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Ready for Some Summer Fun?

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Children naturally love to play. My son spends most of his waking hours just having fun.

Remember how that used to feel? Playing for the joy of it… for pure pleasure.

When you have so many demands on your time, it is easy to forget about finding joy in everyday life. It’s easy to get too busy to do the things you enjoy. But it is really important to create the space for fun. Playing restores and reenergizes you. It makes you feel good. When you make having fun a part of your life you can face all other responsibilities with more enthusiasm and lightness.

When I begin coaching clients I often request that they start doing more things that bring them joy. Unfortunately many clients tell me they can’t remember what is joyful for them. When I hear that it always makes my heart sink; but it never surprises me.

In the early ’90s I was so busy building my first company I didn’t make anytime for fun. All I did was wake up go to work until very late in the evening and then come home and go to bed. My ‘Aha’ moment came one day while I was waiting for a client to join me for lunch. I overheard the conversation at the table next to me where two women about my age were discussing the great time they had on the weekend. They were reminiscing about a group bike ride and BBQ. I felt empty. I couldn’t think of the last time I’d done anything like that. In fact, I couldn’t recall the last time I’d done anything fun at all. So, I decided it was about time I started. “Started what?” I thought. The unfortunate reality was I was out of practice. I’d forgotten how to have fun.

One of the best ways to figure out what fun means to you is to think about what you enjoyed doing as a child. For me it was playing in the woods. I grew up in a house situated at the base of a mountain. There was an orchard directly below it and a forest behind. As a child I would spend hours in the woods finding and traversing new trails. When I tapped into that memory I realized that I would really enjoy hiking…a more grown-up version of playing in the trees.

Today I go hiking as often as I can. I just love it. I always feel terrific after getting out and enjoying nature. The wonderful thing is when you start making more time for play you will gain energy, reduce stress, and feel more personal satisfaction.

Pay Attention to the Little Things

Experiencing joy is also about paying attention to the small pleasures in life. If you are aware of the happiness that can be found in each ordinary day, life itself is a celebration. Small, basic things can bring you joy. Notice the smell of fresh coffee, the sound of a child’s laughter, and the beauty in a blade of grass. Each day is a great and unique gift.

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Author of Briefcase Moms: 10 Proven Practices to Balance Working Mothers’ Lives,
Lisa is a sought-after expert and speaker on work-life balance issues. Known for her very personal and practical approach, Lisa coaches working mothers to know what they want and get what they want.
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Energy Enhancement Meditation, the Pleaser, Blamer, Vamp, Tyrant, Self Destructor Manic Depression

Monday, October 13th, 2008

These Strategies are where separate intelligences are split off from the central stem of your Soul and are Archetypes created and used by the Hurt Inner Children.

Hurt Inner Children split off from the Central Soul personality when the person gets traumatised by the painful and corrupt actions of life.

These Hurt Inner Children flow in and out of your consciousness and it is these split personalities which use the Strategies like the Violator, the Poor Me and the Selfish Competitive Star in order to get the attention and the Love of everyone around them.

The problem is that these ego strategies always hurt the people around them. Eventually they stop working and the people around them throw them out. With ego strategies, if you are rich everyone puts up with them, their job depends on it, but no-one likes them.

Without someone pointing out the discrepancies in your behaviour, you probably will not notice them..

As Gurdjieff said, “The person that says I will get up early in the morning is not the same personality who throws the alarm clock out of the window!!.”

As the False Negative Emotions of Anger, Manicism, Seeking Sympathy and Attention, Depression and Fear are Eliminated, Emotional Integration with the Intelligence results in Willpower and the Power of Doing.

This higher functionality is the result of healing these Strategies!

The Don Juan or Vamp Strategy

We have all heard of the town bicycle who is ridden by everyone. Well, because of this need for Love and Attention. Because we are afraid of people leaving us so that we leave them first. Because of the very strong psychic sexual connection and the energy flows it can create – it takes very strong energies to draw a soul down from heaven. This strategy is a wonderful egotistical method for both men and women to vampirise the energies of people they meet.

Pleaser Strategy

Because they want your love, they will put aside their wants and even their justifiable needs, and try to please you. They will have no personality of their own except that which wants to please. They will be happy or sad depending upon whether you have been pleased.

However, they will make you dependant upon them. they will engage your attention more and more. They become inescapable. They mutate into a Tyrant!

The Blamer Strategy

Its all your fault. There are only two of us here and it can’t be me who is wrong. It must be you!!!

The Critic Strategy

Like the interrogator this intellectual strategy gets off on criticising everything to get your energy and attention. Yet the critic even criticises himself.

The Tyrant Strategy

All of the strategies in the end are tyrants who want, need and even demand your attention.

