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There has been a lot of chatter on the Web, on TV programming and in open discussion about the year 2012. Propagating Mayan Prophecy further was the film debut of 2012, which held viewing audiences captivated with its spectacular and alarming scenes of a cataclysmic event.
Throughout ... Views: 1769
A good friend of mind recently commented that his own kids and their friends are a lot less materialistic than our generations were, and that numerous surveys show that Millennials don't want their jobs to interfere with their family or social life. He went on to say that, "Some say this is ... Views: 1551
It is time to birth the new reality of our future. We are creating a new world; what kind of world depends on our thoughts and our belief that we do in fact manifest what we think about. As a transformational life coach I am finding it easier and easier to speak to others about living in a state ... Views: 1671
Before Psychology and Religion, there was Us and our Dreams -
As we stand on the proscenium of the Future, in the 21st Century's front door, it is useful to remember that Humans are not our things, not our technologies, not our web, nor our electronic codes. We are not the New Age. We are not ... Views: 902
Have you ever had an instinctive "knowing" that your relationship is more than simply a connection with another person? That there is a purpose in that connection? That it's a natural channel for attracting what you want in life, whatever that means for you - being cherished, good health, a ... Views: 3617
When we face difficult times, how we perceive the situation we are in may cause depression. It is not what happens in the world around us, what other people say or the promise of a dismal future, but by our own mind. When we focus on our thoughts, our own brains create our experience. If you ... Views: 1709
In November 2008, I felt ready to go to the next stage in my public speaking.
As I started to focus on leadership, in my mind I could suddenly project myself towards the future into a world of management and leadership much more efficient and compassionate, human and effective, than what I ... Views: 1817
Part 2 – How It Might Be Affecting You
Time is going faster
Many people are not aware of the precise nature of the changes they are experiencing, but they are noticing the effects of these changes. For example, if you ask the question: “Do you think time is going faster?” A great many will ... Views: 1329
How a simple reversal of perspective will give you the life you desire.
But first I have to share a word with you that is so significant to our health and happiness it is the only key to our personal joy and to the flourishing of the Earth and the Universe she rests in. So mystical is this ... Views: 1243
I can tell you from experience debt can keep you from enjoying the present moment. You can spend all of your time worrying about how much money you owe, how the bills are going to be paid, how long it will take to pay off the debt. All of this worry keeps you from enjoying life now.
So how do ... Views: 1324
Did you know Mother Nature provides us with the same benefits as we would gain from hours of deep meditation? No more dogma, no more gurus!
-Dramatically increase alpha brainwaves
-Relax the nervous system
-Focus the mind and increase attention
-Significantly reduce anxiety ... Views: 2041
In preparation for my upcoming presentation at the Women of Wisdom Conference where I am presenting a workshop titled "Awakening the Internal Nurturer Through Art & Ceremony" I decided to browse goddess figurines online to gain inspiration. In my presentation we are making clay goddesses as ... Views: 871
The Fifth Agreement – What is it?
Miguel Ruiz, bestselling author of The Four Agreements has not come out with another Agreement, perhaps the most powerful agreement of all, The Fifth Agreement
I first met don Miguel, in the late ninety’s. I had been walking the Toltec Path and studying ... Views: 3195
For thousands of years, retreat was the primary vehicle for spiritual and personal development. It was an art, at the center of all the great esoteric teaching of Buddha, Jesus and others. But in the modern fast paced world it became a lost art. Retreat is misunderstood, and carries a negative ... Views: 1303
I went to see Avatar last week. Actually it was my second viewing as I saw it the first time on Christmas Day. It’s rare that I see anything twice but it struck a chord. Yes, the 3D is phenomenal and the special effects stunning but that wasn’t why I went back.
The film’s plot carries a ... Views: 1149
My friend and teacher, Stanley Keleman, taught me a lot about making shapes. Formative psychology he calls it - shaping a life.
