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Metaphysics

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Sally Quinn - Finding Magic

Health & Wellness

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Subtle Self Healing: Measuring Your Progress Is Ketogenic Eating Just A Fad Diet?

Personal Growth

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How to Rise Above the Tension of Money The Art of Practicing Tolerance's Touch Three Ways to Train Your Brain: Make the Good Stuff Stick

Relationships 68 72

3 Keys to Mend a Broken Heart How Do You "Love?" Ways to Share Our Human Experience

The ABCs of Spiritual SelfAwareness Illumination: An Afterlife Reading Communicating with Our Animal Families

How to “Tune In” to Our Power of Intuition How to Withdraw from an Old Continuity

World Vision 104 Humanity 2.0: The Unstoppability of Singularity

Sally Quinn: Finding Magic

The word Israel for most reflects the name of a nation or people. It derives from the Biblical patriarch Jacob, who after wrestling with an angel is given the name Israel, meaning he who struggles with God. Every sentient human being, whether a believer, agnostic or atheist, can share the name Israel because of we all struggle with God.

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Today we talk with the famed journalist, commentator and author Sally Quinn shares her journey of discovery. Sally is a long time Washington Post journalist, columnist, television commentator, renowned Washington DC social hostess and founder of the Washington Post Website on Faith.

She is the author of several books and joins us to discuss her captivating new book Finding Magic: A Personal Memoir.

Victor Fuhrman: Let’s begin with your childhood in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia and the fundamental experiences that began shaping your understanding of the mysteries of life.

Sally Quinn: I grew up as an Army brat, but my mother was from Savannah, Georgia, and she grew up part of her life in Statesboro, which is a tiny town right outside of Savannah.

My mother’s family were all Scots, McDougal’s, who had come over from Scotland to North Carolina and then followed the turpentine trade down to Statesboro where they

built a huge plantation house right out of Gone with the Wind.

My Aunt Ruth, my mother’s aunt, lived in this big beautiful house where we stayed in the summers.

It had white columns and a great long, wide hallway that ran the length of the house.

My Aunt Ruth was a Scottish Presbyterian lady, who wore little lace collars and played the organ in church, but she also had another spiritual life, which was the life of the Scottish mysteries.

She believed in the stones, psychic phenomenon, time travel and all kinds of spiritual things, the occults, the tarot cards, palmistry, astrology, and ghosts.

And so, we were brought up with sort of these two conflicting views of religion. There was this sort of institutional religion in the Presbyterian church, and then there was all this other stuff, although we didn’t think of that as a religion.

The other thing was that we had staff who were all Black, some of them descendants of slaves who had worked for the McDougal family, and they would go to their Baptist church on their side of town on Sundays. But, Omtimes.com

they also practiced voodoo, and that was very much a part of their spiritual lives. They had voodoo ceremonies that I saw and witnessed in the house. And that was part of my embedded religion, also.

So, I had these two ideas of what religion was like. For some reason, I always felt that institutional religion was the legitimate religion and that this other stuff, this psychic and the occult and the mysterious and the phenomena and the supernatural was not legitimate.

For years, until I started writing this book, I always thought it was not really legitimate.

I realized one day that it’s all magic, that all religion is magic.

If you’re a Catholic, you’ll grow up and believe that you’re gonna go to hell if you sin, and even when you get older, and you decide that that isn’t the case and you don’t believe it.

Intellectually, you don’t believe it, but there’s still some fear, some emotional feeling that it might be true or what they call Catholic guilt or Jewish guilt or whatever you’re brought up with. Whether you’re Muslim or Omtimes.com

Hindu or Christian, you always have this, if you’re brought up with it, this embedded religion that just keeps coming back at you constantly.

So, for me, that was the foundation of my religious life and my spiritual life.

Victor Fuhrman: How did your mother and your Aunt Ruth regard this dichotomy between the Christian faith and the Celtic and voodoo traditions? Was there anything said about it at the time?

Sally Quinn: Never. That’s the thing that was interesting was that they incorporated it. They somehow compartmentalized it.

So many people are in the world of the supernatural, people who are psychic and people who are astrologers and people who are tarot card readers or palmists who are also practicing Christians or practicing Muslims or whatever. And when you talk about, for instance, Jesus Christ walking on water, that’s magic.

So, if you’re going to church and you’re reading this or singing about it or listening to sermons about it, it doesn’t seem so

strange when you come home, and you’re practicing another form of religion or mystery or magic or meaning that it doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

Victor Fuhrman: It’s fascinating to me because as a child, my father was not particularly spiritual or religious at all. My grandfather was. So, we were talking about your mother and your great aunt who were both psychically gifted. What was it like to have people close to you who had these abilities?

Sally Quinn: I didn’t think anything of it. It just was part of our lives. My Aunt Ruth was really psychic. My mother’s mother, who died when my mother was two years old, predicted her own death.

My Aunt Maggie was incredibly psychic. There’s one story in the book where she was living in Fort Pierce, Florida, and she woke up in the middle of the night screaming and said to her husband, there’s been a terrible plane crash in the Okefenokee Swamp. They contacted the authorities, and they said, well, yes, a plane has gone down, and she told them exactly

where the plane was.

So, these were all stories that we just sort of understood to be true. And, the McDougal House was haunted, of course, and all the ancestors would go up and down the hallway at night.

Now, all these stories are stories that I grew up hearing, and so I didn’t think anything of them.

Victor Fuhrman: You talked about the chains with the ghosts. What do you think the significance of that was?

Sally Quinn: Well, my feeling is that they just wanted to say don’t forget me, I’m here. I talk in my book later about having contacted my husband Ben after he died through a medium. And it’s kind of the same thing. It’s just I’m still here so don’t count me out.

Victor Fuhrman: When did you first realize that you had psychic abilities?

Sally Quinn: Very early on, just little things, I can’t remember the first time, but I do know that the phone would ring, and you’d know somebody was there Omtimes.com

before you picked it up. I do believe that, if you really want to, you can develop your psychic abilities.

So, there are times when I feel like my antenna is just up quivering, way up there picking up all kinds of signals and information and other times where I’m just blanked.

Victor Fuhrman: What made you lose your faith in the existence of God? Sally Quinn: I always believed in God when I was little. I remember saying my prayers. I believed in God. I believed that Jesus was the Son of God. But, my father was in World War II, and he was there on the day that Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp was liberated. He had a staff photographer take a lot of pictures. When he came home, he made a scrapbook of these photographs, which he hid in a cabinet in the study.

One day, I was looking for something in the cabinet and I found these scrapbooks. I looked at them and was absolutely Omtimes.com

horrified. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. All I knew was that daddy, we didn’t have television then, and I didn’t read the newspapers, but that he was fighting the bad guys, and they were called Nazis. And that’s really all I knew.

I was just so horrified, but I kept sneaking back and looking at these pictures. They were all piles of dead bodies that looked like skeletons and then living bodies that looked like skeletons, emaciated people in these striped uniforms and just devastation everywhere and American soldiers in these pictures looking with horror at these people they saw.

Finally, I asked my mother about it, and she told my father, and they were upset that I had found the scrapbooks. But, I had a conversation. Daddy sat me down on his knee that night and went over the scrapbooks and explained to me about Hitler and the Nazi’s and World War II and what he was doing and why he had gone there and that--what they were doing to the Jews.

When he finished explaining this to me, I said to him, “Daddy, did God know about this?” And my

father said, “Yes, he did.” And I said, “But then why did he let that happen?” And my father said, “Well, God is a mystery, and we don’t sometimes know why he lets things happen.”

I decided that there was no God because, as I was saying my prayers at night, all those people in the concentration camp, all those little children who watched their parents perish and who died themselves were just praying to the same God, and he didn’t listen to them. And so, I just assumed that there was no God because if there were a good, all loving, omniscient and omnipotent God, he would never have allowed this to happen.

