Wide Asleep Slumber no more…

Wide Asleep Slumber no more…
Excerpt from forthcoming book "Wide Asleep" copyright 2008 all rights reserved Timothy Kendrick

Why as human beings with so much untapped potential do we go through our everyday lives without even noticing a smile from a stranger?
How is it that we accept whatever happens as the norm and how is that we are so busy making a living instead of designing a life.
I hope to assist you in answering these questions and others throughout this book.
Let’s start with the obvious question? What makes me an “expert” or “specialist” on these subjects? Well, for more than 10 years I have studied my behavior along with countless others who have stumbled along the road most often traveled going where the masses go and doing what the masses do and the result was more often than not ending up in the same rut as the masses.
I found out that whether we like it or not we become the environment that we choose to be in. We accepted other B.S. (belief systems, thanks Tony). We followed the herd for fear of rejection. We are bombarded daily with mindless dribble from radio, TV and print advertising. The “weeds” in our subconscious feed off of the drama set forth from the previous examples. The weeds will grow regardless. We must learn to pull them.
We have a “gatekeeper”. It is our conscious minds ability to choose what we want to focus on. Believe me if you focus on anything with laser like precision you will bring it to you. This means success or failure.

When you Visualize, Crystallize
and when you Crystallize
you will Materialize.

What do you really want? Ask 100 people this question and 98 will not be able to give you an answer. I mean a deep down gut check, this is what I want, and this is how I’m going to get it and this is who I’m going to help so I can make it happen. The clearer the picture becomes in your mind the closer you are to achieving your goals. Write it down, cut pictures out of magazines, draw pictures, see yourself already achieving what you want. First you must know what it is.
It’s not what we want it is the feeling we get from it. I am here to tell you now that you can have that feeling anytime you want it.
Someday will never come, trust me. The average life expectancy on this earth is 25,500 days, that’s it 25,500 days. What gets you fired up and juiced with a burning passion that nothing can stop you.
If there is no passion in your life, simply put, you are not following your bliss and not doing what you are supposed to be doing. Ouch, hurts don’t it. This will help you move from pain to pleasure. This is what we do whether we wish to recognize it or not. Every action we take is an attempt for us to move from pain to pleasure from discomfort to comfort.

Data sought on veterans' suicide

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer


The parents of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide and members of Congress on Wednesday questioned why there's not a comprehensive tracking system of suicide among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Mike Bowman, of Forreston, Ill., said his son, Spc. Timothy Bowman, 23, is a member of the "unknown fallen" not counted in statistics. His son, a member of the Illinois National Guard, took his own life in 2005 eight months after returning from war. Bowman said he considers his son a "KBA" — killed because of action.

"If the veteran suicide rate is not classified as an epidemic that needs immediate and drastic attention, then the American fighting soldier needs someone in Washington who thinks it is," Bowman said.

Bowman was one of several witnesses who testified before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee on the issue.

Rep. Bob Filner, the committee chairman, questioned why the comprehensive tracking wasn't already being done.

"They don't want to know this, it looks to me," said Filner, D-Calif. "This could be tracked."

Dr. Ira Katz, the VA's deputy chief patient care service officer for mental health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, defended the work being done by his agency to tackle the issue, including implementing a suicide prevention hotline.

"We have a major suicide prevention program, the most comprehensive in the nation," Katz said. Katz questioned why Filner was focusing on the number of suicides instead of looking at treatment programs implemented to help prevent suicide.

Awareness of suicide among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was heightened earlier this year when the Army said its suicide rate in 2006 rose to 17.3 per 100,000 troops — the highest level in 26 years of record-keeping.

The Department of Veterans Affairs tracks the number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who commit suicide, but only if they have been discharged from the military.

The Pentagon tracks the number of suicides in Iraq and Afghanistan. For an earlier story, a Pentagon spokeswoman told The Associated Press the military does not keep track of whether active duty troops who took who took their own lives served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

In an e-mail on Wednesday, the same spokeswoman, Cynthia Smith, said, "We track all suicides, I just don't have combat service information readily available."

At least 152 troops have committed suicide in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Defense Manpower Data Center, which tracks casualties for the Pentagon.

On Oct. 31, the AP reported that preliminary research from the Department of Veterans Affairs had found that from the start of the war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, and the end of 2005, 283 troops who served in the wars who had been discharged from the military had committed suicide. On Wednesday, Katz said the VA's number had been changed to 144 because some of the veterans counted were actually in the active military and not discharged on the day they committed suicide.

