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Once there was a great woman tennis player who just happened to be an amazing African American, and she was playing tennis long before Arthur Ashe. Her name was Althea Gibson, and Althea came from the inner city of New York and was a really tuff kid. In fact her father would take her to the roof tops and teach her boxing. And her father would knock her down, and tell her to get back up and defend herself. And soon she could defend herself very well, and that instilled a feeling of courage, and the ability to take care of herself.

“Full of Antioxidants, Fights Cancer, Lowers Blood Pressure” Here is a wonderful recipe that’s sure to please everyone and makes a great party dish to serve when friends come over. Filled with the healing nutrition of 3 different types of corn and the goodness of 3 different types of grilled peppers. Organic corn is full of powerful antioxidants and contains short-chain fatty acids that fight cancer and lots of good protein. Plus it also contains lots of fiber for growing healing probiotics.

“The True Story of Man Who Moved Away and Became a Different Person” Once there was a man who hated where he lived, and thus he started making plans to move away… but very soon he would be back.

Elecampane Root or Inula helenium is an amazing herb for healing lung challenges such as asthma, bronchitis, plus helps with GI tract challenges, urinary tract challenges, it’s antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, immune boosting, and so much more. Used Successfully for Thousands of Years in Ayurvedic Medicine and Chinese Medicine… and by the Romans and Greeks… and Modern Day. Watch My Video and Find Out Everything! Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel See Link to Video I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on Youtuber Many Blessings to Everyone! Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist

Soul is the life energy! rnWhen you put moong beans in a damp cloth, they sprout, isn’t it? And if you put stones in a wet cloth, they don’t grow. It is because there is no Soul in there. Where there is growth, there is a presence of Soul within. Thus, Soul is defined as life energy (chetan). Wherever there is presence of Soul, there is life and hence it’s called a living being. And things that have no Soul in it are non-living. eg. Table, chair, etc. Another way to kno

As the awareness develops of the influences that have shaped our character and active nature from our ancestors, our parents, as well as the influences from our peers and from the society at large, we begin to develop a respect for the complexity of the task and the reasons why we cannot simply use our mental conception and will-power to change our own nature. There is too much embedded in the subconscious layers of our being, not to speak of what resides in universal nature, to simply isolate ourselves from all those influences and create ourselves anew out of whole cloth.

Negative thinking is something that creates a downward spiral of constantly negating all the good we have in life. Here are 4 ways to think positive thoughts and thus feel good about life.

I’ve been working with a young man from Indiana for almost 3 years now. He came to me with a mind full of racing fearful thoughts… or what some call Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD… and it was destroying his life. Whole-Foods Plant-Based Diet and Lifestyle

Feverfew has been around for thousands of years and has a long track record of healing many ailments including headaches, migraines, helps with arthritis, lowers fevers, lowers blood pressures, helps with muscular cramps, PMS, asthma, skin conditions, stomachaches, inflammation, stress, anxiety, and can help with pain in general and a few more things. Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist Watch and Find Out More Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel See link below to video - copy and paste into your browser https://youtu.be/m50oDO_kt3k

Here are some of the most important life supplements that most people forget about when it comes to healing. These life supplements are vital for the healing process… without them, nothing will heal. Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist Watch Video via the Youtube URL Below Pleases Subscribe to My Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/NVTUpL7f1ZI

People come down with the flu all year long but right now with the cold snap lots of people have come down with the flu. Here are a few things that can help heal the flu and shorten the duration of the flu.

So you are sick and doctors don’t seem to be able to do anything. Then it’s time to look within and start a whole new way of healing. Spirit is all around you, there is nothing but spirit. That which is in front of you is only a delusion, and you are caught up in that delusion, and you have forgotten the underlying spirit of the divinity which is there supporting everything. Now it’s time to remember, yes remember! Because you’ve been on the other side of the veil many times… and you have forgotten that you are nothing but pure spirit.

Red beets are one of the healthiest foods on the planet, and beets are full of iron and copper, increase athletic performance, increase cognitive function, they are a good detoxing food, help with diabetes, help with nerve pain, prevents and heals DNA damage, and are full of powerful antioxidants. Great for pain and swelling, a food that promotes long life, helps with weight loss, builds probiotics, and helps with eye health.

