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the original "Lord's Prayer"

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The Lord's Prayer
Translated from Aramaic into English
Rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English

O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration
soften the ground of our being and carve out a space
within us where Your Presence can abide.
Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered
to bear the fruit of Your mission.
Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.
Endow us with the wisdom to produce
and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us,
as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.
Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true
purpose, but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For You are the round and the fruitful vision, the birth-power and
fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again.

nonlocality

Modern physics experimentally proved nonlocality. 

During the early 1980s a French physicist Alain Aspect performed experiments with two detectors set at the distance of 13 meters, and the container of high-energy calcium atoms between them. Every calcium atom, returning in the normal low-energy state, emits two photons in the opposite directions, with the spins which should be perfectly correlated. 

The principle of locality -- the concept of the universe where forces act only locally -- implies that all the influences in the universe travel through space and time, and the speed of light is the fastest. A measurement of the properties of an object doesn't influence the properties of the other; if the results of the measurement correspond, it implies that other object already had these properties. 

In Aspect's experiment just the opposite happened, the measurement of an object influenced the other...(and faster than the speed of light!) 

(Aspect changed the spin of one of the calcium atoms, and the second calcium's atom spin instantly reversed. They were somehow 'communicating' with each other.)

The principle of locality implies that distant objects cannot have direct influence on one another, however, Aspect's experiment proves (the reality of nonlocality) -- that what happens to the object, acts on the distant object, without measurable force traveling through space and time. (The influence on the other object is instantaneous, regardless of the distance away from the first object).

This experiment proved nonlocality for the first time, as the basis for all universal relationships. 

Simply put, nonlocality means that every change in your psycho-energetic system (human consciousness) influences all other objects in the universe; every change of a particular object in the universe, no matter how distant it is, acts on you.  

Ninoslav Safaric

February 17, 2007

At the level of human consciousness, there is no such thing as distance. We think a thought and it has reached the end of the universe and returned instantaneously, influencing everything it comes into contact with along the way (everything!). 

We are all one.

The Double Slit Experiment

To understand how consciousness effects -- changes -- matter, we have to come to terms with the famous "double slit experiment". It is the science behind the power of human thought to literally create the world around us.

guided meditation for health balancing

You might copy and paste this text into your computer voice program for playback, or record it yourself and listen to it spoken in your own voice. This takes about fifteen minutes.

Don't worry about visualizing or placing your biological organs and systems in their proper place in your body. You don't need to know what they look like or where they are -- your body knows that information, and better than you ever could. Just trust that energy follows thought, and your body will do the rest.

Take a few moments to get comfortable, using the techniques already described. Turn off your logical mind. Close your eyes and begin to align your breathing with your pulse as previously offered. Relax and enjoy.

Then tell the arches of your feet to relax, the bridges of your feet to relax, the heels to relax, the ankles to relax, each covered in the warm, healing light.

Continue drawing the glowing, warm light up your lower legs, to your knees, to your upper legs, telling each to relax and enjoy the warmth, the relaxation, the healing.

Continue drawing the warm, healing light up and over your buttocks, your hips, your pelvis, up to your stomach, your abdomen, your chest, telling each to relax and enjoy the warmth, the light, the healing.

Gently draw this warm light up your lower back, your upper back to your shoulders, telling each to relax. Draw the warm, healing light down each arm, telling them to relax, drawing the light down to the wrists, the hands, the fingers.

Now gently draw the warm light up your neck to your head, covering your entire head with glowing, healing light. Tell your face to relax, your eyes, your ears, your mouth and jaw.

Now take a moment and become aware of your entire body gently glowing with warm, radiant, healing light. Feel the slightest, most wonderful vibration over your entire body as this healing light soothes, relaxes and heals everything it touches.

Now picture your lungs glowing with a bright, healing light. Follow this energy flow into the heart; picture the heart pumping and pulsing healthy, glowing blood through your circulatory system. Tell this blood, this light, to remove all excess fat and all toxins from your system; tell this light to heal your blood cells; to generate new, healthy blood cells from your glowing bone morrow.

Now move this light into your other internal organs: your stomach, your large and small intestines, your liver, your gall bladder, your pancreas, your spleen, your kidneys, your bladder, your bowels, your urinary tract, your reproductive tract. Fill all your internal organs with this glowing, radiant, warm, healing light and feel these organs healing.

Take a moment and focus this light on any organs you're having problems with. Heal them with the radiant, warm light. Know that miraculous healing can happen at any moment - that miraculous healings happen every day to millions of people the world over. Know that the only ones limiting our healing are ourselves.

