What is a good and healthy relationship?

One key ingredient to a healthy relationship is honesty. It is crucial that individuals in a relationship are completely upfront and honest with each other. This is important for a number of reasons. One reason for being honest deals with trust issues. If dishonesty exists, then there will be trust issues throughout the relationship which could very well make the relationship go downhill. Another reason why those in a relationship must be completely honest with one another is for problem solving reasons. Honesty will make it that much more likely that relationship problems are resolved in a speedy manner.

Other key Ingredients for a Healthy Relationship.

There are many different categories of relationships which exist in the world today. Family members, friends and lovers all are involved in relationships, although the components of each relationship differ greatly. It can be stated that there are a few key ingredients for a healthy relationship, no matter what genre of relationship one is talking about.

Another key ingredient for a healthy relationship is frequent communication. Communication is the center to any relationship as it allows the individuals to get their fears, hopes and dreams out on the table. If there is open communication, the people involved in the relationship will feel much more comfortable simply by knowing that they can discuss anything with the other person. It is vital that those individuals involved in relationships express themselves as well as keep themselves open to the other person.

Lastly, those who are involved in a relationship must be willing to constantly strive to be a better person. Nobody is perfect, therefore each and every one of us can stand to improve upon ourselves. Not only will this benefit us as individuals but it will also prove beneficial for the other person in the relationship. By constantly striving to be a better person, individuals will find that their relationships may flourish even more so.

Believing in good balanced diet, taking vitamins and minerals. Daily exercise, yoga, stretching, breathing exercises, drinking enough water, meditation, relaxation, positive thinking, and trying to be happy

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“Love is the ultimate guru. Where love does not exist, life cannot exist”

Tired, frustrated, overweight, addicted, overworked, stressed with anxiety, driven by obsession, out of balance? If yes, this article may provide you with an amazing insight.

Human spirit is another word for energy. There is no ghost or spirit controlling our vitality. What controls our vitality and energy is our love for life. When our mind, our heart or our spirit withdraws from something, so our energy withdraws. We begin to feel tired, exhausted, angry or simply disappointed.

Tired is physical but its real origins are in the human heart.

The soul thinks in pictures and when the pictures become fuzzy, so the soul goes on holiday. Soulless living means the dream is lost, the love is gone, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Love is food for the heart, energy for the spirit. Really, when you find an exhausted, tired person, you find a person who has lost love. They might even be in a relationship, but the love has gone out of it. They might be in a job, but the love has gone out of it. Because we are so afraid of change, sometimes we stay in relationships and jobs when the love goes out of it. We do it because our culture, society values staying higher than going. Then, if the love goes out of it, we have to find substitutes.

Love cannot be forced. If love goes out of a relationship, it becomes a soulless union. Anything done, where the human spirit is lost, is done without soul. Then it is purely mechanical. There are allot of people who can deal with this mechanical life on the surface, but below the surface they have found a coping mechanism, a substitute for love, a way of supporting their spirit while it dies.

The four substitutes are:

Food
Greed
Sex
Righteousness

Food as a substitute. This obsession reveals itself in obesity, preoccupation with flavour and cooking, eating disorders, and substance abuse including alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and sugar. Food is not limited to what we consume by mouth. Infatuation and upper emotions are food as well.

Sex as a substitute. This obsession reveals itself in so many ways. Flirting, seeking approval, appetite for physical sex, masturbation, fantasy, affairs to name a few. Sexual drive rises as a substitute for love, not always as a mirror of it. This can include the pleasure lust for spiritual enlightenment.

Greed as a substitute. When love goes out, and therefore human spirit - energy goes out of someone’s life, greed comes in as a substitute. This greed is an appetite seen in blind ambition, obsessive saving, status and power in the form of cars, success, and righteous aggression. Holding onto children, living vicariously.

Righteousness as a substitute for love. The human ego thrives on blame. It wants to be right. The human ego is what grows to replace the human spirit when love is missing in a persons life. The human ego defends the individual from what they fear, creating a feeling of identity and self importance, energy.

