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 100 Ways to Feel Inspired

There are those times in life when all we need to hear or read is a simple inspirational phrase to accomplish the task set before us. It’s like we know we have the potential but to bring ourselves to manifest this potential seems to be difficult. “100 Ways to feel Inspired,” is geared to “turn into action” the potential within us, as we continue our journey of love, peace and justice. It is aimed at giving us this sense of focus and direction. The underlying principle of this book is that life is not determined by its pains and hurts, but rather by our ability to continue to live and contribute significantly to the development of all after we have encountered this challenge. If one person can be helped by this book which has been such an inspiration to the author, then to God the Eternal be continuous Praise! and the author’s goal would have been met. I am grateful and happy to be working with Strategic Book publishing company on the publication of this simple reflection!

 

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Book reviews:

“The wisdom sayings in this book provide easily accessible material for personal reflection to care for one’s vocations and to facilitate growth in one’s relationship with God. I recommend 100 ways to Feel Inspired to people of all ages for individual use and for use in prayer groups.” - Edward J. Gilbert C.Ss.R, Emeritus ArchBishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

“Congrats. Very, very good; what comes to mind are the virtues.” – Fr. Stephen Arch Diocese of Castries, Saint Lucia.

“100 ways to feel Inspired; to reorganize God’s awesome presence; to stay connected; to be still and know…………” Helen

“Just finished reading your book, enjoyed it tears came to my eyes because some were things I really needed to do and hear. Thanks for letting me read it please complete it. So many people like me out there need to read it.” – Cheryl

“I looked over the one liners and they are excellent.” – Melissa

“This is a great moment, savour it” Yvonne

“It gave me chills. The cover is beautiful, so very peaceful and the mountain. It’s fantastic, may God continue to inspire you always.” Stephen and Charlene

Anger as a Means of Self Discovery

Self-discovery is a continuous process. It calls for diligence. Most times, we feel it is too much work so we just live our lives without paying too much attention or without being aware of our feelings. Another way of self-discovery is by paying attention to what makes us angry or mad. Most times, we become so angry when we encounter this external stimulant that we cannot pay attention to better understanding ourselves.

Paying attention “to what makes angry” is an authentic facet to self-discovery. Why do I say such? Lets look at it. The reason why I am angry is never new. Sometimes we may say, “First time that has happened to me, I do not know what, I just blew up”. However, was it really the first time? For an external stimulant to act as a first time cause is possible and it is frequently happening. However, these may not really cause an explosive reaction or break down in a relationship. If it’s really the first time it can be worked on to improve the relationship. An apology is sometimes adequate.

However, the anger that originates from an incident of the past has a greater tendency to destroy a relationship. Let us look at it. Again, it takes us back to the “child within us”. Let us go through a little exercise. Close our eyes and return to what really makes us angry as adults. Is it originating from an external source that really makes our blood boil? For example every time somebody does X to us, our anger rises. Once we have identified the “x” of the external cause, that drives “pushes out” our anger….. we stay with it for a few seconds. Most times that, external action most probably from someone other than ourselves, has already happened to us in the past and this present x situation serves as a reminder of that initial incident. This present occurence may not have happened in the same manner with which it may have happened as an child in the past.

What I am trying to say is that this “external situation” may just remind us of a similar scenario when we were much smaller or younger. The memories and emotions of this scenario are still present in our mind and body. “The body itself has a way of remembering.” They remain as unresolved issues that lie deep within us. They lie inside within the inner child waiting for the opportune moment to “gush out “from us. It is important to remember here that this “manifestation” of this emotion happens in the adult stage of the person. Therefore, this inner child with this unresolved issue of “this particular anger” explodes or gets into a temper tantrum within us, and controls us. This is all figurative language here. It is an analogy. What I am trying to say is that our anger expressed violently can be a sign that there are still unresolved issues in our lives that probably should be looked at, now that we are adults.

It is important to take it easy in this process of self-discovery. Here I refer to the repeated and continuous manifestations of anger (violently) that may be a source of an unresolved issue that we experienced as children. This reaction happens within the sub-conscious. It happens very quickly. As soon as we encounter this external stimulus (one that make sour blood boil) we almost immediately subconsciously regress to our child inner unresolved experience. There the child takes over. Children do get temper tantrums so too adults. This may not happen to everyone of us. However, it does happen often enough. We react instintively, not pay attention. How many are the times we have said “I can’t tell you why I became so angry. There was no logical reason for this explosion.” Well children’s minds are not yet been developed within the logic phase of reasoning. They are not able to analyse, synthesize, or evaluate a given situation. Sometimes they may act impulsively. Here impulsive reactions are not always negative. However, if as adults we always act impulsively without enough reflection, then there remains a cause of concern.

Again this may not always be true, but in some cases (maybe not many), it can be a reality. In these cases, we begin the process of inner healing of this child as has been previously mentioned. May the Holy Spirit guide and lead us into our inner path of self discovery.

How do you show anger? Great question to start a discusion here?

God to me

"God is the foundation of my living. However, this is God who has been incarnated into humanity's historry. This is God made man. Jn.1:14 "And the Word was made flesh and he dwelt among us." Therefore, our history and our ancestors are also blessed. No longer history can hold us ransom. We have been liberated from it's negativity. This gives us the awareness to embrace the present and to look forward to the future with hope. A hope that embraces the dignity of each individual and that of humanity."

Violence

As the human in me struggles to resist this blow,
That without a word my flesh tears from my jagged bones,
My race to be human is nothing,
but a breath of separation to defeat,

And to my veins red are bathed,
In this sea of unquenchable must,
Ohh how I warned not to test,
To this point of irresistible blood.

But to this now I shall not bow,
For this breath of separation in my vow doth ascend,
And though I struggle to regain my me,
I have not usurped my moment of being.

A voice in the wilderness

I thought I should write,
I thought I should on paper,
And freeze this moment,
But What should seize my attention,
I thought I should stay with this economic crisis,
But who would listen,
I thought I should write on xenophobia,
In escaping the word racism,
I thought I should write on crime,
when so many future problem solvers,
In a cemetery have fallen asleep,
I thought I Should comment on this ash,
Which from Iceland spurts forth,
But torn between fertile lands and travelllers,
I thought I should bring down globalisation,
But what Should I say,
Maybe I could write on Obama's victory,
But this history has already been frozen,
Then of what should I write,
I thought I should settle on global warming,
But economics would render me not,
Well why not write on modernism,
But postmodernism would hold me ransom,
I really thought to give christianity a call,
But where to start in its divisions,
I thought that nature would be best,
But the price of development is too high,
Well finally I thought I should stop here,
And continue this thought another day,
But still I thought...