FOOD FOR THOUGHT About Truth and Opinions: Stop Cherishing Your Opinions!

Image via WikipediaFood for thought today is about truth and opinions from Eckhart Tolle. In short he says to stop cherishing your opinions.  In other words, do not hold onto yours for dear life as if it is something sacred, and allow others to be who they are and think what they like without getting into an argument over a difference...

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Are You A Diamond In The Rough?

Cover of Acres of DiamondsFood for thought is another gem from Bob Proctor's Insight of the Day series. Decide that you are is good enough. Accept that what you want is worth the price you pay of unstinting, undaunted perseverance.  To get there however, you must decide now, today, that YOU are enough!  Are you a diamond in the...

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Cowards, Courage and Confirmity: Character Is What Counts Here!

Image via WikipediaSome food for thought from the Professor's pen - that's what I call Bob Proctor - a more genuine, down to earth, wise and profound man I have yet to meet.  Those who follow his teachings will know that he did not start out that way, none of us do and now we all get to enjoy the result. Character is what counts here! Take...

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How About Some Food For Thought About Mastering Your Thoughts

Image via WikipediaOkay my food for thought today is about mastering your thoughts.  Our thoughts, guilt, honesty, and communication make an interesting mix. These issues are coming my way lately and how we deal with them affect us in various ways, mostly badly.  To this end, I opened my trusty Hamlet Secret Workbook to do some...

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Suffering Is Timeless and So Is Happiness

Image via WikipediaSufferation, not suffering, as the peeps down in the Southerly Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago like to name it, is timeless and so is happiness. We human beings love to suffer and that is why we complain so much; it's an attention getter. We hate suffering too and so, we deny it and refuse to accept it, as if...

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Acceptance IS Self-Love: Try It and See What You See

Image via Wikipedia Thought for today – acceptance is love – it is important to remember that love comes in myriad forms and we often forget to have compassion for ourselves; I certainly never did.  I was taught self-hate, self-denigration and deliberate deprivation from early o'clock so that I would conform to the accepted generational...

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Thoughts are Things That Get You Lost

Okay, let us talk about Thought and Purpose, Chapter 4 from James Allen's As A Man Thinketh – very à propos as I just realised after 14 whole days of my bloody ridiculous, unfocussed thoughts, that I have been allowing other people's dysfunctional actions, in the house where I'm staying, to influence me.  And so I achieved nothing (exaggeration...

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Suffering Requires Acceptance: You Cannot Help Anyone When You Pity Them!

Image by bill barber (back later this month) via FlickrThought for today: Suffering requires acceptance – you cannot help anyone when you pity them. Far too many people whether at home and worse yet when the go abroad automatically pity "those poor people".  India and Africa are the two obvious continents of choice. Many express crap...

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Plant Happy Seeds and Weed Everything Else Out!

Image via WikipediaPlant happy seeds and weed everything else out is what I have learnt to do with Ed and Deb Shapiro – look at the photo on their blog, aren't they beautiful! They say in their article on Huffpost "Your mind is like a garden so plant happy seeds", and let me tell you folks, from the time I my eyes fell upon this Pulling Weeds...

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Good News Day about Women Who Have Not Forgotten Their Power

Image via WikipediaGood news day is here again, so shall us talk about us women today and our achievements across the spectrum. I think we shall.  In spite the fact that women and girls are still being battered and bruised, mutilated and broken by societies and cultures around the world in order to keep them weak and in their rightful...

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My Good News Day Is About Science

Image via WikipediaOkay, my good news day is about science. I am fascinated by it and the way these fabulously talented and sometimes seemingly kooky people, explain stuff I don't understand and even better, bring those things to my attention which I have never thought of. And my favourite source is TEDtalks.  TEDtalks bring us all the...

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How About Accepting Yourself Just As You Are?

Image via WikipediaEd and Deb Shapiro are truly two wonderful teachers. I get so much from their articles and the simple and effective meditation techniques they offer, like the following Sacred Space Meditation which coaches you on how to accept yourself just the way you are. Ed and Deb say: You may get a different number of days, months...

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