OMTimes Magazine August A 2018 Edition

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Tom Paladino Interview

Being Irrational in Business is a Gift

How Yoga and Holistic Chiropractic Care Can Alter Your Nervous System

The Art of Compassion

How Parents Can Avoid Passing On Their Emotional Wounds to Their Kids?

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Cover Story 24

Tom Paladino - Scalar Energy Healing

Health & Wellness 40 42

How Yoga and Holistic Chiropractic Care Can Alter Your Nervous System Treating Ovarian Cyst PCOS Naturally

Spirituality 54

The Art of Compassion

OM Living 60 64 68 72

5 Behaviors to be More Mindful and Change your Life The Tao of Organizing Your Email and Snail Mail Being Irrational in Business is a Gift How Parents Can Avoid Passing On Their Emotional Wounds to Their Kids

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Secrets of Compassionate Relationships 3 Signs You are Suffering from Emotional Detachment in your Relationship The Pitfalls of On-Demand Summer Romance

Metaphysics 94

Initiation Blueprint

Astrology & Numerology

102 How the Astrological Signs Use Their Spare Time

Personal Growth

110 Mom, She Stole My Spot 114 Why Broken Promises Can (and Will) Steal Your Thunder 118 What Lurks Behind Your Mess and Clutter

Books

124 Our Secret Powers

Tom Paladino Scalar Energy to Heal the World Tom Paladino is a scalar energy researcher with 25 years of experience in helping people with chronic pathogenic illnesses.

Tom Paladino began research with scalar energy during his under-graduate years. He was inspired by various scientists, especially Nikola Tesla, as to the existence of an energy that was not of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this inspiration, he pursued a course of independent study in order to better

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understand and subsequently harness scalar energy.

question. What exactly is this energy healing that you do?

Scalar energy is also known as prana, chi, radiant energy, zero point energy, qi, orgone, eloptic energy. After years of experimentation and modification, Tom has developed a technique using scalar energy that will transmute pathogens quickly and painlessly. This technique facilitates the use of photographs of people who desire to have pathogens transmuted in their bodies.

Tom Paladino: I am working with Scalar Energy. It’s not electricity. It’s not of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Nickola Tesla was probably considered to be the founding father of Scalar Energy. Many of you have heard of that name, Nickola Tesla, a great scientist.

Tom has participated in clinical trials with a medical institution.

In the lab, they watched the pathogens (protozoa) disassemble in front of their eyes. Emboldened by these discoveries, he desires to present the world with the solution for ALL bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections. It is his belief and statement that the scalar energy is capable of transmuting ALL pathogens thus presenting the world with the SOLUTION for thousands of pathogenic diseases.

Matt Connarton: Tom Paladino, let’s start with the obvious

Matt Connarton: Absolutely.

Tom Paladino: Very simply, Scalar Energy is from the sun, from the stars. So, I am working with that perfect energy, Scalar Energy. Some people call it life force energy.

From my studies and from what I’ve observed, the electromagnetic spectrum is a derivative from Scalar Energy.

So, I am working with the first energy of the universe, so to speak. It’s the life force energy. And with that life force energy, Scalar Energy, you have control over matter. You have control over nature. Scalar Energy gives us a greater, more consummate control to perform work as opposed to that of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Matt Connarton: When you say you have power over matter, you have power over energy, can you expand on that a little bit?

Tom Paladino: Sure. I have observed thousands of times in my laboratory Scalar Energy is responsible for molecular bonds, whether you call them hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, atomic bonds, covalent bonds. A Scalar Energy instrument has control over those chemical bonds.

And in so doing, I can either assemble matter or disassemble matter with Scalar Energy.

This is the consummate control that I’m speaking of. Scalar Energy allows us to control molecular forms, and with that, what can we do? Well, if something’s harmful, we get rid of it. We break it apart. If something’s beneficial, we can assemble it. We can create that geometry, that molecular geometry and indeed create a molecule, create some type of a vitamin or some type of an antioxidant.

This is what I’ve observed in practice. I do this every day.

A Scalar Energy instrument allows me to have control over Omtimes.com

molecular form. It’s fascinating.

Matt Connarton: Did you develop this particular process?

I’ve never even heard of this before.

Tom Paladino: Let’s just say this - it is groundbreaking. I do work on my own. I have a great staff that supports me, but this is avant-garde. I think this is quite unique what we’re doing in the world.

We have developed Scalar Energy instruments, and that’s no small doing, and with that in mind, we have now the ability to control physical matter. I want to underscore that. Scalar Energy gives us consummate control over physical matter.

Matt Connarton: What are the practical applications of this? What are you actually using this for, this capability?

Tom Paladino: On a daily basis, I work with people who have pathogenic infection, viral infection, bacterial infection, fungal infection. A Scalar Energy instrument can release, can break down those chemical bonds that hold together

viruses, bacteria and fungi.

otherwise would not be able to?

So, what I have discovered, what I have invented is essentially going to be considered as the remedy, the cure for pathogenic disease. On a daily basis, it’s almost routine now, we can easily break apart and destroy the herpes virus, we can easily break apart and destroy bacteria that causes bacterial infections.

Tom Paladino: Precisely. I’ll give you a for instance. We have demonstrated hundreds of times that we can destroy, we can break apart the herpes virus, and it’s always been considered that, if you have the herpes virus, you have it for life. There’s no drug, there’s no modality that’s going to remove the herpes virus from your body.

This is going to be considered a Godsend once the world will acknowledge this energy. In a practical sense, every day, I’m treating people with pathogenic disease. The ability to remove, to eradicate that causative agent of disease, again, the virus, the bacterium or the fungus, that person is cured.

Well, we have demonstrated, again, hundreds of times by way of diagnostic testing that Scalar Energy does indeed break down the molecular structure of the herpes virus. The herpes virus literally falls apart. It disassembles. And the followup diagnostic test prove that there’s no viral load of the herpes virus after we’ve treated people.

Once you no longer have that infectious agent in your body, we break down that infectious agent, that infectious agent ceases to exist. In so doing, this is going to be heralded as the cure of pathogenic infection.

Matt Connarton: Is this a way to actually permanently cure some of the infections that you

Matt Connarton: How long does it take once you begin using this to treat someone, or does it varies quite a bit from one person to the next?

Tom Paladino: It does not vary. That’s a good question.

Why? Because, again, we have consummate control over Omtimes.com

nature. So, one treatment, only one treatment is needed to break apart the herpes virus. So, the first day that I would treat someone with herpes viral infection, the virus will disassemble. You have to understand, a Scalar Energy instrument allows you to either control or, in some cases, to have mastery over those chemical bonds. Now, in this case, with a virus, we have that control, that mastery over the chemical bonds that hold together matter - in this case, the virus. It only takes one treatment to release those molecular bonds, and the herpes virus falls apart.

It’s simple, it’s painless. This is the essence of Scalar Energy. It allows us to find our way into the very fabric of the universe and to control nature. I know that’s a bold statement, but I’ll stand by that. Scalar Energy will provide us control over the physical universe.

Matt Connarton: And does this ever fail, or does this have an absolute 100 percent success rate?

Tom Paladino: That’s a great Omtimes.com

question. The way I destroy a germ is by introducing an actual photograph of the herpes virus, say, into my instrument.

Everything is light with the Scalar Energy dimension.

I take a photograph of the herpes virus, I place it inside my instrument. The Scalar Energy instrument will look at, will decipher, will decode the molecular structure from that photograph and then send the reverse polarity or perhaps what we might consider the reverse space angle into the human body, and that instruction serves to break down the molecular bonds of the herpes virus inside a person.

Matt Connarton: That’s incredible. That’s absolutely amazing. And how long have you been able to treat people using this process?

Tom Paladino: My website has been public now for the past five and a half years.

I’ve been treating people for the past 25 years, but that was really my understudy, so to speak. It was a time where I really had to become immersed

in this field, this discipline of Scalar Energy. Only since the past five and a half years have I made this public, public knowledge.

