Buddhist Stickers
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Platin Art Wall Mural Deco Wall, Buddha Silhouette, 8-Feet 4-Inch by 12-Feet List Price: $44.99 Sale Price: $44.99  |
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Create a dramatic feature wall in your home or office with this DECO WALL mural. The mural consists of 8 panels and is as easy to apply as regular wallpaper. Printed and protected with a light coat of varnish on high-grade special paper with increased tear-resistance when wet. |
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Komar 1-610 Single Panel Wall Mural Buddha, 72-inch by 50-inch List Price: $69.99 Sale Price: $62.47 |
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Vinyl Wall Decal Sticker Buddha Buddhism Sale Price: $24.95 |
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The newest interior design trend is adding vinyl art on interior walls. It's easier than hiring an artist and a lot cheaper. The smaller pieces can be put up within minutes. The larger pieces takes a little longer... |
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Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $14.32 |
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Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying childrenâand before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse... |
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My Dogma Ran Over Your Karma (Catholicism on Trial Series) List Price: $5.95 |
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âMy Dogma Ran over Your Karmaâ reverses the old bumper sticker slogan âMy Karma Ran over Your Dogmaâ. For many years a Pop Culture mentality attacked the dogmas of the Catholic Church via bumper stickers and Volkswagen vans decked out with peace signs and flowers, and a response is long overdue... |
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Skinit Enlightened One Vinyl Skin for Apple iPad 1 List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $29.99 |
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IMPORTANT: Skinit skins, stickers, decals are NOT A CASE. Our skins are VINYL SKINS that allow you to personalize and protect your device with form-fitting skins. Our adhesive backing can be applied and removed with no residue, no mess and no fuss... |
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Namaste - Tibet Buddha - Car, Truck, Notebook, Vinyl Decal Sticker #2318 | Vinyl Color: White Sale Price: $2.35 |
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This is a high quality vinyl decal that can be adhered on your car, notebook, computer or just about any smooth clean surface. The decal is a single color without a background as shown. Can be used in interior and exterior applications... |
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BUDDHISM Flag car bumper sticker decal 5" x 3" Sale Price: $3.99 |
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BRAND NEW sticker is made of highest quality vinyl with up to 5 year outdoor guarantee. Sticker is die cut around the contour and easily removable. It will not leave behind residue or damage the surface when removed... |
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Buddha Oval Bumper Sticker Sale Price: $3.49 |
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Adhesive-backed oval vinyl sticker printed in weather resistant black ink. Based on European format. Sticker size is approximately 3 ½ x 5 and kiss cut on a rectangular carrier. While originally intended for automobile bumpers they can be applied to windows, notebooks, backpacks, or other surfaces. |
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Skinit Enlightened One Vinyl Skin for Apple New iPad List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $29.99 |
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IMPORTANT: Skinit skins, stickers, decals are NOT A CASE. Our skins are VINYL SKINS that allow you to personalize and protect your device with form-fitting skins. Our adhesive backing can be applied and removed with no residue, no mess and no fuss... |
Down With Stress/up With Thriving
This is a modified version of a talk I gave at the KCBS Health Fair in San Francisco on February 2, 2008. Our panel’s room was set up for 30 people and 150 showed up. The technicians scrambled to set up speakers in the hallway so the overflowing crowd could hear.
Down with Stress/Up with Thriving
I have a need for full confession here—call it my Jewish guilt—before I go on to give you advice about how to lower your stress and thrive more. At 23 years of age I had a stroke. At 48 I had a brain tumor. So although I’m not the poster child for handling stress or always being tuned in to the subtle and not-so-subtle messages of my mind/body/spirit, I have spent a good portion of my 27 years as a life coach seeking correlations between health and happiness for my clients as well as for myself.
First of all, stress is a catchall phrase and not so useful when we’re looking to thrive and create a more extraordinary life. Instead, I recommend asking yourself whether you are Enduring or Persevering. Both may feel stressful. But Enduring leads to the blahs and worse while Persevering leads to thriving. Here are just some of the symptoms of Endurance: anxiety, addiction, boredom, cynicism, depression, hopelessness, helplessness, illness, “Is that all there is?” lack of energy, procrastination, resentment, ruts, and “Why me, Lord?” If you are suffering from any of these symptoms, then I encourage you to consider that you are in some Endurance.