Smith said that the military's suicide rate is still lower than that of the general population.

After leaving the military, however, veterans appear to be at greater risk for suicide than those who didn't serve. Earlier this year, researchers at Portland State University in Oregon found male veterans were twice as likely to commit suicide as their civilian counterparts.

In a report last May, the VA Inspector General said VA officials estimate 1,000 suicides per year among veterans receiving care within the agency and as many as 5,000 per year among all veterans.

"When decision makers do no have reliable data, we must rely on anecdotal evidence," said Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind. "While these may help inform us, it does not help us to develop strategies to diminish the risk and prevent incidents of suicide."

It doesn’t take a lot of light to wipe out darkness

by Timothy Kendrick



I read this in a book and I believe it is powerful. Most ideas I have are from books or talking to (successful) people.

Creating our own opinions and deciding for ourselves what works in our lives and what does not. Our conscious minds, if we allow can be bombarded with a ton of worthless garbage that does not enhance our personal, spiritual or professional states.
Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do”. So if we continually watch, listen to, or participate in the daily dose of “BREAKING NEWS” that “sells” this contaminates our minds. There is nothing wrong about staying informed on what is going on in the world. Keep in mind that News is a business and it must sell. What sells? Tragedy baby!!! Having breaking news about the miracle of the sun rising again today doesn’t cut it. It is taken for granted. Or a new baby being born today meaning to me that this is God’s way of saying he hasn’t given up on the human race just yet. “Human Race”, where are we all racing too? THE GRAVE. When you find happiness in a smile that is success. You will average 25,500 days in your life. Enjoy the day no matter what happens.
When I was in Africa with the government there was a “dog and pony show” where we went to an orphanage and we were going to show all the great work “we” were doing. I had been on enough of these that I was not thrilled at escorting some diplomats through more lies.
Before the “dignitaries” arrived we got the quick tour and were told not to go in this one room because the children there were terminally ill. You guessed it, I went in the room and there were all these little kids lying down on the floor on these crappy little mats. Everyone else went on to “smooze” and I just lay down in the middle of the floor with all of these sick kids, none of them older than 6 or 7 and there must have been about 30 or so of them. They smiled at me and I smiled back. They were perplexed because this was “a forbidden room” for anyone. More than a couple of them crawled up to me and put their little heads on me, Hell I don’t think they ever saw a Caucasian before. So as everyone was at another building with the “dog and pony” show I had more than a moment of bliss with these sick kids (actually I fell asleep with them). There lives were almost over but their memory would touch me forever.


It doesn’t take a lot of light to wipe out darkness now does it?

Thank you my friend Joe

Thank you my friend Joe
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Life


MY BROTHERS now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite.
Not to tell stories or look at old pictures.
Not to laugh or weep.
Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who suffered and were stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men.
They were delivered by fate and the military.
But I know them in a way I know no other men.
I have never given anyone such trust.
They were willing to guard something more precious than my life.
They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me.
It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another.
As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day.
I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades.
Such good men!"

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week
By Penny Coleman, AlterNet
Posted on November 26, 2007, Printed on November 26, 2007

http://www.alternet.org/story/68713/

Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone -- and remember, this is just in 45 states -- there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day.

As the widow of a Vietnam vet who killed himself after coming home, and as the author of a book for which I interviewed dozens of other women who had also lost husbands (or sons or fathers) to PTSD and suicide in the aftermath of the war in Vietnam, I am deeply grateful to CBS for undertaking this long overdue investigation. I am also heartbroken that the numbers are so astonishingly high and tentatively optimistic that perhaps now that there are hard numbers to attest to the magnitude of the problem, it will finally be taken seriously. I say tentatively because this is an administration that melts hard numbers on their tongues like communion wafers.

Since these new wars began, and in spite of a continuous flood of alarming reports, the Department of Defense has managed to keep what has clearly become an epidemic of death beneath the radar of public awareness by systematically concealing statistics about soldier suicides. They have done everything from burying them on official casualty lists in a category they call "accidental noncombat deaths" to outright lying to the parents of dead soldiers. And the Department of Veterans Affairs has rubber-stamped their disinformation, continuing to insist that their studies indicate that soldiers are killing themselves, not because of their combat experiences, but because they have "personal problems."

Active-duty soldiers, however, are only part of the story. One of the well-known characteristics of post-traumatic stress injuries is that the onset of symptoms is often delayed, sometimes for decades. Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam are still taking their own lives because new PTSD symptoms have been triggered, or old ones retriggered, by stories and images from these new wars. Their deaths, like the deaths of more recent veterans, are written up in hometown newspapers; they are locally mourned, but officially ignored. The VA doesn't track or count them. It never has. Both the VA and the Pentagon deny that the problem exists and sanctimoniously point to a lack of evidence they have refused to gather.

