The First Words When We Wake Can Set Our Day

Have you ever heard someone say “Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?”

When I wake up every morning. I say Lord what am I get to do today. Instead of I have to do this or that. Believe it or not it sets up your day in positive way.

I get to go to work? I don’t have to you to work. Think of how many people in the world that don’t have that opportunity. I get to go shopping how many people don’t have enough money to go shopping. It’s a blessing that we get to do things, not a punishment.

I believe that it is important to go to bed happy buy if you think of all the things you get to do tomorrow.

Every night say gratitude statements like I am thankful for the my friend calling me today- I am thankful that my children are successful in life. I’m thankful that someone loves me or that I am getting to a place where I can love myself.

When you sleep peaceful you naturally wake up feeling refreshed and ready for the day.

Here is a few tips:

The night before a busy day, do what you can to make your morning go easier. Lay out clothes, set up the coffee pot, make sure you know where your keys are and your not scrambling to find them. Actions like these can help your day get off to a calmer start.

Use an alarm instead of the alarm on your smartphone. When you use our phone as an alarm we tend to start looking a notifications, you subject yourself to the outside worldly demands on your attention before your feet even hit the floor. Don’t let e-mails, texts, and social media notifications rule you waking up moments. Claim ownership of your attention with a screen free morning routine.

Avoid using alarms that jolt you out of a sleep with a piercing noise.

Don’t sleep with your bedroom pitch black, you should be able to see the sunlight it gives for much less abrupt, more natural way to wake up.

You woke up! Did you ever consider saying a prayer thanking God for breathing new life into you today. I always do this and then ask the Lord to send me someone to bless that day.

Instead of dreading your day or get stuck in worrying about what could happen. Imagine how it would feel to have the day you want to have.

Engage in something you find pleasurable first thing in the morning. I’ll do anything for coffee in the moment, so it’s the first thing I do. I also enjoy taking showers in the morning it wakes me ready to start a new day.

Some may like listening to a inspirational podcast or exercising.

Give yourself a reason to look forward to starting your day. With the right approach you can have a great morning.

Facing Your Demons

Whenever people struggle with personal change such as trying to be more assertive, happier or just more comfortable with driving on major freeways when traveling. Here are some ideas:

There are all kinds of way out there for making specific changes. There are a huge choice of diet programs and an overwhelming number of approaches to reduce anxiety but no matter what they are you still need to face your fears. You must confront the parts of yourself that you wish would disappear.

Facing the parts of yourself that you don’t like, or are afraid of, is one of the most difficult tasks you will do. I was at a time in my life when I fearful of standing up and talking in front of a crowd.

On day my pastor asked me to get up and tell the church my testimony. At first, I said no. But then someone told me a great tip. When I’m up there speaking don’t look at their faces look at the top of their heads, not their faces. I spoke that day doing this and it was easy. I was so proud of myself that I did it. Now I can stand in front of any crowd and speak with no fear.

Facing that pain by really feeling it without denying or numbing yourself shows courage, and if you can feel compassion and offer forgiveness to those parts of you (despite a strong desire to turn away), you will come to accept and care from them. As you would take care of a distressed child. Just as the distressed child is soothed by a comforting response. So too, are those parts of yourself. Getting to know yourself and approaching yourself the compassion with self-awareness.

You can become more accepting of yourself you will be able to tolerate the discomfort that comes along with change. In the end, you will be proud of yourself for standing up to your fears.

Feeling Inner Peace

What is inner peace? All of us have a picture in the back of our mind of what inner peace is. You have even been in this state many times, sometimes for moments even for hours and you know what inner peace feels like. We need to learn how to grow and create that feeling without being dependant on things turning out a certain way. We need to create inner peace as something we are able and be able to share and give it to others. We need to become in the center of our peace, radiating our souls light outward, instead of reacting, or waiting for situations, relationships a d events in your life to be arranged in such away that you have peace.

Inner peace is like being in the eye of a storm. All around you is craziness like rain, hail, and wind but in the eye of the storm it is calm and peaceful.

