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100 DAYS to HAPPINESS - Day 3 (Vision)
Proverbs 29:18 - "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he."
The writer of Proverbs said this and he was right. (Assuming it was a he because it came from a patriarchal time period.)
VISION allows you to see OPPORTUNITY where most cannot. VISION allows you to see the FUTURE when many only look at their pasts. VISION allows you to see POSITIVITY when other see recession! Hmmmm....
Where there is no VISION the people perish... is a profound statement into how dangerous it is to lack a view point of prosperity and life. How can a person perish without VISION? They eat right. They get up, go to work everyday. They have nice homes and cars. They have "success" right? But without VISION these things become obsolete. Without VISION these things grow rust. Without VISION people lose jobs. Without VISION, Shit happens.
The Evangelist India.Arie said, "All the material things, they feel like chains when Your not here beside me. You're the reason I sing. Help me to remember the way." With VISION - SHIFT HAPPENS!
The 2nd part of the text... "but he who keeps the law, happy is he."
What is this LAW that the writer is talking about? Of course the Jewish people read and followed the Mosaic Law to the letter... or at least tried. The LAW was really the WAY TO BE HOLY BEFORE GOD. So the law is HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So we can conclude that the an accurate read of the text says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the RIGHTEOUS WAY, happy is he."
So today, as you meditate on your life... Are you keeping the way of RIGHTEOUSNESS? Not some moral code or a LAW, but are you right before YOU? Do you hold to your VISION for yourself. Are you walking in the RIGHTEOUSNESS you setup for yourself?
If you want a business, stop applying for J.O.B. (Jail Operating as a Business)
If you want a book. Start writing everyday and stop procrastinating.
If you want a degree. Start applying to schools and saving money. You might have to pay some out of pocket.
If you want to be wealthy. Start investing in your future. READ all you can about money management.
If you want LOVE. Start by LOVING yourself. I mean really!! LOVE YOU FIRST! Then people cannot help but follow suit.
Do you see what I see? Do you have a VISION?
I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
Make today the best day ever!! YOU ARE PROSPEROUS!
NAMASTE - "The GOD in ME honors the GOD in YOU!"
Minister Q!
202-491-7292
The writer of Proverbs said this and he was right. (Assuming it was a he because it came from a patriarchal time period.)
VISION allows you to see OPPORTUNITY where most cannot. VISION allows you to see the FUTURE when many only look at their pasts. VISION allows you to see POSITIVITY when other see recession! Hmmmm....
Where there is no VISION the people perish... is a profound statement into how dangerous it is to lack a view point of prosperity and life. How can a person perish without VISION? They eat right. They get up, go to work everyday. They have nice homes and cars. They have "success" right? But without VISION these things become obsolete. Without VISION these things grow rust. Without VISION people lose jobs. Without VISION, Shit happens.
The Evangelist India.Arie said, "All the material things, they feel like chains when Your not here beside me. You're the reason I sing. Help me to remember the way." With VISION - SHIFT HAPPENS!
The 2nd part of the text... "but he who keeps the law, happy is he."
What is this LAW that the writer is talking about? Of course the Jewish people read and followed the Mosaic Law to the letter... or at least tried. The LAW was really the WAY TO BE HOLY BEFORE GOD. So the law is HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So we can conclude that the an accurate read of the text says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the RIGHTEOUS WAY, happy is he."
So today, as you meditate on your life... Are you keeping the way of RIGHTEOUSNESS? Not some moral code or a LAW, but are you right before YOU? Do you hold to your VISION for yourself. Are you walking in the RIGHTEOUSNESS you setup for yourself?
If you want a business, stop applying for J.O.B. (Jail Operating as a Business)
If you want a book. Start writing everyday and stop procrastinating.
If you want a degree. Start applying to schools and saving money. You might have to pay some out of pocket.
If you want to be wealthy. Start investing in your future. READ all you can about money management.
If you want LOVE. Start by LOVING yourself. I mean really!! LOVE YOU FIRST! Then people cannot help but follow suit.
