Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Is Your Future Really A Result Of Your Past Lives?

By Richard Fox

Whether you believe it or not, there are several ways you can learn about your past lives. Just look at the Hindus and Buddhists who have utilized this as part of their religion for centuries. Even if you aren't a big believer there is nothing wrong with being a little curious about the whole scenario. If you need answers you can look into the various ways to understand different pieces of the puzzle and explore all your options.

Keeping Notes

One of the best ways people try to understand a past life is by keeping track of daily events. It's a simple process where all you do is write down all of your experiences. In fact, even if you come across something that is trivial, you should still write it down. There is also a connection between your emotions and a previous lifetime so it's important to understand your reactions to certain events. Eventually you'll have to come back to it and put all the pieces together.

The clues are right in front of you. Just make a list of your likes and dislikes for as many categories as possible. If you're eating pork chops for dinner, write down the way you feel. Do you like them? Are they bland? Do they need to be cooked more? However, you should do this for everything from your occupation and hobbies to dj-vu experiences, phobias, and even personality traits.

When you wake up in the morning, think about the dreams you had last night. One thing to keep in mind is that our dreams tend to bring out past lives clearer, so remembering them is important. So the next time you come across a symbol or event that would never occur today, it's possible you knew this in a previous life and it tried to surface in your dreams. We understand this can be difficult, but if you tell yourself you want to learn about your past lives before going to sleep, it can definitely help.

Regression Therapy

If you plan on taking this route, we recommend that you go with a certified trainer. The best places to start your search are the International Association for Regression and Research and Therapies, and the International Association of Past Life Therapists. This way when you start the program you can rest assured you have a good and reputable professional team in front of you. They should be able to help you locate one in your area.

Experiencing the Meditation Phenomenon

While meditation can do wonders for learning more about a past life, some people find it difficult to trust the enlightenment. If you're going to take this route to find clues, you have to trust your own feelings before you can understand them.

When you reach this state of mind, you will notice various images running in and out of your mind. Now, you aren't going to get a straight forward answer to all of this, but you will be able to find valuable information that has been hidden for years. Then again, you have to tell yourself you can do this with ease. If you don't think you can then you won't.

Probably the biggest thing to meditation is finding that one thing that would put your mindset in the proper place. To get started you may need something like the flame of a candle to focus in on, or even a ticking noise from a grandfather clock. If it works the first time, make sure you record it the second time around. This way you can teach yourself at home.

Have you heard about binaural beats? These are sound waves that shoot off different frequencies in each one of your ears. What it does is allows you to relax and reach the meditation traits of Zen monks. Even though they have been practicing this for years, it could take you minutes to utilize.

While all this is great, you have to find a place that is quiet and peaceful. If you don't, there will be too many distractions.

First of all you need to find a comfortable position once everything is quiet and peaceful. You will have to teach yourself how to relax the muscles which will calm the mind. If you get distracted with stressful concerns or anything else, you have to let them go. It's hard to do at first, but once you're able to make that connection the body will flow into a meditation much easier.

Once you start seeing mental images, keep track of it all. When you're finished with your meditation, be sure to write it down. These thoughts may be the key to resolving something in your life, which is the most important part to reincarnation. Granted you won't always be able to tell if these come from your past lives or the one you have today, but some of the information could lead to new findings.

It's an amazing thought, but there are times when people in your family knew each other in a previous life. Granted, the relationship back then could have been different, but the connection was still there.

In the end, everyone has their own beliefs about reincarnation. If you choose to do the regression process, most individuals find helpful and interesting information throughout the process, even if they don't believe in reincarnation in the beginning.

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Secrets Of An Amazing New Life Using Cosmic Ordering

By Jean J Moorhouse

Nowadays, people are starting to believe a lot more in the usefulness of the process of cosmic ordering. It is like placing a food order at the drive through at a restaurant and getting your food, except you do this order for your desires straight to the universe to get it. There have been plenty of celebrities that speak of this being responsible for the great success in their lives.

It is true that there are many who can successfully just think about what they want and receive it, why does this not work so well for everyone though? Is there some special key to success with cosmic ordering that some know and others don't? Is the cosmic ordering procedure a reality?

Have you ever been totally disgruntled over a friend or fellow worker's promotion or other prize they have received? At that point you just placed yourself a negative order through the cosmic ordering process. Being jealous over another's success, makes the statement that you do not think you deserve getting what the universe has to offer, and initiates more bad karma and even a lack of wealth for you.

