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Cultivate Life!

February 8th, 2010

Quotes of the Week

"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." --Margaret Laurence

"If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love." --Osho

"I died from a mineral and plant became,
Died from the plant, took a sentient frame;
Died from the beast, donned a human dress -
When by my dying did I ever grow less..." --Jalaluddin Rumi

The Ascension Training Program

Let me suggest to you that an introduction to the Ascension Training Program may be akin to your initial introduction to roller-coasters. Until you've actually been on one, you can relate only marginally to the excitement and enthusiasm of a person who has just taken a ride.

In terms of the Ascension Training Program, you will meet some of those graduates in the Forum and on the Testimonials' Page. Having taken the ride, they are now capable of describing the experience to you. They will offer numerous insights on what you can expect. Understand that the ride itself is quite extraordinary and you are about to be introduced to that experience.

The first group of Ascendees (riders) will share some wonderful examples from their experience and how it feels to be moving through the 12 steps. From that input, you can anticipate what is coming for you. Like any new experience, the description does not compare to the ride itself, but it will give you a glimpse into an experience that has been described as life-changing.

What You've Done So Far:
We appreciate that you've done a lot of work on yourself to this point. Otherwise, you would not be here. You have been sensing that there is something in the air, something new to explore in terms of personal development. Let there be no more doubt about that feeling, there is something new in the air and it is called Ascension.

Our work together in this program will be both spiritual and dynamic. This program raises the bar on what it means to be spiritual, far beyond what the world's religions have been teaching. The majority of today's religions are 3rd dimensional and have no concept of what Ascension actually means.

Ascension, at this time in human history, means moving from 3rd dimensional density consciousness to 5th dimensional expanded consciousness where the world will appear as different as night from day. In fact you could simply describe the process as moving from Darkness to Light. That is the power of this experience.

As moderator and guide, I have been on this path for decades. From the early 70s to the present, I have been through every growth experience imaginable. Aside from so many personal and spiritual growth practices, I garnered 3 degrees in Psychology and worked as a counsellor and therapist for over 20 years. My interests in Mythology and Spirituality kept me digging for more than what Psychology had to offer. All this preparation and life experience brought me to the point where delivering this Ascension Training Program is central to my Life Mission. My friends, of the Ethereal Realms, have been grooming me for this work. I am ready to guide you through this program and help you succeed with yours.

Ascension Training Centre:
All the material contained at the Ascension Training Centre has come through guidance and intuition. My Guardian Angels and Keepers of the Light are the library I draw from for every program, piece of music and book I have put together thus far. I have done this Ascension work and I know what awaits you. You will not be disappointed.

Message from the Ethereal:
We, of the Ethereal Realms, will be processing program participants information as well. We are part of your Ascension Training Team. We will safeguard your Ascension experience by providing you with an unlimited supply of Love Energy while delivering subtle, but powerful, self-awareness coaching to help you master every step and move through any remaining obstacles. Your engagement and commitment to Ascend are your keys to success. This is all you need to know until the roller-coaster leaves the station.

There will be times on this ride where you are thrown in every possible direction, and there will be times when you just glide along with the program. Those convulsive times will require you to stay focused and absorb the information being delivered to you. Your journals need to be at the ready for the feelings and reactions that are bound to come up, especially in the first few sessions. Again, this is the necessary final cleansing to be followed by Full Acceptance of Who and What you are, warts and all! Total self-acceptance is crucial to your Ascension success.

Your journals will be important companions throughout this process. You will need them to document and release the stresses and painful insights that are going to surface. Through your journals you will release these feelings and free yourself of their grip. This program is like 3 years of therapy compressed into 6 weeks . It is a process of intensive clearing, powerful insights and creative openness to the limitless possibilities the 5th dimension has to offer.

You cannot fail! By the end of session 3 you will be fully engaged and know in your heart that you are onto something special. We can assure you that, despite the convulsive dynamics that accompany this process, the alluring call of Ascension will remain a strong and powerful beacon, drawing you forward to that most desired goal. There will likely be cries from your old self trying to draw you back to the familiarity of the 3rd dimension. Be assured that the pull of Ascension's new energy will overwhelm all these dissenting voices. In the end, there will be no desire left to return to your old life.

Summary:
We, my Ethereal Friends and I, have provided a picture of what you can expect as you move through this Ascension Training Program. Your active participation is a must for you to reap the rewards of success. Knowing you have earned your way into the 5th dimension will give you a powerful sense of accomplishment that cannot be challenged by those living in the 3rd dimension. Your heart will be at peace and you will know at the deepest level that you are Home.

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A free Preview of the Ascension Training Program has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 9 at 2PM Eastern Standard Time (North America) and will be repeated later that same day at 7PM Eastern Standard Time (North America).