Do you see what I see? Do you have a VISION?
I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
Make today the best day ever!! YOU ARE PROSPEROUS!
NAMASTE - "The GOD in ME honors the GOD in YOU!"
Minister Q!
202-491-7292
100 DAYS to HAPPINESS - Day 2 (YOU are YOU)
"I tell you the only unethical thing I have ever been able to discover is for an individual to deny himself. And if an individual thoroughly enough denies himself, believe me, he's unethical because he'll wind up by denying himself and everybody else and everything across the eight dynamics, pang! So that's real unethical—also immoral.
"And you'll find out the downgrade of everybody was when he denied his own strength, truth and power. And so you have to solve that. But it's a solution that comes rather easily."
L. Ron Hubbard said this, and he was right!
A person who denies himself/herself starts to deny everything and everyone else in life. The only truly ethical person is one who KNOWS himself, who is in TRUTH to himself. Once you start to deny that TRUTH, once you start to get into false purposes for your life, you start to lose certainty in WHO you are.
So then the easy part, according to LRH, is to solve the falsity. Look at WHO you really are. You are not an imposed idea or an implanted belief. You are not your skin, muscles and bones. You are YOU! You are that you behind your mind. The YOU who orginates your thoughts.
Its interesting, that when we start to address people as a BEING, they start to feel better. They start to do better. They can finally say, "YOU SEE ME! YOU GET ME and I LOVE IT!"
~~Write comments on a time when you realized you were not what you believed, tell us when you realized who you really are - YOU!!
NAMASTE - "The GOD in ME honors the GOD in YOU!"
Minister Q!
202-491-7292 (Don't Forget to Call Me Today)
"And you'll find out the downgrade of everybody was when he denied his own strength, truth and power. And so you have to solve that. But it's a solution that comes rather easily."
L. Ron Hubbard said this, and he was right!
A person who denies himself/herself starts to deny everything and everyone else in life. The only truly ethical person is one who KNOWS himself, who is in TRUTH to himself. Once you start to deny that TRUTH, once you start to get into false purposes for your life, you start to lose certainty in WHO you are.
So then the easy part, according to LRH, is to solve the falsity. Look at WHO you really are. You are not an imposed idea or an implanted belief. You are not your skin, muscles and bones. You are YOU! You are that you behind your mind. The YOU who orginates your thoughts.
Its interesting, that when we start to address people as a BEING, they start to feel better. They start to do better. They can finally say, "YOU SEE ME! YOU GET ME and I LOVE IT!"
~~Write comments on a time when you realized you were not what you believed, tell us when you realized who you really are - YOU!!
NAMASTE - "The GOD in ME honors the GOD in YOU!"
Minister Q!
202-491-7292 (Don't Forget to Call Me Today)
100 DAYS to HAPPINESS - Day 1
Four Essentials for Happiness by Brian Tracy
You may have a thousand different goals over the course of your lifetime, but they all will fall into one of four basic categories. Everything you do is an attempt to enhance the quality of your life in one or more of these areas.
The first category is your desire for happy relationships. You want to love and be loved by others. You want to have a happy, harmonious home life. You want to get along well with the people around you, and you want to earn the respect of the people you respect. Your involvement in social and community affairs results from your desire to have happy interactions with others and to make a contribution to the society you live in.
The second category is your desire for interesting and challenging work. You want to make a good living, of course, but more than that, you want to really enjoy your occupation or profession. The very best times of your life are when you are completely absorbed in your work.
The third category is your desire for financial independence. You want to be free from worries about money. You want to have enough money in the bank so that you can make decisions without counting your pennies. You want to achieve a certain financial state so that you can retire in comfort and never have to be concerned about whether or not you have enough money to support your lifestyle. Financial independence frees you from poverty and a need to depend upon others for your livelihood. If you save and invest regularly throughout your working life, you will eventually reach the point where you will never have to work again.
The fourth and final category is your desire for good health, to be free of pain and illness and to have a continuous flow of energy and feelings of well-being. In fact, your health is so central to your life that you take it for granted until something happens to disrupt it.
