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Change your Life by Changing Your Thoughts

Anita Mathias — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:25:38 +0000

Today’s meditation is on changing our lives by changing our thinking. So, just before Jesus bursts on the scene in the Gospel of Matthew The no-nonsense, utterly serious John the Baptist Comes with an utterly serious message, Repent In the Greek, metanoeite, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. The Kingdom of […]

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On Quitting Things…and Breaking Free

Anita Mathias — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:43:57 +0000

I’ve read that Indians catch monkeys by placing a peanut (called “monkey nut” in India) in a bottle. The monkey plunges its slender paw into the bottle, grasps the peanut, tries to withdraw its clenched paw clasping the nut, but cannot. He thrashes around; the noise alerts the homeowner, who captures him, as a pet, […]

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The Good Things of January

Anita Mathias — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:08:32 +0000

I’ve adopted Martin Seligman’s recommended habit of recording 3 good things about my day. Apparently, people who do this report being 25% happier within 3 weeks. I think it is true. I’ve often needed to scan my day carefully to see what was golden about it rather than nondescript. After a while looking for gold […]

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Fail Better: Only Do Not Go Backwards

Anita Mathias — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:20:51 +0000

Image Credit The aged Abraham sends his servant back to Ur to get a wife for Isaac with these instructions, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said. “Only do not take my son back there.” (Gen. 24:8). Straight ahead lay the land of promise, the land to which he […]

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In which Christ Writes to an Overweight Woman

Anita Mathias — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:44:20 +0000

Jesus, I am fed up of food rules and diets, and giving them up. and sabotaging myself when stress or cravings or boredom demand: “Chocolate. Crisps. Comfort foods.” Oh, and the sadness of exercise in a world of subconscious triggers, when kebabs and pizza and cookies undo all the virtue? And I am fed up, […]

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Murakami’s “What I Talk about When I Talk about Running”: The Connection between the Creative Life and Exercise

Anita Mathias — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:34:27 +0000

Available on Amazon.com I am thoroughly enjoying listening to Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,” as I am trying to learn to run (using the NHS Couch to 5K app.) When Murakami began to write full-time, he gained weight. “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, […]

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