Guest Writer: Ralston Heath

The human brain uses the senses and sees the world as “it appears to be” through these five senses. It sees disaster and destruction, it feels pain and suffering, it hears limitation and poverty, it smells disease and pollution, and tastes hatred and death.

The mind is perfectly capable of controlling the brain; the brain is only an organ, a tool of the mind. The mind is your spirit, it is who you are. Your spirit is what causes you to live.

The Law of Spirit is usually given in the shortened version that many of you have probably heard; “as above, so below” but is more accurately stated “as it is within so it is without.” Everything that exists now was started with a thought. Your mind, also known as your spirit, first thought of something and now it is real. You bring into reality that which you think of.


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Guest Writer: Leeann Simons

It’s upsetting that so many people mentally categorize food as good or bad. “Good carbs” and “bad carbs,” “good fat” versus “bad fat.” Why does this bug me? Apparently, when you eat a “good carb,” that makes you a good person, and when you eat a “bad carb,” that makes you a bad person.

Why is the individual who eats whole grain bread better than the person who eats white bread? As a Registered Dietician, I am not crazy about hydrogenated peanut butter on white bread, but I know plenty of successful, bright, healthy people who hate natural peanut butter and love mushy white bread. And you know what? They are perfectly capable of making other healthy food choices, as well as good decisions in the other parts of their lives.

These “good” and “bad” assumptions on food choices are a total waste of our energy. When you eat the yummy Haagen Daz ice cream on a hot summer afternoon and suddenly feel like a bad person for doing so, you feel guilty. When you doubt your food choices, then you doubt the rest of the choices you make in your life. After all, if you can’t trust yourself to make good food choices, can you trust yourself at all?

Let’s stop this craziness! What about thinking of food choices as simply “healthier” or “not as healthy”? “Essential” or “nonessential”? It is a fact that it’s healthier to choose whole wheat bread over white bread, since there are more nutrients in the whole grains than in the refined flours. In reality, the TRUTH is this has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kind of person you are, your character or, (if I may use this term), “badness.” I believe that if we allow ourselves to relax, we will ultimately create a balance and most of our choices will be ones that fall into the healthy column. And, more importantly, we will also learn to trust ourselves in making good decisions in the other areas of our lives.

Becoming “at peace with food” involves a journey resulting in a new relationship with food. Instead of being marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and competition between you and the food you eat, food will take its place as one of the many activities in your life, along with family, friends, working and being active. And, like these other activities, it should be pleasurable.

In order to become truly at peace with food, you need to learn about yourself and why you have the relationship you do with the food you eat. Like all relationships, your relationship with food took time to develop, and it will take time to change.

And that’s the truth!

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I’m sure you have a bright idea hidden somewhere in the back of your mind that you just can’t wait to test out. Of course you’re not the only one with the bright idea. So what motivates you to churn those creative, or even inspiring juices to its utmost flavor?

It’s always best to set up a personal goal where you can accomplish the most in record time, maybe like mowing the lawn in an hour before the big game on TV. A correct and positive attitude in whatever you do will make things easier, and even enjoyable.

Here are some tips to make it through the week even if you’re just sitting in your favorite couch. An idea takes time to form in your head and is always at work while you are busy sitting.

Having a bit of positive thinking can help you realize things that are never thought possible.

DAY 1:
Take passionate action toward living your life by design.
Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void. This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it. Read more »