The Power of Dreams
July 20, 2010 by Vincent Sandee
Filed under Past Lives, Spirit, energy healing, • Feature
Today I will share with you an important practice that can bring you insight on your life at “multidimensional” levels.
Dreams are not just elaborations of the subconscious as many people think, but they are the symbolic language we use to communicate with the Universe. They are also the language through which the Universe communicate to us.
When someone comes to me, the first thing I try to understand is what symbols are involved behind that person’s experience. How they relate to it and how they live it all depends on what symbols they are holding in their mind and, at a deeper level, the symbols they have programmed within their soul.
For every event in life there is a symbolic counterpart. These inner symbols represent the blueprint through which we experience life, they are like a map for the Universe to respond to. Becoming aware of how this communication takes place allows us to understand our life deeply, redirect it towards what we need and even soften our challenges.
The following practice is fundamental in achieving this awareness.
NEW AWARENESS OF DREAMS AND LIFE’S SYMBOLS
Take a notebook that you only use for this purpose.
Divide a page into two parts. On one part you write the dream you just had soon after you wake up, while on the other part you write the main events of your day, do so right before going to bed.
Obviously the dream and the events in your life do not have to be the same. What you are looking for is signs and symbols that reveal your intimate connection between your daily life and the world of dreams that speak to you through a Universal language.
For this reason, don’t look up for congruences right away. Continue this practice for a month and, at the end of the month, see again what you wrote. What you are looking for is for recurring dream symbols that corresponds to recurring events.
More than that, take it a step further, and try to understand the direction of the event itself. Is that event taking you forward in life?
If it is so, then it is a great symbol.
Power Dream Technique n.1
You can use that symbol in meditation, or visualize it deeply, to stimulate any similar advancement in that whenever you want you want to. This is how you resonate with the Universe at a certain level, and it is how the Universe responds to you. It is a “bridge”!
Softening Challenges – Power Dream Technique n.2
If the symbol brings challenges, then try to understand the meaning of that symbol and the nature of the challenge (which you will be aware of thanks to the events you have observed in the notebook), and every time it comes out in your life put it mentally next to another more empowering symbol.
Let the challenging symbol become smaller in your mind, loosing its power and color, while the empowering symbol becomes larger, more powerful and vibrant.
Practice this technique and change your life in the way you want it!
To Your Joy and Success
Vincent Sandee
(Swami Ekabuddhyananda)
You can visit Vincent’s website at http://joycelestial.com
Laughing your way to Happiness
July 20, 2010 by Kenneth Lane and Philip Viana
Filed under Body, Spirit, • Headline
Many self-help gurus will tell you that success has many meanings but I argue it only has one true meaning and that is happiness.
Laughing your way to happiness affects all parts of your life. What is the point of being wealthy, rich, and even healthy if you are not happy? Let us look at some of the benefits of laughing and being happy.
Laughter has many positive effects on the human body. It helps take in more oxygen, which allows the cells in the body to pass more waste out of the system. It also aids in keeping stress down. At the Swedish Cancer Hospital in Chicago “Laughter Yoga” is being used regularly during chemotherapy sessions to help patients and caregivers cope with pain and trauma.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America points out that laughter has been used since the early 13th century by doctors to distract patients from pain. Using laughter therapy in conjunction with regular cancer resulted in these benefits for patients.
• Boosts the immune system and circulatory system
• Relaxes muscles throughout the body
• Balance blood pressure
• Relieve pain
• Improves mental function
It has proven so beneficial that laughing has been tested and accepted by the Cancer Treatment Centers of America for use within their programs alongside chemotherapy.
Some companies have now introduced laughter yoga programs to their business environment. Laughter Yoga is a business that has 6000 clubs in over 60 countries. One case study yielded the following results:
• Sales increased by 25% over one year
• Stress levels decreased by 75% over one year
• Increase in loyalty due to the positive work environment
These results stress what laughter can bring to the work environment. They find that when workers have laughter in their environment they take their work more seriously but themselves more lightly making work a better place to be.
Laughing Yoga has also had a great effect for individuals dealing with physical and mental challenges. Physically challenged children have revealed a marked improvement in their motor and expressive skills. As individuals begin to have a decline in their mental faculties, they have a hard time comprehending humour. Laughing Yoga gives them the opportunity to receive the health benefits of laughter.
Businesses have found that laughter can directly affect their bottom line. It is so successful that Laughter Yoda has 6000 clubs in over 60 countries that reach out to individuals and businesses.
When you add in the mental benefits of Laughter Yoga it becomes a great fitness therapy without all the physical stress of a gym. Researchers have even found that 15-20 minutes of laughter can burn enough calories per year to lose 4.4 pounds.
When you put yourself in a position of laughter you become naturally happy. Going forward when life or work seems to have you down, just have yourself a great belly laugh.
What is Reiki
July 7, 2010 by Penny Dimmick
Filed under Spirit, • Headline
A Brief Overview
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy.”
A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.
Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.
An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an “attunement” given by a Reiki master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of “life force energy” to improve one’s health and enhance the quality of life.
