This is an exercise on how to get the most out of your affirmative thoughts.
1. Write your affirmative thoughts down.
2. Make your affirmations clear and concise.
3. Make your affirmations detailed.
4. Make your affirmations appropriate and believable. For example if you lost a limb, you would not expect that limb to actually grow back, but you would affirm that you were reaching higher and higher levels of function.
5. Describe your affirmations as if they are already true, as if the end result has already occurred.
6. State them in the present “I” form. Make them personal, in the first person.
7. Only state what you want, not what you do not want.
8. Do not focus on lack or limitations, only on a fuller recover or advancing of self expression.
9. Say them out loud, shout them if you feel comfortable.
10. Place them all over the house, on the computer, in the refrigerator, in the kitchen cabinets on the mirror-places where you will see them, read them and repeat them often and continuously during your day.
11. Attach strong positive emotions to your affirmations to ignite them with, energy and power. Emotions add amazing power to your thoughts and speeds up the manifestation of that thought into your experience.
12. Visualize the affirmation. Close your eyes and see the end result.
13. Repeat your affirmations. Repetition is key to implanting your affirmations into your subconscious. Say them over and over.
14. Record your affirmations on a CD and listen to them as you are falling asleep. You may prefer to play them on an endless loop tape that just continues to repeat over and over all night so you can pick up the message into your subconscious.
15. Believe you can achieve it; believe it is coming to you. When your desires or your affirmations are in conflict with your imagination, your imagination invariably wins and you push away your desires. You cannot hold two contradictory beliefs in your mind at one time, your mind will attempt to harmonize and will accept your stronger belief which most often times is the negative default pattern. Your desires cannot come to you when you have conflicting desires or thoughts.. Start stretching your imagination, little by little and believe in your heart and soul that it is true. Stretch, do not snap your imagination, and make your affirmations believable to you. Make your affirmations your default pattern of thinking.
Sample Affirmations to achieve optimal health and well-being:
· I am open to receiving even more health and function.
· I am feeling better and stronger each and every day.
· Good health comes to me in a large flow of abundance.
· Everyday I am getting healthier and stronger.
· I deserve good health and function.
· I am now pain free.
· I am now free from addiction.
· I am a health magnet.
· Good health flows to me easily and frequently.
· The flow of good health is opening up to me more and more each day.
· Everyday I experience greater health than the day before.
Excerpt from "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment"
Showing posts with label optimal health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optimal health. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, November 24, 2008
Did You Know???? Do You Have Control???
Did You Know...
You have 100,000,000 receptors in your eyes to see with.
You have 24,000 fibers in EACH ear to hear with
You have 500 Muscles, 200 Bones & 7 miles of nerve fiber to move with
You have a heart that pumps more than 550,000 gallons of blood through 55,000 miles of veins & arteries with 36,000,000 beats each year.
You have lungs that have 550,000,000 pockets of folded flesh for you to breathe with.
Your five quarts of blood have 22,000,000,000,000 (trillion) cells which each have millions of molecules.
Each molecule oscillates more than 10,000,000 times each second.
2,000,000 of your blood cells die each second and are replaced by 2,000,000 more and this has happened since your birth.
Your 3 pound brain has 13,000,000,000 nerve cells to file away every perception that you have experienced since birth just waiting for you to recall it.
You have 4 million pain-sensitive structures to feel with. Including 500,000 touch detectors and 200,000 temperature sensors.
You stomach has acid strong enough to dissolve nails.
Do You Have Control???
Now it seems to me, since we are given this much capacity, you wouldn't want to waste it.Did you know that YOU have CONTROL over what happens in YOUR life? READ MORE.........
You have 100,000,000 receptors in your eyes to see with.
You have 24,000 fibers in EACH ear to hear with
You have 500 Muscles, 200 Bones & 7 miles of nerve fiber to move with
You have a heart that pumps more than 550,000 gallons of blood through 55,000 miles of veins & arteries with 36,000,000 beats each year.
You have lungs that have 550,000,000 pockets of folded flesh for you to breathe with.
Your five quarts of blood have 22,000,000,000,000 (trillion) cells which each have millions of molecules.
Each molecule oscillates more than 10,000,000 times each second.
2,000,000 of your blood cells die each second and are replaced by 2,000,000 more and this has happened since your birth.
Your 3 pound brain has 13,000,000,000 nerve cells to file away every perception that you have experienced since birth just waiting for you to recall it.
You have 4 million pain-sensitive structures to feel with. Including 500,000 touch detectors and 200,000 temperature sensors.
You stomach has acid strong enough to dissolve nails.
Do You Have Control???
Now it seems to me, since we are given this much capacity, you wouldn't want to waste it.Did you know that YOU have CONTROL over what happens in YOUR life? READ MORE.........
Congruence: A Must Have for Optimal Health& Well-Being
“Have in your mind that which would constitute a miracle for you. Get the vision. Suspend disbelief and skepticism. Allow yourself to take the journey toward real magic.”
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
Some people will read this post and spend a lot of time and energy focusing on good health and they will seem to do just about everything right-set goals, practice positive thinking, be thankful, practice the creative process and visualization, and still not see results. In order to manifest an abundance of health, one must achieve congruence. Congruence is the condition that all parts of you are in alignment. You must align these three key parts.
· DESIRE: The first key part is desire. You must want it. You must want good health so badly that you are willing to make changes. You must want good health in every cell and fiber of your being.
· DESERVE: The second key to becoming perfectly aligned and congruent is to deserve it, this is self-acceptance. This is also your self esteem, you must believe that you deserve good health and that you are deserving of all the abundance of life when good health is apparent.
· BELIEVE: The third key part is belief. You must believe, with faith and purpose that you can achieve a full recovery and good health.
Excerpt from "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment" see also http://www.acquiredhope.com/
Surviving and Thriving with Chronic Illness
Return to work is a challenge that most individuals who have become chronically ill, are coping with an addictive disease, or have sustained an injury, encounter at one time or another or potentially on an ongoing basis. There is ample literature available that documents that the longer an individual is out of work following an illness or injury, the less likely he or she will return to work. In addition, the individual who does not return to work is often found to have increased disability and medical costs, increased emotional and financial stress, poor self esteem, higher likelihood of depression and lower levels of function. All of these factors are negative and can lead to a life focus of disease and disability. This can lead to a snowball effect of cascading health problems.
“Nothing is more fatal to our health than an over care of it”
-Benjamin Franklin
Therefore, unless you are finically secure, the important thing is that you do try to work. Working will bring about a change in your mind and thoughts to bring about positive feelings of accomplishment, optimism, hope, confidence, strength and joy. Working provides an opportunity to turn feelings of self-pity, boredom, loneliness and depression into positive energy. We can improve our health by return to work and experiencing positive emotions as opposed to focusing on our situation.
“Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to is, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
-Helen Keller
Striving, not just Surviving
It is important to have a work-related goal, whether it is related to finances, success, promotion or finding work that you enjoy and feel fulfilled while doing. It is important to strive, not just survive at work. The more passionate and fulfilled you are in your work or career, the more successful you may become. Here are some tips on striving in the workplace when coping with a medical condition.
1) Don’t let your illness define who you are. You define who you are. The message you want to portray is that your condition is just a card in your deck of cards. Having a chronic illness or condition is neither a source of shame or pride.
2) Focus on what you can control. You may not be able to control the disease or symptoms, but you can control the direction you take and the choices you make regarding working and your condition. Shape your work environment to meet your needs and to fit your limitations.
3) Don’t consider your condition an obstacle. Consider it a challenge, an opportunity.
4) Be honest. Do not hide your illness, do not be ashamed. But if your illness impacts your work, know your rights. Don’t take on an unnecessary burden of pretending you do not have a chronic condition. Be as public or as private as you need to be.
5) Thrive in your environment. Work with your abilities to achieve success, raise the bar, go for satisfaction not just survival. Use visualization to imagine the work environment that you need and want, stay focused and intend it.
6) Focus on the positive. Workplace success when dealing with a chronic illness or condition can be strengthening and transforming. Many new strengths, skills, qualities and confidence we were not aware we possessed evolve or blossom as a result of our illness.
Definition of Disability
Federal law defines a "Disability" as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits or restricts the condition, manner, or duration under which an average person in the population can perform a major life activity, such as walking, seeing, hearing speaking, breathing, learning, working, or taking care of oneself. However, an impairment or diagnosis, in and of itself, does not necessarily constitute a disability: it must "substantially limit" these activities.” Another definition describes disability as any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Many of us shun at the term or label of being “disabled”. Disability infers that we have an “in” ability to do something, or we lack the ability to do something, that the person is not able or less than whole. When outwardly and inwardly we know we are capable of many wonderful things, sometimes we just need to do things differently or with accommodations. Personally, I consider myself “Difabled”.
Definition of Difability
A Difability means an individual can perform specific functions or activities, but does them differently than a normal person would. That such an individual requires accommodations, but with these accommodations is equally effective and productive as a normal, health individual. Difabled individuals have different abilities, not a lack of abilities.
“Nothing is more fatal to our health than an over care of it”
-Benjamin Franklin
Therefore, unless you are finically secure, the important thing is that you do try to work. Working will bring about a change in your mind and thoughts to bring about positive feelings of accomplishment, optimism, hope, confidence, strength and joy. Working provides an opportunity to turn feelings of self-pity, boredom, loneliness and depression into positive energy. We can improve our health by return to work and experiencing positive emotions as opposed to focusing on our situation.
“Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to is, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
-Helen Keller
Striving, not just Surviving
It is important to have a work-related goal, whether it is related to finances, success, promotion or finding work that you enjoy and feel fulfilled while doing. It is important to strive, not just survive at work. The more passionate and fulfilled you are in your work or career, the more successful you may become. Here are some tips on striving in the workplace when coping with a medical condition.
1) Don’t let your illness define who you are. You define who you are. The message you want to portray is that your condition is just a card in your deck of cards. Having a chronic illness or condition is neither a source of shame or pride.
2) Focus on what you can control. You may not be able to control the disease or symptoms, but you can control the direction you take and the choices you make regarding working and your condition. Shape your work environment to meet your needs and to fit your limitations.
3) Don’t consider your condition an obstacle. Consider it a challenge, an opportunity.
4) Be honest. Do not hide your illness, do not be ashamed. But if your illness impacts your work, know your rights. Don’t take on an unnecessary burden of pretending you do not have a chronic condition. Be as public or as private as you need to be.
5) Thrive in your environment. Work with your abilities to achieve success, raise the bar, go for satisfaction not just survival. Use visualization to imagine the work environment that you need and want, stay focused and intend it.
6) Focus on the positive. Workplace success when dealing with a chronic illness or condition can be strengthening and transforming. Many new strengths, skills, qualities and confidence we were not aware we possessed evolve or blossom as a result of our illness.
Definition of Disability
Federal law defines a "Disability" as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits or restricts the condition, manner, or duration under which an average person in the population can perform a major life activity, such as walking, seeing, hearing speaking, breathing, learning, working, or taking care of oneself. However, an impairment or diagnosis, in and of itself, does not necessarily constitute a disability: it must "substantially limit" these activities.” Another definition describes disability as any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Many of us shun at the term or label of being “disabled”. Disability infers that we have an “in” ability to do something, or we lack the ability to do something, that the person is not able or less than whole. When outwardly and inwardly we know we are capable of many wonderful things, sometimes we just need to do things differently or with accommodations. Personally, I consider myself “Difabled”.
Definition of Difability
A Difability means an individual can perform specific functions or activities, but does them differently than a normal person would. That such an individual requires accommodations, but with these accommodations is equally effective and productive as a normal, health individual. Difabled individuals have different abilities, not a lack of abilities.
If you are coping with a serious condition, in order for you to succeed, it is critical that you do accept your limitations, identify them, be open about them and work within them. We must be hopeful in our approach to function and change our thoughts that focus on our “lack of ability” or “Disability to our “different ability” or Difability. That is the difference between continued limitations and possibilities. Once you accept your difabilities and learn to work within them, you can achieve success and thrive in any environment that supports you. You can achieve things that you thought were impossible.
“Sometimes what we think is so impossible turns out to be possible after all.”
-K.O’Brien
This is an excerpt from "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment" see also www.AcquiredHope.com
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Decisions Determine Destiny: Check Your Attitude Here!
Our decisions determine our destiny!!! Our attitudes determine our results! Our attitude also determines what and who we attract to us and how we live. You are responsible for your current results... you-only you. Every result in your life is the effect of your prior thoughts, feeling and actions - which have manifested in front of you in your life as physical results. If you want to change any of your results.... your health, wealth, freedom, meaningful relationships, you have to go on the inside and really take a look at your thoughts, feeling and actions. This is where you must look to see where and what you need to change in order to change your results. But understand this---you can change and improve anything in your life. Just learn how to go inside, learn how to live in harmony with the universal/spiritual laws. Learn to work with these laws, not against them and you will absolutely see immediate changes and better results in your life.
The problem is most people invoke these spiritual universal laws the wrong way:
We all need to raise our conscious awareness and learn to look inside, express your creative energies and live more fully. Learn that the law of gratitude keeps you in harmony with receiving abundance. Understand the law of circulation means that receiving is good, giving is better and learn to not hoard your acquisitions or bank account. Understand that the law of cause and effect may just be the law of laws...what you sow, so shall you reap, what you put into the universal returns to you...concentrate and focus on all the good you can give..and give without effort, never thinking about what you will receive...give willing and feel how good it feels to give! Learn the law of attraction, everything in this universe vibrates, what you think, feel and how you act will determine what and who you are attracting into your life. Learn to use this law to work for you, raise your vibration, live well---- live abundant in health, wealth (which means freedom and well being), create meaningful relationships and be so grateful for all the good that has come to you and is coming to you!
