That which we are not aware of

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In terms of being aware, it is not what we are absolutely aware of that we need to hone, but that which we are unaware of and that we are creating that we need to learn…

Awareness: having knowledge of something and especially of something not generally known or apparent (from Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary,1973, pg 78)

Until we are aware of something, we are unaware.

Yeah, I know…duh… 

The reality is, though, unfortunately, that we humans can be severely unaware of what is happening with our own selves, and lots of times it is not a bad thing, even though those lots of things might actually be very, very tough to deal with, let alone live through. At this moment in our shared lives we are finding that there is a LOT of stuff that we are going through, that perhaps a lot of us have denied through…

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Spirit and Feminine/Masculine Principles within the Bahala Tree of Life | babaylan mandala

cropped-babaylanmandala-goldred1The Bahala Tree of Life is at the center of the Babaylan Mandala. It represents you and many things. It contains symbols of the Feminine and Masculine Principle, the symbol of “spirit” and also contains the symbols of Bathala/Bahala, which pertains to the name of ancient Philippine supreme deity. At the root of the BA-HA-LA tree of life is the baybayin symbol of BA and within it is the baybayin symbol of LA within it. BA represents Feminine principal, having the shape of a womb. LA represents Masculine principle having the approximate shape of a short-tailed seed or sperm. BA baybayin symbol with the small LA baybayin symbol nestled within it in this manner represent two things: fertilization that begets pro-creation OR manifest creativity. “babaylan” — a Visayan indigenous priestess who brings together the physical and … Continue reading →

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Brain Imaging Shows How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Symptoms of Depression | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD)

In a study funded in part by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Foundation NARSAD Grantees Charles R. Conway, M.D. and Yvette I. Sheline, M.D., and team found that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) made positive, long-term changes to the brains of people suffering from major depression.

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What Is Quantum Entanglement?

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Quantum entanglement is when 2 particles situated at “infinite” distance somehow act as if they are connected – this is how some explain SOUL TRAVEL.

Einstein called it spooky action at a distance. If other dimensional forms of light exist, these forms of light may travel at speeds trillions of times greater than the light we are used to. The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNedBrG9E90 explains more about entanglement.    Entanglement of known (or yet unknown to science) particles may allow us to see and connect to multiverse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiROWO6iVs) planets where people are said to have attained peace and Immortality. War = death, so only peaceful folks are Immortal.

You can verify for yourself that soul travel is not a dream by conscious astral travel to an area of your house (or a friend’s house nearby) where you placed a paper with something unknown to you written on it.  When you return to the body, write down what you saw astrally on that piece of paper (or on a license plate of a car  pretty close to your house that you can easily walk to for verification, or on a street number near a house 1 street  from a major shopping center or some landmark that you can verify later, be it 1 mile away or 20 miles away) and then walk or drive physically to see if it matches the astral travel.  If you use paper method, you can avoid knowing what was on the paper by having it typed randomly with eyes closed or by having a friend type it or arranging with a friend to astral travel to him or her and report to the friend what he was doing at say 3 pm on a given day or what was written on his paper 2 miles away, or 2000 miles away.  You can also go to a public place, or a store, and see an event and then go afterwards 10 minutes later and ask the cashier if indeed, 10 minutes ago there was a guy like that buying this and that, etc.  There are thousands of ways to verify your astral travels by traveling to public places where you would have normal access anyway, see what cars are parked, etc or simply using google+ hangout to talk to a guy who lives 8000 miles away and confirming what is happening in his vicinity near his house – if you want to see long-distance accuracy.  The sky is the limit.  You can go to the astral dimension where you were before being born, remember the purpose of your coming to this world, visit off-planet worlds.

Helpful Free E-books, Videos and Links with Info on SOUL TRAVEL research:

Edgar Mitchell, who walked on the moon, founded http://noetic.org, a 200 acre research campus that studies astral travel and all related ESP events.  Many Nobel Laureates investigated psychics and Edgar Mitchell even wrote a book about proofs for ESP ► http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Exploration-Challenge-Understanding-Consciousness/dp/1616405473.

