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Magaluf puts 50-person limit on pub crawls

<p><img alt="" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0aIkYc3sqb43CcPB_87wuLeKMQR5Ur0rKfs_Yg6i8KKJRijrKdUvsdqPRElPlEWTRfehLMhamKS0r2avohL11taWU-so_KBAqDMwnpcJKGF9Oaf7mtNxiDEH3J5elzvSByss1eW2pQWI/" style="vertical-align: top;" width="312" /></p><p>The local mayor announced the new legislation today after a video surfaced last week showing sex acts being performed by a young British holidaymaker at a club night called Carnage. The resort’s reputation has been steadily deteriorating for years, but recent revelations about bars and clubs where tourists are encouraged to get drunk and engage in sexual behaviour in public proved the tipping point. Manuel Onieva, the Mayor of Calvia, a region including Magaluf, said the new law was an expression of his “total rejection and anger at the activities which were carried out in a video which is currently on the social media circuit.” In an attempt to clean up seedy bar crawls, any company wanting to operate one in the area will now need to apply for a licence through the town hall. In order to be granted a licence they will have to “prove their responsibility and show that they have the appropriate civil insurances in place,” the mayor said.</p>

Magaluf puts 50-person limit on pub crawls

The local mayor announced the new legislation today after a video surfaced last week showing sex acts being performed by a young British hol...

Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression

<p> Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression using vitamin B-3 therapy and worked tirelessly for eleven years begging for its inclusion into A.A. recovery circles.  His desire was to help alcoholics stay recovered. This means he would have immediately brought this mineral replacement therapy that eliminates alcohol cravings forth without exception.  Master of ceremonies, Andrew W. Saul, includes Bill Wilson as an inductee of the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame at the Hotel Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 29, 2006 in his induction speech, “…To this day, selective history records A.A.’s 12-Step Program, but has forgotten, or deliberately purged, what Bill wanted to be A.A.’s 13th step – orthomolecular therapy with vitamin B3.”[Lee Brack1]  In February 2009, Orthomolecular Medicine’s founder, Abram Hoffer and Bill Wilson’s good friend, clarified to me over the phone, “..yes, Lee, he wanted to share this information as an added step and talked about it all the time because he felt so strongly about nutrition…”  Abram Hoffer passed away a few months later in May having lived healthy and happily for ninety one and a half years.</p>

Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression

Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression using vitamin B-3 therapy and worked tirel...

Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW

Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW, and see that this peace is not dependent upon the con...

The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues

<p><p>There are many biological factors that are involved with the addicted brain. "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues" (2) In the brain, there are many changes that take place when drugs enter a person's blood stream. The pathway in the brain that the drugs take is first to the ventral tegmentum to the nucleus accumbens, and the drugs also go to the limbic system and the orbitofrontal cortex, which is called the mesolimbic reward system. The activation of this reward system seems to be the common element in what hooks drug users on drugs (2).</p><p>Drugs seem to cause surges in dopamine neurotransmitters and other pleasure brain messengers. However, the brain quickly adapts and these circuits desensitize, which allows for withdrawal symptoms to occur (3). Drug addiction works on some of the same neurobiological mechanisms that aid in learning and memories (3). "This new view of dopamine as an aid to learning rather than a pleasure mediator may help explain why many addictive drugs, which unleash massive surges of the neurotransmitter in the brain, can drive continued use without producing pleasure-as when cocaine addicts continue to take hits long after the euphoric effects of the drug have worn off or when smokers smoke after cigarettes become distasteful." (4)</p><p>Since memory and pleasure zones are intertwined in the brain, many researchers have been using psychological approaches to stop drug use. Many rehabilitation centers have used classical conditioning to rehabilitate drug addicts. They combine exposure to drugs combined with cognitive scripts, like statements how drugs have destroyed a person's life or what can be accomplished without using drugs, according to DeLetis (5). By using classical conditioning, the drugs addicts pair the drugs with negative connotations and properties. "Adverse withdrawal symptoms can function as an instrumental negative reinforcer and can be linked to the opponent process theory of motivation." (6) However, drug addicts may relapse and start using again because of many environmental "cues", which are external forces that are associated with drug use in their lives. When the drugs addicts see these cues, their brain circuitry, especially the orbitofrontal cortex become hyperactive and causes these people to start craving drugs again (2). No matter how successful the rehabilitation treatment is, once those "cues" are around, the drug addicts remember how pleasurable the drugs felt and relapse into drug abuse again.</p><p>Through all of the research done about drug addiction and its affects on the brain, one can see how drug addiction is considered a brain disease. Drug addiction is a disabling disease and can ruin a person's life. By taking drugs, a person's brain becomes "rewired" to tolerate high amounts of dopamine neurotransmitters, but once those high amounts of dopamine cease to exist, the person experiences withdrawal symptoms. However, there are ways drug addicts can control their drug intake by using classical conditioning techniques, which allows them to associate drugs with negative attributes.</p><div></div></p>

The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues

There are many biological factors that are involved with the addicted brain. "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonad...

