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When was the last time you consciously thought about the spirit or soul aspect of your beingness? Essential spirituality information requires you to seek this reconnection. Use your spiritual quest to advance your spiritual growth with a conscious and consistent association with your spirit.

As babies, we were born into this world in perfect balance in the mind, body, spirit being that we are. This is what I like to call the "love triangle." As we grow, develop and define the world, we become less and less influenced by our spirit. Why is that? Because, just like all things in life, what becomes real in our lives is what we put our attention on.

The world we live in at this particular point in our evolution has not put a lot of time and attention on developing our spirit. We are constantly being conditioned to believe that our beingness is to be mostly concerned with our body and our mind.

Some people might say that is not true. They would say, "Look at all the religions and how we are seeking the word of God through our religious teachings." There is much truth to this argument, but what is being promulgated and what our attention is being put on is the religion itself and not on our innate "spirit."

The religion becomes the message and not the day-to-day influence of spirit without judgment or labels attached to it by each and every religion, according to its particular doctrine. So our physical senses continually bring us a message that we identify ourselves as mostly a body and a mind. We put our attention on this never-ending conditioning and become less and less influenced by the spirit side of our beingness.

The love triangle adjusts accordingly and instead of the perfectly balanced mind, body, spirit being that we were when we entered this physical world we begin to view ourselves from a whole different perspective.

We are still a three-part being and we will always be a three-part being. It is just that the "spirit" part of our beingness has not received any attention and is therefore less influential in the decisions and choices we make in our lives. The result of this neglect of our spirit is the startling revelation of how the love, that is the core of our beingness, also atrophies and is less influential when we lose our spiritual influence.

Wow! This is worth a big Ah-haaaaa. Our love quotient is way down when we lose the influence of our spirit. Somehow, that statement makes total logical sense. Not just physical sense but more importantly nonphysical sense.

The sense that comes from the more subtle aspects of our beingness. The sense that comes to us from the triune relationships in our lives. From the super conscious, conscious and subconscious. From the physical, the nonphysical, and the metaphysical. From the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. From the mind, body and spirit.

This is the nature of our beingness in the world we live in today. This is "what is so." It is neither right nor wrong. It is merely "what is so." The question we need to ask ourselves is this: "Does this serve me?"

Each of you must go within yourselves and answer that question. Your answer will determine who you choose to be, and from that beingness you will do the things it takes to manifest the beingness that you choose.

Make a conscious choice in this very present moment of now to "be" more spiritual. All it requires is to consciously allow your spirit to be an active participant in your decision making process. Make that choice today and reap the benefits of that choice for the rest of your life.

Richard Blackstone is an award winning author and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3 Simple Immutable Laws of the Universe" at: http://www.NutsandBoltsSpirituality.com

Marketing your solution to a problem is a spiritual, even sacred process. Here's why.

Typically a marketing/sales transaction is thought of as dollars-given for a product-delivered. And that's the way most people experience it. Why? Because our commercial culture has never looked at it any more deeply than that.

It's a simple process. I give you a product, you give me money, end of story.

And most marketers don't experience themselves as motivated by anything more than money.

But there's more - so much more.

Let's begin by assuming you are a customer. Given that:

Bring to mind a time when you had a problem you couldn't solve and you had to look for help. It doesn't matter whether the problem was serious - maybe even life threatening - or just an irritation you needed to alleviate.

When you found the solution and accepted it from the marketer, there were at least two levels of exchange.

Level One - You paid for it and took it into your life. A dollars-given for solution-rendered exchange.

That's the external expression of the event, the physical one, the obvious one, the one everybody knows about, the one most marketers and consumers believe to be the sum total of what takes place.

And when your problem is minor - no consequences attached - most of what happens happens at the external level.

Say you need gasoline. You have the money. The gas station is nearby. You stop, fill up, pay, and leave. No big deal - unless, of course, the cost of the gasoline is more than you can comfortably afford - but you need the gas to get to work so you have to buy it. Then the picture changes, because the consequences are serious, maybe even severe.

As the gravity of the consequences that flow from your need increases so does the depth of the exchange.

So, if you're a soft sell marketer who prefers a more inclusive, emotionally connected, heart-based business relationship with your prospects and customers - you're invited to register for a free series of 10 tele-calls previewing our "Bridging Heart and Marketing" Internet conference that takes place February 22, 23, 24 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. We'll be sharing our spiritual approach and the soft sell wisdom of world-class Internet marketers. Just click on http://www.bridgingheartandmarketing.com - and join us.

My spiritual teacher I.F. of 17 years, had a very unique way of sharing his wisdom with me.

His teachings were mainly oral. We would sit facing each other early in the morning at a small card table, munching on bagels and cheese. We would sip coffee and he would talk. I would listen and take notes.

This was nothing like the Chelas sitting cross legged around a Guru, as they do in the East.

This was a Western master teaching a western student. His patience with me and the world in general was infinite.

He told me that many of the things he spoke about, he didn't expect me to immediately understand. They were 'Seed Thoughts' as he called them, that would go into my subconscious and bear fruit for later in life.

It is now over 30 years and as I look back, I smile. Yes, many of the 'Seed Thoughts' have born fruit and changed my life and1033 my consciousness.

I will share some of them with you now. Allow them to grow and bear fruit for you. I will put his exact words in quotes followed by my commentaries.

"We are not properly conscious nor are other people properly conscious."

We all spend too much time in our past, thinking and re-thinking events, both good and bad. This is not being conscious, this belongs to the realm of sub-consciousness, memorie.

To be conscious, we need to be in the HERE-NOW of the moment, not in the past nor the future.

"Increase of consciousness of oneself, leads to more room for yourself in the inner world."

There are many levels of consciousnes and many worlds to be explored in the 'inner worlds'. By becoming more conscious you open these worlds for yourself.

"Be careful, as you build the structures for your inner rooms; someone will be trying to pull the ladder out from under you. That someone is your personality."

Most of the allegories about the fight between light and darkness takes on many forms. Within the individual the fight is between one's higher self and one's personality.

Our personality is where all the (lies and falsehoods we have picked up on our trip lie.) They want dominion over our life and do not want you to become more conscious. Because they know consciouness is their death knoll.

The fight is WITHIN us not WITHOUT.

"The slow difficult steps to consciousness leads to freedom."

He used to say " Yard by yard, lifes's too hard, inch by inch life's a cinch."

"Understand, that one of the biggest problems we face is when we project our inner negative attitiudes on others and blame them."

We cannot accuse another of bad temper, meaness, hate, suspicion, unjustness, anger, or bitterness. We feel and sense these negative attitudes in others because they also live inside us.

"Stop looking for the splinter in your brother's eyes when you have a log in yours!"

"The uproar of your daily life will drown out your spiritual life."

You must find a way to set some time appart for your spiritual studies. Every day life comes rushing in, in a million differnent directions and steals your time and energy.

"Your inner man/woman must be renewed and fed day by day or it will be drowned by the uproar of life."

Ellis Peterson AKA Ragnar Storyteller is a retired math professor and electronics engineer. He has been studying astrology, runes, metaphysics and alternate healing treatments for over 30 years. He is 70+, in very good health and lives in the boonies of the Pocono mountains with his wifr Lory. His writings are unique and refreshing.

To see more of his writings visit his websites.

http://www.olevikingshop.com and http://www.runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com

Or go to goggle and type in his pen name RAGNAR STORYTELLER for his listings. He is also a ghost writer and will write and article for you. Email Ragnar for his FREE 10 PART MINI-COURSE, "How-To use Quantum Physics in Your Every Day Life to Attract More Wealth, Health and Love, Now." You can contact him at: ragnarstoryteller2@gmail.com

The following are the seven steps of Walking the Red Road as we prepare to meet Messiah.

