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Various spiritual teachings say that there are only two fundamental emotions: love and fear. For the body, this is true. All mammals, including humans, have two opposing hormonal responses to stimuli. Threatening stimuli cause an increase of stress hormones—adrenaline and cortisol. Soothing or reassuring stimuli cause an increase in oxytocin. by Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson Copyright © 2006

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declarations

• •  I trust my abundant creativity.
  •  I have an enormous capacity for re-building, restoring, transcending.
  •  I draw upon ever-renewing sources of lively energy within me.
  •  I love being found out, i.e., caught in the act of being my authentic self.
  •  I stop listening to those who want to import their fears into me
  •  I give up the need to correct people’s impressions of me.
  •  I trust an uncanny timing that I keep noticing within myself:
    I love how I awake or change or resolve or complete at just the right
    moment
  •  I expand my compassion toward myself and everyone.

Affirmation credit ->When Love Meets Fear by David Richo, Ph.D. Free e-book, which includes excerpts from book above located here->Human Becoming,available through this site by clicking here

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• Heart Intelligence-video

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• • quote ★The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. _{Norman Vincent Peale}
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(UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities) were Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Extension Specialist in Human Development and Family Relations,and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S., Staff Support Associate. Copyright © 2004 for materials developed by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. These publications may be reproduced in portions or their entirety for educational or nonprofit purposes only. Permitted users shall give credit to the author(s) and include this copyright notice. Educational programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin

1 – Your Vision Map-video

2 – Making the Growth Choice-video

3 – The Way of Peace-video

4 – Heart Intelligence-video

5 – The Freedom of Self-Discipline-video

6 – Embracing This Present Moment-video

7 – Accepting and Loving Your Body-video

8 – Healthy Relationships-video

9 – Unleashing Your Creativity-video

10 – Gifts of Gratitude and Blessing-video
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★We’ve only begun tapping into the many ways in which we can more powerfully and creatively employ gratitude and blessing.

★As you use energy in these ways, you inevitably put your personal stamp on it-in either a positive or negative way-and send it back into the world where it plays a small but important role in either uplifting or burdening all of us.

Like a boomerang, the energy you send out (positive or negative) tends to draw to it more of its kind and then return to you. The same is true for each one of us, and our almost constant decisions to use energy in positive or negative ways dramatically affect our individual and collective well-being.

• ★When we use energy positively in kindness, creativity, laughter, or self-discipline, for example, we benefit physically, mentally, and spiritually. When we use energy negatively in fear, anger, or striking out at one another, we reap tension and pain.
  
  

• ★Once again, our actions not only affect us personally, they also influence those around us and our entire world.

★I send out thoughts of goodwill and love to all those who come into my heart and my thoughts. It takes very little time and,

in so doing, I, too, am blessed

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• • ★Think about it this way: Imagine that with every negative thought, word, and action, you also send into the world a little gray cloud. Similarly, with each positive use of energy, imagine that you send forth a little pink heart.
    
    

★We’ve only begun tapping into the many ways in which we can more powerfully and creatively employ gratitude and blessing. 

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★We’ve only begun tapping into the many ways in which we can more powerfully and creatively employ gratitude and blessing.

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The applications of gratitude and blessing are virtually unlimited, can be used by anyone, require no waiting periods or large capital investments, transcend ideological differences, and are wonderfully contagious.

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• ★It works this way for each of us, and when there are too many gray clouds and not enough pink hearts, all kinds of troubles crop up in our families, our communities, and our world. On the positive side, as we each take responsibility for increasing our loving thoughts and actions, the massive accumulation of little pink hearts, or positive energy, can literally help to transform our relationships and our world.
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• ★Now if you think all this talk about energy and gray clouds and pink hearts is just pie in the sky, think again. In recent decades respected frontier scientists from numerous countries have amassed a growing body of factual findings that strongly suggest we do indeed live in a common energy field, and that we are more powerful and interconnected than we previously realized.

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★In order to make the best choices in life, it is essential that we become keenly aware and regularly decide to use our energy in positive ways according to the dictates of our inner guidance. Perhaps the most important choice we can make in our daily lives is repeatedly to opt for love instead of fear. Religions and philosophies the world over tell us that love can triumph over fear; and more and more, science is backing up those age-old claims._{(UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities)}

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• ★What kind of energy do you project into the world? It really is a choice that we can make, and by learning to engage skillfully in the battle between positive and negative forces, you more frequently make wise choices, thus growing in strength, wisdom, and happiness. So again and again, make the decision to be positive and to add happy energy and sparkle to the lives of others. It could make far more difference than you think!

