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Training in NLP Changed My Life
Before I took training in NLP my entire life was a mess. That was mainly because I couldn't make a single move in my life without “taking a poll” or asking a close friend what they thought I should do. I had absolutely no belief in myself to make a good choice ... Views: 1777
Most spiritualist mediums are attached to, or part of, the SNU (Spiritualists' National Union). As such, they are part of an organisation which actively promotes knowledge regarding the religion and it's philosophy and science. Uniting Spiritualists around the world, this organisation supports ... Views: 2206
Do you ever day dream? Ever catch yourself lost in the thinking mind without a clue as to what’s going on around you? Our minds are wonderful tools that help us with logic, evaluation, and memory. We wouldn’t want to be without this most useful tool.
So who, exactly, is in charge ... Views: 2199
Do you ever judge yourself for being judgmental towards another? Do you look back at actions, words, or thoughts you had in your younger years, or last week, and then criticize yourself? Have you ever felt ashamed that you can't live your highest truth and value system at all times? Most of us, ... Views: 1917
Many people can identify the experience of suddenly receiving an intuition or inspired or illumined knowledge on occasion. Some experience such things relatively frequently. Where does this sudden illumination come from? How does it act upon us? Generally, the occasional intuition is recognised ... Views: 562
Travel, the kind that sinks a person into a new landscape and wantonly shifts a once comfortable horizon, is guaranteed to be transformational. But let’s be clear — travel as a spiritual practice, a knee deep, wide eyed, excursion into the mist, is not to be confused with tourism.
Tourism ... Views: 2184
Ever since I was a child, I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of hidden treasure. I don’t know if I was stranger than other kids (I suspect I was), but I used to daydream quite a bit about secret passageways in our house. In my imagination I would discover (or even construct) the secret ... Views: 1132
The mind seems to not find peace and quiet all the time. There is almost always a problem which can drain it’s attention, exaggerates it and believe in the reality that he himself created. Obsessive thinking is a problem for many people. Your way of thinking isn’t really what you want. And if ... Views: 1830
Just in case if you are having trouble getting things done at work, do take a look around and you will have your answer right there. A messy work place not only looks unpleasant but it distracts you, and makes things harder to accomplish. Clutter all over the desk is a hurdle in processing the ... Views: 482
While we embrace the concept of personal predetermination, we’ve always maintained everyone has the ability to make the most of their life within the bounds of their personal fate. Practical mysticism is one of the best ways to optimize life’s rewards and limit the challenges.
Our view is ... Views: 1128
Extreme makeovers are all the rage these days, with botox injection parties, and reality shows. Plastic surgery is on the rise. Many people are trying to match the extraordinary measures actors and actresses go through to look perfect on the screen. These are shortcuts taken to try to ... Views: 1520
Every living being is constantly hunting for happiness in this world, which has prevailed since infinite time and will continue to prevail for infinite time. The ant finds happiness in a piece of sugar, and moths feel happy in the candle's light. A hungry animal is happy to get food. And human ... Views: 116
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True Meaning of “Here and Now”
Most of us though keep talking that true spiritual path is to be “Here and Now”; we all suggest to others that we should neither remain stuck to our past, nor we should float in future. We should always be in the present. Though this ... Views: 1221
After years of many past life regressions, we've learned to accept karma as a fact of life, and something that influences everyone, even if they don't believe in it.
We believe that many people don't understand the real meaning of karma, which is a reaction from an action that was most often ... Views: 1397
Authenticity and integrity is really the same thing. To be authentic means to be our real being. I did not use the word "self," because our normal conception of self is a false self. What many people see as themselves is not their true selves. We often try to identify ourselves by our ... Views: 1298
When we choose to come from a place that is real, that touches who we really are, we are then coming from our true selves. We are empowering our destiny, our truth, and our calling in this life when we act from our true form, from who we really are and not just from our idea or perception of ... Views: 903
Over the years, the true self has been used to describe ones true nature and who they really are. On the other hand, the false self represents all that is not true and is made up of illusions.
