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There are a lot very good reasons for developing a meditation practice. You are likely to be healthy both physically and mentally. You’ll have less stress. You might gain some insight into the workings of your own mind. Your friends may find that you are easier to be around.
Then there are ... Views: 1430
Early in 2001, while teaching the ancient wisdom teachings to my students, I explained to them that we were going to enter a period of time where in order to evolve as human beings, we were first going to go through a challenging and difficult time where it would seem as if all was lost and that ... Views: 2327
"It is very easy
to get caught up
in the teachings themselves.
To read something written
about meditation or enlightenment
and then take that on as the truth.
But all teachings can ever really do
is point you in the right direction.
What happens when you get there
is beyond ... Views: 802
If I could say to you, “Touch your heart. Feel your heart beat; feel your blood flow through with every breath you take.” If I could say to you, “Take that tenderness, that pulse and carry it with you. “ Carry it to all the places that it is so desperately needed. To the young little voices ... Views: 1713
The energy is ripe for manifesting in a powerful quick way and breaking free of self limiting beliefs. We recommend taking advantage of it. Get clear and keep your eyes on the ball.
The seeds of creating action have been planted. There is just a bit more patience necessary to stay with the ... Views: 1272
Gratitude Grows More of What You Want
by Jan Denise
Your partner doesn’t always give you what you want. I bet there are even moments when he (or she) seems incapable of it, right? And if you dwell on those moments, you’ll feel like he’s never going to satisfy you.
There are other ... Views: 1388
This past weekend I had the opportunity to have a firsthand glimpse into Christianity, or at least the opinions and ideas of one Christian. I have never been a person who was religious. I didn’t go to church growing up and barely understood what Christmas was about as a small child. Of course, ... Views: 1341
They say when an angel misses you, they toss a penny down from heaven. Sadly, not everyone knows how much truth there is in this old adage.
Spirit has many interesting ways to communicate with us, and always on a very personal level. Your spiritual signs and signals can range from the truly ... Views: 13393
What is Beauty?
What is beauty? Is it a perfect profile or a perfect smile?
Is it hope? Is it the energy of positive expectations?
Is beauty simply the opposite of ugly? Is beauty the absence of ugly?
Is ugly a lack of hope? Is it a surrendered soul; a bitter heart?
Every day around ... Views: 1115
I’m sitting at the party. I planned it so perfectly. I would throw a surprise party for my best friend on my birthday. She’ll be so surprised! She walks in the door. She looks surprised. She greets everyone and thanks them for coming. She seems to be happy yet……I know her better than ... Views: 11123
Man Versus Nature- The Battle Man Will Lose.
Unlike every other life form with whom we share this planet man has become detached from nature.
Why should this be? It seems that from our earliest days of evolution we have raped, pillaged and taken from mother earth whatever we wanted with no ... Views: 4021
Dreams are the “Royal Road to the Unconscious,” said Freud. What you don’t know controls you. Your unconscious beliefs, fears, motives, and desires can thwart your goals, your health, and relationships.
By understanding and learning to trust the messages in your dreams, you are communicating ... Views: 2269
The serious aspect of a stress condition is, that a person who has stress, mostly is not aware of it, being so much used to it. Often trying to compensate tension with smoking, drinking, excessive eating, biting nails or many other ways.
The exercise offered here releases stress, so that one ... Views: 1914
To believe that it is possible to 'never expect anything', tells how far peoples manipulation of themselves goes and it also shows the lack of self knowledge. Fact is that every body is full of expectations, although hardly anybody is conscious about this, because these expectations are the ... Views: 4691
The law of Sobriety takes the principles of the Law of Attraction and puts them to work for the specific purpose - to help individual’s recover from their addictions, whatever that addiction might be including alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, food, co-dependency, love, and or shopping. ... Views: 2116
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: 1142
1. Your desires should be perfectly clear to you.
Do you get the feeling that you don't really know what you want? Society teaches us that we shouldn't shoot too high, and as a result people close off their ability to really accept what they want out of life.
You don't have to tell anyone ... Views: 1305
Do you believe in miracles? Do you think of a miracle as something spectacular that needs to happen?
When I think of a miracle I think of when things that should’ve been challenging and painful, become effortless. I discovered this through surrender. Surrender becomes imperative when going ... Views: 2008
The Human Consciousness Project
By Else Byskov, author
According to our spiritual masters death holds the greatest possible surprise to man: there is no death. This, however, is exceedingly difficult to accept by the modern, intellectual individual, who wants scientific proof for the ... Views: 2604
I was looking for something in my file cabinet today and pulled out this faded scrap of paper. I instantly remembered writing this on the beach at La Jolla California, many years ago.
It was a dark period financially and emotionally too. I needed at least $20,000 within the next month just ... Views: 1480
The ego is a fact of life. People identify with their thoughts, beliefs and perceptions and will staunchly defend their resulting identifications. The core of the ego is attachment, resistance and separation. In the context of organisation development, we have to deal with the ego as it is. The ... Views: 2759
“It’s really quite shocking now that I see it. Here I am, a grown woman, behaving like a lost little child.”
“The way you phrased what you just said is important,” I responded. “You’ve been acting as though you were a child. But you’re not a child.”
