Many years ago, people worked hard with their hands to build something, or to plant a field to take care of their families.

Today, our job market has changed. Most of us have found that the weight of our job has to do with our mind and not our bronze. Computers have changed so much for us for good and bad. Maybe, it was healthy for us to use our bronze more. In the process, life has changed our perception of success and how to achieve it.

Many of us have chosen to measure our success by how many things we own or the brand of products we perceive mean success. Is that really success? Or is our perception of success a facade that leaves us with an empty feeling? If you have a strong sense of what success is to you, don’t read on. You already know. If you are questioning or searching, I have a short story for you.

Someone told me a story and I would like to give the credit to someone, but I can’t remember where I heard this story.

A man wanted success and decided to learn how others perceived success. So he interviewed others and received a wide range of opinions. Nothing seemed to be consistent. Everyone had a different view of what success meant to them.

Finally, he shyly approached the man who seemed to have it all. The man had houses, cars, travel, and a family. He wanted to know what he thought about success. He was shocked to hear the man who seemed to have it all say that he did not see himself as being successful.

He answered, “I have never experienced success. I’m still trying to achieve it.”

“What would it take to feel successful?”

“Right now, I make about $400,000 a year. If I could make $500,000, then I would feel successful.”

“Do you feel like you are happy with your life?” I asked.

“No. I can’t be happy until I reach my goal.”

Soon after, he met a man who seemed very happy. He couldn’t stop smiling. When he asked him how he viewed success. The man answered, “If I wake up and I’m above ground, then I’m successful.”

Our minds need to answer that question and many more. So how does our mind find it’s answers? I would like to give you an example. My sister gave me permission to tell you this story.

She happened to be going through a very stressful situation. We were talking, when out of the blue, she asked me. “Do you eat when you are in a stressful situation?”

“No. I will do the opposite.”

“Then why do I want to eat when I’m so stressed? I can’t seem to stop it?”

I answered, “If you want to change it, you can do it.”

She immediately agreed. So I started to talk to her subconscious mind. Suddenly, she saw herself as a one-month-old baby at a time of great stress for her. She was tired of waiting to be feed. When our mother did feed her, she told herself that ‘she liked it.’ The mind is very powerful. She did not realize that she had just programmed her mind to crave food when she was stressed.

We replaced or reprogrammed the mind to handle stress in a different way.

Now, you know that we start to program our minds while we are in diapers. It happens, when we think that ‘we like this.’ When we do it with emotion, our minds will not budge.

Every time, we have had a new experience in our lives and our emotions were involved with it, we made decisions that control our future. Now, we are adults. Sometime, we find unexplained caving, desires and situation that we can’t explain. It is because our unconscious mind is not paying attention to our thoughts today. Instead, our mind is running off of our first decision to handle a situation. Have you found it hard to break a habit?

When you know how the mind works, you can change and permanently remove the habit very quickly. After I learned how to reprogram my mind, I discovered talents that I never knew I had. It was great to stop being afraid of heights. Now, I can enjoy a beautiful view.

I wrote my book, “How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams” so I could share with others what I learned. In the past, I was terrified of the unknown. Now, I grin and walk into the unknown in peace. My fear is gone because I have skills to handle any situation.

What do you want to change? Leave me a comment and tell me, then I will tell you if it’s possible. You don’t even have to use your real name. No one will know who you are. If you want more information on how to buy my book. “How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams.”  Go to www.LaReneEllis.com . for an autographed copy. Amazon carry it too..

Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of having a trying experience in your life?

With October being Breast Cancer awareness month, I decided to write about my Breast Cancer. I want to talk about hope, when you have an incurable cancer.

For  years, I went in for my annual mammogram. They showed no cancer. Then one year, I had a tumor. They scheduled a MRI and it showed a large vein going from tumor to the rest of my body.

