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Please feel free to use this article as long as credit is given to the resource box. (C) Copyright Arthur Levine 2011 Words: 400 Keywords: Remember, Invincible Fourteen, Young Again Do you remember the feeling that you were invincible, that no one could cause you any harm? Do you remember the raging hormones, the passion and the emotional outbursts? Do you remember your first lipstick, shave, kiss, conquest and the feeling that it couldn’t get any better than this?

Most of us are walking asleep. We are barely able to keep up with what is in front of us let alone have an awareness of what is happening to us or around us. But have it is that awareness we have to cultivate if we are to become everyday guru’s. We have start waking up.r

One of the best pieces of relationship advice I can give is to work on your relationship with yourself first and always... Your inner world dictates what happens around you and how others react to you. The kinder your inner critic becomes, the kinder you are to your partner and everyone else in your life too. It can be so easy to get upset with your loved one over trivial things. Yet how often do you hold your ground just because you feel upset? Granted, it can be a tricky energy to shift.

See the feather floating on the breeze? See the oak leaf as it twirls to the ground? See the smoke from your incense as it spirals upwards? See the dust motes dancing in the sunlight streaming through your window? See the snowflakes falling silently in joy? See the dandelion seeds gently ...See the feather floating on the breeze? See the oak leaf as it twirls to the ground? See the smoke from your incense as it spirals upwards? See the dust motes dancing in the sunlight streaming through your window? See the snowflakes falling silently in joy?

We have evolved from the animal kingdom into the most intelligent (so we think) life form on the planet, and yet it seems that we are so unhappy with our exte al appearance that we will go to sometimes ridiculous lengths to become attractive. In the animal kingdom, choosing a mate revolves around looking healthy and fit, showing good breeding potential, and being in the right place at the right time.

“Banana Peels are Extremely Good for the Body” This vegan banana bread tastes great and banana peels work wonders for depression, protecting our blood cells from degradation, they help with insomnia, and banana peels are full of anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory agents. Plus including banana peels in this bread really boost up the banana flavor… and this cake is super easy to make. Ingredients: 2 - Large Ripe Organic Bananas - Chopped into chunks and blended with water 3 - Large Ripe Organic Bananas Peeled and Mashed

Some people say there are no viable alte atives to getting old, but I think it’s a matter of the mind. Today there is a philosophy that the new middle aged group are people in their fifties and sixties instead of in their forties. I think it’s a matter of how you feel and how you act. Maybe some people in their seventies could be considered part f the new middle aged group.

At the core, everyone is God Essence, pure love and light. We are all one…individual and unique manifestations of the universal divine. We are all innately good. And, in our heart of hearts, we all desire love…to love and to be loved. Although this seems pretty incongruent with many of the behaviors we witness, people just don’t wake up in the morning and decide, “today I will be a cruel person and really hurt the ones I love.” And yet, that is often what occurs. Over many y

When you look at your emotions, you may notice that your feelings are most often created by your thoughts. You might notice that your emotions are often habit patterns – especially old, old patterns that have, in a way, been ruling you. Notice this also: that the feelings that are obstacles are most often victim feelings - fears, worries, self-doubts, - feelings that something will overpower you in some way.

1 S.O.U.L. is a leading local spiritual group located in the greater Jacksonville, FL area. 1 S.O.U.L. is an acronym for "One Source Of Universal Love" and is a group for everyone interested in discussion and camaraderie on meditation, yoga, metaphysics and holistic living.

Monday dawned on a new week, seven days from Christmas Eve, three days after the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at its peak leads on to great success, but missed, leads to failure." William Shakespeare.

Gangaji is a modern day spiritual teacher who shares a simple yet profound message for humanity. "Silent awareness is alive in you." Gangaji travels all over the world sharing her message with seekers of truth. She is a teacher and author who speaks and writes about her personal experience of the teachings she received from Papaji, her teacher from India. Gangaji shares how to discover the truth of who you are and how to live that truth.