How Long: Each session will be 1 hour in length
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Conference dial-in Number: (712) 432-0075
Participant Access Code: 627563
Playback Number: (712) 432-1085

Note: Participants can access the call via Skype and avoid long distance charges. Skype: enter freeConferencing as the contact you are calling. Automated answering will ask for Access Code - Same as above (627563). Then Press # and you are there.

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Saying "I love you" to the World

Almost three years ago, an article of mine was published in the Trans4mind ezine, Cultivate Life!, describing the book I was writing - a photo essay collection of couples who found love later in life - and asking for more such couples. At that point, I had found about a third of the couples who would eventually comprise this book, "Autumn Romance."

My only criteria were that both had to be 50 or over when they became romantically involved and both had to consider it real, true love. I was hoping for couples in different locations than I already had. So when a Trans4mind reader, Bob T., wrote me from Nevada, I was delighted. Another new state!

My interview with Bob and Wanda (then his girlfriend, now his wife) was eye-opening. Their previous lives hadn't been free from struggle. But with this new relationship, they were creating something new, a "no blame relationship." I remember sitting at my desk in Philadelphia after our first interview, smiling. Wow, I just met the most amazing people. So unafraid to reach for something that other people would call unrealistic. But they are actually making it real.

My idea of "Autumn Romance" seemed clear but as time went on, the vision kept being redefined by the journey. Two years into writing the book, it was not just about older couples finding love late in life. It was also about the spiritual opportunities therein.

According to conventional thinking, the second half of life is all about relaxing and accepting what life has handed you. But I was interviewing people who were looking at past mistakes and trying to do things differently - people breaking away from old patterns and starting over - people, after great pain, who were changing course and setting their sights for great happiness.

Bob T. suffered many losses in his early 50s, but then he managed to extricate himself from lifelong negative patterns. Free to connect with a woman on a deeply emotional level, he met Wanda. In their 50s, they both had learned how to understand themselves... and how to be in touch with their most innocent dreams.

Bob and Wanda were brave enough to create great change in their life and that's why their story falls in the chapter called "Change" (there are six chapters in the book). Another chapter is called "It's You Again," where couples who knew each other when young fall in love when they are older.

In this chapter, RJ (who fell in love with Esther when both were 13, thinking her "the prettiest girl in the world") meets Esther again when both are 62. He had never stopped loving her and now she loves him back.

Was his initial adoration due to Esther's big brown eyes and slender figure? In their 60s, it is now clear it was Esther's soul he always loved. When you read this story, the incident that seems like an unrealistic miracle, is totally believable because the love they feel for each other is so powerful.

Writing these stories was difficult, because I wanted to convey both the gritty real-life narratives of each life story, and also, how these life stories combined in almost fairy tale simplicity - because of love. In the end, I believe that the real power of "Autumn Romance" derives from the fact that a romance late in life becomes a perfect prism through which to glimpse the nature of true love, which of course is soul to soul.

In the autumn of life, the bloom of youth is gone. The illusion of perfection is pushed aside. And then, what is visible is a person's soul. In these stories, we get to see people loving each other's souls and this is powerful stuff. The stories are filled with magical turns of events: marvelous coincidences, predictions coming true, cynics becoming believers.

The book is a perfect present for Valentine's Day... with your help I'm hoping to spread more love around the world. If you buy a copy of "Autumn Romance" during the month of February, it comes with Free Shipping. If you buy two, the second one is half price.

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It's Not Your Fault

In the movie "Goodwill Hunting" Matt Damon plays a brilliant angry young man who has a history of violence and has been bound over by the court to a psychotherapist played by Robin Williams. In the pivotal scene towards the end of the movie the psychologist and the boy are standing facing each other and he says...

"It's not your fault."
(Pause) "I know"
"It's not your fault......."
"I know......."
"It's not your fault........"
"I know......."
"It's not your fault........"
"I know......."
"It's not your fault........"
The boy suddenly pushes the psychologist "look man, don't xxxx with me"
"It's not your fault........ It's not your fault........"

This scene never fails to create an emotional response from the audience, because they know there has been a breakthrough in what he has been resonating with all his life, "It's my fault."

In the crucial formative years during a child's growth at a physical, mental, emotional, spirit level, from in utero, the birth process, and up to the age of eight, whatever positive or negative influence the child has learned will stay with him/her for the rest of his/her life. Up to the age of eight everything is related to 'self'. The child is more attuned to the right hemisphere of the brain. After the age of eight we learn to integrate the left/right hemispheres of the brain and learn how to discriminate and become more analytical (an ability only given to the human specie as sentient beings).

