Wise words for 2008
January 30, 2008
40 Tips for Better Life – 2008
1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.
3. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to __________ today.’
5. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
6. Play more games and read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, tai chi, and self-reflection. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink green tea and plenty of water.. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk
and let new and flowing energy into your life.
14. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’
26. Forgive everyone for everything.
27. What other people think of you is none of your business.
28. Love heals almost everything.
29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. Stay in touch.
31. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
33. The best is yet to come.
34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
35. Do the right thing!
36. Call your family often. (Or email them to death!!!) “Hey I’m thinking of ya!”
37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________.
38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
39. Enjoy the ride. Remember this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.
Words as Seeds (How to Heal Toxic Thoughts)
January 29, 2008
The excerpt below is from the new book, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, by Sandra Ingerman. It’s called Words as Seeds and contains a brief history of the power of words and a visualization exercise for growing a verbal garden of love.
More information about the book, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, and the author, Sandra Ingerman, follows the excerpt. Enjoy!
Words as Seeds
by Sandra Ingerman
Words hold a tremendous amount of power. They affect our relationships with others as well as what we end up creating in the world, and they are powerful tools for transforming the energy we project. I see words as seeds. Every time we plant a seed word, it will grow. In the garden of your life, are you planting seeds of love or seeds of hate and fear?
Various ancient cultures understand the power of words and so treat them with great respect. The Navajo people have a saying: May you walk in beauty. Whenever someone from the Navajo nation attends one of my lectures that includes a discussion on of the power of words, he or she always comes up to me and explains the significance of the phrase. Essentially, it means don’t say anything to another person unless it will create beauty in his or her life.
Hebrew and Sanskrit are what we call vibrational languages. In Sanskrit it is believed that when you say a word, the vibration from that word goes up into the universe and comes back down as a physical manifestation. One Hindu creation story tells that the world sprang forth from the skulls of the goddess Kali’s necklace. Each skull was a letter in the Sanskrit language. There are stories in the Hebrew tradition, too, about how words can be used to heal or harm, to create or destroy.
Hebrew is also called a consonantal language, meaning that it is made of consonants and not vowels. That is because the sounds and vibrations of the vowels are the real power; the consonants are what contain the power and therefore define the parameters of the power coming through. By not writing out the vowels, the language keeps most of the powerful words secret. You have to be told which vowels are used in a particular word. Also, a word could be an extremely powerful word using one set of vowels, but an ordinary word using another set of vowels.
The Qabbalists say that the world was created by the letters of the alphabet, meaning through the use of sound and vibration. The Hebrew bible embodies the very sound of creation, the vibrations that actually were used to create and manifest. Therefore words are “creative,” and if they are creative they can also be destructive.
In ancient Egypt, action and words were often the same thing; words had so much power that often a metaphor was used in the place of a word. Otherwise, it was thought that the energy of the word — potentially destructive — would manifest physically.
The creation stories of many cultures teach that the world was created with a sound or a word. Genesis says that God created the world with the words, Let there be light. The New Testament says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the cosmology of the Hopi, the sun god and earth goddess chant life into being. The Hindu scriptures teach us that aum is the sacred syllable from which the entire universe was created.
Even abracadabra, the incantation that many of us said as children, is actually a word of power that comes from the Aramaic. The original spelling is abraq ad habra, which literally means, I will create as I speak.
Word Gardening Exercise
Here is a simple exercise to try. First, read through the following visualization or ask someone to read it aloud to you. Or, if you like, make a recording of yourself reading it. Then get into a comfortable position either sitting up or lying down, either in nature or in your home. If you do this at home, you can put on some relaxing music that helps you move into an expanded place.
Visualization:
Think of a place in nature that you like to visit. In the previous chapter, you spent quiet time thinking about this special place. You might go to the same place now, or think of a new one. Find a nice rock or a place on the earth where you can sit. Experience yourself being there with all your senses alive and open.
Look around you and see all that there is to see in this place. Hear the sounds of nature around you. Feel the breeze on your skin and the ground or rock beneath you. Smell the fragrances. Taste the air.
As you sit in this precious spot on earth, start to say out loud some of the words you commonly use. Notice the vibration that travels out into the air and up into the sky.
Here are some words to get you started. Try saying the word, brilliance. Notice the invisible energy around this word. Now try saying the word, radiance, and notice what vibration is being sent out with this word.