Alex Tanous was a frequent astral traveler who was very investigated, see this 3 min clip for his remote viewing via astral travel ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubGrPT0q20.   Skeptics say NDEs (near-death experiences) and OBEs (out of body experiences) are brain imagery.  However, the healthy by-standers can participate in the NDE of the dying, suggesting NDEs are not illusions caused by the lack of oxygen, as skeptics often argue ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ihzzYjqeE.

In a 2013 PLOS ONE paper ► http://goo.gl/jsAlg, scientists concluded that NDEs are likely not imagined events:).  The 1 hr video on NDEs ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56u4wMxNlg confirms the research finding that during NDEs people see future events (as in 5 min cliphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VHv1OeeLAY girl sees her unborn brother heart♥ issue) or objects 100s of feet or miles away.  This 9 min clip details more visions ► http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMtwWIaZHE.   For unique NDEs, see http://goo.gl/5SPBN, that site has over 3500 cases.

Scientists in Shanghai found that quantum action happens at minimum 10, 000 times the speed of light ► http://www.livescience.com/27920-quantum-action-faster-than-light.html, one day they could realize some things (soul body speed?) are a trillion times faster.. than the “maximum” speed.

See also a 25 min video on astral travel research by Alex Tanous:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkQ2HxYsOM.  Alex  explained in the video how he believes we will become physically “IMMORTAL” one day, i.e. we live in this dimension as long as we want.  🙂   Alex shared at 7min22sec of the clip how the scientific understanding of spirit/astral energy will enable us to attain physical Immortality – just like understanding electricity brought us a lot of progress in medicine.
It’s possible to astral travel and still move your body and speak at the same time as this 3 min clip shows ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubGrPT0q20.  Other similar studies indicating the same are http://www.evanlab.org/?p=654&lang=en

Other astral travelers have shared that on other planets, humanoids are “Immortal” and live in Peace.  🙂  Albert Taylor quit his NASA Space station job to do astral space travel.  He’s been crew chief for U2 planes, had secret clearance for 27 years. He believes he visited other planets via astral body (http://oberf.org). His book (http://goo.gl/mcWQyx) details his travels; here’s a video of him:  http://goo.gl/QQyFW.

The fact 2 people recall their astral conversation, shows that astral travels are not dreams, but real events, as shown in this 2 min video ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kEpuPAP3ac.

Luis and his sister both recall how they went in downtown Atlanta area astrally, even though they were living very far from each other ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0wbKz0ZBk, this was a real event.  This is very common where people (not relatives, just friends) living on different continents have a shared astral experience that they can verify with each other.

ASTRAL TRAVEL METHODS

There is a pdf file with 777 pages about astral travel at Robert Bruce websitehttp://www.astraldynamics.com/home/images/stories/informationcenter/downloads/complete-works_rb.pdf.pdf.  See also this 5 min clip about a special astral travel technique:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y856_FY6Va4.  William Buhlman of http://astralinfo.org 48 min talk has more ideas on astral travel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IDouR9Uvg.  William talks for 85 min about OBE and consciousness in this clip ►  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZNmwCD1pA.

Robert Monroe projected many times and founded http://monroeinstitute.org  and here is a talk of his ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBii06UyWwY.  You will like the 3 books Robert Monroe (who died in 1995) wrote.  I found them online.  First one is “Journeys out of Body” (1971) athttp://users.telenet.be/sterf/texts/other/journeys_out_of_the_body-monroe.pdf.  Second one is “Far Journeys” (1985) athttp://www.exopoliticshongkong.com/uploads/far_journeys.pdf.  Third one is  “Ultimate Journey” (1994) – [page 51-53 he mentions encounter with a 1800 year old guy] at https://www.dmt-nexus.me/doc/Ultimate_Journey-Robert%20A%20Monroe.pdf.

For more astral travel resources and classes, see http://iacworld.org,http://grahamnicholls.com and http://www.oberf.org/oberf_web_links.htm too.  Waldo Vieira created http://iipc.org, a research center with many sister centers focused on astral research. Graham was able to time travel astrally and see an event 5 days before it happened ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxCnLY9sy8.  For more on Graham’s astral travels see this 1 hour interview ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3XbpGSF5Xw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uro1SBJWOFA is a 10 minute video with astral traveler Jurgen Ziewe from http://www.multidimensionalman.com.   Jurgen is sharing a nice audioclip that can help some beginners to astral travel athttp://www.multidimensionalman.com/Multidimensional-Man/Free_Deep_Meditation_Sounds_-_Binaural_Beats.html at the bottom of the page, right click and download the mp3 file.  Repeat play and try to astral travel.  Nanci Trivellato explains in this video the process of inducing OBE using the movement of energies up and down ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYB0BAgHWc