This early preoccupation with 'self' has profound implications in our relationships, especially with our parents. If a small child sees his/her parents having an argument or worse, it immediately becomes "my fault" because everything is about self.. this is followed almost automatically by "I'm not worthwhile," "I'm not lovable."

This will play out in a number of scenarios. If parents go out for a couple of hours without explanation and leave the child on its own, there is separation anxiety and what follows is "it's my fault," "I'm not worthwhile," "I'm not lovable." There are many other scenarios and during the course of a session of Resonance Repatterning they come up over and over again. The child in the adult still resonates with these messages and it plays out in his life with an inability to bond appropriately with the opposite sex, health issues, anxiety, abandonment issues, in fact right across the whole spectrum of human behaviour, often with disastrous results; for example: drug and alcohol abuse, or sexual addiction, as a result of low self-esteem, all in an attempt to anaesthetise themselves against life.

In his article, "The Power of Belief" Peter Shepherd states, "Our beliefs strongly influence our behaviour. They motivate us and shape what we do. Beliefs are our guiding principles, the inner maps we use to make sense of the world."

This can of course be a double edged sword. He goes on to say, "Beliefs come from many sources - upbringing, imitation of significant others, conclusions as a result of past traumas and repetitive experiences."

Chloe Wordsworth in her Introduction to Belief Repatterning writes: "It is not necessarily the painful past experience itself that creates your present pain or difficulties. Resonance with old life-depleting beliefs that are associated with highly charged feelings, create much of the pain and limitation experienced in the present."

This becomes apparent when we are witness to the afore mentioned scene in "Goodwill Hunting." Wordsworth goes on to say, "The beliefs that are identified may not make logical sense to you. In fact you may not even be conscious that you have such life depleting beliefs. This is because such beliefs are responses to specific situations from your infancy and childhood. What is important is to identify your resonance with the infant or childhood beliefs, so that this resonance can be transformed."

"It's not your fault." "I know." "It's not your fault."

"It is also possible that a life-depleting belief is a generational pattern that has been inherited."

Peter Shepherd says, "When we believe something we act as if it is true... this makes it difficult to disprove; beliefs act as perceptual filters. Unless we can truly forgive ourselves, we can never really move on and be free of the past."

That is why it is essential that we erase the program that we have resonated with for so long... "It's my fault - I'm not worthwhile - I'm not lovable."

It's not your fault.

Michael Fisher is a longstanding certified practitioner and teacher of Resonance Repatterning. In order to experience a session of Resonance Repatterning you can e-mail or phone at 604-264-9011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and book an appointment. A phone-in or proxy session typically takes up to an hour and a quarter. Currently, Michael is doing phone-in sessions with clients in Birmingham, Seattle, Connecticut, Zurich, Calgary, Edmonton, and Kamloops in Canada. More information at www.healthy-life.ca.

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5 Steps to Discover your Real Life Purpose

If you'd like to experience a real pizzazz and joy for life, start your day with meditating on your life purpose. There is something magical, super powerful and healing that happens when you are in touch with why you are here, and what you're here to do. All your so called "problems" no longer have a grip on you. You are sooo excited, focused and exuberantly on fire about being ALIVE that you cannot even stoop down to feel anything of a lower vibration. Perhaps the greatest effect of all is that it becomes extremely contagious and everyone around you begins to live with this unstoppable joy inside.

Discovering your REAL life purpose is possible by doing this exercise down below. The first step is to understand that you may be operating under a false pretense that you are living your life purpose fully now. If you are not jumping out of bed with total elation and orgasmic joy for being alive, then you are probably fooling yourself that you're living on purpose. As children you were conditioned by your parents, friends, and siblings who told you what you SHOULD do with your life. Following their ideas about what will make you happy, successful, or a "good little kid" became your new habits for receiving acceptance, love and approval. This soon became what I'll call your Imprinted Life Purpose, that only can lead to a life that's robot-like, unconscious and produces no real fulfillment.

The more awareness you can bring to seeing what your Imprinted Purpose is, the less power it has in shaping the rest of your life. Finding your life purpose actually comes from revealing your "Imprinted Purpose". Did you ever see the movie, "The Wizard of Oz"? When they were in the Emerald City, the wizard had a tremendous influence over Dorothy and her friends until they found out that a fear-based little man was behind the curtain pulling levers on a machine creating a lot of smoke and special effects. Once you begin to 'pull away the curtain' on your Imprinted Purpose, your true life purpose will begin to reveal itself and you can tap your red sparkling shoes 3 times to find your way home.

A few tips to help you first see your "Imprinted Life Purpose"...

• It is a reason for living, doing, thinking and being that is all based in fear, in a need to survive. It's what makes us think we should do to be able to "make it" in the world.

