Consciousness and Awareness Articles

By Linney Elder The subject of betrayal seems to pop up all around me with people in various relationships. I got to thinking about the nature of betrayal. What is it really? In fact, is it real at all? What is real? I think it's a choice of which doors to open and a choice of which doors to walk through and close ...

Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince It’s easy when situations become painful to imagine that our life is going all wrong. But there has long been a mystical sense among humans all over the world that the divine Presence that pervades everything is the only reality there is. Hence it only appears that events are getting off track. In the case of the airman in the story, his crash in the Sahara Desert looks like a disaster, threatening his very life. Yet it will prove to be just the opposite.

During these times of economical problems, environmental crisis, moral degeneration, spiritless leadership, people are looking for answers and looking for purpose. This is nothing new, of course. Although perhaps due to the precariousness of the human race as we raced past the millennium, seekers appear to have increased in numbers.

As I write this, I am doing my own mental reflections since the truth is, I will not speak of things I am not trying to apply in my own life. It is always a work in progress. If I ask, "who am I " - there are many who could give synopsis of my personality based on my past behavior and would even be able to conjure in their minds, some notion of what kind of human being I am, but how can that be, when I myself, am in the process of re-learning who I am. I was given a neat litt

I like to think of God as pure energy because we are communicating with the energy around us every second. Einstein even showed us that matter is energy. I accept this responsibility so I have to think, “What kind of energy am I putting back?” This energy I label love so God would be pure love. The belief institutions teach us to rely on the systems and not our own connections to the energy around us so we have to restructure our skills to understand the frequencies and subtle energies of consciousness.

Taking Personal responsibility for your life may may sound rather simplistic and obvious, but very few people delve deep into its true meaning. It is was what caused me to have my "aha" moment. It was the catalyst for my rebirth, and my awakening that created the idea for my book and brand, Showing Up.

Emotions are the way that our energy selves tell us what is going on energetically. The best way to work with emotions is to think of them as messengers and E-nergy-in-Motion. By noticing them and acknowledging them they then move through. Below are 5 emotions and their energetic messages.

I was whipping cream the other day for some lovely strawberries I had purchased at the market, and as I was concentrated on my task I started thinking about how similar some things in life are to this chu ing process. You start whisking the liquid cream and maintain a certain pace as it slowly becomes thicker and thicker, until it eventually changes its consistency to a rich, foamy, fluffy cream. You don't know when this is going to happen, so you just have to be patient and keep stirring. More importantly, you cannot push or force the process.

Have you ever first hand lived in an area where you are under constant alert of attack? Have you ever been in the lines of battle grateful that you just made it through another day? Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have to leave your home and everything you have on a moment’s notice in order to stay alive?

Are You Ready to Fall Truly, Madly and Deeply in Love With Yourself ,Your Body & Your Life? To Release Weight, Eliminate Cravings & Find True Rhythm & Balance in your Life? To Connect With Your Inner God/Goddess? Would you like to; • feel comfortable in your own skin? • feel happy with your body? • have great self esteem, confidence and self worth? • feel beautiful? • have a healthy loving relationship with your body, and with food?

We exist in a world that is bound by key players controlling the flow of consciousness in order to continue their personally beneficial constructs. Very few people have the power or the capacity to go against a system that has existed for thousands of years. Deep roots are very hard to unearth even for the most experienced of revolutionaries. However with enough inequality and injustice felt by a particular segment of society's consciousness, certain actions were programmed into place in order to prevent the complete monopoly over the entire system for too long a time.

Part 1. Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “By the year 2020, depression is projected to reach 2nd place of the ranking of DALYs [Disability-adjusted life year] calculated for all ages, both sexes. Today, depression is already the 2nd cause of DALYs in the age category 15-44 years for both sexes combined.” Depression was once considered a psychiatric disorder, however with the swelling number of people from all demographics who are affected by depression, a broader view is necessary.

I was always one to not pay much attention to all I’ve read about affirmations seeing them as merely lip service and not of much value in my life. Louise Hay writes a lot about affirmations and is a firm believe in them as are many other teachers and writers. Recently, I attended the I Can Do It Toronto Conference and had the great pleasure to listen to several of the many great teachers that were presenting throughout the weekend.