Matt Connarton: You’re offering a 15 day free trial. Is that correct?

Tom Paladino: That’s correct.

We want to prove this to the world. We’re so confident in what we’re doing, we offer 15 days of free Scalar Energy treatment. The website is freescaler.net. Anybody can visit the website and upload as many as 25 photographs of your family members and friends, and we will treat you, no questions asked. There’s no obligation.

We will treat you for free. And in so doing, after those 15 days of treatments, you’ll feel better.

You’ll essentially be germ free.

We will eradicate the common germs known to man inside your body. Your health will improve.

We will also be able to assemble nutrients inside your body.

That’s one of the other functions that we practice on a daily basis.

We can assemble antioxidants, amino acids, various micro nutrients inside the body. We do all

of this by way of Scalar Energy on account of the fact that Scalar Energy provides us consummate control over nature.

Matt Connarton: For a person to do this, so they have to upload a photograph. What kind of picture?

Tom Paladino: The photograph has to be some part of your skin. Now, consider this analogy. Everybody has a unique fingerprint. Everybody has unique DNA. Well, when you send a photograph in, your light is also unique. So, your Scalar signature or your Scalar harmonic is unique.

So, when somebody sends in a photograph of their anatomy, some part of your skin, it doesn’t have to be a full body shot, the Scalar Energy instrument recognizes you just as we would recognize your DNA or your fingerprint as being unique to your person. A Scalar Energy instrument will pick up your light signature by way of your photograph, identify you and then send you energy. No matter where you are in the world, we will send you energy by way of Scalar Energy.

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You have to keep in mind that energy is intelligent, and your skin, your anatomy has intelligence attached to it. A Scalar Energy instrument can pick up that intelligence, which is your code or your light signature. No matter where you are located in the world, a Scalar Energy instrument will treat you by way of your photograph.

Matt Connarton: You’ve got three protocols to this - the pathogen cleanse, the nutrient therapy and the Chakra balance.

Can you go through each of the three of these protocols and just kind of describe what each one does and how it works?

Tom Paladino: Sure. As you mentioned, there’s three protocols. Number one, a Scalar Energy instrument can easily breakdown, the molecular structure of a virus and easily negate the molecular bonds of bacteria, fungi, etc. So, our first process, we have a pathogenic cleanse. Presently, we have the ability to destroy, to break apart over 400,000 species of pathogens, viruses, parasites, protozoan, preons, fungi, mold.

And that pathogenic cleanse is, Omtimes.com

again, rather broad and rather all encompassing.

The next modality, a Chakra balance reprogram our Chakras.

If we look at the Chakras, each Chakra is composed of Scalar Energy. Those Scalar Energy points are spinning vortices, so to speak. And that’s the nature of Scalar Energy.

So, any Scalar Energy instrument will automatically balance, reprogram our seven Chakras, which are likewise composed of Scalar Energy. In so doing, I’ve also found that many people who are experiencing the Chakra balancing tell me that they have a greater sense of mental clarity, that their thinking is clear, that they actually have an improvement in their judgment or their ability to concentrate enhanced.

In many ways, Scalar Energy has a profound impact upon our thinking, upon our brain waves.

I would say that a Chakra balancing not only balances and harmonizes our seven Chakras, it also has a profound impact upon our brain waves, and we’ve demonstrated that with many people.

And then the final modality, the nutrient program, Scalar Energy has the ability to create, to actually assemble vitamins and minerals and antioxidants inside the body. We have the ability presently to assemble over 330 micro nutrients inside the human body. This is, in my estimate, the perfect delivery system for nutrition. We don’t have to rely upon metabolism.

This is a great way to provide nutrients to the human body.

I believe Scalar Energy, once we really understand it and master it, this tool, Scalar Energy, this intelligence will allow us to address finally in a very fundamental capacity mental illness. The pathway to addressing mental illness is Scalar Energy. That is the next future for psychologists, for psychiatrists. Scalar Energy will be the tool for mental and for psychological disorders.

Matt Connarton: When someone is going through this process, what should they be doing while all this is going on?

Matt Connarton: Talk to me a little bit about the future.

Would you like to have schools around the world that teach this so you can help even more people?

Tom Paladino: Just live a sensible lifestyle. To answer your question directly, you don’t have to change a thing. Send your photograph to me and let me do all the work. That’s the beauty of this.

Matt Connarton: I would guess you probably also hear from people who tell you that they’re feeling better mentally and emotionally and so forth?

Tom Paladino: Yes, many people say that this has lifted their depression.

Tom Paladino: Another great question -yes, to teach the world. This is a gift from God, and it’s meant for everybody. I want to get the message out there, and what we have to wait for, though, is the volition of the people. We have to wait for people to say yes. We have to wait for people to get on board here, so to speak.

That’s what we’re waiting for.

We’re waiting for the world to embrace this. We’re waiting for the world to accept this.

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There has to be a free dissemination of information.

I’ve written probably 300 articles on Scalar Energy.

They’re on my website.

We have to continue with Nickola Tesla left off. If you really study Tesla and look at his life, Tesla was on the verge of introducing Scalar Energy to mankind, and essentially, he was about to provide relatively inexpensive energy to the world. And he was stopped by JP Morgan and the Roth Chaw.

This is where Tesla saw the future of the world, where everybody would have access to this energy, and we would no longer have this oil cartel, and we would no longer have the stuff that we have today.

Well, this is the world that I see that Tesla saw over 100 years ago. Scalar Energy will liberate mankind because it addresses scarcity.

Once the world embraces this, we will see that this is the alternative, this is the answer we’ve been looking for. Scalar Energy will liberate mankind.

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Matt Connarton: You mentioned this being a gift from God. Does it matter in terms of a person’s own healing what their beliefs are or maybe their lack of belief?

Tom Paladino: What I’m working with is fundamental.

It works for everybody. As an example, I frequently treat dogs and cats and horses. People send me photographs of their animals, and those animals enjoy the benefits of Scalar Energy. Obviously, a dog does not understand anything about Scalar Energy.

It does heal people and animals regardless of whether you believe in it or not. But, we always have to consider that when people participate in their healing, the healing is accelerated. Many studies have been conducted that healing is indeed accelerated when you participate and when you want to be healed.

Matt Connarton: I’m sure there’s skeptics. How do you deal with those folks?

Tom Paladino: Those who

are sincere, we have so many diagnostic test that prove that we’re destroying germs, that prove that people are being cured, and those diagnostic tests are now on our website. And these are diagnostic tests from people around the world - Europe, Africa, Asia, North America in which we are proving that a person once had herpes and now they no longer have the herpes virus after the Scalar Energy treatment.

We have a study from Africa in which a person had HIV, a viral load, and after the Scalar Energy treatment, there’s no viral load. The HIV virus cannot be detected.

We follow up with these people, and a year or two after we’ve treated them, they’re still cured.

They’re asymptomatic. They have no symptoms of herpes or cholera or HIV infection.

The diagnostic tests really tell the story. We use what is called a polymerase chain reaction test for many of our diagnostic test results, and that’s a very strong test. It’s well respected in the medical community.

So, how do we answer skeptics?

With diagnostic tests.

Matt Connarton: Before we wrap this up, let’s make sure our audience knows exactly where to go if they want to take advantage of the 15 day trial, learn more about that and any resources that you want folks to know about.

Tom Paladino: The website is freescalar.net. Visit the website.

You can submit as many as 25 photographs of your family, your friends, your cousins. We’ll treat your entire family. And after 15 days, your Chakras will be balanced, and you’re gonna be essentially germ free. We will convince you as to the merit of Scalar Energy.

Again, freescalar.net - visit that website, please.

Matt Connarton: Tom Paladino, thank you so much.

It’s been wonderful chatting with you and learning from you, and I wish you continued success. Heal the world, brother.

I think it’s wonderful.

Tom Paladino: Thank you, thank you.

