Borort

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
[Buddha]

Expressing How You Feel Can Release a Lot of Tension

Expressing yourself can help you keep in touch with how you are feeling. It can also release a lot of tension that you may be carrying around with you. Sometimes when people get out of touch with how they feel, their feelings burst out in situations or ways that are embarrassing or inappropriate.

Everyone needs some time to themselves to reflect on their feelings. Being able to express how you feel may help you make better decisons about what is right for you now.

Ways of Expressing Yourself

Finding out the best way for you to express yourself can be rewarding. You may find that you enjoy expressing yourself in a particular way, such as painting, playing sport, singing, drumming, or even doing something like kicking ball or yelling at a tree. If you don’t know what way suits you, try some of the following suggestions.

Write About How you Feel

Writing may be a useful way to explore your feelings. Some people keep diaries, others just write down whatever comes into their head. You may want to write a story about whatever is happening in your life now (try ‘Scream it Dream it’), or even make up a story based on some past event in your life. Writing poetry works for some people so you might like to try that. You can use the “Journal” in the members section of Reach Out! to record your thoughts and feelings in a way that is confidential.

Play Sport

Playing sport lets you express yourself in a physical way. There are plenty of opportunities to yell or curse or feel elated when things go well. Team sports allow you to express yourself and combine your energy with others both in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Draw or Paint

Even if you don’t think of yourself as artistic, drawing and painting are useful ways of expressing yourself. No one else has to see what you do. You may just want to experiment with drawing lines, sketching, colours and so on.

Sing, Play Music, or Shout

Singing along to your favourite songs or playing a musical instrument is another way to express yourself. Sing in the shower or out in a park. If you play an instrument or sing regularly you may find that you even start writing your own songs or music to express how you feel.

Dance

Dance is a form of self-expression. Put on some music at home or go out and dance as much as you like.

Source: http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=325

Being creative helps you achieve your goals more effectively. It leads you to new pathways, and you will hardly believe what you find out about yourself. It’s also a way of venting, and for teenagers, a way of finding yourself.

STEPS

1. Never think of yourself too seriously. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be perfect! If you don’t have restrictions on yourself, it gives you more room to just let yourself flow creatively. Don’t worry about being perfect. Perfection is boring anyway, and it’s also kind of…unoriginal.
2. Find a place that inspires you and that will help spark your creativity. Maybe you like a place that is quiet and feels private to you, such as the outdoors – calm, serene, and beautiful. Or maybe you have a bright colorful room that makes you feel artistic. Maybe you like starry nights – whatever it is, revel in it!
3. Experiment with different mediums. Never be afraid to try something new. If you want to try sculpting, go for it! If you don’t like it, you can always just stop. But how will you know whether or not you’re a secret writing/painting/sewing genius is you never try it?
4. Meditate. Relax. Get away from the outside world. Forget about the grocery shopping you have to do. You are in your own personal space — be with yourself.
5. Find examples. If you think you might be interested in art, go to an art museum or find artists online. If you like writing, read a variety of books and investigate classical authors. It’s a type of self-education, and it’s what seperates the true intelectuals from everybody else: a willingness to explore, learn, and discover.
6. Consider starting a journal to use everyday. It doesn’t even have to be the kind of journal that you write in. It could be a doodle journal, or a sketch journal, or a poetry journal. Just use it to record your emotions day-to-day, in a place where no one can see them if you don’t want them to.

TIPS

WARNING

Source: http://www.wikihow.com/Express-Yourself

Three things in life that, once gone, never come back

1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity

Three things in life that can destroy a person

1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness

Three things in life that you should never lose

1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable

1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness

Three things in life that are never certain

1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams

Three things that make a person

1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work

There was this guy who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.

A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.

But the boy said: “It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?”

Don’t give up loving.
Don’t give up your goodness.
Even if people around you sting . . .

Everyone wants to change the way world is.
Everyone wants to see the world happy.

But no one realises that.,
To make this world a happy place to live.,
You have to change yourself – your heart;
… and not the world.

