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- Gratitude and the Aging Process - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2013 from Margo KnoxRecently I have had the privilege of being invited into an Aged Care Retreat to do an interfaith gathering, talk and play some beautiful meditation music. My experience doing this has been one of delight and gratitude. The experience and feedback from those who have been attending these monthly ...
Views: 2064(2 votes) - Staying Grounded - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2013 from William FetterFeeling overwhelmed? Stressed? Too much on your plate? Get Grounded, Come to Center I'm old enough to remember a time when people usually answered "good" when you asked them the standard, "How are you doing?" These days the answer is commonly "busy." In the last few weeks, while ...
Views: 1310(2 votes) - HOW TO DEAL WITH THE CRITICAL SITUATIONS IN OUR LIFE WITH LOA - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2013 from Aryojati ArdipandantoMaybe you had ever wondered, how to practice The Law of Attraction (LOA) if we’re in a very critical situation of our life. Yes, in such “a middle or long term of our needs”, we can easily do visualization, do meditation, do the Sedhona Method, or another methods on creating our future in peace ...
Views: 4651(2 votes) - Which Is Better To Pursue; Enlightenment Or Emotional Independence - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2013 from David SamuelThe most attractive is of course enlightenment, spiritual realization, self-knowledge or anything in that direction. Promise of this draws many people, and although it would be wonderful to have a large following, I will not claim to have achieved or promise something I cannot deliver. What I ...
Views: 1387(1 vote) - The Rocking Horse Syndrome - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Cynthia OrtizDo you ever feel like you are stuck? Like you are walking in mud? You take ten steps forward and yet you are standing in the same place. Well the good news is, you are not stuck. When you feel this way it can only mean one thing. You know what you want but you are NOT allowing the natural ...
Views: 2296(1 vote) - The Pains of Meditation - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2013 from Yamaya CruzWhen People tell me that they meditate for hours. I have a difficult time believing them. I’ve been meditating for almost ten years, and I can’t sit still for more than twenty-minutes. My legs start to get rigid. My back begins to hurt. My fingers start fidgeting. I start to lose ...
Views: 1429(1 vote) - Everything In Life Is a Choice - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2013 from Yamaya CruzEverything In Life Is a Choice I am not going to write some upbeat, unrealistic article about how you should take responsibility for your life, because ultimately, “you” create your experiences with your choices and actions. I am not going to do that because I don’t believe that it is true. ...
Views: 2195(1 vote) - How To Master Your Destiny - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Yamaya CruzI have a really stupid question for you, would you rather be pinched or punched? Of course, the obvious answer is that you would rather get pinched. Being punched is perhaps ten times more painful. Also, by getting punched you can get certain injuries like a black eye, busted lip, or a broken ...
Views: 1264(1 vote) - How to Find Inner Peace - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Carly CooperMost people will tell you that their life is busy. They are constantly stressed out and they feel exhausted and drained at the end of the day. As our technology makes us more and more accessible, finding true peace and calmness in our lives becomes more like trying to find a steak at a Vegan ...
Views: 1023(1 vote) - The Benefits of Meditation - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Yamaya CruzThere is one day that I can never forget. The Rodney King trial and the Los Angeles race riots that soon followed. I can still see the image of Channel Six News helicopters scurrying the area, taking shots of a city in peril. Thousands of people were running around in the streets, buildings ...
Views: 1087(1 vote) - Love Is The Power of God - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Yamaya CruzWhen we go to the movie theater, our eyes are focused on the screen. We become so engrossed by the storyline, the sound and special effects, that we fail to see the projector that is tucked away in the back. If we didn’t know any better, we would think that the movie is actually coming from ...
Views: 1604 - How to Stay Happy - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Boni LonnsburryWhile most people would argue having a life you love will make you happy, I would argue that happiness will help you to create a life you love. Think about it. Emotions create reality. Be happy = manifest more in your world to be happy about. Be unhappy = manifest more in your world to be ...
Views: 1992(2 votes) - Immensity – A Catalyst for Inner Transformation and Healthy Living - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranThere are many factors in life that can function as catalysts for letting the mind undergo fundamental transformation. Those who sense the poison behind the unconscious living soon discover these catalysts and move on to stable inner peace. Most people lead an unconscious living within the ...
