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If you’re like most of us, you hate yourself. Maybe you don’t dislike you in any kind of obvious way; you don’t break mirrors with a hair brush upon seeing your reflection or whip yourself with a cat-o-nine-tails before bedtime. No, this itchy I-really-think-I-suck feeling is buried in a deep, dark, hidden place. (Maybe you are sitting on it - covering it up with your big fat ass.) Most likely part of your problem is that you hate yourself over the girth of that big beefy butt.

It is our humble opinion that how your ass looks in a pair of jeans has become the collect-all - the place where your focus goes for that juicy feeling of self-loathing often experienced in the privacy of a Wal-Mart dressing room trying to squeeze into a size 10 and discovering that you’d have to actually cut your ass off to get into them. Maybe you feel that self-hatred while lying in the bath starring at your big ol’ dimply self, or maybe it tends to happen that first time you get naked with your new boyfriend. (Okay, he’s really not a boyfriend, you slept with him that one night then he never called again…. whatever.)

Never before in history has it been so fashionable to hate yourself. The average woman is a size 14. She’s 5’4”, weighs 140 lbs. According to Fitness Magazine, this typical B-FAB (Beautiful Fat Ass Babe) has said that she would give up ten years of her life to be a body type she admired! We would die to look more like Barbie (a perfect size 8). We say, STOP THE INSANITY! Stop believing a media gone crazy that says we should all look like Nicole Kidman. When Nicole Kidman was pregnant, she didn’t even look pregnant. That’s how thin she is! Nobody looks like her. She doesn’t even look like her. (Most photos are air-brushed.)

Let’s love ourselves exactly the way we are and bury our poor body image concepts along with our last copy of the Cayenne Pepper Diet and Suzanne Somer’s Thighmaster. Let’s accept our bodies, flaws, rolls and all. Only then we will be more likely to start eating in healthier ways.

Yes that’s true according to new research, and who are we to quibble with the experts. Since one out of three of us are a size fourteen or larger, it would make sense that we must all start forgiving ourselves and our fat asses. If not, who is going to love your children? Not you. You’re too busy showing your kids how self-loathing actually works rather than getting on with the business of living and loving your family. (You may not come out and say to your kids that you hate your body, but that little litter you spawned is intuitive and knows deep down how you feel about yourself.)

We hope we’ve snapped some love-thyself common sense into your BFM (Big Fat Mind). Maybe we could simply create a miracle and say, “Yes, today is the day I am going to embrace my body exactly the way it is.” Then, just get on with it. Go walk your dog. Take a lie down. Eat cake. We don’t care. But if you really accept our weighty challenge, to honor thyself, thy ass and thy thighs as beautiful God-given evidence that you are alive, and yes that you EAT and that you are healthy(ish), the first thing you will notice is that suddenly you are happy. Remember this always: The struggling is optional.

Laura Banks and Janette Barber are the bestselling authors of Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (Atria). They write about positive body-image, weight-acceptance, self-esteem with humor. It’s time to love your BFA (Big Fat Ass). Janette is a 6 time Emmy-Award winning producer/writer and Laura is a columnist at Tarot.com. Embracing Your Big Fat Ass.

In our new book, Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (Atria), we say what everybody knows by now: Diets don’t work. Ouch, in fact they hurt. They cause you to end up losing lean muscle mass and increasing fat in the muscle/fat ratio thing that causes you to burn fewer and few calories – because muscle burns more calories than fat you can eat more. So if we have more fat then we burn fewer calories doing exactly the same thing as the annoying thin people. Hrmph.

While we do think restrictive diets don’t work, we do think that everybody – even the skinniest of Minnie’s have to try to eat in a healthier way. Fruit and vegetables have been proven in all kinds of studies to make a significant impact on diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So…yeah. We don’t believe in going on all the tormentuous, restrictive, often expensive diets out there; we do believe in making a daily effort to live healthier lives regardless of the size, shape or rubbery-ness of our hind quarters.

We’re saying: Live life. Love yourself. And do the darn best you can with the eating thing. We’re not going any further than that and don’t push us or Janette will bite back. Speaking of…Janette is an actual, real-life expert in cooking. She had her own cooking show on the TV Food Network for crackers sake. (Clever, huh? Crackers…cooking…get it??!) Okay. She really can cook, look her up, she’s a Celebrity Chef! So there. If you want dessert come to our website and go In the Kitchen at Janette’s Blog. She posted her newest invention Peanut Butter Makeover Cookies. She’s replaced all the fat with a secret ingredient. And there’s lots more fiber. Yum. But for now we leave you with one of her favorite recipes to prove that eating your vegetables isn’t so hard after all.

