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Feng shui and tabletop fountains have a long shared custom. Feng shui guru’s powerfully reckon that a thoughtfully fashioned tabletop fountain is destined to draw prosperity to your life. However, if you don’t employ them rightly, they may have some unfavorable effects in your life.

Here are the top 3 feng shui mistakes to avoid when embracing with a tabletop fountain:

1. Don’t make the fault of putting the tabletop fountain on the right-hand side of the door. By stationing the water fountain on “left” side of the door, you fortify your relationships and avoid the dangers of infidelity. Your intimate relationship may go through the imperils of promiscuosness when you run a danger of positioning the water fountain in the right-hand side of the door. The left side here pertains to the side that you may see when you look at the door from the inside of your abode.
2. The size of the water feature should be directly proportional to the size of the room in which you plan to position it. Big sized water fountains like an exquisite shishi odoshi when placed in a small room can produce too much energy and thereby result in hyper-energy environment.
3. It is remarkable to pay attention to the figurines and other ornamentation that your embellish your fountain with. For instance, a statuette of a dragon depicting destructive emotions should be kept off at any price. Instead, select an angel statuette, or, a happy-dragon statuette to put in the vicinity of your tabletop fountain.

Whether you are in the business of accountancy (e.g. NJ Accountant) or hair-cutting (e.g. NJ Hair Stylist), you are sure to enjoy benefits of a tabletop fountain when you take care of the 3 main principles as reported above.

Many people take gemstones at nominal value, such as gemstone beads; i.e., jewellery to adorn just for aesthetical reasons. But gems are also trusted to have numerous curing properties; e.g. (depending on the gem) the ability to encourage self-confidence, boost positivity, improve concentration, relieve anxiety and headaches, and help calm the mind.

In this article, I will look at a handful of stones and their commonly believed medicinal powers. A disavowal before you read any further : The details of this article are founded on common beliefs, and there is no scientific proof as to the efficacy of such stones and their supposed therapeutic properties.

Amethyst
Amethyst stills the mind and improves increased serenity and harmony. It represses self-destructive propensities and assists self-healing. Amethyst also gives wisdom and honesty on the wearer.

Moonstone
Amerliorates emotions, boosts the forces of intuition and aids the power to access the subconscious.

Sodalite
Increases the ability to communicate and to empathize with other individuals. Effective for the evolution of spirituality and intuition.

The preceding stones are just a small selection of gems that are believed to possess healing powers. The only true way to find out if these gems can work for you is to wear such gems if you suffer from an ailment that a gemstone is believed to help alleviate.

One of the worlds greatest Meditators, says Governments can’t eradicate poverty from the Earth. Neither can they bring peace. “To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach,”

A few hundred meditators on either side of a conflict is all that’s needed to create an aura of peace. “We create world consciousness and coherence. Therefore, fighting will stop all over,” “Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light of Meditation, and darkness will disappear.”

• Eliminate poverty? End war and create world peace? The unifying field that Albert Einstein sought has been within us all the time, in the “unbounded consciousness” of the mind. “There is one unity, unified wholeness, total unified consciousness,”

• Tear down major structures and cities — the White House and the United Nations among them - Heal the energies and rebuild them according to energetic architectural plans that harmonize construction with nature.

• Send meditation groups to world hot spots as psychic shock troops whose combined positive energy will dispel negativity, reduce crime, ease conflict and promote world peace.

• Buy billions of acres in 100 developing countries for labor-intensive farming, providing employment and income for the world’s poorest people by feeding the First-World market for organic food.

Meditation is a 20-minute twice daily routine in which the meditator silently focuses on a sound, or mantra, to induce relaxation and “Dive Into A State Of Pure Consciousness And Tap Into The Deepest Resources Of The Brain And Intelligence.”

With Meditation “Anger, Stress, Tension, Depression, Sorrow, Hate, Fear — these things start to retreat,” said American movie director David Lynch of “Twin Peaks” renown, who has practiced Meditation for 32 years. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you’re suffering you can’t create.

