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Several months ago I posted “There’s a WRONG Way and a RIGHT Way to Set Goals,” which I wrote the week before Christmas. In it I talked about the right ways to set goals for the new year. I enjoyed writing that column and was delighted that so many friends told me they enjoyed reading ... Views: 2039
Lois is a wonderfully sweet 88-year-old neighbor who has dozens of friends, is always busy with community affairs, and has the loveliest garden in the world.
How does Lois do that? At age 88, how is she constantly filled with vitality, and in high demand by everyone in the community?
Lois ... Views: 2037
“Baby Steps” to Manifesting
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! – Jonathen Winters
Learning to manifest our intentions in the beginning takes time, patience, and practice.
Often times, people need to start out small with their intentions to really get a feel for the ... Views: 2036
OUR FINITE LIVES ARE DEPENDENT ON THE INFINITE
Every human being of this vast world is solely responsible for the joy/sorrow, bliss, agitation, peace, wrath etc that he/she faces in his/her daily life. It is he who is responsible for sowing seeds that grow thorns or fragrant flowers. Once a ... Views: 2036
Make yourself comfortable, preferably sitting on a chair with your feet firmly on the floor, making sure your arms and legs are uncrossed, and your spine straight.
Imagine a golden light all around you spreading out as far around you and as high above you as you can visualize it. This is a ... Views: 2035
Why is it that most of us spend our entire lives trying to experience our worth, keep it and prove it to others? Could it be that our concept and experience of worthiness has gotten lost in the preconception and misbelievings that we are not good enough unless we offer value through our deeds, ... Views: 2035
The Repetitive Life: Healing Your Patterns by Mark Earlix
Imagine what it might be like if; that everything you have experienced and you are currently experiencing, is an event you have repeated and repeated and repeated over and over again. Each time that you are thrown back into this ... Views: 2035
Have you ever thought about how Mother Earth was feeling? Well, she shows just that through mirroring our negative emotions that have collectively caused all sorts of catastrophic pain. If you visualize connecting to her crystalline core heart deep within the center of her spirit (who is ... Views: 2034
Anger at someone in a situation where let's say you almost hit them with your car as example and hurt them gets you very angry and say what a stupid fool. Yet the only damage would be to the other person and it was really an innocent act on their part. The reason you react with anger is ... Views: 2034
To Know The Truth
To think that most of our lives we plan and ponder what we want, what we need, what we have and what we hope for; yet the unequivocal truth is that life emerges exactly as it must, above and beyond our ability to foresee. Recognizing what we need versus what we want is ... Views: 2031
Are you living a dream? In this article I am going to introduce you to the world of dream meanings and ask you to consider the underlying messages within your dreams. I will take you on a journey through your consciousness to the conclusion that dreams are another way of life. Everyone has a ... Views: 2029
“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Elliot
During the time of Aristotle and for 18 centuries after that, it was believed that the Sun, our solar system, and the stars rotated ... Views: 2027
Two thoughts – two hearts, joined aspiration,
Unite for beautiful creation,
For God’s and our joyful contemplation!
To a future world, to a world-with-God,
We take a step – right here, not beyond
May all our planet and our world
On every single plane of Being
Begin to shine with Dreams of ... Views: 2026
Contrary to some skeptics’ assessment, the near death experiences carry profound spiritual messages to humanity that can transform the individual and the collective. In this article, we see their implications to people who have different dispositions in life.
General
Smitten by a ... Views: 2026
Life is a dance between two intense emotions: fear and desire. We go back and forth between these two throughout our lives. But what we’re exploring here is what precedes and pervades life before desire and fear.
Who are we, foundationally, before these two emotions that we go back and forth ... Views: 2025
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: 2024
The Trappings of External Wealth and Conditional Love
We can absolutely have anything and everything we desire in this life, but if our self worth or happiness depends on having it, then we are attached to it. Anything we are attached to has the power to manipulate or control us. We are no ... Views: 2024
I posed a question on my Facebook page where I asked “If you knew you couldn’t fail what would your life be like?” The responses I received were very interesting. Some stated that they would take more risks. Others said they would go for their dreams, pursue their passions. These statements ... Views: 2024
What makes you worthy of being the person you want to be? What is it that makes you deserving of doing and having everything you want in life? Could you just take a couple of minutes, and ask yourself these questions? Take a few moments and think about this. And give yourself some honest ... Views: 2024
I sometimes find it challenging to honor my own feelings – especially if what I want or feel seems to be at odds with other people, or my emotions don’t seem to be “appropriate” to the situation. While I’m not someone who tends to hold back sharing my honest opinions, desires, and feelings and, ... Views: 2024
From Part Two(Love). Intrducing the forthcoming book What is Man.
Love
When we think of energy, we think of it as power for work. It is a force, or strength that can perform physical and mental activity. Although you cannot define energy, you know what it can do. We think that energy ... Views: 2023
As has been said many times in Spiritual circles, “We are not humans having a Spiritual experience. We are Spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Our true identity is our God Self, our Eternal Self, our Monad or Mighty I AM Presence – whatever term you prefer. And our God Self has ... Views: 2021
In the past, healing has been viewed from the Newtonian view of the universe. This is the mechanistic thinking that the body is like a machine. Take a pill, cut something out, or fix a certain part of the body. Healing and psychology are beginning to catch up with quantum physics and the unified ... Views: 2020
As we begin this year, we face some significant issues in the world and in the United States. There is a polarization of people, dire predictions about the soon to come impact of global warming, about immigration, the migration of people from areas in the world impacted by violence and/or ... Views: 2020
What exactly IS a Life Coach?
Coaching has become the leading tool that successful people use to live extraordinary lives. The life coaching profession is certainly not new, though it is fast becoming popular due to peoples’ increased interest in personal development and an overall need to ... Views: 2020
This is an exercise which I suggest doing for one month or longer. I would really appreciate hearing your results since it is a matter of great interest and a worthy study.
Finding the true root cause of anything is the method to eliminate even subtle negative thoughts. The exercise is quite ... Views: 2020
The candle is a very influential symbol in our conscious mind. It may represent is the light in a world that would otherwise be dark; it speaks to the deepest part of our soul. For this reason the candles has such a profound meaning in so many cultures all over the world. Candles can be found in ... Views: 2019
Many Lightworkers have been confused about this point. A Master is not victimized in the slightest by turning the other cheek. As a matter of fact, the opposite takes place! He is fully empowered because he is staying attuned to God and maintaining his realization of God.
When one is fully ... Views: 2018
As a personal counselor I have had many a session with my dear clients who are going through, or have been through tough emotional situations. No one is excluded. I too sometimes face such personal crisis.
The aftermath of such emotional trauma can me rather damaging. Causing some never to ... Views: 2017
There is in truth no way to advance on the Spiritual path unless you make a decisive decision about it!
As Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru, said, “If you want to realize God, you must want Him like a drowning man wants air!” If you don’t want God like a drowning man wants air, you ... Views: 2016
Do you ever wonder if your dreams have any significance? Why do you have certain dreams repeatedly? Research shows that dreams are an essential part of our life and have a purpose. Sleep is the time when our body rests and relaxes. The mind, however, is still mulling over what happened during ... Views: 2016
It starts with a single question. It's a deceptively simple question: Do you want to live a meaningful life? The answer seems ridiculously obvious. You probably think "Yes. Of course." It doesn't require reflection and most people stop their line of thinking right there. But if you ponder the ... Views: 2014
Healing, then, takes place to the degree that we send down the right kind of thoughts into subjectivity.
This does not mean that we must sit around holding thoughts. We do not hold a seed in our hand when we wish to plant it, and it is the same in healing; we do not hold the thought but ... Views: 2014
There are many stories that people tell about psychic animals, all of which point to animals being ‘tuned in’ to our emotions, the messages from the ‘other side’, as well as listening and hearing the earth and heavens.
