A New Spiritual Principle to Update My TROML Program…

2 640 holding sun spiritNew Spiritual Principles to update My TROML Program—I don’t know where they come from. There is no pattern to have one produced. I know they come from the TROML Process, living life to its fullest, journaling and being reasonably and responsibly introspective, silencing any harsh critical voice and amplifying our Eternal Child Within, and being present, always listening for them to come. And they will come, they do come.

Please remember TROML has nothing to do with me. For whatever reason my sole role is to share this TROML Process that developed within my lifetime experience. It is a process for anyone to apply to their life and develop their own TROML Program. The process turns to program in a uniquely spiritual, mental and emotional manner with wonderful physical consequences. This is not a follower program, this is not do what Anonymous Andy did with his life. That’s why it is done anonymously, within ourselves in a quiet yet effective manner.

We each have a unique TROML Program. In fact you already have one today. This is a tuneup or major overhaul depending on your thoughts, words and actions and the life situation you find yourself in today. Or TROML may be an opportunity for you to share your life experiences to benefit others. 2 640 Aristotle Acorn become Oak withinTROML is an umbrella program that integrates all other programmatic spiritual sources like religion and Twelve Step programs, corporate organizations (work), community and charitable based organizations and entertainment and sports (fun). TROML is the non-programmatic umbrella for all your previous and future programs. It is uniquely you and becomes your spiritual compass in life to your True Self and Eternal Child Within. In this way we find peace, joy and freedom along the way and at our closing breath we can feel, think and say to the Universe and beyond—”thank you for a beautiful life and having the opportunity to live it fully and gracefully, being able to contribute what I was suppose to contribute to this amazing world.”

3 640 Intuition awaken to freedomSo a new Spiritual Principle came to me recently. It might be hogwash to you but to me it meant another step forward in My TROML Program of peace, joy and freedom and living with what I call the Ultimate Love. For me it seems they come after an intense experience where my capabilities are tested and stretch to where I know life as we know it is beyond my control. Maybe it is another step of awareness, surrender or alignment. It’s a beautiful experience that beings immediately a new and different and seemingly higher level of peace, joy and freedom to my life. It’s inspiring to me and more inner power come with it. My course is recharted a bit and recharged. It seems as if living from the inside-out with this newly and properly aligned spiritual compass that there are no limits in life, only those imposed by ourselves and TROML dissolves most of them and all of them with time.

4 640 be fearlessThrough the TROML Process, with our own TROML Program, we can become a spiritual entity in life!

So my latest Spiritual Principle in my own TROML Program, to be added to My TROML Daily Script is:

Shoot, I can’t read the writing I scribbled down in My TROML Journal when it came to me.

LoLiL, Lots of Laughs in Life, here it is:

I will vigilantly challenge my ego within to detect when I am justifying, rationalizing, or denying the truth about myself, others and my life situation. My innate, natural ego protects me and enables me to function in life. But when my ego becomes out of proportion to the earthly task at hand, if I am humble and willing, God with intervene to keep my ego functioning properly and keep me along the spiritual path to peace, joy and freedom, the Ultimate Love.

CLICK here for my newly updated TROML Daily Script- what is yours?

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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I am not Sorry, I am Revived, I live in Peace, Joy & Freedom. So can You!!!

I am sorry…

You can’t solve your problem by thinking your way out of it…

You can’t solve your problem by thinking your way out of it living in an ego-centric paradign prison.

I am sorry but that is a way of life if you so choose and there is only one way to escape that I know of after searching for over 50 years.

I am really not sorry about it but if you are thinking life sucks then you are not looking around hard enough from the way out of your misery.

I am not really sorry, I am revived.

I am not really sorry, I am revived and so can you be.

Peace, joy and freedom is attainable with any one’s life, no matter the circumstances or the person or people involved.

Peace, joy and freedom is attainable with any one’s life, no matter the circumstances or the person or people involved; absolutely, positively, without a doubt.

If a life of peace, joy & freedom is what you desire I can assist your personal revival through the TROML Process.

But only if you really want it only if you are really ready.

Is it time in your life to come to peace, joy and freedom.