Step 1: Observe nature with awe and gratitude. A sense of love and respect for all creation will begin to grow within me.

Step 2: Learn to trust Creator, and accept my circumstances. Overcoming adversity will produce spiritual growth within me as I walk the Red Road.

Step 3: Seek for truth within myself, that I may remove hypocrisy and evil intent from within my heart.

Step 4: Repent and humbly surrender my will to Creator, that I may become one with Great Spirit.

Step 5: Communicate with Great Spirit from my heart--listen, and live the insight I receive.

Step 6: Learn true abstinence--it is in serving others, with an attitude of loving-kindness, that I create a flow of Living Waters that will purify my heart.

Step 7: Attain complete, joyous harmony with Great Spirit--walk the Red Road. This requires that I totally surrender my will to the will of Creat1691or, and love others unconditionally without judgment because that is who I am.

Cherokee elder, John Red Hat, taught us many hidden spiritual truths of the Keetoowah Cherokee as he learned from his grandmother. He also taught us wisdom he gained from studying under the great Jewish Zionist teacher, Rabbi Joseph Jasin. These along with spiritual truths from the wonderful Kabala teachings have been incorporated into the seven steps of Walking the Red Road spiritual path.

As we master each of the seven steps of Walking the Red Road, we move closer to oneness with our heavenly Father. Learn more about preparing to meet Messiah according to Jesus teachings, and be enlightened by the deep spiritual teachings of our beloved Cherokee elder, John Red Hat Duke, by reading Red Hat Speaks by Dorothy K. Daigle.

Dorothy was taught by Cherokee elder and wisdom keeper, John Red Hat Duke, for over ten years in Keetoowah Cherokee spiritual ways, in Eastern philosophy, and in Judaism. She was raised Christian so she has a good working knowledge of Christianity. She now follows no religion but strives to walk the Red Road spiritual path according to Jesus teachings. She received her call from Creator in the fall of '92, and was then taught by the great prophet Elijah for four years. She was given four assurances by Creator when He called her. She was told that she was anointed by the Holy One of Israel, that she would be protected until this work was done, that Creator would go before her whenever He sent her somewhere, and that she did not have to prove herself to anyone. She is Creators witness. She carries wisdom of many years of living under Creator's guidance and direction.

When water appears in your dreams, it can have two different meanings, depending on its quantity.

If you see only a few drops of water, it means forgiveness. The drops give life to the dry earth and signify the continuation of life after dormancy, since water gives life to seeds that become plants.

This is the water that makes the dust sit and stop flowing everywhere. In this case, the dust is provoked by fights and the water puts an end to the fights by causing the dust to settle or wash away.

A few drops of water that are sufficient to extinguish fire that started to burn. Forgiveness puts an end to violence; it doesn't let the hatred continue to burn someone's heart.

However, when you se16A5e a lot of water, as in a flood, its meaning is negative, because it symbolizes attachment to Earth, or in other words, the one who dreams of water (usually in an inundation) is too materialistic. They do not consider the existence of their spirit; they behave as if their lives didn't have any meaning beyond daily survival. The water they see (a lot of water when it has the meaning of attachment to Earth) is the spirit that was light and invisible flying in the air but became heavy water that gravitated towards the earth, and fell from its proper dimension.

If you see a flood in your daily life, you shall interpret it the same way, because the meaning of everything that happens with you in your life has a symbolic meaning and the symbolic meaning gives you information about the reality where you are and about the content of your psychic sphere, which you ignore.

Too much water is a sign of superficiality and futility. You do not consider several points of reality that are important because you underestimate their value. You do not consider the future, other influences in your life, the meaning of your life in general, or anything. You only concentrate on the narrow sphere of your daily life, obligations, friends, problems; you live a superficial life.

There are many other things happening in the universe besides everything you know. The meaning of your life may not be what you imagine.

You are not made of flesh and bones alone.

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As healing practitioners, we owe it to our clients and those who we extend healing, to be as open as possible to God's direction and inspiration in the form of spiritual guidance. The skill of clairvoyance or clear seeing is much more than seeing auras; it is about developing clear spiritual sight that can take many forms. God's messages can come to us visually through dreams, visions, mental pictures as well as the seeing of energy fields and angel lights. For many, "seeing" is something like watching a movie-the information comes through the "third eye," which is located in the middle of the forehead, though invisible to our human eyes and is the place of inner sight. This area can be awakened through the vibration of singing, chanting, toning-all activities common in our worship services. The next time you are in a church or place of worship, notice the spiritual insights that come to you. What were you doing when you received these insights? Listening to the spoken word of God? Singing, chanting? Or, were you just experiencing the vibration of the many sounds?

How are dreams a way of clear seeing for us as healing practitioners? First of all, both the Old and New Testaments are filled with prophetic dreams that were messages from God for the people. Sometimes, the dreams were completely symbolic and had to be interpreted by one of the Old Testament figures. Often the messages we might receive in dreams come to us in symbols. Some of these will be universal while others are unique to you. Pay attention to all the nuances of the dream-the colors, symbols, people, actions, etc. Many times the meaning of a dream may not be revealed until much later. If we listen closely to our dreams, we will gain the needed insights to resolve conflicts, heal relationships, and heal our bodies and our emotions. Sometimes dreams can give us direction for the healing path we have chosen.

Visions are like dreams only they occur in the waking state and not the dream state. The Acts of the Apostles recounts many visions that shaped the early Christian Church. Paul had a vision that a man would heal his blindness and Ananias had a vision that he was to find Paul to heal his blindness. In another significant vision story, Cornelius a centurion had a vision of an angel who told him to send for Peter. Peter likewise had a strange vision in which he was told to kill and eat animals that were clearly not Kosher. Just then, the servants of Cornelius showed up to take him back to their master. When Peter began to tell Cornelius and his friends about Jesus, the Holy Spirit came upon them all and they began to speak in tongues. Then Peter understood the vision-Jesus came for everyone, Jew and non-Jew alike. Don't discount visions as only for those who are religious. Visions might lead you in your healing practice or direct you to create a healing center or a healing program. Visions can be small or large. Sometimes our clear seeing comes in the form of mental pictures. We get a "snap-shot" view of where something is hidden or a picture comes to mind of someone we need to call.

Most people can relate to this if they are visual in nature at all. Some can even see a mental movie before their eyes of things yet to come. This is really not that uncommon. Who among us has not lost our car keys or some other needed object? When we are unable to find it and have become thoroughly frustrated, it comes to us to sit down quietly and try to picture where we last had the object we are seeking.

And then of course there is seeing "auras" and "angel lights." Angel lights are very similar to seeing auras only they aren't around people. They may appear as flashes of light or soft glows in the corner of the room. Sometimes you may even see many lights around the altar of worship that don't seem to be attributed to the natural or artificial lighting of the space. They may be white or even colored lights. If you see them, check inside and see what you are feeling. If it's peace, then more than likely the lights are an indication of the presence of the angels.

Auras can be seen by many people including children. Auras can appear as a glow around people, animals and objects that range from a pale gray/blue or white to multiple colors. The aura can be seen from a few inches to several feet around the person, animal or object. Are you intrigued about developing your ability to clearly see?

Check this out for more information on learning to develop your clairvoyance through educational courses on healing energy and the laying-on of hands http://www.HTSpiritualMinistry.com The vision of the Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry program is to restore healing in our Christian churches--no small vision!