They have managed this smoke and mirrors trick for decades in large part because suicide makes people so uncomfortable. It has often been called "that most secret death" because no one wants to talk about it. Over time, in different parts of the world, attitudes have fluctuated between the belief that the act is a sin, a right, a crime, a romantic gesture, an act of consummate bravery or a symptom of mental illness. It has never, however, been an emotionally neutral issue. In the United States, the rationalism of our legal system has acknowledged for 300 years that the act is almost always symptomatic of a mental illness. For those same 300 years, organized religions have stubbornly maintained that it's a sin. In fact, the very worst sin. The one that is never forgiven because it's too late to say you're sorry.

The contradiction between religious doctrine and secular law has left suicide in some kind of nether space in which the fundamentals of our systems of justice and belief are disrupted. A terrible crime has been committed, a murder, and yet there can be no restitution, no punishment. As sin or as mental illness, the origins of suicide live in the mind, illusive, invisible, associated with the mysterious, the secretive and the undisciplined, a kind of omnipresent Orange Alert. Beware the abnormal. Beware the Other.

For years now, this administration has been blasting us with high-decibel, righteous posturing about suicide bombers, those subhuman dastards who do the unthinkable, using their own bodies as lethal weapons. "Those people, they aren't like us; they don't value life the way we do," runs the familiar xenophobic subtext: And sometimes the text isn't even sub-: "Many terrorists who kill innocent men, women, and children on the streets of Baghdad are followers of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of our citizens in New York, in Washington and Pennsylvania," proclaimed W, glibly conflating Sept. 11, the invasion of Iraq, Islam, fanatic fundamentalism and human bombs.

Bush has also expressed the opinion that suicide bombers are motivated by despair, neglect and poverty. The demographic statistics on suicide bombers suggest that this isn't the necessarily the case. Most of the Sept. 11 terrorists came from comfortable middle- to upper-middle-class families and were well-educated. Ironically, despair, neglect and poverty may be far more significant factors in the deaths of American soldiers and veterans who are taking their own lives.

Consider the 25 percent of enlistees and the 50 percent of reservists who have come back from the war with serious mental health issues. Despair seems an entirely appropriate response to the realization that the nightmares and flashbacks may never go away, that your ability to function in society and to manage relationships, work schedules or crowds will never be reliable. How not to despair if your prognosis is: Suck it up, soldier. This may never stop!

Neglect? The VA's current backlog is 800,000 cases. Aside from the appalling conditions in many VA hospitals, in 2004, the last year for which statistics are available, almost 6 million veterans and their families were without any healthcare at all. Most of them are working people -- too poor to afford private coverage, but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or means-tested VA care. Soldiers and veterans need help now, the help isn't there, and the conversations about what needs to be done are only just now beginning.

Poverty? The symptoms of post-traumatic stress injuries or traumatic brain injuries often make getting and keeping a job an insurmountable challenge. The New York Times reported last week that though veterans make up only 11 percent of the adult population, they make up 26 percent of the homeless. If that doesn't translate into despair, neglect and poverty, well, I'm not sure the distinction is one worth quibbling about.

There is a particularly terrible irony in the relationship between suicide bombers and the suicides of American soldiers and veterans. With the possible exception of some few sadists and psychopaths, Americans don't enlist in the military because they want to kill civilians. And they don't sign up with the expectation of killing themselves. How incredibly sad that so many end up dying of remorse for having performed acts that so disturb their sense of moral selfhood that they sentence themselves to death.

There is something so smugly superior in the way we talk about suicide bombers and the cultures that produce them. But here is an unsettling thought. In 2005, 6,256 American veterans took their own lives. That same year, there were about 130 documented deaths of suicide bombers in Iraq.* Do the math. That's a ratio of 50-to-1. So who is it that is most effectively creating a culture of suicide and martyrdom? If George Bush is right, that it is despair, neglect and poverty that drive people to such acts, then isn't it worth pointing out that we are doing a far better job?

*I say "about" because in the aftermath of a suicide bombing, it is often very difficult for observers to determine how many individual bodies have been blown to pieces.

Penny Coleman is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who took his own life after coming home. Her latest book, Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War, was released on Memorial Day, 2006. Her blog is Flashback.