Now move this warm light to your muscular system; feel all your muscles, ligaments and tendons glowing with healing light, strengthening them.

Move this light into your nervous system; fill your brain with this healing, warm, relaxing light. Now draw this light down your spinal column and into the millions of nerves throughout your body. Watch the energy and healing electrons dart and spin and race throughout your brain and nerves strengthening your memory, your intellect, your consciousness.

Now move this Divine, glowing, healing light into your eyes so that they can see better; into your nose so it can smell better; into your ears so they can hear better and into your mouth, teeth and gums so you can taste better, all glowing with light and energy.

Now move this warm, healing light to your skin, your nails, your hair until your entire body -- inside and outside -- is glowing with health. Know that if someone were to come into your room now, they would not see a body, but a radiant, glowing form of Divine, healing light.

Now, just bask in this glowing, healing, protecting light and warmth. Luxuriate in it. Be a peaceful child once again. Smile with your entire body. Know that you are perfect.

Know that you always have been.

A Prayer To Humankind

A poem of the heart
by Manitongquat

thank you, 'Rocio, with love, bradley

HEAR, O HUMANKIND, the prayer of my heart.

For are we not one, have we not one desire,
to heal our Mother Earth and bind her wounds?
And still to be free as the spotted Eagle climbing
the laughing breath of our Father Sky,
to hear again from dark forests and flashing rivers
the varied ever-changing Song of Creation?

O Humankind, are we not all brothers and sisters,
are we not the grandchildren of the Great Mystery?
Do we not all want to love and be loved, to work
and to play, to sing and dance together?
But we live with fear. Fear that is hate,
fear that is ambition, competition, aggression,
fear that is loneliness, anger, bitterness, cruelty,
fear that is mistrust. envy. greed. vanity. . . and yet
fear is only twisted love, love turned back
upon itself, devouring itself, hating itself,
love that was denied, love that was rejected . . . and love. ..

Love is life - creation, seed and leaf
and blossom and fruit and seed, love is growth
and search and reach and touch and dance,
love is nurture and succor and feed and pleasure,
love is pleasuring ourself, pleasuring each other,
love is life believing in itself.

And life. . .
Life is the Sacred Mystery singing to itself, dancing
to its drum, telling tales, improvising, playing
and we are all that Spirit, our stories all
but one cosmic story that we are loved indeed,
that perfect love we seek we are already.
That the love in me seeks the love in you,
and if our eyes could ever meet without fear,
we would recognize each other and rejoice,
for love is life believing in itself.

O Humankind, we must stop fearing life,
fearing each other, we must absolutely
stop hating ourself, resenting Creation .... Life,
O Humankind, life is the only treasure.
We are the custodians of it, it is our sacred trust.
Life is wondrous, awesome and holy, a burning glory,
and its price is simply this: courage . . .
we must be brave enough to love.

Hear my heart's prayer, O Humankind,
trust in love, don't be afraid. I love you
as I love life, I love myself, please
love me too, love yourself, for perfect love,
as a wise one said, casts out all fear.
If we are to live, there is no other choice,
for love is life believing in itself.

Above all,
let us set the children free, break the traps
of fear that history has fashioned for them,
free to grow, to seek and question, to dance and sing,
to be dreamers of tomorrow's rainbows,
and if we but give them our trust
they will guide us to a New Creation,
for love is life believing in itself.

Hear, O Humankind, the prayer of my heart.

the age of no more secrets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk

a gentle reminder

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affirmations

Affirmations can be an important part of a meditative practice. You can use them as a mantra during meditation, or throughout the day as a substitution whenever less-than-positive thoughts come up. The more you substitute an affirmation for a negative thought, the more you will find the affirmation taking over and the negative thoughts dwindling. You will find yourself living your affirmation.

I am in the universe, the universe is in me.

I am Spirit; I am not of the body, not of the ego.

I am a sensual extension of a sensual universe; the Divine is in a flower; is in me; is in everything.

All relationships mirror my personal growth - good and ill; I will learn from them.

I release all psychological, environmental and spiritual toxins.

I no longer need approval, which is a fear based need.

I acknowledge my dark side and release it.

I shall not judge and criticize.

I replace fear with love.

I live in the NOW; I am life centered.

There is no past, no future, only this present moment where the Divine dwells.

I celebrate the uncertainty, which is where all possibilities lie.

I am a being of Light and Love.

Miracles happen wherever I go.

All that I need comes easily to me.