Most scientists agree Meditation can ease stress, high blood pressure, pain and insomnia. Meditation has gained legitimacy. The National Institutes of Health has had a Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine since 1998 to research these practices.

There are now over 600 published Scientific Studies on the Benefits of Meditation.

Here is the Recent News on Meditation.

Study: Meditation may boost brain activity
Regular meditation has been touted as a stress reducer for years, but a recent study says practitioners benefit from a brain boost as well.

Meditation embraced
Meditation is being embraced within medical circles as a powerful healing tool.

Scientists to check Nepal Buddha boy
Scientists in Nepal are to examine a meditating teenager who is said to take no food or liquid

Director aims to boost meditation
Director David Lynch wants $7bn (£3.98bn) to introduce meditation to US schools in a bid for world peace.

Meditation to tackle depression
Psychologists appeal for volunteers to take part in a study using practices to prevent suicidal depression.

Meditation ‘brain training’ clues
Meditating monks are giving clues about how the brain’s basic responses can be overridden, researchers say.

Buddhists can move to centre
Claims that a new Buddhist meditation centre would be too ‘noisy’ for local residents is rejected by councilors.

School pupils learn to meditate
Pupils whose school burnt down have found a new home at a therapy centre which specializes in meditation.

Vicar opens Indian-style retreat
A clergyman opens a multi-faith retreat encouraging people of different religions to meet and meditate.

Seaside town greets Buddhist nun
A Westen Buddhist nun relocates to north Wales to begin meditation classes at a Colwyn Bay centre.

Buddhist’s battle to meditate
A Buddhist is forced to apply for planning consent to practice meditating in his own wood.

Meditation for ‘Christmas rage’
Buddhists offer shoppers an oasis of tranquility at the BBC Big Screen to calm those Christmas nerves.

Buddhist monk helps rugby club
A Buddhist monk is drafted in to teach Caerphilly rugby club how to improve their game through the art of meditation.

Helping patients to relax
Kidney patients are being given a new way of relaxing before their treatment - meditation CDs.

Meditating on a cinema first
A new venture offers groups of people the chance to meditate in the darkened comfort of the multiplex.

Meditation lessons for pupils
A Buddhist charity offers meditation lessons to high school pupils in Cardiff in a move to help them de-stress.

Meditation ‘good for brain’
Scientists say they have found evidence that meditation has a biological effect on the brain and immune system.

Caveman meditates to survive
A man who was picked to live like a hermit in a Staffordshire cave survives by meditating.

Thai prisoners reform through meditation
Thai authorities plan to expand a meditation course for prison inmates, after participants in a trial programme responded so positively.

India’s meditative model jail
Delhi’s Tihar jail, where staff and inmates have taken an holistic approach to reform and rehabilitation.

Meditate your way to success
Teachers are searching for ways to tackle classroom discipline. One experiment in California is having significant results.

Meditation mapped in monks
Snapshots of monks’ brains provide clues as to what goes on inside the head during meditation.

Pupils meditate before lessons
Schools in Portsmouth are hoping meditation sessions will help reduce bad behaviour in the classroom.

Yoga ‘can help asthmatics’
A type of meditation based on yoga may ease asthma

Harrison fans unite in meditation
Fans, friends and family of George Harrison take part in a minute’s meditation as a mark of respect to the former Beatle.

Innerspace meets cyberspace
Researchers say virtual reality meditation could deliver inner peace more effectively than the traditional yoga mat.

Meditating against pain
A stress reduction specialist is setting out to teach hospital patients to deal with cancer, HIV and depression.

Prisoners benefit from meditation
A form of meditation is being successfully used to improve the behaviour and well-being of prison inmates, says a study.