And so, that’s when I stopped believing in God. It wasn’t until I was age 13 that I actually learned the word atheist, but I never did believe in God after that or at least in a God, a loving, all loving, caring God. Victor Fuhrman: Now, even though you had rejected the concept of God, per se, as we talked about before, we’ve had these experiences of transcendence. Talk about how they affected your spiritual path.

Sally Quinn: Well, I do believe in a creator. I just can’t get my mind around the idea that there was nothing and then there was something. My human brain can’t comprehend the fact that there wasn’t some creator, something or somebody who created the universe and all of that.

However, I do think that what has been created has allowed a sense of divine and a sense of transcendence and mystery and magic to imbue our lives.

I think that you look for magic, and you look for signs of the divine, and you will find them everywhere, even despite all the suffering in the world. I mean, it’s trite to talk about the sunset and the stars and the moon and the oceans and the mountains and all of those things, but when you look at the idea that people can love other people, that is something that is so close to the divine. That is sacred, that is holy, and that comes from somewhere other than what we human beings can comprehend.

Victor Fuhrman: What other qualities could we add to the word magic?

Sally Quinn: Well, my book Omtimes.com

is divided into three sections: magic, mystery, and meaning. So, certainly, mystery, the mysterious, the unknown, the sacred, the divine, I can’t think of another word right now, but, I mean, magic is something that you either believe in, or you don’t.

met once and had never really spoken to, and it turns out that he was one of the world’s greatest Yates scholars and was going to Ireland tonight. I’m leaving tonight, for a Yates festival in Sligo, Ireland and he asked me to come with him.

I believe that magic is something that is so available to everybody, and it’s not just somebody doing magic. I believe in divine synchronicity. I don’t think that there are coincidences. I’ll just give you an example: I’m starting to write a novel now, and one of the main characters in my novel is a Catholic priest, actually, the Archbishop of Dublin, and I’m heading out to Ireland to do some research on it.

It was so amazing that I had been trying to find somebody because I certainly had read Yates, but I’m not a scholar, and I need tutorials. And so, this whole trip just kind of ended up being planned around this Yates festival and this guy who I had no idea was a Yates scholar.

And so, in my novel, the priest is a big fan of William Butler Yates, and he quotes Yates, and he carries off the book of Yates around with him. And I’ve been trying to get a hold of some Yates scholars at Georgetown.

I’ve called and called, and nobody answered.

And one night, a friend of mine came over for dinner. This was last week. She brought her husband who I had only Omtimes.com

I don’t think that that was a coincidence. I think that that’s divine synchronicity. And so, I think that’s magic.

Victor Fuhrman: What has your spiritual journey taught you?

Sally Quinn: The Spiritual journey is about wanting to be a good person, a better person. I think, certainly, studying religion and all the faiths, which I started doing once I started the religion website on faith, was to learn about the different faiths of the world, the different religions and to understand them. And I

think everybody should do that.

I mean, geography, anything, philosophy because I think it’s very important to understanding other people.

I’ve become very pluralistic. I believe in anybody doing and believing what works for them.

We all have different beliefs.

You can walk into a church or a mosque or a synagogue with 3,000 people, and they all have a different relationship with the thing or the person they call God. So, I’m totally respectful of anyone’s beliefs, no matter what they are, whether they’re occult or whether they’re religious or Jews or Hindus or Muslims or Jainism or Wiccans or whatever as long as they don’t hurt anyone.

Part of the thing that’s been most important to me to learn is to be respectful and accepting of other people’s beliefs.

I’m not perfect, but I do think that I am much more sympathetic and more empathetic toward others than I ever was before in my life. And I also believe that the most important thing in life is love and that without love, there’s really nothing. You can’t

live without love.

And so, the love of my parents, certainly, and my husband and my son Quinn, who is the love of my life, and my family and my close friends, all of that has been enormously important to me, and I can’t imagine living without love. I think that if you experience love, I write in the book that, my mother loved me so much, and when she died, I just felt this love coming to me, and it just came and came and came. I started giving it away, and I’d give it away and give it away and give it away, and I just am never on empty. I just keep getting refilled because there’s so much love out there to get and to give.

And so, for me, that’s been the most important lesson of this experience I’ve had and writing this book.

Victor Fuhrman: And I would say that that love is truly finding magic. Sally Quinn, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir. Sally’s book should be in most bookstores in the United States on the 12th of September. But you can already pre-order it on Amazon.

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Health & Wellness

Innovative new approaches to Healing as well as holistic methods for dealing with health issues and personal growth

Subtle Self-Healing: Measuring Your Progress

by Lisa Shaw

Getting in Touch with Our Healing Process People seek healers in doctors, metaphysicians and psychics thinking that healing is a product they can purchase when in fact it is a

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process, an ongoing process that doesn’t end. Our bodies, minds, and hearts are a road map to document where we have been and how far we have distanced ourselves from our place of original hurt. Even the subtlest distancing is an integral part of the healing process.

If we look at our arms, legs, hands, faces, we see that everything is not smooth or monotone. We are no longer pristine and perfect as we were when we entered this life…in fact, our journey has continued to brand us with physical imperfections from which we recover. We accumulate age spots, rough spots, calluses.

If we find a scar and recall how we acquired it, we slide back in time and then return to the present almost effortlessly without re-experiencing the original event. That ability to move from the original

pain and recognize it objectively as just another notch on the headboard means we have healed.

Appreciating Scars from Our Often-Hazardous Life Path Our scars are not flaws but physical testaments to our recovery. The process itself is subtle and natural. If it works for small splinters and scraped knees, then it is possible for the larger, life-altering dramas we experience. Wounds heal, and scars fade. That occurs internally as well.

We don’t credit ourselves for our successes though the healing journey often enough. More likely, we berate ourselves for not healing quickly enough and continue to seek out others to validate that we are pain or “heal” us within a one-hour appointment. By using our own ability, even subconsciously, to get through (as opposed to getting over) a situation, we have indeed healed.

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It is only when we expect healing to be a grand miraculous event that we feel disappointed and static. False expectations are the culprit. Although hope and expectation are often combined, the truth is that more often, they collide. Similarly, we assign equivalency to healing and curing. When we conflate these, we are disappointed.

As the Buddhists teach, it is the expectation that leads to disappointment and that disappointment leads to unhappiness.

Healing? Curing? What is the Difference?

If we separate the notion of healing from our expectation of curing, we move farther from the original hurt whether it was physical or emotional.

We can’t insist upon a time frame or a level of healing but trust that the slightest change, the slightest relief the mind-body continuum is indeed healing. Healing

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means accelerating to a higher vibration. And often while we are still looking elsewhere for that magic healing potion, we already experience the healing without noticing it.

We may just realize one day, “Wow, I’m not obsessing over my ex anymore,” or, “Hmm, I just realized I haven’t had a headache in two weeks.”

John Lennon wrote, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

The same is true of healing.

Releasing our expectations, all those “shoulds” with which we bombard ourselves, allows us to do that. We heal without negative mind chatter when we turn our attention elsewhere, releasing the anxiety over our situation.

Once we distance ourselves and recognize our progress, we can confront the more profound healing facilitated by the admission that perhaps we played a part in the original pain. We can do this only

when we no longer willingly wallow in hurt.

Inviting Healing to Occur Naturally Experience teaches us that something as subtle as recognizing our culpability in the wounding process is, on its own, healing. A flash of recognition brings heightened reflection and awareness.

By taking ourselves out of the equation, we invite healing to occur naturally. When we no longer refresh an old injury, we venture back in and accept our responsibility. This change can take years, but it is the catalyst for what becomes meaningful and lasting change. Here a therapist can be most helpful.

Meditation plays an integral role in this level of healing.

When we begin, we assume to quiet all our thoughts and feel frustrated when random and stray thoughts interfere, distracting us from the piece

we expect to be feeling.

When those peace-invaders jolt us, we must merely acknowledge them without judgment, let them drift by, and then do the same with the next thought that arises, and the next. Very quickly we see that the peaceful interludes are longer and with fewer interruptions. We raise our vibration and experience peace. We have healed.

