Replica Life: January 2019

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement- 02/01/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I rather benefit from optimism, reap the rewards from positivity, and enjoy the love! I also rather enjoy playing with my interests, reap the rewards from sharing my success, and benefit from my positive thinking! I am moving forward with my positive attitude, optimistic mentality, and loving behavior..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2522731

Settled Mind Wisdom

Change will happen, it’s part of the natural process of life. Resistance to change also happens, but not to those who have the wisdom to understand acceptance of change is the acceptance of peace…

Wisdom doesn’t just happen to a person, it takes a settled mind to become aware of what the most beneficial way to react to life is and then take that knowledge and make it the way you live. This is wisdom, knowledge being brought into alignment with Universal Love. This just doesn’t become the way you live your life, it becomes the way you want to live your life. It doesn’t mean everything becomes as you want it, it just allows for a solid direction that puts you in harmony with life. When this occurs and life does its thing which is to constantly change, because wisdom has been established you remain anchored and you don’t get emotionally controlled by the changes that occur. Life may never be perfect, but it can never not be perfect. Whatever it is that’s occurring is perfection because it’s happening. You may not like it, but that’s your imperfection not life’s.

When you understand the wisdom of non attachment you can be with life and all its changes. If you let these changes control you, your reactions to these changes will not be conducive to your well-being and you will suffer. Acceptance of change is the acceptance of peace. Non acceptance of change is the cause of so many of our immature emotional reactions. When life is accepted as it is and you see the wisdom of this acceptance, you will react to the changes of life in alignment with Universal Love, not because you have to, but because you want to…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/31/19~

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2515859

Self Sabotaging Nonsense

If you’re going to see what’s truly beneficial in your life, your mind will have to become very still. Many of the developed tools considered to be beneficial are later found to be self sabotaging nonsense…

It’s more important to develop practical tools that have actual benefits in their results than to reach out aimlessly for things that later prove to be self sabotaging nonsense. We all have certain conditioning and theories that are held onto, but if they don’t manifest in results that are beneficial in your life, they are useless. To know what’s truly beneficial that it enhances your life is something that’s dependent on what you consider a benefit. To truly know something is beneficial it has to tried and tested and not just something that’s thought to be a benefit.

At first many people think drinking alcohol is a benefit, but then it turns not to be so. Same thing with drugs, people who abuse pain medication, gamblers, food addicts, thrill seekers and the such, but it’s not limited to these self sabotaging addictions, it also applies to less subtle ones. Chocolate cake may seem like it’s a benefit because it brings satisfying sense pleasure, but what if you’re over weight or a diabetic like a lot of people, there’s not much benefit there. Speeding may get you to your destination quicker, but it’s dangerous and not a true benefit; it’s self sabotaging. Same with texting while driving, the more settled the mind gets, what’s truly a benefit can be seen. If you remain in a state of presence where things are accepted as they are, the mind doesn’t come into play as much, but if you engage in the thought process of some past or future conditioning, the self sabotaging nonsense begins. What this will ensure is that self sabotaging nonsense will be a huge part of your life and no matter how little benefit it truly has, it will take up most of your life…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/30/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I live better with love, so I am sharing it and enjoying it! I live better with optimism, so I am exercising it and practicing with it! I live better with joy, so I am entertaining it and playing with it! I live better with gratitude, so I am giving it and accepting it! I live better when I make it about the good stuff..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2509641

Genuine Reality

Many remain stuck seeking because the lie of “I” is never exposed. Life becomes about whatever story is made up as a fabrication of reality instead of the genuine reality of what truly is…

Emptiness is a lack of inherent existence. When it comes to the mind, emptiness is its true nature because there’s nothing in the mind that is inherently there. In this emptiness arises the nature of “I” but there’s no isness to “I”. “I” exist strictly from the story that’s created, there’s no inherent existence. Your body exist with all it’s labeled components, but if each component was unlabeled, the body would still exist, just not in an “I” created state. Look deep within to see if you can truly find where this “I” is. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. It doesn’t mean if everything is reduced it disappears, it means in its reduction is the thing itself; these are opposites sides of the same coin. Everything that makes up your me, ideas, concepts, memories, feelings, emotions, judgement, likes, dislikes, opinions, experiences, and so on, is attached to as my body, my hair, my ideas and so on. If you look for “I” beyond all this meness and myness it can’t be found. This is what sitting is truly all about, stripping away the layers to this false identification. We identify with all the wrong things and ignore the genuine reality that’s just there.

