Tuesday 27 October 2020

Eating well for your future

Do your current spending habits reflect the priorities and goals you've set for yourself? Why or why not? How can tracking your money lead you to invest in what's important to you? What changes do you need to make to your spending habits/financial investments? Every forgiveness is a benefit to everyone. The universe notes and records every action and returns it in kind. Every kindness is forever. Q: Is it correct to say that our beingness is more effective than our doingness? A: Moralistic exhortation and justice seeking bring about the opposite as counterforce, whereas lovingness radiates power of which there is no opposite. With humility comes the willingness to stop trying to control or change other people or life situations or events ostensibly for their own good. To be a committed spiritual seeker, you of necessity relinquish the desire to be right or of imaginary value to society. In fact, nobody's ego or belief systems are of any value to society at all. The world is neither good nor bad, nor defective, nor is it in need of help or modification, because its appearance is only a projection of one's own mind. No such world exists. A problem - whether it shows up uninvited or is actively picked by you - demands a response. It will react back to you, just as a real person might. Being stuck with a problem we don't want can bring out the worst in any of us. But just like with people, forgetting our manners creates more problems than it is worth. Problems have feelings too, don't forget. You must give your problems the courtesy of listening to their message instead of slamming the door in their faces.

Believe me, you don't want to make your problems mad. They're likely to show back up with some of their friends. If a problem you did not invite shows up on your doorstep, don't pretend you are not home. It probably has the right address. Take a break After too much time or repetition, your brain switches from active to passive mode in order to conserve energy (and perhaps a bit of sanity). This shift into autopilot slowly diminishes your perceived importance of the task at hand. Taking a break allows you to return to your task with renewed energy, purpose, and concentration. Work in intervals today by taking a five-minute break every hour. Choose your task, set a timer, and do your thing. When the timer goes off, leave your work area (I repeat, clear the area! Stretch, practice deep breathing, or get some fresh air. Pay attention to your mindset and energy levels when you return to your task. How did taking regular breaks positively impact your workday? The realization of absolute reality and truth is one's greatest gift to the world and all humanity. Spiritual work, in its essence, is therefore a selfless service and surrender to the Will of God. As your awareness increases, the power of that field of consciousness increases exponentially in logarithmic expansion, and that, in and of itself, accomplishes more than all effort or attempts at relieving the suffering of the world. All such efforts are futile, because they are necessarily misguided by the falsifications and illusions of the perceptual function of the ego itself. The spiritual power and inner integrity of every individual helps raise the sea and thus all the ships on it. Because everything is connected, that which you become automatically uplifts all life.

If you frame yourself as a thankful gift of God to the world, then you are a gift of God to the world. If you frame yourself as a miserable worm, then you are a miserable worm, because you become what you say you will be. Everyone needs to own the infinite dimension of that which they are for the sake of the world. In surrender, we hold out our hands to God and own the Divinity within us. Ask what it wants. Our problems have information for us, if we take the time to enter into relationships with them and listen to what they're trying to tell us. These are usually messages about what we have ignored, what we have been hiding from, or simply what we need to do next. Your problem is about some area of incompleteness in your life, something that has not been attended to. In fact, if you think about it, this is probably not the first time this problem has tried to ring your bell. It is very likely that you waited until the problem was about to break your door down before you were willing to listen. Problems have a habit of hanging around people who like them the least. The more they upset you, the more they are attracted to you. All you have to do to be convinced of this great truth is to look at times in your life when you were especially vulnerable and upset by the problems you were facing. Haven't you noticed how being in that state of fear and emotion attracted yet more problems to you? How did it affect your energy, mindset, and emotions? What will you do to remind yourself to take regular breaks? Practice creativity Great inventions and innovations begin with one question: What if . This eventually leads to, Hey, I have a crazy idea! The creative process requires something we rarely allow ourselves: time and mental space to indulge our curiosity and play with ideas.

Make time for creative brainstorming today. How can you implement a strategy you've always wanted to try? How can you reframe a problem into a question, or approach something from a different angle? Choose your focus area and write or record your ideas--no matter how silly or impossible they seem. That which is within us is the Source of the salvation of all humankind, for which we thank Thee, O Lord. Q: What prayers are useful? A: Ask to be the servant of the Lord, a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of God's will. Ask for direction and divine assistance, and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate your life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for life in all its expression, and surrender all judgment to God. The Essence of the Path The core of all the great spiritual teachings and teachers can be summarized in a few simple statements. Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate, and unconditionally loving toward life in all its expressions without exception, including oneself. There is the old expression When it rains, it pours, meaning that the more that problems upset you, the more others soon show up. If you look back over your life with calm detachment, you will probably observe that your problems have not been randomly and evenly dispersed over time, like molecules in a solution. Instead, they tend to cluster, to glop around little mental fear states in your mind, forming high density pockets of antimatter that suck any problems in the vicinity right into your life. This is also known as the phenomenon of if-it's-not-one-thing-it's-another. Don't ask me why a fight with your spouse should create flat tires or broken water heaters, but such small complications seem to follow. Problems thrive on being rejected.

Problems are absolutely besotted by intensely negative human emotion, and wild elephants could not pull them away from you as long as you are oozing fear and avoidance. Face up to them and they lose steam. It is your fearfulness that gives them their impressive size. Dealing with People, Dealing with Problems See what you can come up with when you embrace the far-fetched, without pressure to think of something perfect right off the bat. How did this exercise of creative brainstorming benefit you? What made it challenging? How might you use a creative approach in other aspects of your work and personal life? Explore collaboration Collaboration is a wonderful way to learn from others' insight and expertise. There are countless people doing extraordinary things in all facets of work and life! Rather than viewing them as competition, explore ways to collaborate and learn from one another. You may be surprised how much farther you can go with the support of others. Create an opportunity for collaboration. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. Avoid negativity and the desire for worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions. Forgo opinionation, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being right, and the trap of righteousness. Seek to understand rather than to condemn. Venerate teachers of these basic principles and ignore all others. Apply these principles to one's view of oneself as well as of others.

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