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- How to Understand Emotional Reactions from Body Reactions to Events - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2009 from David SamuelAnger at someone in a situation where let's say you almost hit them with your car as example and hurt them gets you very angry and say what a stupid fool. Yet the only damage would be to the other person and it was really an innocent act on their part. The reason you react with anger is ...
Views: 1940(6 votes) - What Really Bothers You - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2010 from David SamuelThis is an exercise which I suggest doing for one month or longer. I would really appreciate hearing your results since it is a matter of great interest and a worthy study. Finding the true root cause of anything is the method to eliminate even subtle negative thoughts. The exercise is quite ...
Views: 1931(1 vote) - Is Your Heart Closed Or Simply Preoccupied. Emotional Opening Is In Being Present. It’s All In The Hug - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2013 from David SamuelIs the difference between being open and closed emotionally simply being focused or preoccupied? Maybe we are just too preoccupied with the stresses and problems of life to be able to relax our mind enough and that is partially what prevents our ability to feel and connect. Feeling your heart ...
Views: 1929 - Call Me A Male Chauvinist - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2011 from David SamuelI was reading an article about Kobe, Japan and came across a very telling report which gives an incite in to the dangerous territory we are going as a species. I do not think this attitude is limited to Kobe or Japan, but rather is global. The point of this article is to ask; are you helping the ...
Views: 1922 - Life Is Lived Through Sharing What Matters Most - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2011 from David SamuelMany people in Western countries have a very comfortable life with all the necessities that anyone can ask for, yet they are unfulfilled and dissatisfied. The normal course of action is to find a new job or relationship. It does not take long until another change is required since that is not ...
Views: 1908(4 votes) - All About Self-Lying - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2010 from David SamuelSelf-lying is our greatest hindrance to success. The truth cannot be found when you are living in a lie. Self-lying is just that, lying to yourself. We all do it, daily in fact. We may call it by other names, justify it, ignore it, or give in and believe it without even knowing what we ...
Views: 1872 - Gain And Loss, All Things Come And Go - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2011 from David SamuelThere is a world of difference between running towards God and running away from the world. If you find the world empty of value, void of meaning beyond the very short and temporary life span of a human being, and this causes you to turn towards a spiritual life, leaving the material world ...
Views: 1850 - The Use Of Intuition In Business And Relationships, How To Strengthen That 'Gut Feeling' - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from David SamuelThe greatest successes in business and life in general usually come from a decision based on a 'feeling'. That gut instinct when you just know something is right, or wrong, is usually correct, but all too often, recalled only after we made the wrong decision. When I began investing in the ...
Views: 1838(4 votes) - Cause of Violence, Anger and Low Self-Esteem - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from David SamuelThere is no character trait or condition that affects one human that does not affect every human. It is just a matter of degree. The preceding statement must be part of every sincere persons wish to improve oneself. One of the greatest confusions about humans is their love for pain. ...
Views: 1826(2 votes) - What Is Your True Goal? What Is Truly In Your Heart. - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2010 from David SamuelWhat is your true goal? What is that for each of us? It is not the same for all but appears to be the same for everyone in a group who share the same goal. That is obvious, but there is more to this than just the obvious. This is a tricky article, I hope you will have patience and persistence ...
Views: 1820(9 votes) - My Heart Is Closed - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from David SamuelWe all suffer from a heart that is closed, either a little or a lot, and we spend our life trying to avoid being aware of this, but it is always there in the back of our mind. This article will take the article; “How To Find What You Really Are” a little further. Our activities and desires ...
Views: 1819(1 vote) - How to Resolve Conflicts of Your Mind - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2010 from David SamuelKnowledge of how something functions is vital to being able to use it, be it a nuclear power plant or a can opener. If we do not know what it is and how it works and how to use it properly, it is of little or no use, or can even be a great danger to yourself and society. Our mind is the ...