All they want is your attention. They will get your attention in many destructive and self destructive ways

The Self Destructor Strategy

This one is the Big Daddy of them all. The Controlling Archetype of all of the Strategies. All of them lead to self destruction because they are the major part of the Desire-filled, wanting, vampire ego.

Manic Depression.

The Poor Me and the Violator usually flip from one to the other and back again within one body. If you have one Strategy, then soon you will flip to the other side.

We see many Poor Me’s. All of them are capable of becoming the violator in a trice.

However, to remove these sub-personalities completely, the more Advanced techniques of a Synthesis of Ancient Meditational Techniques are absolutely necessary:-

It needs an Ancient Advanced Synthesis of Effective Techniques for Gaining More Energy – Meditation, Shaktipat, Energy Circulation, The Kundalini Kriyas, The Five Elemental Paths Of The Chi Of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, The Grounding Of Negative Energies, V.I.T.R.I.O.L, The Art Card Of The Thoth Tarot, Access To Kundalini Energy, Strong Psychic Protection, Learn The Merkaba, Pyramid Protection, Power Tower Protection, Create The Antahkarana, Soul Fusion, Monadic Infusion, Logos Infusion. The Painless Removal Of Stress, Trauma And Negative Emotion

Leading onto the more advanced Techniques of The Karma Clearing Process.
Karma Cleaning Process, Learning how to clean The Karma From Past Lives, Future Life, Future Lifetimes, Integrating Soul Fragmentation And Retrieval of Inner Children, Selfish Ego Sub Personalites, Life Destroying Strategies, The Aloof, The Interrogator, The Violator, The Selfish Competitive Star, The Vamp Or Don Juan, The Pleaser, The Blamer, The Critic, The King, The Self Destructor, All The Destructive Vows From This And Past Lifetimes,.

Which results in The Creation Of Self Love, Love And Service.

Ponder on this…

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White Sun – Normal People

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

What the world values are wealth, rank, a long life, and goodness. What people enjoy are good health, rich food, fine clothing, beauty, and music. What they hate are poverty, low position, dying young, sickness etc. What people worried about is that their body might not be in good health, not able to taste rich food, put on fine clothing, see beauty, or hear good music. When they cannot obtain these things, they are plunged into deep sorrow and worry.

The rich hustle and bustle and hoard up wealth. They spend their time attending to their wealth and to the externals of life. When a man is born, sorrow comes with it. Life comes from a source and death is a return to it. Thus, beginning follows the end in a continual cycle. The only way to stop this cycle is to know the Truth and practise it. Upon departure, none can take along a single cent with him. We come with nothing and go with nothing. Fortunately there are also a lot of wealthy people giving away millions. The more they give, the more they receive. The hand that gives gathers.

All products of the world are the results of the refined and beautiful material force. Man takes the best of it to nourish his life, but it is all from Heaven. Do not let the artificial cover up the natural. Do not for material purposes destroy your life. Do not sacrifice your character for your fame. Guard carefully your nature and do not let it go astray. This is called returning to one’s nature.

One who attains Tao or awakening sees perfect beauty and feels perfect happiness. Happiness and anger, joys and sorrows, should not enter one’s heart, for this universe represents the unity of all things. When one perceives this unity and is united with it, he regards his bodily form as dust of the earth, and the cycle of life and death just like day and night. He cannot be disturbed by such accidents, much less by the occurances of fortune and misfortune. He shakes off an official position as he shakes off dirt, knowing that he cannot allow his true self to become lost in external changes.

He who does not deviate from the source of all things is a man of God. He who does not deviate from the essence is a divine person. He who does not deviate from the Truth is a perfect man. He who regards the Heaven as the source, virtue as the foundation, and Tao as the portal, which is evidenced in all changes of life is a sage. He who guides himself by the principle of humanity in performing acts of kindness, follows justice as his principle, observes ceremony for his conduct, expresses the sense of harmony and is compassionate and kind, is a real gentleman.

My Heavenly Master JiGong said, “The most anxious thing for people of the world is hunger and cold. What closely related to life is just food and clothing. If one can already survive with eating simple vegetarian food and living an unremarkable life (not interested in seeking fame and fortune), and as long as the living is tolerable, do take it easy. Don’t say that the fence of my house is so ‘limited’, how can I achieve a good fruition? (be rich). If one is satisfied with life, even bitter gall-bladder can be sweet spring and a thatched cottage can even be an elegant mansion.”

Author: T.A Chew

T.A Chew has been living a very simple life. As a vegetarian he learned that after the three inches from the throat, all tastes cannot be differentiated. Why look for mountain delicacies and rich deep sea food? says his Heavenly Master JiGong. Website: http://www.white-sun.com

The Day I Walked With God

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I’ve been seeking to reach a conscious contact with God and the life source that connects as all for the better part of my life. Searching for my purpose, knowing all along that the world was far bigger than my humanly 5 senses could ever understand. Inner peace, harmony with the universe, free from self-doubt and at one with God and his will for me.