Another Chinese spiritual group ‘faces suppression’
A Hong Kong-based human rights group says the Chinese government is about to launch a campaign to suppress another another spiritual and meditation group similar to the Falungong movement.

China’s perplexing crackdown
Beijing correspondent Duncan Hewitt wonders why the Falun Gong meditation movement is seen by the authorities as such a grave threat to society.

Chief Minister wants more yoga
The chief minister in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Chandra Babu Naidu, has asked his ministers and officials to adopt yoga and meditation to improve performance and reduce stress.

China raps US in sect row
Beijing has told the United States to stay out of its affairs after China was criticised for planning to prosecute leading members of the meditation sect Falun Gong.

Beijing justifies sect clampdown
Chinese leaders say the recent crackdown on the Falun Gong meditation sect was vital to maintain social stability.

Meditation lowers blood pressure
Transcendental meditation may be one way to keep the heart healthy, say researchers who have discovered how it keeps blood pressure low.

‘Meditation could end Kosovo conflict’
The Natural Law Party in Wales has unveiled its campaign for the assembly elections by saying meditation could end the Kosovan conflict as well as problems of health and poverty in Wales.

School for winning poets
A school that teaches meditation shows the way on National Poetry Day, with prizes for four inspired pupils.

Satchidanand,
Director of Energy Enhancement, is one of the leading teachers of Meditation.!

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Professionals have their regulatory bodies and codes of practice, but individuals involved in mystical work are often self taught. This can leave them feeling they are in something of a black hole when it comes to dealing with the public appropriately. From the point of view of the client, it makes it difficult to know who to choose for a reading.

Ethical principles should guide all practitioners of the divinatory arts, whatever their field. Talking with a group of astrologers confirmed for me that the same types of problems face all “readers” whose clients have come seeking advice: dealing with difficult questions; the possibility of tragic events; what to do when people have depression or issues they cannot handle alone, and especially, avoiding dependency and the pressure it places on the practitioner. It is dependency on the reader that I will discuss here and how readers and their clients can avoid the problem.

Initially, I would say, be clear about motives. As a practitioner, I think the best position is to have a set of strong values with regard to your work that accord with your spiritual perspective. Being a person who tries to live her life by Buddhist teachings I ask myself, “What is my motivation in doing this kind of work?” The answer that initially springs to mind is to help others by giving them the insights gleaned from a reading, but it is more than that. It is to empower others to choose for themselves how to deal more effectively with problems in their lives by giving them information. Encouraging clients to become dependent on more and more readings is not ethical.

Client dependency usually occurs when people have a simplistic view of divination. They believe that a reading reveals “Fate” - a future written in tablets of stone that cannot be avoided. They see themselves in the role of puppets on a stage where larger forces are pulling the strings. If they get the “wrong answer” to their queries then real stress can result and clients can pressure readers to tell them what they want to hear by asking the same question again and again, until they get the “right” answer. It’s easy to forget how much the client invests in what a reader says and how careful readers need to be when faced with someone overwhelmed by life problems.

The Tarot cards show potentials, trends and possibilities for a person at any one time. At no stage does that person lose their free will. Readers need to show clients how they have choices and need to be proactive in their lives. “If you follow this path, then X may occur. If you follow that path then Y is more likely”. Does anybody get a new job or a new romance if they don’t make some moves towards their goal? A good reading should show ways of making desirable changes.

If you are a client looking for a reader who can give you real insight into your possibilities then you should be looking for someone who has the insight to explain things in this way. At no time should you feel you have lost control of your choices. The purpose of divination is to seek guidance not intimidation. Both “seers” and clients need to adopt an exploratory frame of mind in a reading rather than a predictive one and clients should ask, when they book a reading, “How do you work? Is there only one answer to a problem or am I free to explore the possibilities open to me?”