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

How Yoga and Holistic Chiropractic Care Can Alter Your Nervous System

By Rachelle Wilber

Yoga is a spiritual practice that can do a lot for your body and mind. Chiropractic care, on the other hand, is a complementary medicine approach that can enhance the condition of your joints significantly. If you’re looking for options that can

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contribute to an upbeat attitude, these paths may be up your alley.

Yoga Can Make You Understand Yourself Better Yoga can encourage people to understand themselves with

more lucidity. If you want to believe in yourself and in all of your abilities, yoga sessions can get you on the right track.

Yoga can be terrific for people who want to comprehend their value and potential. If you want to walk around with self-esteem that’s sky-high, yoga can rock your world. Yoga can prove to you that you should be proud of all of the things that make you “you.”

Yoga Connects You with Your Parasympathetic Nervous System People begin with their sympathetic nervous systems.

Yoga though can transfer them to their parasympathetic nervous systems. This can be good for people who want all feelings of nervousness to melt away. It can be good for individuals who want to relish tranquility that’s unrivaled, too.

Breathe in a slow and measured manner. You’ll be able to go on an unruffled journey that’s like no other.

Holistic Chiropractic Care Can Minimize Pain that Can Affect Your Mind Holistic chiropractic care

can lessen pain levels that influence your mind. Extreme pain can affect how your brain works. It can make you feel overwhelmed, confused, and out of sorts. If you want to be able to adopt a feeling of positivity, chiropractic care can be the first step. Positivity and severe pain are never a strong match.

Chiropractic Care Can Affect Alignment Issues that Alter Your Nervous System Your body chemistry rules how you feel. Your nervous system is in charge of all of this. Spine alignment concerns can trigger brain pressure that can bring on neurological adjustments. If you want to feel a lot more content, holistic chiropractic care can get you moving. Getting rid of alignment irregularities can be good for people who want to feel cheerful and optimistic.

You should always do everything you can to feel like a million dollars. A positive attitude can make you feel like anything in the world is possible. Look into all of your choices in yoga and chiropractic care right away.

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Simply Spiritual To perceive reality from a different perspective is to open oneself to the wonders and unlimited wealth of creation. Simply Spiritual offers the opportunity to visit new places, new methods, and different ways to perceive the vast human knowledge of our Universe.

The Art of Compassion Have you ever found yourself standing in line for a ticket, when someone pushes in front of you saying they’re going to miss their train if they don’t get their ticket quickly?

You have two choices, either to be really annoyed and irritated or to show compassion and extend forgiveness. Of course, you don’t know whether they would miss their train or not, as you don’t know their situation … but to extend your forgiveness by trying to put yourself in their shoes, to appreciate their situation is much harder to do.

For all you know, they might have young children in daycare or school, and if they miss their train, they won’t be back in time to pick them up.

I’m fascinated on a spiritual level that many of us don’t always see that compassion is all about that deep level of connectiveness between ourselves and others. Being able to demonstrate compassion proves that we can push the boundaries of our tolerance and understanding beyond what we believe. It’s worth the time and effort to explore how to push that boundary of understanding further, and with practice it’s possible to become even more compassionate.

I find that mindfulness is a simple way to foster more compassion. For over 3,000 years people of all cultures have practiced the art of mindfulness. It’s a state of being that improves your overall emotional well-being by being more present in the moment, and in doing so, increases compassion for yourself and others. The act of mindfulness instills calm – both in the young and old alike. When you start to act mindfully, you become more aware of your feelings, and when those feelings become overpowering or cause you to feel out of control, it’s possible to reign them back and gain a more compassionate perspective – for yourself and others.

JOHN'S LESSON Using exercises to promote mindfulness, it’s possible to teach yourself to be more present in the moment, so that emotions don’t overwhelm you, and you create the space to let compassion in as well. No matter how busy life gets, try and make time for a mindfulness exercise every once in a while.

Here is one simple mindfulness exercise, which I just call my; mindful walking exercise. It’s really quite simple and you can do it, like I do when I walk my dog.

Just schedule some time to take a walk, and as your stroll through your neighborhood, woods, or the countryside, try and notice things you haven’t noticed before, things that you’ve just not paid attention to. Notice the textures, the colors, the shapes and sounds. As you’re doing this, don’t make any noise yourself, don’t talk, listen to music … just absorb. Let all the sounds, colors, textures fill your mind and senses for a few minutes so your total consciousness is focused on where you are and what you’re noticing.

It’s simple! You’ll be amazed how you feel after as well as a sense of space in your mind.

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5 Behaviors to be More Mindful and Change your Life OMTimes Staff

The Significant changes in our lives are preceded by a myriad of small but meaningful changes that have the power to steer our lives to a new path.

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Mindfulness is a way that can help us realize this, and these five suggested behaviors may empower us to learn how to be more present, more aware, Kinder and receptive to our feelings and the reality around us.

We should point out that, when we speak of happiness, we realize that It depends on our personal dedication to achieve it.

Hence Happiness is not a product of Fate. Changes start happening when we gradually train our mind to be more perceptive, more engaged on what is happening around us, and allow us to be present in the now.Mindfulness allow us to be maleable, fluid and adaptable.

Our Greatest enemy that prevents us from crossing these thresholds of opportunity is unquestionably

the “wandering mind.”

Through some studies, scholars concluded that we spend about 30 to 40% of our time in the “autopilot” behavior. This type of behavior commonly induces us to let our happiness to be the result of Fate. It is like to live a routine life where we become mere passengers rather than commanders-inchief is like leaving our own joy in the hands of fate.

This is not the most appropriate. We offer you the suggested changes to include in your daily life these five keys to see fast and direct results 1. Train to stay in the present moment and access/deal with your emotions, as they happen.

Mindfulness is, above all, a way of life; a means to grow consciousness of our present moment in its fullness.

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To be aware of characteristics feelings such as deception, disgust, contradiction or anger cannot be merely warehoused inside our brain with no consequence.

We must manage them, understand those emotions, take control of this inner world without delay.

2. Abstain From the Urge to judge: Be Kind Learn to live from your own perspective reality without judging. Others have every right to make, understand and live their life as they wish.

Be mindful that even when someone seems without a path in life, it doesn’t mean he is lost.

Your life is yours, be responsible for it and avoid criticism the way others decide to live their own lives.

Realize that people tend to

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live in different realities, with different backgrounds and coping mechanisms, Adopting this humble attitude will allow you to have an entirely different perspective on unity in diversity.

3. Practice being Present and being Receptive at all times.

Learn to be a good listener.

The Secret of listening is to listen to understand, not to respond. The Good listener will hear with its heart. In doing this, you will be able to control the mental chatter that goes on in the background of your mind.

Try to slow the pace of your life, stop and breathe regularly. Be a single-tasker, this will help you manage your time better, as well.

To live a more mindful life, you may need to learn to

apply appropriate mental filters and focus all your personal energies and resources on that life purpose you have in mind.

4. Change your focus from “I HAVE TO BE” to the mindful practice of the “I AM.” We spend most of our lives trying to be what others expect of us to be. We strive to please, to be what others want, despite our internal guidance and our real goals in life. This attitude tends to create needless suffering, lack of joy and undoubtedly, and misery.

5. Start Practicing the attitude of acceptance The Practicing of acceptance does not necessarily translate on abandoning our principals, nor it means surrendering ourselves and our ideas to the ebbs in our lives.

It means, accepting ourselves and our present emotions.

Acceptance and Tolerance also allow us to understand realities alien to ourselves and to respect them.

To be mindful is to speak the language of the heart where tolerance and understanding are combined.

Mindfulness is the best way to approach fuller and more authentic happiness.

Do not hesitate to take advantage of their tools in allowing yourself to be guided by experts in the field. Training is always the most straightforward and most practical way to achieve direct results in a short time. Only Through the understanding of our feelings and perception will we be able to ignite significant change in our lives

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The Tao of Organizing Your Email and Snail Mail

by Kartar Diamond

I’m old enough to remember life before email. Nowadays we have to deal with both email and regular mail. To stay organized and de-clutter, the “Touch Once” concept dictates that you deal with your regular paper mail immediately instead of allowing letters and junk mail

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to pile up somewhere in your house or office.

