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Seven Ways & Seven Days To Renew
Your Life NEW!
by Carole Lynne
To renew and reinvent our lives, WE NEED A PLAN! Here it is: a seven-day
process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical,
mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any
one of the days to work with as you create the life you want.
DAY 1: RE-CHARGE A Day of Commitment
Focus on changing your mind-set: This is the day to change the thought
patterns playing in your mind. Get rid of phrases such as "I
can't." "Why does this happen to me?" "Things always
seem to go wrong." "After three bad things happen, life will
change for the better." Insert thoughts such as "I can do
it." "There are creative solutions to any problem."
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Premonitions and
Spirituality
by Larry Dossey, M.D.,
Spirituality
involves an awareness of being connected with something greater than the
individual ego or self. This "something greater" has
traditionally been called God, Goddess, Allah, Great Spirit, the Almighty,
the Absolute, and many other names. Some consider it as the Universe, or
as a sense of infinite order and beauty. Many individuals prefer to
attribute no name whatever to it. But whether named or unnamed, the
awareness of a connectedness with something greater than the "I"
has been a source of strength and meaning for individuals throughout human
history.
Individuals
often find that their power of sensing and knowing expands as they mature
spiritually. These expanded capacities often involve the capacity to know
yet-to-be events that lie in the future, as the unbroken stream of
prophets, visionaries, seers, and shamans throughout history attests. A
modern analog of this ancient ability to know the future is premonitions,
sometimes called intuition, gut feelings, or sixth sense.
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Addressing Our Economy With Spirit
by
Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed.
The worst thing that could happen to our
economy–and to ourselves—is to allow economics to rule our souls. Joy
feeds our souls and when times are tough or scary, the first menu items to
go are often those that bring us the most joy. Even when these items
don’t cost anything, our tendency is to go into self-deprivation mode.
We tell ourselves that we don’t have time for the things that bring us
joy because we are too busy trying to survive. Our fear says we must
choose between survival and joy. While that may seem the “logical”
solution, starving our souls won’t heal our economy.
We need to ask ourselves what brings us
joy, and to distinguish those things from what merely boosts our egos or
impresses our neighbors. Anything that brings forth joy connects us in
some way with Spirit: it inspires us, expresses us or lifts us up. But
this is an area in which we must practice discernment—to distinguish
between things that genuinely nurture the soul and those that merely act
as a substitute for spiritual enrichment. At the same time, it is
important to realize that what one person uses as a status symbol can be a
genuine source of joy to another. That which feeds soul is fulfilling
while that which feeds ego creates debt.
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Visualize
Prosperity
by Shakti Gawain
A very important part of the whole creative visualization process is
developing a sense of prosperity. This means having the understanding, or
consciously taking the point of view, that the universe is abundant, that
life is actually trying to bring us what our hearts and souls truly desire
— spiritually, mentally, emotionally, as well as physically. Almost
everything you truly need or want is here for the asking; you only need to
believe that it is so, truly desire it, and be willing to accept it.
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Celebrate Freedom
by Marlene Buffa
Recorded history focuses on government and spans time by ticking the
meter of war. From as early as the Bronze Age, one of the first recorded conflicts arose in Greece, popularly known as the Trojan War. As we study world history, we notice that most wars arose from
either greed or confinement. Man rebels when he seeks to conquer more of what lies outside of himself, and also when what abides within him
seeks liberation. Similarly, our spiritual selves rebel when we perceive limitation imposed on us by others, or deliberate harm
inflicted through violation of boundaries. Our nature, as inhabitants of the earth and spiritual beings, treasures freedom from outside
intruders and also from our self-imposed limitations.
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Beyond Self-Image
by Christopher R. Edgar
A few years ago, I was fixated on overcoming what I saw as my “negative self-image.” Basically, the problem was that I wanted to do certain things I thought would be enjoyable and fulfilling, but I was afraid of doing them. I wanted to start my own business, make more of an effort to meet people, take up more “extreme” sports, and so forth, but I would feel anxiety when I’d contemplate doing those things, and would find myself holding back.
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Mindfulness
by Sue Patton Thoele
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in
the moment. Well-known mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, defines
it this way Mindfulness means paying
attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and
nonjudgmentally. I also like to think of mindfulness as the art
of inhabiting your own life
with kindness and acceptance.
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___________________ The Voice of Fate vs. the Voice of Destiny
by Robert Ohotto
It’s human instinct to reach for the familiar, but the soul is here for experience, not security. A life without risk, loss, death, and pain is hardly vitalized. The more we resist the call to adventure, the more we fate ourselves to suffering of the worst kind. In such cases, the Universe will often deliver increasingly drastic events until we finally give up the ego’s hold on our soul’s schedule and allow the next chapter of our purpose—our Destiny—to unfold.
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Why Do We Feel Sick All the Time:
Metaphysical ‘Cures’ For What Ails Us
by Steven E. Hodes, M.D.
Many of us suffer from the “I feel sick syndrome.”
We are not truly “ill,” in the sense that we do not have a significant malfunction of an organ or organ system that can be readily diagnosed by traditional contemporary medical testing. But we certainly experience bouts of discomfort, pain or distress—in other words, we just don’t feel right—we just feel sick!
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The
Healing Touch
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew
Blakeslee
Imagine lying on a therapy table as a
healer places her hand under the back of your neck. Her touch is gentle,
calm, tranquil. She places her other hand lightly onto your left shoulder,
then onto your right shoulder.
