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Questions Are The Answer - (Continued)

The answer came to him through an unlikely source: the sickening smell of decaying human flesh. There,only a few feet from his work, he saw a pile of bodies that had been shoveled into the back of a truck -men, women, and children, who had been gassed. The gold fillings had been pulled from their teeth; everything  that they owned -any jewelry-even their clothing, had been taken.  Instead of asking, "How could the Nazi s  be so despicable, so destructive? How could God make something so evil?Why has God done this to me?," Stanislavsky Lech asked a different question. He asked, "How can I use this to escape?" And instantly he got his answer. As the end of the day neared and the work party headed back into the barracks, Lech ducked behind the truck. In a heartbeat, he ripped off his clothes and dove naked into the pile of bodies while no one was looking. He pretended that he was dead, remaining totally still even though later he was almost crushed as mor...

Questions Are The Answer.............

They needed no reason. They came simply because he was of  Jewish descent. The Nazis stormed into his home, arresting him and his entire family. Soon they were herded like cattle, packed into a train, and then sent to a death camp n Krakow. His most disturbing nightmares could never have prepared him for seeing his family shot before his very eyes. How could he live through the horror of seeing his child's clothing on another because his son was now dead as the result of a "shower"? Somehow he continued. One day he looked at the nightmare around him and confronted an inescapable truth: if he stayed there even one more day, he would surely die. He made a decision that he must escape and that escape must happen immediately! He knew not how, he simply knew he must. For weeks he'd asked the other prisoners, "How can we escape this horrible place?" The answers he received seemed always to be the same. "Don't be a fool," they said, "the...

Knowing How to Make Yourself Feel Good .....

When I made a list for myself, I realized that playing music was one of the most powerful ways I could change my state quickly. Reading was another way to feel good because it changed my focus, and I love to learn - especially reading something instructional and informational, something I can immediately apply to my life. Changing my body movements is something I can do to instantly break out of a limiting state and into a resourceful  one: exercising on  my StairMaster with the music cranking full tilt, jumping up and down on my rebounder unit, running five miles uphill, swimming laps. Here are some others: dancing, singlng along with my favourite CD's watching a comedy film, going to a concert, listening to informational audio tapes. Taking a jacuzzi a warm bath. Making love to my  spouse. Having a family dinner where we all sit down at the table and chat about what's important to us. Hugging and kissing my children, hugging and kissing my spouse.  Creating a n...

Knowing How To Make Yourself Feel Good ****

On a business trip to Toronto, I felt physically stressed because of intense back pain. As the plane descended, I began to think about what I needed to do when I got to my hotel. It would already be 10.30 P.M., and I had to be up early the next morning to go to a conference.  I could eat something - after all I'd had nothing all day -but it was awfully late. I could do my paperwork and watch the news. In that moment I realized all of these actions were merely strategies for getting out of pain and into some level of pleasure. Yet none of them were all that compelling. I needed to expand  my list of of ways to experience pleasure, regardless of the time or place. So do you know how to make yourself feel good? This sounds like a stupid question, doesn't it? But really, do you have a set of specific and empowering ways to make yourself feel good at a moment's notice?Can you accomplish this without the use of food, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes or other addictive sources? I...

Change How You Feel .....

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley You've got to realize that you must take conscious control of running your own mind. You've got to do it deliberately; otherwise you're going to be at the mercy of whatever happens around you. The first skill you must master is too be able to change your state instantly no matter what the environment, no matter how scared or frustrated you are. This is one of the foundational skills people develop. They learn how to quickly change their state from being afraid and "knowing" they can't do something, to knowing they can do it and being able to take effective action.  Developing experiences like this in which you change quickly gives you tremendous power in your life - something you can't fully appreciate  until you really try it for yourself. The second skill is that you should be able to change state consistently in any en...

Change your States and you Change Your Life-

You can now change your state in so many ways, and they're all so simple. You can change your physiology immediately just by changing your breathing.  You can change your focus by deciding what to focus on or the order of things you focus on, or how you do it.  If you've been constantly focusing on the worst that could happen, there's no excuse for continuing to do that. Start now to focus on the best. The key in life is to have so many ways to direct your life that it becomes an art. The challenge for most people is that they have only a few ways to change their state: they overeat, overdrink, oversleep, overshop, smoke, or take a drug - none of which empowers us, and all of  which can have disastrous and tragic consequences. The biggest problem is that many of these consequences are cumulative, so we don't even notice the danger  until it's too late. That's what happened to Elvis Presley, and that, unfortunately, is also what's happening every day...

Ask and you will receive -

"Ask and you will receive, Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you"  - MATTHEW 7:7 The most powerful way to control focus is through the use of questions. For whatever you ask, your brain provides an answer; whatever you look for, you'll find. If you ask, "Why is this person taking advantage of me?" you're going to focus on how you're being taken advantage of, whether it's true or not. If you ask, "How can I turn this around?" you'll get a more empowering answer. Questions are such a powerful tool for changing your life. They are one of the most powerful and simple ways to change the way you're  feeling about virtually anything, and thus change the direction of your life at a moment's notice. Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. One of the best illustrations of this is the story of a young man who grew up in Alabama. About fifteen years ago, a seventh-grade bully ...