Personal Growth and Choices

Choices We Make

 

Create the World You Want!

We shape and create our world with every thought we make.

Conscious or unconscious, every thought, word and deed makes our life what it is.  All of life is sculpting the world by decisions and direction all of life takes.

 

Make the Best Decisions

How do we make our decisions every day? Do we follow the crowd, walk aimlessly about… or chose the direction we want? At the end of the day, do we shape our future, or does unconscious habit make our fate?

Do we make our decisions by conscious choice or by default—letting impulses, habit and anger lead the way? What do we chose to create every day?

Get What You Want

What do we want from life? The world will give us our dreams if we chose what is best for ourselves, what is best for the world. A good and beneficial idea gathers strength from all of life.

Harm is short lived; love endures.

Dreams Do Come True

The world will give us our dreams if we dream well, if our thoughts align with tendencies of good design. Life will give us what we want if we chose thoughts, words and deeds that contain our desire.

Create a Wonderful Life!

To create a life that is good requires good thought, good words and good action throughout each day. If we fail, we can start again.

Tendencies of good intent evolve a world we all will want.

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Awareness for Personal Growth

Is it possible that something as simple as awareness can change the world?

Yes it is; awareness changes everything! The act of being aware, paying attention to something, changes that thing.

As we become aware of something, we can change it, control it and make it something good. What we do not know, we can’t affect.

If we are aware that we create the world, that we aren’t victims of fate or random events… we can make our lives what we most desire.

If we are aware that we create the quality of our lives by choosing our thoughts, words and deeds… we become the captains of our fate.

If we know that all the world is affected by what we do, we begin to mature and grow.

As we take responsibility for what we experience, we can make the world a better place. We can bring forth the thoughts, words and actions that will give us the life we want.

Chose to be aware today, to better know yourself. Awareness, practiced every day, will give you power and grace.

The only fate at work in life, is the fate that you choose. Become aware today.

 

 

Watch this short video on how to use your Superpower of Love!


 

Use Your Will to Love

Our will and how we use it, is critically important in personal and spiritual development. Sometimes we use our will too much? Sometimes we use our will too little? But our decisions and will make the world what it is.

We create the world by our will, by conscious and unconscious choices.

The Perfect Feeling

When it comes to love, the perfect feeling of being alive… we may imagine it to be a byproduct of what we do or what we have? And often, good feelings do come from what we do: if we like to play tennis, and we go play tennis, we’re happier. If we like to mountain-bike, and we go mountain-bike, we probably feel better? Yet love is something more than this.

Immortality Happens with Good Thoughts

Love Is More than Feeling Good

If we do something we like, it does create good feelings… yet love is more than feeling good. Love is something more, an essential human need.

Sometimes love is scarce and not with us at all; we may feel bad? Yet we can use our will to change how we feel; we can will ourselves to love!

We can change our thoughts and feelings as we chose. We can love right now. As we think of love, as we speak and act with compassion… love begins to change our lives.

Love Is Something We Choose to Do

Love is something we make for ourselves and our lives. Love is not something we wait for; love is not something we hope will happen to us?

As adults, we must feed ourselves, and the food of love is in our soul. We always have love to give. As we act with love, the world gives love to us in greater degree.

What is love

Photo by Clare Bloomfield

Love Is No Accident

We may think love comes to us by chance, a random gift? We may be unhappy and dissatisfied with the lack of love in our lives… but this problem can be solved by how we chose to think and act.

Use your “will” to bring love into play.

All of us, right now, can use our will to love, to bring love into play. We are generators and creators of compassion. We are makers of life, love and perfection!

Resistance to love in our life, is our chance to make a stronger love. The lack of love is a call for us to make a greater love.

Think with Love

Right now, I can think of you with love. Right now, you can think of me or anyone else in the world… with love. Nothing prevents our ability to love beyond our own decision to love, or not love.

Have you decided in favor of love, in favor of your own life today? Have you remembered to use your incredible human super power of love?

how to love

Bring Love Alive!

I can bring love alive in my brain, my heart and my body… as all of us who are human can do. We can do it with our will. Can a dog or a cat do that? I don’t really know; they can do it when they see us. But an incredible gift I know that we have as human beings, right now… is the ability to love.

The Word, “Love,” Has Special Power!

Do it with me now—start thinking with love. If nothing else, if you just can’t get going on love, think of the word, love? How is love spelled? It’s spelled L – O – V – E.