Easy, by just doing the following: 1. Expecting anything outside of you to make a choice for you. PROS: None CONS: Anything outside of you will not make the best choice for you. 2. Getting forever stuck in and never addressing your own previously acquired “United States of Victimhood”. PROS: Nothing will get to change. CONS: Nothing will get to change. 3. Inventing or buying into a lie that you are always a subject to “God’s” or "ungodly forces" sneaky creation of y

Back when I was a nineteen year old, budding born-agai Christian, some of Jesus’ clairvoyants came to visit. All I remember was being on my knees bent over, as an older middle aged couple placed their hands upon me, proclaiming that “to really know God, He may take everything from you”. At that point in my life, I didn’t have much for God to take. I was still living at home with my parents but getting ready to fly the nest too. It was that time in life to create my own path. And what a path I did create, paving it every inch of the way with my own choices, both good and bad.

I just watched the movie Shutter Island which is about a criminally insane hospital on an Island. Teddy Daniels a US Marshal played by Leonardo Di Caprio has gone to investigate a patient called Rachel Solando who went missing from a locked room at the hospital on Shutter island. Rachel was admitted after she had killed her three children, she was hallucinating that the hospital was her house and her children were still alive. In the middle of the movie she is found, and w

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 look around the world, on the whole it's not a very loving place. So there's a discrepancy somewhere between what we say we believe and what we actually do. Here's a question that might begin to get at this discrepancy:

If you have already read any materials related to the Law of Attraction, you will understand that one of the main purposes for using affirmations is to strengthen our belief system so that we can harness the power of subconscious mind to attract and manifest what we want in our life. You may start thinking, yes I did start to affirm what I want, but it just doesn’t seem to happen as things just don’t go according to plan and seem worse than before. In this article, we will explore 5 main reasons why your affirmation doesn’t work

Elena Beloff is a documentary filmmaker whose first film, Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York, was produced by Vincent Vincent D’Onofrio and shown at film festivals around the country. It was ultimate picked up by on RTVi and shown on Russian and Polish language channels in America, and later was broadcast in Russia, Poland, the Ukraine. She has just finished shooting her next documentary and has just begun editing it. It is on the myths and realities behind hypnosis. She is also writing a book on hypnosis for Llewellyn Press.

Life is ever changing and keeping up with it is stressful. By the time we have figured out what our world looks like and what we can count on, something happens to change the dynamics of what we know. This applies to everything …cell phones, jobs, family. Nothing stays the same. Change is life’s built in mechanism to force us to step outside our comfort zones. How will we respond? Will we respond? Who are we as we navigate our way through the change? As life moves on, if we

Do you ever question why you are here? Why would you, with the struggle, fear and disharmony in the world, choose to come into this physical reality? It is quite simple…you came for the human experience. You came for the game of "Hide and Seek" that it allows you to play. You came for the five senses, the contrast, the opportunity to remember and live in the fullness of it all. But, why would you really want to do that? Because when you are in pure energy form, you are i

Your body is an incredible organism that is made to sense the environment around it and make sense of it. There are far senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch and there are near senses: tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive. The near senses are for providing information from within your bodies such as where you are located in space; orchestrating balance and movement; and interpreting sensations of heat and cold. In your embryonic state, they develop first and serve as the foundation for the far senses.

Many years ago, I was having serious problems and facing possible prison time, all because of alcohol. I didn’t really realize fully yet that I was an alcoholic and still hadn’t hit my bottom. I was told I should have my own peyote meeting, as an emergency healing service. I did just that. However, I want to be clear here. I do not want to offend or disrespect the Native American Church or any of its members, by relating my story of sitting up on peyote. With the advent of the internet, it is all out there anyway.

“Kindness is like a snowball that’s rolling down a hill. Each unselfish act or word is another snowflake that greets the others…creating something much larger than itself in the process.” Mac Anderson I am creating a joyful game of giving gifts of kindness every day for 25 days. Will you join me? Let’s make it fun. Make it a unexpected gift for someone, if you can. Give a gift to a stranger or to someone dear to you without thought of repayment.

Emotions are powerful communication from Spirit but how often do we really pay attention to how we’re feeling? Sure, it’s easy to notice when we’re at either extreme on the emotional scale but what about those subtle shifts? Are you really paying attention to how you feel and do you fully comprehend the importance of doing so?

