A Little Wisdom on Giving

Recently, I received a little bookmark from an old friend of mine, who has been serving full time at the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation for the past few years. As a result of her selfless involvement in this foundation, I had decided a year ago that 10% of my business income would go to this charity foundation. Because, all I wanted was to see my funds being put to good use  :)

This is the bookmark.

Doing nothing and idling time away consumes life. Giving to others with total dedication creates life. ~ Dharma Master Cheng Yen

Some people whom I have met, they kept saying they have no time for this, no time for that, but yet time and again you would see them spending their time whetting their sensual pleasure - consuming life.

Do they really have no time? With this new perspective, I have to agree that they indeed have no time. Because they have CONSUMED their own time. Just as simple as that.

If we were to look at the bigger picture, and think of ourselves as having a unique purpose to contribute to this world while we're still alive, giving to others with total dedication, we would find ourselves having more time and energy to contribute to the world with every successful giving.

My friend has dedicated her life to create life for others through spiritual means. I'm definitely inspired to do the same, thus dedicating my life to create life for others through intellectual and financial means.

If this quote resonates with you, I urge you to embrace the spirit of giving and create life for the people around you.

Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes

Have you ever figured out what is your life all about?

If you haven't, do take some time to watch this enlightening video.

How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes: Adam Leipzig

Use these 5 questions to help you find your life purpose:

• Who you are?
• Refers to your name.

• What you do?
• Refers to what do you love to do. Eg. teach, cook, write, etc. Focus it down by asking yourself this one question - what is the one thing right now that you feel supremely qualified to teach other people?

• Who you do it for?
• Refers to people whom you think will benefit from what you do.

• What those people want or need?
• Refers to what those people want or need that you have, that they come to you so you can give them this thing.

• How they change as a result?
• Refers to how do they change or transform as a result of what you gave them.

This formulation shared by Adam Leipzig is so powerful because of all these 5 things that you need to know, to know what your life purpose is, only 2 of them are about yourself, while the other 3 are about other people. This formulation makes you outward-facing, leads you to think of the people you serve, rather than how you are served yourselves.

"Happy people make it a point to make other people happy and do things that make them feel well taken care of and secure. If you make other people happy, life teaches us we will be taken care of too." ~ Adam Leipzig

Here are some examples of a powerful elevator pitch given by Adam Leipzig that you can use when people ask you "What do you do?":

"I write books for children, so they can fall asleep at night, so they can have awesome dreams."

"I design apparels for men and women who need affordable choices, so they can look and feel their best."

"I train entrepreneurs and creative people to take decisive actions, so they can get their greatest work into the world."

Learn about your life purpose, and start your next day living purposefully  :)

Compassion, Deep Listening, Mindfulness, Happiness and Suffering, and the Four Mantras

I stumbled upon this inspiring video clip by chance, and was very touched and enlightened by the wisdom displayed by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh in this interview session by Oprah Winfrey.

Here's a list of wonderful quotes from the interview:

There is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

And we call it the beginner's mind. The deep intention, the deepest desire that one person may have.

I said this is not suicide. Because in a difficult situation like Vietnam, to make your voice heard is difficult. So sometimes we have to burn ourselves alive in order for our voice to be heard around...so that is out of compassion that you do that, the act of love and not of despair. And Jesus Christ died in the same spirit, out of love.

I thought that the American people had produced King. But are not capable of preserving him.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of the other person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose, help him or her to empty his heart. And if you remember that you are helping him or her to suffer less, and then even if he says things full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable to continue to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, with compassion, you give him or her a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him or her to correct his perception, and then you wait for another time. But for the time being, you just listen with compassion, and help him or her to suffer less. And one hour like that can bring transformation and healing.

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception. We have wrong perceptions concerning ourselves and the other person, and that is the foundation for conflict and war and violence.

And we should be able to say like this, "Dear friends, dear people, I know that you suffer a lot. I have not understood enough of your difficulties and suffering. It's not our intention to make you suffer more. It is opposite. So please tell us about your suffering, your difficulties. I'm eager to learn to understand." It has to start like that, loving speech. And if you're honest, if you are true, they will open their heart and tell us. And then we practice compassionate, deep listening. And during the process of deep listening, we can learn so much about our own perception and their perceptions. And that is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

Anger is the energy which people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid. And you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy. And the energy of compassion is very strong.

I think we can learn, can always learn from our suffering. In the ash of suffering, a phoenix can be born. And that is why mindfulness helps us to look deeply into the difficulty, the suffering we have. And many positives will come out of that. It depends on our way of responding to the event. There are ways that can bring more suffering. Then, there are ways that can bring relief right away and hope. It depends on our mind. And that is why mindfulness and concentration can help tremendously in bringing insight.