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Take
Me to Truth, Undoing the Ego: An Interview with Authors Nouk Sanchez and
Tomas Vieira
by Gene Bogart, Forgiveness TV
Gene: As potential readers see literally thousands of
spiritually oriented books out there, how does Take Me to Truth,
Undoing the Ego present a unique benefit to those who sincerely desire
spiritual awakening?
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Boost Your
Brain Power with Powerful "Smart" Foods
by Jeannine Virtue
Memory decline is a common complaint as we move through the aging process.
The typical 60-year-old is not as sharp mentally as they were in their
40s. That said, some people do age slower than others. There are 80 year
olds with the mind and body of people decades their minor. There are 70
year olds who can easily match wits with 40 year olds.
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Shielding and
Protection: The Barrier To Something We Don't Want To Experience
by Christopher Cormier
I'm going to be honest with you. I have issues with this particular topic.
Far too often the concepts of shielding and protection are filled with
misunderstandings and a lot of drama. Rather than create a sense of
security and comfort within Self, despite the appearance of safety, it
tends to reinforce a belief that one is powerless. This in turn reinforces
the fear that shapes our experience.
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"Let There Be
Light" - Is Matter Only An Illusion?
by Chris Bourne
Is matter only an illusion? Do we exist as waves of energy on a vast sea
of light - a hologram created by pure consciousness? Quantum theory
threatens to unite science and spirituality as it pulls apart the very
building blocks from which our world appears to be made. How might quantum
theory explain the creation of the universe? Here is a perspective to
stimulate your own thinking.
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Making
Resolutions That Stick
by M.J. Ryan
"This year, I’m going to stop
worrying so much."
"I will get in shape, once and for
all."
"I’ll stop spending beyond my
means."
"I’ll get along better with my
family."
"I’ll start that business I’ve
always dreamed about."
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Why Shift Happens
by Jean-Claude Gerard Koven
Our entire solar system has entered a highly charged portion of space that is triggering a complete reordering of life as we know it. Here’s an inside look at the most significant shift in the history of this planet.
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____________________ The
Perception--Well-being Connection
by Kimmie Smith
Our own perception of the world and those we're personally involved with
stems from our childhood. If you grew up with one or more parent(s)
who displayed constant anxiety, worry, anger, etc., then you have most
likely adopted that same behavior as an adult. Some people eventually
recognize this in themselves and some never do. And even when the
ones that do recognize this in themselves they tend to just accept that
behavior as "who they are." They might try, through various
methods, to rid themselves of this unwanted negative behavior only to wind
up frustrated when something triggers a certain emotion and they find it
hasn't really left. So they give up and just accept that this is who
they are and that change is impossible. Maybe they are still hearing
the message that has been given to them over a lifetime, "Oh, that's
just they way you've always been, that's your personality and you'll never
change." They then decide that they are comfortable this way and
fear any kind of change, even if it would mean a positive change.
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The Power Of Learning To Breathe Properly
by Dr Edward Steiner
Did you know that breathing is the only essential bodily function performed unconsciously, that you can control consciously? Your body can go without food for months, water for weeks and yet your body can't go without oxygen for more than a few minutes. Think about it.
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Power vs Force
by David Hawkins
IMAGINE-what if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer.... Any question.
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Hypnosis and The Mind
by Michelle Beaudry, CHt
Fundamentals of the Mind
The human mind may be subdivided into three parts: the Unconscious, Subconscious and Conscious. These compare to a computer:
Unconscious = operating system
Subconscious = hard drive
Conscious = RAM
Each part has separate and distinct tasks.
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Will the World Really End on December 21, 2012?
by Jean-Claude Koven
I was recently asked how I interpreted the Mayan and Hopi predictions that the world, as we know it, will end on the 21st of December 2012. Would there be global war — possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust? Would the planet’s life forms finally succumb to the ecological quagmire that’s been building in our soils, oceans and atmosphere? Would the current steady increase of previously unknown diseases overcome our ability to defend against them? Or will we suddenly move into a new Golden Age in which the lion lies down with the lamb and struggle, pain, and suffering are gone forever?
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Your Anxiety May Not Be “All in Your Head”
by Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
· Are you tense, nervous, irritable, and explosive?
· Do you constantly worry and find it hard to sleep?
· Do you sometimes feel intense apprehension and feelings of terror?
· Are you hypersensitive to noise, bright lights, touch, and odors?
· Do you fear heights or enclosed spaces?
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Depression
- How To Know The Difference Between Normal Depression & Major
Depression!
An Interview with Bob Olson
author of Win The Battle and How To Beat Depression
In
this interview, John Michaels interviews Bob on the subject of depression.
This interview was
excerpted from How To Beat Depression! A Private Interview / Seminar With
Bob Olson, the new ebook for depression sufferers and their supporters.
John Michaels: Today we welcome Bob Olson,
author of the book, Win The Battle: The 3-Step Lifesaving Formula To
Conquer Depression And Bipolar Disorder. He is also the author of a
new ebook, How To Beat Depression! A Private Interview / Seminar With
Bob Olson. Bob has a strong message for people suffering with
depression, and I’d like to jump right into our interview by asking:
What is it that has you so fired up, Bob?
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Pain Management Without Drugs
by Ron Eslinger
THE LEG I DIDN'T HAVE JUST KEPT ON HURTING
"I don't know how this works, but it does." Those were the words of Bill twelve weeks after his first visit to Healthy Visions Wellness Center where hypnosis was used to teach Bill how to control his Phantom Limb Pain. Prior to this, Bill was taking pain medicine two to three times a week. Sometimes the pain was so unbearable that he went to the emergency room for intravenous pain medication.
