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- The Path to Happiness - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2009 from Art MasonIf everyone on the planet were to read, understand and internalize this teaching we would see an end to violence and conflict almost over night. The mind is an amazing creation. For centuries science thought that the mind was fixed. It thought that personality was set at birth. Today science ...
Views: 1614(8 votes) - How to be more positive and stop negative thinking now - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Laura SilvaIt doesn’t really matter who you are – the fact is, we all have our ups and downs. If your downs seem to outnumber your ups, and negativity seems to be taking hold of your life in various ways and at a lightning fast speed, then you could certainly use a boost. Here are ten wonderful ways you ...
Views: 1613(2 votes) - We shouted out, "Who killed democracy?" when after all, it was you and me. - by Submitted on May 09, 2017 from Bruce MulkeyAs of April 28, I’ve now been on the planet for 74 rotations around the sun, almost three-quarters of a century, 30 percent of the time our country has been a nation. And I’ve seen a lot of changes during this time, personal, cultural, and political. The change nearest and dearest to my heart ...
Views: 1613 - Attraction Movies And Visualization Tools - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Fred wilsonIt has only been relatively recently that attraction movies and visualization tools have been developed and are having a marked impact in the lives of many people. The general population however is not aware of what they are or how they function. Like any new technology there is often some ...
Views: 1612 - Beautiful People - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2012 from Dr. Carolyn PorterThe title of this article probably allows your thoughts to immediately travel to a person who to you is attractive and appealing–someone you feel has pleasing features and good looks. Obviously you are thinking of the outward appearance of that individual because that is what we see initially ...
Views: 1612 - The Astral Body - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2011 from rachel annThe Astral Body The astral body is said to be a transitional bridge between the soul and the physical body. Plato originally introduced the idea but it has been picked up and developed by many philosophers, theologians and parapsychologists over the intervening centuries. It is the astral body ...
Views: 1612(1 vote) - The Unity Model of Marriage: How to Achieve the Conjoint Self - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Leon JamesSexy vs. Unsexy Conversational Style of Husbands Consider why a wife needs girl friends to talk to, to go out shopping, to go to lunch, call each other on the phone, send birthday cards and give gifts, keep each other in the loop about happenings, etc. Husbands and boyfriends have to acquire ...
Views: 1610(2 votes) - Who am I? - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Tim OngThe modern lifestyle is all about doing. From the moment we wake up in the morning to the time we fall asleep at night, we are constantly looking for things to do. Some of these things we do are necessary but most are there only to fill up the time. Somehow, we find it unbearable or unacceptable ...
Views: 1610 - Activating Truth...Connecting to Self, Soil and Society. - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from Suzanne ToroHello Love, The spring days are in full bloom and my heart is filled with gratitude and certainty as we transition into a period which shall provide us with a deep understanding for what is next for on a personal, professional and emotional level. Our eagle eyes and our warm heart shall ...
Views: 1609 - Adult Survivors Of Childhood - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2014 from Ariel and Shya KaneRecently, a fellow came to see us who considers himself an adult. According to the story of his life, he has survived his painful childhood. But his interpretation of the childhood which he survived comes from the distortions and misrepresentations of a child’s mind. Let’s be specific. ...
Views: 1608(7 votes) - Do You REALLY Have an "Inner Child?" - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2010 from David Robert Ord“It’s really quite shocking now that I see it. Here I am, a grown woman, behaving like a lost little child.” “The way you phrased what you just said is important,” I responded. “You’ve been acting as though you were a child. But you’re not a child.” “No, I’m a mother with three children of ...
Views: 1607(1 vote) - Energy Activations - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Athene RaefielIt is time for action and movement as there has been a melancholic energy that has affected many who are currently ready to move forward. Ask of the Higher Realms that they assist you in this movement. Recognize where you have been, where you are at and where you believe yourself ready to move ...
