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These days you can hardly go through any articles, books, DVDs, movies, films, documentaries with regard to self-improvement or self-help without coming across at least one mentioning of some ‘Universal Law’.

Suddenly, there appears to be a Universal Law for anything. Like we haven’t got enough Laws to deal with already!

There is truth to these ‘Universal Laws’, but in most cases, a little nuance is in place. Please read along, as the remainder of this article will clear it all up.

There are Universal Laws that guide your life behind the scenes of ‘physical reality’. These are actually rather ‘universal principles of life’. That would be a more appropriate qualification.

However, the qualification of ‘Universal Law’ has taken on a life of its own. The word ‘Law’ appears to be a magic word… Almost a magic wand that casts a spell on anyone who reads it that puts them in a hypnotized state thinking that what it says must be true. After all, it’s a ‘Law’ isn’t it? A ‘Law’ is always right. No more thinking required.

Today, subjects like the ‘Law of Attraction’ are at an all-time high of popularity. We’ve got the movie ‘The Secret’ and a whole big bunch of people trying to leverage on it by proclaiming themselves as ‘experts in the field of the Law of Attraction’, or ‘masters of attraction. Yes, there’s that magic word (wand) again.

And simply because people seem to like ‘Universal Laws’, every now and then a new ‘Universal Law’ makes its entrance. People come up with new ‘Universal Laws’ all the time. And likewise, new ‘experts on the Law of Attraction’ and ‘masters of attraction’ proclaim themselves every day.

Yet despite so many people having seen the movie ‘The Secret’ and knowing about the Law of Attraction, there is only a very, very small number of people who are actually living the life of their dreams, or ‘attracting their desires’, or ‘manifesting their dreams’. Yes those are some other ‘magic words’ from today’s common terminology.

How come? How come, with all that knowledge, with all those ‘Universal Laws’ already written and told about, and with all those new ‘Universal Laws’, ‘Spiritual Laws of the Universe’, ‘Subsidiary Laws’ and so on coming about each and every day on the Internet and elsewhere… How come with all the people buying those books, DVDs, movies, films, documentaries, and so on, are still not ‘attracting their desires’ or ‘manifesting their dreams’?

I’ll tell you why. Most people have heard something about it, but have no real knowledge about the matter. They are aware of the fact that there are ‘Universal Laws’, or rather ‘universal principles of life’ that work behind the scenes and guide the courses of their lives.

However, most people have lost track, because so many who think they know what they’re talking about (while they don’t) come up with these new ‘Universal Laws’ all the time. There may be some truth to all these different ‘Universal Laws’. But what they really do for genuine seekers for the truth like yourself is not much more than making things way too difficult and complex to apply.

And if that isn’t enough already, often another big problem comes up when you start reading about the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the ‘Laws of the Universe’. The ‘experts’ who speak or write about them tend to do so in such an overly symbolic fashion, that few well-thinking people can make any practical sense of it. What you find is nothing but ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’.

Listen; there are universal principles of life. ‘Universal Laws’ if you will. However, when it comes to applying them to your advantage, we are in desperate need for some clarity.

Let me show you what I mean. I can come up with hundreds of ‘Universal Laws’ if I want.

Here are a couple of them…

• Introducing the Universal Law of Ping Pong

It says you have to use ping pong balls if you want to play table tennis.

• Introducing the Universal Law of Rain

It says that when it rains, things get wet.

Disappointing, eh? But they did sound interesting at first, right?

See what’s happening here?

The mere qualification of ‘Universal Law’ makes the statement sound interesting already, while the true deeper meaning of the ‘Universal Law’ is nothing more than a standard, blindingly obvious platitude.

So let me give you another Universal Law right now, to satisfy your probably insatiable need (or so you may think) for knowledge of all ‘Universal Laws’ to improve your life, ‘attract your desires’, and ‘manifest your dreams’ once and for all:

Introducing the Universal Law of Bollocks

It says that it’s all bollocks.

That’s right, it’s all bollocks. Bollocks! There are universal principles guiding your life. If you want, you can call them ‘Universal Laws’. I’ve done so in my books and articles, because that’s what people are looking for these days. If I would apply other terminology, people would never even be looking at it. Simply because they think they need ‘Laws’.

But it’s all bollocks, because before this whole game we call ‘human life’ started, we didn’t get an instruction manual on how life was supposed to be lived. We didn’t get a Code of Law full of ‘thou shalt not’s’. The purpose of the whole thing was to find out the universal principles and realize that through applying these principles, YOU can have full control over whatever it is you want to create. The purpose of the whole thing was to find out that the world ‘outside’ is only a mirror showing what’s going on ‘inside’. All this time, the whole thing has been about finding out that you create your reality experience yourself.

Yes, that’s right, you ‘create’, which is much more than ‘attracting’. But that’s something you’ll discover as you get more experienced in the conscious living of your life and in the engineering your own success by applying the true and simple universal principles of life.  Or yes, ‘Laws’ if you will.

What you call ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are qualifications of your own. You are the one who deems things to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’. That’s merely a judgment from your individual perspective. When you’re not satisfied with your reality experience, you need to create something else that you are satisfied with.

For many, this is where the Law of Attraction comes in. According to most, this one states that what you focus your thoughts on becomes your reality. There’s truth to this statement, but there’s more to the story. Positive thinking and visualizing aren’t going to cut it.