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The Invisible Realm And The Art Of Manifestation
by Alex Nguyen
Walk into any bookstore. Chances are you’ll most likely find a large section of shelves dedicated to self-help literature. While most books deal with techniques and methods on how to deal with “problems” on a physical level, few deal with inner techniques of manifestation as a way to improve one’s life or attain goals.
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Moving
Beyond the Fear of Success
by Karen Johnson
Success has been a motivator since the beginning and man has been on an
ongoing quest ever since. Most of us want to be successful. Do you? So
what’s stopping you? Why is one person successful and another not? We
all want IT but somehow for some of us it keeps eluding our grasp. Some
long for a better present but spend their time living only in the
future…existing mainly on the promise of tomorrow.
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Alleviating Anxiety with Zensight Process
by Carol Ann Rowland
Rachel looks in the mirror and notices a mark on her cheek. Immediately her breath becomes shallow, her heart races, her chest tightens, and she feels nauseated. She checks the spot more closely, and sees that it’s just a speck of dirt. She washes it off and tells herself firmly that she is fine – it wasn’t the beginning of skin cancer, it was nothing. It’s gone. She is okay.
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____________________ Seven Simple Brain
Promoting Nutritional Tips
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Here is the seven step plan to get your diet under control and to use food
as brain medicine.
1. Increase water intake
Given that your brain is about 80% water, the first rule of brain
nutrition is adequate water to hydrate your brain. Even slight dehydration
can raise stress hormones which can damage your brain over time. Drink at
least 84 ounces of water a day. It is best to have your liquids unpolluted
with artificial sweeteners, sugar, caffeine, or alcohol. You can use
herbal, non-caffeinated tea bags, such as raspberry or strawberry
flavored, and make unsweetened iced tea. Green tea is also good for brain
function as it contains chemicals that enhance mental relaxation and
alertness.
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We've Been Living in a Dream World
by Jean-Claude Koven
"Most people are other people," Oscar Wilde once remarked. "Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotation." As he so wryly observed, the vast majority of us are not who we've been pretending to be, and the lives we've
been living until now are molded according to rules and values that are not our own. Most of humanity is stuck in someone else's
discarded chewing gum and has yet to break free.
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____________________ Effectively Working with Affirmations
by Katheryn Hoban
In my years of teaching and counseling I have come to the conclusion that many people are unsure of what affirmations are, how to use them, what great tools they can be, or what good benefits can be manifested by working with affirmations in both children and adults. In the simplest form an affirmation is a statement of a positive effect, result, or of a future event that you would like to achieve. Usually an affirmation is stated in the present moment and in positive verbiage and wordage. For an example “ I can do this” as opposed to “I’d like to do this” or “I’m going to do this.” The sentence “ I can do this” is set in the present moment and it implies confidence in one’s ability to accomplish the task and an immediacy to take action. The statement “ I’d like to do this.” Implies that it is not quite possible but you are yearning to do it but (something out of your control) is preventing that.
“I’m going to do this” implies sometime in the future when all the conditions are right. In that case we can make an assumption that the conditions will never be right.
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Unstuck Via Your Higher Self
by Debra Fentress
Have you ever had those times when you feel like you're up against the
wall and don't know what to do? There just doesn't seem to be any way
around an obstacle? In NLP (Neuro ling-guistic programming), we call these
"stuck states" or "stuck no options." Not a fun place
to be. It's like being in a pit so deep you can't see over the sides.
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Do You Really Want to Know the Truth?
by Jean-Claude Koven
Back in 1992, Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise co-starred in a movie entitled A Few Good Men. The high point of the film, in my view, was a classic, heated exchange between their characters, during which Kaffee (the military attorney played by Cruise) says: “I want the truth,” and Col. Jessup (Nicholson) responds: “You can’t handle the truth.”
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____________________ Tone Your
Body, Tone Your Mind
by Karlo Berger
People who love working out, but can’t seem to stop stressing out, need
to know that it is possible to get a sweat on and at the same time reduce
their stress. Of course, this can come naturally over the course of heavy
workout when our body releases endorphins in the form of “runner’s
high,” or through the euphoria we can attain when we reach difficult
fitness goals. But more focused approaches exist. As a whole health
consultant, I recommend to readers any of these five great paths to
stronger muscles and a more peaceful mind:
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____________________ Healing the Fear of Success and Self
Sabotage
by Darlene Montgomery
As an author, coach and publicist I have had the opportunity of working
with hundreds if not thousands of individuals in the success process, both
one on one and in large workshops. One of the most interesting and least
understood conditions I’ve seen that holds individuals back from the
realization of their dream is the need to self-sabotage and the fear of
success.
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Increase Your Standards,
Improve Your Life: 7 Steps To Better Health, Finances, Relationships And
Mental Well-being!
by Kimberly Fulcher
The quality of your life is directly related to your standards. A standard
is a personal rule or expectation about the level of excellence you
require in something, and when you raise your standards you change your
life.
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The 5 Hindrances Of The Mind: Are They Blocking Your Self-Esteem?
by Deborah Shipley
The issue of self-esteem is perhaps one of the greatest determinates in creating a life of freedom and abundance, or feeling inhibited and “just getting by“. Self-esteem is defined as “a feeling of pride in oneself“. It is how you feel in relation to yourself rather than how others see you. It’s between you and, well… you. Therefore, it’s not necessary to be so concerned about what others think to determine your level of self -esteem, as the definition does not include any “others“, just you. So where can you help yourself to better understand you? There are so many aspects of you but one that is of great importance is that of your mind.