There are dozens of common methods of astral travel, what happens is people try some or all of them and then find one (or two or three) that works for them best (some methods will work best for certain folks, but not for others), depending on their total soul history and what part of the astral is easier to detach given the condition of their astral-physical body.  Usually you just try to have eyes closed, become completely relaxed (full body relaxation, toes to the top of the head) and then practice one of the techniques, such as relaxing and being open to receiving help from the Immortals or Ascended Beings or spirit Helpers or whatever name you like (angels, etc), or roll over technique, or moving energy up and down via your will power from head to toes until the astral body becomes loose and can detach easily a copy of itself, or trying to lift your astral leg first, the rope technique, etc.  You can google or search on youtube for “astral travel techniques or methods” or related things for hundreds of more articles and videos, all free, no need to buy any book;  some people astral travel in 2 days after being taught, others in 20 years.

Many use autogenic relaxation (http://www.guidetopsychology.com/autogen.htm) before astral travel or before programming positive thoughts such as “i make selfless daily astral travel in service to humanity a very popular hobby, maybe as much as sports are today”.

i found seventeen astral projection (soul travel, out of body, etc) books, available to anyone for free, especially useful for those who want to use soul travel to bring a better world:

1.  “Adventures beyond the body” W. Buhlman  http://www.baytallaah.com/bookspdf/132.pdf

2.  “The secret of the soul” by W. Buhlman  https://keychests.com/item.php?v=tjgtysdbffo.

3.  “Journeys out of Body” (1971) by Robert Monroe at http://users.telenet.be/sterf/texts/other/journeys_out_of_the_body-monroe.pdf.  Monroe died in 1995 at the age of 80.

4.  “Far Journeys” (1985) by Robert Monroe at http://www.exopoliticshongkong.com/uploads/far_journeys.pdf.

5.   “Ultimate Journey” (1994) by Robert Monroe [page 51-53 he mentions encounter with a 1800 year old guy] at https://www.dmt-nexus.me/doc/Ultimate_Journey-Robert%20A%20Monroe.pdf.

6.   “Astral Dynamics” by Robert Bruce, 778 pages (2007), at the author’s website:  http://www.astraldynamics.com/home/images/stories/informationcenter/downloads/complete-works_rb.pdf.pdf.

7.  “Mastering Astral Projection – 90 Day Guide to the out of body experience” – Robert Bruce (2005) – http://issuu.com/jonvee/docs/robert_bruce_-_mastering_astral_projection/

8.  “Astral Projection Guidebook” by Erin P. (a less detailed book, 115 pages, 2013, very short and easy to read, lots of her experiences included) athttp://issuu.com/hamzateemoor/docs/the_astral_projection_guidebook_-_e.
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9.  “Astral travel for beginners”  by Richard Webster (226 pages, 2001) athttp://issuu.com/hamzateemoor/docs/_richard_webster__astral_travel_for.  A great book with a lot of information and verified cases of astral travel, with a lot of information about other books and experiments done last 140 years, excellent as a reference for giving to skeptics who want to research more.

10.  “The Projection of the Astral Body” by Sylvan Muldoon (1929, 248 pp.).  http://issuu.com/projetorastral/docs/muldoon_astral     Sylvan died in 1971, at the age of 68.  The book was co-written by psychic researcher Carrington, but it was Muldoon who had the astral travels. It’s one of the earlier classics that started this whole astral research in the West.

11.   “Astral Projection: A record of out of body experiences” by Oliver Fox, who died in 1949 at tGeneral Ideas for the ESP Olympiad:he age of 64. This was published in 1962 and it has some of his experiences.  Just 160 pages. http://issuu.com/hunabkuproductions/docs/oliver-fox-astral-projection

12.  “Practice of Astral Projection” by Robert Crookall  http://issuu.com/hunabkuproductions/docs/oliver-fox-astral-projection.  An older book from 1960 with 160 experiences from many people.  He died in 1981 at the age of 91.  Wrote many books on astral travel.

