Acne can be a terribly frustrating problem. Fortunately, there are many natural and holistic ways to control it.
In this video I share with you things I did to help treat my aggressive acne naturally.
Natural soap, bentonite clay, tea tree oil, sleeping on my back, and meditation have all helped me greatly decrease the severity of my acne.
What has helped you??
Pshh, New Years resolutions are so 2102 😛 let’s start making DAILY RESOLUTIONS!
Daily affirmations and positivity practice have changed my life; Enhanced my contentment, motivation, passion, compassion, spirituality, drive, confidence, my overall sense of well-being.
EVERYDAY make a resolution, that TODAY will be AWESOME. That YOU are a KICK ASS PERSON! An alive, breathing, incredible HUMAN BEING! YOU are the author to your own novel; your precious life.
Simple practices such as daily affirmations and positivity may seem silly… they can seem…well, too simple! But man have I learned in life that often simple things are the most POWERFUL! Reminding yourself what you are deeply grateful for, cultivating positivity, visualizing your goals, your true self, your desires and your aspirations through verbal and visual affirmations is a way to communicate with your subconscious mind.
Allowing the subconscious to know what we want to become and what we are grateful for, will facilitate a transformational shift and a manifestation of our deepest desires.
I have been striving to practice positive thinking and affirmations and they undoubtedly work for me…of course sometimes I still get in slumps and fall out of a positive, encouraging mindset. I have recently been in one… feelings of sadness, a loss of direction and motivation had been encumbering me… But I spent time searching, meditating on WHY I was feeling this way and how I should deal with these negative emotions. Instead of simply ignoring the feelings and letting them sit below the surface of my consciousness, where they will still affect me. I then switched my focus back on the positives, on what I’m grateful for, on what I want, on the PRESENT MOMENT and on daily affirmations, and now I’m getting back on track 🙂
Imagine your thoughts as another person, hanging out with you all the time.
If you had someone everyday whispering in your ear… “You’re not good enough, you are ugly, you will never find you niche.” It would surely limit your potential for growth; make you believe these statements to be true when in reality they are far from that!
I’d much rather have a person hanging around giving me encouragement. “YOUR’E A GREAT PERSON! UNIQUE! SMART! ATTRACTIVE, INSIDE AND OUT!” Not in an egotistical way, but an encouraging way.
The encouraging friend would serve as a catalyst for the improvement of our life. They would help us to align with our inner truth, our inner values, our deepest desires and to learn to love ourselves for who we are. Furthermore, when we learn to love and accept ourselves we can more intimately love and accept others.
Let us use daily affirmations. When we wake up, throughout the day, before sleep. Post them on our mirrors. Look deep into our eyes in a mirror and repeat affirmations in a passionate and meaningful manner! PUMP OURSELVES UP!!
Your affirmations may sounds something like these..
“I AM BECOMING BETTER EVERYDAY!”
“I AM MOTIVATED, CREATIVE, PASSIONATE AND HEALTHY!”
“I LOVE AND RESPECT MYSELF!”
“I AM CREATING THE LIFE I LOVE!”
“I AM ALIGNED WITH MY GENUINE VALUES!”
“I AM GRATEFUL!”
(remember to focus what we want, not what we don’t want; for example. “I AM CONFIDENT!” rather than, “I DON’T WANT TO BE SHY!” Our subconscious will still recognize the word “shy.” If we want to become more confident we must make ourselves believe we ARE confident; shyness can’t even be in the picture. Then, we can TRULY become more confident.
An exercise to further enhance positivity is simply taking a couple minutes each day to deeply meditate on what you are grateful for.
Incorporating affirmations and positivity practice will allow us to become the better version of ourselves; Enhancing contentment, motivation, passion, compassion, drive, confidence and overall sense of well-being!
It’s time to get back on track, feel free to join me 🙂
With Love,
Dave
The world as we “know” it is only a description of the world. Therefore, when it comes to beliefs, arguments etc. it’s essential to know that no one is right or wrong, and that we are all viewing and perceiving this world differently!