To me the only reason to look within is to expose this lie of “l” there’s no other purpose. A purpose can be made up, but this is why many remain stuck seeking because the lie of “I” is never exposed. Life becomes about whatever story is made up, but the genuine reality of the moment is missed. This is what “I” is, a story nothing more. It’s seen as real, but the realness of it can never be grasped. It just creates one story after another with “I” always at the core. Truly investigate this to see if you can find “I”, remember though not the story of it, but the genuine reality of what is truly here right now…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/29/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am loving who I am, how I am, and what I am! I am enjoying who is with me, where I am going, and what I am doing! I am doing what I can with what I have regardless of where I am! I am choosing to make the best of it and I am deciding to make the most of it! I am worthy..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2503306

Spiritual Presence

Existence is naturally spiritual so understanding Presence allows you to be spiritually at home. Although the carnal mind will often wander, a Presence awareness will keep you from leaving your spiritual home...

All of life is spiritual and this is so even though you may not be aware of it. When you do become aware of this, it doesn't really mean life becomes all that much different, but what does become different is the view of life that you have; this makes all the difference in the world. If you’re under the spell of unconsciousness it's very difficult to see from the perspective of Presence; without Presence you’ll remain under the spell. This is the spell of the world (form) it's also the spell of suffering. It manifest in many ways this spell, but its base is in the form of what the world presents. I'm this, I'm that, buy this, use that, attain this, go here, go there, win this, learn that, and on and on. It's the way of the world which is form and it's the way of suffering because you're held captive under the spell of what the world makes you think is needed.

The only way to break this spell is to constantly choose Presence when you notice you're under the spell of form. Since our existence is naturally spiritual, Presence allows you to be spiritually home. Although the mind will wander from this space, with a practice to remain anchored in the Now instead of being lost grasping for something that the world of form makes you believe you need, you’ll be able to stay spiritually home more often than not. Home is where the heart is and in choosing Presence that’s where you will live your life, that is as long as Presence is chosen...

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/28/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am not bottling up my emotions and keeping them hidden! I am sharing my bliss, joy, and gratitude through every means necessary! I am allowing myself to be stress-free while allowing myself to freely be! I am allowing my emotions to flow from me however they come..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2496881

A True Measurement

A True Measurement:

Because of the way the mind becomes conditioned, its default state is mostly agitated. A true measurement of the mind is being at peace right now with the world exactly as it is without having to save it...

Do whatever it is you think you need to do to get the desired results you think are needed, but see what's guiding you. If you’re to get a true measurement as to what's really going on in your life, there will have to be a deep awareness of why you are heading in the direction you're going. There are reasons why a person constantly struggles with being at peace and as subtle as this can be, it's not something most people consciously think about. Because of the way the mind becomes conditioned, its normal state is mostly agitated. From the time a person starts their day the agitations begins. The alarm clocks rings and the snooze button is hit and although it's not thought about that you're not at peace, the bottom line is you're not.

Constantly having to do something is caused by the mind being agitated which keeps you from the awareness of the agitation. Save the world if that's the direction you think you need to go in, just understand maybe the world doesn't need you to save it. If you're not truly at peace in the moment without having to do anything, that's what really needs to be looked at. Nothing else matters regardless of what you're doing because it’s only a made up story that keeps the mind in an agitated state. Many people are so busy trying to save the world that they don't see the forest from the trees. Until the beauty of the moment is seen and you can just be with that, peace will not be had because you will be too busy trying to save a world that just may not need saving. To me a true measurement of a settled the mind is if there is peace right now with the world exactly as it is without having an agitated need to save it...