About the Author Lisa Shaw, M.A., M.F.A., R.M., is an animal communicator, Reiki Master, writer, and professor who lives in South Florida with her furry and feathered companions. She has a featured column with OMTimes, conducts a free online Reiki circle for animals on Facebook, has graduate degree Pastoral Ministry, specializing in loss and healing, and is a trained Hospice chaplain. Visit Lisa at: www. reikidogs.com

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Is Eating Just a Fad Diet?

by Dr. Lee Ann Kalaba

What to Consider When Jumping into a New Diet Many people jump on the newest weight loss fad without a second’s hesitation, only to be disappointed with

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slow, unsustainable results that leave them hungry and feeling worse than before. It is an extreme challenge to change the way you eat, possibly even starving yourself calorically, only to get poor results.

Ketogenic eating is one healthy, natural alternative to weight loss fad diets. It has a long-standing history, is sustainable through the end of your weight loss goals, and doesn’t leave one feeling hungry and deprived.

nut butters, eggs, grass-fed butter, hard cheeses (although dairy-free is another option), grass-fed animal proteins, cruciferous vegetables, and small amounts of berries.

The goal of ketosis is to change the way the body burns food for fuel, specifically by turning healthy fats into ketone bodies that then fuel your cells.

Ketogenic eating involves consuming high amounts of healthy fats, moderate amounts of protein, and low levels of high-antioxidant carbohydrates, such as green, leafy vegetables. It is a glutenfree, sugar-free way of eating.

In the Standard American Diet, fuel is sourced from the large amount of carbohydrates and sugars that people consume.

This means that glucose is the main source of cellular energy in the body. Unfortunately, this high consumption of carbs and sugars leads to many chronic and debilitating illnesses, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Ketogenic Diet Staples and Fat-burning Goals

Healthy, Systemic Changes from Ketogenic Diets

Staples include olive, coconut, and avocado oils, nuts/

When eating for ketosis, the body adapts to burning fat,

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creating ketones for fuel instead of glucose. This type of eating has been used to help address many ailments in the body, including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, hormone imbalances, childhood epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, arthritis & chronic inflammation, fibromyalgia, insulin sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, MS, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and much more.

Dr. Joseph Mercola’s new book, Fat for Fuel, does a great job documenting the benefits of ketogenic, or metabolic, eating.

Regarding weight loss, when you consume high levels of healthy fat, your body ramps up the pathways that naturally burn fat for fuel.

In the absences of too many carbs/sugars, it naturally starts burning the fat you are storing.

This leads to quick, healthy weight loss.

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One-day Sample Ketogenic Menu Options Here is an example menu that would be considered high fat, moderate protein, and low carbohydrates: Breakfast Smoothie ½ cup wild blueberries ½ cup frozen spinach ½ avocado 1 Tbsp. collagen protein powder 1 cup coconut milk 1 cup water 1 Tbsp. avocado oil Blend until smooth Lunch 2 cups leafy greens ½ cup tomatoes 1 oz. goat cheese 1 hard-boiled egg 1 pickle spear 2 cherry peppers 1 Tbsp. olive oil

Snack 2 Tbsp. almond butter 1 Tbsp. coconut oil Stir together and enjoy Dinner 2-4 oz. grass-fed ground beef or lamb 2 cups green beans or cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, or cauliflower 1 Tbsp. oil of choice Detox Phase and “Keto Flu� Symptoms One last item to understand is that ketogenic eating has its own detox phase commonly called the keto flu. And since every person is different, it is important to consult with your healthcare provider before making significant changes to the way you eat.

If you are interested in ketogenic eating for weight loss, search for a practitioner specializing in ketosis or metabolic weight loss. They can help guide you stepby-step on your journey to improved health.

About the Author Lee Ann Kalaba is a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic in Tucson, AZ. After a decade in Corporate America as a CPA, she experienced a severe injury that was the catalyst for her healing journey and put her on the chiropractic path. Now, her vision is to utilize chiropractic care to help people improve their health so they can pursue the life of their dreams. http:// benowchiropractic.com/

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OM Living For those living a more Conscious Lifestyle

How to rise above the tension of money?

by Yael Elohim Our relation with money is intense. Many of us feel tension around money in some way since we depend on money for our lives. It is a necessity to survive and make a living. This need for money often prevents us from truly

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following our heart in our (work) life. The question is: how can we rise above this tension around money or the lack of it? By empowering ourselves and living in abundance.

Contemplation for change Each of us has a different relationship with money. Some have plenty, others struggle, others find it hard to receive, have a hard time giving or live in fear there is not enough.

Money, however, is just energy.

One of its important aptitudes is that it flows freely. Our existence adversely depends on a financial system that makes a profit by controlling the free movement of money.

It functions on shortcoming and gains from the flow of money via debts, interest, and investments.

Managed by controllability and regulation, it is taken by rational and conditional thinking in which numbers and profitability set the benchmark.

It is unlikely for such a system to back up anything else. It goes against its nature.

Imagine how this system feels Let us put ourselves in the shoes of the system as if it were a human being. Imagine how control and regulation determine its existence and performance. How it truly believes in this design. In its desire to do a good job, money is programmed to live up to defined standards and fixed parameters. At the same time, it feels a kind of interdependency with this context, which also limits its free movement. As if it’s trapped and identifies with its limitations, unaware of this - harsh - reality. With this, it develops a survival mode and firmly holds on to its pattern of (self-)protecting and selfpreservation.

It may feel lost. But as it runs into the standards and its limited developed convictions, it also runs into its identification with these and all tension and stress that go along with this. It resigns itself in the situation. We come to realize that, in its will to survive it can never imagine

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the possibility of money flowing freely in and out, in abundance without conditions.

Giving back its Self-Esteem When empathizing with this outline and opening up our hearts, we feel for it (money).

We see how somewhere the spirit of money lost track of its reason for being. Our heart goes out to it. We then can imagine how it longs for a warm embrace or the feeling of being alive and acknowledged, let alone loved. We can sympathize with this. As well as with its desire to do good.

We can relate to a certain wish to be valued for serving the whole. More than for being used as a means to divide and control and tool to survive, to obtain or secure material goals, freedom or power. To realize this, it has to be reminded to fulfill its meaning from connection rather than segregation.

We recognize how the feeling of being blessed empowers the spirit of money with the ability

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to see its full potential and value. To regain ‘both its selfesteem and added value’ and regard itself as being whole and part of abundance rather than a shortcoming.

Money flow in abundance So, may the spirit of money feel blessed again! Let us even bless money for it to flow abundantly. So that it may shine again from a place of wholeness, bringing magic into our lives. May it serve the existence of humanity and its well-being passionately and freely without any strings attached.

With this intention intuitive dot-artist Tessa Smits started painting Money Flow in Abundance - the collection of her Money Flow paintings is about inviting money to flow into our life, www. tessasmits.com.

While working on this painting Tessa felt a combination of masculine and feminine working together.

When painting around the coins in the painting, she

felt like feminine energy embraced the money with all her love, wisdom and magic.

There was so much love in painting those coins, making them shine again.

Rising above the tension of money Let’s do the same in our effort to rise above the tension of money. Let us also keep in mind the context of the financial system and how this triggers a certain surviving mechanism. By acknowledging this, we enable ourselves to break through the standards and developed limited convictions that the trigger mechanism addresses.

This way we bring at ease the fear of not surviving or making a living at all. We rise above it and accordingly stay centered more firmly.

We accomplish this by embracing it and giving it our compassion, love and transcending wisdom.

This also contributes to realizing we’re not what we identify with. We have

thoughts and emotions, but we’re not these. WE define whether we let ourselves tangled up in them. The same goes for negative sentiments like fear. Liberating ourselves from this pattern makes it easier to surrender to trust rather than worry, agitation or fear about how we will ever manage or how things will be okay.

May this empower us when following our hearts and encourage us on our journey towards living in harmony, happiness, and abundance.