Having a dogmatic, fixed belief or explanation of the world will limit our ability to greater understand this beautifully mysterious Universe. Being open to others perceptions will bring a new light to our view of the world and allow us to learn things we never knew we could learn or thought we even wanted to learn!
Implementing this concept into our lives will allows us to facilitate the cultivation of LOVE and to create harmony amongst ourselves, others and the world around us.
– I do not own the pictures or music in this video –
With Love,
Dave
Smiling is not only good for you, it is also contagious, inspirational, and motivating!
Smile, wave, say hello to strangers! We are all in this together! The more we connect with each other the more efficiently we can benefit the Earth and others!
What do you think about smiling at strangers? Share your opinion!
With Love,
Dave
Chronic procrastination is detrimental to our lives but is a tough habit to beat.
Breaking a bad habit takes will power, motivation, and determination.
ANY positive change is in our hands if we are up for the challenge.
With a strong desire to beat chronic procrastination and with some ideas in mind we can change this bad habit and allow ourselves to be more productive, achieve more success, experience less stress and have better quality work.
– Disperse your Work
– Set Schedules and Deadlines
– Avoid Distractions
– Good Environment
– Positive Mindset
– Physical Activity, Meditation, and Good Diet.
Please share things that have worked for you!
With Love,
Dave
The more we understand Nature the more we will understand ourselves.
A lack of connection with Nature, and higher concern for material possessions than ourselves and this Earth, is the root of many personal problems and problems in the world.
If we are feeling confused about life, the meaning of life, or feeling that life is a curse, a great remedy and explanation is to seek the wisdom of Nature; to understand that we are apart of the astonishing world around us, and are infinitely connected to it.
Appreciate that intricacies of Nature, and reflect and meditate on the fact that we are just as extraordinary and intricate as the Nature around us.
Endeavor to learn from Nature; for it has many lessons, explanations and wisdom to provide us with.
With Love,
Dave
Pure contentment is only found within ourselves.
We must learn more about ourselves and the world around us to achieve this contentment.
Once established, this pure happiness will allow us to take our relationships with people and things to a level never before possible. These people and things will began to feed our happiness not control it.
With Love,
Dave
I talk about four fundamental practices that I put more emphasis on in my life that allowed me to be more positive, motivated, fulfilled and energized. I personally experienced a life without these practices and the positive changes and results that came along with adding them into my life. I urge you to consistently incorporate these four practices into your life – if you are not already doing so – to benefit yourself holistically.
1) Eating and Drinking Good: Taking responsibility for learning about what you should and shouldn’t be putting into your body, and benefiting from a healthy diet holistically.
2) Exercise: Regular adequate movement will improve health, energy, focus, vitality, self-esteem, and positivity.
3) Positive Thinking: Surrounding yourself with positive people, being in positive environments and thinking positively will manifest positive things into your life.
4) Spiritual Practice: Spiritual, Awareness or Energy practice will allow you to better handle stress thus leading to better health, improve clarity, enhance your overall well-being, and improve your connection with Nature.
These are not the only four things you should be practicing, focusing on or changing. The power of them tends to be underestimated, and I personally feel they are the most fundamental aspects to get you on the path to the life you have always wanted to live, if incorporated into your life on a daily basis.
With Love,
-Dave
Sources of Facts
-There is a 40% chance the next water you drink has gone through someones sewer or an industrial pipeline filled with wastes poison and bacteria. (“Healing with Whole Foods” (Book) Paul Pitchford. Page 123)
-70,000 chemicals are now in commercial production of food and water, and the EPA has listed 60,000 of them as either potentially or definitely hazardous to human health. (“Healing with Whole Foods” (Book) Paul Pitchford. Page 125)
-East Asian healing arts tell us that exercise is necessary to receive good nutrition from from our food. (“Healing with Whole Foods” (Book) Paul Pitchford. Page 25)
-Adequate movement balances the liver/gall bladder complex which is the center for making biochemicals that influence our moods and emotions. (“Healing with Whole Foods” (Book) Paul Pitchford. Page 25-26)
(the word “Cosmos” means the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.)