Is it time in your life to experience the Ultimate Love of life, yourself, the God of your Understanding and with other people.

Let’s do TROML!

It’s available but it is your choice, your decision to proceed to a new life possible for everyone, every situation.

I wish you peace, joy and freedom in life starting today!

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

 

Feel Your Feelings First, Without Thinking!!!

1 No ThoughtsAt First, Try having Your Feelings with No Thoughts

What is that you say? Try having feelings with no thoughts?

Yes, I tried it this morning upon awakening.

How did I feel?

How did I feel without my thoughts telling me how I felt?

How did I feel without my thoughts, without my mind telling me how I felt?

How did I feel without my thoughts, without my mind and without my ego telling me how I felt?

How did I really feel, not how am I supposed to feel?

2 behind smile is a storyVery strange, yes, but also very effective for me as a way to get in touch with my true feelings, my True Self.

How can I have feelings with no thoughts?

Like this… when, not if, the thoughts come let them go immediately without thinking about them anymore. Focus on other things first, we will get to the thoughts later. Trust me.

What are you feeling?

What does that feeling you are having feel like?

 

 

3 heartbeat & breathFocus on your breath.

Keep the feeling but focus on your breath.

Breathe in, then out.

Breathe in, then out.

Breathe in then out…

Keep breathing trying to feel the feeling.

What am I feeling, not what am I supposed to be feeling.

Feel the rhythm of your heartbeat.

Don’t think about it, find it on your chest, your wrist or the carotid vein on your neck.

This isn’t a test, you don’t have to do it perfectly the first time.

Be present and doing your best is the only requirement.

4 How r u Fine with real feelings behindDon’t worry if you can’t find your heartbeat right now.

Focus on feeling that feeling that you awoke with.

It’s okay to skip finding the heartbeat, be thankful your heart doesn’t skip a heartbeat.

 

 

Be thankful for this moment of being alive.

Now what was that feeling you awoke with?

5 fear can get over itCan you describe, without thinking, what the feeling of frightened is for you?

For you, not anybody else.

What does it feel like for you to be frightened?

Can you describe it without thinking about it first?

Can you describe it in terms of your own personal experiences in life?

Can you describe it without letting your ego tell you what you are supposed to be feeling like in this moment?

6 accept feelingsRemember we have choices on how to think but we don’t have choices on how we feel.

I choose not to immediately feel the way I think I am supposed to feel.

I am not reenacting my feelings from some movie I saw that made a huge emotional impact on me.

I am not feeling how I think others expect me to feel.

I am going to feel first and explore, delve into that feeling for a moment or two.

Then I am going to accept that feeling as being true for me at this moment of my life.

I feel first.

7 Feeling my FeelingsThen I add what I think happened that is associated with this feeling.

I feel XXX right now when that happened.

Maybe you think you feel the way you do because of the dream you just had?

I usually can remember my dreams when I awake on my own. But if an alarm click goes off to awaken me, poof there goes the recollection of the dream along with my slumber too.

I feel XXX when YYY happened to me…

Then think again, what caused you to feel this way? What happened to you? What did somebody else do to you?

I feel XXX when YYY happened because of ZZZ.

8 get out your feelingsGo one step further and include yourself in this mystery feeling puzzle.

What did you do to cause this feeling? What choices did you make that caused this feeling? Is this feeling an unwanted or wanted result of the consequences of a choice or decision that you made?

Go another step further and include your Higher Power, a God of your understanding, at this moment in your life.

Where was she or He or It in all of this?

Where was your relationship with your Higher Power in all of this?

When I came out of my sugar addiction into recovery where I have been present, clear and alive like never before I learned that I can feel my feelings.

They won’t hurt me in of themselves.

9 era of good feelingsAnother thing I learned in my recovery from sugar addiction is that not only will I feel what society dictates to be negative feelings such as weak, depressed, and frightened; I can and will feel fully the other “good” feelings like joy, being safe and being loved.

I tell you it is a whole new world with TROML, your TROML!