Instead of procrastinating or shuffling the mail from one pile to the next, you touch it once and decide right then and there what to do with it. Some people don’t even let the junk mail into the house, taking the junk mail from the mailbox directly to the outdoor trash cans. If you are the type of person who cuts coupons and wants to look at the junk mail, then I recommend that it at least go in a special location for that purpose. One needs to then make sure they deal with the junk mail on a weekly basis. Let your weekly Trash Pick Up day be your incentive.

With the Touch Once policy, the bills would be placed in one folder (to be dealt with weekly or monthly), other correspondence in another folder. You need a filing system so that you can take action on anything with a deadline (like a bill) or an expiration date. If you don’t like bill paying or going through your mail, try doing it at the same time as a more mindless task like watching TV.

When I get my Bed Bath and Beyond coupons in the mail, they go directly next to my purse so that I can put them in the glove compartment the next time I go to my car.

I may have taken the Touch Once principle to the extreme in that I pay a bill the day I get it instead of doing all my bills at the same time. I personally just like to get the bill off my desk and not have to look at it again. I don’t like seeing bills!

Many of you may be laughing at this practice since so many people pay their bills online and have gone paperless a long time ago. And the ultimate would be the auto-pay options for many bills. Let the computers pay your bills! That said, many people from my generation are still a little skittish about auto-bill paying. If you ever got caught up in one of those multi-level marketing products where you were put on a monthly bill/ delivery program without your permission, you know it is not always easy to get off the autobill merry-go-round.

When it comes to email, many of you already have a system

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for moving your emails into different folders and look at the urgent ones first, and other communications can go in a WHENEVER file. These days, our emails are a mixture of personal and social exchanges, as well as junk, and real business-related communications altogether. I used to have a Touch Once policy with my emails, which I thought was efficient, but later changed my practices. I used to think that I will just deal with each email as I open it and that included a lot of deleting. But I would also feel compelled to answer all emails immediately when really very few are urgent.

I wanted to get these emails “out of my hair” and over with. This ultimately became obvious that the Touch Once policy was sabotaging my time management. I found myself answering all emails in the morning whether or not urgent, and then not having enough time to exercise before leaving to see a client. I was actually letting the email control me.

Now I show some restraint. I delete all the junk mail, but then qualify the business and social emails into sub-categories.

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scanned right away in the morning. But if it is not a new client inquiry or something urgent from an existing client, then it can wait for a more convenient time to answer.

There is a whole psychology to waiting until the end of the day to answer the emails and when tired. You might be briefer at the end of the day when you’ve got 30 emails to respond to, as opposed to answering each one the minute they come in and probably spending too long on each one.

I thought this was a relevant topic to cover because cyberclutter can sabotage our time and quality of life as much as paper clutter. And it is fair to say that a lot of people who struggle with clutter and time management could have some compulsive behaviors to conquer. Not having to address all emails with equal importance can be very liberating.

Author: Kartar Diamond http://fengshuisolutions.net/ Feng Shui Solutions ® Since 1992 From the Tao of Organizing Series

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Rationality and irrationality are very misunderstood

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concepts, especially when it comes to business. Contrary to what we tend to believe, being irrational is actually a gift that allows your business to become more successful.

Most people try to achieve in business by emulating successful people or repeating what has worked in the past. That’s being

totally rational. The trouble is, when you replicate what’s already been done, you fail to acknowledge whether or not it will actually work for you now, and you limit your ability to recognize other – greater – possibilities.

Being rational also means you build your business purely based on facts and figures. Rationality is based on judgment; always looking for what’s right or wrong. You’re trying to prove why your choices are smart, why they will work or why they should have worked. In doing so, you become locked into the mindset of projections and expectations. You prevent your business from expanding and becoming more successful in all the irrational ways it can.

To be truly rich and successful with your business, you have to be irrational. This means choosing options and following opportunities that don’t actually exist yet.

When you are irrational in business, it doesn’t mean you want to totally ignore all the successful people and businesses around you. Ask

successful people you know about the choices they made that enhance their business. If a particular business grabs your attention, research more about the actions and decisions that led to their success. Then, ask yourself how you can take what you’ve learned and allowed it to contribute to your business in irrational ways. What parts work for you and what doesn’t?

What else can you do with the information that allows it to work for you?

Irrationality is not disregarding the bits and pieces of other peoples’ choices that appeal to you; it’s willing to know what works for you and your business even when it doesn’t make rational sense. It’s the gift of creating based on what you instinctively know.

The power of the question To function from irrationality, you have to give up believing you have (or can find) the answers to everything, and start asking questions. Questions will give you more control than anything. They allow you to go beyond everything you’ve seen or been told, to instead choose from knowing what actually Omtimes.com

works for you.

There are several questions you can ask, to help you tap into the gift of irrationality. These include: Does this actually work for me and my business? Is it a contribution? The world will tell you to look for the reason things are, or aren’t, working.

However, you don’t need ‘rational’ reasons or justifications in order to know what’s best for your business – just ask the question and check to see if your instinctive response is ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

When you follow your instinctive knowing, you no longer base your current decisions on things you’ve already done or chosen.

The decision is based on what you know now.

This is living from a yes/no universe. Things either work or they don’t, without an explanation. Most people are trying to figure out why, or how, or what everything is going to look like. When you’re willing to let go of all that, you open your mind to the possibility. A yes/no universe will give you the greatest freedom in business, and all aspects of your life.

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What is the most irrational thing I could choose with this? The most irrational thing is something that doesn’t exist yet. It’s a possibility you can’t get to with logic and reason, and it’s greater than anything you could rationally conclude.

The world will tell you-you’re wrong for operating this way, but who cares. This is your life and your business. Letting go of the need to rationalize is the gift of all different levels of possibilities.

Asking questions will give you more awareness.

What other possibilities are available that I’ve not yet instituted? With questions, you’re going beyond the box and judgments of what you can do, into a whole different place of choice and possibility. It’s not always a comfortable place to be, but it is where true success actually exists.

What else or who else can I add to my business today?

Many people already feel too overwhelmed to consider adding something else. They can’t imagine how or why they would invite even more to manage.

What you might add can be

anything. Maybe you require a new pen that you really like or an app to help you be more organized. Or perhaps hiring someone who can take over marketing will free up time for you to work on other projects that allow your business to grow in fun and exciting ways. You have to be willing to ask the question and know what will work for you without conclusion.

What will it take to create this? It’s not useful to ask how something can or will happen.

How questions lock you into the old habit of looking at facts, figures, and conclusions. They’re not based on possibility. Instead, build a vision of what you require, and then ask What will it take to create this?

Does being totally irrational and living in a yes/no universe mean that every choice you make will create success? No, it doesn’t.

What it does give you is the awareness that you can ask again, and choose again. Just because something didn’t work doesn’t mean it’s time to give up. The rational response would be to quit, go get a good safe job and settle down. What if you could receive the gift of the failure and

ask what you need to do or be to create something different? Every choice gives you more awareness of what else you can ask or choose.

When you’re willing to give up all your fixed points of view about what creates a successful business, a wide range of new possibilities are available. If you weren’t using your rational mind, what could the gift of being irrational to create? They could be beyond your wildest dreams.

Simone Milasas is an entrepreneur, creator, creative business coach, international business owner, author and Worldwide Coordinator of Access Consciousness. She has been at the forefront of cuttingedge business creation and development for over a decade and has trained business leaders and innovators all over the world.

Simone is the author of JOY OF BUSINESS translated into 13 languages and best-selling book GETTING OUT OF DEBT JOYFULLY translated into 5 languages. You can find Simone every week on her podcast – The Art & Industry of Business & Living available on her website, www.simonemilasas. com, and iTunes.

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How Parents Can Avoid Passing On Their Emotional Wounds to Their Kids.

By Marcia Sirota, MD.

