Rich Beyond Words

Wow! I read in the Mind power news Journal that I live in one of the happiest countries in the world!

The research was done by Adrian White, an analytic social phychologist at the University’s School of Psychology. He anaysed data published by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR, to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness.

Anyway Austria is 3rd on the list with Denmark being 1st and Switerland is 2nd. Actually I was very surprised when I read this because I often encounter complaining individuals. In fact I’ve met more complainers here than in other places of the world.

If you look at my contact page you’ll see that I’m often in South Africa as well. Even though they have power failures, crime and no sopcial security I find the folks there to be a rather happy bunch. Must be the African sun.

But the fact remains that the Happiness Map was constructed according to these facts - Countries that have easy access to health facilities, individual wealth and access to education contain happy people. I must admit that Austria does have all that - it’s quite a social system. Apparently capitilism does not make people happy.

You can get all the details here.

Anyway to show you how i happy I am here’s a picture of me working in my pjamas!

Any one that can work from home in their pjamas has a reason to be happy!

It wasn’t always this way - I used to have the blues - not because I was picking cotton - just because…. I just decided to get happy cos i was so sick and tired of myself. I didn’t do it with feel good drugs - Don’t laugh I did it by listening to CD’s at night while I slept.

It was about that time whilst listening to the CD’s I thought to myself , “Hmmn now all I need is to learn how to make money online so I can stay at home.” So I promptly looked around and did Tellman Knudson’s Ultra Marketing Course which is all explained in baby steps and got me up and going.

Seriously I’m always learning and finding things to take my level of happiness further.

Another thing I’ll say is that I find the statement about how money can’t buy you happiness a bit ridiculous. Okay, okay I know some folks will take offence but for one thing money does open your possibilities but you know what’s the most insane thing? You have to find how to be happy first - you have to align your thoughts with those emotions you’d be having as if you already had everything you think will make you happy. Phew not so easy, and even me I have relapses but am getting better and have my CD’s to listen to when I fall back into the pits.

Doing research in google trends I noticed that people are looking for information on how to get sexy. It got me questioning what exactly did they want to know about it. They could be keeping watch for how to get sexy legs, hair, figure, teeth looking out on how to get sexy attitude in general.

I decided to first research the word sex in the dictionary. Seriously I never looked up that word before – I always took it for granted that the word meant coitus but I found out the following:
The dictionary describes the word sex as a noun and it means :
-either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
- the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the male and female are distinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on these differences.
- the instinct or attraction drawing one sex toward another, or its manifestation in life and conduct.
The word Coitus is listed underneath the above phrases with a link to the explanation of the coitus word.

Then I examined the word sexy.
And found this – sex-y – adjective, sex – i - er, sex – i - est

1. concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
2. sexually interesting or exciting; radiating sexuality: the sexiest professor on campus.
3. excitingly appealing; glamorous: a sexy new car.

I’m assuming then that folks are wanting to establish how to get sexy so they come across as excitingly appealing to other people. Let’s get honest here people that are excitingly appealing to other people do have more success in life.

But what makes is a person sexy then?

Magazines are full of ideas on how to get sexy.

An example is that womens magazines claim that a mane of long hair is sexy for men and mens magazines suggest that a six pack is sexy for women.

I like to believe I’m a worldly woman so from my point of view more brawn than brains won’t cut it for me.

Let’s take Richard Branson as an example – he doesn’t have a six pack, but he sure isn’t physically ugly. I love what Ivana Trump said about him, “Richard is good looking and very smart, which is sexy to start with. He also makes a billion dollars before breakfast. And still knows how to have fun”. Having had the privilege and honour of working with Sir Richard Branson on his virgin money launch in South Africa I agree whole heartedly with her.

My personal recommendations on how to get sexy: (Opinions vary but I will consider you sexy if you can master these tips!)

