It’s not thought of often or at least spoken about but there is a mystery that happens everyday to you and everyone else in the world. This magical thing is so special its amazing, wonderful and effects so many people the results are truly stunning, stunning beyond belief.
This page could have had many different titles because it covers so many subjects and so many people – all people everywhere.
If fact, the subject of this page could be good and bad, wonderful or terrible and you are the one who can make it happen either way. You have the choices, you make the play. It’s up to you everyday, every minute, every hour, every second.
You control this, you have this magical power to change and make this thing happen and it’s you who chooses if its good or bad, nobody else.
You do it all in your own genuine way!
Every time a person is born they get these choices given to them and the chance to do amazing things with these choices. In many ways the world depends on you.
What is this amazing wonderful thing that you can do?
It’s everything that you do all the time.
Mostly its the things you do that you really don’t notice.
You get up in the morning and you had a nightmare during the night. You feel real grumpy.
When you get to the breakfast table you growl at your husband and your children.
Your eldest child asks you if you could please take her to school that morning because the bus is not arriving today and you snap back, “No, I am much too busy for that this morning”.
You feel grumpy and you feel justified in talking the way you did, because you are grumpy.
Your husband makes a comment about you being a bit rude and you snap at him to mind his own business – this puts him in a bad mood. In fact, every time you say something mean it makes you feel worse.
The results from example one can be devastating.
You could have an accident driving to work because you are in a bad mood.
Your husband could have an accident because he is now in a bad mood.
Your eldest daughter could be murdered, abducted etc., because you did not take her to school and you live in a bad neighborhood.
Now please have a look at example two.
You get up in the morning and you had a nightmare and you feel grumpy. You think to yourself “Gee, that’s the forth nightmare in a week, I wonder what the problem is?”
When you get to the breakfast table you ask your husband what he thinks about your nightmares, you say “good morning” to your husband and children. Your eldest child asks you if you could please take her to school that morning because the bus is not arriving today and you say, “Yes, I am busy but I know that I can fit you in honey before I go to work”.
Your husband makes a comment about your new diet and that could be the problem, then you thank him for thinking of you. You head off to work thinking that you have a wonderful family and you must solve this nightmare problem.
I can guess I don’t need to explain what the effect of example two is.
The point is that you had an opportunity to change peoples live’s from the moment you talked to a person after you woke up. What you do with that opportunity is totally up to you.
You can start a whole chain of events just from talking to a person.
You do this all the time. If you think what type of results you can get you can change the way you think and react to different situations.
When you walk in to a shop and the person serving you looks cross or sad, please say something nice to them.
Think of it as a challenge, you have this amazing opportunity to change this persons day just by being nice.
Imagine that the person serving at the shop counter is a teenage boy who has just been turned down by a university, the one thing he has always wanted to do. His lifetime dream.
You walk into the shop, look at him and think “What a grumpy kid”.
After you leave the shop a woman enters who has had something bad happen to her that day and she gets served by the teenager. The boy says something out of line and the customer slaps his face or worse.
If this lady is some important member of the town or city the boy may even lose his job and then even worse could happen.
But hold it – let’s go back in time to when you were in the shop – you say something very nice to the teenage boy. You tell him that “It’s nice to be served by someone who wraps items up nicely”, or “packaged them properly and with such care”. He smiles and says something nice back to you.
He may even tell you that he is having a bad day and that he was turned down by the university.
Be honest when you say something nice to him and find something that you really like about him. Believe me, your efforts will be greatly accepted about 95% of the time. He will know if you are fibbing so don’t lie.
You see, it is a challenge to think of nice things to say to some people – but it is fun and you can change peoples lives in such a nice and magical way. Watch the way people smile when you say something nice to them. Some of the greatest suffering we have is feeling unappreciated, lovely and unneeded, sad and uncomforted etc.
When you see a group of people with grumpy looks on their faces and you say something to make them all smile or even just some of them, now that’s power, that power is spiritual and it will last all day long.
What’s even more amazing is that you will walk away feeling good and happy (bubbly inside) for doing something nice for someone else.
By the way – it’s free, this will not cost you a cent but you will gain plenty from it.
This is up to you.
Most people just wander through life and never even think about doing things for other people like this which is truly sad.
Criminals do bad things and then they complain that they get ‘picked on’ by the public or the police.
If you do bad things you effect a lot of peoples lives with those bad actions and this in turn sends them bad feelings and reactions back to you.
Bad actions also get lots of publicity and that really affects the way it comes back to you.
If you do good things then good things come back to you.
If you make wrongs right then you will be great fully received and good will come back to you.
The world needs you to be nice and I need you to be nice, because one day I may meet you and I may need to hear some kind words from you, just like you may need to hear them from me.
Even if I don’t “need” to hear some kind words from you, give them to me anyway because I love it just like you do.
The results are that you will gain many new friends and you will change the lives for many people in ways you cannot even dream of.
If you make a donation to someone or some charity the effects can truly be amazing, if you allow your heart to show love and kindness to someone then you will light up a life and give new hope and faith in humankind.
I know a young man who recently got a donation of over $4,000 from someone but he does not know who, it was a kind anonymous donation. This boy is blind and has Cerebral Palsy and he needed some computer equipment to help him get a job. Do you think the $4,000 helped? It sure did and he now has the job he wanted.
Take up the challenge and do it for fun – the results can change your entire life and help change the world.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
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Written originally in 2002 (Or thereabouts)
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