As I discuss many times in my memoir, Fine…ly, I’ve been a creep-magnet far too often in my life. I share a lot of stories in regard to this odd phenomenon in my book, but I couldn’t possibly share them all or my book would have lost its focus. There have been several instances of people wanting to possess me. I don’t know why. As I look back, I can see a pattern. The “Undesirables” always managed to worm their way into my life at the most vulnerable times in my life. If I k

How to realize the Absolute Truth There is a golden principle of the existence – things happen as it should happen in the existence. Whatever happens in the existence, for that there are some factors available in that matrix and those factors manifest themselves in the form of that happening. When we say – it should not happen that way, then, we are present in a different matrix and the incidence happens in a different matrix. So, making any comment being in a different m

I was a child of the 60's when I first learned about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...I would listen to the lyrics of the songs from Hair all the time. "When the moon is in the Seventh Houser And Jupiter aligns with Marsr Then peace will guide the planetsr And love will steer the stars" It was an exciting time and I looked forward to living in this New Age of Aquarius when I grew up. Everywhere we looked the world was experiencing massive transformation in consciousness

By Linney Elder So…what invaluable lessons have I learned this week? Well, for one…I am definitely not Superwoman! That myth has been well and truly blown out the window. What I have realised once again is the value of setting boundaries and when it's totally appropriate to simply say "no". All my adult life I've been ...

Sometimes it can seem as if there’s nothing you can do about your stress level. When you are operating from your logical brain, the brain says things like… “The bills aren’t going to stop coming, there will never be more hours in the day for all of the errands I need to run, and my career and family responsibilities must be done or calamity will strike”.

How often do you use a quick fix for things in your life? So many times we get wrapped up in a hectic life and find excuses for why we can’t take a deeper look at what is really happening. The irony of this is that many people in this space, that do this, then turn around and claim that they never get any information or insight to what is really happening in your life. Information is being given to us constantly; but we need to be still and listen and learn if we are going to actually get the understanding of what is happening for us.

What is charisma? If you meet a charismatic person you will never forget this meeting. In the presence of a charismatic person you experience a strange, invisible but clearly recognized pull towards this person. You cannot see this energy. You cannot see this power. But you definitely feel the strong attraction to this person. Something attracts rnyou. Something pulls you. This power attracts you. This energy pulls you towards this person. Something amazes you in this person.

Cause and effect are but two sides of thought; and Spirit is both Cause and Effect. Prayer is its own answer. Now, if the one who prays only partly believes, then there is a tendency to set an idea in motion; if the next day he wholly doubts, this idea must be wiped out. In dealing with Mind, we are dealing with a Force which we cannot fool. We can fool ourselves; we can fool others; but we cannot cheat Principle out of the slightest shadow of our most subtle concept; for thi

Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince When we feel a strong affection for someone, there is invariably an element of fantasy in this affection. If we are on a path to becoming a spiritually conscious individual, it's possible we will become aware of this element of fantasy. If our awareness deepens we may even discover we are engaging in a measure of projection onto the individual, ascribing to them characteristics and qualities that are not there but that are aspects of our own longing.

Ah, home again after a ten day vacation that included a week at a cottage in Prince Edward Island and a few days on the road touring around. It’s always a little tough to get back to routine after being away on a relaxing holiday. But eventually you settle back in and things get back to normal. What is sometimes a little more difficult is to keep that peaceful feeling you so easily felt while away from the hustle and bustle of life and all it’s sometimes chaos.

Some handy and swell information regards the rings you wear and an astrological interpretation from our insightful, inspirational and generous friend Kathy Rose! Starting off our week with some empowering info! See below for some wonderful ways to run rings around your destiny! Index finger (Jupiter) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glBPKN9LlpEMiddle finger (Saturn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4r2mWOO-y8Ring finger and Pinky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYIcDJuOJ4Thumb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTlaLaHtJvcSummary

I’m sure I’ve talked before about how other people can feel our energy. It’s not always what we are saying or the volume or tone of our voice that people react to. It’s more often the energy with which the words are spoken.

R & B singer Jimmy sang from his Soul when once upon a time he offered that “if you want to be happy for the rest of your life. Never make a pretty woman your wife.” Well, I don’t know about that but I do know that October can bring some ugly relationship energies to the fore no matter what your partner looks like. As my dear old Da used to say, “it’s not what you say Ellen, it’s HOW you say it.” I’m now passing that excellent (especially for October) advice on to you. Believe you me, you’ll thank me when all that natural charm of yours isn’t even making a dent.