You can also read more about developing your abilities to listen, see, feel and know in Linda Smith's books: Called into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch, and Healing Oils Healing Hands, Discovering the Power of Prayer, Hands On Healing and Anointing. You can find these books and much more on my web site at http://www.ISHAhealing.com/HealingStore/tabid/348/Default.aspx

Here are six areas to explore when you're looking at succeeding in any human endeavor (sports, business, relationships, test-taking, public speaking, and more). You can write your responses to the six steps to accelerate your performance in any way you like.

1. What do you want to accomplish? Explain this in as much detail at possible. IF you like, you can make a list.

2. What have you done already to accomplish this? This may be steps you have already taken or related accomplishments that you've had previously. Explain or list these.

3. What's in the way? What do you know is creating a barrier? If you don't know, you can finish this sentence: "I don't want to ____because." You can keep on asking this until you feel like you've located anything in the way of your accomplishments.

4. What resources do you have within yourself to do this? Take a look at what skills and talents you have that make it possible for you to do what you'd like to do. Finding your resources reinforces your confidence and assures you that since you have already created a high level of accomplishment in another area, you can do it again in this one.

5. Can you imagine yourself as you'd like to be? Explore this in as much detail as possible. See I t, feel it, explore it, or get an impression. Let it become alive in you.

6. Are there any words or phrases that can symbolize your accomplishment? If so, what might they be? Can you put your thumb and index finger together and say your word or phrase to strengthen your intention?

2007 Marilyn Gordon

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Your spiritual growth is not a static event; it is an on-going process. Once you are locked into the process you begin to receive spirituality information through a variety of sources.

Spirituality, as a concept, is not an external manifestation of our beliefs or an explanation of how we express ourselves in physical form. Spirituality is internal and eternal. Spirituality is our interconnectedness with all of life, the physical, the nonphysical and the metaphysical. It is an interconnectedness that begins by knowing who you really are and creating life from that point of awareness.

Spirituality is life itself, revealing itself to you. Replace the word "life" in the last sentence with the word "God" and you will begin to understand the deeper part of the life (God) process. You see, God, life and love are interchangeable.

If you have a misunderstanding about 1C83this essential part of life's (God's, love's) equation, then you will be throwing your whole life (God, love) experience into a perspective that is not in alignment with the true nature of how things work.

Think about these concepts. What if you started your whole life experience on a foundation of sand? What if the basic concepts and beliefs that you have lived your whole life by were not based in essential truths about the true nature of how the universe works? What if your core values and life perspectives were not designed to serve you in your quest to be the grandest vision of yourself? What if most of what you believe about the life process is based in fear? What if living within this paradigm of fear has kept you from viewing life another way that might actually serve you better?

Now let us try this sentence again and substitute the word "God" for "life."

Just think about these concepts. What if you started your whole God experience on a foundation of sand? What if the basic concepts and beliefs that you have "Goded" your whole life by were not based in essential truths about the true nature of how the universe works? What if your core values and God perspectives were not designed to serve you in your quest to be the grandest vision of yourself? What if most of what you believe about the God process is based in fear? What if living within this paradigm of fear has kept you from viewing God another way that might serve you better?

Now let us try it with the word "love."

Just think about these concepts. What if you started your whole love experience on a foundation of sand? What if the basic concepts and beliefs that you have loved your whole life by were not based in essential truths about the true nature of how the universe works? What if your core values and love perspectives were not designed to serve you in your quest to be the grandest vision of yourself? What if most of what you believe about the love process is based in fear? What if living within this paradigm of fear has kept you from viewing love another way that might serve you better?

Wouldn't it behoove you to really understand the true nature of how things work? If you really understood the true nature of how things work in this universe, then you would be able to align with that understanding and bring into your life that which you truly desire.

Your spiritual growth requires you to seek clarity on the interconnectedness of all of life. Not just the physical universe but also the unseen metaphysical aspects of the nature of our being. It is truly a grand quest and one that is not only soulfully fulfilling but also one that is guaranteed to improve your life and the world we live in.

Richard Blackstone is an award winning author and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3 Simple Immutable Laws of the Universe" at: http://www.NutsandBoltsSpirituality.com

Your Mind Creates Your Reality

The Age of Aquarius has given us the Laws of Quantum Physics. Simply stated the Laws of Quantum Physics tell us that there exists an infinite, intelligent ocean of energy we call the Quantum Ocean. It is for all intent and purposes the Mind of God.

This Quantum Ocean responds to the mind of man. What ever we continuously think about will eventually manifest in our life. All that ever was, is or will be exists in the Quantum Ocean. There is no time only the Here-Now. There-fore the most important tool man possesses is his mind. We have to learn how to use our mind intelligently to reap the fruits of the incoming Age of Aquarius.

Steven Hawkins said, "....The Universe depends on the observer..." What we observe we see in our mind's eye.

All illness occurs in our bodies: but the body exists in our minds. When we heal our minds with right thought, our bodies automatically heal. Time is subjective. It is a function of our mind. It is relative. Sitting on a hot stove seems to last a much longer time than making love to one's wife.

As a race we are losing our spirituality at an ever increasing rate because all our new technology has distanced us from life's magic and creativity. It would be better if we took the computers and video games away from the children until they were at least 14. This will give them the opportunity to discover the magic of life spontaneously.

Life is more magical than mechanical.

We are finally starting to understand Socrates when he said "...He who would change the world, must first change himself." We can do this by using our minds. We do create our own reality including illness and healing with our minds.

Life and the guiding principles of life which we are now calling the Quantum Ocean, or the Mind of God is well organized. We must use our minds to learn how to use it.

Our natural state is to be healthy, but we have used our mind to think erroneously causing our illness. All healing begins with your desire to be healed and a willingness to make the mental change to incorporate healing.

Your body was born ('Blinked out' of the Quantum Ocean) with all it needs for this incarnation. Your soul knows what to do. The more you relate to your soul, the more you will experience well being at all levels of your life. Keep in mind that our bodies and the whole Universe are 1% matter and 99% spiritual energy. Our minds use that spiritual energy.

One of the biggest blockages we have to health and well being is fear. Fear is a function of the mind about something that will come from the future. Fear cannot and does not exist in the present moment. It is a lie.

Your choices and intentions, have an impact on the Quantum Ocean and alters your physical experiences. Your mind, emotional state and beliefs affect both your illness and your healing process.

Think better thoughts and accept not knowing EVERYTHING. Socrates said, "...The only thing he knew was that he knew NOTHING." Think that you are a part of the Mind of God (Quantum Ocean) which is an ocean of consciousness, that is constantly creating good.

You are your own reality creating machine. What you constantly repeat in your words and mind, tends towards visibility in your life. Your real life is totally personal and subjective.

Ellis Peterson AKA Ragnar Storyteller is a retired math professor and electronics engineer. He has been studying astrology, runes, metaphysics and alternate healing treatments for over 30 years. He is 70+, in very good health and lives in the boonies of the Pocono mountains with his wifr Lory. His writings are unique and refreshing.

To see more of his writings visit his websites.

http://www.olevikingshop.com

and http://www.runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com

Or go to goggle and type in his p416en name RAGNAR STORYTELLER for his listings. He is also a ghost writer and will write and article for you. Email Ragnar for his FREE 10 PART MINI-COURSE, "How-To use Quantum Physics in Your Every Day Life to Attract More Wealth, Health and Love, Now." You can contact him at:

ragnarstoryteller2@gmail.com

Two forces converge in opposition, in the name of God.

One seeks to dominate the world through appearances. The other seeks the kingdom of heaven that is within.

