Better me, Better my world.

To create a better me, I need to:
1. Maintain my health.

To keep me physically fit, I need to: a) Drink a glassful of water every one or two hours..
b) Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
Better still, miss out on the evening meal once every week..
c) Eat fresh fruit and vegetable, not over cooked.
d) Live with Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
e) Make time to do physical exercises and mental relaxation, like yoga and meditation.
d) Alter my mindset, so that I give my full attention to whatever I am doing.
Work while I work and play while I play.
e) Be thankful for all that I see in Nature, and all that I experience through the day.

2. Keep faith in myself.
To do that,

a) I do not compare my life with the life of others.others. I may have no idea what they feel about their life.
b) Have faith in my own capabilities. Feel that I can do what I wish to do,
c) I need to forgive myself for my past mistakes.
d) Love myself, love others. Hate no one, even when they wrong me. Forgive them too. Send my love to everyone.
e) Recognise that I am the king of my thoughts. Only I give meanings to whatever happens to me. No one is in charge of my feelings.
f) Smile and laugh more.

Wish you joy and abundance,

Guide to Health & Fulfilment of Life

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I take the liberty of passing on a guide to health and fulfilment that turned up in my e-mail box.

I do not know who compiled these, but the advice makes sense.

Here is the guide to health and fulfilment in life:

Health:1.       Drink plenty of water.
2.       Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3.       Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured.
4.       Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5.       Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer.
6.       Play more games.
7.       Read more books than you did in 2008.
8.       Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9.       Sleep for 7 hours.
10.     Take a 10-30 minutes’ walk every day. And while you walk, smile. 
 
Personality:
11.    Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 
12.    Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13.    Don't overdo. Keep your limits.
14.    Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15.    Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16.    Dream more while you are awake.
17.    Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18.    Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.. 
19.    Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20.    Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21.    No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22.    Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime. 
23.    Smile and laugh more.
24.    You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.  

Society:

25.    Call your family often..
26.    Each day give something good to others.
27.    Forgive everyone for everything.
28.    Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29.    Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30..    What other people think of you is none of your business.
31.    Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.. 

Life:

32.    Do the right thing!
33.    Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful..
34.    GOD heals everything.
35.    However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36.    No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37.    The best is yet to come.
38.    When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39.    Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy. 

Last but not the least:
40.    Please Forward this to everyone you care about. 


Wishing you joy and abundance,     Shree-1

Day Dreams

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Remembering that life's coin has 'JOY' stamped on both its side, I have compiled some jokes.

You will find them at http://tinyurl.com/265o47r

This afternoon I am dreaming of the 'better' world I want to live in.

I know it will never be.

But that is not to stop me dreaming of the better world our world can be.

Six things I want to happen in the world.

1. The world as one single United Nations.

     A confederation of nations, where each nation maintains its independent culture and laws. Yet each nation owes its allegiance to one world  figurehead, which may be a Council of Members.

    I am thinking of the European Economic Community as I write this. Or the United States of America, or the United Arab Emirates, or the Indian State. All these are unions of various peoples each maintaing their individual identities, yet conforming to the well being of the whole group.

   This idea needs to be extended to make the globe one unit.

2. No one feels defeated by life.

     Every one should have the assurance that in times of difficulties, there will be a system to cater for life's essential needs of food, clothing, shelter and health care.

     Much of strife and robbery and looting in the world is because if one does not fend for one's own self, then in  times of need, no one else will. So grab as much as you can while you can, by means fair or fowl.

3. Everyone is educated to knowing and living to their purpose in life.
    By their upbringing everyone will feel pride in maintaing their own self's economic independence by contributing to the welfare of the society and the world as a whole.

4. An education of culture for all which leads every one to a feeling of love, compassion, kindness for all other living persons and life, too. All will learn to forgive others should one feel that another has wronged him.

5. There will be no family conflicts. No national conflicts.
     There will be no armies.
   There will be no weapons of mass destruction.

6. There will be one religion for the whole world.

    Every one will believe in the teachings of this religion.

    These teachings would be given to every child any where on the eaeth, so all people will share common fundamental beliefs about the nature of life, and of each person's inherent powers by virtue of being a God himself.
    A fundamental tennet of this World Religion of peace and compassion will be that there is not One  God in all Universe.

     There are an infinite number of Gods.

      Each individual, from a babe to an elderly person on the death bed is a God.

     Thus every one will feel the Divinity in his/her own self, and see the others as equally Divine, a God.

     We will abolishing the idea of One God high up above bestowing abundance or disasters.

     Natural disasters will be accepted as a natural cycle of events, as is movement of stars, sun, planets and the sea waters.
      By being a God our own selves will know ourselves to be responsible for our lives.

    Our education would have taught us that our so called accidents or misfortunes or infirmities will be of our own design and choice before having taken birth on this earthly dimension. We would also know that at any moment by our thoughts and actions we can alter the course of choices made in a dimension before our birth. We would have been taught to not bemoan a tragedy, to accept it and go on with the joys of living with the tragedy not withstanding.

   We would know that with our beliefs and thoughts we can mould our lives to our liking.

   With love compassion, one-ness all over the world, every one will be happy.The World will be Happy.

     The world will be a better place.

      Any comments? The box below is empty for you to fill in.

   Wishing you joy and abundance.        Shree-1

  

Peace is in my Mind

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     All world one happy family.

The theme of this blog is that we want our world to be eradicated of strife and conflict.

 We want our world where peace reigns.

 But .......is peace of mind not an internal matter in my mind?

My peace of mind, a relaxed contended state wherein there is no strain, worry, anxiety, impatience, is not outside in a thing or an event.

My peace of mind is in my mind.

Whenever a situation causes me distress, I need to take a breather, and to recognise the the distress is of my own making.

Can I convert that stressful feeling to one of peace?

Having felt peace in my mind, instead of the stress, I am then free to tackle that situation in the most appropriate way.

Can I act from a position of keeping my head when others have lost theirs?

When we all lean to convert all events to peace in our minds, we shall have a world where peace reigns.

Wishing you joy and abundance.

Change Myself to change the World

                                       A Happy Village nestled amongst mountains & a lake

Hello! Welcome to "How Can I Make It A Better World?"

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I can do no better than quote Mahatma Gandhi, " We must be the change we want to see in the world."

If I want a world full of love and joy, I must first be full of love and joy.

To love myself, I must learn to respect my body, not to abuse it with wrong food, wrong amounts of food, food taken when not hungry, not adding harmful substances into my body, by doing adequate exercises, by breathing properly, by staying cool and calm under all circumstances, etc. etc.

Next time I feel the urge to have another piece of cake, because the taste in my mouth is so good, I need ask myself, "Do I love myself enough to resist that impulse which I know will only give me additional momentary pleasure, but harm my body in the long run?

If I love myself enough, I will be able to generate the self discipline to overcome that impulse to eat an extra slice of the cake.

The same approach can instil discipline in all my actions. Whether I get annoyed at the train's delay, or shout back at a person because they have offended me, depends on how much self-love I show to myself.

I have to be joyful myself, to see the happier slant of situations that come my way.

My added bonus for my self-disciplined life-style will be that I will be contributing to making the world a little better.

Wishing you joy and abundance,   Shree-1