• It always leaves you with a sense of "Is that all there is?" When your life is shaped by your imprinted Purpose, we're constantly left unsatisfied and unfulfilled with everything we do.

• It is a deep part of you that is very transparent, like water is to a fish. The fish isn't aware it lives in the ocean, yet the waves have tremendous influence on the fish's direction in life.

• It's what runs the show when you're on automatic.

1. Watch the Movie of Your Life. Starting with your earliest memories, take several hours (or as much time as you can afford) to sit down, relax with a bucket of popcorn and watch the whole movie of your life from beginning to now. It's a really great show so you'll want to take some notes! Imagine yourself as a movie reviewer sitting in the seats of your fantasy movie theater watching The Life and Times of [name]. Your job at the end of the movie will be to write a review of it. You'll want to take at least 30 minutes to write this review. Below is a format to help you write this review, just be sure to include lots of fun juicy details!

2. The first thing to write is the Movie Script. On a blank sheet of paper, draw a straight line in the middle of the page from the top to the bottom. This line represents your Life Line. Write the high points on the right side of the line and the low points on the left side. Write out the catalytic events, the pivotal turning points, from your earliest memories, large and small, include everything that has truly shaped your life.

3. On the top of the page write out your Movie's Theme. To do this, scan through your list of events along the Life Line and look for what could possibly be this Movies' Theme. Every movie has a theme -- boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, etc. What's the MAJOR theme of your movie? Write out 2-3 sentences that sum up the major theme of your life.

4. Look to see how your Life Events created your Imprinted Purpose. Review the criteria of an imprinted Purpose and begin linking it to feelings and memories you identified with in the movie of your Life. Identify the role you were playing in this movie and connect it with your imprinted Purpose. Be real and be specific! In 2-3 sentences write down what you think your Imprinted Purpose is. Use words you heard from people who impacted you the most in your childhood experiences (when your Imprinted Purpose was formed) and write down what you believe your Imprinted Life Purpose has been. Notice if there's anything missing or anything extra needed and if it fits the qualities of an Imprinted Purpose.

5. It's time to be creative and discover your real Life Purpose! Take a deep long look at your Imprinted Purpose and see if you can first imagine what would be the opposite feeling, vibration or mission of this experience. Ask yourself what makes you feel free, alive, excited and on fire! What actions, behavior, gifts or service to the world will make you jump out of bed every morning with JOY even if you're never paid for it? Imagine a way of being, thinking and doing things in the world what that makes your heart sing your greatest song.

   View all the inspirational aspects that were responsible in you for all the high points you listed on the right side of the page. What was really driving you to create those amazing experiences? What is the contribution you were wanting to make to the world all along? Write down a few trial statements about what kind of life would truly inspire you to be living that make you feel warm and tingly inside. Make a list of possible ideas and read them OUT LOUD. Then create one general statement to the world for what you FEEL your life purpose truly is! Don't get stuck on it, it may grow and change. You will most likely refine it later if needed. Just have fun and be creative! You cannot mess up, just do whatever makes you feel super happy and alive!

This program shows you exactly how to tap into your highest manifesting powers. You will learn how to awaken that "sleeping" part of you and actually experience your full manifesting potentiality in your life! The Super Manifesting Package is so effective that it will produce dramatic results in anybody's life in 90 days or less!

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Other People's Doubts and the Law of Attraction

Though it's wonderful when family and friends believe in and encourage your business vision, often they don't. Fortunately, the Law of Attraction helps you attract what you want anyway. The Law of Attraction doesn't care what other people think -- as long as you're not influenced by them. And that's the hard part.

Let's be honest: other people's doubts about you usually feel rotten. I've even had Law of Attraction coaching clients who blamed all of their lack of progress with a business idea on unsupportive and even hostile family members. "My husband thinks I'm crazy to leave a good job just to follow a dream that may never come true. And maybe he's right."

The Law of Attraction teaches that whatever we receive is a reflection of what we put out. I know it's hard to hear this (was for me anyway)... but if you can open to it, you may never again have to look at other people as the cause of how you feel.

Stop for a moment and let yourself experience the freedom in that... Even though it's difficult to accept, each of us is the sole character in our life. The events, circumstances and people we encounter "outside" of us simply reflect the thoughts and feelings we hold inside.

This idea may strike you as odd -- I mean, your skeptical mother is always that way, isn't she? Well, not exactly. Your mother shows up one way to you and quite another way to her old friends from high school, her boss, and her favorite grandchild. Hmmm... Even your dog can be frisky and friendly with you who love him but standoffish with your sister who is afraid of him.

Quantum physics and the principle of uncertainty support the idea that so-called objectivity is actually highly subjective. Experiments prove that light, for example, exists as a wave until it's observed: then it changes form and becomes a particle.

