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?


Saturday, August 22, 2009

Cleansing Our Chakras - Becoming A Complete Person!

By Jane Wickham

Every part of us is interdependent: our bodies, minds and spirits are all an important part of our overall health. Our chakras are part of our bodies, even though we cannot see them and they are just as subject to physical, environmental and spiritual influences as the rest of us. Chakra cleansing can help you to stay in optimal health by keeping our chakras properly balanced and maintaining the efficient flow of energy.

Body, spirit and mind need to be in harmony with each other and chakra cleansing can keep these elements in balance; like getting regular exercise, it?s just another part of living a healthy lifestyle.

What follows is a list of some of the chakra cleansing techniques which have been shown to be effective and have been used for many centuries.

*Smudging: This is burning herbs and plants to clear away negative energies which can block your chakras. White sage is an especially potent herb for this. Burn some white sage in a room with the doors and windows closed for a few minutes, letting the smoke fill the room.

*Auric brushing: Using crystals and gems can clear blockages from our chakras, but this should be done by an experienced professional, since it can produce deleterious results if done improperly.

*Diet and rest: A nutritionally balanced healthy diet that includes lots of water and fresh vegetable and fruit juices is important. You should also be sure to get enough sleep every night; these steps will keep your chakras in better shape, since your mental, spiritual and physical health are all dependent on each other.

*Regular exercise and proper breathing helps to keep your chakras working properly.

*Make time to experience the natural world. Spending time outdoors can do wonders for your chakras. Even if you live in a large city, spend some time with the plants and wildlife in a larger park or even your own backyard.

*Color therapy: Every chakra corresponds to a color. By looking at these colors or even just visualizing them, you can stimulate your chakras into proper function and clear away energy blockages.

*Music: Music is one of the most effective methods of chakra cleansing. Music stimulates and activates your chakras and along with them, your endocrine system.

*Keep your mind active: When you continue to learn and grow intellectually, you are keeping your energy centers (the chakras) active.

*Meditation and reflection: Take a few minutes each day to think things over. Not only will you get perspective on the events of the day, you will also find this to be a good technique for chakra cleansing.

*Love yourself: Unless you are able to love yourself, you will not be able to accept love or love others. Love produces potent effects on your mind and spirit which affect your chakra health positively.

*Be attuned to your emotions. You need to acknowledge your emotions and be able to communicate them to others when needed. Repressing your emotions is not good for your mental or spiritual health and can cause blockages of negative energy in your chakras.

*Be creative: Bring your creativity into play in your day to day life. This makes your life a more enjoyable one and keeps your energy flow healthy.

*Past lives: You need to be open to your past lives, especially to the opportunity to learn about yourself through them. The self awareness and sense of purpose this can give you will make all of your other chakra cleansing techniques more effective.

*Make your life one which is lived with honesty, trust and respect for others; the same will come to you.

*Prayer, like meditation can keep your chakras in balance and help you to maintain good health. Prayer quiets our minds and opens them.

All of these are effective methods of chakra cleansing and should be practiced in your daily life. Chakra cleansing may not happen instantly, but with regular practice of these techniques, you?ll be able to maintain proper energy flow and live a happier, healthier life.

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When To Take Out Life Insurance

By Rodney Daniel Bolton

As a youth, we have no need for life insurance, as we have no dependents who might suffer financially if we were to unexpectedly die. However, as we grow older, Marry and start a family it becomes more likely that we will want to protect our families and loved ones from any tragic loss and the financial repercussions that might entail.

It is well worth insuring the main breadwinner of your family, just in case, unlikely thought it is, they suffer an untimely death, and then subsequently, you lose their income, it will not have the huge financial implications that the loss of that income under and other circumstance would incur.

The two main types of cover are life insurance and life assurance (sometimes called term assurance in the USA). With life insurance you pay for a predefined time period and your family then receives a payout if you die, with life assurance, you pay regular premiums for the rest of your life and then your estate receives a return when you die.

