http://lfp-blog.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tenth Secret:  “Wisdom is Avoiding All Thoughts that Weaken You” You are what you think is a truism.  If our mind is plagued with negative thoughts, we become a product of that negativity.  Dyer opens the chapter with an example of kinesiology.  When we hold up our arm and say a ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-tenth-secret/ I was in yoga practice a few months ago when my instructor, Suze Curtis, told a story during our shavasana practice at the end of class (for you non-yogis out there, that is when we all lie down in rest and meditation at the conclusion of class).  Anyway, I really ... http://lfp-blog.com/dr-lams-blog/mindfulness-mondays/mindfulness-mondays-41-why-are-you-so-angry/ Ninth Secret:  “Treasure Your Divinity” We are so ensnared in our mortal coil that we cannot see past it.  We cannot see the grandeur and beauty that surrounds us.  In short, we cannot see our own divine nature that has been given from a divine source.  We are lost in the ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-ninth-secret/ Eighth Secret:  “Treat Yourself As If You Already Are What You’d Like To Be” This is a wondrous statement.  We have all heard of the law of attraction, espoused by Rhonda Byrnes in her famous book and film, The Secret.  However, Dyer goes beyond The Secret in many of his thoughts.  ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-eighth-secret/ Seventh Secret:  “There are No Justified Resentments” Dyer opens this chapter with a story of how he sat in on an Alcoholics Anonymous group and heard one person blaming someone else for his or her woes.  But a sign reminded the individual that In This Group, There are No Justified Resentments.  ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-seventh-secret/ Sixth Secret:  “You Can’t Solve a Problem with the Same Mind that Created It” This is something that we have discussed in a previous blog series dedicated to Eckhart Tolle’s work.  This beautiful paraphrase of a quote by Carl Jung is worth repeating herein.  When we are petty and angry, we ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-sixth-secret/ I think most of my blog readers know how fond I am about art and architecture.  If I were not a plastic surgeon, I would most likely have been an architect or an industrial designer.  I spent half a day in the Nasher Museum that featured a retrospective on Norman ... http://lfp-blog.com/dr-lams-blog/mindfulness-mondays/mindfulness-mondays-40-norman-foster-from-here-to-there/ Fifth Secret:  “Give Up Your Personal History” Dyer uses the metaphor of a boat to explain how we unfortunately see our lives and how we should see our lives.  Every boat has a wake behind it.  However, the wake does not control the boat.  It is just a trail of foam ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-fifth-secret/ Fourth Secret:  “Embrace Silence” Our modern culture is brimming with noise:  cell phones, email, loud rock concerts, 5.1 surround movies, screaming children, bickering spouses, and other ringing types of cacophony.  When we still our hearts and our mind for a moment, we can tap into our creative soul, refresh our spirits, ... http://lfp-blog.com/dr-lams-blog/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-fourth-secret/ Third Secret:  “You Can’t Give Away What You Don’t Have” When we think of giving something away, we think of a finite repository of items where what we give will deplete us.  For example, if we have 10 oranges and we give 10 away, we will in turn have none.  However, ... http://lfp-blog.com/10-secrets-success-inner-peace/10-secrets-for-success-and-inner-peace-third-secret/