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____________________ Accessing Your Higher Mind
by John Holland
The more we stay connected to our higher mind - which we also call the
universe, the source, or spirit - the more we strengthen and build that
crucial bridge between ourselves and our higher consciousness. While we're
all born connected to this divine awareness, we have a tendency to pull
away from what was once natural. It's reasonable to assume that when we
become disconnected from our higher mind, the source that once nourished
us will be replaced with another source or substitute. In other words, the
connection could be with food, alcohol, nicotine, co-dependency to someone
or even work - hence the term workaholic. Many of us spend our lives
trying to fill that void which was created when the link was broken.
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____________________ Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation
by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D
If, from the meditative perspective, everything you are seeking is already here, even if it is difficult to wrap your thinking mind around that concept, if there really is no need to acquire anything or attain anything or improve yourself, if you are already whole and complete and by that same virtue so is the world, then why on earth bother meditating? Why would we want to cultivate mindfulness in the first place? And why use particular methods and techniques, if they are all in the service of not getting anywhere anyway, and when, moreover, I've just finished saying that methods and techniques are not the whole of it anyway?
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____________________ Break Through the Barrier
Between You and True Peace
by Guy Finley
If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here
are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it
is one with that Light whose life is the eternal present itself, even as
the emanations of light and warmth are one with the sun from which they
radiate. If our intuition can perceive that the above ideas are based in
truth, then we should be naturally moved to ask the following
question: If this peace we long for is inherent in this perfectly present
moment we call the "Now," what is it that keeps us from knowing
the fulfillment of its promise within us? Let's look.
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Fighting Terror with Forgiveness
by D. Patrick Miller
Let’s face it - most people probably think of forgiveness as the last
resort of losers. It’s what you’re left with after you’ve been
victimized and can’t figure out a way to inflict revenge. If there’s
no way to even the score, then you might as well settle for feeling a
little better about yourself by becoming noble. And if you forgive what
happened to you, maybe someday you can forget all about it. Or, maybe
whoever hurt you will eventually feel guilty about what they did, and come
begging for your forgiveness. Then you get to decide whether they deserve
it. (Probably not!)
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How to Get What You Want Every Time!
by Nelson D. Berry
You know that YOU are the creator of all that occurs in all of your life experience, right?
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6 Simple Steps To
Accelerating Your Learning
by Jake Sim
What is Accelerated learning?
Simply put, accelerated learning is the ability to absorb and understand
new information quickly, and also to be able to retain that information.
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A Writing Exercise That
Increases Awareness And Description Skills
by Catherine Franz
Practice attaching words to feelings requires time to do. Without a system
that helps you monitor that time, the minutes or hours could feel
unproductive. With the right exercise, you can then use that time
wisely, as well as save you time and frustration.
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Sending Faxes To God Inc.
by John Payne
Our
dear friend Bob electrocutes himself whilst blow drying his hair in the
bathroom one evening and suddenly finds himself in heaven. He is somewhat
bewildered, his last memory catching a glimpse of himself in the mirror
with frizzy hair as he fell with a thud to the ground. Anyway, his
wonderful guide Gloria comes to his aid and settles him in to his new
situation. “So how do you think you did Bob?” asks Gloria.
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Switch To A Better Channel!
by Keith Varnum
Peril, catastrophe and disaster.
These are our friends, allies and mentors.
Appearing as enemies on the surface, these seeming threats are our most
helpful teachers on our Earth adventure. These apparent foes repeatedly
demonstrate how we humans have awesome power over our fate and
circumstances in life.
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Self Hypnosis or Shelf
Hypnosis?
by Richard Blumenthal
Self hypnosis is usually thought of as a person listening to an audio
tape, mp3, or other mass-produced media, intended to induce a willingness
to absorb suggestions centered around a specific topic such as weight
loss, stop smoking, etc. Unfortunately, this kind of hypnosis is generally
prepared by someone who has never met the person being hypnotized, often
presenting unwanted, even unpleasant imagery and suggestions. For example,
if you sunburn easily, that last thing you want to hear about is a slow
walk on a sunny beach. In this case, the "self" in self hypnosis
simply means that you listen to it by yourself!
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The Healing Powers of
Journaling
by Christin Snyder
For the past several years, I have found joy working as a motivational
writer and speaker. One of my greatest passions has been the gift of
sharing my deep love and respect for the written word. Words are powerful.
They provoke thought, stimulate creativity, and most importantly, they
hold within them the power to heal. Most people do not realize the
incredible life-changing potential writing has.
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The Subconscious Mind, Prayer and Healing
by Brother Aleksei
The main impediment in the way of any prayer is too much intellect and too
little devotion. If we do not pray at all or pray without intensity and
devotion, it is not what we consciously want to happen in our life that
does happen--it is what we believe to be true of ourselves and others deep
in our subconscious mind.
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____________________ The Art Of Receiving
by Sharon Warren
Receiving: verb (r-sving)
To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be
able to take in. To allow or to accept.
Recently, four of us were celebrating the January birthdays of two
girlfriends at a Scottsdale restaurant. We had a wonderful lunch, followed
by going to see Calendar Girls. I arrived at the theater first and
purchased my ticket. I had no idea that Birthday Girl #1 wanted to gift
each of us movie tickets. Friend #3 was having “receiving” issues,
sputtering in protest, “It’s your birthday and you shouldn’t be
buying tickets for us!” I responded, “It is her joy to give and
you are taking away her happiness if you don’t receive this.”
She got it instantly—and accepted the gift graciously.
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Using
Colors And
Stones With Meditation
by
Keith Zang
Meditation
is a very powerful tool to use for reducing and releasing the stress of
the day as well as for healing and bringing enlightenment into your being.
