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- Ujjain – One of the religious cities of India - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2015 from Heena PathakOne of the sacred cities that exist in India includes the name of Ujjain. It is because of its rich heritage and culture that everyone knows about Ujjain in India and in other parts of world. Ujjain is really a religious city and a must visit place. Ujjain is famous city of Madhya Pradesh. ...
Views: 927 - Palmistry - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2015 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertIn psychic readings the most common question clients have when they come for a reading is "Tell me about my love life. - Will I have a happy love life?" Since I believe we create our own happiness I will not declare, "You will be happy" or say, "You will ...
Views: 1705 - Scrying - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2015 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertScrying, (pronounced to rhyme with "crying"), is a form of psychic divination that enables one to "see" the future, or past / present by gazing into a crystal, pool, mirror or other reflective medium. One enters an altered state to gain access beyond a veil. ...
Views: 775 - Do You Listen to Convince--or to Learn? - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2015 from Marcia Naomi Berger"When you talk you are only repeating what you already know. But when you listen you might learn something new" --attributed alternately to the Dalai Lama and author J.P. McEvoy. "Are you a convincer or a listener?" asks Melissa Orlov, ...
Views: 1611(1 vote) - Feeling Alive - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2015 from Sarah KoestnerLast night I was fortunate enough to participate in a monthly meet-up with fellow Miller Voice Method teachers-in-training. The meet-up was overseen by Scott Miller, head teacher of the Miller Voice Method. Another teacher and I led the exercises for the evening. It was truly inspiring to be in ...
Views: 1508 - Media-Ocrity: Why impartiality is not their concern - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2015 from Christopher EvansThe late Terence McKenna, the American ethnobotanist and mystic, once exclaimed, “We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and ...
Views: 2573 - The Holy Tourist Place – Ujjain - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2015 from Heena PathakUjjain is all set to host Kumbh festival again. Ujjain becomes the favorite destination of devotees and saints at the time of Khumb. Thousands of devotees come here to take bath in the auspicious Kshipra River. It is believed that it is one of the river in which drop of mortality were fallen at ...
Views: 767 - Emotions Energy In The Right And Left Side Of The Body - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2015 from Suzanne ZachariaWhen learning energy healing, one soon learns that for most people, the right side of us is the male side and the left side is the female side. So what does it all mean and how does it relate to our emotional state? Of course, there are exceptions. There is no reason why someone should not be ...
Views: 16958 - Empower Yourself to Succeed in Marrying - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Marcia Naomi BergerIf you're a woman who's been wanting marriage for a long time, and it hasn't happened, possibly your attitude has been holding you back. Women in my "Marry with Confidence" workshops have expressed these attitudes: • All the good men are married. • There aren't enough single men in my ...
Views: 1483(1 vote) - Start Great Conversations with Your Kids - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2015 from Maggie SliderI have to admit having one child of each gender has really made me more aware of the male/ female differences. One huge difference I've found is the way they communicate and their interpretation of words. When I think about when my kids were younger and I picked them up from school, the ...
Views: 1138 - A Little Reminder on Resistance - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2015 from Benedikt DommesEach one of us knows to what extent the human experience can be hard and painful. And most of us try to live our lives doing their best to avoid painful experiences and to look for those that feel pleasurable. We tend to forget that the more we try to avoid pain and run away from it, the more we ...
Views: 986 - A Scarlet Letter of a Sex Worker - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2015 from Christopher EvansThe sex industry is an often misunderstood profession that in all actuality can be a lucrative, convenient and viable career option for those brave enough (or fool-hardy depending on your point of view) to pursue this line of work. We have all heard of the time-worn cliché that prostitution ...
Views: 1119 - What Web Is Connecting The Different Areas Of Your Life? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2015 from Jesse An Nichols GeorgeWhat threads do you have woven through the different areas of your life? What wisdom connects for you whether it is spiritual, social, cultural, intellectual? How does the mystical aspects of dreams work in your waking life? As much as many people try to keep the different areas of their ...