Janette’s Spinach Baseballs in a Whole Wheat Mitt

Ingredients

BASEBALL “GLOVES”:

4 whole wheat pocket-less pitas

Vegetable cooking spray

Salt and pepper

As it turns out we have a title that we have to preface with “pardon my language, but I wrote a book…” We thought we had a strong word in our title perhaps even a powerful word, but mostly…we thought we had a funny word. Pretty much if you tag our word-we-can’t-say onto anything it becomes a punch line. We can’t tell you what that word is though for goodness sake because someone, somewhere on the continental world might be having a bad hair day and get miffed by what we say and then all H will break out.

So, here’s the deal…we have this certain word in the title of our book but you will have to come to our website to see it since we dasn’t say it here. The title of this book, published by Atria a division of Simon and Schuster, has a word that starts with an A. It’s the A-word. Have you noticed we now have words that we have to speak of in code? Life is becoming EXACTLY like a Harry Potter story speaking of He Who Must Not Be Named. This concerns us. We think he should be named whoever he is. Lord Voldermort or not, he’s a big bully and we shouldn’t have to put up with it. Freedom of speech, George Washington, Ben Franklin and Paul Revere for god sakes. Hrmph.

On various shows – including INTERNET radio - we’ve had to promote our book without actually mentioning the title. How’s this? “We wrote a book called Embracing Your Big Fat A-word which another word for butt which is actually a donkey.” We’d like to see the face of the trainee at the information desk at Barnes and Noble when somebody comes in asking for that title. We have a B-FAB society that is beginning to form but we can’t actually tell you what it stands for because it has that dastardly, dangerous A-word in it. D-word, D-word, double D-word.

Now, it’s clearly not against FCC rules to say this insidious word that apparently has a corrosive effect on anyone hearing it. On Two and a Half Men, for example, they spout the dire, dangerous A-word on almost every episode. I guess prime time decent is different than Today Show decent (one of the outlets we horrified with our title WHICH MUST NOT BE NAMED.) So we don’t want any S and we D-word well won’t be using any F-wording language that will gum up our efforts.

How on earth can a word as non-offensive as A-word become demonized? And more importantly when did we have to be guarded in our languaging so as not to cross some new social boundary that so far isn’t even consistent. Whew! You’re S-ing us. (Scaring.) At what point did we, as a society, collectively return to kindergarten? We’re just askin’…cuz we didn’t notice it happening. Did we miss something – like possibly an alien takeover of the world we grew up with and no one is even noticing it? Or are a lot of you out there already Aliens? Oh this is getting alarming. We made you mad enough by using the A-word. If we finger you as aliens we’ll probably be goners.

Embracing Your BFA. That’s close to the title. Just come to our website and see the book cover. Download a free chapter. Have fun. Just be very careful of the strange, and secretly powerful…

A-word!

Laura Banks and Janette Barber are the bestselling authors of Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (Atria). They write about positive body-image, weight-acceptance, self-esteem with humor. It’s time to love your BFA (Big Fat Ass). Janette is a 6 time Emmy-Award winning producer/writer and Laura is a columnist at Tarot.com. Embracing Your Big Fat Ass.

It’s hard for us to change our ways. Even when we know exactly what changes would make our life happier, it takes planning, practice and persistence to successfully break old habits. Having supportive people in our corner to encourage us along the way makes the job much easier. Unfortunately, not everyone we hope will be in our corner always is.

Sometimes the very people we’re closest to are the ones who don’t want us to change, no matter how much better off we’d be if we did. Let’s say you’re a person who has always catered to everyone else’s needs and ignored your own. You volunteer to run errands, you go where others want to go, you do what they want to do. Only you’ve come to a point where you’re tired of turning yourself into a pretzel to please other people and decided it’s time to start pleasing yourself. It’s a great idea — just what take-charge living is all about—changing in ways that empower you and make your life richer and more satisfying.

Only guess what. Some of those people who benefited from you being subservient might feel quite inconvenienced to they discover you’re not at their beck and call any more. They don’t see your newfound independence as a great idea at all. Understandably, people may miss the things you used to do for them. Hopefully, most of them will encourage what’s best for you anyway. But there’s always the possibility of holdouts, people who resent you for daring to play by a new set of rules. You’ll hear about it too. “You used to be so thoughtful. What’s come over you?” Worse, “I can’t believe what a selfish bitch/bastard you turned into. Try thinking of someone besides yourself for a change!”