Don't worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself.

And if we know how to handle the present moment, we don't have to worry much about the future.

If the present moment has peace and joy and happiness, and then the future will have also.

Happiness and suffering, they support each other. They "inter-are". To be is to "inter-be". It is like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. So the same thing is true with suffering and happiness. Good and evil, they "inter-are" also. In everyone of us, there are good seeds and there are bad seeds.

There is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. You cannot grow lotus on marble. You have to grow it on the mud. So suffering is the kind of mud that we must be able to use, in order to grow the flower of understanding and love.

The first mantra is: "Darling, I'm here for you." When you love someone, the best thing you can offer him or her is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? And you look into his eyes and say, "Darling, you know something? I'm here for you." You offer him or her your presence, and your true presence. You are not preoccupied with the past or the future, your project. You are for your beloved one.

The second mantra is: "Darling, I know you are there and I am so happy because you are truly there." You recognize the presence of your beloved one as something very precious. And you use your mindfulness to recognize that, embrace your beloved one with mindfulness and she will bloom like a flower. To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

The third mantra is what you practice when your beloved one suffers. "Darling, I know you suffer...that is why I am here for you." Before you do something to help her, to help him, your presence already can bring some relief.

And the fourth mantra is a little bit more difficult. That is when you suffer. And you believe your suffering has been caused by your beloved one, so you suffer so deeply. And you prefer to go to your room and close the door and suffer alone. You get hurt. And you want to punish him or her for having made you suffer. And the mantra is to overcome that. The mantra is: "Darling, I suffer. I am trying my best to practice. Please help me." You go to him. You go to her. And practice that. And if you can bring yourself to say that mantra, you suffer less right away.

Thank you thank you thank you, dear Oprah Winfrey, for setting the stage for this interview to happen.

Thank you thank you thank you, dear Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, for the enlightening and liberating wisdom.

The Meaning of Time

What happens when humans start to measure time?

Some people pray for time to move slower...

Some people pray for time to move faster...

That is when time starts to lose it's meaning.

In this brilliant book "The Time Keeper", Mitch Albom (one of my favourite authors) wrote about the story of two fictional characters who were caught in these two scenarios, and the journey they went through to discover the true meaning of time. It has definitely touched my heart and mind.

Here are some of the meaningful quotes found in this book:

Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.

There is a reason God limits our days..to make each one precious.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

Time is a very precious commodity. Spend it wisely on matters which matter the most to you.

The Whole Health Cairn

Patients would get better from one symptom, and if we didn't treat the root cause, why they had that physical symptom in the first place, they just wound up getting a new symptom.

What really makes our body healthy? What really makes us sick?

What really matters to our health is...

• having healthy relationships
• having healthy professional lives
• expressing yourself creatively
• being spiritually connected
• having healthy sex life
• being healthy financially
• living in a healthy environment
• being mentally healthy
• having a healthy body

Your inner pilot light is that part of you, it's that esssence, that authentic deep true part of you, that spiritual divine spark that always know what's right for you. You're born it, it goes with you when you die, and it always know the truth about you and your body. It comes to you in whispers. It's you intuition. It's that beautiful part of you. It's your biggest fan, the part that writes you love letters. And that is the biggest healer you can tap into, better than any medicine, better than any doctor.

Find out more about "The Whole Health Cairn" from this video.

TEDxFiDiWomen - Lissa Rankin - The Shocking Truth About Your Health

10 Minutes of Mindfulness A Day

Just 10 minutes a day to make our lives better. I'll try this!

 

 

Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

Some quotes taken from this video:

We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our mind is always busy, and we're always doing something.

When did you last take any time to do nothing?

Our mind is our most valuable and precious resource which we experience every single moment of our life...and yet we don't take any time off to take good care of it.

The sad fact is that we are so distracted that we no longer present in the world in which we live, we miss out on the things that are most important to us.

There was a research paper that came out of Harvard recently. It said on average our minds are lost in thought almost 47% of the time. At the same time, the mind wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness. We're not here for that long anyway. But to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, this kind of seems tragic.

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that. It's more like stepping back and seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going in motions. And it's coming and going without judgments, but with a relaxed focused mind.

Meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren't always the way they appear.

We can't change every single little thing in life, but we can change the way we experience it. That's the potential of meditation, of mindfulness...all you need to do is take 10 minutes out a day, to step back to familiarize yourself with the present moment, so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall...

