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Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince Have you ever considered just how much energy, whether mental, emotional, or physical, you put into trying to impress other people? I grew up with my entire self-concept oriented to what others wanted me to be. I so wanted the approval of my parents, my teachers, and my friends that I really had little idea of what I wanted for myself.

So you’ve made the decision to be more positive and upbeat in your life as a step to feeling happier and maybe achieving some goals you’ve set. And it’s all going really well, until you step into an environment, perhaps your job, your family situation or some other experience, that is full of negativity. What do you do then? The first thing to look at is what makes the environment negative. If we look at it from our own perspective which is how we look at all of life, then our perspective (or judgment) is what makes it negative.

The Sanskrit Brahmacharya blends two words, Brahma meaning God and Charya meaning to follow. This practice involves seeing everything in this universe as the manifestation of the Brahma, the Primal Source of Being. Some scholars limit this transmutation of desires in Brahmacharya to controlling sexual desires and the practice of celibacy. Although the idea of celibacy and restraint is often associated with Bramacharya, it is not actually the deepest interpretation.

I think one of the first things that attract people to metaphysics is wanting to know how to manifest the things they want and need in life. There’s nothing wrong with that, we all need money, food, shelter, and various other things to live. So today’s post will be about the basics of manifesting along with answering a few questions about manifesting.

The other day I went exploring in the area that I now live and came across an old burial ground. I don't think calling it a cemetery or a graveyard would be a good description. There is no signboard, fence, or any manmade pathways, nothing to indicate that this is a place apart from the world of the living. It just ...

From Part One (Man). Intrducing the forthcoming book What is Man. Man What is Man, but an awareness. Awareness of a collective awareness of the collective, and their environment; and awareness of an individual’s own awareness within the collective and of it’s own environment. The phenomenon of Consciousness.

As we age, we are taught to become dutiful members of society. We are taught what behaviors are acceptable, how to sensor ourselves so as not to offend, how to conform to the rules and regulations of the society in which we live. We lose our awe and wonder....our innocence. It’s important to remember to honor and nurture our own Inner Child. To see the world through those childlike eyes. To remember what it means to laugh and have fun and to stop taking ourselves so darn seriously all the time! To return to the time when we believed in magic and fairies and angels once again.

In non-dualist circles a big question that continuously comes up is whether or not we need to work on our stuff, because, after all, we are already divine. If there is only One that exists perfectly outside of the imperfections of time, and all effort is in time, then why should we work on our human selves? I sat for a while with a teacher of this school of thought. And what he said was profound and was needed, especially for Westerners who can be so caught up about improving themselves and the world, while forgetting their Essential Nature.

Gravity inversion, or hanging out, upside down, has been a way of life for me for many years now. It all began with learning the headstand pose of Hatha yoga back in the early 1970s. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, knew all about the benefits of inverting the spine; he hung patients from ladder rungs on ropes back in antiquity.r

Many people believe in life after death, which is commonly termed as “the afterlife”. In some beliefs, the word “afterlife” signifies being reborn, and that there is continuity to life, that whatever you have been doing should be continued on to the next life. The most common example to this concept is the belief of the Egyptians to life after death. Ancient Egyptian civilization preserved their dead through mummification procedures to exercise their cultural principle in the

Most of the time, we are busy trying to categorize what we do either as right or wrong. We often tend to glorify the good and shun the bad and whomever that practices it. So where does the “TRUTH” come in? Here’s an example: rnLet’s say you watch the following example on a show or something (to make it less scary and personal). There is a guy robbing a lady and trying to snatch her handbag away from her, while the lady on the other hand is whacking this guy pretty har

Attention, and its cousin, attitude, are the architects of our lives. A focused attention unleashes the energies of Soul, the creative power of our very beingness. Unfortunately, even when we know the truth about the power of attention, we make little effort to work on mastering it. More’s the pity. For you see, all aspects of our lives are affected by our ability to harness our attention: our educational goals, success in our work life and in our personal relationships, our

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity” - Dale Carnegie Rajiv, a highly qualified and experienced software developer, had been a star contributor in various projects. He had received all recognition and praised for his efforts and hard-work, and had been part of many key assignments. He grew fast and along with the grades, the feel

To begin anew is to recognize the truth that in the present moment, the past does not exist, and neither does the future. The past and future are not here with you in the present, unless you bring them into this moment with you. Therefore, it is your choice what you bring with you into the present moment. Each moment is in fact a fresh, new beginning. Each moment is an opportunity to begin anew.

Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince “He’s got more presents than me!” Jimmy yells when, on Christmas morning, he discovers that his brother Tim has two extra packages beneath the Christmas tree. “That’s because I’m Santa’s favorite,” Tim taunts. “He always gives me more things than he gives you because he likes me more.” Sticking his tongue out, he rubs the “injustice” in by chanting, “Na, na, na, na na!” Jimmy, to whom the idea that it’s more blessed to give than to receive would seem stupid, is inflamed with envy.

From Part Two (Death). Intrducing the forthcoming book What is Man. Death

On February 11th, 2011 we entered the final stage of the Mayan Calendar and the acceleration of time as we know it. Every 20 days we will experience an incremental 'bump up' in vibration that pushes our denser energy to adjust and change. In the same manner that pressure applied to a solid structure will eventually break apart, the increasing vibration is shattering long locked world systems, regimes, institutions, and established paradigms. Not only is this occurring in our

The Gift of Being Highly Sensitive What comes to mind instantaneoulsy when you read this title? Is it assuring, confusing, validating or maybe it even elicits a mixed emotional response? If so, why do you think that might be the case? Take a moment to consider this and reflect, then challenge yourself to journal your thoughts!! As you honor yourself with your full range of feelings you allow them to teach you more about yourself!! Highly Sensitive People are able to engage in

Sure is a lot happening high in the skies during this halfway mark of the year! I’m not just talking about Gabby Gifford’s husband touching down either, although, I do think a rocket hurtling back to earth could shortly symbolize what we might soon see in our stock market. But I’ll do the financial stuff in a second. For now, we have astro energies that are going to, in some way or another, have an altering effect on every single solitary person on this planet during these June days.

There is no doubt that our world is moving pretty fast. There are a lot of people feeling a sense of concern, uncertainty and fear both at home and in the work place about the future. It's not hard to understand given what is being reported on the news from around the world. Something is happening, you know it and can feel it.

In his final dying moments, Jesus said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” This powerful act of forgiveness is one that has baffled mortals for centuries. How could he forgive after he had been treated so brutally? Many of us have trouble forgiving the driver that cut us off on the freeway, yet he forgave those who persecuted him, jailed him, found him guilty, beat him to a pulp and then killed him.

Do you remember how the promise of a better world got you excited when everyone was expecting December 2012 to change everything and mark the beginning of a brighter future? Now we look around and see what’s going on in the world, how much suffering and misery most of the population is going through, and we wonder if anything is really changing. Are we really moving forward or it is just a collective illusion we want to believe in?

To most of us, who have spent our lives grounded in the physical plane that we like to call “reality”, the idea of crystal healing has made it’s way into the category of irrational superstition and “new age hooey”. It’s as if most of us are asking, how in the world can a rock be anything more than a rock much less store energy or help us heal? How can rocks, minerals and metals do anything but just sit there? To answer this question, we must venture beyond the physical existence which we currently think is “all there is” to this reality we are living in.r

You own your garden of life. You can raise gorgeous roses,nor let the weeds take over. To nourish the roses,nyou need mental and spiritual energies. You have all the tools availablento have the most exquisite garden imaginable. Your energy is dissipatednby holding back feelings and ...

I want to tell you about another powerful tool that you can use to train your mind to enter theta and delta to achieve some pretty awesome results. I'm talking about mind machines.rn rnWhat they can do for you is mind blowing... WHAT ARE MIND MACHINES? Mind machines are high-tech brain tools that have been proven to enhance mental functioning, boost brain power, alter your mood, and quickly produce peak performance brain states. They provide an avenue for experiential self-ex

When you look deep in the eyes of a baby, you may recognize the pure essence of love. The one necessary healing component when bandaging a child’s scraped knee is the comforting kiss and hugs of a mother’s love. A child’s generous love can turn a small fist full of dandelions into the most glorious bouquet of flowers. Have you ever observed an elderly couple that has decades of loving history together walk hand in hand? No words are necessary yet volumes are spoken just through a glance in each other’s direction.

