“Life Lift Now?” Blog #185
Is it time for me to be looking for a “Real Life Lift”?
Do thoughts get me down, keep me stuck in a rut?
What happens daily, to finding positivity during waking hours?
Maybe it’s time for me to start looking at a “Real Lifestyle Lift”. If I get in the car and start
driving down the wrong way on the freeway, cars will honk, I may get hit and above all it’s
dangerous! Yet, so often I may interject dangerous things to the way I live, just because I
am an adult. NO ONE out there has the right to tell me S T O P living in a dangerous
manner!
WHAT IN THE WORLD DO I MEAN BY THIS? It starts with my “way of thinking”. Do I constantly
tell myself I know all the answers and no one can help me figure out my life? Some people
take on a fixed way of thinking early in their life, and never deviate. No one can tell them
differently, so why should it matter? Here is a great example. There was an amazing
singer named Karen Carpenter. Her records sold over one hundred million and to this day
we still listen to many of our favorite songs by Karen. She died at the age of thirty two in
l983. Karen spent the last seven years of her life struggling with an eating disorder. Her
mother favored Karen’s brother Richard over Karen. When Karen finally did marry, her
husband lied to her about having a vasectomy. Having a family meant the world to Karen.
This marriage was short-lived and Karen spent the last years of her life as well as most of
her life, feeling “unloved”.
The most important part of living is to believe this statement:
“My body is the Temple of God”. When I embrace this truth, my life is worth living.
A lot of people think and say, “Its my body, I can do with it what ever I want!” That may be -
however living “any kind of lifestyle” is not without repercussions. If we smoke and vape
and do drugs we do this with perilous risk. My brain is constantly looking for reasons to be
depressed or enlightened. ANY type of chemical going into my body impacts my immune
system, my memory and my judgement. Imagine IF I do this on a regular basis? New
reports out today show the prevelence of depression is growing! In young people and
adults, depression has increased in the past decade by over 60%. WHY IS THIS? I feel this is
because we all want AN INSTANT FIX.
Remember at the beginning of my Blog, I talked about “getting in a car and driving down
the road the wrong way - gets me in trouble?” Fascinating fact: “just setting foot in a
different location stimulates neural circuitry that leads to POSITIVE affect. Depression
can be seen as a “kind of a cave” and it actually takes effort to get out of the cave!”
(Wikipedia)
In my life, I do not have all the answers regardless of how old I become. So I stay humble. I
believe my life is about learning until I die. Every day I am open to a ‘New Life Lift”. I start
my day with thankful prayer. I am thankful for being alive. I am filled with the Holy Spirit
and above all I accept “my body is the Temple of God”. I nurture it, feed it healthy good
food and drink lots of water. Knowing all this, if I sense a danger flag of depression
gnawing at I me, I have tools in place. These dark thoughts will pass. I find positivity in
feeling I am alive. I am well. I am at peace. No one on earth is like me. No one on earth
thinks the thoughts I think, I realize I am my own worst enemy or my own greatest teacher.
Putting into place a Life Lift Now, I see a brilliant way to install a self help strategy
promoting self confidence and belief in my ability to overcome depression. If I don’t do
this, who else will? From this day forward I vow to be my own best friend, ally and major
promoter of “internal good thoughts”. Thank you Jesus for my life, my body and my
healthy mind.
Am I ready to put into place my own “Life Lift” now?
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