To change a circumstance in our life, it is wise to deal with cause, rather than effect. The cause of the need for substitutes is that LOVE is not held SACRED. When love is gone, Sacred is gone, spirit dies and we are left with no option but to fill our empty space with a substitute.

Substitutes are responsible for: affairs, arthritis, arm ache, gangrene, heart attack, gum disease, ulcers, obesity, chronic fatigue, depression, suicide, car accidents, premature ejaculation, impotence, cancer, tinea, acne, bad moods, domestic violence, low productivity and more….

Do what you love, love what you do.

The loss of the human spirit is an epidemic that’s spreading fast. Have you caught it. Are you going through the motions of a relationship that’s dead, a job that’s about money, an exercise program that’s about how you look? Are you hooked on substitutes, righteousness about the world, greed about wanting, sex about acceptance, food about consumption? If so, it can all change if you prioritise love. Where love doesn’t exist - substitutes do.

Be you

Cultural norms make us stay where we don’t need to be. They make us leave where we don’t need to leave. Cultural conditioning make us think our parents are important after the age of 15. Cultural norms suggest the length of our relationships are more important than the quality and integrity of them. Where love stops, hearts stop.

The soul thinks in pictures. Can you see? With your inner eye? Are your dreams alive?

Remember, tiredness, ageing, stress and frustration are just signs that love is gone and substitutes have crept in.

Live with Spirit

Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au

Personality consists of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes and behaviours. Our personality may be reflected in the goals we set ourselves. It is who we are. What follows are tips and suggestions to help you embrace and accept your personality and hopefully make you feel happier in the process. I also consider the idea of changing your personality and end by a consideration of how well you know and accept yourself.

• You could begin by taking a personality test. There are many available on the internet, or you can buy a book. Else you can take the time to reflect on who you are.
• Try to do what feels right for you, not what you feel you are expected to do.
• Do the things that deep down make you happy and you feel comfortable with.
• Be yourself.
• Try to find a job that suits your personality. Not doing so can make you feel very uncomfortable and unhappy.
• Accept other people. Do not assume that your personality is the right one and anything else is incorrect.

Happiness for introverts

• Make regular time for yourself.
• Take time to unwind if you have been surrounded by large groups of people.
• Keep a journal.
• Stand by your beliefs. To do otherwise will make you unhappy.
• Have hobbies that give you alone time.
• Trust your intuition, it may help you make decisions.
• Forget societal pressure to be more extroverted. Remember, extroversion is not who you are, so enjoy being you.
• Allow extroverts to do their bit and feel comfortable doing what you do best.

Happiness for extroverts

• Join a group or class.
• Learn something new at every opportunity.
• Set goals for yourself and relish the feeling of achievement.
• Phone your friends and family.
• Arrange regular activities with other people.
• Do a job that allows you to work in a group and allows regular contact with others.
• Remember that introverts are happy as they are, so try to appreciate them.

Changing your personality

Your ability to change your personality is one for debate. If you believe that genetics plays a large role in your personality development or that personality is developed during childhood and is now fixed, then the potential for change will be limited. However, what is important is that you embrace all elements of your personality. After all, you can at least change your attitude towards your personality. Think of how your different traits are strengths to you and then use them in positive ways.

If however, you believe that your personality can go on changing throughout life, then think about the changes that you would like to make. However, you should change what you want to change, rather than feeling compelled to change. Change can also be about stepping out of your comfort zone. As such, you may do things that you believe you simply cannot do. Having completed them however, such actions will be assimilated into who you are and as a consequence, your personality has undergone a subtle shift.

How well do you know yourself?

Which is correct? How you perceive yourself, or how others perceive you? Watch an episode of Big Brother and you are likely to see a person shocked at how other people in the house perceive them. There is a difference between how they regard themselves and how they are perceived.
Think about your own life. Have you ever been told something about yourself that surprised you? Did you reject it or reflect on it? Sometimes we may underestimate who we are, or reject qualities we do not want a part of. If the disparity seems quite frequent, maybe it is time to reflect on who you are and acknowledge all aspects of yourself.

