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A Heartfelt Welcome
ARISE and be FREE
Your ARISE Article
Can I Get ARISE Outa You?
Poignant Ponderings
Giving  Back
Will You ARISE & Help Me?



Dear Valued Subscriber,


Two issues ago I excitedly announced that spring had finally arrived in southern Ontario. A couple of long overdue warm days after a nasty winter can deceive the most optimistic person I guess. I don't think we've had 2 days in a row this past month where the sun has been shining and the temperature has risen over 70°! Feel free to send some blue skies and warm sunshine my way:-) 

Bob Kleine is a well-known writer, a brilliant thinker and we have recently become friends.  I came to know Bob through his first book, "One Soul", which you had to buy on the Internet -- until now, that is. Read what Bob just said:

"What the World Needs Now... Is Love Sweet Love, according to the song. I suggest that if we at least learn to think of each other as "One", as pieces of the same "Whole", we stand a much better chance of learning to love one another. For this reason, I've decided to stop selling my story "One Soul" and to give it away, instead. Click on the link below to get your copy and please, pass it on to someone else. Maybe it will help."

http://www.one-soul.net/onesoul2.exe  or
http://www.one-soul.net/One_Soul.pdf for Mac users.

Is Joe off his rocker? Another friend of mine, and someone whose name you will undoubtedly know, Joe Vitale, has his second similar mission of making a book a #1 best seller at Amazon.com -- today, June 4th. I may in fact be doing something close to this very shortly with my first print book which you will hear about soon, except I don't think I'll be able to even come close to giving you nearly TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in FREE BONUSES just for purchasing a book that costs less than fourteen bucks! Find out the details by sending an email to Joe's autoresponder at amazing@superfastprofit.com -- but do it right now as today is the deadline.

There have been SO many new subscribers since that last issue that I must mention this again. I decided to open up my new affiliate program for Success: A Spiritual Matter to You (customers will still have to purchase in order to join). You can click here to follow the simple instructions to set this up quickly with Clickbank, get some powerful promotional tools and begin earning generous commissions from what Allan Gardyne of AssociatePrograms.com said  "... Of all the books I've seen this year, this one is by far the best." Endorsements don't get much bigger and better than that (there's plenty more and remember, I hardly wrote a thing:-), so please consider joining me.

I am closing in on halfway to the 200 limit of sales for my PowerPak Bundle. So many of my friends have announced this Special Offer and I am SO pleased with SO many people having taken advantage of the best deal I have ever offered on the Internet. BUT, I've had multiple requests to actually post the number of up-to-date sales and the number remaining. I'm considering doing this but again, when the sales hit 200, the site comes down, pure and simple. 

This issue's feature article is by none other than my great friend and mentor, John Harricharan. John made a nice mention of ARISE! in his recent issue of Insight2000 (this is a must-read newsletter you should subscribe to) and several hundred of you signed up to receive ARISE! as a result. So, you're gonna read John's great advice again (a good thing in this case:-) about how to turn off the negative and very destructive self-talk we all are prone to. Do yourself a great favor and read A Matter of Chatter. 

Now, please kick back (and if you can't right now, just click on the Print This Page icon at the top, scoop the pages from your printer and take it to bed with you:-) and enjoy this issue of ARISE!

As always, my greatest wishes for your complete success,

Rick Beneteau

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YOUR ARISE ARTICLE

I first met Cindy during my second year of college. It was in the cafeteria where she bumped into me. Yes, she literally bumped into me and her food tray went crashing into everything. I heard her mutter under her breath, "What an idiot!"

"Pardon me," I replied, not knowing what else to say, but definitely feeling that it was not my fault.

"Oh no," she said, "It's always my fault. I am really so clumsy. I am very sorry."

Then I realized that she was referring to herself when she had said, "What an idiot." Over the months I got to know her a little better. Sometimes we'd sit at the same table in the cafeteria and other times I'd be sitting next to her in a class.

It never ceased to amaze me how often she repeated the phrase, "What an idiot", at the smallest thing that happened. It was as if she had been programmed to respond to the slightest misfortune with self-blame.

One day I finally asked her why she kept referring to herself as an idiot. Her eyes opened wide as she said that she was not aware that she did. She confessed that it was probably a habit and that she always felt that when anything bad happened, it was her fault.

She told me that the voice in her head always told her that she was an idiot and pointed out that she was not as good as others. The constant, negative chatter in her mind had prevented her from achieving her greater potential.