I am writing to explainwhat is happening with the energies of the Earth in these changing times. We hear talk of 10/10/10 and 11/11/11 and 12/12/12, the great shift, Light codes, Star children and ascension. But what does this really mean to You and me? Times are a changing, there’s no doubt about that. We are alive in human form on planet earth at a monumental time. We have the opportunity to experience moving from the 3rd dimension to the 5th while in physical form. There

You know what claustrophobia is, don't you? It's the fear that Santa Claus will get stuck in your chimney. There's another kind of claus-trophobia, and that's the fear of "being" Santa. Santa may well be the most universal symbol in western culture. Why does Santa have such appeal? Symbols are magnetic only to the degree that they touch upon something we instinctively sense about ourselves. We love Santa because there's a Santa in all of us. He represents a part of ourselves that we long to express.

Thought force is the movement of consciousness which sets law in operation. The movement ofrnconsciousness upon itself creates a motion or vibration in Intelligence and upo Substance, the force of which is equal to the reality of the thought set in motion. For everything that happens in the objective world, there must be something in the subjective world to perfectly balance it. Just suppose for a moment that the Universe is nothing but water, permeated by an Infinite Intell

Lucid dreaming otherwise known as conscious dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming as well as aware of what is taking place within your dreams and lucid enough to be able to control them. You may have had brief instances of this but to actually have a true lucid dream takes practice. Below are five easy techniques that have been proven to help any person achieve the lucid dreaming state. 5 Tips for Lucid Dreaming 1. The majority of the work towards lucid dreamin

By the time we reach adulthood we’ve had plenty of experiences and have drawn plenty of conclusions about what is either good or bad. We’ve taken on my labels, many labels have been forced up on us and we’ve willingly adopted some labels – labels such as ‘good girl’ – ‘bad girl’, ‘good boy’ – ‘bad boy’, ‘good student’ – ‘bad student’, ‘good body’, ‘ugly body’, rn‘intelligent’, ‘stupid’, ‘pure’, ‘bad, ‘innocent’, ‘guilty’.

As Mind, or Soul, accepts these images of thought, It operates upon unformed substance and causes it to take definite form as body, which is unconscious form. It becomes definite form, but the form itself is unconscious, because it is made of immaterial substance. Body of itself, without Mind, has no consciousness nor volition. Devoid of mentality, the body neither thinks, sees, hears, feels, touches nor tastes. Take the mentality away from the body and it becomes a corpse.

Shaktipat meditation techniques used by your realized teacher can very quickly guide you through the different planes, dimensions or worlds that make up our universe. Eventually all of us will realize that our entire universe is one living, intelligent organism. There’s no separation or difference between you and a rock or a far off galaxy or another dimension. All exist right here, right now in one very alive energy field. Shaktipat meditation transfers from your teacher’s m

Everyone is aware now that December 21st, 2012 marks the end of the Mayan calendar. Not only has this information become mainstream; it has provoked apocalyptic fears, doomsday books and films, and even triggered outbreaks of panic in Russia and France, as reported in a recent New York Times article. It has also brought much joy and hope to those, like me, who don’t believe that 12/21/12 will mark the end of the world, but the beginning of a New Earth, a new humanity, and—if you’ve watched my brief video about this—freedom from the prison-like 3rd dimension on this planet.

I’ve been urging you to practice forgiveness. I asked that you forgive white society for their transgressions against us and I asked that you forgive yourself for getting caught up in the negativity that they have heaped upon us and turning it in on yourself. But this begs the question, just what is forgiveness?r

After writing my autobiography, I realized that as long as we, human beings, exist on planet earth and have our ever growing and expanding cyberspace, my book Still Singing, Somehow will be out there when I'm long gone and forgotton. My desendents for many generations to come can read about their ancestor who lived through the sixties and survived about everything life can throw at you, to write an inspirational book all about it. So, I ask you; are authors immortal? To view Still Singing, Somehow and learn more about Rob Rideout, go to http://www.stillsingingsomehow.com/

Today’s health conscious trends tell us that sugar can lead to diabetes and damage our brains to accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s. Lack of fiber in our diets can lead to constipation, excessive weight gain, fatigue and physical weakness. Poor exercise habits can lead to back problems and breathing problems. What you haven’t been told is that the buildup from daily “unforgiveness triggers” can lead to chronic anxiety, heart disease, cardiac arrest and even cancer. Unfortunately, the damaging effects of unforgiveness are only just beginning to be discovered.