There are certain boundary conditions to take into account, certain ‘universal principles of life’. Without attending to these conditions, your attraction efforts will be sabotaged. And this is exactly what most people who have seen ‘The Secret’ and have tried to put the ‘Law of Attraction’ into practice are experiencing.

But the last thing you need are instructions that are either overly symbolic, or too complex to apply. What you want is to keep things simple and straightforward. Or else you may get lost in the details. You want just enough straightforward knowledge for simple application of the principles, while still having a total view on the big picture that is comprehensive enough to not forget about any universal principle or Law for that matter.

If you want to make life simple for yourself, to start pulling the right strings at once to create the life and destiny of your dreams, then don’t waste another second on trying to find out every small, detailed, insignificant ‘Universal Law’ someone came up with today. You’ll be like a cat chasing its own tail: a never-ending story that leaves you exhausted and depressed.

Neither should you merely think positive thoughts and then wait for things to happen. There’s a little more to it. Just a little, nothing complex, but still extremely important.

Just keep it simple.

There are 6 main Universal Principles (or Laws) that cover all universal principles automatically. Attend to them all, which is a simple thing to do without much effort required, and you’ll be living more than your dreams before you can even consciously realize you created such an incredible experience!

Keep it straightforward and easy-to-apply. The game of life wasn’t intended to be complex and difficult. The game was supposed to be simple and easy, and most of all FUN!   And there’s a simple road to it, and it’s just a small decision away.   Welcome to the Revolution.

What…  You mean haven’t heard about the Revolution??  More free information on the Great Revolution, and on the ‘universal principles of life’  (the true ‘Universal Laws’) can be found at http://www.revolutionizaffiliates.com/go.php?a=1234&p=17.

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Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged ‘Great Revolution’, which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding the universal principles of life.

The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence, the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’ that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application.

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You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. -Juvenal

One of the most exciting changes that could mean a breakthrough in health centers on the term mind-body medicine.

Twenty years ago, the equation was definitely body-oriented. If it was conceded that the mind plays a part in health, doctors generally had disparaging things to say about psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect. Neither seemed like “real” medicine, and no medical school curriculum taught otherwise. It was a source of dismay, in fact, that alternative approaches even existed.

What was not realized, as the mind-body connection turned into hard science, is that the polarity needs to be reversed entirely. It is the mind that dominates the body, that acts as chooser, controller, and governor. Instead of being incidental, your state of awareness plays a huge part in how your cells function.

We need to reinvent the body as a creation of consciousness — that step, which was taken thousands of years ago in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, would clarify so many mysteries surrounding faith healing, energy work, acupuncture, Qi Gong, and spontaneous remissions of intractable disorders like cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.

So far, the breakthrough hasn’t occurred, not on a completely reliable basis, secure enough so that using the mind as healer becomes more predictable and efficacious than drugs and surgery. The reason that we don’t have mind-based therapies at every hospital are complicated. Rather than go into them, let’s ask the most salient question.

What can you and I do to promote wellness based, first and foremost, on consciousness?

To answer that question, you need specific goals, as with any long-range project.

Goal #1:  Free yourself from the past.

Goal #2: Address bad habits and addictions.

Goal #3: Find the core of the self.

Goal #4: Maintain a program for personal growth and evolution.

Goal #5: Become aware of how your environment – at work, at home, in your closest relationships – mirrors who you are inside.

I’ve tried to state these goals as objectively as possible, without leaning toward one method or another. There are countless techniques available in the American supermarket of medical and health advice.  But the reason that people come away frustrated and confused is that the specifics of what they are doing today — going to yoga class, drinking wheat grass juice, reading Buddhist sermons — becomes haphazard without an overall vision.

These five goals give you the bare outline of a vision, which you can fill in by turning each into a question:

1. What am I doing to free myself from my past?

2.  Am I honestly confronting my bad habits and addictive tendencies?

3.  Do I make choices from a secure center, knowing who I really am?

4.  Do I have confidence that I am evolving and will continue to evolve?

5.  Looking around, how does my world, including everyone I relate to, reflect what’s going on inside?

These should be approached as medical questions, because even if you aren’t asking them — especially if you aren’t asking them — your body is eavesdropping all the time. There are three levels of reflection that give feedback to you: your thoughts, your physical condition, and the external world. They are linked and fused, which is what makes holism possible.

If you could ignore your thoughts, your body, or your circumstances, letting one or two go while concentrating only on what’s left, holistic medicine, or holistic living, would be a delusion. Consciousness isn’t compartmentalized; it is whole. Your self is the hub from which everything emanates. All experience, physical, mental, and spiritual, occur in consciousness.

I think we’ve outlined a good beginning for switching the mind-body polarity. (Readers who wish to approach these issues in depth may want to look at my book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul.) We are immersed in a materialistic worldview, and although skepticism has been quieted somewhat by the flood of research confirming the mind-body connection, there will be resistance to seeing consciousness as central to well-being.

But even if you decide to put your faith entirely in mainstream medicine and its focus on drugs and surgery — a choice that fewer informed people make nowadays — there is no doubt that positive lifestyle changes are unassailable for preventing more and more illnesses. You can’t make such changes without confronting most if not all the goals I’ve outlined.  They are key if you want to send the best messages from mind to body.

