The Challenge: Thinking Your Way to Self-Realization
Self-help, Non-fiction, spiritually
Date Published: February 3, 2020
Publisher: Niv Books
What is your preference in life?
To benefit yourselves and others or to live in a reality filled with fear, anger, stagnation, discrimination and negative feelings?
This book offers you a chance to soar, presenting 200 practical suggestions and guidance to a life of self-fulfillment. It may enable you to conduct yourselves in the face of the challenges life presents in the modern world in matters of parenthood, education, gender and more.
Expert:
1. From this day on we will live our lives in gratitude.
Every day we will be thankful for all the “assets” in our lives: Our loving
family, dear friends, our health, livelihood, skills we are blessed with,
hobbies, as well as the spiritual, educational and economic resources we
possess.
2. The way we interpret
our life reality and the meanings and context we give to the events we
experience – all determine our emotions and thoughts, and as a result – the
quality of our lives. Starting today, we will adopt a positive outlook as a
resolution. Positive thinking about life, about its challenges, difficulties
and our ability to deal with them – will promote us and help us be happier,
more active and contribute to ourselves, to the community and to our family.
3. From now on, we will
live with a sense of fullness. We will enhance "what is" and belittle
"what isn't". If you belittle the difficulties – they will become
smaller. Don't waste your life on "what there isn't" in it; focus on
the "what there is", as there's plenty of it.
4. Try to stay connected
to your "lighthouse" (Your own plans and aspirations). In every stage
of our life we will make sure we have a "living horizon" of goals,
desires and plans yet to be fulfilled. This horizon will urge us towards progression,
renewal and creation, and will award us with vitality and joy of life.
5. The price for
silencing our inner voice is immensely greater than any social or economic gain
we might receive by silencing it. The toll might be harming your physical and mental
health to a point of annihilation. Make your authentic inner voice be heard.
Your voice is the expression of your presence in this world.
6. We'd better not take
ourselves too seriously. We should know how to laugh at ourselves and at our
weaknesses, and…also forgive ourselves.
7.
As of today, we will connect with kind and sympathetic people.
We will surround ourselves with people who are good for us, who praise our
successes and share our joy. We will stay away from narrow minded people who
drain us from our positive energy -whether consciously or not- making us weak.
Good and positive people will draw positive energy into your lives.
8. The power of words:
Start seeing words as a means to empower ourselves and others. An energetic
force lies within words. Words create reality. Use positive words, also in
relation to our ability to handle the challenges in our lives. Replace
negative, futile words with positive ones. Positive words will "draw"
a positive energy into our lives.
9. Nature is a wonderful place to recharge ourselves
energetically. Identify the things that bring you joy and uplift your spirits,
and do them often.
10. We, and only us, turn the wheels of our lives. We
will let no one "manage" us in life, physically or emotionally (with
manipulations, guilt feelings, sense of victimhood or other despicable ways).
Always stand on guard, so you will not become anyone's marionette.
11.
Let’s live each day with the sense that the entire world's and
universe's options are open to us, no matter how old we are. Choose a life of
inner strength, and know you have the power to achieve your goals.
12. Let’s set boundaries for ourselves and for others.
These boundaries will be set according to our value system, our physical and
emotional strengths and according to our needs and sensitivities. These
boundaries will enable us to maintain our physical and mental health as well as
our strength. They will bring us emotional wellbeing, full control on our life
and its quality; and increase our chances for a long and prosperous life.
13.
In every situation (except, God forbid, in case of a terminal disease, and even
then, one has the option to make a choice on certain issues), a person has the
ability to choose to propel their life forward. There is always a way to deal
with the challenges standing before us, a way we haven't tried yet.
About the Author
Dr. Orna Markus Ben-Zvi, who holds a PhD in Gender Studies and Jewish History, has been acting to make a difference in people’s life through workshops and lectures to senior citizens, and workshops for the empowerment of teenage girls for the past 20 years. The above issues were also incorporated in workshops dealing with education and gender, given to education faculties throughout the country. Dr. Ben-Zvi worked as a teacher, homeroom teacher and coordinator in the Israeli education system for many years. She also served as a regional and national counsellor for gender equality matters in the Ministry of Education for six years.
Dr. Ben-Zvi is married, mother of three and grandmother of seven grandchildren (may there be more). As a hobby, Orna swims every day. She has always been and will always be an optimistic person.
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