7 Lies you've been telling yourself

"When consistent thoughts become our beliefs, there are instances when this serves as a positive thing."

https://www.ba-bamail.com/spirituality/7-lies-you-may-be-telling-yourself/

Neighbors

Have your neighbors ever really gotten on your nerves, but you had no idea how to appropriately respond?

https://www.ba-bamail.com/humor/15-passive-aggressive-neighborhood-feuds/

Life's Tests

Life often tests us with moments that feel insurmountable. These challenges can come in many forms: personal setbacks, health problems, professional hurdles, or unexpected crises. What defines us in these moments is not the challenge itself, but our response to it — whether or not we give up when the going gets tough.

It’s these moments that require us to summon our inner strength. Endurance is like a quiet force that keeps us pushing forward when every fiber of our being wants to stop — much like a marathon runner pushing through impossible exhaustion for those last few miles. This endurance goes hand in hand with resilience, the art of weathering storms and emerging even stronger than before.

Hope

Marlene

Cultivating Hope

We all need hope, especially in today's world. Yes, Covid changed many lives and left people without hope or dreams. It's not a comfortable feeling and can leave you feeling negative about yourself and your future.

Here is one definition of hope: Hope: A belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.

So, where do you find hope? There are so many places you can find it. Believing in yourself and your ability to create your desired life is a great start. Take action so that you will move forward, one choice at a time. There are other ways to find, nurture, and grow hope. Ultimately it's up to you to find it or someone who can help you.

Let's look at a story written by a man who faced a hopeless situation, or so he thought. What happened to change his situation? Dive in here: What Is Hope?

Many individuals can relate to feeling hopeless and finding they do not have not even family support around to help them through their tough moments. We want to give up but don't realize God sends us messages in different ways. This story shows God uses the TV to give him a way out of his situation.

Hope: A belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.

My story:

When my mother took me out of high school, I knew that my life would become difficult because we were taught that you have to have an education to make it in life. Since I was only 16, I really started feeling hopeless in life because I didn't know what I was going to do.

I worked to help my mother pay bills and that was all I could do at the time. Then she started telling me that when I turn 18, I had to get out of the house. I couldn't understand what was going on because my brother was older than I was and she didn't want to kick him out.

As I started nearing my 18th birthday, I was really beginning to feel hopeless because I didn't have an idea on what I was going to do. One night while I was watching television, a commercial came on about joining the Navy.

The next day I called the number on the commercial and set up an appointment to meet the recruiter. When he heard about me not having a high school diploma he knew I had a slim chance. I explained to him that I was going to be homeless in a few months. He told me he would see what he could do.

About a month later he called me and asked me to come to his office. I went in and he explained to me he would have to pull some strings to get me in the service but I had to promise him that I would make the best of this opportunity he was trying to create for me and I did.

He was able to get me in the military without a high school diploma and I fulfilled my end of the bargain by doing eight years and receiving an Honorable Discharge from the service.

Now I have a status in life, that many don't, and an ability to make my life a little easier because of the decision I made and the help I received.

Copyright © 2009 Vernon Samuel

Freedom

This concept along with peace comes from a place of gratitude and grateful correspondence. It is a flame that has grown throughout time. It shall survive whatever is put againt it. It gets larger and smaller in certain times, but it shall always overcome the obstacles that are set up before it.

#BeNoteWorthy

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Human Conciousness

"Whenever the shelves in the Library of Heavon were entirely full and a new, worthy book appeared all the books in the Celestial temple pressed themselves closer together and made room." A Legend Garland of Letters

Knowledge can never be fully attained. You can have certain aspects of knowledge, but since it is always increasing you can never fully ascertain it.

Their are many different types of intelligences as well as knowledges. Book intelligence, street intelligence, foreign intelligence to name a few. These different types are growing while other new types are immersing.

#BeNoteWorthy

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Imagination Station

Every planet in the entire cosmos has at least one imagination station. Within this station anything and everything one imagines can become a reality.

