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Issue # 473, Week of October 2-3, 2007
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In this issue:
-- Quotes of the Week
-- Personal Growth Products and Services
-- Article: Relieving Stress from the Inside Out - By Jacquie Hale
-- Article: The Secret to Letting Go of Every Fear - By Guy Finley
-- Book Review: The Secret of Letting Go - By Guy Finley
-- Brief News of the World
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*** Quotes of the Week ***
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark
Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer and Humorist
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. - Jawaharlal
Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian Prime Minister
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*** Article: Relieving Stress from the Inside Out - By Jacquie Hale ***
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How do you relieve stress? Do you work out? Rethink your schedule? Grit your
teeth and just do it? Meditate? Work harder? Break down? Laugh? Cry? Escape?
What's your method of relieving stress? My experience with clients and
friends is that relief comes from the inside. Yes, you can get a massage and
feel great -- for awhile. You can run, power-lift, bicycle, do yoga, or
meditate, but if you don't change your internal perspective, you are only
building levees that can break and swamp you. The tide always comes back in.
Back in the 80's, I had a fabulous job, and I made a great salary, managing
a small staff and teaching people how computers could help them work more
efficiently and effectively. I had a position that I was proud of, and my
self-image bordered on overly appreciative. At the same time, I was
struggling to match what the owners of the company wanted with what I knew
my staff needed. I was angry a lot of the time; I was working harder,
playing harder, and I never felt secure. I was exhausting myself.
Eventually, I thought, "I can become the best Instructional Designer in the
world and kill myself in the process, or I can find a more peaceful way to
live." Luckily, for me and the people I interact with, I chose the latter.
Don't think I changed my lifestyle -- I didn't. In the years after I reset
my internal compass, Jim and I put two daughters through college and built a
second home in the mountains.
Twenty years later, when I talk about serenity being an inside job, I know
what it took for me to become serene. It took a decision to not run in the
rat race. First I changed corporations, but that was more of the same; it
just had a different package. Eventually, I decided to freelance my work --
that way I could work at home and avoid the corporate stewpot. I was my own
boss, and I called the shots. My rule was to not work more than 8 hours a
day, 5 days a week. During the next 15 years, I maintained my sanity while
my freelance colleagues experienced monstrous schedules that left them
exhausted and isolated.
How did I do that? I decided that my life was going to be quietly
productive. I never had an unhappy client, and I never missed an opportunity
because I said, "I work 40 hours a week, no more." My internal goal was to
do my work very well and still have a life. Life and work came easily. I
believe this occurred because I expected it to. My colleagues expected hard
work and long hours. I expected interesting work, time to pursue other
interests, great vacations, and a rewarding social life. I got what I
expected, and they got lots of work, missed social events, and cancelled
vacations.
The obvious point of this story is that stress relief comes from changing
your attitude -- then, if necessary, changing your life. How you do that may
take all the creativity you can muster. It probably takes cooperation from
your family and friends. I am sure that if your life is stressful, you will
not find lasting relief until you decide your life must be different. Don't
cancel that appointment with your massage therapist or stop exercising.
Those techniques are important relievers on your way to serenity! Do make a
commitment to do whatever it takes to live with calmness and serenity while
doing what you intend in the world. You can make it happen once you decide
to do it.
About the Author:
Jacquie Hale is a Life Planning Coach who helps people discover their
natural genius -- their inner wisdom and talents -- so they can create the
life they love and can feel excited to be living every day with passion and
joy. Jacquie shares her own natural genius in books, seminars, email
coaching, and through one-on-one coaching (by phone). She offers several
free self-improvement tools at her website,
http://www.yoursecretofsuccess.com
Check out the Experts page for Jacquie Hale, the Official SelfGrowth.com
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*** Article: The Secret to Letting Go of Every Fear - By Guy Finley ***
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Are you afraid of some condition in your life? Here's a life-transforming
secret: that seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the
problem. It is your REACTION that is fearful. This is why if you will become
CONSCIOUS of your condition instead of afraid of it, you will change forever
your relationship with fear.
It is only within this special kind of inner-relationship that there is real
safety, because now you are interacting with fear in an entirely new way.
You are no longer letting it dictate to you how to act or what to do.
Instead, you are aware of the fear. You are learning to quietly observe and
study it. And, each day, as you discover something new about the strange and
shaky nature of your own fearful reactions, they begin to lose their power
over you.
Why? Because you are at last seeing them for what they have always been:
unintelligent mechanical forces. You are slowly becoming stronger than they
are because by seeing them as they are-not as they would have you see
them-you have helped yourself to climb above and outside of their influence.
This self-insight is the difference between trembling through your life and
being in command of it.
To be consciously afraid means that you know you are frightened, but at the
same time you know that these very fears, as real as they may seem, are not
you. And no wrong reaction can keep you captive once you begin to see it for
what it is.
Fear is, and has always been, nothing but a self-limiting reaction that we
cling to in the darkness of our present life-level, having mistaken it for a
shield of self-protection. But, just as the faintest of early morning
sunlight can dispel the night-long darkness, so does the smallest of
insights into a persistent fear lead to letting it go.
You can prove this powerful principle to yourself anytime you want. Just
dare to proceed even while being afraid. But remember, your new aim isn't to
be courageous or to try and act strong in the face of fear. No. We've seen
that this won't work. You simply want to be more curious about your
frightened thoughts and feelings than you want to believe in them.
