An evening out...

Last week I went to Enrichment with "L" (from work). It was very informative and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. There was a guest speaker who had graduated from the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. She taught us relaxation techniques and we talked a lot on the need to have balance in our lives...physical, emotional, mental and spiritual...Mind, Body, Spirit.

After one of the exercises I could literally feel the stress lifting from my shoulders. So wonderful as life seems to have been piling up on me. (Don't worry...just regular stuff)

One thing that she mentioned on breathing was to try to inhale for at least 4 seconds and exhale for 6 seconds...start with that and then try to increase both of those to see how long you can inhale and exhale. After only a few times I could feel myself relaxing and becoming calmer.

She ended her presentation with a video that was taken from a talk given at BYU in May 1996 by Elder Busche entitled "Unleashing the Dormant Spirit". Very good article. The video captured a portion towards the end of his talk where he states a several ways to help us reach our vision of true discipleship.

Some of those things he suggested are:

• Embrace this day with an enthusiastic welcome, no matter how it looks. The covenant with God to which you are true enables you to become enlightened by him, and nothing is impossible for you
• When you are physically sick, tired, or in despair, steer your thoughts away from yourself and directed them, in gratitude and love, toward God.
• In your life there have to be challenges. They will either bring you closer to God and therefore make you stronger, or they can destroy you. But you make the decision of which road you take.
• First and foremost, you are a spirit child of God. If you neglect to feed your spirit, you will reap unhappiness. Don't permit anything to detract you from this awareness.
• Put all frustrations, hurt feelings, and grumblings into the perspective of your eternal hope. Light will flow into your soul
• God knows you are not perfect. As you suffer about your imperfections, he will give you comfort and suggestions of where to improve.
• God knows better than you what you need. He always attempts to speak to you. Listen and follow the uncomfortable suggestions that he makes to us - everything will fall into its place
• Avoid any fear like your worst enemy, but magnify your fear about the consequences of sin
• The pain of sacrifice lasts only one moment. It is the fear of the pain of sacrifice that makes you hesitate to do it.

There are other's I am not going to list them all here.

~Enjoy