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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

  • Renewing

    To renew yourself,
    you need to take a break every so often

    Anything we do repetitively for too long a time causes us to grow stale. It doesn't matter whether it's at our job, eating the same food, driving the same car, or in our relationships, if we stay at it without taking an occasional break, we are confronted by the Law of Diminishing Returns. Simply put, the Law of Diminishing Returns says that you can eat one ice cream cone and it's good; you can eat two ice cream cones and they're still good; but if you go on to eat seven or eight ice cream cones, you'll start to get pretty uncomfortable. You'll need to take a break from ice cream for awhile and renew yourself so that you can come back and eat ice cream cones again in the near future.

    As we said, this little analogy not only works for ice cream cones, but for everything we do. We become inefficient and dull if we do not work with this law consciously.

    I had a very good friend in Kona who worked side by side throughout the week with his wife, and he always made a deliberate point to get away every second or third weekend to watch sports on TV with his buddies. Needless to say, his wife was not always happy about this, especially because he would just up and go whenever he felt that their relationship was becoming strained by their being so close together all the time. But, in the long run, their relationship flourished year in and year out because he had the wisdom to work in harmony with the Law of Diminishing Returns and get away so that they would both have the time to recharge and come back together, renewed.

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Sunday, 27 December 2009

  • Devices

    Your thoughts to the contrary can override the good

    Here in the west, we are subjected to advertising almost everywhere we go. The newspapers, magazines, billboards, and especially the TV are constantly bombarding us with products and services designed to cure all our ills. What's most interesting about this is that before we tuned into the media, we may not have had anything wrong with us. In fact, we could have been fit as a fiddle.

    But fit as a fiddle doesn't sell products, so the corporate decision makers have taken it upon themselves to create problems and challenges for us in order to get us to buy their goods. Said another way, the companies behind all the advertising are actively and deliberately doing their best to make us sick so they can turn a profit.

    There are worlds where activities that are purposely designed to harm the health and well being of others are illegal. Those who choose to engage in these nefarious endeavors are exiled. It matters not if the methods used are subliminal, suggestive, or outright deceptive, those who are caught must leave and cannot return again until they have learned to love.

    Let's go back, at this point, to the original premise that is the foundation for all the Intenders teachings: our thoughts create our world. This means that our thoughts are creating our sicknesses, and our thoughts are the tools we use to get well again. The medics and media would have us believe otherwise by telling us that now they have a fantastic new device that will rid us of all our ills, but, as we are learning, it's the thought of wellness - the seeing ourself healthy and in our highest light - that overrides the need for any device. If, however, we believe that a device - which could be anything from a pill, to a scientific looking apparatus, to a common quartz crystal - is what we need to heal ourself, then that is the route we should take, because that is what we believe will work. Conversely, if we do not believe that a particular device will work, then we are wasting our time to go any further with it.

    When the smokescreen settles and all truths are revealed, we will see that it is the belief that heals us, not the device. You can have a closet full of devices, and if you do not believe 100% in any of them, they won't do you enough good to make any difference. The only device that is capable of curing all of our ills is not to be purchased at your local drug store or ordered through some obscure catalog. It is not to be found by handing your power and authority over to anyone else, no matter how persuasive or credentialed they may be.

    Indeed, the human mind is the greatest device in existence, and all we have to do to make it work on our behalf is learn how to use it.

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  • Knowing Better Now
    The Past in Light of the Present

    When we look back at the past, knowing what we know now, we often find it difficult to understand how we made the mistakes we made. This is because once we learn new information, it is nearly impossible to reenter the headspace we were in before we learned that information. And so we look back at parents who spanked their kids, for example, and wonder how they could have thought that was a good idea. Similarly, our personal pasts are full of mistakes we can’t believe we made. We did things then that we would never do now, and this is precisely because we have information now that we didn’t have, or weren’t able to access, then.

    From ideas about how to raise children to how to treat the environment, our collective human past sometimes reads like a document on what not to do. In many ways, this is exactly as it should be. We learn from living and having experiences. It is from these past actions that we garnered the information that guides us to live differently now. Just so, in our personal lives, we probably had to have a few unsuccessful relationships or jobs, learning about our negative tendencies through them, in order to gain the wisdom we have now.

    In order to live more peacefully with the past, it helps to remember that once we know better, we tend to do better. Prior to knowing, we generally do our best, and while it’s true that from the perspective of the present, our best doesn’t always seem good enough, we can at least give our past selves the benefit of the doubt. We did our best with what knowledge we had. Beyond this, we serve the greater good most effectively by not dwelling on the past, instead reigning our energy and knowledge into our present actions. It is here, in this moment, that we create our reality and ourselves anew, with our current knowledge and information.

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Saturday, 26 December 2009

  • Got Complaints?

    Have you ever stopped to think about all the time you spend complaining? Are you tired of hearing other people's complaints? What if all the time and energy people spend complaining could be channeled into fixing what it is that they're irritated about?
     
    We all have complaints. Whenever we're annoyed or dissatisfied, it often seems like the first course of action is to complain. While it may seem that voicing our complaints is a way to relieve the stress, complaining actually distracts us from the cause of our dissatisfaction and prevents us from improving the situation. Over time, constant complaining can create a feeling of hopelessness that keeps us from experiencing the happiness we seek.
     
    "Realize that if you have time to complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it."
    ~ Anthony D'Angelo
     
    Feeling unhappy is a signal that something important--something we value--is missing in that situation. The key to finding authentic happiness is learning to dig beneath the surface complaint and discover what you value that's missing. Then you can decide which actions you can take to do something about it.

    Awareness Practice for the Week:
    This week...when you find yourself starting to complain about something, stop and ask yourself: "What do I value that is missing in this situation?" When you're clear about that, figure out specific actions you can take to experience what you want .
     
    Remember, the shortest path to a happy life is found through conscious choice.

     
     
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Thursday, 24 December 2009

  • Acknowledging Your Growth
    Foundations of Evolution

    Since personal evolution is most often a slow and gradual process, it can be difficult to recognize the scope of the changes taking place in our lives. Yet it is important that we regularly acknowledge our ongoing growth and reward ourselves for the many wonderful feats of self-improvement we have accomplished. When we intentionally contemplate our progress, we need never feel that we are languishing between past achievements and the realization of future goals. If we look closely at our lives, we may see that much of what brings us pleasure in the present is representative of the ambitions of our past that we worked so hard to attain. At one time, the abundance we enjoy currently likely seemed like a far-off dream. Now it is simply reality—a reality we created through our diligence, passion, and unflagging determination. Whether our progress is fast or slow, we deserve to congratulate ourselves for our successes.

    To remind yourself of the insights you have gained with time, temporarily adopt an outsider’s perspective and carefully consider how your life in the present differs from the range of experiences you lived through in the past. Creating a written list, in a journal or otherwise, of those strengths, aptitudes, and inner qualities you now attribute to yourself can help you accept that you are not the same person you were one year ago, five years ago, or 10 years ago. Your attitudes, opinions, and values were likely markedly different, and these differences can be ascribed to your willingness to accept that you still have much to learn. If you have difficulty giving yourself credit for these changes, think about the goals you realized, the lives you touched, the wisdom you acquired, and the level of enlightenment you attained over the past years.

    Recognizing growth is neither boastful nor immodest. Evolution is a natural fact of life and becomes a potent motivational force when celebrated. Knowing that you are brighter, stronger, and more grounded than you once were, you can look forward to the changes to come. In acknowledging your growth, you build a sturdy foundation upon which you can continue to blossom well into the future.

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