Love comes to me easily and effortlessly and I accept it now.

My health and body are perfect and I am stronger every day.

I am now employed in the perfect work for me.

Abundance comes to me effortlessly and I am grateful for it and I deserve it.

66 Things You Can Grow At Home: In Containers, Without a Garden

From apples and figs to bananas and guavas -- and hops.

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Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don't have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they—and you—have to travel.
As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. My boyfriend and I are essentially first-timers this season and so far have the beginnings of strawberries peeking out, tomatoes are on their way, the basil's about ready for a big batch of pesto, and once the last frost hits, the peppers, kale, spinach, chard, and mesclun will be on their way, too. All on a tiiiny little terrace (with the help of a little DIY carpentry).
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If you're up to the challenge—and it really isn't much of one—growing your own food can be so rewarding. And so much cheaper! Just be sure to choose the right planter or container, learn how to maintain it properly, and go find yourself some seeds! (Or starter plants.) Like this idea? Be sure to check out these 6 Crazy Concepts for Micro Gardens That Actually Work to get inspiration for designing your own garden in a small space. While you're at it, check in with our Organic Gardening feature for tons more info on making your garden grow.
Here's a starter list of all the crazy things even urban gardeners, without space for a garden, can grow at home.

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Tree fruits - including apples

1. Apples can be grown in a container; you can also grow them on the balcony or other small space using a technique called espaliering.
2. Kumquats
3. Avocados (plenty of extra tips online if you search)
4. Blackberries
5. Blueberries (sometimes helpful videos are available online)
6. Pomegranate
7. Cherries
8. Figs
9. Pears

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Citrus fruits

Citrus trees in particular are said to be good for beginning gardeners and are easy to grow indoors, so don't let inexperience or lack of outdoor space stop you from enjoying fresh-picked, hyper-local fruit.
10. Dwarf oranges
11. Grapefruit
12. Tangerines
13. Meyer lemons
14. Limes

Tropical fruits

Tropical fruits can also be surprisingly easy to grow indoors, even in non-tropical climates. Such as...
15. Bananas (look for container gardening tips online)
16. Pineapple
17. Papaya
18. Guavas (several varieties)
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The real surprises

19. Hops—yes, as in the "spice" ingredient in beer. Turns out they're easy to grow!
20. Aloe Vera
21. Strawberries
22. Tea (well, herbal tea)
23. Quinoa!

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The non-surprises

24. Tomatoes
25. Summer squash
26. Other squashes, like acorn and pumpkin
27. Hot Peppers
28. Sweet peppers
29. Cucumbers

Melons

30. Small cantaloupe
31. Jenny Lind melon (an heirloom cantaloupe)
32. Golden Midget Watermelon

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Herbs

Just about any herb grows well indoors—just be sure that if you're going to do any container-sharing, you do your research first about which herbs co-habitate well together. (Some will hog water, for example, and leave the others dried out.)
33. Basil
34. Oregano
35. Parsley
36. Rosemary
37. Chives
38. Catnip
39. Thyme
40. Sage
41. Parsley

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Leafy Greens

42. Kale
43. Mesclun greens
44. Spinach
45. Swiss chard
46. Lettuces (plenty of options there, from micro-greens to head or loose-leaf)
47. Mustard greens
48. Collard greens
49. Arugula

Root Vegetables

50. Carrots
51. Beets
52. Potatoes

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Other healthy-sounding stuff

53. Sprouts
54. More sprouts: mung bean and lentil sprouts
55. Wheatgrass
56. Kohlrabi
57. Turnips
58. Rutabagas
59. Celeriac
60. Parsnips
61. Jerusalem Artichoke
62. Sugar snap peas
63. Rhubarb (not ideal in a container, but it can work)
64. Mushrooms (again, more tips online if you look)
65. Pole Beans
66. Aaaand... asparagus, although some disagree that it does well in a container. Try it if you're ok with a risk!
Bonus 67: You can grow your own loofah, too, but you'd need a garden rather than a container for that.
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cutting chords

You can release people from your life energetically with chord cutting and other techniques, people who no longer serve your highest good, and whose highest good you may no longer serve.

They just drift off without the need for confrontation. 

Make it a sacred event.

You might think about cutting the ancestral chord through the mother and all grandmothers, the father and all grandfathers (while retaining their wisdom), to the beginning of time. It is this chord that attracts a lot of the other people into our lives that can cause...disruption. It is connected at the navel and is quite thick and knotted.