Dianne Hardwick has been reading tarot for over 30 years. For a free astrology forecast visit her website at http://www.diannehardwick.com

Direct Answers - Column for the week of February 2, 2004

I am at a complete loss about what to do with my mother-in-law to be. In a nutshell, she’s verbally abusive. She treats my fiance like a child, and yet he is 30. She calls me stupid. He has put up with this behavior all his life and won’t stand up to her. I love my fiance, but if this is how it’s going to be the rest of our lives, I’m having second thoughts.

She’s an unreasonable person who throws a fit whenever people don’t do things her way. I’ve done my best to keep peace with her. I treat her kindly and do my utmost to be respectful and listen to her.

I know I need to be more assertive and set some boundaries, in a kind manner of course. I believe in treating others with respect no matter the difficulty of the situation. Sadly, she could care less about others’ feelings. My fiance’s a wonderful guy, but how do I deal with his mom? When we announce our engagement, she’s going to go ballistic.

Danielle

Danielle, in mythology Venus was Psyche’s mother-in-law. Venus decreed she would not accept Psyche as a daughter-in-law unless she performed several preposterous tasks.

Great quantities of wheat, lentils, peas, poppy seeds, barley, and millet were mixed together, and Psyche had to sort them by nightfall. Aided by an army of ants, Psyche did it. Another task required Psyche to fetch water from a mountain spring guarded by dragons. Again Psyche succeeded, this time helped by an eagle.

You are writing to us as if we command magical power. We don’t. You want to treat this woman as you have been, yet you want her to change. The first time “stupid” came out of her mouth the issue should have been addressed. Ground rules need to be set from the start.

Pretend you are her. Why should she change? You treat her with respect . She is doing a better job of teaching you than you are of teaching her. Turning the other cheek is not appropriate because it will not stop or correct her behavior. When the food is unpalatable, you send it back to the chef.

Have your boyfriend agree to stay on the sidelines, then confront his mother each time she crosses the line of acceptable behavior. If this problem isn’t solved before you marry, heed your second thoughts.

Tamara

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Sight Unseen

I can’t believe I’m writing for advice, but I think the time has come. I have been intimately involved with my lover for two years. She has been in a relationship with another woman for eight years.

Needless to say, I am the other woman in her life. I am at the point where I want to end our relationship. My problem is I don’t know how. We started out as friends and have had so many fun times together I’m scared of losing that. I don’t want to hurt her, but I am mature and wise enough to know the entire situation seems to be a lost cause.

My lover tells me I am trying to put a time limit on when we will be together, but after two years I feel I have the right to know what the future holds for me but there are no answers.

Susannah

Susannah, Tamara often says, “What most letters boil down to is the letter writer is unwilling to do the hard thing.” There’s no point in giving you an answer because you already know the answer. But the right answer is the hard thing.

When a relationship is going nowhere, you need to end it. Continuing takes away the opportunity of finding the right person. In addition, ending a wrong relationship gives you the courage to end wrong relationships in the future. It is hard to choose uncertainty, but that is where potential happiness lies.

Wayne

About The Author

Authors and columnists Wayne and Tamara Mitchell can be reached at www.WayneAndTamara.com.

Send letters to: Direct Answers, PO Box 964, Springfield, MO 65801 or email: DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com.

I have so many women in my life and one common thing I have always noticed about them all, is that they love looking beautiful at all times. I am very sure this is not debatable. A woman can stand at the front of a mirror for a long time just to ensure that she is looking attractive and that everything about her is perfect. The more imperfection they notice, the longer their stay with the mirror even if there is something important to catch up.

I used to wonder why people spend so much time trying to look beautiful on their outside while spending lesser time on or even neglecting their inner beauty. We spend so much fortune trying to look elegant physically but hardly spend a penny to decorate our inner self. Let me tell you, your inside also need adornment. Nobody in his right sense will ever think of putting on a rag to an important occasion, but that is what most of us do to our inner self. We put on expensive cloths on our outside but wear rag inside us. At the end of the day, people that falls into this category, gets embarrassed because the rag they have inside will always show itself somehow.