If you have a young family (young children) and your family relies on one income, the it would be a sensible step to take to insure your life, at least while your children are living at home and in full time education as they will be fully dependant on you for this period. As they leave school and get their own income, their dependence will not be as high, and neither will your need for a large income.

If the worst was to happen, how would your family cope? What would happen if your income suddenly stopped overnight? These are some of the thoughts that drive people to purchase life insurance. Life Insurance will give you peace of mind so you and your partner don't have to worry about an uncertain future.

Life Insurance can be inexpensive for cover that will protect your family against major upheaval in the event of your death. Sometimes, in the case of very high earners, or for specific policy inclusions the cost can rise, but in the main, the cost is affordable when balanced against the potential losses possible.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Developing Your Clairvoyant Powers

By Gina Eastman

It's really no surprise that clairvoyant powers have been shrouded in a great deal of mystery. Individuals that are clairvoyant possess a unique gift that often scares and confuses people that don't possess paranormal capabilities. Why do people feel this way? It's because people with clairvoyant powers have knowledge of the unknown and those that without this ability resent the clairvoyant's ability to see the present, past, and future.

Specifically, clairvoyant powers refer to the ability to see beyond what can be perceived by the five basic senses. This extrasensory perception gives a clairvoyant person second sight, the ability to see people, events and objects that are beyond the happenings of the natural world, giving them the ability to know what will happen before it happens. Those who have truly harnessed their powers can even look backwards, this is known as retrocognition.

Clairvoyance has long been included in human history. It is not uncommon these days for psychics to give readings to individuals to help them solve some of life's problems or to determine the right career path, or to find their one true love. Fortunately, there is no longer the inclination to be fearful or jealous of individuals with clairvoyant powers. Everyone has the ability at birth to become clairvoyant, but they must be willing to develop the powers they possess.

Are you ready to get started? The first step to becoming clairvoyant is to clear up your psyche and the best way to do this is through meditation. Clairvoyant people have released a lot of the negative thoughts, feelings, and energies that separate them from everyone else. These negative feelings and thoughts clog your internal sensors blocking you from seeing the truth.

By meditating regularly you can learn to sense and feel your inner strength and claim your true potential. Reject the negatives and embrace what's positive. Once you learn how to meditate and let go of your stress, you will begin to feel more creative and happy.

Your meditation sessions should occur every day for at least 30 minutes at a time. It is important to choose a quiet place that has no distractions. Also, take care to choose a place that is free from negative energy. Some who are learning to open up to their potential may choose to meditate outside, allowing nature and the universe to help them release negative energies.

Pay attention to your feelings as you meditate and use deep breathing to release those negative energies. This will make you more aware of natural vibrations and changes that happen in the world a skill that allows those with clairvoyant powers to see and sometimes feel events before they happen.

You should also try to think like a child. It is a little known fact that all children are clairvoyant before logic and age tell them that such ideas do not exist. Learn to free your mind to pursue thoughts and ideas that you have always shut off before. Release your inhibitions and let all fear go, allow yourself to connect with the universe around you and realize that everything and everyone is connected.

To harness your now more powerful energy and use it to hone clairvoyant powers purchase a deck of tarot cards. Both tarot cards and palmistry require the person receiving a reading to physically participate resulting in a more accurate reading and allowing you to better interpret the symbols that are appearing to you.

One way to practice using your newly developed powers is to give clairvoyant readings at no cost. With continued meditation you will start to see auras that surround individuals. This will make you more in tune with things that take place in their lives, allowing you a closer look which will enhance your abilities to perceive not just the future and present, but the past as well. Viewing the past seems to be the most difficult clairvoyant skill to develop.

One area of clairvoyance that is rarely talked about is the ability to speak with the dead. In order to develop this area a person has to be able to let go of any fear of interacting with or seeing spirits. It might feel odd or even scary to speak with the dead, but there will be no risk of injury or harm coming to you. If you are able to communicate with those that have passed your clairvoyant powers have developed fully to the point of seeing and hearing those things that are closed to people without these senses.

As you travel this journey you will see that clairvoyance is a natural talent that can be possessed by anybody that takes the time to develop it. Look deep into your internal system to learn to change not only your life, but the life of others by developing your natural clairvoyant powers.

