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There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Gandhi

Come on now, let’s admit it, we are all having a modern day love affair with speed and the faster the better. There is a very good case for speed. The exhilaration you experience from that stomach in your chest feeling that you can only get with the speed of the ride at the amusement park. Or what about the thrill you get from accelerating a car around a race circuit.

The faster the better is great in many of our technologies; faster internet, faster computing speeds, faster air planes (who really likes sitting there for longer than necessary) and some services eg faster and safer public transport and things like improved productivity from technology.

Speed as we know can be a source of great fun and can also make our lives easier and more comfortable when applied to our technologies, but mis-handled and it can kill us really quick too.

I would like to challenge the view that faster is better. Unfortunately too many of us have applied it to our daily lives and as a result are forced to suffer the consequences. Life needs to be lived at a slow pace.

In this world where speed rules and everyone is under pressure to go faster, then anything that slows us down or gets in our way becomes the enemy. Thanks to speed we are living in an age of rage and torment. We need to find ways to calm down the hectic pace of our lives and strive for a new balance between fast and slow, allowing us to enjoy a richer, fuller life as a result. Too many of us have forgotten how to look forward to things or how to enjoy and savour the moment; instead we are busy rushing off to the next thing, often before the previous one has even completed.

In the past we took things at a much slower pace and savoured and enjoyed the journey, an enrichment we have forgone in our haste to ‘get there faster’. As a consequence our bodies are wearing out prematurely and our health is suffering and our human productivity is slipping. Many of us are living with jangled nerves. Plus the ‘joie de vivre’ or joy of life is missing. Let’s face it – the human body can enjoy the thrill of speed, but is not itself designed for speed such as a machine is.

Slowing down provides us with an opportunity to change our lives for the better. “Slow down you move too fast”, the words from the song keep playing in my head, so let’s look at some of the ways we might achieve this:-

• Next time you are feeling under pressure and the creative juices aren’t flowing freely, try taking ten. Yep, a 10 minute nap can do wonders to restore you.
• Take 20 minutes a day to meditate. If you can’t spare 20 or think you can’t handle it, try starting out with 1 minute and see what you can work up to. It has actually been demonstrated that regular meditators are more productive and creative than their non meditating colleagues.
• Walk to work if you can. This time not only provides some light exercise but also clears the brain making it available for productive activity.
• Take a leisurely walk in the park or in the gardens and observe what’s around you. A walk in nature does wonders for your soul.
• Next time you are feeling stressed or anxious – try taking a minute out and taking 3 deep slow breaths. You will be amazed at the results. This is much better than trying to speed on past and ignore the feelings – which of course only tends to compound them.
• Instead of wolfing down your meals (not good for the digestion, especially when you are also digesting the stress that develops from rushing) take a proper meal break and eat at a leisurely pace. Soon you will find your taste for food has returned and no longer will you be satisfied with just continually refuelling the body.
• Keep your self thoroughly involved in one thing at a time. Eg take time to enjoy your meal, don’t work and eat at the same time.
• Allow a little extra time to drive to work or other destinations. This way you can still be in the flow, but you are slower in your mind and can avoid all the stress and panic and still be there on time.
• Consider working 50 minute hours. Try it for a little while, you will be surprised at the results; you should find your concentration, energy levels, productivity and creative ability greatly improved.
• Most arguments happen because we rush into them. Next time you sense one coming up – walk away, take a deep breath and slowly return. By the time you have done this, things should have cooled enough for you to rationally discuss the problem.

Make the most of both – fast and slow, but make sure you apply the right speed to the right application.

Ron Windred

Or An Act of Giving.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

A fond memory of my youth was visiting my friend Johns’ place. One of the main reasons was because of the bowl of goodies that was always just inside the back door. You see his Dad owned a fruit shop where he insisted on only selling the very best fruit and vegetables he could; produce that was not up to this standard but was never the less OK was placed in this bowl to be taken and enjoyed by all his friends and family who wished to do so. At his shop he had a bigger version in the form of a washing basket – customers were invited to help themselves to whatever they wished from his ‘Abundance basket’ as he called it. Many did and were very grateful for the opportunity.

One day I was at the store with my friend and noticed that some of those who helped themselves were not customers and I drew this to his Dads attention. His response was one of my earlier lessons on the importance of giving.

Young man he said (this being his preferred method of addressing me). “It is mainly for them that I have it there, you see there are many in our community that are not as fortunate as we, and it is essential that we share all God gave us. My customers expect the best and are willing to pay for the privilege, but there are some, who can’t afford to buy even the cheaper varieties, but food is essential to life and so to those I freely give of my excess that my customers will not buy.

I also noticed that any spoiled produce was quickly discarded from this ‘Abundance Basket’.

He went on to say “God looks after me greatly, my business prospers and so I am able to provide easily for my family. Besides when I myself was a young man I was taught to share, to not be greedy, to give and it would come back many fold, so I made this my habit. My business colleagues all insist, even to this day, that I will go broke because of my habit; but my experience is the opposite.”

John’s dad was a real living example of the Law of Abundance.

Now here we are today at the beginning of 2009, the world has just experienced a spate of natural calamities, the stock market is trying to pull out of disaster, politicians and world  leaders are deserting their posts and the world we are told is heading for deep recession. People are pulling on their purse strings. Doom and gloom seems to be the order of the day.