Views: 1607(2 votes) - Finding Spirituality Everywhere - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Halle EavelynAbout every quarter, we pack an overnight bag, leave the dogs with a housesitter, and drive the two-and-a-half hours from LA to San Diego to visit my favorite cousin, Randy, and his long-time girlfriend, Lisa. Wonderful people, warm, hospitable and friendly, Lisa is a Catholic who attends mass, ...
Views: 1607(1 vote) - Science vs Spirit? - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Kyre AdeptThe other day I was surprised to see an article in the Guardian (a liberal mainstream newspaper in the UK) saying that Richard Dawkins was named the ‘world’s top thinker’ in a poll from Prospect magazine. Apparently Prospect listed whom they consider to be the 65 most influential scientists ...
Views: 1607 - After the Divorce; How To Recover - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2010 from PD RiversLESSON ONE: Dealing With the Anger Begin this first lesson by writing down your feelings about your divorce in your journal. Don’t say “I can’t do this” or “I don’t know what to write”. You know what is in your heart and what you feel. 1. Was there another person involved in the ...
Views: 1606 - Sustainability Part III: A New World Order - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Barry LipscombThere are really just a few things we could do in order to begin living sustainably, but they require the huge first step of honoring our place in the world and finding harmony with our environment – a significant and profound shift in how we live. It’s more than a green movement of conserving ...
Views: 1606(1 vote) - Stress Relief - Free! - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockAlthough the usual suspects of stress may be our jobs, financial difficulties, illness, political and religious arguments, family, personal problems, etc., if you look into each one of these in depth, you will find within them all a common thread. If only we could identify that common thread, ...
Views: 1605(1 vote) - Wisdom of the Tao ~ Three Ways to Live Creatively - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2017 from Dr. Mary Beth FordYou are a creator. You are here on Earth to create a joyful life experience. Desires arise in you every day. Do you honor them? Or do you find ways to repress them? When you follow your desires, you feel passion. You feel energized. You feel joyful. You choose ways to create a happier ...
Views: 1605(1 vote) - How to Manifest What You Truly Desire - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2013 from Melissa KittoHow can you manifest what you truly want and desire? Many of us try hard to create the life we want, but somehow fall short. It can be frustrating to have goals and dreams in life but never quite manage to reach them. It is possible to ATTRACT everything you want in life and more, but there are ...
Views: 1604 - AFRAID OF THE DARK? - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2011 from Jennifer Elizabeth MastersWhy is it that images of scary monsters, clowns and dark closets with holes in the back leading to strange far away places conjure up such fear for us? The movie, "Narnia" comes to mind. After years of night terrors and fears I am no longer afraid of the dark. As a child I was terribly ...
Views: 1602 - Mindfulness and Pain - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2013 from Dr. Carolyn PorterMindfulness is being consciously aware and accepting of what is going on in and around you at the present moment without judging it in any way. It is more like being the “observer” rather than stepping into the story that is playing out in your experience. You become aware of all that you feel ...
Views: 1602 - How To Be Wealthy and 2 Wrong Beliefs - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2011 from Rishan BCreating abundance has become a hot matter of debate lately, particularly since the launch of The Secret. Together with all that discussion has come two harmful myths. Let us discuss those wrong beliefs in this article. You you'll have a simpler time working on being wealthy if you only ...
Views: 1601 - Mask of the Idealized Self - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2012 from Valencia ClayQuote: “You are the star of the show until the curtains close. When the mask comes off, who are you? Do you really know?” We idolize others to fit into society. Does the mask you wear represent truth or false reality? It will be difficult to measure up to what people expect you to be. Play ...
Views: 1600(4 votes) - The Secret To Greater Intelligence And Meaning - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2012 from David Samuel“...From very young, we are taught to ask questions, so we keep asking until we find answers…” This is a quote from Nobel prize winner, Dan Shechtman, in response to being asked why there are such a high percentage of Jewish nobel prize winners compared to any other race. This is not an ...