I used to "think" my life was an effort of my mind alone. That's quite a funny illusion - a life without a body. Did I "think" I was a disembodied cortex? A lump of ... Views: 1208
We are subject to so many different energies right now, we need to find a way to choose what we want to experience. I have meditated for years as a way to manage my sensitivity to the chaotic world we live in. I would “escape” this world and for a time I would experience a blissful state, much ... Views: 1509
A True Story of Lust and Seduction - with a Twist!
Twenty-six hundred years ago, Subbha the Buddhist nun was walking through a mango grove when a lustful young man blocked her path.
Subbha the Nun: “What wrong have I done you that you stand in my way? It’s not proper my friend that a man ... Views: 5517
Have you ever noticed how wonderful it feels to come home to a clean house, especially when you've been gone on a long trip and are good and ready to sleep in your own bed? There's a certain refreshing feeling to walking into a space that's perfectly organized, dust free, and scrubbed ... Views: 1572
We are forever surrounded by love. From the rays of the sun that nurture and sustain life on our precious planet, to extending a helping hand to another in need, our existence is found within this unifying principle we know in our heart as love. Life itself is the expression of unconditional ... Views: 2060
Evidently you are interested in discovering this amazing and most powerful of all strategies for gaining brilliant success in the stock market. Stocks can go up, down, see-saw, or do the cha-cha in financial terms, and you will still win in trading financial instruments when you master the ... Views: 2795
Let's say that one person loves the president, Bush or Obama, and another hates him. Then, anything that one would write positively about the president would be hated and disbelieved by the other, regardless of whether it was true or not. A strong bias would blind the president hater to any ... Views: 5491
I never get tired reading amazing animal stories; how pets alert their owner’s when there is danger, and act as guides for those who are physically impaired. The astonishing tales of lost animals who find their way back home after years and miles of trekking. For many of us, our animals are like ... Views: 1439
December 1, 1974, I was 22 years old and about to give birth to my first child, a little girl already named Maegan. After many hours of hard labor and asking for pain relief I was given a spinal block for anesthesia at the very end of the birth process. The OB/GYN administered it himself ... Views: 2432
Children experience "wow" constantly. Everything is big and wonderful but as they are conditioned, by parents, teachers and other influential people in their lives, over and over, the "wows" become fewer and farther between. We are reminded by Jesus to be as little children not because they are ... Views: 1278
This is my summary of the philosophy behind consciousness coaching:
"Consciousness, the observer, is our True Self. Being fully present to our highest aspirations and greatest dreams as human beings, we can take action and have impact on the reality around us, independent of our thinking and ... Views: 1018
There's a part of all of us that we hide from the world. Some parts we're aware that we hide, and some are so far buried that we don't even know what we're hiding anymore. During my own growth as a person, a soul, a coach, and a teacher, I have come face to face with more of my "stuff" in the ... Views: 954
In order to get good "court sense," a beginning racquetball player must put up with the difficulties of learning how the ball bounces; only then will they understand the ball's nature and become relaxed and proficient. The player must face the problems through practice, however. If they try to ... Views: 1600
A machine does what it is programmed to do until it eventually breaks down. Until then, it repeats its limited, repetitive actions endlessly.
As human beings we are programmed as well, by our culture, our traditions, our education, but most importantly by our minds. There is usually very ... Views: 2489
Attention, and its cousin, attitude, are the architects of our lives. A focused attention unleashes the energies of Soul, the creative power of our very beingness. Unfortunately, even when we know the truth about the power of attention, we make little effort to work on mastering it. More’s ... Views: 1774
When we meditate our brain waves actually change. The frequency of our brain waves lower so that we are able to experience higher levels of consciousness, altered states of mind as well as experience the extreme benefits that go along with that. Unfortunately to be able to experience these low ... Views: 1903
Terrible things happen every second on this planet. People and animals are harmed, or even killed. Plants are going extinct. Property is destroyed. Natural disasters wreak havoc. People lose their loved ones, become permanently disabled, or become homeless. The list of dreadful things that can ... Views: 6718
Meditation that is Comfortable For You and Relevant to You
Do you find the whole meditation thing intimidating? OK, I admit it: I do. Sitting cross-legged on an oriental cushion is, hmmm, unamerican? It's something. It's uncomfortable in more than one way. It's something that is 'not ... Views: 2913
Once meditating the natural environment you pick is important, put fundamentally it must be peaceful. At best you ought to place a complete room aside which you can alter into a meditation space, though I deduce that could be challenging or else even out of the question for selected individuals, ... Views: 1744
Meditation has been an focal bit of various societies for centuries, the value of its practice being renowned as of great consequence on spiritual, emotional and tangible levels. The practice of meditation has been widely renowned to be helpful to dropping stress levels, elevating healthiness on ... Views: 1753
SIMPLE LOGIC (The God Thing)
You must wait and listen for the sound of the genuine that is within you. When you hear it, that will be your voice and the Voice of God.