Some planets have maintained there stations throughout eons, while some have just started anew. Every idea held by anyone or any thing adds to the imagination stations. These stations are vast archival libraries that show the mysteries of time as well as space and are in every language known to ever exist.

#BeNoteWorthy

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Forgiveness

We all have this power. Look at all our adventures in the past and how we managed to forgive rather than hold a real grievance. Only you have the power to protect yours and what you see as family and yes even our Earthly as well as cosmic family.

Until we can come to terms with that inner anger we can not reach the magnitudes of grandeur that has been placed at our feet.

It's important to learn from the past, but once it's dealt with, let it go, don't let it consume you. Only you have the power to choose your path, others may influence it, but in the end it your choice to go down that road and embark on that adventure known as life.

What is Love?

Marlene

Love is what makes the difference in everyone's life. Yes, of course, as a parent you worry. That's natural but don't let it be the overpowering theme of your relationship with your children. You want them to grow up with confidence and self-esteem and you're their first role models.

 

If you think you messed up, there's still time to fix it. Your children want your love, no matter how old they are. All you have to do is tell them and show them with your actions.

Why not you?

https://www.thesecret.tv/stories/why-not-you/

Cutting Through Indecision & Overthinking

BY LEO BABAUTA

I’ve been working with a few people who are very intelligent, very competent, and very talented — but they get stuck in indecision and analysis paralysis.

In effect, overthinking and getting lost in endless options reduces their effectiveness and intelligence by producing inaction.
Taking any action is likely to be better than inaction and indecision, but we can get so caught up in trying to find the perfect decision that we make no decision.
The answer is to cut through the indecision and overthinking with action.
Before we talk about that, let’s look at what’s going on with smart, competent people who get stuck in their beautiful minds.

The Trap of Overthinking

For someone who doesn’t see a lot of possibilities, sometimes a choice is easy — you just choose the one that looks obvious.
But for someone who has an abundance of intelligence, there are many more doors than that. And choosing can seem impossible. So this person starts creating a decision tree in their mind: “If I choose this, then this might happen, which means I need to decide if I want this, and then that might happen … but then this other option brings three more decisions …”
They also will research every option, which leads to more research. It becomes an endless cycle of thinking through options, researching it, and through the research finding even more things to think about. No decision can ever be made!
It’s also impossible to analyze so many endless options, because each option contains a lot of uncertainty — you can never know how each will turn out, how important every factor is, what the probability is of each possibility happening.
The uncertainty in this kind of thinking is what keeps us stuck in indecision. We fear the uncertain outcome, and would rather have cold hard data, and much more certainty.
But we can never have the kind of certainty we’d like. We’d have to run experiments or do scientific research on every single thing before taking action, which means we’ve just missed out on opportunities as we did that research! Spending a lot of time analyzing comes with opportunity cost.
So how do we deal with this? By cutting through the overthinking with action.

Cutting Through with Action

If overthinking can be a trap of indecision, an unsolvable knot … how do we untie it? By cutting through it.
There can be no solving this knot through thinking — it’s thinking that gets us into it. Now, I’m not saying that “thinking is bad” … I believe we should contemplate pros and cons, that we should take a step back from action and get some perspective, see the big picture, consider the deeper Why of what we’re doing. But at some point, we have to say, “Enough!” And then take action.
Setting a limit for thinking can be a good way to do this. “I’m going to spend the next 2 days thinking about it, and then make a decision on Tuesday.” You consider the merits, you do a bit of research, you talk to other people. Then you decide, and take action.
How do you decide when there is no certain answer? You have to just pick something that seems to be the best, given your limited information. It’s like poker — you never have complete information, but have to make a decision based on what you do know, and the most likely outcomes (the likelihood is based on what you know, but you can adjust your mental probabilities with experience).
You start by taking a step back, think about your deeper Why as it relates to this decision … and also what you’re basing this decision on. Is it based on fear? On instant gratification of a desire? These don’t lead to good long-term outcomes, in my experience. The place to come from is long-term benefit — is this a loving action for those you care about, or for yourself?
Then you think about the different factors that weigh into the decision, and how important each are to you. You think about likely outcomes of each possibility (don’t limit yourself to just 2 possibilities), and weigh the probable benefits with the probable costs.
And then finally, you just go with the decision that seems best. Do a quick review of whether this is for the best long-term benefit. And then pull the trigger. Step off the plank.
You cut through all the doubts and fears and hand-wringing that are holding you back, and just dive in.
Get good at this diving in by doing it in small versions:

