Life Strategies (I)

After working for so many years, I am still pondering around and have not made any achievement. This book provides me with many insights of what I should do in order to gain progress. I should have my “life manager” as said by the book to monitor my life so that I will not feel regret at the moment I die.

Accompanied with this book is a workbook that allows us to think more deeply about what we did and thought in the past. Actually, I read the workbook first and found the exercises very useful before I looked for the book to read.

Here are some points which are very useful for me:

• Focus on what must do in order to win.
• If what you’re doing is not working, change it.
• You must overcome people’s resistance and excuses and get them to accept your view. You must understand what makes them tick before you can connect with them.
• What do they value most in their lives?
• What are their expectancies and beliefs?
• What resistance or predispositions do they have?
• Fear among all people is rejection. They need acceptance.
• To manage people effectively, you must do it in a way that protects or enhances their self-esteem.
• It takes knowledge about how you developed that negative characteristics.
• Why you persist with it and how to replace it with more positive, constructive characteristics.
• If in any part of your life, you are hurt or upset, you own those feelings and are accountable for their presence in your life.
• You are creating the situations you are in. The solutions lie within you.
• You never fix your problems blaming someone else.
• You made the choice.
• You and only you can choose your reaction to the events of your earlier life.
• You create your own experience by and through the choices you make everyday. The choice making creates your own experience, because with choice you make comes a certain consequence.
• When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.
• When you choose the thoughts, you choose the consequences.
• When you choose the thoughts, you choose the physiology.
• If you choose thoughts that demean and depreciate you, you choose the consequence of low self-esteem and low self-confidence.

 

You can heal your life

Fom time to time, I heard there were cases that people suffered from cancer or other serious diseases could be recovered. For example, in her book, "You can heal your life", Louise Hay mentioned how she recovered from cancer by going back to nature and eating some natural foods.



In fact, cancer is due to the foods we eat which cause inflammation in our body and mucus is discharged and accumulates. This blocks cellular respiration and hence causing cellular weaknesses and cellular death and decay, opening the doorway to cancer.

It is a well known fact that diets high in animal protein are cancer causing. Animal protein is acidic and irritating and inflaming our body tissues. On the other hand, fruits are the highest electrically-alkaline foods and can clean and detox our body. In addition,  we can use herbs to rebuild tissues and promote tissue function. Thus by eating naturally, we can recover from disease.

Everyone is responsible for everything in our lives.

As mentioned by Louise, it is not what happens. It is how we react to it. We are each responsible for all our experiences.

 

The only thing we are ever dealing with is a thought and a thought can be changed. When we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, everything in life works.

 

Other points in the book I found useful include the following:

• We are only hurting ourselves by refusing to live in this moment to the fullest.
• I love and accept myself at every age. Each moment in life is perfect.
• No person, no place and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality and everyone in it.
• I now realize that I have created this condition and I am now willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that is responsible for this condition.
• Release the emotional attachment to the past.
• Foregiveness of ourselves and of others. See good things happening to the person and you.

Overweight and Health (III)

Cancer arises from one single cell. The transformation from a normal cell into a tumor cell is a multistage process, typically a progression from a pre-cancerous lesion to malignant tumors. These changes are the result of the interaction between a person's genetic factors and three categories of external agents, including physical carcinogens (such as ultraviolet and ionizing radiation), chemical carcinogens (such as asbestos, components of tobacco smoke, aflatoxin (a food contaminant) and arsenic (a drinking water contaminant)), biological carcinogens (such as infections from certain viruses, bacteria or parasites).

Many cancers can be prevented by avoiding exposure to common risk factors, such as tobacco smoke. Tobacco use is the single most important risk factor for cancer. Some research indicates that certain lifestyle habits can prevent cancer attack . In addition, a significant proportion of cancers can be cured by surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, especially if they are detected early.

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: it accounted for 7.9 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2007. Lung, stomach, liver, colon and breast cancer cause the most cancer deaths each year:

Lung (1.4 million deaths/year)

Stomach (866,000 deaths)

Liver (653,000 deaths)

Colon (677,000 deaths)

Breast (548,000 deaths).

The most frequent types of cancer differ between men and women:

Men - lung, stomach, liver, colorectal, oesophagus and prostate.
Women - breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical.

About 30 per cent of cancer deaths can be prevented. Deaths from cancer worldwide are projected to continue rising, with an estimated 12 million deaths in 2030.

In addition, overweight people also have a high risk in suffering diseases in the areas of lungs, stomach, gall bladder and musculoskeletal disorders (especially osteoarthritis). Moreover, overweight makes surgery and pregnancy more dangerous: some abdominal operations may be impossible in badly overweight people.

Obese and overweight people are more accident prone mainly because excess weight limits their mobility so that they cannot easily get out of the way of danger.

Overweight may disguise symptoms of serious diseases and make it difficult for a doctor to make a diagnosis.