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fighting depression

Let's face it ; every person gets depressed at some time in their lives, but there is no need to remain depressed. Take initiative over your life and your body.

Follow this checklist regularly and you will minimize depression in your life. Write it down and keep it handy to review when you become depressed.

1. Do something for someone else everyday - even something small counts!

2. Remind yourself of at least 5 things that make your life easier! (running water, electricity, soft bed, clothes to wear, food to eat, eyes to see, hands to touch, feet to walk, cell phone, shelter, indoor plumbing, air conditioning, friends, family)

3. Appreciate something every day and give thanks. (sunrise, sunset, flower, pet, family member, shelter, grocery store full of items, a person in your life, even the television counts!)

4. Learn a new word everyday. This aids by keeping your brain active.

5. Eat right. Don't over indulge in sweets or meats or carbohydrates. Check your balances.

6. Exercise. Spend just 5 minutes each day doing some stretches that you don't normally do and increase the minutes weekly to maintain your stamina. You can do these stretches in your normal routine as you walk around the house or office.

7. Rest. Do not sleep more than 8 hours. Force yourself to get up even if you don't want to.

8. Get out of that hum-drum routine. Take a different route to work or home. Seeing new scenery helps keep the imagination alive within you.

9. Plan to succeed. You can't change other peoples lives, but you can change yours by creating a plan and setting goals. Break the goal down into small benchmarks to reward yourself upon reaching them.

10. Keep a list of your dreams and add to it monthly. As one dream is reached or eliminated, continually add to your list. Review it regularly and make changes when appropriate. It's ok to scratch things off or change your mind!

As you review your list above each day, you will discover that depression has no place in your life because your life is full. You may want to carry the list in your wallet for quick reference or in your car. Summarize the ten statements above into one word phrases and keep the list with you to view when you find yourself feeling depressed.



teddybear
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just be one

One day, one friend asked another,
"How is it that you are always so happy?
You have so much energy,
and you never seem to get down."

With her eyes smiling, she said,
"I know the Secret!"
"What secret is that?"
To which she replied,
"I'll tell you all about it,
but you have to promise to
share the Secret with others."

"The Secret is this:
I have learned there is little I can do
in my life that will make me truly happy.
I must depend on God to make
me happy and to meet my needs.
When a need arises in my life,
I have to trust God to supply
according to HIS riches.
I have learned most of the time
I don't need half of what I think I do.
He has never let me down.
Since I learned that 'Secret', I am happy."

The questioner's first thought was,
"That's too simple!"
But upon reflecting over her own life
she recalled how she thought a bigger house
would make her happy, but it didn't!
She thought a better paying job
would make her happy, but it hadn't.
When did she realize her greatest happiness?
Sitting on the floor with her grandchildren,
playing games, eating pizza or reading a story,
a simple gift from God.

Now you know it too!
We can't depend on people to make us happy.
Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that.
Trust HIM!
And now I pass the Secret on to you!
So once you get it, what will you do?

YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too!
That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU!
But it's not really a secret...
We just have to believe it and do it...
Really trust God!


Just Pass It On!
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Ohhh Mom

Ohhh Mom
You’ve loved us through all
Through thick and thin
Through ups and downs
You were always around
To offer a hand
To be our fan
To show us what unconditional love is all about

Ohhh mom
You’re looking great
Even if you’re not always feeling as great
Because often you have to stay up so late
To feed or change the little ones
Or worried when the bigger ones will get their butts home
Yep
Whether up in the morn
Before even the sun has dawned
Without even time to yawn
Or up the very next night long
Your always makin’ sure your world is, our worlds are, safe and sound

Ohhh mom
From conception to birth
Up until our wedding receptions
And beyond
You’ve loved us into being
You’ve made sure to seein’
As best you can
That we are set up for the future
While letting us know
That no matter what
We are loved for who we are right now

Ohhh mom
Thank you for who you are
For your time and attention and energy and love
Such a gift you’ve been
The greatest confidant and friend
For no matter if close or far
Time and distance
Cannot touch nor even come close
To effecting what matters most
Our God created
Eternally formed
Spiritual bond

Thank you to all moms
From the depths of our Hearts


By Mike M.



rose
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COURTEOUS PARROT

A lady is walking down the street to work and sees a parrot in a pet store. She stops to admire the bird. The parrot says to her, "Hey lady, you are really ugly." Well, the lady is furious! She storms past the store to her work. On the way home she saw the same parrot in the window and the parrot upon seeing her says, "Hey lady, you are really ugly." She was incredibly ticked now. The next day on the way to work she saw the same parrot and once again it said, "Hey lady, you are really ugly." The lady was so furious that she stormed into the store and threatened to sue the store and have the bird killed. The store manager apologized profusely and promised the bird wouldn't say it again. The next day, when the lady walked past the store after work the parrot said to her, "Hey lady." She paused, scowled with an icy and deadly stare, and said with a hoarse voice, "Yes?" The bird, strutting back and forth on its perch in a cocky manner, said, "You know."

