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“6 Natural Ways to Build Good Bacteria in Your Gut”

What we eat either creates good bacteria in our gut or bad bacteria. And having lots of good probiotic bacteria in our gut creates a powerful immune system. It also influences our brain, mood, energy level, and even inflammation in our body, and even helps us lose weight. And it also prevents diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis and prevents ulcers… and on and on. Caring for our GI tract is important for good health in every part of our body. Here are 6 Great Ways to Feed Your Good Bacteria and Thrive

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“How to See the Loving Child in Everyone”

Even an angry person who is always in someone’s face telling them what to do needs love. Some people are very pushy, thus not many are willing to come to their aide when they are in need. But sometimes we have to look past the outer person and see who they are deep down inside, a little boy or girl resides within everyone which needs love.

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Does God Nap?

I once watched a television show about the Holocaust involving a panel discussion of three people, one of whom was an elderly Jewish rabbi. When the moderator asked him the question, “How do you reconcile the notion of a loving God with something as horrible as the holocaust?” the rabbi responded, “God was napping.” I don’t claim to know the mind of God, but I do think I can say with some certainty that God doesn’t take naps. If he did the entire universe would di

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By Anita Marcus
Random Thoughts on Prayer

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘prayer’? At its most basic, prayer is simply talking to God. He is also described as a father so you can also think of it as talking to your dad. Think back to when you were a child and how you spoke to your dad. It’s casual and informal but respectful. Know that you can pray to God anywhere and about anything. There is no such thing as telling God something he doesn’t know. He’s not sitting there going, “Hold up, hold up

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“Dr. Haider’s Anticancer Eggplant Lasagna”

Here is a wonderful recipe that took no time at all to put together. And it’s delicious—REALLY! We cut this lasagna up to take to my mother-in-law and family and I was hoping there was a little left over. This lasagna is full of powerful anticancer agents and antioxidants such as eggplant, spinach, and carrots, and more. This tasty lasagna will do the body good… I Promise. See Link to See Photo of Recipe - https://paulhaider.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/dr-haiders-anticancer-eggplant-lasagna/ Another Whole-Foods Plant-Based Recipe Ingredients:

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“How to Live a Life of Freedom”

Lots of people are starting to lose it, they are overwhelmed by life, and this is not good. Here are a few things that anyone can do to find true freedom and set your life free. Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist Watch Video and Find Out More - See Link Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/AnyL3-ixdaA

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“Proven Health Benefits of Organic Brown Rice”

Brown rice is full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber that are not found in white rice. Organic brown rice is high in fiber, lots of antioxidants, and releases sugars slowly, prevents diabetes, makes a great baby food, and prevents yeast infections. Also, brown rice is much higher in good fatty acids, helps with weight loss, it’s a whole grain, and helps to prevent chronic disease. Brown rice is rich in selenium, helps to prevent cancer, arthritis, prevent heart disease, high in manganese for good reproductive and nervous system health.

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By DadaBhagwan
I don’t want to live anymore What should I do?

You might be feeling down and sad. And when these feelings run very deep and become intense, and you do not know what to do about them, you might think that the only solution is to end your life. But there is hope for you, and you can get through it. What is important for you to know is that there are lots of ways of dealing with these feelings and overcoming them. It is possible to come out on the other side and feel great once again. Try these initial steps: rnYou are never

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“3 True Stories of Amazing Love”

“3 Stories About How Love Can Transform Everything” Here are 3 amazing stories which are true events… stories which changed a life forever for lots of different people. Love is not just a word, love is an action, and thus it’s super important to remind ourselves about standing up to the world with love and spreading love everywhere as in these powerful stories. Dr. Paul Haider Watch and Find Out More Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel See link below to watch Dr. Haider's Video about this - Thank You https://youtu.be/6MdXcIl_AUg

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“You Can Talk to Your Departed Loved Ones”

“Everything is Part of ONE Consciousness” My mother passed away a few weeks ago but she’s not gone. I talk to my mother all the time… she is always with me. And you too can talk to your departed loved ones. When my mother passed away I missed her because we would talk on the phone every single day. But now that my mother is not here physically, I can still talk to her, for she can hear me and she can respond. We talk all the time now… and it’s very natural.

