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, November 24, 2010

Powers Of Precognition - Are They Real?

By Jim Bowen


Psychic potential is something that is shown in many different ways but with all things considered all of the psychic powers come from an energy that is the same. There is extreme versatility in the power and there are several different names that it is referred to as. IN the end each of the powers are simply an expression of a particular ability. The circumstances that surround it are what make it seem different. Precognition is a psychic ability that is more elusive than other types.

This is the ability to see or be aware of what's going to happen in the future before they occur - a form of remembering the future. Just like a lot of other types of psychic perception, the power of precognition can happen while we're awake, but it's more likely to occur during sleep. It's easier for many people to let go of their conscious blocks and release their inner powers while they are sleeping.

When we are awake our conscious mind interferes significantly with the psychic powers that we have but as we slip into sleep the barriers begin to fall. The rational mind takes on a less active role in the thoughts that are being relayed. Our minds are open wider to the thoughts and psychic experiences that occur once we are asleep. Precognition is more likely to be effective during a deep sleep.

But why would we be able to experience a precognition at all? There are several things that may point to an answer. The existence or nonexistence of linear time is one solution. People believe that time is not linear and that our senses are simply eluding us to believe that time is linear. They believe that we are able to tap into our unconscious understanding of the nonlinear times.

Another of the theories is that time is actually cyclical, and that there are slight differences between each of the cycles. We are able to remember pieces of the former cycle and what occurred in it. This is what we are seeing as the future, actual memories from the last cycle. With this in mind, it is possible that precognition is actually remembering things that have happened in the future.

There is another theory that suggests that everyone and everything is connected with a powerful web of energy that crosses over all time and space. Because we are connected to that web we are able to see and know of things that are occurring in other parts of the web.

There are many examples of people proving that precognition actually occurs when they have predicted things that are going to happen in their own futures. The predictions are not always of extremely important things. It can be about small things like getting the incorrect order at a restaurant or a more important thing like the prediction of a bad breakup or a new job that is on the horizon. It is not uncommon for someone to be able to give very specific details about events that will occur in the future.

Making the process of precognition a conscious one can be a lot more difficult than simply having a precognitive experience, however. Many people need to study and practice in order to be effective. Concentrating on a specific target or goal is a good idea, since it focuses the mind and allows us to waste significantly less energy on getting to our goals.

Many people have a precognition experience in their early lives but they choose to ignore it and believe it could not really be true. It actually makes their precognitive powers to dilute because their skill is not being exercised. They may see an occasional dream that will give those details of the future but they never take it to the level that they are capable of and they push the images to the back of their mind and move on.

This doesn't have to be the case, however. It's not necessary to be asleep to experience precognition, and this skill can be developed through careful study. Usually, a relaxed state, such as deep mediation, is required, and for some, little conscious knowledge about the information they're seeking can be a big help.

The logical mind makes it difficult for someone to get to the details if they have too much information to begin with. By practicing in the right way, it is possible to have a conscious precognition.




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Past Regression - Why It Is Vital To Your Future

By Lesley Lockwood


Past life regression teaches different techniques, which when learned and put into practice, will help you to recall your previous life or lives. Of course you will need to decide which of the available methods is best for you. With more and more people beginning to be interested in reincarnation people are needing to find out about these different techniques.

One way to start is in keeping a journal. All it involves is writing down all of your thoughts including what is viewed as trivial experiences. Even your emotions. Emotions maybe the strongest clues to a past life. Like an unreasonable fear of bridges. This journal is helpful when you are starting to see patterns as you refer back to it.

To start with you should begin your journal by describing yourself thoroughly. Write about your likes and your dislikes. Describe what food you enjoy, what phobias (if any) that you have. If you find that you feel a particular affinity with a time period in history, or with a certain culture or even climate, write about that as well. Do not forget to write about what your talents are, and what you enjoy doing. Even writing about animals that you feel drawn to, or perhaps afraid of, can prove useful. Describe your personality and if you experience things like deja vu. If you do, record your experiences when you have them.

Your dreams also give clues in your past life. But keep in mind your dreams contain things from your present life as well but write it down anyway.

Another way to go is Past life Regression.

This involves a visit to a professional past life regression therapist. They are trained to guide you through the regression and then with your help interpret what information that came through. This technique involves the professional doing hypnosis. Sometimes this can be done by self-hypnosis.

Many people choose meditation as their preferred method.

Because this technique means that there is no professional in attendance, many people find it difficult to trust what they get during the regression. However, when it comes to meditation, you have to be able to trust not only your feelings but your instincts as well.

