What An Illness Can Teach You

The first part of our lives, we come to learn the ways of the world.

The second part is spent unlearning.

Some of us are faster learners than others, and unlearners. The trick is to remember the unlearning because if you don't, you get stuck in delusion.

For instance, I'll use the example of illness, one of the Big Ones.

We learn early on to have an aversion to getting sick.

Yet we may get more attention, people take care of us, we may get to stay by ourselves to contemplate the delirious thoughts rumbling round and round in our heads.

Most recently, I was in bed with a fever of 103 degrees. I used "The Work" of Byron Katie and Ho'oponopono to heal my thoughts about the illness.

Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing technique that simply requires the inner chanting of four phrases: I love you, Thank you, Please forgive me, (for the part I played in bringing about this "problem"), I am sorry (for the part I played).

Byron Katie's "The Work" is a process where a "problem" is scrutinized with Inquiry, or a series of questions, that puts the responsibility right back where it belongs--inside yourself.

The 4 questions of Byron Katie's "The Work"

1) Is it true?

2) Can you absolutely know for sure that it's true?

3) How do you react when you think that thought?

4) Who would I be without that thought?

---and turn it around---

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I awoke at 3 a.m. one morning with fever and said to myself: "I feel terrible."

"The Work" began to immediately flow through me, as if called by the Creative Source.

Is this true?

Yes, it is true.

Can I absolutely know without that it is true?

Yes, without doubt.

How do I react when I think the thought: I feel terrible?

Well, I create a story of how terrible I feel, how frustrated I am because the fever won't break, how I want to do other things but can't. I just am not enjoying myself.

Who would I be without the thought: I feel terrible?

I'd just be me, lying in bed with a fever, turning to look out the window, witnessing hundreds of lightening bugs blinking majestically there, like a mid-year Christmas light display.

I'd just be lying here saying: Thank you body, thank you fever;

I love you body, I love you fever; I'm sorry and forgive me for the part I played in bringing about this illness.

Turn it around?

I don't feel terrible.

I feel enlivened.

I feel like the inner fire of the fever is changing me forever.

I feel like the fever is the gateway to transformation.

I feel like the fever gave me this opportunity to spontaneously use "The Work" without even trying to use it and that "The Work" was using me.

Ho'oponopono effortlessly flowed through me like music to my soul.

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I was sick a few days after that, but didn't complain to people about my illness, didn't want to, thus did not create a story that would make people say, "Poor you."

I didn't have to dramatize the illness with a Poor me, martyr complex that takes longer to undo than it's worth.

I got to simply be sick, listen to thunderstorms, and the rain gently falling on the vibrant green of summer.

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator of the e-book called "Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover Your Calling and Destiny." Click here to find out how to order the e-book: http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com Check Out Kate's Blog: http://www.nursehealers.typepad.com
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Ten Commandments
Greeks And Persians

A Different Corner

I dont know what to think sometimes
Coming home is such a painful drive
Door opens, you greet picture perfect fine
but I see another none too shy

Telling me with a smile that shines
same old guests are again coming tonight
Guess its a sign of the times
when you can play before haunted eyes

What good is violence to me now
what good is silence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I saw what I saw yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

Doorbell strikes to hit right on time
Last to know I want to die
Im getting tired of reading signs
Getting tired just like his wife

What good is silence to me now
what good is violence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I caught what I caught yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

I cant and I dont
I dont and I wont
I wont and I shant
I shant because i cant believe you any more

What good is violence to me now
what good is silence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I saw what I saw yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

by Suki Cheema

Category: Saffron Collection http://www.dlyricist.com

George Washington
George Washington Carver

What An Illness Can Teach You

The first part of our lives, we come to learn the ways of the world.

The second part is spent unlearning.

Some of us are faster learners than others, and unlearners. The trick is to remember the unlearning because if you don't, you get stuck in delusion.

For instance, I'll use the example of illness, one of the Big Ones.

We learn early on to have an aversion to getting sick.

Yet we may get more attention, people take care of us, we may get to stay by ourselves to contemplate the delirious thoughts rumbling round and round in our heads.

Most recently, I was in bed with a fever of 103 degrees. I used "The Work" of Byron Katie and Ho'oponopono to heal my thoughts about the illness.

Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing technique that simply requires the inner chanting of four phrases: I love you, Thank you, Please forgive me, (for the part I played in bringing about this "problem"), I am sorry (for the part I played).

Byron Katie's "The Work" is a process where a "problem" is scrutinized with Inquiry, or a series of questions, that puts the responsibility right back where it belongs--inside yourself.

The 4 questions of Byron Katie's "The Work"

1) Is it true?

2) Can you absolutely know for sure that it's true?

3) How do you react when you think that thought?

4) Who would I be without that thought?

---and turn it around---

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

I awoke at 3 a.m. one morning with fever and said to myself: "I feel terrible."

"The Work" began to immediately flow through me, as if called by the Creative Source.

Is this true?

Yes, it is true.

Can I absolutely know without that it is true?

Yes, without doubt.

How do I react when I think the thought: I feel terrible?

Well, I create a story of how terrible I feel, how frustrated I am because the fever won't break, how I want to do other things but can't. I just am not enjoying myself.