Cindy managed to graduate and we eventually lost touch with each other. But I always wondered how she was doing. I always hoped that she was able to still the chatter in her mind and to change the programmed voice to a more positive self-image.

The matter of chatter is a very serious one. If we were to listen carefully to what we are saying to ourselves we would find very interesting conversations going on. If we are happy and fulfilled, these internal conversations would probably be positive. If we are constantly worried and depressed, we would probably have sad and confusing conversations.

We can literally change the outside world by first changing our inner world. Generally, it's our inner conversations that determine what our outer world looks like. If we constantly think sad thoughts, then our self-talk will focus on sad things and the entire world will appear depressing.

If we always think angry thoughts, the world will appear angry. Even a beautiful sunset would appear to be filled with angry shades of red. But if we think peaceful and positive thoughts, the world will seem peaceful and positive to us. 

So how do we silence the endless chatter in our heads? Here are a few tips:

* Try to find some quiet time each day and listen to what you are saying to yourself. Don't be like Cindy who kept calling herself an idiot. Once in a while we all say terrible things about ourselves, but if we do it too often, it becomes a habit and we start believing those things.

* As you listen to the conversation in your head, do not follow them. Just observe them and let them go. If you start to focus on the thoughts, you'd get caught up in them and then get carried away by them.
 
* After observing your thoughts for a while, you'll find that they move on and you are not trapped by them. Remember that your thoughts are not you. You only have them. Don't even worry about replacing them with positive thoughts; that will come later.

Simple as the above exercise may seem, it will have the most profound effect on your life. Gradually, at first, and then faster, you'll find that a greater calm comes  over you.

Because you've let go of the chatter, the noise diminishes and you are now able to hear the voice of intuition, the voice of the universe seeking to guide and help you.

Yes, it's a matter of chatter and clatter and if we turn the volume down, we will be able to hear the beautiful symphonies of life.

© 2003 John Harricharan

 

About John John is the award-winning author of "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat."   Sign up for his great Ezine: http://www.insight2000.com and check out his top-selling "Power Pause: http://www.powerpause.com and visit his membership site: http://EnterprisingSpirit.com

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Can I Get ARISE Outa You?

Italian Mother 


An Italian mother comes to visit her son Alfredo for dinner...who Lives with a girl roommate Anita. 

During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Alfredo's, roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious. 

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Alfredo and his roommate than met the eye. 

Reading his mum's thoughts, Alfredo volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Anita and I are just roommates." 

About a week later, Anita came to Alfredo saying,  "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" 

"Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure." So he sat down and wrote: 

Dear Mother, 

I'm not saying that you 'did' take the sugar bowl from my house, I'm not saying that you 'did not' take the sugar bowl. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner. 

Love, 
Alfredo 

Several days later, Alfredo received an email from his Mother, which read: 

Dear Son, 

I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Anita, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Anita. But the fact remains that if she WERE in her OWN bed, she would have found the sugar bowl by now. 

Love, Mum.

Lesson of the day... Don't lie to your mother...especially if she is Italian.

Poignant Ponderings

WE ARE BLESSED 
with thanks to Trish Cushman

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...
you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, loneliness of imprisonment, agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...
you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...
you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married...
you are very rare.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful...
you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder...
you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that...
someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Count your blessings:-)

GIVING BACK

You might already support these or similar organizations, but it's the sad truth that we can never really do enough to help people, especially children. Here is what I support and encourage you to review:

The Internet Toy Drive  
Founded by Anne Marie Baugh and myself, and sponsored by Drew Bledsoe (#11, 2001 Super Bowl Champion quarterback), we are official corporate sponsors of the U.S. Marine's Toys for Tots program.

My WorldVision Children
This is the special group of children from around the world that I sponsor. WorldVision is a Christian organization that has been around for decades and almost every penny donated goes directly to these needy children and their families. Nothing beats receiving a handwritten letter, or even an email now, from "your child":-) You can even buy chickens or cows that get right to these families in dire need!

St. Jude Children's Hospital
My father was a lifelong musician and played piano in bands with Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude and father of Marlo Thomas) among others during the depression, thirties and early World War II years. Understandably, this world famous research hospital is close to my heart:-)

Parenting with Dignity P
If you are a parent, expecting to be one in the future, or even believe you've done your parenting job, do yourself a great favor and check out this fabulous resource! Drew Bledsoe, his father and family members, my great friend Tom Heatherington and many more have established an absolutely wonderful foundation devoted to the betterment of children and families (Mac Bledsoe was interviewed on ABC's 20/20 this year).

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Will You ARISE & Help Me?

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Thank You!!

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