Views: 1175(2 votes) - Dance of Solitude - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2013 from Barbara MillerWhile on a cruise with my husband David, we decided to take a side excursion in Dominica to a beautiful rainforest. We were there to go tubing down what were supposed to be gentle rapids. I started getting nervous when I was strapped into a heavy duty life jacket but it was too late to turn back ...
Views: 1547(1 vote) - How To Heal Deep Emotional Scars - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2013 from David SamuelMany people suffer from the past of what their parents did to them, the negative events of their childhood etc. The purpose of this article is to present the reason why it is hard to release the past and end the perpetual limitations and suffering. The concept of forgiveness rarely works, as ...
Views: 2101(2 votes) - Don't Let Aging Stop You - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2013 from Margo KnoxGetting old isn’t easy for many of us. Neither is living, for that matter and neither is dying. We struggle against the inevitable and we all suffer because of it. It seems we have to find another way to look at the whole process of being born, growing old, changing, and dying, some kind of ...
Views: 1506(1 vote) - The ONE KEY to Making Love Last a Lifetime - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2013 from Janet PfeifferAh, Love! What could be more wonderful than falling in love? We find ourselves attracted to another and regardless of our age we feel like a teenager falling in love for the first time. And for a period of time, all is right with the world. But then reality sets in. We begin to notice things ...
Views: 2003 - The Power of Love to Heal - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2013 from Kumari MullinSt. Theresa of Lisieux wrote in “Story of a Soul”: “What matters in life, is not great deeds, but great love.” Her spiritual path was doing the ordinary with extraordinary love. “I know of one means only by which to attain to perfection: LOVE. Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing ...
Views: 1517 - Relaxation with The Senses - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2013 from Andrada TodIn the restless world around us, the need for a moment of peace is often acutely felt. Living in this century resembles some old movie, where people of the future became robots, doing all day long the same routine. The sense of not “enough time” or “too many responsibilities” is so frequent that ...
Views: 966 - Correlation between Near Death Experiences and Ancient Scriptures - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranIt is interesting to study the correlation between the messages of near death experiences and the pointers from ancient scriptures. Our confidence in the spiritual content of the afterlife experience increases when we find striking parallels between the two. People who go through a near ...
Views: 1805(1 vote) - What Is Holding You Back? - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Cynthia OrtizDo you know how many people are unhappy with their lives, health, or relationships and yet do nothing about it? Do you know how many people KNOW what they need to do and still do nothing about it? Almost everyone I have ever known has had a pile of complaints about one thing or another and yet ...
Views: 1126 - The Mind Is Your Teacher - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2013 from Adam OakleyWe often hear spiritual phrases like "escape from your mind" or "break free from your mind". Often the thinking mind that causes us suffering is portrayed to be something bad or undesirable. While in a way this is true, never treat your mind to be something bad. It is a fantastic teacher, if ...
Views: 1480(1 vote) - People-pleasers and Pathological Charmers - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2013 from Sam VakninPeople-pleasers dread conflicts and wish to avoid them (they are conflict-averse) - hence their need to believe that they are universally liked. Always pleasant, well-mannered, and civil, the conflict-averse people-pleaser is also evasive and vague, hard to pin down, sometimes obsequious and, ...
Views: 8004(1 vote) - Look Within ~ Simple Steps to Finding Balance and Harmony in Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2013 from Constance MollerstuenLook Within ~ Simple Steps to Finding Balance and Harmony in Your Life By: Constance Mollerstuen We all have a degree of acceptance which allows us to view our lives as either being in balance and harmony or out of balance and harmony. So seldom do we take the time to evaluate our own ...
Views: 1091 - Living with Regret - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Cynthia OrtizThroughout all of our lives we will say or do things that will cause great regret. These things may be said or done in the "heat of the moment" or while "temporarily suspended" from who we really are (i.e. under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol). The regret we feel may come instantly or ...
