awareness

TEMPERATURE DO YOU TAKE YOURS?

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Have you taken your temperature today?  When I ask if we’ve taken our temperature, I am referring to how we measure our moods and emotions.  I don’t think we do enough temperature taking to know where we stand emotionally and physically.  We are not internal enough to know whether we will react or respond.  It is very important to take our temperature many times a day.  This will reduce impulsive comments based on feelings we have inside that may conflict with others we interact with.  This includes our children.

We should always be measuring our patience levels, our internal mood, and emotions.  I am the first to admit that I don’t always take my temperature for mood, emotions, or internal peace.  Peace requires us to be taking our temperature and if it is over normal, to do something about this.  When we are sick, we take our temperature.  Once we do, if we have one, we take aspirin or Tylenol. If we don’t do this, and our temperature continues to rise, we could potentially end up in the hospital.  There are consequences when we don’t feel well if nothing is done to help us with the symptoms. 

The same is true when we are not aware of our temperature emotionally.  For example, we wake up late.  We miss the bus and see it as it is driving away just as we get there.  We call an Uber we can’t afford to make it to work and are still late.  How much has our temperature mentally risen from the stress?  Let us take a look at the definition of temperature.

Webster Definition of temperature-1.  The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and show though a thermometer or through touch, it is higher than the comparative normal temperature.  

Daily Wisdom Word Definition of temperature-a method of taking enough time to internally register our moods, positive or negative thoughts and emotions.  

Our temperature mentally, physically and emotionally should be something we are aware of.  There are consequences with reactions to another, and it is easy to sense someone’s mood, oftentimes prior to the person being self-aware.  This causes us to make poor judgement calls and interactions that could have been avoided by a five minute walk, making a quick gratitude list or removing ourself from the situation until we adjust our mood and emotional temperature.  Thanks so much for reading.  Samantha LeBoeuf/Daily Wisdom Words

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INNOCENCE

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HAVE YOU LOOKED IN THE EYES OF A CHILD RECENTLY?  SOMETIMES IT IS POSITIVE TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT AND LOOK AT “INNOCENCE” THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD.  INNOCENCE IS SOMETHING WE ARE BORN WITH.  INCAPABLE OF COMMITTING SIN, WE ARE BORN WITHOUT GUILT AND A SOUL, PERFECTLY INTACT. INNOCENCE APPEARS TO DWINDLE DAY BY DAY AS WE BEGIN TO AGE.  IN FACT, OFTEN LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT, WE LOSE ALL HOPE OF EVER REACHING OUT TO TOUCH INNOCENCE AS WE ONCE DID.   THE MORE sins we commit, the less innocent we stay.  

When I go to church is probably the closest I feel to innocence.  I feel like I have a new direction towards innocence when I go to church.  I feel that my soul gets purified, but prior to this, I feel regrets for all the mistakes I have made. Each mistake or enjoyment we have that is wrong to ourselves, carries literal “weight”.  “No matter how often we tell ourselves what we are doing isn’t hurting anyone, it still harms our soul of it purity.”

The regret I have are from the sins I’ve committed.  Perhaps I have hurt someone’s feelings and haven’t taken accountability for it. Perhaps I have justified my own sin and its burdens. Part of being innocent is being able to exercise forgiveness.  Before you can forgive others, you must learn to forgive yourself.  This requires honesty in your heart. Often the anger we are feeling toward others, is anger misdirected.  Perhaps underneath our blame towards others, we really blame ourselves.  Part of what creates innocence is knowing what simplicity is.  The innocent, our fabric of society, are always honest.  They aren’t capable of telling a lie.  They only know one thing;  how to tell the truth. 

My hope for each of us is that we can move as close to innocence as possible.  Have you ever noticed the more simple a lifestyle, the happier people seem?  You see, it is so true that the very things that can bring us pleasure, can often move us away from the feelings of wholesomeness and innocence.  Let us take a look at the definition of innocence now in our Webster Dictionary.  

Definition of innocence in the Webster Dictionary-1.  The state, quality, or fact of being innocent of a crime or offence.  2.  Lack of guile or corruption 3.  used euphemistically to refer to a person’s virginity. 

