AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from John Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try to drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering.. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
1 6. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
PLEASE READ
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.
He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high he at, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in&n bsp; the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
DISCOVER YOUR ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
Here’s how to get more done in less time…
When a knock sounded on her office door, Alma Triner looked up, startled and noticed that it was dark outside. She hadn’t even had lunch! Her boss opened the door and put his head inside. “Want a ride to the party?” he asked.
For a moment Triner was surprised. Then her mind shifted gears. A vice president of the international consulting firm Arthur D. Little, in Cambridge Mass., she was expected at a dinner party for the firm’s top executives. But she hadn’t thought about it for hours. Since morning she’d been working on a presentation for a client. As the ideas and words came smoothly, everything else had escaped her.
“I was getting so much accomplished,” she recalled later. “Every sentence, every concept felt just right. I was hardly aware of what I was doing.”
Alma Triner had been in her “zone” – a term often used by athletes to described being zeroed in on a task that they are oblivious to distractions. Absorbed by her project, Triner was able to ignore jangling telepphones, hunger pangs, even the march of time. And she had not only produced top-quality work but had done so in less time than it would have taken many equally talented competitors.
The ability to devote unswerving attention to a task can produce success in any field. On the other hand, being unable to stay in a zone can turn a sure winner into an also-ran. At the 1992 U.S. Olympic trials, decathlon star Dan O’Brien began by setting a record pace in the contest’s events that a place on the team seemed certain. That’s when he relaxed and stumbled in the pole vault – failing to clear a height that he had reached hundreds of times before. Unable, as he admitted later, to “get his head together,” he tried and failed twice more. Despite O’Brien’s physical abilities, a mental lapse had dashed his Olympic hopes.
Most of us can symphatize with O’Brien. You’ve probably had those frustrating times when you couldn’t seem to get your brain going. You’ve sat blankly in front of the computer screen, struggling to find the right words. You’ve stared at the budget figures, unable to get your mind around them. And yet you’ve also known states of high concentration – when you’ve done your best work at a fast pace. How can you get yourself into this most productive state, your own personal zone?
Psychologists who have worked in the field of maximum performance, and neurologists who have studied what happens to the brain in such states, provide useful advice.
Practise, practise. Does mental focus develop the part of the brain used in the task, just as physical exercise builds up the muscles? Psychology professor Michael Posner of the University of Oregon used PET scans and electroencephalograms to trace the brain activity of people focused on given tasks. Trying a task for the first time increased blood flow and electrical activity in the brain. But as the subjects became accomplished, brain blood flow and electrical discharges decreased, the more we practise concentration, Posner believes, the less brain activity is necessary.
“The key,” says Louis Csoka, who taught concentration to future battlefield commanders at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, “is to learn to overcome ‘noise’ and interference, whether internal or external.” If you’re a jazz lover, you might practise by turning some music on and listening only to the alto saxophone, blocking out all the other instruments or vocals. If you’re a football fan, practise by looking only the left outside linebacker.
Follow a ritual. On operating room days, California oral surgeon Al Steunenberg always rises at the same hour, drives to work by the same route and parks in the same parking place. He dons his scrub suit top first, then the pants; washes the right hand first, then the left; moves to exactly the same position beside the patient.
It’s not superstition. In following his ritual, the surgeon systematically focuses on the task ahead. By the time he is ready to operate, he is completely in his zone. “It’s like an athlete or a priest before a ceremony,” says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of human development at the University of Chicago and author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimum Experience. “Habitual behavior makes it easier for them to develop their undivided attention to the challenge ahead. The ritual activity recalibrates the mind.”
A ritual can be created for just about any task. If you hate balancing your chequebook, establish a sequence: Clear your desk; lay pencils on your left and calculator on your right; open the bank statement. The ritual will ease the transition to the unwelcome chore.
Invent Challenges. A hundred years ago, pioneer psychologist William James declared that humans use only a tiny part of their potential. All too many of our tasks are routine or tedious. The brain operates almost on idle. The result can be careless mistakes or dragged-out drudgery because we “can’t get with it.”