Jere Beery
National Public Relations Director
Operation Firing For Effect
www.offe2008.org

WHY WE FIGHT

by Timothy Kendrick

First, we fight because we took an oath। Most importantly, we fight for our buddy next to us। Duty, Honor, Country, yes, ultimately it is for each other’s survival।
From my experience in dealing with the VA (Veterans Administration) the only people who are going to fight any battles for you with them (and win) is AMVETS or the DAV। Do not attempt to get through the red tape and political bureaucracy of the VA by yourself। Let AMVETS or the DAV do it for you। The best part, it will not cost you a dime!

I finally went to see an AMVETS representative, he was gracious, helpful and did almost all of the paperwork for me (hell, I could hardly write my name)। I received my compensation within 6 months। It would have taken the VA 3 or 4 years because of the backlog। The VA has assisted millions of returning veterans and I praise them for what they accomplish with their limited resources and funding।

If you were like me, you would keep putting off contacting the Veterans Administration until finally you gained enough leverage (pain) to take action। The VA much like our great countries political system has become a career for far too many who have far too little to offer। In all fairness, I have met angels and heroes at the VA that have passion for what they do by taking care of the great warriors who have served this nation.

I did go to a couple “Vet Centers” looking for help, but I did not find anything. You might, but I did not. It is not for everybody. In addition, AMVETS and the DAV can point you in the right direction with the VA as far as Vocational Rehabilitation and countless other benefits you have earned. Use whatever works for you. Alcoholics Anonymous is a great program also.





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Solitude

This is a subject that is one of perception. Think if you will the last time you actually did not have any distractions from the radio or TV or the telephone and you just set still closed your eyes and let the world come to you.
A great philosopher said “don’t do something, just sit and let the world come to you”. After all of these years I realize this person meant to let the world come to my inner self, or as Napoleon Hill puts it “your other self”.
Your other self consist of those things and dreams that have been buried inside of you because of all the external input that we allow to come at us on a daily basis. The other self is the dreamer who has goals and a vivid imagination of how his or her future will be. The other self directs the subconscious by the words and physiology that we use to maximize our strengths and minimize our weaknesses. To know that the only limits we have are self imposed by us and our references. Be still and know that the inner voice will guide you and when you have an intuitive thought ACT ON IT!!! Don’t hesitate.
Remember when you where a child you always could play “make believe”. Well, I am here to tell you that you can have make believe now and by believing you will receive. The subconscious mind cannot distinguish between what is real or imagined. This is one of the greatest secrets that I have learned. Any mistakes I have made in the past I go to my memory bank and relive them in solitude by visualizing the way I wanted them to come out. Then I can feel that emotion of happiness, joy, laughter, or prosperity.
The choice is yours Pain or Pleasure. I think we all have experienced enough pain in our lives to want pleasure. It is human nature to move from pain to pleasure don’t fight it when you fight it this only leads to frustration.
Remember Imagination without eventual mobilization leads to massive frustration. So act your way into right thinking only after you have looked inside for that beautiful creative “other self”

P S F

P S F
find the Problem; Solve it, and have Fun

Find the Problem, Solve it, and have Fun. Life is one shot. Dr. Wayne Dyer says, “If you knew who walked beside you every day you would never be afraid again.” Do not ever say, “I’ll laugh at this someday,” why wait laugh at it now. Enjoy the journey, live in the now; look at what you can bring to the table. Receiving is contingent upon your generosity. Give, give, give, and you will receive in return.

I once read “Anger is a dubious luxury.” Control your state and your emotions, one outburst of anger can destroy a beautiful day because it will snowball out of control.

The best advice I have received is from my brother Greg, he wrote it on the back of his senior picture he gave to me. It simply said, “Don’t walk in my footsteps, walk over them, and make your own path.” I still have that picture and have thought about that inscription over the years. Those were powerful words for an 18 year old to write to his younger brother. I stepped over his steps and made my own path, some wise and some unwise.


If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?

Soundtrack That Plays in our Mind

(excerpt from PTSD)

Someone once said that we all have a musical soundtrack that plays in our mind. Where did this come from? My guess is years of programming from everything from commercials to music. Everything we have ever seen or heard is in our brain somewhere. Have you ever wondered why a song is in your head and you cannot seem to get rid of it?

My research and questions to people have found that it may pertain to our emotional and psychological state at the time. I wake up and hear a song that may be a “trigger” or an “anchor” to something from my past. Sometimes it is about a girl, other times it will take me to places I do not wish to go.