Copyright Julia Barnard 2007

Julia Barnard is a professional counsellor living in Adelaide, Australia. She provides an online counselling service through her website http://www.makethechange.com.au. Julia also writes articles for the website aimed at enhancing well-being and promoting good mental health.

She has developed Happy Mails as a means of encouraging people to increase their own happiness.

Do you want to wake each morning looking forward to the day ahead?

Do you want to be of service to others by creating benefit and value in your everyday life and environment?

Do you want to love what you do?

If your answers sound anything like “yes”, then it’s likely you’re not yet living the life that’s right for you. The result? You’re living out of habit with a routine that serves only to help you exist as opposed to live. The solution? To get clear about what it is you really should be doing with your life, to start living it and to realise the wonderful benefits for you and your environment.

Are You?

Fed Up With Where You Are Right Now - Perhaps Even Resentful?

Wishing You Were Doing Something More Meaningful Each Day?

Sensing It’s Time You Did Something About It? If any of your answers are “yes” then read on …

What’s In It For You?

Discover What It Is That You Really Should Be Doing With Your Life

Transform It Into Reality

Revel In The Benefits That Come Your Way As Your Environment Seeks To Support You

By sticking to the same old routine of existing as opposed to living, we risk forming a habit that serves only to frustrate us. We slip out of alignment with our inner self, and because of this we fail to express our potential and the magnificence of the person we really are. The way to cut through this is to wake up to our calling - to discover what it is that motivates us to be of service and to make a difference.

How do we achieve this? Simple - we first need to discover our unique qualities and motivators for creating change, then set about applying them in our interactions with others. As we continue in this way, we begin expressing ourselves more naturally. In turn, we become compelled to make an even greater difference and do so by organising other areas of our life into alignment with this way of being and doing.

Result - we open up to who we really are and find ourselves expressing a genuine love for life. We also benefit from the support of our environment as all manner of opportunities appear to help us on our way.

INQUIRY: Make a note of your core values and unique personal qualities. List some of the ways in which you enjoy expressing these when interacting with others. How can you call on them to make a difference? What more can you be and do to build on this?

ACTION: For the next thirty days, make this a reality by putting the above into action. Notice how different you feel, and the effect you have on your environment. Perhaps there’s a way you could make a living from this? If so, check it out - what’s the first step? Trust in yourself - grab the initiative and make it happen. You’ll never know the difference you can make until you’ve made it.

Make A Habit Of Getting Clear About Your Life Purpose

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Best Wishes

Simon

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfilment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity,” Viktor Frankl

Simon is a professional Self Development Coach based in the UK. He specialises in helping individuals and businesses to see the reality of their challenges and desires, and then set about ways to transform and achieve them through inner change.

* I so wanted this to be a brief, quirky, interesting article… maybe four, five hundred words tops.
A thousand words later… here it is.
I can’t help myself.
I think I talk too much.
I need help.

School report from 1977:
“Craig has a propensity to be somewhat verbose and distracting in class”.

So not fair.
So misunderstood.

Okay.. that’s it.
I’m gonna do my best to be more concise.
Maybe I need to take a workshop.
Oops.. I’m still doing it.
I’m still adding words aren’t I?
Okay, that’s it.
I’m done.

Really.
Okay, one more.
Bugger.. that was three.

Have you ever noticed how ugly some people are?

Seriously.
Feral.

Completely unattractive.
Repulsive even.
Stinky, stanky, skanky.
Yuck.

Now before you all recoil in shock, horror and disgust at my new level of political incorrectness (it’s a word… now), I best mention that I’m not talking about anyone’s looks or appearance here, but rather… their behaviour, their disposition, their attitude, their language and their habits.

Some people (even some of the the ‘beautiful people’… although that subject is a whole post by itself… what is beauty anyway?) repel, rather than attract.

And while it may seem ironic that the aesthetically-challenged, forty three year-old, ex-fat kid should give advice on improving one’s attractiveness… keep in mind that I’m not talking about ‘how to be a hottie 101′… that’s next week.

And I won’t be writing it.

