Your Personal Message from Archangel Elemiah
Elemiah - Angel of Success
1. Introduction
Their life has mastered the art that we all need to cultivate – thrive despite adversity. Such people can teach us a lot about what matters, how we can drive it, and learn to use the power of our Angel of Victory. Success is not a destination; it is a way of life at each moment of life! It is noted that many strong people’s lives may experience significant challenges and pains at some point. They empty into the same pain as others, the distress, fallen hopes, and dreams. Yet, despite it all, they thrive. Their lives do seem truly and deeply simple and joyful. They have mastered the same strength and determination that we all share. So, what does matter, after all? Let us count the ways. Do we not each of us want to live in a world where we are seen in our worth yet also discover success on our measures and terms? Is there not a darling happiness in our pursuit?
We live in an era brimming with unhappiness. Personal, relationship, and workplace issues and concerns are global. Adversity is a part of being human. It is a part of using our creative energies to desperately fight against challenges, undertake extreme efforts through persistence, and stress in the face of adversity, conflicts, and pressures. Overcoming adversity entails a double task: motivation and personal skills. Many strong people experience the same challenges and pains in their lives at some point, but while some are lost in the labyrinth of their souls, others seem to flow truly and simply in life despite difficulties. We believe that the top of success is the Angel of Victory.
2. Understanding Adversity
Few adults actually experience mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual challenges. Most likely, it is the health of a loved one or a child’s disability that causes daily adversity. To provide persons in thinking about what adversity is, we should: will the positive aspect of adversity, speculate the positive equipment of adversity, and enhance the appreciation and knowledge of the adversity at that particular block on the road to the individual success level. Use adversity as a strong teacher of the lessons that promote the realization of any given chance. Fear, despair, and hatred contradict success. Use these strategies as the tools to combat these adverse emotions. Furthermore, gauge the power of optimism, whatever the setting. It is the answer; it will keep us going the right way.
So, the bottom line is: what is adversity? Adversity comes in multiple forms and people experience adversity in different ways. We often hear academics and psychologists espouse the adversity of just having to fill out your tax forms in April or at the end of the fiscal year. I am skeptical about that kind of adversity. However, many forms of adversity can easily be argued. Underprivileged children who suffer fatigue during school hours, parents who cannot provide financially or emotionally for their families, mechanical problems that encumber income, and health issues certainly fit the guideline for adversity.
2.1. Types of Adversity
What may be easy for one person can be difficult for another. In other words, people’s abilities differ from person to person. Everyone can’t become a world champion athlete, sing like Luciano Pavarotti, become wealthy in futures trading, or become the winner of a Nobel prize. However, most people are capable of leading a decent, productive life if they possess an adequate amount of sheer determination and if they direct their strengths toward those arenas in which their abilities lie. In short, Everyman, when challenged by adversity, can learn to be an angel, an Angel of Success.
There are many forms that adversity can take. In one class of difficulties, obstacles are tangible. These might include catastrophes such as house fires, floods, or earthquakes; debilitating accidents; diseases (such as cancer, heart attacks, or numerous other debilitating illnesses); and life-threatening assaults from robbers and terrorists. In another class of difficulties, obstacles may be more subtle. These might be poverty; broken family structures; prejudice or discrimination; bullying in schools or businesses; and abuses of trusts, such as in failing marriages and within business joint ventures. In a third class of adversities, obstacles may be personal doubts and fears that arise from within ourselves; examples include such things as crippling phobias, low self-esteem, demotivation, and difficulties in interpersonal relations.
2.2. Common Reactions to Adversity
Another common reaction is optimism: unrealistic expectations that people have about their futures. Some people expect things to become intolerable conditions and logically should help them accept and adapt to these circumstances. They manage to sustain high spirits and good cheer as they escape from bad news, and increase the chance for success by spurring them to work with energy, and for long hours. Optimism may not be needed for normal day-to-day activities, but in situations characterized by atypical stressors, the advantages of unrealistic hopes may be particularly beneficial. I chose motivational strategies as the focus of my study because they offer approaches to enhancing the ability of people to recognize the personal relevance of adverse circumstances and to strengthen their methods to cope with or work against the effects associated with these conditions.
