"One can not lead another where one has not gone himself"!!!

A professional will show good ethical qualities that are consume with the practice of good deeds and behavior. I think it is very important to consider the lifestyle of the professional, I am taking advice from. For instance I consider myself a hairstylist--if my hair is not maintained and looking up to par, I am sure, I will not get any new clients nor will I have a stable clientele. Professionalism begins with first carrying yourself in a practice what you preach kinda way of life. I think this will help speak in great volumes for your advertisement...It will also build a great and stable business that will surely flourish. People like to see positive results, those results start with the profession. If their is accomplishment in the lifestyle of the profession, I am sure the professional can help build that same accomplishment within me!!!:)

Unit 7 "Meeting Asciepius/Jesus Christ" exercise on track# 4

Describing the meeting of Asciepius/Jesus Christ meditative and imagery practice, I used Jesus Christ as my focus point. I felt stranger using another imagery of God ( felt guilty--it is a sin in the faith of Christian practice to put another God before our Lord an Saviour Jesus Christ, so to make the exercise as comfortable as possible for me--Jesus was my focus point). As I began, I sat up in my bed and closed my eyes, I begin to practice and visualized Jesus as my inner healer. As I began, I felt myself mentally going into a deeper frame of thought, I felt the peace of the Lord, it was so realistic that it kinda startled me a little, I say this b/c I never felt such closeness that quickly without using prayer as my focus point. My mind began to come to a peaceful place where anger, worry, and pain were just a petty form of distraction. As I imaged a beam of light coming from Jesus' throat to my throat--I prayed for better expression verbally, a speech with wisdom, loving kindness, and tender honesty "the speech of Christ". Last I image my heart being transformed into the heart of Christ, I felt so pure. RENEWED...is the word. My being was so relaxed and cleansed of all forms of negativity that consume my mental thinking. I felt really light-- image how a cloud feels on a bright and sunny day~~this is how I felt. I feel as if I had taken on the spiritual form of Christ--the positive energy. Their was no physical heaviness, just relaxation that covered my whole being. This feeling touched my entire body, which fully gave me a feeling of newness, purity, and controllable forethought that gave me the courage to have peaceful thoughts and expressions of physical loving kindness toward myself and others. As I finished up the exercise by returning my thought process back into the physical place of the room, I open my eyes and felt as if I had awaken from a peaceful sleep that had consumed all forms of fatigue (mentally and physically). I really enjoyed that exercise, and I got a lot of valuable strength from it. If you did not witness this same feeling classmates--try the exercise again use Jesus as your focus point, and tell me your results..Love u all~angie

Unit 6 Exercise

Loving Kindness exercise is a normal everyday practice for me. I catch myself praying and talking to God for others so much through out the entire day. I love people, especially positive ones. I find human beings very interesting. I love to learn life lessons through mere conversation with others. Learning from others can help make life's journey a lot easier, if we can learn to listen and take advice. My personal assessment revealed to me that I need to find time to develop physical fitness wise. I need to stop making excuses because I am afraid of suffering through the pain (LUPUS SLE causes me great fatigue and muscle aches) I am so prideful (which is not always a good thing). I am afraid of my family seeing me at a weak point, but I am not superwoman (I can say that NOW!!!). I must stop visualizing and start acting out what I have visualized and take control of my physical well being. I love my personality. I am so loving. I really care for ALL human kind--I SEE NO COLOR... I THANK GOD FOR BLESSING ME TO SEE HIS GOODNESS IN ALL FORMS OF LIFE ON THIS EARTH. I have decided to buy a yoga mat and start early morning meditating, prayer, and stretching as the sun rises breathing in the newness of a new day. I want to stretch and form an exercising regime that will allow me to develop a personal program that will be beneficial for me. I like walking and listening to my MP3 player. I LOVE to swim. All these things help me clear my mind~~~but I never stay consistent. I find taking care of my family more important~~~I put my needs on the back burner. I can not do this anymore. I love taking control of my personal thoughts and releasing any form negative thoughts that may try to control my mental thinking process. Mediation, prayer, and stretching are the keys that shall release me from my personal prison. I pray that God would bless me with a spiritual teacher who would teach me TAI CHI~~~BASIC YOGA. I want to speed walk and even run a mile. If God offered me a million dollars or a physically fit mind, body, and spirit; one that enjoyed exercise and found equilibrium and strength in doing physically fit activities. I WOULD TAKE THE BLESSING OF BECOMING PHYSICALLY FIT MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT...."WHAT WOULD YOU DO "HONESTLY"???? God Bless~~`angie

WHEN WILL YOU BE HAPPY?