Those seeking world dominance through appearances use rationalization to justify their conduct. They look at their conduct to the extent that it can be justified, and they ignore the rest of what they. One of this persuasion can kill, torture, torment vindictively without facing the vindictive motivation within him. His unconscious aim can be to send you to hell while he proclaims his only intention is to get you into heaven by imposing upon you punishment consistent with his biblical interpretations. He denies the act of interpretation of the Bible as he uses his interpretation as his instrument of abuse of power. He says, and maybe even believes at times, that the Bible says what it does not explicitly say. For instance, he can interpret a child's grimace as an expression of disrespect warranting corporal punishment, and call that Biblically commanded. Yet, nowhere in the Bible does it describe that particular grimace, given in that particular context.

Rather than examining how his own conduct that calls for his self-correction, he blindly justifies his behavior on imaginary Biblical grounds. Such an individual may be extremely disciplined, to the point of not being able to openly express spontaneous feeling. His identification with the letter of the law, and as long as he appears to get away with what he is up to, he regards it as good. This makes him exactly what Jesus railed against, while he calls himself a true Christian believer. He regards his actions as right, as leading him to heaven, and his actions upon you right, leading you to heaven, while he secretly (even to himself) harbors hatred toward you, having made you the scapegoat for his frustrated life and intense self-disapproval.

The churches of this individuals school him to succeed mightily in the material world because his sole focus is on conducting himself according to appearances for the sake of accumulating appearances. Money is the appearance or symbol of freedom and power, so he pursues the all-mighty dollar with the utmost discipline, making every necessary sacrifice to accumulate more and more. He seeks to own people and manipulate their loving expressions; since he is not what he seems to be he thus steals a love not truly aimed at him. He lives in a false world that means less and less to him, driving him to seek more and more appearances of power to mask his growing sense of inner emptiness.

His chief aim is to appear respectable, to gain the admiration and approval of others to make up for his lack of interior self-honesty, so he follows the laws of the land to the letter, on the surface, which convinces him that he is immaculately ethical. He may generously engage in charitable philanthropy, giving a mere pittance of his holdings to those who suffer a vast cost of his self-service. He is all about appearances, though he has been told that the kingdom of heaven is within, and that it profits a man nothing to own the world at the cost of his soul. He believes he serves his soul by denying himself of deep, inner self-examination; but that light is pure food for the soul.

Traveling in the counter direction are those who entrust their lives to the loftiest of motives. They place their trust in inner self-examination, with the aim of expressing the authenticity of their pure love. They seek to harm no one; to love everyone. The man of appearances proclaims to love everyone without examining the feelings in his heart. He goes to church and cuts you down with his sword, defending his action by proclaiming publicly he is loving you that way, because he has his Biblical justification for it. The inner dweller of the spiritual world seeks to know his love for you by examining what is driving him and how his thoughts, feelings, actions, and speech impact you and him. He too seeks to conquer the world, but to conquer it with the love that he feels. He wants to live the richest life on earth possible, while the super-wealthy man of appearances claims to care nothing for this world and to live only for his delivery to heaven, which will occur as long as he can Biblically justify his actions without examining the actual content of his own heart, or of yours.

So here these two ideologies clash, on the field of earth; and it seems that never the twain shall live together in harmonious accord, for each regards the other's way with enmity. The man of appearances wages wars in the name of God, because he can Biblically justify his murderous acts of atrocity as long as he continually denying the love surging in his heart. What limit is there to the ugliness can he commit to get us all to heaven?

The man of spirit seeks a heart of peace with God, to be led by the living voice of God that prompts his heart from within. He can see how the Bible supports his actions as well, but he does not choose his path to adhere to the Bible, but rather to adhere to his own sense of love and truth, of goodness and of beauty. Then he sees how the Bible backs him up, and then he loves that book for its eternal support. The Bible leads him to lead others to heaven by loving them and forgiving them in truth; but his work is on himself, to get himself free from anything that would compromise his total love.

One man defines love by outer appearances supported by logical justifications. The other defines love by a wordless, thoughtless desire to serve goodness in some essential way. How will their war end? Who will survive it? The man of appearances seeks to play god5B4 and run the world. The man of spirit seeks to allow god's love to flow freely and purely through him, but he wants to survive and succeed in worldly terms as well - that is part of is carnal nature - even his artistic nature. The man of appearances thus serves the man of spirit, because he gives the man of spirit the opportunity to unite the two opposing forces in a meaningful collision.

Here is how. The man of spirit strives upward. The man of appearances pushes spirit downward, down deep, deep beneath the surface of his awareness, like paving raw living earth with layer upon layer of dead asphalt. But the life of spirit is eternal. As the man of spirit accepts this cross-current of forces within himself, he resolves his own ego-battle, and thus contributes to the resolution of the ego-battle fought on the world's stage between nations, races, creeds, colors. Accepting this conflict within him means that he identifies with both forces. Accepting this as purposeful, the man of spirit rises above it, and rising is what lifts his soul, and the soul of the world.

The man of spirit, of true spirit, experiences this spiritual conflict on a global scale within. And if he allows that conflict to exist in him without resistance, it resolves itself into the making of a new man. He begins to feel compassion for the man of appearances, whom he now sees as "the lost man", for that man lives without the full experience of all tB68he love that is in his heart. He lives against the life building up within him. This manifests into the various forms of physical and psychological warfare that he wages in the outer world, the lives and hearts he breaks with steely self-justification. But he is only at war against his own life.

As the man of spirit accepts the man of appearances into his heart, he receives "the gifts that wise men bring". Those gifts are worldly wisdom, worldly ability, the worldly gift of attraction of worldly things. As you love those who would murder you their power joins your power in support of your worldly and spiritual interests. They help you to bring heaven and earth together, to make the world a spiritual kingdom, ruled by human beings in accordance with the spiritual laws of love. It would appear that God would have us all unite in love for one another and for the world. He who can accept the love of the adversary makes that adversary friend.

So before you condemn someone for being bound to the appearance level, consider the gifts, the offerings, that individual brings your way. Accept your conflict with that person; accept it into your heart. Thus, you accept his power in a way that marries your own, giving birth to a higher man. Accept both approaches by identifying with both, and accept their conflict as your own conflict, as a conflict of forces within yourself. Allow them to mingle in your heart until you can love both as one, as two sides of one coin. What happens next will surprise you. You will lose your animosity and grow in the power of love. You will find that other's strength supporting rather than thwarting your own. You will be more successful in both a spiritual and a worldly sense.

Those who would destroy all that is beauty in this world are your enemy until you allow their motivations to exist in your heart, together with the opposing motivations that seek to perpetuate all the beauty and expand it, contribute to it, give to it their own inner potential for expressing beauty in the world.

When you can love your enemies you have found a key to greater power than you have ever known. You will be the best salesman in the world. Your own greater empowerment in this world, and the power of the world to overcome the human conflict that generates wars, ecological deterioration, sadistic destruction will take place. You then become a point of the global conflict's resolution in your own heart. What a great honor has been bestowed upon you, the honor of receiving such immense responsibility. The tragedy of the world becomes your victory, and through your love, the world's victory.

The darkness works like fertilizer on a heart that's pure.

Bob Lancer leads individuals, businesses, families, and associatio5B1ns to fulfill their greatest dreams. He does this through a wide variety of venues, including his WSB radio show, Bob Lancer's Parenting Solutions, a show that focuses as much on the raising of ourselves and of our society as on the raising of children. The show has been on the air since 1995 and broadcasts to 35 states over the radio, and worldwide over the internet.

He is the author of numerous books and he has created dozens of motivational recordings on his themes.

Bob Lancer transforms audiences through his dynamic keynotes and seminars on parenting, marriage, and personal and professional development at live events, including conferences around the nation and overseas. He has been leading his audiences to greater personal and professional success as a public speaker, seminar leader, consultant and author for over 20 years and his work has been featured on CNN and other network television stations, in national magazines and in major newspapers.