Have a great day and don't forget to smile grin
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MAMA'S GIFTS

Start every day with a smile...

Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city.
The first said, "I had a big house built for Mama."

The second said, "I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house."

The third said "I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her."

The fourth said, "You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can't read anymore because she can't see very well. I met this preacher who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty preachers 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the church, but it was worth it. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."

The other brothers were impressed. After the holidays Mom sent out her thank you notes.

"She wrote: "Milton, the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway."

"Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home, I have my groceries delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks."

"Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all my friends are dead, I've lost my hearing and I'm nearly blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same."

"Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to give little thought to your gift. The chicken was delicious. Thank you."


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four faces of love

The love for equals is a human thing—of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles.

The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing—the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world.

The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing—to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints.

And then there is the love for the enemy—love for the one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured’s love for the torturer. This is God’s love. It conquers the world.

Love like these four faces of love encompass us. We are inside Love itself and respond according to the facets described. This how we know that Love is all we need; love is life.
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to wait upon the Lord in silence and peace

Give me the strength that waits upon You in silence and peace. Give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride which is the heaviest of burdens. And possess my whole heart and soul with the simplicity of love. Occupy my whole life with the one thought and the one desire of love, that I may love not for the sake of merit, not for the sake of perfection, not for the sake of virtue, not for the sake of sanctity, but for You alone.
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My Declaration of Self-Esteem

I AM ME

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether they be to others or to myself - I own my fanatasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and
Successes, all my failures and mistakes Because I own all of
Me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing
I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts - I know
There are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other
Aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am
Friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
And hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me - However I
Look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever
I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically
Me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought
And felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is
Unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that
Which I discarded - I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
Productive to make sense and order out of the world of
People and things outside of me - I own me, and
therefore I can engineer me - I am me and

I AM OKAY


By Virginia Satir
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You will never know

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Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was an optimistic soul,
But the other took the gloomy view.
"We shall drown," he sobbed with much ado!
And with a last despairing cry,
He flung up his legs and said, "Good-bye!"

Said the other frog with merry grin,
"I can't get out, but I won't give in.
I'll just swim around till my strength is spent,
Then will I die the more content!"

Bravely he swam till it would seem
His struggles began to churn the cream!
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
And out of the bowl he happily hopped!

So what is the moral? 'Tis easily found;
If you can't hop out, keep swimming around!
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Just wishing you great things...

I wish you the courage to be warm
when the world would prefer that you be cool.
I wish you success sufficient to your needs;
I wish you failure to temper that success.
I wish you joy in all your days;
I wish you sadness so that you may better measure joy.
I wish you gladness to overbalance your grief.
I wish you humor and a twinkle in your eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path
and health to carry you on your journey.
I wish you peace in the world in which you live
and in the smallest corner of you heart where truth is kept.
I wish you faith to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you -except perhaps love- to make all the rest worthwhile.


-Robert A. Ward
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THINK OF THOSE WHO LOVE YOU...

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If someone should hurt you and say a thing unkind,
Remember that I write you, and keep these thoughts in mind...

For everyone that makes you cry,
there are three who make you smile,
And a smile will last a long, long time,
but a tear just a little while.


Don't let someone who hates the world cause you to hate it too.
Behind the clouds is a golden sun,and a sky that's full of blue.
If someone said a thing that's cruel,
don't let it get to you,
Your achievements are greatly numbered,
and your faults are very few...

So if a certain person should act a certain way,
Think of those who love you and don't let it spoil your day.
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Shopping

A man was sitting next to me in one of the two "husband
chairs" in a ladies' clothing store.

After 30 minutes and five outfits, the fellow's wife came out of
the change room again. He looked at her and immediately said,
"That looks good on you. Get that one."

"Honey," she replied, "it's what I was wearing when we came in."


grin
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