There are many methods for meditation. Some tap into mindfulness to bring
the present moment into focus. Others utilize the breath to create a sense
of timelessness by focusing on a single sensation or point and letting all
other distractions go. This article will be focused on another type of
meditation, that of the energetic healing form where the energies of the
body and surrounding life force energies are focused for dynamic and
accelerated healing.
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What's
In Your Blind Spot?
by Sulana Stone
We frantically search for our “lost” keys that are lying in plain
sight on the kitchen counter. We don’t we see the keys. Why not? Because
we already decided “the keys are not there.” And once we make that
decision, we create a blind spot in our awareness. The result is that we
don’t see the keys where we don’t expect them to be.
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____________________ Is
Your Life A Truman Show?
by Asoka Selvarajah
In the process of awakening to higher consciousness, things start to break
into our world from the "outside"...
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Yoga And World Peace
by Megan McDonough
Last
week my husband and I went to war with each other. It was nothing as
dramatic as a divorce or separation; just a commonplace marital spat with
intense emotion behind it. It all started with what should have been a
joyous occasion: a trip to the maternity ward to visit a nephew and his
wife who had just given birth to their new son.
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Ten Steps To A New Life In The New Year
by Lynn A. Robinson
"If only." Two of the most regret-laden words in the English language. "If only" I'd taken that job. "If only" I hadn't taken that trip. And right now, "if only" becomes especially poignant because the end of another year marks the beginning of yet another round of regrets that you still can't seem to get it right.
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Crystal
Clarity:
How To Expose The Hidden Obstacles Lurking In Your Subconscious
by
Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com editor
I had been struggling with an issue for about seven years that
I was beginning to think I might never overcome. So I went to see a
counselor named Dr. Trish Whynot who specializes in personal
transformation, self-healing and self-empowerment. I wrote an article
about Trish a couple years ago and have since gained a deep respect for
her gifted abilities. I’ve recommended her to many friends and
colleagues who have since experienced incredible results from her
services. Hence, I decided to see if she could help me with my
issue.
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Everyday
Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
Opening
to Life
by Dan Millman
Aaron and Charlotte, brother and sister,
are born into a two-parent, stable, middle-class household. Their parents
are educated, hardworking, caring, have no alcohol problems, abusive
habits, or guilty secrets. Aaron grows up successful--earns good grades,
wins a junior chess championship, plays sports, and later earns a good
income to support a family of his own. Charlotte does moderately well in
school but chooses unsavory friends, starts using heroin and other drugs,
turns to theft and prostitution to support her habit, which leads to jail
time and the hell of withdrawal.
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Cried, Shivered And Shook!
The Physical, Emotional And Psychological Impact Of A Successful Past-Life
Regression
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
If you’re like me, you either
don’t believe in past-life regression or you simply don’t believe that
you can do it. Three years
ago, I would have fallen under the category of full-blown nonbeliever.
Today, after researching spiritual phenomenon for three years, I have no
doubts that other people can achieve hypnotic regression to a past life; I
just don’t believe I can
do it. At least that was my story until recently, after experiencing a
successful past-life regression of my own.
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The
Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
Pain, disability, misinformation,
fear—that quartet has plagued the Western world for decades and the
plague shows no sign of abating. Back, neck and limb pain are rampant, and
statistics indicate that the epidemic is spreading. Disability in American
industry from low back pain continues to increase year by year.
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A Precision-Tuned Body
by Pat Burke
We often use the term stress to refer to
the negative effects of external factors such as noise, crowding,
performance expectations and deadlines. Most people experience stress as
something that happens to them. More accurately, stress itself is neutral,
referring to pressures on an organism or system. Health, adaptation and
evolution can be desirable outcomes when an organism is forced to respond
to a large amount and intensity of stimulation or change. An experience
that creates excitement and exhilaration in one person can cause deep
anxiety and debilitating stress for another. Anytime an organism is
overloaded, stress can occur, possibly followed by disease.
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The "CSFT" Vitalistic Healing
Model
by Dr. Don Glassey
The principle of vitalism is based on the
holistic concept that the human body is greater than the sum of its parts.
Its basic assumption is that there is an intelligent force, which creates
and sustains all living organisms. This inherent vital principle is
distinct from all internal physical and chemical forces.
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Getting
Started With The
Alexander Technique The Hard Way
by Jamee Culbertson, Dan Arsenault
and David
Arsenault
The irony is not lost on me. When I got the phone call from my
sister-in-law Laurie that my brother David had been in a bad car accident,
I was just getting ready for an Alexander Technique lesson with my
teacher, Jamee Culbertson. It was the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, the
start of a four-day weekend. I’m sure I was not an apt pupil at that
lesson, but, on my way out, Jamee offered to see David as soon as he was
well enough.
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The
Biology of Success
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
Mental energy is the basic foundation of
success. Look at corporate titans such as Michael Eisner, Martha Stewart,
and Jack Welch, or world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, and
Margaret Thatcher, or super moms from Maria Von Trapp to Barbara Bush.
High mental energy is what they all have or had in common. Mental energy
is the brain's power supply -- the more power you have, the longer and
harder you can work. Compare your work output the morning after taking a
red-eye to that after a refreshing night's sleep. It's brain energy that
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Healing
Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
I have never seen a patient with pain in
the neck, shoulders, back or buttocks who didn't believe that the pain was
due to an injury, a "hurt" brought on by some physical activity.
"I hurt myself while running (playing basketball, tennis,
bowling)." "The pain started after I lifted my little girl"
or "when I tried to open a stuck window." "Ten years ago I
was involved in a hit-from-behind auto accident and I have had recurrent
back pain ever since."