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Evolution of Consciousness

In order to evolve, a power or principle must be first involved. When we say that life evolved out of inanimate Matter, we have to reflect, “how is this possible?” When we examine Matter at the sub-atomic level, we see an incredible power of consciousness at work with very precise and mathematical relationships, balances of positive and negative charges, and cycles of rotation and interaction. Similarly, when we examine the development of Life, we find that every life-form has genetic coding of DNA that builds the precise form and activity of life that has been previously encoded.

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By Martin Gray
How Arts & Cultural Programs Empowers Community

Perhaps the ideal approach to improve individuals' lives is through nurturing their well-being. An accentuation on culture and art can possibly do that, improve the social and mental health of the people from all walks of life. At the point when we volunteer for a good cause or do charities to non-profit organizations, what we are basically attempting to do is improve somebody's well-being. Yet, the meaning of well-being can be different for each individual. Albeit monetary s

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Shifting From a Thought Based Reality

A non dual recognition has the potential to trigger massive shifts, on the level of consciousness. So much of these shifts are discussed quite thoroughly in non duality satsang. What makes it difficult to point to them, is that these descriptions give the mind a way to control the awakening process…which, in reality, is uncontrollable…and also not describable. It’s like describing the taste, smell or feel of something to someone.

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By Saad Sheikh
Some Famous Types of Hijab and Why Muslim Women Wear It

Hijab is introduced with numerous names most ordinarily known as shroud or headscarf that Muslim ladies wear to cover. Muslim ladies wear to covering called Hijab which is an Arabic word intends to "cover" or to disguise or avoid see. There is much more to the Islamic dress code for females than the hijab. Muslim womenfolk dress code deals with, •Clothingrn•Actionsrn•Attitudern•Presence For some hijab means mixture a headscarf with the clothes of Western-style, for ot

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Spirituality Transcends All Religions

Many people confuse spirituality and religion and then try to associate various spiritual paths with specific religious traditions. Spirituality, however, is not based in the beliefs, practices, or customary folkways of any religion. Spirituality seeks for direct experience of the greater reality of existence, independent of the mind’s ideas or beliefs, independent of any particular philosophical direction, independent of any emotional or vital relationships.

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The Dung Beetle

I was reminded by my teachers that we, as a race, are really not as smart as we like to think we are. (And it isn't a race...) That's cool though, because we are here on this planet to learn. While most of us realize that, and move into that energy, I was also asked to understand that there are others out there that really spend a lot of their lives spinning their wheels. This is really because of the decisions that they make and their refusal to use the useful information th

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“Dogs Came from Heaven to Care for Us”

We have two dogs and they are street dogs we adopted. But I’m not sure who rescued who… I think our dogs give us much more love than we could ever give back in return. See link to see photo of our dog - https://paulhaider.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/dogs-came-from-heaven-to-care-for-us/

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By Amy Long
Recognizing and Developing Wisdom

“Wisdom has always been the essential thing; therefore get wisdom.” Blessings are not wisdom and miracles are not wisdom. Miracles will resolve your difficulties: physical, mental, of the spirit, monetary; wisdom will keep you from needing any miracle in the first place. The only problem you will ever have would be a wisdom problem. You can’t repair the family’s problems right up until you correct your wisdom concerning the family. I think it is important to stress

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The World is a Manifestation of the Divine

The mind can justify a world of illusion that has its outlet in an escape to unity with an undifferentiated, unmoving Absolute; and it can equally justify a world of reality that is the manifestation of the Being who creates, sustains, informs, contains and constitutes that world. The various concepts each provide a basis for a spiritual seeking and realisation. One of these paths leads away from the world of existence. The other unifies the transcendent, the universal and the individual in the One Reality, the “one without a second” while describing that “all this is the Brahman.”

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God, Gods, Goddesses and Human Perceptions

Does God exist? Are there more than one God? Is God a figment of human imagination? These questions have confounded humanity for aeons and, even today, they are hotly debated. Some believe there is only one God and that anyone who worships a different form or name of God is deluded. Some experience God in one form or another and believe that the form they see is the only true God. Some believe that all of the Gods are representations of specific Nature powers. Some believe that the various names and forms of Gods are simply aspects of one God.