Think of it as being at a fine restaurant for supper. What would you do if you happened to view someone's luscious meal? Well you would probably just decide to have the same item on the menu for your meal with no anger or envy! You would also be hoping that the other person loved their meal, as much as you wound up loving yours.

If this holds true for you, then why not also find delight in the other person's success? You can find joy in other people's success and understand that you too will have just as good of success. But if you harbor resentment, disappointment, or even anger this says that you are not a believer that you will get success. This is when you put in your order to fail.

The flock of spiritual believers say that you can receive many blessings by just praying, but this type of belief needs to be closer examined to see how it works in with doing a cosmic order. Now the scientists have made the discovery that quantum physics is quite a bit similar to that of the beliefs that spiritual belief system, and this proves that spirituality is true.

The mind's dynamic energy makes this all possible. This is not to belittle the beliefs of the religious but to prove their belief system is valid.

But you will find it quite hard to accomplish this with only the help from positive affirmations, there are hurdles put up to make this difficult. Your old thoughts and hangups of past happenings can bring your new outlook down, and can result in all the positive improvement you have achieved to be erased. You can make this work for you, but you have to be diligent about getting rid of the old bad vibes in your life.

Are you curious as to what these so-called secrets of cosmic ordering are? You have to kick out all the old thinking out of your mind, before launching your cosmic ordering plan to get your life's dreams. You have to start fresh and understand that it is fine to take all the great wealth and benefits that the universe can bestow on you.

You can receive help through various ways to kick out your old thinking. Similar to the fact that a vacuum gets dirt off the carpet better than your toothbrush would, the more improved modern methods of helping your mind expand, to permit new thinking in, work better than older ways.

There is binaural frequency waves, self-hypnosis, and subliminal affirmations that can enable you to expand your mind. They also help you kick out the rubbish that has built up over the years, this enables so many wonderful things to come to you. All these secrets for cosmic ordering enable your mind to think in the right vein, and not to sabotage your efforts anymore, therefore you are more successful.

Human beings for the most part are not comfortable when things change. Your brain likes things to stay the same and will argue with you, so you have to be sure about having what you want! This is where you can use the system for cosmic ordering to change things. It is able to change the place you are in right now, due to the fact that the universe thinks you deserve more.

You can have whatever you desire through the system of cosmic ordering. Place the right order for what you desire, and all you have to do to receive it is BELIEVE.

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Three Ways to Learn Clairvoyance

By Luke Hounsome

Can anyone learn clairvoyance? The truth is that to a certain extent, yes! What exactly is clairvoyance, and what does it mean to try to learn it? This is something that you might want to think about!

The issue that many people face is that they are using different meanings for the word clairvoyance. There are several different ways to define this term, depending on who you ask, and you'll find that one common meaning is the ability to see things that are happening far away without the use of technology or your six senses, while another definition is to be able to see things happen before they actually happen. The truth of the matter is that at the bottom of it, clairvoyance is the ability to know more information than you can perceive from your five senses.

True, some people do have extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, such as the ability to see, hear, feel, smell, or even taste something far away, or even to know things about the past or future that they couldnt possibly know through any other means. No one really know how this works. Science has not been able to document or explain these abilities. Although there are dozens of metaphysical explanations of these psychic abilities, no particular one has emerged as the dominant belief, and some explanations are even contradictory. One common element, however, seems to cut across all these different theories: people with extraordinary psychic abilities are simply born that way.

Can anyone learn to remote viewing or see the future? No. Can anyone learn to develop and hone their sixth sense? Yes.

Everyone has some degree of a clairvoyant sixth sense. Have you ever thought that you had a strong hunch or a strong feeling about a person, place, thing or situation? You might think that there was nothing wrong about it, but there was a feeling down there that did not want to be ignored. When you ignore your sixth sense in favor of logic or emotion, you'll discover that you are weakening it.

When you are looking for scientific explanation, you'll find that there are plenty of theories on why we develop hunches and instincts. Some people say that rather than being of supernatural, psychic or paranormal origin, it is in fact your subconscious mind picking up on cues that you are not aware of. Your subconscious mind, because it does not speak in words, will then convey these feelings and impressions to you in a way that will get the point across. This can be a valuable tool when you are looking at developing clairvoyance, because it can tell you to trust your subconscious.

Whether you believe that clairvoyance is based on brain neurochemistry or innate psychci ability is not something that matters all that much. All you need to accept is that it exists and that everyone has at least a little bit of it. Now all you need to do is to worry about training it up.

