my cousin aileen made me read an article from her compilation of "necessity of life." one ofthe articles where excerpts from a book entitled, "Prescriptions forLiving" by Dr. Bernie S. Siegel. So here's just a summary of the whole article.it tells us, that though life is a bitch sometimes, we have to continue to believe in the power of love,.
Prescriptions For Living
1) Show Your Appreciation
Give reminder of your love to someone in your family, friends, and lovedones and othe rrelationships with other people today. A note, flowers, a card,a hug,or saying, " I love you." Do it now...not when you have little timeto live. This prescription always works and has no adverse side effects.
2) Learn FRom Your Mistakes
Do not letyour mistakes discourage you. Mistakes are opportunities to show that you have a haert. Be wiling to say that you are sorry. If you followup your mistakes by doing the right thing, withotu making any excuses, you show everyone that you care about them and that you are responsible and trustworhty. Think of the biggest mistake have made, big or small. Have you followed up? If you haven't, it's probably not too late to say sorry, Acknowledge your faults.
3) The Power of Love
Yes, it matters to love your people outside your immediate circles, even your enemies, or people who have wronged or hurt you because this is the only way you will have a true peace of mind. When you choose to love your enemies, they don't exist anymore. Love has a warming effect on even the coldest of hearts. Hatred is bad for the hated and worse for the hater. Love is more powerful and much harder to handle than anger.
Try using love the next time you are in a difficult situation. See howpowerful the effect of love on adversary.
Loving family can be harder than loving enemies.With family,you are likely to become emotional and start to impose on them, because after all you love them and only wants the best for them.
How to love family: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. Instead of criticizing your daughter about her unhealthy behavior, tell her you love her. Think back of the last time you criticized someone in your family. Now think of the last time you said or did something to let that same person know you loved them? Which do you do more often? Think about how you could change your recent criticism to be a lovign request that accentuates the positive and eliminates the negative.
4) Be Thankful for your Problems
Good things come in adversity. The longer we live, the more problems \we will have. So what is there to be grateful for? We should be grateful for every day for the opportunities to have more problems,. to learn how to live with them and rejoice in them.
If yoru gratitude depends on what life gives you or what other people do for you or to you, you will be disappointed more often than you are grateful. You can learn to be more grateful by rethinking your attitude toward life.
First, remember that contentment lies in giving. But do not ignore your own needs. Decide what to give and how to give. In the end, you will be grateful for having the chance to give in your own way. Second, be grateful for simply being alive. When you are grateful forlife, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. When you can't change your life, change your attitude towards your life. And when you do, life changes. You find mroe chances to love, andyou will be surprised how much more love is returned to you.
5) Accept Criticism
"Your Criticism Polishes Your Mirror"
- The Sufi Poet.
If you understand who you are, and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportuinty to become a better person.You can say,"I am sorry" and "thank you for polishing my mirror" and when it is appropriate, you can learn from the criticisms and improve your behavior. It is important to accept criticism and learn from it, but that doesn't mean, you shoudl be discouraged by the grades people give you.
You may begin by doign C work, and then learn and grow until you are capable of working at much higer level.
6) Be the Best You Can Be
Think ofy ourself as a project under development: black canvas or a hunk of a potter's clay. You can change yourself and create a more fulfilling life---if you remember to make decisions that makes orwill makeyou happy. Creatiosn begin if you see the black cnavass as anopportunity to express your talent rather than a chance to faill. The canvas isnotfinish aslong as life remains. You can create and re-create yoruself. This is not about selfishness btu authenticity.
Live in a place called " Heart Zone." The place where you have no awareness of time, are fully alive and have a healthy, youthful, life-enhancing physiology. What you do in your heart zone depends on who you are. It can be gardeing, writing, caring for children, ..whatever. The important thing is thatthe work has meaning and that you love what you are doing. When you liv in the zone, you can transcend the effects of time.
7) Live Lifeto the Fullest
If you knew you only had 15minutes left to live, what would you do? If it is legal, and won;t harm you or anyone else, do it now, in the next 15 minutes. Choose yourpleasure, whatever your taste. If you live to love, you d not need perfect body or perfect health, you only need time.
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