tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26556024251049285512024-02-18T18:34:18.982-08:00Sporting the Right AttitudeBetter Living and Relationships with Mindfulness Meditation and Effective CommunicationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-48746954718094899972011-03-16T08:33:00.000-07:002011-03-19T09:27:50.663-07:00How To Handle Today's Disturbing News<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">R</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">eporters and rescue workers from countries around the world assisting in the Japan rescue efforts, are amazed how calmly the people of Japan are enduring such a horrific crisis. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They noted there is no looting or blatant displays of public anger like we have seen in other countries struck by earthquakes and disasters, including the US.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Japanese store owners are giving away their supplies. People are quietly helping one another sharing their last morsels of food with strangers. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reporters say it is the culture to not show much emotion. Maybe, but is also part of their Spiritual practice. Shinto and Buddhism are Japan's two major religions. They have been co-existing for several centuries and have even complemented each other to a certain degree. Most Japanese consider themselves Buddhist, Shintoist or both.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">About 91 million people in Japan claim to be Buddhist practitioners.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This Sporting the Right Attitude newsletter is based on the 2,500 year old Buddhist practice of Mindfulness, along with Christianity and other ancient religions, including Judaism, and Native American teachings. All are leading to the one path, discovering your Higher Self. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We were first introduced to Mindfulness through our Japanese teacher, Eiko Michi, nearly 30 years ago. Eiko is a mystic from Japan who was also a former UCLA professor. We were blessed to know her. She changed our life and our path. For decades we have remained in touch with her. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, the last few days we have been unsuccessfully trying to contact her. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is what we learned from Eiko which helps to understand the mindset of how the Japanese are enduring this horrific crisis, and why you won't see blatant displays of uncontrolled emotions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Buddhism is based on the Four Noble Truths:</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px Georgia; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Suffering exists</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Georgia; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Suffering arises from attachment to desires</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Georgia; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Eightfold Path is practicing:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> 1) right view 2) Right Intention 3) Right Speech 4) Right Action 5) Right Livelihood 6) Right Effort 7) Right Mindfulness 8) Right Concentration.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mindfulness Practice, a type of meditation, is the way Buddha taught us to live, which is closely aligned to the Christ Mind. However, Mindfulness which comes from Buddhism, is <u>not a religion</u>. It is a practice to help us live in the moment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mindfulness is increasingly being employed in Western psychology to alleviate a variety of mental and physical conditions, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and in the prevention of relapse in depression and drug addiction. Pain and cancer clinics around the country are teaching mindfulness as well as in some schools and branches of the military. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mindfulness is having less emotional reactivity and more stability of mind. Not overreacting emotionally brings greater mental clarity, which is healthy, Having stability of mind makes you better able to cope with any disaster in your life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU TOO Can Practice Mindfulness to Deal and Overcome You Suffering.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As you watch the news of Japan's disasters, or when you are handling disasters and bad news of your own, remember Buddha's teaching. You don't have to suffer despite the circumstance.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here is the Mindfulness practice to help you deal with the news in Japan, and in your own life: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Try to get comfortable as you can in your sitting posture. If you lie down (not recommended), try not to go to sleep. You can also do this standing in line at the post office. Mindfulness can be done anywhere at anytime.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">First take a few deep breaths and allow yourself to connect with your body. Notice how you back feels against the chair. How do your clothes feel on your body? How do the soles of your feet feel in your shoes if you are standing? What does the floor feel like?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bring your attention to the area of your body that feels uncomfortable. Usually people feel a clutching or tightening in their body when they are dealing with an unpleasant situation, or hearing bad news.</span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Explore in your body where you may feel uncomfortable, Is it sharp or dull? Burning? Stabbing? Is it moving, or does it stay in one place? How deeply does it go into your body? Get very curious about the changing set of bodily sensations.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After 30 seconds or so (you can choose any short amount of time), Notice your attitude toward the unpleasant feeling. Do you hate it, fear it, resent it, blame yourself for it? Do not judge or criticize your feelings. Observe and let them go.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thich Nhat Hanh, a world renown Zen Master (we currently study, and attend his retreats), teaches this way of practicing Mindfulness:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"There are three sorts of feelings--pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral. When we have an unpleasant feeling, we may want to chase it away. But it is more effective to return to our conscious breathing and just observe it, identifying it silently to ourselves: "Breathing in, I know there is an unpleasant feeling in me. Breathing out, I know there is an unpleasant feeling in me." Calling a feeling by its name, such as "anger," "sorrow," "joy," or "happiness," helps us identify it clearly and recognize it more deeply."</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Remember you are simply observing, not trying to change anything. The first law of Science, is what is observed, changes. Mindfulness is the act of awareness, which acts like a laser to dissolve any blocks emotionally, mentally, or physically. You will notice during this practice, a space between you and the uncomfortable feeling happens. Suddenly, you won't feel overwhelmed by this emotion. In this space is where you will find peace, understanding, and clarity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Make Mindfulness a daily practice to release stress and to help you deal with any and everything in your life.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-22578015294010272492011-03-09T11:03:00.000-08:002011-03-09T12:09:26.803-08:00WHO IS BUGGING YOU?<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he very people who drive us nuts, are the ones who will help us to become stronger.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They are some of our biggest challenges. However, they also can turn into our biggest triumphs.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">No matter if it's a relative, a co worker, a child, or significant other who is difficult, the challenge is the very thing we need in our lives for character development. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We don't necessarily ask for those people challenges. However, there is a part of us that needs the life lesson. The lessons can take any of these forms:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Forgiving self.