Beautifying your inside, which is your mid, is all about learning something everyday that will build you up and add value to your life. Learning is an important aspect of human life that is being neglected by billions of people the world over. To know whether you are guilty as well or not, take a pen and write down how much you have spent on stuffs like clothing, jewelries, leisure and other things. Balance this up by writing how much you have spent on things that will develop your mind. Things like books, educational tapes, videos and seminars.

When you look at your list, you will discover whether you have what we call inner beauty. There are several people who have never bothered clothing their inside but they are best at turning it into a dumping site for garbage. What a pity! Little wonder why so many people are in the rat race.

The best investment/decoration you can make is that of your mind. If you invest in your inner self, you will be able to build up your mental muscle which can one day come to your defence anytime the need arises. Several people spend hours in the gym trying to build up their physical muscle but regrettably leaving their mental muscles unattended to. When the physical muscle fails, wonder what will come to their rescue.

Little wonder we have so many heavily built people who hardly have a direction in life. Have you ever seen a “small” man being guarded by heavily built guys? What do you think is at play in such a situation? While these “big” guys are focusing on their physical muscles, these “tiny” creatures they are now guarding are busy building up their mental muscles which can make them defeat any living creature no matter how heavily built they are.

If you are going to experience an all-round success in your life, begin to read good books, buy good tapes and videos and attend seminars that will make you balanced mentally. I have learnt that a mentally lazy man, is a potential threat in the future to those who stay around him. If your inside is beautiful, you will always be accepted where ever you go no matter what you are outside. It will always radiate whenever you open your mouth to speak. This is an advice you cannot afford to ignore.

To Your Success

Adebola Oni is the Author of “The Lessons Of Life”. So many lives have been touched by his newsletter, Life Lessons Digest. You can have a copy delivered to you every week by visiting his website: The Lessons Of Life

It was hot. Not normal sort of hot, but drenched-in-sweat/hurts-to-breathe/why-on-earth-do-I-live-in-this-part-of-the-country-sort of hot. A late night on the town had provided me with less than adequate sleep, only to have my rest broken by a radio alarm clock announcing the hottest temperatures of the year. As if that wasn’t bad enough, throw in a two hour drive to a family reunion where I’d know only a handful of people. Was I excited? Ready and raring to go? I’ll let you be the judge.

After walking into the reunion, a cousin offered me a chair next to my great uncle, Rubin, an 81 year old retired farmer who I saw once every few years. I sat down on an uncomfortable metal folding chair and, for the next five hours, proceeded to have one of the most enjoyable times in recent memory. A pleasant surprise? Again, I’ll let you be the judge.

For hours, Rubin shared tales of growing up during the Depression with his siblings, all of whom were present except those who are deceased and, somehow, I think they were probably there, too. Rubin gave me a crash course in how his father made homemade wine, recounted stories of his travels around the country and had me in hysterics with a multitude of one-liners.

“You know, Marcus, I was deer hunting last year with these two girls,” he said, not bothering to explain that “girl” means any female who is not yet drawing Social Security. “After we shot at a couple of deer, one of the girls walked down the valley to see what we’d hit. She came back a few minutes later and said, ‘Well, Rubin, my deer was a clean shot, but yours was hit through the stomach!’

I told her, “I never, never shoot a deer in the gut! You’ve got the two mixed up!’

Now, Marcus, I knew darned good and well which one I’d hit, but I wasn’t going to admit I’d missed my target! Heck, I’m 81! What does she expect? An ace marksman?”

With a flash of a smile and a twinkle in his eye, he launched into his next story. I barely had time to catch my breath between laughs!

As the day wore on, more stories surfaced. Rubin enthralled me with tales of my great grandfather and his brother who died as a teenager. Cheerful memories spilled out as he reflected on growing up in the bottomlands of the Missouri River.