Attitudes: An Abundant Attitude
Why not choose to live with an abundant attitude, one that thinks, feels and acts as if the Universe is abundant and there is only infinite opportunities and possibilities. As we grow, or develop in mind, body and soul, as we become more self aware of our life purpose, goals and passions we recognize one of our spiritual responsbilities is to move into one-ness with the universe/God, our higher power. With this we move beyond living in an emotional reactive way to challenges in life to cultivating positive emotions as our habits. We learn to respond as opposed to react. We remain steadfast in our vision, focus and goals no matter what happens. We have a knowing that everything we need is already here or will come to us, that we can tackle anything that comes our way. We simply live as if life is meant to be abundant and that abundance is already here, we are already connected to it.
What this means is we learn to love even when we don't feel love, we are kind and generous, even when we would ordinarily complain or hoard, and we hold an image of abundance and never focus on lack or what we do not presently have, we live in a continous state of gratitude, even if we wouldn't ordinarily feel particularly thankful. Successful people, make feeling love, joy, optimism, hope, abundance and gratitude their way of being, their habit. After gaining a conscious awareness and with some work overcoming the conditioning that they grew up with, they make thinking, feeling and acting with an abundant attitude their life and way of living.
Our attitudes are our mental stances, they determine everything that comes to us, everyone we attract and they ultimately determine our results. Our attitudes are the glasses from which we view the universe and see the world. Do we see abundance, love and joy or do we see lack, poverty and fear? We can change the way we see the world by changing our thinking, by cultivating a positive attitude. When we live in joy, acquire hope, see only abundance and possibility, we begin to remake our world and we can literally change our conditions, our results and our place, simply because our attitudes have changed.
My favorite quote from Dr. Dyer says is all, "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
Additionally, the tremendous benefit of living with an abundant attitude, in faith and gratitude is that it keeps us connected to the universe and all that is providing. It is the recognition of this connection that is often the point of illumination and time when one opens up to the flow of abundance, the more grateful we are, the more of an abundance sense of life we will experience.
The more you cultivate the abundant attitude, even if you don't feel it, the more you consciously improve or change your attitude, the more you will feel it. The more loving we feel, the more love we receive, the more giving we are, the more that is given to us, the more abundant and successful we feel, the more success will be attracted to us, the healthier we feel, the more health and vitality we will experience. The more thankful we are, the more we experience the joys and richness of spirit that grateful feelings produce.
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. it is a catalyst..a spark that creates extraordinary results."
When you live in harmony with the law of attraction and other universal laws, you can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.......
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be do. One day I shall dig my nails into earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
- Mary Jean Iron
I love to feel the blessings of an ordinary day, when I do, I feel so much more joy and fulfillment. I feel the love and gratitude flowing through me, then the day becomes extraordinary. And you know what, that is when the magic happens, things just turn out better, "lucky" things happen. But in reality it is the universal laws at work, the law of gratitude, law of attraction and the law of cause and effect. Focus on what you can give back to the world, and you will be rewarded.
Monday, September 8, 2008
WoW-Got An Article Published!
I am very excited to share with you that one of my articles on Acquired Hope has gotten published!
Please check it out!
"Acquired Hope" article
Please check it out!
"Acquired Hope" article
Friday, September 5, 2008
Drop The Four Letter F Word!!
Ah ha, that got your attention!
Drop the Fear! Drop this four letter F word from your vocabulary...once you do, you will be free... you will "get" it.
So many people let fear run their lives, they hold self-limiting beliefs and think that they can not achieve something, that they do not deserve it or are afraid to even try it.
"Fear itself doesn't exist in the world. There are only fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviors."
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you have fear and believe it won't, you'll see obstacles." -Dr Dyer
Fear is something that has affected me, I am working on eliminating it from my life and mindset. But it does require some reconditioning, some introspection, some changes and some monitoring of my thoughts.
Having the chronic illness, I lived in fear for awhile immediately after my diagnosis and worst of the illness. I was terribly sick and started to live in fear that everything I did would make me worse. I happened to come across horrible stories and books about the debilitation of the illness and lived in fear that my life was now going to be lost due to the crazy disease. Over time, I studied and began to understand, despite the illness, I don't have any limitations, I can achieve anything I want to, it may not be on the time schedule I think or want, it may not be in the exact way or as easy as I think it should be or want, and it may not always be perfect. But I have eliminated the presence of fear from my mind and daily dialogue.
I do notice it in others. They speak of fear, fear of their debt, the bills, aging, the economy....that what you focus on expands.... the greatest thing about being human is that we have this incredible mind, we can actually choose our thoughts.
We can choose to reject those bad statements about our economy, we can reject the limitations the doctors put on us based on the label of our condition. We can reject the idea and fear that comes when we look at our bank accounts, and choose to think of abundance and infinite possibilities. We can choose to study ourselves and the universal spiritual laws to live in peace and develop hope and faith. We can acquire hope for any challenge that meets us head on.... as Bob Proctor says in the SGR program.... "when fear knocks on the door and faith opens it, lo and behold, there was no one there."
So, let me ask you this, what is present if there is no fear? The answer is faith...trust and belief. Faith that everything you need will show up for you right on time and allow you to be successful, trust in everything that is presenting itself, as there are no coincidences, you are right where you should be all the time, and believe that it is here to stay...that you can do it and that you deserve it. In the absence of fear, you will find bliss.....as Joseph Campbell once said "follow your bliss". your bliss will lead you to your life journey, purpose and happiness.
Why is it that so many of us immediately go to fear and doubt rather than faith and trust?
Why is it that so many of us are missing out on what life has to offer because we stay in fear?
When we drop the Fear, our awareness and perceptions expand---we have absolute awareness and can embrace the blessings that are coming our way.
I read recently that FEAR equates to False Evidence Appearing Real. You can change that false reality by choosing to reject it. Accept only those thoughts, actions and beliefs that live in hope and faith. Believe it is possible, see yourself with it and practice surrender, let it go and ride the wave of trust and belief to you bliss.
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul: unbelief, in denying them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drop the F word, drop the Fear from your life and endeavor to live!
Drop the Fear! Drop this four letter F word from your vocabulary...once you do, you will be free... you will "get" it.
So many people let fear run their lives, they hold self-limiting beliefs and think that they can not achieve something, that they do not deserve it or are afraid to even try it.
"Fear itself doesn't exist in the world. There are only fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviors."
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you have fear and believe it won't, you'll see obstacles." -Dr Dyer
Fear is something that has affected me, I am working on eliminating it from my life and mindset. But it does require some reconditioning, some introspection, some changes and some monitoring of my thoughts.