The true test of spiritual equanimity and balance is how one responds to adverse circumstances. It is relatively easy to be calm and peaceful when there is no exte al pressure and one is surrounded by a quiet and nourishing environment. It is quite another to remain focused, balanced and equal on the “battlefield”. Sri Krishna provided his guidance to Arjuna in the middle of the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as a great war was about to come to its climax in a battle that would pit cousins against cousins and force the protagonists to take up arms against beloved elders and respected teachers.

Just as we cannot see electricity, but we can observe its results, or we cannot see the mental process objectively (although one can indeed observe thoughts processing internally), but we can see its impact in the world, so with the spiritual development, which is more subtle than the mental power, the observation is truly based on changes that take place for the individual in both the perception of one’s own being, body-life-mind, and the way one responds to events, circumstances and perceptions.

Whether consciously or subconsciously, suggestions reach the being from the outside world, in some cases impacting directly on the body, and in others through the mind or the vital being. When these suggestions arrive subconsciously, we only recognise the thought or feeling when it arises within us and we take “ownership” of it as our own. At this point, it is much more difficult to reject it as we have already let it in and made it part of our being!

In today’s world, we tend to value those processes of mind, life and body which focus on the elements of success in the outer life. We educate children to remember facts of the past, to learn basic mathematics, and rules of grammar and spelling. We train students on how to utilize and implement various forms of technology into their lives, or to gain certain practical skills to maintain and install the powers that drive our society and economy.

The action of the three gunas, qualities of nature, is often overlooked in our understanding of how things take place in the world, including in our spiritual growth; yet, these qualities permeate all activity and an appreciation of them helps the witness consciousness observing the actions of the outer being to both understand and manage these actions. Our relationship to handling material things is very much based on the gunas. When tamas, darkness or indolence, is predominant, we tend to treat material objects carelessly, and they break down or lack smooth functioning.

The subconscient is the home, in the earth consciousness, of the quality of Tamas, just as the vital manifestation is the natural home of the quality of Rajas, and the mental level and above would be the natural home of the quality of Sattwa. These are all mixed up in the human being, interact with each other and constantly exert their influence to provide a very mixed result. None of the human instruments is entirely pure either as to a specific quality or as to its power of expression or action.

it is typical of the mental intelligence to believe that reading and remembering something implies that we have realised the truth of what we have read. Those who have taken the time to reflect on this make it clear that ‘reading a book about swimming’ does not mean one knows how to swim!

Many paths of yoga teach a fixed method that everyone who takes it up is asked to follow in a precise and standardized way. Whether it is the use of a fixed set of asanas, pre-determined pranayama routines, set routines of prayer, mantra, japa, or devotional practices, everyone is given essentially the same starting point and are set to reach essentially the same result at the end of the process.

Vicks plant or Plectranthus purpuratus is a plant you can grow indoors and it’s great when you have a cold or flu. This Vicks plant will open up your nasal passages and helps you to breath deep. You can make your own Vicks like rub — it’s easy. Watch My Video and Find Out More. Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel Watch My Video and Find Out More - See Link I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on Youtuber Many Blessings to Everyone! Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist https://youtu.be/nbzBcoDMjDw #Vicks rn#Plant rn#Colds rn#Flu rn#Rub

The question is frequently raised as to whether Westerners, with a background and culture grounded in materialism, the fulfillment of the vital ambitions and desires, and the development of the mental faculties, can truly enter into the spirit of yoga and obtain the fruits of the yogic practice in the same way as people who stem from the culture of India, with its long history of spiritual practice and cultural inclinations towards devotion and prayer. There are numerous questions that arise from such an inquiry and Sri Aurobindo takes them up systematically.

Thursday is National Day of Prayer, as mandated by Congress. What should President Obama do? Should he follow tradition and sign a ceremonial proclamation? Should he follow President George W. Bush's practice of hosting a formal White House event? Should he ignore it completely? n nWhether or not a national day of prayer is worthy of the name depends on what prayer is meant to be. In the Bush era, public or group prayer followed the pattern set down by Nixon in the Sixties: i

We just had a category 5 hurricane here in Puerto Rico and lots of trees toppled. Yet there where many trees that were strong enough to weather the storm and this has great spiritual significance. In my yard, I have lots of trees and at one time I used to tie my young trees to posts to make sure they did not topple over in the middle of a storm. Yet sooner or later when I did remove the post… they would snap in the wind and that would be the end.

