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?


Thursday, September 30, 2010

A Deeper View Of The Simple Tool Called "Clock"

By Fred Pitt

The clock is never stagnant like many other things. It is always moving at the same rate trying to remind us that time is not something we have forever. When that time is up, existence comes to an end.

In this way, the clock takes on a creepy form of being the fate reminder. Making sure that we do not think the world will come to a stand still for us. We are supposed to cherish the time that we have on this globe.

Instead of the clock making us just drop everything down and enjoy the time we have, it forces us to do the opposite.

Every single time we look at a clock we cannot help it but wonder if we are going to make it to that appointment. We keep thinking about the job at hand that we have to handle. It is all about toil and hard work with the clock in your face.

The clock however does not let just anyone slack. It is a slave master that makes sure you are too busy to stop and smell the roses.

Like many slave masters, the clock has its own way of motivating us. If you have to be somewhere it will help you make it in time. If you have a task it will let you know how much time you have to finish it. It will always make sure that you do not forget that there is always more to be done.

It propels us into the future and yet makes sure that we keep our heads in the present knowing that time is not infinite for us; a beautifully balanced dichotomy.

In the end, when you think about it closely, a clock has the same dual nature that you would find in this world when you observe most of humanity.

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Child Custody: The Legal Side

By Virginia Hammerle

Family court was designed with the idea of keeping families together through a hard period in their lie. Family court usually happens when the family there is trouble in the family and they are being pulled apart at the seams because of divorce. The purpose of family court is to decide what is best for the children in an impartial fashion. The judge is trusted with their experience to make this decision as to where the child or children should live. This ability to give custody to one or both parents is a process that may take months.

Child Custody is the subject of these hearings and the process is designed in order to allow both sides to present their case. The judge will look at financial information, employment history, and various other aspects in order to determine the parent that can best provide for the children. The Child Custody hearings are intended to provide the best possible outcome for the children and this is why some cases have taken years. Credit history and opportunity for advancement in your current place of employment are also considered when determining what is the best possible living situation for the children.

The court may grant custody to one of the child or children to one parent or it may decide a shared custody agreement is the best option. If neither of the parents has a good financial history, courts generally grant custody to the mom. Dads are sometimes give some of the custodial rights, but conditions may be attached. Fathers that desire to keep their children will want to retain an attorney with experience in matters of family court. Hiring a good attorney is the primary difference between fathers who get custody and those who do not. Dads that feel their children are worth the money should hire the best attorney possible to present the case.

The most important part of a child custody case is to convince the judge that you have the desire to see the best for the child. The environment is tense and emotional, so it can be difficult for parents to convince a judge, making the work of the attorney even more important. Parents with the custody of the child often have the best bonding times.

Child Custody is important because you will shape the child as they grown; the environment they are raised in determines what type of person they become. This includes their ideas, likes and dislikes. If you want your children to become better people and love you more, it is important that you obtain the best legal services that you can find. You can even get free advice and this will allow you to determine the best way to handle your specific situation. Looking at details information may help to provide a more accurate expectation of results.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Chakra Healing Basic

By Alexander De Foe

In Sanskrit the seven chakras are known as metaphysical energy centres that we can work with to balance our physical, mental and spiritual health. In this article we will talk about three basic techniques that can be used for chakra healing.

There are three techniques that I prefer to use when working with the chakras. These involve breath-work, focus based meditations, and visualisation techniques. I found the combination of these techniques to be effective starting to work with energy, however some people find one more useful personally than the other two.

Most people don't really think about breathing and do so unconsciously. The aim of chakra balancing its to learn how to breathe consciously and to direct our breathing to certain areas of the body. In Sanskrit, "chi" or energy actually translates to 'breath', and the use of conscious breathing is often underestimated in the process of awakening the chakras.

I believe that placing all your attention on a specific chakra can be an effective way of working with energy and chakra healing. Much like when you place all your attention on your hand, you begin to become more sensitive to the sensation there, placing attention on certain types of energy causes the use centres to open and awaken.

Some people find the learning visualisation is an effective technique for awakening chakras, since it can direct energy your body very easily when you have a clear image in your mind of what you would like to achieve with energy-work. The trick with visualisation is to develop clear and sharp images in your mind, which can can time to practice, but is not too difficult to achieve.

In this article we talked about three techniques for chakra healing. By working with your breathing, being more mindful where you place attention in your body, and practising visualisation, you equip yourself with the right tools for working with the metaphysical energy responsible for governing the chakras.

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Unleash The Psychic Power Within You.

By Lucia Hemmings

Psychic power has been a hot topic among psychologists in psychological debates long since the development of that discipline. What is psychic power? Being so complex and extra ordinary subject psychologist failed to draw a fine definition. It can be defined like this. It is gifted capacity of human mind to grab unusual things from nature in an exceptional way. People have these rare ability can seize knowledge from nature in an extra ordinary way.

You may not be aware of your psychic power. Have you ever felt that your friend is going to ring you and your cell ringed after a few minutes. Or you dreamt your cousin coming next day from abroad and he surprised you by ringing in your mobile at morning to pick up him from airport? Don't be perplexed. These are the signs of your extra ordinary ability of your mind. You feel so because your psychic can perceive information from your surroundings. Every one has this ability but varies person to person.

