1. DON'T GET IN THE HABIT OF TAKING A PILL FOR EVERYTHING
Some people take a pill to fall asleep, stay awake, lose weight, have sex, not get pregnant, use the bathroom, and
believe it or not there are now infomercials on television late at night selling "memory pills" that claim that they can help
you remember names and phone numbers! Don't fall into this trap by taking a pill every time you have a minor ache or
pain.
A lot of old people are spending more money on their medications each month then they spend on their monthly house,
car, and utility bills combined, and one way to avoid having this happen to you is to take on the attitude that you won't
take drugs unless you truly need them.
Here's an interesting fact to think about : All of the people living in America combined only makes up 5% of the world's
population, yet 80% of all of the pharmaceutical drugs in the world are taken by people living in America. Do you really
think that all of these drugs being taken by such a small percentage of the World is necessary? And perhaps an even
more important question to ask is are these drugs working or is there actually more sickness in America than there were
before any of these drugs existed?
If you were in perfect health but you decided to start using a wheelchair because it felt more comfortable than walking, it
would only be a matter of time until you actually needed that wheelchair due to the fact that you didn't use your legs for
so long, and you need to be aware of the fact that you can develop a similar dependency on ANY drug out there from
caffeine to pain killers if you take them long enough.
The more "unnecessary" drugs that you take now the more "necessary" drugs you will be on in the future because not
only can you develop a dependency on any drug that you take, but ALL drugs can also cause a long list of side effects,
and there are a lot of people out there who are currently on 10 different medications. (1 for the original problems and 9
for all of the side effects that the drug has caused.)
Pharmaceutical drugs are so dangerous that one of the most common forms of suicide is to simply take them in high
doses, and it is estimated that at least 100,000 people in the U.S. die each year simply by taking the recommended
dose of a pharmaceutical drug. (And this isn't counting the millions of people who don't actually die, but who develop
painful or even crippling side effects from these drugs.) So please twice the next time that you feel the impulse to take a
pill to fix your problems.
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2. FIND AND FIX THE ACTUAL PROBLEM
"If you have a headache it's not because your body is deficient in Aspirin, Tylenol, Excedrin, Ibuprofen, or Advil..."
Perhaps the biggest problem with drugs is that they don't do anything to stop what actually caused the health problem to
begin with, which means that it doesn't matter whether you have a headache or cancer, if you cure it with drugs but you
don't do anything to stop what originally caused the problem to begin with, it will eventually return.
If you have a really stressful job and you are constantly getting headaches at work, taking an Aspirin will make your
head stop hurting, but you need to understand that the headaches that you are getting are warning signals that your
body is producing to let you know that the stress that is being placed on it when you are at work is more than it can
handle, and that if you don't either find a less stressful job or stop getting so stressed out about the one that you have
you are going to end up with health problems far worse than just a headache in the future. By taking an Aspirin
everyday you are ignoring the problem and allowing it to continue and build up inside of you until it eventually turns into
something life threatening like a heart attack or cancer, which is over 1,000,000 times worse than the headache that is
currently bothering you.
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3. DON'T PLAN AND PREPARE TO GET SICK IN THE FUTURE
Something that blows my mind is the fact that when people go to the store to buy something like Aspirin they will buy a
HUGE bottle with 100, 500, or even 1,000 pills in it! The way I see it is that if you are expecting to need that many
headache pills in the future you will probably get a future full of headaches.
I personally don't have any medicine in my house and I absolutely refuse to bring things like cough syrup, headache
pills, and sleeping pills into my home because I don't believe that I will even need them, and guess what, I haven't been
sick or taken any form of medicine since I took on this belief several years ago, and I honestly don't even remember
what a headache even feels like anymore.
Another thing that concerns me is that people in cold climates will often refer to the entire 5 month period from
November to March as "The Cold & Flu Season", and in October when the weather starts to get cold and the media
starts reminding everyone that "The Cold & Flu Season" is just around the corner, people will go out and stock up on
various kinds of medicines to be prepared for it, and during the 5 month period from November to March the slightest
cough or runny nose is often self diagnosed as being a cold or flu, and people will go through their entire stockpile of
over-the-counter drugs that they purchased. If you want to truly be prepared for "The Cold & Flu Season" live a healthy
lifestyle.
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4. POSITIVE THINKING
In the year 2008 "Antidepressants" officially became the most prescribed drug in the world. (Which is kind of depressing
just to think about.) Below is a list of some of the positive and negative emotions that people feel, as well as what these
emotions can do to us physically...
POSITIVE EMOTIONS NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
It wasn't that long ago that the belief that our mental thoughts had a major impact on our physical health was looked at
as nothing more than new age nonsense with no evidence to support it, but now that antidepressants are the most
commonly prescribed drug in the world, it would be hard for anyone to deny that our thoughts have a major effect on our
health.