This week we had a family member who was very old who was dying. And so my wife and I went to the hospital to see him, and to support his son who was there with him. Yet the older man did not want to go, he was afraid of dying because he didn’t have any spiritual beliefs of any kind.

Yesterday my wife had a precognitive experience… one that was very interesting. Yesterday morning while sitting at her computer my wife all of a sudden felt like she was having a heart attack. But at the same time, she knew she was not having a heart attack… it was a good friend who was having a heart attack. And today we found out that at that very same moment or just before a good friend did have a heart attack and did survive. You might say that’s just coincidence, but I say we are all connected to Great Spirit.

“Anti-inflammatory, Gluten Free, and Probiotic Building” Here is a simple vegan organic cornbread recipe that’s a meal all by itself. With the healing power of corn, black beans, and veggies, this full spectrum meal will do the body good and it’s super tasty. Plus this cornbread is very filling and makes a great lunch or dinner… and this meal can be made ahead of time and served later. Ingredients: 4 - Cups of Organic Yellow Cornmeal 2 - Cups of Organic Gluten Free Flour 4 - Teaspoons of Organic Baking Powder 8 - Tablespoons of Organic Honey or Agave Nectar

“But I Say— You CAN!” I find it interesting that lots of people feel we are not supposed to love everyone. But that’s exactly why the world is in a terrible place now. If we loved everyone… even the ones who are hardest to love… for sure the world would be a very different place filled with love. We’ve All Made Mistakes

Many times in the course of our spiritual journey we do lots of reading, do lots of chanting, do lots of meditation and contemplation… yet does any of this mean anything? We can read all the spiritual books on the planet, we can chant all day long, we can meditate for hours, and contemplate for hours. Yet if we forget about all of this when we go to work, or pick up the kids, or need to talk to our spouse… does any of this work mean anything in the long run? Taking the time to do all these spiritual processes and then ignoring them in our daily lives means absolutely nothing.

Access to the universal vital force and the renewal of one’s energy follows basic principles that can be seen in the action of another universal force that allows the creation of results in the exte al world, symbolised by what we know as ‘money’. In his book The Mother, Sri Aurobindo states that ‘money is the visible sign of a universal force’. Money sitting stagnant and being held without purpose puts a barrier to the flow of the money-force. When money is put into action, the force flows and creates a cycle of replenishment.

We seek for love, we look for it in our relationships, we search for it in a ‘soul mate’, but in the end, we can recognise that human love is limited and uncertain. There are examples of love that spans a lifetime, possibly multiple lifetimes, and there are countless tales of idealised love that overcomes all obstacles and remains true to the end. Yet, in the vast array of human lives, these relatively few examples are lost in the immensity of the situations that do not work out quite this way.

Have you ever wondered why you seem to have the worst trouble with those you care for the most? You find yourself thinking, “Why won’t they change? Why don’t they see what they are doing? Why won’t they listen to me?” Sometimes you have so much energy invested in those relationships that they seem to affect your whole life. This investment of caring can be with a life partner, a significant other, a daughter or son, parents, brothers and sisters,

The devotee may begin the process of devotional surrender to the Divine with a form of bargaining, expecting a recompense from God for the efforts made to express the devotion. Thus, people pray and expect an answer to their prayers, or they carry out devotional exercises and expect God to respond with spiritual solace, vision or experience. Devotion, however, is not a business transaction but a whole-hearted giving of oneself to the object of devotion, without thought about any form of compensation.

Proverbs 24:5-6nA wise man is mightier than a strong man and a man of knowledge is more powerful than a strong man. So don’t go to war without wise guidance; victory depends on having many counselors.nnAnytime God gives you a vision, a dream or a plan to do something for His kingdom, whatever the dream may be; whether it is to launch out in ministry, start a business or go back to college, if it is from God than the devil WILL wage war against it.nnProverbs 24:6 tells us th

As we become aware of the states of conscious awareness within our being, it becomes clear that there are times when the consciousness is highly concentrated, intensely focused, and other times when it is dispersed and wandering seemingly aimlessly. Our activities, including reading, are indicative of these states, and help to create these states. We understand the concept that ‘you are what you eat’ on a physical level, but do we recognise that the food of the mind is the sensory input and ideas that we ingest?