Many people, especially beginners, feel like all they are doing when meditating is daydreaming. But something of significance can still come through. Recording this in your journal can prove helpful.

If you need help with your meditation that can assist you to focus and relax then you might well find guided meditation audios particularly beneficial. If that is not for you then you might try music, or perhaps burning some incense, or even listening to the sound of water can be very calming. But if none of the above proves useful there is another tool that can help.

Binaural Beats

Binaural Beats is an audio recording that allows you to listen to different frequencies in each ear which aligns the two hemispheres of the brain. Using this tool can assist you in achieving the same meditative state that Zen monks reach. It is important that you choose somewhere quiet and free from distractions when you meditate. You need to ensure that whether you are lying down or sitting that you are completely comfortable and relaxed.

It is important that you are relaxed and that you are not distracted by thoughts about everyday things. Simply acknowledge the thought so that it does not keep recurring, and so that you do not forget it, then put it out of your mind. Remember that meditation does not just happen, it takes practice before you will reach a true meditative state.

Sometimes meditation can help with that which you are confronting in your current life. Many discover that the people around them are people they shared a past life with. Although this might seem strange a simple bit of research can confirm or deny the information gleaned from the regression meditation.

Reincarnation is a belief held by many of the world's religions. Some believe that we experience the consequences of that which we did in our past life or lives, whether good or not, in our current life. It is called Karma and is not that different from regression, in that once you have discovered information about your past life it can help you when faced with issues in your present life. It is all about learning from our mistakes in the past, and that can only enhance and enrich your current life experience.

Although it may be difficult for you it is important that you keep an open mind to enable you to accept whatever information about your past life that comes through. This information can be very beneficial to your present life, because you are able to learn from the past mistakes that you made and as a result enjoy a fuller, richer current life.

Sometimes it happens that the subconscious might be blocked but it can be unblocked successfully to receive the information that comes through past life regression. Despite the fact that some people experience a blocked subconscious, the experts still maintain that past life regression can be very beneficial to the present life. But besides the unblocking of the subconscious, there are other benefits as well.

Helping in deal with things from the past that will help in making better decisions. If the regression brings out something you have done in the past that was less than kind, then suffer negative results from it then you know that you can't do that in this life.

Another way that past life regression can be beneficial is that from it you may discover that you have talents and/or abilities that you did not know of and that will aid you in enjoying your current life that much more. It can explain talents or abilities that you may have that you never understood before. For instance, perhaps you are good at singing while the rest of the people in your family are tone deaf! The fact that you were a singer in your past life will explain why you ave that ability in your present life.

Past life regression allows you to get to know yourself better, thereby making better decisions and choices n your current life. Therefore it is beneficial to investigate it further, as it helps you to discover just who you are and why you are the way you are.




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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Remote Viewing An Introduction For Beginners

By Hugo Preis


Have you ever thought about having the ability to see things, people, even places that are not within the range of your five senses? The thing to remember is that we have more than just five senses and it is entirely possible to reach out with your own innate psychic ability and to make observations that are otherwise impossible!

Remote viewing is something that is different from an out of body experience. An out of body experience or astral travel, involves leaving your body in a spirit form to see what is going elsewhere.

On the other hand, with remote viewing, you are looking at a form of psychic dowsing, where you can use your innate psychic power to find out what you need. Essentially, you will be using ESP to find out what you need.

The truth of the matter is that all people are capable of it. While it is easier to develop when you are young, you will find that you can easily learn it when you are older as well. When you think about the fact that you only use ten percent of your brain, there is a lot of potential there that is going untapped.

For instance, think of how comforted you would be to check in on your kids when they are away. This kind of security and peace of mind is just one of the benefits that you can get when you are looking at remote viewing

The interesting thing about remote viewing is that just about anyone can learn how to do it. Even with people who do not show off psychic traits, the ability can be developed once they are taught to enter a trance-like state. After that, they could engage in remote viewing with the same positive effects as a psychic.

If you want to try remote viewing, there are a few tips you can look into.

*Start by sitting quietly in your room and closing your eyes. Make sure that there are no distractions around you.

*As you feel your body relax, start to breathe through your nose. You might want to make it easier for yourself by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth; happily enough, this will also keep you from yawning!

*Remember that you need to believe in yourself and your ability to do this. As you get more and more relaxed, tell yourself that you are capable of seeing places, people or events that you are not physically seeing.

*To get started, you need to think about how to view something that you know intimately. One great way to get the results that you need is to picture yourself, but from an angle that other people use. Don't think about the way that you look in the mirror; instead think about how you look from straight on or how you look from above. This can be a little complicated, but once you have learned to do this, the rest should come more easily. Just remember to be patient with yourself!

