How heavy is this glass of water?

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

What is the ultimate purpose of life?

TO SEE YOUR SPIRITUAL MASTER, LOOK IN YOUR MIRROR.

Its now time for each of us to become our own spiritual master.
We each of us have in ourselves the ability to become enlightened.
We are all in fact deeply in contact with great wisdom and beauty
and have only to open to what we already know. 
The purpose of the personal spiritual search is the personal spiritual find.
Only you can find your own true path.  

You are the explorer on your own adventure.

( http://pjentoft.com/spiritual-master.html ) 

Intelligent Design: Waking Up To Creation (documentary)

DNA as Evidence for Intelligent Design

Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection may be able to explain how living creatures can evolve from one form to another, but it cannot explain how something that was not alive evolved into the first life on Earth.

“Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life!”

Stephen C. Meyer, a Cambridge trained scholar in the philosophy of science, does have an explanation for how life on Earth began: the DNA in every cell of every creature shows unmistakable evidence of having been deliberately designed by an intelligent being.

http://www.mrctv.org/public/checker.aspx?v=Gd4zIrIrnz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5uo0TBd_Q

Meyer lays out his analysis in a new book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design:

http://appearedtoblogly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/meyer-stephen-c-the-signature-in-the-cell-dna-and-the-evidence-for-intelligent-design.pdf

think about it...

Mastery of life 

is the opposite of control.   

(Eckhart Tolle)

  

...

Maya

heaven and hell

The angels were once asked: 

"What is heaven?"  

They answered:

"Every heart where love dwells is heaven itself."

The angels were then asked:

"What is hell?"

They replied:

"A heart without love is hell itself."

(quote from Jodhaa Akbar, 2008)

Meditacija za klik v Življenjski tok

Vabim vse energije Narave, vse Angelske sfere, Božanske energije, moje vodnike in moj Višji jaz – mojo energijo, ki me definira zunaj tega časa in prostora, da se povežejo v moji energijski mreži dojemanja. Naj postane ta mreža del mojega dojemanja tukaj in zdaj. Naj se je zavem enako kot se zavedam vetrov, morskih tokov in gibanja Zemlje in Lune, plime in oseke… Naj začutim Bit Zemlje, ki me spomni na Bit Vesolja in na mojo lastno Bit, ki gre skozi vse čase in prostore in samo Je.  Z voljo in vajo želim  dvigniti svoj življenjski nivo in nivo svojega zavedanja, da bom čim več trenutkov povezana s tokom Življenja.

Dovolim energijam iz angelskih sfer zdravljenja, čiščenja in razumevanja, da prečistijo vse moje energijske poti, ki so ujete v energije preteklosti ali drugih energijskih sfer, ki me odtujujejo od moje lastne Biti, razumevanja sebe in delovanja naravnih zakonov ter utripa Vesolja. Naj zdravilni tok globinsko prečisti moje telo in vse energijske poti skozi njega. Naj se moje telo poveže z najvišjo točko zavedanja moje Biti in naj bo moje delovanje iz mojega notranjega Življenjskega toka. Naj to čutim kot notranjo jasnost, svežino, navdih ... In naj se moje telo napolni z energijo moje Biti, mojega Življenjskega toka vsakič, ko se ta to spomnim in se notranje uravnovesim, da fizično sprostim ta pretok.

 

Naj čista, jasna in kristalna energija kot voda steče skozi vse moje energijske poti za ponovno vzpostavitev povezave z energijo moje Biti, tega, kar v resnici sem. Naj se ta prostor napolni z bleščečimi kapljicami vode, ki zdravijo mentalno, eterično telo in vsako celico fizičnega telesa. 