The spiritual landscape is vast, and there are innumerable objectives and paths that can be taken. Sri Aurobindo describes briefly his approach to spiritual growth and its relation to the process of an evolution of consciousness in the earth-nature to incorporate what he calls the supramental transformation as a next step in the evolutionary progression.

This simple plant is easy to grow and grows all over the world, and has lots of amazing healing qualities. I highly recommend using oregano oil and the herb for cooking, and for all kinds of health challenges plus it’s very tasty too. Oregano is great for rashes, bits, itches and irritations of the skin, it’s powerful antioxidant with 4 times the antioxidants power of blueberries, a wonderful antibiotic that kills bacteria even when diluted 1000 times. Oregano also works great as an anti-inflammatory agent, helps with arthritis, joint pain, redness, swelling, and pain in general.

“One of the Healthiest Foods on the Planet” Buckwheat is a seed not a grain which is not well known in the US. But buckwheat is very healthy and contains lots of protein. Buckwheat makes a wonderful gluten free flour which is high in protein and contains lots of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds and it’s great for diabetics. In fact during WWII millions of people survived on buckwheat.

There are lots of wonderful wild edible greens that grow all over the world. And Shepherd’s Purse is another great tasting green that’s full of nutrition that most people think of as a terrible weed. But when we look a little deeper this edible weed is very tasty… and it’s very healing for the body.

Why is it that we can plan but in the end, things go bad? Read More. It Takes Having an Idea - That means opening up our mind to all things that reside in the cosmos. All the answers are there with Great Spirit. None of it really comes from us, all knowledge resides in the Universe. That’s why some great scientists like Einstein would have ideas come to him in his dreams. If we are on the right wavelength we can tune into that which is all knowing.

We have lost a powerful and loving icon of human spirituality with the passing of Dr. Wayne Dyer. Having gone though lots of emotional turmoil in his own life and come out the other side, many people looked up too Dr. Dyer including myself… and he will be missed!

Ylang Ylang oil comes from yellows flowers of a tree called Cananga Odorata which grows in Asia, the Caribbean, Florida, Puerto Rico, and many islands in the South Pacific including Philippines, Sumatra, Indonesia, and Java. This wonderful oil has many healing qualities including being great for healing stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, internal and exte al infections, and for creating great looking skin… plus it has no side effects. Wonderful Aroma - Ylang Ylang oil has a sweet smell which is delightful and up lifting.

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We are trained to think and act from the viewpoint of the ego-personality. When we take up the practice of integral yoga, however, we understand that the standpoint of action must shift so that we can become true instruments of the higher action of the divine force which is working to transform life on earth through the advent of a new consciousness and way of action. We then are confronted with the issue of how to receive this force and how to distinguish between the old way of thinking and acting, and the new direction that is in the process of manifesting.

With all the activities our lives are dedicated to, it is easy and usual to overlook the fulfillment present in this actual moment. In service to our goal-oriented minds, we usually neglect to stop our internal chatter for even just a few seconds. When I use the word "stop" here, I am referring to internal, mental stopping. It is lovely and essential for our physical, mental, and social health to periodically stop activity. Time off is nourishing to all our "parts" and to all

The unique dynamics of living in a spiritual or religious community make it especially important to understand the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) distractions that can arise when the long habitual reactions of the vital nature, as well as the strong cultural pressures, developed over millennia, bring up the sexual tension between individuals. Sri Aurobindo was writing specifically to sadhaks in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, so he focused on the specific situations that were brought up to him by those members of the Ashram.

Sri Aurobindo emphasizes the need for the psychic transformation, which is the coming forward of the soul or psychic being in man to provide the central focus, and overcome the promptings of the ego-consciousness as it normally acts in the mind, life and body. Spiritual experiences, on their own, are possible in any part of the being, but they have their limitations if the ego-personality is still active and uses them for its own purposes and for self-aggrandisement.

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