Step 1: Look Around

The vast majority of people go through life so hyper-focused on the task at hand that we become oblivious to everything else around us. Yet all these tiny details hidden in plain sight around us is exactly what our subconscious mind picks up on and needs to form its instincts and hunches. If you can learn to increase your perception, to become more aware of the world around you in all of its detail, you'll being giving your subconscious mind more of the fuel it needs to power your clairvoyant sixth sense.

Remember that you are not going to be able to do this without practice, however. There are definitely things that you can do when you need to increase your perception. Just slow down to begin with. Relax, take deep breaths and try moving around more slowly. Take away any distractions that you might be using to entertain yourself. Take yourself for a drive and leave the radio off. This will make you a lot more aware of the world around you, whether it is simply of your car and your own heartbeat or the world around you and how you are moving in it.

Finally, occasionally do a 'mini-meditation'. This consists of closing your eyes, taking a deep breath, and forcing yourself to relax. When you open your eyes again, you'll be more aware of your surroundings. This only takes a few seconds, but you'll be surprised by the difference it makes.

Method 2: Learn to Meditate

Consider making time every day to meditate for at least half an hour. Good meditation goes a long way towards clearing your conscious mind and letting the things underneath rise to the surface. You can communicate with yourself in a much better fashion and you'll be more relaxed and more refreshed in the long run.

However, finding the time to meditate and to make sure that you are going to be getting the results that you need can be difficult. Just when you have everything set up the way that you want it to be, you'll discover that you need to get up and do some cooking or that there is a call that you need to make. When you want to get out of the same cycle of thoughts that you have been, remember that you can use a focus and a mantra.

First, when you try to meditate, your senses distract you. Even sound you hear or thing you feel distracts you. Therefore, instead of trying to shut your senses down, give them something to keep them busy by staring at a focus. A candle flames makes a good focus. There's not really a lot to see to distract you, yet the flame flickers and shifts just enough to keep you watching and your mind occupied.

Second, our conscious mind, our thoughts, never shuts down"we're always thinking about something. Rather than try to silence it, occupy and distract it with a mantra. A mantra is phrase, poem, or prayer that you repeat over and over again in your head just to occupy your mind. It can be anything"a prayer, a favorite poem, even song lyrics"just as long as you know it by heart and can recite it with much thought. Some people pray the rosary as they meditate"the endless string of memorized Hail Marys occupies their conscious mind perfectly.

Method 3: Just Trust Yourself

At the end of the day, you are not getting very far if you do not trust yourself. Don't doubt what you see or feel and make sure that you don't dismiss your feelings as being the product of an overactive imagination. Remember that you get hunches and feelings for a reason and that your subconscious mind is definitely trying to tell you something. What does your subconscious mind want to let you know?

This is not going to be easy, but the ore you listen and the more you trust your instincts, the better of you are going to be. You can encourage and nurture your sixth sense into developing and maturing.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

5 Tough Questions for Atheists

By Rich Bordner

"If God exists,why is there so much evil?"

"Why are there so many hypocrites in the church?"

"If God exists, wouldn't He provide more evidence than we have?"

Usually, it is Christians and sometimes other religious believers who must justify their beliefs, but most don't realize that atheists, agnostics, and skeptics also must answer tough questions and have their beliefs placed under the microscope!

While the lead questions above have great answers, don't let the skeptic off the hook! Christian answers to ultimate questions shouldn't be the only focus:

1) Why is there something rather than nothing?

The "big bang" has a wealth of scientific evidence confirming it. Belief in the "big bang" requires one to believe that the universe began a finite time ago. Not only is there scientific evidence confirming the big bang, but there are also a number of philosophical reasons for the beginning of the universe (as opposed to a universe that's always existed). But this runs smack dab into atheism--out of nothing, nothing comes. Things don't just pop into existence uncaused. Here we have a limited number of possibilities: either something outside the material universe caused it, or it all came from nothing. Which is more reasonable?

2) What is it for something to be "good"?

This goes much deeper than the common atheist rallying cry: "you can be good without God." If the material world is all that exists, then the atheist and believer alike might *think* they are acting good, but "good" is without robust meaning. All that exists are preferences, pragmatics, and the herd morality. Upon what basis do you say racism or homophobia is wrong? Not wrong "for you," but wrong, period. What would you say to someone who comes from another culture who holds those things to be good? Is *anything* wrong universally (rape? murder? judging?), and if so, what are you prepared to do to enforce that morality? Why should someone be concerned, on atheism, about obeying the herd morality and following our evolutionary past, especially when he can get away with it and benefit from it personally?