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Simply letting go of trying to be right.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The way I have found to deal with others is to ask the question. What inside of me has caused this to reflect in_____________? In other words, if John, a co-worker does not speak to you. Ask yourself, 'What inside of me is reflected in John?'</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It may be the memory you store as a child. Someone completely ignored you, and your subconscious stored that memory that is reflected in John. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If your child is not behaving, no matter how you discipline that child, the lesson may be you are trying too hard to make them behave. You may be overbearing and too controlling. It could also be the opposite. You are too soft and not disciplining the child. Or, the lesson could be to take more time to listen to the child and find out why is she misbehaving.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Standing up to ask why you are having difficulty with anyone is the first step to healing that relationship. Too often we are quick to dismiss someone's behavior and not look at the responsibility we have to take in that experience.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Even a rude clerk in a grocery store can easily be a lesson overlooked. Are you going to let that one person ruin your day? Do you need to stand up and take the time to speak to their manager? Are you going to overlook one more person being rude to you, or are you going to speak up? Or maybe you are going to recognize that this clerk has a problem and is suffering, and just release the incident? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><u>HOW TO DEAL WITH THE DIFFICULT PERSON</u></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The answer to dealing with any difficult person is to first take responsibility and know this is something you need to clean up which is why that experience came to you. These experiences are from old data, old memories that keep us stuck and keep repeating in our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The way to cleanse the data and memory it is to say, to your data and memory,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You are not saying this to the difficult person, but to your own data and memory to erase the program. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have found in my own life, just saying I love you over and over to the data inside of me that has attracted any unpleasant situation, has given me almost instant freedom and peace, especially with difficult people. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Remember, You are not trying to change the other person. You are only working on yourself and taking full responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Here is a video on this ancient practice of the old Hawaiian practice called Ho'oponopono, One of our teachers, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, co-author of<i><b> Zero Limits</b></i>, who is being interviewed, explains this powerful cleansing process to deal with any challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-49574477291131338292011-03-03T07:49:00.000-08:002011-03-03T07:49:56.321-08:00Try This to Succeed<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">H</span></b>ave you ever decided you were going to change a bad habit, or deal with someone's negative energy, and you get a tremendous surge of strength and power. You feel this time you are going to succeed.But, before long you find yourself back in the same rut? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You may have stopped the behavior temporarily, or you go to a minister, a healer, or do whatever you need to do, and whatever form of treatment works for a while, but before long, you are back at the beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is because somewhere deep inside, you have a thought, or a belief that keeps you from achieving your goals.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When you take out these old beliefs, this leaves a void. Nature abhors a vacuum. It will fill it up with something. So this is where many people slip back into old behaviors and situations that keep them stuck. The old beliefs come back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So What Do You Do?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You fill up that void with a thought, an affirmation, a prayer, a mantra, a chant, a prayer or meditation to nullify the old thoughts that keep coming back until your thoughts change.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We know, we know. In each weekly message, we keep emphasizing meditation, however, it is a practice, and it may not work for you. There is no sense beating yourself up if you can't do it. Many people can't. There are other ways to find your center. Prayer, mantras, and affirmations are other ways.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you have a person, a situation bringing you down, instead of resisting, which does not work, it only makes the negative energy stronger, find a one or two line scripture, or affirmation that you can use to nullify the old thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For example: You may be lonely. However, you have decided to change your attitude. You get out of the house and go where you can meet people. But,those old thoughts come back to haunt you. "I won't meet anyone." "It's too hard to meet someone." "Men (or women) are no good." "I'm too old to meet someone." "I'm too young." "I'm too fat." "I'm too skinny."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is when you use a counter affirmation, scripture, or mantra to nullify the old thoughts. And, you keep saying it over, and over. How many times? A thousand times or more until you believe it. Too many times you say? OK, then go back to your old way of thinking and suffering. Keep thinking you are lonely a thousand times. This will get you no where.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you say affirmations, scriptures, etc. over and over. How will you know you are believing positively? You will know, because people will come into your life, and you will look around and have a new friend or friends.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here are some affirmations to use:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"I am breaking through the illusion of loneliness."<br />
"Someone out there is looking for me."<br />
"The perfect friends are coming into my life right now."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"I am now attracting the perfect person who will love me." </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is an old adage, if you want friends, you have to be a good friend. Start helping others, and also volunteer. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">God wants me to have a rich, full and happy life of love.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By doing this you become a Spiritual Warrior, or as Spiritual Gangsta! You are refusing to be a victim. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is a key point. You are not trying to trick your mind. You are not trying to make something happen. You are not trying to hypnotize yourself. You are simply stating the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were not put on earth to be broke, lonely, or unhealthy. You were placed on earth to live a rich, full and abundant life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Affirmations, scriptures, and mantras reaffirm your Divine Right for these gifts. Your thoughts have kept you from these gifts. Choose to claim them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here is a wonderful affirmation that you can use for any challenge, by Catherine Ponder in her book, "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity." All of her books are wonderful</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"No. I do not have to accept this situation. God in His (or Her) almighty goodness is dissolving and removing all negation from my world. No situation dismays me, for God the Spirit of Good is with me, upholding and sustaining me and making all things right."