Rather than getting deep into the emotional energy of the situation, I reminded myself of the acceptance principal, and decided that it would be better to use my energy to mold a better and more positive future....


Through positive meditation I have found myself more able to decide what is going to happen next. Remember.. It isn't what happens to you, it is what you are doing in response to the outside stimulus.

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
Joseph Addison

In “Reading and Studying” we talked about the Mental aspect of life health and wellness. With Information, Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom being the Key areas of this Mental aspect.

In “Information, “How to Pick a Great Book” we touched on the Informational aspect of gathering the best information.

Here we will cover different ways to process and organize that information.

THINKERS ANONYMOUS
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Do You Think To Much?

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone - "to relax," I told myself - but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

While thinking about the different things that you can do to "liven" up your intellectual perspectives you may take a quick peak at www.wikihow.com's How to think like a genius.

As I was searching through a few of my favorites looking for some brain teasers and minute mysteries to get my brain started this morning, I found this intriguing page that has several things to exercise your brain. It has articles about creativity, memory vocabulary and stress.

Following is an excerpt from the About Us section...

You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!

www.mentalrobics.com

When Michaelangelo was asked at the age of eighty-four to summarize his life's philosophy, he replied in his native tongue, “Ancoro imparo” (and still I learn). An appetite for knowledge is one of life's most important designs. Without it we will be left in the end with a shallow and empty existence.

You may remember that these courses are based on Mortimer J. Adler's quote "As health, strength, vigor, and vitality are bodily goods, so information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom are the goods of the mind - goods that, acquired perfect it."

In life we can all get stressed out and feel as if we are alone and in mental pain or distress. Everyone that I have ever talked to has felt stressed out at one time or another. What can we do when we are feeling this stress and pressure? Just relax? Take a chill pill? Just don't let it get to you? As we all know it is easy to give that kind of advice. It is very hard to do however. Unless you have a few tricks up your sleeve.

Basic meditation can help more than you know.

“Relaxation and meditation can have a very powerful effect on the body,” says Steven Fahrion, Ph.D., director of research at the Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health in Topeka, Kansas. “It can help you cope with all kinds of stress-related problems, including migraines, peptic ulcers and anxiety. So I think that people who develop and retain peace of mind do experience mental and physical healing.”

lifehealthandwellness.com is a community based on improving the quality of life of ourselves and the lives of those around us. We seek to make these improvements through 4 separate aspects of our lives.

These aspects consist of the following:

• Mental
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Physical

Introduction to the mental aspect of life

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
~Edmund Burke

It has always been my pleasure to be able to sit down and read a wonderful book. I have enjoyed reading books from philosophy to gardening and from poetry to massage therapy, I honestly don't feel that there is any subject that can't become a little more interesting than through a well written book. There is an inscription over the door at a library that rings very true for me...."Medicine for the soul." ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

What is it about reading that is like a salve to the soul? Have you ever wondered what Montesquieu was talking about when mentioning that "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve"? Is that true for you?

BY BOYD CRAIG, PRESIDENT, AMERICA'S FREEDOM FESTIVAL AT PROVO 2007

Things were not going well for the the Union army. With July 1862 came a call from President Abraham Lincoln lnto the governors of the northern states for 300,000 more volunteers. Convinced that the very existence of the United States hung in the balance, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a promising young rhetoric professor at Bowdoin College,wrote to the Governor of Maine and offered his service: