New Year

This year try thought recycling. It’s good for your health.

January 1, 2020 By Beverly Goldsmith Leave a Comment

It’s a New Year, so it’s a great time to try thought recycling. This reprocessing method, is a personal way of extending the life and usefulness of things that have already served their initial purpose. And this mental activity can really benefit your life at home, school or work.

HOW THOUGHT RECYCLING WORKS

We all know how to dispose of unwanted packaging materials and green waste into our household recycling bins. Or, to use garage sales, flea-markets and car-boot sales as opportunities for unwanted items such as furniture, clothing and kids’ toys to find their way on to good homes.

However, if our thinking has become cluttered with negativity or worry, we don’t want to recycle this mental litter. No one wants negative thoughts. They don’t bring anyone happiness or healing. On the other hand, positive, spiritually productive thoughts, are ready-made for inclusion in a mental recycling program.

Over the years, I’ve been comforted, gained mental strength, and found healing from ideas shared in sacred poetry, books, and spiritual texts. I’ve also had the joy of passing along to others these inspirational thoughts that have enhanced my life. In this way, an inspired idea that has “served its initial purpose” – to benefit me, has now had its life extended.

TIPS TO HELP YOU TRY THOUGHT RECYCLING

– Be selective. Check the type of thoughts you want to circulate to others before doing so. Is it something worth recycling – that contributes in a positive way to the environment at home or work?

– Bin unhealthy thoughts and fears ready for discarding. Don’t ruminate, reiterate or speculate over them. “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.” Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p.261:4

– Relate uplifting, reassuring, personal experiences. What’s learned from the good and hard times in life, can encourage someone going through a similar experience. Bless your family, friends and work colleagues with your kind thoughts. “Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters”. Bible. Hebrews 13:1

– Recycle gratitude. It’s heartening to receive expressions of appreciation. Gratitude brightens a moment, encourages an individual, and later continues to remind them that they’ve done something worthwhile – they’ve done well. So, if you’ve had a kindness shown you, pass it on.

– Be buoyed and enriched by the excellent ideas that others have found helpful and have taken the time to share with you. Beneficial thoughts are worth circulating in large quantities. So, pass them on to others. This year try thought recycling. It’s good for your health.

– Beverly Goldsmith writes on the connection between spirituality and health and is a Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher .

– This article is also published on Motherpedia. Read more from Beverly on Motherpedia…

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Start afresh this New Year. It’s good for your health.

January 2, 2019 By Beverly Goldsmith Leave a Comment

Start afresh this New Year. It’s good for your health It’s not just another New Year. It’s the start of a whole, new, different one. Each January 1^st offers a brand new beginning that’s full of opportunities to break out of last year’s rut, leave unhappiness behind, and start afresh. Right now it’s possible to discover simple, can-do, fresh ideas to make home a happier place to be. So put your thinking cap on! Plan to start afresh this New Year, and do it. It’s good for your health.

START AFRESH: THINK-PLAN-ACT

When a New Year rolls around, it’s tempting to think of it as a continuation of the same old unhappy or boring routine. Yet it doesn’t have to be so. It’s possible to think in a fresh direction, make plans to improve life at home, and act on them. So don’t hold back. Take the first step. You could be pleasantly surprised at what you’ll achieve if you just start afresh this New Year.

FIVE NEW YEAR ACTION TIPS:

1. Begin the year by thinking of each new day as a fresh start – a time to wake each morning with a grateful heart and the expectation of discovering new ideas that will lead to a better life.

2. Make a resolution to leave the negativity of the old year behind and start afresh. Discover constructive, harmony-producing ideas each new day. Remember that useful ideas are right at hand to bless you and your family and improve the quality of home-life. Don’t say you’re not an ideas person! You are. Just pause, quietly think, listen for, and pay attention to those fresh helpful ideas.

3. Don’t dismiss good ideas that come to your thought, with a “that won’t work” attitude. Be humble. Be willing to try them out. You’ve nothing to lose, and everything good to gain. “Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea”. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p.323

4. Wipe your mental slate clean of resentment or disappointment. Start afresh. Let love-filled spiritual inspiration fill your heart and mind. It will change your outlook and bring you peace. Divine Love’s compassion and mercy never fail you, “they are new every morning”. Bible. Lamentations 3:23

5. Be bold. Be ready to make changes. If something’s not working at home, deal with it in a different, new way. Tune into the ever-present divine Source of good ideas. Take a fresh approach. You’ll have greater harmony.

So don’t wait. Start afresh this New Year. You’ll find it’s good for your health.