3) Matter stays inanimate no matter how complicated you arrange it. In the absence of an immaterial mind, how can consciousness arise from a chunk of complicatedly arranged material (i.e, the brain)?

Identifying a brain state and causally connecting it to a mental state is not enough. Mental states have properties that physical states don't possess, so the former cannot be reduced to the latter. For example, physical states are third person whereas mental states are private.

4) If the physical world is all there is, is there free will?

5) The last one comes from another blogger: if Christ appeared to you and said that He really rose from the dead and is God, how would you respond? Witnesses and tests confirm you weren't dreaming--it was really God! What's next?

The skeptic's answer to this one will shine a light on his heart and motivation. Some will not follow God no matter what the evidence, and that renders their complaint about lack of evidence as a smoke screen. Their attitude, not the evidence, is the problem.

If you are a Christian, don't feel bashful about asking tough questions to skeptics! Skeptics, don't feel bashful about thinking about these questions--the answers might surprise you.

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Start To Use Your Amazing Mind Power!

By Kevin Hounsome

Just in case you didn't already know, your mind is like a magnet. What it thinks and sees, it will eventually attract. There is this thing that is called the law of attraction, and it deals very strongly with mind power. The law of attraction is basically the act of believing something is going to happen so strongly that it does. You can have the best life if you want it, but you have to be able to think it, feel it, and envision it first. This may take some practice, but success only comes with persistence in any endeavor. The power of the mind is amazing.

We all have mind power that we just do not realize. In fact, research has proven that we only use about 10% of our brain power. What a waste! We seem to only stick to the simple things and bypass the rest. That could be why we seem to think life is nothing but trouble. That leads to negative thoughts because we do not think anything can happen. We think negative, so we draw negativity to ourselves. The truth is that by thinking this way we are just manifesting the negativity in our own life.

The reality of life first happens within the mind. Whatever you have accumulated thus far has been a result of your mind power. It has been said that everyone has psychic and extra sensory skills or 'powers', but in reality, it is simply a state of advanced mind power. If there is something that you want in life, then all you have to do is think it. Those who are always expecting the worst will always end up with the worst.

There are a few things that you can do to start to increase your existing amount of mind power. One of those things involves the use of visualization. This is a very powerful technique because it will help you to exercise your current state of mind power, and might possibly be able to 'flip the switch on' for you in terms of gaining more.

Sit down and start pushing images to your powerful subconscious mind. You can do this by writing things down. Keep them positive so that it is only positive things that you draw to your life. Start by thinking about how you want your life to be and then you can start this process.

Write things down like a story on a piece of paper. Use your goals to help your create your visions and guide you on what to write. Your goals should be the basis for your visualization. Write things down until what you write starts to become reality.

Another way to increase the amount of mind power that you have is by affirmations. Affirmations are nothing more than positive bits of encouragement that you give yourself throughout the day. It can be a positive amount of encouragement about anything. For example, you can increase your mind power by saying that you will lose those 10 pounds by the end of the month. Keep telling yourself those positive things, and everything will just naturally start to come to you. It doesn't matter if you are not used to it at first, anything done consecutively for 28 days automatically becomes a habit.

Another thing that you can do to help develop more mind power is through brainwave entertainment. What this is, is synchronizing your brainwaves through audio technology. The brain naturally can do several things. One of those things is the ability to heal itself. Through brainwave entertainment you can enhance this ability. Other things that happen is enhanced memory and strengthening of natural psychic powers. This is rather advanced, but it really does work.

Hypnosis works to enhance mind power by relaxing and getting into your subconscious mind. Take for instance those who use hypnosis to quit smoking. What do they do? They simply go to a session, relax, and listen to someone tell them over and over again that they do not want to smoke anymore, and that they no longer have the desire, they are ready to quit, and then it happens for them. All they did was get the person who did not believe in themselves to become convinced through their subconscious minds that they can quit.

So you see, everyone has mind power, it is just a matter of belief in one's abilities. It may not happen overnight for everyone, but you can change your circumstances and turn your bad luck into good. You must learn to communicate your energies out into the universe and know that what you put out there will manifest itself back to you. But it all starts within the subconscious mind. How much mind power do you have?

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Bodybuilding Tips, How To Train Your Body After Age 40

By Ricardo d Argence

You have heard it said that your age is merely a number and in many respects that is true, however when it comes to getting in shape it can play an important role in how. Many people use their age as an excuse not to get in shape or lead a healthy lifestyle including a decent workout regimen.