Creating inner peace from the higher levels is learning to open your heart. It means you are not focused or attached to an emotional level to th8ngs that happen in the world around you. You know who you are, and you let things flow around you without touching or affecting your sense of peace. Opening your heart means remaining one and loving no matter what another person does, no matter what occurs to you, what happens with your job. It means choosing to feel peaceful no matter what your outer life looks like. It is easy to be loving, the challenge is to be loving when those around you are closed, afraid, or negative.

Anything you are attached to or your must-have it a certain way, any belief or concept that is inflexible will be an area in which your inner peace can be affected. The goal is to take that sense of inner peace and affect everything in the outer world, touching it with energy.

Your body can be the receptacle of many thoughts that are not peaceful. If you can bring your body to a state of peace and rest, by relaxing it with physical touch or mental relaxation.

I can take a walk outdoors and see the beauty of the trees and the mountain, the skyline. Smelling the fresh air puts me at peace. Some people do breathing exercises or listen to relaxing music. Meditation tapes can do this as well.

You will begin to experience levels of inner peace down to feel inner peace. Start by finding a sense of peace within. Give yourself one opportunity in the next week to feel inner peace. I have had to put earphones in sometimes to remove the outward noises from others in my family will listening to relaxing music. The point is to do what you have to find that inner peace.

The value of inner peace certainly feels better to the emotional body but, it is more than that. It is the ability to affect the outer world and create and manifest from a focused place of purpose and an inner sense of who you are. When you are tranquil and calm, when you slow down and feel relaxed you are able to think at higher levels. What you bring forth from inner peace is for your higher good.

Plan your life from a sense of inner peace and operate from it. Before you speak, you bring in this sense of peace you will find the world-changing into a very different place.

One of my favorite verses in the Bible is in Romans 8:31: if God is for us who can be against us. I think of this verse often when I am getting out of my peaceful place.

Hold your head up high. You are a Child of the high God. Be at peace.

Choosing The Path Of Humility

Choosing the path of humility will keep you from thinking too highly of yourself. When living a humble life. Consideration, respect, and generosity come with ease. We don’t get upset with trivial things or compare ourselves to others or don’t act selfishly when we can’t have our way.

Developing Humbly:

When who spend time with others, we don’t focus on ourselves. Which makes it difficult to be selfish. Some people always think what’s in it for me? If we can have the attitude, how can I help this person enjoy their day? You are giving the gift of Joy.

What God has given us by grace we should give away. It was freely given to you, so freely give it away. We need to realize we are not always right and don’t have all the answers. But being humble sometimes if just being there for someone.

Practice mindfulness and focus on the present. Sometimes, I say things like I have to go to the store but when I get there it’s like being on autopilot. I don’t see other people, their reactions, the looks on their faces. Or even if people could use a little help. That’s not how I want to be. Some day’s I get focusing on the store I volunteer at. Or my son living so far away.

Be grateful for what you have. I thank God every day that I woke up to have a new day. And that I have food to eat, a roof over my head, and running water.

Some people don’t have anything at all. Be grateful your not homeless or suffering hunger pains from not having anything to eat.

Ask for help when you need it.

Many of us will recognize a form of pride that lies in being able to solve our problems. Humbly, therefore, lies in recognizing when we need help. And being able to ask for help appropriately.

Humility may sound old-fashioned, but that does not mean that a little humbleness is not important now as ever.

In a era in which many complain about growing selfishness and focus on the world, perhaps we should strive to develop a more humble approach.

Why People Don’t Have Inner Peace.

Inner peace is essential for health and well-being, thriving relationships, happiness, and success. So m why don’t most people have it?

There are roadblocks people bump up against that limits inner peace in their lives.

Do you see yourself in any of these?

Underlying Angst. Within every human being is underlying angst. It’s nervous energy, that is not tied to stress, though it amplifies the uneasy feeling. As a baby, you are born into inner peace but at an early age, the developing ego pulls us away from our natural state of inner peace. Conditioning from our parents, teachers, friends, T.V., and media feed our insecurities. Feeling that you’re not good enough or unworthy, fear of not being loved. Even basic survival instincts all feed into underlying angst. How much underlying angst do you experience?