Peace of mind is essential for every one of these. The greater your peace of mind, the more relaxed and positive you are, the less stress you suffer, the better is your overall health.
The more peace of mind you have, the better are your relationships, the more optimistic, friendly and confident you are with everyone in your life. When you feel good about yourself on the inside, you do your work better and take more pride in it. You are a better boss and coworker. And the greater your overall peace of mind, the more likely you are to earn a good living, save regularly for the future and ultimately achieve financial independence.
Life is very much a study of attention. Whatever you dwell upon and think about grows and expands in your life. The more you pay attention to your relationships, the quality and quantity of your work, your finances and your health, the better they will become and the happier you will be.
Action ExercisesHere are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, take time on a regular basis to think about what would make you really happy in each of the four areas.
Second, set specific, measurable goals for improvement in your relationships, your health, your work and your finances and write them down.
Third, resolve to do something every day to increase the quality of some area of your life - and then keep your resolution.
-- Brian Tracy
Make it a BEST WEEK YET!
You may have a thousand different goals over the course of your lifetime, but they all will fall into one of four basic categories. Everything you do is an attempt to enhance the quality of your life in one or more of these areas.
The first category is your desire for happy relationships. You want to love and be loved by others. You want to have a happy, harmonious home life. You want to get along well with the people around you, and you want to earn the respect of the people you respect. Your involvement in social and community affairs results from your desire to have happy interactions with others and to make a contribution to the society you live in.
The second category is your desire for interesting and challenging work. You want to make a good living, of course, but more than that, you want to really enjoy your occupation or profession. The very best times of your life are when you are completely absorbed in your work.
The third category is your desire for financial independence. You want to be free from worries about money. You want to have enough money in the bank so that you can make decisions without counting your pennies. You want to achieve a certain financial state so that you can retire in comfort and never have to be concerned about whether or not you have enough money to support your lifestyle. Financial independence frees you from poverty and a need to depend upon others for your livelihood. If you save and invest regularly throughout your working life, you will eventually reach the point where you will never have to work again.
The fourth and final category is your desire for good health, to be free of pain and illness and to have a continuous flow of energy and feelings of well-being. In fact, your health is so central to your life that you take it for granted until something happens to disrupt it.
Peace of mind is essential for every one of these. The greater your peace of mind, the more relaxed and positive you are, the less stress you suffer, the better is your overall health.
The more peace of mind you have, the better are your relationships, the more optimistic, friendly and confident you are with everyone in your life. When you feel good about yourself on the inside, you do your work better and take more pride in it. You are a better boss and coworker. And the greater your overall peace of mind, the more likely you are to earn a good living, save regularly for the future and ultimately achieve financial independence.
Life is very much a study of attention. Whatever you dwell upon and think about grows and expands in your life. The more you pay attention to your relationships, the quality and quantity of your work, your finances and your health, the better they will become and the happier you will be.
Action ExercisesHere are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, take time on a regular basis to think about what would make you really happy in each of the four areas.
Second, set specific, measurable goals for improvement in your relationships, your health, your work and your finances and write them down.
Third, resolve to do something every day to increase the quality of some area of your life - and then keep your resolution.
-- Brian Tracy
Make it a BEST WEEK YET!
Friday, March 27, 2009
In Repsonse...
There is a lot of information about the benefits of increased nutrition for those who are HIV+.
The idea is that HIV is not a "deadly disease" as the propoganda would have us believe. HIV does not kill people. I know plenty of people that have lived 15-20-25 years with HIV and are healthy and vibrant. Many of these people have been intermitently on and off meds. Some are currently using them. However, one thing is clear... they have all seen the VALUE in NOURISHING the BODY, FREEING the MIND and HEALING the SPIRIT.
Now I know this sounds like a lot of esoteric, spiritual hoop-lah. But suffice it to say, the most clear and evident axiom in all the universe is: "THE ONLY TRULY THERAPUTIC (curative) AGENT IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE SPIRIT."