Since you are sending such messages constantly, why shouldn’t they be the best?

About Deepak Chopra -

Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as “Hollywood’s man of the moment, one of publishing’s best-selling and most prolific self-help authors.” He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of “bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east” remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India’s historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton. His latest book is “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul.”

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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. ~Brian Tracy

This is an antidote to victimization. It establishes that you are seen and provided for.

The more you notice the truth of this principle, the less you will believe that you are a victim.

Looking around, it’s obvious that life is orderly. A bee flies from flower to flower, eating and pollinating in accordance with a magnificent, ordered scheme.

Millions of years of evolution have exquisitely matched bee and flower so that neither can exist without the other.

Why, then, do we believe that our own lives can’t be effortlessly sustained?

One major obstacle is that we see ourselves as victim. Our bodies are subject to aging and death. Accidents are unavoidable. Catastrophe and disaster looms just around the corner, controlled by a whimsical destiny. And simply imagining the terrible things that can happen to you brings as much suffering as the events themselves.

Being a victim is the logical result of being in constant danger. If God sustains us, then surely he must reverse this whole scheme of random accidents that puts everyone in peril.  This is a tricky point, however, because we are also surrounded by abundance in Nature.

Optimists point to our green earth overflowing with life, nourishment, and beauty.

However, can a loving God really supply us with life’s good things one day and pain the next?  Most people who feel grateful to God tend to deny that he is also responsible for disease, calamity, and death. Yet an all-knowing, all-powerful deity can’t be responsible for only part of what goes on. Either he sustains everything or nothing.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ~Eileen Caddy

The way to escape from living under a God who brings pleasure one day and pain the next is to realize that God isn’t a person.

We only call God “he” because our minds resist thinking of God as a total abstraction.

In truth, being total, God has to be abstract. You can’t wrap your mind around the All. Instead, we wrap our minds around the things we notice, and choose to believe in.

To the extent that you notice God in your life, acknowledge him with gratitude. God doesn’t need to be thanked—after all; he already has everything, including thanks.

But by choosing gratitude you are selecting a benevolent aspect of the All on which you want to focus. The purpose of gratitude is to connect you to a higher vision of life.

Whatever you pay attention to will grow.

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life.

Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the more threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

The external world claims to be real, but it, too, is an image created in consciousness and projected outward. Once you realize that you alone are the projector of reality, you will no longer be dominated by external events. You will correct the mistake that lies at the very root of victimization: a belief that the movie controls you, instead of the other way around.

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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. Orison Marden

When we chose to focus on what emotions we desire to experience, as opposed to, what we want to be, do or have materially, we instantly align heart and mind and create inner harmony, and we accomplish things with ease. We are in the zone.

The opposite however, is also true; when we choose to focus on what we don’t want to happen…What could go wrong or only on want we want materially, we create misalignment between heart and mind, which causes imbalance and internal conflict which we experience first as emotional discomfort but if not corrected we will eventually experience as physical dis-ease.

This inner state of harmony or conflict we experience as emotions and feelings, we project through our actions into external experiences. Our life experiences always reflect our inner state as created by our choice of focus.

Whenever we experience anger, worry, disappointments, frustration or any other (negative) unpleasant emotions it’s always the result of misalignment between heart and mind.

Again the opposite is equally true; whenever we experience peace, gratitude, joy, or love or any other (positive) pleasant emotions it’s always the result of alignment between heart and mind.

So, how do we realign?

How do we use our focus to create more of the emotions we desire?

How do we restore harmony and balance in all areas of our lives?

How do we use our emotions as an action guide for creating more of the experiences we desire?

It seems reasonable to the Mind to begin at the beginning, so we start by choosing our focus, but the Heart must be evenly yoked if we are to create alignment, so must also choose to feel all of our emotions and judge them not. Once we have clarified our focus and we have unified our emotions we are ready to generate actions from a place of balance, which means we will be able to experience all that we desire with ease.

Well, there you have it… a short version of how we can use our focus and emotional feedback to Elevate our life experience to the level of wholeness or oneness.

You may or may not agree, but if you can just image how simple your life could be if it’s indeed as simple as we’ve presented.

Can you imagine how great this new life of co-creating by using your heart and mind would feel?

Can you image the Love, Joy and Gratitude you’d experience in each and every moment?

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

If you can even image it… then for just this one moment at least you and I are lifted together to a higher place which exists within us… and as a result WE ARE ETERNALLY ONE!

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Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.  ~Sue Patton Thoele~

Everyone has a story to tell. However, not everyone may be willing to listen. Sometimes, we are amazed – in an unpleasant way – over the fact that we have not been paying attention to the one speaking to us.

At some point along the story, our mind has wandered off, and we only drift back to reality when suddenly asked, “Are you still listening?”

That would be most unfortunate, since next to our visual skills, our ability to listen allows us to reap various benefits. If we listen to our mentor as he shares with us useful thoughts on life, we become good apprentices.

If we listen to our professor as he lectures about the day’s lesson, we become good students. If we listen to our boss as he explains the rationale of the company’s recent policy, we become good employees.

If we listen to our parents as they advise us regarding career choices, we become good sons/daughters. If we listen to a friend in dire need of unloading his troubles, we become good friends.