Mirror mirror on the wall...who's the fairest of them all?

Who cares.

What's more important when you look into the mirror is, "Are you grateful to the person in the mirror?"

Negative feelings about yourself cause the greatest damage to your life, because they are more powerful than any feelings you have about anything or anyone else. Wherever you go and whatever you do you take those negative feelings with you in every moment, and those feelings taint everything you touch, and they act as a magnet, attracting more dissatisfaction, discontentment, and disappointment with everything you do.

When you are grateful to be you, you will only attract circumstance that make you feel even better about yourself. You have to be rich with good feelings about yourself to bring the riches of life to you. Gratitude for yourself enriches you!

The message couldn't have been any clearer than what's being mentioned in this famous song by Michael Jackson - "Man in the Mirror":

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror 

I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways 

And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer 

If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place 

Take A Look At Yourself 

And Then Make A Change

 

Learn how to be grateful for yourself:

1. Each time you look at yourself in the mirror, say "thank you" and really mean it.
2. While looking in the mirror, say three things you're grateful for about yourself.

When you can see the magic in that person in the mirror, your world will change!

Mistakes Are Blessings in Disguise

Humans do mistakes every day.

As a child, we learned how to walk after a series of painful falls. We learned how to ride a bike after getting some bruises from falling off the bike. We learned how to swim after choking ourselves with water from the pool.

This is how we learn to become better than we were before. We all learn from mistakes. Mistakes make us smarter and wiser.

But as we grew older, with the bout of negativity surrounding us, we started to disown the mistakes that we do, as well as forgetting about the learning that we should do behind every mistake. We often blame external factors for our mistakes rather than seeing in us a need to improve and avoid the same mistakes next time.

For a change, lets start to see every mistake as a blessing in disguise. There are lessons in every mistake that we make, and we can only graps the lessons completely by having a deep gratitude for the mistake that we make.

Here are some simple steps taken from this chapter "Magically Transform Mistakes into Blessings":

1. Choose one significant mistake you make in your life.
2. To help you find blessings, ask yourself these two questions:
• What did I learn from the mistake?
• What are the good things that came out of the mistake?
3. Find a total of ten blessings you're grateful for as a result of making that mistake, and write them down.

Example:

I'm grateful to my engineering career for the wake up call. It makes me realise what I'm really passionate about in life and gives me a clear indication of what I really want to do in future.
 

Stop feeling sorry for your mistakes and indulge in self-pity, and start learning how to capitalise on your mistakes and make them serve you instead.  :)

"Turn you wounds into wisdom." ~ Oprah Winfrey

Behind the Mask

I didn't know until today that, behind "The Mask" that we know, there is such a deep-thinking and spiritual side of Jim Carrey. Here are two of his famous speeches, enjoy!

Jim Carrey on the Power of Intention

 

"Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention." ~ Jim Carrey

 

 

Jim Carrey on "Awakening"

"A few months ago after knowing Eckhart Tolle for a while and studying the books I woke up and I suddenly got it. I understood suddenly how thought was just an illusory thing. And how thought is responsible for, if not all, most of the suffering we experience. And then I suddenly felt like I was looking at the thought from another perspective and I wondered who is it that’s aware that I am thinking and suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom from myself from my problems. 

I saw that I was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone I was no longer a fragment of the universe. I was the universe and ever sense that day I have been trying to get back there. It comes and it goes, it is like riding a wave sometimes I am on, sometimes I off but at least I know where I want to go and I want to take as many people with me that I possibly can because the feeling is amazing. It is our intention because our intention is everything, nothing happens on this planet without it, not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention. 

I started thinking about my life and I started thinking about this conference and what we are about and I looked back and I always thought I was two people my whole life. I was in the living room entertaining people, being a monkey you know, doing my thing for the company and trying to relieve my mother who was suffering. She had rheumatoid arthritis and flumitis and everything under the sun was nagging at her and she was depressed. 

I wanted her to be free and I wanted her to realize that her life was worth something because she gave birth to someone who was worth something and then I would go into my room and sit with a legal pad, I was a little kid and I would sit there and I would try to figure out what it meant, what it was all about, why are we here, what is this. 

Then one day I read something from Buddha and it said, “All spirituality is about relieving suffering” and I suddenly realized that is what I am doing in the other room. I am aligned, my purpose is aligned with this so I felt incredibly lucky. I lose sight of that all the time. I get caught up in different concerns and ego concerns. I am so lucky to be apart of this community and to do something that is off value." ~ Jim Carrey

Life of Pi

I have been thinking for quite some time what can I shared about this wonderful story, the Life of Pi, which I loved watching so much. This story has so much to teach us about life, touching almost every aspect from spirituality, mentality to reality. All credits to the author, Yann Martel, for writing this amzing piece of story.

