Feeling a bit down? We you will find this inspirational. If there is no author acknowleged we apologise, it came to us without one. However we thought it worth sharing with you. Enjoy!
George Goodheart, DC, founder of Applied Kinesiology, died in his home in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, March 6, 2008. Dr Goodheart is considered to be the grandfather of Kinesiology. Much has been said about him and you can read more http://www.icakusa.com/goodheart.php
Taken from his Eulogy I found the following to be inspirational.
"He truly was a great man, by virtue of his ability to be a regular man, present in the lives of those close to him, and also a Father to so many in chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, and even to so many who never knew him, but through his work found new growth, strength, hope and renewed life. The torch that was lit by Dr. Goodheart has now been passed to all of us. It is our responsibility to continue to make that torch glow and grow.�
The lessons that he taught us and he lived by will make that torch grow.
- Always give credit to where your inspirations come from.
- Look for the good in everyone.
- Ask why when you are in doubt.
- God sends you patients to fail on so that you can learn something new to use to help others.
- These are the lessons he has taught us.
Dr Walter Schmidt had this to say about him
George Joseph Goodheart, Jr. He was a Great Man. Let there be no doubt about it. e was a gifted healer, the greatest healer I have ever encountered. A physicians’ physician. You would feel better just being in the same room with him. He was Passionate, and he had incredible discipline and remarkable resolve in his attempt to heal his patients and in his teachings to further the knowledge of healing among his colleagues. As George said, “YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE EVERYBODY, BUT YOU’VE GOT TO LOVE THEM”�
His children were the recipients of the George Goodheart homestyle brand of wisdom:
- treat people the way you want to be treated,
- love everyone even if you don't like everyone,
- you get what you give,
- if you expect the best it will happen,
- find your passion and money will follow,
- worry about only what you can control,
- conventional wisdom was to be questioned (Carroll Velie)�
Thank you Dr Goodheart for your contribution to this planet, health and life. Words to live by indeed!.
................................................................
ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
BY ROBERT FULGHUM
Most of what I really need to know about
how to live and what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not
At the top of the graduate school mountain,
but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life – learn some
And think some and draw and paint
And sing and dance and play
And work every day some.
Robert Fulgum is a author of wonderful books that will make you laugh and occasionally cry – great reading!
-------------------------------------------------------------
Marion Woodman – The King Bear Tapes
I said to my soul,
Be still and wait
Without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing
And wait without love for love would be love of the wrong thing
There is yet faith but the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting
And do not think, for you are not ready for thought,
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dawning.
The positive side of the feminine shadow is the patience to stay with something until you can go right into it, hold, deeper and hold, see the beauty the simplicity, the sweetness of the soul, to realize how huge it is. In that suffering our love for each other and the planet is also the light.
The patience, the pondering in the heart staying with the mystery and not trying to analyse or answer the question, but to just hold the mystery, sacred, the silence that reveals its own truth
--------------------------------------------------
Oh persistent God,
Deliver me from assuming your mercy is gentle.
Pressure me that i may grow more human,
not through the lesssening of my struggles,
but through an expansion of them
that will undam me
and unbury my gifts.
Deepen my hurt until i learn to share it
and myself openly,
and my needs honestly.
Sharpen my fears
until i name them
and release the power i have locked in them
and they in me.
Accentuate my confusion
until I shed those grandiose expectations
that divert me from the small,
glad gifts of the now and the here and the me.
Expose my shame where it shivers,
crouched behind the curtains of propriety,
until i can laugh at last
through my common frailties and failures,
laugh my way to becoming whole.
Deliver me from just
going throught the motions
and wasting everthing i have
which is today,
a chance,
a choice,
my creativity,
your call.
Oh persistent God
let how much it all matters
pry me of "dead" centre
so if i am moved inside
to tears,
or sighs,
or screams,
or smiles,
or dreams,
they will be real
and i will be in touch with who I am
and who you are
and who my brothers and sisters are.
annonymous
-------------------------------------------------
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithlesssl and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty everyday, and if you can source your life on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the moon.
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Oriah, Mountain Dreamer, Native Elder.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the book The Invitation - a must read!
-----------------------------------------------
The Awakening
A time comes in your life when you finally get it! When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out – ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to look at the world through new eyes – This is your awakening.