Daily Wisdom Words Definition of innocence-the feeling a child has before the process of corruption.  

Onc of the saddest things I ever have seen is a child approximately six years old, dressed in clothing barely bigger than that for a toddler in military outfits and a gun they are holding in their hand.  Their innocence they have such a limited time to enjoy anyway, is taken from them.  These children are victims of the saddest situation of all:  Wars they are forced to fight when they are taught to by adults. 

There are many ways to rob the innocence of a child.  When I see abuse or what I suspect is abuse with a child, my heart wrenches.  It is so very wrong, and the person administering the abuse is mentally sick themselves.  My point today on writing about innocence is enjoy it.  Relish is the feeling of innocence.  Consider more simplicity with your lifestyle.  The guilt associated with the pleasure we feel when we do something for short-term gain knowing no matter what justification we use that it is wrong, create the consequence of guilt.  Feeling guilt means you know the difference between right and wrong.  This is the opposite of violence.  

One  last thing I want to mention is the horrific acts that rob children of their innocence which go on in our world.  An act of violence as part of War is the most common of these violations and atrocities.  The most relevant of these cruelties towards children are the following:  1.  Recruitment of a child into war.   2.  Use of children in war. 3.  children being taught  how to kill. 4. sexual violence imposed on them 5.  abduction of a child. 6.  attacks on children when schools are bombed and hospitals demolished.  We can help to change this.  If each of us simply does one thing, (just one), I believe we can make changes for children helping them  from all six things I just listed.  You get more back than what it costs to give to a charity inside.  Perhaps you don’t have money.  Volunteer your time.  “Time can be our greatest ally or your worst enemy.”  We choose this. 

I wish in no way to lead others to believe I give of myself except through donations to charity and what I write.  I take the easy way out with prayer and send money to UNICEF for children, feeling most sorry for those children attacked in Syria during Chemical Warfare ordered in countries such as Syria by the leader of the country himself.  Life doesn’t have to be this ugly.  Let us do all we can to help others in small ways and big.  This is the closest you come to that amazing feeling of “innocence” with each good deed you do.  Do not confuse the feeling of innocence with naivety.  When we come closest to innocence, it is when we take positive action.  Thanks so much for reading.  Samantha Leboeuf

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DISCOVERIES

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Why is discoveries such a valuable daily wisdom word?  Let us take a look at the meaning of discoveries in our Webster Dictionary, first.

Discoveries-the action or process of discovering or being discovered.  2.  A person or thing discovered.

Daily Wisdom Word Definition of discoveries-a continued part of one’s  life

Discoveries are a fascinating part of our lives and the older we get, the more valuable these discoveries are.  They become learning tools for us as life continues to move. Discoveries don’t happen every day, but they happen more often than we acknowledge because sometime we miss them as their happening.

Discoveries change everything.  However, when we don’t recognize one, we can’t grow from them.  Let’s think of some important discoveries that have happened to most of us that happen.  We all reach puberty at some point in our lives.  Puberty changes the sound and tone of a boy’s voice deepening it.   A young woman starts her period, and her body begins to change from all of the hormones.

These are discoveries in life we can’t help but notice.  Let’s take a look at some of the discoveries that happen that you may never notice.  When you choose to overlook these changes because you don’t notice them, You miss a potential learning experience that could enhance your life.  For example, you see one of your friends, and everytime you see your friend, sadly they are drunk.  You then notice that when call now, his voice is slurred.  You notice these things because you have your “awareness alert” on.  (another tool for your daily wisdom words tool box).  You have made a new discovery.  You see the pain and misery it is causing your friend to be like this, so you decide to learn from this experience you’ve discovered . and make decisions in your future based on this discovery.

There are things in life that happen to us everyday we can discover.  There are beautiful things in nature all around us we see, but take for granted.  Why?  Because we don’t have our awareness button on, and we are distracted by the everyday dilemmas that happen in life.  Take a few minutes out of every day to have some quiet time for yourself.  Also, if your distracted with something else and are single and looking to meet the right man, he might walk right past you and you won’t even notice him because your to distracted with everyday life to turn it around.

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