Naj se zavedam svoje notranje poti mojega Življenjskega toka, naj mi postane začetna in končna točka vsakdana. Naj se zjutraj naravnam v svoj Tok, v svojo Bit in naj me skozi dan vodi čarobnost tega toka, ki prinaša različne izkušnje in dogodke, v katerih pa vedno odreagiram iz svoje notranjosti, kjer sem sproščena v dogajanju in sočasno v bivanju. Tu sem v stanju budnosti in zavedanja in delovanje iz tega toka me ohranja v svežini. Odločitve iz tega prostora ne prinašajo ne utrujenosti in ne zapletajo situacij… Odločitve iz mojega Življenjskega toka me ohranjajo v Sedanjosti, kjer sem, kar sem. Večna Bit mojega utripa. Ko čutim svoj Klik v moj tok Življenja, takrat čutim zaupanje v Življenje in občutek polnosti. Iz tega občutka sprejemam vse svoje odločitve in reagiram na vso dogajanje v okolici. Tako ponovno postane moje življenje polno, kjer je prisotno veselje, humor, vse dogajanje v Naravi, svoboda in moč odločanja in delovanja… tako se ponovno v moje življenje naselijo vse kvalitete moje Biti, kaj jaz resnično sem. 

Čutim svoj tok Življenja v svojem telesu, svobodo in moč mojih pravih vrednot, ki ustvarjajo moje Življenje na vseh nivojih. Uživam v tem, kaj jaz resnično sem, zato z odprtostjo sodelujem z vsemi, ki so v svojem Življenjskem toku, saj njihovo delovanje prispeva k polnosti moje okolice. In jasno vidim tudi tiste, ki še ne čutijo svojega Življenjskega toka in na vse odreagiram enako – iz notranjega toka moje Biti.  

Želim si živeti in delovati v prostoru in času, kjer so vsi ljudje kot zvezde, kot Sonce in Luna, kot drevesa in ptice na Zemlji. Saj je takrat Harmonija Vesolja izpolnjena in v Bivanju.  In moj prispevek k temu je: da delujem vsak dan, vsak trenutek iz mojega toka Življenja ne glede na življenjske izzive, saj se zavedam, da samo na ta način lahko izpolnim svojo Bit in samo na ta način najbolj  omogočim drugim, da izpolnijo svojo.

Zato se s celotnim svojim Umom predam tej nalogi, z zavedanjem, da vse kar je pri tem potrebno, vaja in vztrajnost in da je samo vprašanje tega, kako hitro bom uresničila bivanje iz moje lastne Biti.

(vodila in napisala po skupinski meditaciji 

Andreja Novak,  http://www.angel.si/ )

negativity

We tend to perceive negative energy as something other people have. Sure, sometimes we feel negative – as in, “go away and leave me alone, world!” but did you know that negativity can be so ingrained in you that it goes unnoticed?

That’s because negativity sometimes wears a disguise called ‘reality’. It’s easy to rationalize that you’re ‘just being realistic’ in not daring to act on a dream – and believe it!

You may assume that positive people are not being realistic – that they’re being naive, that they are in denial with their heads stuck in the sand, that they put on fake smiles in the face of difficulty and so forth. But are they really happy idiots or is there something to their positivity?

Consider this: since when does ‘being realistic’ necessarily mean that things will go wrong and that you have to accept that as the truth?

That doesn’t mean that being realistic is automatically negative. When you view the world from a ‘realistic’ standpoint, you can’t help but be negative IF your version of reality is negative.

If your version of reality is negative, you are conditioned to believe that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and whatever can go right, will probably go wrong too. Your unconsciously held beliefs make you into a negative person without your being aware of it!

So – if this negativity is so ingrained in you that you don’t notice it, how do you determine whether you’re stuck in a cloud of negative energy that is attracting the wrong people, wrong situations and wrong feelings? And how can you be sure you’re not perpetuating that negativity?

Believing that things happen to you puts you in the role of victim; then it’s easy to be negative because it’s convenient to give up that power. So consider this alternative: who or what is to blame when GOOD things happen to you? Do you acknowledge that you are responsible for the good things – as in, you worked hard, you earned it, etc… but blame external events or other people for your failures? So how come, when good things happen, they are a result of what you do, but when bad things happen, they are not your fault?

Nobody likes to hear that. It takes courage to accept that you create your life experience!

To clear your negative energy and raise your vibration, you will need to retrain yourself to choose a positive attitude.