The situation gets even more complicated when your changed behavior is experienced not just as an inconvenience, but as a threat. If control and superiority are part of the other person’s self-image, they take it as a major loss when you no longer put them and their needs ahead of your own. Feeling that way, the person may do more than complain and actively try to sabotage the changes you are making.

To take a concrete example, suppose your spouse is a control freak who is accustomed to dictating how every little thing is done around the house. You finally decide you’ve had enough and begin doing some things your way. That attacks your spouse’s belief in her/his superiority, the legitimate top dog of the household who has every right to expect your conformity. A person invested in that kind of self -image will not give up easily, so expect criticism and resistance.

I’m sure you can think of examples, perhaps from your own immediate circle of friends and family, in which one person’s changes threaten someone else with loss. That happens when a couple abuses alcohol together, but one decides to quit. It happens when a meek person finally stands up to a bully, or walks out on an abusive relationship, or challenges a boss, or takes action against an intrusive neighbor, or question a doctor’s decisions. The possible scenarios are endless.

Resistance to your changes can take many forms, from subtle to direct and even aggressive. For Anne, a college senior working hard to try to lose weight, resistance came from her mother pushing food during her weekend visits home. The mother, a fabulous cook whose own weight is testimony to how much she enjoys her creations, pushes food on anyone who sets foot in her house. Any refusal is a blow to her ego. Anne’s refusals — and it takes willpower to refuse a second helping of her mother’s beef bourguignon or pass on luscious banana cream pie — are met with, “Just a taste. Try it. It’s delicious. You’re thin enough, Annie. The obsession with weight in this country is ridiculous. Here, have a small piece,” her mother says, pushing a huge slice Anne’s way.If Anne pushes it back, her mother acts crushed. Tired of the struggle and determined to stick with her diet, Anne makes excuses and quits coming home weekends.

Much nastier is the resistance a woman named Shannon ran into after she checked herself into an inpatient drug treatment program. Having abused both drugs and alcohol for years and recently attempting suicide, eighteen-year-old Shannon was desperate. The treatment program, which incorporated the Alcoholics Anonymous twelve-step approach, was wonderful for her. A fundamental of such programs is asserting that alcoholism is a disease and total abstinence is the only way to deal with it. Shannon’s rehabilitation program also requested that families attend certain group therapy sessions. Shannon’s parents were divorced, and her mother was out of the country. Her father Amos, a clinical psychologist and flaming alcoholic himself, agreed to come. In flagrant disregard of his daughter, the other patients, and the treatment staff, Amos used his considerable verbal skills and clinical knowledge to pontificate to the patients about how alcoholism is not a disease and how controlled drinking is completely realistic for them. Why would a father do this to a daughter in such desperate need of help? Amos’s resistance and his attempt to smear the program that was helping Shannon was a self-centered effort to rationalize his own excesses with alcohol. By attacking the program, he could justify his own drinking and not admit to himself that he needed help as much as any patient in the room.

Whatever its form, resistance from others complicates your task. You sure don’t need this kind of discouragement when you’re trying to break old patterns of behavior. Here are some things to help you deal with it and move ahead anyway.

Only One Life to Live

Let’s start with the most basic and most obvious point. You only get one life to live. You have a perfect right to take charge of that life. It is you, not others, who need to determine how you want to be and what would make you happiest. Then you pursue being that way. When that means transforming some things about yourself, you do it with or without other people’s blessing. Improving yourself by changing your ways does not mean ignoring other people or being insensitive or inconsiderate of them. It also does not mean bowing to their whims and wishes instead of pursing your own goals. Your job, when you sense resistance from others, is to stay on your chosen course of change. Try to deal as directly and constructively as you can with anyone trying to stop you. Whatever you do, do not let them stop you and keep you stuck in your old ways.

If such thinking represents a radical shift of perspective for you, part of your job is to work at opening yourself up to new ideas. Changing your thinking most definitely helps you change how you act.

If you run into resistance, assess its significance. How important is this person to you? How big is their issue? Are you merely inconveniencing their life a little, or truly threatening them by doing things differently? If this relationship truly matters to you, I urge you to seriously consider talking frankly with the person. Do it in a considerate way, but speak candidly about the resistance you are experiencing. Be sure to specifically request that the person stop whatever it is they are doing that undermines your efforts to change. Make it clear that you intend to go forward with your new ways of doing things. Then, stick with your plan.

