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?


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

How To Find Out If You Are A Reincarnation

By Julie Sommerville

Many people have the sneaking suspicion that they have lived before. This is known as reincarnation and is a major principle of several religions. It entails the soul leaving a body when the body dies. The soul then comes back, either immediately or at a later time in the body of a baby to live again. This can happen dozens of times, though there is no definite proof it can happen at all--except for people's gut feelings about it.

Flashbacks are the usual reason for people thinking this. Sometimes people can have memories that they cannot explain--know things they know they have not learned during this life. Some are very tied to certain periods of history, want to wear the clothes and listen to the music of that time. For some, it borders on obsession and they cannot explain it. These are all common symptoms.

If you think you are a reincarnation, visit some sites on the Internet. There is plenty of information, including tips on what to do about it. You can go to therapy with a psychologist who specializes in this subject. You may also want to look into hypnosis to unlock buried memories or meditate in order find things you may have lost over the years.

So what purpose could unlocking your memories serve? You should never want to ignore a chance to learn more about yourself. You could find that you have a great skill in an area you have never considered. This is because you achieved much with that skill in a past life, so your soul does not feel the need to push you to achieve it now. It can help you get over phobias, too, because you can finally know the real reason why you are afraid.

Life presents many obstacles and the only way to get around them is to know your strengths and weaknesses. By learning more about yourself, you could end up living a happier existence and find strength you never knew you had.

If you have complicated relationships in your life, reincarnation may be the answer to why people interact in certain ways. Often times people find that they are attracted to the same souls. Souls stick together through many lives. Your best friend in this life may feel so close to you because he was your brother in the last life. It can sort out many different dynamics.

There are many different theories about why the soul may do this. A common belief in Hindu sects is that the soul is imperfect and needs many live to gain perfection. After you have lived so many times, you will have learned all there is to know and have mastered every skill there is to master. Once your soul is perfect and you die for the last time, your soul can finally go to an after life, which itself is a place of perfection.

For this reason you should investigate more about your past. You can then figure out how many lives you have lived and what things you have learned during them. You can track your soul and see if this life might be your last one.

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The Benefits Of Remote Viewing Training

By Allan Brooks

The psychic ability which pertains to the ability to view people, objects and places is know as remote viewing. This ability is not in the range of our five senses. Without the ability to remote reviewing you would not be able to view these things. Your psychic ability can be trained to view these things without your need to be within sight of it.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that remote viewing is the same as an out-of-body experience, because it isn't. Out-of-body (Astral travel) experiences are spiritual, not physical, when viewing a place or event. But anyone can successful take part in remote viewing training.

Considered a form of psychic dowsing, remote viewing is using your psychic powers to find anything you want to find. An individual who has taken remote viewing training and is looking to find something uses a form of ESP.

All humans have a form of latent psychic ability that was never developed fully when we were young. Considering that most of us only ever use around 10% of our brain's capacity, there's another 90% of dormant brainpower left untapped and untrained that we aren't quite sure what to do with.

Imagine the possibilities. You could reach out to your children and see that they are safe, even in public places. The peace of mind and the security that comes with the ability to remote viewing and all the benefits, priceless.

What makes remote viewing different to other forms of psychic abilities is that anyone can learn how to do it. Studies on many non-psychic people have shown that once these people had been taught to enter into a sufficient trance-like state, they were able to engage in remote viewing with high levels of accuracy.

You can try some of these techniques to remote viewing training on your own:

1. Get seated in a comfortable place, closing your eyes. Eliminate all distractions before beginning.

2. Relax. Breathing deeply through your nose. By pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth you will find it easier to breath. You will also find that the tendency to yawn will be curbed while practicing this phase.

3. A key factor, in your success, will be belief in your remote viewing. While you fall deeper into your state of relaxation, you need to believe in your capabilities of focusing on events, people or places you've not physically seen.