I'll be happy when...We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation or when we retire. The truth is there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way.So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with..... and remember that time waits for no one. So, stop waiting Until your car or home is paid off. Until you get a new car or home. Until your kids leave the house. Until you go back to school. Until you finish school. Until you lose 10 lbs. Until you gain 10 lbs. Until you get married. Until you get a divorce Until you have kids. Until you retire. Until summer.. Until spring. Until winter. Until fall. There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching,

Subtle MInd Exercise

I sit here honesty wanting to explain to you guys what I got from this exercise. I want to share my inner honesty so badly. Yet, I lost my disc. I can not give you the feed back that you guys shared with me (I posted to Melissa, Tiffany, and Melody blogs--Unit 5). Your experiences were all so very interesting. I really have grown to love and admire you all. Melissa has sent me a copy of our disc that we must use in order to practice our exercises successfully. MELISSA YOU ARE AN ANGEL , THANK YOU SO MUCH...guys, let me tell you, I am a perfectionist. Maybe a couple of months ago, I would be tairing myself apart trying to figure out what I did with my disc. Now, this is how I handled the whole situation: I went to my room, I tried to find the subtle mind approach from what I was taught from my classmate (what was stated in their blogs)~~they are wonderful teachers might I add. I really want to thank god for grouping me with such wonderful women. Ladies this is not ear candy--I am very out spoken and I take pride in being honest. So, anyway~~I went into my room. I sat down on my bed in Indian style (I have not done that in a while) felt great, I kinda felt young again. I begin to close my eyes--I thought about howto perform the mental process of excluding mental chatter--once I accomplished that --I began to take deep breaths--very deep--it was as if my body was not use to me doing this form of breathing. I realize I have been holding my breath, almost as if I am taking short breaths (we are all grown here ( what I am about to say may be embrassing for some but bare with me here), I realize that when my husband and I are making love I am holding in my breath to a degree that when I reach my point--I feel faint. OK I realize what I am doing and I start to take in deep breaths (maybe about 10 deep ones--from deep within) I feel so relaxed I just start thinking about how could I have misplaced my disc--with clarity I realized that I try to multitask "superwoman" syndrome. I realized that I am only one person, and I can only do so much in a days time. If I can not accomplish the job of two women in a days time, its OK--just take deep breaths INHALE AND EXHALE--just thank GOD for things I have accomplished and the strength to finish what I started in due season. In essence, ladies (my sweet angelic friends) losing my disc was a blessing...I LOVE U GUYS--U AS WELL PROFESSOR...♥angie

How to Pray When Depressed

How to Pray When Depressed

Find a Quiet Place Put on some soothing music. Keep it soft and gentle. Take a few deep breaths, holding each one for a few seconds and then slowly exhaling. Relax. Feel the chair you're sitting on, your feet on the floor. Smell the scents in the room. Imagine Jesus coming toward you with a smile on his face. Tell him how you are feeling right now-anxious, uncomfortable, fidgety, distracted, wanting to focus. Tell him what things are like for you today. Open your heart to him. Feel his presence very close to you. Let his love into your heart. Thank him for this gift.

Unit 4 Assignment

OK!!! Guys--
I was cleaning, I lost my disc:(. I get to the point that I get very angry with myself and then I sit and ponder over the whole scenario. I have done this for the last 2 1/2 days. I am not going to get sad inside, I am a perfectionist. For this to happen really causes me to wonder what I did wrong, or what was on my mind that cause me to forget what I did with my disc. Where was my mental thought process? So, I decided to tell you guys about my lost disc issue. I ask for help. God is so good because my wonderful classmates were concerned and Melissa offered to make me a copy of her disc. I pray that God blesses you greatly Melissa for showing me generosity, kindness, and concern. Thank you so much. GOD BLESS YOU ALL..Professor, I know this is not what is required of the exercise, but I will pass the wonderful show of generosity and concern forward through LOVE all things are possible. I thank you all so much!!! Your forgetful classmate---:)angie