*After you have mastered viewing yourself from a static remote perspective, try widening the lens, as it were. Think about a location that you know very well. It might be a place that you go regularly, or it might be a place from your past. Look for small details that surprise you or that might signify change. After you finish, try calling that location or visiting it, and seeing if you can confirm what you had seen. Reinforcement of your vision is essential and you will find that though you might not be completely right at first, you'll be closer than you think!

Remember that one great way to get some instant results is to have a friend help you. You and your friend should be positioned in two different rooms and you should take turns signaling to each other. As your friend makes a gesture like waving or stroking their hair, you should take a moment to consider what they might be doing. They can then confirm or deny it for you and you will have some instant feedback!

Once you have gotten some practice under your belt,you will find that it is much simpler to enter the relaxed state that you need. Getting into this state is much easier than you might think it is, and you can think of it as hypnotizing yourself. You might be wide awake, but your body is relaxed enough to allow you to access your full potential.

The truth of the matter is that it is much easier to get messages from your sub-conscious than you might think; consider how the remote viewing techniques might help you!




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Ways To Easily Get Away From Your Ex

By Grace Adams


A lot of us have been on different kinds of relationship but none is far worse than having a toxic relationship, a relationship that is one-sided and that you are thrust into a corner without any way to defend yourself. You end up being the abused one emotionally and maybe even physically.

But for others, it is very difficult to walk out of that relationship because of the emotions being invested over the time you two have spent together. There is also a possibility that your partner might be ready to let you go yet.

But, the best thing to do right now is to identify that you are inside a toxic relationship, a relationship that does not have any finish line or an end. You are trapped inside a place where you are used and abused.

Toxic relationships are usually one-sided meaning they only pertain to one person. They usually do not give any care for the person whether they are hurt or not. Identifying that you are inside this kind of a relationship gives you the power to walk out.

Most relationships have hit some bumps and it is in those trying times that you can prove to yourself and to your partner that you truly love each other. But for toxic relationships, it's every man for himself. Then if it comes to that, it is time to leave.

Do not try to compromise. There should be no negotiations or talks about getting back because he thought it was a mistake. When something happens, if you are abused, chances are, you will be abused again if you come back to that relationship.

Try to stay away from his friends too. The thing about this kind of relationship is that he will try to reach out to his friends for help in wooing you back in his wings. But, there will be times that even though you try to stay away from them they always pop up.

But, do this in a way that it will not offend them. Explain to them that their friend has become a stranger to you and that their friend is not the person you have met and fallen in love with. This will make your life easier by going out and setting the record straight.




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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Why You Should Get A Funeral Plan Today

By Dan Francis


Do you cringe at the thought of your own death? There is no escaping death that is why it is best if we start preparing for it, not just for ourselves but also for our loved ones. So if you are really concerned about the future welfare of your family, it is time that you consider getting a funeral plan today.

When the time comes, who do you think could best take care of your funeral expenses, not to mention the actual funeral arrangements? Even if you have loved ones who are currently financially capable of shouldering the costs, but that is speaking about the present. How about in the future? You could never tell if they would still have enough money to shoulder all the funeral expenses.

Another good thing about getting your own funeral plan is that you can make the choices for your own funeral arrangements. While this may sound weird, but it is a form of legacy that you might want to leave behind. For example, instead of a burial service, you may prefer cremation and the ashes being scattered to the sea. These can all be prepared to your specific instructions and choices.

Do you think your family will be emotionally prepared to deal with your passing and at the same time make the right funeral preparations? What if they could not think straight during that time and they end up with all the wrong choices? It would matter if all the mistakes that they would do are the selection of the flowers. However, what if they get tricked into selecting overpriced services or arrangements that are not really necessary? For these reasons, it would still be best if you make the preparations yourself.

Some people worry too much whether the funeral director would have the money to pay for their funeral plans should the time comes for it. There is nothing to be afraid of. Funeral directors are liable to the government in keeping their responsibilities to their funeral plan holders. They will suffer more should they neglect on providing the necessary funeral arrangements for their clients.

There are also a few people who think funeral plans are very expensive, but it really depends on what kind of plan they get. Of course there will always be expensive plans that include the most expensive arrangements and services. But there are also those which are more affordable and can provide at least the basic services.

You must also think about the funeral costs as these can go high in the years to come. But if you have a funeral plan already set in place, then you do not have to worry about it. Funeral costs will generally not affect most funeral plans. Your family will be able to save much money when the time finally comes.