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> have always been fascinated by Russell Simmons, the media mogul, because he is so outspoken about his practices of meditation, yoga, and being a vegan.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Forbes Magazine recently named Simmons one of "Hollywood's Most Influential Celebrities." USA Today dubbed him one of the "Top 25 Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years," calling him a "hip-hop pioneer" for his groundbreaking vision that has influenced music, fashion, jewelry, finance, television and film, as well as the face of modern philanthropy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">How does he stay on the spiritual path being so vested in the world with all of his high profile, multi-media ventures, and parenting duties? So many of us find it difficult dealing with just one job. So, I got an interview with him for the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper and our Sporting the Right Attitude podcast. (Hear it below)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Over the years Walter and I have heard many speakers on spirituality from world religions, including Buddism, Native American religion, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, and various metaphysical practices. It's what brings us joy. But, we have never heard anyone so successful in business speak so openly on the practice of meditation. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Simmons' shares a remarkable easy technique how to meditate in his new book,"Super Rich," his second NY Times Bestseller. Readers may find the title misleading. It is not a manual on how to get money. Instead, it defines a higher state of abundance through consciousness. Obviously, it works for him. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Twenty-five years after he helped found the hip-hop movement and turn it into a huge money-making machine — and an "aspirational lifestyle" for a generation of young people worldwide — his Rush Communications includes three clothing lines, jewelry, fragrances, TV and movie production, a Broadway show, financial services (his own credit card), and philanthropy (he has 3 non-profits),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Simmons produced The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy, the Def Comedy Jam series on HBO and other ventures. His net worth has been variously estimated at somewhere between, $325 million and $500 million.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">However, the mogul says practicing the principles in the book, which he humbly says are not new to the world, may bring readers the residuals of good health, better relationships, and yes, financial success. "The ultimate state of being rich is to honestly be in a state of needing nothing," says Simmons. " To need nothing is to be super rich."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Simmons doesn't claim to be enlightened, but wants people to know that the effects of meditation will enhance their work, relationships and general well being. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"You want to live in moving meditation, a moving prayer," says Simmons. "When you come out of meditation, you take that quiet place with you. When you do, you become so much more productive." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Studies have shown that it is easier for meditators to live in the present moment. "The anxiety people carry slows them down," says Simmons. "Nothing happens, except in the present. No laughter, no creativity. No special talent. No execution of any idea will come to you. Nothing happens when there is noise in the mind. Settling the noise in the mind, should be the number one concern of anyone who desires happiness and success. You must settle the mind to be successful and happy."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to quieting the mind, Simmons says giving and being one with your Higher Self are vitally important. "What we are moving toward, is a place of comfortable with the universe, or connected. And the idea of being connected is the union with, as Yogi's say, a union with God. So that's what we are moving toward. I think the practice in the book, including meditation, bring you toward the space, where you can be a good servant, a good giver. A selfless servant. And the way that the service component works, is good givers, are great getters."</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sportingtherightattitude.com/SportingtheRightAttitude.com/Russell_Simmons.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Click Here for the Sporting the Right Attitude Podcast with Russell Simmons</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b></span>nside of you is a power house to help you deal with any change or setback in your life. You have already been given an infinite supply of love, health (ability to heal), instincts, mind, and prosperity just waiting for you to tap into.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Have you given your power away saying and thinking, "I am sick," "I am broke," "I am fat," I am lonely," "I am too young," "I don't look good," or "I am old"?<br /><br />If you are, you are looking away from your true power and gifts. Nothing will change in your life until you recognize that inside of you is all that you need to handle any challenges that you may face. <br /><br />I am half way through a rigorous docent class at the Los Angeles Zoo, and it is clearer than ever that we all have inside of us the tools to overcome difficulties. The class is one of the most intensive,rewarding programs on many levels. But, extremely difficult since it is science based, and credits for UCLA. I can't believe I got a B- on the midterm. Better than I thought.<br /><br />At first look at the zoo, it may seem cruel that the animals are captive. However, the zoo is primarily a research and conservation program to save wild life and to preserve their habitants from their biggest enemy. Man. <br /><br />Our study is on the habits of the wild, and how they have adapted to environments. <br /><br />As we study these animals, it is incredible to see their built in survival mechanisms and skills. The amazing thing is how they have adapted to changes in the wild over hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years. <br /><br /><u>You Are No Different</u><br /><br />I have learned that no matter what species we are, we have been given everything inside of us to not only survive but thrive. Humans of course, are of the highest order. <br /><br />It doesn't matter if it is a reptile, primate, bird, inspect, or amphibian, every species has been given the tools to find a mate, the ability to heal, instincts to find and capture food, and build or find shelter. <br /><br />We too have been given those gifts. And, despite any setback or change,we cannot only adapt to any situation, but overcome and thrive with the right attitude. Nature meant for us too to have the perfect mate, abundancy, shelter, and perfect health.<br /><br />Whether you call it nature, God, Infinite Wisdom, Higher Self, Infinite Intelligence, or Divine Mind, It doesn't matter. That magnificent force inside of you has already provided you with these gifts, but it has also given you a thinking mind on the highest order of any other species on the planet.<br /><br />The problem is, we allow our minds to be filled with thoughts that are counter productive. We look away from our gifts, instead of thanking our Higher Selves for what we have already been given, and use those gifts wisely and with faith. <br /><br />Animals don't have that complicated thinking process. They just know what they have, and go after what they want.<br /><br />The Tiger, my favorite animal, doesn't think "I will never get food again." Even though Tigers only successfully hunt 10 percent of the prey they go after, they keep trying until they succeed. If you look at that magnificent animal, you will notice that the natural beauty is their breath-taking radiant stripes. However, those marking are meant to blend into the environment to help them to hunt. <br /><br />And so instead of thinking about what you don't have, think about and give thanks for your gifts. Since you are obviously reading this, a magnificent gift you have already been given is your eye sight they you may be taking for granted. It doesn't matter if you don't have 20/20 vision, you can still see, where many can't/ When was the last time that you gave thanks for your eyes?