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Issue No: 066 - February 1, 2010

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Today's Reflection

Danger: Routine Meditation!

Wasting Your Energy

If you meditate regularly there's a great danger that it will become routine. And once anything becomes routine its effects wear off because we do all our routine tasks mindlessly. So there's no such thing as a good habit - even if it's something as inherently beneficial as meditation. You need to make sure that you mix it up, play around, do different things at different times - otherwise you'll begin to feel that you're not benefitting - and that's a slippery slope back to oblivion...

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Today is a new day – one that has never happened before, one never to be repeated. Now is a new moment. And, in this new moment, you have a choice. You have a choice in regard to the thoughts that you are paying attention to just at this moment in time. Are they random thoughts? Are they negative thoughts? Have they anything to do with what you’re doing at this moment in time? Are they positive thoughts (better than negative ones but thoughts nevertheless). The thoughts you’re entertaining are stopping you doing. Don’t waste your energy, discard your thoughts, leaving room for the flights of fancy to rise to the top – for they are not thoughts, but inspiration.

In this new moment, you have a choice in regard to your behaviour and actions (more likely to be reactions) too. How much time have you literally thrown away already today? On sitting in front of your PC’s screen staring blankly? On gossiping about the misfortune or misdeeds of others? On shuffling you’re “To Do” list until there’s no time left to do!? On doing things you simply should not be doing – like browsing the internet for things that have nothing to do with anything important, reading emails that were cc’d to you so someone else’s ass would be covered, reading the sordid details of domestic violence that pad out our daily newspapers? Every moment you waste is a moment you will never have again. And what we achieve in life is the sum total of how we spend our individual moments.

And, here’s the big question. How much energy are you wasting and you don’t even know? Because, unless your subconscious mind is engrossed in meaningful activity in the present moment, it is merrily living in your childhood years, thinking that it’s happening now. And that is the waste of energy that distances us all from the opportunities of the now, from the reality of the now, from the abundance of the now.

Stop for a moment, ask yourself what you’re doing now – and if, in the context of what you truly want out of life, if what you’re doing now is the best investment of your energy.

This Week's Recommended Read - The Alchemist

Personal Development Article

by Paulo Coelho - ISBN 0 7225 3293 8

A beautifully written parable about our search for peace and happiness – a search that leads ultimately to an inner truth - Willie Horton

Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is such a book, with over 20m copies sold world-wide. This is the story of Santiago, an Andelusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the exotic markets of Tangiers and then into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. The Alchemist is a transforming novel about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path and, above all, following our dreams.

first published January 19th 2009

Global Economy : Global Madness

by Willie Horton

Warren Buffet, one of the world’s richest men, was recently quoted as saying: “When everyone is greedy, you should be fearful. And, when everyone is fearful, you should be greedy.” Most people will have heard of Warren Buffet – or Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela. Why? Because none of them is normal – they stand apart from normal people. Their exploits put them head and shoulders above the average person. They use their minds differently from normal people who really don’t use their minds at all.

Read the full article - how to break the crazy cycle...