What you feel, what you think, what you say, what you do is all yours to confidently decide with your own TROML program guiding you and you let your personal God (a God of your understanding, which can be a God not one other human being on Earth has or understands or it can be no God at all) and your innate human instincts, senses and the ability to reason life’s challenges out for yourself.

We have choices.

10 make new life with new choicesFeelings are true but not necessarily a call to arms in our life. In fact the worldly reaction to one’s feelings can take you down the wrong road in your life.

Remember it is your life.

Your life to live for the rest of your life. TROML Baby!

Feelings will pass.

Consequences of our choices may not pass for a long time.

Don’t think you have to be perfect.

Don’t think you have to control everything.

Don’t think it is all or nothing.

Don’t judge yourself or anyone else harshly and critically.

11 I have a feeling I am not the only oneAccept people, places, things and situations, at least for this moment, for this day if you have to in order to maintain your serenity.

TROML is one day at a time Baby!

Be compassionate, loving and accepting of yourself for this moment, this day in your life.

Have peace, joy and freedom with your own TROML program.

Try feeling your feelings, at first without thinking.

Then make the best choices or no choice at all today.

 

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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How do I Avoid that First Compulsive Bite?

1This is the most important question of all questions in my life for me, myself and I—Anonymous Andy—, a compulsive overeater and sugar addict.

Its relevance and answer impacts my life directly in terms of the quality of my life and the longevity of my life. Quality and magnitude is something of importance to most everything in life, including life itself.

How do I Avoid that First Compulsive Bite?

The answer is simple for normal eaters—just don’t take that first compulsive bite Anonymous Andy!

2That answer is irrelevant for me. I have a disease—one that is infecting America and the rest of the world, one that we can all see in the sizes of our bodies and the amount of food and sugar we consume, and one that no one is acknowledging in personal one-on-one conversations or even in our hearts and minds. Wed are all still in denial and that includes me a lot of the time.

I long, I wish I was a normal eater and frequently have to prove to myself in a way that harms myself that I am not. I am a compulsive overeater and sugar addict.

3When it comes to eating, normal eaters have willpower and a the sense to stop eating when they feel they are getting full and their hunger is satiated.

At times in my life I had willpower when it came to food, mostly in terms of being on a diet. No longer do I have power over food once I take that first compulsive bite of one of my binge foods or sugar.

I have will power in other areas of my life just not when it comes to my binge foods and sugar. I have to accept that as being true for me first.

This year is the Year of Transparency for me. I journal openly and honestly about my life. I need to continue to personally revive myself as I assist others in personally reviving themselves in all aspects of life, not just addictions such as compulsive overeating.

Got TROMLWhile sharing my world on PersonalRevivalist.com I am also transitioning my journals to am electronic format as well so that I have everything I need on my cell phone and this website. As I progress to a completely spiritual life first and foremost it makes sense that all I need is available to me electronically wherever I go.

Along these lines here is my script for what I do when I sense an urge to seek sugar or eat compulsively. I am grateful for Overeaters Anonymous (OA), my Abstinence, the Twelve Steps, my sponsors, and my OA Buddies walking this journey to Peace, Joy & Freedom—the Ultimate Love in Life with me.

It is not perfect just like me and may make no sense to anyone other than myself. It is a component, like other sources of inspiration and enabling programs, of my own personal TROML Program. It’s a start and it is evolving.

4I absolutely love being Abstinent and working my TROML Program to the nth degree.

I can’t explain what it feels like to be more clear, present and engaged in life than ever before.

I have had long periods of freedom from obsession with food and it is where I want to be as I live out the rest of my life.

Another program called Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA), as did Al-Anon, has released me from all the challenges associated with a childhood infected by the disease of alcoholism and aligned me with all the strengths recovered from that experience, especially when it comes to Emotional Maturity, Intelligence or Emotional Recovery, whatever it is called.

6 yo yoI would never have found these programs which are custom fitted for my life experience if I had not discover the TROML Process some 15 years ago. As an inspiration seeking umbrella program it naturally leads me to the right spiritual, mental, emotional and physical springs of knowledge and application at the right time. TROML is quite amazing and only takes 17 days to get started on your own TROML Journey that will change your life like it did mine.