You, as the observer of what's going on in your life, determine by your observation the nature of whatever you observe. If you observe doubt, you are actually creating more of it. That's because the Law of Attraction responds to your thought and brings you more circumstances just like it! The creative power of thought is why Law of Attraction teachers often remind us to focus on what we want, not on what we don't want.

Cure for the Doubting Blues
When we feel besieged by other people's doubts, it's important to acknowledge that we don't like how it feels. Be truthful. There's no point covering up your feelings, because you can't fool the Law of Attraction.

Go ahead -- acknowledge your discomfort with the thoughts of others. But only for a moment or two. Then it's time to move forward and examine how we may be responsible. This self examination is not necessarily going to feel comfortable.

You've heard that if you want different results, you must take different actions. Well, it doesn't just apply to action. The Law of Attraction says that it's the thoughts/feelings/beliefs behind the action that makes the difference. If you want business success, it's time to give up comfort and be willing to examine your beliefs.

Below are a few questions I often ask my Law of Attraction marketing coaching clients who complain about the doubts of others.

1. How might you be doubting yourself? (It's easy to blame others for things that we don't want to examine in ourselves.)

2. What are your concerns about stepping out of your comfort zone and creating your business? (It's helpful to get specific about how your thinking may create a mental environment of self doubt.)

3. On a scale of 1-10 how committed are you to success in this business? (Success requires commitment -- before you see any results. This is a difficult concept for many new business owners -- and is one of the key aspects of entrepreneurship that my clients and I look at in Law of Attraction coaching.)

Your friends and family and their soul purpose
At the soul level, your skeptical friends aren't trying to stop you. Their soul purpose is to wake you up to the truth of where you vibrate. AHA. It was me all along.

The AHA awareness that it's about you, not them, opens up a new set of choices about what you prefer to think, feel and attract. Our new choices cause Law of Attraction to match us up with entirely new experiences.

As you deliberately change your vibration -- a skill that anyone can learn -- you're no longer a match to doubt. You radiate confidence and certainty from within. And, surprise, others no longer doubt you.

Andrea Conway is the Law of Attraction marketing coach for solopreneurs and small business owners ready to make all the money they want at the business they love. Receive a free copy of Andrea's e-report Fire Up Your Business Success Using the Law of Attraction when you subscribe to her free e-zine Successful Self Employment News.

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Maslow Predicted The Shift

Abraham Maslow (1908-70) was a psychologist who became famous for his hierarchy of human needs. When he developed his theory in the 1950s, he predicted the transformation of humanity into a realm of spiritual transcendence, but he had no idea just how soon this would develop into a major movement.

Maslow's hierarchy of human needs shows that basic human needs have to be fulfilled before people can attend to higher needs and values.

First, the basic physiological needs of food and shelter must be catered for in order to ensure survival.

Second, once food and shelter are obtained, safety and security must be achieved.

Third, acceptance by others is sought, in both the social and romantic senses. To fulfill this 'belonging' need, people become part of a group, a tribe, an extended family or a community.

When these deficiency, or outer-directed, needs are satisfied, then the individual works to acquire self-respect. Recognition by others produces self-esteem.

Once the outer needs are fulfilled, the inner-directed need for self-actualization comes into play. To self-actualize means to become the best you personally can be. Self-actualized people include those who have achieved material abundance, and also those who, as a decision of personal power, have chosen simplicity over the pursuit of further abundance. At some point, when a person says "That's enough" to the endless pursuit of additional financial security, then they become free to accomplish anything that inspires their inner joy the most.

Self-actualization is achieved after the individual ceases to have deference to hierarchical authority, and instead matures into the ability to make their own rules of personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is always more powerful and effective than any system of imposed rules. For example, you can threaten to punish someone if they steal and hope that the threat works. But, a self-responsible person simply wouldn't steal because they would feel empathy for the loss that a would-be victim would feel. They simply wouldn't have the heart to do such a thing to another person.

It's a matter of increased maturity. When a person abandons the impositions of external authority and becomes their own, self-directed authority, then they become far more functional in the world. This is, in fact, a higher state of consciousness, one which provides a higher vista of awareness. From this expanded vista, they see clearly how they as an individual can best serve humanity.

In this state of awareness, the person acquires the ability to think and analyze situations independently. As a result, new and creative solutions spring to mind. They have enough self-esteem to be able to clearly see their own needs, skills, strengths and weaknesses, and from that they see where they can best be of service to humanity.

Once basic needs are fulfilled, the next values to require attention relate to being. The first of these being-values is self-actualization, which is the instinctual need of a human to make the most of their unique abilities.