Rubin’s voice softened as he thought back on the day when he learned a neighbor’s son had been killed in Vietnam. “He just had one more week in his tour of duty, then we would have had him home. Just 20 years old and he died halfway around the world, away from everything he knew.” Rubin’s chin fell to the bibs of his overalls and I could almost see his look of loss. This heartbreaking tale showed the depths of Rubin’s true compassion.

As the afternoon drew to a close, I found myself regretting my absence from this man’s presence. However, the past is in the past. I’m just glad I had the chance to become friends with this man, a relative who I’ve never really known. I left the reunion promising myself to never again let those friends on the fringes of life fall completely out of touch.

Yet, how often do we make this sort of a promise? How many times do we part from another’s company swearing we’ll stay in touch? If you’re anything like me, you’ve done this before; and many times you’ve failed to keep that vow.

We get caught up in our own lives, our own concerns and our own daily activities, always thinking that we’ll make the call, send the E mail, write the letter some day…but does that “someday” ever come? Unfortunately, it often does not.

Think of someone you care about and with whom you’ve lost contact. My challenge for you is to bridge that relationship. I was privileged to hear a speaker who delivered a simple, memorable message: “Hey, at the end of my life, if there are some people I love and some people who love me, I’ll die a rich man.”

The only way to assure we can all die “rich” is to make the time, take the first step and re-establish that contact. Will you do it? Here…I’ll make it easy for you!

Open up your E mail address book. Locate a name and ask yourself one question: Can I list one significant thing that has happened in this person’s life in the past six months? If you cannot, drop ‘em a note! How big is the smile on your face when an old friend’s name pops up in your in box? More importantly, how big will your friend’s smile be when they see your name? Make good on those promises to stay in touch…don’t wait for the next reunion!

-Special Thanks!-

A special thanks goes out to all who have sent compliments and accolades on The Marcus Engel Newsletter over the past several months. You have my undying gratitude for helping me to see that what I’m doing is making a difference, as well as for sharing the message by forwarding it along to others. The overwhelming response has been humbling and has, in turn, motivated me. Thank you!

Marcus Engel is a professional speaker/author who inspires audiences to achieve success by making intelligent choices. Blinded by a drunk driver at age 18, Marcus battled through two years of recovery and 300 hours of reconstructive facial surgery to reach his goal of returning to college. After graduating from Missouri State University in 2000, Marcus began sharing his story professionally to audiences nationwide. In 2002, Marcus founded his own publishing company with the release of his autobiography, “After This…An Inspirational Journey For All the Wrong Reasons.” His messages of empowerment and motivation have been witnessed by hundreds of thousands through his keynotes, his autobiography and his monthly newsletters. Marcus Engel is a speaker, a message, a story you will never forget! Visit http://www.MarcusEngel.com for more information!

“Have nothing to do with silly and ill-informed controversies which lead inevitably, as you know, to strife” (2 Timothy 2:23 Phillips); “But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments, because these are unprofitable and useless” (Titus 3:9).

Defend me, therefore, common sense, I say,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
Cowper

Religion especially is not to satisfy our curiosity or to answer speculative questions. It is to restore our relationship with God; to sanctify our hearts and minds and prepare us for eternity. What good comes from stirring up strife over whatever does not help us with this goal?

Chaucer shared this humorous bit of wisdom: “One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life/Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.” Our question is not, “Is my name written there, on the page white and fair?” but, “Is my God written here, on my heart full of fear?” “What must [we] do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30) and “What must we do to do the works God requires?” (John 6:28) are the compelling questions.

“…What may be known about God is plain…” (Romans 1:19). It is “wise” men who have obscured the plain things. We have made a fine art of wrangling and wrestling from the very Word of God. “Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” 1 Corinthians 1:20. Yes, there are thoughts past our understanding, but God would not leave us without precepts and promises that we can comprehend and believe beyond spiritual fatal doubts. What kind of God would leave us hanging in the winds of worry and misgiving if He professes to be Love?