Its use is not dependent on one’s intellectual capacity or spiritual development and therefore is available to everyone. It has been successfully taught to thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.
While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. Because Reiki comes from God, many people find that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only an intellectual concept of it.
While Reiki is not a religion, it is still important to live and act in a way that promotes harmony with others. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the Reiki system of natural healing, recommended that one practice certain simple ethical ideals to promote peace and harmony, which are nearly universal across all cultures.
During a meditation several years after developing Reiki, Dr. Usui decided to add the Reiki Ideals to the practice of Reiki. The Ideals came in part from the five prinicples of the Meiji emperor of Japan whom Dr. Usui admired. The Ideals were developed to add spiritual balance to Usui Reiki. Their purpose is to help people realize that healing the spirit by consciously deciding to improve oneself is a necessary part of the Reiki healing experience. In order for the Reiki healing energies to have lasting results, the client must accept responsibility for her or his healing and take an active part in it. Therefore, the Usui system of Reiki is more than the use of the Reiki energy. It must also include an active commitment to improve oneself in order for it to be a complete system. The ideals are both guidelines for living a gracious life and virtues worthy of practice for their inherent value.
The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder , Usui Mikao
Impatience or Divine Anticipation?
IMPATIENCE!!!!!!! We all have had it at one time or another. Some of us are ruled by it and others…not so much.
Having a constant sense of impatience for something to happen in our lives is very common and in many ways quite natural. We all strive to see what the future will bring and that is not necessarily a bad thing, but in our desire to speed up the natural flow it can actually keep us stuck.
Whether it be wanting that dream relationship to be here now, needing a resolution to a problem or just about anything really, the feeling of impatience can actually halt the natural process of our spiritual growth. Impatience keeps us from living totally in the Now of life and from being in touch with our authentic selves and moment by moment impulses. For it is in this moment that we find the guidance and hear the Divine.
If we are constantly putting our focus on something in the future, we will inevitably fail to see, feel and react to what is right in front of us. And many times it is the things that are right in front of us that will help us deal with or solve the problems that we are being impatient about.
Impatience comes from our need to control the outcome or resolution of a certain situation. We may want a person to do what we want them to do. We may want a scenario in our lives to go the way in which we want them to go. Whatever it may be it is a form of control and not flow.
When we have flow in our lives it is not as if we don’t look forward to events and situations. We do. The difference is there isn’t this sense of trying to figure it all out, and more importantly trying to get the result that we think is the best.
When we begin to let go of results and stay in the flow of moment by moment living, a beautiful thing begins to happen. Instead of impatience, a sense of what I call, divine anticipation begins to manifest in our lives. The best way to describe this divine anticipation is what we have as children at Christmas or holiday time. Remember that feeling when you were so excited about Christmas morning? You weren’t quite sure what would be under the tree, but you couldn’t wait for it to come and you knew it would.
Divine anticipation is the positive side of impatience. Divine anticipation is the thrilling sense that something is coming. You may not know specifically what it is that’s coming, but you know it is! It is always exciting, positive and gives you energy.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
One of the best ways to cultivate Divine anticipation is to meditate. As you meditate you
slowly let go of your need to control. You begin to know that everything in your life is exactly perfect for your highest good and is leading closer to the Divine. This knowing opens you up and when you open up life becomes more fun and much more an adventure!
Start by just meditating 10 mins 2 times a day by sitting very quiet and simply saying “Let Go, let go, let go….” over and over. Once you start this practice, a new energy will ignite in you and you will start feeling Divine anticipation for… something!
I’m Divinely anticipating great things for you!
Paranormal Experiences
July 7, 2010 by Samantha Brown
Filed under Psychic advice column, • Feature
When taking a philosophical look at the paranormal, we find that everybody has a story regarding the paranormal, or everybody has a friend who has had an experience. People are willing to listen to other people’s stories and be amazed at what has happened but perhaps it is not something they want to have happen themselves.
Having a paranormal experience can be very interesting and exciting and for most, it can keep you longing for more. Others find it disturbing, frightening and something you never want to experience again. People have told me, after having a paranormal experience it has given them a new sense of the world. Some say they have started looking at things from a different perspective. For many it becomes an addiction, you want to have one more experience to validate what you experienced before. You discuss your experience with other people and find those that do not shun you. In turn, these new friends also share their experience with you.
You become more involved because of one experience and you are longing to have the next. You find yourself watching entertainment shows on the subject, picking out the reported phenomena closest to your own experience yet questioning others. You book on an overnight investigative experience with an events company… you may hear noises, see a glass whizzing around a table during a divination session, see a pendulum swinging crazily, feel yourself moving during a séance, see shadows, feel you are being watched, be told something amazing by the resident medium…. You meet more people wanting to discuss their experiences and share more. Perhaps it is useful to be reminded that the universe as a whole and people in general are much more amazing and strange than we usually allow.
I have never come across anything I could call evil or malevolent. I have never visited a location I would not happily return to. I have never been pushed, punched or possessed or been with anyone who has claimed to have been, although there are many reports of aggressive spirits, elemental ghosts and poltergeists. Are these reports used to scare us? They should not be… the real world is frightening enough don’t you think?
