.
And wow, what could be better than that?
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Yourself
Success begins in the mind. Thinking is the root of achievement. How you talk to yourself, about yourself, determines your outcome.
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Box Theory
Box Theory
Inside the box is our capacity to do the things we need and want to do. The volume of our box is a measure of the amount of spiritual and emotional fuel or energy we have...the smaller our box, the less energy we have. Without energy we tire quicker and stress easier. Our capacity to deal with things becomes diminished, because the capacity of our box is small.
People with a small box capacity try, and struggle to keep control over and manage the things inside of their box. They also sometimes will exert their need to control to pull in a few of the things that are outside their box that they really want. But they have to downsize it to fit into the smaller capacity of their box. One example of this would be too offer a gift to someone who thinks it is "too much". They won't freely accept that gift, but would accept something they consider to be less "extravagant". Their box was too small for the other gift to fit into.
In essence, by taking such an action to satisfy this control need, that person negates a true blessing which by definition exceeds the boundaries of a person's box. The long term outcome is that the person with the small box always settles for less. Usually less than what they really deserve. That person also negates the opportunity to expand their own box.
As with any box, there are borders. A person with a small box has the borders of "I Can't.", "I Never.", "I Don't.", "I Won't Ever." or a host of other negative self-talk mantras that keep us trapped and keep our box from growing. This self-talk reinforces the rules we have for our lives. This self-talk restates the reasons we have for doing less or not doing things in our lives. This self-talk also parrots the excuses we use to deceive ourselves about our own laziness when we refuse to move forward in life.
These excuses usually present themselves as "Too far.", "Too fast.", "Too high.", "Too much.", "Too late.", "Too soon.", "Too real.", "Too live.", "Too tired.", "Too sick.", or any statement that allows you to stay where you are and not move forward. This is what keeps us stuck where we are, stagnant, repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
The results of such a mindset are that you don't try at all. Your excuse relieves you of the need to act on any initiative. Your excuse justifies you when you don't try hard at anything you might do. 'Just enough to get by' becomes 'good enough' for you. Your excuse relieves you of any sense of responsibility or duty to continue something to the finish. Finally, your excuse will keep you from seeing yourself at your best, let alone achieving it.
Determine your box. Listen to what you say to yourself whenever you are faced with a challenge or simply something new. If your hear yourself shooting down new ideas automatically, you are keeping your box is too small. If you are quick to come up with a host of reasons why something can't or won't work, you are keeping your box too small. Just listen to yourself talk to yourself about yourself.
So, what do you do if you discover your box is too small or is shrinking or is simply not flexible enough? One remedy is to remove something from the box. Certainly, this will give you more space to work with, but it doesn't really help in the long term because there is always something else to come along to replace what was taken away. Another remedy is to enlarge your box. Each option will create more box capacity to do more things, but the latter will teach you to increase your spiritual and emotional energy capacity which will allow you to do those things.
Just as limiting self-talk keeps our box small, shrinking and rigid, positive self-talk makes the borders of our box more pliable and flexible thus expandable. This expandable box represents our own capacity to grow, proceed and excel in our lives. Positive self-talk increases our spiritual and emotional energy, which allows us to do more things and get more things done.
Remember, change is the only consistent thing in the universe! If you are not changing, then you are certainly not growing. And when you are not growing you are just stuck. And for some, that feeling of being stuck is quite palpable. You can start to change your box by changing your "I can't." to "I can!"; by changing your "I never." to "I will be willing!"; by changing your "I don't." to "I do!" and by changing your "I won't ever." to "I will give it a try!"
As you start to change your self-talk from negative to positive, a positive momentum will begin to build in your life. Your view of yourself will improve, your perspective on life will become brighter, your outlook will become more positive and even your countenance will take on a glow to replace the gloom that was there before. It is magic, but not magic that happens overnight. You can start this process of change by taking a moment of each day to affirm positive things about yourself to yourself. This is important because most negative people feel most negative about themselves. You can imagine, if you don't like yourself you certainly won't believe in yourself or your abilities. It doesn't matter if it is simply one thing to start with, say something positive to yourself to start each day. It is like a muscle. The more you use this exercise the better you will get at it and the more positive attributes about yourself you will uncover.