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What Is Transformation of the Nature?

Sri Aurobindo describes a goal for humanity which involves a change of consciousness and the transformation of human nature. There is considerable debate about whether it is possible to change human nature, or whether we are doomed to be stuck in our animal nature for all times. Sri Aurobindo acknowledges that the process of changing human nature is difficult, that the long-held habits of the physical and vital nature of man continue to exert their strong control over our actions, despite our highest ideals and mental conceptions.

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Stop Thinking So Much

When taking a test, why do people always tell us to trust our first answer? Why do we remember some person's name that was elusively on the tip of your tongue earlier, in the shower or before we drift off to sleep? Why do we have some our greatest creative ideas in the shower? When we are doing a crossword puzzle and get stuck on a word for an eternity, why do people suggest that we put it down for a while? And, why is it that when we pick up the puzzle a little later the let

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“Chaga Mushrooms a Powerful Super Food”

“For Immunity, Cancer, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol” Chaga Mushrooms and also called Inonotus Obliquus is a mushroom that grows on birch trees in the US and other areas of the world. It’s an interesting looking mushroom that looks like a piece of burned wood more than anything else. And the tea made from this mushroom can boost up our immune system, it’s very soothing for the GI tract, and heals many different diseases. In fact in Siberia it was noticed that people who drank chaga tea on a regular basis had a much lower incidence of cancer and stomach problems.

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Concentration in the Heart Centre to Achieve the Realisation of the Divine Presence in the Integral Yoga

Sri Aurobindo describes two main areas of concentration within the being, the heart centre and the head. For most people, the concentration in the heart centre turns out to be the safest and easiest to achieve realisation. Yoga, to be effective, must move beyond either a purely mental exercise or emotional activity. Concentration can be an aid in this process.

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The International Day Of Peace - September 21

The International Day of Peace was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly. In 2002, September 21 was designated as the permanent date for this observance. It has become a worldwide movement to create a global ceasefire and a day of peace and nonviolence.nnIn establishing the International Day of Peace, the United Nations General Assembly decided that it would be appropriate "to devote a specific time to concentr

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“How to Love Angry People”

We all have people that are hard to love in our life. And many find it very hard to love people they don’t get along with. Here is what I recommend in order to heal your karma and to bring about a better world and heal the angry people in your life. Dr. Paul Haider Watch Video and Find Out More Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel To watch Dr. Haider's Video about this on Youtube please copy and paste the following URL into your browser - Thank You https://youtu.be/EFvsbXDNHrQ

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“Proven Health Benefits of Bei Sha Shen Herb”

“Great for Coughs, Bronchitis, Gastritis, Depression, and More” Here is a Chinese wild herb that grows in Alaska, Yukon, Most of China, Japan, and Korea, and other cool areas of the world… and it stimulates Yin energy in the body. Also known as Radix Glehniae and in Chinese medicine, it’s called Bei Sha Shen and sometimes called glehnia. Heals Dry Coughs - Bei Sha Shen is well known for healing a dry nagging cough. And also helps to get rid of phlegm and mucus. And Bei Sha Shen is many times boiled in combination with licorice root, mulberry leaf, and other herbs.

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“Top 3 Anti-inflammatory Foods”

“These 3 Foods Also Help to Prevent Cancer” Any food that helps to prevent inflammation also helps to prevent disease in general… and inflammation is the first step towards disease and cancer. Number 1 - Organic Black Beans Eat Organic Black Beans at Least 3 or 4 Times a Week to Stay Healthy Black Beans are super powerful anti-inflammatory food. And in Brazil, they place these little black beans on a separate level on their food pyramid because they feel they are super important… and I also feel they are very important.

