Monday, July 19, 2010
Our Pets as Spirtual Teachers?
Spirituality — how do you define it? I see it as a way of living that requires a search for who we really are, the meaning of our lives, and honors our connection to a higher power and all that is. Humans are not the only ones with a spiritual nature. Nature has a spiritual nature. Every indigenous culture understands that there is a consciousness and spiritual connection that flows through animals and the earth, just as it does with humans.
Many of us don’t think of our pets as being part of our spiritual path, but I believe they are. They are of a divine essence, and they are also a reflection of who we are. If we want to learn more about ourselves, we need only observe our pets. They will show us the joy we can bring to life and the unconditional love all humans are instinctively capable of. They can also exhibit our weaknesses, so that we may gain clarity and overcome them. If you see an issue with your pet, look in the mirror. Not with judgment and shame, but with gratitude for the awareness and opportunity to heal.
This is one of the most amazing ways animals are of service to humans. I’m not speaking of domination, or an entitlement that we have with animals. Being of service to us is instinctive to them and part of their consciousness. And isn’t that the highest spiritual state a human can aspire to? When one is completely of service to another, he is living a truly spiritual life. People must awaken to this state. Animals are born there. Jesus wasn’t born in a manger because there was no room at the inn. There was no room at the inn because Jesus had to be born in a manger — humble yet sacred surroundings.
by Susan Wagner
Many of us don’t think of our pets as being part of our spiritual path, but I believe they are. They are of a divine essence, and they are also a reflection of who we are. If we want to learn more about ourselves, we need only observe our pets. They will show us the joy we can bring to life and the unconditional love all humans are instinctively capable of. They can also exhibit our weaknesses, so that we may gain clarity and overcome them. If you see an issue with your pet, look in the mirror. Not with judgment and shame, but with gratitude for the awareness and opportunity to heal.
This is one of the most amazing ways animals are of service to humans. I’m not speaking of domination, or an entitlement that we have with animals. Being of service to us is instinctive to them and part of their consciousness. And isn’t that the highest spiritual state a human can aspire to? When one is completely of service to another, he is living a truly spiritual life. People must awaken to this state. Animals are born there. Jesus wasn’t born in a manger because there was no room at the inn. There was no room at the inn because Jesus had to be born in a manger — humble yet sacred surroundings.
by Susan Wagner
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
How To Increase Your psychic Abilities
We are all psychic. It's a fact.
Psychic abilities are the birthright of every citizen on this planet--we just forget to use those abilities on a regular basis so they grow weak. If you want to increase your psychic abilities, all you have to do is practice (and it's simpler than you think).
If you've tried various methods to increase your psychic abilities but they haven't worked, don't despair. One of the keys to success in developing these abilities is learning to ignore the outcome. Just practice your abilities and don't worry about whether you're "right" or not.
A simple way to get started with your practice is to begin accessing information that you can't possibly know through your five senses. Begin asking yourself these kinds of questions everyday, and listen for the answer. For instance, before you walk into a movie theater, ask yourself, "How many people will already be in the theater when I walk in?" Go with the first answer you get and don't question it. Thank yourself for the answer. Now here's the key: when you walk into the theater, don't bother counting the number of people. Act as if you never asked yourself that question.
If you walk into a mall, you might mentally pick out a store and ask yourself, "What's the highest discount they are offering today?" You can also ask questions like, "What's the most interesting thing I will see today in the mall?" or "Will I meet anyone I know today in the mall?" Again, the key is not to put your attention on verifying your answer. Just keep asking the question, receiving the first answer you get, thanking yourself for the answer, and ignoring the rest.
Over time, you will unavoidably begin noticing the "correctness" of your answers. You can't help but notice that you've picked out the highest discount a store is offering or that you actually did meet someone you know in the mall. If you really avoid verifying your answers, you'll be more open to what your psychic abilities tell you (rather than hearing all your own doubtful mind chatter). You will begin to notice how "right on" your abilities are--if you can actually avoid verification of your answers early on in the process.
The "art of ignoring" or selective perception is one of the key principles in magic and in developing your psychic abilities. Remember, you're accessing information in another realm, so you have to learn to focus your attention in that realm. Putting your attention solely on asking and receiving is the key.
Good luck and, most of all, have fun with this!
Psychic abilities are the birthright of every citizen on this planet--we just forget to use those abilities on a regular basis so they grow weak. If you want to increase your psychic abilities, all you have to do is practice (and it's simpler than you think).
If you've tried various methods to increase your psychic abilities but they haven't worked, don't despair. One of the keys to success in developing these abilities is learning to ignore the outcome. Just practice your abilities and don't worry about whether you're "right" or not.
A simple way to get started with your practice is to begin accessing information that you can't possibly know through your five senses. Begin asking yourself these kinds of questions everyday, and listen for the answer. For instance, before you walk into a movie theater, ask yourself, "How many people will already be in the theater when I walk in?" Go with the first answer you get and don't question it. Thank yourself for the answer. Now here's the key: when you walk into the theater, don't bother counting the number of people. Act as if you never asked yourself that question.
