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Welcome to Shamanics in Portugal´s Journal. Our intention is to remind you our readers, friends and connections we are all part of a much larger, ever evolving community bringing balance between Father Sky and Mother Earth, and within ourselves. This was never more so than this month of ... Views: 1365
Festivals of light such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa (African American), Diwali (India), etc, symbolize the rebirth and awakening of the sacred flame of love in the hearts of individual persons, as well as in the collective heart of humanity. This living flame of love and goodness can serve ... Views: 1361
Ricky
Living On The Streets
The last time I saw Ricky, he was in a wheelchair on the sidewalk of The Gospel Mission in the dead of winter. As I hurried past him on my way to feed the homeless, something made me turn back and ask him where he was going and did he need a push. He was ... Views: 1360
The Life of A Vision: Bring Your Images To Life
Do you have a Life Vision that brings your images to life? What ideas do you have that will take your ‘soul purpose’ and let it flourish? A Vision lives outside of artificially imposed boundaries that are laid out by societal norms. If you ... Views: 1358
While shopping in the local grocery store, I heard a father explain to his young daughter, “We don’t buy those eggs. We buy this kind.” “What’s the difference?” the little girl asked. Her father patiently explained, “These eggs are from chickens that weren’t raised in cages. They could move ... Views: 1358
The Long-neglected Miracle of Existence
Else Byskov
Don´t we know it: we are so caught up in our everyday lives that we simply forget to see the wonder of the world and our own existence. So, let us take a guided tour of some of the most awesome wonders that we can witness every ... Views: 1357
I was doing a workshop at a youth shelter I volunteer at and the topic for the day was Values. One of the exercises was borrowed from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: write your obituary. The purpose of this exercise is to give you an opportunity to think about how you want to be ... Views: 1356
Did you know that your values are an integral part of who you are? If you didn’t have the values that you have, your entire attitude toward life would be different.
However, your most important values, maybe your top two or three, should be absolutely non-negotiable. I call these your core ... Views: 1355
Have you ever asked yourself, “What is my purpose in life?” Sometimes it takes years to figure out. I was on that road to finding my purpose for a long time before I stumbled upon it a few years ago. It had been staring me in the face the majority of my life, but I just didn’t recognize ... Views: 1354
The first step to create a life of meaning is to truly see your life as the precious, limited time opportunity it actually is. You can make it a beautiful mansion. Here’s how Philip Adams puts it,
“Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most ... Views: 1354
ADAPTABILITY & MANIFESTING OUR BEST POSSIBLE FUTURE REALITY NOW
Adaptability is one of the most important spiritual qualities to integrate, and the key to success in our lives. We need to be adaptable because people can be self-centered, self-absorbed, scattered, fearful and ungrounded. ... Views: 1353
I’ve been volunteering in Palliative Care for almost two years. The idea came as a fascination on death, as up till then I hadn’t personally had a lot of encounters with death. I wanted to be closer to death as I understood it is part of human life, as common and intimate as birth, even though ... Views: 1353
Personal goal setting is a time management strategy you can use for overall effective use of your valuable time.
This includes your personal and professional life because it acts as an important key with the overall things that you do. It helps you become a productive individual as you learn ... Views: 1353
A time for Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude.
During these tough social times, it may be difficult to easily find a grateful attitude. A lot of people are out of jobs, houses are upside down, the economy is brutal, unemployment is high. There are serious problems everywhere in our ... Views: 1351
A time for Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude.
During these tough social times, it may be difficult to easily find a grateful attitude. A lot of people are out of jobs, houses are upside down, the economy is brutal, unemployment is high. There are serious problems everywhere in our ... Views: 1351
Learning how to relieve stress can remove several obstacles to your performance, whatever you’re working with.
Stress can be a big monster to anyone and would like to avoid it as much as possible. However, this is a part of life and living your purposes. Without it your personal development ... Views: 1349
You were an Infinite Being before you were born. You are an Infinite Being even now. You will remain an Infinite Being after you die.
When you recognize the beauty of your Infinite Self, you accept the grace for living and dying well. Much of your angst about death comes from the ... Views: 1349
In this article I’m going to show 2 keys to attracting abundance using the Law of Attraction. As you’ll soon find out, we need to have a special care when it comes to money because we have need it in our daily lives.
Making use of these elements into our lives will allow you to get over ... Views: 1348
This morning I turned on the TV for some company while I exercised. The first story I heard was about the shooting of three police officers in Pittsburgh. This was pretty much a repeat of the day before, when I also turned on the TV for some company while I exercised and the first thing I heard ... Views: 1348
By: Dr. Rita Louise
The thought of the year 2012 brings to the minds of many images of gloom and doom, death and destruction, and the potential reemergence of mankind from its ashes. In the last few years there have been countless books, movies and television specials discussing what the ... Views: 1347
It was a warm summer evening in June. I was a senior in high school, and everyone in our class had been invited to offer a performance piece as our “Senior Farewell Event” for friends and family. I decided that I’d sing Oh Very Young by Cat Stephens. It’s a song that is a bit challenging ... Views: 1345
What is a a soul mate? Have you found your soul mate? Many of us go through life wondering these and many other questions regarding soul mates. Few of us ever find the true answers.
A soul mate is someone that you feel an instant spiritual bond with. He or she can come in the form of a ... Views: 1345
Dreaming castles in the air certainly beats doing physical construction work, but if you are serious about bringing your dreams to completion, or if you are dreaming of a positive change in your life, you must get off your rear end and roll up your sleeves ready to do some work. Daydreams are ... Views: 1344
Have you noticed, as you get older, that the months have turned into weeks, and the years into months? Time passes relentlessly, and as we look back on all the things that we have done, where is the significance?
I was watching the white tailed deer that frequent our meditation center here in ... Views: 1344
RESURRECTION IS A LIFESTYLE - LIVE IT!
Are you suffering from the heart sickness of a dream deferred? If so, the resurrection of your hope is at hand. Resurrection is not limited to the Easter season; it can be an everyday experience as in the motto coined by the St. Paul Community Baptist ... Views: 1343
The Bible is either 100% true or 100% fake – if is fake, can’t be true 100% of the time, and if it’s God it has to be true or He wouldn’t all knowing therefore, not God.
As a Christian Professional Organizer, I can follow “new and trendy” or I can use the age old proven methods of the Bible ... Views: 1342
Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."
Our service and obedience to God is the best thing we could ever to for God. Without faith and obedience, it ... Views: 1342
Resting on the slopes of the Himalayas, the kingdom of Bhutan emerges as the happiest place on earth. Isolated from the world until the late sixties, this relatively small country has found the recipe for a happy and meaningful life, and it is precisely its happiness levels what measures their ... Views: 1342
Recently I've been thinking about my own mortality. I've wondered, if I had to review my life right now, would I be proud of the choices I made? The one thing I know for sure, is that you can start new this moment. It's never too late. Instead of waiting for that final life review, take the time ... Views: 1339
When you review the facts straight-laced, mainstream science is by far a bigger fairy tale than intuitive spirituality. Nowhere is this more evident than the scientific dismissal of an intelligent universe. Science types who consider themselves conservative often scoff at spiritual concepts like ... Views: 1336
Were you aware that over a million people each month type into Google – How do you change the world? When you consider how many people there are in the world you might not think that’s a lot of people. I found it comforting to know there are at least one million Souls, if not more, genuinely ... Views: 1334
Can life be pigeonholed into a viable model for success? Can a methodology or system be relied upon to give us the results or achievements that we desire? Can a formula for winning ever work with such an unpredictable thing such as life?
If we read all self help, psychological, philosophical ... Views: 1333
People often speak about their past lives, believing that they themselves have reincarnated. In some cases, that may be true. Most of the time, however, the knowledge of previous lives to which they occasionally gain access belongs to the soul itself and not to them. After all, we don’t have a ... Views: 1330
In order to find out what your true calling is - what life path you are meant to be on, you can tune in to your inner voice. You can sit still, breathe, and listen to what your wisdom deep inside wants you to know.