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/27/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am grateful to be here today! I am grateful to have opportunities to choose from that better my life, better my circumstances, better my future, and better me! I am grateful to have love, to have joy, to have excitement, to have entertainment, and to have adventure! I am grateful to be here today to enjoy myself..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2491779

Accepted As It Is

Regardless of what happens in life, if it’s not accepted as it is it will cause you suffering. Even if what’s occurring is initially something that causes you pain, the suffering will deepen until it’s accepted…

Everything has its place in life regardless if it’s considered right, wrong, liked or disliked, this is because what’s there is what’s there. To say it shouldn’t be there leads to suffering because the moment isn’t accepted as it is. This isn’t to say everything that happens is suppose to happen, but what does happen is what’s there and there’s no changing that. The results of what happens can be changed, but only if you’re coming from a different place than what was previously known. This may change the initial arising, but there are still the results of what’s occurring right now. So much energy is wasted on not accepting what has already occurred and why it’s wasted energy is because the unchangeable is not being accepted.

When you get to a place where a label of good, bad, or indifferent isn’t applied, in this place is your freedom. Nothing in life should be unaccepted, I know this is difficult to imagine and this isn’t to say to not take action to change things, but what has occurred has to be accepted so the action to change it comes purely from love and compassion and not from the ego. Even someone who is totally unconscious and causes much harm to others has to be accepted because it’s the conditioning in place that makes one do what they do. This especially has to be understood for yourself because to not accept what is is to suffer. Here’s an example: If you go to the doctor and get an unfavorable diagnosis, disliking it doesn’t change that fact. Accept it, learn from it and move on and just maybe your next visit will be more beneficial to you, but if it’s not that’s ok too because regardless of the diagnosis everything is impermanent and nobody gets out alive…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/26/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am deciding on the positive over the negative and the good over the bad! I am deciding on the better over the worse and the blessings over the problems! I am choosing to positively improve my future, lovingly better my circumstances, and enthusiastically enjoy myself..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Image: https://www.pinterest.com/edcharfauros/mind-nourishment~/

Love Based Actions

When love is the energy of your inner state many will pickup on this energy and in the process they will also transform. This occurs because when your inner state is based in love, love is the result of your actions…

Your actions are a result of your inner state and the base of your inner state is very important when it comes to these actions. Your inner state determines so much of what goes on in your life because it results in the base of your actions. Actions from an inner state to self serve produce much different results then actions from an inner state of quietness or if you like, love. Grasping becomes the main action when the inner state is to self serve. I need energy makes needing the constant energy of the self serving inner state. I need energy is what keeps greed, hate, envy, lust, jealousy, anger and so on in place and although the needs manifest differently for everyone, the common denominator is the inner state of I need energy; this makes you believe the present moment needs to be different.

Grasping actions have to follow when this occurs because it’s the inner state of the energy in place.
When the inner state is one of quietness which manifest as love, your actions naturally fall in line with the complete opposite actions of being self serving. It’s as if there’s no thought of you and your actions are geared towards benefitting others. Not in a way to try and convert others to a concept or belief, but coming from a place of compassion, kindness, understanding, and love. This loving energy is the connection to life itself and it’s this inner state energy that emanates out into the world. Many will pickup on this energy and in the process they will also transform. This all occurs because when your inner state is based in love, love is the result of your actions…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/25/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am living forward without regret, with acceptance, and for the better! I acknowledge my past as it is for the lessons I have learned and the experiences that have strengthened me for the better! I am supporting my hopes, my dreams, and my goals for the better as I live forward..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: Repeat With Me: I AM SUCCESS!

A Heart Comparison

Intellect living knows love only through a story created by the mind. Heart living knows love through the sheer presence of its existence. The intellect will never grasp what the heart knows intuitively…

The contrast between intellectual and heart living is simply because the mind (thought) is from the intellect and the heart is from presence of love. If you’re truly aware of this you will pick up on the differences from a simple response from someone. The heart connects and the intellect separates, this is because the heart only knows unconditional love and the intellect only knows how to put conditions on everything, hence this is why humanity is as it is. It doesn’t mean when you live from the heart you will like everything, but it just won’t have the same effect on you that living from the intellect creates. I notice an intellect response immediately when someone responds to one of my post. This isn’t to say my post can’t be debated, but since I write from my heart when someone responds to me from the intellect it immediately creates some kind of conflict; it has to.