Parenting is the hardest job in the world, and I see parents as heroes, sacrificing much of their own comfort and happiness for the sake of their children’s well-being. It’s easy to criticize parents for not being perfect but what would be more helpful would be

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some constructive tips on how to maximize their skills for the best possible outcomes.

One of the sadder things I’ve witnessed in my years as a psychotherapist is the parent who loves their kids, but somehow, these kids still grow up with considerable emotional wounds. It’s understandable to me that abusive or neglectful parents would end up with emotionally wounded children, but loving parents? That seems contradictory.

The explanation is this: a parent who carries emotional wounds from their own childhood trauma will inadvertently pass on their dysfunctional coping strategies to their children. This is because our children learn from us in three ways: how we treat them; what we teach them, and what we model to them.

We can treat our children with love and affection. We can give them the best guidance and advice, but if we don’t believe in ourselves, if we’re extremely self-critical, or if we have serious addictions or other problems our kids can take after us in the negative things even more than

in the positive ones.

Sadly, childhood trauma goes so deep that even the strongest love for our children won’t prevent the wounds of the past from affecting them; most especially if we’re unaware of what’s happening, and we don’t intervene.

I’ve seen this outcome in my practice far too often to think that it’s some strange aberration. Love and guidance are absolute necessities for raising happy, healthy, successful kids but they’re not enough. If a parent wants to ensure a bright future for their kids, they need to add one additional ingredient to the mix: self-love.

Children unconsciously internalize their parents’ selfregard. A confident, self-loving parent is far more likely to have confident, self-loving kids than an insecure, self-critical parent, even if the latter parent adores their kids.

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life lessons; you also have to make sure that your own selflove is in tip-top shape.

didn’t understand the impact these wounds would have on their growing children.

You need to examine your past for any signs of trauma and do your own healing work so that you don’t inadvertently pass on your emotional wounds to your kids.

Having observed both sides of the story, or the adverse effects on a child when a parent hasn’t dealt with their emotional wounds and the positive effects of a parent sorting out their issues before it’s too late. I’ve come to see the importance of examining our own emotional wounds when embarking upon the wonderful and daunting task of parenting.

I’ve worked with many parents and parents-to-be over the years, and I’ve seen how healing from their childhood trauma and developing more self-love has made an enormous impact on how their children grow up.

Doing therapy as a young parent or better yet, before becoming a parent is a key factor in preventing future difficulties in one’s kids.

I’ve also seen the opposite scenario, where a person with grown kids looks back and realizes how their emotional wounds adversely affected their kids’ emotional development.

These unfortunate individuals didn’t realize in time that they had such deep wounds; they

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It might seem far-fetched to some people, but I would recommend that everyone considering being a parent or anyone whose kids are still young should attend a few sessions with a psychotherapist if only to reassure themselves that they aren’t harboring any unconscious emotional wounds.

If they do discover that there’s something that they’re sitting on, this would be the perfect opportunity to resolve these emotional wounds before the wounds can adversely affect their children or future children.

Some signs are indicating that you might be carrying emotional wounds; for example, if you’re suffering from depression or anxiety.

These conditions may be genetic, but they can also arise out of emotional trauma.

Other signs of emotional wounds from past trauma include any addictions that cause problems in your personal, financial or professional life or any longterm bad habits like watching too much TV or going to bed too late. Other signs are a sleep disorder, an eating disorder or ongoing problems with money.

You could have a long history of low self-esteem, ongoing interpersonal difficulties or the feeling that you’re not fulfilling your potential. You might feel chronically stuck or blocked in your work or your creativity, or you might be pessimistic or cynical, extremely self-critical or very judgmental toward others.

You could be moody and easily upset, or hypersensitive to criticism or rejection. You could be easily angered or extremely

control. You could have a chronically messy home or be way behind on your taxes.

Some people have ongoing physical problems that doctors find it hard to understand or treat, including fatigue, pain or digestive disturbances.

If any of these above signs are familiar to you, you may have a history of childhood trauma that you’re not consciously aware of. It isn’t surprising that this trauma is often unconscious, as our natural psychological defense mechanisms protect us by blocking out many of our painful memories.

Being unaware of your childhood trauma is a common phenomenon, so not knowing about it doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen.

And because of this, it might be a good idea, especially if you can relate to any of the above signs, to see a psychotherapist ASAP if you have kids or you’re considering having kids. It’s just one more way to ensure that you’re the best parent you can be.

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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.

Secrets of Compassionate Relationships

by Guy Finley

We all Share the Same Emotional Pool Compassion for others starts with the understanding that every human being on the planet looks different from us – because physically we are different – but inwardly we all live in the same pool.

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may live on the east bank of the pool so that the waves they know are different from the waves we know on the west bank, but if we look close enough, we can see that we share east bank waves in us as well.

Have you ever looked at someone and thought, “How could that person be like that?” and then by the grace of God, discovered that you had done

the same thing before, only called it something different? This is a beautiful realization because it proves to you that it is intended for those of us who would have a higher life to use everyone’s life for our own development.

We Help Others When We Don’t Take Part in Negativity Instead of walking through our days meeting people with the closed-off nature that we presently act from, we can begin to let down our guard. This doesn’t mean to identify with negativity or cruelty in other people. We can certainly see their negative emotions. But because we have known hostility, fear, and hatred in ourselves, instead of punishing others for their states, we can begin to help them do what they must do, which is to fall back on themselves when we don’t take part in their negativity the way we have always done.

Did you know that whenever you resist someone’s negative state, you actually further enable that person’s negativity? So, meet people differently! Learn to meet people with this quiet inner request: “What can I learn about myself from you?” Try it. You won’t believe the difference it will make in what will come up in

you and what you can learn about yourself because of what does come up.

As we participate in this completely different order of relationship -- being aware of the other person -- compassion is born.

There is no compassion that exists in a sleeping human being, in unconscious relationship, except for the fallacious compassion we express in order to make ourselves feel like we’re compassionate.

Conscious Relationship is the Root of Our Existence Real compassion has to do with realizing that conscious relationship is the root of our existence, trying to get us to wake up a little bit and enter into those relationships which make it possible for our lives to become what they’re intended to be.

Guy Finley is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and bestselling self-help author. He is Founding Director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center for self-realization, and hosts its Wisdom School — an online self-discovery program. Guy’s latest book Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together transforms any relationship from mundane to magical! www.guyfinley.org Omtimes.com

Signs You are Suffering from Emotional Detachment in your Relationship

By Ascending Hearts

Emotional Detachment is a clear indicator that there is a crisis in the relationship.

This bond is closely related to intimacy, sharing and enjoying each other, being one of

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the essential pillars. That is why this emotional bonding requires continuous care.

When we care about the relationship we are living with that person we consider so unique, we wait, pay attention, and take care of all the aspects that reinforce the bond.

Also, we do this for no other purpose than to look together for a shared future.

Lack of intimacy and sexual contact Many difficulties presented in the relationship serve as indicators that something is not right. To make ears of the merchant or put a blindfold on not only complicates everything but also is the prelude to the destruction of the affective bond between the couple.

That would be ideal; however, many relationships begin when those involved are filled with expectations, past stories, fears, and insecurities. This dramatically complicates communication, causes misunderstandings, and ultimately generates an emotional distance.

Intimacy in the relationship is one of the critical keys to attending since a little carelessness destroys communication, trust, sexual desire and the desire to share tastes and passions. When situations of intimacy with our partner bother us, we must pay attention to the problem that lies behind.

Being aware of these critical moments, given the signs that are appearing, can help us build a stable relationship that will not end in the face of a small conflict.

Sexual contact can, in turn, be destroyed, since there is less appetite, less passion, and sexual encounters are less and less frequent. These signs, if other more severe problems

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cause them, are indicators that there is an Emotional Detachment Relationship.

This situation apparently indicates an emotional distance.

Handling and insulation

When we are confused, severely affected, disoriented and unable to cope with the situation we are experiencing in our relationship, we may come to perceive the situation as unbearable. This is precisely the way Emotional Detachment begins to grow.

