According to this book I'm reading(Happy for No Reason), saying positive things to yourself can make you much happier. It forces your brain to focus on positive thoughts. So here it goes.
1. Today is a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine and a cleared sky.
2. Tomorrow boss is going to have a talk with me regarding some prolems at work. I can explain myself very well and I will be okay. It won't be a big deal anyway. The worst thing could happen is for me to quit the job. But there will be better opportunities out there waiting for me. I've got ABSOLUTELY nothing to worry about.
3. The world is always on my side. Everyone loves me.
4. I love the world as well. I love everyone. Everyone is friendly and kind to me. So am I to them.
6. My wish(secret) will be fulfilled very soon.
7. I made time for singing this morning. I will keep it up. I'm thinking of looking for a teacher to learn how to sing. I love to sing.
That's it for now. Good luck to everyone who's reading this.
May your life filled with happiness.
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Thanks Miyonao, I wish you happiness too!
thank you for writing this thought. it is good to read and remember. thanks ♥
Thanks for reading. Nice to see you mile191.
way to go. every day think about the good things around you. all you have to do is see them. hear them. feel them.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: THE UNMASKED DECEPTION OF THE 12- STEP RECOVERY PROGRAM; IT'S FOUNDERS; IT'S HISTORICAL SPIRITUAL ROOTS; AND IT'S INEFFECTIVENESS AS A TREATMENT.
Copyright © 1997-2002 Zenith Harris Merrill
Adolescents who hold strong religious beliefs are less likely to drink and take drugs. A new study just published in the September, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows that teens who "have a personal relationship with God" are half as likely to succumb to alcoholism and drug addiction, said Lisa Miller of Columbia University, author of the report, according to Reuters.
..."This is the first study to show that personal spirituality strongly protects against ever developing alcoholism and drug abuse," Miller said. "Most abusers experiment with drugs or alcohol in their teen years," she said. "The study surveyed 676 people aged 15-19."
..."The study evaluated the teens' personal relationship with God, adherence to a creed, and degree of fundamentalism in their denomination," Reuters said. "Those who had a personal relationship with God and belonged to a conservative denomination were less likely to use marijuana and cocaine," the report said.
SATANIC ILLUSION WAS BASIS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Satan, whom God had created the most beautiful and intelligent angel of all the angels was named Lucifer - "the shining one," until he rebelled against God, wishing to be God and to receive the worship that is due only to God. After he rebelled and was thrown to earth from heaven, the Bible says, God renamed him Satan, which means the "deceiver" and the "adversary."
Because "Bill Wilson had rejected the concept of a personal Creator God and because the thought of the existence of a God to whom he was accountable was completely repugnant to him, when he cried out in desperation because of his alcoholism, it was not to the one true God, but to any "higher power" who might exist, not to the God who has revealed Himself to man in His Holy Word, and this was an invitation with which Satan was delighted to comply.
Satan immediately rewarded Wison with an incredible occultic "experience." In Wilson's own words, "Suddenly the room lit up with a great "white light." I was caught up into an ecstasy which there are no words to describe. It seemed to me, in the mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consciousness. All about me and through me there was a wonderful feeling of Presence..."
and because of that experience, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded so that others could share in Bill Wilson's experience.
References to similar experiences with "white light" can be found throughout the world of the occult.
* Alice Bailey, a leading New Age occultist and author, wrote a book named A Treatise on White Magic in which she told how to control the astral body by a "direct method of relaxation, concentration, stillness and flushing the entire personality with pure White Light, with instructions on how to "call down a stream of pure White Light."
* Barbara Powell, a psychic says "remember, as with all divination, relax and surround yourself with the White Light of protective energy. then allow your mind to flow in the earth patterns and accept the message you find there. Earth divination is one of the most harmonious forms of divination."
* The Tara Center, a well-known New Age organization which promotes the "New Age Christ," called Maitreya, explains "visualize a triangle of White Light circulating above your heads; then see your triangle linked with all other triangles, transmission and meditation groups on the planet. See the White Light circulating among this network of focal points and pouring out to envelop the world, thus helping to form a channel for the downpouring of Light and Love into the body of humanity.