People having extreme psychic power can predict future scenarios. They make cold reading, hot reading and many other strange abilities will present within them. Psychologists have classified different psychic powers in different names. Here are a few.

We have heard about the sixth sense and wondered about the way how people having this sense perceive information using their conscious and unconscious minds from the nature. You may remember different scenes of the movie "The Sixth Sense" by Monoj Shyamalan. They can see a people's aura lights they give off from their body, decode the meaning and interpret what the aura indicates. Spirits and soul are visible before them and some psychics can even converse and collect information from these sprits!

Modern psychology admitted the psychic power called "clairvoyance". It is an extra sensory perception and the clairvoyance psychic can undergo communicate even to angels and spirit. They can for see things going to happen in their surrounding by smelling the secret code of things.

Another stage of psychic power is Clairaudience. Clairvoyant psychics converse sprits using images, actions and symbols but they are unable to hear spoken words from them while clairaudients hear conversations between spirits and perceive information. They can even feel emotions and tastes of spirits! Clairaudients have the ability to become one of them and experience kind of pressure on their head while communicating with spirits. They behave very strange during these times.

Psychometry and remote viewing are two other major psychic abilities. Psychometric people can sense touches with spirits, their ability thus extents to pick up materials or bodily images of other people. Their ability to sense vibrations and aura of human body helps us to find out missing people and hidden objects.

Some psychics have the ability to communicate with deceased person. They can perceive knowledge from past legends, a late friend or a relative. They can act as a medium between many spiritual conversations and predict the future that we call them psychics having Mediumship power.

Remote viewing is another ability of some psychic people. They can explain event, situation and even geographies of the place which haven't even see. This ability can use helpful to man kind.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Psychics And Clairvoyants - Are They Relevant Today?

By Mandy Spacek

The term 'psychic' refers to people possessing a special gift of extra sensory perception or rather a sixth sense which results in them being able to perceive certain things that are otherwise hidden from the normal senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.

Leaving alone the topic of psychics at the moment, let me talk about a shopkeeper in a local store who I happen to know. I remember him telling me that he can visualize my future home to have a view of an undulating plateau and vast grounds from the window. Since I exactly have the very same view from my home now, I can safely conclude him to be a clairvoyant.

Thus clairvoyants are people who have the psychic power to 'see' things which otherwise cannot be seen by other people with the normal human sense of sight. Originating from the word 'Clair voyance' or 'clear viewing', clairvoyants have an extra sensory perception that results in them seeing visions of another individual's personal aspects or his/her events in the past or future.

It can then be said that clairvoyants happen to be a subset of psychics but not vice versa. That is, all clairvoyants are said to possess psychic abilities but all psychics are not clairvoyants. In the usual parlance, the term clairvoyant is many a time carelessly used to refer to psychics as a whole. But the truth remains that apart from clairvoyants, there are numerous other types of psychics that are found all over the world.

Telepathy is also one of the most common psychic powers witnessed in the world and something which clairvoyance is confused with. According to parapsychology, which is the science that studies the presence and causes of psychic powers, clairvoyants are involved in direct and immediate information transfer with another external source whereas telepathy involves reading another person's thoughts and hence involves information transfer from another individual's mind.

Moreover, in comparison to the abilities of retro cognition or precognition which deals with the psychic's ability in predicting past events and future events respectively, it should be noted that for both of these, it is more of 'knowing' what had happened in the past or future and not necessarily 'seeing'. Of course if the psychic sees the events then he is a clairvoyant, but clairvoyance can never replace the previous two terms.

Mediumship is also something that is frequently confused with clairvoyance. A medium is another type of psychic who has the ability to communicate with spirits. This communication happens through four channels. It can be that the psychic communicates with other entities through trance or receives health benefits or healing from higher sources, interacts with them physically by participating in activities such as turntables, etc or through Clairsensing, which is the combined ability of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the ability to see and hear them respectively. Thus, we see that clairvoyance is only one part of mediumship.

Thus it can be concluded that all clairvoyants are psychics but all psychics are not clairvoyants. However, the core similarity between them is the presence of an extra sensory perception power with the help of which they perceive hidden messages from our environment. One should always remember that having such a gift of sixth sense is extremely rare and thus should be considered a blessing and used for the betterment of others.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

How To Overcome Grief And Loss With Psychotherapy

By Tara Cronin

Sometime in our lives, we all undergo a loss which is especially challenging to manage. Irrespective of whether the loss is the passing away of a relative, good friend, or pet, or the loss of something really important to us, say, for example, a business, house, or family heirloom, grief is really a healthy and normal reaction.

Grief is definitely a personal experience and involves various sensations and emotions, from panic and denial, to culpability, anger, loneliness, and sorrow. An array of problems can lead to grief, like the loss of a business, a separation, or an unexpected accident or ailment. Nevertheless, just about the most difficult loss anybody is ever going to face is probably the demise of someone we love, such as a partner, child, or parent.