13.  “Astral Projection” by Yram (1967, 253 pages) at http://www.scribd.com/doc/57844515/Yram-Practical-Astral-Projection-1926.  Yram’s real name was Dr. Marcel Louis Forhan and he was born in 1884 in France and died in 1917 in China.  The book has many of his experiences.

14.  “Astral Projection Notes” – by Donald DeGracia (1994) – the intro says this pdf can be shared widely with anyone on the Internet, as long as it’s shared entirely.  He is sharing his projections and his interpretations. http://nahkahiir.thps3.net/temp/do_obe.pdf

There are other less interesting astral travel books, which have fewer interesting personal experiences:

15.  “Astral Projection for Beginners” by Edain M. (254 pages, 1999) at http://issuu.com/hamzateemoor/docs/edain_mccoy_-_astral_projection_for

16.  “The astral projection workbook” by James H. Brennan (146 pages, 1989) at: http://issuu.com/astroamershah/docs/astral_projection_workbook  Please note that James is not an astral expert, but an author who published 100 books, so he is more like recycling/writing stuff than sharing new ideas from an extensive personal astral travel experience.

17.  “Out of Body Experiences” by Robert Peterson (1997) at his website:  http://www.robertpeterson.org/obebook.html.  He is a computer programmer who also does obe in his spare time.

International ESP Olympiad (soul travel, telepathy, telekinesis, seeing spirits, communicating with spirits, etc) can start and in 50 years 100 nations could take part.  In 1959, the International Math Olympiad started and today 100 nations take part.  Are you interested in taking part in this ESP contest?  Right now Math, Chemistry, Physics, etc Olympiads have County and National Olympiads in participating nations too.  Let us know in the comments or via email.

Wikipedia has more on the Math Olympiad ►https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad. While this Olympiad is for teens, the ESP Olympiad can have 2 Contests, one for ages 8-20 and another for ages 21-35.

General Ideas for the ESP Olympiad:

In Physics and Chemistry there are practical and theoretical exams of 5 hours each.  In ESP Olympiad we can have 4 exams of 2.5 hours each, but if someone wants to only take part in the soul travel exam, they can do that if their skills in Telekinesis, etc are weak.

Exam number 1:  SOUL TRAVEL/TIME TRAVEL – see objects and events in a secret room in real present time.  TIME TRAVEL to see what has happened in a secret room in the past and what is planned to occur in the future in a secret room.

Exam number 2:  CLAIRVOYANCE-CLAIRAUDIENCE  – use the ability to see to gather information about a person located 10 feet away one cannot possibly know otherwise, without soul travel or remote viewing.  A subset of this can be psychometry, using an object of someone to identify information about that person. 🙂

Exam number 3:  TELEKINESIS/TELEPATHY/REMOTE VIEWING (mind reading and seeing things in another room as if you are there, but without going fully in that room as in soul travel) – if one is good at moving light objects, one can try do that alone without telepathy.  🙂  Depends on the person. 🙂

Exam number 4:  USING CHI/ENERGY/HEALING to Heal people of different ailments when doctors have given up on them and have given people only say “40 days to live” – proving there is more to life than the “present stone age medical science”.  Let’s recall in the 1830s, the “know it all” types were giving mercury, quinone and other poisons to people to “cure them”.  Discovery Channel explained this many times, today same thing goes on.  Science often becomes like fanatical fundamentalist religion (Catholic church killing Giordano Bruno for saying his beliefs in reincarnation and earth rotating around the Sun, proven later), in the sense that, the ego of scientists confuses Truth with the relative perceptions of science of a given century.  Just like the vitriol between Catholics and Protestants, the vitriol among scientists is there when a new theory challenges the old theories.

If more people think about these things, maybe we get enough Thought energy manifested to start something, or someone starts it, if we fail to start it.

Meditative Energy Exercise To Stimulate Physical and Astral Telepathy and ESP

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Ideally, first practice this in a deep meditation state, you can later on do it while typing on the computer or doing random things.