There’s very little if any “I” attachment living from the heart, living from the intellect there’s nothing but “I” attachment. All conflict with yourself and others comes from the intellect, it’s impossible to have conflict when living from the heart. You may not like everything that happens in life living from the heart, but you will accept it because that’s how the heart works. The love of the heart is from the energy of the Universe, it connects you to everything. We are all the energy of creation and cannot truly be separated from it, but it can seem like it because that’s what the energy of “I” (the intellect) does. When a person states there’s a void in their life, it’s because the intellect is causing a story of separation from the heart, but since everyone who is alive has a heart there’s no true separation, there’s only the contrast between the intellect and heart because the intellect and not the heart is running the show…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/24/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am doing what is good for my life, my mind, and my body! I am doing what is great for my future, my time, and my moments! I am doing good for myself, great for my spirit, and better for my relations..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2475754

Your Dreams Are Now

If you truly want to follow your dreams look no further then right now. Unless the mind settles and there’s awareness of this, your dreams will never be realized because you will be caught in the fantasy of something that’s not real…

I know many in society attach to following your dreams, but if this is looked at closely you just may see how this holds you in captivity to thinking that a dream is needed for happiness instead of what’s here now. When you’re following the urge of a so called dream, the reality of what’s happening right now just passes you by. This doesn’t mean you can’t have your dreams and go after them, just realize a dream is nothing more than a fantasy. Even if you get exactly what you want and it becomes your reality, thinking the dream will make you happy is where the fantasy arises from. This falls in line with the grass is greener on the other side, but that grass has to be mowed also.

How many people pick their spouse, their job, the house they live in, having children, or whatever else you thought was needed, only to turn around and complain about it. Your choices are made because you think they’re your dream and yet when they become a reality it’s not long before you realize they’re not as fulfilling as you thought they would be. Or you’re okay with certain aspects of this dream, but there’s just something else to complain about. If you truly want to follow your dreams look down at your feet and realize good, bad, or indifferent you are your dream. Unless the mind settles and you become aware of this, your life will never truly be lived because you will be caught up in the fantasy of needing to follow a made up dream…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/23/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am empowering through the bad times for better days and empowering through the bad days for a better future! I am empowering through by doing what's best for me regardless of who and what is involved! I am taking advantage of my solitude and making the best of my alone time serve my bliss..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2470223

Triggered Attachments

Attachments arise when something triggers them. At the root of this is “I” and as long as “I” is in control, the roller coaster of deeply embedded triggered attachments will continue to take you for a ride…

Attachments aren’t something that exist by themselves, they are a movement or reaction to something that occurs. There are many different attachments that arise and they can be put into the associated category to best get a handle on them when they do. They arise because of something that occurs. Nothing inherently makes you attached, there has to be a personal association to something. Attachments only arise as “I” assigns meaning to something. There isn’t much attachment when you hear of a stranger dying, but apply the word Mother, Father, sister, brother, and so on and just watch the attached onslaught.

Attachments don’t exist until “I” grabs hold of something, this is what gives the attachment life and allows it to arise. Example: greed is only a word until you attach “I need or want this” to it, then look out because depending on how deeply “I” attaches to the need or want determines the level of its control. Same thing with joy, something happens and now “I” attaches pleasure to it and therein lies the attachment to joy. Here are just some attachments that can be categorized, fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, trust, happiness, to name a few, watch for yourself when these arise and see how the root is from “I”. With awareness of this you just may be able to get a firmer grasp on just how the Conditioned Mind keeps you under its spell by weighing you down and taking you for a ride with deeply embedded triggered attachments…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/22/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am doing what I can to positively affect my life for the greater good! I am pushing forth for fun, adventure, and fulfillment for a greater value! I am doing more for the good experiences, great memories, and better interactions for the greater benefit! I am encouraging, motivating, and aspiring myself to keep going..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2464424

Just Be and Live

Do whatever it is that you need to do to make life the way you think it should be, but understand it’s in being not doing where life arises from and is truly lived…

Reflect on the most beautiful thing you have ever seen and experienced and see how much it has to do with life right now. It may be a fond memory or a story, but this moment would be exactly the same regardless of what was seen in the past and experienced. At the time even if the experience was breath taking (at least to the Conditioned Mind) it really has nothing to do with what’s happening right now. The story of it does because the conditioning in place makes you think doing not being is needed, but that’s your doing not life’s.