So get outside of the confines of your box. Think positive! Believe positive! Speak positive! Be positive! Expand and grow!
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Inside the box is our capacity to do the things we need and want to do. The volume of our box is a measure of the amount of spiritual and emotional fuel or energy we have...the smaller our box, the less energy we have. Without energy we tire quicker and stress easier. Our capacity to deal with things becomes diminished, because the capacity of our box is small.
People with a small box capacity try, and struggle to keep control over and manage the things inside of their box. They also sometimes will exert their need to control to pull in a few of the things that are outside their box that they really want. But they have to downsize it to fit into the smaller capacity of their box. One example of this would be too offer a gift to someone who thinks it is "too much". They won't freely accept that gift, but would accept something they consider to be less "extravagant". Their box was too small for the other gift to fit into.
In essence, by taking such an action to satisfy this control need, that person negates a true blessing which by definition exceeds the boundaries of a person's box. The long term outcome is that the person with the small box always settles for less. Usually less than what they really deserve. That person also negates the opportunity to expand their own box.
As with any box, there are borders. A person with a small box has the borders of "I Can't.", "I Never.", "I Don't.", "I Won't Ever." or a host of other negative self-talk mantras that keep us trapped and keep our box from growing. This self-talk reinforces the rules we have for our lives. This self-talk restates the reasons we have for doing less or not doing things in our lives. This self-talk also parrots the excuses we use to deceive ourselves about our own laziness when we refuse to move forward in life.
These excuses usually present themselves as "Too far.", "Too fast.", "Too high.", "Too much.", "Too late.", "Too soon.", "Too real.", "Too live.", "Too tired.", "Too sick.", or any statement that allows you to stay where you are and not move forward. This is what keeps us stuck where we are, stagnant, repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
The results of such a mindset are that you don't try at all. Your excuse relieves you of the need to act on any initiative. Your excuse justifies you when you don't try hard at anything you might do. 'Just enough to get by' becomes 'good enough' for you. Your excuse relieves you of any sense of responsibility or duty to continue something to the finish. Finally, your excuse will keep you from seeing yourself at your best, let alone achieving it.
Determine your box. Listen to what you say to yourself whenever you are faced with a challenge or simply something new. If your hear yourself shooting down new ideas automatically, you are keeping your box is too small. If you are quick to come up with a host of reasons why something can't or won't work, you are keeping your box too small. Just listen to yourself talk to yourself about yourself.
So, what do you do if you discover your box is too small or is shrinking or is simply not flexible enough? One remedy is to remove something from the box. Certainly, this will give you more space to work with, but it doesn't really help in the long term because there is always something else to come along to replace what was taken away. Another remedy is to enlarge your box. Each option will create more box capacity to do more things, but the latter will teach you to increase your spiritual and emotional energy capacity which will allow you to do those things.
Just as limiting self-talk keeps our box small, shrinking and rigid, positive self-talk makes the borders of our box more pliable and flexible thus expandable. This expandable box represents our own capacity to grow, proceed and excel in our lives. Positive self-talk increases our spiritual and emotional energy, which allows us to do more things and get more things done.
Remember, change is the only consistent thing in the universe! If you are not changing, then you are certainly not growing. And when you are not growing you are just stuck. And for some, that feeling of being stuck is quite palpable. You can start to change your box by changing your "I can't." to "I can!"; by changing your "I never." to "I will be willing!"; by changing your "I don't." to "I do!" and by changing your "I won't ever." to "I will give it a try!"
As you start to change your self-talk from negative to positive, a positive momentum will begin to build in your life. Your view of yourself will improve, your perspective on life will become brighter, your outlook will become more positive and even your countenance will take on a glow to replace the gloom that was there before. It is magic, but not magic that happens overnight. You can start this process of change by taking a moment of each day to affirm positive things about yourself to yourself. This is important because most negative people feel most negative about themselves. You can imagine, if you don't like yourself you certainly won't believe in yourself or your abilities. It doesn't matter if it is simply one thing to start with, say something positive to yourself to start each day. It is like a muscle. The more you use this exercise the better you will get at it and the more positive attributes about yourself you will uncover.
So get outside of the confines of your box. Think positive! Believe positive! Speak positive! Be positive! Expand and grow!
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