The loss of somebody, or even something, we adore dearly is usually devastating. It feels like the whole world ought to stop and take notice of what's happened. Yet life appears to continue on all around us oblivious, as our personal existence comes crashing to a standstill.

While the natural grieving process does take time -- often several weeks to several months -- if you or someone you know finds that the grief just won't seem to go away, or that it worsens over time, professional assistance may be required. No matter the cause, if left unaddressed all grief can turn into severe depression and result in other psychological disorders.

How can grief counseling help?

It is not unusual for people to ask, "Just how can grief counseling possibly help? It will not bring back the individual we lost."

Although any person struggling with grief will ultimately come to terms with their loss and integrate it into their life, the emotional assistance and understanding provided by an expert counselor or therapist can help make this process much less hurtful or devastating.

Just as we are all unique individuals, no two people endure grief and loss or resolve the loneliness in a similar way. Grief counseling is focused on coming together with the one who is troubled.

Grief therapy is not about lessening your loss. Instead, grief counselors provide understanding and support as you deal with, and traverse, the process of picturing living life devoid of the loved one you lost.

Because everyone grieves differently, numerous grief counseling techniques exist. People often find it helpful to find ways to symbolize their loss and create ways to positively remember their loved one going forward. Some popular grief therapy techniques for doing so include:

Writing Therapy -- Writing exercises can help resolve feelings such as guilt, anger, or sadness. These exercises can include writing a "good-bye" letter to the deceased and keeping a journal or using creative writing to help resolve any issues that are making the grief process more difficult.

Art Therapy -- Creative expression, like for example making a scrapbook, painting, drawing, or sculpture which celebrates the life of the dead person, can help people who are having issues articulating their grief utilizing words alone. Poetry and music can also be a good way for handling despair.

Conversations with the Dead -- Facilitating a "conversation" between the person who's lamenting and the lost loved one can be an extremely effective therapeutic method that offers a chance to communicate anything that was left unspoken at the time of passing.

While moving through the various stages of grief is rarely easy, this movement is essential to being able to resume your life and incorporate your loss in a healthy manner.

Grief counseling and therapy will not only allow you to move through the process of grieving, it will also help you address whatever unresolved issues in life that make the grief process harder.

Ultimately, grief counseling can help you recover a sense of purpose, find inner peace, and rediscover joy in life that honors the memory of the one you lost while allowing you to move forward with confidence and optimism.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Astral Projection - How You Should Get Started

By Russell Atkins

Astral projection is the phenomenon where your astral body separates from your physical one and transcends the boundaries of the physical universe in order to travel to higher astral planes or different realms of consciousness. Astral projection, thus, is an out of body experience where all physical limits can be crossed and you can see the world and your own physical body from a distance.

This phenomenon is an experience of a lifetime for sure. Practitioners as well as beginners have a lot of query on this subject. Naturally, regarding astral projection how to do it is something everyone wants to know. The general queries are - in astral projection how to travel astrally, or in astral projection how to undergo the regression of past life. The ranges of questions are diverse.

The first question asked is 'how to astral project'? Here meditation is the most important of all, which should be practiced daily to attain control over your energy and the sub-conscious state of mind because you have to keep the mind awake and focused, when your body is asleep. The processes of relaxation, concentration, energy channelizing and actual projection are the four ways to achieve astral projection.

Let's see how you should do it. Lie down and concentrate on each body part alternatively clenching it and releasing it. In order to deeply relax your whole body. Let yourself fall in a trance, but don't fall asleep. Basic meditational practice may be used here to keep your mind focused. You can also try to concentrate thinking about an object at the back of your head. Thereafter become conscious about the flow of energy through your entire being feeling them flowing towards your palms and try to control the same. Visualize that you are floating or moving out of your physical body. Remember that success in this out of body experience can be attained if you can focus on this vision with all your mental strength and channelize all your energies onto it.

Questions about the actual travel after leaving the body is often asked in relation to astral traveling. It should be kept in mind that after astral projection people in t heir astral self wanders about like they would otherwise do physically. That is they try to move around in the routes they are familiar with, like inside the room or a known area, but the target should not be walking your way about but to think your way about. You should think about your destination and you will reach it by self affirmations.

In astral projection how do you see or how clear your vision is, is probably the next most common question.. The vision during astral projection is very clear, similar to what we experience in the real world. Now, in higher astral planes the vision is much clearer than in the lower planes where the vision is dull and dark.

Regarding the different queries of astral projection how to get in touch is also a frequently asked question. Is it possible to meet other astral bodies such as ghosts? If so, can they be contacted? Well, in astral projections, nobody is in their physical form, all are in their spirit form or ghosts. It is impossible to come in contact with those in their physical bodies, like your friends and family since both of you are in different vibrations altogether. But it is possible to contact other astral bodies. The mode is telepathic, so there is no need for languages.

Last but not the least, the ways of undergoing pat life regression is also a FAQ, usually by the experienced lot in this act. It has been heard of that people have traveled to their past during such astral projection. The main trick lies in verbal affirmations. You have to constantly speak to yourself about traveling to your past and see what you were for experiencing the same. All of it depends on the amount of control you posses over your sub-conscious self.

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