First, we have to accept full responsibility (as a co-creator with the Universe) for our energetic part in connecting to, or attracting these energies in the first place. Nothing happens in a vacuum; like it or not, we always have a part in what 'befalls' us. There's no judgment about it, it's just energetic law: like energy attracts like energy.

You can say something like: "I accept full responsibility for ALL my creations, and recall any and all negative energy, negative thoughtforms, negative intent -- consciously or unconsciously -- to my Higher Self/God Self/Christ Self to be healed, blessed, transmuted and released back into the Light. I retain the wisdom of these experiences, transmuting the energy and the experience itself back into Light."

Use an electric blue 'sword', or blade, to cut all chords (the Sword Of Archangel Michael). Cut down your front and the back and both sides, over the head and under the feet. You may have to do it several times.

You can imagine that your hand and arm is a sword (or laser) and 'slice' your hand down your front and sides and imagine doing so down the back.

You can also officially announce to the universe that you release them (and everyone) from all karmic ties and debts bound to you, and that you ask to be released from all karmic ties and debts bound to them (their Higher Self MUST honor this request, regardless whether the person would do so in 'real life' or not).

Once you do any of this, you have to completely let them go from your consciousness, unless you are sending them light & love. One negative thought and the chords reattach. And you have to cut them again.

Then surround yourself with the Whole Armour Of God, which reflects back to their Higher Self any and all negative energies anyone may try to project to you consciously or unconsciously. By directing it back to their Higher Self, we don't engage in an energetic 'battle' of wills and personalities.

Namaste'

gratitude

"gratitude" shannon grissom

Here are 49 beautiful gratitude quotes (thanks Marelisa)
 

1. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer

2. “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” — G. K. Chesterton

3. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks”. — Unknown

4. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

5. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” — Epictetus

6. “You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

7. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” — Thornton Wilder

8. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

9. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward

10. “Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.” — Marcus Aurelius

11. “Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

12. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick

13. “Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted–a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner

14. “We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” — Marcus Annaeus Seneca

15. “When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.” — Wilferd A. Peterson

16. “Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.” — Shakti Gawain

17. “Thou that has given so much to me,
Give one thing more–a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if thy blessings had spare days;
But such a heart, whose pulse may be
Thy praise.”

– George Herbert

18.  “(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.” — A.H. Maslow

19. “If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice.” — Meister Eckhart

20. “Find the good and praise it.” — Alex Haley

21. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” — The Hausa of Nigeria

22. “What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it-would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” — Ralph Marston

23. “Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

24. “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” — Henry Miller

25. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum

26.  “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.” — Brother David Steindl-Rast

27.  “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

28. “As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ” — Adabella Radici

29. “For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. ” — Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

31. “When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” — Chinese Proverb

32. “Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.” — Horace

33. “But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.” — Wallace Wattles

34. “Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.” — Author Unknown

35. “If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner

36. “Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” — Albert Schweitzer

37. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” — William A. Ward

38. “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” — John Henry Jowett

39. “Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” — Christiane Northrup

40.”The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” — Richard Bach

41. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens

42. “Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach

43. “Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.” — M.J. Ryan

44. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” –Doris Day

45. “Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.” — Wallace Wattles

46. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” — Buddha

47. “Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.” — Edwin Arlington Robinson

48. “There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.” — Wally Wattles

49. “Gratitude should not be just a reaction to getting what you want, but an all-the-time gratitude, the kind where you notice the little things and where you constantly look for the good, even in unpleasant situations. Start bringing gratitude to your experiences, instead of waiting for a positive experience in order to feel grateful.” — Marelisa Fábrega

some basic meditation techniques

There is a gateway within each of, a miraculous door through which can pass to us health and self-healing, unconditional love, non-judgment, joy and bliss. A door through which we can pass at any moment of our day into a place of non-judgment, unconditional love, health and self-healing, joy and bliss. This door is always open, we have only to turn towards it. That door is meditation.

What exactly is meditation? What it is not is relaxation, although relaxation is one of the results of meditating. It is not prayer, although once in a meditative state prayer becomes much more powerful and effective. Prayer is asking, meditating is listening. Listening to what? To your conscience, your higher self, the universe, God. Each of which have a tough time getting through to us because of the continual 'static' and 'noise' of our lives and our thoughts.

The object is to move beyond our thoughts and thinking process into a state of non-judgmental awareness -- into true beingness, where we find ourselves existing absolutely in the present moment -- the Holy Instant.