In short, listening is vital in developing good human relationships.

To maximize our listening capability, here are a few tips.

Focus.

It is but a single word, but its message conveys far more. Being focused means paying attention, and a lot of it at that. It means temporarily forgetting about other matters of consequence and lending a few minutes of your time to hear someone speak his mind out. It means giving interest to whatever it is that the speaker might want to say. It is taking his words seriously into consideration in whatever decision we are to make. It is placing his story in the context of his emotions, and trying to understand him within the events occurring in his life.

Watch out for non-verbal cues.

The message need not always lie on the words, but also in movements that the speaker makes. If we also pay good attention to the speaker’s eyes, facial expressions, and gestures, we will be able to receive the message in totality. Moreover, if the speaker realizes that we are sincerely listening, we are boosting his confidence.

Be sensitive.

A good measure of sensitivity is also essential to maintain enthusiasm in the part of the person speaking. If the person is at the peak of his emotions, do not interrupt. After all, if someone is extremely angry or anguished, it will be a form of catharsis to remain patient until he has calmed down. Unless the person is already causing bodily harm, it will do him well to let him be purged of his bad feelings.

Show unconditional openness.

We may not always agree with what someone has to say, but being there to listen may be the least we can offer. While we may have different opinions about several issues, keeping our horizons wide is a healthy attitude. With these perspectives in listening, we become open to a world of unlimited learning and diverse experiences.

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With January nearing it’s end and Valentine’s Day, rapidly approaching, we would like to share some of our favorite romantic flirting tips with you.

But first we want to tell you about this powerful new technique that almost no one knows about. It’s about attracting a new romantic partner, or bringing back the closeness and passion in dying relationships… It is now well-known that people communicate with each other on a subconscious level constantly. We are constantly communicating with and affecting each other, whether we realize it or not…

Maybe you’re having problems ‘getting noticed’ by new potential partners?

Maybe you’ve lost that connection or spark with your old partner? …Like Carrie,  before she used the Contact program…

“We are closer now than we have been in years The Contact Program has worked very well for me! And it worked faster than I expected as well. I used it for improving my relationship with my husband of 11 years, and immediately I noticed him responding to me differently. We were in a ‘rut’ so to speak and I wanted to bring back the connection and spice to our marriage. I worked with the visualizations and in some cases actually noticed he would do or say something, just as I had visualized it. That was huge confirmation for me. Our relationship is very strong and we are closer now than we have been in years. I would definitely recommend this for anyone who is looking to effect their relationship. You will be pleasantly surprised.”

Carrie, USA

It is rather difficult to be romantic without first flirting.

What exactly is flirting and how can you adapt some flirting into your own romantic moods and play? To begin, you don’t want to be too aggressive. Start with very friendly gestures and once you have gotten those moves down, and then go for the romantic flirting!

Flirting is a frame of mind:

• Be self-confident and do not be afraid to take risks.
• Be enthusiastic about romance and be positive!

Start a sexy conversation:

• Start with a simple, opening line by saying hello.
• Talk about anything at all, whatever will get the romance going.

Enjoy yourself and have fun:
• Be playful, light-hearted and above all, be spontaneous.
• Show that you can be vulnerable.

Make good use of all props:

• Always use a prop.
• Props will get the conversation started naturally. They encourage conversation and others will want to start talking to you.
• Great props are: pets, children, great jewelry, a wonderful scent, a sweatshirt with your favorite sports team’s emblem, an interesting book or magazine.

Play host:

• Take the lead by taking on the role of host.
• Do not be the passive person in waiting, but rather the lead.

Introduce yourself first:

• Move closer to the person you want to meet and introduce yourself confidently!

Listen-up:

• Everyone loves to be heard and when you are a good listener your partner will be drawn to you.

Make bold eye contact:

• Look your partner in the eye gently (no more than 2-4 seconds) and then look away. You don’t want to stare!

Pay a genuine compliment:

• Your partner will be pleased and will warm up to you more. Show a beautiful smile:
• You will look so much more approachable. Everyone is attracted to a genuine and heartfelt, smile.

So there you go! These are all ground-breakers when wanting to approach someone with romance. We must always be mindful of the fundamentals. When we just dive right in, unexpected, we can turn our loved one off.

Go slow, a step at a time and feeling confident, approach with your best romance moves.

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By entering into marriage, we take a great risk. We place our very selves… our own intimacy… into the hands of another, who, like us, is beset with defects.

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -Dave Meurer

Marriage, however, is a vocation; our specific pathway to Heaven.

It’s the preeminent way we are meant to Love and serve God on this earth. Its purpose goes beyond our capabilities: to nurture and protect human Love, and to unleash it on the world.

Therefore, Love for one’s spouse has to be shown in tangible, practical ways.

Your Wife

One of your wife’s greatest needs is for you to be her partner and teammate, as opposed to the roles you may be more inclined to fill: coach,  boss, referee, babysitter or “temp”.

Compliment your wife in person and behind her back. Let her know with very specific and sincere examples how much you admire her and her work inside and outside of the home. Let others know it, too, whether in her presence (like at social gatherings) or outside it (like work). You want to make it apparent to her that you notice and appreciate her  every effort, and apparent to others that… ” This man really loves his wife!”