 

With no further ado, here is the How do I Avoid that First Compulsive Bite? script of Anonymous Andy

How Do I Avoid that First Compulsive Bite?

OA Program of Action- Personal Choices

Pray & Meditate- Talk to my Higher Power (HP)- Is this HP’s Will for Me?

?4 Ask HP 4?

(Free Self, Direct Thinking, Inspire Decisions, Show Next Step)

?4 Ask Myself 4?   Trusting or Silly Ego

(Perfectionism, Control, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Judgementalism)

7 toolsUse the 9 OA Tools of Abstinence

Use OA Tool 1: A Plan of Eating

What am I overeating over?

Use OA Tool 5: Writing (Journal)

Do Not Isolate

Trust, Feel & Share

Use OA Tool 4: Telephone (Call or text an OA Buddy)

Use OA Tool 2: Sponsorship (Call my Sponsor, Be a Sponsor)

Use OA Tool 6: OA Literature

Read Pamphlets- First Compulsive Bite & Just For Today

CHOICES- another activity, go to sleep

Set Timer for 12 Minutes

Use OA Tool 3: Meetings (Go to a Meeting or Call-in to a Meeting)

Telephone Meetings (24 hours a day, 365 days a year)

8I will not emotionally abandon myself through compulsive overeating and sugar addiction.

Journal Feelings & Emotions: (I feel X when Y happens because of Z)

Feel the Feeling, Accept it Completely

I will not escape from my feelings, self-medicate, or anesthetize myself with food or sugar.

I will be in conscious contact with my Higher Power.

Use OA Tool 7: An Action Plan

Use OA Tool 8: Service

Use OA Tool 9: Anonymity

 

Have a TROML Day Today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Transitioning from Surviving to Thriving in Life

Transitioning from Surviving to Thriving in Life

More specifically and accurately: transforming from surviving alcoholism in one’s childhood to thriving in one’s adult life.

Life begins end of comfort zoneSomewhere in between completely forgetting about one’s past because you can’t change it and completely reliving it so that it immobilizes you for the rest of your life is the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) program with its ‘Big Red Book.’ Inside that ‘Big Red Book,’ early on in that book, on Page ‘x’ you will find “The Laundry List,” the 14 Traits of an “Adult Child.” (Source: Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA.)) This term “Adult Child” refers to people that are now adults but as children grew up in alcoholic homes like me.  I am an Adult Child too.

Adult Child“Adult Child” also means that when confronted, we regress to a stage in our childhood per founder Tony A. This generally is not good and limits our enjoyment of life on life’s terms. But when honestly accepted and worked through via the Twelve Steps this is a really good thing. It brings a full life of peace, joy and freedom completely into play for anyone impacted by the disease of alcoholism as a child.

We can literally transform our perspectives, our attitudes, our behavior, our lives… ourselves into our True Self while still maintaining that special Eternal Child Within. That is what I am working on and will continue to work on through ACA and an umbrella TROML program. Inspiration springs forth from overcoming challenges in life and it can come from you too without a doubt, absolutely, positively without a doubt. First you will inspire yourself with your God’s help and then you will go on to inspire other people living out your life’s innate design.

Here is “The Laundry List” and the 14 Traits of an “Adult Child.” (Source: Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA.))

1 in 11 childrenIf you identify with them maybe you are an Adult Child too. If so, that realization and the subsequent opportunity could be the biggest gift God has presented to you in your life. But you have to do the work, no matter how painful at first. ACA and TROML are programs of action, not merely intellectual pursuits. I know as a child I was always trying to figure it out in my head. How could I make everything okay? I literally thought I could grow up to be president, fix everything and make all the pain in myself and others throughout the world go away. Looking back that was when I started acquiring and using the 14 Traits to survive my childhood.

self esteemI chose to let the disease of alcoholism impact me in adverse ways. Of course I could rationalize that away that I was only a kid and how unfair it is to put a kid in that situation. We do what we do to survive anything in life, don’t we? But the reality was that kid grew up, at least age-wise, into an adult and was in denial that using these same traits that enabled me to survive in childhood were no longer serving me well as an adult. I needed to not only understand what happened and how I coped but learn new behaviors to thrive as an adult.