- Cultivate your personality.
- Develop a sense of humour.
- Dress so that your individual style shines out – sexy does not mean sleazy.
- Get rich – forget what you were taught. Just to make it clear I would like to mention that some people have the idea that being poor is what God wants. This is wrong . In the Bible it says “Thou shalt not love money more than God”. Once you realise that money is merely a means of exchange and does not smell either bad or good you are on the way to becoming sexy..
- Get healthy - excuse the cliché but your body is the house of your soul.
- Stop whining – it brings every body down.
- Quit cigarettes – yuck, they stink. The smell of old ashtray clings even more too expensive after shave and perfume.
- Stay sober - Being drunk is no excuse for getting sexy and doing something that’s regrettable in the morning.
- Be a friend, Zig Ziglar, one of America’s leading coaches in the personal development industry is quoted to have said “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere”.
- Get a grip on your thoughts: whether you believe it or not your thoughts make you into the person you are. Thoughts become words and words become your character.
- Think before you speak. Regardless how sexy someone appears to be – if the lingo shocks you all sex appeal is gone instantaneously.
- Walk your talk

How to get sexy is easy when you know who you are and what you want.

“When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they’re trying. It’s terrible! But when you smile, it’s so much sexier!” Joseph Addison

Think Right Now! programmes helped me get the sexy attitude!

To have a chocolate health experience switch from commercial chocolate to pure raw chocolate. Seriously if you’re concerned about chocolate having any health effects then consider for a moment that the actual cocoa bean has it’s perks but the added ingredients like cow’s milk and refined sugar cancel out the so called chocolate health benefits.

Contrary to popular belief cows milk is not healthy for people, let alone mixing it with sugar and cocoa beans that have been destroyed of their original contents. Antioxidants in cocoa beans have a positive effect but that is all. You will not find those effects in commercial chocolate. The main ingredient in commercial chocolate is cows’ milk.

It makes sense because if you think about it humans are the only ones that drink milk from some one else. Baby pigs drink pigs milk from their pig mothers. Monkeys drink monkey milk from their monkey mothers and every other animal drinks its mother’s milk. Only humans have the notion that mothers cow milk is good for them. Tons of cows milk is used to produce chocolate.

I’m one of those people that loves chocolate but at the same time I have a health awareness. So realising that commercial chocolate deposits slug into my body I had to find an alternative. Have you ever thought about what your body has to go through to digest cow’s milk, mixed with refined sugar? Uuuugghhh….doesn’t surprise me that people have so many ailments considering what they put into their bodies.

But fear not you can still eat chocolate, but get the pure and unadulterated raw chocolate.

Huh! You mean you never even knew there was such a thing?

You’re about to learn some thing new.

Let’s take a quick look at the difference of cooked cocoa powder and raw cocoa powder which is the essential ingredient in chocolatey things.

Producers use different ORAC units in their marketing, which result in confusion when one is comparing one ORAC score to another.

ORAC simply means Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity

An example to illustrating a popular confusion: both dark cocoa powder and the goji berry (the goji berry is a superfood from China) are high on the ORAC scale. Natural cocoa powder pinnacles the list with a score of 26,000. The goji berry rates mightily, with a score frequently found on the internet of 25,300. But what is creating confusion amongst end users is that the cocoa powder and the goji ORAC ratings are for 100 grams! That’s more than an average serving. If you calculate the ORAC units per gram you quickly see that dark cocoa powder is at 260 and goji is 253.

Not bad, but that’s nothing compared to the gigantic 955 ORAC Units found in each gram of raw organic cacao powder!

WOW - isn’t that fantastic? That’s real proof that real chocolate is a health booster!

Do the math - the raw variant contains 367% more antioxidants than the ultimate cooked version – no better proof than that! The same 100 gram scale as above, Raw Organic Cacao Powder has 95,500 ORAC units in contrast to the 26,000 in the roasted cocoa powder.

So go ahead and sin…

I purchase my chocolate health products from Raw Food World

Would you believe there are a whole lot of chocolate health benefits growing on trees right now? The sought after cocoa bean which is indigenous to Africa and South America should be eaten in it’s naked raw form for the ultimate chocolate experience.