I’m not saying that sticking with it is easy. People trying to prevent you from changing feel threatened that your growth means their loss. Some of those people can be extremely difficult to deal with. But this is your life we’re talking about. Your one and only life. Unless you are willing to remain stuck and condemned to a way of a life you do not like, it is imperative you stick to your plan once you have decided that it is best for you to change. Trust your decision, and continue forging ahead. You have a perfect right to forge ahead and transform yourself into the person you want to be.

Forging ahead gets lots easier when you have some people who are supporting what you are trying to do. In the face of someone who wants to stop you from changing, encouragement from supportive people is invaluable for staying with your program and moving forward. I strongly urge you to contact those friends and family you know would be in your corner. Tell them about the changes you’re trying to make. Don’t be shy or indirect. Line up people to be there for you when your spirits sag and you need a pep talk and openly ask for their support.

Do you normally wait for others to reach out to you? Please don’t do that this time. Take the lead. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Pay a visit. As The Beatles famously sang many years ago, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” Take that to heart and get a little — or a lot — of help from your friends. Being able to call on supportive people can be the difference between success and failure. And stay sharp as to who your real friends are. A dear friend wisely counseled me many years ago, “Don’t look for comfort from the source of your oppression.”

I’ll close by noting the benefits of social support and positive relationships go beyond dealing with people who don’t want you to change. Scientists have shown that supportive friends and family, in addition to feeling good and helping us to stay motivated, promote mental and physical health and sometimes actually prolong life. So don’t be the Lone Ranger. Support from your friends is free. It feels good, and it is accessible. Let them help you work your way towards your goals.

Marion K. Jacobs, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist in Laguna Beach, California, Adjunct Professor at UCLA and self-help expert. Her book and CD, Take-Charge Living: How to Recast Your Role in Life

It is a fact that people cannot escape form any problems which are causing people to feel negatively. Problems that arises as time passes by can be very hard to face and since those difficulties were very hard to solved, people will tend to think about it more often and after some time of thinking about it that person will start to feel unease and would then on affect his/her body’s energies – this would result to sickness.

There is a possibility that emotional breakdown like depression can happen anytime and with this we may think that we don’t have a control so that’s the reason why people let themselves to suffer from depression or general stress.

Depression is a mood that people tend to feel whenever there is a big problem that arises; with this he or she may be able to continuously think about it that results to this negative feeling or depression. You may think that there is no way for healing depression or any other negative emotions that would result to negative effects on the body but as Gary Craig founded the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT, now there is a remedy for most illness or any negative emotions.

This technique’s foundation is the theory which stated that a personal psychology is affected by the body’s energy imbalances and with this, the technique will serve as a treatment to the body’s negative state and will help vanish the pain or anything that you feel in just a few minutes. This technique requires tapping on some parts of the body that would result to positive effects that would help a person feel well, this would result to remedy of the illness.

The process of Emotional Freedom Technique is just very easy to follow and you can do it either just by yourself or with a specialist over the phone or face to face; the only difference is that if you will ask a help from a specialist they will be able to help you out regarding the process of healing. If you will ask the difference on its effect between doing it by yourself or with a specialist over the phone or in person, the answer would be “the effects would all be the same” (this is if you follow what has been told you to do or what is indicated on the manual as how it was described to do. You should follow every step from one to the end so that you can make sure that you will get the expected result that was being said by the manual or the specialist.

If you want to know whether this would only be effective as a remedy for depression well it is for you to know that this would be used also as a remedy for different sickness or illness like pain, allergies, blood pressure, anxiety, trauma, weight loss, addiction, or even women’s issues, relationship issues and the likes. This would help a person be free from almost 85% of sickness that is caused by emotional disturbances.

In order to know more on eft and about eft emotional freedom do meet your eft practitioner to get rid of hopeless situations and to become prudent in overcoming depressions and thereby ultimately to have a sound and robust peace of mind to move forward.

Emotional Freedom Technique can be new to your ears or you have heard it already but you are not really quite sure what it means. Today you will have an overview about Emotional Freedom Technique or also called as EFT so that you will have an idea on its importance and use.

There is a saying that as we grow old, chances are problems will also grow more too and this would either help us learn and be strong but we can’t pass those problems that easily; most of the time, we are discouraged and hopeless when it comes to these problems that we thought we might not solve but then after some series of techniques a person might be able to move on and take everything easily.

Depression is a mood that a person might feel anytime if there is something happened that affects him so much; there is no escape to this kind of emotion and because of this Gary Craig studied and he discovered the use of EFT.