And while deep down one may want to embrace their true self; it is often far from easy and the world ... Views: 6758
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Trust - by Kasia Jarosinska (www.spiritualshifts.com)
For many of us, when we find ourselves in dire circumstances we begin to resist the uncomfortable feeling of being disconnected or misaligned. We develop a resistance to ourselves and to the undesirable and often times unbearable experience we are having. Many times, the negative feeling of ... Views: 1383
Question – BELOVED OSHO, WHAT KIND OF TRUST DO YOU HAVE IN SOMEONE WHO IS CHEATING YOU? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
Osho - I do not understand myself – but what to do? I have only trust to offer because I don’t have any distrust in me. You ordinarily think that trust has to be given to a trustworthy ... Views: 824
When it comes to personal growth, at the very time life feels most threatening—as if it’s perhaps even about to sink our ship—instead of seeing it as our enemy, we need to trust it.
It may seem crazy, but I have seen over the years how there is an incredible wisdom in the way life has brought ... Views: 1225
“Do you think they know?” I asked.
“Know what?”
“That they carry pollen on their wings?”
My friend and I were walking around Callaway Gardens, on the Rhododendron Trail with no rhododendrons blooming as of yet. We had just walked out of the butterfly conservatory where 1,000 tropical ... Views: 1365
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ― Benjamin Spock
Trusting ourselves means trusting our intuition or our gut feelings. Intuition is a great self-help tool as it is with us at all time and can tell us what we really want or don’t want in our life and what we need to be ... Views: 1092
Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince
The way millions upon millions, in fact more likely billions, picture God isn’t really very different from the king the Little Prince encounters on the first planet he visits.
If I had to sit on a throne all day—and for all ... Views: 1286
Many things we learn and hear about how to suceed or improve our lives are accepted by us as truisms, almost monoliths of dogma, which we turn to time and again. We write about them, use them in speeches and regurgitate them readily, mostly because we ourselvs have been taught to do so.
But, ... Views: 919
Today we continue with part two of our five part series on “turning your life around”. We began last week with the building – and for many the rebuilding – of your personal foundation. What do you, as an individual, stand on? Now we are here to learn the next step that is as vital as that of ... Views: 1362
We have come to the end of our journey. We have reached Part V of our five part series. We can also say that we have come full circle. In all of our series “Turn Your Life Around” – How to Build a Personal Life Foundation, Foremost Forgiveness, Acknowledge & Overcome Fear and Identify Your ... Views: 1233
Like many of us, until my forties, I had gone through life feeling rather invincible. Not only was it inconceivable that something bad could ever happen to me, even my very mortality seemed suspect. Then, when I started feeling creaks and aches in bones I hadn't thought about since anatomy class ... Views: 1105
It has been thought, by a few great individuals, that if you can garner twelve perspectives on a particular subject, then you can attain a significant understanding of the subject. This article strives in that direction by presenting the dynamics of reincarnation and karma from twelve different ... Views: 836
The two creativity tips that follow suggest two of the dozens of basic questions you can ask to increase the creativeness of your thinking. Ask these as you work on something, and you can see more creative results today.
1. A Question Of Purpose
Asking certain questions can lead to more ... Views: 797
The two ways of recognizing what you actually yearn for will be the focus of this article.
Focusing on just these 2 principles will assist you to begin manifesting what you desire immediately. Ignoring them will nearly guarantee that anything you attempt to manifest is not going to come ... Views: 756
Since the release of the The Secret, there have been some discussions lately about being wealthy. As most discussions and speculations arise, it is also expected that there would be some personal viewpoint that would come up and with it some incorrect information about becoming wealthy. Let us ... Views: 802
There has been some debate lately about being wealthy ever since “The Secret” has been released. Due to these discussions, it is only probable that many misunderstandings will turn up. Because of these, it is only right that we will talk about these misunderstandings about becoming ... Views: 835
In this article I’m going to explain 2 keys to attracting abundance through the Law of Attraction. As you’ll soon find out, we have a lot of extra baggage when it comes to money, so special care needs to be taken.
