The nobles send their servants for water; but they find no water. They return with their wells unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads. The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads. Even the Elk in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.  Wild democrats (donkeys) stand on the barren heights and pant like jackals; their eyesight fails for lack of pasture. The people of Earth greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet or their mouths. So the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their corruption and punish them for their sins. The year is 2015, and many people around the World are wondering if the end of the World is near. Scientific fact supports that the World is dying. The human rate is deteriorating about 10 percent, in a loss of fitness every generation. In the relatively near future, we will see significant impairment in the human geniality.  California is running out of water, prices are at an all-time high and debt is out of control. I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today, that I have set before your life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

 Do not pray for the well-being of his people. Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague. You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place. Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for my virgin daughter—my people—has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow. If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword: if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not. Do any of the worthless governors or idols bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No. Because man is not in control over this Earth, only God is. These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me. However, understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not living good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. However, for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murders, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all willful and disobedient liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, with the funk of 40,000 years, which is the second death. And this gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven will be proclaimed throughout the whole World as testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. We know that we are from God, and the whole World lies in the power of the evil one. In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Christ. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord in Heaven, and from the glory of his might.

 At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of you people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. However, at that moment, your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. He who dwells in the castle of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust, for he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence, he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that files by day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. Repent (stop being corrupt, stop lying, stop hurting people and be good) therefore, that your sins may be blotted out, and make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of the outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. A mind that after a long season of oblivion in pain returns to wakefulness without a keen edge for the World is much in danger of souring permanently.

 A well—informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. When I met the young man, he seemed to have more in his head than could come out at his mouth. Suffering minds will be partial to their own cause and merits. If the mind be not engaged, there is hardly any confinement sufficient for the body! Virtue better apparel the mind, than clothes the body. I am shocked to find people have sublime ideas in their heads, and nothing, but illiberal sentiments in their hearts.  Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore, we know that it is the last hour. I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he or she is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. However, I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told them to you. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. There will be signs in the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

 Immediately after the distress of those days, the Sun will be darkened, and the Moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the Heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time, sign the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of Earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. An increase in knowledge and technology and travel is a sign of the last days. Keep this prophecy a secret; seal it up so that it will not be understood until the end times, when travel and education shall be vastly increased. On Earth, Nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the World, and for the Heavenly bodies will be shaken. Destruction will come on them suddenly, and they will not escape. Here Christ is being authorized to unleash the final events and then establish His Kingdom on Earth. Take heed to yourselves, so that your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day will come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as s snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole Earth, so be ready and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all things that will come to pass (the terrible end—times events), and to stand before the Son of Man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is the nature of that happiness which we derive from our affection to be calm; its immense influence upon outward life is not known till it is troubled or withdrawn. Nothing in this World can be truly said to be more wonderful than anything else. The caverns of my mind are open, and they will not close. However, sometimes the mind will deceive itself by its own acuteness become some are either too busy living in the past, or trying to predict the future. Nonetheless, it is best to stay in the moment. Living in the past will create fear, trying to predict the future will create anxiety. There is a World, other people, your own self, and your own body. Most of us take that for granted. However, how do you know? More, how to you know you know? What makes you sure of the truth of any of the ideas you have been reading here, and the reality of anything you have experienced in your lifetime? If an idea races through your mind, where does it go? What process is involved when you think, learn, imagine, dream or feel? Take a moment to get an idea of just how fantastic your brain is. Every second of your life, from conception to passing, 10,000 separate sensory impressions bombard your sense receptors.

All over your body, inside and out, are sensitive little nerve cells (called neurons)—in the eyes, ears, nose, on the tongue, on the skin, and on the inner surfaces of the body, as well. These are constantly being stimulated by messages from the World in which you live. That is a pretty busy body you live in. 10,000 impressions per second, 600,000 impressions per minute, and 360,000,000 impressions per hour. Just imagine what would happen if only one hundred people tried to call you on the telephone at the same time. The switchboard and all the relays in the telephone transmission system would be tremendously overworked. However, the switchboard in your nervous system is capable of handling a fantastically larger traffic load than that. A few brains short-circuit (break down), but the really amazing things is that few do so. Of course, the brain does not plug in every one of these impressions. That would be the log-jam of the century. The brain simply cannot process that much sensory input at the same time. It filters and censors, and rejects or files most of it. However, it does so at the same time that it also relaying to their appropriate destinations the few messages it does accept. As if this were not enough, the brain is also the center of emotional experiences, cognitive processes, and learning. It has other jobs to do as well, which is why we need to live in the moment.