<br /><br />When you give thanks for what you do have, you attract what you want in your life. Why? Because you will be on a higher vibration. You can't attract wealth thinking about lack. You can't attract health immersed 24/7 thinking of your health challenges.<br /><br />I once met Norman Cousins, author of "Anatomy of an Illness" when I publicized his TV movie of the same title. The book is a classic on restoring health. Norman said what helped heal him from cancer was when he had comedy movies delivered to his hospital room. He stopped thinking of being sick and filled his heart and mind with laughter. His healing quickly followed. <br /><br />I also volunteer for a continuing education program to help high-risk pregnant teens, and teen moms learn how to write. "<a href="http://www.writegirl.org/">Write Girl</a>." <br /><br />When I first met these girls, my first impression was, "These girls are too young to have babies." However, as they talked to me about their plans, and how they have adapted to their new way of life. I see how they have accepted the change in life, and they are now focused on providing a better life, by continuing their education and working. These girls are not sad, but instead are focused on using what gifts they have been given. They proudly show me pictures of their babies, and tell me of their dreams and plans to not only survive, but thrive. Do they wish that they didn't get pregnant? I'm sure some do, but the ones that I work with inspire me because they are not looking at their past. They are focused on the here and now, and their dreams. <br /><br />And so in all forms of life, from the reptiles, insects, primates, and the teen moms, we have all been given gifts to not only adapt to changes and setbacks in our lives. We can use them to become better.<br /><br />The key is not to dwell in the past. Learn from it. Live in the present moment. Despite your circumstances, you can be like the Phoenix bird and rise from the ashes.<br /><br />Light and Love,</span><br />
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Worrying about those things that are out of our reach is a waste of time, and a complete waste of our precious resources. Worry depletes our energy, our nervous system, our short time on earth, and fills us with toxic thoughts. </span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is so important to take the time throughout your day to tune into your thoughts to be aware of worrying habits. The problem is, many of us are not aware that we are worrying, because we are on automatic. When you commit to giving yourself the gift of meditation time, twice a day for at least ten minutes, you will wake up and tune into your thoughts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you take the time to observe your thoughts, you are practicing Mindfulness which distances you from those toxic emotions stemming from worry. Once your thoughts are observed in the light of your awareness, you can then discriminate and ask yourself, "Is this worth my time to worry about______?" "Will worrying about _______change anything?" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Be especially aware of the stories you are telling yourself about the thing you are worrying about. The story is often worse than the object of worry. Ask yourself, "What story am I telling myself about________?"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here are some quotes we particularly like about worry:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things<br /> which are beyond the power of our will.</span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pray, and let God worry. </span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think<br /> about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.</span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Worry is a state of mind based on fear. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, <br />
and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. </span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, <br />
before too long you're up in the stands with them.</span></span> </span><br />
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I think of everything I can eat - lobster, mussels, crab, tomatoes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bible</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joshua 24:15 (King James Version)</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">atching the news lately, we see the uprising in Egypt. Witnessing anyone angry, sad, or plain unhappy often affects how we feel as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, you must remember that this is their "stuff," and it doesn't have to be your "stuff" too. You can choose what you allow to come into your consciousness. You can choose to suffer with one person, or a group of suffering people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now naturally when a loved one is suffering it can deeply affect you. But, you can lessen the emotional draining through Mindfulness/Meditation, and by holding the truth in mind about them and their situation. The truth is; In back of all suffering is perfection. This is what Jesus and Buddha taught. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Behind illness is health, behind poverty is wealth, behind sadness is joy. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When a loved one is going through pain, it doesn't help them if you become depressed over their misfortune or illness. This simply makes two miserable people. You can empathize with them. However, what helps them most , is for you to hold a higher consciousness of them with love, because they can't see light in their present condition. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An example is when a child comes home depressed because he received a bad grade. You can hold a lofty vision of them, knowing that they can do better. Often people, no matter what their age, see themselves as complete failures. But, when you see them achieving and express that to them, they are inspired.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When you hold a higher consciousness for someone, you are radiating light. And, since we are all made up of energy, they feel your positive energy which in turn lifts them up without you ever saying a word. Telling them to think positive is often difficult when someone is in fear and pain. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You can see their problem in your mind's eye as already resolved to a perfect solution. If they are sick, picture them well. If they are broken-hearted, see them happy in love. If they are broke, see them having wealth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You can even do this sitting next to a person lying in a hospital bed. See them whole, perfect and complete. You are not trying to will them well, or keep them from dying. Everyone must travel their own path. You are simply holding the light for them. They may get well, aided by your love. If they make their transition, it helps them to go in peace. And, for you, it's one of the highest, most beautiful experiences you can have, by loving someone leaving this plane. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(If you fear that you too will get their disease, counter it with, "This doesn't apply to me.")</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Visualizing perfection is not a child's play. What you are doing is looking behind their problem to the truth and that takes courage. Try to see others as whole, perfect, and complete.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Remember,you are not trying to change, heal, or will them out of their misery or illness.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You are simply are looking at their true selves. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your thoughts focused on the good in any situation helps it to transform. As they say, "Find the good and praise it."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You can do this with world problems. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you are reading about any disturbance or seeing it on television, see that there is a perfect solution. This helps you from becoming depressed, and sends light to the situation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">See peace restored in Egypt. (Don't get into how their uprising will affect the U.S.. Leave that to the politicians). It won't make the Egyptians' situation better, if you are upset and living in fear too. If you can't do something about a problem, let it go.