Having the chronic illness, I lived in fear for awhile immediately after my diagnosis and worst of the illness. I was terribly sick and started to live in fear that everything I did would make me worse. I happened to come across horrible stories and books about the debilitation of the illness and lived in fear that my life was now going to be lost due to the crazy disease. Over time, I studied and began to understand, despite the illness, I don't have any limitations, I can achieve anything I want to, it may not be on the time schedule I think or want, it may not be in the exact way or as easy as I think it should be or want, and it may not always be perfect. But I have eliminated the presence of fear from my mind and daily dialogue.
I do notice it in others. They speak of fear, fear of their debt, the bills, aging, the economy....that what you focus on expands.... the greatest thing about being human is that we have this incredible mind, we can actually choose our thoughts.
We can choose to reject those bad statements about our economy, we can reject the limitations the doctors put on us based on the label of our condition. We can reject the idea and fear that comes when we look at our bank accounts, and choose to think of abundance and infinite possibilities. We can choose to study ourselves and the universal spiritual laws to live in peace and develop hope and faith. We can acquire hope for any challenge that meets us head on.... as Bob Proctor says in the SGR program.... "when fear knocks on the door and faith opens it, lo and behold, there was no one there."
So, let me ask you this, what is present if there is no fear? The answer is faith...trust and belief. Faith that everything you need will show up for you right on time and allow you to be successful, trust in everything that is presenting itself, as there are no coincidences, you are right where you should be all the time, and believe that it is here to stay...that you can do it and that you deserve it. In the absence of fear, you will find bliss.....as Joseph Campbell once said "follow your bliss". your bliss will lead you to your life journey, purpose and happiness.
Why is it that so many of us immediately go to fear and doubt rather than faith and trust?
Why is it that so many of us are missing out on what life has to offer because we stay in fear?
When we drop the Fear, our awareness and perceptions expand---we have absolute awareness and can embrace the blessings that are coming our way.
I read recently that FEAR equates to False Evidence Appearing Real. You can change that false reality by choosing to reject it. Accept only those thoughts, actions and beliefs that live in hope and faith. Believe it is possible, see yourself with it and practice surrender, let it go and ride the wave of trust and belief to you bliss.
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul: unbelief, in denying them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drop the F word, drop the Fear from your life and endeavor to live!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Life Is A Journey: You Must Set Goals!
Goal Setting
A journey requires goals. Think about it, what do you really want? If you do not know, how can you receive it? Once you identify what you really want, write it down and if you have it already; fantastic! If you do not have what you really want, then establish it as a goal. Choose what you really want to be your experience.
“To choose is also to begin.”
-Starhawk
Goal Setting Exercise:
Take a few minutes to reflect on what exactly you wish to do, each day, each week, month and year. Now, take those thoughts and list 3-5 goals. Here are some examples of some goals:
1) I wish to spend more time with my family.
2) I wish to exercise.
3) I wish to work and have a successful career.
4) I wish to find love.
5) I wish to have more money.
Go back and revise your goals and be as detailed, objective and finite as possible. List your goal and then describe it as you imagine it would feel like if you were doing it or having it at this present moment.
1) I wish to spend 3 hours a day, one on one time with my family, playing, laughing and having fun together at the park.
2) I wish to exercise for 30-60 minutes 3-5 times a week, including walking, bicycle riding, weight lifting and swimming.
3) I wish to work in an environment that allows me to strive, not just survive, I wish to be successful and promoted to manager within the year.
4) I wish to meet my soul mate and be involved in a loving, caring, sharing and passionate relationship with this person and partner.
5) I wish to make “$ XX” dollars a year.
Now, go back and review your list again, read it out loud, how does the list make you feel? Do you feel good and happy when you read it and imagine yourself doing it or having those things right now? Good, that means you have identified good goals for you at this time. If you feel anxious or uneasy about your list, then go back and re-write the goals over and over until you do feel good. You should perform this exercise again, once you meet these goals and establish more goals. Once you get the hang of this creative process you will see your life unfold in front of you.
Excerpt from "Acquired Hope" book, more references and free resources on Acquired Hope website
A journey requires goals. Think about it, what do you really want? If you do not know, how can you receive it? Once you identify what you really want, write it down and if you have it already; fantastic! If you do not have what you really want, then establish it as a goal. Choose what you really want to be your experience.
“To choose is also to begin.”
-Starhawk
Goal Setting Exercise:
Take a few minutes to reflect on what exactly you wish to do, each day, each week, month and year. Now, take those thoughts and list 3-5 goals. Here are some examples of some goals:
1) I wish to spend more time with my family.
2) I wish to exercise.
3) I wish to work and have a successful career.
4) I wish to find love.
5) I wish to have more money.
Go back and revise your goals and be as detailed, objective and finite as possible. List your goal and then describe it as you imagine it would feel like if you were doing it or having it at this present moment.
1) I wish to spend 3 hours a day, one on one time with my family, playing, laughing and having fun together at the park.
2) I wish to exercise for 30-60 minutes 3-5 times a week, including walking, bicycle riding, weight lifting and swimming.
3) I wish to work in an environment that allows me to strive, not just survive, I wish to be successful and promoted to manager within the year.
4) I wish to meet my soul mate and be involved in a loving, caring, sharing and passionate relationship with this person and partner.
5) I wish to make “$ XX” dollars a year.
Now, go back and review your list again, read it out loud, how does the list make you feel? Do you feel good and happy when you read it and imagine yourself doing it or having those things right now? Good, that means you have identified good goals for you at this time. If you feel anxious or uneasy about your list, then go back and re-write the goals over and over until you do feel good. You should perform this exercise again, once you meet these goals and establish more goals. Once you get the hang of this creative process you will see your life unfold in front of you.
Excerpt from "Acquired Hope" book, more references and free resources on Acquired Hope website
Life is a Journey! Enjoy the Journey, Not the Destination
Life is a journey, a journey filled with off road stumbles and on road bliss. This journey can feel like it is all uphill for those who are coping with a chronic illness, addictive disease or injury-related condition. But life is a journey.
“He who chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its destination.”
-Anonymous
For every journey, a roadmap is helpful in order to get to the destination timely and see all the sights and do all the activities along the way, which one has planned. Many of us travel or have traveled on our journey of life, without such a road map. We all need direction at some time, although many of us don’t typically ask for directions. But how will you know where you want to go if you do not have a goal or destination in mind? Or if one has a destination, but no road map, one may circle around endlessly, reaching the destination long overdue or even worse never at all. Everyone should have a road map for their journey of life. On this road map, it is important to establish what you really want, who you really want to be, your purpose and how you will travel.
“A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.”
-Lewis K. Bendele
-Lewis K. Bendele
This is an excerot From Acquired Hope Book More references on Acquired Hope.com
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Top Ten List of the Positives of Living w/ Chronic Illness
Coping with a chronic illness, such as Myasthenia Gravis, is filled with challenges. However, in every day, it is important to find the hope and faith that your condition will improve, and it will when you have a positive attitude and a strong focus on abundant hope and abundant health.
The chronic injury or illness experience can be a good thing. In David Letterman fashion, I have created my own top ten list of the positives of the chronic injury or illness experience:
10) Your pharmacist knows you by name.