From archives; Shared on Pravs World

What is discipline? Many people think that to be a discipline person is very difficult. In this short article I will show you that it is not the case. Discipline is very simple.

Discipline is ….

• tidy up your own bed right after you wake up
• give a place for your things and put everything back in their own place after you use
• do not make many promises and always try hard to keep the promises
• do the work as fast as possible and do not postpone any work today for tomorrow
• eat and drink regularly, not too much or too little, preferably almost at the same time
• go to sleep regularly and wake up almost at the same time every day.Do not sleep too much or too little, do as you need.
• go to work or school or your routine business regularly
• take a bath and move your bowel regularly
• urinate as soon as you need to
• brush your teeth after you eat or before you sleep regularly
• clean your face and hand and feet before go to bed
• prepare well long time before exam
• studying and working almost at the same time every day
• say a little prayer and thanksgiving anytime and anywhere

You can add up your own list there. In principle, being discipline is not as hard as you may think. It is just being clean & neat, honest, regular, well prepare and be early. You do everything regularly and you will gain control your over your own emotion, feeling and thinking and knowing where you are and where are you heading to.

Isn’t that boring to do everything regularly? Well, the answer is yes and no. Boring or not is just a perception and you can change that perception. If you believe it is bored to do everything regularly, then you will feel bored. In the other hand, if you can see the challenge that it is not easy to do things regularly and if you can see the benefit of discipline, then you will eager to put this principle into practice.

“I have read your list and I cannot do it because I am a messy person and my work demand me to do more work in one time and less work in the other time. ” Firstly, do not feel guilty if you cannot do things regularly. Keep trying and if you cannot make some part of your life regular enough, do the other part of your life as regular as possible. To begin is always hard but if you keep working on it, you will eventually gain control over yourself. Being a messy person is your own perception and it can be changed if you want to. You feel that the external force, the work, is demand so much from you so that you have no control over yourself. Again, this feeling is your own perception. It is not real as you believe it is. You can change your perception over it and you will gain control over yourself more. Read the perception part of this book to change your perception.

The benefit of discipline is really great. It ranges from a simple things up to great things. You will not forget where your keys are because you put them in the same place every time. You will not be late to go to work because you can set your body alarm clock to wake you up at the same time every day. You will never get difficulty to sleep. You will never get constipation or difficulty to move your bowel. You know where to look for the things even if you are very forgetful. Since you are well prepared, your self confidence will be higher and you can do more work and gain more happiness to work because you now you can accomplish many things much more than before you learn discipline. Of course you may also gain money as you need. You can create your own new habit and erase your undesirable habit. In the long run, you will gain control your over your own emotion, feeling and thinking and knowing where you are and where are you heading to.

Source:http://teknomo.org/content/view/14/9/

A few years ago, during the Para-Olympics help in Seattle, nine participants, all mentally retarded or physically challenged, had aligned themselves for the 100 meter hurdles. Although at the given signal they didn’t start exactly at that moment, nor orderly, they were determined to finish the race and thus win. All they had to do in order to win the race was to finish it.

All managed to finish it, except for a young athlete that fell over the runway passage of the first hedge. Because of the pain and of the sorrow, he began to cry. The others hearing his cry came back for him. They slowed down and eventually they stopped. In that day an unprecedented situation occurred, eight out of the nine athletes returned in order to help the ninth athlete, which was in need of assistance. A girl with the down syndrome came up to the wounded to give him a kiss and to encourage him: “Do not worry, the pain will go away.”

Although that day the world record was not beaten from any point of view, but the race was finished by all nice athletes which past the finish line together, holding each other with their arms. The whole stadium stood up and cheered them for several minutes. They were even more enthusiastic in the presence of such a wonderful gesture then when a record was beaten.

Why was this possible? Because we all know well, that basically, the most important thing in this life is not so much winning by yourself, but helping others to win as well, even if you have to slow down and maybe turn back to help others.

The story ended woth a quote by Henry Ford, “Getting together is a beginning; staying together is a step forward; working together is a success.” .

[via: AIT VPDR]