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- LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2009 from Masha EllmanLIVING YOUR BEST LIFE As this year draws to an end and a new year begins, most of us make promises, with all good intentions, to live a better life. This is the year we’re going to lose twenty pounds. This is the year we’re going to start our own business. This is the year we’re going to ...
Views: 1380(4 votes) - Why You Need to Meditate - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2009 from Eric WhalleyThe side effects of meditation are positive and countless. Studies have demonstrated that those who meditate on a regular basis have reduced illness, stress, and need for rest. But one of the most compelling reasons to meditate is that the process of meditation itself is incredible. ...
Views: 1000(5 votes) - Ignite the Genius Within: Everything you need is already there - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2009 from Christine RanckYou're already there. This is perhaps one of the greatest messages of all time. For we have taught ourselves that "happiness" or "paradise" is somewhere far from here, something we don't have and can't get to, no matter how much we want it, and no matter how hard we try. But if you've ...
Views: 3976(5 votes) - Is the journey the means or the end? - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2009 from Claude WarnerSome say “Life’s a journey, enjoy the ride”. Others say “The end justifies the means”. In the one, the journey is the focus; in the other, it is incidental to the end result. Those who are high-performance, results oriented, driven people would more likely see the journey or process of ...
Views: 1849(2 votes) - A B Cs of Feeling – Heightening Awareness of Who I AM in Truth - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from Miles MoodyI was a very sensitive child who chose to internalize the message heard from the adults around me. “You’re so easily upset,” they would tell me. “You’re just too sensitive,” and so I was encouraged to resent that I could feel….deeply. I became convinced that suppression of feeling experience ...
Views: 971(3 votes) - Trading SPACES? - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2010 from John G E FryeAll of us whether we know it or not exist in our very own energy bubble. This energy bubble is not seen with the naked eye by others, cannot be touched or apprehended or in normal everyday circumstances felt by the owner, but believe me reader it is there! Ok ok; so what in the universe am I ...
Views: 1343(2 votes) - Promises, Promises, Promises - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2009 from Cheryl PetersenMary Poppin’s comeback, “That’s a pie crust promise, easily made, easily broken,” echoes in my head as I listen to partners repeat marriage vows to one another. Weddings may be impressive, but statistics have it; human beings are not good at keeping their promises. The divorce rate is such that ...
Views: 1255(1 vote) - A New Spirituality - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2011 from Andrew SchneiderThere is a new spirituality unfolding, dictated by universal need and the cycles of necessity. Evidenced by its absence as destruction and disregard for human life and environmental sensitivity, this new Spirit of the times is enticing our consciousness to become increasingly inclusive and ...
Views: 1170(4 votes) - Awareness of the Negatives - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2009 from Andrew SchneiderArchetypes are soul energies that constantly seek expression. Every single event, behaviour, feeling or thought has an archetypal energy as its cause or its foundation. Inner and outer realities are not separated in fact, only in awareness or consciousness. It is this awareness and consciousness ...
Views: 1114(2 votes) - Turtle Soup: A Lesson in non-Interference - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2009 from Jo LeonardTurtle Soup: A Lesson in Non-Interference We were an irrefutable Soul clump, a group of spiritual adventurers searching for a way to touch the hem of God. Every other month or so, we would gather from various New York State cities and towns to meet at a friend’s home on the Hudson ...
Views: 1293(4 votes) - How to Remain Centered Over the Holidays - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Shift Your Life Tracy Latz M.D., Marion Ross PhD.Holidays, even in the best of circumstances, can be stressful due to family, work, school, and cultural expectations and responsibilities. A daily practice can pave the way to keeping you compassionately connected to your self, others and whatever Higher Power you understand or recognize. A ...
Views: 1085(2 votes) - A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BLACK MALE SEXUALITY & RACISM IN AMERICA, PT 1 - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2009 from Sadie SheafeI am the first documented Social Scientist and Clinical Sexologist to conduct in-depth research into the sexual behavior and sexual practices of Black People in America, As a result of this research I theorize that the sexual practices of black people are virtually unknown because they are ...