Distractions, while we can not pretend underlying angst isn’t there, it drives our behavior unconsciously. Do not distract yourself by overlooking, watching T.V., or medicating yourself with food, smoking, alcohol, or drugs. Do you keep yourself nearly none-stop with hobbies, exercising, or mundane conversations with friends and family? There are multiple ways to distract ourselves, squeezing out time to expand one’s inner peace.

I often keep myself busy by volunteering and it becomes a distraction for me. I get caught up in volunteer work and do not think about my inner peace.

Have you ever heard the quote; I want to sleep so my brain will shut off. That’s me, My brain doesn’t stop. Until I can fall asleep. I have to make a point of a period of meditating every day. Or I lose my peace.

Thinking about success or your goal for the day brings inner peace. We can believe that we can achieve a certain amount of success, find their ideal relationship, lose a certain amount of weight, or declutter there house then they can find inner peace. These elements can contribute to one’s quality of life. But, ask anyone who has achieved these goals and they will tell you it doesn’t necessarily give you inner peace.

Fear of Reflection. Many people are simply afraid to stop and reflect on their lives. The quiet stillness threatens their current state of being so they feel their lives with noise. So people are afraid of what they’d find. Or afraid they would remain helpless and unable to change.

Disconnecting from power. There are a lot of ways to unplug from your sense of power and choice. It’s a lot like unplugging an electoral cord from the wall socket. Without power, it’s easy to feel like a victim, stay confused, or react unconsciously. You disconnect from power anytime you minimize yourself, neglect self-care, get caught in negative self-talk, attach to stressful thoughts or forget you have a choice.

Without powerits difficult to access your inner guidance, take inspired action or experience inner peace.

Living unconsciously. Our brains are set up to navigate the world without being consciously engage engaged in every moment. Living unconsciously interferes with our ability to transcend dysfunctional habits, make higher choices, and enjoy inner peace.

Thinking- that fights reality. Our thinking fights reality anytime we think something should or shouldn’t be happening, but it is. We fight reality when we fixate on the past we cannot change or a reality that hasn’t happened yet in the future. Spending time in the past or future or arguing with what is happening now is a sure path to inner turmoil. It occupies precious to that could be allowing greater inner peace to enter our lives. How many thoughts in your mind are you arguing with reality in some way?

Lacking tools and knowledge about inner peace. There is little to no training in school or college to help you expand inner peace in our lives. How do you transcend the programming of the brain and unlearn the effects of the ego? Most people don’t seek out the tools a d knowledge to have greater inner peace in their lives.

Missing pieces of the puzzle. Even though there is more information available today to help you expand inner peace in your life, almost every teaching just focuses on one facet. Without a focus on all elements of inner peace, it’s no wonder most people don’t have it.

People aren’t focusing on it. You receive in life, what you focus on. Look at the news, eavesdrop on family dinner conversations or ask strangers and you will discover most people are not fususing on inner peace. How can you have inner peace if your not paying attention to it.

People believe stress is just a natural part of life. There are times when stress is a useful emotion. But it has become a huge predominant part of our lives. For some people, they are nervous when they don’t have stress.

Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rob You Of Your Joy.

I have to be healed from feelings associated with childhood trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and pain attacks.

To cope, I initially avoided dealing with the aftermath until years later. Because fear makes us run until you have to face the problem.

My life wasn’t a happy one when I was ready to find the answers because I lacked peace. At first, I sought external resources like self-help books. Then I realized my problems came from inside me.

There are no quick fixes.

Maybe there’s something you need to heal from that you aren’t fully aware of? Consider looking inward for productive answers so you don’t have to carry your emotional wounds your entire life.

Sometimes current news or situation can bring all those feelings back.

If you have emotional outbursts and aren’t sure why, you could be holding onto traumatic past baggage. A panic attack or being attacked by endless fear can rock you the core. Because whatever you went through, the current attack marked that your still dealing with that incident.