Here is one of the limited beliefs that can block you from working with the source. The higher the distance means the farther away from me. I think this is quite a definite belief in our sub-conscious mind while we always apply the belief above to this physical plane, the third dimensional world. Imagine you are holding this belief in your subconscious mind; you want to work with divine beings through channeling which consider higher planes, vibration and dimensions.

Dark Days and Lonely Nights……. The dark pit of grief that yawned below my feet threatening to swallow me whole for weeks after my loved one's death from cancer is finally fading and the overwhelming grief is subsiding to a dull ache in the middle of my chest. People kept telling me that time would bring healing. It ...

We went to a gathering of friends on Sunday to enjoy good food and each other's company. We circled up to talk for a while and the hostess shared her thoughts on miracles and asked us to share ours'. Everyone has his or her own meaning for this word. What I felt inside of me as we shared our different perceptions, I would like to share with you. Life is so full of miracles if you choose to see and focus on them. The very act of breathing is a miracle. The way our bodies are able to do everything they do is a miracle.

We’re all aware of the term ‘no strings attached’, however, in my experience there are almost always strings attached. In certain healing circles it is seen as appropriate to ‘cut the cords’. If a cord is invasive, I can totally understand this sentiment but we also need to be present with the part of us that has either agreed to or submitted to an invasion. When not worked with carefully and consciously, ripping out an unwanted cord can cause some damage to the chakra in which it is lodged. As with all healing, true resolution comes when we release with love.

We live in a world filled with noise. Sometimes it can be hard to focus, to truly focus on everything around us. We find ourselves tuning things out. Tuning out our spouses, tuning out the children, tuning out the construction across the street, tuning out the planes landing at a near by airport, tuning out our bosses and co-workers. We tune out much of what is around us and live in our minds. But our minds are not much better. Soo many thoughts, past, present and future. What it comes down to, is we are really not LIVING in the moment.r

Some aspects of human life are not visible to the normal eye. The third is what helps to connect with the higher spiritual virtual world. Normal people who all have psychic ability use it only not as enhanced like the professionals. Several energies do not simply block them. Just the average regular human being is able to connect with their guardian angels and communicate their requirements, while their angels are able to tell them their personal predictions on their lives an

Daily Insight from the Story of the Little Prince When it comes to becoming present in our life, I find so many people want some kind of "magical" event to happen that will catapult them into a new state of being. The reality is that for few does the ability to be present throughout their day happen as an instantaneous change. Most of us have been so not present for many, many years that a change in our brain patterns has to occur before we are able to relax into the presence that's actually our most natural state.

If you know of Joan Rivers the comedian you probably are aware her catch phrase is, can we talk? So, emotional upset: can we talk?, borrowing from her. Being upset is a part of life and for some folks emotional upset is a larger part of their life than is necessary. Are you one of those people? Emotional Upset: Can We Talk? One of the ways to begin to observe your emotional patterns is to ask yourself a few questions like… Are you emotionally upset more than you want to be? How often are you in a bad mood? How often are you in a good mood?r

When you live in appreciation of life and reverence for life, you become alive, vibrant in gratitude and joy then you move toward love and compassion. For the Divine is the source of compassion. When you develop compassion, you put real love into practice. Seeing the pain and suffering of others, your heart goes out with compassion to help them. You are not thinking of what you can get out of the situation or even how it will impact you. Your conce is what is needed to help or heal and how you can make that happen.

Throughout the years, there have been adages hinting to a happy more fulfilled life, but many have been misinterpreted or simply discarded. “Love is blind.”

2012 AND BEYOND THE HARA LINE AND SEVEN CREATIVE CENTRES OF THE WORLD. PART 1 At the beginning of July, an email was received from The Academy of Future Science, informing me about the premier of the movie; “Knowing with Nicolas Cage” would be showing at the local Greenstone cinema. We were informed that there was to be a talk conce ing this particular movie, a couple of days later, this was cancelled with no reason being given. For the love of me, I do not know why! My m

Well it has been one hell of a week of changing, shifting tides on the world stage, as the old system of power surrenders to the growing call for establishing a new world order. The voice of freedom, equality and universal justice is sounding loud and clear around the world, and cannot be suppressed any longer. The old world system of oppression is collapsing under the pressure from a united community passionate about living with honor and dignity. This morning brings wonder