No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down...

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, 
keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.  

~William Ellery Channing, 1838



Life throws some pretty bad stuff at us, it's not easy for anyone. It's out of your control. 

You do have a choice everyday...sometimes that choice involves any of the following empowering steps:

• Ask for help
• Accept assistance from others
• Get informed
• Take a step to distance yourself from people, places or situations that are not to your benefit.
• Recognize and accept past error(s) as valuable lessons for the future, not a failure dictating who you are and will be. 
• This may be cliche to many but--it makes a difference in reality--Be a positive influence on yourself..say something positive everyday, build yourself up.  Your mind believes what you tell it..and your body reacts to that message.   

You never stop creating brain cells!!

Aging is a process, yet due to new research and developments we are learning that the our old ideas about aging are not totally correct.   Did you know that you are creating new brain cells daily?  This is amazing.  It has been common knowledge that stem cells (from bone marrow) become organ cells in the body, but now we know that those same stem cells also become neurons in the brain...new brain cells.     This is HUGE....You are creating new neurons...the growth of brain cells never stop, therefore you can create new pathways of thinking..."learn, change and grow, think new thoughts, change your mind, create your( the) reality" (Everything you Need to Feel Go(o)d, p.47)