Don’t teach your wife to nag or sulk. Yes, you read it right. You do this when you don’t pay undivided attention to her words and ideas. A woman detests having to force her way into her husband’s mind and heart; and when faced with that task, she will likely keep things bottled up until she has to explode. Unthinking males refer to this as “nagging”.

Therefore, recognize that TV, newspapers, magazines, mail, hobbies, etc. are your mortal enemies when you get home from work. Avoid them, go straight to your wife, and with eye-to-eye contact, listen to her tell you how her day has gone. Better yet, take the initiative and ask her how she’s doing at least once a week – and give her all the time and attention she needs to tell you.

Don’t try to explain or fix your wife’s hurts. She usually only wants your understanding and empathy not solutions to her problems. Do not trivialize her concerns.

Help with menial tasks around the house. It can be a form of pride to think that these jobs are beneath you. One helpful and challenging suggestion is to perform the task that either you or your wife detests the most. Doing either one will please her greatly.

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. -Amy Grant

Your Husband

Don’t expect him to be perfect. It’s to be hoped that the above points will have reminded him that he’s not perfect, and that he needs to work hard to fulfill his commitment of love in marriage. Make sure you let him know, in concrete ways, that you deeply appreciate his struggle – it is very important to a man that his best and honest efforts are treasured.

Do not expect him to be like a woman. He thinks, acts, and reacts differently than you do; and believe it or not, this is a good thing! Do not fall for the contemporary caricature of men as testosterone-poisoned little boys in adult bodies incapable of commitment, personal relationships,  or any other useful societal purpose. His maleness is there for you as a complement to your femininity…in other words…as strength for you.

Lavish tenderness and care on your husband. Little matters more to a married man than the certainty of his wife’s deep affection and care for him. It’s his fixed point amid the chaotic demands of his professional life. You will express this best not by doing occasional, extraordinary things, but by unrelenting acts of simple tenderness on a regular basis.

Loving unconditionally and always putting your husband or wife first and meeting their needs is the surest way to have and keep a happy relationship.

If each of you takes these matters to Heart,  you will find that Loving your spouse unconditionally is the most romantic thing you can do… because you will be living Love where it really counts: in the ordinary things, day by day by day.

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer. -H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver

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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. ~Heraclitus~

How bad do you want something?  Can you almost taste and feel it?  Do you imagine that it’s already beside you, nestling comfortably under the crook of your arm?

If you wish for something that your heart desires, then think really hard… and it might just come true. If one adds concentration and feelings, it becomes a great creative power that makes things happen.

Creative visualization is not just about positive thinking. It is the ability to use one’s imagination to see things from greater heights, to see within one’s own mind the possibility to create an exciting reality.

We have all been using it in several different forms, usually subconsciously or unconsciously throughout our lives.

Many great people in the past have known about it, used it to their advantage and in the process, helped make the world a better place to live in.The brain is a powerful tool and should be utilized only for good.  Creative visualization can transform your life from dull to dazzling.

The idea will serve as a draft and the emotion provides the creative force of action which produces reality. By thinking of the good things that you want to happen, a positive stream of energy is created, surrounding you inch by inch. This positive energy stream first expands then solidifies and becomes your reality.

You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy

There are many ways to go about this, but it is summarized in five easy to follow steps.

The first step is to relax. Sit or lie in any position that will make you comfortable. Breathe deeply and rhythmically.  Inhale and exhale slowly.  Picture your tense muscles slowly relaxing.  Un-knot those tight bunches and arrange them in an orderly fashion.

Second, get clear about what it is you really want, not just the image and sound but most importantly the feeling. Identify your ultimate energy state: what feeling will you have once you have created what you desire…will it be joy, relief, gratitude, loved, etc..

Third, set your highest ideal by picturing things that you want to happen. You are the master of your future so do this to the utmost of your ability.  Conjure pictures with distinct colors and vibrant hues. Don’t forget to add sounds and emotion. Focus on it as often as possible. Think , hear, feel it all throughout the day to galvanize the process.

Fourth, expect to succeed and take action. All of  the other steps, thinking hearing and feeling will amount to nothing more than mental masturbation unless you take action.

The final step, and perhaps the most difficult one, is giving your thought a positive energy. Only allow optimism and no other negative feeling to rule your life.  Negative energy will neutralize what you are trying to achieve.

There are several ways to use creative visualization in your life.

You may use it to relieve almost any physical problem. For instance, in cases of pain, where one could imagine themselves away from the hospital room, not in a drab hospital gown and without any tubes attached.

Instead, one could see ones self having a grand time in the Caribbean surrounded by the white sand and deep blue sea.

A person who is on a diet may envision himself to have a fit and beautiful body.

Some may use it to boost character or attitude. When a person views himself as poor, pathetic, idiotic or selfish… he may start to act that way. But the moment he sees himself as intellectual, humorous and friendly, he can begin to become that way.

It may also improve your relationship by picturing an increase in harmony, appreciation, affection and closeness.

Creative visualization cannot be used to “control” the behavior of others or cause them ill.  People should not be treated as voodoo dolls to be played around with.

Remember that the law of attraction exists and no one is exempt. If you wish others bad fortune, it will always come back to haunt you in time. Whatever you do, think or wish will always boomerang back to you, so be careful of what you wish for.

