Your Money Or Your Life

Read a great book called Your Money Or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.

The authors consider money to be a means to exchange life energy. How we choose to use the life energy is up to us. We can choose to waste it, save it, honor it, love it, hate it, fear it, invest it, and even learn to just live with it. Mostly it is about having enough money. No more, no less than needed. Optimally, your expenses are very low and your investments are large enough to meet your monthly needs easily and with some to spare and share.

This book has long been popular in the Voluntary Simplicity, Frugality, Financial Independence, and Eco-Conscious crowd. It definitely has a metaphysical approach to money.

But what I like most is the emphasis on what people must DO. It is not enough to simply intend, to visualize, and to affirm oneself into prosperity and enoughness. The authors discuss followers of the plan they outline in the book who through thinking and doing notice opportunites. So true. Action and Intent. You must do and have both.

My favorite quote in the book "All the intention in the world won't get you a glass of water if you're not willing to go find the glass and fill it with water" (Dominguez) I do not know if he coined that expression or if it is an old adage. Doesn't matter. It just makes sense.

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Anger Really Can Kill You: Study

Today I saw this article on Yahoo News. Interesting study that links the mind-body.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Anger and other strong emotions can trigger potentially deadly heart rhythms in certain vulnerable people, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Previous studies have shown that earthquakes, war or even the loss of a World Cup Soccer match can increase rates of death from sudden cardiac arrest, in which the heart stops circulating blood.

"It's definitely been shown in all different ways that when you put a whole population under a stressor that sudden death will increase," said Dr. Rachel Lampert of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Read more.

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The Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena

I found this on a website called Live Science.

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Starbucks Saved My Life

25 Random Things

All the rage on Face Book lately is the 25 Random Things. You post your 25 things, tag a bunch of people, and wait for a response. It is fascinating. What I find especially fascinating is how many friends of mine list that they have seen a ghost, believe in ghosts, think they have ESP, or have gone to see a psychic. What is most surprising is that most of the people who listed these things on the random list are people who I would have gone out of my way to be careful not to mention or allude to that I was raised by mediums. Not that I have anything to hide, but, why bring something up if you think it is just going to trouble people? Apparently, most would not have had a problem. Maybe this is just more evidence that our world is moving into a more spiritual, intuitive new age.