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Literally millions practice Qigong in China and around the world each day to successfully treat diseases ranging from hypertension to cancer. Outwardly, Wuji Qigong is an exercise and stretching system, focusing on synchronizing the breath with slow movements and guided visualizations. Upon deeper study, the transformative, healing benefits of this personal healthcare practice becomes apparent.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Phobia, fears and anxieties ruin the quality of your life. Underlying irrational fear eats up your vital energy making you feel loose and unenthusiastic. It is at this point, you can turn to acupressure phobia treatment for that drastic change in your thoughts and behaviors. Just switch on the pressure points and feel the vigor of positive energy flowing through your veins.
]]>The tapping serves to release the blockages that are created when a person thinks about or becomes involved in an emotionally disturbing circumstance. When this blockage is released, the emotions come into balance. Once balanced, the person cannot get upset about the circumstance no matter how hard they try. The memory remains but the charge is gone. Typically, the result is lasting and the person's awareness usually changes in a positive way as a natural result of the healing.
Most energetic imbalances may be partially or completely relieved within a short time using this process. Others may be relieved through repetition of the process. Some examples of energetic patterns that have been successfully cleared using EFT:
Fears related to performance like public speaking, concentration, sports, etc.
Phobias like the fear of heights, flying, enclosed spaces, driving, etc.
Emotional trauma from war experiences, physical abuse, etc.
Disturbing emotions like depression and anger.
Emotions related to addictive patterns like eating and smoking
Insomnia
Emotions related to physical conditions.
]]>EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is becoming known to many amazed users as a "modern miracle." It can dramatically relieve emotional disturbances along with many physical symptoms. It often works in minutes, its results are usually long lasting, and side effects are almost always positive.
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Rene Descartes
]]>I’ve been meditating twice a day for the past 9 years because I enjoy it. It may seem strange, but I feel happiest when sitting in perfect silence. The experience is difficult to express in words. It is akin to the “peace that passeth understanding”. It is also true that every meditation is not the same. Sometimes meditation is a struggle to control the mind, while at other times it feels effortless.
These are some of the benefits of meditation:
1. Improved concentration - A clear mind makes you more productive, especially in creative disciplines like writing.
2. Less bothered by little things - Do you sometimes allow yourself to get upset by little things? It is the nature of the mind to magnify small things into serious problems. Meditation helps us detach. We learn to live in the here and now, rather than worrying about the past or future. We do not worry about meaningless things, but see the bigger picture.
3. Better Health - There have been numerous studies pointing to the health benefits of meditation. The reason is that meditation reduces stress levels and alleviates anxiety. If we can reduce stress, many health benefits follow.
4. Knowledge of Self - Meditation enables us to have a deeper understanding of our inner self. Through meditation we can gain a better understanding of our life’s purpose.
Is Meditation Religious?
The great thing about meditation is that our philosophy/religious belief is not important. Meditation is about consciousness. The beliefs of the mind become trivial. We dive deep into the heart of the matter to gain access to our soul - our inner reality. Therefore, mediation can (and is ) practised by people of different religions or no religion.
But I don’t have time To Meditate
Many people like the idea of meditation, but feel they don’t have enough time. When you really want to do something you can find time. Get up earlier or watch 30 minutes less TV. Meditation requires an investment of time, but clearing the mind makes the the rest of the day more productive. Nothing is better than the feeling of inner peace. What is the point in being tremendously busy but unable to enjoy it? Meditation is not about retreating from the world; it gives us inspiration. Whatever you do, if you have peace of mind, your work will be more enjoyable and productive.
How To Meditate
Like anything worthwhile, meditation requires practice. To get the most from meditation you need to do it every day. This requires a place and time where you will not be disturbed.
1. Sit with a straight back. Don’t try to meditate lying down because you are likely to fall asleep. Meditation brings relaxation and peace but at the same time this is a dynamic peace. Meditation is quite different than the relaxation of sleep. When we really meditate, we are fully alert and conscious. Our sense of awareness is heightened. Afterwards you’ll have a positive feeling for the world and a renewed sense of dynamism.