Getting a funeral plan is something any responsible person should get, or for the time being, at least should seriously consider. It saves you and your family money, it prepares everything for them, and every preparation will be based on your preferences. What more can you ask?




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What Are Lucid Dreams And What Purpose Do They Serve?

By Simon Hearn


Dreaming and being aware that you are dreaming is referred to as lucid dreaming. While in the middle of a dream lucidity begins and that the dreamers completely understand that the occurrence is not taking place in physical realism and is just a dream. This realization hits the dreamer when he notices a lot of not possible or unlikely incidences in his dream like talking and meeting with a deceased person. There are occasions when people just realize that they are in a dream.

Lucidity quality varies a great extent. When you are at a level of high lucidity level you are aware in your mind that all experiences are taking place in the dream and that there is no real danger. Your awareness is also of the fact that you are fast asleep and will soon wake up.

However when it comes to low level of lucidity, you may be aware to a large extent that you are in a state of dream. Lucid dreaming refers to being conscious when in a dream. It is in lucid dreaming that you abruptly realize that you are dreaming in your dreams. It is at this stage that you get familiar with lucid dream, regardless of the fact whether you have achieved management of your dream or not.

You get some sort of indication in lucid dreaming which pushes this, an indication to the person that what is being experienced is a dream and not happening in reality. Yet it's not essential to get those signals to become lucid. It's very rare that people become lucid without any notice of something strange or distinctive of dreams. People who are unaware of the distinction between having a lucid dream and taking control of a dream are also present. When you take control of your dreams it is simply moving to the next level. This level is achieved by making and= effort to apply your will on your environment.

Rarely does it happen that people become lucid with no any notice of something odd or characteristic of dreams. There are some people who are not aware of the difference between having a lucid dream and taking control of a dream. You move on to the next level when you take control of your dreams and this level can be achieved by making an effort to apply your will on your surroundings.

Despite this, it may be possible that it may be not possible to put forward much control in the initial stage.

You should work towards changing your behaviors instead of changing your dreams. To take control of your dreams is the best at the time of nightmares. Instead of working on changing your dreams, change your own attitude. You are able to allay your fears just by the understanding that it is only a dream and that there is no physical damage. With this change in your attitude your nightmare will change into something more peaceful.

Making changes in your own attitude will usually change a nightmare into something more peaceful. This is just one of the many reasons why you should teach yourself to have lucid dreams.




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Saturday, November 20, 2010

How To Prepare To Meditate

By Owen Jones


There is a lot of nonsense talked about meditation. I do not mean what it can do for you because that is difficult to prove one way or the other. I have read people saying that they found all sorts of things in meditation and who am I to say that they did not merely because I have not had the exactly same experience.

I believe that there are many stages of evolution and so what one person experiences in one way another might experience in a entirely different way.

No, I mean that there is a great deal of rubbish talked about how one has to meditate. I am reading an piece this moment by someone who says: '... for a successful meditation practice, everything has to be ideal ..... the room has to be set up in such a way ...' and so it goes on. The person who wrote that piece appears never to have even thought let alone ever meditated.

Meditation has always been most frequently carried out by people with a spiritual bent. Of those people, most people who meditated were monks, because they were seeking enlightenment and had the time and tranquility to meditate. It was difficult to find the time or the quietness if you were a subsistence farmer with ten kids running around.

Anyway, lower orders of monks are not famous for living opulent lives where 'everything ... is ideal'. They live quiet lives and when they want to meditate, they will not be disturbed, no matter where they are but particularly in their cells.

My father used to drive out to a cliff top and meditate behind a bush looking out 100 feet over the Bristol Channel. Frequently he did it in the middle of the night.

It is a good idea that the people you live with understand that when you want to meditate that they must strive not to make a great deal of noise and absolutely not call you by name or barge into the room where you are.

How you can accomplish this in your household, you know better than I, but talking to cohabitants and displaying a sign in a prominent position can help as can always meditating at the same hour of the day, but is not usually practical. Most of us have to take our free time while we can.

Turn off anything that makes a noise. Turn off phones and even the door bell, if you can. Open the window, if it is not unbearably cold or raining cats and dogs. Take a shower and put on loose-fitting comfortable clothes like pyjamas.

Sit on the floor, if you can; cross-legged, if you can. If you are nearly there, try sitting on a cushion or pillow. There are items known as zafu or meditation pillows, which are small and thick.

Some are round and others are square, but a round zafu may be 12 inches in diameter and four to six inches thick. This is to raise you off the ground enough to take the strain off your hips and knees, if you are not used to sitting cross-legged.

It will encourage a correct posture, that is a straight back. It is also softer on the behind and when you are sitting comfortably, you may begin.




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