Turn off all lights, sounds, use earplugs and a sleep mask if you want to block light and sound completely.  Relax on your chair or bed, as you do when you are ready to astral travel to another planet or something. 🙂  Make sure you have 10-40 minutes of quiet meditation time.  Focus all your awareness and energy in your third eye and then start to move this energy out of your third eye chakra into your crown chakra (the top of your head) and then from the crown chakra move it in a loop into the third eye, the loop can be a circle if you wish, a circle that activates these top 2 chakras.  As you do this, you allow the energies in your energy body and astral body to become more fluid and to tune into the zero point energy field, allowing an easier picking up of information from other realms.

Fine tuning the technique and explanation for why this increases telepathy:  The access to the zero point energy field or the higher love-filled dimensions is a process whereby the consciousness becomes more compassionate, kinder and forgiving – as the Love ♥ creates the bridge between dimensions and various levels of consciousness and what we call “energy and matter”.

it’s all about becoming more serene, kinder and more connected with all life.

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Expanding the Exercise to the whole body:  the energy can be moved up and down the body, from the toes to the head, going thru the body, as explained in many books on ESP and OBE, and this can trigger a better full body telepathy where we can feel what others feel in their legs or whatever.  This technique of moving energy up and down the body, mentioned by Robert Monroe, Waldo Vieira and others, can also lead to a natural take off (more on that later in another post about quantum entanglement) of the astral body for practicing astral telepathy with spirits in other dimensions, such as afterlife realms.

aaaaand GO!! : Moon in Aries

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Aries is the first sign of the zodiac which means this is the beginning of a new Lunar cycle, each one lasting 28 days, with 12 full cycles per lunar year.

The Moon in Aries lends us the emotional energy of initiating. Draw on this full throttle fiery confidence and go getter attitude to push through a startup on what ever you may b ready to turn your ignition key on. AAAAnnnnd GO!
This IS the day to try new things.

Make like a superhero and show us what you are really made of.

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Did You Know …

Green Turtles

Only 1 out of 1,000 hatchling sea turtles survive to adulthood, and they can live to be over 100 yrs old. green turtles are listed as endangered, and their numbers are decreasing.  They are hunted and their eggs are collected by humans, a legal practice in some countries.  Green turtles are also threatened by destruction of nesting areas and foraging areas in the sea.  Sometimes, they are accidentally caught in fishing nets, further declining their population.  Many countries are trying to protect the nesting and foraging grounds, and they are protected under many treaties and laws.

12/14/15 Very positive Lucky energy

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It’s a feel good, lighten up, crack some jokes, take some risks, be bold and optimistic energy.
You got planets there? Angles? Buy a lottery ticket, plan a trip, enter a contest, clean up your act.
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 APOLLO from Pompeii wall                                                                                                         ZEUS/ JUPITER
It’s a fun, optimistic passionate energy which is honest to a fault. Watch out for too much truth and too many details.
A great Accountants appreciation day. You can feel good about being obsessive compulsive.
This sun Jupiter push will give you the oomph to finish lots of mundane but necessary details. Sing…

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Everything is in the palm of your hand – press these points for what it hurts | Feel Healthy Life

Everything is in the palm – press these points for what it hurts Instructions: • Press the thumb point, which means, what hurts you in the body  –  for 5 seconds • Release your thumb – 3 seconds. • Then press again … repeat this for several minutes. • When prolonged massage at least once a…

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La’au Lapa’au ~ Herbal Homeopathy – “Sage” Wisdom, by Nick Polizzi

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Winter hasn’t officially started yet, but you could’ve fooled me. Just about everyone I know has been fighting off some sort of cold or flu these past few weeks.

We all know the feeling – rummaging through the natural medicine cabinet with nose running and the first cough coming on, while the inner voice cries out “why me?!?!?” After all, once the symptoms start it’s normally at least a few days before they begin to go away.

One of the oldest medical texts in Traditional Chinese Medicine, known as the Nei Ching, states:

“To cure an illness after it arises is like forging weapons after the battle has started, or digging a well after you have become thirsty.”

But is it really too late?

Today I want to share a “super-herb” tea recipe that may be able to turn the tables on your cold or flu, in heroic fashion. It’s also wonderful for sore throats.

The leafy celebrity at the heart of this tasty potion is none other than sage, the sacred plant many of us burn routinely in our homes for its aromatic energy-clearing powers. Did you know that it also packs a serious wallop for colds, viruses and bacterial infections?

Also known as Salvia officianalis, sage is an antibacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti… pretty much anti-anything-that-feels-lousy.

