BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 5th, 2023 by Theresa Crabtree in MAYAN MESSAGES: DAILY GUIDE TO SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Posted on May 4, 2023 by jmaz479

“The manifestation process is a learned behavior. The word “infestation” is defined as a presence of a large number of pest organisms in or on a host. As a word play, we can look at the word “man-infestation” as applied to the large number of pesty thoughts that flow into your conscious and unconscious mind every moment.

How to control your thoughts? The first step is simple observation. Pay attention to your thoughts. How do you feel when you have this or that thought? Which thoughts do you respond to, which do you ignore? The next step is to look closer at your thoughts. Are some persistent? Which ones give you joy? Which ones create fear? Which ones would you like to act upon? Which ones would you like to ignore? Before manifestation occurs, you must first set your intention, to know and declare what you wish to experience. Once you have this clear vision, it is your responsibility to take your e-motions and put that energy into motion.

As you pay attention to your thoughts, nurture only those that lead to your desired outcome. When you have thoughts of fear, emotions you don’t like or persistent negative thoughts, then literally, think again. This is where practice makes perfect. When you have thoughts that lead you away from your intention or anything less than love, choose something else to think about. It is rather simple, but like any habit, it takes practice to change behaviors.”

Reverend Theresa Crabtree in “Mayan Messages: Daily Guide to Self-Empowerment”

Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 4th, 2023 by Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted on May 3, 2023 by jmaz479

“Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment – not discouragement – you will find the strength is there. Any disaster or setback you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!

This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures or setbacks followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true.

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on May 2, 2023 by jmaz479

“In all instances, what religious ideology claims as truth has been handed down over generations from one person to another, with each new storyteller or writer likely adding their own bit of journalistic license to the mix. In the end, what we are told is the “Word of God” is something that we had to have been introduced to by someone else, and based on that introduction, we are expected to blindly accept it because that is what a good Christian, or Muslim, or Hindu, etc. should do. Yet, haven’t you ever wondered how the God-Force could apply different rules to different groups of people?

To dare question the source of the information provided in religious texts is often considered by many religions to be at least inappropriate, and at worst sinful. The reality is that individual religious dogma cannot prove its own truth is actually the truth, nor can it prove that another religion’s truth is not the truth. Once you open your mind to this fact, it becomes easier and easier to be more open-minded about spirituality in general.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 by Edwin Harkness Spina in MYSTIC SECRETS REVEALED

Posted on May 1, 2023 by jmaz479

“You need not blindly accept whatever fate or expectation your parents, siblings, teachers, political leaders, media commentators, friends or co-workers have dictated for you. You not only have the right, but the responsibility, to decide, for yourself, what you think. To do so, you must become aware of your thoughts. You may well discover that the majority of thoughts that you think every day are not even your own. You may further discover that many of these thoughts are dis-empowering, intended to induce fear or otherwise direct your behavior.

You did not incarnate on earth to “play it safe” or be a robot that simply “follows the rules, hoping to fit in.” You were created in the image of God. This means you were born to create. Your life’s mission is to tap into your inner self and express the wisdom from within – not to blindly accept the viewpoint or doctrine of some expert, guru or societal program as the default setting.”

Edwin Harkness Spina, in “Mystic Secrets Revealed”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 1st, 2023 by Brenda J. Bentley, in EAT, GUILT, REPENT, REPEAT

Posted on April 30, 2023 by jmaz479

“The key principle to eating intuitively is about getting back in rapport with your body. To listen, understand and respond to the many ways your body lets you know it’s time to eat and when you’ve had enough. As a result, intuitive eaters are able to retain their healthy, default, natural weight effortlessly. This means you need to work from the inside-out and this starts with changing what you’ve learned so far. You came into this world eating intuitively according to the natural rhythm of your hunger and satiety cycles and along the way you’ve learned differently. You became out of touch with your body, your feelings and yourself. You’ve learned to ignore what you want and desire, and put in its place things you think you should want and eat or shouldn’t want and don’t eat.

You already know yourself better than anyone else. So you need to learn to trust in yourself to distinguish between emotional and physical hunger and respond accordingly. You can return to eating without struggle, guilt, deprivation or obsession with food. If you were to eat based on internal signals of biological hunger instead of external signals of schedule, time, stress or other triggers you would be able to return to your body’s natural weight and maintain it.”