You realize that it is time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon. You come to terms with the fact that he is not Prince charming and you are not Cinderella and that in real world, there aren’t always fairy-tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of ‘happily ever after’ must begin with you - and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.
You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love appreciate or approve of who or what you are…and that is okay (they are entitled to their own views and opinions). And you learn the importance of loving and championing yourself - and in the process a sense of newfound confidence is born of self-approval.
You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you (or didn’t do for you) and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. You learn that people don’t always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you – and that it is not always about you.
So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance. You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties and in the process a sense of peace and contentment are born of forgiveness. You realize that much of the way you view yourself, and the world around you, is as a result of all the messages and opinions that have been ingrained into your psyche.
You begin to sift through all the crap that you have been fed about how you should behave, how you should look and how much you should weigh, what you should wear and where you should shop and what you should drive, how and where you should live and what you should do for a living, who you should sleep with, who you should marry and what you should accept from that marriage, the importance of having and raising children or what you owe your parents.
You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. And you begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you’ve outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with – and in the process you learn to go with your instincts. You learn that it is truly in giving that we receive. And that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a ‘consumer’ looking for your next fix.
You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life. You learn that you don’t know everything: It’s not your job to save the world and that you can’t teach a pig to sing. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake.
Then you learn about love – romantic love and familial love. How to love, how much to give in love, when to stop giving, and when to walk away. You learn not to project your needs or your feelings on to a relationship. You learn that you will not be more beautiful, more intelligent, more loveable or more important because of the man on your arm or the child that bears your name. You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn that just as people grow and change, so it is with love and you learn that you don’t have the right to demand love on your terms, just to make you happy. And, you learn that alone does not mean lonely. And you look in the mirror and come to terms with the fact that you will never be a size 5 or a perfect 10 and you stop trying to compete with the image and voice inside your head and agonizing over how you ‘stack up’.
You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that feelings of entitlement are perfectly OK and that it is your right to want things and to ask for the things that you want and that sometimes it is necessary to make demands.
You come to the realization that you deserve to be treated with love and, kindness, sensitivity and respect and you won’t settle for less. And, you allow only the hands of a lover who cherishes you to glorify you with his touch, and in the process you internalize the meaning of self-respect.
And you learn that your body really is your temple. And you begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin eating a balanced diet, drinking more water and taking more time to exercise. You learn that fatigue diminishes the spirit and can create doubt and fear. So you take more time to rest. And just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul – so you take more time to laugh and to play.
You learn that, for the most part, in life you get what you deserve…. and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different from working to make it happen.
More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You also learn that no one can do it alone and that it is OK to risk asking for help.
You learn that the only thing you must fear is the great robber baron of all time – FEAR itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know whatever happens you can handle it and to give into fear is to give away the right to live life on your terms.
You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. You learn that life isn’t always fair, you don’t always get what you think you deserve and that some times bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people. On these occasions, you learn not to personalize things. You learn that God isn’t punishing you or failing to answer your prayers – It is just life happening.
And you learn to deal with evil in its most primal state – the ego. You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. You learn to admit when you are wrong and build bridges instead of walls.
You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things that we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about; a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft, warm bed and a long hot shower. Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself, by yourself, and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never ever settle for less that your heart’s desire. You hang a wind chime outside your window so can listen to the wind and you make a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting and to stay open to every wonderful possibility.
Finally, with courage in your heart and love in your soul you take a stand, you take a deep breath and you begin to design the life you want to live as best you can.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
And for the horse lovers amongst us.....
From time to time, people tell me, "lighten up, it's just a horse,"or,"that's a lot of money for just a horse".
Some of my proudest moments have come about with "just a horse." Many hours have passed and my only company was "just a horse," but I did
not once feel slighted. Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by "just a horse," and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of "just a horse" gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day. If you, too, think it's "just a horse," then you probably understand phrases like "just a friend," "just a sunrise," or "just a promise." "Just a horse" brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure unbridled joy.
"Just a horse" brings out the compassion and patience that make me a better person. Because of "just a horse" I will rise early, take long walks and look longingly to the future.
So for me, it's not "just a horse" but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment.
"Just a horse" brings out what's good in me and diverts my thoughts away from myself and the worries of the day.
I hope that someday they can understand it's not "just a horse" but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being "just a woman/man."
So the next time you hear the phrase "just a horse" just smile, because they "just" don't understand.