Who would I be without the thought: I feel terrible?

I'd just be me, lying in bed with a fever, turning to look out the window, witnessing hundreds of lightening bugs blinking majestically there, like a mid-year Christmas light display.

I'd just be lying here saying: Thank you body, thank you fever;

I love you body, I love you fever; I'm sorry and forgive me for the part I played in bringing about this illness.

Turn it around?

I don't feel terrible.

I feel enlivened.

I feel like the inner fire of the fever is changing me forever.

I feel like the fever is the gateway to transformation.

I feel like the fever gave me this opportunity to spontaneously use "The Work" without even trying to use it and that "The Work" was using me.

Ho'oponopono effortlessly flowed through me like music to my soul.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I was sick a few days after that, but didn't complain to people about my illness, didn't want to, thus did not create a story that would make people say, "Poor you."

I didn't have to dramatize the illness with a Poor me, martyr complex that takes longer to undo than it's worth.

I got to simply be sick, listen to thunderstorms, and the rain gently falling on the vibrant green of summer.

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator of the e-book called "Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover Your Calling and Destiny." Click here to find out how to order the e-book: http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com Check Out Kate's Blog: http://www.nursehealers.typepad.com
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Index

A Different Corner

I dont know what to think sometimes
Coming home is such a painful drive
Door opens, you greet picture perfect fine
but I see another none too shy

Telling me with a smile that shines
same old guests are again coming tonight
Guess its a sign of the times
when you can play before haunted eyes

What good is violence to me now
what good is silence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I saw what I saw yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

Doorbell strikes to hit right on time
Last to know I want to die
Im getting tired of reading signs
Getting tired just like his wife

What good is silence to me now
what good is violence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I caught what I caught yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

I cant and I dont
I dont and I wont
I wont and I shant
I shant because i cant believe you any more

What good is violence to me now
what good is silence to me now
What good is turning a different corner today
when I saw what I saw yesterday
Cant turn back the clock anyhow
what good are you to me now?

by Suki Cheema

Category: Saffron Collection http://www.dlyricist.com

Wayne Dyer Inner Wisdom

How To Get A Lot Of Friends On MySpace

If you are a MySpace junkie like myself, your MySpace profile is one of the most important things in your life. You may have worked months to build up a friend list and have tons of comments. But have you ever visited a friends profile, and saw that they had over 1000 more friends than you? Even more, they have 20 new comments every day? You probably wonder how they became so popular so quickly. Well its much easier than you think.

Todays new status symbol isnt your car, your clothes, or even your home. Todays new status symbol is having tons of friends on MySpace. Building this friend list can be tedious and boring, especially if you dont have many friends in real life that are on MySpace. But the fun part of MySpace is making new friends, or even just showing off your profile. Having a huge friend list allows you access to tons of people at one time. You can post bulletins to tell everyone at once whats going on in your life. You even can invite all these people to your gig or party. Better yet, you can post comments on their profile and let people that arent even on your friend list see what you have to say. This friend list becomes very important if you are a social person, so why not make it as huge as possible.

You can start by spending a day surfing MySpace and browsing for people that meet a certain criteria. Then adding them manually as a friend and waiting for the response. Now if you are adding friends for the purpose of just being able to send bulletins of comments, this can get very boring. This is how I discovered MySpace friend adding programs. There are tons of programs out there like FriendAdder that will automatically add up to 500 friends per day, send comments, send messages, and search throughout the MySpace world for keywords that you choose. Programs like these have made making MySpace friends so effective and easy.

This is also great for web promotions as well. Create a MySpace profile about what you are promoting. Then use an automatic friend adder to bring people to your profile. This is such a great way to increase traffic to your profile and potentially gain new fans or customers.

So instead of adding friend the old fashion way, why not automate it. This has made my MySpace experience so much better, and has allowed tons of people worldwide to see what I have to say at a push of a button.

PaulG is an expert on internet social groups, especially MySpace. Add up to 500 MySpace friends per day, leave tons of comments, messages, and gain traffic to your MySpace profile by checking out FriendAdder Try it out for free!

Also, check out MySpace Trends for more great tips and ideas about MySpace.

Wayne Dyer Inner Wisdom

Learn Self Hypnosis Techniques

Although most of us associate hypnosis with the client sitting in a comfortable chair with the hypnosis therapist standing or sitting giving suggestive commands. There are actually lots of self hypnosis techniques that you can learn and apply on yourself, and this way gain full control of your mind. To put it another way these techniques will help you become your own mind manager. Below follows a description of the core of these techniques which you can alter and adjust to fit your needs. This technique pretty much consist of the same core method that the hypnosis therapists are using on their clients. Be aware though, that you should be very careful about which statements you program into your sub-conscious mind. So take your time and select these statements very carefully.

The first thing you have to decide is the purpose for the self hypnosis: What are you really trying to find out or accomplish? As soon as you have defined your goal with the self hypnosis session, you must keep to this goal. Never select more than one goal at a time and resist the temptation of solving all your problems in one batch. You simply will not be able to do that but instead create even more problems by trying that. So how should the statements or suggestions that you're going to implant into your sub-conscious mind be?