This technique was formulated from the theory which stated that any imbalance that was found on the energy system of the body have intense effects on a person’s individual psychology. With this technique, you will need to do tapping on some parts of the body that will give remedy after a few minutes. This only means that the technique is a great way of treatment for the body and this applies not only for depression but also for other physical and emotional issues like anxiety, trauma, weight loss, addiction, pain, allergies, blood pressure, children’s and women’s issues, even relationship issues, phobias, serious diseases, sexual performance and respiratory problems – all of these will be healed by the technique.

Along with the discovery of this psychological technique of healing, the proponents have found out that 85% of the body’s illness is caused by unresolved emotional issues; the body is being affected by the negative emotions that a person is always thinking and with the fact that he or she is getting problematic about it, the body gets to adjust with what he or she is thinking forming a balance between the state of mind and the body’s condition.

The Emotional Freedom Technique can be done face to face with a specialist or over the phone, they will help you out on applying the specific techniques to ease whatever your body feels and after just a few minutes you’ll get the healing that you expected. This technique applies to all ages from children to adult and with the right application you’ll find the healing to be effective in just a few minutes.

It is just an easy to apply technique that you can also do by yourself; you just have to get a copy of the manual that can be downloaded for free in the internet and that manual will guide you throughout the process. At first, you may take a few longer minutes or hours for application since it is just new to you but after some repetitions you will be able to master it and that is the key in order for you to apply it quickly as soon as you need a healing. This can be done over and over again for a person to memorize everything and all the procedures in the manual should be done exactly as it was described.

The author is a eft practitioner and specialist in applying eft psychological techniques like eft tapping of healing to form a balance between the state of mind and the body

My experience is that most people quit on themselves. We get all excited about a project or task, get to the difficult or tedious part and quit. When you quit on yourself, it isn’t just you that is affected. I now realize that the times in the past that I quit on myself have negatively that has impacted my life and the lives of my family and friends.

Do you run away from the challenges in your life or do you face them head on and say “bring it on”. Unfortunately many people have been taught to make decisions based on fear, it is their default. What is your default? I have had the privilege of entering a totally new environment in my mid 30’s, I learned how to scuba dive. Very shortly after I was certified I took a diving holiday to the Caribbean. Before my first dive I was informed that barracuda run/swim away from scuba divers, they are more afraid of us than we are of them. On my first dive I was able to put that to the test. There was the barracuda… I hesitated for a moment…decided to listen to what the dive master told me…swam toward the barracuda and sure enough he turned around and swam away. It was an awesome experience and I was able to prove to myself that sometimes my fear is all in my head. Challenging my fear was very powerful and eye opening.

An example where most of us would never quit; have you ever lost your car keys? If you have, did you ever give up looking for them? My belief would be probably not! We may get a little frantic and involve everyone we can in the search, but we keep looking until we find them.

Three actions have assisted me in becoming more of a winner than a quitter.

1) Look and act like a winner

2) Practice, practice, practice

3) Look at who you hang out with - do they quit?

1.Look and Act Like a Winner

Do - Be - Have… If we desire to change our results we must change what we do. For me the first step was to “do” as much as I could toward the results that I wanted. One change that I made quite quickly was “looking like a winner”. For me this involved how I “wrapped the package” to quote Joel Bauer. I became aware of my posture, how I stood, the way I walked and the look on my face. I started by standing up straighter, walking with purpose and confidence (even if I didn’t feel like it), and smiling more often. After a while all of these actions became habits. I had realized that if I wanted to be a winner that no one else would do it for me. I decided to “just do it” for myself.

“Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi

2.Practice, practice, practice

My strategic business coach John Di Lemme tells me that “Perfect practice makes perfect”. Many people have the belief that they are going to be able to do something perfect on the first attempt. I used to be one of them! Occasionally this will happen but it is rare. A great example is learning how to ride a bicycle, how do you fare? Were you able to just jump on that bicycle and RIDE? Probably not. However because we decided that we were going to learn and enjoy the benefits of riding the bicycle we practiced, practiced and practiced some more. Once we mastered the basics we continued on and learned how to do some tricks, like riding with our hands off the handle bars.

Personally I never mastered that one because after I fell and hurt myself a couple of times I quit. I told myself that I didn’t need to learn that anyway! To the best of my recollection that was the beginning of my quitting habit. I conquered the basics and never developed the expert level skill. It took me many years to recognize what I was doing. Now I keep “taking my hands off the handle bars” and develop skills to the expert level in the areas where I have a passion to do so. Can you pinpoint where you began to develop the habit of quitting? Send me an email, tell me the story, you will find my email address below. Sharing the story assists in changing the habit, plus it will also assist in recognizing where you quit in other areas of your life.