Here are some of the finest quotes taken from the movie, courtesy of this website:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1392700-life-of-pi

About self-doubt...

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

Lesson: Life stops whenever there is self-doubt.

About belief...

"If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"

Lesson: Life happens only when you start to believe its magic and miracles.

About fear...

"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."

Lesson: You have to learn to express your fear, confront it and defeat it, before it attacks you further and defeats you.

 About association...

"It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names."

Lesson: Associating with the right people brings positive changes to your life.

About family...

"To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on."

Lesson:  There is more to a family than just blood relation.

 About regrets...

"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse."

Lesson: Never take things for granted.

 About staying positive...

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."

Lesson: Be grateful with what you get in life and make the best of it.

 About perspective...

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"

Lesson: Life is like a story, you choose how you understand it or write it.

 About survival...

"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."

Lesson: Sometimes humans do mad things moving out from their comfort zone in order to adapt and survive.

 About spirituality...

"These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart."

Lesson: Spirituality starts from inside your heart, not from the things you do outside.

 About perseverence...

"I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen."

Lesson: When things get tough against you, listen to your inner voice, hold on to your beliefs and persevere, for miracles do happen.
 

Lessons from the Mighty Sequoia

I was very inspired by a sharing which I had heard of today about sequoia trees, in particular, lessons which we can learn from these giant trees. So I went all out to google for something about these giant trees, and found this meaningful article "Lessons from the Mighty Sequoia" written by Dan Dowd.

Link: http://www.ucg.org/science/lessons-mighty-sequoia/

 

Here are the list of impactful lessons I have learned from this article:

• Even the smallest of seeds can produce the tallest of trees
• While the sequoia is massive when fully grown, the cone it produces is only the size of a chicken egg, with seeds smaller than oat flakes.
• Fire is necessary for the sequoia to reproduce
• Fire is a purifying process even in forests. What looks like a trial for the sequoia is in reality the process they need for future growth.
• Fire clears the underbrush so newly germinated seeds can grow
• Since the sequoia can withstand fire that consumes most other trees, it is left standing after the fire is extinguished. As a result, the ground around it is not only cleared for its seeds to germinate, but the ground has also been fertilized with the ashes of those other burned trees and underbrush. The seeds can only grow successfully in full sunlight, free from overshadowing vegetation.
• Faith carries you through the fires of life and helps you grow.
• Sequoias don't die of old age - they die from falling down
• The sequoia is so resistant to pests and fire that their most common cause of death is simply falling down. The roots of sequoias only go 6 to 20 feet into the ground, and a sufficient windstorm can topple them, particularly if there is a buildup of ice and snow on the branches.
• But sequoias don't typically grow alone. They grow in groves. Even though their roots may only grow 20 feet deep, those roots spread out to cover a wide area—intertwining with other sequoias. Combined together, their roots help them to withstand the winds.
• Sequoias can die from fire - if the fire gets through their protective bark
• The mighty sequoias are unique with their fire-resistant bark, but if there is an opening in the bark or if fire is too close to the roots, then the fire can get inside or underneath the bark. Once fire gets past the bark there is nothing to stop it. The fire won't consume the tree immediately, as there are still the tannins that resist fire, but the fire will smolder, essentially slow-burning the tree from the inside out.
• Becoming offended, being offensive or harboring hatred, anger or wrong desire is like a slow-burning fire that can consume us from the inside.

Morale of this sharing: Even if you started life humbly as a small seed, with an adequate amount of challenges and trials, strong faith, association with the right people, and avoiding negativity in your thoughts, you can eventually grow to become a giant tree like the sequoia.

Make All Your Wishes Come True

Would you like to make all your wishes come true?

Follow these simple steps from the book:

1. List down your top ten desires as though you've already received it. Write in the following way:
• Thank you, thank you, thank you for (your desire).
2. With your imagination, answer these questions in your mind as though you've already received each of your desires:
• What emotions did you feel?
• Who was the first person you shared the excitement with?
• What is the first great thing you did when you received your desire?
3. Re-read the sentence listing your desire, and really emphasizing on the words, thank you.
4. Create a Magic Board with title "THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU" if you like. Place it where you can see it often. Attach pictures about your desires on it.