They must be positive and represent something good. Never use suggestions like "I'm going to learn to bungee-jump no matter how scared I am". This will only make you even more scared. So cleanse out all negative words when you formulate your suggestions and substitute them with positive words like "I really look forward to bungee-jump and thus have the fantastic feeling of freedom when I fly in the air."

The suggestions you formulate must be easy to remember. Let's say you want to communicate better with other people, then for example you can make a suggestion like, "I am a damn good communicator." Now, write it down and then add all the reasons why you want to reach this goal plus what you expect will happen when you reach it. Each time you repeat the statement, visualize that you succeed to strengthen the message in your sub-conscious mind. It's also important that the suggestions you make are short, direct and specific like "I will only eat healthy food".

When you perform your self hypnosis sessions make sure you are not disturbed. Disconnect the phone, lock the doors and make yourself comfortable. You might lay on a bed or sit on a chair with straight back.

• Focus your attention on a point slightly above your eye level
• Take a few deep breaths while you repeat the word "relax" for yourself
• When you breath out imagine that you're getting rid of all the bad air that have caused all the trouble inside you and that you substitute it with the fresh air you breath in
• Close your eyes and try to focus on a few (3 to 5) sounds you can hear like water running in the pipeline, the wind that blows outside, the rain tapping on the roof etc. Also be aware of what you feel for the moment like the temperature of your skin, the weight of your body against the chair or bed etc.
• Start the descent to your subconscious mind by imagining that you are walking down a ten step spiral staircase to a beautiful garden which awaits at the end of your descent. For each step you take you have to pass layers of clouds and you feel more and more relaxed and all your worries are gradually leaving you. When you dismount the last step, you put your foot on a green lawn which have a glow on it from the rays of the sun.
• You should now be sufficiently relaxed to start the repetition of your suggestions or statements to your subconscious mind. Repeat each suggestion three times with a short break in between. When you're finished with your suggestions, imagine that you slowly climb back to the top of the staircase.
• Now the self hypnotic session is over and you are back in your ordinary state of mind.

Try it out. If you feel that hypnosis can help you accomplish whichever goal you have, redo it and make it a regular practice for your own self improvement.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net. Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self help issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, hypnosis and other self improvement methods as well as developing higher self esteem.

Buddha

New Age Philosophy

With high religious fervour today in the world, the philosophy of Success through Mind Power will help to condition the mind to achieve your lifes goals more easily. Even prayerful people are better mentally conditioned. That is for those who believe in prayers. A mind properly conditioned is free from fear, doubt or worry, those being the negative and destructive emotions that hinder success. Eliminate these and you usher in faith, an essential ingredient for what many can call miracles.

Regardless of your personal beliefs, Success through Mind Power is there to help you to attain your lifes goals because the philosophy is based on the simple principles of time tested practical psychology, devoid of any forms of bias. You are conditioned mentally to face lifes challenges and excel, no matter seemingly hopeless your situation.

The 21st millennium is still new to us. Some people described it as the Aquarian age. It is claimed to be the period when as from the magical Year 2000, many good things would come down to our planet Earth and affect it very positively. The age was long predicted to compel men to do good even against their will. Oppression by such institutions as governments would phase out, and so would oppressive regimes around the world. More importantly, man would be moving closer mentally and psychologically to matters of the mind and spirit, away from material preoccupations.

To some degree, these predictions have materialised. You only need to look around the world to see how past dictatorships have faded away. Religion, including fundamentalism, is today playing a greater role. It is evident that things of the mind are gaining in popularity. I make bold to assert this because I know how people of all classes embrace my philosophy of success by learning to use more of their mind power. My own country, Nigeria, is currently experiencing economic and psychological depression, which accounts for the proliferation of churches as people grope around for material and spiritual salvation.

The philosophy of Success through Mind Power is not another religious crusade, I must add. All religions, without exception, draw from the philosophy when they preach faith and perseverance. Therefore, no conflict exists between the philosophy and your religious belief. If anything, as was earlier stated, acquiring the philosophy would enhance the mind use of a prayerful individual.

The philosophy comes in handy for the attainment of success because it is motivational, inspirational and problem solving. I can assure you that you can use the philosophy to solve a wide variety of everyday problems. The advantage of this philosophy is that it erects no barriers whatsoever. It is at home anywhere in the world. There are no race or religious barriers either in the application.

Success in any human endeavour starts in the mind. Once mentally registered strongly, it translates to physical reality. Conversely, failure or lack of achievement is triggered off mentally also. It is an old adage that whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve. This unwritten law of nature constitutes the pillar upon which our philosophy of Success through Mind Power is built. The philosophy itself is not a novel one. It was well known to ancient peoples in Egypt and parts of the Middle East, where this knowledge was used as a prosperity secret. Besides, it was used in those primordial times to forecast events and protect people against famine and epidemics. In more recent times, inventors like the famous Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the worlds richest man, Bill Gates, have all applied this philosophy to their advantage and that of mankind. Any one can use it to his best advantage by following the simple ten-step principles of the philosophy. These are all clearly spelt out in the book Success through Mind Power.

Franklin D