If you walk into a mall, you might mentally pick out a store and ask yourself, "What's the highest discount they are offering today?" You can also ask questions like, "What's the most interesting thing I will see today in the mall?" or "Will I meet anyone I know today in the mall?" Again, the key is not to put your attention on verifying your answer. Just keep asking the question, receiving the first answer you get, thanking yourself for the answer, and ignoring the rest.
Over time, you will unavoidably begin noticing the "correctness" of your answers. You can't help but notice that you've picked out the highest discount a store is offering or that you actually did meet someone you know in the mall. If you really avoid verifying your answers, you'll be more open to what your psychic abilities tell you (rather than hearing all your own doubtful mind chatter). You will begin to notice how "right on" your abilities are--if you can actually avoid verification of your answers early on in the process.
The "art of ignoring" or selective perception is one of the key principles in magic and in developing your psychic abilities. Remember, you're accessing information in another realm, so you have to learn to focus your attention in that realm. Putting your attention solely on asking and receiving is the key.
Good luck and, most of all, have fun with this!
A way to change life
You must transform yourself into the person for whom the probability of great things happening increases. And this transformation starts at the level of the soul. The soul gives meaning to events. The soul takes actions by influencing our minds. And for every action, there is a memory, an interpretation. Meaning, experience, interpretation, memory, desire–all of these are very closely connected through the karmic cycle.
We get used to a certain way of doing things and continue that pattern out of habit, simply because it is comfortable. In order to change your life, you have to find a way to break the pattern. This is not easy, but people do it every day. The best way is to watch for signs of new probabilities—-and those signs come to us in the form of coincidences.
Coincidences are messages from the nonlocal domain, invitations to break our karmic bonds. Coincidences invite us to relinquish the known and embrace the unknown. A coincidence is a creative, quantum leap in the behavior of the universe itself. Since the known is itself a habit of past conditioning, creativity and freedom exist in the unknown—-anything that breaks through the probability amplitude set by karma. That is why it is important to look for coincidences, to keep a record of them. When you notice coincidences, you can discover their hidden meanings for your life.
A coincidence is, by definition, a synchronistic experience. It affects our world in unpredictable ways. The very fact that it is a coincidence means that it is a message from God. We must take heed and then take action. This is our opportunity for a creative response.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra
We get used to a certain way of doing things and continue that pattern out of habit, simply because it is comfortable. In order to change your life, you have to find a way to break the pattern. This is not easy, but people do it every day. The best way is to watch for signs of new probabilities—-and those signs come to us in the form of coincidences.
Coincidences are messages from the nonlocal domain, invitations to break our karmic bonds. Coincidences invite us to relinquish the known and embrace the unknown. A coincidence is a creative, quantum leap in the behavior of the universe itself. Since the known is itself a habit of past conditioning, creativity and freedom exist in the unknown—-anything that breaks through the probability amplitude set by karma. That is why it is important to look for coincidences, to keep a record of them. When you notice coincidences, you can discover their hidden meanings for your life.
A coincidence is, by definition, a synchronistic experience. It affects our world in unpredictable ways. The very fact that it is a coincidence means that it is a message from God. We must take heed and then take action. This is our opportunity for a creative response.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra
Finding your true self
The ego thrives under the following conditions:
You get what you want. Others agree to follow your agenda. There is a sense of self-control. Right and wrong are clearly demarcated. Nobody crosses the line between right and wrong. You name the conditions of loving someone else and being loved in return. Anyone who agrees with you is showing that he/she loves you. Someone who obeys you feels safe. Someone you must obey feels unsafe.
Ironically, these conditions for making your ego happy turn out to make who you really are very unhappy. There is no joy in being in charge, no love in controlling others, no expansion in defending the line between right and wrong.
So seductive is the ego’s story, however, that countless people pursue happiness in the ways described. And they may even achieve perfect self-discipline and power over others, but in so doing they will sacrifice their true selves.
To find your true self, you must surrender to it, and the best way to do that is to surrender to another person. This doesn’t mean that one ego gives in to another ego. That would indeed spell defeat. Instead, you share with the other person the truth about yourself.
You want love without limitations. You want to feel safe. You want to express yourself creatively. You want to expand in joy. You want to be free. Your highest wish is for unity in a state of perfect peace.
When you can share these deep desires with another, what happens? The world will reflect your level of consciousness. In this case, the reflection comes from one other person – the one who shares your truth.
However, the secret isn’t to surrender to another person, or even to each other. You surrender to the path. It is a path you share. You commit to wherever the path is taking you. In this way you give up your ego-centered perspective. Your focus shifts to the space between you and the one you love.
Adapted from The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2009).
You get what you want. Others agree to follow your agenda. There is a sense of self-control. Right and wrong are clearly demarcated. Nobody crosses the line between right and wrong. You name the conditions of loving someone else and being loved in return. Anyone who agrees with you is showing that he/she loves you. Someone who obeys you feels safe. Someone you must obey feels unsafe.