The perfect state of flow, or zoning, Csikszentmihalyi explains, occurs when our skills exactly measure up to the challenges confronting us. Therefore, Csikszentmihalyi says, the way to get a dull but simple job done easily is to make it harder. Turn a boring task into a challenging game, so that you engage all your potential. Invent rules, set goals, pace yourself against a clock. The increased challenge maybe what nudges you into your zone.
I was once asked to write an introduction to a series of articles on litigation. Words came slowly as I plugged away at a topic that didn’t inspire me. I made numerous trips to the coffeepot. Then the magazine’s art director phoned to say he’d created an eye-catching design for the article, drawing a gavel bent into the letter J. Could the first word of the article begin with J?
I not only accepted the challenge but added one of my own: Could every paragraph begin with J? Using such words as Justice, Jurisprudence and John Marshall, I managed nine paragraphs. By engaging my attention, the contest expedited the task.
Talk to yourself. As you install that drip irrigation system in your rose bed, tell yourself, “The line to the hose bib goes here, the the first emitter…” Verbalizing keeps your mind on the task, reinforces the steps you’re taking and reminds you of what needs to be done.
Self-talk can also serve as white noise, taking your mind off distracting stimuli. A young ski racer, bothered by spectators and blowing snow, was having a disappointing competition when his coach pulled him aside. “Look ahead,” the coach said, reminding the skier to focus on the gates ahead as he skied the ones before. Repeating the phrase like a mantra – “Look ahead, look ahead, look ahead” – the skier focused his attention and won a medal.
Forget tomorrow. You can’t wait to see your boss’s smile when you submit on time that flawless report. Or perhaps you’re nagged by the worry that he won’t like it.
“Preoccupation with outcomes makes us mindless,” says Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer. When you let your thoughts drift to the future, you go right out of your zone – and take your concentration with you.
Dallas Cowboys lineman Leon Lett learned that the hard way. Lett, a defensive tackle, had not scored a touchdown since he was a ten-year old. But in the 1993 Super Bowl, he got his chance when the Buffalo Bills’ quarterback fumbled right in front of him. Lett scooped the ball up and headed for the goal line, 64 yards away. There was no one between him and a sure six points. Crossing the ten-yard line, Lett threw his arms out in jubilation, the ball in one outstretched paw. He never heard the pursuing footsteps of the Bills’ wide receiver, Don Beebe. At one-yard line, Beebe reached out and knocked the ball from Lett’s grasp, ending the lineman’s premature triumph.
Focusing on the future instead of the present can cripple any activity. “A top tennis player thinks about making a good shot, not about winning the match,” says psychologist John E. Anderson, president of the Centre for Sports Psychology. “One good shot followed by another good shot will win the match.”
To keep in your zone, stay zeroed in on the here and now.
Interrupt yourself. Sometimes a short break can actually help you get a job done faster. When stress threatens your concentration, take a deep breath and picture yourself in a calm environment. Or bend over and let your arms dangle, relaxing all your muscles. Sound can also help. You can buy relaxation tapes or make your own, selecting whatever sounds you find soothing.
When you’ve relaxed, go back to the job. But when you’ve finished, don’t plunge immediately into the next task on your list. “Take a break for a while,” Csikszentmihalyi advises, and give yourself a chance to rejuvenate.
When a knock sounded on her office door, Alma Triner looked up, startled and noticed that it was dark outside. She hadn’t even had lunch! Her boss opened the door and put his head inside. “Want a ride to the party?” he asked.
For a moment Triner was surprised. Then her mind shifted gears. A vice president of the international consulting firm Arthur D. Little, in Cambridge Mass., she was expected at a dinner party for the firm’s top executives. But she hadn’t thought about it for hours. Since morning she’d been working on a presentation for a client. As the ideas and words came smoothly, everything else had escaped her.
“I was getting so much accomplished,” she recalled later. “Every sentence, every concept felt just right. I was hardly aware of what I was doing.”
Alma Triner had been in her “zone” – a term often used by athletes to described being zeroed in on a task that they are oblivious to distractions. Absorbed by her project, Triner was able to ignore jangling telepphones, hunger pangs, even the march of time. And she had not only produced top-quality work but had done so in less time than it would have taken many equally talented competitors.