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.~e.e. cummings~

Our first and last, thereby our longest lasting relationship is the one to Self. All other relationships are affected, for better or worse, by this primary relationship. If we are not in good relation to ourselves it appears us, that everyone and everything else is to blame as far as were concerned.

Many adults (and as a result many kids) have difficulty with self esteem and poor body image. It seems that many of us lack a clear understanding of the importance of our relationship to self which means we are ill equipped to help our child. Many adults continue to blame everything and everyone around them for their lack of progress toward the fulfillment of their life dreams.

If you haven’t learned how to value yourself, it’s time you do.

Whether you’re a manager, a trainee, an actor, or a postman, you won’t be able to interact with your employers, employees, and subordinates effectively and in perfect harmony if you don’t have a great relationship with yourself first.

Be Honest about What You See in the Mirror

Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. Be honest as you list to yourself your strengths and weaknesses. Know what you really want in life and be clear about what you don’t want, as well. Your life won’t be able to take the directions it needs to take as long as you keep lying to yourself.

Don’t Be Shy about Giving Yourself a Pat on the Back

If you’ve done something right, that’s certainly nothing to be ashamed of; so go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back. Don’t measure your accomplishments according to the rewards you’ll receive from other people. As long as you’ve done your job well, that should be good enough for you. Learning how to appreciate your own accomplishments will help you appreciate other people’s work better.

Never Stop Improving

The moment you stop working on improving yourself is the moment you should start worrying. There’s no way for you to attain perfection in any aspect of your life or even your character. There will always be room for improvement and it’s for your own good to remember this at all times.

You Are Important to Others If You Believe You’re Important

People will learn to respect you and pay attention to what you’re saying if you prove to them that you’re deserving of such treatment. Naturally, the only way for you to prove that you’re worthy of it is by respecting yourself first.  Only then will you be able to truly show love and respect for others.

You’re not respecting yourself if you allow people to walk all over you. Nobody will pay attention to what you’re saying if you’re not saying anything that’s worth listening to.

Learn How to Forgive Yourself

If you don’t know how to forgive yourself for your mistakes, you’ll unconsciously be adapting the same attitude towards other people. Being a perfectionist is great in some aspects but unreasonable in others.

As long as you’re unable to accept that you’re as human as the rest of the population, you’ll find it harder and harder to accept other people’s mistakes. This will make it difficult for you to get along with others, to say the least.

Be Sensitive

Sensitivity is a talent that you can learn and develop by yourself. Sensitivity will teach you to listen to what’s not being said and to read between the lines. Before you can be sensitive to others, however, you need to learn how to be sensitive to your own wants and needs first.

Learn How to Be Happy with Yourself

Although no man is an island, you should also learn how to be happy just by being yourself and by yourself. Once you learn those things, you’ll realize that you’re having more fun with other people.

Sometimes, it’s easier to appreciate others than appreciate yourself. Sometimes, it’s easy to see the fault in others while it’s difficult to see your faults within.

Finding the perfect balance may be a challenge, but if you wish to work well with the people around you, it’s a challenge that you can overcome. And when you do you’ll know the joy that comes from simply seeking to Be Your Best Self.

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The Amazing Effects of Music on the Mind

What was the last song you listened to? There is a reason you were so drawn to listen to it. It might have put you in a great mood or eased your worry. It might have brought back memories from days gone
by.

Understanding the effects music can have on your mind can help you make the conscious decision to listen to music a part of your daily life for its incredibly beneficial effects!

What Can Music Do for You?

Listening to music can help you remember
your first kiss. It can motivate you to keep on going. It can calm you down after a long, hard day. There are so many wonderful things music can do for you! It’s absolutely fascinating to understood why it has such an impact – and what you need to be doing to take advantage of that fact.

How Does Music Affect Our Body and Brain?

Music appears to be processed in the right hemisphere of the brain. The way we experience music also affects our nervous system.

There are different neurons that respond according to what kind of music is playing. Music can effect hormones, encourage the production of cortisol, testosterone, and oxytocin. Music can even trigger a release of endorphins.

Beyond the biology and the actual responses of your body, there are definite responses of the mind as well. You’re aware of how you feel when you listen to music, but how do you know that it’s actually having any sort of effect on you? There is scientific evidence of the way it can affect your mind! It’s clearly more than
just a suspicion – it’s fact!

The most famous experiment related to this is probably the one that was performed at the University of California at Irvine. College students were assigned to three different groups. The first group listened to Mozart’s sonata for Two Pianos in D Major. The second group listened to a relaxation tape. The third
group listened to nothing at all.

After listening, they took a Stanford-Beinet reasoning test. The results were clear – those who had listened to Mozart had improved scores!

Music Can Improve Memory

Therefore, it’s thought that music has the most effect on the part of the brain that deals with memory. Unfortunately, the effects were not found to be long-lasting. Still, there is nothing wrong with getting a consistent music boost to improve your memory, mood, and sense of well-being over all!

Interestingly enough, music even seems to have a positive effect on the memories of those who are suffering from Alzheimer’s. In some cases, music can help these people remember things and events they had long forgotten. This is an amazing gift for many Alzheimer’s patients!

Why Does This Work?

You might be wondering why this works the way it does. Dr. Alfred A Tomatis theorized that it’s because music (specifically that of Mozart) helps to retrain the brain, in a sense. The different frequencies can help to ‘exercise’ the brain and provide great benefits.