Above that, Maslow placed transcendence, which he considered a spiritual value. Traditional universities typically presume that spiritual matters are beyond the understanding of their students, so they present the Maslow hierarchy of human needs differently. They present it with self-actualization as the ultimate human goal, and omit the transcendence stage beyond that.

The being-values of self-actualization and transcendence are the higher, more beautiful aspects of human consciousness. They include unconditional love, altruism, inner joy, a love of nature, the development of intuition (in males as well as females), idealism, and a sense of wisdom which springs from within. These skills develop the right-brain functions of creativity and intuition.

In the 1950s, Maslow believed that only 2% of the population had achieved self-actualization. The mid-1960s changed all that when masses of people began the search for the higher values, such as unconditional love and spiritual wisdom. Today, that core group of progressive society has blossomed from 2% to over 20%, and is climbing every year.

The Shift is not a temporary by-product of the baby boom generation, or any other generation of modern society. It is not a passing fad. It is not going away. It is a cosmic pressure that is unfolding and relentlessly increasing the frequency of all consciousness upon the planet.

It is a part of the plan of Infinite Being that we progress to the next stage of conscious human achievement. The Shift is, to put it simply, the most wonderful transformation in recorded history. This is where humanity gets to build, literally, Heaven on Earth.

This article was written by Owen Waters, author of the e-book, "Discover Your Purpose In Life," a paradigm-shifting revelation of unadulterated spiritual truth. Some books delve just so far into the truth. This one goes all the way!

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The Age of the Soul & The Purpose of You

"We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us." --Raymond Barker

A Course in Miracles teaches that welfare of the world depends on you learning. Learning what you might ask? Learning to live a higher life and learning to actualize your humanity and mature into your divinity. The time for spiritual education is here. We can no longer cast a blind eye to the ills, wrongs, and general ignorance of our current reality. It is time for an end of the ego and the rise of the Soul.

Many prophecies about the Shift of Consciousness that is occurring between now and 2012 have emerged from ancient traditions of the Mayans, Hopi, Zulu. With this ending of a cycle comes a sense of loss and the opportunity for massive expansion.

A new consciousness is being birthed on the planet, I call it the Age of the Soul, because inner lights are being awakened and activated, causing humanity to grow its angel wings. We are blessed with the very real opportunity to ascend higher up the evolutionary scale, where we can experience our own version of heaven on earth.

You have everything you need to be a pioneer in this new age of practical spirituality. The good news is that the divine you is not something you need to create. God already did that. The divine you is the light and love that you are. Your job is to clear the blockages so you can shine bright.

The New energy arriving on planet Earth requires a new and upgraded human being, one in sync with their soul's purpose and strong in loving presence, a divine human. Now more than ever we are called to trust our inner knowing and make spiritually smart life decisions.

We live in an era that is inspiring souls to awaken and take action. Let everyone get in their destined place. It's time to for us to unite and create a bright new reality. This work requires the heart, hands, and intentions of as many people as possible. We will need to create new solutions to modern-day problems, and be called upon to work together collaboratively. First let us understand what the soul is. As C.S. Lewis so eloquently puts it:

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

Your answer to this question may reveal how ready you are to show up and shine:

What do you think when you think..."If others saw the real me, they would...... ?"

1. Reclaim your divine inheritance
2. Accept that you are anointed and appointed to do great things.
3. Take action on your desires and dreams.
4. Shine your bright light.

In this great awakening, Truth will be revealed and most especially masks will be removed. Games and manipulations will be seen for what they are and the reign of the ego will end.

Socrates said that the purpose of life is the enlightenment of the soul vs the pursuit of materialism that leads to darkness. Since much of our history has been about the accumulation of things, it seems natural that in this Age of Soul, for a deep change to occur in where and how we find our happiness.

I hold the belief that the curriculum for our enlightenment has been set by our soul and that LIFE gives us the opportunities to collect the keys to our eternal wisdom. In life, we experience 3 major challenges:

Power-oriented---making a stand/being courageous
Love---expressing and receiving love
Intellect---developing our mind and creating things.

Key 1: Conscious Learning
Learning is the connection for your soul's evolution. Knowing yourself is understanding both your personality and your divinity and creating a life that harmonizes with both aspects of your Self. Along the way, you may learn lessons, however, the main thing is to learn to be a conscious creator and masterfully apply the skills of cognition and choice to manifest a reality that you adore.

Key 2: Soul Purpose
To discover and live one's soul purpose is essential to your well being. Look within at your desires, dreams, aspirations, and longings that you carry in your heart of hearts.

Ask not, "Can I do it?" but "Will I enjoy it?" Ask not, "What can I get." Ask, "What Can I give?"

