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“Proven Benefits of Organic Buckwheat”

“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.

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“The Spiritual Science Behind Great Success”

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.

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“We Will Miss Dr. Wayne Dyer”

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!

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“Ylang Ylang Oil for Stress and Depression”

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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15 Secrets to Great Health - No Matter What Your Age

Here are 15+ powerful secrets to great health that will keep you healthy into your 90’s and beyond. Some very simple things that anyone can do that will keep you active and full of life and feeling super! 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/c4iUhGollzU #15 rn#Secrets rn#Great-Health rn#Long-Life rn#Feel-Good

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Elderberry - A Powerful Antiviral Everyone Needs

This is Super Important Right Now New studies show that Elderberry is very important for viral infections. Elderberry has been time proven to work down through the centuries. 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 https://youtu.be/otc2siV8pJo #Elderberry rn#Antiviral rn#Powerful rn#Protective

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How to Recognise and Respond to the Higher Guidance in Work

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.

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By Gangaji
Open Mind

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

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Psychic Love Surpasses Human Love

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.

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The Necessity of the Psychic Transformation

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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The Need to Shift the Consciousness Beyond the Ego

The ego-consciousness has its evolutionary purpose. The distinction of the individual from the mass of existence led to the ability to move beyond the instinctual and habitual patterns of the species. With this consciousness, variation and innovation became more easily possible. Observation from an individual standpoint allowed comparison, evaluation and the competitive urge to develop, and thereby set in motion the entire range of action we see in our civilisation today.

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The Risks and Difficulties of Eliminating Lower Drives Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 2

Dealing with deeply embedded drives of the subconscient and the lower vital through raising them up and indulging in them not only contains risks that one may fall into a deeper pattern of habitual response, but also can be a pretext for the vital enjoyment of the action with a veneer to disguise it to the mind for what it really is. The vital is extremely able in its attempt to convince the mind that indulgence is acceptable for one reason or another.

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The True Nature of Rest

For most people, rest is a state of lowered consciousness in which we recuperate from the fatigue generated through our various activities. If we reflect on how we respond to fatigue, we find that we have different modes depending on whether it is mental fatigue, vital exhaustion or physical tiredness. The usual responses for mental fatigue include distraction of the mind through various light activities, such as game-playing, watching television, or reading light literature, such as mysteries, romance novels, or other ‘page-tu er’ fare, etc.

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Two Options for the Seeker to Eliminate Desire

When the spiritual aspirant hears that he must eliminate desire from his consciousness, he frequently takes this as a message of ‘renunciation’ and thereby determines to live an isolated life free from the efforts involved in living in the world and interacting within the societal framework. Even when he tries to live quietly in the forest, or the desert, or some kind of monastic retreat setting, he finds that desire follows him there.

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“How to Understand the Cosmos and Connect with It”

If we look at dark matter-energy in the cosmos which makes up most of the universe we find something very interesting. 1 - Dark matter has been mapped in the universe and it spreads out like a web into every galaxy and part of the cosmos and multiverse. 2 - And when we view the entire cosmos of dark matter and look at this vast network of strings connecting everything… it looks like a human brain cell. - Wow! 3 - Could it be that this expansive energy… this all-pervading spread of interconnectedness… is that which is all knowing and all seeing?

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“Listen and Give”

“A True Story of Learning to Listen to What People Need” Once there was a man who joined the peace corps and went off to help the people in the jungles of Ecuador. Sometimes he would be days out in the jungle helping the people to make a change in their diet and become healthy. But then someone told him something that changed his life forever.

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Art and Intellectual Development Are Not Essentially Spiritual Pursuits

We tend to confuse artistic and various intellectual pursuits as somehow being spiritual accomplishments. These are, however, developments of the higher emotional and mental spheres to a great degree, except when they are channeling energies of the lower vital levels of our being, which, in today’s world, represents a major source of such artistic creations. Putting aside the lower vital influences and focusing on the higher productions of our finer emotions and mental development as it is expressed in art, there is a tendency to confuse refined mental development with spirituality.

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Finding the Balance Between Individual Effort and Surrender in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Practitioners of the integral yoga are confronted daily with the task of balancing between the individual effort required, and the call to surrender to the divine force that actually is undertaking the changes in the nature that are required. We all start with the ego-consciousness and all of the embedded habits, desires, needs and trained ideas that permeate our society and our individual lives. We begin to understand that as long as we live within the frame of the normal functions of mind-life-body we are bound to this ego-personality and the illusion of separateness that comes with it.

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By DadaBhagwan
How does a Soul find a fresh body to take rebirth?