The taste is quite heavenly. I’m talking about the real thing which comes from the cocao plant , pronounced kuhkow and not cocoa. We are all familiar with the commercial chocolate made from roasted cacao beans. Actually the cacao bean is one of nature’s most powerful foods.

The typical cocoa which we use for baking, or use in chocolate fondue recipes has been defatted and treated with chemicals and alkaline salts.

So lets take a squizz at raw chocolate health ingredients:

Raw cocoa is abundant in flavanoids. What the heck is a flavanoid you be asking now. No it’s not an added flavorant , it’s a class of phyto chemicals called polyphenols. Thousands of flavanoids exist in ample amounts in plant based foods. Latest studies reveal that some flavanoids protect from certain diseases, especially heart diseases.

Potent antioxidants – more than in red wine, We all know that sipping too much red wine can get you into trouble! So rather nibble on chocolate. Antoxidants significantly reduce the risk of heart attack.

Copper- a lot of women have a copper deficiency. A good source of copper is in liver. Yuck – I’d rather eat chocolate.

Phenylethylamine followed closely by theobromo which is the magic ingredient of lifting depressions.

Raw chocolate also has small amounts of straight caffeine, great for a little lift me up snack.

Magnesium which is also credited for giving one those euphoric feelings when eating chocolate. If you’re a woman then take note that magnesium levels drop during menstruation so it’s a good time to tuck into chocolate.

Serotonin and tyramine are also in raw chocolate, which have a gentle calming effect.

So when you get the blues eat chocolate – no wonder it’s called a comfort food because it has exactly that ability – to comfort. But I must warn you dear reader that only raw chocolate has these chocolate health qualities. If commercial chocolate lures you and you like to munch a lot of it, then don’t expect to have to have these astounding chocolate health affects.

Raw chocolate fondue recipe

Half a cup of almond butter
Half a cup of raw cocoa nibs
1 cup of agave nectar
Inch of a vanilla bean
Half a teaspoon of salt

First mix the almond butter and raw cocoa nibs together. Hand mixing works just fine.
Then add the agave nectar.
Cut the inch of vanilla bean length ways and scrape out the seeds.
Add the vanilla and salt.
Fold into the mixture and keep mixing till you have a creamy consistency.

Strawberries and other fruit chunks can de dipped into the divine chocolate mixture.
Great fun for the family – and radiate in a chocolate health aura!

I purchase my chocolate health products from Raw Food World

Stop anxiety by putting an end to those nasty feelings that creep up on you and turn you into mush.

If you’ve suffered anxiety for years or even decades, you know that it takes only a fleeting thought to throw you into the anxiety pits.

Folks with anxiety symptoms operate on low batteries which don’t seem to be chargeable. Common if you’re an anxious type you know exactly what I mean. That crummy feeling of being strangulated is not what I call exhilarating.

You need to stop anxiety some how.

What can you do?

• Visit a Dr. on a regular basis who goes over your past till you’re so tense with anxiety that you die a painful death each time you’re on the couch. Never mind the anxiety earned cash you’re paying to go through the torture.
• Get a prescription for feel good drugs which leave you numb in other areas .
• Infiltrate new thoughts into your cerebral area.

Personally I prefer the last option to stop anxiety. It’s not an overnight process but by monitoring your thoughts it can be done. Monitoring thoughts requires some discipline but is well worth it because it ensures genuine change from the inside out.

Affirm new statements into your soul and mind. Tell yourself uplifting things like, “I’m free of imprisoning thoughts.”

Now you may be accusing me of positive thinking woo woo stuff which never got you any where. You’ve read all the silly literature about comforting your inner child and you still feel tense. Well that’s because just reading about it won’t help. You have to genuinely want to change and then take some sort of action. And changing your thoughts is an action. It’s enough action to change a whole lot of conditions.

Easier said than done?

Yes. You can record yourself affirming the things you’d like and hear your own voice telling you all is fine. Or even better get a CD of statements that have been recorded professionally and played over a background of relaxing music using binaural beats to get the message home. It may seem like woo woo nonsense but I promise it works because all anxiety originates in your cerebral area. That’s all it is. Thinking about your anxiety will only worsen things and make you more anxious.

