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Choose Love Not Stress!
The body at peace is stronger than the body at war. When you can free yourself of the random, uncontrollable stress that is always present, your body will start to be at peace.
Modern medicine has already discovered that love increases the human immune response. An experimenter who showed random subjects a movie of Mother Teresa found that their immune systems responded immediately. The rise of an immunoglobulin called IGA proved that exposure to love actually increased the body’s defenses. This happened regardless of whether the subjects approved of Mother Teresa or not.
People who feel loved live longer; have fewer colds, lower blood pressure, and lower cancer rates; and have fewer heart attacks. Widowers who lose a spouse and begin to feel unloved and lonely suffer higher rates of all these afflictions, as well as a shorter life span.
You cannot use stress, in the form of constant reminders about terror, to create peace in the body. The mechanisms simply aren’t there.
Don’t dwell on stressful events. Avoid becoming addicted to bad news. Put fear in perspective. Realize that positive outcomes are possible. Discuss how you feel with others; work together to change the stress. Be in control where you can. Don’t let chaos dominate. Stay centered, and whenever you are thrown off center, take time to return there. Find an outlet for your anger and anxiety.
Adapted from Peace Is the Way, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2005).
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add your comment »The odd thing is -sometimes when one lets go of the most control, this is when one may in turn be the most in a place of control. Love chooses Love being guided by this alone.
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Yes love really is so essential.
It's amazing how peoples immunoglobulin rises with being exsposed to love and images of love. It reminds me of Hidden Messages In water that DR. Emmoto (spelling?) shares with us.
He shares how water molocules transform with words, images and sounds of love and beauty into beautifully patterned crystals and the opposite effect happens with negative images/sounds/words. Those same cells deform and shrink.
That is so fundemental in the essance of life.
Just imagine how much power our thoughts really have!
Have a loving life with loving thoughts and the world will be a loving place.
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Your words are spirit and life for us. The truth repeats itself. Be in control, where you can. Yes,
it is a choice we can make. Thank you for the enlightenment!
May we be the peace you bring into our hearts and teach those around us to not dwell on the negative. Our thoughts are seeds that grow.
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Excellent insight and guidance. It is that simple. Thank you, as always. Wayne
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As always very sound advice from a wise and generous man. Interesting that negative stress seems abundant in our modern world, and love seems elusive. Is it real, or just our conditioned perspective?
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Yes...very strong and powerful...thank you Deepak.
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This my friend Deepak, its what its all about LOVE its so important & very true. I Thank You so much, you help me so much!! Love Brenda
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