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Seriously? 33%? You gotta be kidding me…
Well, according to the Harris Poll® Happiness index, only 33% American are very happy.
How does that number feel? A little low for my taste. Let’s look at other statistics…
The American Psychological Association states that in western cultures ... Views: 1273
Ask any adult human being alive today if they have heard of any special significance given to 2012, and almost without exception, they would say “Yes.” All one needs to do is to look around at the current world condition to see the significance of a changing world in 2012. Of course, these ... Views: 1272
Welcome to Brenda's Blog
Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com
Overview of this week’s “Creation Energies” 15-minute, free, channeled radio show on blogtalkradio.com: We’re now able to “flit” between dimensions – which is no different from selecting an AM radio ... Views: 1271
Choose What You Create and Create What You Choose
Just about everyone you speak with would undoubtedly agree that Life is all about choice.
We make choices constantly, each moment by moment and from day to day. Sometimes we make great choices and other times maybe not. Our ability to ... Views: 1270
Every day we see love sometimes it’s not always what it appears to be at a first
Glance it makes you wonder” So what is this thing called love?”
Falling in love is one of life’s most exciting events in life. Although it can also be a very scary experience it is something that everyone I know ... Views: 1270
Spirit speaks through your “Heart” – the highest, deepest part of your Heart where Soul connects – and you will find that your heart has a lot to say. No matter how many times you may have overridden it, ignored it or denied it, it will continue to speak in the same soft, loving, gentle voice it ... Views: 1270
Take a moment before you continue reading to pay attention to what your body is saying. Yes, your body has a voice. Begin with scanning your body from one end to the other and notice if there are any areas of pain, tension or discomfort. Pick one of those areas, close your eyes, turn inward, and ... Views: 1270
Being Trumps Doing
Usually when we think about what we want, we focus on an activity or experience we desire. Another way to discover your true desire is to ask yourself not what you want to be doing, but who you want to be. What are the roles in your life that you no longer want, that you’ve ... Views: 1269
This One Is Personal
Originally Posted www.frontporchhealing.com October 2, 2011
Once upon a time I decided to get a tattoo. I knew where it would be and I knew what it would look like. A fairy angel with a magic wand. She would flitter above where my left breast use to be and out of her ... Views: 1269
Lately, due to the release of The Secret, folks have talk about being wealthy too much. As folks chat about this specific subject, it's expected that wrong ideas will turn up. Let us talk about these wrong ideas in this particular article.
You would have an easier time working on being rich ... Views: 1268
So here I am. Although where “here” is, I don’t know. I do know I died, that is my physical self died and then I was here. A ghost I guess!
I often wondered how death would come. Now I know. In fact, I now know it was not something I should have given any precious moments think about when I ... Views: 1268
Forgiveness has been around for thousands of years. It is mentioned and/or discussed in sacred writings of many religions. So it is well grounded in the realm of spiritual teachings. Up until recently, the fact that forgiveness was a tenet of religion was enough for most people. One forgave ... Views: 1267
. It is very common among most people to resist joy and love.
Why is it so?
Most people have an unconscious resistance against giving. They think that they have to receive first to get something in return. But this is the wrong way round. You will first receive after you have given.
Many ... Views: 1267
We see and experience our lives through the filters of our history, beliefs, stories and learned behaviors.
The ultimate filter is the mind-made identity.
We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. -Anais Nin
When we recognize thought as something separate from Self, we are ... Views: 1266
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t let the past steal your present” Terri Guillemets
How many times a day do you reminisce or review the past?
And how many times a ... Views: 1265
Don’t Squeeze Yourself Into a Relationship
It can be just as tempting to squeeze yourself into a man’s mold for you as it is to squeeze yourself into the latest fall fashions. Okay, maybe it’s more tempting! Hold your ground, though. Let relationships—and clothes—enhance who you are, ... Views: 1265
There's always more than meets the eye. Have you noticed? Even when it comes to knowing your Self.