Fear-- the torment that I had to endure...:(

As a child, even at a young age I can remember the spirit of fear. My mother and dad had a spiritualness about them but they were not strong enough spiritually to realize I was being tormented as a child. I can remember as far back as 7 or 8 years old my mother would always open the spiritual door that would allow evil forces to enter our home and torment me for the most part of my young life. This is how it started, My mother was an LPN and my dad worked at a paper mill. He was never really home at night, but my mom was. She really liked to watch scary movies. The first movie she allowed me to watch was Stephen King's movie "IT". After that the exorcist. From that point on, I began to feel the presence of a spirit that I called evil. WARNING: YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL IN WHAT YOU ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO WATCH. WE THINK WE'RE JUST WATCHING TV WITH A SCARY TWIST, BUT EVERYTHING HAS ENERGY WHETHER NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE. IF YOU THINK IT IS UNTRUE TRY THIS: TURN YOUR TV TO TBN AND SLEEP ALL NIGHT WITH IT ON THIS CHANNEL--YOU WILL SLEEP IN SO MUCH PEACE. NOW TRY TO SLEEP WITH SOMETHING ON TV THAT is VIOLENT OR PRODUCES A NEGATIVE EMOTION--YOU WILL TOSS AND TURN WITH BAD DREAMS. Anyway, I feel evil spirits entered my parents home and began to attack me. I can remember having nightmares and not being able to move or wake from the dream--almost stuck in a paralyzed state. I would feel as if something would sit at the foot of my bed and bounce slightly only to wake me, to make its presence felt. I would try to ignore the presence but I could feel it so strongly. Now, I went through this all my young life. My mother was placed in the hospital because she had a nervous breakdown. My sisters and I are alone. My dad was an alcoholic let me add. So, by this time I am having really bad dreams and the presence is so strong. I could feel it but never see it. I would try to wake my dad up to let him know how afraid I was and I even wanted to ask him if I could sleep with him but he would never wake up. So, now I am about 12 years old suffering from fear. My mother was in and out of the hospital. I was a normal child in the daytime but at night my stomach would literally turn from fear. I constantly had to urinate due to the fear, but I was afraid to go to the bathroom. I could not sleep because the minute I would fall asleep, I would be awaken, I automatically begin to cry because the presence was there. If I turned my back, I would feel it strongly standing so closely. This cause me to to train myself to sleep on my right side--if not the presence would cause my heart to beat so fast that it would interfere with my breathing. I could not take this any longer. I told my grandma what was going on. She told me to pray every night before I went to bed. I would do that, this cause me to have more fear and the presence would literally touch my head (hair)now trying to make me think my prayers were a waste of time. Now this was the very moment in my young life that cause me to want to just die. I was suffering--no one would try to understand what I was going through until I told my granddad. He told me to read Psalm 23 & 37 every night,after I read these verses to leave my bible open. He told me to pray and ask God for spiritual strength, faith, and courage to rebuke the demon. He told me that God has allowed me to go through torment in order to gain power to rebuke evil forces. (rebuking begins with FAITH) I did what my granddad told me to do. This night I fell asleep after doing what I was told to do. I slept with a night light it was made like a little log cabin and the chimney was where the light bulb would sit. Well, the light was going off and on, it cause me to wake up fully (I was so full of fear I slept very lightly). The light went completely out, so I build up the courage to turn on my dad's bathroom light which poured dim light into my room. I knew my daddy would get up and turn his bathroom light off, so I tried to prepare myself if I woke up and the lights were off. I woke up and it was soo dark, only dim light came in the window from the street light!!! I never ever slept in complete darkness for the first time I saw it, it was the darkest shape standing by my room door. I thought it was my eyes, and maybe they had not adjusted to the darkness but the force made sure I knew it was there it moved. I was so scared but I was so tried of feeling this way. The more I tried to ignore the presence it would move closer. I started crying automatically my bible was open under my pillow. I touched my bible with my hand as if I was sneaking the word (bible--I was just that scared). I CLOSED MY EYES-- I SAID IN THE NAME OF JESUS--I REBUKE YOU EVIL. LEAVE ME NOW I AM A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD YOU MUST FLEE FROM ME NOW. from THAT POINT ON I TOOK MY LITTLE LIFE BACK. I STILL HAVE BAD DREAMS--I WAKE AND REBUKE THE FEAR. I CAN BE HOME ALONE OR IN A ROOM BY MYSELF I CAN FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING BEHIND ME--I KNOW WHEN ITS GODLY AND WHEN ITS NOT-- I WILL START SING YES JESUS LOVES ME OR I WILL SIMPLY REBUKE IT. AS QUICKLY AS CAME IT LEAVES. I know when something is in my home unholy. I know when it is time to pray over my home and my children. I teach my children to rebuke fear, they do it. They may even tell me about their dreams, we discuss it. But I try to cover my child to keep them from going through torment. The enemy is busy, but God is victorious if you call on his son's name in faith peace will be still in your life. I PROMISE....Forever humble, angie