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anger… beliefs and coping

08 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Mindful, Philosophy, Spirituality

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I want a happy, normal life… you?

Take a look with me at how to reduce anger… anger that would interfere with enjoying life. I believe we can eliminate much of it. One problem with anger is it builds up. It can hide out and hit you when least convenient… and most dangerous. Sometimes, anger is left over from past lessons in life; from lessons that we’ve not completed. Until we can let that anger go — letting go of that futile regret from the past — dropping it like it is too hot or too heavy along with it’s troubles that you don’t need or want… it is too dangerous to react.

STOP … pause… let this lesson sink in.

We mustn’t fail to realize when we’re making life out as though it is in service to our misery. Who will be accountable for the havoc and harmful attitudes, for the burn-out and self-delusion game of blame and shame, guilt, bitterness and resentment?

Let’s put this into perspective real quick. 

For simplicity sake… let it go whenever possible… view the signs and the symptoms of anger as stimulating your foresight that there are some hurdles ahead… challenges and hurdles yet just ahead that you’ll want to overcome with patience and your good character.

Sensation, emotion, feeling, and thoughts are reactions to perception, to belief and to conditioning associated with fear, insecurity, worry, sadness, frustration, etc… any of which may trigger, by way of failing to accept circumstance, situation or conditions, contracted agreements, commitments, and so forth. The pressures of carrying on with anger may generally dim the light of higher awareness.

Accept what is. Find or return to a simple relaxed comfortable presence if possible, as soon as possible. Living in the now is the wisdom way. Peace and serenity is necessary if you want to fully resolve stressing and trying urgency… those trying problems that just can’t wait can usually wait for you to collect yourself together so you can give it your best.

Meantime, in between, mightn’t you consider this: work on unloading some stored up anger… we all have some… try it — it works for anyone that can read and follow directions.

First, its important to acknowledge that we all need to delve into problems like unresolved anger — already knowing that identifying and working on solutions is going to be our best bet. Here’s how to do it:

prayers-thoughts-positiveenergyThe solution always will involve making a change; and in the case of unresolved anger that change is going to come about with knowing how the story is infecting us with living in the past — how the past is being perceived — revisiting the anger story.

I always say a prayer first — asking God to unblock me from my frustrations and from my negative emotions (being specific if I can). I next focus on something or someone that I absolutely love like my son or my dog. After I have a feeling of positive energy, I begin to state my problem and work out a comprehensive solution. A solution is unlikely until finding a peaceful presence in self.
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The remainder of this particular post is helpful mainly for delving into unresolved anger — when able and ready to move on. This isn’t the last word on dealing with anger. I do want to start off to focus on anger that we can purge and that is from whatever can be finished with; getting it out of the way will make room for positive emotions. If you use the techniques from this post, you can probably resolve a lot of resentment problems and thus free up more energy for happier living. I’ll post another time to cover the daily trials of living with toxic spiritually sick persons. That is a bit more involved but this material helps there too.

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Unresolved Anger

Read the question, the answer, and also watch the videos.

source: Ask Deepak (Deepak Chopra) and Deepak Youtube videos

Question:
I’m curious about what advice you could share with me about dealing with anger. I recently turned 30, I am single, no babies and live in Arizona.

I live a little life, but I am overcome with huge anger. It started after a devastating break up about 5 years ago. For an entire year after that break up I COMPLETELY shut down. I was not the same person anymore. I became very depressed, suicidal and isolated.

Although I somehow got through that period and I now have a new love, a wonderful love in my life, why am I still so angry?

There are many triggers that set me off; from someone cutting me off while driving to something non-significant like not finding a pen when I need one. I punch the wall, throw a tantrum; scream. I never was this type of person. Never. Not even as a child.

Now as I am getting a little older, I DO NOT want to spend the rest of my days this way. So many others around the world are suffering from starvation, disease, abuse; so many are in far worse circumstances than myself. So what’s my problem?

Why is it so hard for me to deal with my anger? I get plenty of sleep, I exercise, I eat right. Unfortunately, with no health insurance, I cannot speak with a mental health professional.

Answer:
You need to address the underlying belief holding your old anger in place. You are holding on to the belief that you were wronged by the break-up, that you were victimized by his unfair behavior and that you did not deserve to be treated that way.

So now even though the ending of that relationship has allowed you to find a loving relationship, you are still held in the old anger because you insist on the story of the old relationship in terms of injustice, instead of seeing it as a positive step toward a lasting love.