As you sit in this place, try words you use in your daily vocabulary. Notice what you send out and how it is affecting the energy field of the planet and of the web of life. Notice what is raining back down on you as the energy you send out returns and manifests in your physical world. Notice what seeds you are planting in your garden of life.
Practice words as long as you wish. When you are done, reflect on what you have learned about how to create a beautiful life-garden.
And when you feel ready, take some deep breaths and experience yourself returning to the place you are lying or sitting in. Allow your breath to connect you with your body and the earth. And when you are ready, open your eyes.
In Practice
When I offer this exercise to my students, they’re often surprised to realize how often it is not the word itself but the intention behind the word that makes a difference. In our culture, just as we don’t look at the energy behind our thoughts and emotions, we don’t look at the power behind our words; we don’t consider what plants will grow from the seeds we plant in another person’s psyche.
At a conference, I led a group of health professionals through the same exercise you just completed. I asked them to watch the vibration coming out of the words they use when they gave medical diagnoses to their patients. The exercise had a big impact on them as it opened their ears to the effect their own words could have on their patients — not just at the level of information, but at a deeper level.
21 Suggestions for success
January 9, 2008
21 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS BY H. JACKSON BROWN. JR.
1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you would want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you’ll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things your didn’t do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of the ones you love.
21. Don’t do anything that wouldn’t make your Mom proud.
Declutter your life!
January 9, 2008
Here are some tips from LadyFly.net on how to begin the decluttering process.
This is how to Declutter your home an area of your home. You will need garbage bags, 3 boxes, magic markers, dust rag, and some extra boxes. Label the boxes Give Away, Throw Away, and Put Away.
1. Set the timer for 1 hour. 30, 15, or 10 minutes , I don’t care just as long as you do the job as fast as you can and do not pull out more than you can put a way in that length of time. This means one drawer, one closet or even one shelf in the closet, one magazine rack at a time, under the furniture. Not all of them.
2. Start at the entrance to the room. Work your way around the room clockwise. Do not skip an area. What ever happen to be next, just do it.
3. With boxes at your feet and dust rag in your waist band. Start of clean out and get rid of the thing that do not belong in this room. Don’t worry that you do not have a place for everything right now. By the time we finish you will. I promise.
4. When your garbage box, lined with a garbage bag gets full, close it and put it in the trash can or the pickup truck or where ever you keep your trash. Put in a new garbage bag and keep going until the timer goes off.
5. When the give-away box gets full, take it to the car and so that the next time you are out you can donate to the area thrift shop. Do not save for a yard sale. You will be blessed by giving it away. The value can be deducted on you income taxes. Remember you are trying to get rid of clutter. Not relocate it somewhere else in your home. Grab another box. And get to work.
6. When the put away box gets full, take the box in your arms and run around the house and put the items in the room where they belong. If they have a place, put them there, if not put them in the room where they logically belong. By the time you have finished you will have a place for everything and everything will be in it’s place.
7. If the timer goes off, You are required to put away all the boxes, but first you have to empty all of them. As fast as you can.
8. Decide how often you are going to declutter a section of this room. I want you to do a little every day. We will start on another room on Saturday. ( the first day of the month)Let me warn you. This can become compulsive. Once you get started you will want to clean like a banshee. Don’t burn yourself out. I mean it. Only do small amount at a time. When you set the timer you can only do 2 sessions at a time. I know this is a goal that seems unattainable. But we will do it in little pieces. In a couple of months we will have the whole house declutter.
9. Things to Ask yourself as you get rid of your clutter. Do you love the item? Is it garbage? Have I used it in a year? Do I have another one that is better? Does it have sentimental value that causes me to love it. Or does it give you guilt and make you sad when you see the item. Cleanse this room of everything that does not make you SMILE.
10. Sing this song. “Please release me let me go” as sung from the stuff point of view. It needs to be loved by someone and if you don’t love it. GET RID OF IT!
I have changed Pam & Peggy’s declutter routine by one box. They have a storage box. Well I have noticed on the board that the storage boxes never seem to be gone through. Therefore I will not have you piling guilt on top of everything else. The only thing that need to be in storage boxes are your Christmas decorations. LOL
I once cleaned up a junk room (piled to the ceiling and no room to walk without triping over something)by putting away two items every time the card came up in my daily stack. LOL You can do this. One bite at a time. The house did not get dirty overnight and it will not get clean overnight. But with discipline and a little prompting from me you will get it clean.
This is for your notebook.
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