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For almost 30 years, Dr. Dean Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Excerpted from his book Love and Survival.
One of the comprehensive lifestyle changes he discussed was to rediscover inner sources of peace, joy and well-being. The idea behind Everyday Oasis.com was to help people realize the importance of learning to relax, renew and reconnect on a daily basis. Dr. Ornish demonstrates that there are real measurable health benefits to learning to relax. And learning to really reconnect at a deep level with ourselves and then with others will be like a daily dose of aspirin only easier on the stomach.
So exactly how do you reconnect and start enjoying the inner sources of peace, joy and well-being? To start, you have to realize that you are the creator of your emotional responses to everything that happens in your life. Yes, it is true, no matter how much you want to blame your responses on everyone and everything, in reality, you are the one who controls the response and we all know what a highly emotional negative response does to your heart rate, breathing, muscle tension, brain waves, and nervous system.
How many times a day do you end up in a situation where you are having a negative interaction? Now think about the last time you looked at someone with complete love and compassion and gentleness. Think of that picture in your mind and feel those feelings, not just for a moment but really let yourself feel those feelings down deep inside you.
Concentrate that emotional response of love, compassion and gentleness so that you begin to feel it permeate your entire body, muscle group by muscle group until your whole body vibrates from that emotion. That is one way to reconnect yourself, mind, body and spirit. You become disconnected when you feel one thing, and think another, and your body does something totally different. We spend most of our lives disconnected. How many times have you said, “I need to take better care of myself.”
But then you don’t work out or you grab fast food that has no nutritional value and you allow yourself to wallow in negative thoughts about yourself and/or others. You’ve heard the statement –
Everything you have in your life began as a thought.
Try choosing positive, life – affirming thoughts so that the life you lead will be the life you really wanted to lead.
The choice starts way before something happens. We all know that things are going to happen in our lives, so we must first begin with understanding ourselves and what we value for ourselves. When you come from an understanding of what you value then you can make up your mind ahead of time and decide how you will handle situations that come up in life in a more positive way.
You can be proactive and decide that you will not give others the power to make you happy or sad or angry or depressed. You can decide that your feelings come from inside of you and are a chemical reaction to the myriad of previous emotional responses you’ve had over the years in similar situations.
The great thing about knowing this is that you can take a proactive stance right now about how the rest of your life, beginning today, will go. You can begin to change the reaction by stopping and taking a good long look at your response and then realizing that at this very moment you can choose a better response. Practice this mode of reprogramming your negative automatic responses and see what a difference it makes in how you feel and how others react to you.
You have the power to change your world and it resides within you. Taking the time out of your day to reconnect with yourself and start directing that power in the way you really want it to go will be the most beneficial thing you can do for yourself and all those around you.
Are you living your own life, or someone else’s idea of your life?
Whether you own your own business, are self-employed or you work for someone else or a large corporation you have within you the power and the ability to create the life you would really enjoy living without frustration, depression, anger, envy, jealousy, and without hurting other people that you love. When you live from the Core You, the life you create in each moment is inspired with hope and joy and love; not pain, heartache, fear, anxiety and frustration.
Feeling like you can barely make it through another day leaves you in a state of constant overwhelm and every spark of energy is spent just trying to survive the day. This kind of life is focused on the “doing” state rather that the “being” state. You are a human being not a human doing. Focusing on the “doing” results in a lack of attention to the Core You. You spend all your time trying to figure out what to “do” next. This is because we were never taught that we hold all the answers to all our questions, dreams, and aspirations within us. And if we were told that all our answers lie within, we were never taught how to access them.
Naturally most people do not even realize there is a Core You but the truth is, you are not your body and you are not your mind. The Core You is what animates the body and the mind and when you access the Core You through deep, cellular, vibrational Relaxation, you combine these elements for access to your true power and light and align yourself with the Source of All There Is. Now you are living from your true power and all that you “do” is inspired and you begin to see your desires appear in your life to your great pleasure and delight. No more chasing after what you want and always coming up short of your goal. Living from the Core You allows your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs to line up so that what you want is drawn to you. Now you watch as serendipity, coincidence, and chance bring the people, places, and events into focus right before you eyes. Yes, you truly are that powerful!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles.
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