It is your self-image as a victim that feels justified in holding on to this anger. Unfortunately, you are only hurting yourself.

Make a long list of all the positive things that have happened to you since the break-up that would not have occurred if you two were still together. List all the ways you have become stronger and have grown inside since then. You certainly deserve all these good things that have happened to you and the ways you have matured.

Perhaps your story that the break-up was a bad thing is not completely true. If it was what needed to happen for both of you to move ahead in your lives, then it’s pointless to blame anyone or hold onto anger and resentment. Admit to yourself that you really don’t know whether the break-up was right and wrong in the context of your whole life. So, maybe you’ll discover that the story of him being the bad guy and you as the good guy who was wrongly victimized isn’t really helping you.

Create a new story based on the actual positive events that have happened lately to replace the old story. You don’t have to pretend that everything that happened was for the best, you only need to allow that your ego doesn’t really know what is right or justice in this case.

From there you can recognize that your higher self or cosmic intelligence has still led you forward in life.

Learning to trust this loving force of evolution can be your new story.

When you start to see your life this way, your belief in the old you as a weak victim lashing out at injustice will fade away. You will let go of the anger and start to appreciate the love and beauty around you.

~ Love, Deepak

Program Description
Above, video one is what you need to learn about in order to be able to work on anger. Video two is the solution. No matter how big the challenge, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra says, a four-step process can help you solve the problem at hand. Learn how the STOP method can help you overcome any obstacle. In summary: Any time you have a problem you are in contracted awareness (habitual anxieties — instinctual — egoism — fearful) and that influences 1) perceptions, 2) expectations, 3) assumptions, 4) beliefs, 5) moods and feelings. Contracted awareness brings about problems.
Any time you have a problem, question and evaluate all of those five areas.
How do you shift away from the anger or hurt and to a healthy level of awareness?
Go to your feelings and remember to STOP!
S T O P. Stop to evaluate, Transform your mood, Observe the sensations in your body and images in your mind and Proceed with kindness and compassion.
As you move into a higher level of awareness, solutions will start to emerge.

Here is a much longer lesson given by Deepak shortly after his new book “Spiritual Solutions” hit the marketplace — if you have time.

Program Description
The most fundamental fact of existence is not the universe nor even space, time or gravity, but that we are aware of the universe, Deepak Chopra, author (Spiritual Solutions, 2012 and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, 1994 and others) and co-author of over 60 books on spirituality and mind-body connections, told a National Press Club luncheon audience April 4, 2012.

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Letting go of resentments — grudges and painful bitterness felt as a result of a real or imagined wrong — means making self available to a higher expanded awareness of compassion, kindness and peace. Even if not a believer in God, the spiritual essence of these benefits is available.

Thanks for learning with me. There is lots more to discover — so, come back often.

New post Eric

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Change your Brain

08 Sunday Jun 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Meditation, Mindful, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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awareness, Christian, consciousness, coping, Dalai Lama, God, happiness, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill, Health, Jesus, life is beautiful, Matthieu Ricard, open mind, Peace, Prosocial behavior, serenity

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Change your Mind; Change your Brain

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The Inner Conditions:

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Program Description
If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Matthieu Ricard presents factors that generally may increase or decrease well-being, happiness, authenticity, compassion, peace, and joy.

Happiness and joy may stimulate compassion and compassion may stimulate happiness and joy. This is ideal. This may then be noticed to be increasing positive energy, empathy, pro-social behavior, and the change within may serve as the kernel of an evolving moral-ethical framework.

Matthieu Ricard is a scientist turned Buddhist monk and a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for more than 35 years.

This recording is from Google Tech Talks in March of 2007
60 minutes Youtube watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI

A wellness approach in learning: act as though we don’t yet know anything more important — eliminate the inner ego voice from learning.

I pray to be released from any responsibility for making judgments and to learn as though this is all new to me. Later, I’ll review the important lesson again. Always when material is important in my life, I review the material many times.