Mental training of focusing our awareness to what is present in front of us, versus clinging to the past or fears about the future. Wake up to your life in each moment, and pay attention to your purpose. Be aware of the present instant with acceptance. Experience your mind and body more closely, focus on yourself, and be tuned in to what arises without clinging to judgement or fear. Are you focusing on others or yourself in your thought process? Many people are living outside of themselves, they have a sense of entitlement, and this makes them police other people’s lives and ignore their own flaws. When you are on the outside, looking in, your image is distorted because you are not seeing the private messages, and simply having an emotional reaction. Mindfulness is often the first step needed for effective change. We cannot change those things we are not aware of, and this is why we need to mind our own business and focus on our individual lives. Why are you criticizing his private life, when your kitchen stinks and everyone can smell it? The opposite of being mindful is being mindless and doing things without thought or awareness—like when one eats a whole bag of chips, while watching Hearst Television, and not realizing you did so. Or driving from one end of town to another, and not realizing how one got there. If this is happening to you, it is because your mind is preoccupied, you are too busy focusing on other things.  This is the pause of awareness before one reacts in one’s habitual ways.

So if you want to be aware of being mindful and paying attention to your own lives, there are techniques for that. In the moment, observe how you are feeling, describe (to yourself) what you are doing, and participate in the present activities. For example, at a holiday function, focus on the decorations, and how nice they are, the food, and how delicious it is, not Mike Brown because you do not even know him, and holiday functions are rare, and it is a time to enjoy each other, and have harmony, not political debates; so do not make people uncomfortable in their own homes. Moving on. Mindfulness can be helpful in managing anxiety in that it allows us to become more aware of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with our anxiety, which can lead us to uplifting changes in life. It can also help us to feel less overwhelmed by our internal experiences. Cognition is the word we use to describe the various mental of intellectual function of the brain—the functions that make up the mind. A similar word, probably more familiar to you, is recognition. When you see something familiar, something you have known before, you say you recognize it. That means you are doing something again. You are cognizing again. What is cognizing in the first place? It means the brain went into action and experience you had become part of the information stored in that brain.

Just notice the experience without getting caught up in the experience, experience without reacting to your experience. You see this book. Your eyes convey one set of messages to the brain, and your hands (as they hold it) send another set of nerve impulses. Both of these together give you a visual and tactile (touching) experience of this square, bound-together collection of pages with words and pictures on them. This particular book is now part of your memory. You finish reading it, put it on your bookshelf, sell it, or give it away. Maybe you lose it. Whatever happens, the book itself is no longer there for you to see or handle. Is the memory or cognitive impression also gone? Our best information tells us that it is still part of you. Time goes by. You forget about the book. Have a Teflon Mind, letting experiences, feelings, and thoughts come into your mind and then slip right back out. Control your attention, but not what you see. Push away nothing. Cling to nothing. Some thinking is involved in all cognitive processes—recall, reasoning, memory, fantasy, imagination, intuition, or believing. Be like a guard at the palace gate. Be alert, to every thought, feeling, action that comes through the gates of your mind. When we think, something goes on in the brain to link our past with our present experience.  Some sort of mediating process fills in the gaps between the cue or stimulus (the book in this case) and the response we make to it.

Step inside yourself and observe. Watch your thoughts coming and going, like the clouds in the sky. Notice each feeling, rising and falling, like waves in the ocean. Notice exactly what you are doing. A stimulus is any action, object, or energy that produces a response, or change in reaction to the stimulus. Notice what comes in your senses—your eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue. See others’ actions and expressions. Smell the roses (and I did)! One of the most important mediators is the concept. A concept is a general principle or common characteristic of a number of related events or experiences. Suppose you look at two dozen four-legged animals grazing in a field. You will notice that they are different colors, different sizes, many face in various directions, and so on. Yet, you also notice some similarities, some common properties. Describe them. When a feeling or thought arises, or you do something, acknowledge it. For example, say in your mind, “I love the roses and dogs” or “Stomach muscles tightening up” or a thought “I can do this!” Put your experiences into words. Describe to yourself what is happening. Put a name on your feelings. Call a thought just a thought, a feeling just a feeling. Do not get caught up in the minutia (content). Participate by entering your experiences. Let yourself get involved in the moment, letting go of ruminating. Become one with your experience, completely forgetting yourself. Your mind is an unsullied book of nature.