4. Your remote viewing training can begin with you choosing a simple target to show your mind that you are capable of achieving this kind of psychic seeking. Perhaps begin by viewing yourself from a place in front of you, as though you were looking back at your relaxed body as you sit there through a mirror. It can be a little difficult at first to allow your mind to view yourself from an opposite perspective, but be patient. When you do see yourself from the angle that others see you, you'll be in for a wonderful surprise.

5. Once the needed mental control has been mastered so that you can view yourself from a remote viewing, cast your remote viewing eye wider. Observe a familiar location. Perhaps a family member or parents home. This will suffice during the training of your mind. Notice things out of place. Small things. Things like a magazine on a table, dishes on the sink in the kitchen. This reinforces what you have seen and is important and will show you what the mind is capable of achieving.

It is possible to amend these remote viewing training exercises to include two people so that you'll have your feedback and results much more quickly. Instead of viewing places or people you want to see, have a friend sit in another room and repeat a simple movement, like a hand wave or pulling hair. Try to determine through your remote viewing exercises what action your friend is repeating and compare notes to get your results.

You may find that it is both quicker and easier to fall into a relaxed state once you have been spending time practicing your remote viewing training techniques. This is a similar state of relaxation to the trance-like state of relaxation reached under hypnosis. While still conscious of what is going on, the body relaxes enough to access the subconscious mind.

Our psychic abilities are much more easily accessible via the sub-conscious, so the more you practice your remote viewing training techniques, the better you'll become.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Can Anyone Learn Chakra Balancing?

By Idi Bejen

The seven chakras in a human body need to be opened and the energy flow balanced and aligned within itself as well as with the infinite energy source of the cosmos for the wholesome development of a human being.

A red lotus with four petals is the image of the base or root chakra of Muladhar. Located at the base of the spine, this chakra can be balanced by breathing in the red colour till the base of your spine and visualizing the red energy ball at that place. Constantly affirm yourself that you have safety and security in this world and your monetary matters are well taken care of. Everyday exercises that target the lower back region like those of squats or using gem stones like red garnet, smoky quartz, and black obsidian are helpful in balancing the energy of this chakra.

Learn chakra balancing for the Swadhisthana chakra by visualizing an orange lotus with six petals at the sacral region. Visualize energy flowing in a clockwise direction in the area above your belly button and mentally affirm the fact that things like creativity, emotions, sexuality are gifts which needs to be expressed. You can also perform everyday exercises like pelvic thrusts, circling or even gem stones like those of carnelian orange or calcite tiger's eye to balance this chakra.

Coming to the third chakra of Manipura, symbolized by a yellow lotus with ten petals, practice yoga which targets the area around the solar plexus. You can also use gems such as citrine topaz or golden calcite for balancing this energy. Visualize warm and bright sunshine yellow on top of the belly button moving to and fro in a clockwise direction and constantly affirm yourself that nobody or nothing else has power over you and you are the sole master of your own actions and boundaries.

Learn chakra balancing for the Heart chakra or the green lotus with 12 petals by breathing in the green colour to the center of your heart and visualizing the energy flow in a clockwise direction, back and forth. Regular little things like hugging yourself or activities like swimming, push up exercises will open and balance this chakra. One might also use gems such as rose quartz, kunzite, watermelon tourmaline and jade for the same purpose.

The Vishuddha Chakra of a blue lotus with 16 petals located at the base of one's throat requires one to breathe in the colour blue in his throat and visualize it moving in a clockwise direction. Activities like Singing or affirming yourself that you are able to communicate and express yourself clearly are important. Gems that can be used in this case are aquamarine, sodalite, etc.

Learn chakra balancing for the Ajna or the third eye chakra by advanced meditation concentrating on the indigo lotus with two petals between your eyebrows. Activities like remote viewing or lucid dreaming are possible by the opening up of this chakra and for that, constantly affirm yourself that your intuition is what guides you and not the ego. Use of gem stones like lapis, blue fluorite or clear quartz may also come to use in balancing this chakra.