In doing so, you're tapping into the powerful potential of visualization to help you attract your desires to you. Try it.  :)

Magical People Who Made A Difference

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each one of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

Have you ever received help, support or guidance from someone just when you needed it the most?

Have you ever experienced being touched by an angel during the darkest hours of your life?

I believe most of us did. And yet, as life goes on, somehow we would tend to forget those times when one person touched us or changed our life for the better. That is when the magic starts to disappear, we slowly get back to our old habits, and finally into another bout of darkness waiting to be rescued once again.

All these can be stopped by practicing gratitude towards the people who have touched your life like an angel. Try these two simple steps:

1. Find a quiet place alone sometime during today, and make a list of three people who made a difference in your life.
2. Work through the list one person at a time, and while talking out loud (as though they were present) tell each person the reason why you're grateful to them, and exactly how they affected the course of your life.

Here's one of my gratitude statements:

Dear Dr Covey, I would like to thank you for being an inspiration to me during the darkest period of my life. Your best selling book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has been a spiritual compass in guiding me out of darkness. You have taught me about the freedom of choice that I have in choosing my response towards the various stimulus in life. You have taught me about the importance of principles and the effectiveness of inside-out approach in positively changing the outcome of my life. The 7 habits will continue to serve me for many years to come. I can't thank you more for the positive impact and foot prints that you have left in my wonderful life journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Dr Covey!

I believe you will feel a huge difference in the way that you feel after you've completed this practice.

For sure I did.  :)

The Magical Way Out of Negativity

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, as least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." ~ Gautama Buddha

Most of the time, we try to get ourselves out of a very negative event in life by distracting ourselves with other activities, or distancing ourselves away from it. In a way, we're just merely avoiding it. The negative event is still there to keep haunting us.

After reading and applying the steps listed in this chapter from "The Magic", I have found that the ONLY way out of negativity is to learn how to be grateful for the problem or negative situation in your life that you really want to resolve. Learn how to EMBRACE the problem, instead of despising or running away from it.

Here are the 3 simple steps:

1. Choose one problem or negative situation in your life that you most want to resolve.
2. List TEN things that you are grateful for about the negative situation.
3. At the end of your list, write: Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the perfect resolution.

Example, for a person who is currently facing unemployment, try saying this:

• I am so grateful to have had more time for my family during this period.
• I am grateful that I have my health and that I can work.
• I am grateful for all the things I've learned in applying for jobs and in going for interviews.

I have tried these 3 simple steps, and they have really worked for me. I urge you to try them as well, and let me know if they also worked for you.  :)

Magic Money

"... when you can feel sincere gratitude for the money you've received in the past, your money will magically increase in the future! It is guaranteed by Universal law."

I can still remember the years before I had any or much money, money was paid for me...

I always had food to eat.

I had a home to live in.

I attended school education.

I travelled to school by bus.

I went on vacations occasionally.

I had a badminton racket as my birthday gift.

I had toys like LEGO, remote control car and Nintendo.

I had new clothes to wear for every Chinese New Year.

I went to the doctor when I was not feeling well.

I travelled in a car to places.

I watched television, made phone calls, and stayed up late with the lights on.

All these things cost money, and I received all this FREE OF CHARGE. And I'm very grateful for that.


THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MONEY I'VE BEEN GIVEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.

Magical Health

Thank you for my legs and feet, for enabling me to stand tall and move around...

Thank you for my arms, hands, and fingers, for allowing me to do things myself without depending on others...

Thank you for my amazing sense of taste, for giving me the pleasure of eating and drinking...

Thank you for my wonderful sense of smell, for letting me experience the beautiful fragrances of life...

Thank you for my precious sense of touch, for allowing me to feel the warmth and tenderness of a loving hug...

Thank you for my eyes, for enabling me to see clearly the beauty of nature...

Thank you for my hearing, for letting me listen to the wonderful symphony of sounds and voices in the world around me...

Thank you for my brain and my beautiful mind, for enabling me to sense and experience life from different perspective...

Thank you for my organs, for working perfectly in maintaining my bodily functions everyday...

Thank you for my strong and healthy heart, for keeping the life flowing to every system in my body...

THE GIFT OF HEALTH IS KEEPING ME ALIVE !

And I'm very grateful for that from the bottom of my heart...

 

The Magic

Thank you..thank you..thank you..

I was so intrigued by the very first line that I read in this book:

Do you believe in magic?

It then went on to talk about a life-changing knowledge which was hidden within this sacret texts:

"Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

Enough of guessing, my dear friends  :)

A friendly advice: Go get this book quickly and start reading. I would be very grateful if you were to do this together with me!