If you will follow this simple but higher instruction, not only will you
start to see these habitual reactions that have been keeping you scared and
running, you'll actually start seeing THROUGH them. This is where the real
miracle occurs.
Each new insight into the actual nature of these negative reactions removes
some of their power over you. And their loss is your gain. You are stronger
now and you know it. You also know this new strength will never fail you
because it isn't just the temporary appearance of a bold opposite. This new
strength of yours is the ABSENCE of an old weakness.
Let's look at just one of the ways in which this principle of putting
self-illumination before psychological self-protection can turn fear into
fearlessness.
Do you know someone who you would rather run from than run into? Most of us
do! Nevertheless, starting right now, resolve never again to avoid any
person that scares you.
In fact, go ahead and walk right up to that critical man or aggressive woman
and say or do exactly what you want instead of letting the fear tell you to
do what it wants. Have no ideas at all about the way things should or
shouldn't go. You are there to watch and learn about yourself, not to win an
ego victory. Let that person see you shake if that is what starts to happen.
What do you care? Besides, it is only temporary. That unpleasant person
before you can't know it, but you are shaking yourself awake.
For the first time, you are letting your reactions roll by instead of
letting them carry you away. As you stand there, momentarily apart from your
usual self and working hard to remain as inwardly watchful as you know how,
you can see that this flood of previously unconscious reactions has its own
life story, a shaky sort of story that up until now you had embraced as your
own. But now you are beginning to see the whole story. The fears do not
belong to you. Here is the explanation:
You have never been afraid of another person. The only thing you have ever
been frightened by is your own thoughts about that person. Yes, you did feel
fear, but it wasn't yours, and it wasn't toward someone stronger than you.
The fear you felt was in what you THOUGHT he or she was thinking about you.
Amazing, isn't it? You have been afraid of your own thoughts! And seeing
this ends this. Now you can let this thought-self go, because no one holds
on to terror.
(Excerpted from "The Secret of Letting Go," Rev. Edition, Llewellyn, 2007)
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*** Book Review: The Secret of Letting Go - By Guy Finley ***
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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over! For
the daring person who wishes to turn this possibility into reality, the keys
to less stress and brighter days are found in Guy Finley's newly revised and
expanded best-selling book, "The Secret of Letting Go." Just as gentle
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With more than 200,000 copies sold, Guy Finley's message of self-liberation
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*** Brief News of the World ***
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Positive:
* Mandela AIDS charity announces benefit concert *
Former South African President Nelson Mandela announced on Monday a group of
local and international musicians would perform at a concert in Johannesburg
to raise money for his 46664 AIDS charity. The concert, which will coincide
with World AIDS Day on December 1, is an offshoot of similar shows that have
been held in South Africa, Spain and Norway, the Nobel laureate said in a
press conference at his foundation in Johannesburg. (Click here for complete
news story)
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL0187684720071001
* Foundation Unveils This Year's "Geniuses": Annual MacArthur Grants of
$500,000 Each Reward Creativity, Passion and Dedication *
A woman who helps students go to college with their "posse," a psychiatrist
who treats combat veterans and a museum director on Alaska's Kodiak Island
are among the 24 winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius
grants." The $500,000 fellowships were announced Tuesday by the
Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Recipients can
use the money however they wish. (Click here for complete news story)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/25/national/main3296907.shtml?source=search_story
* Bikers Ride to Help Kids with Disabilities *
More than 300 bikers from across Central Florida spent their Sunday riding
to help kids with motor disabilities. They climbed on their bikes to help
raise money to support an education for some local kids who face more than
their share of challenges. The bikers climbed on their wheels to help get
dozens of kids moving on their own two feet. They attend classes at the
Conductive Education Center in Winter Park, and this was their first-ever
motorcycle event. (Click here for complete news story)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wesh/20071001/lo_wesh/14240491
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Other:
* Toddler TV-viewing should be curbed by age 5: study *
Young children's television viewing presents a dilemma to parents aware of
potential harm to development, but a study released on Monday said children
who stop watching so much by age 5 1/2 do not exhibit problems. "A number of
studies have demonstrated negative effects of heavy television viewing.
However, timing of exposure is an important consideration," said study
author Kamila Mistry of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
(Click here for complete news story)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071001/hl_nm/children_television_dc;_ylt=AnZd2KdQJmyoG_5ldaKwX1gDW7oF
* Teens' reaction after first cigarette puff is key: Young people who feel
relaxed more susceptible to nicotine addiction *
Teenagers who feel relaxed after their first drags on a cigarette are most
likely to become addicted to smoking, a sign that some people's brains are
more susceptible to nicotine, researchers said on Monday. "We know that
nicotine can have an immediate impact on the brain, and yet we also know
that not every adolescent who tries a cigarette gets hooked," said
researcher Dr. Joseph DiFranza of the University of Massachusetts Medical
School. (Click here for complete news story)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21081664/
* Favre surpasses Marino with 421st career TD *
Brett Favre is No. 1 -- with a bullet. Favre broke Dan Marino's record for
career touchdown passes Sunday, zipping No. 421 to Greg Jennings in the
first quarter of Green Bay's 23-16 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
(Click here for complete news story)
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3043571