Fulfilling your purpose means creating a pathway to your soul's highest happiness and inner fulfillment, which can be expressed in 3 ways - universal purpose, personal purpose, and professional purpose.

Key 3: Conscious Creation
Understanding the idea that thoughts are things is the first step to re-creating your reality. Harnessing the laws of the universe such as law of attraction, law of action, law of reciprocity, law of intention, etc. will make this effortless.

The first and most important step is to make the decision to be happy and successful. Keep in mind, the brain does not make the human, the human makes the brain by what he thinks about, focuses on, and what he allows to influence his thinking. A classic explanation of all this comes from the book, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen:

"Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this - that man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny."

I absolutely know and experience my brilliant and illuminated mind.
Light energy from heaven guides my path and from here my genius shines brightly.

Michelle L. Casto is known as The Soul Diva. Diva in Sanskrit means "shining, light of God." Michelle knows there is a divine spark within every human being that longs to be fully ignited and expressed. She works with people who are unsure about the next best step to take in life and helps them by building a bridge to their inner self and then uses that connection to tap into the wisdom of their own souls. With these foundations in place, she coaches them through all of life's changes and decisions. Through a revolutionary process called soul excavation, she teaches the 6 Life Mastery Lessons: Shine, Integrate, Dance, Communicate, Seek, Decide. Visit virtually: Bright Light Coach.

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Want to heal your arthritis? Be silent.

Silence is your very nature. It is your very essence. The outer world is full of noise and chaos, but the inner world of your Spirit is silent and serene. As soon as we talk, the beauty of silence is broken. Silence is a healer. If you are trying to recover from arthritis, I strongly recommend that you conserve your words. So much energy is wasted in trivial chit-chat and gossip. This energy could be used to heal your arthritis. When you consolidate your energy through silence, you feel stronger and your arthritis heals faster.

To help recover from my own arthritis, I attended many spiritual retreats. A few days into these retreats, everyone attending was expected to enter an extended period of silence. Initially, it took awhile for my mind to settle down. It was if there was a resistance to the silence. It took a bit of getting used to not verbally expressing my thoughts. But very soon, my mind melted into the calming silence that is always there in the background. After several days of silence on such retreats, I began to love it. I felt joyful not talking, sometimes even blissful. Then, after a few days of not uttering a word to anyone (not even nonverbal communication), we were all instructed to come out of silence. And I had resistance to that too! I wanted to stay in this silent new world forever.

When we are silent, the mind quietens down and allows our body to rebalance. In Ayurvedic medicine, arthritis is due to an imbalance in the 'Vata Dosha' or the wind element in the body, as well as a disturbance in the 'Pitta Dosha' or fire element. Crippling arthritis is like a firestorm burning out of control throughout the physiology. But when we don't talk for a period, the Vata Dosha settles down. The firestorm loses its wind if you like. Consequently, the fire element begins to reduce and normalise. Silence helps settle the inner turmoil of arthritis and promotes inner balance and health.

So if you are an arthritis sufferer, talk less. Let your body heal through not talking so much. Go for quality of words rather than quantity. Speak from the heart with meaning and purpose. Never say a harsh word to anybody for the Divine dwells within everyone's heart. Our words should have a soothing effect on others. Calm people's minds with what you say rather than stirring up a whirlwind of emotion in the other person. The purpose of words is to create silence.

For many years, I have studied profound knowledge from the world's highest authorities and applied it to heal my arthritis. Today, thanks to this knowledge, I experience abundant energy, joy, clarity and peace of mind. And I continue to attract loving relationships and experience great personal success! Now it's your turn - visit: www.healingarthritis.org

In 1993, Ian Cameron was hospitalized twice for crippling arthritis. Since then, he has been healing his arthritis condition and awakening to a profound sense of peace and fulfillment. Read about his inspiring story and how you can do the same! First chapter of his life-changing ebook is free - go to www.healingarthritis.org.

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Honoring the Tradition of Elderberry for Immune Health

In our modern world, it seems that so much emphasis is placed on the newest and latest remedies. Forgotten are many of our past remedies and herbs that have continually demonstrated their healing abilities over time.

One of these time-honored herbs is elderberry (sambucus nigra). Long praised throughout history for its strong anti-viral benefits, elderberry has been used for centuries for cold and flu symptoms. The dark black berries from the elder shrub have also been used as a healthy and therapeutic food since 5 BC. The writings of Hippocrates describe the use of tonics derived from elderberry. Further, there is record of the ancient Greeks and Romans using it to shorten the severity and duration of respiratory distress. In the Middle Ages, elderberry was traditionally used to help support the immune system. In Europe, where the tree is native, it is consumed throughout the winter season to promote immune health. Lastly, the flavorful berries have long been used to make preserves, wines, and cordials.

