True Happiness, Finding Joy In LifeMetaphysical Mind Issue #16 -- Happiness Finds You....Once Again!This is Jason Randhawa, from www.what-is-metaphysics.com, here. Welcome to the sixteenth issue of the Metaphysical Mind E-Zine/ Newsletter. In this issue:
1. Featured Quotes 2. Main Article: Four Simple Steps to Finding Joy In Life 3. Inspiration: Man Lifts Car Off Pinned Cyclist 4. Featured Article: True Happiness 5. Recommended Resource: A Wish-Granting Genie 6. What's new at WhatIsMetaphysics.com? 7. Bimonthly Affirmation
1. Quotes: “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they
attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion
to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates
an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to
honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The
compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future
holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are
illusions."
Four of the best, most-effective strategies for finding/creating joy in every moment of your life: 1. Practice Gratitude - Every time you find yourself experiencing a negative emotion, in your mind go through everything you are grateful for. All the material things you are grateful for, all the people in your life that you are grateful for, all the events in your life that you are grateful for, etc… If you don’t think you have anything to be grateful for, go through things that you wish you were grateful for (as if you have them now). 2. Visualize- Every morning upon arising and every night before you fall asleep in your mind go through everything that you would like to have or experience in your ideal life. Actually feel as if you actually have or are experiencing these things in your present point of awareness. 3. Understand- Every time you find yourself getting angry or disappointed with someone else realize that people are only acting out of their current awareness. Also, remember that everything in your life (including the people) have lessons to teach you. 4. Relax - Take regular timeouts throughout your day, even if it is only for a couple of minutes. Allow yourself to relax physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Just take a couple of deep breaths and simply BE. You must not do anything, simply allow yourself to just be. This will completely revitalize your body, mind, and spirit. There you have it, four simple steps that you can begin applying today! Jason Randhawa
When Tom Boyle saw a young man being dragged underneath a car on the East Side Wednesday night, his fatherly instincts kicked in. Kyle Holtrust, 18, was riding his bike south on South Kolb Road against traffic near East 22nd Street around 8:30 p.m. when he was hit by a car, said Sgt. Decio Hopffer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. Holtrust became trapped under the car, along with his bike, and was dragged for about 20 to 30 feet before John Baggett, who was driving the car, came to a stop. Boyle had just left a shopping center with his wife when they saw Holtrust underneath the Camaro, he said. "I didn't believe what I saw," Boyle said Thursday. "I didn't believe it until my wife said something, and I was just like, 'Oh my God.' You think things like that only happen in movies." Boyle and his wife got out of their car and ran over to the Camaro where he said he saw the front tires lifted off the ground. Holtrust was pinned underneath his bike, which was pinned underneath the car, said Boyle, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 300 pounds. "As soon as I get to the car, the boy is just screaming his head off, and I could tell he was in a lot of pain," Boyle said. "As I was lifting the front end of the car off of him, he was just saying, 'Mister, mister, higher, higher.' Then when it was high enough, he said, 'OK. I can't move. Get me out.' " Boyle said he began yelling to Baggett to pull Holtrust out, but he didn't respond. "I yelled at him like four or five times, and then he reached underneath and pulled h im out," Boyle said. "The driver must've been in shock, and he couldn't seem to come out of it." Once Boyle put the car down, he held Holtrust until the Tucson police and fire departments arrived, he said. Read the rest here:
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/metro/139760
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4. True Happiness by Kim Olver People look outside of themselves as the cause of their unhappiness or frustration. After all, wouldn’t life be practically perfect if the significant people in our lives would simply do things the way we want them to or do what we think is best for them? Actually, this is the kind of thinking that perpetuates the misery! I agree that most of today’s unhappiness centers on important people in our lives not cooperating with us. Can anyone relate to that? Have you ever had a child who makes a decision that puts them in serious danger? Have you ever had a significant other decide to relocate or make an employment decision with which you were not in agreement? Did one of your parents ever say something critical to you that rocked your confidence? Ever had a supervisor who micromanaged your work and never gave credit for your good work performance? I think you get the idea. Any one or combination of these things can be a source of unhappiness for us and I’m sure you can add several others to the list. While we are in situations such as these, it sure feels like if the others in our life would just cooperate and be the way we want them to be, and then our lives would be so much better, happier and more fulfilling. While this