Age is not a sufficient excuse not to exercise and try to stay fit. When done correctly you can incorporate workouts, weight lifting and healthy diet in such a way that you remain healthy, fit and active for years and it does not matter how old you are when you start.

If you are interested in reshaping your body, becoming healthy and fit, losing weight and or increasing bone density weightlifting and bodybuilding are exactly what you are looking for. Besides everyone knows that people who are fit and trim have better self-esteem and generally feel better about life as a whole.

People who exercise also experience the release of endorphins from the brain, which helps, maintain a sense of happiness and well-being.

Okay, now that we have discovered some of the benefits let us talk about the reality of being 40 and trying to get into shape. You may have to change up a few things in the routines but you do not have to fall victim to a too old mentality.

As we get older, our muscles and joints are less limber and this means that adequate stretching and warm up prior to exercising is very important. A 15-minute time allotment that is devoted to necessary stretching and limbering up routines will benefit you by increasing flexibility, and decreasing the chance of muscle or joint sprain or damage. The more completely you stretch the better conditioned your muscles will become.

Next in line is a 15-minute cardiovascular workout. You can do this on an elliptical machine, stair stepper, treadmill or stationary bike. Do not approach this as a marathon, however you should get your heart rate sped up a bit and continue to build on the limbering you have just finished. This point of your routine is to get the blood flowing and put your body on notice that you are serious about getting some work done.

The next step should be to work out with light weights, if you are doing circuit training or a free weight routine, have a quick run through without the stress of heavy weights, and then follow this brief warm up by doing reps with the appropriate weights.

Many bodybuilders favor the pyramid system, which means you do more reps with less weight, and as you add weights, you will begin to decrease the number of reps that you do. This method of weightlifting has great success for those who want to add muscle and bulk to their bodies.

Concentrate on the proper form at all times, even if you have to cut back on the weight or the reps, having your form correct with each lift must be foremost in your mind. Not only does this maximize your results, it cuts down on the risk of injury.

Your session with weights should be kept to about 30-45 minutes and you will want to repeat your training at least four days every week. Once you have completed your weight training it is helpful to run another cardiovascular routine partly as a way to wind it all down but more so to strengthen your heart and lungs.

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

No Sleep Means No Muscle Gain In Bodybuilding

By Ricardo d Argence

If you are going to the gym everyday and working out then you know how much energy and focus it takes to do so. There are a lot of people out there who do not realize that sleep affects your bodybuilding.

Having a bad or inconsistent sleeping pattern can cause you to lose results in the gym. Getting a good workout in the gym is not the only thing that sleep affects in your daily routine. Lack of sleep can cause you to not have the energy to do your normal things during the day, and will set you back tremendously. So the worst thing you can do for you body is not sleep, or have an inconsistent sleeping pattern.

This article will show you the various reasons why sleep is so important to your workout.

For starters, your body recovers and rebuilds muscle while you are asleep. This is the crucial time when other parts of your body are shut down and not consuming energy or internal resources that your body uses to repair damages from bodybuilding.

Without enough of this quality rest, simply put, your body won't have enough time or availability to repair old muscle and build new muscle. You will be severely inhibiting your gains by not allowing your muscles to heal, mend and grow properly.

The energy that is consumed while working out is extreme, and if you do not get sleep you will go to the gym tired, leaving you with little results. When you start going to the gym tired it will no longer be fun and you will start taking days off.

If you are big into working out, then you know it takes motivation to get in there on a daily basis and get a good workout. You have to be able to get in there and get yourself pumped up so that you can get a hard workout.

Lack of sleep can cause mood swings, where normally at that time of the day you are exciting and ready for a hard workout, now you're tired and unmotivated. Getting little to no sleep will make it so you get behind on other things you do, because you are moving and working slower. This means that some days you may not get to the gym, and that's how a decline starts. Once you take one day off, then you start making excuses for taking more days off.

This is as much of a mental game, as it is a physical one. You need to make sure that you get the proper amount of sleep so that chemical balances in your body are normal, providing you with a good rhythm.

With all of that said, something that is very important to bodybuilding is your body's ability to burn fat. In order to do this you must have a good metabolism. When you sleep your body releases hormones into your bloodstream that help fuel your metabolism and keep it high.

So how much sleep should I be getting? No matter what you want to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. So that means that sleeping for 2 hours on Friday night and then sleeping for 12 hours on Saturday night doesn't amount to the same benefits as sleeping 7 hours both nights in a row.

The best thing to do is to set yourself up with a routine that gives you enough time to get rest at night. This way your body can repair itself and help you to achieve your fitness goals.

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