It seems I'm always meeting a new perspective, side, or understanding of my Self and my life. I've always known that I am a unique individual. I admit, too, I've not always known just how and what ... Views: 1265
The Power of Positive Thinking
Written perfectly by Greg Riley, he evaluates the effects of positive thinking in relation to your physical health as well as our mental health. You will learn that what we put into our mind (our images and thoughts) is heavily effected by our habitual way of ... Views: 1265
Unfortunately those who choose to refuse the call don’t have a life.
-Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss
The author goes on to say:
Either they do, or in trying to lead a more mundane life, they exist as non-entities, what T.S. Eliot called, “Hollow men.”
Campbell is quoting about the hollow ... Views: 1265
FAIRY TALES AND THE INNER MALEFICENT
In the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, at the party that celebrates the birth of the new princess, an evil witch named Maleficent shows up and ruins the whole event. She puts a curse on the infant that destines her to a painful existence. Who is this ... Views: 1265
Fear can be caused by many different things. Mostly, it comes from unknown experiences, both in the present and future. You will find that when you allow yourself to leap over the initial shock of what is currently going on that you find much of your worries to be unfounded. You may feel ... Views: 1263
The 1973 Jerusalem Post ad was for “Chutzpah,” by Aviva Dayan, the daughter of the celebrated hero: “Arrogant! Direct! Provoking! But at the same time refreshingly natural like the Sabras in whose image it was created!”
Directly underneath the ad another perfume was touted: Mazaltov – The ... Views: 1263
Building the Bridge to Your Reset: Do you ever get the feeling you're hurtling through life and it's dragging you along a bumpy road? I've heard it said that the concrete mixer is coming whether or not you tell it how you want the concrete poured. Would you rather design your front set than ... Views: 1263
Clarity is the ability to see reality from many perspectives. Reality becomes single-minded when one views everything from just their perspective.
One’s perspective is the very truth one holds about self and all that self has experienced in this lifetime. Every perspective is unique even ... Views: 1263
I define an adult as someone who takes 100 % responsibility for his or her life and situation. This article and you tube series will explore what it means to be an adult. These times are calling for leaders to be adults. This is Part One, Moving Beyond Blaming.
Every blaming thought you hold ... Views: 1262
The only person we can truly change is ourselves.
What a hard lesson this is to learn, right?
And while I truly thought I have worked through my own need to meld someone else into my version of who they should be, I learned the other day that I may still need to work on this. I have a cat, ... Views: 1262
Waking Dreams
Most of the time we think of dreams as something we experience at night or a flight of fancy we experience during the day as a wishful thought for our lives. Consider the possibility that this is really backwards. What if your life is really the dream? What if you are dreaming ... Views: 1261
Have you ever been in a situation wherein you could not seem to get rid of a bad feeling or a chain of negative events come your way? Let me show you seven strategies to help you pull yourself out of this negative energy state and bring you back into a positive energy state.
Before reading ... Views: 1259
We bought country property a few years back and as with many rural acreages; ours came with a whole bunch of out-buildings that served a variety of purposes at one time – but no longer functioned at that state. In a word – they were hazards and we began the process of tearing them down, ... Views: 1259
You're driving along, minding your own business and all the sudden the sunset has assaulted your senses with all the color and light of an otherworldly portal. Before you know it you find yourself...contemplating life?
Why do we do that? Is there some spiritual force there, or has the sunset ... Views: 1259
I listened to an online introduction on evolutionary spirituality and evolving beyond the ego led by Craig Hamilton earlier this month (April 2010). Craig is an amazing speaker (and seeker) who shared many insights on evolutionary spirituality and evolving beyond the ego. This article is second ... Views: 1258
The time has come for us to take responsibility for our lives. Let's put it this way, even if we do not take the responsibility, we are still responsible so we might as well step up to the plate now and realize that everything that happens to us in our personal lives, our country, our world and ... Views: 1258
I’m a fairly adventuresome person, but I don’t have that thrill gene—you know, the one that makes you want to sky dive and bungee jump and have sex in public places. But I’m also a woman in my forties, which makes me, if not more staid, at least more experienced with having done, well, a LOT. ... Views: 1258
There is a new, vibrant energy coming in for 2015; can you feel it?
