The Magic Of High Self Esteem

Thursday 9 October 2008 @ 8:10 am

by Jim DeSantis
The term, Self Esteem, is tossed around in everyday conversation but most people do not know the exact meaning of it. Most people think that self esteem is the other name for self confidence. Of course, self confidence is included in the definition of self esteem but self esteem covers much more than self confidence. True magic happens once you understand self esteem and learn how to have higher self esteem than you now have.

You may be surprised to know that there are millions of people that are at the height of their self confidence but have very poor self esteem. In fact, most of the human race fall into this category. The most common examples are movie actors, comedians, and singers who excel when performing and who are extremely insecure out of the public eye.

So what is self esteem, exactly? Self esteem is what we think and say about ourselves to ourselves.

If you trash talk yourself, you have to stop. You wouldn’t verbally beat up a friend, so don’t do it to yourself either. Take out a sheet of paper and make a list of all the bad things you think and say about yourself. Now make another list of positive things you could say instead. Whenever you catch yourself thinking or saying something negative, immediately stop and counter it with something positive. This will take some practice, but you will eventually be able to stop all the trash talk and think and feel much better about yourself.

Did you know that self esteem and health are inextricably linked? By keeping healthy, you will feel motivated to identify and achieve your life goals, which leads to higher self esteem. In turn, having high self esteem means that you value yourself enough to want to look after your health!

In adolescents, even the most confident of adolescents can grow up to experience low self esteem and to feel unworthy. Adult life can be tough and it can sometimes feel like “survival of the fittest” so adolescents act out as a defense mechanism to cover low self esteem.

One of the easiest steps to improve self esteem is to push yourself to do “difficult” things.

This breeds a sense of pride.

Pride in yourself and your accomplishments will give you a higher opinion of yourself (the esteem you have for yourself). By using your willpower to actually do some of these things, your self esteem will grow and along with it your perception of your own abilities. This in turn will create a momentum in your life where success breeds more success.

Never compare yourself with others. Every single person on the Earth has one attribute or another that you do not have. You have attributes that they do not have.

Comparisons are the easiest way to start feeling inferior and losing most of your self esteem. Instead, think about yourself in terms of your achievements. This will help you build or rebuild your self-confidence and it will make you feel better when dealing with your peer group at the same time. The result is self esteem magic in action.

The greater your self confidence, the greater your self esteem.

Focus on your achievements. If you take the time to think about it, you will realize that you have achieved many things in your life. It doesn’t matter what these achievements are. It only matters that they have been recognized by at least one other person. We all have such achievements. List them and remember what it meant to you to have them recognized by someone else.

It doesn’t matter what you think about your overall life at present. If you are honest with yourself you will make a long list of positive things you have done and that list will make you feel better about yourself. Every small thing you are proud of should be added to your list. The fact that you are focusing on positives will also help you to increase your level of self esteem.

One of the most important things you should be aware of is the erroneous belief that you need to be different from how you are in order to be loved. This idea causes a great deal of misery. Unless you are happy within, you’ll never be truly satisfied with what you do. Liking yourself unconditionally is the key to happiness. Yes, you need to like yourself as you are and grow from there.

With improved self-esteem, your relationships with others will improve as well.

You don’t have to be perfect because even the most loved person in the world make’s mistakes! You don’t even have to do your best. You don’t have to prove anything. You’re all right because you’re all right, and lovable exactly as you are.

I’m in your corner cheering you on!

Jim DeSantis is a retired TV News Anchor and News Director who created “Self Esteem Magic”, a guaranteed step-by-step approach to start raising your Self Esteem in one weekend. Change your life starting this weekend - here - “Self Esteem Magic”.

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The Story I Made Up: How We Let Our Fantasies Steal Happiness from Our Lives

Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 3:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Have you ever gotten furious at someone, causing a big scene about how wronged you were, only to find out it was some trivial misunderstanding? Have you ever accused another of some transgression, only to discover later it was a miscommunication? Have you ever believed that someone had done something terrible to you, and then learned that this person was in extreme suffering in their own life (serious illness or severe loss) at the time? Have you ever spent hours, days, weeks, or months suffering over believing someone had deliberately hurt you, only later to learn that they were totally unaware due to their own life crisis?