But there has to be a better way. The world has to be reminded of the abundance that is our natural inheritance. It was while I was thinking this that I remembered my friend John and his dad.

We determined to follow his example; Sue set out to find an appropriate basket. She decorated it in gold and yellow and we filled it with many different goodies. When friends, customers and clients come by, we ask them to share in our abundance and take from our basket. All have been delighted with their little gifts.

One friend commented; “gee, I get to put my hands in the cookie jar,” she went on to explain that she sometimes didn’t feel all that prosperous and she hoped that our little act of giving and sharing would rub off on her. We suggested that she go home and make a basket and start sharing herself.

You see, your ‘Abundance Basket’ sets up a vibration that is sending a clear message to the universe that you feel well taken care of and that you have more than sufficient to meet your needs and are willing to share your excess. The universe then responds to this message and provides you with this abundance.

Several of our friends and clients have gone home and created their own Abundance Baskets. One business colleague has commented on a marked increase in sales in his shop, while interestingly a friend of his whom he shared the concept with said she couldn’t afford the luxury and continues to struggle in her business.

To make your Abundance Basket

Use any suitably sized container, eg a cane or wicker basket, if this is not available use a bowl, a wooden or cardboard box or even an old pot. Line it with yellow or gold cloth as this is the colour of abundance. Sue wove some yellow and orange/gold coloured artificial flowers and some small plastic gold bells into the basket to decorate it. Some small golden and orange crystals such as carnelian and citrine were then placed into the basket. Citrine is recognized as a wealth stone. Then fill it up with your goodies; these need not be expensive, nor do you necessarily need to buy them. We used some of our excess stock of small tumble stones and incense as well as small packets of fruit and nuts from our pantry along with other bits and pieces.

Sue also had a relatively expensive piece of dress jewellery that she no longer wore, so it was also added so that someone else could enjoy it. It was interesting to watch the reaction of the lady who saw and chose it. That was a very joyful moment.

Our little basket has been refilled many times now and provides us with the joy that comes from giving each time someone shares in our abundance. And the universe is responding in kind.

Ron Windred

Most of us never really think about it, but each and every one of us is a broadcasting and receiving station. We’re on air 24/7, 365 days a year and even on the extra day in a leap year. We’re so used to it that many of us pay it no heed to it at all. Therein lays the problem for some of us.

You see your every thought, word and action goes out before you to clear the way and make your intentions known. What you say is what you get. How many of us know this and yet forget to follow our own sage advice. How often have we berated ourselves, usually backed up with a whole lot of emotion, and then wondered why it became our reality.

All of us are psychic. (As a reader of this article you probably recognize this yourself). Most people these days will acknowledge that there are many psychics among us; some insist that it is just reading body language. This I will acknowledge; for whom among us hasn’t been able to read very clearly the broadcast of, eg a very angry person. But all of us are picking up on a subconscious level the broadcasts of those around us. IE – every word, thought and action.

SO WHAT ARE YOU PROJECTING OUT THERE?

Are you clearing a way and making life easy for yourself, or are you hindering your own progress?

Written words are even more powerful than spoken words, and what’s more, we are trained to take notice of them: We use signposts to tell us the way, traffic signs to control our behaviour, contracts to bind us to a course of action and of course advertising to manipulate our spending habits. Most of this is for our mutual good and recognising this – we go along with the instructions.

But have you stopped to think about the messages you are sending out, in what appears to be a bit of fun, on your clothing and cars etc. and especially on your children. Some of these are acted upon consciously, but the majority are picked up unconsciously or psychically. Is it any wonder that the person who gets out of her car with the big sign ‘Bitch on board’ gets treated like one? But then gets upset when it happens and acts even bitchier. And what about the kids ones, even the seemingly innocent ones like, Mr Cranky, misbehavin, Miss Naughty, and the like.

How can you put these on a child and then expect them to then act like an angel?

And by your written broadcasts – is this how you really want people to perceive you?

Often it can seem like a bit of fun but remember – words carry real meanings and it is these that we pick up on!

One young ‘lady’ had me really concerned the other day, she was wearing a t shirt that proclaimed ‘F_ _ K ME  I DON’T GIVE A DAMM’. I wonder what her response will be when some-one takes her up on it, or maybe she really won’t give a damm.

Business people, here is one for you to consider. Upon approaching a business premises the words that greet us carry enormous impact. ‘Welcome’, ‘please come in’, ‘open for business’, these all carry a positive impression that is picked up by us psychically and acted upon. We subconsciously react that here is a person who likes to do business (make sales) and will treat me well. This reaction moves us well into the transaction that you really want to complete. Do consider the detrimental signs at your entry; ‘Salesmen not welcome’, No Hawkers or Canvassers’. While I can empathise sometimes with the need for these signs, it’s the unspoken message that you don’t want, namely: I don’t like selling or salesmen (and remember every businessman is a salesman). It’s OK for me to do business with you, but not OK for you to do business with me. Stay Away and that means you (in this case everyone) and then you wonder why your business isn’t as good as it should be.

Remember your broadcasts: – Every thought, word and deed goes out before you to prepare your way. Are you making life easy or are you making it hard?

WORDS REALLY DO MATTER.

Ron Windred