My husband sometimes says things that trigger me. I have to remember he just says something and doesn’t remember it’s a trigger for me. Even simple things like, that was stupid, why did you do it that way. Being called stupid triggers me right back from childhood. I have to tell myself silently to not get upset.

Choosing to change and start a new day will take over.

Store in your mind a helpful regimen handy for those anxious moments.

Emotions are the wag the body reacts to stress. But, if you can work on managing those emotions. After we release emotions, that ongoing stress can lead to worse health ailments.

When I had to get over my past traumas, I had to imagine myself as whole and healed. I had to talk to my younger me like she is fine now. And she is loved.

Because my fear of abandonment was crowding out the love I so desperately needed and wanted. I had to distance myself from what happened and tell my mind that I turned out okay despite my turmoil.

The complex mind to lump everything together unless you purposefully separate, isolate and connect the dots.

Being vulnerable and sharing all of us, men, women, children, or polka-dotted. To beat this thing that’d robbing us of joy and love.

What does it mean to be born again!

Jesus tells us that we must be born again. How do we do that?

Jesus is pretty clear when he says that we must be born again to see the kingdom of God.

Jesus said Most assuredly I say to you unless one is born again you cannot see the kingdom of God unless one is born of water and the Spirit. That which is born of flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:3-6).

It is obvious that Jesus is not talking about being born a second time physically. He is talking about a new desire- a spiritual transformation,

Why do we need to be born again?

Before being born again I am led by my own human inclinations, namely the desires of the flesh. Generally, this is what guides my thought processes and decisions. But the desires of the flesh do not lead to the life of Christ, which is what I’m called to do. To give in to pride, laziness, greed, envy, selfishness, and many other forms of evil that leads to sin. Jesus describes the pre-born again mind like this. Because you say I’m rich have become wealthy, and need nothing- and do not know you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked (Revelation 3:17).

It is when I acknowledge that I am described in the verse that I am at the point where I am really to be born again of water and the Spirit. Nothing that I have as a result of being born of the flesh, as a natural person, is capable of serving God. When I acknowledge that I am not able to the good, then God can take over. I need to surrender absolutely everything to be born of the Spirit, it is a rebirth of the mind and heart. I become dead to the desires of the flesh and alive to the prompting of the Spirit.

I have need crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Relations 2:20

Of course I still do have flesh which craves fulfilment of it’s desires, but now these desires are overcome and no longer influence me. Instead, I am alive to what the Spirit guiding me to, which is the truth. Paul calls my pre-born again mindset must remain crucified with Christ and new life I have been born to the life of Christ. The life of Jesus is to be manifested in my mortal flesh ( 2 Corinthians 4:11). It is because I have been born of the Spirit, and the Spirit lives in me, that I have the power to resist temptation, to remain crucified to the flesh, and to live for Christ (Romans 15:13).

A New Desire

All of Colossians 3 is a very good description of being born-again, starting with. If then you were raised with Christ, seem those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on earth. For your old life has died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in Glory (Colossians 3:1-4).

I chose to be born-again because my life was in chaos without God. I knew there had to be something else out there. I admit when I was baptized in water and Spirit. I accepted Christ into my life and at first I didn’t feel very different but I trusted my life would be different. And sure enough soon I knew I had made the right choice. Things starting changing, I knew I was forgiven, I knew God loved me completely. My life began changing in a positive way. It has only went up from there.

I chose to let God control my life because I wasn’t great at controlling it. The desire to live for eternity rather than for anything in this world. A desire that Jesus Not my will but yours be done (Luke: 22-42).

It is when I am willing to let go of my own strength, pride, stubbornness, and human ability and follow the Spirit’s leading so that God’s will can be done. Then I find that by the power of the Spirit, everything is possible. I have moved mountains in my life. That I thought we’re impossible, victory over sin, is accomplished. I have become a transformed person; a new creation. I let God bend and mold me into the person that He want me to be.

My eyes have been opened to see beyond the things of this earth, to see what has true value. With Gods kingdom comes everything that is good. Seeking God’s kingdom is the most rewarding thing a person can do.