If you’ve ever experienced any of these (and I think we all have), you’ve been blessed to be shown your process of “making up a story” about what is happening so you can be justified in feeling wounded and behaving hurt.

I was once walking down the street with a friend. He said, “Hi!” to a stranger on the sidewalk as we passed. The other person gave no acknowledgement. My friend ranted and raved and fumed long after the event. He thought the other person was rude. Here are some alternative possibilities to explain what happened.

- Perhaps the man was a city dweller and was more suspicious of friendliness than my friend (who lived in the country).
- It could be that the man had just lost a family member and was too deep in grief.
- Maybe he had just learned he had a life threatening disease.
- He might have a mental illness that made him terrified of strangers.
- Maybe he was late getting somewhere and did not even notice us on the sidewalk.

Start to be aware of any stories you tell yourself to explain the behaviors of others. Do you have a consistent pattern of explaining events so that you are the victim of other people’s behavior? Do you create a “story” about what happened without a word to the other person? Do you “go along” with things you don’t agree with, withdraw, make up a story and feel injured? Do you overreact by automatically assuming you have been deliberately slighted? Do you spend a lot of time focusing on other people’s behavior looking for transgressions real or imagined, while paying little attention to your own behavior and its impact on others?

Consider moving your attention back into your own body and sphere of influence. Start looking to your own behavior. Become aware of any “stories” you are making up about a situation. Look at the pattern of results of your stories. Do your stories justify your getting angry, feeling rejected, being hurt, retaliating, being mean to others (misdirecting your anger), or ending relationships?

Usually people use their “stories” to justify a behavior they want to do anyway, and intend to do anyway. Look at what you use your stories to justify. Do you justify stealing (”The clerk gave me too much change. They shouldn’t be so stupid.”), being mean (”They hurt me, so I’m going to hurt them more”), lying (”He said he is working tonight, so he must not care. I’m going out with another guy.”)

If you’re really paying attention to your stories, you will soon discover how you use stories to justify your behavior, pretend to be a victim, make yourself right and others wrong and generally complicate human interaction. Letting go of stories will guarantee you a lot more happiness.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

Article Source: The Story I Made Up: How We Let Our Fantasies Steal Happiness from Our Lives

My History Is No Longer My Identity: A Solution to a Painful Childhood

Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 2:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Did you have an abusive childhood? As a child, were you the victim of sexual, verbal, or physical abuse? Were your earliest years lived amid chaos, conflict, substance abuse, neglect, poverty, or crime? Were these things such a part of your youngest years that they have become your identity? Do you find that tears come to your eyes at the thought or mention of those days…even 20, 30, 40, 50 or more years later…even if the people are long dead? It may be true that the intensity of this early conditioning and trauma has imprinted itself on you and your brain to such a degree that it has essentially become your identity.

It is your identity if:

- You use it as a context to explain your current behaviors, especially not performing to your abilities.
- You consistently and constantly reference it to describe your “specialness”.
- You make self-limiting choices now because of these “ancient” experiences.
- Anyone who knows you needs to understand your background to get close to you.
- You feel that you’re “entitled” to unique treatment or behavior because of having been traumatized.
- You must mention your background everywhere you go.
- You believe you have suffered unusually more than others…entitling you to “kid glove” treatment.
- You still suffer regularly and often from the experience.
- You believe others have been so much more blessed than you.
- You have multiple ways you let these past experiences rob you of a fully expressed life now.
- You are easily traumatized in present day life.

If you recognize yourself in these statements, it could be that you are robbing yourself of a great life now, by not realizing that you have let your history become your identity. This does not mean anything bad about you or who you are. It is a fairly common occurrence and may just be a natural part of the human animal. It is simply an unconscious way that humans let the past control their present and their future.