Ironically, these conditions for making your ego happy turn out to make who you really are very unhappy. There is no joy in being in charge, no love in controlling others, no expansion in defending the line between right and wrong.
So seductive is the ego’s story, however, that countless people pursue happiness in the ways described. And they may even achieve perfect self-discipline and power over others, but in so doing they will sacrifice their true selves.
To find your true self, you must surrender to it, and the best way to do that is to surrender to another person. This doesn’t mean that one ego gives in to another ego. That would indeed spell defeat. Instead, you share with the other person the truth about yourself.
You want love without limitations. You want to feel safe. You want to express yourself creatively. You want to expand in joy. You want to be free. Your highest wish is for unity in a state of perfect peace.
When you can share these deep desires with another, what happens? The world will reflect your level of consciousness. In this case, the reflection comes from one other person – the one who shares your truth.
However, the secret isn’t to surrender to another person, or even to each other. You surrender to the path. It is a path you share. You commit to wherever the path is taking you. In this way you give up your ego-centered perspective. Your focus shifts to the space between you and the one you love.
Adapted from The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2009).
Synchronistic Body Behavior
Our bodies behave synchronistically all the time. Whenever there’s even a slight perturbation in our physical body, the whole body reacts. For example, suppose you haven’t eaten all day, so your blood sugar level starts to drop. Immediately, a whole synchronicity of events works to bring your blood sugar back up. All this could be possible only through nonlocal communication, information correlated faster than the speed of light, outside the bounds of standard physics.
It has been suggested that this nonlocal communication is set up by the resonance of the electrical activity of our hearts. Your heart has something called a pacemaker, which keeps the normal heart beating at about seventy-two times per minute. The energy is sent through your body. The heart creates a field of resonance so that every cell in the body starts to entrain with every other cell, which makes every cell synchronistically attuned to every other cell.
When cells are caught in the same field of resonance, they are all dancing to the same music. Studies show that when we’re thinking creatively, or when we are feeling peaceful, or when we’re feeling love, those emotions generate a very coherent electromagnetic field. And that electromagnetic field is broadcast to the rest of your body.
It also creates a field of resonance where all the cells of the body lock in with each other. Every cell knows what every other cell is doing because they’re all doing the same thing, while still expressing their unique functions efficiently.
In a healthy body, this synchronicity is perfectly regulated. When disease occurs, one of those rhythms has gone awry.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press).
It has been suggested that this nonlocal communication is set up by the resonance of the electrical activity of our hearts. Your heart has something called a pacemaker, which keeps the normal heart beating at about seventy-two times per minute. The energy is sent through your body. The heart creates a field of resonance so that every cell in the body starts to entrain with every other cell, which makes every cell synchronistically attuned to every other cell.
When cells are caught in the same field of resonance, they are all dancing to the same music. Studies show that when we’re thinking creatively, or when we are feeling peaceful, or when we’re feeling love, those emotions generate a very coherent electromagnetic field. And that electromagnetic field is broadcast to the rest of your body.
It also creates a field of resonance where all the cells of the body lock in with each other. Every cell knows what every other cell is doing because they’re all doing the same thing, while still expressing their unique functions efficiently.
In a healthy body, this synchronicity is perfectly regulated. When disease occurs, one of those rhythms has gone awry.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press).
Feeling unloved
One of the worst parts of suffering a great loss is the feeling of utter isolation. The problem of loneliness, which exists for countless people, requires deeper healing than simply seeking out company. Loneliness can happen in a crowd and may feel most intense when you find yourself alone on a packed city street.
As a child, it was easier to cure loneliness, because the presence of a parent was enough to offer reassurance. As an adult, loneliness becomes more existential–it feels as if you have been abandoned, yet you cannot say by whom. If you suffer from loneliness, have the intention to befriend yourself; ask for spirit to comfort you with its presence.
Children need constant reassurance that they are loved because their sense of self is undeveloped and therefore fragile. By hearing “I love you,” they gain a core of self-worth. As long as this core is strong, a person can withstand the loss of love, even though it may bring intense pain.
When the core of self-love has become too weak, despair is the result. In some people it was never strong enough to begin with; in others the intensity of grief has proved too much. Ask spirit to come in and repair your innate sense of being loved. Affirm today that you can feel loved within yourself, even after a great loss.
Adapted from The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
As a child, it was easier to cure loneliness, because the presence of a parent was enough to offer reassurance. As an adult, loneliness becomes more existential–it feels as if you have been abandoned, yet you cannot say by whom. If you suffer from loneliness, have the intention to befriend yourself; ask for spirit to comfort you with its presence.
Children need constant reassurance that they are loved because their sense of self is undeveloped and therefore fragile. By hearing “I love you,” they gain a core of self-worth. As long as this core is strong, a person can withstand the loss of love, even though it may bring intense pain.
When the core of self-love has become too weak, despair is the result. In some people it was never strong enough to begin with; in others the intensity of grief has proved too much. Ask spirit to come in and repair your innate sense of being loved. Affirm today that you can feel loved within yourself, even after a great loss.
Adapted from The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
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