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Patience Creates Magickal Flow â€“ A Return to Natural Harmony

patience-flow-harmony As my life experience continues to unfold, I find that through conscious, flowing presence, my processes speed up in relation to understanding and embracing how to sail the oceans of my journey. Clarity can be an individually creative process and experience, yet the really bigger picture effects are generally tied into collective timing, since all things are connected. While I may find my own ability to embrace and see things, there is also the element of Divine Timing that comes into play.

Learning and understanding my own processes definitely affects my ability to maneuver and flow with greater ease and to create my own magickal life experience. Yet, there is still a collective timing for the really big things that has a design to it and cannot be premature. While we have specific paths and purposes, these are always linked to a higher good service, which will be a connective thread to bringing about the greatest collective web experience. And this cannot be forced or rushed. Read more…

Strength Training Workouts: Chest Workout Push-Up Challenge

Strength Training

strength-training-push-ups As you know, effective strength training workouts are an important part of producing fitness results.

A favorite component of my chest strength training workouts is push-ups. It may surprise you to know there are a lot of different ways to perform a push-up. Most often, push-ups are performed with momentum with little attention given to body position or targeting a specific muscle group. People often drop their hips, scrunch their shoulders, or over-arch their lower back in order to squeak out a few more reps. This is because push-ups are often tested against time or the exerciser is attempting to do the maximum number they can before failure.

The form you use for push-ups should be dependent on your specific goal. For chest workouts, I teach clients to do push-ups while holding the neutral spine, stabilizing the shoulder girdle, and isolating the chest muscles. Using this form is an effective way to use push-ups as part of your chest strength training workouts. Read more…

Study: Buddhist Meditation Promotes Rational Thinking

Chris Willitts | Mind & Meditation

Studies looking at the brains of people playing a fairness game found very different responses between Buddhist meditators and other participants.

Itâ€™s no secret that humans are not entirely rational when it comes to weighing rewards. For example, we might be perfectly happy with how much money weâ€™re making â€” until we find out how much more the guy in the next cubicle is being paid.

But a new study suggests that people who regularly practice Buddhist meditation actually process these common social situations differently â€” and the researchers have the brain scans to prove it.

Ulrich Kirk and collaborators at Baylor Medical College in Houston had 40 control subjects and 26 longtime meditators participate in a well-known experiment called the Ultimatum Game. It goes like this:

One person has a sum of money to split with another person. If the other person accepts the offer, they both walk away with cash in their pocket, but if he or she rejects the offer as too chintzy â€” which happens surprisingly often â€” neither receives anything. Read more…

What “Ego” Has to do with Healing

PREPARING THE BODY FOR HEALING

Eckhart Tolle says this on page 143 in his book The Power of Now.

The first thing to remember is this: as long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt you make to heal the pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it, is to make it conscious. To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain can be a shocking experience. The moment you realize this, you have broken the attachment.

The pain-body is an energy field, almost like an entity, that has become lodged in your inner space. It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is no longer flowing. Of course, the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living part of you, and you identify with the past. A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is, is contained within this moment: it is the power of your presence. Read more…