How to age positively. How to confront changes and challenges in aging. And, most importantly, how to use Book of Revelation to cope with death and dying anxiety.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Anything Is Everything OR Nothing?
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Looking at Life Problems
Monday, October 7, 2024
Healthy Posture Healthy Vision
Sunday, October 6, 2024
The Immune System Recovery
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RECOVERY
Many of these diseases associated with autoimmunity are often chronic,
requiring lifelong care and monitoring.
Most of these diseases strike women more than they do men,
particularly women of working age and during their child-bearing years.
Risk Factors
(2) The genes you inherit may predispose your susceptibility to developing an
autoimmune disease.
(3) Viruses may also contribute to the development of an autoimmune disease.
Stephen Lau
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
The Importance of Life Experiences
The life experiences of an individual are "everything" to that individual because they inform that individual how to "think" and what to do with those experiences. Yes, your life experiences are uniquely yours because they’re the byproducts of what happens to you throughout your life journey, which is determined by two pivotal players: your choices and your
· Your choices result in your actions or inactions, which often bring about consequences as well as circumstances that may affect your life in general and in specific.
· Your circumstances are the events that happen to you and around you. There’re two types: self-inflicting internal circumstances, such as your procrastination, affecting the subsequent events and happenings in your life; uncontrollable external circumstances, such as accidents due to no fault of your own.
To illustrate, you had to complete a project and submit a report on that. You had sufficient time to do what you were supposed to do, but you chose to procrastinate until the last minute. An unforeseeable event happened and made it impossible for you to finish your work on time, thus creating a "self-inflicting" circumstance of frustration and undue stress that might affect your other choices you subsequently made.
Personal choices may not be able to alter uncontrollable external circumstances, but they may still play a primary role in one’s reactions and adaptations to those external circumstances that’re beyond one’s control. For example, in the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, the Japanese people demonstrated their remarkable resilience in their reactions and adaptations to the uncontrollable external circumstances inflicted on them by nature.
Remember: Living is all about choices and consequences from those choices, and that has much to do with causes and results—they often become the components of life experiences.
Perceptions and Five Senses
The five senses form the basics of human sensations: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. These five senses can best be epitomized in sex (the “s” stands for “senses” and the “ex” for “experiences”)—all the five sensual pleasures experienced in the very act of sex.
Here are two questions for reflection: Are sensual pleasures synonymous with your happiness in life? Does happiness come solely from sensual pleasures?
The truth is that the five senses don’t tell you everything; as a matter of fact, they often give you only the half-truths and even nothing but the truths.
The person who uses only the vision of his or her eyes is “conditioned” by what he or she sees. It’s the intuition of the spirit that really perceives reality. The wise have known for a long time that what you know through your eyes is not the same as the intuition of your spirit. If that’s the case, sadly, most people rely too much on what they see, thinking that “seeing is believing” and thus lose themselves in the realities of external things.
An Illustration
In 1997, Richard Alexander from Indiana was convicted as a serial rapist because one of the victims and her fiancé insisted that he was the perpetrator based on what the victim and her fiancé claimed that “they saw with their own eyes.” But the convicted man was later exonerated and subsequently released in 2001, based on new DNA science and other forensic evidence. Experts explained that a traumatic emotional experience, such as a rape, could “distort” the perception of an individual. That explains why the woman and her fiancé “swore” that Richard Alexander was the rapist, but, evidently, he was not.
Living by faith: Believe in God, who gives you the truths in anything and everything that happens in your life. The other so-called "truths" in the secular world from the media, from others, and even from the self are often deceptive and delusional.
Stephen Lau
Living By Faith Is Living In Miracles
Living By Faith Is Living In Miracles
Friday, October 4, 2024
Money and Faith
Money comes from doing, earning, and saving. Money wisdom comes only from God, and not from the financial wisdom of the church.
So, if the pastor of a church lives in an expensive house, drives a luxurious car, or even flies a private plane, the attendants of that church will probably be inundated with "secular truths" of money, rather than the holy truths of the Bible.
An Illustration
The "prosperity gospel" (also known as the "health and wealth gospel") rewards those with an increase in faith with their increase in health and wealth. But that's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus, who said, "You cannot serve both God and money."
The "prosperity gospel" has increased its popularity among many American Christians because it teaches that God blesses those whom God favors most with "material wealth" and "good health."
Joel Osteen, the head of the Lakewood Church in Houston, has a tv ministry that reaches more than seven-million viewers. His 2004 book Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Best Potential has sold millions of copies. Osteen's message is: "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to have the destiny He has laid out for us."
The "prosperity gospel" focuses on "storing up treasures on Earth as a primary goal of faithful living" and "God will make you rich if praying the right way."
Living by faith, you remain a true believer, and you let go of many misconceptions of money and live a life of humility.
Stephen Lau
Living By Faith Is Living In Miracles
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Careers and Depression
Healthy Posture Healthy Vision
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