This occurs when our breath becomes calm and focused, when the sensations of the body begin to melt away and when the left and right hemispheres of the brain move closer into synchronization. And then the gateway opens into the Divine realm where our health is perfect, love unconditional and fear nonexistent.

Remember, meditating is not about relaxing, so once you start, if you find yourself nodding off, then stop and get some rest. You need to be alert.

For the same reason, you probably shouldn't meditate while lying down. If you are currently confined to bed, then try to keep your pillows propped up, or have someone guide you through the meditation. You also need to try and keep the spine straight to allow an open channel of energy flow. If you are in a chair, keep your feet flat on the floor. But always make sure you feel comfortable; if meditating doesn't feel good physically, you won't want to continue.

Dress comfortably and warmly.

Make the practice of meditating something special in your life, even sacred; you will have a more powerful experience. If you can, create a special place to meditate which is only for that purpose and away from where you find frustrations in your life. Turn off the phone and hide the ticking clocks.

Prepare to not be disturbed for at least fifteen minutes. You can work your way up to a half hour later. If you only get five minutes in the meditation that you feel 'connected' -- that's a lot! Give yourself this gift. We have twenty-three and three quarter hours in the day to be tense and nervous; surely we can find ten or fifteen or twenty minutes for our own physical and spiritual healing?

Another way to begin the practice is to first balance your breathing. With your eyes closed, take the thumb of your right hand and close off your right nostril, exhale through your left nostril, then inhale through the same nostril. With your index finger of your same hand, now pinch off the left nostril and exhale through the right nostril, then inhale through the right nostril and pinch it off with your thumb. Repeat for five minutes, breathing deeply and gently as you try and follow your breath, listening to it, visualizing it flowing in and out of you. Enjoy it. (Breath, by the way, in Latin, means soul).

Another method to begin your practice, and which is very helpful if you find your thoughts constantly interrupting your meditation, is to fully engage all your senses. In effect, you're entering the meditative state through the back door.

Listen for everything you can hear; listen for the sounds within the sounds; the truck outside, its engine, its wheels moving against the pavement, are there four wheels or eight?; listen to the lawn mover, the conversation next door; listen to your breathing; to the ringing in your ears; everything. Then feel the clothes against your skin, the carpet under your feet, the bones and muscles, and the blood moving through you; feel your skin and hair and teeth; feel air blowing over your skin; feel heat rising off you; feel the unconscious vibration of sub-atomic elements moving through you. Smell the air and taste your mouth. 'See' with your eyes closed, the colors, the patterns -- the universe (your optic nerve can actually register the flow of individual atomic photons).

Another technique is to simply follow your breathing. Counting your breaths is a way of engaging your logical mind while freeing your subconscious. Try to match your breathing with your pulse beats and count until you reach a full breath. Five to seven beats is average. Hold your breath for half that number. Exhale to the same pulse beats. Hold your breath out for half that number. Repeat. This is actually the natural way to breathe, the way we were born to breathe. As it is, we only use about 30% of our lung capacity. This helps make the blood alkaline. And disease cannot grow in the presence of a full oxygen content in an alkaline environment.

You can repeat your name as a mantra, a mantra being any word or phrase which is repeated over and over, silently or vocally. Repeat any word or phrase which has meaning to you such as "I am at peace" or "Love. Truth. Joy." or "I am One" or "I desire money (success, love, etc.)". Again, repeating a mantra engages the logical brain.

It can be very effective to stare at a symbol or picture while speaking a mantra, this works to balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Another idea is to say -- vocally or silently -- on an inhalation the word "I" and exhale the word "AM"; repeat.

A very powerful method is to intone the mantra of "O-m" or "A-u-m" The vibrational tone of the word "Om", in ancient belief, is considered to be the first sound of creation, the first 'breath', if you will, of the Divine. It is believed to link you directly with the Unity Consciousness Of All That Is/God/Spirit.

To use the "A-U-M" version, think of the "A" as the sound of the inbreath, continue that sound as you begin to exhale, then gently make the "U" sound, which gradually becomes the "M" sound at the end of the exhalation. Begin with the "A" again and repeat.

Try using the inexpensive, foam ear plugs you can buy at any pharmacy. They help you move into your inner silence and focus on your breath, your heartbeat, your very essence.

These are just a few suggestions. Use them as a springboard to create your own and you will have a much more enjoyable experience.

Try to meditate at least once a day.

It will change your life.

"Risk" by Anais Nin

sunset by georgia o'keefe

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.

a prayer

 

Prayer
by An Unknown Confederate Soldier

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was
made weak, that I might humbly obey.