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The Latest Development
In Measuring Biofeedback
by Linda Richardson, Nurse / Herbalist
The Biofeedback MRM, an FDA accepted revolutionary
device, has been developed to monitor your body systems. It works on the
same principals as an EKG (which measures heart frequency data) where an
individual is hooked up to electrodes to read frequencies of the body. It
then prints these frequencies out on a monitor enabling the doctor to
diagnose what is going on with that part of the body.
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"Will
I Cluck Like a Chicken?": Myths and Misconceptions About Clinical Hypnosis
by Dr. Rick Voit
Many times I have been at a social gathering
where I am asked what I do for a living. The answer, "I'm a
psychologist," is often received with a tense smile and an "oh, geez,
I better watch what I say." I will usually respond that "my meter is
not running" and assure them they can relax. When people learn that I
specialize in hypnotherapy, they seem to experience a genuine curiosity, but I
suspect, a belief that I am, in some way, strange.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A Resource For
The New Year
by Roberta F. Lewis, M.S.W.
Does not a day go by that many of us don't
wonder how we manage to juggle the pieces of our lives and honorably hold
up our responsibilities to family, friends, work, our health, our
financial well-being, as well as lead full and satisfying lives? It
sometimes doesn't take much to unsettle the delicate balance of forces
that constellate as our world, sending it off into a wobble, leaving us
struggling to right the course. How do we find a way back?
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Brain
Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and
Memory
The Cortisol Connection
by Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth
The Cry of the Wounded Boomer
My first patient of the day tried to settle
into his chair, but he was so tense that he just teetered on the edge of
it, his arms clamped to his sides. He was a block of rigid muscles and
right angles.
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The
Secret To Eliminating The Root Of Your Problems: Physical, Social Or
Financial
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
Every
few years, I stumble upon something so powerful and enlightening that it
rocks my world, totally changing my perception and understanding of life.
Recently I had one of those rare life-altering experiences. I couldn’t
wait to get home and write about it.
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How
Tarot And Visualization Helped One Woman Achieve Her Dream
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
Cathy Levine, owner of
Circles of Wisdom in Andover, wasn’t always the spiritual-seeking owner
of a metaphysical store; she used to work as an actuary at an insurance
company. Technical finances, numbers and spreadsheets were her thing—not
energy, crystals and aromatherapy. But that began to change the day Cathy
had her first tarot card reading.
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_______________ Working In The Subtle Realm Of Thought
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D. The spiritual realm is the world of Causes.
The manifest material world, that is so familiar to us through our senses,
is the world of Effects. Thought always precedes manifestation in the
material world. All that is manifest in the material world, whether in
nature or man-made, was first a thought; a grand design.
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Befriending
the Mosquito
by Celeste Longacre
Befriend the mosquito? Am I
crazy? Perhaps, but I don’t get itchy bumps anymore so I thought that I
would share my little secret with you....
Like most individuals, I used
to think that mosquitoes were a mistake. How could anything so annoying be
anything else? I’d go camping for the weekend and just as I would settle
down to enjoy a nice sunset, a loud buzzing noise would begin to encircle my
head and my ankles and the backs of my knees. Then prick! And prick! And prick
again! Itchy red welts would begin to appear that lasted for days; sometimes
weeks. The peaceful sunset would be lost in a flurry of slaps and claps.
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All Hypnosis is Self Hypnosis
by Lia Maria Salciccia
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have the
unfortunate reputation as being forms of mind control. This is partly due
to the history of modern hypnosis, which began with a man named Anton
Mesmer, who moved magnets through people's energy fields and achieved
great success in healing people of all sorts of maladies. Mesmer, who went
from being one of the most celebrated figures of Paris to being an
outcast. He was investigated by a panel of Scientists and Academics who
decreed his animal magnetism theory to be bogus. He died poor and ruined.
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The Alexander Technique: Taking The
Pressure Off Your Body
by Robert Rickover
The Alexander Technique is a time-tested method of teaching ways to
restore our natural balance, flexibility and ease of movement. It teaches
the use of the appropriate amount of effort for a particular activity,
releasing more energy for all our activities. It is not a series of
treatments or exercises, but rather a reeducation of the mind and body
that helps you discover a new balance in your body by releasing
unnecessary tension. It can be applied to all of your daily activities.
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Mastery Of The Emotions: Bringing
the Understanding Of Emotions Out Of The Dark Ages
by Gail E. Steuart and Barry Blumstein
Our understanding of the Emotional System
today is still in the Dark Ages. This has its analogy to the time when
people’s understanding of our Solar System was based upon the belief
that the Sun revolves around the Earth, as it certainly appears that
way—however, just the reverse is true. The problem was, as long as we
believed the Sun went around the Earth, we were limited as to how far we
could go in the Solar System.
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___________________ Chaos And
Impermanence
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
Chaos Theory is a dramatic new science that
has forever changed the way we look at Nature, and indeed reality itself.
Yet, it also bears strong resemblance to ancient metaphysical views;
particularly the Buddhist doctrine of Impermanence.
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Harnessing The Power Of
Imagery
For Happiness And Health: How Deep Spontaneous Imagery Can Change
Your Life
by Florence Gaia
What if you found passage to a
magical place that not only brought moments of wonderment and surprise but
also real positive change in your life? What if this place had humor,
quiet moments of warm intimacy, playfulness or daring adventure, as well
as suspense and heroic challenges, yet there was never danger to life or
limb and you could emerge with a new sense of self and your own
possibilities? You could really improve your life.