Views: 911 - Is your Attitude Really Affecting your Financial Status? - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2015 from Matthew E. AlleyneNow here is a question that most of us don’t really consider very often, if in fact at all… I would bet that most of you assume that your financial status really only depends on the type of job you have, how much you get paid, how much you spend and how much you save? Well this actually isn’t ...
Views: 1046 - Overcome Fear of Confrontation with Affirmations - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2015 from Matthew E. AlleyneConfrontation is a part of life, and as much as we would like to avoid it, there are certain times when we really should just get on and deal with it. Avoiding confrontation will often make any situation worse than it needs to be, as people quite often start to feel awkward and the lack of ...
Views: 1633 - 33 Signs You Might Be On a Spiritual Path - by Submitted on May 16, 2022 from Alice LandryExploring a spiritual path is a choice. Some people who start to question their purpose or the role they play in the grand scheme of things delve into spirituality as a means of finding solutions for life problems or re-connecting with their divine nature. The journey can be challenging as ...
Views: 1036 - Love in a Cup - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2015 from Gordana StankovicLessons in love are hiding in almost every moment and situation of our life. The question is whether we are ready to take an opportunity to live that moment fully and whether we are going to stay open to receiving a lesson in love that this moment and situation have the potential to teach ...
Views: 1072 - 3 First-Rate Meditations For Your Happiness (and Your Health & Wealth) - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2015 from Peter KirwanA Quick Preamble: Happiness…that state of mind, that state of internal being, that can sometimes be pretty damned elusive if you let it be so – so don’t..! Seth Godin says: “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape ...
Views: 1082 - The 7 Sacred Soul Tasks - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2015 from Paige BartholomewDoes it feel like something is out of balance in your life? Maybe you’ve done a ton of healing work, you’ve read all the self-help books, you’ve meditated with the best of them, but still something feels off. Here’s what you need to know: your seven chakras aren’t just energy centers. They ...
Views: 1334(1 vote) - Why Spiritual Growth Increases Success 5 Reasons - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2015 from Patrick HercusThere are four areas of life physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Real sustainable fulfilling success comes from having all four areas alive, vibrant and integrated. To talk about spiritual growth and how it increases success, we first have to define it. Simply stated, spiritual ...
Views: 1026 - Your Inner Child : Understanding Your Most Important Relationship (Part 2) - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2015 from Tania ManczarekIn my previous article, I spoke about what an inner child is and why it is the most critical relationship in our life. In this article, I offer some simple exercises to now connect with your inner child and to begin to work with him/her. While I say these exercises are ‘’simple,’’ that doesn’t ...
Views: 1388 - Your Inner Child : Understanding Your Most Important Relationship (Part 1) - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2015 from Tania ManczarekWhat is the inner child? “Inner child” is a psychological term used to describe the part of our adult psyche or personality that remains from our childhood self. It represents the child we once were and it remains with us throughout our lives regardless of our age. Consequently, every adult ...
Views: 2238 - Have you abandoned yourself without knowing it? - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2015 from Tania ManczarekThe biggest cause, I believe, of unhappiness, illness, both emotional and physical, feeling lost, discontent and a host of other issues is due to the abandonment of the Self. What do I mean by this? Abandonment of the Self typically occurs for most people at a young age, from around ages ...
Views: 894 - SPIRITUAL DIGNITY - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2015 from Dileep TiwariSelf-realization is the ultimate goal of spirituality. People on the spiritual path spend a lot of time seeking a master, attending lectures, reading spiritual books. It is good to learn and take guidance from the great thinkers but blindly following or imitating them makes a person lose their ...
Views: 1959 - The Seven Essential Questions - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2015 from Adele McDowellIt's spring here in the northeast. The forsythia branches are showing their first spurts of yellow; the air is warmer; and the puppy dogs on the street are friskier because the world is a-w-a-k-e and alive and full of good things to sniff out and smell. These spring energies of rebirth and ...
Views: 1268 - Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh’s ‘Conversations with God’ (Part Three) - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2015 from craig lock ("incorrigible encourager and people-builder")Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh’s ‘Conversations with God’ (Part Three) from https://beyondthezonespirit.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/sharing-some-spiritual-thoughts-and-principles-from-neale-donald-walshs-conversations-with-god-part-three-2/ “We are not ...