 

More will be written later on this transformation in ACA and TROML. For now, here is “The Laundry List” and the 14 Traits of an “Adult Child.” (Source: Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA.))

Are you an “Adult Child” too?

Isolated kid1.   We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.

2.   We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the process.

3.   We are frightened by angry people and any personal criticism.

4.   We either became alcoholics, marry them or both, or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill our sick abandonment needs.

5.    We live from the viewpoint of victims and are attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship relationships.

6.    We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, and it is easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves; this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults, etc.

7.    We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others.

8.   We became addicted to excitement.

9.   Shame womanWe confuse love with pity and tend to “love” people we can “pity” and “rescue.”

10.   We have “stuffed” our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (Denial).

11.   We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of self-esteem.

12.   We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.

13.   Alcoholism is a family disease; we became para-alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up any drink.

14.   Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors.

CLICK here for more information from the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) website.

Attending your first ACA meeting is the gateway to changing your life!

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Be Open to Acceptance , Love & Compassion for Yourself…

_Gateway to OceanWhen I get the chance to walk along the beach nexxt to the ocean, the experience always inspires me… an open area so vast I can’t comprehend its enormity… even with the fastest boat it would take forever, way more than my lifetime here on Earth, to see all its coastlines… then there are the waves, coming in crashing constantly to shore… even when I am not there… every day, even the next is a different look, the sky, the water, the same, me…. our time alive here on Earth is extremely limited… I ask God to free me on myself… to be open-minded, outside the pull of my ego, without contempt, without expectations until I live the moment… I ask God to direct my thinking… to think about myself and others with compassion, love and acceptance… I ask God to inspire my decisions in life…. and finally I ask God to show me the next steps, to lead me through today first, then through all the tomorrows I have… grateful for the gift of Ultimate Love… peace, joy and freedom to all who read this today…

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist

Anonymous Andy

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We All Need a Higher Power that is Not Us…

Higher PowerWithout a Higher Power, I only trusted myself. I never noticed how poorly that was working for me. Having faith in God has allowed me to let go of much of my fear and then open myself with a calm heart. I was unaware of the crippling effects that a lack of trust in God and others created until I began to work the Twelve Steps. Now I see just how imprisoned I was and that I was the jailer.
-Anonymous Recovering Compulsive Overeater

Free Yourself

What is Your Serenity Prayer?

The most common Serenity Prayer came from a sermon in 1943 from, and is attributed to American Theologian  Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971):

2 sereity courage wisdomGod grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things I can;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

 

Another version of the Serenity Prayer comes to us from the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) people-ship and focuses on people, not things with the realization that the difference is me:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.

 

3An even more personal version of the Serenity Prayer comes to us from the Overeaters Anonymous (OA) people-ship on Page 97 of their book “Seeking the Spiritual Path;”

God, grant me the serenity to accept myself as I am and as I was, the courage to change in the way you wish me to, and the wisdom to allow you to do it. Amen

 

There was more to the Serenity Prayer from Niebuhr in 1943. Here is the complete version of what he shared in his sermon:

imagesBWBWUS0XGod grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things I can;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

 

4 I am living my life one day at a timeLiving one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as

The pathway to peace;

 

5Taking, as Jesus did

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it;

Trusting that You will

Make all things right

If I surrender to Your will.

 

5That I may be

Reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with

You forever in the next.

 

6 Jesus & Muhammad

 

Of course in TROML one may believe in any religion or none at all. A Muslim would substitute Muhammad for Jesus, a non-believer something else.

TROML is a spiritual process and can incorporate any religious views or none at all.

TROML is a spiritual process and can incorporate any religious views or none at all.

The main points being acceptance, courage to change ourselves, and seeking wisdom and inspiration from within and beyond ourselves to progress our own TROML Process to develop our own TROML Program to become our True Self with our Eternal Child Within and be and enable others to be The Ultimate Love of Peace, Joy and Freedom.

