Spirit Life

It's an exciting time of year because we have the chance to start all over. Even if our external life doesn't change a lot, certainly we have the control to change how we think. Isn't this the first step to changing how we live, afterall? We can do this any time of the year, of course, but what better time then right now

Spirit Life 103

If you follow this website at all, you know that I'm a book junkie. I have all kinds of information about books, CDs, Kindle reading materials and such from amazon.com. Yes, your purchases help me to keep my websites and blogs alive (thank you!), but I also love to talk about the books I read and the CDs I listen to when I'm driving about.

I've been reading Wayne Dyer's latest book, Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits (Hay House, 2009). I started reading this book on my Kindle New Years day and even the introduction really spoke to me. If ever there was a paragraph that describes just how would like to be, this would be it. The only thing better? If I had written it myself! ha! I read this paragraph, and knew I would have to finish the book soon. Our thoughts, afterall, do create our reality.

So ponder Dr. Dyer's writings about how he practices what to think and his experience studying the Lao-tzu ... "I find I now choose thoughts that are flexible, not rigid; soft, not hard. I think with humility, not arrogance; with detachment, not attachment. I practice thinking small and accomplishing big things, as well as thinking in harmony with nature, rather than with my ego. The idea of not interfering replaces meddling and advising. I prefer peaceful solutions over the notion of fighting to solve disputes. I opt for contentment, rather than ambition; arriving, not striving. And most significantly, I choose thoughts that are congruous with the Great Tao (God), rather than the illusions of self-importance conjured up by ego.(Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits. Hay House, 2009).