2. Don’t eat before meditating. After a heavy meal your body will be lethargic with digestion.
3. It is not necessary to mediate in the lotus posture. It is fine to meditate in a chair, as long as the back is straight.
4. It is helpful to take a shower before meditating.
5. Burning incense and having a candle are not necessary, but they can add a little extra inspiration.
6. It is good to meditate early in the morning. It is said the best time is 3am, although, I feel it is more important to be awake and not sleepy, I meditate at 6.30am.
One Pointed Concentration
However you learn to meditate, you must learn to concentrate on one thing at a time. Usually, the mind tries to hold several different thoughts and ideas at once. When you sit down to meditate for the first time, you realize how cluttered the mind is. Mediation teachers have described the mind as a “mad monkey”. However, the mind can be tamed and forced to concentrate on a single thought.
One helpful technique is concentrating on a candle flame. Narrow your gaze to the small tip and block out all other thoughts. When you get distracted, go back to focusing on the candle flame. You can also use other objects like a small dot or flower. The important thing is that you concentrate only on one thing at a time.
Mantra
Another way to learn concentration is through the use of mantra. A mantra is the repetition of a sacred word. For example, you might repeat the mantra AUM a certain number of times. Repeating a mantra forces the mind to focus on a single thought.
Silent Mind
After you’ve practised concentration and learned to focus on one thing at a time, you can proceed to the next stage: no thought at all. Achieving a silent mind is difficult, but when to attain it the experience is powerful. A technique I advise is viewing your thoughts as separate from your self. When a thought appears, make a conscious decision to throw it out of your mind. Over time you realize that you are capable of allowing or rejecting thoughts. Your real “I” is not a collection of thoughts, but something far deeper. This is the most significant realization of meditation - that you do not have to be a slave to your thoughts.
Through meditation, you attain the power to control your thoughts, and on occasion stop them completely. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t attain a silent mind straight away. It takes time and practice. There is nothing really else to it; meditation is a simple and spontaneous action. Unfortunately, our mind is used to complication and it takes time to unlearn bad habits.
post written by Tejvan Pettinger.
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]]>Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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]]>However, by getting to bed on time and consistently waking up at a set hour, you can reset this clock in as little as a few days. First of all, go to bed at a reasonable hour every night. If you’re staying up late to watch your favorite shows, think about investing in TiVo and watching your programs when you actually have time (like on the weekends). Once you figure out how to get to bed at a reasonable hour, it’s time to give yourself a set time to wake up, too, even on the weekends. Don’t groan – you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel when you get on a regular sleep cycle.
By Jennifer Gruenemay
]]>Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
]]>Personal development and personal growth are concepts that take into account the realistic fact that life changes as we live it and we must both grow and change to be equal to the challenges. As we leave adolescence behind and become adults, we are expected to be able to build our own lives and to weave a fabric of living that will expand with the changes we encounter. We may do this by choosing to develop a productive career or to have a family or by a combination of both, but it is generally not acceptable to not develop a path in life. The steps taken toward achieving these goals often force changes on us, and require that we grow and develop more skills to deal with them. This is the philosophy behind self-help.
Many people have come up with exercises and tips that have been useful to them, and will allow individuals to understand and to meet the various stages of his or her life. Some even prepare us in advance for these milestones, such as childbirth, marriage, and developing a career. Another form of serious self help, often takes the form of counseling or support groups, and targets those who have fallen behind in these stages or who left the loop entirely, such as alcoholics and drug addicts. These support groups often stress the stages of life, and recommend that the participant take a virtual journey through them to recreate where and how they began to falter. The next step is to try to reintegrate the addict into life at an appropriate stage.
One important aspect of growth and personal development is to clearly see what you want and expect from life. It is important to make these goals, even though they often change throughout the course of life, with and without out intentions. These goals are often enough for some lucky people to steer a steady course.
