LISTEN to Be determined. It’s good for your health
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Opening: Hello. I’m Beverly Goldsmith. Welcome to Spirituality and Health Connect – a weekly program full of tips and ideas to help you live a happy, healthy life. This week, I’m talking about, “Be determined. It’s good for your health.”
Recently I spoke with a close friend of mine. She said, “The black hole of depression is not a place to be. Being scared of everything, always negative, and having no appetite for food or life, makes you realize you have to do something .” So, with a resolve that never wavered, she pulled herself out of those dark feelings. Her triumph showed me how it’s possible to be determined, and, that it’s good for your health.
My friend’s determination to achieve emotional freedom was helped along by a speaker on TV who encouraged her to take responsibility for her emotions, to pamper herself into being healthy again.
So here are some tips:
– Listen to positive words of encouragement.
– Don’t ruminate, reiterate or speculate – i.e. don’t chew over dark thoughts, don’t constantly repeat them, or wonder why you’re thinking them. Instead, cultivate happiness. Take notice of the things that go right – such as an unexpected thank you. Celebrate the little victories in life – such as finding lost keys, or succeeding at something.
Break open the gloom. Persevere.
Often dark thinking can appear to be as solid as a rock. Yet constant blows of optimistic, positive, and yes, even spiritual thinking, can crack apart those negative feelings through determined perseverance. Here’s a story.
A man wanted to break up a large rock in his garden. He struck it 100 times with a sledge hammer. The rock remained intact. Finally, he gave up. A neighbour asked if he could have a go. He hit the rock. Instantly it fell apart. “How come I couldn’t do that?” said the man. “Well”, replied the neighbour, “you did all the hard work. If you’d just persevered and given it one last blow, you’d have cracked it open yourself.”
So here are some TIPs:
– Persevere. Be determined to succeed. Don’t be defeatist. Keep going.
– Remember, “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again.”
– Keep your mental eye on the high goal. Don’t count your footsteps in getting there.
Now sometimes slow progress can lead to discouragement. However, not feeling fast enough on one’s mental feet, doesn’t mean failure. Here’s an example.
A tortoise and a hare, had a race. The hare, who was sure he’d win, stopped for breakfast, then fell asleep. He woke up just in time to see the tortoise cross the finish line first. – Aesop’s fables
So here are some TIPs:
– Employ the prize-winning combination of steadfast determination and calm persistence.
– Be one of those individuals described by Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health who either, “gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to discouragement.” p. 254
– Whatever you do. Take up the challenge. Be determined to beat depressing thoughts, and, win the prize of health and happiness.
Closing: Well that’s it for this week. For more tips and ideas to help you live a happy, healthy life, go to Soundcloud. I’m Beverly Goldsmith – practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing. Thanks for joining me.
I’m a professional Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher. Through my prayer-based practice, I help people find happiness, health and healing.
Yvonne says
Dear Beverly. I found your helpful tips to handle depression and other dark moments in my experience very encouraging. Having been in that situation, it seems, for a long time I realise the importance of not giving in and persevering in accepting what is really true about my self as God’s loved child. Thank you and love.Yvonne
Beverly Goldsmith says
Thank you Yvonne for your comment. I am pleased that you are being determined to beat gloomy thinking. You are persevering and such determination leads to success. You’re doing WELL.