Views: 1233(1 vote) - The Art of Right Relationship - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2013 from Amrita GraceHave you ever wanted to heal one of your relationships, and you didn’t know how or where to start? I’ve experienced some tumultuous upsets in some of my relationships over the past year, and wanted to find a way to heal the issue within myself before approaching the person involved. I turned my ...
Views: 2081 - Why is There Serenity in Simple Things - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2013 from Scadi SheppardDo you ever have these out-of-body experiences, when you are doing something that you enjoy very much, and then you just relax and your mind goes to places and thinks about things that are SO far away from the real world, that you wish to stay there forever? Such utopias come to you when you ...
Views: 1219 - Trusting the Intuition Rather Than the Merely Rational Mind - The Radial Dive - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranWe have tremendous potentialities in our intuitive region. They generally remain untapped. The Radial Dive helps us bring them into our everyday life. Expansive awareness augments our mental composure and wisdom. The effects of Radial Dive are briefly explored in this article. The vast ...
Views: 1323(2 votes) - Sojourn in Steamboat - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2013 from MJ LaDukeThough the days unfold to three, the first held enough adventure for the ink that follows. It all began with a peaceful tour of a town found nestled at the base of a snow-dusted mountain...eclectic indeed with tourist shops, t-shirts, art and tributes to the Native American culture that deserve ...
Views: 1085 - 11 tips to create the perfect gratitude journal - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2013 from Louise Jensen“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot” - Hausa Proverb. In my early, dark days of first acquiring a disability I didn't feel I had an awful lot to be thankful for. It was like I had spent my whole life getting to the point where I had a thriving holistic therapy practice I loved, ...
Views: 1278(1 vote) - The Journey into Oneself – Its Salutary Effects on Our Daily Life - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranThe journey into oneself is characterized by self-awareness and the eagerness to understand the basis for our unhappiness. It gives us the opportunity to transform ourselves into beings of unqualified compassion, deeply interested in leading a vibrant life. Turning the attention on one’s own ...
Views: 1361(2 votes) - Dancing With Time - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2013 from Melanie McGhee“Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi As this month draws to a close, I’m sitting cozy in my office, three large dogs sacked out on the floor around me, while sheets of ice fall from the sky. This is by no means a typical winter day in east Tennessee. I’m ...
Views: 1203 - Four keys to stop worrying. - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Janet Perez EcklesHubby and I were enjoying a nice lunch at a local restaurant the other day. And as I munched on my salad, I noticed a taste of pasta. “Hmm…” I thought. I don’t remember noodles being part of the oriental salad I ordered. I made a comment. And that’s when hubby admitted. Without me knowing ...
Views: 1356 - There is Nothing to Fear when Aging! - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2013 from Margo KnoxThe fear of aging is inbuilt in most people, due to our materialistic philosophy. Which is not our desires and ownership of things per se, but our idea that reality is limited to what we perceive through the five senses. This then divorces us from a spiritual experience, leaving the ...
Views: 1635 - Ascension & Leaving The Matrix, Part 6: Dark Forces - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from Zarla LeahWhy does God allow dark forces to exist and cause us trouble? Because without dark forces, there would be no growth, no building up of our strength, our courage, and our truth. We have to have something to test our faith, strengthen our faith, and keep moving us forward. Okay, here’s the ...
Views: 1540 - Why Do I Procrastinate - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from David SamuelMany people are hindered by procrastination, and have no idea why they do it. There doesn’t seem to be any logic or reason as to the cause of putting things off, but it is almost impossible to get the simplest task done. My theory is that the problem lies in the aspiration of perceived ...
Views: 1897(2 votes) - Overwhelmed, Fearful, and Angry? Congratulations That is Great! - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2013 from Adrienne FikesFor good reasons or for reasons you cannot even explain, you are not in a good place right now. You might be spinning in circles in totally sensory overload; feeling completely overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done. Fantastic! You might be really afraid of what is about to happen or ...
Views: 1167 - That Was Then, This is Now - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2013 from Adrienne FikesStop telling yourself that you can’t. That was then. This is now. Stop telling yourself that you aren’t. That was then. This is now. Stop telling yourself that you haven’t. That was then. This is now. Stop claiming that you don’t. That was then. This is now. It does not matter how ...