Views: 1600(1 vote) - ABC’s of Self-Realization: Satisfying Self-Confidence - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Lene StJohnSelf-confidence is sometimes hard to come by unless we are fortunate to be raised by a family that instilled that attribute into our minds and hearts. Yes, it dwells within us innately, but the nurturing and positive guidance from parents and older siblings definitely encourages it. When we ...
Views: 1599 - Community/Support - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2011 from Gayle White Raven CrosmazI encompass many roles in my life, I am a woman, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a career artist, a business woman, a teacher, a friend, a healer and the list goes on and on. These are all great and positive view points of me. Attached are my other beliefs of who I am; I ...
Views: 1599 - Inadequate and Worthless - by Submitted on May 22, 2011 from Frances LucasIf we were honest with ourselves, we could say there are times when we feel inadequate and worthless. There are times when we feel we aren’t good enough to do something or be who we feel we need to be. We feel worthless at times because we fail or have struggles and we think no one else has to ...
Views: 1599 - Making & Achieving Your Life Goals - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Shelley HutchinsonOften it is those things we most desire in our lives that we find hardest to bring into our lives. In my work counselling clients (www.shelleyhutchinson.ie) I have found that Psychosynthesis therapeutic techniques are very effective in enabling clients to make and achieve their life goals. ...
Views: 1599 - What Are You Thirsty For? - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2010 from Marie KirklandHave you ever felt that you were getting ready for an adventure? Or that you were preparing for a journey that will absolutely empower your life? Well, as you know everyday retreats can happen at anytime. One of my favorite retreats is a travel retreat and here is one that I’d love sharing with ...
Views: 1599 - Meeting Babaji at the 1995 Kumbha Mela - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2011 from ROBERT RIDEOUTAs fate and karma would have it, I attended the 1995 Kumbha Mela festival in India, where Babaji appeared to me. This Mela was the ardh or six-year festival, with only ten million sadhu, holy men and spiritual seekers in attendance, compared to the twelve-year cycle Maha Kumbha Mela that often ...
Views: 1597 - Spring Cleaning - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2010 from Meghan GehanI love spring. Who doesn’t? One of the things I love about spring is that I get to clean out my closets and dressers, deep clean my bathrooms and kitchen… throwing myself into that yearly ritual of getting rid of what doesn’t fit me or my life any longer in order to make room for the possibility ...
Views: 1597(2 votes) - THE SILENT REVOLUTION OF THE HEART - The Challenge for the 21st Century - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2012 from Giten Swami Dhyan- From fear to love, from darkness to light and from separation to wholeness The challenge for the 21st century is The Silent Revolution of the Heart. It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in ...
Views: 1597 - "Maximum Effort" - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2016 from Ascendance ProjectOne of the lessons which I haven’t seem to have learned yet, because the scenario keeps repeating itself, is to do my best without expectation. Doing your best extends to anything and everything that you do. I do not currently give the best in everything that I do, neither in the big things ...
Views: 1596 - Dealing With Life's Hardships - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2008 from Judy MerrillWe have the tools of our own consciousness to design a life of spirituality. We have been given the tools of strength and balance in our body, mind and spirit connection. We do not require any outside stimulus to open and expand our state of consciousness to include the sensitivities of ...
Views: 1596 - Enjoy Psychic Readings For The Future - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from rachel annMost of the people who wish to go to the psychic readers for the reason that these individuals consider that psychic readers can lend a hand to then and relieve their worries by making them ware of their upcoming days, but with a lot if the fraud and the scam readers it is really difficult to ...
Views: 1596 - Feeling your way to enlightenment - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2009 from Jonathan EvattSomething challenging has come up between you and someone close to you and you're not sure what the most life-giving and healing approach is to such a situation. Life can be so darn complicated, at least sometimes, right? Who hasn't had this arise in their experience? Few, if any, of us, I am ...