All joking aside, this is a highly medicinal herb that is effective for a host of minor ailments like cold and flu, as well as major ones like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes.

Call me an earth medicine nerd, but I get so much joy working with powerful ancient plants like these. They leave modern medicine in the dust, and feel like teachers in your body when you take them!

Below is a delicious sage tea recipe that master herbalists swear by because of its fast-acting effects:

Sage Tea Recipe

*Important: never use aluminum utensils or containers for your tea extractions. Glass, porcelain, silver, and Pyrex are best!

Ingredients:

1 Quart Water
12 Fresh Sage Leaves  (Dry is ok too, but fresh is more potent!)
2 Tablespoons Local Honey
2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
A pinch of Cayenne Pepper

Preparation:

1. In a teapot or saucepan, bring water to a boil.

2. Add the sage leaves and remove the teapot or saucepan from heat.

3. Let steep for 15 minutes.

4. Stir in the remaining ingredients.

5. Pour a cup full, breath in the beautiful aroma, say a healing blessing, and enjoy!

Two to three cups of sage tea per day is always part of the winter sickness healing protocol in my house. Sage is generally viewed as being a very safe herb to experiment with, but as always, do your own research and make sure it feels right for you. 

Whether you celebrate Saturnalia, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, or abstain completely from all the commotion, one thing is for sure – life is a lot more enjoyable when you’re upright and vibrant. Hopefully this information will help you enjoy the fullness of the upcoming winter solstice!

Thoughts on Love of Life and the Art of Awareness

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Acclaimed Nobel Peace Prize author, Albert Camus, once said, “Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”

Indeed, our principles tend to harden into habits and although habits give shape to our inner lives, they can mutate into the rigidity of routine and create a kind of momentum that, rather than expanding our capacity for happiness, contracts it. In the trance of routine and principled productivity, we end up showing up for our daily lives while being absent from them.

And, like my friend RevDruanna Johnston has shown us on FB, few things break us out of our routines and awaken us to the living substance of happiness more powerfully than travel. What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have created through our “daily grind” of work and remaining in familiar surroundings. One can no longer cheat — hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone). Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn’t know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves. But also, soul-sick, we restore to every being and every object its miraculous value.

For my part, my entire life has been undergirded by the ethos that happiness is our moral obligation. My love of life also carries with it a silent passion for what would perhaps escape me, a bitterness beneath a flame. Each day I leave this cloister I call home … like a woman lifted from herself, inscribed for a brief moment in the continuance of the world … and have come to realize that there is no love of life without despair of life. Absolute bliss necessitates an equal capacity for contact with absolute despair.

Where am I going with this? My emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature: they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.

What counts is to be human and simple. No, what counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity. When am I truer than when I am the world? My cup brims over before I have time to desire. Eternity is there and I was hoping for it. What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness.

Have a great week, Everyone. I love you … Aloha! heart emoticon

Pohaku La’au ~ Healing Crystals – Crystals for Adaptation

The Constant in Life

If there is one constant thing in life, it is change. Sometimes we cause the change such as buying a new house or having a baby. Other times, the change sneaks up on us when we least expect it. We may lose our job or our relationship may suddenly come to an end. Surprisingly, whether you chose to experience the changing environment or not, change can be difficult. Most people think that if you are choosing to move, you are ready for that change, but such is not always the case. When change comes we just be ready to adapt. If you have problems adapting to new situations or environments, we believe crystals can help you. They can make the process much easier, whether you asked for it or not. We suggest always have one of the following discussed crystals around in case an unexpected change comes into your life.

Turquoise is a blending of the cold winter blue ray of Trust with the approaching warm green ray of Growth. It is the color of the earth as the new growth and life emerges at the first hints of spring. It is a fresh color, a welcome color, and a color that moves us to serenity knowing that the cycle of life is progressing rapidly. Turquoise is the Color Ray of Discovery and the Color Ray of Balance. Its vibrations help you find yourself and return to equilibrium in your life and feelings. When your life is out of balance, whether from too much passion or not enough, or too much activity or not enough, or whatever the imbalance, turquoise rays can get you back to center again.