Here’s another interesting idea to consider: have you noticed that positive people seem to get what they want out of life, and even if things don’t go their way, they still enjoy their lives… while negative people whine and moan about their misfortunes and even the good things in their lives?

To clear negative energy, try this 3 -step process:

1. Take ownership: “When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.” – the Dalai Lama

2. Cancel negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts. This takes practice, dedication and making a decision to see the world through the eyes of “what can go right” instead of “what can go wrong.” You’ll have to catch yourself anytime you are acting out or speaking out your negativity, and immediately change your tune.

3. Use the Love or Above Spiritual Toolkit to clear your energy and bring more light and love into your life; visualize the positive instead of getting sucked into negativity; overcome past conditioning; think intuitively from the soul instead from ‘reality’; create a new, desired reality in your imagination and manifest it in the outer world. Nobody wants negative energy to permeate their lives, yet many of us allow it. But we allow it unconsciously, based on past conditioning that suggests an inevitable outcome to certain situations. When you overcome that conditioning and realize that the future is NOT cast in stone but that you have more control over your circumstances than you believe – then you can begin to consciously design your life.

What’s going to happen then? Your positive energy will magnetically attract what you consider to be good and right for you: people, situations, things… and you’ll notice a huge, huge increase in your happiness and inner peace.

Why not choose positive energy? Make some changes within, and you’ll quickly see positive changes in your life. Enjoy the good feelings and abundance!

http://www.mindopenerz.com/how-negative-energy-affects-your-life-and-how-to-clear-it/ 

spiritual warriors

can you remember...

...who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

From the moment we are born,
the world tends to have a
container already built for us
to fit inside: a social security
number, a gender, a race,
a profession or an I.Q. I ponder
if we are more defined by the
container we are in, rather than
what we are inside. Would we
recognize ourselves if we could
expand beyond our bodies?
Would we still be able to exist
if we were authentically
'un-contained'? 

http://paigebradley.com/

What if Money Were No Object?

čudež pozornosti je navzočnost

Osupljivo je, kako daleč seže potovanje, ki se začne z enim samim vdihom…

ŽIVLJENJE JE DOSEGLJIVO LE TU IN ZDAJ

 

Preteklosti ni več, prihodnosti pa še ni.

Resnično živi smo lahko v enem samem trenutku – sedanjem.

Naša praksa je biti navzoč tu in zdaj.

Samo tako lahko v sedanjosti živimo v popolnosti.

Za vsak nov dan moramo biti navzoči, če ga želimo doživeti.

Navzočnost v danem trenutku ohraniš, če si pozoren na dihanje.

Prižgi svetilko zavedanja, da osvetliš svoje dihanje.

S tem ustvariš energijo pozornosti, ki osvetli vse dogajanje sedanjega trenutka.

"Ko vdihujem, se zavedam svojega vdiha.

Ko izdihujem, se zavedam svojega izdiha."

Pozorno dihanje je neke vrste most, ki združi telo in um. Če s pozornim dihanjem ustvarite harmonijo, globino in mir, bodo ti prodrli v vaše telo in um. Če pri svojem dihanju ustvarite spokojnost, se bo ta naselila tudi v vašem telesu in stanju duha. Če nežno objamemo vdih in izdih, posledično objameta naše telo in um.

   

Vsakodnevno morate vaditi obuditev. Z vdihom vrnete um nazaj v telo, saj s tem postanete živi v tu in zdaj in se srečate z življenjem, ki prav tako poteka tu in zdaj.

Nujno se je vrniti v sedanji trenutek, da se lahko globoko dotaknemo življenja. Tako stopimo v božje kraljestvo.

Božje kraljestvo se ne nahaja v prostoru in času. Božje kraljestvo je v vašem srcu in v vsaki celici vašega telesa. Dotaknete se ga lahko z enim samim pozornim dihom, z enim samim pozornim vpogledom. Ko vadite pozorno hojo, počnete natanko to – dotikate se božjega kraljestva, po njem se sprehajate pozorno, s sočutjem in razumevanjem. Božje kraljestvo tako postane vaše kraljestvo.

