- Addictions
Are we addicted to anything?
The question should really read:
What are we addicted to?
There's a very wide range to choose from.
In fact, almost anything can become an addiction.
Reading, complaining, food, gum chewing, gardening, alcohol, money,
exercise, work, order, cigarettes, chaos, clothes, television, fear,
being in love, cleanliness, caffeine, drugs, (marijuana too), gossip,
misery, shopping, sex, talking on the phone, sugar, abuse, or drama,
just to tag a few.
Can't see ourselves in there?
How about denial ... denial that we have an addiction?
Denial is also an addiction, is in fact the food source and
grandparent of all addictions.
- Anger
Anger is our brain letting us know that something is not going
as we would like.
Our job as responsible adults is to look at this warning as
dispassionately as possible
(perhaps after that first jolt of anger has hit us)
and decide whether our reaction is/was understandable and within reason,
or did we let ourselves become out of control and overreact
because of some old programming in our brain that needs rewiring.
- Awareness
Awareness is bringing yourself into the moment that you are living
life right now while that egg is crackling in the frying pan or
those microwave seconds are ticking away.
It's letting yourself become a part of the whole,
getting into the flow of life that is going on around you at all times.
The birds, the bees, that car driving by, your neighbors cat chasing
something invisible,...life.
- Equality
The quest for equality.
We seek balance, strive to make all things equal.
From the snowflakes to the stars in the universe,
nothing is ever really equal.
There's almost equal, somewhat equal but never truly equal.
There will always be less and more, impossible and possible, hidden
and evident.
- Fear
This word should have horns and fangs,
perhaps then people would be more aware of the dangers
that this emotion carries.
Fear is the infectious condition that makes peace in any form
so difficult.
It's unfair to make fear a corner stone in the foundation of our
children's development.
Teaching fear inhibits potential. Fear stops love.
- Health
Health is something that will attribute to our goal of peace,
in fact it has a great impact on our efforts.
The lack of health in our lives could inevitably destroy
what peace we may have.
We all know this.
Depending on the extent of our unhealthy condition,
we may be forced to alter how we want to live our lives.
To lose our health is to give up a portion of our freedom,
yet how many of us really give our health the attention it deserves?
- Love
With all that has been written about needing and wanting,
losing and having, the glories of love as well as the darkness
of lost love and unrequited love,
little or no attention has been given to the greatest love of all;
Self love.
The one kind of love that is the power source and most complete.
Self love gives us the ability to love without strings, without need,
without greed.
- Patience
Impatience has become like a raging epidemic.
We must learn to let patience become a thing that we enter
into and not fight to become a part of.
Instead of behaving with impatience,
we must all learn how to get in patience.
Allow ourselves to see the space of patience as a comfort zone
to help us through whatever it is that is making us crazy with
impatience.
- Relationship
Relationships should be an extension of our goals.
This may seem like a strange way of looking at relationships
but not when you step back and consider the whole picture.
Your relationships are, in a sense, the road to your future.
Are there some crazy makers and/or manipulators scattered in our life?
Perhaps we're the crazy maker in other peoples lives?
Do we like to control, manipulate, enable?
- Thoughts
This is an area where we have a choice;
an important choice, since this one will lend
support to so many other areas of our lives.
We can use our thoughts in a negative way or a positive
way and they will deliver whichever message you choice
to send quickly and efficiently.
We control their destination and where we decide to direct
them is where a great deal of energy will be sent.
We can choose to worry,
stress and fear until we drop or we can make their message
be productive, creative and supportive.
They simply require discipline and training.
Our choice.
- Truth
Truth can be defined as a fact, a belief or as being honest.
Truth that relates to fact is something that can be many
faceted depending on the viewpoint of the person involved;
A truth is always a truth when seen through its owners eyes.
Truth that represents a religious belief is the truth from
that religions viewpoint.
Again, it is based on many factors and assorted ideology
that have had an influence on the facts that make up that
religious belief.
Truth that deals with honesty is absolute.
This is the truth that we must pay close attention to,
it deals with being honest with ourselves and others.
- Uniqueness
Most of us are taught from childhood and encouraged throughout
our lives to run with the pack,
keeping our uniqueness confined to some hidden place in our soul.
Permitting ourselves to express who we really are is another way
of being honest with ourselves and those around us.
Many times we become what we are told we should become
and then follow that map or listen to that tape
throughout our lives with few, if any variations.
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