Turquoise
Turquoise

Turquoise Crystals

Crystals with the beautiful Turquoise Ray are Centering and Balance Crystals

When attempting to adapt to new situations, we suggest using crystals in a darker turquoise color ray. Dark Turquoise crystals bring you adaptation, flexibility, openness, new perspective, and inner strength. All of these attributes are core to learning to adapt to new circumstances. In darker, richer tones, turquoise brings us a ray of considerable power. It is the color of flexibility. Many of our shortcomings are based on intolerance. We get used to the way we think people should behave; the way the world should work. We grow more intolerant of new things as we age. Dark Turquoise rays are potent anti-intolerance rays that will give you the adaptability in your outlook to learn, enjoy, and participate in the newness that is constantly being brought to life.

Amazonite
Amazonite

Amazonite is a stone of tranquility, peace, and protection from the undesirable elements of life. It will keep negative energy away from you, making it one of the most protective stones you can own. Called the Stone of Courage and the Stone of Truth, Amazonite empowers one to search the self and discover one’s own truths and integrity, and to move beyond fear of judgment or confrontation with others to live in alignment with those beliefs and values. It is also a wonderful healer for the emotional body. It soothes trauma and calms the mind, alleviates worry and fear, and directs anger and irritability into a more positive action. These are very important qualities when attempting to adapt to new situations. We need a calm mind that is free of anxiety and takes any negative feelings we feel from the change and help turn them into positive ones. Amazonite is deeply stimulating to both the Heart and Throat Chakras. The Heart Chakra, located near the center of the breastbone, regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist.

Amazonite carries a spiritual energy of personal truth. It enkindles a harmonious interaction between the intellect and intuition, allowing one to find what it right and true within oneself and to lovingly communicate those values and beliefs to others.

Chrysocolla
Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a strong dispeller of negative energy that brings a calming energy primarily to the heart. It is the stone of forgiveness, peace, and the strengthening of emotional bonds. It encourages compassion, and helps us recover our natural spontaneity. This stone’s calming effect helps with nervous disorders, such as anxiety and depression, and feelings of guilt. This is essential as fear of change is often brought about by anxiety. Both anxiety and depression can make adaptation near impossible. Chrysocolla helps align the Heart Chakra, often easing emotional heartache and aiding you to find strength and balance. When the heart chakra is out of balance we may feel either controlling or controlled in a relationship, and become critical of the little foibles of others. We may find ourselves having inappropriately strong emotional responses to everyday external stimuli. Chrysocolla can ease that stress and emotional response and make it easier for us to deal with change and learn to adapt to an ever moving life.

 

Chrysocolla stimulates the initiative qualities of one’s character to release the distress of negative emotions and further the understanding of others. By accepting the perfection of the universe, it provides insights necessary to help re-align the physical body, intellect and emotions.

 

What Other Authors Say

Bloodstone — Judy Hall suggests Bloodstone which is a well-known talisman and meditation crystal.
Mentally, Bloodstone calms the mind, dispels confusion, and enhances the decision-making process. It can revitalize the mind if you are mentally exhausted. This stone assists in adjusting to unaccustomed circumstances.

Biotite lenses — Michael Gienger recommends Biotite lenses which is a stone that helps us seek balance and flexibility.  Biotite lenses stimulate individual self-fulfillment. They allow flexibility and adaptation as long as the wearer does not become untrue to him/herself.

Cinnabar Quartz — Robert Simmons advocates Cinnabar Quartz which brings growth and development.
Because of is facilitation of rapid change and growth, Cinnabar Quartz is a stone of so called invisibility. This means that it enhances one’s capacity for rapid adaptation to changing circumstances, whether inner or outer.

 

In Summary

Life can move quickly and change as regularly as the tide. We cannot always prepare for these changes such as a change in job, a move to a new home, or an end of a relationship. Sometimes when we have prepared, we are still not ready for them. What we need to learn is adaptation or how to become adjusted to new conditions. When confronting change in your life or if you would like to prepare for unexpected ones in the future, we suggest using dark turquoise colored crystals. These crystals color rays bring you adaptation, flexibility, openness, new perspective, and inner strength. Which are all essential in adapting to new circumstances in life. We suggest using dark turquoise crystals such as Amazonite and Chrysocolla. You can also try crystals other authors have suggested such as Bloodstone, Biotite lenses, and Cinnabar Quartz.