One of the great things about being human beings is our ability to make decisions that can affect the course of our lives, positively or negatively.
Take a very simple example….what are you going to have for dinner tonight? You could have fish, poultry, steak, almost any thing you want and cooked almost any way you want it cooked. A very positive thing and you will enjoy eating what ever you decide to eat. Now that is power.
But, you make eating decisions several times a day, every day. If you choose to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables with most of your meals your body is going to perform better now and for years to come. But how many of us actually make the choice to eat healthy? Very few. Most of us choose to eat what tastes good and give us enjoyment in the moment, with little regard for the long term effects of eating hamburgers, and drinking soft drinks. Over the years we get fatter and fatter, our bodies begin to malfunction, and we get sicker and sicker.
This is not an article about healthy eating habits. But, the above is an excellent example of using our human power of choice in a negative and destructive way. But, we can use the power of our minds, our power to choose, in positive constructive ways too.
So, you have tried several online businesses and you are not rich yet, right? Why do you think that is?
Some of have convinced yourselves that it is too hard, too difficult to make money online. Yes, making money, online or offline can be challenging. You need to find a way to convince yourself that by doing the right things often enough and for a long enough period of time you will be successful and make money.
Some of you believe that you don’t know what are the right things to do and if you could only find a mentor who can teach you the right things to do you could be successful and make money online. If you are in this category I have excellent news. Later in this article I am going to tell you exactly what you need to do to sell any product or service online.
The unfortunate truth is that most of us already know what we need to do to sell products or services online. We just choose not to do those things. Why? Because we do not believe that we will be rewarded for the effort. We are afraid that we will waste our time and have nothing to show for it. We then decide we will only decide to work a business that proves itself to us before we put any effort into it. But where do you think you are going to find a business that will pay you an income, to prove itself to you, without you putting anything into it? Doesn’t exist. Ain’t gonna happen.
Our logical “conscious” mind knows that if we advertise any product or service often enough and for a long enough period of time we will eventually sell that product or service. The more we advertise our product or service, the more of those products or services we will sell. If we advertise that product or service often enough and for a long enough period of time, we will become what some people consider rich.
So if you believe my above statements, then why aren’t you (most of us) out there advertising your product or service and making a lot of money? I believe we all limit ourselves by our own belief system and that affects the decisions we make every day, business related or otherwise.
In some articles I refer to this as the power of positive (or negative) self talk. In some articles I refer to this as our inner programming we have received since childhood. In this article I will refer to this as the power of our subconscious minds and how we can use this power to positively influence any area of our lives we want to influence.
Being human beings, we have the power to change our thoughts, change our beliefs, and change our actions which will directly affect the results we achieve. Try this exercise:
Think about how much money you have in the bank right now. Do you have enough to retire today? Do you have enough to buy a new home? Or even a new car? Heck, do you even have enough to fly to some big city, spend a long weekend, have a wonderful time? And, how much debt do you have? If you are like most people, you have more debt than money in the bank. How are you ever going to retire?
Kind of depressing, huh?
Now, think about how things would be different if you won a couple of million dollars in your local lottery. What would you do tomorrow if you had $2,000,000? Pay off your measly little debt? Buy a new home or a new car? Travel, in style?
Feeling better? Your thoughts control your feelings and most people reading the above two paragraphs will get somewhat depressed after reading the first paragraph and then a little bit excited after reading the second paragraph. But, winning the lottery is not a realistic thought for most of us and after a brief period of excitement, reality sets back in.
Let’s try a more realistic thought pattern…..something that would actually work if we choose to implement those thoughts in our lives. If you are like most people you really don’t have that much debt…..banks won’t let you get so far in debt that you can’t get out of debt. You just have to do the right things (pay off debt, little by little) over a long enough period of time to eliminate your debt. That will take a conscious choice on your part to create some excess money – we all spend money every month on wasteful things – and use that excess money to pay off our bills. How much better would your life be if you were able to eliminate your debt in three years? Then a few years later how much better would your life be if you began saving that excess money you used to pay off your debts, and had $50,000 in the bank or investments?
