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The Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short, has gained massive popularity over the past few years. The technique was developed by Gary Craig, and was build upon the work of Dr Roger Callahan called Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT was formed by combining ideas of quantum theory, ... Views: 1090
A psychic should not be confused with a true clairvoyant, this is because true clairvoyancy is actually seeing or sensing the spirit side. Real spirit side sensing is not available to psychics as a psychic is an empath or someone intuitive and who can sense someones situation and energy field, ... Views: 1690
Here I give you details of how the power of mediumship came to one particular individual based in her own words. There was no big explosion or special event. One night while I was praying “They” simply showed up and “tuned in” my nervous system. This 15 minute experience left me completely ... Views: 1706
Is your life clearly out of control with raising kids, running around for activities, squabbles, discipline and the chaos? The stress of mortgages, bills, keeping up your home, and your relationship not to mention your work outside your home!
Are you instantly finding yourself on over load ... Views: 1024
"There is a direct method
to self realization.
And that is to close your eyes
and notice what is here
beyond all thinking.
Beyond any thought
there is a subtle experience
of existing.
You can feel it.
If you give your complete focus
to this feeling of existing
then this ... Views: 1155
How deeply connected are your relationships—all kinds of relationships, but especially romantic ones?
How exciting is your connection with those you are close to, particularly your romantic partner if you have one?
We think of the French as great lovers, the British as not so great. But ... Views: 1581
It is my strong belief that everyone should tap into their spiritual support system. The benefits of doing this are multiple. First of all did you know that you are a spiritual body encased in a physical flesh shell and that you will survive death and return once more to the spirit side? If you ... Views: 1147
Could You Be A Medium? How Mediums Work
You may have some knowledge and beliefs about mediumship and you may also think that it takes a special brand of people who perform mediumship, other worldly and special and unlike those normal folk in society and that a medium leads a faultless life ... Views: 2281
The whole area of mediumship exists to serve. Ask any medium working on platform which means incidentally giving a mediumship demonstration with messages for the audience, and they will tell you that what they give is service. This is service to mankind when the most painful event of their lives ... Views: 2482
The system of living for the Cherokee meant being surrounded by demonstrations of value and examples of respect.
That respect goes out to everything as being valuable. The knowledge that all Creation is a living ecosystem and that even the “body” we call the Universe is the transforming of ... Views: 2889
Discussing the concept of energy with reference to the mind and body separately and at the interface between the two is fraught with difficulty: possibly more so than almost any other area of investigation, even including the vexed topic of the unconscious mind. This is because that while there ... Views: 2362
I come to you in love and a desire to walk in the ways of beauty. Human in form, I seek to be that which I came to be – the who that transcends the mind of man and is untouched by doubt or illusion. Who is it that speaks to and through me, giggling in wonderment of this breathtaking miracle? I ... Views: 2124
The greatest misconception of the concept of divinity is that it typically excludes us as divine.
We are gods endowed with more greatness and power than any God we can create in our minds. Within each of us is the divinity, power and energy we ascribe to our mind-made gods.
We have simply ... Views: 1294
How to harness and manage the ego into its rightful place, using it as the tool it was meant to be.
“I did it! I finally had the courage and saw it through. I never thought I could. It worked! I can’t believe it worked!”