This article is an excerpt from "Bach Flowers for Crisis Care" and taken from the website www.innertraditions.com nnUsing Bach Flower Therapy to Resolve Emotional Crises nnCRISES AT CATALYSTS nLife is an eternal process of development. Those who accept this, and go with the flow, will have an easier time traveling the river of life. If one blocks this flow--struggling against it consciously or unconsciously--developmental energy will be blocked and a crisis will occur. This c

What are the lies we bought as love that are causing us to suffer? What are the lies we bought as love that are causing us not to be happy? What are the lies we bought as love that are causing us not to love ourselves? What are the lies we bought as love that are causing us to put up with situations that are not good for us? What are the lies we bought as love that are causing us to stay stuck in manipulative or abusive relationships or to be treated badly? What are the lies we bought as love that cause us to be abusive?

We often wonder why do we have only these people as my family members and not anyone else from the entire world? Why do relationships start and get established with only certain specific people, out of many, who come into our life? How do we get linked with each other? Is it God deciding it all, or have I selected who I want as my parents and my siblings or as my spouse and my children for this life? What is the secret behind this? Whoever comes in close relation with us is d

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”Soul is where your humanity meets your divinity and your divinity meets your humanity.” Each morning Spirit seems to be reminding me to clear away everything within my thoughts and create a mental “clean slate”. This illuminating exercise shows right away where you get caught in letting your day-to-day life create you instead of you creating your life.

Happiness is the simplest expression of life without the limitations of our mind. Unfortunately, most people are used to looking for happiness outside of themselves. In this article, we will explore the reality of finding happiness within. For most people, happiness depends on their interaction with the world around them. For some people, their source of happiness is no longer there and causes disappointment. Let’s look at what happiness is: Every experience in our body is cr

Ten past four in the morning. Awake again! The Angels using this space of silence to speak with me - "write" they say. I ask what they wish for me to write about. They reply "the dog." And I don't think they mea Lulu *smile*. The dog is a reflection of our self value, how we treat ourselves ...

“Be still and know that I AM God,” counsels the Bible. Whether we are religious or not, this is wise counsel most needed in our age of ADD and multi-tasking. Many people do not cause their minds to be still until they experience some shocking event that arrests their attention. This is why sometimes it requires a crisis to bring to the forefront of our consciousness what is truly essential. We have all experienced it during times of catastrophe – September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, or the recent collapse of financial security in the United States.

This time of year in the season of Autumn the Day of the Dead 2012 is celebrated especially in Mexico and by Latin Americans in the US. It is also know as All Souls Day on November 1 and the Catholic holiday All Saints Day on November 2. The Day of the Dead is a time for family and friends to come together in prayer and remembrance of loved ones who have died. We can build altars or shrines in our homes to celebrate and honor our dead.

• Energy of Healing and Rejuvenation I am Nathaniel. I am an angel. My light is healing and love.

As soon as I arrived in Sedona two and half months ago, I have repeatedly heard people mentioning the Amitabha Stupa to me. Additionally, I have seen posters and charitable donation boxes with pictures of the Stupa around town. It seemed to me that I was being guiding to make my own pilgrimage to this sacred space. So, taking a cue from the Universe, I paid heed to my Inner Wisdom and made my journey there.

Where to begin? I was thinking that maybe there really is a final exam to life. If that were the case, what might an exam question be? My vote would be: what is the purpose of life? So where does one go when one wants to know the purpose of life? Google, of course. So upo Googling the purpose of life, here’s what I’ve learned. There were three similar answers from three pretty reputable sources: Aristotle, the Dalai Lama, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They concluded that: the purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

I have heard people say that "God does not put more on you than you can bear". Actually, God is not the one who is afflicting you. It is the devil or satan. It is he who is roaming the earth seeking whom he can devour. It is his intent to steal, kill, and destroy, not God's! God is for us, so much so, that He sent His only Son to die so we might live. Jesus came to save the world, not to condemn it! Satan would have us think that his evil plans for us are from God. We are not to be fooled! God delivers us from the plans of the devil and his afflictions. God is not the perpetrator.