TreesBirdsBeesInFreshAirStarting off into a new day, there is something to learn and something to share — what that is comes to me with my morning meditation — I don’t really even think about it until it comes — I remind myself, “This is my wonderful journey of self discovery. Love envelopes me and the gentle waves of peaceful waters and the light shine from my mind into the world around me.” As I face myself in honesty, open to guiding spirit, I turn my life over to God and I ask Him to allow me to do whatever I may to do His will — Thy Will, not mine be done.  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says “in today’s secular world, religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics… any religion-based answer to the problem of our neglect of inner values can never be universal, and so will be inadequate.” My religion practice is rooted in utmost fondness and enthusiasm in me. I love Jesus and being Christian. I also love all others as best I am able and this is certainly a growing condition in me, prompted by my love of Jesus’s words that make clear that we are to love God with all of our being and also love others as we would be loved. I realize that my world around me is a secular world where my religion is separate from societal norms and therefore that I must involve myself with others in ways that make me attractive; not by promoting my religion. I am to be a channel for love. 

I hope that this lesson is helpful for you in your life of spiritual enlightenment — awakening the skill to foster well-being and for freedom, mastery of living in moments of serenity, inner peacefulness, joyfulness, and of course for sharing happiness.

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

Bloggers For Peace

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what is Bloggers for Peace?

19 Tuesday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Happiness, Inner peace, My wordpress experience, News update, Peace, Philosophy

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Activism and Peace Work, awareness, B4Peace, consciousness, coping, happiness, needs, Nonviolence, Peace, Peace Alliance, Thought

Bloggers for Peace is a group of hundreds of individuals from around the world who have committed to publishing at least one (1) post per month promoting peace or the idea of peace. These posts might be creative stories, articles, photographs, videos, poems, memes, art  or interpretive medium.

Bloggers for Peace is a community effort. I display the image (below) on some of my posts and on my sidebar in support of their efforts and in support of people and communities and of governments working towards peaceful and civil solutions to problems including policing and defending rights and territories and so on.

Bloggers For Peace

What makes maintaining peace extraordinary?

Well, lots of problems crop up and one is quickness to settle for Peace or Freedom. Both peace and freedom require that parties come to mutual agreement to include peace and freedom in their solutions. In other words, one man’s peace is another man’s chaos and thus, someone is out for defending or attacking another party to preserve freedoms.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein,
American Science Fiction Writer

I like to think that there are few exceptions to it that peace is an absolute need that trumps war — and that I’m not by myself the expert on what everyone needs to live in peace and to maintain freedom — and that it really requires making do sometimes or developing dialog and so forth. Living with others is always work. I hope that you’ll consider making a simple commitment to post one article each month to promote peace. Positive promotes positive — we need positive dialog to emerge in troubled places. Peace can increase if people can make just a little more time to promote positive dialog and news about issues and process.

Thanks for visiting.

New post Eric

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The Blessing is in the Next Moment

18 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Philosophy, Spirituality

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awareness, consciousness, coping, happiness, Health

Peaceful or inspiring or both — art and poetry and prose — I love visits to http://kimberlyharding.wordpress.com/ — check it out! ~ Eric

Soul Healing Art

You may wonder if any blessings are present in your life. You may look at your life, in its current condition, and sense fear, failure, frustration and more. And you will wonder if there is hope, somewhere, standing out side your door.

And then you will remember, because you can’t forget this completely, that the blessing is simply this-
One moment leads to the next.

Right here, right now, this moment is already budding forth the new.

One moment to the next, and All is once again anew with hope and potential.

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I did this piece of art work last night. When I lecture in microbiology, there is one slide that shows yeast cells budding. And I think to myself, this is what each new moment in our life is like. It buds off of the earlier moment, but each moment is its own “cell” filled with potential.

Sometimes…

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habits of happiness… smiling

15 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, I can improve today, Inner peace, Lessons, Mindful, Self-improvement

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awareness, consciousness, coping, Gutman, happiness, Health, HealthTap, Ron Gutman, Self-Improvement, Smile

Ron Gutman: The Hidden Power of Smiling

“When you smile you don’t only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.”

Program Description
Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live — and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

As a graduate student at Stanford, Gutman organized and led a multidisciplinary group of faculty  and graduate students from the schools of Engineering, Medicine,  Business, Psychology and Law to conduct research in personalized health and to design ways to help people live healthier, happier lives.

Ron Gutman is the founder and CEO of HealthTap, free mobile and online apps for health info. He’s also the organizer of TEDxSiliconValley. Gutman is an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies such as  Rock Health (the first Interactive Health Incubator) and Harvard  Medical School‘s SMArt Initiative (“Substitutable Medical Apps, reusable  technologies”).

GinghoThanks for learning with me. “Don’t worry… be happy!”
I know I’d rather be smiling 400 times per day than not.

Come back often because there is lots more to learn.