These are the words of a woman I had been talking to about the ... Views: 1752
I remembered a story that my teacher told me when I was in high school about a student that had exams and he was going to church to ask God to help him pass them all. He did little or no study at all but he was praying. He had faith. He really believed that he will pass the exams without him ... Views: 3364
Your life will not get better if you don’t get better. The question is how to do just that. You can’t expect things to just happen without you moving a finger. If you want your life to get better, if you want to be happy you have to work on yourself. You can’t expect the world to change, you ... Views: 1890
The law of gratitude is much like the law of gravity in that we know it exists, we know to a certain degree what it is, we know that it is at work whether we are consciously aware of it or not. We don’t have to think about gravity to know that it keeps planets in alignment and us on the face of ... Views: 1800
The main purpose for being here is the same for everyone…to discover self and merge ego with the Soul. All the other form based by-products of that discovery are nothing more than an examination to consciously illustrate your current level of energy vibration. Therefore, how you perceive life is ... Views: 1161
Let’s talk about STRESS
Everyone seems to be stressed out by something lately. Stressing about money, stressing about the weather, about the economy, stressing about what other people say and do, stressing about what is or isn’t on TV, stressing about traffic, stressing about relationships, ... Views: 1742
Elvis Presley's Inner Spiritual Voyage
Millions of words have been written about the turbulent and legendary life and career of Elvis Presley: from his humble birth and extremely poor early days in a tiny wooden shotgun two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi; to his musical beginnings as a ... Views: 4049
It’s so easy for us humans to get bogged down in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, which are mostly not good stories.
Our mental chatter goes round and round about how inadequate we are, how much we mess up, how we aren’t as good as someone else is, how we ought to be better, ... Views: 1518
The bread and wine served at the Mass, the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, or Communion—whichever your tradition calls this occasion—started out not as isolated elements of bread and wine, as they are in churches today, but as essential parts of a normal dinner.
As the followers of Jesus spread ... Views: 1659
No matter what our spiritual bent—and even if we have no form of "spirituality" as such, but are atheistic and subscribe to a humanistic view of human beings—few of us would disagree with the idea that we ought to love others.
The idea of loving each other is pretty universal. Yet when you ... Views: 2441
Laura was drowning in self-pity. After Dan called off their relationship, she began driving by his home in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. She also phoned when she knew he was out, just to hear his voice on the answering machine. She told herself she wanted to feel close to him, but all ... Views: 1598
We have within us two very different sources of direction, guidance, or operating instructions, that tell us very different things – opposite things.
Our “lower self” or ego-mind tells us to stay safe, that we’re in danger, that it’s not good to take risks; it tells us why we can’t really ... Views: 1377
When we most need the ability to stay present is when we are are going through a difficult time.
Yet this is precisely when many of us find it the hardest to stay present!
Lots of people who have been on a spiritual path for years are even struggling right now.
The economic downturn has ... Views: 1589
During our life time, we meet people from all walks of life. Some may go on to be lifelong friends, while others may flit in and out of our lives for whatever reason. In the meantime we may have doubts and disbelief about the friendship, this will create a sense of mistrust between the two ... Views: 1366
We are part of an evolving reality grounded in a divine harmony that pervades reality and draws everything into patterns of increasing complexity and centeredness.
You and I are bathed in the original mystery of order coming out of chaos.
Our minds, as we try to understand this order, ... Views: 766
A great many people are seeking to be enlightened, or what is often spoken of as "awakening" or becoming "conscious."
Some have been searching for years, but any kind of sustained enlightenment continues to elude them.
When we search for enlightenment, or struggle to awaken or become ... Views: 1091
“I just hate myself,” I heard someone say the other day. They were bemoaning the fact they couldn’t get some simple things in their life right.
How do you feel inside yourself?
When you look at yourself in a mirror, what do you see? As you look at yourself, what don’t you like about ... Views: 934
Are you ready to be your own person? Are you ready to move beyond neediness and into emotional freedom? Are you ready to stop needing others to make you feel that you are okay? Are you ready to learn to fill yourself with love and define your own worth?I hope so! Being emotionally dependent is a ... Views: 5602
Do you have low days; days where you feel down? It’s fine to have those days once in awhile. Sometimes you just need a day to refresh.
These are the days when you need to be thankful for who you are, reflect on your past achievements and review where you are going. Ponder the successes you ... Views: 1259
Change is a complex idea that can cause some to quiver just from the word alone. Resistance reinforces the fear that goes hand and hand with change. "The fear of the unknown" is a phrase well known by most and how true it is. The newness of any given situation can be enough to either scare a ... Views: 1683
Notes to Myself
I was waiting to write when I had something really inspirational and uplifting to say. I was hoping that there would be a sudden shift and my enlightenment would return and the storm clouds would pass. Sorry, that is not the case. I was guided to write regardless with a deeply ... Views: 1279
We make decisions every day. Most times, these decisions do not lead to a significant change in outcome. For example, we decide whether to have sandwich or pizza for dinner, or we decide whether to watch a movie or go to the park this weekend.
