Wednesday, April 23, 2014
A-Z Challenge - Today is S - S for Silence
SILENCE
Silence is golden they said and it is. In silence the world unfolds itself for us and share it secrets of success, abundance, spiritual awareness and deep peace. In our hurried world we miss the voice of the universal One, the Creator. God. A modern day mystic Christopher Tim's even says that that ringing high-pitched sound we hear sometimes in black silence at night in particular that some mistake for tinnitus, often it is not, but it is that original sound of God or the Creator or the Universal Mind speaking to us It is the continuing sound of the big bang. Isn't that awesome. How can it get better than that? Think of what we are missing when we live in a state of noise and distractions all the time. Gosh. Hate to think of it.
In silence there is peace and tranquility. The body rests as does the mind appears to quiet, the flow becomes a ripple and then stillness. Have you ever meditated over still waters. It is incredible. Try in sometimes and become the water you see before you. Powerful stuff. Try some silence today.
He who does not understand your silence will not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and
restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers,
grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in
silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
Silence is golden they said and it is. In silence the world unfolds itself for us and share it secrets of success, abundance, spiritual awareness and deep peace. In our hurried world we miss the voice of the universal One, the Creator. God. A modern day mystic Christopher Tim's even says that that ringing high-pitched sound we hear sometimes in black silence at night in particular that some mistake for tinnitus, often it is not, but it is that original sound of God or the Creator or the Universal Mind speaking to us It is the continuing sound of the big bang. Isn't that awesome. How can it get better than that? Think of what we are missing when we live in a state of noise and distractions all the time. Gosh. Hate to think of it.
In silence there is peace and tranquility. The body rests as does the mind appears to quiet, the flow becomes a ripple and then stillness. Have you ever meditated over still waters. It is incredible. Try in sometimes and become the water you see before you. Powerful stuff. Try some silence today.
He who does not understand your silence will not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard
Friday, April 18, 2014
A-Z Challenge - R - Resilience
According to the Oxford Dictionary resilience is defined as the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the
unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to
thrive. Jamais Cascio
What makes one person able to get over a tragedy or difficult situation quicker and in better form than the next? What operates within them that helps one person to cope and the other not cope? These are some of the questions that come to mind when I think of resilience. It is that little voice inside that keeps saying you can do it, okay so you fell get up back on your feet on keep going, so, this is where it is at it is sink or swim and you choose to swim. That's the stuff of resilience. Some people get their pink slips from their employers and they go home and straight to bed and stay there for the next month, a resilient person will just look at her slip as an obstacle to be overcome knowing that the quicker it is overcome the better, so they start pounding the pavement or start their own business they just keep going.
It is like faith in tomorrow, faith in I can do better, belief that life is about ups and downs and it is not always up and not always down so you're down now you keep moving knowing you are going on another upswing. Resilience is about shaping your mind as an obstacle blaster.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage
and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with
failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only
need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A-Z Challenge Q - Questions
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things
happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no
longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, that we
intend to do now that it happened. Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Questions are answers and answers are questions. Questions open us to possibilities, answers choke off possibilities. If you want to be a state of flow, questions are the way to go. Answers are like a photographic snapshot, a thought frozen in time and space that cannot grow anymore, but questions are like flinging open the window and door, to an infinite field of possibilities.
Imagine when faced with a difficult problem asking what else is possible? How can it get better than this? What questions should I consider that I am not considering at this moment? What is fixed in
the universe? According to the growing field of quantum physics, everything is energy, we live in a holographic universe.
Dr. Dain Heer and Gary Douglas developed an excellent system of questions called Access Consciousness which focuses only on questions. They believe that the body has its own wisdom and if we know how to communicate with our bodies we get the answers we need that is perfect for us.
Questions require us to be open minded, being open to anything and attached to nothing , I think it was Dr. Wayne Dyer I heard said this first. We can remain unattached through questions.