Think of the word, “love.” Write it down in front of you. You can do this at work; you can do this at home.
Wherever you are, imagine love with your mind. In your mind, write the word, love.

If we want to have love, we are the ones to create it. We are the creators of love. We are love generators. Love is something we do. We all have the power of love.

The meaning of lovePerfect Life within Us

We have perfect life within us; we can bring forth this perfect life as love, any time we choose. To love is simple and easy to do—just think of love! Think of the word, love. Write down the word, love. Write love slowly, easily and gently… 10 TIMES! See how you feel? How are you thinking now? Is it different than before you wrote love 10 times? This is our human power—we create what we want. We create what we think.

This incredible human superpower takes practice and repetition.

Stand in front of a mirror, and say to yourself: I love who I am! I love you. I love my mother; I love my father. I love my family; I love my friends. Love is a choice we have. Love is something we chose to do, by will, both gentle and strong.

 

how tolove

Photo by Stuart Miles

Make a List of Love

Write down the people that you love; write down the people you want to love. After every third name on this list of love, write your own name, as someone to love.

If you are having problems with someone, having hard feelings about them… consider writing down their name as a person to love. This can soften your feelings about them, and bring peace to the situation.

Look in a mirror and say, “I love you” to yourself. This may sound silly and foolish. You may have tried affirmations before… but have you really? Have you tried an affirmation, throughout the day, every day for an entire month, every day for two or three months?

Making positive statements to ourselves, about ourselves, will have a good effect over time. Self statements, or affirmations, change our brain. Positive statements, repeated over time, change how our brain operates… making our feelings and thoughts improve.

 

teach you brain how to love

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Train Your Brain to Do what You Want!

We are giving our brain instructions every day… telling our brain how to feel and think. We can do this with awareness and good intent, or with random reaction to life events? It is our choice.

If we instruct our brain with awareness and good intent, we can make a powerful difference.

Personal change and a life of love are a choice and action we make. Affirmations change our brain—this is a proven process with a scientific basis, not wishful thinking. Do it; try it! Repeat your positive statements for three months, every day, throughout the day. You will make a powerful change.

Our brain is what we make it. Our life is the same.

The Habit of Bliss

Practice love every day, for three months, and your life will change! You can love yourself… no matter what you have done, no matter what others have done to you. You can love yourself right now by looking in a mirror and saying, “I love you.”

This may not work the first time you do it, the second time or the third? We have to practice love for weeks, months and years to have a stronger brain of love, a life of compassionate bliss. To have love and good-will every day, we must practice on a daily basis.

The latest research shows it takes about three months to create a new habit. This is a neurological process where we restructure our brain. A new sport or a new dance is learned in this manner, so is love.

We are forming our brains and lives every day by random thoughts or active intent. The quality of each day is created by how we have chosen to react. Why not create our lives with conscious purpose—with thoughts, feelings and outcomes we want? We can be a random reaction, or an active intent of love.

The meaning of love

Photo by Idea go

A Love for All of Life

If we could feel a special love for ourselves, for other people and life in general… would we chose to do this? If we could feel a love for all of life, would that be a valuable thing? If we experienced life giving love back to us, would that be good?

A realistic expectation, when practicing love, is a life in love with who we are!

All of existence has an identity of love; our basic identity is that of a loving individual. We can share and commune with all of the world in a loving way, in a blissful coexistence if we choose.

To bring love and strength into your life today:

  1. Go to my website, www.TheLessonsInLove.com.
  2. Read my blog: www.ImmortalNow.com/blog.
  3. Do my free Qi Gong exercises, www.ImmortalNow.com/qi-gong-videos.
  4. Practice good-will and compassion on a regular basis.
  5. Every day, work and practice; know the loving you.

Effective change will come.

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Notes:

The video and article above are based on my blog article, “Love Is Our Identity,” July 30, 2011. You can read this blog article at the following link: www.ImmortalNow.com/archives/date/2011/07

For further writing on the topic of this blog, see my book, “Lessons in Love,” at: www.TheLessonsInLove.com

 

Photo credits:

Image: Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: dream designs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: Idea go / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: Clare Bloomfield / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

 

Thich Nhat Hanh: A special man with gifts for everyone!

In this short and powerful video, Thich Nhat Hanh explains the fruits of “Mindfulness.”

To me, mindfulness can be thought of as “awareness” or a “mind full of love.”