Learning to just be is truly living life because being energy puts you in harmony with the moment and this always is regardless of what you do. This is where many fall short of understanding the true essence of being because doing and not being is put first and is thought to be what’s needed to live life. Life will always be, that is until the day it won’t and all the doing in the world will not stop this from happening. Do whatever it is that you think you need to do, but understand it’s in being no doing where life arises from. When you’re just being, life is lived to the fullest because you don’t have to do. You can never do the next right thing, but you can be the next right thing. This is why it’s said to just be not just do in the bible because to be is the true essence of life. The simple saying “Just Be” can be used as a tool to stop the squirrel cage doing mind in its tracks. After all, we are called human beings and not human doings for a reason and it’s because it’s only in being that life can be truly lived…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/21/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am not allowing the negative vibes from others ruin my day and negatively affect my mind! I am having my blessings empower me through my problems and challenges! I am choosing to look upon the brighter side of my moments and positively benefit from the better perspective..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2458624

Delusional Problems

Everything that’s considered a problem is created by your own conditioned thinking. What these problems equate to is a created delusion that then becomes the reality you live by and pass on to others as fact…

The mind doesn’t become beneficial until you lessen the control it has over you and become the controller of it. It has tremendous problem solving abilities that are second to none, but it’s ability to create problems are also second to none. If you don’t control your mind, your mind will control you; this isn’t a belief in something, this is simply the way it is. Your Conditioned Mind Patterns are so engrained and elusive that the creator of them (our own mind) also creates blocks so you don’t see how they arise. This makes you a prisoner to your own mind with the prison being the mind constantly making problems that don’t truly exist. Just look at your own life to see example after example of this, situations, people (ourselves included), circumstances, etc, the mind makes a problem because life is lived based on the past or future. Another example would be this writing, agree with it, don’t agree with it, pick it a part, who cares, its not that important except to the mind that wants to make it a problem. To a mind that wants to create a problem it is the most important thing in the world.

Written here are words, nothing more nothing less. If they’re a problem to you, it’s only because you have created it. Any problem is a product of your conditioning; no conditioned label, no problem. A noisy mind will not see this because the noise is a creation of the Conditioned Mind; only a settled mind will see this. The other day someone asked how my book was doing, I answered “it doesn’t matter unless it’s made to matter”. Life will always be what it is and because there’s awareness of this I don’t have to make it into something that it’s not. This is true control because what is is always based in truth. The Universe is in charge of life, not the delusional concepts and ideas that are formed by a Conditioned Mind. When this is seen, Universal Truth will be understood because the delusional Conditioned Mind problems will lose their control…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/20/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I know I can make it all better if I continue believing, continue working toward achieving and continue positively conceiving within my mind the ideal outcomes I desire to receive! I know it's up to me to remain optimistic, stay faithful, and continue trusting who I am and what I am doing! I know love is the way..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2453928

Absorbed in Your Story

When there’s a story that you need something to provide peace, you become absorbed in that story. Until this is understood, you will remain absorbed in the story (thought) that peace is something outside of you…

There will never be peace in your life if you’re absorbed in the story of finding peace. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way the mind is conditioned it becomes something to find. Unfortunately stories are what makes the very thing you are is seeking ( in this case peace) elusive. Your stories are the reason there’s constant reaching for something from the outside and until these stories are no more, you will remain absorbed to the thoughts that peace is in the next thing reached for. Reaching for drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, success, programs, therapy, self help books and so on is the proof that the story is in control. These absorbed stories arising from your thoughts have to be seen if you are to ever experience true peace.