Questions are answers and answers are questions. Questions open us to possibilities, answers choke off possibilities. If you want to be a state of flow, questions are the way to go. Answers are like a photographic snapshot, a thought frozen in time and space that cannot grow anymore, but questions are like flinging open the window and door, to an infinite field of possibilities.
Imagine when faced with a difficult problem asking what else is possible? How can it get better than this? What questions should I consider that I am not considering at this moment? What is fixed in
the universe? According to the growing field of quantum physics, everything is energy, we live in a holographic universe.
Dr. Dain Heer and Gary Douglas developed an excellent system of questions called Access Consciousness which focuses only on questions. They believe that the body has its own wisdom and if we know how to communicate with our bodies we get the answers we need that is perfect for us.
Questions require us to be open minded, being open to anything and attached to nothing , I think it was Dr. Wayne Dyer I heard said this first. We can remain unattached through questions.
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he's one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Lévi-Strauss
When you ask a question, you engage your higher self or your divine self or your conscious mind, and that self/consciousness is connected to the universal mind which knows everything, so when you ask questions that divine self goes to work and delivers what you need, delivers the solution and sometimes the solutions comes in a flash of insight. That is not luck, it is a response to your communication with your higher self. The more you access this consciousness through questions the more you will come to trust and depend on it and your life will be a miraculous flow of information and energy.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask
questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino
Thursday, April 17, 2014
A-Z Challenge P- Power
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever
is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just Blaise
Pascal
According to the Oxford Dictionary, power is authority or command over other, ability to influence others through the use for force
We all have a sense or experience of power. Many of us have use power over others by virtue of our size, our strength, ability or through other means as well as we have experienced the power of others over us beginning with our parents, teachers and supervisors. now
Because power confers on people the ability to control others, many misuse this privilege to get their own way and to force others to bend to their will instead of coming to a mutual understanding. A typical example of this is the ways in which parents sometimes treat their children. Many parents do not respect their children;s opinions and maybe understand their role as a decision maker and feel that they know what is best and impose their will on children without explanation. :Just do it because I say so kind of thing. This attitude is also carried out in the workplace where supervisors may treat their staff as they treat their children, telling them what to do with the threat of being fired or disciplined if they did not, many are not interested in the opinions of staff only in what they want and this could be carried out further in the State where a leader might become obsessed with their own sense of power and turn into dictators overriding the democratic rights of their citizens and decree laws and punishmen\that are oppressive.
There is a saying that absolute power corrupts. Power is sweet for those who like to use it as a weapon and to boost their own sense of importance.
When one thinks of power the first thing that may come to mind is the ability to command others to one's will, Having the power to hire or fire a person for a job is huge, having the power to charge someone with an offence is huge, having the power of to confer and take away rights of an entire nation or a group of people is huge. Having the power to change the lives of others for the better to create a just society by implementing appropriate laws and policies is huge.
Power can be used for good or bad it depends on who is wielding the power. Think of Hitler, the dictator or the modern day Russian leader against the weaker country Ukrainian think about the American or Canadian democratic societies where human rights are enshrined in the constitution.
Because of what can be done with power there are many who long for it but the only true power a person has is power over oneself. This is the most important power. When one has mastered the power over oneself, he or she is better able to use power responsibility and humanely.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, power is authority or command over other, ability to influence others through the use for force
We all have a sense or experience of power. Many of us have use power over others by virtue of our size, our strength, ability or through other means as well as we have experienced the power of others over us beginning with our parents, teachers and supervisors. now
Because power confers on people the ability to control others, many misuse this privilege to get their own way and to force others to bend to their will instead of coming to a mutual understanding. A typical example of this is the ways in which parents sometimes treat their children. Many parents do not respect their children;s opinions and maybe understand their role as a decision maker and feel that they know what is best and impose their will on children without explanation. :Just do it because I say so kind of thing. This attitude is also carried out in the workplace where supervisors may treat their staff as they treat their children, telling them what to do with the threat of being fired or disciplined if they did not, many are not interested in the opinions of staff only in what they want and this could be carried out further in the State where a leader might become obsessed with their own sense of power and turn into dictators overriding the democratic rights of their citizens and decree laws and punishmen\that are oppressive.
