I'm worried about passion. I recently bought a book entitled A passion for excellence. It was a big hardbound book with a bright red cover. It was expensive and the words passion and excellence were emblazoned on the cover in huge letters.
I took it home sure there would be ecstasy hidden inside. It turns out it was a book about business.
now I'm sure there are a lot of thrills in business, but if we seek passion there it maybe because it is lacking elsewhere in our lives. or because we can't tell the difference between passin and anxiety.
passion doesn't become from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force. the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source.
Books, work, music, people sunsets all provides sparks but only you can light thr fire.
Everyone needs a certain amount of body tension, It keeps us upright. But how much is too much? have you checked your body lately? How about your neck, how stiff it is? or your shoulders? can you find your balance? Do you feel centered? are you irritable? Have you yelled at anyone lately? How about your stomach? Your stomach will always tell you the truth, unless you give it antacid and teach it to lie. We know how to tell that were tense, but we sometimes ignore it. The question is why?
We know that exercise gives almost instant relief from tension. we know that if we give up caffeine and sugar, stop smoking, give up being workaholics, we can relieve stress but we choose not to.
some people think that someone else will take the responsibility-their parents, their friends, their spouse, maybe even mother nature. But if you don't take care of yourself, no one else will. What is your choice? Why are you choosing not to take care of your stress? Do you think that you don't deserve to feel better. You do.
People who spend more than three hours a day in or near chlorinated pools are twice as likely to suffer from severe allergy symptoms. The reason Trichloramine, a chemical used to clean pool water, naturally reacts with saliva and sweet to create chloramines. These chemicals by products irritate the delicate lining of the lungs, making breathing difficult. To prevent problems, leave the pool are after swims since lingering can up your exposure to irritants.
God uses many ways to grab our attention. Usually his way is gently persuasive. He draws us rather than pushes us. He woos rather than commands. He encourages rather than punishes.
But God also creatively uses difficulty to gain our attention. He does not create the difficulty, we are good at doing that or sometimes the difficulty springs from the brokeness of life itself. But problems can arrest us. As if we are willing to learn from them, they can become our friends. Wounds are invitation to search for a deeper sources of vitality. We can learn from rejection and disappointment, for they can become the stepping stone to a new direction and greater achievement.
But this can occur only if we get our attention off the perpetrators of the things which have upset us. It will take place if we develop a pattern where our problems are used creatively for our inner growth. This can occur not only when we use difficulties to tell us something about ourselves, particularly in the way we respond to them, but also when we used them to search for new responses, new purposes and new dimension of grace and forgiveness. For no wounds can be so great that it cannot drive us to the source of healing.
It wasn't the Romans who nailed Jesus to the cross. It wasn't spikes that held Jesus to the cross. What held Him to the cross was His conviction that is was necessary that he become sin-- that he who pure become sin and that the wrath of God be poured down, not upon the creation, but upon the Creator.
When the one who knew no sin became sin for us, when the sinless one was covered with all the sin of the world, God didn't call his army of angels to save him. He didn't because he knew he would rather give up his Son than He give up on us.
Regardless of what you've done, it's not too late to dig down, pull out that mistakes, it's not too late to dig down, pull out that mistake and then let it go and be free.
To place our feet in the basin of Jesus is to place the filthiest parts of our lives into His hand. In the Ancient East, people feet were caked with mud and dirt. The servant of the feast saw to it that the feet were cleansed. Jesus is assuming the role of the servant. He will wash the grimiest part of your life.
If you let Him. The water of the servant comes only when we confess that we are dirty. Only when we confess that we are caked with filth, that we have walked forbidden trails and followed the wrong paths...
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. We will never be pure until we admit we are filthy. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurts untilwe allow Jesus, the one we have hurt,to wash ours.
Our culture has a serious mental health problem: perfectionism. The belief in the Illussion of perfectability. A perfectionist 's inability to accept human frailty and error causes serious emotional problems. Adult perfectionism has it roots in unrealistic parental demands and conditional love. You will be loved only if you perform."Whoever makes himself great shall be humbled."
Parents who are never satisfied with their children accomplishments raise children who are never satisfied with themselves. The issue is not high standards which we all would support. The issue is a pattern destructive to health and relationships.
Perfectionist can change. See if you can identify the critical voice in your head. Try to be less competetive. Stop keeping score. Try not to pass it along to others, especially your children. You may find that if you allow others more consideration, you may also be able to give some to yourself.
People think it all the time. Everything will be so much easier if my spouse, parents or children would just see how right I am about this. But it is neither a failure on your part that you disagree. Disagreements are an unavoidable constant in life. People have simply different perspectives, what they see and what they think differ not by choice but automatically. Differences of opinion will always occur. Respond not with disapointment or anger but with respect for others'views and an expectation of respect for your views.
Have you ever see something through someone else's eye? Not literally, of course, but have you ever tried to see things as someone else would. Most people are seeing things based on their own needs, ther own preferences, their own past. We think we see reality, but we really see our version of reality.
Part of the disagreement you might have with a family member is simply disagreement about what you see, which is the very starting point of discussing any situation. Resentment develops because we think that anyone can see what we are seeing and that anyone else is just being stubborn if they disagree.
If both sides saw things from the other perspective, if they could start with a shared reality, the the path to an answer would be much more clear, and all the underlying negativity toward each other would disappear.