“Huxley came to Baltimore to attend a general conference in 1820. A discussion arose on a question of order, whether presiding elders should be elected by preachers or not, and the dispute had waxed warm, not to say hot. Brother Huxley had said not a word through it all, but at the close of the session the Bishop called upon him to make the concluding prayer. He knelt and said, “Now, O Lord, Thou knowest what a time we’ve had here discussing and arguing about this elder question, and Thou knowest what our feelings are. We do not care what becomes of the ark; it’s only who drives the oxen.” (Christian Age.)

I wonder if the ark is faring any better in our day!

Creating reality, can you really do it? Of course you can, I know this because you’re already doing it. How you ask? Well, you’re living what you’ve been paying attention to. I know it may be a difficult thing to grasp. Think about it; if you have more struggle than ease in your life, you’ve been putting more attention to thoughts, feelings and looking for the evidence to support the thoughts and feelings that have to do with struggle. Now here, on the flip side, if you have some struggle but you pay more attention to ease, everything that has anything to do with the expression of ease is what your attention will draw to. The return on the investment of your
attention to ease will be greater ease. Over the past 11 years it’s been interesting that many have often asked, “I’m not thinking about being sick or being in lack, what do you mean I created this?” Well, if you’re fearful about being sick or of going forward in some area of your life or you’re paying attention to the absence of what you want, you are placing valuable energy being in the vibration of that very fear.
That fear will increase by virtue of your attention activating more of it until you stop feeding it. It only takes little shifts in attention to guide you toward what you really want to begin feeding, what will serve and support a greater reality for
you.

Reality (the state of being actual or real) is subjective [taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias]. It is a reality that there are many people who
live in poverty and it is a reality that despite economic factors, many people thrive financially. Which is true? Both are true, and everything in between, they are all reality. Creating reality is about attending to preferences that are in alignment with what you desire. You may have heard the definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Isn’t that what you’re doing when you consistently worry and then wonder why you’re living what you’re worrying about? You create your reality either by unconscious default or by conscious [intentional] choice to where you place your attention. Since your mind cannot hold
two thoughts simultaneously, you may as well start choosing the thoughts and feelings that support your wanted reality.

All creation begins at the level of thought and idea. By now you’ve been observing, to some extent, that what you’ve living, how you’ve been thinking and feeling is the magnet that draws to you the physical manifestation of those thoughts and feelings. That energy of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel have been are your roadmap. With just a few reminders that that by directing your attention,consciously and deliberately, you will know you are in control of your life. Your
life is your universe, your world. What you choose to have as part of your world is completely your part, and how it shows up or comes into your physical manifestation is the universe’s job. It’s a co-creative process.

What you pay attention to grows. Your attention on the absence of what you want, or, the presence of what you have, grows in intensity, it grows in momentum and it grows in density so you draw more of it into your physical experience. To help with expansion, I’ve created a lexicon, a framework of definitions, to help you with your alchemy (power or process of transmuting) of creating reality. In this series, titled
Alchemy of Creating Reality - A to Z, we will be working with a new alphabet, each letter will be associated with states of being that resonate, or match, the vibration of your desires.

Working with new associations for each letter of the alphabet provides a greater framework with which to create more deliberately. In kindergarten, A stood for Apple. In fact, all the letters were taught using association with objects, perfect
for our age at that time. Now, with this new alphabet, you begin associating each letter with the state of being that you wish to activate. Notice the difference between an object (Apple) and a state of being (Awareness). As a discerning, intelligent and very creative adult, wouldn’t it be to your advantage to redefine
those very basic associations to ones that will help you re-create a life more befitting the life you imagine for yourself? Staying sick will not make someone else well and staying poor will not make someone else richer.