The results strongly suggest that the mechanism of depression after alcohol drinking may be related to serotonin.

We examined tryptophan and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) levels in the blood after consumption of alcohol. Forty-five minutes after drinki...

The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels.

The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels. The medicines that raise the level of serotonin in the brain do so by sl...

Ms Sandiford to be executed for drug trafficking.

<p><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1825 inpage-widget-6296795" style="outline: none; font-size: 1.2em; color: #444444; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><span class="storyTop " style="outline: none;"><p style="outline: none;">A British grandmother has been sentenced to death by firing squad for smuggling almost 5kg of cocaine into Bali.</p></span></div><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1825 inpage-widget-6296940" style="outline: none; font-size: 1.2em; color: #444444; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="body " style="outline: none;"><p style="outline: none;">Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in May last year after she tried to enter the Indonesian holiday island with illegal drugs worth £1.6 million hidden in her suitcase.</p><p style="outline: none;">Local prosecutors had called for the 56-year-old housewife to be jailed for 15 years. But today there were gasps in the Bali courtroom when a panel of judges announced Ms Sandiford would be executed for drug trafficking.</p><p style="outline: none;">As the shock verdict was announced, Ms Sandiford, from Gloucestershire, slumped back in her chair in tears before hiding her face with a brown sarong as she was led out of the courtroom.</p></div></div></p>

Ms Sandiford to be executed for drug trafficking.

A British grandmother has been sentenced to death by firing squad for smuggling almost 5kg of cocaine into Bali. Lindsay Sandiford was arres...

Merry Christmas

<p><div id="whichRead_1"><p>Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We've all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downing cookie after cookie while cramming for a big test. But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.</p><p><img alt="diets arent the answer emotional eating" src="http://kidshealth.org/image/ial/images/1415/1415_image.gif" title="emotional eating" /></p><p>Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. But understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.</p><p>One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it's prompted by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they're stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine's Day or the celebration of a holiday feast.</p><p>Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. More often, though, it's the countless little daily stresses that cause someone to seek comfort or distraction in food.</p><p>Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. A kid who is given cookies as a way to stop crying may learn to link cookies with comfort.</p><p>It's not easy to "unlearn" patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what's going on.</p></div><div class="rs_skip" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 30.399999618530273px; background-color: #ffffff;"></div></p>

Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We've all been there, finishing a ...

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

<div class="article-header" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; display: table; text-align: center; width: 750px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="title entry-title" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; color: #696f00; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; width: 670px; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;"><a style="color: #696f00; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" rel="bookmark" href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-addicted-to-busyness-are-you.html">ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT</a></h1></div><div class="article-content entry-content" style="margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin: 0.83em 0px; position: relative; font-weight: bolder; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You may be lost in the addiction to busyness if…</span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your usual response to “how are you?” is “so busy”, “crazy busy” or “busy but good”</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time worrying about how busy you are going to be tomorrow</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You get angry when your spouse or friends aren’t as busy as you</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your busy life keeps you up at night thinking about everything you didn’t get done</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make a point of letting people know that you stay at the office after hours</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You check email several times a day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You zone out during conversations thinking about everything you have to do</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You volunteer for things you don’t care about</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time complaining about how busy you are</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make list after list to make sure you don’t forget anything during your busy day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You allocate time each day to clean your desk or organize your stuff</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You regularly eat in your car</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You use a phone in the car because “it’s the only time you have to talk”</span></li></ul></div>

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

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The joy of life for my Spanish Rainbow

The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth, In making bright and fruitful the entire desert spots of earth. In facing odds and m...