9) Otherwise complete strangers are your instant friends, as they now share a common bond of the injury or illness experience. Look we are all meeting here today!
8) You find an inner strength and sense of empowerment that you never knew existed.
7) You grow closer to those who love and support you.
6) You find out who your true friends are.
5) You have an opportunity to re-invent your self.
4) You can explore and create new work skills and talents, that otherwise may have been left undiscovered.
3) You simplify your life.
2) You slow down and start to focus on the things that are really important to you.
1) You have an opportunity to explore and expand your current balance of the mind, body and spirit. You can become more resilient.
You can learn to Acquire Hope and abundant Health and advance your recovery! I offer two books that I have authored to help others with Myasthenia Gravis and other chronic illnesses to learn a proven method on improving your situation. These books “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment” and “365 Days of Abundant Hope” are both available on Amazon.com. This process works, guaranteed!
Visit http://www.acquiredhope.com/ for more information and details on advancing your recovery. A portion of the book profits go to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America to help support the fight against MG!
The chronic injury or illness experience can be a good thing. In David Letterman fashion, I have created my own top ten list of the positives of the chronic injury or illness experience:
10) Your pharmacist knows you by name.
9) Otherwise complete strangers are your instant friends, as they now share a common bond of the injury or illness experience. Look we are all meeting here today!
8) You find an inner strength and sense of empowerment that you never knew existed.
7) You grow closer to those who love and support you.
6) You find out who your true friends are.
5) You have an opportunity to re-invent your self.
4) You can explore and create new work skills and talents, that otherwise may have been left undiscovered.
3) You simplify your life.
2) You slow down and start to focus on the things that are really important to you.
1) You have an opportunity to explore and expand your current balance of the mind, body and spirit. You can become more resilient.
You can learn to Acquire Hope and abundant Health and advance your recovery! I offer two books that I have authored to help others with Myasthenia Gravis and other chronic illnesses to learn a proven method on improving your situation. These books “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment” and “365 Days of Abundant Hope” are both available on Amazon.com. This process works, guaranteed!
Visit http://www.acquiredhope.com/ for more information and details on advancing your recovery. A portion of the book profits go to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America to help support the fight against MG!
A Change Of Focus: Advancing Recovery From Anything
One of the most critical steps in recovery of a chronic illness or injury is changing the chronic ways of thought. It is these chronic, negative thoughts that often are what keeps people ill. When one is preoccupied with health, when it is all one talks about and focuses on, it remains. If one explores the most common thoughts and emotions an individual has when coping with a chronic illness, injury or disease, one will see that the majority of these emotions are negative emotions. Negative emotions do not make us feel good. These negative emotions can be detrimental to a patient’s recovery if they remained focused on them. Some of the negative emotions that one can experience when coping with the loss of health or function are described below.
Powerlessness
Chronic illnesses and accidentally injuries can often times appear uncontrollable and unpredictable. People may feel as if they have lost control over their bodies and their future. Loss of control feels like powerlessness. When people feel powerlessness, they may also feel hopeless, anger or rage, or even have feelings of despair, worthlessness, panic and fear. The less powerful an individual feels, the harder they may try to maintain control over their world.
However, if they learn to change the feelings of powerlessness and replace them with positive thoughts, such as passion, optimism, hope and enthusiasm. They can see that they are indeed capable of many wondrous things, and that they have control and power over many aspects of their health and body.
Powerlessness
Chronic illnesses and accidentally injuries can often times appear uncontrollable and unpredictable. People may feel as if they have lost control over their bodies and their future. Loss of control feels like powerlessness. When people feel powerlessness, they may also feel hopeless, anger or rage, or even have feelings of despair, worthlessness, panic and fear. The less powerful an individual feels, the harder they may try to maintain control over their world.
However, if they learn to change the feelings of powerlessness and replace them with positive thoughts, such as passion, optimism, hope and enthusiasm. They can see that they are indeed capable of many wondrous things, and that they have control and power over many aspects of their health and body.
Fear and Anxiety
Fear plays a big part in the emotional pain of chronic illness, injury or disease. A person may become afraid of many things, including the progression of a disease, the increasing loss of control or increasing disability, the outcome, the relapses or re-injuries. A patient may be afraid of our how family members, neighbors, friends and co-workers feel about them, now that they have an injury or illness. They may have financial fears, fear of losing the ability to work or not sustaining a current income or position. They may fear not being able to support their loved ones. Fear can sneak up on them and fear can overwhelm them on a continual basis.
An individual may also experience anxiety. Anxiety is an emotion that arises as one anticipates fear or thinks that bad things are coming in their direction. Anxiety can be a disabling emotion and can leave one functionless. The fear and the anxiety of a chronic illness or condition can alone leave one chronically disabled. It is important to learn how to replace these feelings of fear and anxiety with good emotions and focus on abilities and good health.
Self-Pity
The chronically ill, physically challenged and those coping with other conditions often regret their condition and situation. This is a natural reaction. However, if this reaction becomes a chronic way of thinking, this individual will always be chronically ill. For many individuals enduring these circumstances, who feel self-pity don’t see any way out of their situation. The path of self-pity leads only to isolation. It is important to change the focus from self-pity to a focus on ability and health.
Isolation
The feeling of isolation is another strong, negative emotion that can become overwhelming and self-destructive. Whether an individual is dealing with a disabling injury such as a spinal cord injury and paralysis or a chronic illness like diabetes or multiple sclerosis, that individual may often times feel alone or outside the norm, that nobody understands what they are going through. That individual may feel that they have been rejected and are not wanted or unloved. That they are different, and that this difference is a bad thing. They may become self-conscious, suffer from poor self-esteem or feel ashamed of their condition. All of these negative emotions and thought patterns only add to the isolation and a vicious cycle is created.
It is important for the person to change this negative thought pattern by getting involved with others to feel the support from others, join support groups so that they understand that they are not alone and change their thinking by focusing on the positive aspects of their condition.
The chronic injury or illness experience can be a good thing. In David Letterman fashion, I have created my own top ten list of the positives of the chronic injury or illness experience:
10) Your pharmacist knows you by name.
9) Otherwise complete strangers are your instant friends, as they now share a common bond of the injury or illness experience.
8) You find an inner strength and sense of empowerment that you never knew existed.
7) You grow closer to those who love and support you.
6) You find out who your true friends are.
5) You have an opportunity to re-invent your self.
4) You explore and create new work skills and talents, that otherwise may have been left undiscovered.
3) You simplify your life.
2) You slow down and start to focus on the things that are really important to you.
1) You have an opportunity to explore and expand your current balance of the mind, body and spirit. You can become more resilient.
Anger and Rage
Individuals with a disease or condition may experience anger and rage. There may be anger against their bodies for “failing” them. There may be a sense of betrayal. There may be anger at the meaningless of their disease, injury or condition. Or they may blame themselves or others for their condition and current situation. They may express anger or rage at nature, life, the medicine they take and their side effects, the doctors/therapists for not curing them and their friends and family members for not understanding them or responding to them the way they would like at that exact moment. There may be anger when people make allowances for them and then when they do not.