I asked for health, that I might do greater things, I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

I asked for riches, that I might be happy, I was given poverty,
that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men, I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life, I was given life,
that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men, most richly blessed.

Greetings from Home: Inner Beauty

(from www.lightworker.com)

Beauty An Anchor of Light

Home is now changing because of what you are doing here on this planet. Each and every one of you has brought a very special segment of Home to planet Earth to carry with you. This part of Home is not only your message, internal guidance, and spark of light, but it is something that you refer to on your planet as beauty. There is much that will be coming as humans evolve to carry more of their spirit in the physical being. Many of your changes have been emotional and energetic, yet they are starting to occur on a physical level as well. It is easy to see where this is going. We will share with you what will be helpful to know as you experience these changes and this transformation. We wish to tell you about the one anchor, the piece that will hold your energy in all situations during all these growth experiences. We know this is difficult for most of you to hear or understand and especially to feel. But we will ask you to take this information into your mental body first then simply filter it down, for you are carrying the beauty of Home within your being right now.

Many of you have come in with a strong heart connection. As a child you had to learn how to tone that down and pull in your energy to try and fit into a world you did not seem to fit in. That became very problematic, yet you learned how to hold your energy field in to give you the illusion of being separate. Now you are starting to understand that you are connected, and you always have been. You are starting to let go of that restriction, of that energy field that you have compacted so tightly around you. Now that you are starting to return to who you truly are, and there is something that will happen to almost each and every one of you. You will feel a loss of your own grounding process, and when this happens the first thing you begin to do is to doubt yourself. It is very common on this planet right now that as you look at things you have been doing for a very long time, you start to wonder if you are doing them right. You are beginning to doubt yourself in many ways, but we do not even think that is such a negative. Instead, it is simply an opportunity for you to re-evaluate everything.  So, as we start to lose this restriction, we begin to connect to different energy fields and feel other people like you have before. You are starting to feel your own connection with everyone else around you. Because that is unusual, it makes you lose your autonomy and your separateness, the illusion of who you think you are.

Inner Beauty

That is why you are starting to work with harmonizing techniques and learning how you can send your energy safely out into the universe. If we told you that you could send a stream of your beauty and energy out into the universe and it could be felt by everyone, very few of you would do it because you think that your energy is not perfect. You would doubt yourself so much that you would block and restrict your own beauty. Because you are on the planet of Free Choice, it has become a continual cycle for all humans to do that.  It is part of the process you have of bringing in your energy field and pretending to be separate from the whole. Now it is changing, as you start to release these boundaries which you have worked so hard on during your incarnations on Earth. The first thing you see is that you are part of the whole. What we are telling you is that you are part of a puzzle that cannot exist without you. You hold a unique beauty, a part of Home that can only be seen through your smile, your words and your vibration. Your first and most important responsibility is to find your own inner beauty, for that part of the puzzle is needed now. This will be scary for most of you. It is easy to find beauty in someone or something else, and yet it is difficult for you to see your own. It is part of the veil which you have described, that you actually created at the beginning of the game of planet Earth. It is a part of the veil that you designed that keeps one from seeing who they truly are. Now that veil is starting to disintegrate. A slow but steady degradation of the veil is well underway. The veil is starting to diminish and you are starting to feel things that you have never felt before.

Do Something!

You are beginning to become aware that you hold a responsibility in the universe to play a role in the process. Deep inside you are aware of a feeling that you are supposed to do something big in your life. We concur and predict that soon you will have a chance to bring your own part of beauty from Home to create Heaven on Earth. Every one of you has been working on this, for it is a grand puzzle piece that cannot exist until all the parts are in place. You hold one of those pieces. Your passion, your excitement, those things that light up your spirit will take you to your beauty. They will take you to the most incredible ideas, and please understand the way you have defined beauty on this planet is very strange. It is interesting to see how each one defines beauty, because it is a part of Home seen from many views. It is a remembrance of a part that you know. When you find yourself watching a sunrise over a pristine pasture and you see that energy coming in and say, “Oh, this is beautiful!” you are remembering Home. You are remembering that same feeling you have every single moment at Home. At this time it will be very helpful to spend time each day renewing your idea of beauty, to appreciate and  practice expressing this beauty. It is time to dare to let people see you and to let them in to release this restricting boundary that you have worked so hard to hold on to. It is time to start letting go. 