Mindfulness works with everything in life, giving us what we need: health and healing;
happiness and serenity.

 

 

How to love and not use anger

In the Modern World

  • Anger, rage and hate do not inform us well.
  • Anger, rage and hate do not keep us safe.
  • Anger, rage and hate put us all in danger.

Chose to love, not anger; practice this thought.
Eventually, the choice to love becomes our first
response.

To see my free video that shows you how to love,
Click Here >> http://bit.ly/tCkf6z

 

(For more on this topic, see my book, “Lessons in Love” at www.TheLessonsInLove.com.)

 

God is our soul, and is felt as we act as one.

 

Buddha for personal growth
The Feeling of Camaraderie

When we gather with a purpose or a plan,

acting together, our souls emerge–camaraderie

and the presence of God may be felt? When

together, our thoughts and actions however,

may not or may not be of God?

 

Thoughts from God?

The feeling of Camaraderie in a group does not mean the action or thought

of that group is from God or a Higher Power.

 

Action and thought belong to us, and are ours alone.

 

The Force of Life

God may be present as who we are, yet God is not about our “right” and “wrong.”

The Force of Life is always with us as we live, yet how we use our life is our decision?

We can’t blame the Force of Life or God for what we do or what we have? This is

of our own making.

 

What we do and how we act is our decision? What we do and how we act

is our creation, our responsibility.

 

Personal Development Awakening

 

Life Is Ours

Plans and action belong to us. Karma is

not a cosmic invention, but the total of our

action upon the world… good and bad.

 

If we pollute our water, our water is polluted.

That’s karma—it’s that simple.

 

Life’s not so tricky?

 

Benevolence and Peace

If we act with consistent benevolence, there are benevolent

consequences. If we act without benevolence, kindness in the

world is lost.

One wish, is a star briefly seen.  A wish made a thousand times

by thought, word and deed—becomes a fact of life.

 

Personal Development: We Receive what We Give!

 
Kind and Thoughtful Behavior

The more kind and thoughtful our behavior,
the better we receive from the world.

This is a principle of living we may know, but
forget in our daily life rush of life?

 

We receive what we give.

How We Act Makes Our Life!

If we rush about in a worried manner, we create a
hectic and worried life. If we offer little of ourselves
to the world, we receive little in return.

If we love, love is what we have!

(This passage is adapted from my book: “Lessons in Love”
at http://TheLessonsInLove.com

Personal Development: Peace and Calm

Peace Can Be Found!

If we ‘re constantly reacting, life can be an argument that never ends.

We Have Control

When we react, we’re not in control; we can’t guide our life and plan our day.

 

There Is Opportunity

By reacting–to good, bad or indifference–we lose an opportunity.

Focus and Power

In a state of reaction, we are distracted. Reactions can
short-circuit our brain.

Breathe easily instead.

When we react too much, we fail to live. When life is constant reaction,
we have no power, and our best abilities are never put to use.

Regain Your Life!

Reactions can seduce us into giving up our life. Be yourself instead.

We All Have Wisdom!

Get calm. Find peace and observe the real you. Observe with awareness,
not reaction. Observe the force of life in opposition. Peace will come.

Peace and Calm Are Here!

Qi Gong results in strength, peace and calm.

Have peace now, by doing Qi Gong Warm Up, Parts One and Two below:

Part One

 

Part Two

 

Truth and Personal GrowthBe mindful of the words you use?

Words are not the truth or absolute.
Words are tools from our imagination.

Words are tools we use 
to get to the truth.

The meaning of a word can change.

The meaning of a word, even in our
own mind, can change over time… and
usually will.

Is a word the truth?

I can’t translate my word to yours. The
same word may mean different things to
different people in the same group.

Contemplate what you’re saying?

How do you speak to yourself?
How do you speak to life?

What are you creating?

 

Life Gives to Us

Life cooperates with those who give. We can give by doing things we like to do.

Personal Development: Help Is Here!

Love Can Help

The Secret Gift

The pleasure of our soul contains the secret gift of who we are and what we have to give.

Acts of Courtesy

Simple acts of courtesy may be the best remembered. We may not know when someone is in need? One small act of kindness can change a life forever.

Make a Difference!

An assuring glance, holding open a door or saying “I love you” at just the right time can make a difference.
It may not seem like much, but simple acts of courtesy can have a lasting impact.

Get what You Need

Help is here as we give of who we are, as we ask for what we need.