So how do we end up in Endurance and how do we get out of it? Most of us have an underlying belief, conscious or unconscious, in what I call The Big Lie. The Big Lie is that we think that we are not fully worthy. If we don’t believe we are fully worthy of thriving or having an extraordinary, abundant life, we will sabotage ourselves using three universal techniques:
• Stoking our fears
• Whipping ourselves with our self-judgments
• Gathering evidence for our limiting beliefs.
Example: Have you ever had a bad hair day? If so, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. You wake up in the morning feeling ugly. That’s your self-judgment. So what do you do? Instead of picking out your nicest or sexiest outfit, you dress to be invisible. Why? Because you fear being noticed for how ugly you think you look. Then you leave home, go to work, and what happens? No one notices you. No one compliments you. And what does this do? It confirms your limiting belief that you are not attractive. This is just one example of the wisdom of the Buddhist saying that no enemy can harm us as much as our own worst thoughts.
Here is my personal example of a bad hair day: I was 48 years old and had not yet written my book, Enough Is Enough! Why? I had stoked my fear that I would be rejected by publishers and the public. I had self-judgments that I wasn’t a good enough writer, even though I had written and sold over 100,000 copies of my Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation and had edited for friends and colleagues for 30 years. And I had plenty of evidence that there were enough self-help books out there glutting the market already and that mine would get lost in the pile. What stoking my fear, whipping up my self-judgments, and gathering evidence for my limiting beliefs did was to keep me in endurance by perpetuating The Big Lie that I wasn’t worthy. My personal favorite symptoms of Endurance were boredom and resentment.
Then I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. That, as we say, was my wake-up call. I asked myself, “If I don’t make it through the surgery, will I have any regrets?” The answer was a resounding yes. I had seven weeks between diagnosis and surgery, during which time I bargained with the Universe. Here was the deal I asked for: Let me live and come out of surgery coherent and I’ll write the book. I’ll even be willing to believe that I’m worthy of doing so. Gratefully, the Universe must have acquiesced so I started writing. Now writing a book is no stroll in the park, especially if you really care about your topic and audience. But the difference was that, once I decided to say boo back to my fears, stopped reminding myself of all my self-judgments, and began to question the authority of my limiting beliefs, I found that I was no longer Enduring; I was Persevering.
Writing the book was still stressful. I had to write late at night because I still had my commitment to my clients as well as to my young daughter and loving husband. I had an editor who sent back my work full of red ink on a daily basis. But it was different. Perseverance is energizing. It is a commitment to the process, regardless of any particular outcome. I found that I was willing to write the book not knowing if it would ever be published or read by another human being.
I think that the secret to thriving that also lowers your stress level is to counter The Big Lie by listening to your Spirit’s longings. Your spirit knows what really matters and it knows when you’re enduring rather than persevering.
So here are five things you can do right now to thrive more:
1. Make amends for past misdeeds and forgive yourself daily so that you can feel worthy of thriving.
2. Say boo back to at least one fear. Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the commitment to persevere through it.
3. Allow yourself to be wrong about your self-judgments and limiting beliefs. Being right just keeps you enduring in survival mode.
4. Listen more closely to your spirit's longings.
5. Model your behaviors after those you admire. Or, as one bumper sticker says, “Become the person your dog thinks you are.”
About the Author
Jane is a trusted life coach, dynamic keynote speaker, and the author of Enough Is Enough! Stop Enduring and Start Living Your Extraordinary Life. With humor and grace, Jane offers her clients and seminar participants insights and exercises to ensure that the next chapter of their lives is about thriving as the unique individuals they have always been and the extraordinary ones they are still becoming. She serves clients worldwide and invites you to visit her site, www.stopenduring.com. Here you will find excerpts from her book, more articles, TV and radio interviews, and clips from her presentations.
She is also the author of The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, www.grammarbook.com, an award-winning online resource and workbook with easy-to-understand rules, real-world examples, and fun quizzes. Contact Jane at Jane@JaneStraus.com.