When couples accumulate unresolved problems, even if they are small things, they create the habit of not showing their emotions. They lock themselves more and more into their own worlds, isolate themselves and dodge.

Depending on the couple, this can cause strong fights for the smallest reasons. It is also a source of silence, boredom, and lack of interest in being together.

The manipulation in this sense is continuously present since if each one does not express what he needs and what he wants within the relationship, this ends up showing up through censorship, blackmail, victimization and a whole repertoire of attitudes that make the relationship toxic.

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The truth is that to try to avoid emotional pain, we move away, we run away because we feel it is the only way we can avoid a barrier that we cannot break and that grows more and more. So, the main enemy of Emotional Detachment is communication.

And Open communication and honest dialogue can help the couple to overcome all the problems related to their feelings of emotional inadequacy.

Love is Possible

The Pitfalls of On-Demand Summer Romance

By Marcia Sirota, MD.

Summer is in full swing, and lots of singles are starting to stress out about not having a date for that summer wedding, pool party or family reunion. For many people, it’s awkward to show up solo

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at these types of events. It’s stressful not knowing that there will be at least one person at the party who they can talk to.

Showing up alone at a big event can make a person feel like everyone’s staring, wondering why you’re the only single there. You could feel embarrassed, maybe even like a bit of a loser.

Some people can be pushed to take desperate measures.

These individuals might not be interested in starting a relationship, but they’re superkeen to find a date for their upcoming summer events.

Fortunately for these desperate individuals, all they have to do is click or swipe on their favorite online site and bingo, they’re set up with a suitable date for the backyard barbecue or the banquet hall reception.

Think of it as on-demand dating. An individual has a specific need, they check

out what’s available, and they choose from the most attractive options. It’s online shopping, but for people.

When it comes to ondemand dating, the person looking for a date has only one thing in mind: to avoid the unpleasantness and/or embarrassment of showing up to their summer events unaccompanied. Since they aren’t looking for an actual relationship, they’re not interested in getting to know the other person on any meaningful level. And the expiry date for such an arrangement would be at the latest, Labor Day weekend.

The person being chosen as the on-demand date is in an awkward situation. More often than not, the individual who sought them out wasn’t honest about what they were looking for. This is unfair, but the on-demand dater isn’t focused on ethical concerns; they just want to avoid showing up unaccompanied

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to the summer parties. They’re not going to be upfront if it means narrowing down the pool of available options.

Here’s how on-demand dating works: If the first event goes well, the ondemand dater will bring their new companion to all their remaining summer events.

They’ll attend the weddings, reunions and pool parties, with one of them thinking that they’re building a real romance. What a shock it will be for this person when they’re summarily discarded as soon as the sun sets on that last long weekend.

You might think that ondemand dating is a rare occurrence, but in fact, it’s become rather common. If you don’t want to end up being dumped when party season is over, here’s a tip for avoiding this type of arrangement.

Assume that you’ve been chosen as someone’s ondemand summer romance

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if the first or second date happens to be for a big event. If your new friend is all excited about taking you to a June wedding or a July barbecue, you’re safe to assume that you’re only along for the ride. You can expect the “relationship” to be over by the time you’re ready to pack away your summer shoes.

Sad to say, this has become the era of transactional interactions. By this I mean that many folks out there are seeing other people as commodities; objects for their consumption rather than human beings to care about, respect and treat with consideration.

Something has shifted in the human psyche, and we’re less inclined to seek out intimate connections and more inclined to view other people regarding what they might offer us. It’s sad because this leads to empty, meaningless interactions where nobody

gets what they want.

Aside from dehumanizing the person chosen as an ondemand summer date, it’s fundamentally dishonest.

Who really wants to start a new relationship, only to discover that they were being used, essentially, as an unpaid escort? It’s unfair and immoral to take advantage of someone for the summer, only to dump them when party season winds down.

If the couple is sleeping together, it makes it even creepier. The on-demand dater figures, “Why not enjoy all the perks of this summer romance?” The other person is thinking, “I’m starting a serious relationship!”

In my mind, on-demand dating is a lose-lose proposition. The person seeking an on-demand summer romance wants a suitable “object” to exploit.

The sad truth is that the ondemand dater fails to discover

what a great person their summer date is. They miss out on getting to know someone who might actually make them feel happy and fulfilled.

The person being chosen as the on-demand date has been reduced to the status of a fun summer hat. I can’t imagine how this could be good for their self-esteem, or how it will make them feel about venturing into romantic territory again, come September.

A person should be more valuable than an accessory, but on-demand summer romance reduces the other person to that status: fun to use for the season and easily discarded in the fall. Everybody loses, though, when we see other human beings as things to consume rather than individuals with whom to form meaningful connections. On-demand dating might be convenient for some, but it’s not good for anyone.

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Metaphysics

Initiation Blueprint

by Carl Greer, Ph.D., PsyD

To undergo an initiation is to become aware of your spiritual essence. Whether or not the process is accompanied by a ritual, or marked by it afterward, an initiation involves a profound shift in perspective. Afterward, whatever life challenges you

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face, the internal change you’ve experienced will ensure that you can engage these challenges differently.

our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We can think of initiation, then, as an archetype or archetypal energy.

Initiation expands your identity beyond “me” to “me, as part of the we that has always been and always will be.” A spiritual initiation ushers in what has been called rebirth, enlightenment, or a peak experience.

But the idea of archetypal forces is actually not unique to Jung. There are similar concepts in ancient wisdom traditions.

Indigenous medicine men and women of old as well as shamans of today believe we are all connected to each other and to all that exists, and that energies in forms such as spirit animals affect our very being.

Humans naturally yearn to reconnect with their sacred nature and realize they are not confined to one particular time and physical body, but eternal spiritual beings that are connected to all other beings, to the cosmos, and to all consciousness. This longing may be thought of as a quest for connection and belonging, for purpose and for healing.

Initiation takes place within our minds but also within the great mind of the cosmos. In the early twentieth century, Carl Jung identified a collective unconscious, of which we are all a part and which we all contain within us. He also identified the existence of archetypes, the energies that influence

You might think of initiation as being a shift in experiencing a great matrix that intertwines all of creation, and which consists of energy and consciousness.

Imagine that you, like everyone, is just one expression of this creative, divine force. An initiation reminds you of your connection to the matrix and permanently expands your ways of seeing and operating in your everyday life.

Initiations can take various forms.

An initiator might transmit knowledge or energy to the initiate. The initiate might also receive this wisdom and energy directly from Source. You can Omtimes.com

consciously invite Source to initiate you, opening yourself to whatever form and timing the initiation might take. Initiation might also happen to you serendipitously, such as by a dream or chance encounter.

Encounters with Source and your spiritual essence may take place in your rational, conscious mind but also in the unconscious, in transpersonal realms that all can access. Initiatory experiences might occur when you are in the most ordinary of places, such as a stairwell, a car, or a lawn in front of a rehabilitation hospital, when time seems to stand still, and your sense of spirituality awakens.

If you are seeking an initiatory experience, reduce the activity of your conscious mind so that your unconscious mind can reveal its wisdom. Sit in a quiet place, free of distractions. Then, focus on the sensation of your breathing until you feel yourself relaxing.

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of your body or your personal energy field. Make yourself an empty vessel that is as clear and as receptive as possible to receive the transmission of initiatory energy.

At this point, you can energetically bridge this world and the world of Source by opening yourself to a sacred experience—what some call opening sacred space. You can do this by being clear on your intention to connect with this great matrix of unconscious wisdom. Another way to open sacred space is to say a prayer of invocation, calling on Source, Spirit, or God to help you achieve your intention—in this case, to experience your spiritual nature and become open to transformation. The invocation acknowledges that you are consciously setting an intention to experience the numinous. Opening sacred space by invoking Source is a way to connect with and honor the vibratory, energetic essence of the universe and all that is in it, including yourself. You can also call on energies from the world of the sacred—including the forces of nature, renewal, infinity, timeless connections to spiritual

beings, and new possibilities—to help you experience a spiritual transformation.