This article was first published on my previous blog site spiritualityandhealthconnect.com. It is published on Motherpedia. It was published in Around Altona Community newspaper in print and online via Issuu.

Look ahead in the New Year. It’s good for your health.

January 2, 2018 By Beverly Goldsmith 2 Comments

Look ahead in the New Year. It's good for your health. Happy New Year! It’s an exciting time for everyone. Or is it? For some people, it may be a continuation of last year’s old dismal way of living. For others, it’ll be an opportunity to look ahead – to set new goals, make an exhilarating fresh start, see the potential of fulfilling long-held dreams, or implementing new ways to achieve greater health and happiness. Being a look ahead kind of person helps foster positive prospects for a better life. So if this is what you’d like to achieve this year, check out the tips and implement them in the weeks ahead. You can do it, and, it’s good for your health.

LOOK AHEAD, NOT BACK.

If you want to get the most out of the New Year, be forward looking. Don’t look back or remain stuck in a mental rut. Think progressively. Be bold. Make changes. Applying this look ahead attitude to daily life, benefits your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing at home, and in the workplace.

TIPS:

– Look ahead. Aim to live a splendidly useful, active life. Enjoy thinking about and planning what
you’re going to do in the next 12 months. Do something different. Take up a new activity. Relish
what lies ahead for you.

– Be assured that your future holds an abundance of love, kind people and happy experiences. Love
and goodness come from a divine source and are continuously present.

– Look forward with confidence. If you foresee difficulties in the days ahead, have courage. Know
that you possess the spiritual poise, calm strength, and wisdom to triumph over them.

– Don’t look back. Leave the past behind. “Stand porter at the door of thought”. Shut out any “unhealthy thoughts and fears.” Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p.392

– Say goodbye to yesterday. Drop all bitterness and regret. “Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago.” The Bible. Isaiah 43:18.

– If the New Year offers change – a new beginning, enthusiastically embrace it. Forget “the things that are behind” and reach out “for the things that are ahead.” The Bible. Philippians 3:13.

– Move forward. Take positive action to improve your everyday life. Resolve to be a more patient parent, work colleague, and road-user. Be grateful for the good you have right now. Express your appreciation to others. Say “thank you” more often.

– So get started! As the next 365 days begin, anticipate receiving the blessings each day holds. Be excited. Look ahead in the New Year. It’s good for your health.

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Also published in the January 2018 edition of Around Point Cook Community newspaper in print and online via Issuu.

Look forward to a better life! It’s good for your health.

December 30, 2015 By Beverly Goldsmith 8 Comments

At the start of a New Year everyone is abuzz with high hopes for a better life ahead. There’s a feeling that the past is done-and-dusted and it’s time to look forward to new opportunities. There’s great hope for stronger family ties, friendships, better health, as well as happier days. Such hopeful “looking forward” is beneficial, and it’s good for your health.

Many of us stand ready to farewell the old year and eager to embrace a fresh start – a new beginning. There’s excitement in the air as we anticipate what might come along in the weeks ahead. Yet as each day of a New Year rolls on, such joyous expectancy often begins to diminish. The glow of happy prospects can seem short-lived. They may even appear to evaporate entirely in the routine of everyday living.

KEEP LOOKING FORWARD

Despite thoughts to the contrary, you can hold on to that pleasurable “look forward” expectancy. Indeed, there’s no need to lose that New Year sparkle. It’s possible to keep it all year long. How? In looking forward to a better life of health and happiness, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, shared her experience in her ground breaking book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures p. 426. She wrote that she “finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavouring to reach it.”

EIGHT TIPS TO HELP YOU KEEP LOOKING FORWAWRD

1. Even though life may be challenging, keep thought focused on achieving health and happiness. Don’t let this goal mentally fade from sight.

2. Drop old ways of negative thinking. Make way for fresh, inspiring ,new ideas. In this way “Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” The Bible, II Corinthians Chapter 5:17

3. Keep mentally looking ahead. Don’t look back on past hurts and disappointments. Leave last year’s baggage behind!

4. Be continually pleased that each day can bring evidence of warmth and caring – a welcoming smile, an unexpected kind gesture, a friendly greeting. Such goodness is everywhere.

5. Give a little joy, get a little joy. Remember that each hour brings fresh opportunity for joyfulness.

6. Breathe a silent blessing on everyone you pass. Your small gift of love will lift your heart and theirs.

7. Develop an attitude of gratitude. Give thanks for the good that’s right at hand, and what is yet to come.

8. Every morning, wake to a brand new day! Look forward to a better life. Take the next step to achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. It’s good for your health!

This article was first published on my previous blog site spiritualityandhealthconnect.com.