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Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
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Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
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Thintteen (343-344)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
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Kaafee (365-409)
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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
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Gurbani (527-536)
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Gurbani (537-556)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
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Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
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Anand (917-922)
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Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
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Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
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Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 68833" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong><u>FOOD FOR THOUGHT:</u></strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #003399">Just One</span></span></span></strong> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">One <span style="color: #ff0000">song </span>can spark a moment</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">flower</span> can wake the dream</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">tree</span> can start a forest</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">bird</span> can herald spring</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">smile</span> begins a friendship</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">handclasp</span> lifts a soul</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One<span style="color: #ff0000"> star</span> can guide a ship at sea</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">word </span>can frame the goal</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">vote</span> can change a nation</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">sunbeam</span> lights a room</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">candle</span> wipes out darkness</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">laugh </span>will conquer gloom</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">step </span>must start each journey</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">word</span> must start a prayer</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">hope</span> will raise our spirits</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One<span style="color: #ff0000"> touch</span> can show you care</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">voice</span> can speak with wisdom</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One <span style="color: #ff0000">heart </span>can know what is true</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">One<span style="color: #ff0000"> life</span> can make a difference</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em><span style="font-size: 10px">Author Unknown</span></em></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">**************************************************</span></span></em></p><p><strong><u><span style="color: #000080">What Exactly Is Reincarnation?</span></u></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Every night you sleep, and the next morning you wake up. If you had an argument with your friend yesterday, you will still have the consequences of that argument to face when you wake up. They don't disappear because you went to sleep. You will still be responsible tomorrow for what you did today.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Re-incarnation is just like that. What you create will be there for you to face in your next life if you don't take care of it in this one, just like the consequences that you create today will be waiting for you tomorrow if you don't take care of them before you go to bed. You are always responsible for what you do, and your responsibility cannot be assumed by anyone else.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">When you die, you don't go to sleep. You go home, and you are very much awake. You are also a much larger you than you are now. That is your soul. The consequences that you created, but didn't experience before you died, do not disappear. They are waiting for you. You may think that you do not want to deal with them, but your larger you -- your soul -- does. In fact, it creates another lifetime just to do that.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Once you start to look at things this way, you begin to do things differently. You treat people the way that you would like to be treated yourself. That is the Golden Rule. You don't have to be a Christian to appreciate the Golden Rule. Billions of Hindus and Buddhists, who believe in re-incarnation, understand exactly what it means.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Reincarnation is a compassionate way of learning responsibility. You do not suffer for eternity because you do the wrong thing once, or twice, or even time after time. It is not possible to do a wrong thing. You do what you do, and you experience the consequences of it. It's that simple. If you don't experience those consequences before you die, your soul creates another life so that you can. That is re-incarnation.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Eventually, you begin to treat other people the way that you want to be treated. That means you change in big ways. You put yourself in your brother's shoes before you speak or act. You let yourself feel your sister's pain. You become more tender and caring. You also become more wise.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Maybe you will make those big changes in this lifetime. You can, if you want to. Maybe you will take many lifetimes. Sooner or later, you will make them. When you become completely loving and kind -- without fear and without thought of harming others -- you graduate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><u><em><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">About the Author</span></span></em></u></p> <p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gary Zukav is the author of <u>The Seat of The Soul</u>, <u>Soul Stories</u> and <u>The Heart of The Soul - Emotional Awareness</u>.