Views: 1817 - How to be Committed and Attached While Detached and Free at the Same Time - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2009 from David SamuelIf the soul, your essence, is the smallest little dot of your being and is covered by layers of ego personality and there are layers for each experience of your life, how can you ever find it? Each layer is another illusion. Illusions are how we have interpreted situations and developed ...
Views: 1793(2 votes) - The Nine Principles of Success for the Independent Self-Employed Person - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2013 from David SamuelThese nine principles are a basic outline that you can memorise and keep with you as a guide to how you have conducted your day. Review them at the end of the day to see if you have followed them and then try again tomorrow. 1 Do what is in front of you immediately. Take care of all ...
Views: 1785 - An Exercise To Attain Objective Detachment - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2012 from David SamuelThis is an excellent exercise to attain an objective detachment to events and retain a freedom from being negatively emotionally effected. The exercise is; Do not say anything that will not serve a useful purpose. Most often, when someone says something that is wrong, we jump at the ...
Views: 1752(1 vote) - Why Do I Procrastinate - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from David SamuelMany people are hindered by procrastination, and have no idea why they do it. There doesn’t seem to be any logic or reason as to the cause of putting things off, but it is almost impossible to get the simplest task done. My theory is that the problem lies in the aspiration of perceived ...
Views: 1750(2 votes) - Why Do People Seek Pain - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from David SamuelSelf-mutilation, or other means of self-inflicted pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, are common to everyone. Everyone finds some way to inflict one form of pain or another on themselves, and we all wonder why. One young person told me that the reason she liked piercing was because it ...
Views: 1725 - Suffering, The Cause Of Suffering, And The End Of Suffering - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from David SamuelBuddha said that life is suffering and that the cause of suffering is desire. That is a very clear and obvious truth. If I desire something, that means I do not have it, and if I want or need something that I do not have, that craving for it does imply suffering to some degree. Maybe it is a ...
Views: 1724(1 vote) - Life Is Suffering, Suffering Is Caused By Desires, Or Maybe Not - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2012 from David SamuelThe title of this article is a basic principle of Buddhist teachings. The common interpretation is that unfulfilled desires cause pain and suffering. This is very easy to understand, that desires themselves are the cause of suffering and we have to remove all desires to end ...
Views: 1715 - Why Goals Come Close, Then Pass You By - by Submitted on May 28, 2010 from David SamuelIt is a common phenomena that people working with the law of attraction and positive thoughts towards a goal will receive many opportunities, but often, they never materialize. This leads to confusion and eventually dropping of the faith and efforts along with giving up hope. I have spent many ...
Views: 1706(1 vote) - I Didn’t Mean That, ‘Emotional Containment’ - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2011 from David SamuelMany times people, in the heat of the moment, will say something, and then quickly upon realizing that it was inappropriate, try to stuff the words back in their mouth pleading that they did not mean that or they were just joking. The problem is that retraction is not possible. If I asked ...
Views: 1705(2 votes) - Curse of the Fortunate and the Blessing of Suffering - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2012 from David SamuelThings are not often what they appear and, what they clearly are at the time, is not always what they turn out to be in the future. Often, a wonderful safe and enjoyable childhood leads to difficulties in adult life. While we grow up, our fragmentation is formed based on certain experiences. ...
Views: 1698 - Where Have All The People Gone? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2010 from David SamuelI wonder...when something new is opened or discovered and there is so much activity, people say how wonderful and helpful it is, are they lying? or just wrong. For the purposes of this discussion, I am not speaking of a new restaurant, rather this is about something that is of benefit to you and ...
Views: 1682 - It's All About Love - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David SamuelIt is clear that an accepted belief these days is that all is love. That all things exist because of love. In Sufism, we say that God is love and out of God’s love all things have come into being. So nothing exists save love. It is also commonly accepted that very few people know true love ...
Views: 1681(1 vote) - All You Need Is Love - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2012 from David SamuelIf this were my last day alive and I was asked what I discovered in a lifetime of searching for Truth, I would have to say that the Beatles were correct, all you need is love. But life is not that simple, and in fact, if all we need is love, then why is love so elusive? Why do we live in a ...