may, in fact, be true, what I also believe is this. While we are busy trying to get those significant others in our lives to do things our way, the behaviors we typically engage in to move others in our desired direction are exactly those behaviors that damage, and ultimately destroy, our relationships. You know the behaviors I’m talking about: punishing, guilting, complaining, nagging, threatening, criticizing, “the silent treatment”, and if we are particularly savvy, rewarding to control, otherwise known as bribing. If you are one of those people whose first choice of action is to negotiate and open the doors of communication, then you are rare. Ask yourself what do you typically resort to when negotiations fail? I know one of my more polished behaviors is nagging. I am a world class nag---just ask my children. You know the drill. “How about cleaning up your room today?” Thirty minutes later, after the child is still in front of his video game, “Are you going to get to that room today?” Maybe two hours later, several decibels louder, “What about that ROOM?” Then, as a last frustration, it’s “Will you get off your lazy a*# and clean your blankety blank blank room!!!!” Ever been there? Did it work to get the room cleaned? In my case, it usually didn’t. However, I’ve have had some parents tell me that repeated nagging does work but then my next question usually has a different answer---At what cost? What was the cost of getting that room cleaned? First, there was the cost of you losing control and being a person you probably don’t want to be and secondly, there was a definite cost to the relationship between you and your child. Do you believe that after an exchange such as that one, the two of you will be ready and willing to have a meaningful discussion about life or anything else about which you may like to talk? Probably not. What I am about to say probably goes against what you have believed the good majority of your life and that is that you, and you alone, are responsible for your own happiness. If you are waiting for someone to do something differently or for a particular thing to manifest itself in your life in order for you to be happy, then you are operating from the outside in instead of the inside out. I am not here to tell you to stop what you are currently doing. If you want to hold on to your beliefs that when your husband becomes more affectionate, your children more obedient, your wife more supportive, your boss more appreciative or you to get your education, pay off your credit cards, buy your first home, etc. in order for you to be happy, then go ahead. But for those of us who want to practice inside out thinking, we don’t like to give the power to others to control our happiness or any of our other moods or emotions. We know that we are responsible for ourselves and no one else. What I can help you with is learning how to be the person you want to be, feel the emotions you want to feel by changing what you do and how you think about things. There is a quote I want to leave you with from Jimmy Dean. “You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails.” This is representative of true inside out thinking. People and events are going to be what they are around us. There is very little we can do to impact other people’s behavior and the uncontrollable events in our lives but there is always something each of us can do to manage those things better. Kim Olver has a degree in counseling, is a certified and licensed counselor. She is a certified reality therapy instructor. Kim is an expert in relationship, parenting and personal empowerment, working with individuals who want to gain more effective control of their lives and relationships. Visit
www.TheRelationshipCenter.biz
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6. What's new at WhatIsMetaphysics.com? Special Announcement: The format of this ezine will be changing, starting with the next issue. I have decided to get rid of the preset organized format of quotes then article then inspiration, etc... The new format will flow much better, and it will be less rigid. I am also planning on making the ezine shorter in length, for easier reading. Please let me know what you think about the next issue. Also, I have added a new Free Meditation E-Course to the website." This E-Course reveals that secrets of health and happiness. It will teach you how to quiet the mind, supercharge your level of energy and manifest anything you want in your life. Click here now to enrol for free.
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7. Bi-monthly Affirmation: I unconditionally love everything about myself. Thank-You, for sharing this experience with me. I look forward to April 21, 2007, so we can share another similar experience together with the next issue of this newsletter. Till then, may you enjoy all of the unconditional love that I am sending you, Jason Randhawa P.S. If you enjoyed this issue, please forward this to any family members or friends that you love, you can also send them to this link: http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/freemetaphysicsinformationpackage.html So that they can sign up for my newsletter, E-course, and Metaphysical library. Remember: Do unto others, as you would want them to do unto you If you were forwarded this issue, and you have not yet signed up for you Free Metaphysics Package you can sign up at the link above. P.S.S If you have any question or comments or you would like to submit an article, quote, or affirmation, you can contact me here. May you thoroughly enjoy this experience we call life!
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