Yes, you can worry yourself sick and you can slowly kill yourself by going through life constantly stressed out and angry
at the world around you, and if it's true that negative emotions can cause health problems, then it only makes sense that
positive emotions would do the opposite.
It's natural and ok to feel some of the negative emotions listed above at times. (If you never experienced fear you
wouldn't bother to look both ways before you crossed the street.) It's only when you chose to hold on to a negative
emotion that it can become a serious problem, (Like when a person is still carrying around a lot of anger towards
someone for something that happened over 20 years ago.) so it's best to think of the negative emotions that are listed
above as a tools that appear just long enough to let you know that something is wrong and that you need to take action.
If you feel that you have nothing to be happy about in your life, consider the fact that there are people out there who are
homeless, who are crippled, and who don't have any living family members yet they are still very happy and optimistic
people. I encourage everyone to read the book "Left To Tell" by Immaculée Ilibagiza. (If the woman in that book could
go through all of the things that she had to go through and still be happy and have an optimistic view on life, I believe
that there is hope for anyone out there no matter what they have been through.)
Everyone ultimately just wants to feel good and despite what the TV drug commercials are encouraging us to believe,
we don't need drugs to feel better, and one thing that can be very helpful if you are open to them is self-help books, and
below is a list of 10 authors that have helped millions of people (including myself) with their inspirational messages. I
recommend seeking out books, lectures, CD's, or YouTube videos from anyone of the following authors...
TOP 10 SELF-HELP AUTHORS
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5. DON'T WATCH, READ, OR LISTEN TO THE NEWS
Watching the News will make you scared, angry, or depressed, and the commercials that are shown during the News just
happen to be for drugs that will cure these negative emotions. So in other words people will watch the news, get
depressed, then see a commercial for a drug that will cure their depression, and buy the drug. Taking the drug might
make them feel better, but if they continue to watch the news on a regular basis they will need to keep taking the drug
on a regular basis as well, and they could avoid this cycle all together by not watching the News in the first place.
Some people have been watching the News for so many years that they have become almost completely desensitized to
it. This is why I strongly recommend that you don't even have websites like www.yahoo.com set as your Internet home
page because if you do, the first thing you will see every time you get on-line will be their top News headlines, and the
top headline will almost always be something like, "17 Killed In Bus Bombing In Isreal" and after a while these kinds of
headlines become so repetitive that they start to become meaningless to you and within a few seconds of being exposed
to them you have already forgotten about it and will be reading your e-mails or visiting your favorite website, and I feel
that this kind of desensitization to stories about war, crime, and natural disasters is just as unhealthy as getting stressed
out over them.
I don't think that the News is a good way to keep up with what's going on in the world because it focuses far too much on
the negative and they use fear to get people to tune in... A good example of this was when I was a kid I used to watch
the show "Wheel of Fortune" and during the commercial breaks for that show they would always show one of those quick
8 second commercials for the late night News that would air later that night and they would always use blatant scare
tactics to get people to tune in. They would have dramatic music and would show a serious looking News anchor say a
quick fear based message such as, "What you don't know about your child's car seat that could kill them...Film at
11:00."
I believe that millions of the people out there who are depressed and who believe that the world is a violent and
dangerous place feel this way only because of what they have seen, read, or heard about on the News and if they were
"unplugged" from the News so to speak and they based their view of the world strictly on what has happened to them in
their own personal life experience their view of the world would be a lot better.
The media gives people an highly unbalanced view of the world by focusing strongly on stories of war, crime, and
disasters and giving little or no attention to the good things going on in the world. The media defends themselves by
saying that people WANT to hear bad news because every time that there is a terrorist attack or a natural disaster more
people will tune in to the news and buy news papers... Even if you agree with this argument the media is still guilty of
purposely exaggerating these negative stories in order to get more people to tune in.
Right after High School I moved to a new city and started a new job and on my first day of work I was in the break room
with 3 of my co-workers and they all started talking about the guns that they owned. Because I was new to the area I
was a little concerned to hear that all of my co-workers felt the need to own a gun, and I wondered if I had just moved
into a neighborhood that was a lot worse than I had thought, so later that day I approached each one of the 3
co-workers individually and asked them why they owned a gun and all 3 of them gave me the exact same response
which was... "Don't you watch the News?"
A lot of people have told me that we need to watch the news in order to be informed about all of the bad things that are
going on in the world, but I think that instead of being INFORMED about all of the crime, wars, and violence in the world,
we need to be INSPIRED by how much of a difference each one of us can make in the world and by what kind of a world
we could have if more people were inspired to make a difference.