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Discrimination to Recognise the Distinction of Different Forces and the Various Parts of the Being is Necessary for the Spiritual Seeker

The Buddhist tradition describes Manjushri as a Bodhisattva who, with his flaming sword of discrimination, cuts through illusion and falsehood to disclose the truth of existence. The power of discrimination between different powers, forces, impressions, suggestions, and their source and intent in their pressure on the seeker, is essential if the seeker is not to fall victim to malign influences or suggestions. It is also important to disentangle the effects of the different elements of the being on the resultant thought-process and actions of the seeker.

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By HH Radhanath Swami
Overcoming Difficulties

1)Dualities of the World:rnOne must be tolerant in the face of dualities of the world. Whether we are rich or poor, literate or illiterate, CEO or simple worker, or live in shanties or high rises, we are bound to the shackles of old age, disease and death. The body will get sick and die but the soul is beyond birth and death. We have to learn to love God and realize the eternal relationship between the soul and Him before death. To the degree , we understand this, we can face

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Why Don’t We Do What We Know We ‘Should’?

Have you ever had the experience of knowing you should do something… but you didn’t?nnRecently, I had such an experience. nnWhen I returned from an appointment I checked my phone messages and there was a call from a potential client asking for some information. That’s a priority… right? I should have called him back immediately. But for some reason, I didn’t. In fact, a couple of days passed before I got around to phoning him. By this time I was feeling guilty and h

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“6 Ways to Prevent Kidney Disease”

Right now we have an epidemic of kidney disease going on in the world. Kidney disease has increased 6 fold in the last few years, and thus we need to teach people how to prevent kidney disease and stop the suffering. Here are 6 simple ways we can decrease the likelihood of coming down with kidney disease.

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“New Movie and Prophecy — ‘Garabandal - Only God Knows’”

“This is a New Movie and True Story Which Was Just Release in the Northern Part of Spain With a Prophecy” This movie is about 4 young women who had visions of Mother Mary from 1960 through 1965 near Garabandal Spain. And even today they still say what they saw was very real and true. And Conchita Gonzalez who now resides in Long Island NY is still a devout follower of the Catholic Religion. And Conchita still says that all of this is true.

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How to Choose the Object or Idea for Meditation

In the Taittiriya Upanishad, Bhrigu approached his father, Varuna and asked to be taught about the Ete al. Varuna replied ‘Seek thou to know that from which these creatures are born, whereby being born they live and to which they go hence and enter again; for that is the Ete al.’ As Bhrigu meditated on the Ete al in this way, he came back for further guidance on several occasions and was told ‘By askesis do thou seek to know the Ete al, for concentration in thought (or concentration of force) is the Ete al.’ (translations provided here are by Sri Aurobindo)

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The Nature of Inner Peace

Most of us, when we reflect on the quality of “peace” think about finding an exte al situation that is quiet and isolated from the activities of the social body, whether it be politics, the economy, or inter-personal relationships. Peace for us is something that exists through the absence of disturbance. We then say we are “at peace”. We also tend to relegate “peace” to the dead and departed when we say “rest in peace”. The peace of death is, for many, the ultimate description of “peace”.

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By John Morton
You Are the Blessings in the Challenge

Think of a challenge in your life and ask yourself, “What is the blessing?” Take a moment to consider that this difficulty may be a blessing in disguise. Be open to seeing the answer in a way that includes you as the blessings. You are integral to the blessings. There’s nothing separating you from the blessings. As you look for the blessings, be willing to sacrifice old ways of thinking such as, “I’m wrong. I’m not good enough. I can’t do it. It’s not worth it

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“4 People Healed by John of God — True Stories”

I have to say, that lately, I’ve had lots of people come to me and tell me how they were miraculously healed by John of God in Brazil. This is not a one-time thing… I get these emails and texts all the time telling me how they were healed of some type of terrible disease in no time. “Four True Cases of Healing by The Entities of Light and John of God”

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“True Story of a Cancer Healing Miracle”

“A Little Boy Healed of a Rare Blood Cancer” Not long ago there was a young couple who lived in the UK who had a 3-year-old boy. They went to see relatives and came back home and the boy complained of leg cramps and fever. And the parents were worried and took him to one of the best children’s hospitals in London. And they did tests and found he had a rare form of blood cancer. But a miracle was about to take place.

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