It is important to understand that anger and rage are very powerful negative emotions. If a patient does not harness these emotions, the negativity may turn into self-destruction. However, if the patient can learn to harness and control it and turn it into positive energy, such as determination, passion, optimism and hope, the rewards can be staggering. It is really all about a change of focus.
Jealousy
Envy, resentment and jealousy are emotional reactions that are hard to separate from one another and are difficult to eliminate from our thought patterns. To be envious, is to wish you had something that someone else had. To be resentful, is to be angry and bitter because you do not have something that someone else has. For those with a chronic illness, injury or disease the thing that they want and do not think that they have, is health and full function. Because our culture is competitive in nature and there is such an emphasis on perfection and images that reflect the “perfect” person in magazines and in movies, when a patient is coping with an illness or condition, these feelings and emotions can be a monumental influence on their lives. A person will need to learn to stop comparing themselves to what others have and what they look like and take themselves out of the competitive plane and focus on the abilities and strengths that they do have.
Grief
When coping with the onset of a chronic illness, injury or disease, grief can be one of the stages a patient may go through as they progress towards acceptance. There are typically three phases of grief:
1) Denial
2) Emotional pain
3) Acceptance.
Change can involve loss. Grieving involves focusing and feeling sad for our losses. Grief becomes a debilitating emotion when one cannot get through all the phases to the acceptance phase, but rather adopts a chronically negative way of thinking instead.
There is a blessing in the grieving process. As one goes through the three phases, one feels pain and agony and then finally the peace of acceptance. To go through the entire process, gives us a deeply rooted faith that all bad things do pass, that there is some way to deal with everything, no matter how hard or how bad it is, and that we will come out in the light. We are left ready and fully prepared to start over and rebuild.
Summary
A change of focus is required in order to maximize recovery and functional restoration. A change of focus from negative emotions, to more positive emotions such as; passion, optimism, hope, gratitude and acceptance. These are the emotions a person must take to heart in order to advance their recovery and fully restore function. Changing focus can be easy, once you learn the process in acquiring hope. To learn how to change your focus and attract good health, please read “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment”.
Ref: “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment” book and Acquired Hope website
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
10 Steps Towards Advanced Recovery and Optimal Health
I am a huge fan of Dr. Wayne Dyer, he has been instrumental in my recovery and my ability to heal myself and go into remission. Please let me share some of his writing with you, it is powerful, inspirational and fun to read.
First, lets start with a quote:
"No one can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? And who can share what he denies himself?"
-A Course in Miracles
Every person on this planet has within him or herself the potential to be a healer, to heal oneself and allow themself to be healed. In order to make conscious contact with your own inherent healing powers, you must make the decision to heal yourself. The only way to be heal is to be healed. Once you have accepted your power to heal yourself and optimize your health, you become someone who is also capable of healing others.
First, become the healing. Learn to reconnect to the disease-free loving perfection from which you were born from. The universal mind knows exactly what you need in order to heal yourself. So you must align yourself with the univeral mind and laws and work in harmony with these laws in order to optimize your health.
Second, take notice of your thoughts and feelings. Note when you are creating resistance to the healing process. Do not speak poorly or negatively of your current health issues. Only think and feel yourself healing and feelin more energetic and vibrant each day. When you focus on the disease, or the lack and limitation, you interfere with healing. I know I did this for years, and I remained so very sick. Once I learned and started to really work at this, I started to get better. Today I feel super! So stop complaining about how bad you feel and focus on how good you feel, as crazy as that sounds, it is necessary.
Do daily affirmations, change your thoughts from sickness to thoughts of wellness, affirm optimal health, visualize yourself with a health body! Remember how we discussed creative visualization earlier? If you want to learn techniques on how to be effective in your visualizations and affiramtios they are presented in my book "Acquired Hope". Daily affirmations and visualizations are such powerful techniques to advance the healing process, please do not over look them.Lastly, know that illness is not a punishment. Do not intellectualize the disease process, this only separates you from good health. Be encouraged to think of yourself as a healer, as moving towards better health, towards optimal health. Do not overanalyze your condition, if you do you are giving it power!
Here is Dr. Dyer's 10 step program on making optimal health your reality (summarized of course):
1) You can't heal anyone until you allow yourself to be healed.
2) The healing energy that you're connected to at all times is what you have to give away to others.
3) By raising your awareness, your energy to a vibrational match with the universe/power of intention, you are strengthening your immune system and increasing the production of well-being enzymes in the brain.
4) Practice Surrender!
5) Don't ask to be healed, ask to be restored to that perfection from which you came from.
6) Know that you are loved and adored.
7) Seek out and cherish the silence, find inner peace!
8) Identify with the wholeness that you are.
9) Allow an abundance of good health to flow into your life. Practice the art of allowing.
10 ) Stay immersed in a state of gratitude.
I love it! Good luck on your journey to higher levels of function , complete healing and raising your awareness.
Ref: Dr. Wayne Dyer: http://www.success-innerpeace.com/
First, lets start with a quote:
"No one can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? And who can share what he denies himself?"
-A Course in Miracles
Every person on this planet has within him or herself the potential to be a healer, to heal oneself and allow themself to be healed. In order to make conscious contact with your own inherent healing powers, you must make the decision to heal yourself. The only way to be heal is to be healed. Once you have accepted your power to heal yourself and optimize your health, you become someone who is also capable of healing others.
First, become the healing. Learn to reconnect to the disease-free loving perfection from which you were born from. The universal mind knows exactly what you need in order to heal yourself. So you must align yourself with the univeral mind and laws and work in harmony with these laws in order to optimize your health.
Second, take notice of your thoughts and feelings. Note when you are creating resistance to the healing process. Do not speak poorly or negatively of your current health issues. Only think and feel yourself healing and feelin more energetic and vibrant each day. When you focus on the disease, or the lack and limitation, you interfere with healing. I know I did this for years, and I remained so very sick. Once I learned and started to really work at this, I started to get better. Today I feel super! So stop complaining about how bad you feel and focus on how good you feel, as crazy as that sounds, it is necessary.
Do daily affirmations, change your thoughts from sickness to thoughts of wellness, affirm optimal health, visualize yourself with a health body! Remember how we discussed creative visualization earlier? If you want to learn techniques on how to be effective in your visualizations and affiramtios they are presented in my book "Acquired Hope". Daily affirmations and visualizations are such powerful techniques to advance the healing process, please do not over look them.Lastly, know that illness is not a punishment. Do not intellectualize the disease process, this only separates you from good health. Be encouraged to think of yourself as a healer, as moving towards better health, towards optimal health. Do not overanalyze your condition, if you do you are giving it power!