The response of individuals to the fact that they are in an adverse situation has been a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners. An initial response consists of recognizing an event, situation, or condition as personally relevant and worth attending to. In the context of medical diagnoses, some persons actively avoid bad news, either by avoiding appearances of it or by minimizing their significance. Some reactions benefit people because seriousness reduces the edge of pain or anxiety or may paralyze individuals, which increases their susceptibility to that pain or anxiety.
3. Elemiah: The Angel of Success
Elemiah is the angel of success who helps us reach our highest potential. Many individuals feel empowered and their spirit is lifted because of his motivation. Throughout the ages, he encouraged and motivated the masses to seek fulfilling causes that they could excel at tackling. This sustains people to plow through barriers that present themselves and gives them a belief in ultimate success, so they continue even when the task becomes difficult. He also uplifts and encourages people to remove their character flaws. By allowing people to see in themselves the things that are in their way, they can go on to correct temptations, enhance patience, take more moral action, and become successful. This success permeates into many facets of life, including professional achievement, romantic and marital bliss, deep inner peace, and improving the comfort level of others that they come in contact with. Ultimately, overall happiness in life is his message and goal. But caution should be advised that usually a positive challenge is given by experiencing temporary failure in life, so an individual can reflect upon what they want in life and discard the things that stand in the way during times of tribulation.
3.1. Origins and Symbolism
The larger statue of ‘the Angel of Success’, several of them apparently being made, stands about 40 inches tall, as a rough estimate, and the shorter version, also referred to in this research paper from time to time as the ‘Angel’ and as ‘the America Angel’, stands about 28 inches tall. The exact resemblance of the statues being described in this research is not shown in any schematics in Binkowski’s website, but previous Barwood productions of the same concept appear to be illustrated there. These figures may well have been produced by the unusual technique of Barwood’s that fuses acrylic and stainless steel. Each of them shows a features winged female figure. However, the illustration does not show the figure’s arms upraised at a slight angle. As she stands, this depiction of ‘the Angel of Success’ brandishes a sword in her right hand and in her left hand, the ‘Angel’ clutches the symbol of ‘respect’ and ‘humanity’.
3.2. Attributes and Powers
In order to endure adversity and rise and soar, or like the Phoenix emerge from the ashes, the motives to transcend the causal forces are needed. Angelii of Success are familiar with this universal divine principle and implement and capitalize upon various combinations of key attributes and specific powers and motivational strategies to effectively and efficiently overcome adversity. Angelii of Success use these strategically to proactively and/or reactively cope with contrasting types and levels of adversity along their life journey. They transcend and excel. A diverse range of motivational strategies and related attributes and powers are in play. In subsets of commonly paraded strategies already outlined by management and business thought leaders and academic debate, with advice on how to implement abound. In the workplace, popular themes like inspiration and its link to motivation demand appropriate strategies based upon linked attributes and powers.
4. Strategies for Overcoming Adversity
The third theme of the Angel’s advice turns our attention to the type of individual who can develop superior coping skills. Once individuals involve themselves in actions instead of their negative moods, the change will usually occur regardless of the previous behavior or mood. This mood state, the Angel claims, begins to shift with every new coping strategy we learn and use. Achieving new coping skills is essential for individuals experiencing psychological turmoil. People will be surprised how quickly the proper attitudes of action, belief, and conviction will develop the instant they start doing rather than stewing.