(I wrote this letter while I was writing my hero columns to a boy who had just been badly burned and was very discouraged.) Dear Precious One, My friend told me what happened to you. That must have really hurt and I'm sure you have been wondering why all this has happened to you. When something that feels so awful happens, it feels like we were singled out and we can start to feel bad about ourselves. But sometimes we are singled out in a much different way by God. Imagine how God must see this.

Ray Cansela (Kevin Costner) said it best in the movie Field of Dreams when he was talking to the author Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones) stating "Sometimes the cosmic tumblers turn just right and the universe opens to possibilities never before imagined." He also noted that the sad thing was that most people don't even realize when it happens. In the month of May 1988, in a year of 13 moons, I unknowingly embarked on a spiritual journey that continues to this day. The cosmic

Think for a moment. How do you see yourself? What opinions do you have about yourself? If you are like most people, you have some critical opinions. These opinions have grown and been maintained over time. Any negative opinions you have about yourself are opinions based on thoughts of ...

My definition of courage is to feel the fear and do it anyway. Through recovery regardless if it’s divorce or addiction; I see women continuously performing courageous acts. These are actions they take that move them forward and they need to be acknowledged and celebrated. So, what would be a courageous act?

Some time in the process of the transition from the old you to the new you, a truly miraculous thing happens. I call it the manifestation of your new strengths. When I first came across this concept I couldn’t imagine me having new strengths. The reason is because we tend to think of ourselves ...Some time in the process of the transition from the old you to the new you, a truly miraculous thing happens. I call it the manifestation of your new strengths.

So often we get caught up in the idea that it’s what’s outside of us that is causing our suffering, and if we could make changes to those aspects, life would be better. We think that if our father wasn’t so angry – we could get along better with him, or express our love more deeply. We imagine that if we had another job we would look forward to work and express our creativity more fully.

“And What We Are to Learn on Earth” There are 9 planes of existence in the spiritual world. Our goal is to work our way up the ladder of vibration and heal our soul and spread light and love. See link to see photo - https://paulhaider.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/the-nine-planes-of-spiritual-existence/ We Live on the Third Plane of Existence There are very dense and negative planes of existence that start with Number 1 in which all negativity resides. Then there is the second plane of existence in which negative entities or dark angels arise.

No surprise to any woman to hear that we are wired differently than men. We approach life differently and we remember events differently. As a broad brush statement, men compartmentalize their memory of events and the emotions. As women, we are wired to tie our emotions around each experience in our lives. Then the emotional ties intertwine with other similar events. I remember my first awareness of this back when I was dating in my twenties.

What I am about to say may shock you, but other than those times when you are looking forward with joyful anticipation to an upcoming event, practically all of the thoughts you entertain about the future are in fact rooted in fear. In particular, the desire to know what will occur, and the urge to make detailed plans to ensure one's own security down the road, are both related to the ego's need for safety as a result of its deeply held fear of death.

I need to start out this article by giving you a bit of my background. I have a long history and interest in self-improvement, personal growth and focusing in on environmental issues. I have a passion for reading and studying on these topics and have become more and more focused on sharing my knowledge with others in their own journey of growth and personal development.

Once we begin to recognize the blessing of divine Imagination, all the answers to life’s questions unravel and reveal themselves to us. The heart must be open and the ego set-aside in order for this blessing to occur. Manifesting our spiritual divine imagination opens our heart to divine love ...

Due to the modernization, the world is growing so much fast and the science has discovered the new ways in every field of life that you cannot estimate them before some years ago. As everyone is working his or her benefits to make the luxuries in their life and want to enhance their resources. All the running and attention is just to make money and to get other amenities of life. but if you observe the life of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him then you will have amazed t

One of the hardest parts of network marketing is finding enthusiastic prospects for your business. Many people come into the industry not fully appreciating how many people it takes to build a healthy down line, or how many people on their target lists will not join their opportunity. Working for yourself can be challenging when you have been working in an office environment and had colleagues and assistants and the like to support you. It takes discipline and motivation and learning how to be an office manager and the sales team, and an accounts department all in one.