Views: 1650(1 vote) - Your Moods are 100% Determined by your Thoughts - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2010 from David SamuelYour thoughts control you moods. This is simply the way it is, we must think, or something must reach our intellectual mind to be processed and understood before we can feel anything. If someone insulted you in a language you do not understand, however they put on a sweet face and gentle ...
Views: 1632(3 votes) - Tantra And Humanity's Spiritual Progression. Where We Go Wrong And Right - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2011 from David SamuelMany people think that humanity is reaching a higher spiritual level than ever before. I think those people have not been to the historical sites and probably lived through TV and the internet. Certainly there are many things on the internet which simply based on volume and dissemination of ...
Views: 1612(2 votes) - What Is Vision, How Do You See - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2010 from David SamuelWhere did you learn how to see. How did you acquire vision. What is vision. Let us look at the actual process of seeing. Before we can see anything, there must be something to look at. So the first step is that something exists. Then that object reflects light. That reflected light is ...
Views: 1603(2 votes) - What Is A Person’s True Character - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2009 from David SamuelIf I treated Paul with great kindness and generosity, he would praise me at my funeral as being the most wonderful man who ever lived. But if I also treated John with cruelty and cheated him every chance I could, he would have only terrible things to say. The two would argue bitterly ...
Views: 1598(2 votes) - Deadlines Are Natural, Resistance Is Futile - by Submitted on May 10, 2012 from David SamuelDeadlines are a natural part of the universe. There is no need to get stressed and resist them. In the Kybalion, one of the Hermetic laws is; As above, so below. This is to say that within the larger, there is a smaller version of the larger. The microcosm is in the macrocosm, etc. If ...
Views: 1591(1 vote) - Law Of Attraction And The Ego - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2013 from David SamuelThere is a great power in the concept of the law of attraction, which has also been expressed in terms such as ‘magnetic centre’, ‘attractive force’, ‘the power of the mind’, and many others. The danger of the modern concept of the law of attraction (loa) is that it professes that you have ...
Views: 1590(2 votes) - The Weaknesses That Plague Us - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2012 from David SamuelI post articles on a few sites, one of which is http://ezinearticles.com. They give me a report of how many views each of my articles gets and the keywords that were used to find it. This has been a very interesting report. The article that was viewed more than double any other article was ...
Views: 1585(1 vote) - Finding Like Minds - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from David SamuelThis article is a gamble. When you read it, maybe you will identify with what is written, or think I am a fool. I have written this for a purpose and I am willing to take that risk. All I ask is that if the subject interests you, then please read the whole article so you hear the full thoughts ...
Views: 1575(1 vote) - A Daily Accounting, Five Questions in Five Minutes To Totally Transform Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2012 from David SamuelAll religious and spiritual practices ultimately serve one purpose; to reflect on who you are as a human being by discovering the true nature of your personality. The method I present to you here allows us to discover who we truly are rather than who we think we are. With the discovery of the ...
Views: 1538 - Being Human Is So Unfair - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2012 from David SamuelI have spent a couple of months visiting my father and I have come to see some very disturbing things about not just myself, but how our personality, and thus our life, is formed and lived. As anyone who has spent enough time reflecting on their character and seeing their flaws (we all have ...
Views: 1533 - How To Stop Saying The Wrong Thing - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2013 from David SamuelThis article is about how to increase your awareness, learning how to hold your tongue, to not say the wrong thing and, not stick your foot in your mouth. All this is achieved by removing selfish desires. You may not realize how much of your life is ruled by very subtle but powerful selfish ...
Views: 1533 - Answer The Question; “Why Am I Here?” An Explanation of Limitations, Business Success, Life Purpose, and Regaining Motivation - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from David SamuelWhen we are young we ask the question of why am I here. This is normal for most people. Some have stopped asking and forgot they asked at all, and others still ask no matter how old they are. We look for an answer, ask our parents, teachers, anyone, but do not find anyone who can give a ...