The final chakra located at the crown of the head is the Sahasrara Chakra which is symbolized by a vivid violet lotus with a thousand petals reflecting the ultimate spiritual enlightenment of man. You can balance this chakra by advanced meditation and visualizing this symbol at the crown of your head. Prayer and devotion along with a feeling of gratitude towards the universe for everything that you've got and what you will be getting in the future will lead to the opening up of this chakra. Gems like amethyst, Oregon opal or clear quartz facilitate balancing of this energy.

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A Little Bit About Past Life Reincarnation

By Alistair Macdonald

Many people thing that with the New Age religions that are coming out past life reincarnation is something new. This is nothing of the sorts. Just the opposite is true. This idea that you were once something else and are now this human form has been around for quite some time. It started with the idea of Buddha.

For some people, they were just taught to believe. Their religious convictions tell them that when they leave this world, their soul goes beyond this life and becomes something else. These religions are those who are Buddhist as well as some Hindus. Their ancestors have been practicing this for years to come.

In most cases, their societies believe that once a soul leaves this earth, it transforms into a new life. The person that you were before you left was once something else. They do not put measures as to what you were before this life either. For some they were a shrub while others were an animal.

Many people of these cultures find this to be a very good thing. It sort of brings them a peace of mind. Many of them feel that this is the chance at life. They find it to be sort of a new beginning of sorts. That is, they have been dealt this bad hand, but is given the chance to live a new life. How many of us have always said we have wanted that? We would like to try life over and in a different body? Many have admitted to thinking that.

For those who do believe, they take great comfort in knowing that this life is just the journey to another life. They look for ancestors everywhere they walk. The simplest tree could be a cousin who has passed. It's something like the Lion King. We all become something else.

The way they say that you know if you have this trait is that one feels it. They say that you can feel this inside yourself. They will tell you that most of the time you will know because you will have the ability to do something. They say that you might not have known you can do this before it will just jump out at you just like that. That's how you will know.

For those who do believe, they commonly find that those who meditate can often remember as to who they were in a previous life. This is just a tip for those who feel that they do believe in this concept, but who might not necessarily remember what it was they were or the previous life in which they lived. For some people, their religion will help with this, if not there are tutorials out there that cna help you with such a task of remembering.

That is why some practice meditation. This is to relax you and prepare you to tune solely into those gifts. While many think that this is something new which is being mentioned in tons of books and such, it's nothing new. They have been practicing this for years. Now, it is just your turn to see if you too believe in it.

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Most Remembered Headstones

By Jennifer Wilkinson

There are quite a few recognized graves across the world, here's five of the most talked over memorial headstones.

The Marine Corps war memorial is located in Arlington, Virginia. It is dedicated in all the personnel of the US Marine Corps who died in the defence of their country. Sculpted from a photo taken by Joe Rosenthal at the battle of the Iwo Jima this memorial remembers the marines and sailors who raised the 2nd flag over Iwo Jima from which only 3 of the 6 men depicted here survived the battle.

Charlie Chaplin suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma and finally died on Christmas day aged 88. A private burial took place at a cemetery nearby Chaplin's manor in Vevey, Switzerland. A few months after his burial his body and coffin were removed from the cemetery and held to ransom. The Coffin and body were discovered 3 months later buried in a cornfield and returned to the cemetery. Memorial statues have gone up all over the world to remember this great talent including the one in this photo in Vevey, Switzerland.

The Moai on Easter Island were built as memorials to worshipped ancestors. It was thought that the dead and the living had a linked existence with the dead providing everything the living needed (health, good crops, animals etc) and the living offering better resting places through offerings and memorials. A 15 number long Moai was excavated in the 1990's.

Christopher Columbus's voyages to the US rank among history's most import events and as a consequence the final resting place of such an important man is in great dispute with the Cathedral in Valladolid, Santo Domingo and the cathedral in Seville (left) all claiming to hold his remains.

Strawberry Fields in New York's central park is a 2.5 acre landscaped section dedicated in the memory of John Lennon. The focal point of the park is a reproduction of a famous mosaic from Italy with a single word in the middle "Imagine", the title of Lennon's most famous song.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Your Mind Powers Are Incredible!