Views: 12258(7 votes) - Similar Actions Produce Similar Results - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Bettina GoodwinAt some point in our lives we have all said to ourselves or someone else, “Why do I keep attracting the same type of people into my life”, or “Why am I always having the same experiences over and over again”. We all go through this. We all reach a point in our lives when we realize and ...
Views: 1301(3 votes) - 2012 - Which Road Will You Choose? - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Jo-Anne CutlerRecently I tuned into a documentary about the prophecies of Nostradamus and the events and changes that he and others predicted would take place in the world; 21.12. 2012 believed to be the pinnacle date where the world will exist dramatically different than it does now. I am far from being ...
Views: 2102(5 votes) - Your Growing Compassion for Self and Others will raise Your Spiritual Awareness - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Reginald HollieRecognizing Compassion in the self and exercising it will help tremendously in our spiritual growth. Our compassion for others is the measure of our spiritual awareness. When you accept yourself and others, it gives you the power to use your compassion and make a huge difference in your ...
Views: 1437(4 votes) - The Search For Truth And The Main Illusion That Prevents It - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from David SamuelToday I would like to discuss a significant obstacle in our search for truth and personal development that is so effectively ignored and simultaneously encouraged that we have virtually lost any significant chance of success. As we already know, in the search for the reality of our Being and ...
Views: 1359(7 votes) - This Priceless Breath is Personal Transformation - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2009 from Stephen WebberThink of each breath. In any given moment, as long as we are living, we are in the state of either exhaling or inhaling; natural breathing occurs without any sticks, stitches or catches. Now think for a moment about the point of motion in between the two phases of breath, the point after ...
Views: 990(3 votes) - What is the Benefit of the Silence Beyond Thinking? - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from Marc LernerThinking is the vehicle our consciousness travels in when our ego does the driving. That is how we get what we want...but that is actually a very small part of life. Attraction happens when our consciousness is not locked into our thought patterns. Let me share how the power of being attracted ...
Views: 1078(2 votes) - Psychic Predictions - - When You Just Should Not Know the Future - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2009 from Cherry SageI know it is only Monday and Thanksgiving is in a few days, so there has not quite been a theme of the week established yet. But today, during one of my readings I was reminded of when some psychic predictions should not be known and why. This is a perfect example because my client has really ...
Views: 4626(5 votes) - Aligning With the Law of Attraction - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from Marie BarrettWe can align with the Law of Attraction; we have the power; it is simply a matter of understanding how and then working with the energy. We can design our future. We are maturing creators and are here on earth to learn about our power and to use that discovery wisely. So how do you create a ...
Views: 1557(3 votes) - The Acceleration of Consciousness - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Blanca (Lavanya) BeyarHave you noticed that “time” and your life are moving in an accelerated state of experience? As the Earth entered the year 2009, it raised its spiral movement to a higher state of fluidity. Along with this upward movement, souls who were ready to take the next leap to a higher consciousness ...
Views: 3758(3 votes) - Animals and the Afterlife - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Renata Bartoli, PhDMore and more often, while channelling, psychics meet the spirits of departed animals who had been dearly loved by their clients. They are there with their human departed ones, without any difference between them at all, sending their love and affection. The fact that these encounters are now ...
Views: 3002(5 votes) - Reincarnation in the Western World of Today - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Renata Bartoli, PhDIn spite of the frequent staunch ostracism that the idea of rebirth has encountered throughout the centuries, it has never been extirpated and today – although the traditional religious systems are in crisis throughout the entire Western civilisation – the belief in reincarnation is growing ...
Views: 1201(4 votes) - Role and Importance of Interlife State Explorations - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Renata Bartoli, PhDMore and more often I see clients who ask me to help them to access the interlife state (also known as the life between life state). When we undertake a past life regression we normally investigate the most important facts of that life and then we are led to the moment of our death and to the ...
Views: 1428(3 votes) - Sliding Doors - "Inter-Dimensional Doorway to Universal Abundance - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2009 from Meg BenedicteThere seems to be a strong movement in popular culture in recent years about how to "tap" into Universal Abundance...lots of books, videos and lectures abound on the subject. And yet, it doesn't appear many folks are achieving success in mastering the Law of Attraction. In many cases, it appears ...