</span></span></em></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">_________________________________________________________</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000">THE SIKH WAY = SEVA + SIMRAN + SANGAT !</span></span></strong></em></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 15px">***************************************************</span></em></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 18px">The Vehicle Of Your Soul</span> </span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">by </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>Dr. W. Bradford Swift</strong></span></span> </span></span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"Eating good food, exercising, mental stimulation, and rest are essential to the care of our physical being. When we breathe deeply and consciously, we take in and circulate life-giving oxygen, allow our bodies to function more smoothly. In the mental realm, flushing out old habits, thoughts, and attitudes can help to refresh our mind and allow our life to run more smoothly. Controlling knee-jerk reactions that limit our options to knowing the truth can give us an opportunity to more gracefully respond to circumstances and events." --Carrie Masters in Science of Mind Magazine.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080">I love the clients I work with. They are so committed to making a difference in the world. Many of them are like high performance racing cars. They speed around the track of life at breath-taking speeds. Unfortunately, many of them have refused to make a pit stop or take a break between races and their bodies, the vehicles of their soul, show sign of severe wear and tear, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080">Just like it's necessary to take our cars into the shop for servicing, it's important that we stop driving ourselves with our to-do lists long enough to reflect on old habits and attitudes that can rob us of our joy and can lead to serious breakdowns.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080">As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz point out in their book, The Power of Full Engagement, we are like a complex engine with 4 different, but inter-related energy sources. Our physical energy may dictate how fast we can run around the track of life, but our over all happiness and balance comes from taking care of all four sources of energy ? physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Ignore any one of these for an extended period, and it won't be long before our performance in life is diminished.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080">Are you willing to take a quick inventory of how well you are caring for the vehicle of your soul?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>PHYSICALLY,</strong> are you within your ideal body weight? Do you eat balanced, nutritious meals, and regularly perform the important exercise of pushing away from the table before you're stuffed? Do you schedule in regular time for exercise and keep those appointments with yourself? Do you go to bed at a regular time, sleep well, and awaken energized and inspired into the next day? Do you drink plenty of clean, life-giving water?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>MENTALLY,</strong> do you regularly flush out old habits, thoughts and attitudes that can serve to gum up the works of your mind, thus freeing yourself up for new ideas, new purposeful patterns that serve you, and new ways of being that are consistent with your life purpose?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>EMOTIONALLY,</strong> do you regularly catch yourself in those moments when fear, lack, and struggle are about to take over your life, and consciously pivot to love, abundance, and flow, thus allowing your true, divinely inspired purpose to direct your life?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>SPIRITUALLY,</strong> do you take time to connect with the source of all creation? Do you reserve time each day to connect with this source with the intention to raise your consciousness and awareness of your true purpose?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000080">Or are you like a high performance race car in dire need of a major check up and overhaul? Remember, without proper maintenance on the vehicle of your soul, you may find yourself in the pits with a blown engine well before the race is over.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 68833, member: 884"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000][B][U]FOOD FOR THOUGHT:[/U][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [CENTER][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5][COLOR=#003399]Just One[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]One [COLOR=#ff0000]song [/COLOR]can spark a moment[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]flower[/COLOR] can wake the dream[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]tree[/COLOR] can start a forest[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]bird[/COLOR] can herald spring[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]smile[/COLOR] begins a friendship[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]handclasp[/COLOR] lifts a soul[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One[COLOR=#ff0000] star[/COLOR] can guide a ship at sea[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]word [/COLOR]can frame the goal[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]vote[/COLOR] can change a nation[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]sunbeam[/COLOR] lights a room[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]candle[/COLOR] wipes out darkness[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]laugh [/COLOR]will conquer gloom[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]step [/COLOR]must start each journey[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]word[/COLOR] must start a prayer[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]hope[/COLOR] will raise our spirits[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One[COLOR=#ff0000] touch[/COLOR] can show you care[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]voice[/COLOR] can speak with wisdom[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One [COLOR=#ff0000]heart [/COLOR]can know what is true[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]One[COLOR=#ff0000] life[/COLOR] can make a difference[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][I][SIZE=2]Author Unknown[/SIZE][/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]**************************************************[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/CENTER] [B][U][COLOR=#000080]What Exactly Is Reincarnation?