Keep It Moving

Paula Rainer Ph.D

Description

This book will provide you with tools to quickly recognize barriers and how to keep it moving to walk over, around or under these barriers so you can live your best life!
These meditations include philosophy, spirituality, and wellness narratives that will help you find your truth and fulfill your potential.
Paula Rainer, who earned a Ph.D. in counselor education and has dedicated her life to helping others overcome anxiety, depression, and other problems, explores the range of emotions we experience daily—some good and some bad. She also highlights how our DNA plays a part in how we navigate various encounters.
As you read, you’ll learn how to:
• build resiliency through the learned experience of others;
• create infrastructures to turn dreams into reality;
• overcome mental patterns that undermine your goals;
• free your mind and open yourself up to new possibilities.
The author emphasizes that you should not expect people to understand, endorse, support, or help you with your purpose. Successful people will understand your need to follow your inner soul. People who have yet to follow their inner souls will tell you why your goals are impossible.
Move past the naysayers, identify your goals, and take steps to achieve them with the lessons and insights in Keep It Moving.

Sujets

• Inspirational
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665735599
• Langue: English

Extrait

KEEP IT MOVING
 
 
Meditations on Overcoming Obstacles and Living Your Best Life
 
PAULA RAINER, PH.D
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2023 Paula Rainer, Ph.D.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
 
 
 
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One verse from the Common English Bible under
Favorite Quotes: “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. You’ll receive the same judgment you give”.
Matthew 7:1-2
 
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3543-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3542-1 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3559-9 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022923488
 
 
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 03/07/2023
 
 
 