What is truth is the question that Pontius Pilate is said to have asked Jesus of Nazareth before handing him over to be crucified.

Pontius Pilate may have heard of Buddha's eight-fold path to the truth. This is kind of like a maze which people must work their way through to discover the truth about themselves and therein attain enlightenment.

The eight-fold path talks about getting things right. There is: Right Understanding, Right Thoughts, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.

This suggests there must also be a wrong understanding, wrong thoughts, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, 123Dwrong effort, wrong mindfulness, and wrong concentration, which will not lead you down the eight-fold path to finding the truth of enlightenment.

This provides a difficulty, because many people believe that what they decide is right, irrespective of what Buddha might believe is right. So who is right? Is Buddha right? Or can anyone and everyone be right?

When talking about truth, Buddha actually talks about four noble truths as being a part of having right understanding. For Buddha a right understanding of life has to do with suffering. The noble truths of Buddha are basically an understanding of what suffering is for people on earth. Buddha believed people are born to suffer, and in understanding this, you and I will realize the nature of suffering, what causes suffering, how suffering can be stopped and, then, what has to be done to bring about the end of suffering within oneself, or within one's life. The result is a life of bliss, happiness and oneness with the surrounding universe.

Not too many people, if any, appear to have found the way to enlightenment. Even the most renowned Buddhist alive today, the Tibetan Dalai Lama, does not appear to have all the answers. Reports of his displeasure and lack of happiness tend to surface from time to time. Sadly, he has not been able to find peace with China and return to his homeland of Tibet and lives as a refugee touring the world.

The Dalai Lama is supposedly the 14^th reincarnation of previous Dalai Lamas. Yet, surprisingly, since he supposedly possesses centuries of innate knowledge and wisdom, he still had to go to school to learn basic knowledge and does not seem to know how to resolve his people's struggle. Maybe the suffering of this struggle is the road that leads to truth for him. Meanwhile his people suffer in their struggle to regain their homeland.

While Buddha taught that the truth was to be found by escaping the sufferings of this world through attaining a state of blissful existence known as nirvana, this does not appear to be the Tibetan Buddhists' lot. This can raise some doubts about the validity of whether what Buddha called right actions will lead to truth; and by truth, we are talking about having the power to sustain oneness with one's universe.

Now the funny thing about Jesus of Nazareth is he claimed that he himself was the truth. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." It certainly didn't look like he was going the right way about things when Pontius Pilate handed him over to be crucified. Jesus wasn't doing too much to avoid suffering at all. But then after being whipped and scourged and raised to what must have been an agonizing death on the cross, the suffering would certainly have ended.

The one thing about Jesus that has always struck me in enduring what he did, there is no record of him crying out in pain or trying to escape. Furthermore, he would have required superhuman strength to endure such punishment and remain so calm. I often wonder, was Jesus demonstrating to his onlookers that he possessed the oneness with his universe (that Buddha sought) and felt no pain, even though to the onlookers he must have endured unbelievable agony.

Anyhow, his Jewish convert, Saul of Tarsus, is said to have claimed Jesus endured the agony of the cross because of the joy he possessed in knowing what he was to receive by being raised from the dead. Since Jesus is the only person in history of whom it is attested that he rose from the dead, maybe he has shown us the truth after all; and it is not of this world.

Happy Riches knows how to show you how. Happy Riches also runs an educational membership club which has a focus on people becoming healthy, wealthy and wise. Happy Riches can be found at http://www.happyriches.name

Most of us are very familiar with the dance between peace and chaos. Everything is going smoothly or at least nothing stands out as being a major challenge. We feel like life has allowed us to take a deep breath. We feel we have finally reached balance. Then along comes something to deal with, something that demands our focus, and something that re-orders our priorities. We wonder when we are going to finally reach a peaceful equilibrium and blissful homeostasis.

In his book Toxic Success, Paul Pearsall writes that this state of balance isn't something that is natural for us. Balance does not happen in nature; there are times of peace, followed by upheaval and then the pattern repeats itself. As humans, he says, we may desire arriving at some perfect state, but this is not our nature. Life is always in process. For many of us, this doesn't feel like good news.

I used to think whenever I achieved some desired state that I would be "done". As someone who likes to get things done I started to notice that no matter how neatly the goal or vision seemed to convey completion to me, once achieved there was always something beyond that achievement, state or idea. The old saying that the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next took on personal meaning for me. However, the question occurred to me, if we could ever be done or complete, would we need to be students of the school of life on planet Earth?

Chaos allows us to create and recreate and can catapult us to the next level of personal and spiritual development if we work with it rather than resist it. If we yield to chaos and learn from it, chaos can be an incredible teacher. For those of us who love a bit of control, this idea may feel challenging to integrate.

I'm not talking about cheap contrived drama when I write of chaos. I'm writing about chaos that arises naturally from participation in life which forces us out of our comfort zone and spurs us on to our next level of human potential. If we feel like we needn't grow or learn anymore, we aren't advancing the plot. Perhaps paradoxically, this is not to suggest that you are not whole as you are, you are, but your expression in the world can be deepened and developed by embracing change and the dance between peace and chaos.

The chaos of the world can certainly enhance our spiritual development. We can embrace both the temporal and the spiritual and each can inform the choices of the other. A Buddhist may characterize this vacillation as the dance between samsara and nirvana. Samsara is about life in the world and nirvana is the blissful peace state of the enlightened master.

Many of us feel we want to be only in the state of nirvana and we get very discouraged and even plain bummed out when we have to deal with messiness of samsara. We are tempted to think if only we could be on a mountain top and in the lotus position blissed-out we would be happy! But chances are good you would still be struggling with samsara even then. Maybe your bum would be sore from sitting so long, maybe you would feel cold and chapped sitting on a Tibetan mountain top and perhaps you would miss your loved ones.

If we could accept from the beginning that temporal life is always in a state of change, we might be able to accept the dance as we are moving to the music.

Hindus believe that the chaos we speak of is maya or illusion. This perspective may help us deal with the chaos but not get caught up in it. Further, if we yearn neither for peace or chaos, samsara or nirvana, but accept both states, as if we are holding them gently in our open hand, we may develop and deepen our inner peace and truth that can be a great comfort to us in times up change, upheaval and struggle. Let's forgive ourselves for not yet operating from the perspective of an enlightened master and accept ourselves as learning pilgrims on life's journey with its many vicissitudes.

I help women from all over the world design a simplified, meaningful, purposeful and joyful life based on their own strengths, values and priorities. I also coach women towards their ultimate purpose, full of spiritual meaning, connection, humor, compassion and assist them in overcoming any existential suffering. I utilize a strategic and holistic approach in transforming challenges into transcendent integration of joy. I have nearly 25 years experience in working in people helping professions.

Everyone who owns their own business desires to make it a success. And why shouldnt they? They deserve it! Most people would say that in order to make your business successful it requires a lot of hard work, long hours, perhaps extra resources, which usually involves setbacks and possibly failure before that business becomes the desired success. All of that means stress.

I have owned and operated several businesses over the years and followed the precedent that was laid out for me, namely that of hard work, long hours, struggle, discouragement, much stress and failure before success was evident. But a few years ago I learned another way to create a business, one that is built on universal spiritual principles. When building a business based on spiritual principles, it is more about being than doing.

Anything you build requires a sturdy foundation, whether its an actual building, a relationship, a career, or a business. In order to hold the rest of the structure, the foundation must be strong enough to withstand whatever comes its way. I learned to apply five spiritual principles that have enabled me to create exactly what I want so that it was effortless. Here are those steps so that you can utilize them in your life.