No, this post is actually about learning to become one of those people that others want to hang around, be with, talk to, get to know.

Some people are attractive.

That is, they attract.

Guys, girls, old, young.
People just enjoy being around them.
There’s something about them that’s appealing, magnetic.
People want to get to know them.
They’re funny, they’re engaging, they’re charismatic.
They’re likable.
They smell good. (read on)

Here goes:

1. Listen to people and be genuinely interested.
This doesn’t mean simulated interested and manufactured head nodding either.
This takes real time, energy and effort.
If you want people to be drawn to you… you need to be all about them, not you.
Talk to them… not at them.
Have conversations… don’t give lectures.
Some people are ugly because the only voice they enjoy the sound of, is their own.
And the only opinion that matters is theirs.

2. Get in shape.
We know that attractiveness is largely not about the physical, but if you genuinely want to attract then being in shape ain’t gonna hurt.
Not Mr Universe… or Miss world… just fit and healthy.
Being in shape (physically) also helps us emotionally and psychologically, which in turn makes us more attractive!
Clever that.

3. Personal grooming and hygiene.
Okay this is my last comment on the physical but it’s necessary.
It doesn’t matter if we look like Angelina or Brad… if we’ve got breath like a Buffalo and armpits like a Yak… we’re attracting nobody!
For goodness sakes, how can some people not smell themselves ! !
I regularly talk to people who stink (and not just ’cause I own gyms)… and everyone except them knows.
When I’m chatting to someone with stinky breath (I mean, “have you got a dead marsupial in your mouth” stinky), I can’t concentrate.
I can’t think about anything except the smell.
It distracts me.

“Hey Tiger.. you know that layer of white crap on your tongue.. it STINKS!”

Clean your teeth, fart breath !

Water, soap, shampoo, toothpaste.. all cheap and easily accessible resources; give ‘em a go.

4. Be an optimist.
This doesn’t mean don’t be practical and don’t be a realist… but nobody wants to hang out with Mr (or Mrs) woe-is-me-my-life’s-so-hard. Hey.. I care about global warming but I don’t want to have a three hour conversation with you about why the world is ending next week and who’s fault it is. Yes we live in a nasty, dysfunctional, scary world… but what if we decided that it’s actually an amazing, exciting, incredible place with infinite opportunities for those who dare to be different.
What if we decided to see the good rather than search for (and focus on) the bad.
Now that… is attractive.

5. Have fun with people.
Remember fun?
Remember laughter?
Remember laughing so hard you thought you’d be sick or die from lack of oxygen.
Those were the days.
Remember when fart jokes were funny.
Before we got all mature, politically correct, precious and easily offended.
People who laugh and have fun are cool to be around.

6. Don’t lose your temper.
Bad tempered people are ugly.
They repel, not attract.
This doesn’t mean don’t get angry.
Anger has a place.
But out-of-control, ranting, raving, unreasonable idiots need a (loving) slap.

I’ll do it!

If you have anger management issues, address them.
Or if you need me to slap you…

7. Random acts of kindness.
Generous, selfless, thoughtful, kind people are the most attractive.
No agenda, no crap.
Just kindness.

8. Get Spiritual.
Not to be confused with… get weird and freaky.
This suggestion definitely needs a disclaimer.
Getting spiritual (whatever that means for you) can make you more attractive.
Or not.
If your spiritual journey results in you being more centered, balanced, calmer, more insightful and happier.. well then that’s cool.

Conversely, if it means that you end up being some weirdo, fanatical, super-religious, zealot living in some subterranean bunker surviving on canned food and crawling out of your hole at night to communicate telepathically with your brothers from another galaxy… maybe not so cool!
Or if it means hurting or hating someone who has different spiritual beliefs to you, not cool.
At all.

9. Be confident.
Not to be confused with being arrogant.
Quiet confidence is attractive.

10. Be humble.
Definitely one of the most universally attractive and desirable qualities.
Humility is a decision, an attitude, a philosophy.
A way of living, being and communicating.
It’s attractive.

