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[Guest guest]

Have any of you heard of the Millennium Game? It is a very ingenues

idea, a stress management system in game form. I say ingenues

because as soon as you start to play, you have fulfilled one of the

main requirement for change. You are doing something, for until you

do something, nothing can change.

The Millennium Game is a self improvement game that you play

privately for ten days. You are not asked to quit smoking, drinking,

swearing. You are not asked to do anything that you wouldn't

normally do, and you are not asked for any money for this is already

yours if you should receive it.

The Millennium game gives you the names of the seven negative human

emotions common to us all. To play the game and win, you are asked

to disallow these seven lies from entering your heart for ten days.

When any of them come upon you, shuck them, knowing that if you

don't, things can only get bad, maybe even worse.

These seven names, can we call them troubles? For trouble is what

they are! There is not one of them that will do you anything but

damage, so why then would you allow them? Being mindful of this

helps to become free of them.

I have read more than a few times over the years, that these things

are good, they are natural responses. There is no conflict of ideas

here, what they say about necessary stress is correct, but not so

with unnecessary stress and the more serious unnecessary distress.

Norman Peale said, " There are two kinds of stress, necessary

and unnecessary. "

This one sentence is the cross road of stress management! There is

not much we can do about what is necessary. Now when you look at the

great cost to our body and our life for allowing what is unnecessary,

should we not stop? The medical community has well warned us.

Might we look at three of the seven troubles that are in us? They

are in measure to all man, some with more Wrath, Some with more

Enmity, some with more Doubt. None are better than another.

Doubt that brings fear and worry. It keeps us from Faith where

comes our joy and laughter.

Doubt in your heart can do you only damage. It will serve to destroy

your future and perhaps your health as well. Being mindful of this,

do not allow it. Doubt is the " yea " of the seven things that destroy

man.

Enmity that brings forth hate and bitterness. It keeps us from

Compassion whence love is born.

Enmity in your heart can do you only destruction. It truly is a

burning fire. It will serve to destroy your to morrows and perhaps

your health as well. Being mindful of this, do not allow it.

Wrath bringing anger and temper. It keeps us from Mercy and our

receiving and showing of Mercy.

Wrath in your heart can do you only harm. It will serve to destroy

your future and perhaps your health as well. Being mindful of this,

do not allow it.

What I say about one, I say about all seven.

I feel I should stop here due to the large number of people that

don't know what Enmity is.

" It is the spirit of an enemy. " The simple solution? " Be friendly

to all! " , Make it a new rule with that receptionist behind your eyes,

courtesy first! Now which would be easier? To do this, or to try

and stop hate when it has already come? When a person is in hate, it

should indicate to them, that the damage to their body has already

been done. Hate is the condition of a body, brought about by a

glandular response triggered by the allowing of Enmity in the heart.

Stress implies a force. If there is no force, there can be no

stress. In human stress, this force is the chemicals secreted into

the blood by the glands of the body. It is corrosive to our cells,

requires our life energy for repair, lowers our immunity, leaving us

susceptible to disease causing bacteria, virus, and toxins. Shortens

our life causing more rapid ageing. If you got tangled up in a

hornets nest, and received twenty or so stings, you would expect to

have a few sore days of healing. The only difference here is the

wounds from the stings of stress can not be seen because they are

within. but the medical community verifies where there is stress,

there is wounding, and do we not all testify to the suffering.

They teach hate management when they should be teaching Enmity

management. Where there is no Enmity, there can be no hate.

They teach anger management when they should be teaching Wrath

management. Where there is no Wrath, there can be no anger. It is

easier to deal with the Wrath within then with the anger that comes

out. When a person is in anger, it should indicate to them, that

the damage to their body has already been done. Anger is the

condition of a body, brought about by a glandular response triggered

by the allowing of Wrath in the heart.

They teach fear management when they should be teaching Doubt

management. If you have no Doubt, you can have no fear. When a

person is in fear, it should indicate to them, that the damage to

their body has already been done. Fear is the condition of a body,

brought about by a glandular response triggered by the allowing of

Doubt in the heart.

Anyone that would consider playing this wonderful stress management

game might like to hear what I can tell them about the rest of the

seven troubles of the heart.

These seven are the stressors of all unnecessary stress/distress.

Patzen