These are the pieces that each and every one of you is starting to walk through. It is not easy, and we know that. Although we have never incarnated on Earth and played the game of pretending to be human, we are here to help you re-member your true nature for we are part of you on a much larger level. We are here to help you re-member that you are a spirit first, and a human second. We are here to help you re-member that you are a grand family, that you are sons and daughters of the king. You are special beyond your belief and you have a light from Home that is needed on this planet now more than ever before. We know that it is scary for you. We know that you doubt yourself, it is part of the human condition and yet we applaud you. When you feel the wind at your back, it is our wings brushing against each other as we applaud each and every one of you as you step out of that little comfort zone that you have nurtured for so long to be your safety zone. Now you will find that it will restrict you. It will frustrate you, it will make you doubt yourself and that is why each and every one of you can start releasing and become the energy field that you always were. For the first time it is possible to hold that energy in one of your physical bodies. It is new and there are new forms of communication that are coming as a result. Humans currently spend hours talking to each other using words to communicate with little success. Then when the vibrations are in sync it only takes a split second to make your point. You will be able to very quickly go through and hit those levels of what we have called Deep Contact. It is part of your natural form as you start releasing much of what you have built to protect you.

The Backwash of Doubt

This is a time to let you know that it is okay to feel as if you do not have it all. It is okay to feel frail, because everybody else on the planet is feeling the same way even if they are not saying so. It is part of the human condition that humans are going through right now in preparation for what is coming. We have mentioned the waves that have come through Earth and have talked about them for many years. The energy waves began on 01-01-01 and 02-02-02. It is very simple to say that if you catch the crest of this wave, it can simply push you forward very easily. Your own energy field has changed, as you have done and are doing your work. You are changing yourself consciously; the outside world is changing. It is more acceptable for you to be who you are. With all your beautiful attributes and frailties, you must understand our view of you. You are the perfect imperfection of god, for everything on this side of the veil must have a bit of imperfection within it in order to exist. Therefore, god became imperfect and played a game to pretend to be imperfect. That is you. Now you are awakening from the dream. Now you are starting to find that you have powers beyond your understanding. You are finding that you are not separate from each other and, in fact, you have connections even if you are not ready for them. So the one piece we will ask you to start looking at is to dare to see your own beauty. It is very difficult, for you are trained otherwise. When each and every one of you looks in the mirror, you immediately see your imperfections that you have been striving constantly to be perfect. Now we are going to ask you to stop striving and own who you are. Own all of it…what you call imperfections are the pieces that fit in perfectly.

It was a while ago, dear ones, that mankind learned to make a substance very similar to diamonds. In fact, this caused diamond manufacturers to inscribe their diamonds because they cannot tell the difference between manmade and natural diamonds. Most of the diamonds being made today are for industrial use, but we find it interesting and the reason is very simple. There are no imperfections in the manmade diamonds, therefore, they are not valuable. Is that not interesting? They are too perfect. It is actually the inclusions inside—the way the diamond reflects the light and sparkles that makes it beautiful. That is you. We are now looking at the overall part of the diamond—the overall part of you. Instead of looking at the imperfections, we are going to focus on the imperfections and find a way to use them positively. The imperfections are part of the inclusions in your diamond that make your diamond a unique beauty from Home. It is not easy, for it means owning your mastery and owning who you are. The difficult part is your egos, because your egos always have to be in balance. You are aware of this.

Making Space for the Other Gods:
The Art of Empowerment

Many of you watch too closely and are so concerned about being in the ego that you never stand up and speak your peace. You never share the part of beauty that you brought from Home. So, it is about balancing all of that, yet you want the check and the way to check your ego and expressing your own true beauty, is very simple. Are you making space for the other gods in the universe? We tell you right now that the grandest secret that we could ever tell you is that you are god. You are that which you have been searching for. Searching on the outside has led you inward. You are that one piece that holds it all, and yet the veil keeps you from re-membering it. The veil keeps you from your connection to Home. So once you start removing the veil, you start feeling this power and connection, then the first thing you do is run against the brick wall because you forgot that you are not the only god. We are going to help you re-member and experience the changes that all humans are beginning to right now.  The way we will work with you on this, dear ones, is to hold you up to the highest light that we can. We are here to empower you in any way we can. We hope you take that message and empower somebody else, because true empowerment is only activated when you are surrounded by empowered people. You have created an empowered society in a moment’s notice and it will happen. You can now hold that energy in your energy field.  You can now hold more of your connection to Home in your physical body because of the changes and evolution every one of you are experiencing. Fear, loneliness and feeling unworthy are the human emotions that each and every one of you will have going through these levels of evolution. The challenge is when you truly doubt yourself, when you truly believe that you are not worthy or you have nothing to give. We tell you that if that were the case, you would not be on planet Earth.