(Thick Nhat Hanh, Čarobnost sedanjega trenutka) 

it's about love, compassion and kindness

the nature of everything

The moment you go from ego to non-ego you experience not only that you are one with all human beings but that you are one with everything. You realize that the consciousness that is realized, that has been compacted with boundaries, has no boundaries. It is everywhere. Consciousness is the basic substance and nature of everything. The truth you realize then is that who you are is not the product of your childhood, is not your body, is not a sense of limited individuality. You are something that is everything, and you are seeing now the nature of everything, not only on the essential level, but on the level of being itself, on a nondifferentiated level, a non-separated level. This does not mean though that you are no longer an individual. You will not lose individuality in the way you might imagine; the individuality will simply be one face of who you are. It’s like the example of the hand. In the beginning you think you are the finger, moving around, doing things. When your knowledge goes beyond the individual, beyond the ego, you find out you are the hand. You don't lose the fingers by being the hand. The fingers are still there, the individuality is still there operating; however, it is a part of something larger. And you are that something larger. At the same time, you are also the individual. Your attention is sometimes the finger and other times the totality of the hand. Then you live as what is called a cosmic individual. 

(A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book V)

("Earthrise" by Eric Nez, David Heskin & Aloria Weaver)

when did you stop ... ?

the quieter you become the more you can hear

 

my angel

All God's angels come to us disguised. Sometimes they wear long brown hair, labret piercing, metal t-shirt and aviator sunglasses :)

mindfulness

"We are all connected. When you touch one thing, you are touching everything. Whatever we do has an effect on others. Therefore, we must learn to live mindfully to touch the peace inside each of us. Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace. This collective mindfulness can bring positive change to our families, organizations, communities, nations and future generations."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)

"Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves."

(Thich Nhat Hahn)

(Art: http://www.julianvadas.com/ )

denar in izkustvo obilja

Duše delavcev luči, idealističnih ljudi z duhovno namero, bi najraje denar zanikale, saj so prepričane, da pomeni denar moč in velja kot vir nemoralnosti (nizke energije). Toda takšen pristop je eden od dejavnikov, ki pritok materialnih dobrin - po nepotrebnem - zaustavljajo. Denar je »nedolžen«, je tekoča energija, ki predstavlja čisti potencial.

Delavci luči, ki ste duhovni entuziasti, se zelo površno dotikate denarja in drugih dobrin. Prevzeti morate drugačen odnos do denarja, kajti vaša prepričanja izvirajo iz davnih inkarnacij. Bile so dobe, ko ste živeli osamljeni in izolirani od družbe, kot nune in redovniki. Edina želja vam je bila duhovna svoboda in posledica je striktnost, ki vas danes utesnjuje.

Denar vam prinaša priložnosti; ne pridobivajte ga na račun drugih. Z denarjem lahko ustvarite stvari, ki so v dobro drugim ljudem. Ko z veseljem sprejemate denar, si širite izobilje zase in za druge. To dopolni uravnoteženost med dajanjem in sprejemanjem. Taka je pot srca, zato se ne bojte sprejemati denarja. Stara prepričanja vam preprečujejo uživati v sprejemanju denarja. Tekoče sprejemanje denarja si zagotovite le tako, da omogočite to sprejemanje. V življenju sami zavrete dotoke denarja in se ne zavedate, da se nezavedno upirate bogastvu.

Preiščite svoja stališča in čustva o denarju.

V življenju morate uživati v lepih stvareh, ki vzbujajo prijetna čustva in vam izpolnjujejo srce z inspiracijami. Ljubite zemljo in materialno realnost! Mati Zemlja vam bo prisluhnila, ker vam želi izpolniti vse vaše potrebe. Tako lahko rastete kot duhovno bitje in uživate življenje kot človek. Zavedajte se, da vam izobilje omogoča zgraditi pestrejši svet in dopolnite svoje sanje v realnosti kot človek.