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you are working with grumpy, gossipy, rude, egotistical co-workers or bosses, know they are simply reacting to their insecurities and fears. Something disturbing is going on in their minds that is causing them to live in darkness. You can protect yourself from their "stuff," by surrounding yourself with love, and sending it to them as well. Yes, they will feel will feel your vibration of love because we are all one.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Use this same technique for yourself. See whatever challenge you are facing resolved easily effortlessly and beautifully. Surround yourself with love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here's a great article on how to deal with people in the "Ain't It Awful?" club at work.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b>e live in a world focused on "getting." Advertisers tell us we have to "get" relationships. We have to "get" money. We have to "get" slim. We have to "get healthy."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look closely at all of the these messages, they are tied to selling you something. Because marketers know how to tap into your emotions. They depend on your "impulse buying," and they depend on you running fear. And, it works. How many times have you been remorseful about something you bought that you didn't need? Or you were so frustrated because you couldn't get something? You felt you had to "get."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The truth of the matter is that you are a Spiritual Being, living in a material world. You have the power to attract to you anything you desire. However, it is not about "getting," straining, or trying to create what you want through your mind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's about the opposite. Letting go and knowing so you can have. You have already been given the gifts of prosperity, health, happiness, and relationships. They simply may have not materialized in your life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What separates you from these gifts is feeling you don't have them, and you have to get them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can visualize what you want until you turn blue. But, unless you have the feeling of knowing that what you desire is yours, then you will live in fairytale land with just a wish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Master Key," by Charles Haanel, written in 1912, which we will be soon studying, is about thinking that whatever you desire, you already have. All of the great new thought teachers, Napoleon Hill, "Think and Grow Rich," Ernest Holmes, "Creative Mind," and James Allen "As a Man Thinketh," knew this spiritual law. They were all writing about this law in the early 1900s. Most of us are discovering it now through such books and teachings like, "The Secret."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no secret. Scientist have already discovered that whatever is impressed upon the subconscious mind, it delivers. The mind is creative. It works every time. If you have doubts about something you would like, it doesn't show up in your life. If you believe, and know, it shows up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conscious mind, what we think about, is the director of the subconscious mind which does not know the difference between real and imagined. It simply delivers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are surrounded by a spiritual substance that is molded according to our beliefs, our thoughts, and it gives to us exactly what we think about. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, when you act as if you already have the success, the wealth, the health, the relationships, and feel it deeply with an un-shakeable"knowing," it materializes in your life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can think of this magical substance as your God self, that delivers to you what you ask for and know that it is already given. However, you have to have faith. You have to know that it is happening. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the picture of what you desire, and constantly live every detail knowing it has already happened, without struggling or straining. Just know.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mind will fight you and tell you that you have to struggle and strain to "get." So how do you deal with that energy? Mindfulness Meditation. Try to fully focus on whatever you are doing, and release the story of "I don't have." Instead spend your time </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">feeling</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> you already have. Be gentle with yourself. This is a practice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whether you have said it, or someone you were with did, it, doesn't matter. The fact is that phrase is </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fear-based</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And, if there is fear present, you may find yourself worried about money, your job, or walking faster past a homeless or a disabled person fearing you could "catch" what they have. <br /><br />
Whether you believe in a Higher power or not, if you fear something, you attract it to you. This is the law of attraction. </span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where did that phrase come from? Not the Bible as some might expect. It is widely attributed to John Bradford (1510-1555), an </span></span></span><span style="font: 12.0px Verdana; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">English evangelical preacher. The word is, </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bradford was imprisoned for allegedly "trying to stir up a mob." When he saw criminals, fellow inmates being led to the scaffold for punishment for their crimes, he uttered the phrase, "There but for the grace of God goes I." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1955, Bradford was not beheaded, but instead was burned at the stake alive.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, how do you deal with the bad news you hear through others or the media? Send them love and your good wishes. Love is the greatest power in the universe, and since we are all connected, like prayers the energy of love connects to them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Don't forget yourself either. There is a small child inside of each of us who needs comforting, and assurance when we hear negative news. Tell yourself it's OK, and send yourself love. It also helps to practice feeling Divine Love surrounding and protecting you always.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tune into your feelings and thoughts. Are you fearing that the misfortune you heard could happen to you? Awareness (Mindfulness) of thoughts and emotions helps distance you from them. But, when they are unchecked these same thoughts and emotions, drive you to do and say destructive things. Mainly, you beat up yourself or overindulge in drink, shopping and other habits.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now you have prolonged the fear which became stronger, and you have the residual of substance abuse, or a huge credit card bill to deal with. The underline fear is still there waiting to be handled.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So mindfully tune into your feelings, and thoughts. Your awareness is the laser that dissolves and moves away fear. Just by being aware that you are afraid, lessens the hold.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When you hear of other's misfortunes, you don't really know exactly what happened in their lives to cause the situation, or what is truthfully going on behind their problems. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There have been many media interviews people who have lost jobs. You may think, "That could happen to me too," and live in fear. But, what you don't know is that person interviewed may have hated the job they lost. They later went on, like many people do, to find a better job, or start a business making more money than they dreamed, not to mention being happier. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">R</span>ecently I connected with a lovely lady I will call Beth, who is co-chair, heading a project to save the beautiful land around Deer Park from being developed. Deer Park is a monastery at the top of a mountain near San Diego which was founded by Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist Master, Mindfulness Teacher and Peace Activist. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our family travels to Deer Park for meditation and retreats, like the thousands who come every year from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Last weekend Walter and I went there, and I was reminded of the mission I have joined to help Beth and others preserve the land of refuge for so many people. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Through a recent email from Beth, she shared with me that U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in Arizona, is her personal friend. I could feel her sadness in her email. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When awful things happen, it's only natural to wonder why? Our minds search for answers, and when answers don't come that satisfy us, often we turn to anger and want to blame any and every person. No doubt, you have heard the blame slung around by the Republicans and Democrats sounding off and pointing the fingers over the shooting. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">These types of tragic events lead us to imagine and construct a whole story in our heads of why this has happened. We all go through our personal tragedies that send our minds spinning with fear. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ruminating on "why" is a dangerous, slippery slope which adds kindle to the fire. First of all, we often don't know right away why something tragic has happened. Secondly, when we don't have the truth, we imagine stories in our heads which are often far worse than the reality. We obsess about the situation to the point we become furious or very sad. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sadness is anger turned inward, because we can't do something about a situation. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When we ruminate over a "wrong" we help collect more of the same type of negative energy. Instead we must lift ourselves out of the cesspool of anger and blame, to be the light for ourselves and others.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For example, recently in the news, a family lost their home just before Xmas, but they turned the incident around to see how they could help others. So the homeless family when interviewed, said they didn't spend time asking, "Why?" or "Why Me?" Instead they served Xmas dinner to help other homeless people at a shelter. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>How do we find peace over these unspeakable tragic acts?</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mindfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Nothing has ever been resolved by anger or sadness. We must go inside and just be with our feelings. We must become the parent to those feelings, by first acknowledging that the hurt is there, then comfort those feelings. Thich Nhat Hanh says to "love them." Love your feelings the same way a parent would love a child who is crying.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Inside of us is a small child crying and hurt. It's important that we nurture that child. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When we send our feelings love, we are turning away from our limited mind. The mind doesn't know. Many of us are stuck asking it, "Why?" or "Why Me?" </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our webmaster Randy, who has had four heart attacks, counsels other heart attack patients. He says "I can't stand it when people feel sorry for themselves and keep asking, 'Why Me?' I say, Why not you? Instead, find the strength to just go on."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When we are mindful, and stop torturing the mind, and letting the mind torture us asking 'Why?' , the answers come out of our silence from a deep place of wisdom. So if you are hurt, afraid and anxious, find immediate comfort and peace over the situation by going inside. Locate in your body where you feel the hurt and fear. Cradle it with your loving awareness, and watch it dissolve. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Dropping the stories you concoct in your head and being with your feelings in silence, allows your higher, intuitive self to take over. You will not only find the answers to any situation, but you will also find the right path to proceed in life with peace and wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Blessings, love and light to the Arizona victims and their families. May you find inner peace, healing and love.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-76456108908262510512011-01-04T09:36:00.000-08:002011-01-04T09:36:43.254-08:00Make a Commitment to Live in the Present<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> When we are feeling badly over what we didn't and could have done, we are living in the past. People ask, how can I live in the present moment when I'm so busy. Easy. Simply ask yourself, "How much is your inner peace worth to you?" When you are busy and spinning around, that's exactly when you need to focus on whatever task is before you. Doing one thing and thinking of another causes stress. Stay focus on the present moment because in that present moment, all is well. This sets up the law of attraction for the next moment to be OK too. </span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-37073566405035140302011-01-03T17:04:00.000-08:002011-01-03T17:51:28.533-08:00Let Go of Self-Disapproval!<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Perhaps we are telling ourselves "I should have not invested in stocks." "I should have saved more money." "I don't make enough money." "I didn't get enough education." "I threw away too much money," or "I charged to much." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whether we realize it or not, this type of self-talk is disapproving not only of our financial status, but of ourselves.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Disapproving of self keeps us from loving ourselves. It's like trying to put fresh, clean water (love) into a cup (you), already filled with muddy water (toxins from disapproving of self).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now, more than ever, we need to be supportive of ourselves. Love is the only power that stands up against fear. "Fear and Love cannot occupy the same place." In spiritual practices, this is why God is called Love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We can't depend on others to give us this love, because quite frankly, they're looking for that support and love too. Even in the closest relationships if another person gives you love, and you are not open to loving yourself, you will still feel unloved.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here are several ways to stop disapproving of yourself:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Be mindful of your thoughts.</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many of us aren't aware we are disapproving of ourselves. Our immediate reaction, is "Yes, I love myself." However, if you tune into your thoughts and what you are telling yourself, you'll quickly learn otherwise. It's shocking to see that we're not only disapproving of ourselves, but we are using self violence as well. We beat ourselves up constantly with degrading thoughts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Write down what you are saying to yourself. You'll find the same thoughts keep coming up over and over again. Being Mindful, is like turning on a light in our heads. We don't have to do anything, just be aware. Mindfulness is a laser dissolving negative thoughts which unwatched, become feelings and emotions. <br /><br />
However, just by being aware of thoughts, change the old patterns. When you change your thoughts, your world changes. </span></span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Have a healthy and happy New Year. </span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-49250972244338479842011-01-02T12:34:00.000-08:002011-01-03T17:50:57.015-08:00Free Your Mind in 2011<br />
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Watching the news around the world and at home we are
witnessing the ego-mind in mass consciousness.
