Originally Published February 3, 2003 -- Your
Wellness Guide
What
Faith Can Do For You
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As life brings
twists and turns, it’s not just your past experience but also your
faith that gives you the courage to move ahead with a smile each
day. Faith brings
optimism into your life.
Without
having hope and faith negativity seeps in. Eventually, this
produces cynicism and decay. |
There are many faith-promoting people in the world. Sometimes, you only
have to look as far as your next-door neighbor…or even a son or daughter. And,
faith is not just related to religion. Faith is an action, not a statement. You have faith if you have
confidence in something or someone.
Seeing the past, present, and future, Carmen Harra is a well-known and
respected psychic who has appeared on the “Today” show, “Fox News,” and
many other television shows.
In
her new, Deepak Chopra-endorsed book,
Everyday Karma, she outlines
how to make faith part of your destiny.
“Faith is about breaking through all the negativity,” Carmen told me from
her New York home. “You
project the world you want. If you understand your world, you can be
positive. We should use faith everyday.”
She
says that nurturing the positive and healing the negative (which holds us
back) builds a bright, beautiful life.
Carmen has had the ability to sense both the negative and positive in
people since she was five, with increasing psychic abilities since a
near-death experience.
As
she has grown older, she has turned her gifts toward helping people
identify why they have certain perceptions and how to change their
thinking.
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Photo Courtesy: Real Life Lessons
Author Debbie
Gisonni, seen here with her
husband and Siberian Huskies, found
faith through coping mechanisms when
times were rough. |
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Without a
positive line of thought or perception, you cannot invite
faith.
Courage and
faith are epitomized in San Francisco-based Debbie Gisonni (www.reallifelessons.com) as
she recounts the heartbreaking suicide of her sister and the
cancer deaths of her mother, father, and aunt in her book
Vita’s Will.
Through these
harrowing experiences, she told me that there are several
coping mechanisms that she used.
“Definitely
prayer and faith,” says Debbie. “Faith moves you in more of
an optimistic pattern, especially when things can go either
way. You can say that things will happen for the best when
you have faith.”
Debbie says
that adults have a tendency to want to be in control and make
sense of everything. |
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With
faith, she says, you don’t have to make sense of it all – releasing the
control. “In a way, it’s like being a child and not having
the responsibility for every single thing that happens around you."
Having
to rebuild her home and businesses after the devastating April 1997
flooding in Grand Forks, North Dakota (the single largest natural disaster
in modern American history), Lecturer and Author Robin Silverman (www.robinsilverman.com) saw
firsthand how some people couldn’t see the positive and others sailed
through.
From
that experience she developed a concept and book called
The Ten Gifts.
And, she says everyone has the gift of faith.
“Faith is surrendering doubt and fear and moving forward with the right
action,” says Robin. “Faith is active. You will find answers to the
questions you’ve been asking.”
In
the Frank Capra movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” its message is just
as good in December as in July: we all have the power to make a difference
if we will just believe and have faith. The
film’s main character, George Bailey, learned that the measure of his
humanity had nothing to do with fame or money but rather how he lived his
life on a daily basis.
Whether you call it creating positive Karma, having everyday faith, or
taking courage, it all means you believe in good for yourself and others.
Faith gives you a wonderful life and makes you say “I want to live.”
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