_{Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Human Development and Family Relations Specialist, and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S, Staff Support Associate.}
(UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities) were Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Extension Specialist in Human Development and Family Relations,and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S., Staff Support Associate. Copyright © 2004 for materials developed by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. These publications may be reproduced in portions or their entirety for educational or nonprofit purposes only. Permitted users shall give credit to the author(s) and include this copyright notice. Educational programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin~***

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Quotes in posts below come from UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities~…source sited above

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  Be Thankful for Everything. Extend Blessings to All.
  Gratitude,
  the skill of feeling and expressing appreciation, can be beneficially practiced on three levels of
  increasing difficulty:
  [★1]For what is unexpected and wonderful.
  [★2]For the positives in life that we often take for granted.
  [★3]For the various challenges that test our resolve and creativity and that often contain hidden blessings.
  Be Thankful for Everything. Extend Blessings to All.
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  ★Be Thankful for Everything. Extend Blessings to All.
  Mounting research has documented the substantial power of both prayer and intentionally directed thought.
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    ★Gratitude and blessing seem
    tailor-made for our time-pressured, stressed-out society. Often requiring little or no extra time, they can do wonders for reducing the burden of stress that wears heavily on our physical well-being and diminishes our creativity, spiritual attunement, and joy.
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    ★Gratitude produces immediate benefits!
    Researchers have discovered that when
    an individual engages in thoughts of appreciation, almost immediately his or her heart rate variability smooths out, indicating heightened psychophysiological coherence—a state associated with reduced stress, increased emotional stability, high performance, and
    a range of health benefits.
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  ★Be Thankful for Everything. Extend Blessings to All.
  As with gratitude, blessing—the act of giving something positive to another— can be practiced effectively in thought, word,
  and overt action.
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  ★Researchers also have found that positive thoughts produce benefits even when directed toward animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and blood cells.
  To the imaginative mind, the potential of these findings is staggering!
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  ★While gratitude and blessing
  carry enormous positive power, their opposites—self-defeating negative thinking and complaining, and unkind thoughts and actions directed toward others—have great power to harm and should be strictly avoided.

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  Leading-edge research suggests that we live in a common “field of energy,” so that what we do to others, for better or worse, we are, in a very real sense, doing to ourselves.

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★Leading-edge research suggests that we live in a common “field of energy,” so that what we do to others, for better or worse, we are, in a very real sense, doing to ourselves.

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  ★POSITIVE SELF-TALK
  I send out thoughts of goodwill and love to all those who come into my heart and my thoughts. It takes very little time and,
  in so doing, I, too, am blessed.

*UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities

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  ★Together,
  let us envision and build
  a world where all people enjoy
  optimal well-being. Let us strive
  to awaken fresh thinking, new
  enthusiasm, and abundant love.
  Let us create a world of
  unimagined possibilities.
  It can be done!

Many of the quotes …videos, and articles above …without an author’s name (UK Extension’s Universe of Possibilities) were Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Extension Specialist in Human Development and Family Relations,and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S., Staff Support Associate. Copyright © 2004 for materials developed by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. These publications may be reproduced in portions or their entirety for educational or nonprofit purposes only. Permitted users shall give credit to the author(s) and include this copyright notice. Educational programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin~***