You might experience a very intense, profound shift as you open up to initiation, or the experience might be quite subtle as you sense that you are being filled with replenishing, cleansing energy. It may take more than one session to feel an intense opening and reconnect with your energetic, spiritual nature.

After you have opened yourself to initiatory energy and remained present long enough to feel an energetic shift, your intuition will tell you when it’s time to close sacred space. Thank Source for working with you. No matter the method of initiation, ultimately it is Source who initiates us into a new frequency of being.

A true initiation facilitates greater awareness and connection to Source so that you can live your life more fully and be energetically attuned with nature and Source. By becoming more aware, you are better able to choose what to give attention to, and you can jettison that which no longer serves you. You gain the freedom to choose new

possibilities. Old identifications die as you differentiate from them and then are reborn within you in fresh configurations as you integrate the new. If you feel called to take action or explore something in your personal story that you haven’t thought about before, follow it.

Consciously choose to ensure that the initiatory energy does not dissipate. Commit to regularly acknowledging your spiritual nature and altering the quality and content of your internal conversations with yourself. Try to find ways to live your everyday life differently as a result of your initiatory experiences. You may find your life transforming in ways you might not have thought possible.

Carl Greer, Ph.D., PsyD, is a practicing clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst and shamanic practitioner and the author of the multiple-award-winning books Change Your Story, Change Your Life and Change the Story of Your Health. He teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is on staff at the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being. Learn more at www.CarlGreer.com Omtimes.com

Astrology

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In the battle of the day-to-day stress, through the immense tasks that must be done, and redone every day, we all need a break. To avoid emotional and physical exhaustion, we need to look for things that can bring us joy, relaxation and rest. Here is the list of activities preferred by people accordingly with their Zodiacal sign.

Aries (March 21-April 19) This sign is a movement lover, and their idea of relaxation is to exercise and do some physical activities to the have the satisfaction of deep sleep and rest.  Taurus (April 20-May 20) This is a very “sensorial” zodiac sign. Whether it's shopping, having coffee or having lunch if they are doing it with a friend, for them it is synonymous with relaxation.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) This is a cerebrally charged Zodiac sign. Any activities that can challenge and sometimes complement their intellect are considered pleasure. Their contradictions are also noticeable here since he can relax either reading a book quietly or a fun ride with his friends in a passionate debate.

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Cancer (June 21-July 22) Here is a sign that loves to be nourishing people.

They love staying at home and meeting with the family and friends, preferably at the table, sharing a meal they cooked. Yet, an immersion bath, with candlelight and aromatherapy is also very inviting.

Leo (July 23-August 22) Reign by the Sun Leos are fascinated by performances, theater, shows and concerts, and movies. They love the spotlight, being on it or not. They always have some fun, that's for sure!

Either going to the movies, dancing or dating they are always opened to many options.

Virgo (August 23-September 22) Let’s face it, they are control Freaks.

Methodical by nature, Virgos may have problems relaxing, no matter how you slice it. They may find joy and easing by putting things in order.

Organizing drawers, clothes, accessories, papers and other’s people’s lives are their source of enjoyment and satisfaction Libra (September 23-October 22) Libra tend to be very dreamy and romantic. They like to share the moments and memories. They preferred activity is to be hanging out with their partner, talking to friends in an intimate environment, or going somewhere they know they can have their idealistic Interactions.

Scorpio (October 23-November 21) They sexuality is a dominant element in their lives. This sign is moved by passion, by seduction games and they have a lot of relaxation (and pleasure) delighting their partner under the sheets.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) They are adventurous of the Zodiac. They love to travel, and They enjoy doing it through many unconventional ways. They are Lovers of outdoors activities. Even if it is something of a day, the important thing is to unwind outside of their everyday environment, and with a hint of the quest, such as outdoor climbing, kayaking or hiking.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Sometimes Capricorns, despite their age range, can behave like old people. Any times, solving what is pending at work, for example, is enough to be considered a relaxing activity. They can find pleasure in revising projects. When they adopt activities such as gardening, it can serve as sound therapy: climbing, kayaking or hiking.

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Aquarius (January 20 to February 18) Your heart loves exploring the new, even though making plans is something that reassures you, and makes you feel safe. You are a group inspired Individual, and you find pleasure in sharing moments with your friends and family, going out and having escapades and planning exciting journeys.

Pisces (February 19 to March 20) Pisces is considered strange sign, they find pleasure and relaxation in some many unusual activities. Taking a dip in the sea, listening to good music, meditating, watching an exciting movie or even playing an instrument allows them to relax after a hectic day.

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Personal Growth & Development

Mom, She Stole My Spot!

What spots have we claimed to be ours? What spots have we denied ourselves from occupying? Expressing our personalities and identity isn’t always what we announce,

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it’s also what we don’t say or show. The light and shadow of all spots exist. We can see how both are gifts once we explore their connection to what attracted us in the first place.

Mom, she put her feet on my side of the couch! Mom, she put her game on my side of the car! Mom, she won’t get out of my room!

Claiming our spot, putting a stake in the ground, identifying the perimeter lines, we do this to state our presence, our value, but we also do this to feel safe, and to know what area to guard, to protect, and to have something we own that we can design and create to express ourselves from.

Our spot has a relationship to our identity. It’s where we feel comfortable, where we retreat to, where we operate from. It’s also where others recognize us. People connect us to the

“spot” we choose in life. We often recognize someone at their work or in a uniform or driving a certain color car however when we run into them outside of those familiar places and “spots” we look right past them.

We also do this when we change our external look including our attitudes. We can feel and appear to others as very different people when we are stressed compared to when we are relaxed or having fun.

But what happens when we are told that we can’t have the spot we want?

What happens when we are guilted from or punished for expressing which spot feels right to us?

When my sister and I were growing up we both loved our toys, as most children do, we had our favorites of course but to make things

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easier for gift purchasing from friends and family members my sister and I were…well more than encouraged… to choose “our thing.” My sister chooses cats first, and when I chose cats as well, I was quickly told that I could not. I was told to pick something else, that there were lots of themes of toys and collectibles but cats were not an option and that they were my sister’s choice. This devastated me and seemed utterly unfair because I loved cats and they were my choice. At first, I cried and was sad, but then I got angry and started questioning in a very pushy and disobedient way. “Why can’t I love cats to!?” “Why can’t we share that spot?” I demanded a response that I could deem acceptable. I wasn’t prepared for the answer my parents gave me.

I was told that there would be competition in the cat

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collecting and the gift receiving and that my sister would feel bad every time I got a new stuffed cat toy or cat figurine or a shirt with a cat on it.

This answer stopped me in my tracks.

I was defeated by guilt and my sensitive nature to never want to hurt my sister. I was made aware of the potential pain that I could be responsible for causing my sister, and that was unacceptable to me, so I chose the giraffe. I chose the giraffe because I thought it was the oddest looking animal and no one else would ever choose it, and so I’d never hurt anyone by receiving giraffe toys. There would be no blaming me for someone else’s pain, and so I stepped out of my “spot” and denied my true identity.

But did I really deny my true identity? Years later I

question that belief and have explored it thoroughly since. After choosing the giraffe and truly falling in love with the gorgeous animal, and later even realizing how much the giraffe and I had in common with our long necks and love of eating greens, I realized that part of my true identity was that I would sacrifice.

As I do a life review now, I see that compassion plays a major role in my identity wheel. I also see how every characteristic of identity has a beaming light from it as well as a shadow.

The shadow for me is that while I am grateful for having compassion, I must at the same time be aware and mindful that I do not lose myself. That I do not give away my spot but that I can share it just like my love for cats.

Looking at each of our own lives, what spots have we

chosen? Which spots are we protecting and what are the shadows of those spots? The light and the shadows of all our spots are beautiful gifts and being able to express from both sides will allow for deep and expansive growth and help us to see that no one can ever truly steal our spot.