Here are some things you can do to change your past from being your identity to simply being your history:

1. Bring these behaviors to consciousness by paying attention to any way you limit yourself now because of your past.
2. If you need help, seek out an excellent therapist. Get referrals from people you trust. If the first session is not spectacular, keep “shopping” for a therapist, until you get the feeling that you have “found the one”. Don’t settle for someone average or second rate. Go to therapy as long as you need to resolve your issues. There’s a great life on the other end of this work.
3. Start to notice when you find yourself needing to tell the story again to new people, and see how it feels “not to go there”.
4. Consider modifying your behavior by not repeating the story again, but instead, identifying yourself in a new way.
5. Having this type of history does not mean anything bad about you. It just means that you had the misfortune of never having known a normal loving family. It is better to have compassion for the child that you were.
6. Make a point of choosing people, places and things that validate you and support you and help you grow in the ways you want to grow.
7. Realize that you have a responsibility to yourself to create the type of “intentional family” that you wish you had had as a child. Go to those types of places where caring, loving people are. Keep showing up and make a point of “putting yourself out there” to connect with others.
8. Realize that many people who have had painful childhoods punish themselves with various forms of substance abuse. If this describes you, get help. There are no solutions (and certainly no happy lives) in the bottom of a bottle.
9. Know that it is possible to completely heal from a horrible childhood. It is not easy. It takes a lot of work, but the happiness and joy are worth it. Don’t let “them” steal a wonderful life from you.

Just because you have allowed your history to become your identity does not mean that your whole life has to be like this. It is possible to deactivate these traumatic events, release this old identity, and have it just be simply your history. Take back control of your present and your future.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

Article Source: My History Is No Longer My Identity: A Solution to a Painful Childhood

Is There Something Great Youre Here to Do? Use Strategies to Create It!

Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 2:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Do you have a strong feeling that you have a life purpose to fulfill? Do you have an inner urge to accomplish something specific with your life? Do you have these feelings, but have no idea what specific thing that might be? Does it seem that you are here to do something great? Do you wonder how to accomplish it? Do you believe you know what to do, but not how to do it? Does it seem you are lacking know how, knowledge, connections, guts, support, self confidence, or financial wherewithal?

Consider approaching life purpose strategically, that is, laid out as a complete plan consisting of many and varied small action steps accomplished over time.

For our purposes here, we will assume that you know what your life purpose is, but don’t know how to accomplish it. Figuring out life purpose is more complex than could be covered here. So, you know what you are here to accomplish, but cannot figure out how to go forward, taking action consistently.

The first thing to do is to do a “brain dump”, that is to get down on paper every single idea you’ve ever had about how to accomplish this purpose.

At the top of the first page of paper, write “Strategy:”. After the colon, write your life purpose goal. Underneath, draw three columns. Use several sheets of paper, drawing three columns on each sheet. At the top of each column, write “Tactic:”. After each tactic heading, come up with a tactic for that column.

Let’s say your strategy is to become a musician whose work provokes humans to treat fellow humans lovingly and compassionately. Let’s say you are already a trained musician. Some of your tactics might be:

- Create a band or performing group
- Learn music business
- Create electronic press kit
- Create a repertoire of songs
- Write songs
- Get a booking agent
- Plan a tour
- Develop professional relationships
- Get recording contract

Now, under each tactic, begin to list as many small action steps as you can think of. If you realize there is knowledge you need to acquire, make a tactic column titled “Acquire Knowledge”.

For an example of the tactic “Create a Band Or Performing Group”, you might have the following action steps:

- Decide on size of group
- Decide on instruments
- Figure out participants (already known and needed)
- Decide type of music.
- Create Ground rules
- Hold auditions
- Find practice studio
- Decide practice schedule

Create more tactics as you realize the need. Consolidate or expand as needed. Your strategy is a living document that expands as your vision expands. Print your completed strategy off and file it in a binder. Set aside regular times to work on reviewing and revising your strategy. This could be once a week, or twice a month.

When you review your strategy, cross out all the items you have completed. You will find that simply by having a written strategy, you are taking action on it without even thinking of it. As you see what you have completed, you will get new ideas. Add them to the strategy. Date the old version.

Then create a new version, typing it up and adding new items. As you accomplish action items in your strategy, you will meet new people, gain new knowledge, get new ideas, develop new contacts. Add all this into your strategy.

Developing a strategy is the way to bring your Life Purpose into reality the easiest and fastest. It can be done…and it can be easy.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

Article Source: Is There Something Great You’re Here to Do? Use Strategies to Create It!