The principle of gratitude plays a massive role in one’s own quality of life. An often overlooked and misunderstood concept, true authentic gratitude which arises out of one’s own genuine joy of being is a skeleton key which unlocks large-scale synchronicity and reality shifting experiences. Simply put: if you have an interest in synchronicity and the intention/manifestation model as it’s applied to personal growth – this article is for you. “Levels” of Gratitude:

The Law of Attraction – Pitfalls, Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams

The end of this last Mercury retrograde was a doozy of a dilly and did what Mercury in retrogrades do best, left all the rest of us asking ‘what’s next?’ Earthquakes on the East Coast shaking things up while Irene preferred to stir. In fact, as I write, I’m doing so from New York City. So, while I still have access to electricity (because I always have MY power) let’s take a look at what to expect next.

At the present time, there are many different types of esoteric philosophies that are masquerading as Kabbalah. To get to the bottom of how "real" Kabbalah began, it is important to understand the history of this fascinating Jewish mystical tradition.

We live in a fast-paced world that is continuously bombarding us with messages of lack, imperfection, disease, suffering, and fear, while at the same time we are expected to accomplish everything quickly; in turn, we have come to expect to get immediate results and instant gratification. We want a quick fix for our problems, our financial situation, and even our spiritual evolution. But as one of my beloved teachers used to say, “the road to enlightenment is not a highway.” I think that this also holds true for anything valuable in life.

When we face difficult times, how we perceive the situation we are in may cause depression. It is not what happens in the world around us, what other people say or the promise of a dismal future, but by our own mind. When we focus on our thoughts, our own brains create our experience. If you believe that, then you have the power to create positive experiences during difficult times. When you face a life-threatening illness or the loss of your job, that positive experience may

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.

Transcend Insecurity The Buddha’s Way We all know that life is filled with many uncertainties, which means that oftentimes we can find ourselves experiencing broad range feelings of insecurity from such unknowns. As we realize the importance of personal practice to devote time for cultivating patience and wisdom, we can gracefully transcend feelings of insecurity through the Buddha’s Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path, also known as the ‘Middle Way’, is the process of

Too Capable to Surrender If you were asked to do too much too soon, take on too much responsibility at a young age – either physical responsibility such as household chores or emotional responsibility – caring for siblings, a sick parent or feeling responsible for an emotionally challenged parent, then you have most likely learnt how to be very capable indeed. You can handle anything, you can cope with stress, you don’t suffer fools gladly, you can get it all done and usually alone. Indeed, usually alone. You may be surrounded by people but the feeling is usually ‘alone’.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself." - B.R.Haydon

Inside the first two days of August, Mercury the Messenger, the planet that governs all things related to communications, goes on vacation until the end of the month. Now, I don’t know about you, but How I Spent My Summer Vacation (so far at least) is pushing water up a lazy river. People. Places. Things. That are supposed to be collaborating/helping/working on pulling prime projects along are just always someplace else. Except the ones who aren’t. Me REALLY likey them. And Gail, Patty, Mariel…you know EXACTLY who I’m talking about.

Creativity is usually defined as the ability to produce something worthwhile, meaningful, and original—a literary or artistic work, a solution to a problem, an innovative product, a scientific discovery, or even a good joke. Obviously, what may be considered new and valuable will vary depending on the cultural and social context, as well as on the timing of its delivery. We know of great artists and visionaries whose brilliance was ignored while they were alive, only to be re-discovered many years after their death.

According Wikipedia the word, Manic means: affected with, relating to, characterized by or resulting from. It's a perfect word to describe what many men are feeling in this rapidly changing world. For our purposes today we'll use the word MAN tongue-in-cheek in Manic. The reason is, men have fallen into character traps and have taken on labels that do not serve them. What have you been told you are? What bill of goods did you get sold? What behaviors characterize you as a man?