Lisa Berry is an expert in breathing life into the dreams of those wanting to live vibrantly, energetically, happy and fulfilled while standing confidently and strongly rooted in their personal power.

Lisa fulfills her commitment as a Life Coach, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and Creator and Host of Light On Living radio show, as she recognizes her mission to find, help and connect with those who need and want to shine. lisa@lightonliving.com

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Why Broken Promises Can (and Will) Steal your Thunder 8 ways Negative Motivation will ruin your plans.

By Humanity Healing

Many of us can remember one occasion or another where we promised ourselves something.

We have promised ourselves that we will be happier when we lose weight, when we get that Job, or when we arrive

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at a perceived destination in life. We promise ourselves we are going to stop smoking, to start saving, to be happier. At the end of the day, many of us had only broken our personal promises to ourselves, but what could be the danger of that, if any. It Can’t be that bad, right? Wrong.

aspect of living in alignment with our life goals, intentions, and Purpose. To succeed in life and to be able to surf all life’s ebbs, one must be self-reliant, confident and trust your own guts. To have a negative motivation does not necessarily mean to have destructive intent.

Breaking promise to ourselves is single handed the most damaging behavior we can have towards ourselves, and it is also an act of negative motivation because in doing so, we stop to trust in ourselves.

Think with me: if you do not trust yourself, then who will?

Breaking promise to ourselves and others function as a clog on the energy flow of your life. Just like it is difficult to heal when we are still too attached to energies of the past, the hurt caused by broken promises can compromise, the way we see ourselves, in the way we relate to ourselves, how we relate to others and our ability to trust.

To trust oneself is an essential

The process of trusting oneself, in this case, must happen from the inside out and not the opposite.

Rigorous examination of our mental and emotional processes may lead us to find that to a large extent they are negatively motivated. Our Ego tends to create barriers around us to “protect “us from potential suffering and to guarantee our self -preservation. Many of these artificially created Ego devices are based on fear and discouragement., and let’s face it, negative motivations.

This negative shield of suppressed emotions does not

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shelter you from anything, it may seem that this negative armor gives you the illusion of protection and safety, but actually, this protection only mirrors back to you everything you need to work on inside yourself. We can name 8 consequences of this negative shield.

is that we can access our greater internal resources and feel self-confident in matters of moments. We have all had moments of glory in our lives. Sometimes we forget those moments and let ourselves be carried away by unbelief and unproductive thoughts.

Distrust in yourself

As we have seen, we need to be aware of negative attitudes that can wipe out our positive motivation. Selfawareness is a big necessary step not to fall into mental traps and get lost on the way.

Lack of focus Lack of specific goals and objectives Higher levels of Anxiety Game of Comparison with other people Lack of consistency Susceptible to Constant distractions Letting yourself be Influenced by pessimistic people It is practically impossible to be positively motivated without believing in ourselves. The good news

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A grand strategy to keep us always motivated is to cultivate the habit of reading.

There is nothing better than nourishing our mind with content that can transform our thoughts, emotions and influence your daily actions.

If you are committed to your results, then you should always be aware of the types of habits and behaviors that can consciously or unconsciously influence in your daily life.

What lurks behind your mess and clutter?

By Cathedral of the Soul

It is said that several of the great geniuses were true masters of their mess. Einstein’s office, or Mark Twain’s, among others, were supposed to be a real nest of spiders. Objects on all sides, rolled up papers, accumulated garbage -

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Anyway, a really messy and cluttered zone.

However, being disorganized does not necessarily convert anyone into a genius. Just as being overly organized also does not make someone a better person. To foster extremes are never good when it comes to our human reality, like Buddha said, the Balance in life resides in a middle way.

In today’s world, the readily available time has become infrequent. It is no longer possible to clean floors leaving them as a mirror, nor to keep the four corners of the house sparkling shining.

Having someone to do the housework is a luxury that just a few can afford, and spending time in the house doing housework is not that easy now.

But, this does not mean that everything in our life and house must be turned upside down. It is possible to keep a basically tidy space, without the need to invest much time in it. It’s all about getting

organized and adopting some new habits. But why do some people fail in doing such? What’s really lurking behind your compulsive mess?

The Real meaning of the mess In general, the untidiness in the spaces we inhabit is a sign of disorder in our inner world, and the inability to deal with specific emotional challenges. Staying saturated with objects means being saturated with unresolved ideas and projects. The mess sends a message of internal confusion, lack of structuring, and lack of definitions.

Also, Feng Shui scholars and similar practices ensure that the mess has different meanings depending on where it accumulates.

This is what they have to say about it: The mess or the objects lodged in areas that are at the entrance of a house means a deep fear of relating to other people.

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The mess or the objects heaped up in the kitchen or in the spaces where food is prepared means emotional fragility and resentment.

The mess or the stuff lodged in the lockers means difficulty in analyzing and controlling feelings and emotions.

The mess or objects heaped under the furniture indicates that the person is very dependent on the opinion of others and gives much importance to the appearances.

The mess or objects lurking behind the doors is an expression of the fear of being rejected by others and the conviction of feeling guarded.

Mess or cluttered objects in the office or workplace mean fear, frustration, and need for control over situations.

The mess or the objects lodged in the garage implies fear of new things and lack

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of ability to update their life perspectives.

The mess or the objects heaped in the hallways means fear of expressing yourself, of saying what you want directly.

The mess or the objects lodged in the room means fear of being rejected by society.

The mess or the objects huddled in the dining room has to do with feeling familycontrolled and insecure.

The mess or the objects heaped all over the house means that we have repressed anger and that we feel apathetic and disinterested about life.

The advantages of overcoming the mess It is not necessary that our space to become a sparkling prototype of a museum, in fact, worrying too much about the mess subtracts energy that we could invest in more important things,

besides making us picky, depressed, and neurotic.

The vital thing is to be able to inhabit spaces that are pleasant and easy to handle, in one environment that allows a healthy flow of Chi energies, that brings Prosperity, Abundance and Friendships. Also, It is not reasonable to be searching for things that come out of the mess or to be depressed just by looking at the state of our workplace or our home.

One of the first causes of the mess is that you may not have sorted objects well, so many things do not have a definite place on where they should be. It is essential to analyze what types of objects we have at home or in the office, to form categories or groups of objects and to define where each group should be stored.

Office supplies should have their place, as should medicines, papers, books, notebooks, umbrellas, etc.

You might have to create

more than one place to store the same category of objects if there are many in numbers.

The next step is to work your mind to prepare to make room for new things. It is a lesson on letting go of feelings, you no longer need when you let go of objects you don’t use. If you keep things you no longer need or keep stuff by merely preserving them, it will be impossible to advance in your new projects and intentions.

It is necessary to discard everything that is no longer necessary. What you did not use the previous year should be donated or discarded.

Convince yourself that cleaning your home is also to cleanse your mind, cleanse the environment, cleanse your life. Decide to move to a new level and get rid of objects that make up an environment where there is no room for anything new “The more you own things, the more they own you” unknown

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Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal

Is the paranormal normal?

Many readers will be surprised when learning that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality. Their curiosity will increase when reading that Cleopatra’s lost palace and Richard III’s burial place were recovered by the use of clairvoyance. And some will think it to be science fiction when finding out about Stargate––the espionage program where the American military and CIA engaged in the development of psychic spies!

Simonsen, a Norwegian historian of ideas, introduces an array of entertaining paranormal tales from history, archaeology, anthropology and psychology, and presents scientific research that has provided fascinating results. He argues that the stories we hear about telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition should not be dismissed as superstition. In step with spiritual and occult traditions, the author suggests that consciousness is not limited to our own head.

Rather he thinks that all humans, and likely all living beings, are linked together in a “Mental Internet.’ Via this network we may exchange ‘telepathic emails’ with friends and family and make clairvoyant ‘downloads’ of information. Thus what we call ‘supernatural’ could perhaps be completely natural but little understood communications via this Mental Internet?

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