I was forced into religion in my childhood. It created the most utter confusion in me that there was only one, specific, cut and dry way that could explain everything while I was aware of other religions, explanations and possibilities. I was feared into believing in and following Catholicism through being told it was the TRUTH, the idea of Heaven and Hell, and being a young impressionable boy. I was terrified to even think about not praying before I went to bed, for I thought this would result in my eternal suffering or my un-acceptance to everlasting life in Heaven. I couldn’t help feeling that entire dedication to this whole idea, lifestyle, and explanation for humanity was not only ill-fitting for me, but somewhat limiting to the growth and development of myself and my attitude towards my life on earth.
I have spent a lot of time learning, reading and researching about different religions in the world, and I have the utmost respect for all of them.
Individuals’ unhealthy relationships with their religion shows that religion isn’t always the root of the problem, its peoples’ attitudes towards their religion. Instead of applying the religious teachings to their personal lives, some chose to use their religion to reinforce their self-centered attitudes. Some begin to relate to their religion as something they own or as a label that separates them from others; making them feel superior to others. Sometimes this is done by an individual without even realizing that they are doing it.
A dogma is an established belief or doctrine held by a religious group or organization that is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from by the practitioners or believers. Following a dogma is implying that your way or dogma is correct and is the only right way. This is not only disrespectful and limiting to your ability to constantly learn, expand and grow holistically, but also disrespectful to another persons beliefs and values.
These dogmas limit the size of our consciousness. Following theses dogmas may begin to cause internal turmoil. You may begin to question your belief or dogma because your intuition and inner self is telling you to. Eventually this dogma will become programmed into your mind and you will no longer be able to think out side of your dogmatic box and you will no longer be able accept new stimuli from the Universe and expand and grow your consciousness. You will then be stuck with a consciousness the size of a golf ball, when you could have limitless consciousness without these bureaucratic, dogmatic, disempowering beliefs. Im not saying that you shouldn’t have faith in your belief, just be aware that convincing your self that your belief is THE ONLY WAY, (especially if you don’t fully agree with everything it entails) is detrimental to your relationship with God, the Universe, the Cosmos etc, and your relationships with your fellow people.
This leads me to another thinking mechanism that can keep us confined, can cause endless arguments, and is the reasoning behind debates of any sort and religious disputes. This thinking mechanism is called Aristotelean logic. Aristotelean logic is basically the process of thinking that something is A or not A, or if it is not A than it must be B.
For example:
Nature vs Nurture.
You’re either this religion or your wrong and condemned.
People are merely dead matter, die and that’s it or people are spiritual entities that continue to thrive eternally.
This way of life IS the BEST and this one IS the WORST.
These are just some examples to allow you to understand this thought mechanism. It implies that something is either all of this over here or all of that over there; Aristotelean Logic is very limiting, rigid and confining.
The words of different religions contradict each other, it seems no one religion is right and no one religion is wrong.
God, Allah, Buddha, Jesus, The Cosmos, A Monotheistic God, Polytheistic Gods etc: I now don’t deny any of these because to me they are all the objective manifestations of the convoluted ways the universe works. It seems explanations for humanity are not capable and are not meant to be completely understood by us; how boring would that be if there was not a little mystery! The world gives us plenty of clues about how significant, astonishing, marvelous, magnificent, and special this place is. No one religion or belief system can entirely capture the marvel of Life and explain everything with words and rituals; Religions can though, serve as a ladder into the world of higher consciousness IF they are approached and handled correctly.
Your religion or belief is something that should not be exploited by you. It is something personal and deep, something that another may never understand. It isn’t about what you label yourself as, it’s about your connection, your appreciation, and your attitude towards the Cosmos, the Universe, Nature, God, etc. Claiming that your religion IS the only right way is disrespectful to your fellow humans that believe their religion SEEMS to be the right way. I’m not saying you should not believe or follow a religion; just don’t go around claiming yours to be “The Truth” or “The Only Way.” This encourages people to feel superior to others because they are “saved” while the non-belivers are wrong and condemned. I understand that some religions require you to think that that religion is “The Only Way” and you can’t believe anything else for that’s a sin. This is when you have to be literate and aware of religion, its origin, your personal values, and the people preaching these bureaucratic rules to you.
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