There is a saying that absolute power corrupts. Power is sweet for those who like to use it as a weapon and to boost their own sense of importance.
When one thinks of power the first thing that may come to mind is the ability to command others to one's will, Having the power to hire or fire a person for a job is huge, having the power to charge someone with an offence is huge, having the power of to confer and take away rights of an entire nation or a group of people is huge. Having the power to change the lives of others for the better to create a just society by implementing appropriate laws and policies is huge.
Power can be used for good or bad it depends on who is wielding the power. Think of Hitler, the dictator or the modern day Russian leader against the weaker country Ukrainian think about the American or Canadian democratic societies where human rights are enshrined in the constitution.
Because of what can be done with power there are many who long for it but the only true power a person has is power over oneself. This is the most important power. When one has mastered the power over oneself, he or she is better able to use power responsibility and humanely.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of
our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes.
That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many
people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
A-Z Challege - Optimist
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why
must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
Looking on the bright side of life is a characteristic of an optimist. They are good at turning lemons into lemonade or making the most of a bad situation. Some people call these optimists unrealistic, living in lala land, out of touch with reality. It is as if being optimistic is synonymous with embracing negativity.
I am am optimist. I know that what I think I create in my life,. Why would I want to create things that I do not want to be part of my life. If by thinking positive I feel better why would I not choose that.
I want to feel good and feeling good means thinking good thoughts. It's about accepting the things I cannot change and have the courage to change the things I can.
There is research that shows clearly that people who are optimists get over illnesses better, they have a higher chance of surviving life threatening diseases, so clearly it is not just thinking positively, something more is going on here. Our thoughts affect our quantum field in a positive or negative way.
Looking on the bright side of life is a characteristic of an optimist. They are good at turning lemons into lemonade or making the most of a bad situation. Some people call these optimists unrealistic, living in lala land, out of touch with reality. It is as if being optimistic is synonymous with embracing negativity.
I am am optimist. I know that what I think I create in my life,. Why would I want to create things that I do not want to be part of my life. If by thinking positive I feel better why would I not choose that.
I want to feel good and feeling good means thinking good thoughts. It's about accepting the things I cannot change and have the courage to change the things I can.
There is research that shows clearly that people who are optimists get over illnesses better, they have a higher chance of surviving life threatening diseases, so clearly it is not just thinking positively, something more is going on here. Our thoughts affect our quantum field in a positive or negative way.
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” John Heywood
In the quote above, it says if you can change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change for the better. It is all a matter of perspective. There are always choices to be made, how you choose to view a situation. You can say oh poor me, nothing good is ever goiing to happen to me, there are no miracles for me etc. etc. or you can say tomorrow things will be better. You can choose to always look at possibilities rather than limitations. You will be a lot happier for it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A-Z Challenge - N NEGLECT
Sometimes in the hurriedness of life we neglect things we should pay attention to and we do this to our detriment, either in our relationship, our health, our careers or in any area of life. Paying attention to the details of our life will help us to avoid disappointment caused by neglect.
Neglect is about having our priorities mismatched that is putting our highest attention on things that are of the least importance not the most important for example neglecting your health because of a job. Even though a job is important without good health you're no where. Your employer might still terminate you if you are constantly sick or if your performance is below level because of poor health. Health is wealth and with good health you can go further. So if you are going to neglect going to see your doctor when you have to because you have to finish something at work, this is not your best choice.
Neglect is about having our priorities mismatched that is putting our highest attention on things that are of the least importance not the most important for example neglecting your health because of a job. Even though a job is important without good health you're no where. Your employer might still terminate you if you are constantly sick or if your performance is below level because of poor health. Health is wealth and with good health you can go further. So if you are going to neglect going to see your doctor when you have to because you have to finish something at work, this is not your best choice.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only
to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis
Stevenson
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