This is not an easy planet to be on; it is not a vacation spot. Although it is the garden of the universe, it is a very difficult energy to be in as far as planetary energies go. We are here to help you re-member your true nature, your strengths, and your own energy. We are not here to tell you that you must go this way or that way, for that is entirely up to you. These are your choices, because you are on the planet of free choice. Do not judge yourself for the choices, simply make them even if they are what you consider to be wrong. If you make the choice, you can go back and change it. If you do not make the choice, you fall into a rut of default.  This is where many challenges come in, for you are no longer in control of your life. These are the times you are starting to take charge.   Even though you may not know exactly the direction or what that feels or looks like, you may know that where you are does not hold the energy for you. So moving in any direction will put you on the path of making choices and creating your own environment, even if it is not the perfect environment you want. It will lead you to make those choices and to openly find that piece.

The Field Used as a Resonance Chamber

Dear ones, the energy field has been expanding around your body. For a very long time it was only about two inches away from your body, and now for many of you it has extended 6 to8 feet, and for others  10 feet. This has taken a lot of work. It has also taken a lot of restrictions and effort on your part. However, it has paid off quite well because now as each and every one of you evolve, you will use this energy field that you had around your body as your resonant chamber. As your base energy from which you will now broadcast, your energy field will now expand and will no longer be restricted by the boundaries. There will be a lot of misuse of this energy in the beginning.  There will be a lot of people trying to use it for their own purposes, as more becomes known. There will be a lot of the typical things that humans do when they learn something new. Yet, it is one of the biggest keys that is going to help you take these steps.  We talked about being at the crest of the wave simply to give you a ride, to give you a little bit more of your energy instead of having to fight for every part of it. What we have not told you is that before every wave that comes onto the shore, there is a backwash of energy that feels like it is going in the other direction. The water must come back out to build the wave to come back in. You are in that backwash right now. This is why some of you are panicking or feeling stuck, overreacting to your surrounding environment. This is why many have very raw emotions, and feel as if you are right on the edge of your world. Do not fear what we are telling you. It is helpful to know that you are not alone, but it is also helpful to know that this is an evolutionary process that all human beings are going through. To get from Point A to Point B where you can carry more of your own spirit in your physical body, it is necessary to go through some of these changes.  The same effect will be felt with 111111 and 121212.

So, this is the backwash. It is the time when you feel all of the energy being sucked from you instead of filling you up. But we will have you keep your eye on the bigger picture, because as strong as that backwash is and as lost as some of you may feel right now, you know what is coming. You know that this first wave of energy entering over the next three years is bringing a new form of humanity, a new empowered environment that you have never had the opportunity to exist in before. These are not easy transitions for humans resist change. It is one of your safety mechanisms to not change. Now you will find you will release more freely. You will welcome it and even though you have been building this energy field and this safety zone for so long, as you start to feel it move, get excited. Look at all the possibilities. Look at what is happening to you, and look at what effect you have on people around you that you have never thought you had. Do this and you will start to feel your inner beauty. This is a time to take the next step consciously and to begin to work with this energy on a daily basis and to fear not. Play with it. Play, pretending to be the new human. Play putting the most beauty out there that you can dare to see. We are not talking about physical beauty, but about passion and the things that make your spirit light up. It will almost always show in a physical form, but you must re-member that physical beauty is not defined on our planet because it means something different to each and every one of you. There is always someone who will see your beauty if you let it out. All that is necessary is to know that you are on the right path, to be able to see your effect and be able to take those steps. This backwash that you are in right now is in preparation.

This is the final clearing as the first wave settles in. Many people on this planet will be off center, because this first wave of energy you will be standing in all the murk and mire and all the confusion, you will be standing perfectly still as a beacon of light that others will come up to and say, “What is going on? What is happening? What are you feeling? What do you have to offer about this?” These are the times when you start to find your own true beauty and own it. It is time, dear ones, to start to own your mastery. Own who you are. Not just in this lifetime, but in all the incarnations that you have had here. Draw on that strength. Draw on that energy from your ancestors, bring it in. It is all there for you right now. Above all, enjoy this ride.

It is with the greatest of honor that we leave you these words and leave you with three little reminders. Treat each other with the greatest respect for that is the way of an empowered society. Nurture everyone at every chance you get and re-member it is a beautiful game and play well together.Espavo.

 

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