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Why Everyone Should Know How To Astral Project

By John B Keaple

Everyone is born with the ability to astral project. Most people are not even aware that they are traveling. What you want to learn is to astral project consciously you want to control where you send your astral body and remember what it does.

We will assume right now that you know what the astral body is and what the astral plane is. The purpose here is to offer a few different ways to learn how to astral project. Astral projection is a personal experience, so it is important that you figure out which techniques will work best for you.

The first technique is one that you can do when you are in bed and getting ready to go to sleep. This is a simple five step process.

*The first thing you want to do is get completely relaxed. You can't astral project unless you achieve a deep level of relaxation. Lie down in bed, and begin with your toes. Tense them up for a few moments, then consciously relax every muscle. Do the same thing to every muscle, working your way up your body until you finish with your head and face. This may feel unfamiliar at first, but you will soon get used to this method of relaxation. Your body may feel rather heavy. This is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

*Second, you need to deepen and slow your breathing. There is a technique that is used for meditation, and what you want to do it breathe in deeply and pay attention to the way the air feels as it enters your lungs and moves down through to your diaphragm. Then you exhale completely, slowly and as you feel the air leaving your lungs and going out of the body you are relaxing your body and mind. It is important that as you breathe in deeply that you do not fall asleep, to help avoid falling asleep you may want to focus on the center of your forehead.

*Third, pay attention to how you feel physically. You should feel as if your body were very heavy. It should feel like it would be very difficult to move about. Once you feel these sensations, turn your attention to your astral body. Your astral body should feel light and weightless. It should feel free. Close your eyes to see your astral body. You are as weightless as bubbles or feathers floating on the breeze. The weight of your physical body does not affect the lightness of your astral body.

*At this stage, many people using this method say that they can see their darkened room even with their eyes closed. It may appear to be filled with purple light. If you get to this stage, start focusing your attention on the light fixture on the ceiling.

*For the fifth step, imagine that you are pulling the ceiling light toward you. As you pull on the light, you will most likely feel like you are floating. It is very important to remain awake. Now that you are aware of the floating sensation, you may be able to look down on your sleeping physical body on the bed.

There you have just had a successful astral projection! Now you can begin to travel through the astral plane. If this method did not work for you, you may want to try this next technique.

This method is called gazing. Try this at bedtime. You need something to focus on, such as a picture, the moon, a crystal, or some other object.

Once you've chosen your object, lie down and get comfortable. Turn your attention to the object. As you keep staring at it, your eyelids should begin to feel heavy. No matter what, keep staring at the object. While your eyes will tend to close eventually, you should still be able to see the object. While you continue to stare, you may feel the urge to sit or stand up. When you do get up, don't be surprised if you see your physical form peacefully asleep.

Do not lose heart if neither of these techniques works the first time or even the second. Try them a third time, if they still dont work, there are other techniques that you can use. It is important that you dont get frustrated, which will increase anxiety and be counter productive in promoting relaxation.

It is important that you realize that tools and techniques aren't really holding you back. The main obstacle to successful astral traveling is your own subconscious mind. You may need to give your subconscious mind reassurances that it is okay for your astral body to separate from your physical body for a while. Affirmations are an excellent way to send this message. Once your subconscious mind accepts this message, astral projecting will be a piece of cake!

There are also a few other short cuts to help you astral project very rapidly. Without them it can take a long time to get into the right state of mind but if you use them it can happen very fast after your first attempt!

Hypnosis may help you achieve a relaxed state much more quickly. If you use a quality guided hypnosis session, it can also help explain how to astral project so you don't have to worry about remembering what to do next. This lets you just follow the session and relax, increasing your chances of having a successful astral projection.

There have also been recent developments in sound technology with something called 'binaural beats' where different sound frequencies are played in each ear. This very quickly puts you into the deeply relaxed meditative state required for successful astral projection.

Remember that being able to astral project is not as difficult as most people believe it is. It is a natural ability that you were born with, and all of these tools and techniques just help you to fine tune an ability which is already there!

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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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