November 28th, 2007
Feel Good by Taking A Day Off
In the USA, we work on average more hours a week than any other advanced industrial country. We work long hours and take work home. On the other hand, the quantity of our lives is one of the highest in the world. We have more toys and less time to appreciate those toys. In theory most of us have the weekends off. However, often we are doing our chores around the house during the weekend.
Thus we end up without much free time for ourselves and to commune with the Creator. Originally the idea of the Sabbath was to spend one day in seven allowing the body to rest, feeding the soul, and communing with the Spirit. Given the type of society that we live in, perhaps we cannot take one day in seven off, but maybe one day in a month. If that’s too often for you, take off one day a year.
When you do take your day off, give the day to yourself and your loved ones. Spend quality time with yourself, your loved ones and your Creator. If you are sleep deprived, like many of us are, start the day by sleeping in. When you get up start the day positively by saying some of your favorite affirmations. Next do some of the following type of things in whatever order is best for you:
- Spend quality time with your loved ones.
- Phone your loved ones who do not live with you.
- Eat food which you know is good for you. Say appropriate prayers of thanks for the food and eat slowly appreciating the nutrition and the flux in nature. Thus living beings give their life essence to you and continue to live through you.
- Meditate and do relaxation exercises.
- If you belong to an organized religion, go to your place of worship.
- Go for a walk.
- Go to a movie, amusement park or something similar.
- Go for a picnic.
- Visit the beach, desert, national park or something similar.
- Spend some time alone with your Creator.
- Examine you life and look at all the reasons you have to be thankful.
- Do something fun you have never done before.
The important thing is to give the day to yourself. Understanding that you are a social animal with a body/mind/soul/spirit and each part of you needs be cherished and looked after, spend the day nourishing your body, mind, soul, spirit and relationships and hence Feel Good.
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November 28th, 2007
Love is like a golden chain that links our hearts together. If you break the chain, you break my heart forever.
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November 17th, 2007
It is the mind in us that yields to the
laws made by us, but never the spirit in us.
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November 17th, 2007
Farther along our journey, that which once was only believed becomes known. But faith’s object moves ever higher, from that which our minds possess in fullness to that which is still unfocused: the hill across the range, still hazy to the trekking pilgrim, a challenge to his strengthening feet. The source of faith is the Creator alone, who is as well the homeward destination toward which we travel, and whom we see ever clearer as Creator.
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November 17th, 2007
Feel Good by Looking For The Silver Lining In Every Cloud.Recent events in the world have once more shown our friend Murphy rules supreme. To remind you Murphy’s law states that what can go wrong will go wrong. The difference between winners and the others (I really hate to think anyone is a loser) is that the winners find the silver lining in every cloud.
Winners are optimistic and as I have emphasized many times before look upon things going wrong as anomalies rather than the norm. They take responsibility for what happens to them in as much as they are able to respond to every situation in a proactive way. They understand that having setbacks is normal and is spice of a successful life and thus persist and continue having learned the lessons of the setback.
To see the natural God given success mechanism in all human’s look at children learning to walk. They try something and if it does not work they fall down. They might even cry for a little while but soon they smile get up and try something else. When something works, they repeat it. When it does not, they don’t. That’s why all children who have no organic problems and are not totally abused end up learning to walk.
They and other winners instinctively know that there is a silver lining within each and every cloud. The first silver lining is: What can be learned from this experience? Someone once said, “Success comes from learning. Learning comes from experience. Experience comes from things going wrong.” This is something you can do with every action you take. Ask what did I learn from this? How can I do better next time? Is there any other related thing that I can do given what I have learned from this experience?
There are many other possible silver linings but they are different depending on the situation involved. Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find.” Thus if you seek for the silver lining, you will find it and will thus learn and achieve more in the long run and Feel Good.
… the Divinity witnin me salutes the Divinity within you …
rjsilverfox
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