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___________________ Here and Now
by Robert Rickover
In his final novel, Island, Aldous Huxley
wrote about the adventures of a shipwrecked Englishman on Pala, an
imaginary island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The society on this
island had evolved to the point where there was universal economic and
social well-being and a high level of respect for individual rights and
freedoms. Moreover, individuals were given every opportunity to develop
emotionally and spiritually.
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About Your Life? Put the Pieces Together By Uncovering Your Belief Systems
by Nancy
Canning
There's a wonderful bumper sticker that
explains life the way I see it: The universe rearranges itself to
accommodate your picture of reality. I have been working with belief
systems for the past 20 years and I'm grateful to have a bumper sticker
that explains my life work!
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__________________ Using The Law Of Vibration To Manifest Your
Vision
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
Science and Metaphysics agree. The essence
of all things is vibration. Science reveals that everything in the
manifest universe is ultimately composed of packets of energy; quantized
units vibrating at specific frequencies. Esoteric wisdom reveals that in
the beginning, all things were created through sound (i.e. vibration);
whether it be the "OM" of Eastern mysticism or the
"Word"/Logos of Western spirituality.
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What's Hard To Find, But Always With You?
by Richard Blumenthal
To create a wonderful life, you first need
to make a choice: will you use your thinking to help yourself to the
happy, fulfilling life you wish for, or will you allow the often
haphazard, random ideas we gather over time to non-consciously run your
life for you? What you think leads directly to feelings and actions. Think
in one direction, you will feel and act accordingly. Think differently,
your feelings and actions will be different. Those thoughts are powerful,
aren't they? The only trouble is, ideas can become so ingrained that we
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Female and Forgetful: A Six-Step
Program to Help Restore Your Memory and Sharpen Your Mind
by Elisa Lottor, Ph.D., N.D. and Nancy P. Bruning
While scientists debate the subtleties of the categories
of memory loss, women march through my office with a litany of complaints.
Often the first thing they notice is that they are forgetting names of
someone they've just been introduced to in a business or social situation.
This is one of the most common and most infuriatingly embarrassing
scenarios.
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__________________ Grassophobia
by David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy
Guy
Each day my daughter, pushing one year old
now, amazes me with the lessons she teaches me. Yes, here I go again
learning lessons from someone too young to speak. (Hmm … maybe
that's a lesson, too.)
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Overcome Worry For A Healthier
You
by Kathy Gates
Norman Vincent Peale said, “You are not
what you think you are; but what you think, you are”. If we follow
this philosophy, then most of us are certifiable worry machines.
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Time Out of Mind
by Eric Shapiro
Let us first consider the role of time in our lives, then let us consider
that role in terms of mental illness. Buddhists and Hindus, among
others, propose that time does not actually exist. The Western
world, however, with its dependence on clocks and deadlines, scoffs at
such a notion, relying upon sayings such as "Time is money" and
"Time is of the essence."
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Goal Manifestation Development
by Shaun Ajani
Goal manifestation, by the way of goal setting, itself is very
simple.
A step by step process to think of anything you want, and ultimately
acquire it. Sounds like magic, doesn’t it? That is because by using a
process, the results are so effective that it seems like something out of
a fantastic anecdote.
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Instant Relaxation Anytime,
Anywhere
by Peter Murphy
If there was a way of relaxing quickly and easily in any situation would
you want to know what it is?
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Einstein Method To Rapid Solutions
by Dave Czach
Albert Einstein provided brilliant theories
and ideas to our world. But where did these ideas originate? Experience,
education, the twilight zone or all of the above? It's been reported that
Mr. Einstein said his best work resulted from ideas while engaging in
"something like" daydreaming.
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Change - What's It Really About?
by Joanne Victoria
As you sit in your office wondering what other successful business owners
are doing differently than you, have you ever asked yourself if you should
change your methods?
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Stress Relief And Healing... It's Only A Sound
Away
by Gina and Mac Horwood
Let’s face it…stress is a part of every
day life and has been since man took his first step. High levels of stress
can result from a bacterial infection, when we face possible danger, a
major life change, as well as, inner conflict, worry or physical trauma.
However, research has proven that we live our entire lives in continual
low level stress...
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Can Anyone Really Predict The Future?
by Sherry Binkelman
Since the beginning of time, we as human beings have been curious about
the future. For aeons people have tried to predict the future. Can
psychics predict the future? Yes, they can... sort of... and no, they
cannot. The truth is that psychics, or anyone with highly developed
intuition, can predict only the probable future. The future is precarious.
It is constantly changing, or rather, what would be the future at any
given moment in time is in a constant state of flux.
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Declare Independence
From Fear
by Thom Rutledge
The belief that we can think and act in such a way that fear will be
banished from our lives is a dangerous fairy tale, a fiction that
contaminates personal responsibility and leads to reckless reactivity or
paralysis. As long as we cling to the need to send our fears into exile,
as long as we insist that the goal is to be fear-free, as long we believe
that there is such a thing as complete reassurance, we are in trouble.
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How To Work With Your Inner
Critic
by Phil Bilzon
"Sometimes I lay awake at nights and ask, 'Where did I go wrong?'
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”’
~ Charlie Brown, in Peanuts.
Kath was an Account Executive with a large recruitment agency. Although
she had worked her way up from being a junior, Kath now felt that she had
reached a plateau. The next step was promotion to senior level. Although
Kath knew that she had the skills and experience to make the move,
something inside stopped her.
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The Ki of Aikido: An Oriental
Concept of Energy, Self and Mind
by Charlie Badenhop
There are many different ways to perceive,
utilize, and benefit from energy. What I offer here is one of many ways.