A friend of mine lives in Arizona for almost 10 years now. She got their finest home from Scottsdale Fine Properties wherein she lives in a luxury and comfort. Her house is so amazing, I knew somehow that eventhough she missed her hometown still she cannot deny the fact that the weather in Arizona is pretty much better than here in the Philippines. She even sent me a lot of pictures in order to convince me to migrate in her place. The desire for a fine weather sometimes made me think to have a second thought of living there. But It's not as easy as ABC, there are lot of things to consider.
Well, may be someday in God's grace I can travel in Arizona so that I can also feel the finest weather that my friend told me so.
Children are a bridge not only to the future but to the youthful feelings of our past. It is not just parents but aunts, umcles, grandparents, and a great grandparents who benefits from the opportunity to partivcipate in loving and caring for children. Never lose sight of the fact that time spent with children does you as much good as it does the child.
I know we spend so much time searching for purpose in life, but here was a clear as day--to carry on, to continue, and to give life. The generation arrives because we continued on before them.
One of the great joys of my life was knowing my children as children, and then watching them grow. Now I will see the process again, and it makes me excited everyday.
Snowboarding is one of the most popular action sports today. Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing. No wonder that my nephew according to my sister -in -law really fond of snowboarding since they migrated . That situation gave her a little bit worries and anxieties since she knew very well that like other winter sports, snowboarding comes with a certain level of danger. But she wanted not to overact to the situation because she doesn't want to ruin her son's new found sport.
I came across with the Snowboarding directory, to really understand about the sports and the whereabout of the said popular sports nowadays. Since snowboarding's inception as an established winter sport, it has developed various styles, each with its own specialized equipment and technique. The most common styles today are: freeride, freestyle, and freecarve/race. I heard from my sister-n-law the said styles. According to her the freeride style is the most common and easily accessible style of snowboarding. It involves riding down any terrain available. Freeriding may include aerial tricks and jib (any type of fixture which can be ridden with the board/skis) tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep carve turns more common in alpine snowboarding, utilizing whatever natural terrain the rider may encounter.Freeriding equipment is usually a stiff soft shell boot with a directional twin snowboard. Since the freeride style may encounter many different types of snow conditions, from ice to deep pow down powder slopes. The other one is the freestyle, the rider uses manmade terrain features such as rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes, mailboxes, tabletops, and a number of other features. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks. The equipment used in freestyle is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board for better balance, though freeride equipment is often used successfully.
I told her not to worry too much since there are so many protective gear that are now available in the market. I suggested that it is better to explain the safetyness of wearing protective gear , beginner or advanced, due to the dangerous nature of alpine sports. The body parts most often injured in snowboarding are the wrist and ankle. So the best recommended protective safety gear includes wrist guards and helmets.
One of the painful things in our lives is when we are separated emotionally from someone we love. Close friends may suddenly withdraw without explanation. Relatives can hold grudges that last a lifetime.
What can you do?
First, find a way to elliminate the issue of right or wrong in your own mind. Put the history of the estrangement behind you. Establish as your objective either renewing the closeness, or at least finding peace of mind.
Write a letter to the person that mentions only the future and expresses your love and desire for some contact. When contact occurs, allow no blame or criticism or expectations or demands to pass your lips.
Accept the level of contact that is offered, however minimal, and remember your objective. Be optimistic in what you share and talk about.
Sometimes you will receive no response. You may want to send a similar letter once or twice a year or card on a special day that indicate you care. At some point, remind yourself that you have done the best you can and that it is time to let go, grieve for the loss, and allow yourself peace of mind.
We cannot control other people choices, but we can offer an open door , look closely at ou behavior, and, if need be, accept some losses.
We all want control. We just don't want control over our own lives, we want control over everyone else as well.. It would be so much better if everyone else would just be like us and do what we want to do.
" if only they would listen? "
"If only they wouldn't be so mean or foolish?"
We try anger, guilt, withdrawal, criticism-all methods of control to get them to fall into line. You may be able to get away with controlling children until they live home or for as long as you pay the bills. It's a contract: I'll give you money if you let me have control.
That might be okay with the employees because you are in charge of their paychecks. It's okay with pets because you provide the food and shelter. It's not okay with anyone else-friends or relatives: You can tell them what you want, you can hope they get the drift, but you have no control over what they do or say.
When you get angry or hurt, check whether ypou're wishing you had control over someone. Peace of mind requires you to le go of that desire. Choose acceptance over illusion of control. Let go. Choose peace.
I received a thank you card from my father -in-law regarding our gift to him last Christmas. We gave him ajt paintball. He really wish to have one before, until we finally made his dream comes true.
Well, for you tatay Benny, you deserve the best gift , for you are the best tatay in thec world.
There will always be disagreements betweeen people, which means there will always be disagreements within the families. What should your top priority be dealing with a family conflict? always coming up with the right answers sounds good. But it 's a practical impossibility since often the conflict is a matter of perpectives, no facts. Instead the top priority in any conflict should be to be fair-to listen to everyone involved and to think about things from each person's perpective.
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I told her about the difficulties that she might encounter in preparing the said event in a country wherein she does live but then according to her, having her dream wedding in Cyprus will no longer a problem since she will turn all the preparation to eliteweddingcyprus. Well, in that case who am I to act as contravidas to all her plan. As a matter of fact i really took time also to look for the elite wedding cyprus site and I guess she found out the best site wherein she can really have her dream come true.
When we hold into the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become.
Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turn into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other, guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Everytime guilt settles in your stomach, Write " i forgive" on a piece of paper. Put it in the garbage. Do not eat it.
You are not missing anything. You deserve everything.
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