A Life of “Drahma”: No Drama Queens Need Apply! A Nine Step Solution

Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 2:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Do you have a life full of drama and upset? Do you experience a constant stream of upsetting issues…lost jobs, frequent housing moves, conflict-ridden relationships, tumultuous romances? Do you have financial problems and massive credit card debt? Are you worried about losing your home, going bankrupt, or ruining your credit? Does it feel like you will never know peace or love?

How can you leave the life of “drahma” behind and create a life of peace and joy?

1. Decide that making this change will be the most important activity in your life.
2. Decide that you will maintain awareness and consciousness as you assess upcoming decisions to deliberately choose non-dramatic choices.
3. Realize that you have made a lot of self negating choices in the past to create the situation. It will take time and a lot of self validating choices to reverse it.
4. Take a good look at how you have been producing these results. Have you created desperate circumstances, so your choices have been desperate ones? Have you acted abruptly and unwisely in anger, frequently producing even worse circumstances for yourself? Have you created fantasies that you used to drive your choices, only to crash and burn into reality (dead end jobs, relationships and housing)? Have you failed to comprehend how your behavior would impact others…producing detrimental results.
5. If you have a substance abuse problem, realize that this is playing a much larger role in your problems than you realize or acknowledge. Take action on healing this issue in your life.
6. Make a list of all the issues to be handled…those with the greatest potential consequences at the top. Handle one at a time with extreme focus. Don’t be overwhelmed by the size of the list or the dire nature of the issues. Sometimes in life, we are confronted by circumstances where the only mode that works is “one foot in front of the other”. It is not fun. It is not joyous. Probably it feely awful, but it keeps us going and we will “pop through” sooner or later…to great relief.
7. Develop constancy. Examine decisions judiciously before making them. Consider all aspects. Be realistic. Don’t be slowed down by the process, but give up “snap” judgments (preceded by lack of consideration for ramifications). Once all angles have been considered and the decision made, follow through to conclusion. If you’ve decided to clean up your credit, don’t stop until you’ve handled every single debt. If you’re looking for satisfying work, don’t relent until you have gotten clarity on and produced the work for yourself.
8. Become unstoppable. Don’t give up at the first “bump in the road”.
9. Decide to eliminate people, places and things that contribute to an out of control life. you have a pattern of associating with people who mistreat you, discontinue the pattern. If you know something is a mistake and leads to misery, do it differently.

Your life does not have to be one of relentless drama, misery, dissatisfaction, upheaval, tumult and dread. You can change it!

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

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What Is A Strategy?

Monday 6 October 2008 @ 5:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Sometimes, when clients hear, “What is your strategy?”, there is a deafening silence on the other end of the line. Not only do they have no strategy, they have no concept of the meaning of the word. So what is a strategy and how do you develop one?

The American Heritage College Dictionary’s first definition of strategy is, “The Science and Art of using a nation’s forces to execute approved plans as effectively as possible.” Leaving aside the military aspect of this definition, substitute a few words, and for our purposes, you get, “The Science and Art of using a client’s resources and skills to execute detailed plans as effectively as possible.”

Science and Art means that the effort is done in a meticulous way, according to laws of nature, but adjusted and finessed in the moment, as needed when circumstances require it.

In practice, what are the most meaningful ideas that need to be understood about strategies?

1. The primary purpose of behaving strategically is to be as effective as possible, i.e., have the best results, and to have the intended results.
2. Strategic actions are part of a well thought out, detailed plan, a plan that has the most likely probability of success, a plan so well prepared that chance is no longer in play.
3. A client will execute their plan in a logical and realistic progression. Effective strategies are laid out on time lines, so that the client is taking the right action at the right time. With a timeline, the client can release fretting and worrying about any action but the current one.
4. Using a client’s resources and skills means that the client looks at their current resources and considers how they can be used to produce the greatest results. Has the client considered all their resources, including those that have just been sitting on a shelf? Assessing skills is equally as important. Which skills bring the greatest satisfaction? Is there a new combination of existing skills that could produce greater financial return in the market place?
5. Plans are detailed. Initially, the client spends some time brainstorming every possible idea they could conceivably put into action as part of their strategy. Later as part of the process, the client chooses some actions and deletes others. These choices are made, based on things such as clients’ likes and dislikes, likelihood of success, projected results, conditions in the marketplace, time available, and family considerations.
6. Strategies, in the end, are about being executed as effectively as possible. This means that they bring the intended results, and are almost guaranteed to do so. This means that, if executed as planned, there is a high likelihood of success as projected. It also means that skills and resources have been used as efficiently as possible.
7. Lastly, strategies are flexible. Clients should review their strategies regularly (weekly is recommended), and as needed, adjust when the need becomes obvious. If you are reviewing your strategies and evolving them as you go, you can expect even greater results.