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.” George E Allen

3.Look at who you hang out with - do they quit?One of the ways you can predict your own future is by looking at who you associate with. If you are “hangin” with people who are going nowhere then you will go nowhere too. I used to smoke, drink excessively and party right along with all my friends. My life was not what I wanted it to be, not what I had dreamed of when I was growing up. With that lifestyle comes a limited ability to achieve results as I was not feeding myself physically or mentally with the right kind of “food” in order to prosper in any area of my life.

I realized I was fitting perfectly into Einstein’s definition of insanity which is “to continue doing the same thing, and expect different results”. I started to make some tough decisions. I changed who I associated with, through various means, because it was not always my decision. When I quit smoking and going to parties all the time my friends of the time quit calling, I was no longer “fun to be with”. When I started thinking differently and creating the habit of personal development, other friends wanted to know why I was wasting my time on “that stuff”. I found that we no longer had the same desires. My desires for my life had changed to the point where I had to move on. Today I hang out with very different people and my life reflects that, a change I am very happy that I made.

“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.” Barbara Pletcher

Are you ready to become a winner in your life? Are you ready to make the decision to “feed” yourself with the actions and behaviors you know you need to do? Go to my website, www.RetireWithCarla.com, enter your name and phone number and let’s find out if you qualify to join my team of champion winners.

Carla McNeil a HR Consultant in the Canadian Government. Also spent 20+ years in the hospitality industry she realized that if she continued doing what she was doing she would retire dead or dead broke just like 97% of the population. Now she has a home based business http://www.RetireWithCarla.com You’re Invited To Terrific Tuesday Teleclass 1-218-486-7200 Bridge 549706 Every Tuesday at 5:30 Pacific

God has made us awesome and wonderful creatures. He has created us with a mind that can enable us to achieve whatever we set out to accomplish.

Most of us do not realize that we have the power in us to achieve the things that we most desire.

~ Man can shape circumstances, but circumstances should not be allowed to shape the man. We should seize upon circumstances as instruments by which to work. We are to master them, but should not permit them to master us. ~

Ellen White

Did you know that you can easily re-program yourself to become the person you most desire to be?

How?

By slowing your brainwaves to the Alpha Level. You can achieve the Alpha brainwave state by learning meditation techniques that can be time consuming and difficult to master. Or you can achieve instant meditation by listening to sound or music that has been recorded in the Alpha brainwave range.

All the changes that you want to make in your life are now at your fingertips!

~ The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. ~

William James

What is Alpha?

Normally, we operate in the beta state. In this state our brain waves range from 15-26 HZ. When we are in the Alpha state our brain waves average range are around 7-12 HZ.

The Alpha state is a state of “aware relaxation”. Emotions experienced in the alpha state include a sense of well being, pleasure and tranquility. The Alpha brainwave level appears to link the conscious to the subconscious mind.

At the Alpha level you can re-program yourself and reap numerous advantages. The Alpha brain wave state:

Calms and relaxes your body and mind. The brain’s thought process is slowed and the mind is clear. Tension and stress just melts away.

Enhances Positive thinking and Emotional Healing. Releases Negative Attitudes. Research has found the Alpha brain wave rhythm puts you in a Positive state of Mind and Mood, enabling you to erase your negative attitudes and gives you an overall feeling of Wellness.

When you are in Alpha state you are mentally able to Re-Program yourself to achieve anything you Desire:

* Gain Complete Confidence

* Stop Addictive Habits

* Lose Weight

* Release Disabling Fears

* Goal Setting and Achieving

* Achieve any success you desire.

~ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~

George Bernard Shaw

Accelerates Healing and enables you to Achieve Vibrant Health

Enhances your Learning Ability, Memory, Creativity and your Ability to Focus, Concentrate and Think more clearly.

Boosts Peak Performance - During speaking engagements, competitive sports and in all areas where peak performance is critical.

You achieve the Alpha brain wave state with ease when listening to music or sound recorded in the Alpha range. The best times to go to your Alpha level are first thing in the morning and again before you go to bed at night.

While listening, think about the things that you want to change in your life and visualize that you have already gained success in that area. Visualize what that looks like physically and what that feels like emotionally. Always visualize your success in the present tense.

For example, to heal an ailment, visualize your white blood cells surrounding and smothering the ailment until it is gone. Visualize yourself completely healthy and well.

