Positive Thinking And Its Effect On Your Health

by: Greg Riley

The first situation to consider is the relationship between thoughts and conditions like depression and stress. A crucial question is whether the person's thoughts are creating the physical depression or the physical depression is creating the negative thinking. When it comes to how you can use your mind to help, this can be accomplished consciously and subconsciously. When someone has a habit of imagining things turning out very badly, rational thinking can show show them that they often exaggerate. However, the unconscious mind is much more powerful in shaping our habitual behavior, oftentimes beyond our conscious control. Visualization and hypnosis can be very effective in modifying beliefs and, if you do this, the long-lasting effects can be more powerful than using logic only.

It is likewise true that positive thinking can have an impact on our physical health, and you may be aware of the placebo effect on people who feel ill. This is when individuals are given a pill which in reality does not have any healing value, and yet they claim to notice an improvement in how they feel. This is evidence of the connection between mind and body, and there are many examples of men and women with a positive outlook being able to recover faster from malady and injury. You can also use the power of your mind to help you in achieving your fitness goals. A historic example of this is when the four minute barrier for running the mile was broken, which had been considered as unachievable up to that point. Once the "barrier" had been broken, other runners also began to break through what had really been a barrier of belief.

The effects of aging are likewise influenced by how we think about the process. As you get older, do you talk to your friends about your "aches and pains" and your weakened capabilities? It seems there's a great deal of truth to the saying, "You're only as old as you think you are," and our thoughts can be used to undo a lot of the so-called effects of aging. Unfortunately, numerous individuals will continue to hold on to old beliefs about the unavoidable "decline" of health in old age, and not pay attention to the benefits of a positive outlook.

Now that you are aware that your attitude can bring you a much better state of health, it's up to you to take advantage of this information and set your intention to think positive thoughts whenever you remember.

Awakening to Life's True Purpose

By Steve Wickham

Distraction is the concept in contention with life's true purpose; the biggest, now global, trick of human history. This is as visible a threat as it is insidious. It is literally strangling our quality of life and we are helpless against it, unless we are awakened to our true life purpose.
Life, ironically, is a distraction from our purpose. Almost everything in today's world conspires against this purpose. Not that we should reject our world and live as secluded hermits. But there is a force in this life that blocks our awareness of, and our access to, our purpose.
SO, WHAT'S OUR PURPOSE?
Our purpose is to honour God by living our lives - not kidnapped by agendas-of-distraction but with eyes wide awake to the God-honest realities that are somehow subsumed by these agendas-of-distraction.
Allow me to put it in plain illustrative terms.
One example of distraction is entertainment; what is not clear about entertainment, however, is what distractive element takes us toward our purpose (for some entertainment is purposefully distractive) versus what takes us away. Most entertainment takes us away. For instance, we choose entertainment when we should be doing other things. Or, we choose the wrong sort of entertainment. Moreover, much entertainment takes our minds away from more relevant God-honest realities. We are all implicated.
Dismissing or rejecting entertainment out of hand, if we follow the chosen example, is not the answer; nor is merely giving in to the entertainment revolution sweeping the globe continuously.
There has to be a more compelling and effectual answer.
Frustration has no part whatsoever in us living our purpose, unless it's part of the learning process. There's little to be learned via the frustration of chopping and changing in indecision.
THE AGENCY AND PROCESS OF AWAKENING
Let us be perfectly clear that the awakening in view is no New Age concept. Such an awakening - the necessity of humanity to partake - is as old as creation itself. Adam and Eve, of course, failed their awakening test, as have and do we.
Awakening is nothing about failure, however.
It is, like salvation, an initial choice as well as an ongoing choice-the finances of the mind invested in focusing on what is really relevant, as well as learning what agendas-of-distraction we are to dispatch to the archives of previous currencies.
Awakening is truly about choosing to live the abundant life.
THE SCIENCE OF THE ABUNDANT LIFE
One of the most poignant things Jesus ever said about the nature of worldly life, and the countering nature of salvation, was:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
~John 10:10 (NRSV).

Agendas-of-distraction are an example of the thief, among many examples. The myriad examples of distraction sway us away from true abundance - the experience of God breaking through our consciousness and awakening us to reality.
This is no subjective reality, but the reality.
It must surely be the greatest gift; to enjoy knowledge of reality. That is, to be at peace with it. This is where the abundant life begins. Indeed, this, not apart from the Saviour, is its source.
The abundant life journeys with simplicity. Having dealt with the distractions - those that would otherwise seal our fate as stolen - the simplicity of the abundant life opens up new doorways and new streams of thinking.
The abundant life is our true life purpose. It is no destination, so we must endear ourselves to it, rejecting distractions, and follow it passionately all our lives.
Perhaps the following quote of Isaac Newton's encapsulates the whole article:

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Ours is to look past the distractive pebbles and shells on the seashore and further yonder to the ocean of truth. There is where life is truly at; nowhere else.