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Principle
of Happiness Opposing Negative Force
Love . . . . . . . . . . fear
Calmness . . . . . . restlessness, worry, agitation
Enthusiasm . . . . . apathy, indifference
Spontaneity . . . . being ill at ease, self-conscious
Cheerfulness . . . . gloominess, despondency
Optimism . . . . . . pessimism, hopelessness
Honesty . . . . . . . not being forthright and truthful
Compassion . . . . failure to feel for others
Kindness . . . . . . . insensitivity, hurting another
Acceptance . . . . . denial of what is
Perseverance . . . . quitting without good cause
Adventure . . . . . . boredom, dullness, monotony
Friendship . . . . . . loneliness, unhealthy isolation
Loyalty . . . . . . . . not being true to another
Assertiveness . . . failure to act on inner knowing
Authenticity . . . . hiding, not being real
Simplicity . . . . . . clutter—physical or mental
Playfulness . . . . . overly serious and sedate
Humor . . . . . . . . lack of lightness and laughter
Joy . . . . . . . . . . . sadness, depression
Tolerance . . . . . . not allowing other viewpoints
Order . . . . . . . . . disorder, chaos, confusion
Beauty . . . . . . . . disharmony, ugliness
Patience . . . . . . . unwillingness to trust and wait
Poise . . . . . . . . . . lack of grace and composure
Concentration . . . restlessness, inability to focus
Humility . . . . . . . false self-importance
Stewardship . . . . selfish, wasteful use of resources
Nutrition . . . . . . . poor eating habits
Exercise . . . . . . . detrimental inactivity
Rest . . . . . . . . . . fatigue, lack of sleep
Safety . . . . . . . . . unwise exposure to injury
Confidence . . . . . self-doubt, feeling inadequate
Flexibility . . . . . . inability to bend, stretch, flow
Creativity . . . . . . lack of initiative and originality
Respect . . . . . . . . discourtesy, rudeness
Vision . . . . . . . . . lack of purpose or direction
Appreciation . . . . criticism, fault-finding
Smiling . . . . . . . . bland or harsh expression
Relaxation . . . . . stress, strain, blocked energy
Faith . . . . . . . . . . doubt, disbelief, insecurity
Gratitude . . . . . . . lack of appreciation
(from ***Making the Growth Choice*** module)
***~Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Extension Specialist in Human Development and Family Relations, and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S., Staff Support Associate. A hearty thank you to the many professionals who reviewed and helped to edit these publications. They are acknowledged on the Possibilities website noted above. Copyright © 2004 for materials developed by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. These publications may be reproduced in portions or their entirety for educational or nonprofit purposes only. Permitted users shall give credit to the author(s) and include this copyright notice. (Used by permission of author, the content of this publication is largely taken from a copyrighted book manuscript by Sam Quick.) Educational programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.~***

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MAKING THE GROWTH CHOICE
Life is a continuous series of choices, and with each choice we make, we feed either our positive or negative tendencies. At one time, almost without our awareness, we might choose to be insensitive and strike out at a store clerk or loved one; and at another time, despite our own personal challenges, we find the strength within to comfort a struggling co-worker with a cheerful smile and a much appreciated word of encouragement. Not one of us is perfect, and the best we can do is to make wise choices a conscious and regular part of our lives.
When you frequently think a particular thought, you feed that thought with your time and energy, and it will grow in strength and express itself in your life. For example, have you known someone who constantly worried about being sick? Because they repeatedly feed thoughts of sickness, such people experience more than their share of illness. Our thoughts are like mental magnets; for better or worse, whatever we choose to dwell on, we tend to draw to us.
In each of your daily decision points, one choice is usually the best for you. It’s called the “growth choice” because it promotes your vitality, growth, and happiness. As each of us increases the number of growth choices we make, our loved ones, our communities, and our world family all benefit.
Many of us spend large amounts of time on “automatic pilot,” behaving habitually, almost mechanically. When we’re on automatic pilot, we react to the events of life instead of creatively taking charge. However, when we begin to pay close attention to all our choices and their impact, and take responsibility for our actions, we awaken to a new sense of freedom, power, and possibility.
You and I are always “at choice,” and nearly all of our choices can be understood as yes-no, either-or decisions. Of course, some decisions, such as which job to take or where to live, are more complex and involve a greater variety of factors than deciding whether to have another slice of chocolate ice cream cake. But to a large degree, it is the hundreds of mostly small decisions we make each day that shape our character and our lives.
Each growth choice you make simultaneously promotes your growth and happiness and also the well-being of all those around you. As we become more aware of our decisions and more skilled in making growth choices, a bright new world of opportunity opens up.
Then, even in the most oppressing circumstances, we can stay in charge of our own dignity, feel good about our choices, and be a blessing to others. Psychiatrist, author, and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl said it well: “We who lived in the concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of our freedoms-the freedom to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
It can’t be emphasized enough: In every circumstance, you have been given free will-the amazing freedom to choose your thoughts, attitudes, and actions.
This gift of choice is your ticket to optimal success in a world filled with problems and almost limitless possibilities. When you awaken fully to your precious gift of choice, new achievements become possible; you grow in happiness; and you have far more to give to loved ones and to our troubled world, which so desperately needs an influx of positive energy.
As Jewish philosopher Martin Buber wisely noted, “You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.”

Prepared by Sam Quick, Ph.D., Human Development and Family Relations Specialist, and Alex Lesueur, Jr., M.S.L.S, Staff Support Associate
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