This should be popping positive thoughts into your mind but the unfortunate reality is that most of us make short term decisions to spend our money (or credit) to buy things that decrease our wealth, rather than increasing our wealth. Psychologists tell us that we do these things to receive instant pleasure and that makes a lot of sense, right? The pleasure of buying that new dress feels good right now. Using that money to pay off a bill won’t feel good until perhaps years from now. Instant gratification. So do we really have control over our own lives?
Your conscious mind knows buying that dress, or eating that McDonald’s grease burger and fries is not the right thing to do but your subconscious programming wants, needs that short term feel good feeling – and your subconscious internal programming usually wins out.
Can we change our subconscious programming? Yes, we can. If you attempted the exercises I offered above, you experienced changing a feeling of frustration with a feeling of happiness or excitement, simply by changing your thoughts. That should convince you that you can do this – replace negative/fearful thoughts – with positive, powerful thoughts anytime you choose to. But, just like building an online business it takes a conscious decision on your part and effort over an extended period of time to get good at changing you internal programming from too many negative thoughts to primarily positive thoughts.
If you want to change your life from lack to abundance, from negative to positive, from poor to rich, here is how to do that:
Spend just a few minutes each day, practicing changing negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Some people refer to this as meditation or active visualization. I don’t intend to suggest that simply by visualizing something you can have it, although there is a lot of recent research that would suggest that meditation or positive visualization does work.
No, my point is that if you become good at changing negative thoughts into positive thoughts you can have anything or be anything in this world that you want. And, you will be a lot happier.
Do an exercise similar to the one we did earlier in this article for just a few minutes every day. Start by sitting in a quiet room by yourself and think about any aspect of your life. Your finances, your goals, your dreams, your marriage, your children…..any aspect of your life that you would like to be better. Undoubtedly, some negative thoughts will creep into your mind. Then, as soon as you notice yourself thinking a negative thought, instantly replace that thought with a positive thought and experience how much better you feel when you replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts.
It is almost magical and anyone can do it any time they want to. And, the best part is the more you do this the better you get at it. Any time you are having a bad moment, just force yourself to turn your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. You will feel better immediately and you will begin to take actions on those positive thoughts which will further improve your life.
Your positive thoughts don’t even have to be realistic, at least not at first. I used to play really lousy golf. I thought I should be better than I was but I kept mishitting the ball and throwing my clubs. Then one day, I said to myself, either find a way to enjoy playing golf or stop playing. Golf is too expensive if you are doing nothing but frustrating yourself.
I didn’t want to stop playing golf…..I enjoyed most of the time I spent on weekends with a few close friends playing golf…..I just hated playing lousy golf. So, I decided right then and there I would have to practice if I wanted my game to improve. And, I believed that if my golf game were just a little less embarrassing I really would enjoy playing more.
So, I did some research and came up with a practice plan that would help me improve key aspects of my game and if I practiced enough I could shoot around 90 most of the time. It wasn’t quick or easy but I now shoot between 85 and 95 most of the time and that is enough to allow me to beat most of the people I play against.
I did the same thing in building my online business. I figured out a way that I can put a lot of small ads out there for my business where people will see them (articles just like this one), and at the same time I can motivate myself and others to do the right things to build/grow their businesses, and I can teach people what the things are that they need to do to build/grow their businesses.
By: Don Merrill
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March 5th, 2010The Strength and Power of the Atom Is a Sign of God
February 6th, 2010
You breathe air made up of atoms, eat foods composed of atoms and drink water made up of atoms-with a body that itself consists of atoms. The objects you see around you are actually nothing more than photons striking the electrons belonging to the atoms in your eyes.
And what about the things you touch and feel? Those too-hard and soft, rough and smooth, cold or hot-consist of the atoms in your skin interacting on the atoms in those external objects.
Many people, of course, know that their bodies, the Earth, the galaxies-in short the entire universe-consists of nothing but tiny atoms. But they may still never have thought about the system and solidity in the basic building blocks of matter that we call “atoms.”