I think someone said, "Your Faith has made you well."
If we let this be our truth moving forward, our bodies would fourish, our minds would not be plagued or ravaged by negativity and our lives would be BETTER!
So Rafer, to answer your question: "Yes, I do have specific data as it relates to NUTRITION and HIV."
I believe the first thing we have to do is DISAGREE with the collective consciousness, that HIV is a slow, silent killer! Agreement is REALITY. That which we agree is true is true for us. So all my brothers and sisters with HIV, make a decision right now that you are not being taken out by HIV. Make a decision right now that you are LIVING LIFE, and LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.
That is the start to your healing. That is the start to your new you!
Next we will talk about the BASIC NUTRITIONAL REQUIRMENTS of an HIV+ person!
I love you all!
Quenton Stroud
Nameste - "The God in Me Honors the God in You"
Tags: http://nbgmnetwork.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=www.forlife.myzija.com
The idea is that HIV is not a "deadly disease" as the propoganda would have us believe. HIV does not kill people. I know plenty of people that have lived 15-20-25 years with HIV and are healthy and vibrant. Many of these people have been intermitently on and off meds. Some are currently using them. However, one thing is clear... they have all seen the VALUE in NOURISHING the BODY, FREEING the MIND and HEALING the SPIRIT.
Now I know this sounds like a lot of esoteric, spiritual hoop-lah. But suffice it to say, the most clear and evident axiom in all the universe is: "THE ONLY TRULY THERAPUTIC (curative) AGENT IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE SPIRIT."
I think someone said, "Your Faith has made you well."
If we let this be our truth moving forward, our bodies would fourish, our minds would not be plagued or ravaged by negativity and our lives would be BETTER!
So Rafer, to answer your question: "Yes, I do have specific data as it relates to NUTRITION and HIV."
I believe the first thing we have to do is DISAGREE with the collective consciousness, that HIV is a slow, silent killer! Agreement is REALITY. That which we agree is true is true for us. So all my brothers and sisters with HIV, make a decision right now that you are not being taken out by HIV. Make a decision right now that you are LIVING LIFE, and LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.
That is the start to your healing. That is the start to your new you!
Next we will talk about the BASIC NUTRITIONAL REQUIRMENTS of an HIV+ person!
I love you all!
Quenton Stroud
Nameste - "The God in Me Honors the God in You"
Tags: http://nbgmnetwork.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=www.forlife.myzija.com
SHIFT HAPPENS!
I woke up this morning, said my prayers, got my can of Zija from the refrigerator and began my morning meditations.
This morning it came the me that "SHIFT HAPPENS!"
I know, I have heard it before too. I first heard it from Bishop Carlton Pearson. However, this shift that I am talking about is particularly important to Black Gay Men of today.I feel a shift happening in our consciousness. There is a wind of change blowing in the air that is whispering, "Go here. Move there. Try this. Change that." This changing wind is offering us a great opportunity to BE-DO-HAVE more than we ever have as a body of brothers.
In WELLNESS, we are making a dramatic turn-around (back to the old ways) in our thinking. Dr. Robert C. Stone, D.O. has noticed this too. He said that he is excited about the new SHIFT from dis-ease treatment to health promotion. He noticed that we as a collective have begun to change the way we perceive and receive wellness. We have begun to look at overall well-being instead of the problem-solving paradiagm.
We are moving from treating HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Heart Dis-ease, High Blood Pressure, Poor Eye-sight, Prostate Cancer, etc. to TREATING OURSELVES RIGHT! (By the way, all those things just mentioned are eliminated in a highly, nutrient-rich body) You see? What we put energy into grows. By continually asserting that we need to treat the illness slowly negates Ourselves. That's like saying, "Let me focus on the shadow so that I can know there is a light at my back."
Instead of TREATING the illness, TREAT YOU BETTER. LOVE YOU MORE! Be the best You You can be. You see how this works? Understand, my brothers, this is the only way to make these issues a thing of the past. In this NEW THOUGHT, the LIGHT is in front of you; the shadow is behind.