The first principle is to know what you believe. So many individuals simply adopt the beliefs of everyone else and never stop to think about what they believe for themselves. In order for your foundation to be strong, it must be built on solid truths that you will stand for no matter what. In other words, compromise is never an option. Perhaps you would include honesty or integrity on which to build your foundation. You might want to include compassion, understanding or kindness as well. These values become your truth, something you will stand up for regardless of what comes your way. Take a moment right now to stop and think about your own personal values and truths that you would never compromise.

Principle two is simply this: Define what you want! Our society as a whole focuses on what isnt working, what doesnt feel good and what they dont like in their life. Listen to the first few minutes of the news and you get your eyes and ears full of crime, tragedies, catastrophes, and then some. Have you ever heard a news program begin with all the wonderful things going on in our world? Im sure youre chuckling by now because newsworthy information is based on fear and crisis because thats what people are conditioned to seek.

Since society focuses on the fears and negativity, the fears and negativity continue to show up. This is because whatever you focus on expands into more of the same. Perhaps you saw the movie The Secret, or at least youve heard about it. The principle or universal law to which the movie refers is simply this: what you focus on expands into more situations and experiences that continually bring to you more of what you are thinking about. This is called the Law of Attraction. So if you focus on what isnt working in your life, you will continue to experience things that arent working too well.

However, there is another way. Focus on what you want instead. As a coach, I continually have individuals sit in front of me asking for help, and without fail, if I ask them what they want in their life, they look at me with a blank stare. Most people never think about what they want, only what they dont want. But if those same people began to think about the desires of their heart, their life would change and expand into mu5B4ch good and positive experiences.

When you decide what it is you want, it is good to then set an intention for that desire to the universe. When you set the intention, be sure you stretch beyond your present thoughts and dream big, bigger than youve ever done before. Know that whatever you can see and believe you can achieve. Heres an example. A person places an intention to the universe for 20 new clients next month. As the fourth week approaches he realizes he has only gained three new clients. So he panics, or becomes angry, and declares that this isnt working. All of those thoughts are from fear and are negative, so of course he is creating the very thing he doesnt want. Yet if he would focus on the fact that three new clients came and how grateful he is for those three clients, he would be able to expand those thoughts into more positive thoughts and eventually create exactly what he wants 20 new clients in a month! There is so much power in your thoughts!

The third principle is to surrender your will. This is really hard for most individuals because weve been programmed to grab onto the steering wheel and hold on tight, because everything is up to us. Weve been taught to push, shove, strive, manipulate and force doors to open for us, that its all part of the process of getting what we want. Some people set goals and work hard at pushing to accomplish them. This is hard, fatiguing and stressful,5B4 and stress can be a killer.

What I have learned is that stress doesnt need to be part of the picture if you simply allow your desires to unfold in Divine timing. Patience is needed with this principle, not a virtue that most people have. Waiting until the timing is right is part of the surrendering process; it simply means to allow the details to unfold without you doing anything.

When I found my healing center location and proceeded to obtain a loan to purchase the property, I contacted the bank with whom I hold multiple accounts and some investments. They assured me it would be easy to receive the loan and so I set the closing date and waited for the confirmation. The closing was close but I hadnt heard anything, so I began investigating, only to discover I had been denied the loan. I was baffled and quite upset as I thought this my best and easiest shot are procuring a loan.

So I set out to find a loan, contacting various banks and loaning agencies. Although I found some willing to work with me, there were stipulations and penalties that didnt feel good. On day, I sat down in my home office chair and said, God, this is your project. Ive tried what I know to do and it hasnt worked, so Im giving it back to you. You figure out the details because I dont know what to do, and Im going shopping! With a smile on my face I left to go Christmas shopping.

While shopping, just a few hours 1119later, my cell rang and I was greeted by the person selling me the property. Knowing my dilemma, he had put in a good word for me with a bank he had done much business with, and they offered me a loan at the best interest rate yet. This was amazing to me since the seller knew little about me and apparently felt in his gut that I would make a go of this endeavor. The rest was effortlessly executed and a couple weeks later I owned the property that became Where Miracles Happen healing center. When I got out of the way, everything worked with such ease and I didnt do a thing to make it happen!

Fourth principle is this: When a door opens, run through it. People often get cold feet when a door finally opens. Suddenly theyre faced with the responsibility to step up to the plate and do it, and they are fearful. So they hesitate. But this is now the time to get busy and do the work. Once I purchased the property, it was time for me to get the business ready to open lots of work. I had asked and it had been given. Dont dawdle now. Instead, move it!

And finally, the fifth principle is to develop an attitude of gratitude. Be grateful for your desire before it shows up. Gratitude is an expression of love and can only bring more good to you. Whatever you focus on expands into more of the same, so coming from gratitude can only bring you more of what you want. Oprah was once fired as a reporter and told she should leave media. She chose not to accept that as her truth and proceeded to create the life she wanted. She said, I live in the space of thankfulness and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. Thats because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what.

So this means that no matter what shows up in your life, theres a gift in it and you should be thankful for it. Every little good thing that happens you should be grateful for, and then watch it expand into more and greater good in your life.

So what is the miracle? In this space of using the five principles I just outlined for you, you can experience a life of peace, serenity, inner joy, and excitement about what each day brings. Itll feel as if every day is an adventure with great satisfaction and happiness as your reward. Stress will be tossed out the door and you will continually create the dreams you have into reality. It is such a wonderful way to live as you simply allow the universe to unfold the desires of your heart into something more grandiose than you ever thought possible.

Carolyn Porter, D. Div., is an internationally known speaker, author of multiple books and audios that include "The Realness of a Woman" and "Angel Love", spiritual wholeness coach, trainer and angel channel whose passion is helping individuals move beyond their limitations and help them see they can do and be what they can envision. Her fifth book, "Seven Roads to Glory," will be released in early November. Recently Carolyn opened a healing center called Where Miracles Happen in Woodstock, GA, fulfilling a seven year dream. The center's services include massage, hypnotherapy, life and health coaching, angel sessions, self-publishing coaching, reiki, reflexology, pranic healing, yoga, organic facials, classes, a gift shop, and much more. For more information or to order her books visit her website at http://www.drcarolynporter.com

Can mental and spiritual principles be applied to the healing of physical conditions to our own or those of our loved ones? Absolutely!

Disease is actually dis-ease in mind or spirit. The body is an outer reflection of what is going on within. Now it doesn't mean you have to necessarily know what is going on. Yes, it can be at an unconscious level. It may be the result of faulty patterns in the subconscious. It can be temporary or it can be chronic. But the body and mind are not separate entities. Our bodies, minds and emotions are one. Th16D0e body reflects our mental and emotional state. It is our mirror. And we can change our reflection.

Mainstream - Finally

Even conventional medicine is now recognizing this more and more there has been major media exposure in recent years in Time, Newsweek and other notable publications and we are seeing this more and more. I read in the news awhile back that there are even hospitals now in the US where you can request "absent prayer" along with conventional medical treatment. There were case studies done in a San Francisco hospital with cardiac patients - a blind study where half the patients received prayer and the other half did not. The statistics were amazing in that there were faster recoveries and greater survival rate among those prayed for (more on this below).

Bernie S. Siegel, MD, (bio), embraces a philosophy that is at the forefront of a society grappling with medical ethics and spiritual issues. His best selling books have broken new ground in the field of healing and include:

Love, Medicine & Miracles:
Lessons Learned about Self Healing from a Surgeons Experience with Exceptional Patients and

Peace, Love & Healing:
Bodymind Communication and the Path to Self Healing

In this excerpt, "How to Heal Yourself", from his book, Prescriptions for Living, Dr. Siegel states:

Physicians call the most dramatic healings "spontaneous remissions." Once we have labeled them, we learn nothing from the people in whom those remissions take place. We cannot afford to ignore these remarkable successes. We are all at risk for a great many diseases, and as the world gets smaller the list of things we are exposed to grows larger. We need to learn from people who recover and people who stay healthy.

