Your mind is a wonderful ally in your cleansing program. Although you cannot see your thoughts, they have powerful effects on your health and well-being. Think of your thoughts as mental nourishment. Just as you choose with care the foods that you eat, begin to choose your thoughts with the same care. Realize that your thoughts do not choose you—you choose your thoughts. (more…)
Meditation has been practiced for centuries in many spiritual traditions as a way of purifying the mind. Basically, meditation involves quieting the mind so that the mental chatter that fills your waking consciousness can be stilled, if even for a moment. Through quieting the mind, you cultivate a sense of calm, and come to know yourself in a deeper way. Meditation helps you to become aware of habitual patterns of thinking so that you can make better choices about how you are living. Meditation is an excellent way of relieving stress, because when the mind is calm, the body naturally follows. Many people experience feelings of deep peace and clarity through meditation. Experiment with the different meditation techniques that follow and find those which appeal to you. (more…)
Every living thing seems to have some enemy. Wherever we look, we see the evidences of conflict in one form or another. Human life is no exception. Some of our enemies come out into the open where we can see and watch their movements, but others are far too small for the eye to see. What is worse, they are many times more numerous and far more dangerous. Most of them have the power to multiply within the human body in enormous numbers. These are the enemies we call germs. Some of them may cause serious diseases that could have been prevented with a little care. (more…)
Since most people spend a large portion of their lives at work, and since it usually provides a sense of meaning in life, problems related to work are a common cause of depression. The problems mentioned below may also pertain to voluntarywork or work on committees.
When you start a new job, or if you are given more responsibility at work, you may relish the new challenge. As you go on up the ladder, however, there may come a point where the extra responsibility puts too much pressure on you. This ismore likely if you are exceptionally conscientious, finding it hard to delegate to anyone, in which case you are faced with an increasing work-load. You may find that this eventually becomes insurmountable.
If you are over-conscientious, you probably tend to overvalue others‘ opinions of yourself. Your strong ideals to be worthy, superior, good, strong and, most of all, to make no mistakes, are quite impossible to attain. But at the same time there is often an irrational feeling that these impossible goals have to be reached for fear of disapproval by peers or superiors. (more…)
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred; forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway. (more…)
The relaxation technique will have the effect of quieting your mind. If you find your mind wandering, donot be frustrated. Simply return your focus to your body and breathing and keep going. Being able to deeply relax open up new reservoirs of strength for you to deal with the challenges of daily life. Try this simple exercise:
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