An intriguing second aspect of the Angel’s advice was the value and benefit of seamless, continuous activity. Useful as this advice could be, one must ensure that such action samples were specific, concrete, and dealt with solving little problems. We re-emphasize that the power of the break-in-action mechanisms, effective as they are in dealing with chronic activation crises, can be counter to forward motion and effective action during the healing of the chronic crisis itself. The smallest improvement can be exploited as a way up another rung on the ladder we use to escape our problem and cultivate our solution. The feeling of doubt was supported by the recent discovery of the “broken heart syndrome” when a serious illness or other factors that cause severe stress trigger a sudden weakening of the heart muscle. In reply, the Angel advocates, your body gets used to exercise. A few pushups or a brisk walk won’t hurt her heart. She can’t feel worse once she gets some exercise and she usually feels better.
Strategic Insights: How people cope with adversity revolves around the principle of “doing” or acting rather than “feeling the situation.” The ultimate goal of these strategies is to help people alter their coping styles from being problem-saturated to problem-solving. In fact, observers of people who function well in their community may correctly attribute their effectiveness in such situations to what they do, and not how they feel. The strategies the Angel described underscore the significance of “doing,” i.e. taking immediate action irrespective of one’s mood, an action which is well within one’s means. In addition, it is irrelevant whether such initial step is actually effective. In other words, what counts is literally getting started via a practical action contingent on one’s existing problem situation. This strategy liberates one from the shackles of despair, powerlessness, helplessness, and worthlessness, which have been maladaptive and paralyzing for millions. The Angel’s strategy supports the need to circumvent the inefficacious and irrational ploys of problem Intoxicational and Relief Addiction.
Now, we turn our attention to the strategies the Angel of Success explained, which overcame adversity and succeeded in life. The variety, originality, and substance of these numerous concrete, immediate, short-term goals teach us that people can apply them in dealing with everyday difficulties.
4.1. Cultivating Resilience
Judaism sees man as a unique creation, significantly different from all other living beings. Man is alone endowed with the power of free choice, without which moral perfection is impossible. The potential for such perfection is implied in the biblical concept of man, created in the ‘image’ of God. Free-willed rational beings empowered to realize the image of God who are resilient and faithful in adversity are said to be ‘angelic.’ As Robert Frost wrote, “The best way out is always through.” In the Jewish tradition, there is an analogy that pictures adversity as a dark and narrow tunnel through which one passes in order to exit into the bright, open field of fresh opportunities. The Talmud tells us “One feels neither grief nor pain nor fear in a dark tunnel.”
Resilience is one of the most admired and cherished of human traits, an enduring quality forged by the fires of disappointment, suffering, and loss. Those who are resilient are able to draw upon a common store of principles and insights to sustain them in their time of trial. Many of these principles arise from religion, which has been central in addressing questions of adversity for all of the world’s great spiritual traditions. Israel, in particular, has an extensive tradition centered on resilience, which emphasizes wisdom, courage, perspective, and recognition of the value of adversity in the human quest for perfection.
4.2. Setting Realistic Goals
By adopting an optimistic attitude and action plan that will guide us in reaching our objectives, we will achieve the realization of our goals. Just as pilots do not always stay on their flight path because of changing conditions, we also may have to adjust our plans as we encounter and experience changed conditions. This is acceptable. We should refuse to allow any obstacles to stop us. We need the courage to pursue our goals. There is no shame in devising new plans to achieve our goals. The essential principle of setting realistic goals is to motivate us. Without the motivation, all of the knowledge in the world is useless.
Setting realistic goals is like knowing how to row our boat toward our desired shore. It outlines a singular vision of what we want to achieve and is very difficult to manage without well-defined objectives. That’s why we should set goals that motivate us in our life. We are not a wind-up toy. We are living beings with feelings and needs. The expectation of setting goals of meaning and joy in our lives is both realistic and uplifting and will guide us toward being more perceptive of the opportunities that come to our attention. The goals should become alive and real for us. We should know the why behind each goal. Its attainment must be desirable and preferable. Its accomplishment must be attractive enough to prompt us into action.