I am very excited for the New Year and have almost been impatient for December to be over with this year. 2014 has been a great year, but I've been feeling lately like I'm ready to take this to the next level of success in my ... Views: 1257
At a recent Spirit Gallery, spirit strongly suggested that their lovedMichigan psychic medium Lisa Bousson just for the joy of it ones here sing at the top of their lungs. The person attending the Gallery then presented a face of fright, as if to say, “No one wants to hear ME sing!” However, ... Views: 1255
Recently a beloved friend and yoga teacher, invited our yoga class to form a group intention: “I am strong and flexible and I can easily dance with the winds of life.” I loved that so much that I’m making it my intention. And how will I begin to manifest that intention? I turn to Flying Lesson ... Views: 1254
“There is Good for everyone, and everyone ought to have their Good.” Scientific Mental Christian Practice – Emma Curtis Hopkins
“I am so thankful that the goodness of God blesses me and everyone around me.” 40 Days with Emma Curtis Hopkins – Rev. Dr. Kathianne Lewis
As I align my thoughts, ... Views: 1253
“I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments” as stated by Oriah in her book “The Invitation”.
Have the courage to sit alone and look deep within yourself. Sit with your own company and be still? Await the words of the ... Views: 1253
The conventional notion of predetermination suggests you have no control over your personal fate. However, our findings show you have complete control over it, though in a way different than you may think.
“Nothing happens at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity.”
Greek ... Views: 1253
There's a difference between striving for excellence and seeking perfection. Excellence is about living from the highest part of your Self - the part that is the most like God. It's about living from your highest thought, your highest action, your highest word. It is the truest, most real part ... Views: 1252
The timing is perfect, in the middle of all the chaos consuming the world at the moment. Yet, further thought reveals that this topic is timeless, because throughout most of the recent history of the world, there hasn’t been a whole lot of unity about anything! Oh sure, there are groups of ... Views: 1252
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What is Dharma? - by Connie Huebner, facilitating the wisdom of Divine Mother
Question: What is Dharma? It seems like the message we’re getting today is that Dharma is something that is really every moment of life, that it’s a very vast thing. I’ve heard Dharma defined as Love. Is our Dharma just to become enlightened, however that is, or is there also some specific ... Views: 1252
One of the primary complaints I hear from my coaching clients is that they are unhappy in their professions. Too often, after further exploration of the source of this unhappiness, it is revealed that these individuals did not pursue their current career paths by their own conscious choice but ... Views: 1251
One of the markers that we live in an awakening world is the heed that so many people are paying to the call for an authentic life. More of us are seeking meaningful careers and work. We want relationships that transcend old roles and that are emotionally and spiritually fulfilling. We ... Views: 1251
Creating boundaries – it sounds like something you would hear in a therapy session or read about in a self-help book, but what does it really mean? For me, it means being self-aware, able to know and express to others what is acceptable in my life. This has not been an easy feat for me by any ... Views: 1251
Indulging in spiritual enquiry is a waste of time. But then the whole of existence, as we have to live it, is a waste of time – until we come to our senses.
The more we keep enquiring, the less we will discover of the truth. The truth is now; and now is what is. That is everything in sense, ... Views: 1251
Whether we like it or not, we are our fathers, our mothers, our grandparents. No amount of denying, pushing away or ignoring will change that. How many times have we thought that if we move enough miles away or emotionally separate ourselves from our family, that somehow it will make a ... Views: 1251
We are entering into a time that has been spoken of for thousands of years. This time has been called the Apocalypse, the New Age, the Golden Age and the End of the World. But for those of us who understand the message of the Mayas and of the indigenous peoples of the world we know this time ... Views: 1251
To touch the stars I must feel the Earth beneath my feet
Everyone is intuitive doesn't matter who you are we are all born with a varying degree of intuitiveness. Often we hear of a wife saying how she knew when her husband was in danger and though it was only a feeling it turned out to be ... Views: 1250
Everyone blames Mercury for life's problems. In some
psychic readings there are some
valid suggestions given to make this period easier.
It is that time of the year again where Mercury
is retrograde for 21-24 days. We get this 3 times a year. So ... Views: 1250