Give yourself positive affirmations, such as the positive affirmation by French physician Emile Coue, “Everyday, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

Practice Alpha meditation daily and gain the levels of success and healing you have been looking for. You have the power in you to change your life.

Petrea Dishman at www.awesomealpha.net

“What the World Needs Now Is Love” a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, performed by Jackie DeShannon, was a top 10 song during the summer of 1965. It captures the “love” movement of the 60’s. Although the poets, philosophers and songwriters have waxed on about the sublime heights of love for centuries there appears to be a scarcity of it in our modern world. The negative emotions of fear, guilt and envy seem to reign supreme.

The world certainly could use an abundance of love. Many lonely people are longing and crying for love’s nurturing flame to soothe their emotions and warm their spirit. And they seek in vain—residing in a world of wishful fantasies alternating with frustration and despair.

There are conditions that must exist before the majority of people are able to feel a personal love for their fellow humans—and the impersonal love for humanity that the metaphysicians advocate. Currently these conditions are lacking—due to a misguided faith in the destructive social systems of socialism and government interventionism.

The Sanctity of an Individual’s Life, Liberty and Property

If people no longer respect the sanctity of an individual’s life, liberty and property—how is it possible that the positive emotions of love, happiness and joy can thrive? Certainly there are rationally selfish individuals who believe in trading value for value. And they possess the integrity to practice this in their everyday activities. Tragically there are too many shortsighted individuals seeking benefits without giving much in return.

For far too long our economic system depended on easy money—easy money created out of thin air by a Federal Reserve policy of artificially lowering interest rates. Borrowers no longer needed to work hard and save for the future. They were supplied the means to live high on the hog—without any worry about obligations finally coming due. Of course this was the grand illusion. The payments have come due—and the piper is demanding payment.

Instead of admitting that the Federal Reserve System and government policies were destructive to long-term prosperity and abundance, our “glorious” financial and political leaders advocate massive financial bailouts—forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab. The individual’s life, liberty and property are being sold out wholesale. Because of this the whole rotten mess is collapsing all around us and stinking up the place. Do you honestly believe this will foster peoples’ love for their fellow humans? For now, most people seem content to shift the burden to others. Isn’t this what government bailouts are all about?

The world needs individuals who will respect another’s life, liberty and property. Love, harmony, peace and goodwill between people and nations depend upon this marvelous way of thinking and living becoming a fact of reality.

Unhampered Capitalism or the Destruction of the American Way

Anti-capitalistic beliefs that lead to government interventionism are destroying the values that our great nation was built on. Our two party system of democrats and republicans has deteriorated into gang warfare. Every group is attempting to live at the expense of all others groups—and in the process plundering the smallest minority of all—the individual.

A politician, who would stand up and demand an end to the group warfare and massive government handouts, would soon be an ex-politician. This is why a politician of honesty and integrity is a rarity. The voters will never stand for a politician (statesman) who hits them squarely with the facts of reality and demands support for yanking out the rotten economic teeth.

Honestly, I think that most people are basically decent. The establishment has brainwashed them into believing and accepting anti-capitalistic nonsense—force feeding them philosophic half-truths and economic lies. I believe it would be difficult to find an American citizen who consciously supports the destruction of the American Way of Life. Of course there are some altruists, do-gooders, world-improvers and socialists—members of the intelligentsia—who are doing everything to destroy the values that our founding fathers built America on. This way they can impose their preposterous “utopias” on innocent victims.

The Keynesian and socialist economic theories of the establishment are pure quackery. I think our current economic crisis, which was caused by this hogwash, reveals that this is true. Of course the establishment attempts to shift the blame to Laissez faire (unhampered) capitalism—when it was their anti-capitalistic policies that caused our gargantuan mess.

Praxeology (economics) proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Laissez faire capitalism is the only social system that can supply men and women the material and spiritual values that make life worthwhile. All other social systems thwart the individual’s efforts to achieve his goals and satisfy his desires.

If you would like to understand the mess our government and Federal Reserve System created, read the trade cycle theory of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. In addition, he irrefutably proves that unhampered capitalism is the only social system that is in harmony with economic law.

If you desire peace, love and harmony to reign supreme on earth you must realize that unhampered capitalism is precisely what the worlds needs now. Actually the world needed it yesterday, but alas, yesterday is gone.

Love, Understanding and Kindness

Now we have within our grasp a precious gift. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. And thrown in as a bonus is some understanding and kindness. How wonderful! Let’s celebrate! All right, I’ll come down from my natural high. Still, well you know. “When You Wish Upon a Star.” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” These beautiful, dreamy songs are almost 70 years old.