Now, I’m gonna go and tell that guy where I buy my paper about the white crap on his tongue and why he’s got no buddies.
And don’t get me started on that stuff in the corner of his mouth.
What is that?

See ya.

Craig Harper (B.Ex.Sci.) is an Australian motivational speaker, qualified exercise scientist, author, columnist, radio presenter, and owner of one of the largest personal training centres in the world.

He can be heard weekly on Australian Radio SEN 1116 and GOLD FM and appears on Australian television on Network Ten’s 9AM.

Motivational Speaker - Craig Harper

Everyone has their own idea of what they consider funny. I believe that humour depends on the mood you are in. Sometimes what you think is funny today may cause you to be annoyed another day. Perhaps humour is a subjective thing that feeds off of a persons ability to relax and respond naturally.

I know that when you have a good belly laugh as it is called you forget everything temporarily. When you put your heart and sole into laughing at something it is good for anxiety, stress and depression. The endorphins released in the brain act on your mood. I personally have experienced this when watching a comedic movie. I really do not usually watch these types of movies but whenever I do I get the same reaction in my mood. I feel happier and cannot believe I am having such a good time.

How would a person who is suffering from anxiety and other traumatic issues even get to the point of watching a movie that was funny? Feeling anxious, panicky, depressed and stressed usually does not make you want to sit and watch something funny.

I would invite someone to join me for the movie at home on the television or I would offer to take him or her out to the theatre and pay his or her admission. Perhaps getting a group of friends together and going to a comedy club would be a suggestion. Just getting the person occupied and involved with something other than their problems would be a diversion and help give them some relief from their situation. Even if they did not laugh outwardly and you seemed to be dragging them along, I feel that getting up and moving and being distracted can and has worked for me when I felt depressed.

In other words I feel that humour is the best medicine and although it is not the total answer to all of our life problems it does give us a safe way to escape temporarily the moments in life that we needs help with.If you look around you there is something funny going on at least once a day. Add humour to your other techniques when working on anxiety and panic. It takes repetition and a desire to change for something to become a habit. I have read that twenty-one days is the usual time for a change to occur when a person is motivated by emotion. Associate the behaviour you want to change with an emotion. This is a powerful tool to use in combination because these two things impress the change you want into your subconscious mind.

Put one funny joke, movie, story or recognize those situations that can come up unexpectedly in your daily routine. Maybe you will be the one who is providing the comic relief for someone else and helping him or her forget the anxiety they have for a moment. Doing something for someone else is also a way to feel good about you.Laughing at and with yourself even when you are alone or in a crowd is a way of getting to know, care and value yourself.

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People sometimes wonder if it is possible to find true happiness. While the definition of happiness will vary greatly from one person to another, it can be summed up to mean the feeling of well being that someone has when they feel sure that everything in their life is going to be alright. How you reach this feeling is up to you but there are different areas that you can work on to make sure you are moving in the right direction.

First, love and respect yourself. This may sound unbelievable but many people do not feel that they are deserving of happiness, prosperity, or love. Know that you are a unique and special individual and you are worthy of all that life has to offer. When you wake up each morning express your gratitude to God and the Universe for making you the person that you are. Loving yourself and believing that you are special will help move you towards true happiness. Having gratitude can make this become an hourly ritual that will bring you joy and happiness throughout each day.

Second, surround yourself with people you love. It is said that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. If you are around people who are unhappy or negative, imagine them to be as unique as special as yourself. Refuse to see anything but the best in them in each situation. If they say or do something unkind try to see deeper into why they may be behaving this way. Treat them as you would a small child and encourage them to do their best in the situation they are dealing with. People will sometimes be so wrapped up in what might happen at a later time that they are unable to see what is happening right now in the present. Bring calmness to the people around you and watch how they begin to respond in a more positive way.

Finally, do work that you love. If you are at a job that is making you unhappy or even ill, look for a way to move out of it as soon as possible. Sometimes a job we thought would work out for us is nothing like we imagined. Everyone needs to earn a living but we have choices about what we do and how we spend our time. Figure out what you love to do and work toward a job or career in that area. It is said that if you do what you love the money will soon follow. Some of the most successful people in the world did just that. They spent time doing the things that brought them true happiness and soon they were doing a job in that area that brings them happiness and money at the same time.

