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The Greater Cause   Imagine what a different world we would live in, if we all worked toward the greater good. With all that takes place in our lives, it can sometimes be easy to overlook the fact that we're part of something greater than ourselves -- a collective consciousness, the Universe, a greater cause. Because of our tendency to forget this, we might make decisions in our lives that don't reflect that responsibility that comes with this belonging. All too often, we focus just on the short-term, tangible gain to ourselves without worrying about its consequences. Other times, we may discard the greater cause because it seems like "hard work." The challenge is to expand our minds so that we transcend the distinction between self and others, so we are aware of how our choices and actions can impact a greater cause.   Contributing to the greater cause doesn't have to be all about self-sacrifice. For example, if you plant a tree in a community space, its shelter will cool and protect you as well as your neighbors.  Or, your reward might be in the form of the beauty that you now see in that space or the sincere smiles of appreciation from neighbors.  When you serve the greater cause you also serve your greater good. There is nothing that you cannot do for your highest good that will not benefit the good of all. For example, saying no to a relationship that isn't right for you not only benefits you but serves the greater good of the other person that you are honoring with your honesty. Saying yes to your dream job not only fulfills you but also serves the people that will benefit from your enthusiasm and productivity.  When you know you are serving a greater cause, there is little room for fear and doubt. You know that what you do will benefit others, so there is no way the universe is not going to support your efforts -- even if sometimes it may not look that way. Serving the greater cause allows you to live from the space of your greatness. When you know that what you do can serve a greater cause, you are aware of your power and ability to influence and create change in this world. From the Daily OM. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The Post's coronavirus coverage

It's now harder for international travelers to enter the United States. On Monday, President Biden extended and enlarged a travel ban that President Donald Trump had enacted. People who are not U.S. citizens cannot travel from South Africa, Brazil, the U.K., and 26 additional European countries. The ban applies to most non-citizens who have been in those countries within 14 days. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said this was a “science-driven response” to the worsening spread of the virus, particularly the contagious variants, abroad.   Inside the United States, the vaccine rollout continues. In December, Biden set a target of 100 million shots in 100 days. Based on recent vaccination rates – more than 1 million doses per day over the past six days – vaccinations appear to be on track to meet that goal. But the lack of stock may throttle efforts to go faster.  Vaccine supply is likely to be “the most limiting constraint early on,” said Rochelle Walensky, the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, to Fox News. "We’re really hoping that after that first 100 days, we’ll have much more production."   Meanwhile, in her first interview since ending her role as Trump's pandemic response coordinator, Deborah Birx said he used a “parallel set of data” not made by her team. Birx told CBS she saw graphs and statistics in the president's hands that were different from the ones she had supplied. In the spring, during the first outbreak, several governors ordered people to stay home. Around the same time, the job market collapsed. But those shutdowns were not the fatal financial blow some said.   New evidence shows the economy was on the decline before those orders as people were already staying in. Stay-at-home orders didn't slay the economy. The virus did. Other important news Moderna said Monday its vaccine protects against the new variants, though it's slightly less effective against the South African strain. This announcement follows last week's similar news from Pfizer-BioNTech. Police under assault in the Netherlands. Fire in the streets in Israel. Anger at lockdown orders is erupting into violence.  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tested positive for the coronavirus and is receiving treatment for his "light" symptoms.  Don't be afraid to give yourself a good cry: Crying can relieve stress, especially when a friend lends a shoulder or sympathetic ear.

Guide to the pandemic Track confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. and the spread around the world. U.S. vaccine distribution and delivery, tracked by state. Post reporters are publishing live dispatches nearly 24 hours a day. FAQ: How do Biden’s new mask orders work? Submit a question and we may answer it in a future story or newsletter.

