Owner of Myself: Face Your Challenges

By Aluney Elferr

Living well is a tireless pursuit of all of us, Aluney Elferr in this book seeks to show through simple practices that this goal can be achieved since that we can seek to increase way of acting with new practices that make all the difference. OWNER OF MYSELF, is a readable book that provokes our quest for change and achieve excellence in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481714495

Aluney Elferr

Aluney Elferr Albuquerque Silva is a writer, speaker, theologian, clinical psychanalyst, and master and doctor of theology and psychanalysis.

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Owner of Myself

Face Your Challenges

Aluney Elferr

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/05/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-1447-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-1449-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013902519

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Contents

Live Like the Flowers

Sow Peace, Reap Love

Reflection through God’s Words

Come and Behold

Presence of God

Never Stop Dreaming

How to Take Good Care of Your Life

Dealing with Anger

Ten Tips for Facing Challenges

Overcome the Pressures of Day-to-Day Life

Improve Your Memory

Relieve Stress

Get Yourself Well

Your Life Is Balanced…

Tips for a Better Life

Start Your Day in the Right Way

Things to Avoid

Deal with Distress, Fear, and Insecurity

Keeping Your Serenity in the Present Day

Seek Confidence

Better Self-Esteem and Taking Care of Your Body

Resolve Your Emotions without Attacking the Refrigerator

Be Happy for No Reason

Leave the Inertia and Heal Yourself

Daunting Days into Glory Days

Notes to Help You Remember

To you with esteem and affection

I dedicate this work first to the Lord’s Vineyard, God, for without Him nothing exists;

To my parents, Aluysio and Liney, from whom I inherited everything;

To my wife and eternal love, Suely Brazil, who taught and showed me happiness;

To my children, Aluney Junior, Laura Elferr, and Maria Clara, who complete and sublimate my being;

To all the friends and supporters of this cause and all the sons and daughters who are on drugs and suffering immensely and to their ability to discover their paths with a single north—happiness.

Live Like the Flowers

Master, how do I not worry? Some people talk too much; others are ignorant. Some are indifferent. I hate those who are liars. I resent those who slander, said the disciple to the master.

Live like the flowers! warned the master.

How do I live like the flowers? asked the disciple.

Look at these flowers, continued the master, pointing to the lilies growing in the garden. They are born in the manure, but they are pure and fragrant. They extract nutrients from the smelly compost to grow. They are useful and healthy but do not let the bitterness of earth stick to the freshness of their petals. It is fair to agonize over one’s own sins, but it is not wise to allow the vices of others to inconvenience you. Their defects are theirs and not yours. If they’re not your own, there is no reason to bother with them. Exercise, therefore, the virtue of rejecting all evil that comes from outside. This is to live like the flowers.

Sow Peace, Reap Love

You only reap what you sow.

We’re living in a time when it seems that men and women are looking for inner treasures, contents inside of them, a time in which one may be not conceited or proud, a time when we need to be humble and need to use humility in all situations of life.

When changing our lives—I mean our feelings or actions—we must always have humility. When making any changes in our character, we must recognize what is wrong in our way of acting.

Humility seems to be the key to all virtues, and in each attempt to