Views: 1872(2 votes) - Anthropic Principle - How are we behaving? - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2009 from Zen BenefielAnthropic means 'of or relating to human beings or the period of their existence.' This relationship between man and the cosmos is said to be through intelligent design. Only a small range of possible values for the universal constants (such as the mass of an electron) are consistent with the ...
Views: 2169(4 votes) - Are You Doing What You CAN Do? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Paula GregorowiczThis week I thought about this question quite a bit. As a lover of nature and especially animals, I was struck with a conflict. As I was mowing the lawn on Monday I startled a sick and injured robin. It hobbled toward a tree and just sat there. I watched this poor thing sit there scared and ...
Views: 1241(3 votes) - Is Your Exercise Enabling You to be More Than Just Flexible in Body? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Raven CohanYoga was and never has been in its history, only hatha stretches. So many of the Ancient Peoples from the all over the world stretched themselves like animals by observing and imitating them. They also sat and looked at the night sky contemplating the stars and moon. Spiritual leaders were ...
Views: 1139(2 votes) - The Path to Happiness - Suffering - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Art MasonWe are truly our own worse enemy. Why is it when something goes wrong we are so fast to turn on ourselves and start the worry process? People are motivated by two things. The need to avoid pain and the need to experience pleasure, yet we focus so much on pain. What causes man to suffer? First ...
Views: 1808(3 votes) - Overcoming Guilt - How to Free Yourself From a Guilty Conscience - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Mark FooGuilt is not a healthy thing to keep bottled up within you as you go through life, whether you think you have to hold on to it or not. Guilt is often the result of a refusal to accept that we make mistakes, we will all have failures and no one is immune to these facts of life. It is also ...
Views: 5790(3 votes) - Community and spiritual evolution - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2009 from Jonathan EvattSince childhood I have had the memory (or "a vision of the future", if that's easier to understand) of people living in relatively small intentional communities. I say small relative to the large cities which have become increasingly the normal way of life in the past few hundred years. We might ...
Views: 1403(4 votes) - Revealing the Clarity of Self: Energetic Mastery - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2009 from Pamela ArwineMost of us have some healing need, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual, social or financial. In reality, there is nothing to heal, nothing to change, nothing to fix. A perceived need for healing simply tells us that there are thoughts, emotions or karmic patterns in our field which ...
Views: 1796(3 votes) - The Laws Of Powerful Living - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2009 from Rev. Dr. Will GreenTHE LAWS OF POWERFUL LIVING AND USE OF THE MIND Throughout time there have been two main groups of people, the Creators, with Power , Money and Prestige, and the powerless, many of whom's children must borrow money to bury them. In between were the millions who just accidentally got by ...
Views: 920(2 votes) - FAVORITE MEDITATIONS AND MANTRAS - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2014 from joan pancoeWhat is meditation? By my definition, it's any practice, technique or trick that quiets the mind and allows one to just BE. The goal of meditation is to experience at least a taste of pure bliss. This level of cosmic consciousness is described by a multitude of labels in different spiritual ...
Views: 5605(6 votes) - Embracing the Unexpected: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Uranus (but were afraid to ask) - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2014 from joan pancoePLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW 2011: ADDENDUMS On December 1st, 2009, Uranus, the Trickster planet of Transformation, stations direct and races through the final degrees of Pisces before entering Aries on May 29th, 2010. From then through August 15th, (as he won't fully enter Aries until March, ...
Views: 17173(4 votes) - Loving Beyond Reason, Part Two: Deep Compassion - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2009 from Pamela ArwineLoving Beyond Reason: Part Two Deep Compassion By Pamela Arwine, Quantum Healing Energetics www.shop.pamelaarwine.com www.pamelaarwine.com In Loving Beyond Reason”, part one, I focused on the importance of developing the capacity to love ourselves and all others with a profound ...
Views: 1390(4 votes) - The Day I Woke Up, Became Enlightened, Awakened…I’m Not Real Sure What to Call It - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2009 from Dr. Steve McSwain,“The hour I have long wished for has now come.” -- Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 – 1582) I had reclined on the living room couch, picked up the remote, and began surfing the plethora of television programs, most of which are repetitive and useless. I paused from channel-surfing just long ...