Many people use music to achieve different states of mind as well. Playing a cheerful song at the end of a long day can go a long way toward improving your mood. Playing mellowing music can help you get to sleep at night. Playing upbeat music can help you get into the right mood to go out and have fun with your friends.
Classical music is the most beloved among those who subscribe to musical therapy. It has a variety of positive uses, including increasing focus, and, as we discussed above, memory.

It’s all well and good to understand that music can have amazing effects on your life. However, it’s important to start making a conscious effort to include music every day. There are specific types of music that can help you achieve whatever state you might need to be in. You can become more creative, enter into a meditative state, relax – whatever you want!

The science is there, and you’ve seen it yourself. It doesn’t matter how old you are, where you are in your life right now, or what you want to achieve, the power of music can help you get there.

Long Term Effects

Many musical therapy experts recommend making music a part of your daily life, because its effects can improve with time. There is evidence that, over time, your language skills, creativity, happiness, and more, can improve with regular musical therapy.

There are even some incredible effects that can come along with playing a musical instrument, if you’re inclined to do that!

Whether you’re listening to music or playing it, you can consider it to be like exercise for the brain — only, much more pleasant! It will have great benefits right away and the benefits will only increase over time.

Sure, you might listen to music already, you might even find that you gravitate toward it. However, by seeking out specific types of music, you can see more desirable effects. By consistently seeking out the right kind of music, you can see incredible effects over time.

The great thing about this is that you can get started today. Music isn’t something that will take up your time — it’s something you can focus on or just have in the background. Having calming music playing more consistently will completely change your life for the better. Mind music is one of the easiest changes you can make for positive effects in your life!

The effects of music on the mind are absolutely incredible. Whether you listen to music for meditation, relaxing sounds, Mozart music, or something else altogether, there is something out there for you. There is a reason so many experts in the world practice and recommend music therapy — it’s because it is something
you truly can’t go wrong with.

Do what you can to start investigating its effects on your own life today. The music of Mozart is a great place to start. There are other options available, depending on what your goals are. Soon, you’ll start to gain an even deeper appreciation for all of the wonderful things music can bring into your life.

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Most successful people do not know how they achieved their success.

Success for them just arrived and was a very pleasant and satisfying experience.

If you stand and talk to a successful person for any length of time you will notice that their attitude and belief system is somewhat different to that which you are used to.

They seem to have a different angle or slant on things which you usually find quite refreshing. If you could get close enough to these successful people to analyze their belief system you will find that they do none of the following…

The 10 secrets of failure –

1 -  Remain positive all day long ….for no reason. This is emotionally unnatural!

2 -  Discuss your life’s objectives with negative family and friends.

3 -  Accept gratuitous advice from unsuccessful people.

4 -  Follow-the-herd …because that is what everyone else is doing.

5 -  Watch TV  regularly …this is guaranteed to destroy all creativity.

6 -  Heavily mortgage into debt and absolutely guarantee high stress for years to come.

7 -  Remain in a business/personal situation where you are perpetually unhappy and stressed.

8 -  Tell yourself continually that you are naturally unlucky.

9 -  Become petty-minded and envious when someone you know has a major windfall.

10- Make lifestyle decisions based on spur-of-the-moment emotional feelings.

It is not what winners do that makes them so successful; it is what they don’t do!  They totally avoid the above 10 secrets of failure, either consciously or subconsciously.

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It is an honor to post this “lesson on efficiency”  written by one of my favorite authors, Eric Butterworth. I hope you will read and enjoy the whole article. But even if you only read and apply the  four tips at the end, I am certain your life will be change for the better. Enjoy!

The desire for self improvement is one of the most important elements in human nature, and the degree to which this exists determines whether a person is really alive, with hope for his future. Certainly, it is true that when any individual reaches a point in life when, due to difficulty or age or indifference, he no longer wants to improve himself, he becomes totally satisfied and just sits and watches life pass by. That person, to all intent and purposes, is already dead. Life means growth. Where there is no growth, there is no life. We use the cliché “growing old” and the fact is, when you stop growing, you are old—something to think about for all of us.

Would you like to do a better job? Would you like to become a more effective person? Would you like to increase your efficiency? Of course you would, or you wouldn’t be listening to my voice [or reading this] today. I’ve counseled many persons whose chief problem is the tendency to make mistakes. I remember one businessman confessing, “I want to do a good job for my firm, but there’s something about me, I somehow never say the right thing at the right time. I put my foot in my mouth every time.” Another man fears that his marriage is breaking up because he always does the wrong thing, even though he doesn’t intend to do this. And a teenager complains that he can’t get the right results from homework, saying, “There’s something wrong with me, and it always seems to come out.” Well, he has indirectly pointed out the problem. We make mistakes because of gross inefficiencies in our thought processes. So, we must work to change our thoughts. I say that often: “You can change your life by altering your thoughts.”

If you have grown up with a self-limiting view of yourself and have repeatedly said, “I always goof,” then you must begin to change. You must know that you are a Spiritual Being, endowed with infinite possibilities for success and accomplishment. You are capable, self-confident, orderly, efficient. You are a Child of God. Know that you do everything at hand with ease and promptness and efficiency, that you always have that potential within you to enter into a new experience and a new level of consciousness.