Now that you have a better understanding of the meaning of strategy, think about using strategies and strategic planning in your life.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

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Sit On Your Hands!

Monday 6 October 2008 @ 3:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Have you ever found yourself in a meeting volunteering to do one more thing when you already have too much to do? It’s an interesting thing to observe your hand going up, even though you feel a lot of internal conflict. What could possibly be the cause of this?

There are a number of possible causes. Perhaps you are motivated by empathy for the issues you would be handling. Perhaps you want to feel like you are doing your share. Maybe you feel distress and fear that no one will step up and handle the assignment. You might think that you have expertise that others don’t, and no one else could do as great a job as you. It’s also possible you could have a true desire to take care of the task. Perhaps you simply want to please others.

The first recommendation is to sit on your hands so that you won’t compulsively volunteer. While sitting on your hands, do what you can to breathe deeply. Tell yourself, “If no one else volunteers, I can always do so after the meeting or next week.” Ask yourself the following questions.

- Is it realistic, with my current schedule to add another time commitment?

- If not, is there another time commitment I could easily give up to make time to take this on?

- If I take this on, will I regret it later, deeply regret it?

- Have I already contributed extensively to this organization or to the community?

- What will happen to my social life or family life if I do volunteer?

- What will this cost me in terms of my own rest and rejuvenation?

- Do I genuinely want to do this?

Now, after asking yourself all these questions, there’s a good chance that someone else may have volunteered.

Ask yourself these questions and truly assess both the impact of the volunteering on your life, and the genuineness of your desire. Once that is clear, if you decide that you really do want to volunteer, go ahead. Taking that little bit of extra time to think it through will keep you in charge of your life and your schedule. Get out of the habit of volunteering automatically without thinking it through.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

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Shoot Yourself In Both Feet!

Monday 6 October 2008 @ 3:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
What on earth does this title mean? It’s something my clients often hear from me when they are rampaging against themselves with negative self talk. The entire expression is, “Negative self talk is like shooting yourself in both feet and wondering why the marathon is so hard.”

Working on accomplishing your goals while constantly berating yourself over real or imagined failings is exactly like shooting yourself in both feet in preparation for a marathon. Of course, no sane person would ever do such a thing, yet many people consistently do the equivalent to their confidence and self esteem with negative inner commentary.

If you were preparing for a marathon, excellent foot care would be an obvious #1 priority. Since achieving your goals is a long distance event, consider how important it is to fill your mind with self supporting, self validating, and self loving thoughts.

How can you create a trigger to short circuit negative self talk? Consider using this vivid and outrageous word picture to help you immediately stop this self abuse. The illogic of the image of shooting yourself in both feet is so obvious that it can be a powerful tool to recall when you’re down on yourself. Make the image so real that you can imagine yourself limping, then ask yourself, “Does this make any sense?”

Hopefully, you will laugh out loud over how ridiculous it would be to shoot yourself in both feet before or during running. Lock this image into your brain forever. It can really serve you.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

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Do It First!

Monday 6 October 2008 @ 3:10 pm

by Suzi Elton
Do you find yourself putting off to the end of the day, the thing that is most important for you to accomplish on that day? Do you have a subtle feeling of dread through the day a dragging feeling, and resist taking action? Do you focus on piles of minutia cluttering your office area instead of doing that main thing? Do you handle multiple unimportant items on your To Do list, avoiding the priority item? Do you find that your #1 item slides to the end of the day with no action and it happens day after day, until the dread becomes overwhelming?