Views: 4260(5 votes) - Connect with Your Brochure - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2009 from Keridak SilkA warm friendly invitation or a sales piece? Which do you want representing your business? I have worked with a wide variety of intuitives, energy healers, readers, spiritual counselors and others who struggle with their marketing materials. How does one create something welcoming. How does one ...
Views: 923(2 votes) - Your Inherent Strength 2 - Cultivating a Sense of true BEAUTY - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2009 from Olakunbi KorostenskyWhatever your present personal sense of beauty may be, as a woman you can always improve on this. Because sense of true beauty is your natural birthright. For this lies deeply within your soul and enables you to be creative and exceptional. Here are some powerful questions for you: 1. What ...
Views: 2081(1 vote) - The Qualities to Achieve Balance Required for Spiritual Growth - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2009 from David SamuelThe quality of your actions and the results are relative to the level of awareness that we possess. A strong character is the foundation and roots that hold up the massive structure of a complete human being. "Character is Destiny" Heraclitus, Pre-Socratic philosopher These ...
Views: 1356(2 votes) - What is Truth? - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2009 from Zen BenefielWhat is truth? Is it objective, subjective, all inclusive or mutually exclusive? Does it apply even when we deny it? Do we have the capacity to know it with our senses? Are we greater beings under limitations of modern science and spirituality? How about cosmic truth? Are we alone or ...
Views: 1735(5 votes) - Realizing We Are One - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2009 from Pat BenageThe third step on the path to becoming all that you are in this life, is realizing we are all one! I don’t just mean this in the way you might think. Realizing something is the act of making it real or manifesting it in your life. So, not only is this about understanding that we are all one, but ...
Views: 3377(4 votes) - Consciouness - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Wendy Zellea"There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing ...
Views: 1155(1 vote) - Life Transformation and Healing - Seven Tips for Channeling Your Own Higher Wisdom - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Marilyn GordonThere is wisdom that exists within you that is available to you for shifting your perspective on the problems of your life. There are ways to tap this wisdom that are simple and accessible, and you can get in touch with a higher understanding. You may have a question you want to ask, or you may ...
Views: 3146(5 votes) - Banal Dreams, Beneficent Messages: . . . Or Don’t Delete Your Day Residue: An Essay on Dream Image Work - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2009 from Deborah DeNicolaAs I see it, the real function of the arts is to permeate the environment of the world with a metaphysical reality so that man is not alone with the ego. –Cecil Collins (Or “woman,” I might add, in the case of this story . . . ) So often we wake from a dream thinking, Oh I just ...
Views: 1778(3 votes) - ***Tarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data It Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data it Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts Tarot itself reflects what a person is actually thinking at the time that person is handling the Tarot deck. There is no doubt of this: At least one scientist has demonstrated this fact, and you can too. ...
Views: 2806(6 votes) - BE YOUR OWN GURU (After all…who was the Buddha’s Buddha?) - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2009 from Michael DaileyBE YOUR OWN GURU (After all…who was the Buddha’s Buddha?) By: Mike Dailey “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common ...
Views: 2073(10 votes) - Transformational Groups Part III: Accessing Divine Truth - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Jane CohenTransformational Groups explore the potential of the present moment, which is where Divine truth can be tapped into. It's a process of moving participants past the control, distortions and limits of human emotional defense systems, into a co-creative process with the Divine. The human ...
Views: 1412(2 votes) - Transformational Groups Part II: Going Beyond the Emotional Defense Systems (Getting to Love) - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Jane CohenTransformational Groups are meant to be a microcosm of how you interrelate with people. They can reveal, and facilitate the transformation of, emotional structures that block your authenticity, empowered communication, emotional accessibility, and so on. In the context of relating to each ...
Views: 1272(2 votes) - Transformational Groups Part I: The Transformational Potential of Groups - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Jane CohenSome groups hold in place what already is, perhaps set up for accomplishing a goal that is already defined, or for supporting something from a set position. When a new participant comes into a group, they generally assume that what the group is about is what they walk into, what is currently ...
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