However many of us need more at some point. Growth and development programs and philosophies that enable us to focus on the positive aspects in out lives and formulate a positive and productive attitude are strong empowering elements. An optimistic attitude has been shown to be beneficial to all areas of life, from achieving success to fighting termini illness. It is often noted that optimists often fail more frequently in life that those with a more negative attitude, they just don’t incorporate the failure into their self-image, which continues to shine brightly. Doctors repeatedly cite the better prognosis that patients who remain optimistic about their treatment often enjoy. The power of positive thinking is no myth, and those programs and books that keep us in touch with this concept are valid tools for personal growth and development.
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]]>Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.
Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.
The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.
"We told them so.""Crazy men and their crazy dreams.""It`s foolish to chase wild visions."
Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.
He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.
It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.
He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.
For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.
Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.
Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realised with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.
Even the most distant dream can be realized with determination and persistence.
Have a top Day!
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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]]>Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
]]>Nobody really knows the exact cause(s) of depression. There are many causes that have been listed, so for the purpose of this article, the type of depression being discussed here is not the type caused by genetic or biological factors. The type of depression I’m talking about stems from the environment in which we live in today.
Depression is becoming less and less of a taboo subject nowadays. More people are beginning to open up about their depression as they realize more and more that they are not alone. And they are right. They are not alone. Even the people who seem to “have it all” seem to suffer from it as well.
The question then arises. What are the specific causes in the environment today that result in the depression that people seem to have?
Here are some of the usual suspects that come about.
Media
Consumerism
Social Isolation
Breakdown of the Family Unit
Sedentary Lifestyle
Financial Worry
Let’s briefly discuss each of them.
Media
People are always quick to point fingers at the media as to why people are so depressed these days. Television, magazines, newspapers always seem to portray high standards of lifestyle and body image which in turn makes people feel inadequate about themselves and their lives. Add to that, the media always seemed to be filled with bad news – murders, kidnappings, scandals. We are constantly bombarded with these types of messages on a daily basis thanks to advancements in technology which greatly influences how we see ourselves and the world around us without us even knowing it.
Consumerism
Consumerism is closely linked to media as that’s where it’s primarily relayed through. Consumerism manipulates advertising to toy with people’s emotions to make them feel inferior if they don’t buy this product or that. What happens then is that people get caught up in the rat race of consumerism. They work in jobs they hate so they can buy things to feel good about themselves, but the high only lasts a little while and the cycle continues and they can’t get out because they need the finances from their current job to maintain their expensive habits and to pay off the debt that inevitably gets incurred.
Social Isolation
With the advent of technology in communication, we would assume that it improve our social life, but in effect, it has seemingly isolated us from one another even more. We have computer screens, cell phones, webcams, email that separate us from face to face interaction and because of that, many find comfort in staying at home and socializing online, reducing time spent in real human interaction.
You walk down any city street these days and half the people walking there are living in their own little world, chatting on their cell phones, listening to their ipod, or checking their email on their Blackberry. People unknowingly are using technology to create barriers from one another, making it difficult for others to attempt to create new relationships, which only contributes to more loneliness on both sides.
Breakdown of the Family Unit
Many kids are growing up in single parent homes these days and even if they do grow up with both parents, those two parents usually both end up working to make ends meet. There is little time to properly raise children and this proves even more difficult for single parents. Divorce is on the rise. Add to that, technology has made infidelity extremely easy to commit. There is no stable family unit any more.
Sedentary Lifestyle
Technology has us sitting at our desks 9-5 and sitting on our couches when we get home to watch what we recorded on TV. There is no need to exercise in order to survive. There is no soil to plough, no wood to chop, no animals to hunt.
Financial Worry
Jobs are not as stable as they were before. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening and the middle class itself is shrinking. Many are an illness or firing away from financial disaster. Not to mention the massive credit card debt from consumerism. Due to globalization and high technology, work is being outsourced and people are being replaced by machines.
One could infer that technology seems to be the common thread among these listed causes but the fact is that all these factors all intertwine with one other, and I’m sure there are more factors out there that weren’t included.
The truth is, our environment will always change all the time as we progress as a civilization. Technology will always advance, everything will always be in a state of flux but the one thing that never changes is our power of choice and personal responsibility and therein lies two of our most powerful weapons against depression.