Since time immemorial, people have wished, and hoped, and dreamed of a world filled with rainbows, cotton candy, circuses, festivals, love fests, etc. I believe what they really long for is a life experienced with love, kindness and understanding. And it is theirs for the taking.

1. Respecting a person’s life, liberty and property is a prerequisite for a world filled with peace and harmony.

2. Unhampered capitalism is the only social system that offers people the chance to experience the wealth and prosperity they desire—and the peace and harmony that all men and women of goodwill long for.

In my wildest dreams I have a vision. I see a world of individuals who happily trade value for value. They are rationally selfish individuals who respect another’s life, liberty and property. They are also spiritually enlightened people, benevolent people, who naturally display love, kindness and understanding to their fellow humans.

And yes, I see something else. They exist in a highly advanced civilization. I’m not quite sure I understand what type of social system they have. Wait a minute! It is Laissez faire (unhampered) capitalism. My God! The progress is mind-boggling. Being a hapless member of a sabotaged economy it’s almost unrecognizable—but what I see is grander than any utopia our philosophers have attempted to create. My eyes, which are blinded by tears of joy, are now losing sight of this sublime vision. However, one happy future occurrence remains clear. Love, kindness and understanding are in abundance. What the world needs now is love, sweet love is no longer an unfilled dream—the human race has realized its highest aspiration.

Robert A. Meyer has been investigating and studying economics, philosophy, psychology and metaphysics for 30 years. He realizes there are basic principles of Human Action that will help you become successful. His knowledge that life is to be lived on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level allowed him to discover “The Libertarian Way.” He experiences its many pleasures and ecstasies on a daily basis. http://libertarianway.com/

When pain and hard times come into our lives, (whether emotionally or physically) we usually tense up to fight our problems, try to figure a solution, and depend upon our logical minds. We feel we must overpower our problems with our expertise. As soon as we feel pain or discomfort, we immediately try to stop it from happening and look for some way to soothe what we are going through. This orientation leads to increasing stress and a never ending battle with all that impinges upon us. After one problem is conquered, another often arises. There is little room for ease of mind.

We do not stop and wonder what exactly the pain is saying to us – is there a lesson to be learned? It is important to learn how to stop, listen and discover the meaning and lessons the suffering is trying to teach us. Suffering often comes when we feel defeated or overly exhausted. The distress may be the only way we can give themselves permission to stop, rest, and make much needed changes in our lives. Rather than tense up to fight our problems, there is another way to approach them that allows natural healing energies and understanding to flow.

In order to do this, it is important to adopt a meditative state of mind. In this state of mind we are taught to stop, pay attention and respect all that comes to us. It is as if we were re-focusing a camera, receiving our experience through a different lens. As we enter a more meditative state of mind, we see that pain is not bad. It arises from lack of balance and contains much information. We see our suffering as a messenger and learn how to respect and listen to it, healing begins in all kinds of ways.

Most of the time we are reluctant to notice the quality of our lives, moment by moment. We are all experts at brushing things under the carpet. Then the carpet begins to roll up at the corners,and we feel we are coming unglued. Our suffering is demanding now that we

pay attention to all that has been unattended to.Stop and listen to me, it pleads. We now must learn to “dialogue” with our pain. Instead of tensing up and gearing for battle, we pause and look for the lesson we have to learn. When we do this we find the suffering often holds a gift in its hands. As we learn to do this, to listen and reply, an entirely new life begins.

Learning To Listen

We usually listen only to part of ourselves. The rest is rejected. But no matter what we are rejecting, soon or later we must come up against it and face it straight on. Rejecting something never makes it go away. In fact, it will come back time and again, just for you to accept it. Everything needs to be loved and accepted, including our pain. When we allow ourselves to speak to the pain, and to listen to what it has to say, incredible changes can happen.

Simply close your eyes, stop fighting, and ask what the pain is saying to you, what does it need right now? Then become very quiet and listen deeply. An answer may not come right away. Patience is needed. This attitude is called making friends with the pain. Answers come in different ways. Some hear answers within. Others see images, some have dreams. In this process you learn to be open to all that comes and in this openness, you learn. As you do this process over and over, fear diminishes and changes that are needed often take place on their own naturally. Try and see.

Psychologist, radio show host,author of many books, including Jewish Dharma (A Guide to the Practice of Judaism and Zen. http://www.jewishdharma.com.Discover new, easy ways of dealing with hard times and pain.Contact her at: topspeaker@yahoo.com, (212) http://288-0028.www.brendashoshanna.com