About the author: Through her articles and presence, Yael reminds you of unconditional compassion.

This is an important step on the path towards living in harmony. She invites you to experience a deep connection with both yourself and the whole as heartily as possible.

Yael embodies the Elohim essence. This means she is connected to the Universe from a clear awareness of harmony and unity - www. ajourneyoflight.uk

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The Art of Practicing Tolerance’s Touch

by Judi Lynch

Tolerance Practice is one of the main ingredients needed to help grow peace inside the heart of humanity.

One definition of tolerance is the ability to tolerate the existence of beliefs and behavior which does not agree with our own. Another definition would be the ability to accept ideas and concepts with an open mind and heart. When we are consciously practicing tolerance, we evolve our emotional, mental and spiritual

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vibration. Those frequencies, in turn, help all of us envision and manifest a common goal for humanity. To learn to live together with respect, honor, and understanding of our differences.

When a society begins to become intolerant of each other, the issues and differences of opinion are magnified. It can become a volatile situation without compassion and empathy. Paranoia can set in that each group wants what the other has or wants to take away another groups civil rights. Bigotry, judgment, and intolerance can fuel a fire of anger in such a way that generations of families have no idea where the hate started or why. Breaking the cycle takes time.

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher” –Dalai Lama “Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population” –Albert Einstein

As we learn to tolerate differences, we also learn what will not be tolerated as in inhumane or unfair treatment to living beings. We should never become so tolerant that we are afraid to speak out as to what we will not tolerate continuing. Whether in our personal life or the good of humanity, if we use our compassion and integrity, we should be able to intuit the need for action or acceptance of the situation.

Compromise is a key word when understanding personal relationships. It is the same for the leaders in this world. If they want to strike a deal that will help all involved, they must be willing to compromise. If one or another party in a deal breaks a promise, the others may lose their tolerance for the leader’s practices and begin to criticize their actions. In turn, those who are ostracized from the group lose their tolerance for the others very existence and begin to openly feud or even start a war.

It’s a very accurate assumption that travel is good for the soul.

The more we learn about how

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others live in different parts of this planet, the more we grow.

Whether we travel physically or mentally through online friendships, studying other cultures by reading, we give ourselves the gift of tolerance.

A person who has grown up in a wealthy, privileged family who volunteers at the homeless shelter for the first time might agree it is life changing to look into the eyes of someone who seemingly has nothing but finds charm, wit, and hope.

Instead of judgment, a certain understanding kicks in, this situation has a purpose in many different ways.

Every time we are an example of love and tolerance, we touch others with a unique and wonderful message. We are all here in some kind of ridiculous, miraculous purpose whether we understand it all or not. These lessons were meant to be lived and learned as we spiritually ascend. Our tolerance of others put here on this planet means we get that. Whether you agree with someone or not, they have a right to express their truth.

Our truth gives us each voice to either be an example or reason.

We learn as we mature what things we will and won’t tolerate in our lives. We choose if we wish to be brave and let go of the sight of the shore.

Trying new things, going new places, pushing our comfort zones on how much our fear and anxiety buttons will tolerate before they freak out.

We know how much sun our skin will tolerate at the beach before we get burned. We learn when to speak out and when to accept a situation with

Judi Lynch is a psychic medium, intuitive counselor, healing channel, and author. She is president of the Crystal Healing Foundation, Inc. a 501(c) spiritual charity and writer for OM Times Magazine. She has authored two books, Friends with Lights and Conscious Ascension and has read for clients all over the world. To learn more or contact for a session see psychicmediumjudilynch.com or email judi@judilynch.com

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understanding and grace.

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Three Ways to Train Your Brain: Make the Good Stuff Stick

by Jessica Sharpenstein

Having the Right Frame of Mind is Important Today More than ever, it feels like we are being faced with disjointed energies in our world, creating the propensity to land in

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negative thought processes and a glass-half-empty mindset. There is pervasive negativity, antagonism, and uneasiness everywhere we turn. It is in the news, on social media, and in interpersonal interactions.

This can lead to us swimming in mental pond scum like distrust, angst, worry, and lack mindset. This type of mindset is a disservice to our life source and vitality. Swimming in mental pond scum is where our minds tend to rest unless we are consciously filtering the water of our mind.

Positive Experience Counter the Negative Ones Various data suggests that it can take five-to-ten positive emotional experiences to counterbalance one negative emotional brain experience.

The more we allow feel-good sensations to permeate every single cell in our bodies, the more our brain is ready to flex its glass-half-full muscle.

Continuously swimming in mindset pond scum, over time, can lead to ubiquitous negativity, stress, depleted energy stores, and negative health implications. However, when we filter the scummy waste out of our minds, we can boost our immune system, increase the longevity of our lives, and feel unstoppable, inside and out.

Three Tools to Make Good Stuff Stick Following are three tools that can shift your mindset, and make good stuff stick.

1. Make a soundtrack. – Personally relevant songs, memories, and emotions can be connected in the brain. Plus, listening to music naturally releases lots of feel-good body chemicals. You can create a premeditated playlist, or tune in to the sounds and songs in your environment.

Perhaps you have an upcoming vacation planned and would

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like to sop up every feel-good sensation you can possibly devour. To ensure making the good stuff stick, create a premeditated playlist, and play it throughout your vacation.

Further, tune into the music playing in the car, restaurants, and parties. Then suddenly…that new beltout-loud Rihanna song has even more meaning. It will take you right back to the sweet spot of your personal paradise. Pairing music with your positive moments can take you to those moments of feeling irresistible, swept away, and luscious.

2. Snap a picture and write about it. – Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words; however, pairing handwriting your experiences has extra strong brain-adhesive power.

Snap some pictures when you feel positive feelings such as excited, invigorated, or carefree. Print your pictures

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and make a “home” for them in a journal.

Be sure to write down what was special about those moments. Even more, you can strengthen the positivity brain adhesive by creating a photo gratitude journal.

For a few days, make a commitment to photograph, print and write about all things bring you appreciation, harmony, or magic.

Take pictures and write about your morning coffee, your cat walking on your computer when you’re working, or a text that made you laugh out loud from a friend. When you’re consciously filtering mind pond scum, you’re always on a feel-good treasure hunt.

3. Stop and smell the roses. – The sense of smell connects immediately with the emotional section of our brains. More than any other senses, our sense of

smell encodes, conjures, and cultivates experiences, reminiscence, and recollection most strongly. For example, you may smell chocolate chip cookies and immediately recall your best friend.

Perhaps he always serves chocolate chip cookies when you visit; and, your visits remind you of feeling connected, supported and understood. Try pairing a fragrance with an experience.

Throw on a fragrance, carry an essential oil with you and connect with that scent when you feel appreciation, grace, or rapture.

Further, when you notice you’re feeling content, confident, or inspiration simply be cognizant of what you smell in that exact moment to encode your brain with positivity.

Collecting and Appreciating the Good Stuff

Over time, we can train our brains to slip into feeling good more easily. The more we do it, the stronger our base. When you notice a positive feeling such as hope, optimism, or peace stop for 15-30 seconds and be a data collector. What do you hear?

What smells do you notice?

What is going right for you in this very moment? Allow the moment to permeate every single cell with delight and renewal. Sit in the moment of receiving, allowing the good stuff to stick.

About the Author Jessica Sharpenstein, M.S., C.W.C., is a wellness visionary, exercise physiologist, Reiki master, psychic, medium, and life transformation coach.

Jessica believes accepting and loving yourself is a process in self-discovery that can be metamorphic, compassionate, and FUN. More about Jessica can be found on her website: www.jessicasharpenstein.com

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Relationships The interconnectiveness among all human beings and, consequently, the relationships among us are the focus of this section. The dynamics of the web of connections we make is one of the most prominent aspects of human existence: how we interlace with each other’s existence in a meaningful way.

3 Keys to Mend a Broken Heart

by Julie Geigle

Is It Possible to Mend a Broken Heart?