By Geoff Love

Mind powers are much more important to you and every other individual out there than you think. These help you produce an unlimited supply of change that can have a positive influence on your life.

It's safe to say there are two types of individuals in the world; negative ones or positive ones. People who are negative usually expect the worst out of their day while positive people are the exact opposite.

A great example of this is if you want a job that pays a lot more money. Just by using your mind powers it can become a reality. However, if you are defeated and negative in your think right from the beginning, the worst will usually surface. This is because you allow your mind to fill up with doubt. The problem is negative thoughts manifest into negative actions, which can play a major role in your day-to-day life. If you don't learn to alter your circumstances you will stay in this mode the rest of your life.

The perception of society is based upon how everyone views you as an individual. A prime example of this is if you go to work and the employer doesn't believe you have faith in your own abilities. When this happens they will either let you go or just keep you in a mediocre position.

Now on the other hand, you will have the right attitude if you know you know you are the best at what you do. Those powers-to-be will see your self-confidence and put more faith in your work. The mind powers you have within you can help produce a happier life in all aspects.

While positive thinking is the key, your mind powers can also form negative issues. Whether its depression, heartache, or a life full of tragedies, we attract circumstances in our lives just by the way we think.

Let's take another example of someone who wishes to lose weight. If the individual does not think that they can lose the pounds they want, everything they do will be motivated by that self-doubt. They'll look at a fast food hamburger and say, "well, I'm not going to be able to lose the weight anyway, so I might as well go ahead and indulge myself". Exercising to get the pounds off will be more difficult because of the individual's view of themselves. Ultimately, they will give up because they lack belief.

You can easily use your mind powers to change your life and have everything you've ever dreamed of. The only downside is that you have to couple the power of your mind with the physical action required to make things happen. When your mind starts to doubt that good things will happen, remind yourself of all the times that you came out on top. Think of all of the accomplishments you have achieved in your life thus far. Remember the attitude that got you there.

Everything in your life revolves around your mind powers. If your spouse comes home from work and you are already angry about something they did, it's going to spark a negative reaction in your partner and create an argument. Your outcome has already been determined by your mind powers. But, if you're positive and react to your spouse in a loving manner, then everything will go just fine.

Likewise, if you hate rainy days, and wake up to see that there is rain, it's probably going to be a depressing day. However, if you change your mind, your day will go by much smoother. It's all about developing new ways of thinking. We all have some habitual negative thinking patterns, and fortunately, the mind is an easy thing to change.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

The Reason Why We Should Avoid Having Unpleasant Emotions

By Jillian Fox

What you eat as well as what you feel can affect your health. For example, if you ever felt so deeply hurt that you thought it was like somebody was twisting a knife in your wound. Then you felt your heart was being torn into pieces then you can probably guess what it feels like. Try to imagine what stress and bitterness can do to create trouble for the heart.

Negative emotions interfere with the sound state of the heart, and stress is one of them. They cause the blood clots to form in your veins and interrupt the smooth flow of blood in the heart.

Another cause of high blood pressure is negative emotions like fear, anger, and panic because all these will make the blood to boil so to speak. The person then begins to feel some serious headache, or become faint and very tired.

If you are wondering how one can get help, it is by coming to the realization that these negative feelings are causing havoc to your health; and that there is something that you can do about it. Learn how to overcome negativity in order to normalize the flow of blood in your body and the pumping of your heart.

You are in a position to change your destiny by just saying no to stressful and pessimistic demeanor because the truth is that in life you can never be totally free of problems.

Make a great effort to avoid any negative circumstances. It means you will simply have to avoid people who have a negative attitude, and just learn to say "no."

To counteract this negative feeling, just surround yourself with positive minded people. They say misery is out there looking for company but happiness can catch on; do look for people who are not pessimistic in life and who have a happy mien all the time. Hang out with go-getters who have positive mentality about life. Smile and others will smile back to you is a very apt saying.

Do not let the things of life worry you especially when you know there is nothing much you can do about them.

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