The thought of being at peace isn’t peace. What has to happen if you’re to ever be at peace is there has to be an understanding of what’s blocking your peace. The reason you’re not at peace is the inability to not create stories. When the need to reach for something arises, the absorbed story begins; this is a conditioned cycle that’s very difficult to break free of. Peace isn’t something that can be grabbed and held so it’s in doing less that peace arises. Many get lost (absorbed) in trying to find peace, but since it’s something that’s already within, the story associated with finding it needs to be discarded so you can see it’s already there. This isn’t easy to see. I share not to help you find peace, I share so you may possibly uncover the reason why you’re absorbed in the story you are not at peace…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/19/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am envisioning a better future for myself filled with awesome moments worth sharing! I am imagining for myself moments of joy, amusement, and great entertainment worth recalling! I am looking forward to these glorious moments and fun memories in my future..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2449723

Stuck Emotions

Nothing from the outside truly controls you regardless of what it is; either real or made up. It’s your stuck emotions that attach to what happens that cause you to react in certain ways…

Staying with the flow of what arises in our daily life has immense value in waking from the sleep of unawareness. What happens if awareness isn’t expanded upon is your emotions become stuck and control you; they become the master and you the slave. The stuck emotions are what causes you to react to life in the way that you do. Nothing from the outside truly controls you either real or made up. It’s the stuck emotions that attach to what happens that cause you to behave in certain ways. If you awaken to see this, the attachment to your emotions lessens so their control lessens. When my mom died last year to say I felt no emotions would be ludicrous, but I didn’t get stuck to them and turn them into the suffering of grieving. This is the same as if something is done that makes you mad, feel being mad, but let the mad energy to keep flowing, don’t attach to it and get stuck so anger arises, this way you remain in the natural flow of life.

This is how it is with all our emotions, fear becomes crippling when you become stuck and it takes you over. It’s doesn’t mean things won’t scare you, but it’s doesn’t have to be given the energy that turns it into fear. This applies to any emotion you become attached to, you get stuck to the associated emotion and there’s no telling what behavior will arise; I know that it’s not going to be a behavior that has love flowing as its base. Emotions will arise, it’s the way the brain seems to be wired, but our energy doesn’t have to give them more power than they’re worth. Cry your tears, or be fearful of the future, dislike that things aren’t going the way you think they should be, but the bottom line is this, it’s only when the emotions get stuck that they are given the energy to stop the flow of truly living life and cause not only your suffering, but the suffering of all beings…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/18/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I believe that I am worthy of a better life, better future, and better outcomes! I positively believe that I am receiving what I am worth and what I am valued for a better future! I am positively impacting lives while making a positive difference affecting my day..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2444073

Stability of Peace

The Conditioned Mind is very unstable and has nothing solid to base itself in. There’s very little peace in a life based in this type of energy because the unstable energy of the mind constantly wants things different…

The stability to a peaceful life lies in not wanting things different. Discontentment is directly linked to wanting things different and this is true regardless of what it is. It may not be seen exactly as wanting something different, but when a label of like or disliked is applied, this is wanting things different. If someone says or writes something or if a circumstance arises and you apply don’t like to it, you just created a discontent within yourself. What was said, written, or what happened didn’t do it, the applied label did. It’s the same when you apply like to something, this is because you are allowing something from the outside to control your mind state. The mind is very unstable and has nothing solid to base itself in so there’s never true peace because the Conditioned Mind energy constantly wants things different.

A wanting things different mind is very unstable, it’s energy is all over the place and it’s the reason there’s very little peace in the world. Always wanting things different keeps the individual energy from being of peace which then emanates as the energy you put out. Multiple this by the billions of people on the planet and thus you have an unstable world. The stability to a peaceful life lies in not wanting things different and this is the only way there will ever be peace in your life and the world. The instant something is wanted different discontentment arises as the energy in place is being controlled by a mind that doesn’t understand the stability to a peaceful life lies in not wanting things different, and this is true regardless of what’s going on…

Self~Empowerment: Today’s Positive Statement– 01/17/19~

Today’s self-empowering statement to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
"I am strong in mind, will, and spirit! I am empowering through to my goals and milestones to bring my dreams into existence! I am forging forward as necessary for greater success and satisfaction! I am making no excuses, nor am I procrastinating for what's best for me..."
to continue a greater life!
Great day to you, as a great day continues~
Edward F. T. Charfauros
Life Guide and Author

Source: https://repeat-with-me-i-am-success.mn.co/posts/2438334

5 Life Ingredients Seniors Think Most Important - Age With Charm

What is important to you?

I have my own list of the most important things in life. I call them “ingredients” because each must be of the right measure for my happiness and well-being. Just like food, too much or too little can spoil my life in unimaginable ways.

However, my list is, by no means, representative of other seniors whose number is growing each day.

