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A question we all ask at times. A good friend of mine, George the other day told me he has cancer. I have rarely seen him say anything unkind to anyone and for the most part seemed to be pretty happy with his life. He married a wonderful lady, lives in a nice home with a pretty good job.
So what happened? "Why me he wondered?" He never smoked, took any drugs or even worked in a coal mine. But this happens a lot to us today. I remember the days when our biggest fears centered on some type of bacteria or virus, but now it is our own immune systems that are letting us down. Our cells are attacking each other. Cancer was hardly heard of back in the 50s and 60s and today a half century later I heard a report that the cancer rate is at an all time high. Some are reporting 50% of us will have cancer at some time in our lives. What is happening?
I have another friend who has always been overweight. Nothing he does seemed to help. Diets, workouts, exotic drinks would help him lose a few pounds, but then he would eventually put them all back on with a couple more for good measure. He finally bit the bullet and had surgery. The physicians put a type of belt around his stomach called a gastric sleeve. He lost the weight alright, if he ate too much he would get sick and vomit. Now he is fine, or is he? Two years later he got caught for shoplifting. He had never stolen anything before. Is there a connection between the two? At first glance we say probably not, but let's delve into this a little further. John loved to eat or did he? Well, food made him feel better about himself. When he was down, he would grab a candy bar or some ice cream. He couldn't do this anymore, so John started buying clothes and stuff instead of eating. This started to cost him more and more money. He soon began to worry about his strained finances. Pretty soon he was in trouble. He wasn't making enough money to cover his new addiction. So he did the next logical thing (to him that is) and that was to continue to reward himself with things and just not pay for them. The problem with John wasn't the excessive eating or now buying, but using things outside himself to calm his inner self. John was eventually caught and arrested for shoplifting and now has a felony record following him which cost him his job.
So what does George and John have in common (and we are not talking about the Beatles.) We'll get to that in a moment.
Let's say you are building a house and no one on your island has any idea what electricity is or how it works. Neither your or your builder. The house is now finished and there are bare wires lying all over the house. The power is now on but the lights don't work and hardly anything else is working like it is supposed to. You have no idea why things in your house aren't acting the way you want them. One day you see some bare wires and decide to move one of them. You hear a loud POP and feel the shock of live current as it travels through your body and it hurts! Later you step on another exposed wire with your bare feet and again you feel the pain of the electric jolt searing your body. Every night you come home from work feeling anxious about living in your own home. You know you are going to get shocked, but do not know when or where. Six months later your body has taken on so much current you end up in the hospital. They treat you and release you. You are feeling better but the situation hasn't changed and you know you will probably end up back in the hospital again. After a few more bouts with being shocked and hurt you resign yourself to leaving a life filled with pain and anger. You cannot control what is happening and it seems no one else can do anything permanent to resolve this issue. This continues for years until one day you simply give up and prefer to die than to live another day in all this pain.
Sounds silly now doesn't it? Everyone knows the simple fix. Affix the wires to the outlets around your house. Then plug the appliances into the outlets and never stick your finger or anything metal into the openings. But one would have to understand electricity before knowing what do to with it. Once you know its purpose you can use it to make your life better than it was before. But you need to know first.
Picture yourself playing football and not knowing the rules. What are the chances of winning? What are the chances of you getting hurt?
Are the rules of life any different? If we knew what the rules were maybe we could play a better game?
Napoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" has been a huge success. He interviewed the top wealthy and successful CEOs for years. He found out what their secret was, but his publisher for fear the book would not sell told him to leave out the most important point each man told him. Your thoughts. Yes! The secret is how you think on a day to day basis. So Mr. Hill replaced your thoughts and infinite intelligence with "burning desire." How do I know this? It has been 50 years since the book was out and the original unedited edition was released and I bought a copy of it.
Your thoughts are the energy that creates your world. Your world, your life, your finances, your body's health are nothing more than the result of how you think about them. They all follow your thoughts.
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Namaste
Barry Brown
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