Indeed when I do other kinds of activities I perceive of and work with
energy in quite a different manner. What follows is my experience of
energy while performing Aikido over the course of more than twenty years.
Certainly there are likely to be many other Aikido practitioners that
would explain their experiences and beliefs in a manner that is somewhat
different than mine. I offer you here, one experience, my experience, and
thus all that I say is part of my belief system, and not at all
necessarily THE truth.
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The Problem And The Solution Lie
Within YOU
by Asoka Selvarajah
Whatever your lot in life, you doubtless
consider it to be a combination of external factors: some positive and
others negative. Doubtless, this is partly true. However, it may surprise
you to know that at any point, barring acts of God, your future is almost
entirely in your own hands.
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Tracking Our Truth; Reconciling
Perceptions
by Meredith Young-Sowers, D.Div.
We're always tracking our truth, asking
“vision questions” without realizing that they come from our inner
Vision Keeper, who pushes us to pay attention to where we’re going in
life. Our answers to these vision questions help us understand what we
love and where we find meaning in our lives.
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Road Rage, SUV's, Yoga and the Mind
by Patricia Burke
In the epic Indian tale of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna the warrior faces a
terrible conflict in which his friends, former teachers, and relatives are
divided in battle. Casting away his bow and arrows, Arjuna sinks down on
the chariot, his mind overborne by grief. Kripalu yoga teacher Christopher
Baxter, providing commentary on Chapter One: The Despair of Arjuna
explains, “Arjuna finds himself on the battlefield, preparing for a
conflict between all his relations, all of whom are parts of himself. The
soul finds itself on the battlefield of the body, preparing for a conflict
between the life of spirit and the domination of materialism, held in
place by the polarities of fear and desire."”1
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Remembering Your Dreams
by
Susan Stewart
We all dream every night. Some people don't
remember dreaming and would swear that they never dream. But dreaming is
essential for sorting out and releasing the emotional buildup from our day
so we can start the new day with a clean slate. If you stop people from
dreaming, they become disturbed, confused and can start hallucinating.
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Remote Viewing … What Is It
Anyway?
by Edward Toupin
Ever since I began posting information about remote viewing on my site,
more and more people have been asking about what it is and how it works.
At first, I thought this would be a simple topic to write; however, I
began to realize that there is a lot of information presented that might
not be easy to grasp. In this article, I am going to provide a simple
overview of remote viewing and, generally, how it works. This way,
readers will have a cursory knowledge of this interesting technology as a
basis for further reading and research.
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____________________ The Danger of Lack
Programming
by Randy Gage
So why might you not be accepting all the abundance that is meant for you?
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Depression Becomes You
by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW
Have you ever overheard people talking
about couples that have been married for a very long time? One of things
often said is how a couple will begin to look alike over time. How and why
do you think this occurs?
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Trouble Sleeping? Insomnia Cures
Are Here!
by Dave Turo-Shields
I yawn, stretch my arms behind my head and
stare at the ceiling. I've been in bed for a few minutes. Ahhh, the
peaceful quiet all around. The room is dark. The kids are asleep. It's an
expansive moment for my mind. My mind seems to fill the entire room.
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Out Of “Control”
by Trish Whynot,
D.C.Ed.
A channel named Rho once told me that relationships were about learning to
honor, respect and cherish. As I explored her words of wisdom, I began to
look at what I had learned about honoring, respecting and cherishing
growing up. I also began observing what my clients had learned regarding
honoring, respecting and cherishing themselves and others and how what we
were taught had impacted our lives. The results were rather enlightening
so I thought I’d share. Since growth and healing are why we are here,
why not enjoy the process. Relationships can be an awesome playground for
personal growth and healing when we can take our energy off of blaming and
direct it toward learning, healing and understanding.
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The Power of Faith
by Karen Barnes
Etymology: Middle English feith, from Old French feid, foi, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust -Date: 13th century.
Among the several definitions for this word some of the following are prominent in my belief system: (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions, (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust,
(3): something that is believed especially with strong conviction; - in faith: without doubt or question.
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____________________ Free Will To The
Rescue
by Dave Czach
Today's
society and your private world are the results of free will. We have
arrived here today through intention, ignorance or abuse. Some people
understand and use free will daily. Some people completely deny it. And
other people simply mock it and complain it "doesn't work."
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8 Real Life Energy Boosting Secrets You Can Use Today!
by Charlotte
Anthony
Energy – the natural resource in shortest supply, especially for the 100
million Americans who are suffering from chronic or incurable illness.
Just thinking of everyone who needs you can sap out what little energy you
have left. Maybe you feel like you can’t possibly get it all done.
But you know you HAVE to. People depend on you everyday. Your family. Your
friends. Your coworkers. Your clients. Even your pets! To meet the demands
of life today, you can’t afford to have your energy depleted. So here
are some ways to easily boost those levels right away.
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Ancient
Answers for Modern Problems:
The
Toltec Tradition–Answers For Today From an Ancient Way
by Dr. Susan Gregg
If
any ancient wisdom held ‘the answer’ we would already have ‘the
solution’ to our problems. As Basho so eloquently said, “Don't seek to
follow the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought instead.” The Toltec tradition is
incredibly rich in tools that encourage you to develop a profound
connection to your inherent wisdom, power, goodness, and divinity. As you
transform your life they assist you in finding your answers within
yourself. These tools do require effort as well as discipline and
dedication but I can guarantee you that if you use them magic will occur,
your life will be transformed, and nothing will ever be the same.
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