Birth and death are inevitable as we all witness them. But after death, how does a Soul find a fresh body to take rebirth? Let’s consider what is the Enlightened One’s Science regarding the subject? The Present Life’s Karma Determine Where Our Next Rebirth Will BernParam Pujya Dada Bhagwan explains, “A person’s next birth is based on the wishes of his life before he dies. Do they not say, before the person’s death, he had such and such a wish? But that wish is not

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The Subtle Power of Atmosphere and Example in Spiritual Development

It is a typical belief that through the use of logic, argument or some kind of pressure that is exerted, through perhaps an enforced dogma or belief system, that opinions and beliefs can be changed. It is true that the power of an idea may capture an individual’s focus and support. It is also true that adherence to that idea may last a lifetime. The question remains open, as to whether a comprehensive change in the way of seeing and acting, penetrating through all levels of the being, is even possible through these methods.

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Top 10 Herbs and Supplements for 2020

Here is my review of the top 10 herbs and supplements and other things for health that I find super important for 2020. You might want to stock up as soon as possible! Watch My Video to Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone! I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on YouTube Please Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrSQ6OzAenOt-Pj-r0n45Pg See Link to Video https://youtu.be/X6XKVf-dVVk #Top_10_Herbs_and_Supplements_for_2020rn#Best

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“4 Groups of People to Stay Away From”

There are 4 groups of people which are important to stay away from. Those Who Don’t Care — There are lots of people who don’t have any spiritual understanding at all… and they don’t want to. To them, there is no such thing as a miracle, and they are stanched in their ideas that God does not exist. Leave them be, there is nothing you can do, allow them to be themselves— distance yourself from them. For whoever we gather close to us will eventually rub off on us.

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“Meditation a Prerequisite for Opening Kundalini Energy”

Our energy can become stagnate but meditation moves energy through the body. This is a prerequisite for opening Kundalini Energy. Think of the Body Meridians as Bio/Spiritual Wires The meridians of the body that Traditional Chinese Medicine works with can be thought of as electrical wires. These wires are very small there is great resistance and thus little energy is allowed to move through the conduit towards its goal at the crown chakra. But the lower the resistance we have in the wires or meridians the more energetic current flows from point “A” to “B”.

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“What Would You Do if You Were God?”

Tell me what would you do if you were God, Great Spirit, and the Universe? That is a great question… and I would like to hear from you as to what you would do. Read More… Would You End All Suffering? - Perhaps you would like to end all suffering. Yet if you did away with all suffering there will not be any learning taking place on this earthly plane. Would that be a good? Thus from one lifetime to the next, we would not learn anything. And thus we would keep recycling and never ascend to a higher plane of existence.

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Formula 221 for Gastritis and Reflux

Formula 221 for Gastritis and Reflux Make this Formula at Home Inexpensive and Super Easy to Make Here is a wonderful and inexpensive formula that works great for GI distress. These 3 herbs are very easy to find and when mixed together do a super job of helping with GI distress, stomachaches, nausea, gastric reflux, and other GI problems. Watch My Video to Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone! I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on YouTube Please Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrSQ6OzAenOt-Pj-r0n45Pg

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Responding to the Consciousness in Material Objects

In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo describes several standpoints that highlight the relationship between human beings and the material world. The “refusal of the ascetic” simply rejects the material world and does not put any focus or interest in it. The “materialist denial” accepts the physical world as real and focuses on accumulation, development and use of material things in order to achieve some kind of satisfaction, happiness or enjoyment in life.

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The Principle Behind Mantra and Japa

Everything we experience is based on vibrations that impinge upon us and bring about a response in the substance of our being. All matter is created by energy, which consists of vibratory waves. All energy is created by consciousness, which provides the specific impulse of vibration to be created. This principle is recognised throughout the world. The New Testament of the Bible starts with a statement to this effect: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Succinctly put, this recognises the essential nature and power of vibration.

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The Process of Attaining Peace, Silence, Knowledge and Other Powers of the Realisation

We like to think that we succeed through strenuous effort. Our ego-personality and vital nature thrive on the idea that we are the masters of our own fate, through dint of the efforts we make. We tend to picture ourselves as originating the ideas and drives that move us into action. We believe that we are exercising free will by making decisions and move forward with the sense of personal accomplishment.

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The Three Gunas and Spiritual Practice

Spiritual aspirants, just as all others in the world, are impacted by the play of the three Gunas the qualities of Nature. These qualities are always in movement, constantly combining, jostling one another, becoming predominant, and then being suppressed as the next movement arises. We can see this play in the spiritual sadhana quite clearly. When there are constant spiritual experiences and a feeling of progress, the vital being in the seeker has enthusiasm, energy and joy. We see here a predominant strain of rajas, tempered by sattwa.

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By Dada Bhagwan
What is God’s nature?