This question has piqued my interest for a long time, forcing me to refer to that bottomless repository of information – Google.

To my dismay, Google has nothing specific, either. Sure enough, the first page has a lot of sites dwelling on the topic, but they are all as fragmented as Humpty Dumpty after the fall. They are like a group of Jews in a huddle – each has a different take on the same subject.

Finally, I asked the members of the FB elderly groups I am a member of. Nothing like getting it straight from the horse’s mouth, sort of

It was a very informal survey. Nothing scientific about it, and not all answered. But the answers I got from those who did, provided an interesting profile of their most important life ingredients.

Here they are…

1. Health:

It is no surprise for “health” to be the main ingredient in the happiness and well-being of seniors. They all aspire good health, though not many are endowed with it. Old age seems to conspire with a myriad of health issues.

In fact, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), 85 percent of seniors have at least one chronic disease, and 60 percent at least two.

And the answers I got range from common knee and back pains, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and many others. A couple is struggling with cancer.

Health is a game-changer for seniors. It can either make them live their lives in joyful contentment or suffer constant anguish and pain.

2. Relationship with the Almighty:

For this to come next as the most important ingredient is not surprising, either. In fact, some studies support this. Faith in the Almighty gives an elderly beset with a lot of age-related issues a sense of meaning and purpose in life.

A strong relationship with the Almighty soothes fears and insecurities of their impending demise. It gives them the feeling of preparedness in “going back home.”

On the practical side, it fosters promotes good health. Though the link between faith and health has not been clearly established, there is sufficient evidence that it engenders positive emotions. And seniors with strong faith generally have a healthy social network; they handle stress better.

Elderly people who adhere to certain religious beliefs and practices are less prone to anxiety, depression and to commit suicide. They are less likely to abuse their health through alcohol, drugs or tobacco.

3. Family and Friends:

Close family and friends are God’s manifestation of His presence in us. They are invaluable, especially when they become fewer and rarer.

Family and friends are necessary for an elderly’s psychological and physical well-being. They also help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

Many studies have shown that close family and friends give aging hearts a boost, and can help the body’s autoimmune system resist diseases.

They make you whole; make you feel safe and secure, and may keep you from making a monkey of yourself.

Family and friends cheer you up when things are down, or pull you down back to the ground when you are way over your head.

4. Peace of Mind:

We all want to have peace of mind. But what is it and how to achieve it?

Peace of mind is “a state of mental and emotional calmness, with no worries, fears or stress. In this state, the mind is quiet, and you experience a sense of happiness and freedom.”

But for seniors constantly in a state of loneliness or suffering from health and relationship issues, to name a few, peace of mind may remain unachievable.

Is it? Try these simple exercises that have been proven to work:

Let go of things you can’t control

Don’t worry about what others think of you

List 3 things you love about you

Look out of your window, take a single deep breath and immerse your thoughts in the beauty of nature.

Do these every day until they become a habit.

5. Independence:

No, not the political kind, but of the more docile type, like being on your own; control of your life.

For one, seniors don’t want to be babied. They may need some help in a few things, but they still were ahead in the crib and know better.

Seniors love to do things their way, and they don’t like to be placed in a straitjacket of “Dos” and “Don’ts.” They need some space, too.

They want to listen to their own type of music, or movies, or clothes. They prefer to be left alone, not to be fussed over. In fact, roughly 13 million elderly people in the U.S. live alone. Majority of them cites “independence” as the reason for living that way.

Old age may bring wrinkles and illnesses, but it also switches your focus from the frivolous to the sensible things in life. From the unnecessary to the necessary.

Since two months ago, I’ve been living alone (I had a helper before that). Filling the gap left by her is tiresome and time-consuming. But I am stress-free. And I learned how to cope with my new reality (I had to).

But “independence” is not my main life ingredient but “family.” The demise of my wife left me with two wonderful and responsible children who have made me a part of their lives.

They are my treasures. I can get by without the life ingredients, but not without them. My daughter is a driving-distance away while my son is in New Zealand. But we still bond regularly through technology.

What about you? What is your most important life ingredient? Would you mind sharing it with Age with Charm and its readers? Please send us your thoughts (please refer to this blog’s About page for the guidelines).

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