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Manifesting Is a Partnership

By Nancy Stremmel 


The ego is always looking for gain. The spirit is a state of being looking for a state of being.
Mike Dooley suggests that when manifesting, we go for a feeling that we desire rather than for a bunch of stuff. This is exactly why his manifesting works well. Manifesting a feeling is something the spirit can understand and a prayer that can be forwarded directly to super conscious mind without interpretation.
I often see people looking for money, and if they listen to Napoleon Hill, or some of the other LOA teachers, they might be asking for specific amounts. I have not found this to be helpful. I did the budget. No cash fell from the sky.
I have never failed at asking for a house by the sea. It didn't really matter, how pathetic my economic situation was at the time. And, when I was a child/teenager, I was always able to go to any sailing event I chose, with a boat, a crew and a car. Sometimes these things are given to me, sometimes they are loaned indefinitely and sometimes they are given to me at such a low price that it is almost a gift.
Yet, I am not that great at manifesting abundant money, especially specific money. I have never been evicted though. Somehow, the money that I really need is always available when I need it. I have become relaxed and trusting about this. I do my job which is to be happy and fair and to bring as much hope, love and trust into the world as I can, and the Universe gives me the safety and security that I need to be able to do this work.
It's a partnership.
I love the Universe/Source/One, and my life. I have a great boss, work with a good team and have a great partner. Sometimes bad things happen in my life, but they always, always, always turn out to be good. Or, there are those life events such as the death of a family member, or an old friend, or a pet, which are not good or bad, but simply part of life.
Sometimes I have to negotiate for what I want. The thing that I want is peace of mind or a feeling of team work. I always do Ho'oponopono first, and I always get what I have asked for. - Always. I am ever grateful and delighted and surprised.

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T. Harv Eker: Think Like a Millionaire

By Sandra Essex

Few other personal stories make for better reading than that of this fellow, T. Harv Eker. He may have a book titled: "From Zero to Hero in Only 2 ½ Years". But if he'd consulted me, I would have suggested a different title for that book: 'From Zero to Hero to Zero to...' For a fact, that is what the story of his life looks more like-at first.
T. Harv Eker literally went from being a barely surviving wannabe businessman to a fulfilled, hugely successful millionaire in only two and half years. To his credit, he's always dreamed of becoming a millionaire, and always believed that the dream was totally realizable. And after numerous failed attempts at various businesses, he finally found the right fit, when he opened some of the first retail fitness stores in North America.
The stores grew very fast, and within two years it had attracted the attention of a fortune 500 company which bought a part of the business-and Harv Eker's dream was realized, he became a millionaire instantly! But then, he lost it all-almost as fast. Due to a combination of poor investments and a lack of money management skills, Harv lost his fortune even faster than he had made them-within two years!
But who is T. Harv Eker?
Harv Eker was born to European immigrants who arrived North America with only a few dollars to their name. Growing up in Toronto, Canada, life was tough for young Harv. There was never enough of anything in the household, forcing the young T. Harv to enter the labor market at the tender age of 13. He did all sorts of menial tasks to make extra income for the family: delivering newspapers, working at local fairs, ice-cream shops and more.
Only a stubborn believer would be in such circumstances and still dream of becoming a millionaire one day! But Harv Eker was made of such stuff. Through a dint of hard work, he was eventually able to study at New York University, and maybe just then, his millionaire dream started to look like it might really be possible. And now, as they say, the rest is history.
Soon after losing the fortune he made from the sale of his fitness stores, Harv Eker really began to reconsider the way people, including he himself, think about money and wealth. He then realized that if he was going to achieve true financial success and retain it, he had to use a different blueprint from the one he had been applying. He did, and he began to succeed at a deeper level.
Now, this globally admired founder and president of Peak Potentials Training Inc., is using those same techniques that have worked so well for him to equip and inspire thousands around the world to achieve financial goals and build lasting wealth. His best-selling book, "Secrets of The Millionaire Mind" and the accompanying "Millionaire Mind Seminars" have attracted hundreds of customer reviews.
True, some observers have claimed that most of the contents of "Secretes Of The Millionaire Mind" come straight from the works of popular authors Robert T. Kiyosaki and Robert G. Allen. I tend to agree with these critics to an extent. But really, if the techniques work, should it really matter who said it first?
As with most motivational products, his products may be effective for some Network Marketers or Business builders and useless for others. Will T Harv Eker's techniques be effective for you? You alone can decide that. But only after you have examined and applied his techniques and principles in your life and your MLM or Online business.

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