“No, I’m a mother with three children of ... Views: 1470
You are the creator of your reality. This is your birthright. You have always been able to manifest with your thoughts and your words. Now you have reached the place where you are able to do this consciously. Once you realize this beautiful gift you were born with and begin to use it to its ... Views: 1642
People seem interested in the topic of karma and how one can achieve karmic clearing, with some claiming that karmic clearing is a prerequisite for Ascension. For example, Richard Presser (a channel for "Father God," Jesus, and others) has stated that if you wish to participate in the ... Views: 3256
The topic of free will and does free will exist came up as I listened to Joe Rumbolo's September 30th Blog Talk Radio show. Joe was interviewing guests Geoffrey and Linda Hoppe, and I usually try to make time to listen to this couple as Geoffrey channels a being named Adamus St. Germaine whom I ... Views: 1697
Previously I compiled a list of 9 signs and symptoms of spiritual awakening that I considered essential to the awakening process. In this article, I discuss meaningful dreams as one of the signs of spiritual awakening. Intense, vivid dreams that seem to point you in a certain direction are one ... Views: 3071
In another article I put together a list of nine signs and symptoms of spiritual awakening that I found essential to the awakening process. In this article, I discuss in detail one of the signs of awakening that could be called "repeating incidents." This is when you have the same thing ... Views: 3447
This weekend I saw Clint Eastward’s new movie HEREAFTER which explores the issues of near death experience, afterlife, and an intimate look into the life of someone who is psychic. The movie also touches on the difference between those who profess to be and those who truly have heightened ... Views: 2754
Have you ever wondered about all those big mastermind groups that are always being talked about in the news and on the talk shows? A Mastermind group comes together around a central thought. They also have control issues; they often want to control the world (or at least their little portion of ... Views: 2095
Daily Insight from the Story of the Little Prince
When it comes to becoming present in our life, I find so many people want some kind of "magical" event to happen that will catapult them into a new state of being.
The reality is that for few does the ability to be present throughout their ... Views: 2084
You’ve had your first or another of many psychic reading. So what now? What if you loved what was said? Can you really allow yourself to expect such a good future?
On the other hand, what if You didn’t resonate with what was shared with You? Can You allow yourself to tap fully into your ... Views: 1380
"For the purpose of meditation,
you can break it down
to two states.
The first state is
identification with thinking.
You believe you are the thinker
of your thoughts
and the subject of your thinking.
You experience this moment
through the interpretation
of the mind.
The ... Views: 2086
It’s so easy for us humans to get bogged down in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, which are mostly not good stories.
Our mental chatter goes round and round about how inadequate we are, how much we mess up, how we aren’t as good as someone else is, how we ought to be better, ... Views: 1330
The candle is a very influential symbol in our conscious mind. It may represent is the light in a world that would otherwise be dark; it speaks to the deepest part of our soul. For this reason the candles has such a profound meaning in so many cultures all over the world. Candles can be found in ... Views: 1950
I consider myself as open minded and although I myself have never experienced Astral Projection does not mean that it is not a real phenomena. Many people from different cultures all over the world have claimed to have experienced AstroProjection also known as Astral Travel or an Out Of Body ... Views: 2122
Have you ever traveled to distant place had the odd feeling you have been there before. Maybe you saw a house that you know you have seen in a dream and you know you have been here before, but that is imposable this is the first time in your life you have traveled to this location. Is this just ... Views: 2459
Do you have vivid dreams, of a life that is not that of your waking life, maybe you where someone else or living sometime in the past, but yet it all seemed very familiar? This type of dream is referred to as a Past Life or Karmic Dream. Millions of people have reported past life memories, many ... Views: 1914
In the fall season of reflection and connection, we gather to celebrate the abundance in our lives. As we look across the proverbial table at the harvest we’ve collected – our relationships, love, family, joy, and friends, it becomes remarkably clear that we are a sum of many parts and that each ... Views: 2631
Today there isn’t much that leaves us in awe. We are educated in general scientific principles. Through modern media we are exposed to the wonders of space; of quantum physics and other incredible discoveries.
As a species we no longer ascribe great geological events to the anger of the ... Views: 1462
Ignoring your mind is simple, but not easy. Why—because as human beings we are programmed to pay attention to and believe our thoughts. A stressful thought pops into our head and faster than the speed of light, the mind lays out reams of proof about why this painful distillation of life is ... Views: 2029
Have you ever watched children play and envied the focus they bring to everything they do? Children live entirely in the moment, unburdened by the past or worry about the future. In early childhood, we are naturally assertive in standing up for ourselves and speaking the truth and there is a ... Views: 3315
In the dance of the observation of the flow of life that each observer has occurring during the course of the day there are moves that are so fast that really are the light review. Where a person gets stuck in an actual light review is the whoring of the consciousness as seeking acceptance by ... Views: 2005
The Universe wants everything to be always in balance, and it strives to ensure that this is the case. Homeostasis is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition. Our bodies operate in this way, as a microcosm of universal ... Views: 1601
We all want to create, but we cannot all just be creative, yet. We must first be capable of creating wisely and of a quality that is beneficial in order to satisfy our creative nature and drive. If not, we may create things that are harmful to others or ourselves.
When people say they just ... Views: 1149
From The Series- “ Builders and Not Breakers”
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you ... Views: 1357
Tantra has always been identified with sexuality, especially Red Tantra which is about mastering sexual energy. And yet there are many forms of Tantra most of which are not related to sexuality. I create my own blend of what being a Tantrika means. It is a practice of working with my energy body ... Views: 1265
We are so used to always seeing things from our own viewpoint. We know that what we experience is determined by our beliefs and filters and that these beliefs and filters were set in place at a young age before the life you are living now even existed. Yet we are so attached to our limited views ... Views: 1504
Six Questions to Discover Your Life’s Purpose
Living a meaningful life is our choice to make, and one we are compelled to make at this time. With the radical changes in the world, there is one sure route to happiness and abundance and that is knowing and living your purpose.
Finding your ... Views: 1158
I am of the point of view that a life without meaning is not much of a life at all.
In my coaching practice, I have worked with people on the brink of “losing it” and wanting to give up on various levels---from quitting a job that could not bear, to wrestling with understanding the challenges ... Views: 925