Your questions, answered “When we say 75 percent effective, does that mean that there is a 25 percent risk of still getting the virus? What exactly does that mean especially as it relates to new strain in South Africa?” — Albert in Texas We've addressed the difference between efficacy and effectiveness in previous newsletters, but it's going to come up more frequently now that several key variants are spreading around the world.   Efficacy is the number we get from a clinical trial. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has a 95 percent efficacy — it was 95 percent effective at preventing symptoms in the trial. Although there were thousands of people in the trials and the participants went about their days and lived their lives as they normally would, it wasn't quite a “real world” test of the vaccine.   Effectiveness is what happens in the real world. We already know that pregnant women were not included in the trials, but many are choosing to be vaccinated. Some underlying health conditions might not have been well-represented in trial participants. And we know that the racial and ethnic breakdown of the participants didn't quite line up with the current U.S. population. Now that vaccines are out there in the real world, we're going to start to learn more about their effectiveness. It's possible they really are 95 percent effective. More likely than not, their effectiveness is a bit lower than that.   Neither of these measures can really tell you what is your personal chance of illness. That mostly depends on your exposure, your immune system, and maybe your underlying health conditions.   Efficacy and effectiveness are big average statistics taken across many demographics. The higher numbers are good, but a 95 percent efficacy/effectiveness doesn't translate into a 5 percent risk for you. (For example, someone who works in a hospital's covid-19 unit isn't going to have the same risk as someone who works at home and only leaves to restock the fridge.)   Moving on to the variants: Yes, they throw a wrench into vaccine effectiveness. Moderna announced today that its vaccine triggers an immune response for the U.K. and South Africa variants (good news). But it also said that it wasn't as effective against those strains (not good, but also not terrible news).    The Post's Carolyn Y. Johnson reported that Moderna is launching two new studies to address the variants: One that bumps the two-dose regimen to three and another to test an all-new vaccine specific to the South Africa variant.

Today’s top reads Find more stories, analysis, and op-eds about the outbreak on our coronavirus page, including: Two days of total lockdown in a crowded Hong Kong neighborhood Will cruises require vaccines? One line just set a standard. We still don’t know how many people are infected with covid-19. We can find out.

The PANDEMIC, if only we listened.

What makes a relationship right, or an important decision?

How can you tell if deep spiritual questions have an answer?

As children, we all asked these questions.

They came naturally.

Is there a God?

Do I have a soul?

What happens after I die?

Children are too young to understand that their parents are just as confused as they are.

But the answers are given, and for a time they suffice.

If Grandma went to heaven to be with Grandpa, a child will sleep better and feel less sad.

When you grow up, however, the same questions return.

You can postpone the deeper ones, perhaps, but not in matters of love, relationships, and personal decisions.

Everyone wants to know the answers to those kinds of dilemmas.

And thus you discover that your parents, however well-intentioned, never showed you the way (unless you happen to be one child in a million who had very mature parents who could truly love and understand you).

I know I seem to be painting a very large, open-ended picture. But getting into a healthy relationship, discovering whether you have a soul and even picking the right job have something in common.

In all these cases you either hope, believe or know what the answer is. "I hope he loves me enough." "I believe my spouse is faithful." "I know this marriage is solid."

These are very different statements, and we find ourselves awash in confusion because "I hope," "I believe" and "I know" are never the same thing. We just wish they were.

If you will indulge me in sounding so abstract, there's a useful lesson here.

The spiritual path actually has only these three elements.

You move from a state of uncertainty—"I hope?"—to a somewhat firmer state of security—"I believe"—and eventually end up with true understanding—"I know."

It doesn't matter whether the specific issue is about relationships, God or the soul, about the higher self, heaven, or the far reaches of the supernatural. Either you hope, you believe or you know.

You have already made that journey—many times, in fact.

As a child, you hoped you would be a grown-up. In your 20s, you believed that it was possible.

Now you know you are an adult.

You hoped someone would love you; you believed in time that somebody did, and now you know that they do. If this natural progression hasn't happened, something has gone wrong, because the unfoldment of life is designed to follow from wish to fulfillment.

Of course, we all know the pitfalls.

Divorce generally means you didn't know if someone truly loved you.

Children who grow up resenting their parents usually don't know who to trust.

A hundred other examples could be offered.

But the important thing is to get you back on the path.

Step 1: Realize that your life is meant to progress.

Step 2: Reflect on how good it is to truly know something rather than just hoping and believing. Don't settle for less.

Step 3: Write down, on three separate lists, the things you hope are true, the things you believe are true and the things you know are true.

Step 4: Ask yourself why you know the things you know.

Step 5: Apply what you know to those areas where you have doubts, where only hope and belief exist today.

I believe that when you truly know something, the following things pertain:

You didn't accept other people's opinions.

You found out on your own.

You didn't give up too soon.

You kept exploring despite blind alleys and false starts.

You trusted that you have the power, determination, and curiosity to find out the real truth.

Half-truths left you dissatisfied.

What you truly know grew from the inside.

It made you a different person, as different as two people, one of whom has deeply loved and the other hasn't.

You trusted the process of personal growth.

You aren't afraid of your emotions.

The truth always feels a certain way; uncertainty is queasy and gives off a bad smell.

You went beyond logic into those areas where intuition, insight, and wisdom actually count.

They became real for you.

I would say that these elements are universal.

