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HOW TO LIVE LONG HEALTHY ~ HAPPY ~ PROSPEROUS
 "GOD will restore his youth" Job 33

 

SPIRITUAL TOXINS 
THESE WILL SHORTEN YOUR LIFE!
FEAR POWER  WORRY  REVENGE GUILT  SHAME  LONELINESS ADDICTIONS  DEPENDENCY
DESPAIR  FANTASY  SUPERSTITION  RESENTMENT  HATRED
DEGRADATION  SELF and OTHER ABUSE 
PAST REGRETS  DWELLING ON THE PAST
DEPENDING ON MATERIAL   ACCUMULATION OF "STUFF"
FUTURES
OVERWORKING
CHAOS   FRANTIC PACE
OVERUSE OR OVERLOADING THE MIND
LOUD NOISE or LOUD TALKING  NEGATIVE SOUNDS, IMAGES or WORDS
NEGATIVE NEWS   TERROR and FEAR
DESPAIR  ENVY  BITTERNESS
EXCESSIVE WATCHING TELEVISION
GREED  SELFISHNESS   
AGGRESSION  COMPETITIVENESS
LUST  ARROGANCE   INTOLERANCE  TALKING EXCESSIVELY
GLUTTONY  GOSSIP   LYING   BELIEVING IN A LIE
DISHONESTY   TOXIC and ADDICTIVE MEDICATION

NEXT The answers to these questions may help to identify what is aging you, draining your life energy, causing disease, blocking you from happiness and success and defeating your Spirit:

INVENTORY

 * Is there someone or something in your life you can not let go of?
 *  Is there a behavior you keep acting on that brings you unhappiness?
 *  Are there relationships in your life which make you unhappy?
 * Is there something you are doing which is causing you harm to yourself or to others?
 * Is there something you are pursuing which is makes you unhappy?
 * Is there something you are doing which makes you feel emotionally drained?
 * Is there a past regret?
 * IS there something you have done which you will not forgive yourself for?
 * Is there something you are doing which is unloving to yourself? to others?
 * Do you treat yourself as an object? Do you look at others as objects?
 * Do you dwell on the negative? on the past?
 * Are you resentful or jealous of someone?
 * Are you a penny-pincher, or hording money?
 * Do you try to hold on to things?
 * Do you feel trapped or stuck in your relationship?  in your job? in your life?
 * Are you dependent on any substance (legal or illegal) which alters your mood and perception?
  * Are you dependent on it to alter your mood?   
* Is there shame? 
Identify what needs to be changed and gotten rid of.
It may take therapy. 
But the things that have you stuck or "hung up"  MUST GO if you are to live long and happy and not get sick or diseased.

SUGGESTIONS:

- LET GO! It's gone. FORGIVE! 
Dump all the things you are carrying around in you and with you that a child would not be carrying.  THAT'S WHAT HEAVEN IS! For more on this: In the Past or in the Present

Remember not the things of the past, nor consider things of old;
  behold I do new things."
Isaiah 43:18-19

 FREE YOUR SPIRIT DAILY! 

For any peace, happiness; DETACH yourself from anybody or anyplace.  Anxiety, fear, loneliness, are signs we have become attached to someone or something and are depending on them for our happiness or security!  WE'RE GETTING DRAINED!! Thus we are getting DISEASED!
LET GO! 

- LIVE IN THE PRESENT

To stay happy, we must not become distracted.  Distract is dis=to take off tract = track.  To get off our track.  What happens if we drive off the road or get onto another road instead of the road we were meant to travel on to get to a destination? 

  LOVE ! LOVE!  LOVE!!        

Make someone else happy.  
Give something you have to someone who needs it!  Anything-even if it's your time!  And keep on giving without expecting anything in return. Give to see the joy in someone else.  Give to make someone else's life a little easier!   
"It is in giving that we receive" You will not get more because you're holding onto things; things you have outworn!  Remember Old Ebenezer Scrooge when he kept holding back and hording his money?  Old Marley's ghost came back in chains to show him how every selfish decision and every added dollar just added another chain on his soul!  So at the end Old Ebenezer freed himself by giving it away.  And he got more!  More happiness than he ever could have imagined.  He gained a family, an invitation to dinner and became the benefactor of those who owed him money!   He was so happy, so free, so young and jubilant!! 

  BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF 

SEE  You Are What You Think

  MEDITATE-
Meditation always brings us in touch with our YOUTH and peace of mind. Pills and alcohol and other substances or addictive behaviors only "bandage" or camouflage the truth.  When you meditate after awhile, (after cleaning out the excess weight in your mind) you will become very clear about the way you are to approach your life and become successful and happier.
 See Simple Breathing Meditation

Whatever or whoever we worry about has control over us!  
LET GO!
 What are thoughts focus on grows our destiny!

Live in  reality!  Don't expect what Life can not get you! (FANTASY) !  And LIFE will be a lot better than you could imagine!

"Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare; before you they spring forth." Isaiah 42:9