Zdaj ni čas za to, da bi izolirani od družbe meditirali na gori. Čas je, da sodelujete in omogočite svoji energiji prost pretok v svet in popolnoma sprejmete vse, kar se vam vrača v življenje (plačilo za delo, denar…). Ne bojte se sprejeti izobilja! Ko uspete v delu in v življenje spontano prihaja vse, kar potrebujete, je to znak da ste omogočili pretok srčne energije. Življenje, ki je dovolj pretočno, omogoči, da ste pogosto zadovoljni in hvaležni za vse, kar imate. Čutite se izpolnjene na materialni, čustveni, mentalni in duhovni ravni.

Izobilje pomeni, da uživate v vsem, kar imate sedaj. Količina materialnega izobilja ni povezana z »bogastvom«, temveč z izkušanjem bogastva v vsem, kar vas obdaja. V sebi se morate odločiti, kakšno materialno izobilje vam ustreza. Nekateri bi radi živeli v koči, kjer lahko uživajo v naravi, drugi pa v luksuzni vili v mestnem hrupu.

 

Izkušnja obilja daje občutek, da živite polno življenje. To se kaže v čustvih radosti in zadovoljstva, ki jih izkušate v vsakodnevno. Če želite preveč, hrepenite po materialnem bogastvu, ki ga v resnici ne potrebujete in v resnici niste sposobni uživati v njem. Preveč lastnine komplicira življenje in dejansko jemlje radost. Radost cveti v preprostem in dobrem življenju.

Ko želite več, kot potrebujete, je to za »varno prihodnost«, vendar tako ne izkušate izobilja v sedanjosti. Četudi ste materialno bogati, izkušate pomanjkanje.

Resnično uživati v počutju blaginje pomeni opustiti strahove in uživati v tem, kar imate. Ko uživate v tem, kar imate, pritegnete več izobilja v svoje življenje ter na ta način ohranjate njegovo primerno raven.

Če mislite, da potrebujete večjo materialno varnost, vas vodi strah. To, kar potrebujete, je blagostanje, ki izhaja iz večjega zaupanja.

Kadar ste zadovoljni z ne-obiljem, je v ozadju strah. V tem primeru se bojite odpreti svetu, se izraziti ter sprejeti, kar si zaslužite. Bojite se polno živeti življenje. Lahko menite, da niste vredni ali celo zmožni živeti v obilju ali da vam je prepovedano biti to, kar ste lahko.

Čas je, da začutite svojo lepoto in naravno nedolžnost. Izrazite samega sebe in se ljubite takšni, kakršni ste. Tu ste zato, da izkušate izobilje in ni razloga, da bi bili zadovoljni z manj. Ne drži, da boste bolj "duhovni" in plemeniti, če boste živeli v revščini in pomanjkanju. To je utvara. S tem boste vse globlje bredli le v trpkost in sovražnost.

Ne poizkušajte duhovno opravičiti pomanjkanja! Vredni ste, da uživate življenje v polnosti in omogočite svoji kreativni energiji, da se razliva v svet. Sprejmite zadovoljstvo in materialno izobilje!

(Vir: http://www.prisluhni.si/ ) 

odkriti bistvo

»V tvojem življenju je marsikaj pomembno, a le eno je nadvse pomembno.
Pomembno je, ali si v očeh drugih uspešen ali neuspešen. Pomembno je, ali imaš dovolj denarja ali si reven … Vse to je pomembno v relativnem, ne v absolutnem smislu. Nekaj je namreč pomembnejše od vsega naštetega: odkriti bistvo svoje prave narave onstran kratkoživega, poosebljenega občutenja sebe.
Miru ne boš našel s spreminjanjem življenjskih okoliščin, temveč s spoznavanjem svoje prave, najgloblje narave.
Reinkarnacija ti ne bo pomagala, če v naslednjem življenju še vedno ne veš, kdo si.«
(Eckhart Tolle, Sporočilo tišine)

(art by Martina Hoffman)

unfinished business

ego vs. eco

Beauty Sketches

 

"We should treat ourselves with much respect, much tenderness and compassion. 
It is very important that we treat our body with the utmost respect, with comprehension, with compassion. 
If you known how to treat your body and your feelings with such a respect, you will also be capable of treating another person with the same respect and it is in this way that we will build peace." 
Thich Nhat Hanh

changes

“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...” 

 

the infinite spark of being

I will be what I will to be