Views: 1222 - The 7th Avatar - Book 2 - “The Avatar and the Apprentice” - Chapter 12 - by Submitted on May 21, 2015 from Dr. Paul HaiderChapter Twelve - “Mans Awakening is Coming Soon” And the next morning the stranger and the apprentice start their way across the desert with rested camels and quiet minds. They start their way up high mountains and at the base of the mountains left their camels behind in exchange for horses ...
Views: 2012 - The 7th Avatar - Book 2 - “The Avatar and the Apprentice” - Chapter 11 - by Submitted on May 20, 2015 from Dr. Paul HaiderChapter Eleven - “What the Universe is All About” Then the stranger and the apprentice went on their way, moving through the desert, across great sand dunes and into peaceful valleys. And soon they came upon a suitable place to bed down for the night near a small spring so the camels could ...
Views: 2052 - 3 Steps to Recognizing Happiness from Within - by Submitted on May 18, 2015 from Christi AhlSo much of my life has been spent worried, stressed and anxious about what and how other people perceive me to be. A constant question has been, do I live up to their expectations? Little thought was given to how I felt or how I was actually doing or feeling. Although I have mostly grown out of ...
Views: 1388 - Turn Down The Static, Turn Up The Guidance - by Submitted on May 13, 2015 from Gina CharlesWhat’s preventing you from hearing your own Guidance? Turning down the unnecessary, unfounded, negative static of the thinking mind, allows us to better hear and feel our own Guidance. The first step in doing this is to notice thought. Catch thought in action, ranting on in its ...
Views: 1006 - I'm Not Sorry! - by Submitted on May 07, 2015 from Maggie SliderI'm not sorry! As my 21/2 year old son sat on his baby sisters head, while having covered it with a blanket, I tried to use the incident as a teachable moment. "We don't sit on anyone, and we don't place anything over their faces" I said calmly. "Your sister won't be able to breathe if you ...
Views: 1296 - Could God Make Mistakes? - by Submitted on May 03, 2015 from Albert WagnerThe comment caught me off guard. Sometimes you go through the motions of daily life, and then something sticks out. This was one of those moments. We were talking about how cynical this world can be, and it can even cause a person to doubt themselves sometimes. The author has a known lack ...
Views: 1212 - ***An Old Wisdom for a New Time - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2015 from Rene AlkalayMy journey into mind-body medicine began in 1964 and has progressed through many winding and often torturous roads. That year I was free for the summer break from my university program and traveled to Bulgaria where I had heard of interesting work being done by a man name Georgi Lozonov. I had ...
Views: 4139(2 votes) - The Art of Testing Your Reality - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2015 from Jason DemakisOne of the single-best ways to “see” whether or not your thoughts have a creative influence on the reality around you is to begin thinking about something in particular, and then observing its reflection in your immediate environment. For example: If I set an intention to manifest more ...
Views: 1008 - Climate of the ego - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2015 from Callum GoldingWhat really is climate change if not a reflection of our grandiloquent ego? Day by day, year by year we destroy our one viable, habitable planet. What possibly could be the reason for such absurdity? Certainly the decisions we make in this moment are what effectively create our tomorrow, so what ...
Views: 786 - What Compass Guides Your Thinking ? - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2015 from Robert CrutchfieldIn today’s world we are surrounded by more information, more often than any other time in history. The set of thinking skills we use to determine what is true or useful is called discernment. This set of thinking skills is more important in regards to our faith than any other part of our lives. ...
Views: 1283 - So Sensitive - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2015 from Womens Recreation, Inc.Some of us are more sensitive than others. What bothers one may have a profound effect on another. I am speaking about someone who is sensitive to others’ needs. I am speaking of humanitarians, volunteers or someone who generally feels the pain or needs of others. I am speaking of scientist ...
Views: 1236 - Will The Real You Please Stand Up? - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2015 from Tony Fahkry“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” - Brené Brown The Master was never impressed by diplomas or degrees. He scrutinised the person, not ...