Write something short and publish it

Take a small action to your long-term dream career or business

Take a small action to be healthier

Declutter one thing that’s easy to decide on, rather than getting stuck on things that are hard for you to make a decision about

What decisions are you stuck on? Can you make a small decision that’s easier, and take action? It might give you more information that helps with the bigger decision. And in the end, the real benefit is practicing taking action without getting caught up in indecision and inaction.

The Most Neglected &; Powerful Act of Self-Care

zen habits: The Most Neglected & Powerful Act of Self-Care

The Most Neglected & Powerful Act of Self-Care

By Leo Babauta

Many of us are (rightfully) focused on taking care of our health, eating nourishing whole foods and trying to be active … while meditating and flossing and taking some time of disconnection, away from devices.
These are wonderful acts of self-care, and they are necessary and important.
But there’s one act of self-care that is very often neglected, and it might be even more important than all the others: the practice of loving yourself.
In fact, this is so often neglected that when I mention “loving yourself,” many people don’t know what that means. Many of us have never consciously done it. If we have, it’s so rare as to be a forgotten memory.
But it’s my belief that we should do it throughout the day, like trying to drink 8 glasses of water. We should give ourselves at least 8 doses of loving ourselves every day.
What is this “self-love” (not in the sexual sense)? Imagine pouring out love in your heart to someone you love dearly — what would that feel like? Now try doing the same thing for yourself. That’s self-love, and it’s a completely foreign concept for the vast majority of people.

Why It’s So Important

I coach a number of people, 1-on-1 and in small and large groups — and pretty much everyone I meet is hard on themselves in some way. In some kind of stress and pain. Disappointed in themselves, angry at themselves, constantly feeling inadequate.
Do you relate to this? I think most of us can find a good chunk of this in ourselves.
This is the basic problem that most of us face, every single day. We don’t love big portions of ourselves. We beat ourselves up, all day long. We stress out about uncertainty because we don’t think we’re good enough to deal with it. We don’t trust ourselves to stick to something, because we’ve formed a really bad picture of ourselves over the years. We get angry at ourselves for eating too much, drinking too much alcohol, messing up in a social situation, getting distracted and watching videos or playing video games, and so on and so on. We are harsh on ourselves, and don’t like how we look or who we are, in many ways.
This affects everything in our lives. It makes us more stressed, less happy, anxious, depressed, stuck, procrastinating, less happy in relationships, less focused, more likely to reach for comfort foods or distraction or shopping to comfort ourselves from the stress and pain of being who we are.
But if we could give ourselves love, it would start to heal all of this. Everything could shift. We could deal with uncertainty and chaos and difficulty in a much more resilient way.
Giving ourselves love is such an important act of self-care, and yet is rarely ever done.

How to Give Ourselves Love Regularly

Set reminders for yourself, everywhere you go. Put reminders on your fridge, on your computer, on your phone, on your bathroom mirror, in your car, at your desk, near your TV.
The reminders only need to be two words: “Love yourself.”
When you see the reminder, the act is very simple (even if it doesn’t feel natural to most people yet — give it time):

Pause and feel any stress, pain, self-doubt, anger, frustration, anxiety you might be feeling. Let yourself actually feel it, physically in your body, for just a few moments. It’s OK to feel this.

