First you read this .                                  there's a tremendous amount of information available on how to stay healthy don't put it off do it now when we get older we want to feel wonderful so we can continue to experience new adventures I read something a while ago that intrigued me it was an article about a San Francisco medical school that had discovered that the way we age is not determined by genes but by something they call the Aging set point a biological time clock that exists in our minds this mechanism actually monitors when and how we begin to age the set point or aging clock is regulated in great part by one important factor our attitudes towards getting old for instance if you believe that 35 is middle aged that belief triggers biological changes in your body that cause it to accelerate the aging process when you reach 35. isn't that fascinating somewhere somehow we decide what is middle age and what his old age where are you setting that aging set point within you I have this image in my mind that I'm going to live to be 96 years and still be active so it's very important that I keep myself healthy remember too what we give out we get back be aware of how you treat older people because when you get old that will be the way you are treated if you believe certain Concepts about old people again you are forming ideas that your subconscious will respond to our beliefs our thoughts our Concepts about life and about ourselves always become true for us remember I believe that you choose your parents before you were born in order to learn valuable lessons your higher self knew the experiences that were necessary for you to proceed on your spiritual course so whatever you came to work out with your parents get on with it no matter what they say or do or said or did you are here ultimately to love yourself as parents allow your children to love themselves by giving them the space to feel safe and to express themselves in positive harmless ways remember too just as we choose our parents our children also chose us there are important lessons for all of us to work out parents who love themselves will find it easier to teach their children about self-love when we feel good about ourselves we can teach our children self-worth by example the more we work on loving ourselves the more our children will realize that it's an okay thing to do part four applying your inner wisdom all the theories in the world are useless unless there is action positive change and finally healing chapter 11 receiving prosperity when we get frightened we want to control everything and then we shut off the flow of good trust life everything we need is here for us the power within us is willing to give us our fond streams and enormous plenty instantaneously the problem is that we are not open to receiving it if we want something our higher power doesn't say I'll think about it it readily responds and sends it through but we have to be ready for it if not it goes back into the storehouse of unfulfilled desires many people come to my lectures and sit with their arms folded across their bodies and I think how are they going to let anything in It's a Wonderful symbolic gesture to open our arms wide so the universe notices and responds for many it's very scary because if they open themselves up they will think they may get terrible things and they probably will until they change whatever it is inside them that believes they will attract Doom and Gloom [Music] when we use the term Prosperity a lot of people immediately think of money however there are many other Concepts that come under the auspices of prosperity such as time love success Comfort Beauty knowledge relationships health and of course money if you are always feeling rushed because there isn't enough time to do everything you want then you have a lack of time you are poor in time if you feel that success is beyond your reach then you are not going to get it if you feel life is burdensome and strenuous then you will always feel uncomfortable if you think you don't know very much and you're too dumb to figure things out you will never feel connected to the wisdom of the universe if you feel a lack of love and have poor relationships then it will be difficult for you to attract love into your life what about beauty there is beauty all around us do you experience the beauty that is abundant on the planet or do you see everything as ugly and wasteful and dirty how is your health are you sick all the time do you catch colds easily do you get many aches and pains and then there is money many of you tell me there is never enough money in your lives what do you let yourself have or perhaps you feel you are on a fixed income who fixed it none of the above has anything to do with receiving people always think oh I want to get this and that and whatever however abundance and prosperity is about allowing yourself to accept when you are not getting what you want on some level you are not allowing yourself to accept if we are stingy with life then life will be stingy with us if we steal from life life will steal from us being honest with ourselves honesty is a word we use a lot not always understanding the true significance of what it means to be honest it has nothing to do with morality or being a goody goody being honest really has little to do with getting caught or going to jail it is an act of love for ourselves the main value of honesty is that whatever we give out in life we will get back the law of cause and effect is always operating on all levels if we belittle or judge others then we too are judged if we are always angry then we encounter anger wherever we go the love we have for ourselves Keeps Us in tune with the love life has for us for instance imagine that your apartment has just been burglarized do you immediately think that you're a victim my apartment was just ripped off who did this to me it is a devastating feeling when something like that happens however do you stop to think of how and why you attracted the experience [Music] again taking responsibility for creating our own experiences is not an idea that many of us want to accept all the time perhaps just some of the time it is so much easier to blame something outside of ourselves yet our spiritual growth cannot occur until we recognize that there is little of value outside of us everything comes from within when I hear that someone has just been robbed or experienced some kind of loss the first question I ask is whom did you steal from lately if a curious look comes over their face I know I have touched a tender spot if we think back to a time when we took something and then think of what we lost shortly thereafter the connection between the two experiences can be an eye-opener when we take something that isn't ours we almost always lose something of greater value we might take money or some object and then we might lose a relationship if we steal a relationship we might lose a job if we lift stamps and pens from the office we might miss a train or a dinner date the losses almost always hurt us in some important area of Our Lives it's unfortunate that many people steal from large companies department stores restaurants or hotels and so on rationalizing that these businesses can afford it this type of rationalization does not work the law of cause and effect continues to operate for each one of us if we take we lose if we give we get it cannot be otherwise [Music]