Time is the great equalizer for us all. We all have the same twenty-four hours each day. Refuse to spend another minute in situations or with people you do not love. And, most of all, love yourself. Then you will be on your way to true happiness.

Connie Ragen Green is a motivational writer, speaker, and mentor. To find out more visit her at http://greenhouse.typepad.com/law_of_attraction

I am going to make you a bold promise that by reading this article you will have the secret to getting whatever it is that you really want. No doubt by now you have seen or heard about the movie “The Secret” based on the law of attraction and “The Science of Getting Rich”?

If not, please do yourself a favor and watch it very closely but realize that the real secret to the secret was not named directly in the movie for the same reason that Napoleon Hill’s classic self help book “Think and Grow Rich” did not name the secret directly.

The secret is hidden in plain sight for everyone to discover for themselves but you will not recognize it or be able to use it until you “get it”. The only thing that may stop you from knowing and using the real secret to the secret is you. You can be told exactly what the secret is but it’s up to you to get it.

That may seem like a paradox but it can’t be any other way because that’s the way it is. And chances are you don’t know what it is that you really want. You may think you do but chances are you have been conditioned to believe differently from the truth of how things really work.

You may even have been conditioned into believing that you must suffer in order to be happy. How crazy is that? But that is a mental program that has been driven and pounded into your skull over and over again by well meaning but misguided parents, friends and leaders.

We have all been conditioned to believe that getting more stuff will make us happy. And materials things do not have the power to make us happy. Happiness is a choice. And I bet happiness is what you really want. Isn’t that true? Isn’t what you really want is to feel good? To feel the way you think having more money and things will make you feel.

Then when you do get more money it’s never enough and you start to worry about losing it and there goes your peace of mind and happiness.

The secret is that you have the power to make yourself feel good now. As I said before, we have all been brainwashed into believing that what we really want lies outside of ourself. And as long as you believe that you can never be happy. It doesn’t cost you anything to change your thoughts which will change your feelings. You have the power to make yourself feel good now. It’s a skill that can be taught and learned and once you’ve got it - you’ll have the power to feel good for free whenever you choose to exercise your power!

Zig Ziglar said “You can get what you want if you help others to get what they want”.

Since what we all really want is to be happy and feel great all the time doesn’t it make sense that you should want to learn this valuable skill and then freely share happiness with others? Give away a smile and others will return it. It cost you nothing to do so. It’s also free to you to show kindness, appreciation and encouragement.

No matter what your belief system is … remember that there is a lot of truth in age old sayings like “You reap what you sow” and “What goes around comes around” and “Believe it and receive it or doubt it and go without it”.

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How do I know if I am living in harmony or not?

For a business executive, life may be harmonious if the cash is flowing, clients are happy and the future is rosy. Ask a devout Buddhist and of course they will define harmony as peace and non violent action. Ask a fundamentalist terrorist and the answer will be different, they may even define harmony as the elimination of a whole race of humanity.

So it is with some trepidation that we, in this work, declare some sort of universal definition of Personal Harmony. But we do so regardless.

Personal Harmony is a journey. On such a journey every human squanders most of their life. Eating the fruit of forbidden trees hoping to circumvent the troubles and strife life brings. Personal Harmony is the hidden quest of all humanity. Defined as “the calling of the Soul” Personal Harmony becomes the indiscrete motive for existence, peace of mind, happiness.

The one who finds Personal Harmony does not do so, as most think, by quenching their thirst. Nothing of the sense ever satisfied the Soul. So the appetite that drives our external life actually comes from within. Such an appetite will never be satiated and this realization drives us on an inner search for Personal Harmony. And it’s illusive.

The inner world gains it’s harmony by attunement. The laws for this inner attunement are written for us long before scribes attempted to give credit for wisdom. The nature of all existence has stamped upon it the keynotes of the harmony of life. Nature holds the key and she is there, everywhere, waiting for you to discover her. Although the laws of nature may gratify the intellect, it is really their ability to free your mind to see order and beauty that can bring harmony to the heart. When our expectations and thinking match rhythm with natural law, we begin to work with Nature rather than against it.