We’ve all been there. The relationship ends and you can’t help wondering, “Was it my fault?” “Did I do something wrong?” “What if this was my one chance and I just blew it?”

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I am here to tell you today that it was no one’s fault. No one did anything wrong, as a matter of fact, everyone did everything right. And most importantly, all of us will have many opportunities to love again. Yes, we will!

Mend a Broken Heart with Affirmations The first key to mending a broken heart is to be armed and ready with affirmations to break the cycle of obsessive thinking. Here are a few affirmations to not only heal that heart but help bring harmony back into your life: I am perfect love.

I am whole and holy.

All is forgiven and released now, past and future generations to come.

Out of this experience only good will come. (This one is my favorite from Louise Hay.) I am open and willing to begin again.

Mend a Broken Heart from Past Pain The second key to recovering

from a broken heart is to realize that our heart holds all the memories from all the lifetimes that we have ever lived here on this planet.

So oftentimes when we are in a relationship and it ends or there is disharmony these emotions trigger programs from past lives and all the pain bubbles up to the surface.

So, the pain from this breakup, this disharmony may be triggering a painful breakup from our past. It may be coming around again so that we can heal it once and for all and break through our fear of being alone and starting over.

The truth is that we are perfect love.

There is nothing broken.

There is nothing that needs mending.

It is awesome to think that we are eternal beings constantly moving through these experiences again and again with different perspectives and different ways of thinking and being. Eventually we will figure it out and get it right.

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There is no way we cannot.

Release Attachments to Mend a Broken Heart The third key in healing when a loved one has left is to release attachments. Let go of attachments to people in life, to the love or the brokenness in relationships. There is no brokenness, ever. It is always perfection.

There are no accidents.

No one did anything wrong.

Everything is unfolding exactly as it should.

Trust and believe that there is a higher order working, always, and let go of expectations to wanting things to be a certain way, and find the beauty and grace this experience is offering to you. This will begin to open a new way of being, it will begin to add inspiration in your life.

Happiness, Healing, and Hope to Reach Higher Inspiration will help you find hope again. It will help guide you to new experiences

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with new people and new adventures. We must take the good with the bad, the yin with the yang. It helps us appreciate all that life is offering to us in every moment. It also shapes who we are and strengthens our resolve. Find the gifts because it’s not all just rubble.

As you pick up the pieces and begin again, remember we all have a plethora of angels helping us to align with our highest good. Ask for help and be open to receive it.

About the Author Julie Geigle is a gifted channel of Archangel Metatron, a fourth-generation Psychic Medium, and Spiritual Healer.

Watch Julie on live on the OMTimes Magazine Facebook page, Wednesdays at 9 a.m.

Central time for a free psychic reading. Learn directly from Julie at her OMTimes Experts page. Book a private session, sign up for her newsletter, listen to her weekly radio show, and purchase guided meditations at heavensenthealing.us.

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How Do You “Love?” Ways to Share Our Human Experience

by Debbie Peluso

“If you love someone…. set them free. Free… free…set them free.”

Challenging words to live by.

And what does it really mean? If we love, don’t we want to hold on for dear life? How can we let someone or something go?

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From the moment we are born, we seek love, approval, and acceptance. We search to replace Divine Love we erroneously believe we have been separated from. Even though the loving arms of our parents embrace us and guide us throughout our formative years, we feel alone surrounded by others who are searching for the same thing.

All desire love, acceptance and happiness. We even see this in our pets. They will do all they can to receive our approval and love. Yet it is this craving that can lead to our imperfections.

what we seek is always there.

Love for ourselves.

Our human experiences lived through others’ brokenness can create a cycle of even more suffering that we, in turn, pass on to those we enter a relationship with.

Feelings of abandonment, rejection or lack of love we may have felt in our childhood become sources for control, manipulation, passive-aggressive behavior, jealousy and possessiveness in our adulthood leading to unstable relationships. And on and on it can go.

Love. What should be the most natural state of being becomes the most complicated. It can become a source of suffering when we desperately hold on to the belief that we will heal our brokenness through our partners, children, or even our material possessions. We need something to make us feel whole, misunderstanding that

The first time we hold our children in our arms, our hearts are flooded with the most powerful and intense love ever felt. This love defines us and our actions for the rest of our lives. There is nothing we wouldn’t sacrifice for their well-being. It is as if we have been reborn and our purpose shifts.

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Yet, this same overwhelming love can become a source of conflict in our relationships with our children. We don’t want to let go! This is, after all, OUR love that no one can take away. All our own feelings of abandonment, rejection, isolation, and desire for love are all so neatly packaged in this bundle of joy and bliss.

We will never be alone again, and so we cling! Feelings of guilt get projected onto our children when we mistakenly view their decisions for their own lives as lack of love for us or a rejection of our love for them. They are leaving. They must not love us. We believe we’ve done something wrong. And then enters the need to control.

The same thing can happen in our relationships with our partners. We demand that they live up to what our expectations of what a perfect relationship should be, which

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more than likely stems from internal wounds and patterns of our own. If we elicit certain actions, then it must mean we are loved.

Or work...how many times do we hear people profess love for their work? Is it the work that is loved or this easy, noncommittal way to satisfy a need for approval and acceptance bringing a false sense of love? Love for work results from love for ourselves and a feeling of wholeness. So how do we let go? How do we come from a place of true, unconditional love?

Trust. Trust you are loved, irrespective of internal conditioning. Trust the universe is working for your better good and is providing all that is needed, whether you view it as good or bad.

Trust that “all is well.” Trust— probably the most difficult thing humans can do. What, trust?? But then we can’t

control what happens to us.

We can’t control how we are loved. We can’t hold on!

“Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that someday you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.”

(Lahiri Mahasaya) If we trust, if we set love free, if we let go, maybe, just maybe the return is greater than we imagined.

The love we seek is not found in others. It is within us. What is reflected to us when we consider the mirror of our relationships is what we are projecting. What are you projecting?

Reawakening and cultivating Divine love within, which never left us to begin with, through our daily rituals and practices, whether it be meditation, yoga, gardening,

is one way to develop trust and unconditional love.

The question to ask then becomes is love coming from a place of brokenness, pain, abandonment, fear? Or is love coming from a place of trust, faith, and respect for individual freedoms? Let go of control. Trust in your own inner beauty and allow love to flow in and through you!

About the Author Debbie Peluso obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Metaphysics in association with the University of Sedona in Arizona. She is a certified practitioner in Meditation, metaphysical/spiritual counseling, and is a working astrologer and co-owner of Zion Yoga Studio in the Washington, D.C. area.

Debbie is also a facilitator of and teaches the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and is an OMTimes Expert.

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The ABCs of Spiritual Self-Awareness

by Marc Lainhart

Self-Awareness

by Definition and Understanding In the Cambridge Dictionary, “Awareness is knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information

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or experience.” It is also the Universe’s way of saying “wake up, it is time to get up now!” It is important to recognize that both external awareness and self-awareness are not only about what we notice about ourselves but also how we notice and monitor our inner world and the world around us.

As we start to notice what’s happening inside of us, we acknowledge and accept the inevitable part of being human and the human experience.

Furthermore, our selfawareness goes beyond merely accumulating knowledge about ourselves, but how we interact with those around us and our perception of our world. It is also how the world interacts back with our lives and us.

Awareness is about paying attention to our inner state physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually with a beginner’s mind and an open heart (even when we get to an

older state of mind). Our mind is extremely powerful and skillful at storing information about how we react to a certain event to form a blueprint if you will of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life.

“Awakening through the power of awareness is a process towards self-discovery that we are so much more than we perceive to be.”

The Intuitive Prospector: Self-Awareness Awareness and self-awareness is having a clear perception of our personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-Awareness allows us to understand other people, how they perceive us, our attitude and our responses to them in the moment and along our spiritual paths.

Having awareness creates the opportunity to make changes in our behaviors, habits, and belief systems. Gathering and processing information.

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Understanding and analyzing the information we collect.