Consider experimenting with a new success technique that brings phenomenal results. What is it? Do it first! Whatever your #1 priority action is on any given day, simply do it first.

When I changed this habit and made myself do the most important thing first every day, doing so released an atomic bomb’s worth of energy. In the wake of that success, 10 more things got accomplished immediately and effortlessly. The emphasis is on effortlessly. It felt like these extra things just got themselves done, without any effort.

Consider experimenting with this. Sure enough, every day that you do the #1 thing first, you will find that that day is exceptionally productive. I’ve introduced this technique to many clients. Every single one of them who has seriously implemented it is getting the same results. They report a feeling of elation, and pride and satisfaction with themselves.

How does this work? One of the main things that causes these results is clarity of focus on the #1 priority. Many of us go about our day as if everything on the gigantic To Do list is of equal importance. With this context, we can easily spend our day handling second or third tier activities as a method of avoiding the most important items. We let our attention get distracted by a massive number of time consuming trivial activities on our list.

The second way that this works is that the feeling of success early in the day sets a tone of success for the day. You, in effect, could quit at any point in the day knowing you’ve already been successful at your #1 priority. Rather than quitting though, this early success seems to work something like a slingshot, giving extra propulsion through the day. Try it. You’ll like it.

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com.

Article Source: Do It First!

Divided by Belief

Sunday 5 October 2008 @ 4:10 pm

by Stacey T Pollock
Belief is based on individual choice, and it can be reasoned that in life we can decide on how we wish to see our value and purpose. These values are based on choices and come from the mind, a place that has freedom to see without physical constraints. Everyone can decide their own philosophy for life and say what is to be seen as right or wrong, this shows that in the end we all have individuality and choice in our foundation for viewing life.

When looking at how beliefs work in life it is evident that they are the key factor that divides us on all levels. They place people into categories through the strength gathered by favored belief groups that have been given enough funding and control in order to make decisions based around our physical living environment. Strength in numbers is a definite way in order to push people in certain directions of seeing in order to assimilate people into set philosophies and goals. Goals are seen as the purpose for life and they fit right into the structure of belief walking hand in hand on the way to destruction of many who do not have the same point of perception.

It is evident by the illogical way that beliefs divide us that they should not be the foundation for our choices in the physical. They are not the true basis for our survival in our physical bodies, and only show how we are not really connecting to the foundations of life and what it is to be alive.

If we were to acknowledge the foundations that we have in the physical world, it would be obvious to see that there are more fundamental constructs that we need to consider first before we decide on future through our philosophies and beliefs. These surround our survival in the physical world and link to our physical form. We cannot have philosophies and beliefs if we do not have a physical body to exist from, this is a fact and relates to not just singular people but for everyone as a whole.

We need general things in order to live in our world, the main survival needs being the eating of food, the drinking of water and a place to protect ourselves from the elements within sustainable living environments. These factors cannot be based on belief or values when it comes to the physical world. They are needs and have to be considered if we want to continue human survival.

It is clear at many levels through viewing life that this number one issue is not being considered on a global level. Starvation and thirst is the number one killer around the world and goes to show the extent to which we live life on philosophies and beliefs instead of the true value of life surrounding the core reason for being alive as a human. Before people even get a chance to enjoy life and experience what it has to offer, they must first consider their physical needs above their passions and desires.

Passion, desire, belief and philosophy are not the defining factors that connect humans together in this structural world. Physical connection is the first experienced at all levels and can be seen when it comes to the contact a baby has with their parent in the beginning of their life. They have not yet learnt to talk and have not been given rules on how to view life. Their interaction is purely physically based at all levels. They eat, they drink and they need to keep warm and protected in order to survive.

The moment we place philosophy above basic principles for physical life, we have forgotten the true essence behind creation at the core. This surrounds the identifiable reason for life and that is to exist. If we no longer exist, then we no longer can reason our life, we can no longer believe, create philosophy and enjoy physicality at all levels. It is a basic truth and stares us in the face, and if we avoid seeing the core principles of life then we walk the road to our own fate of destruction from our own blindness.

By Stacey T Pollock

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