The ability to devote unswerving attention to a task can produce success in any field. On the other hand, being unable to stay in a zone can turn a sure winner into an also-ran. At the 1992 U.S. Olympic trials, decathlon star Dan O’Brien began by setting a record pace in the contest’s events that a place on the team seemed certain. That’s when he relaxed and stumbled in the pole vault – failing to clear a height that he had reached hundreds of times before. Unable, as he admitted later, to “get his head together,” he tried and failed twice more. Despite O’Brien’s physical abilities, a mental lapse had dashed his Olympic hopes.
Most of us can symphatize with O’Brien. You’ve probably had those frustrating times when you couldn’t seem to get your brain going. You’ve sat blankly in front of the computer screen, struggling to find the right words. You’ve stared at the budget figures, unable to get your mind around them. And yet you’ve also known states of high concentration – when you’ve done your best work at a fast pace. How can you get yourself into this most productive state, your own personal zone?
Psychologists who have worked in the field of maximum performance, and neurologists who have studied what happens to the brain in such states, provide useful advice.
Practise, practise. Does mental focus develop the part of the brain used in the task, just as physical exercise builds up the muscles? Psychology professor Michael Posner of the University of Oregon used PET scans and electroencephalograms to trace the brain activity of people focused on given tasks. Trying a task for the first time increased blood flow and electrical activity in the brain. But as the subjects became accomplished, brain blood flow and electrical discharges decreased, the more we practise concentration, Posner believes, the less brain activity is necessary.
“The key,” says Louis Csoka, who taught concentration to future battlefield commanders at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, “is to learn to overcome ‘noise’ and interference, whether internal or external.” If you’re a jazz lover, you might practise by turning some music on and listening only to the alto saxophone, blocking out all the other instruments or vocals. If you’re a football fan, practise by looking only the left outside linebacker.
Follow a ritual. On operating room days, California oral surgeon Al Steunenberg always rises at the same hour, drives to work by the same route and parks in the same parking place. He dons his scrub suit top first, then the pants; washes the right hand first, then the left; moves to exactly the same position beside the patient.
It’s not superstition. In following his ritual, the surgeon systematically focuses on the task ahead. By the time he is ready to operate, he is completely in his zone. “It’s like an athlete or a priest before a ceremony,” says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of human development at the University of Chicago and author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimum Experience. “Habitual behavior makes it easier for them to develop their undivided attention to the challenge ahead. The ritual activity recalibrates the mind.”
A ritual can be created for just about any task. If you hate balancing your chequebook, establish a sequence: Clear your desk; lay pencils on your left and calculator on your right; open the bank statement. The ritual will ease the transition to the unwelcome chore.
Invent Challenges. A hundred years ago, pioneer psychologist William James declared that humans use only a tiny part of their potential. All too many of our tasks are routine or tedious. The brain operates almost on idle. The result can be careless mistakes or dragged-out drudgery because we “can’t get with it.”
The perfect state of flow, or zoning, Csikszentmihalyi explains, occurs when our skills exactly measure up to the challenges confronting us. Therefore, Csikszentmihalyi says, the way to get a dull but simple job done easily is to make it harder. Turn a boring task into a challenging game, so that you engage all your potential. Invent rules, set goals, pace yourself against a clock. The increased challenge maybe what nudges you into your zone.
I was once asked to write an introduction to a series of articles on litigation. Words came slowly as I plugged away at a topic that didn’t inspire me. I made numerous trips to the coffeepot. Then the magazine’s art director phoned to say he’d created an eye-catching design for the article, drawing a gavel bent into the letter J. Could the first word of the article begin with J?
I not only accepted the challenge but added one of my own: Could every paragraph begin with J? Using such words as Justice, Jurisprudence and John Marshall, I managed nine paragraphs. By engaging my attention, the contest expedited the task.
Talk to yourself. As you install that drip irrigation system in your rose bed, tell yourself, “The line to the hose bib goes here, the the first emitter…” Verbalizing keeps your mind on the task, reinforces the steps you’re taking and reminds you of what needs to be done.
Self-talk can also serve as white noise, taking your mind off distracting stimuli. A young ski racer, bothered by spectators and blowing snow, was having a disappointing competition when his coach pulled him aside. “Look ahead,” the coach said, reminding the skier to focus on the gates ahead as he skied the ones before. Repeating the phrase like a mantra – “Look ahead, look ahead, look ahead” – the skier focused his attention and won a medal.
