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Issue No: 060 - January 11, 2009

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Today's Reflection

Is God Ruining Your Life?

Are You Having a Good Time?

If you're life isn't where you want it to be, chances are that God is playing an active role in ruining your life. It's not that God wants you to experience hurt or distress, it's just that God is ever responsive to our expectations and intentions. And psychology shows that normal people expect very little out of life - and, consequently, get very little. God helps those that help themselves and the truth of the matter is that normal people have simply not got enough interest in helping themselves...

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Are you enjoying the moment? Because, if you’re not – it’s gone! Too late. Life is made up on moments. Too many of us are distracted by the past, some of us are bitter about the past – all of us subconsciously dwell in the past to a greater or lesser extent. The past is what has brought us to where we are – but where we are, here and now, is the only place we are.

Too many of us are distracted by the future – whether that’s good (like looking forward to our holidays) or bad (worrying about what will happen in our careers, our relationships, what will happen us financially). Whilst the past is the route by which we have arrived in this moment, the future is being tainted, moment to moment, by your obsession about it. A holiday over-looked forward to will be a disappointment, whilst worrying invests our energy in the things that we least want to happen, thereby increasing the chances of their coming to pass.

Your future – your success, or failure should you so choose by not bothering to adequately manage your wayward mind – is built on now, the only time and place you have. If you’re not enjoying the now, if you’re not having a good time, then you’re throwing away a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to be present, effective, productive, turned on – for this now, now passing, will never present itself again. What a waste of life.

So wake up, pull yourself together, give your all to now – you life depends upon it.

This Week's Recommended Read - Your Life is in Your Hands

Personal Development Article

by Krishan Chopra - ISBN 1-86204-500-3

A large book of anecdotes and insights into how our health and happiness is really up to us. Can be read in bits and pieces - Willie Horton

The Publisher says: In this life-changing book Krishan Chopra draws upon his vast medical expertise and the wisdom of ancient India to offer us practical advice on how to restore your mind, body and spirit to harmony, including guidance on the epidemic of stress in today’s world and how to counter it; ways in which an improved lifestyle can guard against such conditions as heart disease and cancer; the benefits of the right diet for a longer life; the immense powers of positive thinking, meditation an d prayer and how to add a spiritual dimension to our everyday lives. Dr. Chopra draws upon the family wisdom that has inspired his son, the health-writer Deepak Chopra. He illustrates his discussion with a wealth of anecdotes vibrant with the richness and grounded in modern science.

first published January 5 2009

How to Cope with Stress and Depression

by Willie Horton

Stress and depression account for more lost workdays than any other 'illness'. Yet, research shows that stress is a 'state of mind' and that we can control our state of mind if we choose. 'Normal' people don't choose - they live automatic lives, reacting to external events without stopping to think how best they should act. How about learning how to focus - when you're focus, stress simply isn't!

Read the full article on handling stress...