Remembering things and forgetting them constitute two ways that our subconscious protects us. For some reason Veterans like us find ourselves vividly remembering incidents, people, places, and things that may have warped our thinking and judgment. Sometimes this will manifest itself negative ways, we may become isolated, have panic attacks or bouts of confusion. The practice that works for me is replacing those old songs with something new and different until I can handle them. Sometimes it takes leverage (pain) to take action on these situations. If we are in enough pain, we will respond with whatever action is needed for change to take place.

Create new memories with these songs or replace the words with something that makes you feel good. My neighbor burns his trash on his farm, I can smell it a mile away, and it takes me back to Somalia just about every time. Alternatively, another personal favorite of mine is when he shoots one of his cows in the head when he sells one. Just the gunshot makes my mind move into fight or flight mode. The other day I opened my truck door to let my dog out when we went to the park. Just the way the handle “popped” put a ringing in my ears and I was instantly back to a place I did not want to be. By practice, taking action and using trial and error I have learned to change my state in a split second and move to a more comfortable place.

I have become a firm believer in “garbage in, garbage out.” I replace those songs (old ways of thinking) with other motivational material or with new songs (new ways of thinking) and I create a peaceful fun environment for my subconscious. Remember that our subconscious cannot distinguish between reality and fiction. It will only do what our conscious mind tells it to do.

If we say, “I can’t” the conscious mind tells the subconscious “okay boys; he says he can’t do it so let’s prove him right.” If we say, “I can” the conscious mind says “okay boys he says he can so let’s make it happen.”

Poison in the Heart

Carrying resentments, guilt, hate, and anger within you, will kill you (but first make you miserable as hell). Since we are a massive ball of energy it is what we choose to do with this energy that is either productive or life threatening.
Just the other day I took something personal that was said to me. It was not what was said but how I internalized it that mattered. What did I learn? It is not what goes on outside of you rather what happens inside that matter.

My first thought was “you bastard, you could not walk an hour in my shoes” Then my “Grand Central Station” mind started to take over, (also known as EGO). And the snowball effect was on. I wanted to knock the s**t out of them as I would then proceed to justify my actions.
I was off the beam and I knew those words and actions could be like a nail in a piece of wood that has been removed. The nail is gone but the hole remains. My thoughts were becoming things. (not nice things either). What I was thinking about I was bringing about. I immediately changed my state and refocused on the solution.
If I am not in charge of my emotions poison enters my heart and the “Warrior” returns. This individual saw the angel of darkness in my eyes. I apologize for that relapse and forgave myself . The beauty, there was a time when I would not have thought twice. The Talisman of this, well it reminded me of the “rush” that the old soldier (me) lived for.
A famous General once said “old soldiers never die….they just fade away” I say “old soldiers never die… the young ones die for em".

Dancing With God

Dancing With God
When I meditated on the word Guidance,
I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word.
I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing.
When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.
When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,
both bodies begin to flow with the music.
One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back
or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another.
It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully.
The dance takes surrender, willingness,
and attentiveness from one person
and gentle guidance and skill from the other.
My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.
When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i".
"God, "u" and "i" dance."
God, you, and I dance.
As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust
that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
My prayer for you today is that God's blessings
and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.
May you abide in God, as God abides in you.
Dance together with God, trusting God to lead
and to guide you through each season of your life.
This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached.
If God has done anything for you in your life,
please share this message with someone else.
Interceding in prayer is one of the best gifts we can receive.
There is no cost but a lot of rewards;
so let's continue to pray for one another.
And I Hope You Dance !

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More Great Secrets To Live By
• We all work with one infinite power

• The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA)

• Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting

• We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think

• Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy

• People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same

• Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

• You attract your dominant thoughts

• Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it...etc...

• It's not "wishful" thinking.

• You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it

• Choose your thoughts carefully -- you are a masterpiece of your life

• It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)

• EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted -- accept that fact -- it's true.

• Your thoughts cause your feelings

• We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories -- good feelings, bad feelings.

• Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

• Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming

• You get exactly what you are FEELING

• Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances

• You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there)... the universe will correspond to the nature of your song

• What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience

• What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception

• Shift your awareness

• "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill

• It's important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )

• You can change your emotion immediately -- by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience

• When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator

• Life can and should be phenomenal -- and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction

• Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly


• Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that...... "

• You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself

• LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW

• You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster

• The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt...

• When the opportunity or impulse is there -- ACT

• You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections... PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you

• You can start with nothing -- and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.