Forget tomorrow. You can’t wait to see your boss’s smile when you submit on time that flawless report. Or perhaps you’re nagged by the worry that he won’t like it.
“Preoccupation with outcomes makes us mindless,” says Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer. When you let your thoughts drift to the future, you go right out of your zone – and take your concentration with you.
Dallas Cowboys lineman Leon Lett learned that the hard way. Lett, a defensive tackle, had not scored a touchdown since he was a ten-year old. But in the 1993 Super Bowl, he got his chance when the Buffalo Bills’ quarterback fumbled right in front of him. Lett scooped the ball up and headed for the goal line, 64 yards away. There was no one between him and a sure six points. Crossing the ten-yard line, Lett threw his arms out in jubilation, the ball in one outstretched paw. He never heard the pursuing footsteps of the Bills’ wide receiver, Don Beebe. At one-yard line, Beebe reached out and knocked the ball from Lett’s grasp, ending the lineman’s premature triumph.
Focusing on the future instead of the present can cripple any activity. “A top tennis player thinks about making a good shot, not about winning the match,” says psychologist John E. Anderson, president of the Centre for Sports Psychology. “One good shot followed by another good shot will win the match.”
To keep in your zone, stay zeroed in on the here and now.
Interrupt yourself. Sometimes a short break can actually help you get a job done faster. When stress threatens your concentration, take a deep breath and picture yourself in a calm environment. Or bend over and let your arms dangle, relaxing all your muscles. Sound can also help. You can buy relaxation tapes or make your own, selecting whatever sounds you find soothing.
When you’ve relaxed, go back to the job. But when you’ve finished, don’t plunge immediately into the next task on your list. “Take a break for a while,” Csikszentmihalyi advises, and give yourself a chance to rejuvenate.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR PEACE OF MIND
1. Do Not Interfere In Others' Business Unless Asked
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others'affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction - our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. There is God to look after everything. Why are you bothered? Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
2. Forgive and Forget
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop illfeelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. These in turn result in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Believe in the justice of God. Let Him judge the act of the one who insulted you. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive, Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
3. Do Not Crave Recognition
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yourself in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely and leave the rest to God.
4. Do Not Be Jealous
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will onlytake away your peace of mind.
5. Change Yourself According to the Environment
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
6. Endure What Cannot Be Cured
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Everyday we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control. If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully thinking, "God wills it so, so be it." God's plan is beyond our comprehension. Believe in it and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
7. Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
8. Meditate Regularly
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday in the presence of the Lord, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining 23-1/2 hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before.You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily mediation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
9. Never Leave the Mind Vacant
An empty mind is the devil's workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile. Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or church work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental praising of God's name.
10. Do Not Procrastinate and Never Regret
Do not waste time in protracted wondering "Should I or shouldn'tI?" Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Always remember, God has His own plan, too, for you. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past.
DO NOT REGRET.
Whatever happened was destined to happen only that way. Take it as the Will of God. You do not have the power to alter the course of God's Will. Why cry over spilt milk?
May God help you remain at peace with yourself and the world around you!
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others'affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction - our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. There is God to look after everything. Why are you bothered? Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
2. Forgive and Forget
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop illfeelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. These in turn result in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Believe in the justice of God. Let Him judge the act of the one who insulted you. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive, Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
3. Do Not Crave Recognition
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yourself in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely and leave the rest to God.
4. Do Not Be Jealous
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will onlytake away your peace of mind.
5. Change Yourself According to the Environment
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
6. Endure What Cannot Be Cured
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Everyday we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control. If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully thinking, "God wills it so, so be it." God's plan is beyond our comprehension. Believe in it and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
7. Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
8. Meditate Regularly
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday in the presence of the Lord, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining 23-1/2 hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before.You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily mediation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
9. Never Leave the Mind Vacant
An empty mind is the devil's workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile. Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or church work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental praising of God's name.
10. Do Not Procrastinate and Never Regret
Do not waste time in protracted wondering "Should I or shouldn'tI?" Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Always remember, God has His own plan, too, for you. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past.
DO NOT REGRET.
Whatever happened was destined to happen only that way. Take it as the Will of God. You do not have the power to alter the course of God's Will. Why cry over spilt milk?
May God help you remain at peace with yourself and the world around you!
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