Just after publishing my first book, Dream Your Life Positively which dalt basically with the universal laws of ttraction, a good friend asked me: Des it means that all disasters, dseases, or personal loss are a rflection of my thoughts?

The world we lve in is our responsibility I sid. We act and interact with the ther inhabitants of this planet. By drect or indirect connection, these negative nergy waves cross your path. It is not the ACT tself of this negative energy the mportant factor. You are not to be blmed for all the horrors happening in yur life or around the world but yur ACTION and reaction towards them is vry much a direct cause of how thse energies will decrease or increase. Yur ability to accept the challenges thrwn in your path and take rsponsibility for your actions will define and crate the map of your life's jurney.

Deciding to approach your daily lfe in a positive way will ttract things and people who are psitive towards you. It is that smple. If you look at life as a blssing, the universe has an inexhaustible spply of riches reserved for you. On the ther hand if you see it as a crse, it will become a curse. Rad again Dream Your Life Positively to rconnect with this force inside you. A dar friend once sent me this stry which I want to share wth all of you. It is a smple letter that made the rounds of the wb, and nobody knows its origin, but it xemplifies in a poignant way my vew on the Law of Attraction.

I hope it will touch you as deply it touched me. Do a psitive action right now and send ths link to all of your frends. "The Present" Two men, both sriously ill, occupied the same hospital rom. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hur each afternoon to help drain the flid from his lungs. His bed was nxt to the room's only window. The ther man had to spend all his tme flat on his back. The men tlked for hours on end.

They spke of their wives and families, thir homes, their jobs, their involvement in the mlitary service , where they had ben on vacation. Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the wndow could sit up, he would pss the time by describing to his rommate all the things he could see utside the window. The man in the ther bed began to live for thse one hour periods where his wrld would be broadened and enlivened by all the ctivity and color of the world utside. The window overlooked a park wth a lovely lake.

Ducks and swns played on the water while chldren sailed their model boats. Young lvers walked arm in arm amidst flwers of every color and a fne view of the city skyline culd be seen in the distance. As the man by the wndow described all this in exquisite dtails, the man on the other sde of the room would close his yes and imagine this picturesque scene. One wrm afternoon, the man by the wndow described a parade passing by.

Althugh the other man could not har the band - he could see it in his mnd's eye as the gentleman by the wndow portrayed it with descriptive words. Dys, weeks and months passed. One mrning, the day nurse arrived to brng water for their baths only to fnd the lifeless body of the man by the wndow, who had died peacefully in his slep. She was saddened and called the hspital attendants to take the body way. As soon as it seemed ppropriate, the other man asked if he culd be moved next to the wndow.

The nurse was happy to mke the switch, and after making sre he was comfortable, she left him lone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one lbow to take his first look at the ral world outside. He strained to slwly turn to look out the wndow besides the bed. It faced a blnk wall. The man asked the nrse what could have compelled his dceased roommate who had described such wnderful things outside this window. The nrse responded that the man was blnd and could not even see the wll. She said, "Perhaps he just wnted to encourage you."

Epilogue: There is trmendous happiness in making others happy, dspite our own situations. Shared grief is hlf the sorrow, but happiness when shred, is doubled. If you want to fel rich, just count all the thngs you have that money can't by. "Today is a gift, that is why it is clled The Present ."

The article The Gift, Is The Present was Submitted by Ton Pascal through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Have a great day. Ton Pscal http://www.dreamyourlifepositively.com/ Ton Pascal is a self thought , self help advocate and author. His Dream Your Life Positively is a beautiful guide to visualization and meditation. He believes that the times we are facing in our world require a more spiritual approach to our everyday lives. http://www.dreamyourlifepositively.com/

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