Now give yourself the balm of love. As weird or silly as it feels, just try it. Imagine first that you are sending love to someone you love very much — your child, your parent, your best friend. Imagine them going through difficulty, and send love from your hear to theirs, hoping to make them better. Notice how that feels in your heart. Now try it for yourself, generating the same feeling in your heart, but sending it to yourself instead.

Feel the love as a healing balm. No matter how little you’re able to generate, feel it wash over your stress, pain, anger, doubt … like a thick, syrupy liquid soothing the pain. Let yourself receive this love like the love you’ve been craving.

It’s that simple. It only takes a few moments — feel your stress and pain, send yourself love, let yourself feel it.
Do it 8 times a day. Or a dozen, if you can.
You need this care. Don’t hold it back from yourself any longer.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is an act of love to the highest degree. This is not an act of cowardice, it is a holy union between you and your mystical energies that created you. It is telling them that piece of mind is important to you. In creating this peace, you say "I am strong enough and the only thing I can change is the way I see things." Only you have the power to make things as great as you want them to be.
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Childhood Memories

Why can't life be as it was in our childhood. Remember the stories of mythical creatures we were told? These in fact may be real. Every time you let your aggression reign supreme your given in to your darkness. However every time you love your neighbor as well as your surroundings love wins. Even if you have truth on your side, if you're shoving it down peoples throats, you are as bad as the with the falsehood you are dealing with.

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Why can't we just end this emmence hatred, and begin loving all?

Love should know no bounds, yet we constantly create boundries for it to overcome such as race, sexuality, sexual preferences to name a few. Could we just stop hating and start loving? What would be so wrong with that? We, as a human species, claim to be at the top of the chart, but do we observe other animals fighting over who said this or that, or what you wore this on this day and the list goes on. This is getting way out of hand. We need to start loving all. Some people say it can't be done, we are too divided, but I think we are up for the challenge. We got through worse. So nothing can get in our way.

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Keep Believing in Yourself and Your Dreams

Every goal that has ever

been reached began with just one step—

and the belief that it could be attained.



Dreams really can come true

but they are most often the result

of hard work, determination and persistence.

When the end of the journey

seems impossible to reach,

remember that all you need to do

is take one more step.

Stay focused on your goal and remember…

each small step will bring you a little closer.



When the road becomes hard to travel

and it feels as if you’ll never reach the end…

look deep inside your heart

and you will find strength

you never knew you had.



Believe in yourself—

and remember that

so many others

believe in you, too.

---Jason Blume


Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com

Follow Your Dreams

Believe in yourself and all you want to be. Don’t

let what other people say or do make you frown.

Laugh as much as possible. Let in the good times

and get through the bad. Be happy with who and

where you are. You are in the right place and your

heart is leading you on the way to a great

tomorrow. When circumstances seem difficult,

pull though them. This will make you stronger

then you think. The longer you practice the habit

of working toward your dreams, the easier the

journey will become.



You were meant for great things.

Learn as much as possible.

Always follow your dreams.

--Ashley Rice



Let your dreams take you…

to the corner of your smiles,

to the highest of your hopes,

to the windows of your

opportunities

and to the

most special places your heart

has ever known.

--Carson Wrenn

Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com

Success is What Happens When You Don’t Give up on Your Dreams

Your dreams are

just around the corner—

waiting to come true.

Believe in yourself

and know your hard work,

persistence, and dedication

will pay off.

And when they do…
They will be extra sweet
Because you will know
you have earned your reward.
May you achieve

all that you wish for – and more. –Jason Blume


Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com

Freedom

It is impossible to take freedom away from someone. Even if you hold their body in shackles, you cannot stop their imagination from moving beyond their immediate prison and to the world of thought. The body is much weaker then the mind is. However, we do not see all that the mind creates, whereas the physical body creates aspects of the real world, it cannot be said that the ideas that the mind puts in motion are not real as well.

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Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com

Life's Remedy

Grief is an easy aspect to overcome. Creativity is a way to overcome this.


Creativity can remedy many of life’s situations, from grief to anxiety.



There are always the same choices in life. You can take things positively or negativity.

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Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com