Start The Year With Change

The best was to keep a New Year's resolution is to address the problem directly. 


Way too often people decide to change their lives based on the symptoms of their problems and not the real issues.

Without the desire to resolve the fear, anger, selfishness, blaming, loneliness, worthlessness, etc. from unhealthy thinking, the symptoms will continue in one form or another. 


The only real change comes from digging down deep and taking a stand against the old negative self.

Start the New Year with a new positive self.  If you need some help, remember that God is only a prayer away! 


Happy New Year!

Learn Through Suffering

This physical plane of existence is like a difficult school to prepare for the next life.

While God always listens to people, He only grants their prayers if this will help them grow spiritually and not to just avoid suffering.

Since humans learn best through the pain and struggle, it is very important to pay attention and analyze what is going on or else the lesson will just repeat.

~ For more information, read my ebook, Tranquil Hearts Program For Achieving Peace, that is available at www.tranquilhearts.com

Holiday Thanks

This last Thanksgiving I decided to visit my relatives, but instead of sending them love to change them, I decided to just let everyone be themselves. At the holidays last year, I discovered that it would take me about two hours of mentally sending love to change my crabby relatives into pleasant company.

This year I wanted to practice acceptance, which would allow me to experience them as they really are with clarity and understanding. At the first house, I had a delicious meal, learned about football and received a lecture on my selfishness. At my next family stop, I enjoyed good company and conversation but had to leave early to deliver medicine to my daughter, since she was home sick.

On the way there, my car caught on fire, so I pulled off the road, ran from it and dialed 911. Some wonderful strangers stopped to help and would not leave until after the fire truck left and the tow truck arrived. The firemen were happy to be there and help! They even joked about needing some exercise after their big Thanksgiving Day meal and would not leave until the tow truck arrived.

After meeting all of these great people in my time of crisis, I felt like a part of a community of love and support. This had been a wonderful ending to a day set aside for thanks, and I certainly felt grateful to God for my variety of life experiences.

Be Uncomfortable And Experience God!

How many times have I told You, no, God?

How many times because I was too tired, too insecure, too uncertain, too busy, or too selfish have I walked right past Your divine appointment for me and missed experiencing You?

~ from the book, What Happens When Women Say Yes To God, by Lysa Terkeurst

Create Positive Energy With Calmness and Patience

Suppose you are in the desert, and you only have one glass of muddy water. You have to transform the muddy water into clear water to drink, you cannot just throw it away. So you let it settle for a while, and clear water will appear. In the same way, we have to convert anger into some kind of energy that is more constructive, because anger is you. Without anger you have nothing left. That is the work of meditation.

~ From the book, Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering Teaches Us About Love

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love.

~ From the book, You Are Here, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Have Faith! Expect Miracles! Grab Jesus's Hand!

"Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."

"Come," He said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"

Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him. "You of little faith," He said, "why did you doubt?"

Matthew 14:28-31

Stillness

Be still and meditate to relax the mind, heal the body and develop the spirit.

The Power of Silence

Internal silence disciplines the mind, heals the body and builds a relationship with God.

Free Ebook

Read about the first fifty years of struggle in my ebook, From Terror to Tranquility, on my search for truth and inner peace with God for Free off my website - www.tranquilhearts.com.

Placing Value

Nothing really has value unless God assigns it one.

Walk In Faith

Fear rules this world, so walk in faith, awareness, enlightenment and love to avoid a life of terror.

Hold The Balance

This world is full of beauty and sorrow, so hold the balance that feels right for you!

God, The Author

Like all good actors, humans bring God's story to life with their emotions and actions.

What role do you play?

Spiritual Empowerment

Spirituality occurs when the human spirit connects with The Creator, and people are aware of this experience through and through from their toes to the top of their head, on a conscious, unconscious and subconscious level. All children begin as spiritual beings, and they can feel this connection with God their whole lives if it is not interrupted.

By 17 years old, I felt spiritually dead and suicidal because my physical world became the dark shadow separating me from God. My over 30-year journey for truth and happiness brought me full circle back to where I started spiritually as a child.

I now have the confidence, self-empowerment, inner peace and tranquility that can be everyone’s possible reality when spirituality is developed.

If you want to know more, I am offering FREE ADVICE for the holidays by phone or email (618-917-5974 or sw@tranquilhearts.com) until Jan. 3, 2011.

What is Enlightenment?

As the darkness leaves our minds, the light will enter.
Enlightenment comes through a continuous building of awareness.

The Tranquil Hearts Program provides the skills to reduce the night and gain more day.