: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you think I am going to help anybody? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Don't expect me to be of help to anyone. Nor do I expect to damage anyone. If you are damaged, you did it; and if you are helped, you did it. You really did! You think people help you? They don't. You think people support you? They don't. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a woman in a therapy group I was conducting once. She was a religious sister. She said to me, "I don't feel supported by my superior." So I said, "What do you mean by that?" And she said, "Well, my superior, the provincial superior, never shows up at the novitiate where I am in charge, never. She never says a word of appreciation." I said to her, "All right let's do a little role playing. Pretend I know your provincial superior. In fact, pretend I know exactly what she thinks about you. So I say to you (acting the part of the provincial superior), 'You know, Mary, the reason I don't come to that place you're in is because it is the one place in the province that is trouble-free, no problems. I know you're in charge, so all is well.' How do you feel now?" She said, "I feel great." Then I said to her, "All right, would you mind leaving the room for a minute or two? This is part of the exercise." So she did. While she was away, I said to the others in the therapy group, "I am still the provincial superior, O.K.? Mary out there is the worst novice director I have ever had in the whole history of the province. In fact, the reason I don't go to the novitiate is because I can't bear to see what she is up to. It's simply awful. But if I tell her the truth, it's only going to make those novices suffer all the more. We are getting somebody to take her place in a year or two; we are training someone. In the meantime I thought I would say those nice things to her to keep her going. What do you think of that?" They answered, "Well, it was really the only thing you could do under the circumstances." Then I brought Mary back into the group and asked her if she still felt great. "Oh yes," she said. Poor Mary! She thought she was being supported when she wasn't. The point is that most of what we feel and think we conjure up for ourselves in our heads, including this business of being helped by people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I've got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you're in love with your prejudiced idea of that person. Isn't that how you fall out of love? Your idea changes, doesn't it? "How could you let me down when I trusted you so much?" you say to someone. Did you really trust them? You never trusted anyone. Come off it! That's part of society's brainwashing. You never trust anyone. You only trust your judgment about that person. So what are you complaining about? The fact is that you don't like to say, "My judgment was lousy." That's not very flattering to you, is it? So you prefer to say, "How could you have let me down?" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">So there it is: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig." Like the businessman who goes into a bar, sits down, and sees this fellow with a banana in his ear - a banana in his ear! And he thinks, "I wonder if I should mention that to him. No, it's none of my business." But the thought nags at him. So after having a drink or two, he says to the fellow, "Excuse me, ah, you've got a banana in your ear." The fellow says, "What?" The businessman repeats, "You've got a banana in your ear. " Again the fellow says, "What was that?" "You've got a banana in your ear!" the businessman shouts. "Talk louder," the fellow says, "I've got a banana in my ear!" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">So it's useless. "Give up, give up, give up," I say to myself. Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad! </span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /></p>

: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy

Do you think I am going to help anybody? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Don't expect me to be of help to anyone. Nor do I expect to damage ...