Here is Dr. Dyer's 10 step program on making optimal health your reality (summarized of course):
1) You can't heal anyone until you allow yourself to be healed.
2) The healing energy that you're connected to at all times is what you have to give away to others.
3) By raising your awareness, your energy to a vibrational match with the universe/power of intention, you are strengthening your immune system and increasing the production of well-being enzymes in the brain.
4) Practice Surrender!
5) Don't ask to be healed, ask to be restored to that perfection from which you came from.
6) Know that you are loved and adored.
7) Seek out and cherish the silence, find inner peace!
8) Identify with the wholeness that you are.
9) Allow an abundance of good health to flow into your life. Practice the art of allowing.
10 ) Stay immersed in a state of gratitude.
I love it! Good luck on your journey to higher levels of function , complete healing and raising your awareness.
Ref: Dr. Wayne Dyer: http://www.success-innerpeace.com/
Sunday, August 24, 2008
What Will Be Your Mark on Humanity?
Now Imagine If..
-Imagine if you could then use your mind to manifest these decisions - without wavering - because it`s crystal clear where you need to be and what you need to do.
-Imagine if You could Create this life of Your Dreams.
-Imagine thousands of lives benefiting from your new creation - whether it`s a book, a work of art, or a business.
-Imagine creating jobs, changing lives, creating products that benefit humanity.
-Imagine being a shining light - a bringer of wisdom and enlightenment to your community.
-Imagine creating sufficient wealth and prosperity that you could achieve optimal health, no matter what your health status is..... having the resources to focus on full healing and optimal health, instead of worrying about those bills.
-Imagine having the perfect body, higher levels of function.
-Imagine complete freedom and well being: a freedom in which you can do what you want, when you want and give back!!!
How would your family benefit? Whom would you influence? What would you seek to change about this world. How will you be remembered when you pass on? Who will you teach?
Or the biggest question of all - What will be your mark on humanity?
Read More Here!
-Imagine if you could then use your mind to manifest these decisions - without wavering - because it`s crystal clear where you need to be and what you need to do.
-Imagine if You could Create this life of Your Dreams.
-Imagine thousands of lives benefiting from your new creation - whether it`s a book, a work of art, or a business.
-Imagine creating jobs, changing lives, creating products that benefit humanity.
-Imagine being a shining light - a bringer of wisdom and enlightenment to your community.
-Imagine creating sufficient wealth and prosperity that you could achieve optimal health, no matter what your health status is..... having the resources to focus on full healing and optimal health, instead of worrying about those bills.
-Imagine having the perfect body, higher levels of function.
-Imagine complete freedom and well being: a freedom in which you can do what you want, when you want and give back!!!
How would your family benefit? Whom would you influence? What would you seek to change about this world. How will you be remembered when you pass on? Who will you teach?
Or the biggest question of all - What will be your mark on humanity?
Read More Here!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Miracles Come From Within!
My life journey has allowed me the opportunity to lose just about everything, including my health and ability to function so that I could stop and take some time to really learn and understand what life and living is truly about. For that I am grateful. I can honestly say, as I studied and internalized the material that I was attracting, out of a strong desire to live more fully, to feel better, to experience a miracle of healing and to educate, inspire and empower others coping with illness or any life struggle to do the same, I began to experience a life of miracles. My success and prosperity has increased after getting involved with the SGR program, that program taugh me more about life and how the universe works, than any other book or program I invested in. It changed my life. I have also significantly improved my health, I ran 5 miles today, several years ago, going up a flight of stairs was so exhausting I would throw up from it. (seriously, the MG kicked my butt!)
I have learned inner peace. I have learned about infinite possibilities, stopping the chatter, removing the doubt and to live on the side of abundance. For me, living with an "abundant attitude" has allowed me to think, feel and act in ways of abundance and put me in the flow of receiving an abundance of all good things. For that I am so very grateful. I understand now, that inner peace, success, optimal health, living in infinite possibilities is a spiritual journey. Not all get there. But few do. I hope you all achieve fuller life expression and the ability to create miracles in your life, whatever they may be and whatever a miracle means to you.
"Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life."
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
"When you think positive, happy, loving thoughts, there is a different chemistry that goes on in your body than when you think depressing, negative, anguished thoughts. The way you decide to think has a dramatic effect on your chemistry and on your physiology."
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
I have learned inner peace. I have learned about infinite possibilities, stopping the chatter, removing the doubt and to live on the side of abundance. For me, living with an "abundant attitude" has allowed me to think, feel and act in ways of abundance and put me in the flow of receiving an abundance of all good things. For that I am so very grateful. I understand now, that inner peace, success, optimal health, living in infinite possibilities is a spiritual journey. Not all get there. But few do. I hope you all achieve fuller life expression and the ability to create miracles in your life, whatever they may be and whatever a miracle means to you.
"Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life."
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
"When you think positive, happy, loving thoughts, there is a different chemistry that goes on in your body than when you think depressing, negative, anguished thoughts. The way you decide to think has a dramatic effect on your chemistry and on your physiology."
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
Sunday, February 3, 2008
FREE Ebooks on Exercise/Fitness and Wealth/Success
My dream is to continue to improve my health, my wealth, be free and give back. I love to educate, empower and inspire others to strive for more, live better, live full and happy lives and seek optimal health, independent of what your current results are.
As you can see, my battle with Myasthenia Gravis, left me poor, exhausted, alone, sick and disabled and completely broken in all aspects of my life. I spent the last few years, reading, studying and learning how to live better. I am now grateful for the Myasthenia Gravis experience, as I came out of the struggle a much better person. I found my inner peace, success, my life purpose....I learned to believe again, to dream again. To reach further, because I know now that the only limitations that I have are self imposed. I can heal myself, I can achieve higher levels of physical performance, I can succeed professionally and financially and I can experience love again. First, I had to learn to love myself and rebuild my life, I had to create an entirely new set of results. I am grateful for it all. I am truly grateful for the journey.
My dream is to give back, help others achieve a fuller life, learn to live more, believe in themselves, become empowered and to live each day in the present moment. I recently found some great FREE Ebooks on exercise and fitness and the most powerful success/wealth creation books ever written. I have posted them on my Acquired Hope website resource page, please go read them, over and over again, and notice your world transform, you too will be grateful for your journey, what ever it is and where ever life takes you!
As you can see, my battle with Myasthenia Gravis, left me poor, exhausted, alone, sick and disabled and completely broken in all aspects of my life. I spent the last few years, reading, studying and learning how to live better. I am now grateful for the Myasthenia Gravis experience, as I came out of the struggle a much better person. I found my inner peace, success, my life purpose....I learned to believe again, to dream again. To reach further, because I know now that the only limitations that I have are self imposed. I can heal myself, I can achieve higher levels of physical performance, I can succeed professionally and financially and I can experience love again. First, I had to learn to love myself and rebuild my life, I had to create an entirely new set of results. I am grateful for it all. I am truly grateful for the journey.