Brenda J. Bentley, in “Eat, Guilt, Repent, Repeat”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 28th, 2023 by Eliza Mada Dalian in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

Posted on April 27, 2023 by jmaz479

“To help your mind relax, change your hostile attitude towards your mind. Instead of saying: “Oh no, here’s that thought and feeling again!” say, “Okay, I see the thought, I see my frustration, and I know that it will pass. I trust that existence knows when it’s the right time for me to wake up and it will give me the gift when I’m ready.” This kind of attitude will bring you closer to your being, which is always peaceful. Keep remind yourself that everything in life is transitory.

Watch your thoughts when you feel happy, and watch them when you feel sad or frustrated. Remember, just as the positive thoughts and feelings pass, the negative thoughts and feelings also pass…When you remain a witness to both the ups and downs of life, you relax. You know that when you are experiencing a peak, a valley will soon follow. Witnessing everything allows you to let go of your attachment to any outcome and accept life with all its colors.”

Eliza Mada Dalian, in “In Search of the Miraculous”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 27th, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in THE QUICKENING

Posted on April 26, 2023 by jmaz479

“We learn about ourselves through relationships because they reflect what we are back to us. If you are surrounded by nonsense that means you have allowed nonsense to establish itself in your life. Simple really. If your relationships are loving and empowering that means that you are also. The name of the game is to review all your relationships from time to time to assess what it is you contribute and what it is you receive in return.

Relationships change so quickly that it should be a part of your modus to institute quality control into every aspect of your life. If you are not getting what you want, or if you are putting in all the efforts and the others are contributing little, it will become obvious. Then you must decide if that is acceptable to you or not. If not, you will diplomatically indicate what your needs are and suggest that they fulfill them. In turn you find out what they want. If both of you want something different and things can’t be resolved, do not be afraid to release them or to walk away yourself.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Quickening”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on April 25, 2023 by jmaz479

“Learning to be fully in the present is a skill that requires constant practice, because as you well know, your mind has strong tendencies to migrate both forward and backward. The key to mastering this skill is to regularly remind yourself of the importance of truly focusing on what you are doing or experiencing ‘right now’.

As Dan Millman so eloquently says in his book The Laws of Spirit:

“Embrace this moment, put one foot in front of the other, and handle what’s in front of you. Because no matter where your mind may roam, you body always remains here and now. When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath, and come back to here and now.”

This, of course, requires some conscious effort on your part, but over time you will get more and more adept at it. To help you develop this skill, I have found that it is a good idea to create a simple reminder phrase such as “am I fully in the present?” and paste it up in conspicuous places within your house (e.g., a bathroom mirror or refrigerator). You can even place one somewhere within your workspace at the office, and on your car dashboard. At first glance this may appear to be a bit silly, but I can assure you from personal experience that it does help to keep you more focused in the “now.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 by Donald Altman in THE MINDFULNESS CODE

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jmaz479

“What if you have a racing mind that just won’t stop worrying about all those little problems waiting for you the next day? As part of your sleep ritual, you many want to place a pad of paper next to the bed so you can write down all those thoughts. Knowing that you have recorded them for reflection the next day can help to ease their grip on your mind so that you can surrender to sleep. If you get anxious about not being able to sleep at any time during the night, try using your awareness to loosen anxious thoughts while breathing diaphragmatically.

Sometimes it can be helpful to choose a calming word or phrase to repeat with each breath, such as “quiet mind,” “restful sleep,” or “one,” to repeat with each breath replacing the thoughts of a racing mind.”

Donald Altman, in “The Mindfulness Code”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 24th, 2023 by Jill Turland in GETTING BACK ON TRACK

Posted on April 23, 2023 by jmaz479

“Social attitudes tech us it is bad to show emotions, that only the intellectual mind can be allowed expression. This imbalance between our respect for intellect and our respect for feelings is causing inappropriate reactions in the body when feelings are felt. Suppression has become the order of the day, the acceptable way to behave. How often were you told, as a child, ‘only babies cry,’ ‘there’s nothing to be afraid of,’ ‘stop that fighting,’ without any real help given as to how to resolve the feelings? Emotions – energy forces – are held back and get locked within the body, in the muscles, waiting to be set free, stored as prolonged tension.

Stress is the product of wrong beliefs and attitudes – work guilt, duty guilt, fun guilt, fear guilt, grief guilt, guilt guilt – combined with held-in detrimental emotions. Stress kills because of the accumulation of these stored emotions in the physical body, and their subsequent effects on the structure. It is quite amazing to see how health is regained once the relevant emotion or shock is released.”