They apply to the Buddha but also any young person learning how to be in a relationship or finding the right purpose in life.

By dividing the project into its components, the huge questions about life, love, God, and the soul become manageable.

You can work on each ingredient at a time.

Are you prone to accepting secondhand opinions?

Do you have a habit of distrusting your own decisions?

Is love too painful and confusing to explore deeply?

These aren't impossible obstacles.

They are part of you, and therefore nothing can be nearer or more intimate.

Moving from "I hope" to "I believe" to "I know" is nothing less than the journey of life. You don't have to buy a ticket.

You were born with one in your hand.

Deepak Chopra, MD, is the author of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center.

As 2020 winds down, I know many of us are yearning for a very small and selective range of life experiences—the happy holidays, the normal times, the settings and experiences that make us feel comfortable.

And yet, the full range of our present reality is quite different.

This year continues to give us an extensive array of experiences that evoke feelings ranging from sadness to struggle to pride to anger to love to loneliness… happiness to hope and more.

These feelings are all part of being a living, breathing human being, regardless of the season of our lives.

So, we can revolt against the unfairness of life—the unfairness of having to deal with pain, having to cope with uncertainty, having to feel lonely and uneasy and upset.

Or we can embrace every experience life gives us, including all our highs and lows—all the blissful moments and painful ones and everything in between.

Life is not just happy and comfortable 24/7. It’s well-rounded, it’s full-featured, and it’s real.

Embracing the full range of life’s experiences this holiday season means embracing every moment with our full presence, being open and vulnerable to reality, being gentle with ourselves when moments are tougher than we expected, and practicing sincere gratitude no matter what happens.

It means accepting life as it is, and accepting ourselves as we are.

It means not expecting the best to happen every step of the way, but instead accepting what happens with each step, and making the very best of it.

This isn’t easy of course, but it’s worth working on, together.

Making Progress into 2021

Yes, the New Year is rapidly approaching.

Let’s make a pact to enter it with a more open, accepting, and resilient collective mindset.

How?

By committing the right ideas and intentions to memory.

Over the past decade, Angel and I have written various “notes to self” like the ones I’ve listed below (all of which are now excerpts from our books), and then we’ve read and re-read them until they became ingrained in our minds.

These memorized “notes to self” help us stay on track, by empowering us to make the best and most effective use of the ever-changing reality in front of us.

We’ve passed these notes on to our course students and live seminar attendees over the years, and many of them have thanked us for doing so. 

I hope YOU find value in them today, too. 

And I challenge you to memorize at least a couple of them before the New Year. (Note: For the sake of not being tediously redundant, I only wrote “Note to Self” as a precursor on the first note below.)

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Cheers to a New Beginning

Although none of the aforementioned “notes to self” immediately force you to do anything different, they represent a timely shift in perspective, and perspective is where peace and happiness begin.

From there, you can change your posture from one of tension and resistance to one of acceptance and opportunity.

Ultimately, the goal isn’t to get rid of all your negative thoughts, feelings, or life situations as you journey into 2021. The goal is to change your response to them.

The days, weeks, and months ahead—both before and after the New Year—will be filled with incredible highs and stressful lows, for all of us.

But in any case, we can train our minds to make the best of the present moment as it unfolds. Just take it one “note” at a time, and please know that if you’re struggling with any of this, you are not alone.

Many of us are right there with you, working hard to feel better, think more clearly, and keep our lives on track. This is precisely why Angel and I wrote our books and built our course.

These invaluable resources are filled with proven guidance on how to do just that. And believe it or not, Angel and I review a lot of our own material on a regular basis too, just to center our minds on these proven principles.

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52 Good Morning Mantras (That Will Change Your Life)

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

 

Here are 52 morning mantras – one for each week of the year (note: you can start your year of morning mantras anytime you want).  I choose one of these mantras every Monday morning and sit quietly for two minutes, repeating it silently in my mind as if I were meditating.  I also write it on a post-it note and stick it next to my computer monitor for the duration of the week.  This weekly ritual has helped reduce unnecessary stress in my life by reminding me to keep things simple, peaceful and in perspective.

1. The secret to being grateful is no secret.  You choose to be grateful.  Then you do it again and again.  Every day.  When you forget, begin again.
2. If you worry too much about what might be, and wonder too long about what might have been, you will ignore and completely miss what is.
3. You don’t know what the future will bring.  So your best strategy for living is to make the best and most positive use of the present.
4. Two things, more than anything else, define you daily: Your patience when you are struggling, and your attitude when you are not.          Read More on the web page.

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