Dr. O. Carl Simonton, acclaimed oncologist and author, many years ago achieved recognition in the field of oncology and mind/body medicine with his pioneer work with cancer patients. He cured hundreds of cases of terminally ill cancer patients with the use of visual imagery tapes with which the patients visualized "Pac Men" eating up the cancer cells.

His 30 years of groundbreaking work is well documented and has been published extensively. His renowned cancer center in California, www.simontoncenter.com, and his work is well recognized by mainstream medicine and universities. Since that time there have been thousands more healed. His earlier tapes are still available along with the more enhanced modern material. The foundation of his work is based on the belief system of the patient, with or without accompanying medical treatment.

One of my own personal teachers, Champion K. Teutsch, PhD, together with his late wife, Joel Marie Teutsch, became famous when they authored, From Here to Greater Happiness or How to Change Your Life for Good, which permanently changed for good the lives of hundreds of thousands of grateful readers all over the world. You can find the book on amazon.com.

Later, Joel Marie Teutschs masterful presentation entitled Your Right to Perfect Health: Mental and Spiritual Healing Principles and Champion K. Teutschs Non-Medical Answers to Cancer, Heart Disease and Other Conditions, included professional secrets of this pioneer couple and outstanding success stories.

When I was seeing him, Champion had his practice in Los Angeles and was chair of the International Human Research Center Sunray in Moscow (a renowned psychology professor at Moscow State University was president and a physicist formerly with the Soviet space program was vice-president). Champion was also chair of a similar organization in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was certifying professionals and qualified lay persons in the US, Russia and Isreal as practitioners of his methodology.

After a lecture and demonstration on a prostate cancer case, he was appointed visiting professor of medicine by the former dean of the University of Floridas College of Medicine. The dean resigned shortly after meeting Champion to devote his energies to alternative or complementary medicine.

People from all over the world go to Lourdes, France to step into the "holy water" and spontaneous healings are legendary. How? Someone steps into the Fountain of Lourdes and their faith and expectancy produces a reaction in the subconscious mind, which has the perfect memory of every cell in their body. And a healing is produced.

I was in a class about 20 years ago - a New Thought class. A young woman and her husband attended this class, which was based on changing words and thoughts and using affirmations to manifest. This woman was given six months to live. I remember the whole class went country western dancing a few months later and I watched in fascination as this woman and her husband were having one heck of a time two stepping. She was completely healed.

Now if people with serious life-threatening illnesses can somehow be healed through mental "adjustments", then does it not stand to reason that less serious conditions can be overcome even more easily?

Now, when we are learning to use mental and spiritual principles for health and healing, we are not ignoring medical or nutritional intervention. When we apply these principles, healings can occur in two ways:

Sponta5B4neous - There are spontaneous, natural healings that result when the subconscious mind accepts the healing idea as the dominant thought. The subconscious mind has the perfect memory of every cell in your body and will return those cells to perfection once the dis-ease thought has been overcome. Spontaneous healings are the result of your faith, expectation and altered belief patterns not only consciously but also at a deeper core level. You can learn to create these new patterns that will result in healing.

Medical/Nutritional/Lifestyle - Your healing may also result when you are guided intuitively to the appropriate medical doctor or other health practitioner, nutritional counseling and treatment and/or lifestyle changes that result in the healing of your condition. Again, this inspired action or guidance results from the shifting of the belief patterns in the subconscious. Once the shift occurs, you will automatically be guided to your solution in the form that is necessary to fulfill your new thought pattern of healing and health. So, that guidance may include being led to any of the numerous channels that are handpicked by your subconscious to guarantee your result.

Remember that the subconscious is compulsive in nature. Once it accepts the seed thought of perfect health, it will connect with all the forces in the Universe to create that destiny, in the5B1 same way that those creative forces will be attracted to and move on a seed planted in fertile soil to create its destiny as a plant or flower.

So the point here is that anyone who wishes to be healed of an illness or condition and opens their mind to BELIEVE that it is possible, can indeed produce that healing if shown how to influence the subconscious mind to accept the thought of health instead of illness, despite outer appearances. Thats the key understanding that the inner state creates the outer condition. To impress the subconscious mind with a new image would require an abrupt reversal in your language patterns and thoughts with regard to your illness or condition, but this can be accomplished and often in a much shorter time than you can imagine. There are techniques to speed the process.

Students are attracted to my Feel Free to Prosper prosperity program primarily for financial increase. However, I found that many of my students experienced unexpected healings of physical conditions as they were doing the prosperity work. Thats because you already have all the potential within you to tap into the healing energy of the Universe to renew, rebuild and restore your perfect health. Often just by eliminating the negative patterns in our subconscious of a general nature, we create an opening to our source of guidance to radiant health and vitality.

In the same way, anyone who wishes to prevent any form of illness can also do so using this most valuable asset - an open mind. Using these principles is a tremendously beneficial way to maintain good health even if one has no particular condition to address. I personally have conditioned my subconscious to total health, and am able to immediately ward off any sign of impending invasion. But I have had a couple of experiences over the years that were extremely enlightening that taught me how shifting my thoughts and reaching the subconscious could bring immediate guidance to the perfect solution.

Another important aspect of this work is our influence in affecting the healings of others. As noted above, this has been addressed as absent or distant healing. Proof that our consciousness can reach out to heal others has been scientifically substantiated. In an issue of Wings, the Feel Free to Prosper Newsletter, I present an introduction and a link to a fascinating interview with best-selling author Larry Dossey, MD. You can find the interview information here.

My sincere wish is that this information will take your health goals to an inspired level and speed you on your journey to wholeness and well-being ou521r true wealth in life.

Copyright 2005-2007 Marilyn Jenett
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Marilyn Jenett, an accomplished business owner in the corporate arena, founded the Feel Free to Prosper program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. Her students, from around the globe and from all walks of life, are enjoying remarkable success applying her lessons and participating in her private and group telephone sessions and audio programs. For more information, visit her website at http://www.FeelFreetoProsper.com and her network forum at http://prosper-network.ryze.com

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For born again believers this coming year will be a year of dramatic change. There will be challenges but only because the old is being torn away to make way for the new plan of God. It will be a year of increased Kingdom and Presence in the lives of those serving Him. Get ready to move forward into your destiny.

Deliverance is coming. God is again saying, "I will bring you out, so I can bring you into promise and destiny."(see Deut. 6: 23) His power will focus specifically on bringing those out of their places of confinement and hiddeness. The restraints of the enemy that have held God's people back will be broken off. The circumstances that have held His people in a holding pattern will be lifted and they will break forth into the place of recognized ministry and purpose. Those who have been hidden away in the places of preparation will merge onto the church scene like a fresh wave releasing a new dimension of Heaven. This will be a year of deliverance. It will be accompanied by supernatural confirmations of the Holy Spirit. Get ready for acceleration of your destiny.

This coming year will also release an unprecedented season of the Lord's favor. Isaiah 61:7 speaks of the double portion being released. Believers are joint heirs with Christ and many will come into their rightful inheritance. What you have supernaturally now will increase double fold in this coming year. Now is the time of God's favor and now is the day of salvation. (2 Cor. 6:2) This season will not only be a season of family members being saved and being born again but a time of full restoration. Salvation is more than a one time decision to follow after Christ; it includes wholeness and full restoration of His Presence and favor in your life. There will a dramatic increase of supernatural blessings and provisions released in the coming months, as we enter into this coming year. Much wisdom will attend this increase in favor, so that His people properly stewart the newness of His Presence. His countenance will tangibly rest on His people and draw the attention of those seeking for direction in their lives. Presence evangelism and ministry will be carried into the market place. Angelic ministry around God's people will be manifested openly before the world. The season of Peter's shadow passing over the sick with restoration will again manifest through God's people.

