Keep It Moving: Meditations on Overcoming Obstacles and Living Your Best Life

By Paula Rainer Ph.D

These meditations include philosophy, spirituality, and wellness narratives that will help you find your truth and fulfill your potential.

Paula Rainer, who earned a Ph.D. in counselor education and has dedicated her life to helping others overcome anxiety, depression, and other problems, explores the range of emotions we experience daily—some good and some bad. She also highlights how our DNA plays a part in how we navigate various encounters.

As you read, you’ll learn how to:
• build resiliency through the learned experience of others;
• create infrastructures to turn dreams into reality;
• overcome mental patterns that undermine your goals;
• free your mind and open yourself up to new possibilities.

The author emphasizes that you should not expect people to understand, endorse, support, or help you with your purpose. Successful people will understand your need to follow your inner soul. People who have yet to follow their inner souls will tell you why your goals are impossible.

Move past the naysayers, identify your goals, and take steps to achieve them with the lessons and insights in Keep It Moving.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9781665735599

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One verse from the Common English Bible under

Favorite Quotes: "Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

You’ll receive the same judgment you give".

Matthew 7:1-2

ISBN: 978-1-6657-3543-8 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022923488

Archway Publishing rev. date: 03/07/2023

Do not waste another second, minute, or hour of

your life stopping at physical, emotional, or cognitive

barriers that undermine your purposeful life.

This book will provide you with tools to quickly recognize

barriers and how to keep it moving to walk over, around

or under these barriers so you can live your best life!

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my heavenly parents, David, and Renee Bluford, who taught me the philosophy of keeping it moving. My husband, Stuart, is a calming force when I need to keep it moving. My three children, Chadwick, Camille, and Christina and grandson Chadwick Jr. have walked the journey of keeping it moving through successes and adversity. They are all inspirations to me beyond measure. Their love and strength propel me to keep it moving for my lifetime.

ACKNOWLEDGE

I want to recognize Fr. Donald Heet for helping me to navigate my spiritual goals of balanced well-being. He has given me insight to continue to achieve God’s journey for me to keep people moving forward to internal peace, love, and belonging. I want to acknowledge Dr. Thomas Monteiro, who is like a dad to me and a guiding force of love, acceptance, validation, peace, and a steady spirit. Marlene Alexander, my California mother, helped me grow as a woman and wife through my 20s to 30s. I appreciate my sisters Pamela and Penny, who make up the three Ps; no matter what, we always come to conclusions of unity and Brittany who is an outstanding mother to my grandson.

INTRODUCTION

These meditations include philosophy, wellness, and spirituality narratives. Use this book to walk in your truth and fulfill the instructions of your soul. The reflections are in chapters like the chapters of our life.

Clients, colleagues, and counseling students inspired this book by asking me to repeat words of philosophy and meditations I had just imparted to them. It would be hard to capture the same essence again when they asked me to repeat my comments. So, I started to record these words of wisdom on a notepad.

I accumulated multiple quotes and notepads, so I put the most memorable quotes in a book. We experience a range of emotions daily, whether mindful of them or not. We stream through positive, negative, and neutral energy experiences daily. Emotions and psychological well-being are indicators of how we navigate our experiences and relationships on the earth and how we cope with these encounters. Our DNA plays a part in how we manage these encounters.

Likewise, our environments and relationships generate positive, negative, and neutral emotional and cognitive responses. This book helps people to navigate their lives and achieve their hopes, dreams, and goals despite their past development or current state.

Free your mind and open yourself up to new possibilities. Walk through life mindful of valid frameworks which develop your purpose and soul. Positive energy, faith, balance, and peace represent your destined pathways. So, seek positive narratives and keep it moving.

PROLOGUE

As a child, I was always open to the lived stories and insights of my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and elders. I listened because I respected them, and I knew they loved me. I did not realize that one day their words of wisdom would benefit the challenges I would encounter. I needed to understand how these nuggets of information would build my resiliency based on their lived experiences.

It is better to build resiliency by understanding other people’s experiences instead of suffering the same fate. Learning from your own lived experience without guidance from others can create a perspective of unnecessary pain and suffering.

Empathic listening and knowledge gained from the lived experience of others builds sustainability without being exposed to those experiences yourself. Your time on earth is limited based on years and the encounters with people you can experience. However, you can put a multiplier on the understanding of life if you gain knowledge from others.

Take advantage of learning from other people and build your durability from their experiences. It is better to learn from others who can impart lived experiences, adaptability gained, and brackets for problems in the future. Therefore, keep your