“Help Heal Me!” Blog #104
Where can I find the RECIPE for creating a healthy me now?
What keeps me going back to negative thoughts I’m thinking?
How is it possible to see my life healed, without holding on to old ways?
To start to do things differently in my own life, I have to wind it way down. I have to narrow
the scope and look at just today. Why is that? For one reason only. I only have today.
Yesterday is completely gone. Tomorrow can be a plan, but it’s not here yet. All I have
right this moment is today. I think my greatest issues have been in “looking back”. Even in
looking back to yesterday. Is this day like that one? Do I want to continue on with the
same old, same old? Of course not! So going forward in themost positive way possible
brings me to this conclusion, I DESPERATELY NEED HELP.
There is no way I can take this day, divide it up into a powerful, positive plan, without great
assistance from something else. Where does that come from? I do understand I came
into the world alone and I willl leave this world alone. Yes, I most certainly have been given
“free will”. Yet, that does not mean I need to give in to it.
I must decide today on one Important premise: IS MY LIFE WORKING WELL FOR ME TODAY
all ALONE? How can I get instant, permanent, powerful help NOW?
Simplicity is always best. So I take a 24 hour day and I see how I structure it to work best in
my life. I know that I need a minimum of eight hours of sleep. If I rise by 7am and go to
sleep by 11 pm this gives me eight hours of sleep. So what’s in between now? That leaves
me with sixteen hours of time awake each and every day. How is it filled?
Powerful messages are brought to me in so many different ways. The people around me
and those I talk to, FACEBOOK/SNAPCHAT/TIK TOK and social media can and does
influence so much of my day. The messages on television, my phone and ALL the people I
interact with, have a great impact. What kind of information am I taking in?
IF I now, decide to create a plan “JUST FOR TODAY” I can follow this plan just for 16 hrs. I am
going to go slow and make it easy to follow. I wake up and first I PRAY IN BED. Before I
climb out of bed, I pray carefully for myself and others and end my prayer with,
“NOT MY WILL TODAY, BUT YOUR WILL BE DONE, LORD - THANK YOU.”
This is where my invisible, concrete, constant help comes into place.
I make sure that I eat some healthy food in the morning. (Raisin Bran, Oatmeal, Cheerios,
w/oat milk, almond milk, banana, toast and/or organic free range eggs - yogurt w/ fruit
and a large 16 oz. water).
Time now to make the plan for my day. IF its work outside of my home; (I dress well, I
listen to uplifting things on radio, don’t gossip, do my best). IF it’s school ( I dress
appropriately, interact kindly and DO NOT GOSSIP. For school is where I am tested so often
in my character. IF I AM a person that stays close to home, I make sure that I am learning
something NEW TODAY. I WATCH/GO to UPLIFTING shows. I READ INSPIRATIONAL BOOK. I GO
OUT AND WALK. I create blocks of things to do throughout my day. I plan my menus. and I
continue to seek out ways to uplift, inspire and nurture me. IT’S VERY IMPORTANT I refrain
from self-pity. IF this should creep into my thinking I immediately say this; “THANK YOU
LORD FOR BRINGING LOVE, LAUGHTER AND LIGHT INTO MY BRAIN.” I PAUSE, I CENTER MYSELF
AND create. In deeply, I breathe and count of ten. THEN I DRINK A LARGE BOTTLE OF WATER
AND GO ON, if still down…. I GO OUTSIDE FOR 30 MINUTES.
IT GETS EASIER AND EASIER TO RETRAIN MY BRAIN INTO THINKING HEALTHY, HAPPY,
HONEST THOUGHTS IF I ONLY FOCUS ON DOING THIS TODAY.
In one of my past blogs, I recommended reading the book: “The Blue Zone” (lessons for
living longer from people who have lived the longest). One particular page jumps out at
me now that I have been talking about “Help for healing”. The Adventists in Loma Linda,
California believe in eating healthy. They grow their own organic food and eat healthy
day in and day out. Yet, at the top of their so called rules for living is this, Adventists believe
that the body and soul are one. They believe that our Body is the Temple of God. They
also believe that religion has provided them with that extra nudge that seems critical
for turning intentions into habits!
And so it goes….I have found I cannot go it alone. I cannot live my life with just “me”
running the ship or me at the helm. I donot have the power, or the map, or the wisdom of
the Lord, who directs my sail in the right direction. I need got get out of my way!
Someone very wise once told me that with Jesus Christ in my heart, on my mind and
directing my life…..it’s like turning off the television at night and trusting in him to “help
program the next 24 hours”. I believe this is true and I will follow this plan today.
Interestingly enough, there was also this,
JUST FOR TODAY:
“I can be 100% present in wanting to do my best for me.
When I speak to someone else, I will respond kindly, not react judgmentally.
IF someone causes me to feel badly, I will NOT get angry.
IF I am down, depressed, or unhappy about anything, I can count to 10, breathe in.
I can put on a happy face when I LEAST FEEL LIKE DOING THIS, because I MUST.
And above all, I will look in the mirror morning and night and say this:
“Thank you Lord for this day. I feel healthy, I feel loved, I feel safe, You are with ME.”
Therefore at the end of the day I know I will only be judged by the
Content of my character and nothing else…..
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles”, Isaiah 40:31
FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS CAN I BRING JESUS INTO MY LIFE WITH A NEW PLAN?”
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