The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you're not even aware of. Lots of people have negative feelings they're not aware of. Lots of people are depressed and they're not aware they are depressed. It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they were. You can't deal with a cancer that you haven't detected. You can't get rid of boll weevils on your farm if you're not aware of their existence. The first thing you need is awareness of your negative feelings. What negative feelings? Gloominess, for instance. You're feeling gloomy and moody. You feel self-hatred or guilt. You feel that life is pointless, that it makes no sense; you've got hurt feelings, you're feeling nervous and tense. Get in touch with those feelings first. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The second step (this is a four-step program) is to understand that the feeling is in you, not in reality. That's such a self-evident thing, but do you think people know it? They don't, believe me. They've got Ph.D.s and are presidents of universities, but they haven't understood this. They didn't teach me how to live at school. They taught me everything else. As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you. No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess that you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or YOU? What's causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table's fine. It's busy being what it was made to Be -- a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind. Reality is not problematic. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The third step: Never identify with that feeling. It has nothing to do with the "I." Don't define your essential self in terms of that feeling. Don't say, "I am depressed." If you want to say, "It is depressed," that's all right. If you want to say depression is there, that's fine; if you want to say gloominess is there, that's fine. But not: I am gloomy. You're defining yourself in terms of the feeling. That's your illusion; that's your mistake. There is a depression there right now, there are hurt feelings there right now, but let it be, leave it alone. It will pass. Everything passes, everything. Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with happiness. Those are the swings of the pendulum. If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings to the other. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This has nothing to do with "I"; it has nothing to do with happiness. It is the "me." If you remember this, if you say it to yourself a thousand times, if you try these three steps a thousand times, you will get it. You might not need to do it even three times. I don't know; there's no rule for it. But do it a thousand times and you'll make the biggest discovery in your life. To hell with those gold mines in Alaska. What are you going to do with that gold? If you're not happy, you can't live. So you found gold. What does that matter? You're a king; you're a princess. You're free; you don't care anymore about being accepted or rejected, that makes no difference. Psychologists tell us how important it is to get a sense of belonging. Baloney! Why do you want to belong to anybody? It doesn't matter anymore. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">A friend of mine told me that there's an African tribe where capital punishment consists of being ostracized. If you were kicked out of New York, or wherever you're residing, you wouldn't die. How is it that the African tribesman died? Because he partakes of the common stupidity of humanity. He thinks he will not be able to live if he does not belong. It's very different from most people, or is it? He's convinced he needs to belong. But you don't need to belong to anybody or anything or any group. You don't even need to be in love. Who told you you do? What you need is to be free. What you need is to love. That's it; that's your nature. But what you're really telling me is that you want to be desired. You want to be applauded, to be attractive, to have all the little monkeys running after you. You're wasting your life. WAKE UP! You don't need this. You can be blissfully happy without it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Your society is not going to be happy to hear this, because you become terrifying when you open your eyes and understand this. How do you control a person like this? He doesn't need you; he's not threatened by your criticism; he doesn't care what you think of him or what you say about him. He's cut all those strings; he's not a puppet any longer. It's terrifying. "So we've got to get rid of him. He tells the truth; he has become fearless; he has stopped being human.'' HUMAN! Behold! A human being at last! He broke out of his slavery, broke out of their prison. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">No event justifies a negative feeling. There is no situation in the world that justifies a negative feeling. That's what all our mystics have been crying themselves hoarse to tell us. But nobody listens. The negative feeling is in you. In the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred book of the Hindus, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, "Plunge into the heat of battle and keep your heart at the lotus feet of the Lord." A marvelous sentence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The fourth step: How do you change things? How do you change yourselves? There are many things you must understand here, or rather, just one thing that can be expressed in many ways. Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, "Very well, I've understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!" The patient replies, "Thank you very much, Doctor, that makes me feel much better." Isn't that absurd? But that's what we all do. The person who is asleep always thinks he'll feel better if somebody else changes. You're suffering because you are asleep, but you're thinking, "How wonderful life would be if somebody else would change; how wonderful life would be if my neighbor changed, my wife changed, my boss changed." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">We always want someone else to change so that we will feel good. But has it ever struck you that even if your wife changes or your husband changes, what does that do to you? You're just as vulnerable as before; you're just as idiotic as before; you're just as asleep as before. You are the one who needs to change, who needs to take medicine. You keep insisting, "I feel good because the world is right." Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying. </span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /></p>

The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom

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the long, slow, boring and often painful route

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

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Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth

<div>Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and </div><div>direction for growth in holiness.  A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for </div><div>being formed by the Spirit, a rhythm that reflects a love for God and respect for how he has made </div><div>us.  The disciplines which we build into our rhythm of life help us to shed the “old self” and </div><div>allow our “new self” in Christ to be formed.  Spiritual disciplines are means of grace by which </div><div>God can nourish us.  Ultimately a Rule should help you to love God more, so if it becomes a </div><div>legalistic way of earning points with God or impressing others, it should be scrapped.  If the </div><div>traditional, ancient term “rule” concerns you because it sounds legalistic, think of “rule” as a </div><div>“rhythm of life” or as a “Curriculum in Christlikeness” (Dallas Willard), or as a “Game Plan for </div><div>Morphing” (John Ortberg). </div><div>In order to be life-giving, a Rule must be realistic!   It is not an ideal toward which you are </div><div>striving to soar.  Instead, your initial Rule should be a minimum standard for your life that you </div><div>do not want to drop below.  It’s a realistic level of engaging in the spiritual disciplines for which </div><div>you can honestly and truly be held accountable.</div>

Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth

Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth in holiness. A Rule estab...

Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.

Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow ...

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Magaluf puts 50-person limit on pub crawls

Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression

Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW

The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues

The results strongly suggest that the mechanism of depression after alcohol drinking may be related to serotonin.

The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels.

Ms Sandiford to be executed for drug trafficking.

Merry Christmas

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

The joy of life for my Spanish Rainbow

: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy

The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom

And where is this heaven

more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things.

the long, slow, boring and often painful route

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth

Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.

an apocalypse on Earth on December 21, 2012

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