* When you say "From the centre where the Will of God is known, "which is Shamballa (where occultists say that their god, Lucifer dwells), visualise a great sphere of White Light."
* In an article entitled "The Spirits Speak" by Timothy Green Beckley, he describes a trance channeler (medium or psychic) who goes into a trance by evoking the White Light so that only positive energy may come through.
* Circle Network, a witchcraft organization, had an article on how to meditate in their magazine. Part of the instructions were" "Begin by visualizing a protective White Light around you."
* Lazaris, a spirit guide (actually and biblically a demon) suggests that he "be visualized, simply, as a sphere of White Light."
* The Polleys, spiritist teahers, make mention of "enlightenment for those along the path of White Light" in their newsletter entitled Voices from Spirit.
* New Age channeler, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, held a conference where "the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood" (believed to be a "spiritual order of Western saints and Eastern reincarnated masters," who were actually demonic beings) were to be contacted to speak "on America's destiny in the New Age." Their name referred not to race but to the aura of White Light that surrounded them.
There is example after example among those who serve Satan, among those who practice Witchcraft and among modern Pagans who have made similar quotations regarding their experiences with the "White Light" when they enter into meditation or trance states to seek power through contact with spiritual entities.
In Deuteronomy 18:10, God warns the Isrelites against the occultic - demonic practices of their neighboring countries and He forbids any of His people, those who call upon His name from engaging in them: "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,..."
In Acts 16:16-18 the Holy Spirit speaks through Luke to tell of an unsaved girl who was controlled by a demonic spirit of divination who revealed information about those the girl encountered: "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain maid possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: {of divination: or, of Python}
Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation." And she continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out at that very moment.
Obviously, Christians are not to engage in any kind of interaction with demonic forces, but are to resist them and to oppose them, in the name of Jesus Christ and through the authority of a saved believer in Him. Bill Wilson's error was in seeking a supernatural power, any supernatural power, rather than the one true God. His experience with the powerful seduction of this white light was one of his key motivations in forming Alcoholics Anonymous.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its 12-step program has received praise for many years from every facet of society, including doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, government agencies, the clergy, and even Ann Landers, as an exemplary treatment program for alcoholics. A look back into the lives and spiritual beliefs of its co-founders, an analysis of the Twelve Steps and an honest assessment of how effective its program really is, reveals where the l2-steps actually lead desperate vulnerable people.
Alcoholics Anonymous's 12-steps has had an enormous influence upon modern society, beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. The thousands of groups across the United States using Bill Wilson's 12-step program and the codependency/recovery programs routinely utilizing it, blend the intrinsic Psychology, Philosophy and Religion that are built within 12-steps into whatever "treatment" program they devise.
The 12-steps are as follows:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of God - as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God - whoever or whatever that might be -, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all of these character defects.
7. We humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had wronged and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God - as we understood Him, praying for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these steps and principles in all our affairs.
The only valid "Spiritual Awakening" that we should share with others is the spiritual regeneration found only in Christ, and any other "spiritual awakening" is demonic deception which leaves men "spiritually dead."
A large number of Christian churches, Christian organizations and Christian ministers routinely recommend the 12-step recovery program, and many host AA and affiliated recovery programs within their buildings. Few seem to be concerned or even aware that the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who originated the 12 steps, obtained their teachings from Eastern Mysticism and Spiritist sources which are diametrically opposed to Christianity.
Bill Wilson, a co-founder of AA said that the designation "God" does not refer to a particular being, force or concept, but only to "God" as each of us chooses to understand that term. In Came To Believe, a record of the individual spiritual journeys of members of Alcoholics Anonymous, not one recorded experience is Christian.
In Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, by Ernest Kurtz, it is documented that Bill Wilson was fascinated with "spiritism", and was drawn through his friendship with philosopher-mystic Gerald Heard into the ambit of the later-life interests of humanist, Aldous Huxley. Bill Wilson experimented with occultic spiritualistic phenomena, and eventually claimed some power over them.