- Howard Thurman, American author, civil rights leader, and theologian (1899-1981)
One of the great things with what I ... Views: 1379
“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.”
--Eckhart Tolle
Not one sparrow falls from the sky that our heavenly Father does
not know about - so ... Views: 1161
Entrepreneur, is the one who assumes the responsibility and the risk for a business operation with the expectation of making a profit. It takes courage to be an Entrepreneur. To assume the responsibility and the risk for a business operation, he needs to learn to conquer fear. Conquering fear is ... Views: 2090
I am all about making the complicated simple. My life shifted when I realized that my mind loves to complicate things. It was just programmed that way. Early on in childhood, to feel special and rewarded, I liked to solve complicated problems. My mind, being the powerful tool that it is, makes ... Views: 1160
By now you may have you heard about the startling breakthroughs in brain science that have turned our ideas about how the brain works upside down. For years we were told that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have. If we lost one it was gone and would never be replaced. ... Views: 1784
In the moments when you are asleep and lucid in the mind allow the place of your days accomplishments to fruition from the mind of your creation to come forth from your subconscious that is the executor of your creative projects when you are tuned away from the immediate five senses. When the ... Views: 3255
As the movie ‘2012’ plays in theaters, I am reminded that in 1999, I wrote the following as my mission statement: “My mission is to raise the consciousness of the planet through Radical Forgiveness and create a world of forgiveness by 2012.”
Even then I thought, who the hell did I think I ... Views: 2880
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." When Jalal al din Rumi wrote those words in thirteenth century Persia it is unlikely that he had any idea of the vast array of career and life choices available to a twenty-first century ... Views: 4717
What would life be like if you could decide moment by moment your state of mind? What if you could have complete control over your response to any situation life holds for you? What if you could live in the space of gratitude and appreciation regardless of the economy, loss, change or ... Views: 1142
The gifted spiritual teacher Dr. Wayne Dyer once explained that it makes about as much sense to have a smoking section in a restaurant as it does to have a peeing section in a pool. Why is this so poignant? Well, in much the same way, we are all one mass of co-mingled vibrating energy here on ... Views: 1485
2010 The Beginning of A New Cycle
On December 31 2009, we experienced a Full Moon. This particular moon was also a blue Moon, (second full moon in same month), and was also a Partial Lunar Eclipse in the sign of Cancer. Blue moon eclipses are a rarity and the next one will not arrive until ... Views: 1396
What is sin? Throughout the Bible, sin is a main topic. As a matter of fact, from the first story in Genesis to the last in Revelation, and even to this day, sin plays a crucial role. Since the topic of sin is so important, it is wise to understand what it really is.
In the town where you ... Views: 3638
by Andrew Schneider
Are you often puzzled by what happens in your life? Do you wonder why you have experiences you do not really want?
The Law of Attraction, a universal law, determines the kind and character of our experiences. And we participate in this law by our very nature.
We ... Views: 1264
Developing the Inner Witness
When someone starts doing therapy or any sort of self-reflective inner work, their first task is to develop the Inner Witness, the one who reflects your experience back to you. This has also been called the Observing Self, and its job is simply to record what you ... Views: 1820
The world could be described as the community where the human family lives.
The question is, how do you live in this world? Who is the you that the world gets to know?
Is it the real you, where how you live on the outside is a reflection of you who are on the inside, where your ... Views: 1476