Thinking ahead, planning, and planting seeds for our future, that is the power of awareness! We at times are all self-aware when we can sense fear, danger, anger, or despair that may strike us at any moment in a world full of chaos and a history known for its violence. Through the power and assistance of awareness and self-awareness, we can enhance our response (or lack of response) depending on the situation when we have the choice of: 1. Fight 2. Flight 3. Freeze The Introspection Factor Offers Deep Clues Self-awareness (sometimes also referred to as selfknowledge or introspection) is about understanding our own needs, desires, failings, habits, and everything else that makes us who we are.

The more we know about

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ourselves, the better we are at adapting to life changes that suit our wants and needs and when those unexpected life events come our way.

Essentially, the more we pay attention to our emotions and how we work, the better we will understand why we do the things we do. The more we know about our own fears and habits, the easier it is to move past those fears and improve on those habits.

In most cases, this takes a little experimentation and practice, time, patience, and a dedication to working with our awareness both externally and internally. Awareness through the process of evolvement and the understanding and gratitude of our surroundings will develop within us a sense of direction that our earthly experience provides us while having opportunities to grow through the process.

How to Transform Our Lives through Self-Awareness The changes in our mind and behavior become simple and

easy steps when we develop and work with awareness every day in our lives. If we stay strong, focused, and “aware” throughout all the challenges that this life on earth brings to all of us, we realize those difficult times also brought us the greatest opportunity to learn, transform, move forward and progress using external awareness and internal selfawareness to recognize our own strengths, weaknesses, fears, habits, with a new sense of “knowing” that we are spiritual and energetic beings first brought here to have a physical, human experience!

The ability to monitor our emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and habits through the power of awareness from moment to moment in our lives is key to understanding ourselves better, the world around us and how we engage or not engage with our external environments.

Through awareness and selfawareness, we also start to discover a peace with who we are, why we are here, our

purpose, passions, and plans for life while learning to proactively manage our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors on the spiritual pathways of life. If we want change in our lives and experiences we have while here on earth, incorporate a daily practice of awareness and self-awareness and watch the changes unfold...

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

–Eckhart Tolle About the Author Marc Lainhart is an international and tested Spiritual PsychicMedium. Marc serves as a Radio Show Host, Hiking Guide, Certified Diver, Metaphysical Teacher, and Inspirational writer in Spirituality. Marc uses his gifts, experiences, and past tragedies to help guide, inspire, and teach others for their own personal ‘Soul Adventure.’ For more spiritual prospecting, please visit MarcLainhart.com, or catch Marc’s live radio show, Inspired Living every Wednesday on OM Times Radio.

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Illumination:

An Afterlife Reading

by Lisa Shaw

Our most emotionally challenging experiences with our animals revolve around the end of (this) life process, particularly when we must decide on when to release our companion. Some people struggle with that responsibility and instead

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let our animals experience a natural death. In a recent session, a woman chose to let her German Shepherd transition this way and sought relief from doubts and guilt, asking questions to which many of us can relate.

What was it like for her during the process of dying?

Was she in pain or did she suffer in any way? Did she know she was dying and how did she feel about it? For how long did she know?

Animals communicate in pictures. She shows me a surge protector full of different plugs. One by one each gadget was unplugged so subtly and painlessly. She says this is how dying was for her. Little by little, piece by piece, she simply lost physical energy. It was a slow, natural, and painless process. These questions are really based on human/earthly terms and measurement the spiritual world and dogs, which operate in that world does

not process. So while we are concerned with day and time, they are not. For her, there was no dying or leaving but only changing form. We are the ones who cling to the notion of finality. She is a spirit who has merely shed the burden of a body. That was a great relief to her.

However, she does show me that she was restrained. She felt/knew that you were not ready. That was the only obstacle. Whether you ever voiced it or not, she knew, so the only tension in her transitioning was worrying that you would not take it well. She shows me a horse trying to break free, but a harness interferes with the forward movement.

She is not alone in spirit.

She is surrounded by loving energies and there is one human who may have met her when she transitioned and who is still there, a male energy, someone who loved reading the newspaper.

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-What is it like for her on the other side? What is she doing?

She is simply being. People take years to learn how to just “be” in meditation. That’s what life in spirit is all the time whether we were human or animal on earth, we just are. We exist. No burdens.

She says to tell you that when she made the transition, large gates slowly opened and she was enveloped by love.

She is also insistent about three images: her snout, a bath, and someone with problems who needs to soak her feet.

Her owner’s response: You’re right about how she died, and I’m glad to hear that that wasn’t painful.

I resonate with me holding her back, and that is what I was afraid of. I sensed she was holding on for me, and I told her she could go if it was time for her and she was tired of life. But she hung on

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till the very end. That human was probably my father. Ah, yes! She would lay on the bathroom floor when I was in the bath. She really loved that, especially at the end since the floor was warm.

And yes, it’s me soaking my feet :) I’m going to contact you soon to read my other dog.

If you would like Lisa to communicate with your animals, please send her a photo and a few questions.

About the Author Lisa Shaw, M.A., M.F.A., R.M., is an animal communicator, Reiki Master, writer, and professor who lives in South Florida with her furry and feathered companions.

She conducts a free online Reiki circle for animals on Facebook, has graduate degree Pastoral Ministry, specializing in loss and healing, and has trained as a Hospice chaplain. Visit Lisa at: www.reikidogs.com

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Communicating with Our Animal Families

by Robyn M Fritz

We humans have done something extraordinary in the last, oh, fifty years: we’ve “learned up” with our animal families.

That is, we’ve moved from living with animals to help us survive to living with them to support mutual heart and soul growth. Life with cats and dogs (and other species we live with)

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becomes living with animals as family members—what I call multi-species families.

And what do families like— and need? To communicate with each other. That’s why so many people are exploring animal communication and cross-species connections as the human-animal bond deepens.

It’s tantalizing to think your dog could tell you what she most enjoys doing with you, or your cat could say why he’s suddenly cranky and hiding.

That’s the promise of animal communication: talking with your animals about fun things, behavioral issues, how everybody’s day went—and really feeling you understood each other.

Yes, you can hire a professional animal communicator, and I certainly suggest it, especially for difficult cases, from behavior to dying and death. Professionals offer the objectivity, insight, and training to examine an emotionally complicated

situation. However, we can all better understand our animals by learning the basics of animal communication, which just takes three things: choosing our mindset; being practical; and learning about animal communication, or mind-to-mind telepathy, by taking a class.

Let’s look first at mindset.

When we choose a mindset that sees animals as family members, what we’re really doing is seeing them as equals to us, with souls, consciousness, rights, responsibilities, and opinions. (This is not the traditional mindset that sees humans as caretakers and guardians in charge of the universe.)

Sure, there’s a hierarchy in every family (sadly, animals don’t drive or shop for groceries), but how does life play out when everyone really is a family member, no matter the species? How does a multispecies family evolve? That’s when animal communication isn’t a novelty, but important for family harmony.

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Which leads us to practicalities: no matter what, we’re still dealing with animals. To get along—and to respond in an emergency— you must understand species and know your animal’s behavior and personality.

How do they react to new things? Are they ill? What is their temperament like?

Consider, for example, what goes through your mind— and theirs—when you come home from work and want your dog or cat to sit on your lap. Why? Maybe you just like lap time! But when animals become part of our multi-species families, things change. Now when you plop into your recliner, you may invite your animals to sit on your lap, if it works for you.

Or you may notice them eyeing you expectantly, and you realize they want lap time (because you are always communicating with your animals, even when you don’t think you are). So you invite them onto your lap. You expect … whatever happens next. Just like you do with

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any family member who can think, reason, and choose to please themselves and, maybe, you, too.

When you live with animals as family members, life gets more interesting—and more complicated. Sure, you’re living together in close quarters, but you’re also considering their feelings and needs—what they want and know what brings you together and keeps you together, and why.

