FROM THE DESK OF:     MisterShortcut                                                                     

 

 As you've heard so many times before, talk is cheap.

 Here's an opportunity for you to begin taking the necessary steps toward providing material help for anyone you know who is afflicted with a serious disease.   Please keep in mind that the single greatest source of help you can tap into is behind the face that you see... in the mirror.  That face absolutely MUST want to help himself or herself.   Secondly, there is no coincidence in the word "disease" being made up of two smaller words... words that carry a great deal of meaning.

 

  At Children's Hospital in Denver, where children are hospitalized with the worst forms of asthma, the medicos determined that, like so many other "diseases," acute juvenile asthma is primarily due to what you might call "smother love."  Hence, the difficulty in breathing.  When they did a "parentectomy"--- separating the child from the parent --- wow!  What a difference. Please don't get on your high horse and think that a mother is being accused of not loving her child with all her heart. It is the excessive expression of that love, or, even more seriously perhaps, an incessant need to dominate and control, even when it comes from a desire to shape her child well. It's useful to remember that children have legs for a reason: to walk with them. No parent can walk all of the steps that his or her child must make on their own. We know for a historical fact that the more you allow you child to make their own rational decisions, the more often they make rational decisions, rather than decisions predicated exclusively on emotions of a given moment.o:p>

  Have you ever studied the causes of stomach ulcers? Have you learned what actually causes them?
Ulcers are rarely EVERY caused by what you're eating... they are directly caused by what's eating YOU.

 

 Back problems, skin problems such as psoriasis, digestive disorders, high blood pressure, gray hair, and so many other maladies are induced or caused or encouraged or made observably better or worse by how you choose to handle these challenges. Surely if you understood at a higher level you would surely perform at a higher level. Use this opportunity to understand how profoundly your health is affected by your moods and your attitudes, and even something as ridiculous-sounding as the number of times you smile or laugh each day. Like it or not, stress impacts the body instantly, and long-term. Learn more so you can live more. and/or exacerbated     Stress  is,  literally,  a  killer.

 

 If you like, continue bemoaning your state...  and see what happens.   Or, start getting busy.  Go to the library and get Norman Cousin's multi-million selling "Anantomy of An Illness." 

 

 Read it,       then  apply  what  you  read.

 Losers list all of the reasons why something won't work.

Winners list ways to go about making it work.

 

I suggest you make a list of EVERYTHING you & your family can do to help you CREATE the most focused state of mind to empower you to defeat this one challenge of the many that you have successfully overcome in your life.

 

When I wish you good luck, Friend, it's with the understanding that luck is nothing more, or less, than      

Laboring  Under  Correct  Knowledge.

 

I write these words from a personal point of view.  I was told by some pretty fancy doctors that I would have to spend the remainder of my life with a twisted, pained neck, made worse by a variety of spinal and neurological problems.  You see, a drunken driver hit the van I was a passenger in at more than 100 MPH.  Talk about injuries!!        I made a decision not to buy into that set of beliefs, and the results speak for themselves.   Is it an easy journey?  No, not necessarily.  But it is fairly simple.           Go to the library.      Get books and tapes.  Make a decision to search for healthy states of mind and body.      Think positively!

 

  There's no hocus-pocus about it:

The human mind always moves toward its most dominant thought.

When we have a strong enough "why," we invariably find a "how."

 

So, what's YOUR state of mind?     Are you willing to stop feeling sorry for yourself and start tapping into the astonishing resource that is referred to as the single most powerful computer in the world?

 

That computer is your mind.    YOUR mind.       Go for it.           Above all, remember:

We become what we think about.