 Eric

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Affirmation, Gratitude and Emotional Coherence

15 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lessons, Mindful, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality

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awareness, consciousness, coping, God, happiness, Health, love, serenity, Soul

LOVE is divine — to seek in love, the essence of divinity in any other person is calming and sobering and delightful. ~ Eric

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Today’s Affirmation; I, Stephanie, (insert your name here if you like) have decided to enjoy whatever happens today as if it is exactly what I planned. I thrive when I live from love. I choose to see the innocent heart in every person, so that when they express the emotion they are living in the moment, I am able to empathize with them, comfort them and support them. I desire to share compassion, so that when I retire at night, I sleep sweetly. I am the person who is responsible for my attitude. My dreams manifest just as easily as a rose blossoms, because I am a human, here to co-create the world. I take great pleasure in trusting that every thought I think is powerful, so I choose my thoughts with forethought spending time with the productive thoughts, visualizing peaceful heartfelt connections happening the world over, which causes calmness…

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Let Your Light Shine!

12 Tuesday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Happiness, Health, Inner peace

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awareness, consciousness, coping, happiness

Let’s all shine today! 🙂 Eric

peace dalai

11 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Peace, Philosophy, Spirituality

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awareness, B4Peace, compassion, consciousness, coping, Courageous peace, Dalai Lama, empathy, happiness, joy, non-violence, Peaceful mindedness, Secular, Self-confidence, serenity

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“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.” 

~ Dalai Lama The Art of Happiness

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The Dalai Lama teaches happiness

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Excerpt from a public talk
The Way Toward Inner Peace
by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
by FilmPRO, Italy
Organizer: Ven. Thamthog Rinpoche ~ Ghe Pel Ling
Director/Cinematographer: Matteo Passigato
Youtube watch?=-psluirNDJc

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Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric


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momentary happiness please… Ted Talk

10 Sunday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Mindful, News update, Philosophy, Science

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awareness, consciousness, coping, Depression (mood), happiness, Health, Killingsworth, Matt Killingsworth, Mind-wandering

Matt Killingsworth on…

Want to be happier?
Stay in the moment! 

When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth let people report their feelings in real time.

Hunt4TruthStairway2HeavenAmong the surprising results: We’re often happiest when we’re lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be.

While doing his PhD research with Dan Gilbert at Harvard, Killingsworth invented a nifty tool for investigating happiness: an iPhone app called Track Your Happiness that captured feelings in real time. Basically, it pings you at random times and asks: How are you feeling right now, and what are you doing?

Data captured from the study is noted in the landmark paper “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind” (PDF).

So, is it possible that even if my mind is upset, by getting into the present, I stand a better chance of finding more happiness? The cause comes before the effect — unhappiness tends to occur after mind wandering — so, its possibly a cause of unhappiness.

“What we’re doing, who we’re with, what we’re thinking about, have a big influence on our happiness. Yet they’re the very factors that have been [difficult] for scientists to study.” — Matt Killingsworth

The most reliable method for investigating real-world emotion is experience sampling. Do your own mindfulness monitoring — let me know if you end up being happier please — I truly hope this video, article, and PDF report is helpful.

I published several related articles here:

          • meditation changes brains
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          • change from within
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Thanks for visiting.
Come back often — there is lots more to learn.

 Eric

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change from within

15 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Inspiration, Lessons, Meditation, Mindful, Philosophy, Science, Self-assessments, Self-improvement

≈ 27 Comments

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Change your Mind; Change your Brain

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The Inner Conditions:

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Program Description
Presented by Richard J. Davidson

In this talk, Richard J. Davidson explores scientific research on the neuroscience of positive human qualities and how they can be cultivated through contemplative practice. Distinctions among different forms of contemplative practices will be introduced and they will be shown to have different neural and behavioral consequences, as well as important consequences for physical health in both long-term and novice practitioners. New research also shows that meditation-based interventions delivered online can produce behavioral and neural changes. Collectively, this body of research indicates that we can cultivate adaptive neural changes and strengthen positive human qualities through systematic mental practice.

If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Matthieu Ricard presents factors that generally may increase or decrease well-being, happiness, authenticity, compassion, peace, and joy.

Happiness and joy may stimulate compassion and compassion may stimulate happiness and joy. This is ideal. This may then be noticed to be increasing positive energy, empathy, pro-social behavior, and the change within may serve as the kernel of an evolving moral-ethical framework.