The fact is, however, that human beings live in the closest possible proximity to this flawless arrangement throughout the course of their lives. So splendid is this system that each one of the trillions of atoms that comprise the chair you sit in possesses an order and a complexity about which an entire book could be written. And under natural conditions, failing a major intervention, that matchless order will persist without ever suffering any impairment.
Internal Order Inside the Atom
Every atom consists of a nucleus and electrons that revolve around the nucleus at a considerable distance away.
Electrons are particles that revolve around their own axes, and also around the nucleus itself-just as the Earth revolves on its own axis every 24 hours, during its year-long orbit around the Sun. Just like the planets, this revolution we refer to as the electron’s orbit takes place according to an enormous precision and without ever ceasing.
Up to dozens of electrons, that revolve and spin in an area too small to be seen with even the most powerful microscopes, create heavy traffic inside the atom. The most vitally important point here is how these electrons, which surround the nucleus just like a swarm of satellites, never give rise to even the smallest accident. For even the smallest mishap within the atom might have terrible consequences. Yet no accident ever occurs; all functioning continues in a perfect order, flawlessly. Electrons, which revolve around the nucleus at the unimaginable speed of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) a second, never collide with one another. The way that these electrons, all identical to one another, maintain their own separate paths is quite astonishing.
Various questions-of why identical electrons have different orbits around the nucleus, how they follow their orbits without ever straying, and how they avoid colliding with one another while traveling at great speeds in such unbelievably minute spaces-all lead us to a single point. The sole truth that confronts us in this matchless order and fine balance is God’s immaculate creation. In one verse, our Lord tells us:
You see the mountains you reckoned to be solid going past like clouds-the handiwork of God Who gives to everything its solidity. He is aware of what you do. (Qur’an, 27:88)
As this verse tells us, the atom behaves as it does because God gave it its solidity. The Arabic word of the phrase translated here as “give solidity” is atqana, which means to arrange or dispose of things to obtain the most perfect result. The electrons within the atom constantly revolve in the perfect manner, in the paths that God has arranged for them-again as the verse informs us. Never do they stray, even to the slightest degree. Furthermore, when we consider the universe, we see that everything composed of matter gradually decays over the course of time, is worn down by external factors, erodes, breaks down and becomes impaired. Yet no such corruption is ever observed in the atom-aside from in nuclear reactions (fission and fusion, which we’ll discuss shortly) carried out through deliberate, artificial interventions. As our Lord tells us in the verse, the atom has been created to be perfectly solid.
The Awesome Power in the Atomic Nucleus
Atom nuclei consist of protons and neutrons. But what is the force that binds together these particles comprising the nucleus? The so-called “strong nuclear force,” the most powerful force that has yet been described by the laws of physics, holds the atomic nuclei together.
This force keeps the protons and neutrons in the nucleus together without dispersing. So powerful is this force that it enables the protons and neutrons in the nucleus to literally adhere to one another, yet keeps the protons and neutrons separate and apart from one another. If this force had any more binding power, the protons and neutrons would combine with one another, and were it any less, they would all spin away and the atom would disintegrate.
When this attractive force in the nucleus is released, the atom is “split” and the awesome power known as nuclear energy results. As the number of protons and neutrons grows, so does the size of the nucleus, as does the magnitude of the force that binds these particles together.
In the larger nuclei, it becomes exceedingly difficult to release this energy that binds the protons and neutrons together. As the particles separate from one another, they attempt to come back together with a greater force, just like a spring. This force is approximately 1038 times greater than gravity-in other words, a hundred billion, billion, billion, billion times greater. So long as it is not interfered with, this energy does no harm. Yet with human intervention, it can assume a power capable of killing millions of people.
The Maintenance of the Force in the Nucleus
This extraordinary force in the atom’s nucleus, sufficiently powerful in the aggregate to endanger the lives of millions, is released by way of two different atomic reactions. The reaction known as fission results from the division or splitting of the atomic nucleus, while fusion is the combining of two separate nuclei under enormous force. In both types of reaction, a tremendous quantity of energy is released.
