Canvas

jsk...good morning,

our every moment is like blank canvas...we can paint whatever we want....god has given us this power. 95% percent of what happens is our life depends on our reaction to any situation. everyday we come across so many situations, people, problems, etc.....but the way you react and the energy you send off is important...this is what will determine how your canvas will be painted.

i want to mention a girl who is my older son's good friend who lives near his in Symra, GA. she is blessed with two sons. even as a busy mom, whenever i meet her i find that she very much in the moment..very alert..very in it. like everybody else she might be facing rough roads here and there, but the reaction i always get from her is so upbeat and very respectful.

its up to you how you choose to react and what picture you paint.

have a very good day.

take care
love ya

nima

love

jsk...good morning,

story goes....you fall in love, live in dreamy state, get married and a beautiful journey of one's life begins. now a days seems like we are more wrapped up in turns....your turn to take the trash out or pick up the laundry, etc. seems like small things happen that lead to people falling out of love. divorces and separations even seem to be very common now a days.
i have a very good friend of mine and she got married 35 yrs ago. like most people she also fell in love, went to movies, giggled, smiled dreaming about their beautiful life together.
life was good and blessed them with a daughter...what more can she ask. then life took a dangerous turn, her husband had a car accident got paralyzed.
its been almost 20 yrs now and still everyday he has to be fed, dressed, shaved and make him to do exercise. they still laugh, joke like a normal couple but now she is the one who is the caretaker and handles the affairs. regardless she still turns to him to ask his opinions, respects all the decisions of her husband. some of their dreams have been shattered and there are very rough days now and then.
what keeps her going?
she has not fallen out of love, she never counts her turn, she just loves him...unconditionally.

take care love ya
nima

breathing

jsk,

on a daily basis we are not always aware of our breathing. if you have not gone scuba diving, just imagine your self in the middle of the ocean in your diving suit. in the calmness of the ocean only thing you hear is just your breathing and that moment you are fully aware of every breath you take.
we all know how important our each breath is yet we don't pay attention to it.
the more aware you are of your breathing, the more control you have in everything you do.
when you have even 5 minutes, just pay attention to your breathing...you are alive because of it.

take care
love ya
nima

spinal cord

jsk.. good morning,

every human being and animal you grows old, but the only species which never shows signs of their age is a snake. a snake remains snake, there is no old snake...you know why? because a snake is always making use of his spinal cord...all the vertebrae of the spinal cord. every minute it is rotating. even when it is resting it wraps around the tree.
our spinal cord is part of our central nervous system. we do forget to rotate and make use of our spinal cord. we can likely eliminate so many diseases that we suffer from...we need need to keep moving for better health.

when you are sitting being lazy... think of snakes.

take care
love ya
nima

gratitude

jsk...good morning,

if our life is full of gratitude...we are a blessed person. if our life is full of complaints and only complaints...we are failures and we live in misery.
try not to complain.
choice is ours.
today we can choose which life we want. so before you complain....THINK.

take care
love ya
nima

complain

jsk,

create don't complain for when you complain you remain in same state.
every minute we have the power to create whatever we want to.
but i think 75% of our beautiful minutes are wasted to complaints about something and somebody.
accept everyone the way they are and the situation as is.
if you want to change somebody, make change to yourself and everything will fall in it's place.
you have the power to create your own destiny.
take care
love ya
nima

past

jsk,

we have the habit on dwelling on our past. we are so involved in not letting our past go, that we lose hold on our future.
we need to learn to live in the PRESENT.
my husband and I hardly have an argument and if we do the next minute he'll ask me where his glasses are? I'll search around to find them and give it to him. my son will look at me and ask "mom, aren't you mad at dad?" I was mad at him a moment ago, and we literally forget we were arguing.

instead of spending time on dwelling or arguing about the problem, express each others issues and spend time on the solution.
today, let's forget about why they said this or that and just enjoy the day.

take care
love ya
nima

children

God gives us children so we can enjoy our childhood all over again. We seem to forget that and start putting too many rules and regulations on them with "do this!"..."don't do that!" and even by enrolling them in multiple classes or the best school, etc.

I have always enjoyed making tents made out of bedsheets, cardboard ramps for the cars while waiting for them to come home from school...watching HE-MAN cartoons with them.... I couldn't wait for the Berenstein Bear's new book to come out so we can read it together...also making rope slide for their G I Joes......

Now I get to do it all over again with my grandsons...with the 2 year old, I'm doing the army crawl, pretending to throw a baseball like a pro, putting myself in "time out" or with my 7 year old, skipping jump rope and sleeping with Jack (my teddy bear) and Jerry (his teddy) --He even makes sure I hold Jack properly when I am climbing the stairs! These past 4 days I have been so wrapped up in being a kid with the that I even forgot to take my medicines, but I am fine.

I have never let my inner child die. Keep that child alive and enjoy your children by being one of them. It's the best stress reliever medicine.

Take care.

Love,

Nima