With the tumor shooting cancer throughout my body, they knew that I had a very fast, aggressive cancer inside of me. The cancer was starting to nest in my lymph nodes, liver and bones. The doctors told me if it was ten years earlier. They would have sent me home with morphine and an apology.

The last ten years, they have been able to block the cancer from growing but they haven’t been able to cure it. I happened to have all of the qualifications to be a part of a worldwide study of a new drug that is a sister drug to a known blocker for this cancer. Along with chemo, they gave me the drug.

Nine weeks later, they had me take more scans. The scans showed that I had dropped the cancer 75%. The doctors were very excited. Apparently, I was breaking records. The next nine weeks, I showed no change. So they took me off chemo and I keep taking the blocking drugs every twenty nine days. My CT and bone scans showed no change until one day.  Suddenly, everything started to change.

In October of 2009, the cancer in my liver seemed to not stand out on the scans. This was a sock since chemo was suppose to be the way cancer could be removed. In December, my scans were unchanged. I expected to see some change. A friend  suggested that maybe, I told them that they were wrong. Then I started to think back over the last year. Had I done something different during the year to cause or influence the changes?

In going back over the last year, I discovered that I had done something different during each change. In the seventies, I read a book on how to improve your health. The author suggested that you could clean out your body from toxins by creating a drink in your blender. I used it numerous times in the seventies. Over the years, I had forgotten about it until I learned about my cancer.

In the book, the author suggested that you take a 48 oz can of unsweetened pineapple juice and a fresh bunch of parsley and blend them together. The author suggested that you drink nothing but the parsley and pineapple for three days. Before they gave me chemo, I had scans like PET, CT, Bone, MRI’s of the Breast. The green drink came to my mind because I was concerned about all of the chemicals doctors had shot into my veins.

By looking back over my last year, I saw that I had drank the green drink everyday during the first nine weeks. I had a 75% drop in cancer. Again in August, I went back to drinking the green drink for two to three weeks. My scans in October showed the drop in my liver. In December, my scans showed no change.

In January, I decided to start drinking my green drink for a year and see what happened. Along with the drink, I went back on a multi – vitamin that I used when I was having children. My OB/GYN raved about how it affected my babies and me. One of the base ingredients was parsley. I wonder now, if I had stayed with it. I might not have gotten Breast Cancer. It will be a question that will always linger in my mind.

At this time, the news about Vitamin D came out on the news. Research showed it can block cancer. So I took Vitamin D3 & K2. My February scans did not stand out to me as huge drop in cancer. But I never studied Latin in school. The doctors were pleased to see that the cancer wasn’t spreading.

On my April scans, I saw a big difference. Before, they always described the cancer on my bones. They dropped the description and used a new word. Curious, I looked it up to learn the word meant, ‘scar on a tumor.’ Humbled, I was pleased to have remembered the parsley drink and the vitamins made from parsley.

In June, the new word changed to another one. I looked it up to learn that it meant, ‘bony replacement cells.’ My doctor acted very pleased. He told me that during all this time. Chemo was the only drug that was designed to remove cancer. In creating the right environment, your body can do a lot. Since, I have been on the green drink and vitamins. My blood is perfect. If I went into see a doctor for a physical, they would not detect a disease of any kind.

What I do today, the doctors say is impossible. I love to ride horses. He tells me that it is impossible for me to ride because the cancer is in my hips and spine. Normally, it would be too painful to ride. I do it quite often with no pain in my bones.

The medical field believes and so do I that you need to have the right mental attitude to heal. I credit a lot to a book called ( How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams). The books teaches you how create a positive environment in your life. It teaches you how to walk into the unknown unafraid and skilled to handle anything.

For an example, people asked me if I was going to fight my cancer. I responded with ‘no.’ If I had chosen to fight the cancer, I would be programming my mind to detach from my body and not help it to heal. When you love and embrace the moment, the love is bringing towards you healing powers and you have total peace. It is really the most powerful part of the equation.

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