[/COLOR][/U][/B] [LEFT][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Every night you sleep, and the next morning you wake up. 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You may think that you do not want to deal with them, but your larger you -- your soul -- does. In fact, it creates another lifetime just to do that.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Once you start to look at things this way, you begin to do things differently. You treat people the way that you would like to be treated yourself. That is the Golden Rule. You don't have to be a Christian to appreciate the Golden Rule. Billions of Hindus and Buddhists, who believe in re-incarnation, understand exactly what it means.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Reincarnation is a compassionate way of learning responsibility. You do not suffer for eternity because you do the wrong thing once, or twice, or even time after time. It is not possible to do a wrong thing. You do what you do, and you experience the consequences of it. It's that simple. If you don't experience those consequences before you die, your soul creates another life so that you can. That is re-incarnation.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Eventually, you begin to treat other people the way that you want to be treated. That means you change in big ways. You put yourself in your brother's shoes before you speak or act. You let yourself feel your sister's pain. You become more tender and caring. You also become more wise.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Maybe you will make those big changes in this lifetime. You can, if you want to. Maybe you will take many lifetimes. Sooner or later, you will make them. When you become completely loving and kind -- without fear and without thought of harming others -- you graduate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][U][I][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]About the Author[/COLOR][/SIZE][/I][/U] [I][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=3]Gary Zukav is the author of [U]The Seat of The Soul[/U], [U]Soul Stories[/U] and [U]The Heart of The Soul - Emotional Awareness[/U].[/SIZE][/COLOR][/I][/LEFT] [LEFT][I][SIZE=3]_________________________________________________________[/SIZE][/I][/LEFT] [CENTER][I][B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000]THE SIKH WAY = SEVA + SIMRAN + SANGAT ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/I][/CENTER] [LEFT][B][I][SIZE=4]***************************************************[/SIZE][/I][/B][/LEFT] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=5]The Vehicle Of Your Soul[/SIZE] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]by [/COLOR][I][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000080][B]Dr. W. Bradford Swift[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"Eating good food, exercising, mental stimulation, and rest are essential to the care of our physical being. When we breathe deeply and consciously, we take in and circulate life-giving oxygen, allow our bodies to function more smoothly. In the mental realm, flushing out old habits, thoughts, and attitudes can help to refresh our mind and allow our life to run more smoothly. Controlling knee-jerk reactions that limit our options to knowing the truth can give us an opportunity to more gracefully respond to circumstances and events." --Carrie Masters in Science of Mind Magazine.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080]I love the clients I work with. They are so committed to making a difference in the world. Many of them are like high performance racing cars. They speed around the track of life at breath-taking speeds. Unfortunately, many of them have refused to make a pit stop or take a break between races and their bodies, the vehicles of their soul, show sign of severe wear and tear, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080]Just like it's necessary to take our cars into the shop for servicing, it's important that we stop driving ourselves with our to-do lists long enough to reflect on old habits and attitudes that can rob us of our joy and can lead to serious breakdowns.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080]As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz point out in their book, The Power of Full Engagement, we are like a complex engine with 4 different, but inter-related energy sources. Our physical energy may dictate how fast we can run around the track of life, but our over all happiness and balance comes from taking care of all four sources of energy ? physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Ignore any one of these for an extended period, and it won't be long before our performance in life is diminished.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080]Are you willing to take a quick inventory of how well you are caring for the vehicle of your soul?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080][B]PHYSICALLY,[/B] are you within your ideal body weight? Do you eat balanced, nutritious meals, and regularly perform the important exercise of pushing away from the table before you're stuffed? Do you schedule in regular time for exercise and keep those appointments with yourself? Do you go to bed at a regular time, sleep well, and awaken energized and inspired into the next day? Do you drink plenty of clean, life-giving water?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080][B]MENTALLY,[/B] do you regularly flush out old habits, thoughts and attitudes that can serve to gum up the works of your mind, thus freeing yourself up for new ideas, new purposeful patterns that serve you, and new ways of being that are consistent with your life purpose?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080][B]EMOTIONALLY,[/B] do you regularly catch yourself in those moments when fear, lack, and struggle are about to take over your life, and consciously pivot to love, abundance, and flow, thus allowing your true, divinely inspired purpose to direct your life?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080][B]SPIRITUALLY,[/B] do you take time to connect with the source of all creation? Do you reserve time each day to connect with this source with the intention to raise your consciousness and awareness of your true purpose?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000080]Or are you like a high performance race car in dire need of a major check up and overhaul? Remember, without proper maintenance on the vehicle of your soul, you may find yourself in the pits with a blown engine well before the race is over.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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