You can't be a Super Hero and save the world if you are too afraid to leave your house at night, like many people who
watch the news everyday are. We need inspiration right now, because it will take some very optimistic people in order to
confront the challenges that are facing us, and not people who believe that the world is falling apart and that they don't
have the power to do anything about it.
If a football, baseball, or basketball team looks up at the score board late in the game and believes that they have no
chance of winning they are going to lose, and if we are going to save the world the first thing that we need to do is to
stop filling our minds with programing that is designed to make us have a pessimistic view of the future of humanity and
the planet simply so we'll want to buy more anti-depressants and anxiety pills.
Because of the News many people feel the need to put multiple locks on their door, buy a gun, and take drugs to feel
more calm, but none of these things can ever give you true and lasting peace of mind. If want true and lasting peace of
mind you must first and foremost stop filling your mind with negativity, so stop watching the News, and enjoy a happier
life...
If you want to live in a more peaceful world simply be more peaceful, kind, and loving towards other people and you will
be helping to make the world a more peaceful place, but if you want to live in a more dangerous world then I suggest
that you buy a gun, lock yourself in your house, and live in fear the rest of your life so you will be adding to the amount
of fear, insecurity, and weapons in the world.
Finally, I want to remind everyone reading this that all of the different news stations are in heavy competition with each
other for ratings and the main way that all of the different news stations compete with each other is to try to be the first
one to break some really bad news to you...
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6. FIND YOUR LIFE PURPOSE
A big reason that people turn to drugs, (especially illegal drugs) is because of one of the following 3 things...
- They don't know what they want to do with their life.
- They get no enjoyment or satisfaction from what they do for a living.
- They have big dreams but they think that it would be impossible to achieve them.
It's easy to understand why a person in one of these situations would want to find an escape from their reality.
If you don't know what to do with your life, you need to realize that all of us are constantly being guided. (When a poet is
in the middle of writing a new poem, the poet isn't actually coming up with any of the words on their own, but rather they
simply trying to keep up with the inspirational words and ideas that are flowing to them at that moment by writing them
down.) Great ideas are constantly flowing to us, but very few of us are brave enough to actually take one of these ideas
and run with it because of all of the limiting beliefs that we have taken on about ourselves.
If you have ever worked at a job that you didn't enjoy you've probably had the experience where the whole 8 hours that
you were there you felt tired and you kept telling yourself, "As soon as I get home I'm going straight to bed." but then as
soon as work ended you suddenly felt wide awake and in no mood to go to sleep. The reason this happens is because
working at a job that you don't enjoy will literally suck the energy and life right out of you, and it doesn't matter whether
you are working at a job that requires you to lift 100 pound boulders or answer a telephone, I can guarantee you that
you are going to feel physically drained and exhausted if you aren't doing what you were meant to do and your energy
will start to come back to you once work is over and you're free to go home.
If you are too afraid to leave a job that you don't enjoy and follow your dreams I feel that the only real way for you to
overcome this fear is to become more fearful of what will happen if you decide to abandon your dream and stick with
what you are currently doing for now on.
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6 WAYS TO LIVE
WITHOUT UNNECESSARY DRUGS
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SIDE EFFECTS OF THESE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
INCLUDE...
* Release of Cortizol Into The Body
* Grey Hair, Hair Loss, & Wrinkles
* Weakened Immune System (More Sickness)
* Tension
* Raised Blood Pressure
* Fatigue
* Headaches
* Loss of Sleep
* Causes Cancer
* More Money Spent On Doctor Visits & Medication
* Stillbirths In Pregnant Women
* Premature Death / Suicide
BENEFITS OF THESE POSITIVE EMOTIONS
INCLUDE...
* Release of Endorphins Into The Body
* Anti-Ageing
* Strengthened Immune System (Less Sickness)
* Relaxed Muscles
* Lowered Blood Pressure
* Increased Energy
* Clear Thinking
* Improved Sleep
* Cures Cancer
* Saves Money On Doctor Bills/Medicine
* Healthier Babies In Pregnant Women
* Longer Life / More Fulfilled Life
* Love
* Happiness
* Joy
* Optimism
* Bliss
* Faith
* Gratitude
* Relaxation
* Excitement
* Inspiration
* Confidence
* Hate
* Sadness
* Depression
* Pessimism
* Pain
* Fear
* Jealousy
* Discomfort
* Boredom
* Irritation
* Guilt
* Eckhart Tolle
* Alan Watts
* Dan Milman
* Napoleon Hill
* Neale Donald Wasch
* Ester & Jerry Hicks
* Deepak Chopra
* Louise Hay
* Wayne Dyer
* Tony Robbins