My dream is to give back, help others achieve a fuller life, learn to live more, believe in themselves, become empowered and to live each day in the present moment. I recently found some great FREE Ebooks on exercise and fitness and the most powerful success/wealth creation books ever written. I have posted them on my Acquired Hope website resource page, please go read them, over and over again, and notice your world transform, you too will be grateful for your journey, what ever it is and where ever life takes you!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Have Exercise and Weight Loss Goals: Check this out!
I am a huge exercise and fitness fan, but I realize that both as a clinical professional and exercise fan myself, it is important to like exercising or find programs that keep you interested, excited and compliant, or you will never meet your goals.
Passion drives results!
If you set a new years resolution to lose weight or improve your shape, I recommend a little structure to keep you posted, check out this trim the fat program, gotta love it!
Passion drives results!
If you set a new years resolution to lose weight or improve your shape, I recommend a little structure to keep you posted, check out this trim the fat program, gotta love it!
Saturday, December 29, 2007
FREE Ebook: Top 100 Fitness and Health Tips
Here is a link to a website with FREE exercise and fitness Ebooks, including one titled "Top 100 Fitness and Health Tips".
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Your Inner Self: Know Your Worth
"It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner Self and to know his real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others."
- Swami Muktanananda
You are amazing, original, creative and the one and only you. You have unique thoughts, creative energy, abilities and creative powers, you have so much to offer everyone in your life, you are able to give so much back. Sometimes we feel lost, or do not fully love yourselves or recognize the true life purpose and creative powers that we have access to. That is when we are unfulfilled, empty or not fully expressing ourselves. Knowing ourselves, increasing awareness and working towards our intentions, our life purpose is our single most greatest responsibility during our life on this planet. Whatever your gifts are, your passions, your creative powers and desires, endeavour to find them, live them and give them.
- Swami Muktanananda
You are amazing, original, creative and the one and only you. You have unique thoughts, creative energy, abilities and creative powers, you have so much to offer everyone in your life, you are able to give so much back. Sometimes we feel lost, or do not fully love yourselves or recognize the true life purpose and creative powers that we have access to. That is when we are unfulfilled, empty or not fully expressing ourselves. Knowing ourselves, increasing awareness and working towards our intentions, our life purpose is our single most greatest responsibility during our life on this planet. Whatever your gifts are, your passions, your creative powers and desires, endeavour to find them, live them and give them.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Our Attitudes Determine Everything!
Our attitudes determine our results, who we attract to us and how we live. Why not choose to live with an abundant attitude, one that thinks, feels and acts as if the Universe is abundant and there is only infinite opportunities and possibilities.
As we grow, or develop in mind, body and soul, as we become more self aware of our life purpose, goals and passions we recognize one of our spiritual responsbilities is to move into one-ness with the universe/God, our higher power. With this we move beyond living in an emotional reactive way to challenges in life to cultivating positive emotions as our habits. We learn to respond as opposed to react. We remain steadfast in our vision, focus and goals no matter what happens. We have a knowing that everything we need is already here or will come to us, that we can tackle anything that comes our way. We simply live as if life is meant to be abundant and that abundance is already here, we are already connected to it.
What this means is we learn to love even when we don't feel love, we are kind and generous, even when we would ordinarily complain or hoard, and we hold an image of abundance and never focus on lack or what we do not presently have, we live in a continous state of gratitude, even if we wouldn't ordinarily feel particularly thankful. Successful people, make feeling love, joy, optimism, hope, abundance and gratitude their way of being, their habit. After gaining a conscious awareness and with some work overcoming the conditioning that they grew up with, they make thinking, feeling and acting with an abundant attitude their life and way of living.
Our attitudes are our mental stances, they determine everything that comes to us, everyone we attract and they ultimately determine our results. Our attitudes are the glasses from which we view the universe and see the world. Do we see abundance, love and joy or do we see lack, poverty and fear? We can change the way we see the world by changing our thinking, by cultivating a positive attitude. When we live in joy, acquire hope, see only abundance and possibility, we begin to remake our world and we can literally change our conditions, our results and our place, simply because our attitudes have changed. My favorite quote from Dr. Dyer says is all, "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
Additionally, the tremendous benefit of living with an abundant attitude, in faith and gratitude is that it keeps us connected to the universe and all that is providing. It is the recognition of this connection that is often the point of illumination and time when one opens up to the flow of abundance, the more grateful we are, the more of an abundance sense of life we will experience.
The more you cultivate the abundant attitude, even if you don't feel it, the more you consciously improve or change your attitude, the more you will feel it. The more loving we feel, the more love we receive, the more giving we are, the more that is given to us, the more abundant and successful we feel, the more success will be attracted to us, the healthier we feel, the more health and vitality we will experience. The more thankful we are, the more we experience the joys and richness of spirit that grateful feelings produce.
As we grow, or develop in mind, body and soul, as we become more self aware of our life purpose, goals and passions we recognize one of our spiritual responsbilities is to move into one-ness with the universe/God, our higher power. With this we move beyond living in an emotional reactive way to challenges in life to cultivating positive emotions as our habits. We learn to respond as opposed to react. We remain steadfast in our vision, focus and goals no matter what happens. We have a knowing that everything we need is already here or will come to us, that we can tackle anything that comes our way. We simply live as if life is meant to be abundant and that abundance is already here, we are already connected to it.
What this means is we learn to love even when we don't feel love, we are kind and generous, even when we would ordinarily complain or hoard, and we hold an image of abundance and never focus on lack or what we do not presently have, we live in a continous state of gratitude, even if we wouldn't ordinarily feel particularly thankful. Successful people, make feeling love, joy, optimism, hope, abundance and gratitude their way of being, their habit. After gaining a conscious awareness and with some work overcoming the conditioning that they grew up with, they make thinking, feeling and acting with an abundant attitude their life and way of living.
Our attitudes are our mental stances, they determine everything that comes to us, everyone we attract and they ultimately determine our results. Our attitudes are the glasses from which we view the universe and see the world. Do we see abundance, love and joy or do we see lack, poverty and fear? We can change the way we see the world by changing our thinking, by cultivating a positive attitude. When we live in joy, acquire hope, see only abundance and possibility, we begin to remake our world and we can literally change our conditions, our results and our place, simply because our attitudes have changed. My favorite quote from Dr. Dyer says is all, "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
Additionally, the tremendous benefit of living with an abundant attitude, in faith and gratitude is that it keeps us connected to the universe and all that is providing. It is the recognition of this connection that is often the point of illumination and time when one opens up to the flow of abundance, the more grateful we are, the more of an abundance sense of life we will experience.
The more you cultivate the abundant attitude, even if you don't feel it, the more you consciously improve or change your attitude, the more you will feel it. The more loving we feel, the more love we receive, the more giving we are, the more that is given to us, the more abundant and successful we feel, the more success will be attracted to us, the healthier we feel, the more health and vitality we will experience. The more thankful we are, the more we experience the joys and richness of spirit that grateful feelings produce.
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