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Are You Shouting "YES" to your Life?

If you are not waking up each day and finding yourself enthused to be living, then something is definitely out of wack in your life.  Yup, it is and it is time to reclaim your power!  Each and every day, hour and moment ought to be lived as if you knew it were your last!  There is no time for bitterness, no time for drama, no time for anger or hating.  There is only time to be filled, to love and be loved to smile and be smiled upon, only time for forgiving and being forgived.  

Why?  Why should you?  In the process of living each minute fully aware that it could be your last, we tend to find richness and put away the petty worries of the world.  We tend to live in the present and forget the past failures and glories and put away the hopes and wishes for future.  Living in the present "NOW" and sucking the marrow, as it were, out of your life and enjoying PURPOSELY every minute brings emotional, mental and spiritual peace.  

What are your dreams, your unfinished goals, your hopes and aspirations, your broken fenses that need mending?  If you knew that tomorrow at this time you would close your eyes and move into the next exsistance, what would you do with your remaining time?  Do you know? 

Live with purpose.  While I do not think myself a believer in religion, I do appreciate the world of those spiritual ones who have called us to live higher and with intent such as Jesus Christ who said to his followers and to the world, "Love thy neighbor as thy self"  What inspiring words and 99.9% of the time when that verse is quoted, I would venture to say that people would think on how they must be kind to others.  Yet Christ said," love thy neighbor AS THY SELF. "

It is a sad commentary that in a world where mankind in his unbalanced state of being will further promogate unbalanced ideas by suggesting we should love they neighbor first and eschew the love of self.  This is so counter to being balanced or spiritual.  It is my sincere opinion that to enjoy life and to take in all the beauty that is to be had one must first lay a foundation to receive all the wonder the world has to offer.  That foundation is LOVE.  We must LOVE ourselves and then we can LOVE our neighbors.  Loving ourself is not the same as being selfish or narsistic. Loving ourself has every thing to do with respecting, allowing, accepting, forgiving, encouraging, supporting, believing and inspiring ourself and doing it first.  It is in doing it first to ourself that we learn how to "do unto others" quoting another verse taught by Christ.  

Now back to shouting "Yes to Life".  We must allow ourselves the right and priviledge of loving ourselves.  Missing this ingredient in our character leaves us illprepared to take in the love around us which is essential to finding enthusiam and knowlege that life is GLORIOUSLY fantastic and can be every day.

Love yourself today.  Allow yourself to be grateful for those things happening in your world right NOW.  Make a list of 20 things for which you are grateful. Write them down, or  say out loud, I am grateful for and then insert the thing for which you are grateful.  Do it 20 times... Do it each day!  Say to yourself for the next 7 days, if today were my last day on earth, what can I do that would be meaningful to me and those around me?  TRY IT!  DO THIS FOR SEVEN DAYS.  And, each day write down what experiences you have had.  How did people respond to you as you lived your day?  Describe your attitude and your feelings.  

So, here is the recap.  List your 20 things for which you are grateful, each day. Next, Live each day for the next seven days asking yourself, if this were my last day on earth, what would be meaning ful to me and /or those around me that I could do, say or experience.  Do this and you are on your way to shouting yes to life.  Life must be filled with enthusiasm and happiness.  Enthusiasm is a wonderful word we get from the Greek.  It means literally "God within us".  All that is good and wonderful we escribe to God.  Shouting "yes to life: is finding abundant joy and enthusiasm.  So DO it!!  Start now, do not delay and find great wonder and confidence in this next week.  Live higher, get illuminated, shout loud and shout long because you GET TO BE ALIVE and FEEL ALIVE inside.  This is the proper way to live and such a meaningful purposeful way to experience life.  Good luck this next week.  I hope you will tell me about your experience!  Be well and I send positive energy to all of you!   ROB HALTOM