The reason why depression is on the rise is that fewer and fewer people are exercising their power of choice and personal responsibility.
Everybody just wants to get medicated without taking a hard look at their life to see what’s causing their depression in the first place and figuring out ways to solve it. And before you bring up the claim that the cause of depression is a chemical imbalance, let me remind you that this article is NOT about those cases of depression stemming from genetic or biological factors. Only the ones caused by the environment and I have a feeling that people know deep down inside which cause their depression stems from.
The best thing you can do right now is to define who you are, who you want to be, what you believe in, what you stand for, what you want to do with your life, in other words to create your own centre, your own foundation, to work on yourself and your life.
Create the life you want to live because once you do that, you become solid. You are whole. You have mass and you will not be so easily tossed here and there by forces outside of you. There has to be a centre where your world can be created around. If you have no centre, anybody and anything can toss you around like a ball here and there, leaving you confused, dazed, and ultimately not in control which helps contribute to your depression.
It amazes me that people spend enormous time and energy in planning events that last for a day such as a birthday party, anniversary, or wedding, but when it comes to planning their LIFE, very few people will put in that same amount of time and energy.
Rather, people “float” through life, doing this and that, being easily manipulated by those forces around them to the point where they feel they have no control. No centre. No anchor. No foundation.
Clear your schedule for a day. Sit down with a piece of paper and decide what kind of person you want to be. The best way to do this is to imagine your own funeral and write down what you want your friend to say about you. What you want your parents to say about you. Your boss. Your clients. Your co-workers. Your relatives. This will give you something to strive for, a sense of identity that is yours, instead of slapping on identities that the media and corporations have sold us on.
Imagine the work you want to do. Work accounts for half our life so if you have to work, which you must, you might as well do work you love and enjoy. Work that you hate doing is probably one of the biggest causes in the environment that contribute to depression.
When you start doing this, when you start sculpting who you want to be, what you want to do, what you stand for, you have effectively cast an anchor overboard and grounded yourself in this tumultuous sea we call life.
You now have a destination to aim for and a course to chart and you slowly use your engines to help get you there. Sure, storms will come and go but they will not become the focus. The focus will be on the journey and the destination.
When you do this, then you’ll find all the pieces you need that will help you fit together the picture you’ve created in your mind. You’ll find new friends that will fit into your lifestyle, work that fits into your lifestyle and your environment will slowly conform to support YOUR vision of your life.
And nothing outside of you in the environment can adversely affect you because you have already determined from within the kind of person you are and wish to be and the life you want to live.
When you start doing all this, all the messages from the media will have little or no influence on you because you have already filled the needs it’s trying to cultivate within you. You’ll render the power of consumerism impotent because you have filled the very hole it claims it can fill. As you start becoming the type of person you described in your funeral exercise, you’ll start developing deep and meaningful relationships with people in your lives and social isolation will be a thing of the past. You’ll take care of your health and exercise, thereby releasing those feel good endorphins that help counter depression. Because consumerism and the media don’t play a role in your life, your finances will be in order and you can start to figure out and do the work that you want to do, instead of being chained to the work you don’t.
Too many people are jumping on meds much too soon without taking the time to work on their life first, to figure out what the cause of their depression is. Figure out what’s causing the depression. More often than not, it’s a result of letting the environment dictate your life as you have not clearly defined who you are, what you want to do, who you want to be, and what you want to do. Everybody is just going through the motions in their lives, living lives without any real purpose. All I’m saying is to try and work on yourself and your life FIRST.
You have something to focus on and when you focus on that, everything else around you tunes out and becomes static. The environment has no power over you anymore because you have direction.
So exercise your power of choice and personal responsibility. Stop blaming things outside of you. Take control of your life. Meds should be a last resort. Sure you could pop a pill and everything would be fine and dandy, but you wouldn’t be treating the root cause (unless it’s purely medical). You would just be treating a symptom. You know your situation the best so figure out what the real cause of your depression is.
