How do you play the game of life?

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” ~ Chinese Proverb ~ When playing any game it is always good to know the rules. This is true to be able to play the game of life effectively. The rules are simple, [...]

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What game are you playing?

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela Life is a game and we are but players. We learn to play games soon after birth. The purpose of the games we play is to [...]

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What is the art of Zen?

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ Are you familiar with the book, “Zen and the Art of Archery?” [...]

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What do you say to yourself?

“The quality of conversation we have with ourselves directly impacts the results we experience in life and our ability to derive fulfillment at any given moment.” ~ on line motivator Have you noticed that you have an ongoing dialogue in your mind? This is self talk. What you say to yourself determines who you are. [...]

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Do you use affirmations?

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”~Claude M. Bristol ~ We have talked about meditation and visualization. There is one more technique that ranks along side these two. It is affirmations. These three; meditation, visualization, and affirmations, make an unstoppable team [...]

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What’s in your mind’s eye?

“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.”~ Cherie Carter-Scott ~ Have you heard the expression, “it’s all in your mind?” This usually indicates disbelief of something someone has said. [...]

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Why do people get sick?

“Wellness that is being allowed, or the wellness that is being denied, is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the [...]

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Are your thoughts serving you?

First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. ~ Abraham ~ You create your own reality. You do this by the choices you make on a daily basis. Think back to any point in your life. If you had made different choices you would be in a different place [...]

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What is your state of wellness?

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” — Thomas Merton We are living in some strange times. With all of our modern miracles in science and medicine we, as a society, are sicker now than in any time in mankind’s history. This is according to the [...]

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What are your New Year’s Resolutions?

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” Mark Twain Here we are beginning a new year. The last one really flew. Does it not seem that time is going faster or am I just getting older. [...]

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