However, some decisions can lead to big changes ... Views: 2979
Suppose you are a person who either prays or meditates—or both. Why do you do these things? What’s your objective in praying or meditating?
For many of us it’s a way of seeking to change something. We want to alter some aspect of ourselves, some feature of our life, some experience we are ... Views: 733
The term narcissist comes from Ovid’s myth of a vain young boy Narcissus. To make a long story short, one day the teenage boy happens upon a lake where he sees his reflection and falls in love with the boy whom he sees. At some point later, he learns that the image he sees is actually himself. ... Views: 2347
When we experience something truly beautiful, it can open-up the universe and allow grace to bathe us in Her sweet embrace. Whether it be an incredibly gorgeous landscape, the smell of a rose in full bloom, an exquisite piece of music, or a delicious mouth-watering bite, when the senses are ... Views: 1119
With the increasing popularity of alternative healing methods, interest in hypnosis training is on the rise. Part of its appeal is that it doesn't rely on drugs or surgery to be effective. It can be used by individuals in the privacy of their homes, or with professionals in a therapeutic ... Views: 2002
The only way to be truly free is to accept your prison, be that in the society or in your own mind. In that acceptance, you have released your resistance. By releasing your resistance, you become free.
Negative emotions and resistance is a denial of the objective reality of the situation and ... Views: 1253
Is it possible to expand when the world is contracting? To bloom in a time of drought? I propose that it is! With the world in crisis and the economy in turmoil, you can flower and even flourish. I suggest that the very upheaval the world is going through can even help you flourish!
Four ... Views: 1385
Angels are messengers from the celestial realms and they bring their messages of joy, peace, comfort, love and Divine guidance to us when we need them most.
Angels can be found everywhere. In some religions they are very highly respected. They are depicted in churches, works of art, landscape ... Views: 2227
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world". Ghandi.
There is much talk in the spiritual communities about how the world that I see outside of myself is a reflection of the world that is inside me. Part of the journey to peace, love, and happiness, is understanding that I am not always ... Views: 8438
Feelings seem to be becoming more fashionable than they were in earlier this century. Those of us who were born in the sixties and seventies still remember for the most part that children were to be seen and not heard. Little girls were not supposed to get angry, and little boys were not ... Views: 2080
Each and every one of us is a Spiritual Being. We are also Physical Beings. Can we be two things at the same time? Yes, we can and we are. So what does it mean to be both? Well, as Spiritual Beings we live in a physical body. As such we are prone to issues that affect the physical body such as: ... Views: 1713
Our heroic life is demanding and inspiring. The possibilities of learning and gathering experiences are limited only by our imagination and courage. We wish to have something to guide us in direction of confidence, freedom and exaltation, and we wish to hope that it would make us better and more ... Views: 2527
I have managed several employees over the years and I'm always surprised with the amount struggling with change and the fear to transform particular areas of their job description or to even grasp new information.
The first week of one job in particular, I recall watching the staff to learn, ... Views: 1571
You are getting ready to build your dream home. You have the lot purchased. You have the design and plans all done up. You have the contractor hired and the time of year is perfect.
The contractor has many other people lined up to do individual pieces of your home. Experts and their ... Views: 1459
We are all multi-dimensional spiritual beings currently having a human experience. It's the personality (ego) that holds us back from being our true self. Each of us is here to fulfill a particular mission based upon a remarkable master plan. Whether we believe that or not depends on the level ... Views: 1464
Spirituality – a word that many people connect with eastern religions, polytheism and often enough also with different sects and their gurus. Okay, the audience reading this article might protest and say that these all are clichés, prejudices and unjustified assumptions. But let’s face it, the ... Views: 2100