Another way to find this out is by gaining clarity through contrast.
Have ... Views: 1329
God with Us comes in suspicious surprises.
Today it is nineteen degrees before the wind chill in Cincinnati, Ohio. That, my friends, is the high temperature. The natives are more comfortable with a high around forty degrees and rightly so as that is the norm here in what I have fondly come ... Views: 1327
This article is about Christmas. You can fondly remember your favorite Christmas. Maybe it was the one when you received that toy that you were dying to get. Maybe it was the one when your grandma and aunt showed up, you haven’t seen them in a very long time. Or, maybe it was the one you ... Views: 1325
A question I have asked myself a thousand times plus. What did I come here to do, to be, to accomplish? How will I know if I have done what I came here to do? How will I know I’ve lived my life on PURPOSE? How do I want humanity to remember me? What will my legacy be?
Within the last ... Views: 1325
If you don’t like the way the world is or how your country is, your first question would be, well, can I play a part in changing it for the better? If you find that the answer to that question is no, then your next question is, then shall I stay involved in this world the way it is, and do I ... Views: 1324
I have often heard from some, as you may have too, that you chose to be here, on this planet, at this time, in the circumstances you find yourself. And why did you choose to be here? To learn lessons. Do you believe that? If so, I am going to suggest that you are misinformed. You did not choose ... Views: 1324
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~Edith Wharton
Have we become addicted to the dark?
We only need to turn on any news channel on cable television to be reminded that darkness has stolen the spotlight. While eating my cheerios for ... Views: 1323
Welcome to Brenda's Blog
Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com
Summary of this week’s free, channeled “Creation Energies” 15-minute show: You will not change from a physical being to a gaseous or liquid state overnight. It is a process just as a block of ice ... Views: 1322
I recently read an article that really got my attention. It asserted that in order to move forward in life and be successful, don’t rely on passion–in fact, the author went so far as to say passion as a force to keep you moving in a successful direction is a lie. His premise was that passion ... Views: 1321
Have you lost your direction in life?
Doubts about the meaning of what you are doing?
You have an inner "CEO"
All successful companies formulate their Vision and their Mission, sometimes termed as Business Plan, Our Vision, Our Core Idea or similar expressions.
The successful CEO makes ... Views: 1321
Vocation is your life purpose and the intention with which you incarnated. Everyone has a life plan, which it is implemented in this life. To find your purpose and to live your purpose, write down everything that makes your eyes sparkle.
Task:
Write down everything you can think of ... Views: 1318
Feeling unhappy over yourself? Hating yourself for who you are?
Why must you be feeling so? To just be very straight with you, this is the act of a fool.
Now, even if the whole world is going to look down on you, you should never look down on yourself. The more they are going to look down on ... Views: 1317
It was Buckminster Fuller who said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”.
This is the area that many professional change agents and social entrepreneurs are working in with grand missions to ... Views: 1316
Tarot Readings Part 2
Now that you just’ve made your ideas and celebrated your victories, there may
very well be a feeling of “what’s following?” You could uncover that, such as
the tiny leaves forming within the crops, you happen to be in a waiting online
game with forces ... Views: 1316
Most often, people identify with their occupation and respond to the question “who am I?” with titles such as a doctor, a referee, a cook, or whatever they do most throughout the day. It is important to understand that this is not who we are but what we do, yet most of us are unable to provide ... Views: 1316
Spirituality in the NICU...
As a physician and a parent I'm keenly aware that to say certain conversations about the status of your baby are difficult, is probably an understatement. As a life coach I believe that within each of us is the capacity to face the truth.
When I first made ... Views: 1314
When? How? WHY?!
These are questions we’d ask ourselves when we begin to realize the need for a ‘change’.
This happen when we become aware that something hasn’t been working the way we’ve had wanted or expected it would, and we were left with the sour taste of disappointment, sorrow or plain ... Views: 1310