1 640 Quote onlyWhat is your own personal Serenity Prayer? How have you overcome fear, resentments, dishonesty and selfishness and self-centeredness in your own life. How have you freed yourself from natural instincts that have far exceeded their proper function and manifested themselves as perfectionism, control, all-or-nothing thinking and judgmentalism?

Have you forgiven yourself completely? God has, why not you? You are not God and neither am I.

Time in our lives is running out, why not begin your own transformation today?

5 640 loving parent baby's feetI believe that the spiritual being we become here is the spiritual being that limits us or enables us forever in eternity and beyond. Why not leave the physical, emotional and mental world to some extent and let your spiritual being flourish here on Earth?

This could be the first day of the rest of your life.

Got TROML?

Have a TROML Day today,

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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We Have to be Brutally Honest with Ourselves… and Journal Too…

Shaka SenghorAnother incredibly inspirational feature “Writing My Wrongs” on CBS This Morning about convicted killer Shaka Senghor on his transformation in life. Watch the video, it is very good. What struck me most were the two letters he received while in prison—one from his young son and the other from the victim’s family. From that moment he began a journal and learned how to accept and forgive himself. Very powerful spiritual work done here. We can quickly dismiss this by saying we never killed anyone. Some I would challenge that while that is true, you are killing someone—yourself.

Book Writing My WrongsI like the title of his book—“Writing My Wrongs.”  Journaling is a powerful tool!

You don’t have to hit a hard bottom in order to utilize the TROML Process to reach The Ultimate High in Life.  But you do have to be brutally honest with yourself and start a TROML Journal.

 

Any day is a good day to start but today is your best chance!

Thanks Jeff Glor and CBS This Morning for sharing this inspiration.

Have a TROML Day Today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Have You Re-Parented & Re-God’d Yourself in Life Yet?

WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN?

1 Children 1 in 10I grew up with the disease of alcoholism. Really no big deal. Looking back I am grateful for all of my childhood, including being impacted by choice when confronted by this disease in the way I thought and how I dealt with feelings and emotions. What choices do we really have as children other then to survive by any means possible? I was fortunate to realize the impact alcoholism had on me when I was a young adult. We are responsible for the choices we make as an adult no matter what our childhood experiences were or currently are.  That’s life, we grow, we live, we decline and we ultimately die. End of story, we all have the same destiny and the same opportunity in life to live our lives to the fullest.

2 real peopleI realize that there are people in this world that have had a wonderful childhood and are living a wonderful life devoid of any significant fear, resentment, dishonesty, selfishness, or self-centeredness. Spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically they are blessed with the best life has to offer. I would not call these people perfect but without addiction and major obstacles in life, they are wonderful. I hope that you are one of them and I wish you well with your continued success in life.

But if that doesn’t sound like you or you don’t feel like that… keep reading!

3 scale 1 to 10On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most severe, the most horrific, I would say that my childhood experience with alcoholism was a 2 or 3, mild in comparison to the experiences of others. Others, who I have met on my life journey have been repeated molested and sexually violated by friends, relatives and even their own parent. The way evil manifests itself in individuals, especially those in trusted positions, to do such heinous acts in terms of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical abuse is without limits. I can’t begin to think of what may have happened to you in your childhood or later in life. All I know is that it was likely more severe than my experience, probably a lot more severe.

4 solutionWhile not personally fully exposed to all the problems in life, I have been intimately fully exposed to the solution. I am not sure why but at a young age, probably because of the unpredictability in my childhood at times, I was always searching to try to understand and figure out what life was all about and what my role in life was or would be. This lifelong quest has transitioned to this current phase of my life as an Inspiration Seeker and Personal Revivalist. Anything I share, I have personally experienced in life.

Have You Re-Parented & Re-God’d Yourself in Life?

5 loving parent baby's feetWe can go back all the way to the day of our birth, even nine months before to capture our complete life experience and review our mandated childhood choices in light of now being an adult and able to override those earlier decisions and understand what the hell happened to us.

We can choose to be our own loving parent from here on out.