Putting these keys into our lives will allow you to get over those hardships ... Views: 704
According to Stephen J. Johnsonn, Ph.D., a marriage and family therapist in practice for 40 years and married for nearly 35, "Even stellar relationships lose their spark over time." In this article, he gives "the ingredients of a lasting, fruitful partnership, and techniques for weathering the ... Views: 1118
Chapter 2 from "The Magic Words, by Jon Lovgren.
Two Times to Forgive
Ho’oponopono
The Pathway to Peace
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
-Helen Keller
Welcome to ... Views: 1072
EFT and abundance is a perfect union.
Accommodating the talent of getting free of preventive ideals, feelings or practices using EFT will enable you to bring in riches at will. If you don’t know how to do this, you’ll find yourself striving to attract what you want. You’ll likely get ... Views: 896
Creating abundance has become a hot topic of debate recently, particularly ever since the launch of The Secret. Together with all that discussion has come two destructive myths. Let us talk about those wrong beliefs in this article.
You you would have a simpler time working on being rich if ... Views: 884
Recently, due to the launching of The Secret, individuals have talked rather a lot about being wealthy. Together with all of that talk has come 2 detrimental myths. In this article I'll dispel these myths.
If you observe the advice in this article you will find your work with creating ... Views: 847
We live our life. But for what? That we do not know.
We keep earning money all life. For what? That too we do not know.
We want to be successful in life. For what reason? We really do not know.
We all are in search of happiness. But what kind of happiness are we looking for? Don’t know.
We ... Views: 578
Understanding your true nature is a fundamental part of your happiness. We tend to overlook this; instead, we act as who we think we are. We look for our behaviors to correlate with who we think we are rather than what we really are. We act a certain way so that the idea of ourselves is ... Views: 1130
Brad Yates has been successful in teaching EFT to attract abundance in our lives. Today I will explore some of the essential instructions I personally utilised from his teachings.
Teaching #ONE: Attraction relies upon on how you feel about your purpose or subject
The most crucial teaching ... Views: 838
The Upanishads describe an aspect of reality that is generally blocked from the external awareness of the body-life-mind complex. The Isha Upanishad states: “The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight.” (Isha ... Views: 520
Anger is something that I am very familiar with, and have personally self-studied for many years. As a child who grew up in a house and family built on anger, I wanted to understand it better, but also understand where my own anger was coming from - despite the fact that I learned it at a very ... Views: 2186
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world". Ghandi.
There is much talk in the spiritual communities about how the world that I see outside of myself is a reflection of the world that is inside me. Part of the journey to peace, love, and happiness, is understanding that I am not always ... Views: 8450
The human mind likes to have a logical reason for events, and therefore we search for a causal relationship between an event and some precursor. We call this “cause and effect” or “causality” or “dependent origination” or “law of karma”, or “law of nature”. However we describe it, we are trying ... Views: 626
We bring to the spiritual quest all kinds of mental ideas, emotional expectations and preconceived notions about what is supposed to happen, how it is supposed to happen and what it signifies. All of these things, however, are based in the mind-life-body complex and act as limiting factors in ... Views: 556
Love is a many-faceted topic. There is love between people, love for nature, love for animals and plants and love for the Divine. What is important in all of these different experiences of love is that you love purely. To know infinite love, you need not live up to anyone’s expectations but only ... Views: 1386
Feeling the need to be in control is a strong habit. It helps us to feel safe, at peace, and content, but only on the surface, for under the desired effect of trying to control lies the real discontentment that is causing the action. The continued desire for control will override any ... Views: 2983
We tend to identify with the perceptions, sensations, desires, feelings and thoughts we experience and through the ego-consciousness, we take ownership of them and believe that they are what makes up our unique individuality. When we sit quietly, and turn our attention away from the outer world, ... Views: 593
Unleash Your Ultimate Uniqueness
What exactly does ‘ultimate uniqueness’ mean to you? How might you attempt to define it? Is it captured by your strengths, abilities, beliefs, traits, mannerisms, behaviors, energy and/or personality profile and perceptions? Well, of course yes it is; ... Views: 1566