Views: 870 - Self-acceptance and self-love - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2015 from Gordana StankovicThese two concepts go hand in hand with each other. You cannot truly and fully love yourself if you do not accept yourself fully, and you cannot accept yourself fully if you do not love yourself. It is a little bit like with the chicken and the egg, no one can really answer what comes first and ...
Views: 1084 - What Is the Truth? It Is All the Truth! - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2015 from Rev.William MeinsenWhen I look back on my life, like many of us do, I am not always happy with what I see. Do I have Regrets, Yes, although this a wasted emotion. I now see what the TRUTH is for me. Life is ongoing and I am forever growing spiritually and mentally. My life has gone through many changes. It ...
Views: 1043 - 4 Ways to Receive Psychic Impressions - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2015 from Melissa KittoAs a soul you are a psychic being. As a child you were probably much more in touch with your psychic abilities than you are now. You may have felt a presence in your room, known what someone was thinking, remembered past lives or experienced a visitation from a deceased relative. My father ...
Views: 2137(1 vote) - Why we may Never Stamp out Racism - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2015 from Christopher EvansThe scene in Paris where a black man was prevented from boarding a train on the Paris Metro by a number of Chelsea football supporters was proof that despite being 2015, very little has changed. A bystander at Richelieu-Drouot station recorded the event on his mobile phone, capturing the ...
Views: 1190 - Happy Relationships: The Five Faces of Love - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2015 from Sandra MiniereRecently I heard a spiritual teacher address a woman who asked whether she should continue to love and accept her partner of four years the way he was or move on. She wanted him to be more committed to the relationship in ways that mattered to her but could continue to love him unconditionally ...
Views: 2856 - Dowry is a Social Curse - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2015 from Academy QuranDowry is a curse of a society that means an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage. It is a very old tradition in our society that may compel both the poor and the rich to anyhow carry out this evil practice. As for the rich, they generously spend their ...
Views: 1630 - Overwhelmed By Your Life? Perhaps It Is Time to Simplify. - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2015 from Melissa HeislerIf you had millions of dollars, what would you do? Buy an expensive house and car? How about a used van and park it by the ocean? That is exactly what Major League pitcher Daniel Norris did. Instead of spending his multimillion dollar contract to live up to the appearance of a celebrity ball ...
Views: 1122 - Common Sense is a Lie. - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2015 from Lucas ThomasCommon Sense is a lie. A lie that has frustrated me for a long long time as it is the cause of most misunderstandings and hatreds in the world. Why is Common Sense a lie? Well let’s define it first: Common Sense as defined from thee Merriam-Webster Dictionary. • COMMON SENSE: ...
Views: 1526 - Is it You who Controls your Life? - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2015 from Roxana JonesThe subject is full of contradictions. Lately, there has been a lot of talk about how we are the creators of our lives and that within us we have all the power to achieve whatever we wish. Such ideas may turn out to be confusing for the person who wants a manual of instructions which shows, in ...
Views: 928 - Can Flaws Develop Strengths? - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2015 from Marilyn EppoliteAs a child I had many animal companions. My most memorable pet was an orange tabby named Krimpy. My brother named her, if I remember correctly, because her colorings reminded him of a Tastycake Krimpet, the Philadelphia based, butterscotch dessert, or maybe because her legs were crimped. I am ...
Views: 1053 - Creating Cosmic Worlds with Spray Paint Art - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2019 from Ashis KumarSpray painting art or Aerosolgrafia is an interesting art form that uses cans of aerosol paint as medium. These artists use aerosol cans of different colors in their art together with ordinary objects like newspapers and bowls. Curious people gather to watch the artist get inspired by his or her ...
Views: 1389(1 vote) - Feel pain, heal and find love for the lost one - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2015 from Gordana StankovicI wanted to write this particular blog for two reasons. One is as a memory of my loving mum who died almost 6 years ago. And the second is to share my process of grieving, what I've learned from it and how it's helped my inner growth with hope that my story may also help others who are going ...
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