Views: 1595(4 votes) - The Paradoxical World of Spiritual Enlightenment: We are nothing but we are everything - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2012 from Dr. Robert PuffWhen we wake up to who we are, something happens. We stop identifying with our egoic selves because we realize they are impermanent and only that which is permanent can be who we are. We aren’t our bodies, we aren’t our memories, we aren’t our thoughts, we aren’t our feelings… We aren’t any ...
Views: 1594 - Stop Trying To Get Ahead - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2011 from Frances LucasThere are times when we feel like others are getting the best things in life. They get the promotions. They get the bigger house. They drive the nicer cars. Their children make good grades and appear to do the right things. We may wonder why we don’t have the nicer things in life especially ...
Views: 1593 - The Brain - What Is It Trying to Do? - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Caroline NettleThe human mind is an amazing piece of equipment. It processes an astounding 400 billion bits of information every second. It is at the same time trying to regulate healing, breathing, moving, thinking, repairing, protection, prevention, temperature, food absorption, hormones, chemical reactions, ...
Views: 1593 - Why Have A Psychic Reading? - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2011 from rachel annWhy Have A Psychic Reading? In this world there are many mysteries that surround us and one day science will make the link to psychism and reveal the true nature of our essence including who and what we are. It is utterly frustrating to me as a writer and marketer that so little is both ...
Views: 1592 - Memories filled with regrets - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2018 from David HarmAs I have grown in years, I am ashamed of some of the things I have done. So ashamed that to mention them right now would take more than a simple story to explain. I’m not even sure if I could explain it all in a book. In fact, I’m not sure if I would even believe the explanation. What I ...
Views: 1591 - The Source of All Abundance - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2012 from Nanice EllisWe are all born innately free spirited and living in the moment,then something happens; we are taught that we have to wait until after dinner for the cookies, we can't go to the play ground until after homework and we must even wait for Christmas or another special occasion to receive all that ...
Views: 1589 - A Key to Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2011 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockDependent Origination, the direct transcendent knowledge and understanding of which the Buddha proclaimed to be the lynchpin of enlightenment, is an area far removed from physical reality in many ways In many other ways, Dependent Origination is the best intellectual explanation of the ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - Ease the Need to Be Needed - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Trudy-Ann EwanThose of us who are care-takers often find ourselves giving way more to others than what we are receiving for ourselves. Somehow we have a concept in our minds that the more we give to others is the more we will receive. The bulk of that concept originated in our childhood. We may not have ...
Views: 1588 - Enjoy the Summer - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2012 from Maureen Brennan MercierIt's time to enjoy the Summer. What are you waiting for? Life is here and now. This is not a dress rehearsal. Get out and have some fun. In my life I have had so many challenges and I have lost so many loved ones. In seeking some kind of answer or guideline to deal with all of these tragedies ...
Views: 1588 - Is Someone Telling You That You Are Broken? - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorDo you have a person in your life now (or did) who frequently tells you what’s flawed about you or broken? Do you believe him or her? What might be going on with them, and you? "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." - Pearl Strachan Hurd I want to share a ...
Views: 1588(4 votes) - THE BRILLIANT SUN IS AN INFINITE OCEAN OF ENERGY - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2012 from Yuga Rishi Shriram SharmaScientists of New Mexico-Albuquerque have developed such an apparatus which collects solar energy. In their very first experiment researchers melted a sheet of iron which was 4.5 meters long 1.8 meters wide and 1/4th inch thick. In comparison to this experiment decorated with invaluable ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - The lies we tell ourselves - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2011 from Manfred LuckMy appreciation for the gift of EFT is enormous. I've been using it in my practice for about 4 years mostly over the phone and on myself and I've yet to see a condition that it cannot relieve. While relief of pain and suffering and even major increases in peace and happiness are pretty much a ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - The Subconscious Mind is the Final Frontier for Creating Health - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2011 from Roberta SwartzDo you or a loved one struggle with physical illness or emotional difficulties? Are unhealthy behaviors or addiction causing you problems? Do you want to reclaim your self, your health and your life? Learning to work with the natural healing power of your subconscious mind is the ...
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