There are stories abound of animals, such as dogs who, on realising their ... Views: 2013
Do you have an idol in your heart? Now, before you say no, let us define idolatry and see what it means today.
In ancient times, idolatry was the worship of idols or the use of idols to represent the "gods" people believed in. Such idols were carved images in various forms made of stones and ... Views: 2012
In order to move into the “Now Moment” we must understand two things. The first thing is that we are not our minds. We are a spirit being created by God with a soul and a body. The mind is a tool to solve the situations that come up in this world. We tend to identify ourselves with our past. ... Views: 2009
I can recall the moment with utmost clarity even though it occurred nearly 40 years ago when I was 23 years old. I remember how my breathing quickened and my body surged with excitement as the car headlight beams illuminated the huge buck deer standing on its hind legs with its neck stretched up ... Views: 2009
When someone has passed the seventh initiation and has thus achieved the goal of all his lifetimes, which is the goal of ascension or liberation from the wheel of rebirth, such a young Master is occultly called “Kindergarten Master.”
Kindergarten Masters are watched over very carefully by ... Views: 2007
Archangels are in charge of large groups of Angels whose service is focused in all areas of life.
As such there are so-called healing angels, angels of peace, guardian angels, angels of beauty, angels of the home, angels of the garden, angels of mercy, angels overlighting every forest, every ... Views: 2007
The serious aspect of a stress condition is, that a person who has stress, mostly is not aware of it, being so much used to it. Often trying to compensate tension with smoking, drinking, excessive eating, biting nails or many other ways.
The exercise offered here releases stress, so that one ... Views: 2007
Raising your level of consciousness is one of the most important endeavors you could ever undertake. People try a lot of things to make them happy. Some seek money, others power and prestige. In the end they all seem to find the same key principle: happiness isn't found in external things. ... Views: 2007
When you work with and support others, do you experience: Feeling drained? Do you desire them to "get better"? Do you take on one more client because there is no one else? Are you attached to them making progress?
When I first heard the expression Divinely Selfish- I experienced a lot of ... Views: 2004
This past weekend I led The Shadow Process Workshop in Miami. In this workshop, as in so many of our other programs and workshops, there were people who were in pain because they:
• Could not decide on the direction of their marriage
• Were still struggling with hurt they’ve carried since ... Views: 2004
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: 2003
According to Ayurveda, youth ends at 60. Thereafter, if proper measures are continued which slow and prevent the degenerative changes that can accompany aging, one can achieve a long and disease-free old age. There are two aspects of these proper measures. The first is known as panchakarma, ... Views: 1999
Mediums are those psychics who have the ability to communicate with spirits of people who are dead, beings that belong on a different astral plane or spirit guides who help from the beyond. Seeking their help is something that is becoming common thanks to the growing belief amongst people that ... Views: 1999
The proliferation of the intonation
Wrens sounding off
The dew collecting on their chests
The darkness swallowing the reverberations
Dispelling the noise to the mountain tops
Where the hawks circle
The gate keepers to heaven’s doors
A bolt of lightning pierced ... Views: 1998
The third initiation is also called the Soul merge, because it is here that one becomes directly merged and linked with the Higher Self, or Oversoul. It is here that both the Higher Self and inner plane Ascended Masters begin to work directly with the incarnated Soul. It is also at this ... Views: 1996
I believe that there is something called fate, and then there is destiny.
Fate is something that we decided before we were born. We decided to learn things in this particular lifetime that may not be to our physical being’s liking—perhaps having abusive parents or some sort of addiction. ... Views: 1996
Our Skies Are Talking to Us; Sending Messages of Love, Hope, and Guidance
Ever see a cloud that truly has a meaningful shape? It’s not just your imagination. If you’re noticing, it’s probably because there is a message in it for you.
When you see a cloud shaped like a heart, an angel, a ... Views: 1995