It is a matter of record according to Melody Beattie, author of "Beyond Codependency" that Bill Wilson's interest in "spiritualism" was accompanied by "his experimentation with L.S.D."
There is not one reference to the Biblical God and Father of Jesus Christ, or to Jesus Christ as the one and only Savior in the several hundred testimonials in Came To Believe. The book shows an anti-Christian bias, as every possible kind of other god and every other kind of testimony, other than Christian, is recorded.
AA and the Recovery Industry's doctrine of God is clearly just as idolatrous and Biblically untrue as Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Shintoism or any of the New Age Religious cults.
When Christian leadership is so blatantly oblivious to non-Christian unbiblical teachings as to endorse them, and recommend the sponsoring agency to their members, the question must be asked: "Where is the spiritual discernment that God commanded us to practice?"
There are many within the Christian community who apparently believe that the founders of AA were Christians, and that AA's 12-steps are based on the Bible, and that their "Higher Power"-to which the 12-steps refer to as: "God as you understand him" - is actually Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God of the Bible. They are completely wrong!
The belief that Alcoholics Anonymous is a Christian organization is a myth, as nothing in Alcoholics Anonymous's history supports that belief, and on the contrary the founders of AA, the spinoff organizations it has produced, and AA's official literature deny that it is a Christian organization.
In his book, The Useful Lie, William M. Playfair, M.D. traces the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and it's founders, documenting their non-Christian beliefs and practices, the sources from which Alcoholics Anonymous was spawned, and exposes the truth about the "Recovery" movement.
* Even though 87% of Americans believe alcoholism is a disease, and although the "disease" belief is the basis of nearly all Recovery programs, there is no scientific evidence to support the disease theory of alcoholism.
* According to all research, surveys and available information, 40% of the addicts in Recovery programs drop out, and have no better recovery rate than those who receive no treatment at all.
* Despite the billions of dollars spent on Recovery, there is a higher percentage of alcoholics and drug addicts now than there were before the Recovery approach came into vogue.
* In spite of the widely held belief that Alcoholics Anonymous has Christian roots, it is derived from Eastern mystical religions, which incorporate paganism and the occult within their doctrines, and Spiritism, all of which are idolatrous to the God of the Bible.
According to Dr. Kathy Burns, author of Alcoholics Anonymous Ummasked: Deception and Deliverance; Where Do the 12-Steps Lead? only two studies have employed random assignment and adequate controls to compare the efficiency of AA versus no intervention or alternative interventions.
Brandsma et al. (1980) found no differences at 12-month follow-up, between AA and no treatment at all, and at 3 month follow-up, those assigned to AA were found to be significantly more likely to be binge drinking, relative to controls or those assigned to other interventions.
Ditman and Crawford (1966) assigned court mandated "alcohol addicts" either to AA, to clinic treatment, or no treatment (probation only). Based on rearrest records, 31% of AA's clients and 32% of other clinic treated clients were judged successful, compared with a 44% success rate in the untreated (probation only) group.
Drs. Martin and Deidra Bobgan, in Prophets of Psychoheresy II quote Dr. Stanton Peele, senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, and author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatments Out of Control: "Several studies have shown that those who quit drinking via AA actually have a higher relapse rate than those who quit on their own."
Alcoholics Anonymous is not the effective "Wonder Cure" society has been taught to believe that it is. What AA does do, however, is to introduce those who are exposed to it, "to seek after other gods, whom they have not known..." Those who attend their meetings or read their literature, or receive their counseling are told that any god at all will do. AA teaches people to worship "god as they understand him" - or would like him to be, a god of their own making, a god created in their own image, or even the particular AA group of people with whom they meet, they are told, may serve as their "god."
The most frightening aspect of seeking a "lesser god," is the possibility that they will find him, or that indeed they will welcome him in, for Jesus called Satan the "god of this world," and the "ruler of this present age" in the world's "system," and Satan desires worship in any deceitful form he can receive it.
If they would only turn to the "one true God," the God of the Bible, they would find, as God promises in His Holy Word, that "with God all things are possible." (Mark 10:27)
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