It screams lack, fear, blame, fight, and more. </span><br />
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We have no control over what happens in the world, but we do
have control over our individual ego-minds which is present within each one of
us. It</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> too runs lack, fear, blame and
self-righteousness. <br /><br />We
created our egos to protect us from the world.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the ego-mind that we created years ago no longer
serves us, even though it still runs us today. <br /><br />Most of us are not aware how our egos keep us in
chaos. We made decisions as
children that we subconsciously live by as adults. For example: Our puppy
died</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when we were
eight-years-old so we don't want to get a dog today. Our girlfriend or
boyfriend cheated on us in
high school so we don't trust the opposite sex as adults. Someone called
you old when you turned 35, so you definitely feel old at 40. It's
important to
tune into these thoughts that run us</span><img align="left" alt="New Year's Eve Ice" border="0" height="360" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.38" src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs052/1101564945909/img/38.jpg" width="206" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
If left unchecked, they result in toxic emotions that make us sick and
depressed. </span></div>
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When some people realize their ego-mind is running them,
they want to hurt and crush their ego.
That doesn't work because it only becomes stronger, and you become more
frustrated. (What you resist, persists.)
Besides, the ego gets us up in the morning and helps us to go after the tasks
at hand. <br /><br />It's the ego out of control; some people call the
devil, which keeps us running in circles. The object is to control the
mind, and not
let it control you. You are in charge. </span><br />
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Wake Up</span></div>
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Once you recognize that the chief job of the ego is to
protect you, but keeps you in darkness with fears and lack, you can better deal
with your feelings. But you first have
to recognize how it operates in your head.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awareness</span></span><br />
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How?
We simply become aware of our thoughts and listen to them. This is
called Mindfulness of thought. It's one of Buddha's teachings to
prevent us
from suffering. We take ourselves off
automatic and watch for those ego-mind thoughts (the negatives) and
label them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examples:</span></span><br />
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I am not good enough.
(insecure, doubtful) </span><br />
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I don't look good. (insecure) </span><br />
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I'm too old, too fat. (insecure)</span><br />
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I'm broke. (lack)</span><br />
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I may become homeless.(fear, victim)</span><br />
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I could lose my job. (fear</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)<br />Everybody is broke. (distraught, disturbed, skeptical) </span><br />
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I'm using up all of my savings. (lack, fear)</span><br />
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I don't like him. (suspicious, threatened, hating)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />She got that promotion and she doesn't deserve. (jealous or envious)</span><br />
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I don't want to change. (threatened, apathetic, depressed)</span><br />
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I can't do this it's hard. (defeated, discouraged, disillusioned, hopeless)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Embrace Your Emotions</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
ego-mind thoughts left unchecked, create negative emotions. Embrace
those emotions as you would a small, confused child. One of our
teachers, Thich Nhat Hahn, World renown Zen Master and Peace Activist
(nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> says name your emotions and embrace them with
love. </span><br />
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"Hello anger. How are you today?" "Hello Fear. Don't worry. We are going to be OK."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Surprisingly, once you embrace your emotions and become aware of
your thoughts, your mind calms and stress leaves. It's like turning a light on in a dark room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You Are In Charge</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />1) Tune into your thoughts.
Awareness is like a laser cutting through dark, dismal, feelings created by negative
thoughts. This is what you may tell
yourself that is not validated: "I'm
unworthy." "Nothing good is going to
happen for me." "No one wants me." "I'm going to get sick." "I'm not going to
get better." </span><br />
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2) Label your
thoughts. Fear, lack anxious, nervous,
panic, excited, frustrated, jealous, grief, lust, pride, depression.</span><br />
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3) Embrace your emotions and thoughts with love, without judgment or
criticism. Just allow them to
be. Don't try to control them. Stop beating yourself up for having
them. It's OK to have thoughts that are negative. Everyone has them.
But people who are free, are the ones who
recognize the thoughts that don't serve them.
They let them pass without trying to suppress or escape them. </span><br />
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Those of us who feel we are spiritual or religious especially
have to be careful because we don't want to admit to ourselves we have negative
thoughts. Nonsense. Everyone does.