In our RELATIONSHIPS, we have begun to re-cognize (re-know) that the modality of loveless connections and flesh-driven lusts are not the most work-able of intimacies. The Prophetess Lauryn Hill said it best, "To finally be in love and know the real meaning of a lasting relationship, not based on ownership. I trust every part of you, for all that you say you'll do... Oh, you inspire me, to be the HIGHER ME..." Our connections are getting stronger, more sincere and wonderfully so.
In FINANCES, we have begun to see that an economy driven by consumerism and profiteering is not the best system on which to base our security. The current economic state is testiment and Teacher of this lesson. We have now realized (to understand and make real) true security and stability comes from investing in ones self-actualization, ones BEING-ness, ones education and ones understanding and brotherhood with others. This is the only way poverty, hunger, dis-ease, HIV/AIDS and a host of other ills that plague mankind will no longer have force in our world.
In conclusion, I am convinced and convicted that a SHIFT is HAPPENING in our life-time. We are the trailblazers to a re-shaping of America and the world. So I say, "Dive in - this is some GOOD SHIFT!"
ALL IS LOVE!
Quenton Stroud
Nameste - "The God in Me honors the God in You"
wwww.forlife.myzija.com
This morning it came the me that "SHIFT HAPPENS!"
I know, I have heard it before too. I first heard it from Bishop Carlton Pearson. However, this shift that I am talking about is particularly important to Black Gay Men of today.I feel a shift happening in our consciousness. There is a wind of change blowing in the air that is whispering, "Go here. Move there. Try this. Change that." This changing wind is offering us a great opportunity to BE-DO-HAVE more than we ever have as a body of brothers.
In WELLNESS, we are making a dramatic turn-around (back to the old ways) in our thinking. Dr. Robert C. Stone, D.O. has noticed this too. He said that he is excited about the new SHIFT from dis-ease treatment to health promotion. He noticed that we as a collective have begun to change the way we perceive and receive wellness. We have begun to look at overall well-being instead of the problem-solving paradiagm.
We are moving from treating HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Heart Dis-ease, High Blood Pressure, Poor Eye-sight, Prostate Cancer, etc. to TREATING OURSELVES RIGHT! (By the way, all those things just mentioned are eliminated in a highly, nutrient-rich body) You see? What we put energy into grows. By continually asserting that we need to treat the illness slowly negates Ourselves. That's like saying, "Let me focus on the shadow so that I can know there is a light at my back."
Instead of TREATING the illness, TREAT YOU BETTER. LOVE YOU MORE! Be the best You You can be. You see how this works? Understand, my brothers, this is the only way to make these issues a thing of the past. In this NEW THOUGHT, the LIGHT is in front of you; the shadow is behind.
In our RELATIONSHIPS, we have begun to re-cognize (re-know) that the modality of loveless connections and flesh-driven lusts are not the most work-able of intimacies. The Prophetess Lauryn Hill said it best, "To finally be in love and know the real meaning of a lasting relationship, not based on ownership. I trust every part of you, for all that you say you'll do... Oh, you inspire me, to be the HIGHER ME..." Our connections are getting stronger, more sincere and wonderfully so.
In FINANCES, we have begun to see that an economy driven by consumerism and profiteering is not the best system on which to base our security. The current economic state is testiment and Teacher of this lesson. We have now realized (to understand and make real) true security and stability comes from investing in ones self-actualization, ones BEING-ness, ones education and ones understanding and brotherhood with others. This is the only way poverty, hunger, dis-ease, HIV/AIDS and a host of other ills that plague mankind will no longer have force in our world.
In conclusion, I am convinced and convicted that a SHIFT is HAPPENING in our life-time. We are the trailblazers to a re-shaping of America and the world. So I say, "Dive in - this is some GOOD SHIFT!"
ALL IS LOVE!
Quenton Stroud
Nameste - "The God in Me honors the God in You"
wwww.forlife.myzija.com
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