During early experiments with fission, scientists bombarded the nucleus of uranium-235 with neutrons at very high speed-and found themselves confronted by a most interesting state of affairs. After the neutron had been absorbed by the uranium atom’s nucleus, it became highly unstable. There was now a difference in the numbers of protons and neutrons in the nucleus, creating an imbalance. Therefore, to resolve that imbalance, the nucleus begins splitting apart, emitting a specific level of energy as well as the particles contained within it, at very high speeds.
Scientists aimed the moving neutron in such a way as to strike one of the nuclei in the uranium atoms. All that’s required is for one of the atomic nuclei in that mass of uranium-235 to split asunder. During such splitting, each nucleus releases an average of two or three neutrons, which strike other nuclei in turn, initiating a chain reaction by striking other uranium nuclei.
Each newly split uranium nucleus behaves just like the first one. A series of nuclear splits or fissions thus takes place. And since a very large number of uranium nuclei are split, an extraordinary level of energy is released as a result.
It is this splitting of the U-235 nuclei that led to the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, costing the lives of tens of thousands of civilians. But since the Earth, the entire atmosphere and our very bodies all consist of atoms, what prevents all these atoms from entering into just such a reaction? What prevents catastrophes like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki taking place anywhere, at any time?
Bearing in mind that some 100 trillion atoms can fit onto the head of a pin, you can easily appreciate how any impairment to the stable structure of one single atom could lead to a similar chain reaction. That being the case, what prevents such a nuclear reaction that could very quickly obliterate the whole universe?
Neutrons have been created in such a way that when moving about in a free state in nature-that is, independent of an atomic nucleus-they undergo a process known as beta decay. Because of this, one seldom encounters a free neutron in nature, and then only for a very limited duration. For that reason, the neutrons to be used in nuclear reactions are released by artificial means.
God, the Creator of this flawless order, the Creator of the entire universe, has perfected all things. As revealed in verse 100 of Surah Yusuf, “… My Lord is Subtle in what He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.” God has created the atom together with the awesome power contained within it, and He keeps that force under control in an extraordinary way. Our Lord has created the atom with a system that can never go awry in its natural state. Although everything in the universe is eventually exposed to decay, the atom maintains its solidity. The nucleus and the electrons that revolve around it at such an unimaginable speed show us this sound creation and matchless dominion of God’s.
Atomic Energy and Nuclear Fission: A Miracle of the Qur’an
God is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the living from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That is God, so how are you perverted? (Qur’an, 6:95)
The terms “seed” (alhabbi) and “kernel” (annawa) in the above verse may also indicate the splitting of the atom. Indeed, the dictionary meanings of annawa include “nucleus, center, atomic nucleus.” Furthermore, the description of bringing forth the living from the dead can be interpreted as God creating matter from dead energy. Producing the dead out of the living may refer to energy (dead) emerging from matter (living), since the atom is in motion. (God knows best.) That is because as well as “living,” alhayyi can also mean “active, energetic.” With its meaning of “non-living,” almayyiti, translated above as “dead,” may very probably refer to energy.
Scientists define energy as the capacity for doing work. Matter, the material that comprises all objects on Earth and in the universe, consists of atoms and molecules that can be seen to be in motion under an electron microscope. In the early twentieth century, Albert Einstein theorized that matter could be converted into energy, suggesting that the two were inter-related at the atomic level. This may be the bringing forth of the dead from the living, as described above, or, in other words, obtaining energy from matter, which is in motion at the atomic level. In addition, yukhriju, translated as “brings forth,” also means “bringing out, emitting” (as in the case of electrical waves). Therefore, the terms in this verse may be indicating the form of energy obtained from the atom. (God knows best.)
As we’ve seen, today it is possible to split the atomic nucleus into its components. Based on Einstein’s theories, scientists succeeded in obtaining energy from matter through nuclear fission back in the 1940s. The verb “to split,” expressed by the word faliqu in the above verse, may be a reference to the splitting (of the nucleus) that represents the dictionary definition of fission. As we’ve seen, extraordinarily high levels of energy are released when this process takes place.
By: Harun Yahya