The key to our problems and mistakes lies not in conscious beliefs, but in subconscious patterns of confusion. Prayer and meditation, worked with in the right way over a period of time, can erase inner confusion and open out a way for the expression of Divine Order and natural abilities flowing easily forth. When we really seek to know ourselves in our depths, through the prayer of self-realization, we can build our lives on the foundation of Truth.

Second Timothy, the second chapter, 15^th verse, says, “Study to show thy self approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of Truth.” I’ve never felt it sufficient to say, “I’m just going to put it in God’s hands, and He’ll take care of it for me.” I say, if you want to give a better talk or sell more merchandise or make more money, then pray more, certainly, but also work harder, study and prepare. Do your best and leave the rest. We do things right when we, ourselves, are right, and when we bring to this rightness the illumination of Spirit. A typical person needs to pray more, to believe in his Inner Power, and to be guided and sustained. In many instances, however, the need is for good old hard work. The great story here is about the man who asked his boss for a raise. He didn’t receive a reply until his next paycheck. The amount of the check was the same, but in the envelope was this little note: “Your new salary will become effective when you do.”

Efficiency also means getting the most for the least. The really “tuned in” person dedicates himself to Oneness with the Activity of God, and he reaches toward “one hundred percent efficiency.” Those who fail, do so from using less than their Inner Potential. It is probably true that the average person uses only about twelve out of the one hundred tools of his perfect mental equipment. Figures tell us that production workers usually perform at about seventy percent of efficiency, while office workers usually level off at about thirty or forty percent—possibly, even those figures are high.

Efficiency has to do with the ability of making capital, even out of misfortune. You may recall the story of Sarah Bernhardt, who was injured in an accident, and had her leg amputated. But she didn’t whine and declare that her career was over. She began to work immediately on a play in the role of a one-legged soldier. The greatest efficiency is expressed when you look for guidance to see things objectively and to recognize the way that is right and good.

A housefly, trying to reach the outdoors through a windowpane, just can’t seem to understand why it can’t get right to its goal. But you should be more intelligent than that. A person may seek the demonstration of prosperity and may attempt to instruct God, as it were, to increase his salary, but his demonstration may well appear in quite an unexpected way. It may come through a new job, through the sale of property, or simply a new way to get more mileage out of present income. The children of Israel were led by Moses out of captivity into the wilderness, where they had to spend forty years, but in this time, they conquered the desert. Thus, they learned how to conquer themselves, in preparation for the Promised Land. The mistakes we make and the limiting experiences that are our lot are really our opportunities to study for improvement. In other words, it’s not really so bad to make mistakes; it is important to use them as inspiration toward an honest effort to improve. Our lives are constantly being built by what we do and how we act today. What we will be tomorrow, and from now on, takes no heed of how we feel today or how inefficient we happen to be at the moment. What really counts is how we profit from these stages in our growth and what we do to change things.

Here is a simple step-by-step technique that could well be helpful in directing you to build an efficient life:

First: Begin your day, every day, with a time of meditation. This is a must! At some time after rising, take time to be still and identify yourself in Oneness with the Infinite Creative Source. You may have to get up a little earlier, but this will be the most important time of your day, a time to get still and to identify yourself with Oneness and to get yourself in tune with the Creative Flow [of God]. Tremendous things may flow forth into you, and into your life, as a result of this commitment.

Second: Make a mental outline of the work that you have before you, the tasks for the day, and begin to work on them, immediately. Remember the statement, “Do it now.” “Do it now!” This day’s imperative, left undone, becomes tomorrow’s regret. These things become tremendous burdens. You will find genuine satisfaction in mentally crossing off each task as it is completed. It is an orderly way to deal with life.

Third: Be non-resistant to change and interruption. Deal with these situations one-by-one, and as quickly as possible, knowing that somehow there is good in them. Sometimes, I may be busy preparing a talk or an article and along comes an interruption—a knock on the door, the buzzer rings, the telephone—and I’m tempted to be very resistant. And, I must confess, sometimes I indulge a little bit in the feeling of resistance and resentment. But I’ve come to realize that if I just go along with it, out of that interruption, I may get an answer to a “dead-end” that has been puzzling me for some time—an idea, a creative thought that is just the very thing to make the work that I was doing, and that I was interrupted in doing, that much more effective. The delay, then, becomes the channel through which the idea comes. It’s so important to be open and receptive to this type of flowing forth of Creative Mind, and to be nonresistant to change and interruption.

Fourth: When it seems that you have more to do than you feel is within your strength, or within the time allotted to you, relax with quiet deliberation. Don’t give in to the pressure of time. Know that you can do what you need to do in the Eternal Process of Timelessness. Anyone who allows himself to become tense and irritable simply short-circuits his own power by breaking contact with the Divine Source of Energy. So arrange your tasks in order of importance and proceed in the knowledge that you always have the power and the time to do the things that need to be done by you…and to do them well.

Finally: Make an occasional checkup of your work, your work habits. Are you making the wisest use of time? Always be willing to accept a better use of your abilities, a better way, if it serves your purpose. God gives us all, each and every one of us, twenty-four hours a day; it is our privilege, and our responsibility, to direct our limitless energies toward accomplishment.

© Eric Butterworth

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