 

Follies past are sooner remembered than redressed, and time lost may well be repented, but never recalled. Yes, and but are words for fools: wise people neither hesitate nor retract—they resolve, and they execute. The state of a mind oppressed with a sudden calamity is like that of the fabulous inhabitants of the new-created Earth, who, when the first night came upon them, supposed that day would never return. There are eight primary emotions: fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation, joy, and acceptance (receptivity). A mood is a low intensity, long-lasting emotional state. Moods act as subtle emotional undercurrent that affects much day-to-day behavior. One concern is the mixing of primary emotions. Each pair of emotions can be mixed to yield a third, more complex emotion. Triggers are things that can cause you to experience Anxiety. Anxiety is apprehension, dread, or uneasiness similar to fear but, based on events that have not happen yet. Things they may cause you anxiety are your genes, chemicals (stimulants), external stress (finances, work, family, etcetera.), self-demands (personal expectations), past events (experiences or memories). Fear thoughts can create anxiety.

 For example, I live in a high-rise building with a lot of unusual people.  Some of them have physically attacked me, and seem to think it is funny or a joke. So when I see many of these people, I try to avoid them because they act ridiculous. They say annoying things, and are always helpless and begging for money or rides to different destinations. It makes me uneasy because there is just one of me and so many of them. These people are very smart and know what they are doing. They pretend to have mental problems and do not get in trouble for their bad behavior, even if they are reported. This makes me very uncomfortable because these predators know they can get away with anything. For example, there is an old man, and he always wants to talk to me, or ask me for a favor, which requires me to input my resources. This creates anxiety for me because I do not know these people, they are not the type of people I would hang out with, and I fear they may do something to hurt me. However, the doctor says, it is okay to say no. Do not avoid them. Be firm.

 Because these people are always mocking people and creating conflict, when I come near this building, I start to think about what may happen, and it makes my stomach hurt, I have trouble breathing, and my face feels flushed. Nevertheless, there is always something weird going on in this building, so if I am not feeling well, I will generally stay inside. These people are always looking to exploit someone or tease someone else because there is something wrong with them, they are broken and it brings them joy to physically and emotionally hurt others, and then they will spend years bragging about the things they do, even though many of actions are illegal. The management is not any better, they gossip with the tenants and spread rumors. I know this sounds preposterous, but it is true. These adults have a lot of time on their hands, to setup uncomfortable situations, they are like teenagers, who do not have parent supervision, they are truly deviant. However, if you avoid them, hide from them, and do not speak up for yourself, it will increase how nervous you feel and could make you feel scared, shameful, embarrassed, overwhelmed, and on edge.

 Nevertheless, you have to be careful with how you tell them about themselves because they like to play the role of victims, when they are aggressors, and there are so many of them and they will gang up on you, so people will think it is you with the problem because the claim is, how can so many be so wrong. Yet, it happens. For example, a 19-year-old girl got drunk at a beach party, in broad daylight, passed out and was gang raped. There is a clear example of how dangerous adults are when they do not fear consequences and are allowed to bully others and play victim status, when they are the aggressors. They will also pretend to be your friends so they can gather information, and will try to scare you to make you think you are in trouble, when you did nothing wrong.  Also, when dealing with bullies, do not turn to risky behavior like drugs, sex, liquor or other dangerous behavior. Talk to you doctor and maybe take some classes so you can figure out how to deal with the situation in a productive manner. Anxiety is not just mental, when you feel it, the disorder can cause you to experience physical symptoms. Some people become so overwhelmed that they cannot breathe and actually pass out. This is why your mind experiences anxiety before it happens, it is trying to protect you from going into shock. Anxiety is not really that common, nearly 30 percent of people in the United States of America experience an anxiety disorder. Therefore, mental health is important. A mental illness is a lot like a cold, you can recover, as long as you take proactive measure, like talking to a doctor. So do not be ashamed to seek treatment, other than medication, for mental health. It will help you in ways you cannot imagine. People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.