Is it because you don’t like your job? Getting on meds won’t solve that problem. It just cures the symptom. It’s like a small band aid on a deep cut. Find your passion. Find a new job. That will cure your depression, not the meds.
Not happy about your body? Meds are not going to make you lose weight. Exercise, self discipline, and a healthy diet will.
Getting in credit card debt because you buy things to feel good about yourself? How about defining yourself on your own terms so that you no longer need to buy “things” to define you?
It’s typical of today’s mentality of instant gratification to pop a pill and have all your troubles go away. Nobody wants to do any hard work any more.
The point I want to make is that it’s really easy to point the finger at your environment to blame for your depression. When you do that, you rob yourself of personal power because you are essentially saying you have no control and that the things outside of you do.
The media has control over you. Technology has control over you. Material things have control over you and sadly enough, all those things do have control over a lot of people and rather than take back that control, they give it all up.
We have let ourselves be shaped by the environment around us, letting it define our lives rather than us defining our own.
So take back control of your life. Create your centre. Create your own life. And start to define the world you want to live in and what you’ll find is that the world will conform to your wishes.
Brian Kim
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]]>Our pod cast is unique because we use tones in the audio that actually affect the brain waves, inducing a deep state of relaxation, and a brain pattern similar to REM sleep. This has the potential to bring about profound healing. We have received emails from people all over the world who have suffered from strokes, emotional losses, trauma, anxiety and insomnia, all of whom have benefited from our pod cast. Jesse spent about a year researching the tones and developing a program that would produce them seamlessly.
This style of meditation is non-denominational, and we believe it can be used in conjunction with – or separate from – any church, temple or any set of religious or spiritual beliefs.
]]>Bill Harris has been involved in personal development for more than 30 years as a seeker, teacher, public speaker, author, musician, composer, therapist, workshop leader and business owner. He is founder and director of Centerpointe Research Institute, and is the creator of 'The Holosync Solution' program.
This program utilizes an audio technology called Holosync®, embedded beneath soothing music and environmental sounds on CD or cassette tape, to create states of deep meditation, producing a dramatic acceleration in mental, emotional and spiritual growth.
Harris started Centerpointe Research Institute in 1989 with borrowed recording equipment set up on his kitchen table. Since then, Centerpointe has grown to include more than 100,000 participants in 172 countries. His most recent book, Thresholds of the Mind , describes the research and process that makes this technology effective.
He spoke with The EDGE about the Holosync technology from his office in Portland, Ore.
What is meditation?
Bill Harris: To describe what meditation is, you really have to consider where meditation came from and the reason it was developed.
It comes out of the descriptions of reality that mystics have imparted to their students for many, many years. If you spoke to a mystic in the East he would tell you that reality is satchidananda. "Sat" represents the idea of omnipresence, that there is one energy in the universe that is everywhere, every when, and that everything is made up of this energy, that everything is a dance, the play, the flux of this one energy.
Quantum mechanic physicists are telling us the same thing now, so this is not just some sort of mystical, airy fairy thing. This is backed up by the latest in scientific thinking.
But, the mystics went further than just saying that everything is the play of one energy. They also said, and this is the "chid" part, that this energy is aware, that it's aware of itself being everything and being everywhere. And because of the fact that it knows that it's everywhere and every when, and that there's nothing outside of it, nothing to get, nowhere to go, nothing to be afraid of, this energy is happy, peaceful and blissful, which is the "ananda" part.
So, the teacher would tell the disciples that this energy, this one energy of all and everything that is eternally happy and peaceful, is their true nature.
And then someone would raise their hand in the back row and say, "Well, yeah, but if that's true, then why do I feel so lousy so often?" And the teacher would say, "Well, the reason is because your mind gets in the way of knowing who you really are."
You are this happy, peaceful, blissful being, but you don't often experience it, because of your mind. So technologies and techniques have been developed over the years to still the mind and to get beyond the mind - and the most effective of those is meditation.
The real reason for meditation is the attempt to try to get at who you really are and to experience it directly, without having the mind intervene.
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