Views: 1240 - How Love, Fear, Faith and Understanding Work Together - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2013 from David GikandiPeople often ask, “How do I get rid of my fears?” It is either that or something similar to that. Fortunately, the answer is very simple. Once you get into the answer, everything becomes very simple, and fear lets go just like that! Let us have a look now… We will start by looking at these ...
Views: 1347 - You Can Choose How You Want to Feel - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2013 from Janbreathe@aol.com Janbreathe@aol.comDo you ever have a cluster of similarly themed messages coming your way in a short period of time? That’s what I’m experiencing right now. The current message that keeps recurring for me is this: it is my choice to enjoy or not enjoy life, no matter what is happening. Lately, pesky fears ...
Views: 1446(2 votes) - The Laid-back Attitude – A Salutary Aftermath of the Near Death Experience - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranMost of the times, our life gets complicated by our own attitudes. To meet life’s challenges without being agitated is not an easy thing to do. In this connection, we learn something about the nonchalant disposition in life from the Near Death Experiences. When we listen to the scores of ...
Views: 2060(3 votes) - There Is No Empirical Right Or Wrong - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2013 from David SamuelRight and wrong are a matter of personal opinion, this is the definition of morals. Your morals define what is right or wrong for you. If you do things you feel are wrong, but then convince yourself it is acceptable or divert your attention from feeling what you did is wrong, that takes ...
Views: 1434(1 vote) - Gather ye Rosebuds - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Melanie McGheeGather ye rosebuds while ye may” is perhaps my favorite line of Robert Herrick’s poem, To Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Remember this poem? Maybe you’ve never heard it. Maybe you have and you’ve forgotten it. Gather ye rosebuds. This past year, as most years do, held some challenges, some big ...
Views: 1252(1 vote) - Filling The Cracks In Your Life With Gold - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Doron AlonOnce upon a time, in Japan, a wealthy man was sitting having some tea. As he was taking in the beautiful sights and sounds of the beautiful landscape he inadvertently dropped his teacup and it broke. The teacup was made of clay and so it would need to be taken to a craftsmen in order to get it ...
Views: 4438(1 vote) - Further Thoughts on The End of the World - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2013 from Halle EavelynI was in Cairo on the day the world ended. Well, not really, but on the day the world was supposed to end, Dec. 21, 2012. We took our spiritual tour group out in the desert to Dashur and inside the Red Pyramid, where we toned, sang, rang a crystal bowl, and spoke our intentions for the future ...
Views: 1239(1 vote) - Mug of Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2013 from Rob WhiteCoffee isn’t only something we can gulp down in the morning; it can enrich us spiritually and emotionally. Here are five ways that a cup of joe can provide us with motivation, happiness, and even a touch of enlightenment: 1. Mindfulness in a mug. Mindfullness is a laser focus on what ...
Views: 2185(2 votes) - The Place of Reincarnation in Healthy Life – An Esoteric Streamlining - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2013 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranWhen we widen and deepen our perspectives, our life moves towards serene waters. One such perspective is available through understanding Reincarnation. This creates an elbow room in one’s consciousness, leading to stable peace. Unfortunately, the cultures that have denied reincarnation ...
Views: 1535(2 votes) - Dr. Romance Happiness Tip: A Year of Peace - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2013 from Tina TessinaDr. Romance writes: Happy New Year, everyone! This is the time when a lot of energy is spent on making resolutions, most of which we don’t manage to keep. So, this year, especially given recent tragic events, I propose a different kind of resolution. Will you join me in ...
Views: 1754(4 votes) - Taking Time for Myself - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2013 from Lisa TunneyAs I reflect upon the events in my life over the past year, I discover that part of my learning in Sedona has been about taking time for me—and enjoying it. As an American, it is part of our cultural dynamic to work 40, 80 even 120 hours a week. We are not considered a success if we don’t tow ...
Views: 1457(3 votes) - Inner Demons - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Cynthia OrtizDo you live with inner demons? Is there something you did in the past that haunts you day in and day out? Do these demons control your life and control who you are? Well, they do not have to. There is nothing in the past that can affect you unless YOU ALLOW it to. There is nothing that can ...
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