Summary

1. We must separate the inner World from the outer

2. The inner world cannot be satisfied by dogma, philosophy or materiality

3. The outer world seeks things in the pursuit of growth

4. Personal Harmony cannot come while the seeker seeks.

5. Until beauty can be felt it is not harmonious

6. Beauty exists in all things, events and people.

7. Peace of mind, health of the body are the external testaments to the levels of internal harmony.

8. Disharmony is the breakdown between human thought and natural law. The fight can never be won

9. Internal Harmony is possible only in so much as it becomes a process not a destination.

10. Contentment is a first step. Learning that there is nothing about you to change, or that can be changed.

11. To hone the personality of the heart is the real key to personal harmony

Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au

How long is a day?

The right viewpoint not only makes clear the small size of this world in relation to the whole plan of creation; it shows the unimportance of time.

To inhabitants of earth there is some value in the measure of years. But to a person who lives in harmony with the laws of nature, there can be no such thing as the duration of time measured in increments of a few hundred years. They know that it took 3 billion years to reduce the temperature of a planet to allow life forms to exist; and they know that, after the planet loses warmth, it cannot sustain life; after which it requires 3 billion more years to bring it to a state were the sun will absorb it and start the life making process all over again. No planet can sustain life more than a few million years, and yet billions of years are required to make the brief living period possible. This is a real perspective on life.

Billions of years must pass in the evolution of our planet Natural law encourages you to see things in true viewpoint, in universal time. Then a day is not perceptible, nor a year, as that is merely one revolution of the earth around the sun. Nothing complete happens in the universe in that earthly year. Only the smallest fragment of something occurs. A century of time on this globe is but a fraction of a second in the universal period. This is real, a fact that helps put life in perspective, and now the universal viewpoint in nature begins to mean something.

If a person can be true to this viewpoint, they will see that our planet eventually grows cold and gets drawn into the mass of the sun. So all the hard work we are doing to make this a better place, will, and must eventually become a waste of time. All our efforts will be burnt in the heat of the sun, along with those beings who are still here, worrying about sustainable growth, organic crops and humanitarian expressions. It’ll be the ultimate war to see who can get off the planet before it cooks in the heat of the sun.

A person who really studies Universal Law will acknowledge that this intense heat will destroy the earth, send the dust back out into space (the real meaning of ashes to ashes - dust to dust) and then from this dust new planets will be formed. They will take shape again under different conditions and eventually cool down enough for new worlds to become populated with new beings, and eventually those worlds will cool off once more, lose all the life, get drawn to the sun and so repeat the cycle. This is all part of a days work in universal time.

Can you grasp it? It is written many times in history. The earth was created in 7 days. But these aren’t human days, they are galactic days. Each day in universal time is 3 billion years of earth time. That’s 21 billion years of earth time to create a week in universal time. This is the exact amount of time scientist confirm that it takes for a planet such as ours to form from universal dust.

So your lifespan in universal time is virtually immeasurable. In that fragment of time, you are born pass-through into youth, then arrive at death. Three or four generations of humans still can’t be measured against the huge clock that tics in the universe, natures time line.

This is the essential perspective for personal harmony. With natures perspective you’ll laugh at the idea of people who don’t do what they love or who spend time worrying and struggling for righteousness and superiority. All for a whole single milli-second span in universal time. Yet that is what we have been doing for years here on earth. We think we have cares and that the ultimate aim is to get all bent out of shape trying to grab a piece of the action.

What we worry and care about, when we look at it in the larger scale, is often absolute trivia. And with this awareness you can look in awe and celebrate that beauty. Beauty is free, personal harmony is what life is meant to feel like. Babies laughing, flowers blooming, people competing. You don’t win business by being tired and grumpy, overworking or over trying. Your relationships won’t thrive on taking everything personally, or trying to be someone you are not.

Look for the big picture.

Natures law.

Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au