Do you know, to understand God’s true nature we must understand who we truly are? Yes, you’ve got it right – this indeed means that we ourselves are God! But hold it, we as in not the body or the name given to this body. That is all temporary. And God is eternal. So, ‘who is God, where is He and what is God’s nature’ are questions that naturally arise in our mind.rnParam Pujya Dadashri explains, “God is in every creature whether visible or invisible. God is in c

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“Proven Health Benefits of Agave Nectar”

Agave nectar is a nice sweetener and just about everyone likes something sweet. And agave nectar has healing qualities including having a very low glycemic index making it great for diabetics. The glycemic index of agave nectar is 27 while honey is 83, and sugar is 92, glucose is 137, and maltodextrin is 150 so agave nectar has a much lower glycemic index. Agave nectar also is a good antibacterial agent and even works well for skin wounds by killing the bacteria that create infections. Raw agave nectar contains lots of antioxidants.

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“We Have a Great Epidemic of Anxiety Now”

“So What Can We Do?” In the last 2 weeks, I have connected with lots of people who are overwhelmed with anxiety. For instance, one lady lost her house and was living with a friend… and she was stressed to the max. So what can we do to de-stress? At one time in my life, because of unforeseen challenges, I lived in 6-foot by 9-foot room with no water, no bathroom, no nothing. And I have to say, it was not easy, but I never gave up. Fortunately, I had many things that kept me from having lots of anxiety and stress… here are just a few steps that helped me through the hard times.

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Best Anti-inflammatory Foods - Top 3 Foods for Great Health

Dr. Haider’s TOP 3 Anti-inflammatory Foods Anti-inflammatory foods are the best way to stay healthy and avoid disease. All disease starts with inflammation and inflammation creates disease. If you eat a powerful anti-inflammatory diet then you can enjoy a long healthy life. Watch my Video and find out exactly what these foods are and how to use them. Many Blessings to Everyone! Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist Watch My Video and Find Out More My Goal is to Reach 100,000 Subscribers This Year I Also Have the #1 Herbal Channel on Youtube https://youtu.be/8uBf-OCU_hw

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Breaking News - Too Much B12 is Toxic

A new study, published in JAMA with 5,000 people with the highest blood levels of B12 have a higher death rate compared to those who have a lower B12 level. What’s causing this… we don’t know yet. But some feel that high B12 levels might cause liver and kidney problems. And personally, I have found people taking way to much B12. Watch My Video and Find Out More. 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 https://youtu.be/OoEaRRHizOw

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Epilepsy and Insanity Under Pressure of the Spiritual Quest for an Unprepared Seeker

The divine Force that descends is not a theoretical event, but a real experience with consequences for the mind, life and body of the seeker. The seeker must be prepared mentally, vitally and physically for the action of this force in the being. The story of the unbaked jar, which cannot sustain the pressure of being filled is illustrative for the similar experience of the energy descending into a being not yet ready to hold that force.

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Healing Hashimoto’s Disease Naturally - It Can Be Done

There are a few things that cause Hashimoto’s Disease and they can change and this disease can be a thing of the past… just like this person in this case study who is now completely healed. Watch my Video and Find Out More - See Link I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on Youtube Many Blessings to Everyone! Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist My Goal is to Reach 100,000 Subscribers This Year https://youtu.be/qnOWFDgeKOI

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Is Wheat Good for You? — Yes or No

Wheat has been around for a few thousand years. Wheat even goes back to biblical times. Is wheat good for you or not… Watch My Video and Find Out. 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/4Dh8p_SH1C0 rn#Wheat rn#Good rn#Bad rn#Gluten rn#Herbicides

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By Dan Leven
Our Soul's Mask

In the Body-Centered Gestalt and Subtle Energy Healing tradition we speak of the layers of personality. One important layer to consider is called Role Layer. Role Layer is a construct that we maintain in order to fit in. Generally speaking we adopt this personality as a child in order feel accepted by, and know our place in, our family of origin. When we`re in role, we don`t feel that we have a choice. It appears to us as a statement of I Am. I Am Brave. I Am Smart. I Am Cari

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The Power of a Calm Mind

If we observe our mental space for some time, such as when we sit for meditation, the first thing to be noticed is that the mind tends to jump around from one thought, idea or perception to another, seemingly randomly and impacted by sensory data coming to us through our sense organs. Some call it the “monkey mind”. This constant chu in the mental space is an obstacle to the meditation, as it also is an obstacle to receiving knowledge and force from higher levels of consciousness.

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The Role of Free Will in the Surrender of the Ego

Our mental logic frequently stumbles over the apparent contradictions that lead us to adopt an extreme position over a more nuanced view of things. The debate about the role of free will in the processes of the yoga which involve the surrender of the ego to the action of the divine Force is one such area. Some people believe that surrender involves giving up any aspect of free will, and thus, they enter into a very passive state of fatality about what happens and when.

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The Role of the Mental Will in the Spiritual Development of the Integral Yoga

The will power is a real and important part of the effort by the individual. Will power can be developed through exercise, just as we develop the physical muscles through exercise and weight training. In our development of the mental will, we frequently become frustrated when something we try to accomplish does not work out quickly or easily. How many people have tried to control their diet, or change some habit of reaction through exercise of the will, and lamented their failure! But this is simply an incorrect understanding of the process.

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