What is important to gain freedom is to recognize those thoughts
without judging ourselves or analyzing them.
Allow the thoughts to come and go.</span><br />
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4) Put a rubber band
around your wrist for a week, or signs around your house to remind you to stay
in the moment and off automatic.
In the beginning you will have to be extremely vigilant like a palace
guard. However, it becomes easier the
more you do it. Simply observe the
thoughts and label them.</span><br />
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5) Use your breath to help you through those fears. Sometimes you don't
know what you are
thinking because your thoughts may come rampantly. To help you calm
your mind, observe your breath. Label your breathing. "Breath in,
breath out." or "In, out."</span><br />
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6) It helps to keep a notepad to write down the negative
thoughts just to flush them out in the open.
You'll be surprised what you are telling yourself. We have 6,000 or
more thoughts per day. Most of them are the same negative ones. </span><br />
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7) Be kind and compassionate to you!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy New Year!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-90824227469784462702011-01-01T19:04:00.000-08:002011-01-03T17:50:22.073-08:00Attract Only the Good<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t's important to focus only on what you want in life. So many of us mindlessly think constantly about what we don't want in life, and that's exactly what we get. More of what we resist, criticize and judge.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember, "Where thought goes, energy flows." So refuse to get caught up in the negative, instead focus on what will make you happy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feeling you already have your goals is extremely important. Why? It puts you in that high energy state and activates the law of attraction. It's a wonderful place to be.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great time to feel yourself living your goals is when you meditate or say prayers. Make it a habit, just like brushing your teeth.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After spending five, ten or more minutes feeling and visualizing, then let it go. Why? Because you will start clutching and grasping at your goal trying to make it happen. This is what Buddha and other spiritual masters say causes suffering. That grasping and clutching, tells the Universe you don't have what you want. And the universe gives us back what we project out.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So see it, feel it, let it go, and have faith. Refuse to entertain thoughts of why you can't have your dreams come true.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think about this. Everything you see in the room that you are now in as you read this message, was someone's vision, their goal, before it became a product.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655602425104928551.post-56350067774733591132011-01-01T16:44:00.000-08:002011-01-03T17:49:55.790-08:00Spiritual Gangsta Meaning and Goldie Hawn<br />
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<span style="font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ctress Goldie Hawn was recently photographed wearing a t-shirt with the writing, </span></span><a href="http://blog.fjgirls.com/2010/12/23/goldie-hawn-spotting-and-the-spiritual-gangsta-look-in-aspen-colorado/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Spiritual Gangsta.</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That name stuck in my mind and I became like a gangsta who relentlessly hunts down her hit target. I couldn't get the title out of my head. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to call up Goldie and ask her, "What does that mean?"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I have worked with and publicized many celebrities as a former publicist for ABC and CBS, she is one person I would love to meet, but not because she's an Academy Award winning actress. It's because I have read over the years how she has managed to be faithful to her spiritual self and is open about her beliefs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It can be extremely difficult for many people balancing their careers with spiritual practices, but especially for those working in Hollywood, where everything is plastic, materialistic, and an illusion of power.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though Goldie hasn't appeared in movies in a while, her life partner, actor Kurt Russell, and her daughter Kate Hudson, are also big movie stars. So Hollywood is still very much in her life. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other side, Goldie who comes from a Jewish/Christian background mediates and studies Eastern philosophies and religions. She founded the Hawn Foundation which seeks to help transform children's lives teaching them to be aware of their emotions and thoughts, as well as giving them Mindfulness tools to improve their academic performance, enhance the quality of their lives, and help others in the community. She believes a peaceful happy child is the first step towards a peaceful world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We totally get that. We too have taught Mindfulness to children when Walt and I had our nonprofit, and now we teach Mindfulness to parents. It's wonderful to feel a busy, anxious classroom filled with children or parents shift into peace.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHAT IS A SPIRITUAL GANGSTA?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I don't know Goldie, I went inside by meditating and asked for the meaning of a Spiritual Gangsta, which resonated with me so much. Inside of us all is wisdom and answers. All we have to do is get quiet, ask, and then trust the answer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what I came up with:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta is fierce about spiritual practice. He or she refuses to let the world, especially negative news depress them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta is strong and looks beyond appearances and knows that inside of them is a power that can overcome anything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta defies the odds, and refuses to give in even when it seems life is against them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta recognizes that anything that stands in their way is just a temporary detour.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta is disciplined, and prays or meditates daily even when their ego says, "You can skip today".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta turns around negative thoughts and replaces them with positive thoughts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta stands up to fear with love and watches it dissolve.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta turns away from anyone or anything that does not support their dreams and life mission.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta knows that despite an appearance of a lacking bank account, it's a temporary situation, and that soon they will have prosperity because it's their Divine Birthright.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta believes dreams can come true, despite the state of the economy or what others say.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta is a Spiritual Warrior always seeking out the higher truth and turning away from false appearances. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spiritual Gangsta relentlessly pursues a connection with his or her Higher Self.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be a Spiritual Gangsta!</span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Walter H. Jackson and Janet Alston Jackson are speakers and authors who facilitate workshops to thousands on Mindfulness and Effective Communication. Visit their website http://www.SportingtheRightAttitude.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0