Cold, flu, upper respiratory symptoms, and fever have all been treated with elderberry for centuries. It has mild diuretic and laxative properties, meaning that it helps to cleanse the body and it is a diaphoretic that brings on sweating (which means it can help break a fever). In animal studies of colitis (colon inflammation that usually causes diarrhea), elderberry has been shown to have a healing effect.

Elderberry is rich in a number of constituents with health-supportive properties, including flavonoids (hyperoside, isoquercitrin, rutin), lectins, and anthocyanins (chrysanthemin, sambucin, sanbucyanin), as well as vitamins C, B1, B2, and B6. Flavonoids, otherwise known as antioxidants, help your body's immune system to fight unwelcome viral invaders.

Pharmacologic studies demonstrate that the powerful antioxidant capacity of elderberry matches the power of blueberry to put excess free radicals, which are associated with accelerated aging and chronic diseases, out of commission. Studies also demonstrate that elderberry reduces low density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation--the free radical attacks on "bad" LDL cholesterol that make it even more hazardous to your heart's health.

Elderberry inhibits neuraminidase, the enzyme used by viruses to spread infection to host cells. These sorts of envelope viruses account for about half of cold and flu occurrences, including the hot button H1N1 virus. Elderberry constituents literally "coat" the virus, preventing it from attaching to receptor sites so that it ends up bouncing off. Once coated, it can be more easily detected by the immune system, which then can dispatch it.

What's more, in placebo-controlled, double-blind studies, elderberry has been shown to disarm flu viruses and actually prevent them from replicating in the body. A study in the July 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Phytochemistry indicated that elderberry extract prevents H1N1 influenza infection. The summary of this research states:

"New scientific evidence demonstrates that elderberries can block flu viruses. This research involved a specific, reproducible elderberry extract developed by HerbalScience Group LLC, (called Immunity Take Care by New Chapter) and succeeded in identifying key chemical components of the extract that inhibited in vitro infection and were shown to bind directly to Human Influenza A (H1N1) virus particles. The binding blocked the ability of the viruses to enter host cells, and thereby effectively preventing H1N1 infection in vitro."

Copyright 2010 by Christine's Cleanse Corner, Inc.
Christine Dreher, CCN, CCH is a Clinical Nutritionist, Herbalist, Author, President & Founder of Christine's Cleanse Corner, Inc., that specializes in nutritional and health education. Christine is editor of the free Transform Your Health newsletter.

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The Vibrant Moment: Feel Your Heart!

Valentine's Day is coming up. Perhaps you don't want to celebrate because you are single, don't have a date or don't feel loving toward your partner right now. Or maybe you will celebrate with surface fun and meaningless gestures without fulfilling the deep longing of your soul.

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate all the many different kinds of love, not just romantic love.

So check in with your heart and look around. Note the colors, flavors, textures, sounds and images in your heart. What does the energy in your heart tell you? Feel the truth in your own heart. How much love is in your heart? Love is a real, honest to goodness energy. When you look in your heart do you sense dark energy? Resentment? Judgment? Hurt? Pain? Love? Joy? Dark clouds?

Love has to do with your ability to love and open your own heart. When your heart is open, love energy can come in and go out. When your heart is closed, love energy cannot get out or come in.

When your heart is open you exchange love energy with others. When your heart is closed there is no real energy exchange. When your heart is open, you feel good, warm, strong, healthy and happy. When your heart is closed you feel alone, empty, dead, unfullfilled.

The best way to increase loving energy in your life is to open your heart. The best place to start opening your heart is to establish a loving relationship with your emotional self. You need to recognize the energy of your emotional self and establish a daily, nourishing relationship with her or him in order to clear the energy in your heart so more love can flow between you and others.

If you get started on opening your heart in 2010, you will have the best Valentine's Day ever!

OPEN YOUR HEART: Order the emotional health audio guide, Opening the Heart, that comforts you as you explore the truth of the energy in your heart. The only guide on the market that shows you how to find and establish a loving relationship with your emotional self. Guaranteed or your money back. Valentine's Day Audio Sale: $30.00 off! Buy before Feb. 14 for discount. Available as ebook, tapes, CDs, Mp3s. Read more and order here:Opening the Heart.

Dr. Doris Jeanette is a licensed psychologist with 33 years of experience teaching people how to unlock and use their human potential. She is author of "Opening the Heart," "Overcoming Anxiety Naturally" and 14 other self help products. Her Holistic Psychology Mentoring program is for people interested in learning how to sense energy so they can lead the way to the future New Psychology. She is founder and director of Center for New Psychology and offers personal Energy Intensives when requested. Daily doses of Doris on twitter.

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