Great Tips For Caring For Your Headstone

By Tom Tree

A relative passing away is one of the saddest times of our lives but it helps to ensure that they have a beautiful headstone. There are several different materials available from which to make a wonderful headstone that will ensure that your beloved is remembered. Most people are guilty of leaving a headstone to get horribly dirty after their loved one is buried. Below are the best tips for caring for your headstone to let the memory of your loved one shine through.

The care that the headstone needs largely depends on the material that it is made from. The most common materials used for headstones nowadays are marble, granite and bronze. For marble and granite headstones, keeping them clean is a relatively easy task. The headstone can be gently cleaned with a solution made of 50% water and 50% bleach. Soak the headstone with the solution using a paper towel.

After putting the mixture onto the headstone you need to allow it to seep in. It should be left to do its work for around 30 minutes. After this time you can then rinse the water and bleach solution off with plain water. This process will have left the stone clean and sparkling.

If your loved one has a headstone made from bronze then this is slightly different. Because bronze is an alloy (made up of a mixture of other metals) it is best to know what percentage of what metals are contained within the headstone. This information should be available from the company who originally sold you the bronze headstone.

If you do feel it is necessary to clean the bronze headstone, then you can do so with a mild solution. Take 8 ounces of plain water and mix it with one tablespoon of ivory soap. Take a small nail brush and briskly rub the solution into the headstone. Rinse with plain water and repeat the process if necessary. Finally, rinse with distilled water and then polish it to make the headstone gleam again.

You can purchase ready-made kits that are designed to clean dirty headstones. These are generally inexpensive and can easily be found from online sources. By ensuring that your loved one's headstone is clean and visible, you can make sure that their memory is never forgotten.

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Live An Amazing Life By Manifesting Abundance

By Anthea David

No matter who you are or where you came from, you have the ability of manifesting abundance in your life. When you are deeply convinced of your needs, desires and those things you deserve, abundance will come to you. Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, most of whom and what you have in your life at this moment are reflections and expressions of those things.

Manifesting abundance is the knowing that thoughts have power. Your life has taken shape, beginning the moment you were born by the quality of your thoughts. When you were a baby, your quality of thought was only beginning to develop, since your thoughts focused on basic instincts and trying to absorb the vastness of the sensory input available to you.

You learned from that point on to believe in what your parents taught you. What your parents taught you ultimately ended up with telling you how to socialize, at least in childhood. And when you did that you went to school and learned that life is hard and ice cold. You were taught, in so many words, that manifesting abundance is nonsense.

You learned that perhaps you could reach your dreams with too much over work or you needed rare genes or maybe you would just get lucky. You found that abundance might not even be possible. You found that you might die of starvation and not have a comfortable home, if you were not lucky or you were ignorant. Perhaps, you even learned that you should forget all those extraordinary dreams that are essential to you, that perhaps you would have to marry just anyone rather than your soul mate.

In reality, you do not have to rely on luck, education or rare genes to have abundance. In reality, you do not have to be bored, work too hard at doing a job that does not suit you.

You deserve to thrive. You have permission to thrive. You can thrive.

But in order to manifest abundance, you have to be aware that you deserve it. You have to feel 'in your soul' that you deserve it. And, you have to know the certain way to do things that will make it come into being.

Now, each one of us is different. So just because the cosmic laws of manifesting abundance are universal, they will find unique expression in you and in your life, the way a musician applies universal laws of playing his instrument but has his own unique style of playing and composing. This is important to keep in mind so that you don't get confused. Manifesting abundance is not about keeping up with the Joneses.

When you manifest abundance in your life, you may or may not become famous, get married, or live in a mansion. In fact, you may just make enough money that will meet your needs to comfortably live within your means in a home that you love.

What really matters is what your heart desires. Manifesting abundance means manifesting what you want in your heart. It means living your fantasies.

How can you manifest abundance? What cosmic laws must you align yourself with no matter who you are?

* You deserve to live your fantasies. Take the time to find a quiet space or some internally private space each day for yourself, if this is hard for you to realize. You need to meditate on the concept of you being deserving of your desires. There are various ways to meditate, so learn how if you do not already know how. Since you have been conditioned for so long to think you are not good enough for a charmed life, you need to re-program yourself and recondition yourself to know the opposite.

* You need to know why you want those things you want and it needs to be deeply ingrained in your mind. If it is not, you will manifest things that you really do not want or need, remember you should not ask for anything you do not want since that is what will manifest in your life.

* Know what you want and then allow your fantasies to flow as you focus intensely on the fantasies that come to you.

* You will be inspired to take action to fulfill your fantasy, take all those opportunities. If you feel you need more knowledge, go online, read, order books, and watch videos that help you gain that knowledge. Follow your inspiration to go to certain places and websites and so on.

*It's not that your abundance will manifest without work; rather, it's that the work you do for it will be so inspired that it won't even seem like work to you, like a professional baseball player 'going to work' by playing his sport and getting paid millions of dollars for it.

*Allow things to manifest in your life as they will. Never try to force them. Know that the desired thing or event is 'in production' or 'being shipped to you' right now, and have the patience that comes with this certain knowing.

Begin moving towards your lifetime dreams; they are waiting for you now.

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