 
Do not waste another second, minute, or hour of your life stopping at physical, emotional, or cognitive barriers that undermine your purposeful life.
This book will provide you with tools to quickly recognize barriers and how to keep it moving to walk over, around or under these barriers so you can live your best life!
DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to my heavenly parents, David, and Renee Bluford, who taught me the philosophy of keeping it moving. My husband, Stuart, is a calming force when I need to keep it moving. My three children, Chadwick, Camille, and Christina and grandson Chadwick Jr. have walked the journey of keeping it moving through successes and adversity. They are all inspirations to me beyond measure. Their love and strength propel me to keep it moving for my lifetime.
ACKNOWLEDGE
I want to recognize Fr. Donald Heet for helping me to navigate my spiritual goals of balanced well-being. He has given me insight to continue to achieve God’s journey for me to keep people moving forward to internal peace, love, and belonging. I want to acknowledge Dr. Thomas Monteiro, who is like a dad to me and a guiding force of love, acceptance, validation, peace, and a steady spirit. Marlene Alexander, my California mother, helped me grow as a woman and wife through my 20s to 30s. I appreciate my sisters Pamela and Penny, who make up the three “P”s; no matter what, we always come to conclusions of unity and Brittany who is an outstanding mother to my grandson.
INTRODUCTION
These meditations include philosophy, wellness, and spirituality narratives. Use this book to walk in your truth and fulfill the instructions of your soul. The reflections are in chapters like the chapters of our life.
Clients, colleagues, and counseling students inspired this book by asking me to repeat words of philosophy and meditations I had just imparted to them. It would be hard to capture the same essence again when they asked me to repeat my comments. So, I started to record these words of wisdom on a notepad.
I accumulated multiple quotes and notepads, so I put the most memorable quotes in a book. We experience a range of emotions daily, whether mindful of them or not. We stream through positive, negative, and neutral energy experiences daily. Emotions and psychological well-being are indicators of how we navigate our experiences and relationships on the earth and how we cope with these encounters. Our DNA plays a part in how we manage these encounters.
Likewise, our environments and relationships generate positive, negative, and neutral emotional and cognitive responses. This book helps people to navigate their lives and achieve their hopes, dreams, and goals despite their past development or current state.
Free your mind and open yourself up to new possibilities. Walk through life mindful of valid frameworks which develop your purpose and soul. Positive energy, faith, balance, and peace represent your destined pathways. So, seek positive narratives and keep it moving.
PROLOGUE
As a child, I was always open to the lived stories and insights of my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and elders. I listened because I respected them, and I knew they loved me. I did not realize that one day their words of wisdom would benefit the challenges I would encounter. I needed to understand how these nuggets of information would build my resiliency based on their lived experiences.
It is better to build resiliency by understanding other people’s experiences instead of suffering the same fate. Learning from your own lived experience without guidance from others can create a perspective of unnecessary pain and suffering.
Empathic listening and knowledge gained from the lived experience of others builds sustainability without being exposed to those experiences yourself. Your time on earth is limited based on years and the encounters with people you can experience. However, you can put a multiplier on the understanding of life if you gain knowledge from others.
Take advantage of learning from other people and build your durability from their experiences. It is better to learn from others who can impart lived experiences, adaptability gained, and brackets for problems in the future. Therefore, keep your mind open to the learned perspective of others.
The people who I learned from the most are my mother and father. My parents lived experiences developed resiliency garnered from their belief in their independence to thrive. They were self-made in many respects and did not entertain barriers for themselves or others. They did not let health, a lack of bestowed generational wealth or a guidebook for career success hold them behind a wall of hopelessness. Instead, they leaned into their own learned experiences, which developed resiliency and led to their individualized and collective success.
My mother and father (David and Renee Bluford) kept it moving and did not let anything external to their belief system or barriers stop them. They demonstrated faith on the path to their goals, and they were able to arrive at their destiny with room to help others.
The multifaceted generosity of their time, money, wisdom, guidance, optimism, strength, and abounding hope spilled to their daughters and the community in Queens, New York.
Their strength proves that if you have hope to transcend your challenging episodes in life, you will develop strong shoulders to overcome complex life events to help yourself and others to realize a fulfilled and fruitful life.
Keep it moving, learn through resiliency, and live your optimized life with a greater perspective of inner purpose which teaches us about hope and creating the life we desire.
Contents
GOALS
Chapter 1: No one else can see your purpose
Chapter 2: Perfection is an exercise in futility
Chapter 3: Always love yourself through struggles
Chapter 4: Allow doors to shut when they are closing
Chapter 5: Run quickly or softly toward your goals
Chapter 6: Stay away from a dim star
Chapter 7: If you are sitting alone in a room with a magnificent idea flowing through your brain, and there is no hype or cheering squad, do not worry
Chapter 8: Ask yourself if failure is a goal
Chapter 9: Our destiny is individuated and authentic
Chapter 10: We all feel that we have walked a trillion steps and have at least a trillion more steps in front of us
Chapter 11: Make yourself a profit center of survival on earth
Chapter 12: Do not follow the goals and dreams of someone else
Chapter 13: Life is a journey of many questions
Chapter 14: Distractions from your positive narratives are destructive to personal development, goal completion, and long-term mental health
Chapter 15: If you believe you are a procrastinator, it has more to do with your belief system about yourself than the acts of procrastination
SEEK POSITIVE ENERGY
Chapter 16: We decide to walk through positive or negative portals of actions, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions
Chapter 17: Negative energy is always chasing everyone everywhere, every day
Chapter 18: Do not act on negative thoughts or deeds toward others
Chapter 19: While on the journey of life, sit in joy
Chapter 20: Some people exercise harmful parasitic activities to selfishly access their needs by taking advantage of people’s talents, reputations, and overall good energy
Chapter 21: It is good to be decent, kind, humble, and unselfish when there is nothing to gain and no one is watching
Chapter 22: If you are in an environment where your talent thrives, do not assume that your emotional energy is also thriving.
Chapter 23: Do not focus on judgmental people
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERSONALITY
Chapter 24: Many people fear being great
Chapter 25: When you are talking to someone and want them to listen, you must be formulaic about starting a discussion
Chapter 26: When you say that you care, it is not an automatic act of caring
Chapter 27: Acknowledge negative thoughts and anger
Chapter 28: Autonomy does not mean selfishness, self-