Be Real With Yourself
Learn the principles of how to get your GodJuice flowing, so you can be happier and healthier in mind, body and spirit.
The Talk to God and Fix Your Health program can be broken down into five primary founding principles, as follows:
The First Principle: Recharge Your GodJuice Every Day
The single best way to keep your GodJuice healthy is to talk to God every single day. I’ll tell you more about this a little later, but don’t let the simplicity of this idea blind you to its power: It can literally transform your life and your health, overnight, when you know how to apply it properly.
The Second Principle: Work on Your Negative Emotions
This may come as a surprise to some people, but your negative emotions don’t just disappear by themselves the older you get. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Generally, once you’ve taken care of your weak or chronically-depleted GodJuice, the next thing that’s usually making you sick, sad and depressed are your negative emotions. Any effort you make to work on your negative emotions and clean them out of your system will pay out massive, lasting dividends for maintaining your mental and physical health.
Throughout this series, I’ll share some effective, easy tools and exercises that can help you to clean up your emotional act, fast.
The Third Principle: Take Stock of Where You’re Really Holding
When you don’t act properly – when you steal, lie, cheat or hurt someone else with your cruel or selfish behavior – your GodJuice gets completely whacked out, and your negative emotions go berserk.
That’s the bad news.
The first of many pieces of good news that you’ll find in this series is that it’s surprisingly easy to fix all this stuff, get your GodJuice back up to speed, and get your negative emotions back under control. Here’s how:
- 1. Own up to doing whatever bad thing you did, and admit that it was wrong;
- 2. Apologize in whatever way you need to and make amends if needed;
- 3. Ask God to help you fix yourself, so you don’t do it again.
That’s it! It really is that simple. Now your GodJuice is flowing again, and you’ll have the inner strength and fortitude you need to get back on top of your negative emotions, and to stop them from ruining your life, mood and health.
The second piece of good news is that you don’t have to fix everything at once. If you make a concerted effort to catch even one thing, every single day, that’s already enough to boost your GodJuice, and get all the other bad stuff cleaned out of your system, over time. God wants you to want, to try, and start the process off – and then He’ll do the rest.
We’ll come back to the idea of what “being good” really means a little later in the series. For now, it’s enough to know that you shouldn’t act nice or be good because it’s the right thing to do; you should be good because it’s going to make you happy and healthy.
Generous, kind, and thoughtful people tend to have much more GodJuice coursing through their body and tend to be much healthier than people who are full of fear, anger, worry, jealousy and other negative emotions.
Remember that when you do things wrong, and you don’t make an effort to clean them up and say sorry for them (both to God, and to the people you may have hurt or upset) – this seriously depletes your GodJuice, and can kill your spiritual energy.
Dodgy business deals, rage fits you had at your kids, flipping the bird at the guy who stole your parking spot – all these things severely affect your GodJuice, and can also have a huge impact on your energy and your health.
Trouble is, most of us do a lot of these sorts of things on autopilot without even thinking about it. Even if you do happen to think about it, it’s easy enough to find justifications and excuses for why it was really okay. That’s why it’s crucially important to spend time every day trying to go through this stuff as dispassionately and objectively as you can – preferably at least 30 minutes every day.
As you’ll learn, trying to shove all these things under the carpet because you don’t really have the time, energy or inclination to deal with them, only backfires in the long run. If you don’t address this stuff while it’s still at the level of being a spiritual, energetic or emotional problem, sooner or later it will show up as a physical health issue that you just can’t ignore anymore.
Your body and soul are intricately and inseparably connected; if there’s a problem in one, it will be reflected in the other, and vice versa. The more ‘junk’ emotions and attitudes there are hiding away in your soul, for example, the more you’ll be attracted to ‘junk’ in the physical, material world; like junk food, alcohol, cigarettes, and seriously unhealthy internet sites.
GodJuice helps you to stay fit and well, because it keeps your soul healthy, which in turn is reflected in a fit, strong, healthy body.
Next week, I’ll explain principles four and five.
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