The first in this series is: Alchemy of Creating Realty: A is for Awareness as awareness is a very powerful beginning; then we’ll go all the way through Z is for Zenith (the highest point of your possibilities). In the 26 subsequent articles, I’ll
provide various focus points as a framework to give you ideas, either beyond what you’ve already thought of, or, a deeper level of what you’ve started thinking about. You’ve already begun thinking more deeply about where you’re placing your attention,
the ball just started rolling, there’s so much more ahead.

In the meantime, begin to direct your attention to what you want (rather than what you don’t want) and start playing with what you think and feel relative to “Awareness.” Begin thinking in holographic terms: think and feel each individual
element (each letter association) in terms of its relationship with the whole (what you’re creating). And as you begin working with your own alphabet, let the line between work and play blur and enjoy; with your senses, the associations you feel are a match to your desired, greater reality. Keep your mind and heart open, Awareness is on its way! Dynamically yours, Gabriele Reign

Gabriele Reign is a Mentor of Alchemy and the creator of dynamics that guide you through step-by-step practices to create and manifest the life you’ve always imagined for yourself. If you desire guidance, private or group mentoring, feel free to visit: http://www.DynamicLifeNow.com and for more inspiration to fuel your desires, visit: http://www.AllEmpowerment.com

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What am I supposed to do with my life? Shouldn’t I be doing something…well…more?

These questions haunt everyone from time to time. Personally, I can’t count the number of times my acquaintances and I have batted this philosophical shuttlecock around a conversational circle. More often then not, the discussion gets bogged down in the seemingly immiscible oil-and-water struggle between the “idealists”, who are sure anything is possible if you just believe, and the “realists” who claim that between taxes, child-rearing and battles over tenure and seniority there simply isn’t time for belief in the promise that “your check is in the mail,” let alone anything more esoteric like living the life of your dreams.

I can’t help but feel that most of us are going about this issue the wrong way - simply trying too hard to get it right the first time and ending up doing nothing out of fear that we will get it wrong, and not find out until we’re too far down the road to find our way back to the starting point. Unfortunately, by the time we realize that we haven’t actually chosen anything we often discover that the choice was made for us long ago by our inattention.

Instead of trying to figure out the eternal (and unanswerable) question of, “What should I do with my life,” consider just living life, and living it well. There’s nothing wrong with simply picking up a comfortable mix of jobs, hobbies, causes, volunteering and fun stuff that you really want to do and enjoy doing, and then doing them to the best of your ability with no intent to be anything other than yourself at your best. If you do this, one of two things will most certainly happen:

1. You will eventually stumble across something you want to do while you’re out enjoying your life.

2. You won’t stumble across whatever it is you want to do, but will enjoy living your life anyway, creating a warm, cheerful and loving environment for those around you in the process.

Either way, you will have a happy, enjoyable life that you can be proud of reliving in the hereafter, and you may end up coming across something wondrous. One thing I do know is that while all of us are capable of doing great things, not too many of us realize that not everybody has to climb to the top of the mountain and be a hero to do this.

Even if you just spend your life being kind, happy and pleasant, puttering around at your hobbies, helping others when you can and generally just making the world around your little sphere of influence a little cheerier by virtue of your smiling, whistling presence, that’s a great work in and of itself. Too many people, feeling that pull to “make something of themselves,” fail to realize that who they already are is enough.

So why not just relax, enjoy your life and let it unfold as it will. Many who believe in reincarnation believe that some lifetimes are just for enjoying the view, a vacation of sorts, and many others believe that it is as much a sin to forgo permissible pleasures as it is to avoid the forbidden ones. Surely our Creator would not create such a beautiful world as this and then be offended if we were so taken with it that we spent our lives enjoying it and each other. Enjoy your life and enjoy the lives of those around you. And if you just so happen to find “great work” while you’re at it, well that’s just the icing on the cake.

(c) Soni Pitts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim “soul proprietorship” in their lives and to begin living the life their Creator always intended for them.

She is the author of the free e-book “50 Ways To Reach Your Goals” and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.