• HOW LONG??? No rules on time -- the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen

• Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time

• No rules according to the universe -- you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond

• Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what
they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck....etc..)

• You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point

• "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha

• What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude

• Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately

• What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about

• What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for

• Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result

• VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future

• VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins

• Feel the joy -- feel the happiness

• An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one

• "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell

• Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "what"

• The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream

• If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered -- this is where magic and miracles happen

• Turn it over to the universe daily... but it should never be a chore.
• Feel exhilarated by the whole process -- high, happy, in tune
• The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.They remember to do it all the time

• Create a Vision Board -- pictures of what you want to attract -- every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

• Decide what you want -- believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you

• Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.

• Focus on being grateful for what you have already -- enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

• "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" W. Clement Stone

• Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

• When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

• How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!

• 'checks are coming in the mail regularly'.... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there.... and get behind the feeling of having it.

• Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas....

• Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear
• We are the creators of our universe

• Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others -- love yourself and you will be loved

• Healthy respect for yourself

• For those you work with or interact with regularly -- get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

• Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match

• When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.

• You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.....

• You are the only one that creates your reality

• No one else can think or feel for you -- its YOU -- ONLY YOU.

• Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.

• Immune system will heal itself

• Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc.... Within a few years we have a brand new body

• See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

• Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself

• Learn to become still -- and take your attention away from what you don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience

• When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life

• You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

• And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well

• People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around -- This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

• The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.

• All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. it will show up for you.

• So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want... get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

• Write your *****. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants.... remove your attention from don't wants... and place them on do wants

• We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

• Don't define yourself by your body -- it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.

• One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

• Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Blogger Buzz: PostSecret: A Lifetime of Secrets

Blogger Buzz: PostSecret: A Lifetime of Secrets

Treatment of PTSD: An Assessment of The Evidence

At the request of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) undertook a systematic review of the PTSD literature. After nearly 2,800 abstracts were identified, the application of inclusion criteria narrowed the list down to 90 randomized clinical trials, 37 pharmacotherapy studies, and 53 psychotherapy studies.
The principal finding of the committee is that the scientific evidence on treatment modalities for PTSD does not reach the level of certainty that would be desired for such a common and serious condition among veterans. Most studies included in the committee’s review were characterized by methodologic limitations, some serious enough to affect confidence in the studies’ results. The committee reached a strong consensus that additional high quality research is essential for every treatment modality.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11955

As Combat PTSD Stigma Fades Somewhat, Funding Fight and Political Disillusionment Come Into Focus - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

As Combat PTSD Stigma Fades Somewhat, Funding Fight and Political Disillusionment Come Into Focus - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

First 'Veterans Village' Set to Open in California in November - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

First 'Veterans Village' Set to Open in California in November - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Are PTSD Veterans Slated to Lose Their Right to Possess Firearms? - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Are PTSD Veterans Slated to Lose Their Right to Possess Firearms? - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Need Transition Help? Free Resources for OEF/OIF Troops - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Need Transition Help? Free Resources for OEF/OIF Troops - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Deep Breathing Techniques for Stress Release - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Deep Breathing Techniques for Stress Release - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Veterans Disability Benefits Commission Releases Report, Recommends Sweeping System Overhaul - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Veterans Disability Benefits Commission Releases Report, Recommends Sweeping System Overhaul - PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

Moving from pain to pleasure.

Moving from pain to pleasure.
Our whole life is about moving from pain to pleasure. Pain continues to be leverage for me to this day. Even in my subconscious as a being in this universe it directs me to pleasure.
For me, when it hurt bad enough I took massive action to move through it. If the action did not work, I took another route until I found the solution that kept me in a positive emotional state so I could "function".
When I would say "I am depressed" or "I am sad" I continued to reaafirm my feelings with these statements. My subconscious mind would say "okay, he's depressed, and he wants to keep it that way" Then I thought about it. I looked at all of my actions in this "depressed state". Jeez, I had to slump over, I had to breathe shallow, I had to do all of these things with my body to stay in that miserable state.
So I then began to change my Physiology (the way I moved my body), the way I breathed. I tricked my subconscious by good memory management. I thought of a time when I felt great and I relived that moment over and over. I acted my way into right thinking by changing my state with this small exercise.
I stay away from affirmations that say "I am wealthy" "I am at peace" etc; because this creates conflict with my subconscious. Instead I just say "wealth" and "Peace" and my subconscious is not at a battle with it being labeled with the "I am's"
Words are powerful, and thoughts become things

Wishing you happiness, joy, laughter and prosperity in all that you do

Timothy Kendrick