It can be as simple as your dog fetching a ball when you ask her if she wants to play— and you stop to notice all the intellectual steps she took to do that. It can be as tough as a devastating illness, which reminds you that this kind of family changes more frequently than the all-human variety. Or it can be a sudden startling event that flips your world upside down—like February 28, 2001, when Murphy, the Cavalier King Charles spaniel I adopted in 1998, went berserk and got us out of the house about two

minutes before a major 6.8 earthquake rocked Seattle— because she knew the earthquake was coming (something scientists still can’t do).

Whatever it is that alerts us to the complexity of animals, living with them as multispecies families prompts us to better understand them, to connect with them like we do with other people. But how?

First, it’s species: understand them as animals. Then think of it culturally, like you’re visiting a foreign country, say, Italy.

You’ve researched geography and customs, you arrive and mind your manners, you figure out how to communicate (learn some Italian, even if everyone speaks English).

You’re courteous and respectful—and ready for a good time.

Now translate that to your animal family. Live with a twenty-pound dog? Get down on the floor and look up at the world like they do. Have a cat who stares out the window? See what’s really

going on out there!

With species and culture set, you advance to animal communication— telepathy, or mind-to-mind communication. You start by learning how your intuition works—your particular combination of seeing, hearing, feeling, or knowing things intuitively—and then you apply it to your animals.

Telepathy is as basic as daily life. Paying attention helps, and so does talking out loud (just like before texting). Not simple yes or no things, but real conversations with your animals. Over time you’ll realize you’re responding to a conversation—with your animal.

Sometimes that response can be as hilarious as it is revealing. For example, I was trying to tell my grumpy dog, Murphy, who had become old and arthritic, that she simply could no longer romp like she was a puppy. Her body language said it all: she glared at me and looked depressed.

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(This is the observation part of animal communication.)

So I changed my approach.

I knew what Murphy felt like: I am handicapped and physically can’t do things I’d like to do.

“Murphy,” I said. “It’s like me. If I went out and ran a marathon, I’d be really sore and cranky the next day. The pain wouldn’t be worth it.”

Now, a normal response from a human family member would be all over the board, depending on mood and snarkiness. So I expected Murphy to mope but gracefully accept her limitations (I’m a dreamer).

Instead, she shot right back, in a high-pitched, outraged voice, “You could never run a marathon!”

Which made me laugh—it was a real response, one I didn’t anticipate. And that is what animal communication can do for you and your animal family.

When we learn to connect with our animals as family

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members, we learn their species and idiosyncrasies, we interact, and eventually, we learn to communicate telepathically, a process that fine-tunes our intuition as it helps us understand each other. That can’t help but lead to richer family lives.

In my webinar Animal Communication and our Animal Families we’ll explore how animals think and interact with us while teaching basic animal communication skills to help you deepen your relationship with your companion animals.

About the Author © 2017 Robyn M Fritz Robyn M Fritz MA MBA CHt is a tested and certified intuitive and spiritual consultant and past life regression specialist with an international practice based in Seattle, Washington.

An OM Times Expert and award-winning author, teacher, and speaker, she hosts “The Practical Intuitive: Mind Body Spirit for the Real World” each Monday at 2 pm PST/5 EST on OM Times Radio.

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How to “Tune In” to Our Power of Intuition

by Kara Johnstad

We Can “Tune In” to Intuition Anytime Intuition: We already own it, and carry it with us everyday.

We have intuition our possession 24/7. It is one of the most powerful tools we could

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ever wish for, and it comes free of charge. It is here for the taking.

If we are clever, we will listen to it before making a move. It is like our very own, built-in “intuitive positioning system.”

So, what do we need to do to understand it and use it to guide us in our business and our lives? It is this simple: Tune into your intuition!

Various Methods to “Tune In” to Intuition “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”

–Albert Einstein In this ever-so-busy, multitasking, modern-day world, we may find our intuition to be one of our strongest allies.

There are a few simple methods that help us to start tuning in:

First, intuition has nothing to do with supernatural powers.

Intuition is simply an extension of our natural self.

Just Relax, Be Open, and Listen to Our Inner Voice.

With some focus and practice, our intuition will become clearer and stronger. Whenever we learn something new, it is helpful to practice it every day to become skilled and confident.

Simply start by paying more attention to that quiet whisper in the back of the mind that nudges us in a direction.

Next, we might start honoring that quiet voice deep within by voicing it, writing it down in a journal, or speaking and recording it with any audio program. Most smart phones today have an app we can use.

If we receive a great idea in the middle of the day, we can simply use the audio memo to sing in the melody or record the message we hear. Then, when we get home those important notes can go into a journal, for example.

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Too often, we put these important instincts or messages “on hold.” When we postpone these intuitive messages, we can lose or forget them between ‘here’ and ‘there.’ Be sure to make note of them in a way that works best.

“Tune In” to Try on a New Perspective.

The Japanese call it “stomach art.” We normally just say, trusting your gut instincts.

As an artist, it is impossible to build anything sustainable if there’s a “should” at the foundation. There are moments when we might silently want to kick ourselves for the times we did not let go of an idea. We get hung up on how things were “supposed to be,” and instead could have tried on a new perspective that served the longings of our heart.

“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”

–Lao-Tzu

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Tune in to Intuition Every Day. Following our inner voice and intuition is not some “airy-fairy” concept that has no place in our lives and our business. It is the exact opposite! Well, it is if we are interested in making a difference in this world and running a successful business as a heart-based entrepreneur.

Many of us learn the hard way that the time it takes to “tune in” to intuition every day would save us much more time and energy. It may sound like a lot of effort to invest, to mindfully set time aside for meditating or keeping a journal every day. But, this is time and effort spent wisely and the returns are many.

“People with high levels of personal mastery cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart,any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.”

–Peter Senge

Trusting Our Alignment with Core Values When we allow ourselves to be guided more intuitively, we are clearer on where we apply our energies. We know which projects to invest in and which ones are not in alignment with our core values. As an artist, writing and performing comes from a deep flow, and this is true of people in many professions.

Many clients who take part in my Voice Your Essence™ program, enthusiastically tell me of changes they encounter in their lives. Once we start tuning in regularly to our “inner voice,” we often change direction. It may be workrelated, relationships, or some other area of personal growth that we realize.

Once we begin to acknowledge where we really want to be, from the depth of our being, we can move beyond walking in circles and being overwhelmed. Strange

as it sounds, when we make very close friends with our inner voice, we feel like we are on target. This feeling of being in tune makes us automatically shift away from “should” and into “eureka!”

About the Author Kara Johnstad is an OM Times Expert, Transformational Catalyst and a powerful voice in the time and age of transition. She is an acclaimed singer/songwriter, producer, sound healer and international voice expert.

Founder of Voice Your Essence, Kara has helped thousands with her “break-through” Technique and shares with us the role the voice plays in fine tuning our body-mind-spirit systems and healing humanity.

Tune into Kara’s Livestream every Thursday at 12 pm Eastern Time on the Humanity Healing Facebook page as we co-create a more conscious world. Enroll in her OMTimes Expert classes on Learn It Live, and discover more at http:// www.karajohnstad.com/

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How to Withdraw from An Old Continuity

by Crystal Presence

Change from SelfDefeating Continuity to Greater Freedom In times of major change in the world, we find ourselves looking for ways to stabilize and humanize our lives. We know we are entrenched in an old continuity, yet find ourselves Omtimes.com

wondering if “this just how life is.” There is also is a deeprooted fear that shifting our continuity might threaten our survival. We also know that whether the change is physical, mental, or emotional, we experience withdrawal. In this case, we experience withdrawal from a self-defeating continuity to a context of well-being and living freedom.

In a culture promoting lack of connection with self and source, we yearn for a new context of living. Fortunately, there are many ways to shape our lives.

Not only can we choose to survive, but also thrive. Many visionaries refer to this shift as “being in the culture, but not of it.” It requires the ability to observe, be present and willing to be making new choices of how we think, feel and take actions in our lives.