If we are open to it, help is always all around us. But, most of the time we are too busy, or have tunnel vision to be able to see/hear/notice it. There is such beauty in synchronicities, coincidences and other promptings that show us we are on the right direction in our path.

Mothers are normally military minorities. Sure, women in general are gaining more recognition in the military, but surely many people forget that a large majority of these women are mothers as well as national heroes. However, balancing these two identities is hardly ever easy. One military mother, Jessica Scott, shares her struggles on npr.org in an article called “Mother in the Military: Punishing Mothers Who Serve”. Before she was a mother, Scott recalls, her schedule

I stumbled into a Christian Station on the radio and something struck me—that in most organized religions the emphasis is on having faith in God but I hear very little about having faith in the tools or gifts God gives us! First, let me say something about my use of the word ...

Recently I had the opportunity to meet a long term mystic. During a lecture he was presenting on a mystic’s role in society, he uttered the words “inner warrior,” while looking directly at me. I had never met him and wondered if he knew I was the author of Mystic Warrior. His lecture was fascinating and I couldn’t wait for a chance to speak to him without distraction.

Recently a client of mine had decided it was time, she could not be in her old job any longer. She had to make the leap, even though it was a leap into the unknown with no real safety net she could see. I couldn't believe how excited I was for her to make this leap. She wrote a powerful blog post about it and it just brought me back to that exciting and scary time in my life when I made my leap from Engineering into my deeper purpose and passion. I hear a lot from people talk

There are so many individuals alive today still wondering whether there is life after death, and if there is, what sort of afterlife is it? How can one be sure of the information available today on such controversial subjects as this one? I have studied all aspects of this subject quite seriously and as a skeptic since 1972. Unfortunately there has been much misinformation on this subject floating around throughout history, mostly created by powerful priests, popes and bishops trying to keep the masses under their control.

I meet my new dolphin 'pod' adventurers at the charter airport: diverse, travel weary, filled with unknown anticipations. They don't know it yet but they are about to enter a Divine Recipe of great equalizers: the sun, the sea, a custom built tri-maran and countless numbers of wild, free ...

I often hear Christians and non-Christians nacknowledge that God or the universe will pour nyou out a blessing that you will not have room nenough to receive. nnI am in agreement with the scripture or naffirmation but my question is not addressingnabundance or overflow. Today my question nin dealing with your ability to receive, hold nor absorb. What is your potential for growth or ndevelopment? What is your capacity to believe nand receive? nnTake a look with me if you will

This is a movie about Benjamin Barker, who, being conquered by his angry mind, became a murderer and finally was murdered himself. Unjustly convicted and imprisoned, Benjamin Barker returned to his native city. Led by his irritated mind, he programmed himself for revenge and changed his name to Sweeney Todd. As that, the protagonist, putting all his effort into vengeance, is not capable of catching either hope for a brighter future or any opportunities in his new life. His anger spreads and hurts innocent people.

Verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness, anger and pain less intense, according to a new brain imaging study by UCLA psychologists. We know from experience that this is true, and now we know why. Virtually all negative emotions are fear-based, despite what we might otherwise try to justify. This puts these emotions under the influence of the amygdala – a region of the brain which serves as an alarm to activate a cascade of biological systems to protect the body in times of perceived danger. This alarm goes off whenever we experience anything negative.

For well over a thousand years, mainstream Christianity has taught that the creation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden is literal history. While I will say it is a fantastic picture of how man came to this earth, I will also say that this story was never meant to be literal. In fact, to teach it in this way greatly diminishes the spiritual truth the author originally intended. But when this story is understood correctly, it unlocks the key