6 god tyrantThe next thing we realize is that our perspective of God is likely based on the role our parents had in our life or their perspective of God. Your parent’s perspective may not have come directly from them but through a disease they were afflicted with. In my case, most of my perfectionism, control, all-or-nothing thinking, and judgmentalism came from the disease of alcoholism and not thoughts, words or actions of my parents. Yes, there were times the disease manifested itself directly through them to me knowing their thoughts, words and actions. But, moving past my parents’ disease to my own shortcomings and character defects, I see the workings of alcoholism in my life not any negativity from my parents.

7 god loves meSo the opportunity to Re-God ourselves exists and is a real opportunity in our lives. God should be pure inspiration in your life, showing you the way to your True Self and maintaining your Eternal Child Within and, what most people don’t realize, supplying the power to realize our life dreams. Yes, nutrition powers the body, but God, your intimate God, powers the spirit which in turn powers the mind and body. May you find your God within you.

Maybe there is no such word as “Re-God’d?” Probably not. Sounds a lot like the word “Regard.”

8 crayonThere are seven definitions for the word “Regard:’   1) to look upon or think of with a particular feeling:
to regard a person with favor; 2) to have or show respect or concern for; 3) to think highly of; esteem; 4) to take into account: consider; 5) to look at: observe: She regarded him with amusement; 6) to relate to; concern: The news does not regard the explosion; 7) to see, look at, or conceive of in a particular way; judge (usually followed by as): I regard every assignment as a challenge. They regarded his behavior as childish.

10 happinessHow do you feel about yourself? Do you respect yourself and hold yourself in high esteem? Have you stopped to observe yourself in life—past, present and in the future? When you do so, do you only do so in your perspectives and attitudes of the past? The choice can be and is yours to make in how you regard life, yourself and others in this world. But that choice is limited timewise. We are only here for a short period of time.

Ditto for “Re-Parented.” Probably no such word though it sounds a lot like the word “Repented.”

11 repentanceThe definition for “Repent” is a bit shorter. The word is a verb and can be used with or without an object, whatever that means? Verb without an object: 1) to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc. (often followed by of):
He repented after his thoughtless act; 2) to feel such sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one’s life for the better; be penitent. Verb (used with an object): 3) to remember or regard with self-reproach or contrition: to repent one’s injustice to another; 4) to feel sorry for; regret:
to repent an imprudent act.

Maybe we should regard and repent our way to peace, joy and freedom?

Why do we see the short term pain and not the longer term peace, joy and freedom that is available to every one in life?

12 bikeIt’s as though we are on a bicycle, a bit weary from pedaling uphill and into the wind for what seems like forever, looking for an easier life and being able to coast a bit. The answer is just over the next rise but we have given up, lost hope and just stopped and stayed wherever our problems in life have brought us.

Repenting for me was being completely honest with myself, God and one other human being. Then for those things which I could make amends for I did. While a very stressful and challenging task, I felt immediate relief, liberation and a sense of a new path to follow in life along with new powered resources to propel me down that path. Through repentance I found acceptance, love and compassion for myself.

If you have a life of despair, my prayer is that you realize that the real part of your life story is yet to be written but you have to make the choice to get back on that bike one more time and pedal really hard for a relatively short period to your peace, joy and freedom.

As The Parlotones sing… Don’t Just Stand There Window Shopping with Your Life!

Good luck in life!

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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The Lyrics of “Window Shopper”

(Courtesy of The Parlotones & LyricWikia)

You bury your dreams deep inside
It’s up to you to breathe in life
The chemicals of goosebumps
The chemicals of butterflies in stomachs
It’s up to you to realise

If you never try, then you’ll never fail
If you never fail, then you’ll never gain
And you’ll be a window shopper
Don’t just stand there window shopping

You’re a secret master of disguises
Pretend to be happy, you big fat liars
The formula of “could’ve been’s”
Swallowed up by cautious routines
Changing Mr. Compromise

If you never try, then you’ll never fail
If you never fail, then you’ll never gain
And you’ll be a window shopper
Don’t just stand there window shopping

Are you marching, are you marching
Are you marching to someone else’s drum?
You bore me with sorrow
You bore me to death
If you’re still window shopping

And we’re born as dreamers
Amongst the non-believers
Who are called a genius
And it’s easier said than done
The man in the mirror says
I am a window shopper