The Continuum Concept and Human Culture Jean Liedloff, author of “The Continuum Concept,” spent several years deep in the South American jungle living with the Stone Age Indians.

Her experience changed her perception of human nature.

She noticed how her own culture had also lost much of its natural sense of well-being.

Jean commented, “I seldom had a clear sense that these people were of the same species as ours.

The children were uniformly well-behaved, never fought, were never punished, always obeyed happily and instantly.”

The children also co-existed amid strong, busy central figures to whom they were peripheral. Not surrounded by stressed out adults who are trying to control their behavior to seek acceptance and approval from their culture.

In the quest for appropriate experiences, more and more people are making the quality of their lives the highest priority.

They are following their inner guidance while allowing the details of their vision to be revealed as the old continuity dissolves, resolves and evolves.

Also, they know if they continue to deny their internal guidance they may find themselves in the middle of crisis (i.e. getting sick, having accidents, getting a divorce, etc.). They understand that crisis is often a way to get a multidimensional kick in the Omtimes.com

butt to make the changes they have been wanting.

Give ourselves time and space to establish new pathways.

How to Withdraw? We Must Be Fully Present

Release stored emotions, tension, toxins and other byproducts of holding back.

Withdrawal from an old continuity requires deciding and being fully present. In a state of sobriety, we build power and release ourselves from thinking we are powerless victims of our continuity. We can, therefore, make powerful choices, focus, keep our energy in motion, shift our perceptions and realize the truth of how our lives can really be.

We can experience the joy of a new context living by releasing ourselves from the old selfdefeating continuities, such as: Isolation Obsessive work Emotional reactivity Thought patterns Drive for success Lying to self and others How to Embrace a New Continuity In what ways might we seek to embrace a new continuity? Consider:

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Keep breathing through moments of discomfort.

Ask the powerful question: What is the nature of experiencing the most beneficial context of living for myself and my world?

Connect with self and our source. Embrace the greater intelligence within us. Let it guide us to all we need.

Move, vibrate, circulate and release any tension and contraction in our bodies, emotions and minds. Open the space to change old self-defeating beliefs and perceptions, while releasing reluctance and resistance.

Notice, integrate and act on what is working. Allow the process to unfold in it’s perfect timing. External changes happen on an energy level first.

Remember that pushing against hooks us to the problem instead

of releasing us to the resolution.

Additional Ways to Embrace a New Continuity Being curious about the continuities of other cultures.

Get clear on what makes us feel happy, free and fulfilled.

Connect with others who are wanting the same context of living that we want.

Love ourselves, no matter what the evidence.

Trust the process.

Focus on what we like about ourselves and our world.

Embrace and draw upon the wisdom from our past. Release any guilt or held resentment.

Be aware of any secretly held control plans we use to prove that our old continuity is working.

Keep it simple! Addictive continuities make our lives feel complicated powerless to change.

Remember that the parts of ourselves we tend to deny and repress are usually our greatest strengths.

Inspire ourselves with music, inspiring talks etc.

Spend lots of time in nature.

Be 100% (not 99.99%). 10 seconds of suspending thoughts and holding on can make a shift.

Be aware that just before change is about to happen, we may be tempted to hold back.

About the Author Crystal is a certified expansion guide, facilitator, coach and author. Her passion is exploring the leading edge of consciousness and has been active in the healing and transformational arts for the past 49 years. Crystal’s inspiration created a five-day integral event called “Freedom at the Core”.

Her mission is to create a safe, fun and nurturing space for people to discover what stands between suffering and the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual freedom they desire. www.CrystalPresenceOnline.com www.facebook.com/ crystalpresence www.facebook.com/ crystalpresenceonline

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World Vision

When you look at the view of Earth from space, you are immediately in awe of what you do see: the incredible beauty of Creation. It is not until you look closer that you realize what you do not see.

You do not see lines partitioning countries.

You do not see separation between races.

You do not see division between religions.

You do not see the walls people build to isolate themselves from each other.

There is only One Planet. There is only One Humanity.

This section is dedicated to introducing thoughts and ideas to foster a greater understanding of Humanity’s interdependence.

Humanity 2.0: The Unstoppability of Singularity

by Christine Horner

Would it shock you to know that by reading this article, you are presently interfacing with artificial intelligence to enhance personal cognitive brain function?

Technology is a form of external artificial intelligence

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or AI. As science pushes forward in its quest to upgrade the human experience, what will it mean for human consciousness— and for you?

Self-Actualization, the pinnacle of Maslow’s five-level human needs pyramid is close at hand for a larger segment of the population than ever before.

DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN Let’s first look at how technology has played a part in advancing the evolution of human consciousness. Try to imagine going back to a world without a www in front of it. Even if you’re old enough, it’s difficult.

It was a small, small, world after all—but only in the last half-century. Prior, it was much smaller. Access to external stimuli i.e. education, ideas, and information was a lot more precarious. You were highly likely to be born, live, and die nearly similarly to the way your parents did.

Hence, except for a handful of time-honored geniuses ahead of the curve, the

collective evolution of human consciousness was tedious, cumbersome, and SLOW. Then came August 6th, 1991.

Tim Berners-Lee’s, world wide web became publicly available without fanfare by global media ushering in the Information Age. WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Before we fast forward to today, let’s establish a simplified definition of consciousness as selfawareness.

Scientists are still attempting to quantify the unquantifiable to move beyond theory to answer rudimentary questions such as whether consciousness originates within the brain, or if the brain acts like a receiver that processes non-physical signals.

Information is a form or byproduct of consciousness; consciousness is information as an inseparable feedback loop.

That all life is inseparable and interdependent will be one of the most important revelations in modern physics.

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MAN AND MACHINE At this year’s SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas Ray Kurzweil, Google Director of Engineering and futurist boasting an 86% prediction accuracy rate, forecast, “...2045 for ‘Singularity’ which is when we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion-fold by merging with the intelligence we have created.”

Knowledge is just one byproduct of many feedback loops that run the gamut of physical five senses, or sentience, that makes us human. We might begin to call feedback loops dimensions.

In the same way you look in a mirror and see a living, breathing copy of you, the mirror is only a twodimensional representation

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of the you that occupies the 11 dimensions theorized by Dr. Michio Kaku.

Human senses continue beyond five into the sublime and yet undetectable.

Technology/AI are tools that can enhance consciousness, aiding in its evolution, but represent only a fractional part of the whole.

NEW ORIGIN OF SPECIES EVENT If all life is One, there is no line of demarcation where consciousness begins and where consciousness ends.

Consciousness endures, and like the Universe, it expands and evolves.

So far, we’ve mostly explored consciousness and its evolution via external forces from the perspective of separation consciousness.

What happens when we explore consciousness by tapping into our internal world as taught by the Masters, accessing unseen forces or higher dimensions of consciousness?

“The greater shock may be that Singularity has already been occurring throughout history without the aid of technology.”

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now is Singularity as holistic self-awareness in the now moment that you are mind, body, and spirit capable of miracles.

What the Masters knew and today’s awakening collective mass is “realizing” comes from a “sense” (level of consciousness/dimension) no machine will ever experience.

Boundaries removed, you become fearless.

Recognizing the oneness of the Cosmos, your personal experience miraculously transfigures into one where you transcend death for eternal life as extolled

by Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Yogananda, Maharshi, and many others.

Spontaneously evolution is the transmutation of separation consciousness to unity consciousness. Aided by technology or not, the selfrealized human being is a new species.

“Enlightenment is true Singularity.” TWEET THIS Your brilliant future here

Suffering and hardship end, replaced by peaceful, abundant living.

Death conquered, immortality becomes your new reality.

This is Humanity 2.0.

About the Author Christine Horner’s new novel is the futuristic int’l thriller, Attribution. She enjoys writing fiction and nonfiction that helps readers discover the miraculous within. Connect more deeply by subscribing to Christine’s syndicated blog to receive the Your Brilliant Life Here Now Guide, free e-books and reading guides. www. christinehorner.com | www.

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