Jill Turland, in “Getting Back on Track – Using Megapotency Homeopathy”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 21st, 2023 by Tony Burroughs in THE LAW OF AGREEMENT

Posted on April 20, 2023 by jmaz479

“Commiseration is a particularly enticing kind of agreement that is so subtle that we can be up to our neck in it before we realize what’s happening. You know how it goes: someone starts complaining about something, and, like the bobble-head doll on the dashboard, you find yourself nodding and agreeing with them – and perhaps even telling a story about how you’ve had some of the same problems they’re talking about. On the surface it seems harmless enough, but underlying it all is the reinforcement of situations that really don’t do anybody any good. It’s just another way we sabotage ourselves.”

Tony Burroughs, in “The Law of Agreement”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 20th, 2023 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on April 19, 2023 by jmaz479

“Here is something that you must understand: There are two sources for change within you. One is the cunningness of your ego that pushes you into making efforts to become something other than you are meant to be so that it can give itself a boost, so that it can glorify itself. The other is the wisdom of Nature. Thanks to this wisdom you become aware, you understand it. That is all you do, leaving the change – type, the manner, the speed, the time of change – to Reality and to Nature.

Nature is not a technician. Nature is creative. You will be a creator, not a wily technician when there is abandonment in you – no greed, no ambition, no anxiety, no sense of striving, gaining, arriving, attaining. All there is, is a keen, alert, penetrating awareness that causes the dissolution of all one’s foolishness and selfishness, all one’s attachments and fears. The changes that follow are not the result of your blueprints and efforts, but the product of Nature that spurns your plans and will, thereby leaving no room for a sense of merit or achievement or even any consciousness on the part of your left hand of what Reality is doing by means of your right.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, in “The Way to Love”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on April 18, 2023 by jmaz479

“What is really unfortunate, as this next passage from Dr. Wayne Dyer illustrates, is that people are simply unaware that at some level that they themselves are responsible for whatever lack they are experiencing in their lives:

“If we dwell on scarcity, we are putting energy into what we do not have, and this continues to be our experience of life. The theme of so many people’s life story is “I simply do not have enough,” or “How can I believe in abundance when my children don’t have all the clothes that they need?” or “I would be a lot happier if I had _____.” People believe they live a life of lack because they are unlucky, instead of recognizing that their belief system is rooted in scarcity thinking.”

It really is a very basic principle — as an extension of the mind of God you have enormous creative power, and as such you need to be very careful about what it is you choose to believe. So, if you are not experiencing all of the abundance you desire in your life, recognize this moment that somewhere along the line you adopted beliefs that have caused you to literally push it away from yourself. Once you come to acknowledge this fact, you can then move forward to carefully examine exactly what you have accepted as your truth about abundance. From there you can proceed to systematically refute, and then eventually drop any beliefs that are rooted in scarcity.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 by JB Lewis in THE MIRACLE OF YOU: BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS

Posted on April 17, 2023 by jmaz479

“I realize that some of the readers out there reading in these pages might be struggling with all of the things in your life that are bad. I put bad in italics to highlight the incongruity of it with reality. In reality there is no bad and good dichotomy, only desirable and undesirable outcomes to the experiences we choose.

Think of good and bad as labels to express the interpretation of the outcome; the ideas of good and bad in no way indicate a state of wrongness or rightness. So don’t hinge so much thought on those words. You are a good person. You are a perfect person no matter what choices you make. The only way to see what I am saying clearly is to step back and see yourself for who you are in Spirit. In Spirit you now understand that you can never be damaged, injured or die. The only part of you that changes is the physical form you take.”

JB Lewis, in “The Miracle of You: Back to Consciousness”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 17th, 2023 by William Murtha in CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE STORY

Posted on April 16, 2023 by jmaz479

“In everyday behaviour change, you must accept that regular but temporary setbacks will be part of your life journey. Mini failures and stumbles will occur as you try to painfully let go of unwanted behaviours that trip you up. Whenever I encourage a client to expand their comfort zone by stepping into the unknown and unfamiliar, I remind them that temporary setbacks are their friend, not their foe. Temporary failure is evidence that you are taking action, tangible proof that you are daring to push these boundaries and take risks. You cannot change any unwanted habit or behaviour if you don’t first step into the sometimes scary and uncomfortable territory of taking action.

Those who have befriended failure come to appreciate that it offers us valuable life lessons. Instead of fearing it, learn to lean into failure, not away from it. In time, you will train your mind to accept each mini-disaster as you come to it. When you understand that this is all part of the growth process, you will see how these small trials actually build up your mental strength and resilience. If the action of accepting failure willingly is beyond what you can imagine right now, don’t worry. Just try to hold the thought that, eventually with practice, you will be able to train your mind to accept it as a normal part of everyday life.”

William Murtha, in “Create Your Own Life Story”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 2007 as a Web-based forum for “PONDER on THIS,” a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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