God Creates No Garbage

This is a Guest post from Blog Carnival participant, Edith Yeung. She is a powerhouse. Check out her blog.

What motivates you to get up every morning? What put a smile on your face before you go to bed at night? Why do you do what you do every day?

Imagine you are given a vault to open. Inside this vault lies the answer to your life’s purpose.

This is a big iron vault. If you force it open, you will damage what’s inside. The easy way is to find the key to the vault, but you have no idea where the key is…

Sometimes you may find keys which look like they could work, but when you try them with the vault, you only leave with disappointment and sadness.

You can’t wait to open the vault and find out your true purpose. You know the answer is inside and it is only one turn of the key away.

We are all here for a reason. For a purpose. We are here to serve. To dream. To fulfill a purpose that our creator has designed for us.

The key to understanding your purpose is to find the key to your vault.

Lots of people would pass you by and tell you what the right key is. But no one really knows except you.

The trick is that only you will be able to find the right key to your own vault. And, the only way to find out is to closely listen to your heart.

Trust your intuition. Not your mind. Not your intellect. And definitely not anyone else’s.

You can and you will find the right key. Once you find that key, it will be easy (like a breeze) to open what seem to be a complicated puzzle.
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Relaxation Rescue

by Laura M. Turner

Let’s face it, stress is everywhere. It lurks in every corner and around every bend, just waiting to “get” us. And study after study concludes that although some stress can be productive, prolonged stress can lead to chronic illness.

Yet, stress can only “get us” if we let it. If we can agree that the mind and body are interconnected, than I believe you can actually decide to manage stress, take control of it and instantly over-come the negative influences brought to you by your environment.

Now, stay with me for the “clinical” stuff. Scientific evidence supports that the stress of the body comes from the nervous system’s “fight or flight response.” If you haven’t heard this term before, it’s when the body suspects trauma and instantly shifts into “survival mode” based on the stimulus of an oncoming stress factor. This “survival mode” response, does terrible things to the body including increasing heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, muscle tension. These are the bad boys that can lead to harmful changes over time.

Now for the good news: you can teach your body not to make the shift into survival mode. Do this by retraining your body to create its own relaxation response. How? Begin by incorporating these three proven relaxation rescue techniques into your own life:

Meditation:
Meditation provides an escape from stress as it refocuses the mind on something else - most often the breath. The benefits of meditation counteract the negative stress-responses by creating a mode of deep inner peace and physical health. It does this by slowing the heart rate and lowering the blood pressure. It also includes many other benefits including those of anti-aging.
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CultivateGreatness Success and Personal Growth Blog Carnival #013, April 20th, 2007

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Here we are with the 13th edition of the Success Blog Carnival at Cultivate Greatness! A great amount of wisdom to share within this edition of our Blog Carnival… many, many golden nuggets of wisdom to share.

Thanks for your submissions! I have increases the frequency of carnivals that I put out to once every 2 weeks instead of once a month, so that there are fewer entries on it, making it easier to read all the stuff. There are SO many great articles here, its unreal.

Also, if you article is listed in this blog carnival, please provide a linkback to CultivateGreatness.com somewhere on your site, to provide a nice circle of link love!

Here we are in April. The year is 1/4th over. Make sure to stay on task with your goals and move forward toward your dreams. You deserve them! Thanks for making the April 20th, 2007 edition of the Cultivate Greatness, Success and Personal Growth BlogCarnival a success!

Business

Ybother presents Top 10 Surefire Ways To Come Up With A Million Dollar Idea posted at TodaysTen.com: Daily Top Ten List to jumpstart your knowledge

health

Leslie Feldman presents Research Reveals A Cellular Basis For A Male Biological Clock posted at AGE OF THE FATHER AND HEALTH OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, saying, “For successful, happy, healthy, life-loving children, learn about the male biological clock. This very kind man, Dr. Narendra P. Singh, really cares about children’s health. He hasn’t been funded by the NIH to do the follow-up research to refine his original findings. From his and from other research studies, I have learned that for the health and all around well being of kids, father them when you are 22-31 and cryopreserve sperm for any later fathering of babies in your 20s to 32.”

Caroline Latham presents Easy Steps to Improve Your Brain Health Now posted at SharpBrains, saying, “Improving your brain fitness can help you perform better today and maintain your independence tomorrow.”

JoLynn Braley presents How To Use Your Brain to Lose Weight posted at The Fit Shack, saying, “This article could span a couple of different categories; it involves using your “personal computer” (aka your brain) to help you lose weight. When you program your subconscious mind with the conscious use of written affirmations, you can create unlimited positive changes in your life.”

seanjames presents Practicing good sleeping hygiene posted at Insurance, Car donations and others…hehe, saying, “this post is about combating insomnia, please read this post for this might be helpful and do leave a comment..thanks by the way…”

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Healing Waterfall Meditation

By Rosie Powel

Sit comfortably as in a position that you would use to normally
meditate…and replace your meditation with this one.

Relax, and imagine you are a beautiful waterfall. [Give yourself a
few moments for this] Now…repeat a few times in your mind…or
ask your guide to do so for you…he/she just might.
“The water flows in…..the water flows away…

See yourself as the water flows into you, and see yourself as the
water flows away from you…You are still a waterfall, you are
allowing the water to flow from above into you, and to flow outwards
away from you.

You are a beautiful waterfall…water flows into you, water flows
out from you. You are refreshed, you are cleansed, you are healed,
and you are quenched.
See the animals and the people rest within you, see them being
quenched, being refreshed in you. See them being cleansed, being
healed in you.
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