Matthieu Ricard is a scientist turned Buddhist monk and a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for more than 35 years.

A wellness approach in learning: act as though we don’t yet know anything more important — eliminate the inner ego voice from learning.

I pray to be released from any responsibility for making judgments and to learn as though this is all new to me. Later, I’ll review the important lesson again. Always when material is important in my life, I review the material many times.

TreesBirdsBeesInFreshAirStarting off into a new day, there is something to learn and something to share — what that is comes to me with my morning meditation — I don’t really even think about it until it comes — I remind myself, “This is my wonderful journey of self discovery. Love envelopes me and the gentle waves of peaceful waters and the light shine from my mind into the world around me.” As I face myself in honesty, open to guiding spirit, I turn my life over to God and I ask Him to allow me to do whatever I may to do His will — Thy Will, not mine be done.  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says “in today’s secular world, religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics… any religion-based answer to the problem of our neglect of inner values can never be universal, and so will be inadequate.” My religion practice is rooted in utmost fondness and enthusiasm in me. I love Jesus and being Christian. I also love all others as best I am able and this is certainly a growing condition in me, prompted by my love of Jesus’s words that make clear that we are to love God with all of our being and also love others as we would be loved. I realize that my world around me is a secular world where my religion is separate from societal norms and therefore that I must involve myself with others in ways that make me attractive; not by promoting my religion. I am to be a channel for love. 

I hope that this lesson is helpful for you in your life of spiritual enlightenment — awakening the skill to foster well-being and for freedom, mastery of living in moments of serenity, inner peacefulness, joyfulness, and of course for sharing happiness.

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

Bloggers For Peace

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Why happiness matters in more ways than you think

14 Monday Oct 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lessons, Philosophy, Prayer, Spirituality

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I’ve been reading the happiness habits that follow from this article by Tricia (triciainflow.wordpress.com). She’s put together some good work here… to share with us. Thanks Tricia. see also: what is the happiest person in the world saying?
~ Eric

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A lot of people have tried to tell me recently that happiness is not really important, but I have to disagree. Study after study shows that happy people are mentally and physically healthier, live up to 7 years longer on average, are more emotionally resilient and better able to cope with change – all of which seems pretty important to me!

This month I’m launching the Flow Happiness Project! I’m on a mission to reclaim happiness for health; exploring this complex area in more depth to better understand what happiness is, how it makes us healthier and how we can bring more of it into our own and other people’s lives.

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prayer heals… hate

03 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Faith, Inner peace, Prayer, Religion, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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Prayer is essential for peace and serenity.

If I feel that I’m disturbed by a person/place/thing, then I train myself to pause and pray. There is something taking me away from God probably every time that I may ever get disturbed over a person/place/thing. My part in God’s Plan is to follow Spirit.

Prayer heals us so action, thought and attitude may align in Spirit.

When a person/place/thing is completely disturbing me, I must remove myself from that person/place/thing and turn towards my God. Otherwise, I will be turning from Him and then acting as god.

This time
I examine hate…
carefully with Spirit.

HATE IS AN UNACCEPTABLE SOLUTION
I can’t “hate” and “love” the same person/place/thing at the same time.

Hate is one of those emotions that I just can’t do.

So far, there are no known exceptions for myself. Hate proved an unacceptable solution in every case thus far in my life.

I conclude, a problem cannot be a solution. Hate is an action that stems from an attitude of superiority and thinking that is ungodly and hate is inhumanly extreme.

Luke 6:28 instructs to “bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

Even if they don’t change, prayer changes me as I offer myself to God for His service. Possibly the antagonist may change if I can be freed of disturbance. In any case, prayer is necessary.

I pray for myself to accept what is and to receive in Spirit the solution for whatever is in my power to fix. When it has to do with people/places/things, often, I only can change myself. Being willing to surrender to God’s Will is the first step towards a solution to my problem. I expect that Spirit will guide me towards the thought and actions and attitudes that are the best solution. I recognize that the universe is tolerant of imperfections. Thus, I pray for the perfect solution. However, I know that there may probably be times when a situation won’t work out as I’d hope for.

I am to do my best and believing that we all are doing our best to do our best is usually helpful too.

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PRAYER FOR A HATER
Father, may they(name) come to know Jesus and allow your Spirit to minister to their deepest hurts and to transform them(name) into your children. Please help me to know and to follow Your Will for this situation.

Thanks for reading
(spiritual topics in a secular world),

New post Eric

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