The year 2008 will also be a year of increase. On every level there will be a pronounced increase of spiritual activity. You will move into open Heavens where there will be Heavenly activity pouring out into the earth and upon you. Angels of ministry are now released to manifest the Kingdom of God with increased signs and wonders. Expect an increase in divine opportunities and doors to open. Expect an increase in harvest, so sow liberally into your prayer time, your worship time, your ministry outreaches, your financial giving, your development of the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Allow these areas to increase by walking in the Holy Spiritt.. Luke 6:38 will apply to every area of your life as you open your heart to the Holy Spirit. As you surrender to the giving nature of the Holy Spirit He will develop and multipy His anointing and Presence through you. Dreams, visions, prophetic experiences and revelatory encounters with God will increase. Journal them and pull what God is revealing into this realm through prayer, fasting and intercession. Critical Heaven ordained strategies will be implemented in the Kingdom as it manifests on earth corporately and individually.

My advice is to stand in the place of expectancy. Position yourself before the Lord often, for out of spiritual intimacy will flow great fruitfulness. You will step into your destiny this coming year. Keep your eyes upon Him. He will begin to walk with you as friend with friend. So begin the journey today as you ready yourself for victory, breakthough, provision and conquest.

Keith A. Paul has many years of Minstry experience and is an Author. He is used in the gift of prophecy, dream interpretation and words of knowledge which are gifts of the Holy Spirit. He currently lives in Abbotsford B.C. Canada. He has traveled internationally promoting the supernatural teachings and works of the Holy Spirit. To learn more, and to receive Keith's free Prophetic Words or purchase His E Books please visit http://www.restorationplaceministries.com

In the first part I told you about the miracles I have been seeing in my life. Let me tell you more. Two days before my 55th birthday, I was admitted to the hospital to have the open heart surgery performed. I was extremely fortunate to have a surgeon who could do the surgery through 5A8a small incision in my side rather than opening my chest. That in itself was a miracle but I continued to give thanks and praise God for watching over me and keeping me safe, and asked for another miracle as I went under for the surgery.

I told my surgeon and his staff that God was with me and with them as they performed the delicate, involved surgery. As I was put under anesthesia, I felt a calmness knowing that I was in God's care. Hours later I woke up and realized that things had gone exactly the way the surgeon had expected and I was going to be just fine. My doctors all thought it was a miracle that I had not had any health problems or illnesses due to the hole in my heart. But after surgery, it became clear how big a miracle it was when I discovered my surgeon had found a second hole and repaired it at the same time.

I am now fully recovered with only minimal effects of the stroke or the surgery. I can feel hot temperatures, remember and use words, walk without tripping and don't have any trouble talking. Two days after surgery, I was up walking. The doctors said that my faith was as important to my healing as they were to fixing my ailment. The miracle of healing my mind and body is probably the greatest miracle a person could ever have and the chance to continue living life is the greatest miracle in the world.

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We all need more in this life than a warm home and three square meals a day. Humans crave, require and grow better in the presence of spiritual engagement and inspiration. Feeding your spirit is an important as feeding the body and the mind. Here are some ways you can nurture your soul in the spaces you live and work in:

1. Inspirational, energizing or calming music is one of the best ways to "short-circuit" the mind and go directly to the soul. When your head is full of worries or ill thoughts and you can't seem to get past them, filling the air with the sounds that suit you best can lift you up and pull you past the obstacles that bar your way. Whether you listen to forget, to uplift or simply to enjoy, music really does calm the savage breast.

2. Fill your space with inspirational quotes, sayings, words, images and other items. Paint them on the walls, if you dare, or hang them up on a nail if you prefer. Put them in frames and prop them up on top of your desk. Ring your computer monitor in snippets of brilliance and encouragement. Stitch or paint them into the coverings on your furniture or write them on strips of colored paper and festoon your ceiling with streamers of joy. However you do it, filling your sight with words of encouragement, enlightenment and love can keep you from straying into those bleak areas of the mind that are best left unmapped.

3. Books, books and more books. Books of love, books of joy, books of inspiration, books of practical knowledge, books with colored pictures from around the globe and books with studied prose from down the street. Books serve a two-fold purpose as both the holders of wisdom on the outside and the bestowers of beauty on the outside. Choose books with sumptuous contents and equally sumptuous coverings. Line them up according to color, topic or height. Enjoy them with your sight, your touch and your mind. Reflect on the fact that the average homeowner library holds far more knowledge on a single shelf than the ancients of the Golden Eras of Learning could have hoped to compile in their lifetimes. Look, learn and love. Books support it all.

4. Set up an altar (religious, spiritual, meditational or just reflective, it doesn't matter) and stock it with items that inspire you, that call to you and that give you great joy to behold. Add pieces of sentimental value - a favorite photo or a gifted piece of jewelry - and finish off the arrangement with a focal point, such as a fountain, a statue, a print or some other object that gives you something to contemplate while you ruminate. Let everyone know that it is off-limits - your private space - and use it whenever you need clarity, connection or just a few moment's peace.

5. Make your area a no-fire zone. Inform family members, friends, colleagues - whoever might enter there - that within this space only positive, supportive and loving behavior and speech is acceptable. Disallow jokes that play on someone else's weakness, snide and cutting "humor," gossip, idle speculation about things not your business and so on. Let no one or no thing bring in bad news or disturbing matters - keep any TV's or radios tuned to happier channels. Take yourself outside the area if you must receive unpleasant tidings, but keep the space sacred to the nurturing of your heart and soul.

Supporting our hearts and our souls in a loving and strengthening environment is one of the best things we can do for ourselves. Give yourself permission to ask for what you need and to provide for yourself what others cannot. Only then will you be free to be who you really are - and who the world really needs you to be.

(c) Soni Pitts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim "soul proprietorship" in their lives and to begin living the life their Cr3AEeator always intended for them.

She is the author of the free e-book "50 Ways To Reach Your Goals" and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.

There are many methods available that promote the occurrence of a lucid dream. Eating specific food (otherwise known as "lucid nutrition") before sleeping is one of the most successful methods to induce them. This is a list of the best three lucid foods and liquids to intake. To achieve the best possible results, remember to eat or drink immediately before sleeping.

Orange Juice

Orange juice, or any other pure fruit juice with no additives keeps your nervous system active while your body's muscles relax. Drinking a full glass of juice will allow for more vivid and memorable dreams, ultimately increasing the chance of a lucid dream.

Milk and Cheese

While it is known that milk and cheese (or any other dairy food) can help your body rest, they also greatly improve your dreams. Milk and cheese contain amino acids which have been proven to stimulate the production of a vital neurotransmitter for sleeping and dreaming, melatonin.

Mustard

Various sources have reported that eating a tablespoon of mustard will promote a higher success rate for lucid dreams. It may take up to three attempts for it to be successful, so it's important to remain patient if the method repeatedly fails.

Other foods include pickles, ice cream, popcorn and fish. While they are not as successful as the three foods and drinks listed above, some have suggested that they will improve your overall dream memorability and "train" your brain for future, naturally triggered lucid dreams. However, their use immediately before sleeping is not recommended as they contain fatty acids, salts and sugars which certainly doesn't help getting a good night's rest.

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