Views: 1529(1 vote) - The Deadly Ego, Thinking You Understand When You Do Not. - by Submitted on May 31, 2010 from David SamuelThere is a great danger in the whole idea that thoughts are things and we create what we think. This danger is to people who do not fully understand what that principle means, how it works, and how it can be confused with guidance and intuition. That danger lies in the ego which thinks it knows ...
Views: 1528(3 votes) - How Our Emotions Effect Our Health And How To Control That - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2013 from David SamuelOur emotions have a powerful effect on our body, giving it all sorts of stress related illnesses. Our mind creates our emotions. What we think is happening is the beginning of our emotional responses. Emotions begin with an event that we interpret, thus all emotions begin with the thoughts ...
Views: 1525 - Energetic Attacks And How To End Them By Building Compassion - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2012 from David SamuelIt is not true, in my experience, that a person’s thoughts or energy can effect another person. The way they APPEAR to effect you is by your sharing the thought. You can find happiness in ending negative emotions by seeing their true source. If I hate you and you sense it somehow, you know I ...
Views: 1523 - Who Should Pay The Bill - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2013 from David SamuelThe concept of splitting the bill when out with your friends for a meal or coffee for example, each paying for themselves, is a terrible thing because it robs us of the joy of giving and joy of receiving. Not only the joy is lost, but there is a far more insidious problem that invades our ...
Views: 1513 - Do Our Thoughts Create Events Or, Do Events Create Our Thoughts - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2011 from David SamuelThis is a question of action and reaction. Do we create events or do the events form our way of thinking, and then once formed, do we influence events. Certainly one thing is clear, if there are negative events, our thoughts will normally become negative. If this continues long enough, it will ...
Views: 1503 - Stress and Conflict - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2010 from David SamuelStress and Conflict Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. No machine exists that is a singularly whole unit, all machines are merely a sum of parts. And so we can more accurately say that the machine ...
Views: 1497(2 votes) - How To Know When To Let Go, And How - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2011 from David SamuelHow do you know when to let go, in business or personal situations in life. This is a very difficult question, but one that is vital to living a life that continuously moves forward. Afterall this planet is moving through space at 1,350,000 miles an hour, so we may as well keep moving also, it ...
Views: 1492 - Pressure Causes Stress, Resistance Causes Pressure - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from David SamuelThis article will explain the cause of stress related to the pressures of life and how to eliminate the negative effects. Not only will that be explained, but you will also find how to use the pressure in a positive way. If you push on something, it resists being pushed. This applies to any ...
Views: 1492 - About Your True Purpose - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2010 from David SamuelMany people are focused on finding their true purpose. They spend a lot of time thinking about and trying to find their true purpose, but never get it no matter what methods they try. My best advice is to forget it and give up because you will never find your true purpose. This entire ...
Views: 1491(5 votes) - The Importance of the Quality of Your Character; How to Achieve the Balance Required for Spiritual Growth - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from David SamuelSpiritual growth relies, in my opinion after decades of self work and study along with meeting many remarkable and unremarkable people, on the cultivation of your morals, personality and character. A strong character with correct standards and morals is the first prerequisite step a normal ...
Views: 1476(4 votes) - What Drives Me Crazy About People - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2012 from David SamuelI have experienced too many times and have heard from so many other people about conversations that went inexplicably wrong. You may meet someone, have a conversation, even by text or email, and all of a sudden with tremendous ease and agility that you had no idea you possessed, your foot ended ...
Views: 1474 - God Does Not Give and God Does Not Take Away - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2010 from David SamuelEverything that comes and goes in your life is due to one thing that people give different names, chance, luck, destiny, God, or nature. The nature of the world is what it is. For example, using average people, the nature of a thief is to steal, the nature of an honest person is to be ...
Views: 1463(5 votes) - Are Your Obligations Real or False? - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2010 from David SamuelWhen you go to the restaurant, you go with an empty stomach. They give you food, you give them money. There is the emptiness, which is filled, and then what is given gets something in return, money for food. When a child is born, it is empty and helpless. The parents give it food, shelter, ...
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