You can stop anxiety and you should stop anxiety so you can have a life.

Think Right Now! Accelerated Success
Conditioning Puts YOU In Control Of You

Today I’m discovering great things by Abraham!

I truly appreciate this source of knowledge on the Law of Attraction. It makes sense and is spoken in modern day English. There odf course other wonderful people who make great teachers, some of them dead like Jesus, Wallace Wattles & Charles Haanel.

I’m finding that the more I get into this stuff I’m remebering information I seemed to know as a kid. Adult hood seems to have removed it.

As you’ll see Abraham explain in this video that we are really the source of every thing we experience. I remeber reading that in The Master key by Charles haanel as well.

Watch this and get a clear understanding of what’s going on.

Ever heard about the movie “The Secret”?

You know the one by Ronda Byrne, which has people explaining that we creat our own realiy and that we can have what ever we want. It’s a run away hit movie. The hype about it has slowed down at this stage. But still I liked the orginal movie with Abraham in it. The 2nd release just doesn’t have any power in it for me.

Here’s an interesting clip.

Never let is be said that faith doesn’t work.

It does if you let it.

Let me tell you about Princess and Charly my pet rabbits.

Princess and Charly came to live with me after living in a small cage and being pretty much ignored by their owners.

The first thing I did was release them into a big pen so that they could hop and do rabbit things.

Then somebody I know told me you can let rabbits hop in the garden, they know where “home” is after they’ve settled in for about 6 weeks.

It was a pleasure to watch these two hippty hop around the garden, grazing grass just like sheep do.

One morning I went into the pen to let them out, like I do every day and Princess came to my feet which was very unusual as normally you couldn’t catch them.

I picked her up and to my horror I discovered that she was being eaten alive by maggots. It was not a pretty site.

What amazed me is thatI hadn’t noticed earlier due to her doing rabbit stuff until she was completely drained of energy.

I took her to the vet where I was told she had little survival chance.

The vet put her to sleep when writing with kind words. In truth I made the decision to take her life.

Princess was not used to freedom and even worse she was not accustomed to eating green food. Her body reacted with diarrea. In warm weather flys come and lay their eggs on the feces which is still sticking to the fur. The eggs hatch and the maggots eat their way into the rabbit.

You can be sure that this is ghastly to see.

Anyway after having put an end to Princess and feeling guilty about my lack of faith I discovered that Charly also had rectal bleeding and was loosing his fur.

Off I ran to the vet again who gave injections and medication.

But it didn’t help, the bleeding got worse.

Feeling desperate I just decided to see Charly getting better.

I thanked God for his healing and firmly stuck to my faith.

Slowly after about a week, the bleeding got less, the fur grew back and Charly got wilder!

Now Charly lives in my garden like a field rabbit and is very healthy.

I didn’t give up, every time I saw him ill, in my minds eye I saw him perfect and at the same time I thanked God for his healing.

Call it what ever you will. I call it God helping when I asked. And then trusting that the healing will happen.

I think Mr. Bean is hilarious.

He makes me laugh and laugh. Laughing is good for you. It just feels so freeing to laugh. It’s true that most people laugh too little.

I know I laugh too little. I take myself far too serious.

How about you?

Watch Mr. Bean do the Mr. Beanbastic to the sound of Mr. Bombastic.

In real life Mr. Bean is played by Rowan Atkins. He plays Mr. Bean with such passion he is Mr. Bean.

I wonder if in private Mr. Atkins is surly and wears a stylish black suit?

Tip 1

Never treat children as inferiors. I’m often amazed at the attitude of people. Some people think that a child is only a half a person and cannot contribute anything until it has reached adulthood. I have learnt more about myself from my kids than any other person living on this earth. Just think how you feel when your boss, spouse, partner or colleague gives you the impression that they are cleverer, more experienced and better than you. Would you agree that it doesn’t feel like a good place to be in?

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