My perfect day is to walk with God, without fear, my true father and the source of all life, and at this time selfishly have God’s ear to me and me alone. I don’t question him about the suffering I brought upon myself. I do not blame him for the hardships I’ve endured. I have this amazing peace about me and the Lord’s spirit engulfs me with joy and gratitude. I ask the Lord what special plan he had for me, because I’m confident that he has a very particular mission from me and all that has happened in my life so far was necessary for me to endure in order to bring hope and Faith to the multitudes. I don’t ask God what took him so long; instead it is he who asks me “My son, what took you so long”? “So many times you called on me. You prayed for second chances. You promised to turn your will over to me, yet so many times you took it back. Your sacrifices were of your own doing, yet it is your suffering which makes you a powerful tool to help those who are able to relate to you. Sinners need to hear from sinners, for the voice of a saint will fall on death ears, yet a sinner who has given his life to the Lord carries a powerful influence to those who still wander this earth lost, searching for hope and it is your tales of faith that shall pierce their hearts and fill their souls with my spirit and they too shall find the peace I have lovingly given to you. Give of your self freely, for your reward is larger than your earthly mind could ever understand”

We walk along an empty beach yet I don’t feel my feet touching the sand. I realize that he is showing me a glimpse of heaven, for my heart is overwhelmed with Joy and my mind is at peace as I realize that the external concerns that absorb us as humans in this world are the farthest thing away from the life that my God desires for me.

I begin to ask him questions that remain mysteries to us as humans. “Is there a heaven?” “Will I see my departed love ones when I leave this realm and move on to the afterlife?”
God laid his hand on my shoulder. I felt a powerful Love that brought tears to my eyes. So overwhelming, indescribable in any manner or words known to man. It feels as if I’m floating in God’s arms and I feel safe and secure for the first time in my life.

When I turn to look at him I am somewhat blinded by this amazing light. A light different then any light I have seen on this earth. Suddenly all my wonders become so clear to me, so simple that I never saw them, all the while they were with me, right in front of me. No, not in front of me, or beside me, but within me. I had lived in the material world for so long that I had truly lost site of who I was and why I was here. At last my purpose was clear to me and I could hear the angels singing from the gates of heaven. My heart rejoiced and I can not describe the freedom I was basking in or the pleasure I was feeling knowing that God loved me so much. It became so clear to me how tiny my earthly concerns had been. My life would no longer be lived in the earthly plain where guilt and envy dwelled. I would never again worry about anything, including money, food, health, or employment. These were all things that will be left behind when my journey here was over and I went to dwell in the house of the Lord. I knew that I would be provided for and I could now set my intentions on God’s will for me.

I walk this earth to give hope to those in despair, to give faith to those who see no future, and love to all of God’s children unconditionally. Through my trials and tribulations came a powerful message from God through me. I will lead by example with a loving soul and a forgiving heart. I will not indulge prejudice but treat all my brothers and sisters as equals, because we are all one and the same in the eyes of our Lord.

As God wishes I will breach the boundaries of this worlds many religions, for there is one God and he chooses no favorites, with the exception of those who do his work and follow his word. To those they shall have favor from our Lord and from all men. They are not above any other man; only in their testimonies do they separate them selves as disciples of the lord, messengers and leaders by example.

Before the lord left me he comforted me. He promised me that His spirit will guide me and be with me for eternity. “You will walk this earth with angels at your side. All who see you will know that you have the hand of God upon you”. “Do not fear, for you as a believer have opened the gates of heaven to all whom you love, those with you now and those that now reside in peace in the house of your Lord”. I was so rejoiced and began to walk on air. “I love you so much God, Thank you!” And once again God laid his hands on me and his voice spoke through my ears to the depths of my soul. “I love you my son and I am very proud of you”. My body was filled with this beautiful spirit that consumed my every being. The spirit was loving and nurturing and the purest of pure. I was as a newborn coming into this world cleansed and without sin. I felt compassion, every breath of air I took was full of direction and purpose.

The Lord left my side yet I could still feel him resting inside of me. What an honor to serve such a loving Father. It was time to spread God’s love and compassion with those who were suffering spiritually. What a wonderful journey lies ahead. What a wonderful friend to travel with. Yes, I am truly blessed! Now there’s work to be done and love to be spread. God Bless You!

Jay Bartels is the author of many human interest stories. Jay’s own story of hope and inspiration can be found on his highly resourcefull family sites. Jay is a single father raising two young girls and shares his experiences in several journals that can be found on his web sites. If you would like to contact Jay, he will be happy to accept your email to him at BOCABOYJAY@aol.com

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