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Five Steps On The Road To Spiritual, Physical And Financial Success

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Are you looking for the path to success? Are you tired of scraping and pinching to make ends meet?

Have you had it up to here with schemers who tell you they know all about you even though you have not met before telling you all you need to do to achieve fabulous wealth is to buy into their latest “business opportunity?”

I thought so. You can’t turn around these days without hearing the town crier standing up and promising to make you a very, very wealthy man in just 30 days if you just follow his formula for instant success.

These cons and half-truths actually hide the real steps one can follow to achieve true success. There really is a method and it does promise you success. It is however, not available in any market for any price.

Follow the five steps outlined below and you will find the fulfillment you seek at no cost.

1. Find your calling. What is it that in your heart you feel is the real you? What is your spot on the planet? Can whatever it is support you and your family? If you know your calling and can answer yes to the question about supporting you and your family, do not hesitate to follow through on that thought. Doing something you love is the ultimate path to success.

2. Are you working on securing success? Are you motivating yourself along the right road or are you standing in front of yourself blocking the road? Take a careful look at your actions, thoughts and motivations before automatically coming to the conclusion that you can’t go ahead because external forces are holding you back.

3. Don’t put the reins on your imagination. The world of facts is limiting, your imagination is unlimited. Allow it to fly unfettered and there will be no obstacles in your path and no limits to where the road might take you.

4. Believe in yourself. Self confidence can achieve wonders. Let yourself shine.

5. Give back to your community and all those who supported and believed in you along your path to success. Call it fate, karma or divine intervention, whatever you call it there is no denying that what you give will be returned to you ten-fold.

The recipe for man’s success was laid down a long time ago to take the guesswork out of keeping our heads above water. Take the time to discover your own path, then walk in faith. You’ll be amazed by what you will see.

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A Brief History Of Hinduism

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Hinduism is a complex combination of polytheistic religion, a (belief in many gods, rather like the Greek and the Roman deities) and philosophy. It originated from Vedism, which dates back to the second millennium before Christ. It is not astounding therefore that numerous sects have evolved or broken away from a faith of this age.

However, most of these sects rely on the one book, the Vedic texts known collectively as the ‘Upanishads’, and their differences are a result of their individual interpretations of it. These texts describe the activities of Shiva, the creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe and they are based on even more ancient writings such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and, less well-known in the West, the Puaranas.

The Bhagavad Gita, the Lord’s Song, a part of the Mahabharata, relates a dialogue between Krishna (another incarnation of the god Vishnu) and the student Prince Arjuna. This dialogue elucidates the three paths to enlightenment or union with God.

This might sound dreary, but I can assure you that reading the Bhagavad Gita could easily transform the way that you look upon life no matter which religion you adhere to, if you have one.

The basics of Hinduism are that individuals should try to connect their selves (Atman) with the Godhead (Brahman) and reincarnation (samsara). Just what people come back as is determined by how they have led their lives, that is, one’s actions (karma) and one’s duty (dharma).

This continuous reincarnation into a life of suffering can only be broken when one joins the Godhead in a state of Atman-Brahman. Their are four paths to attain this divine condition in Hinduism. These are: jnana yoga, which is based on knowledge; bhakti yoga, which is based on service to God; karma yoga, which is based on work for God (rather than oneself) and raja yoga, which is based on psychophysical exercise.

Raja yoga, or the ‘Royal Path’, is the kind of yoga that most Westerners will have heard of and seen. Raja yoga is more common in these West these days than at any other time in history.

Hinduism has three principal theistic traditions founded on anthropomorphic gods. Vishnu is a loving god incarnated as Krishna; Shiva is both protective and destructive and Brahma is the creator. Saktism is a form of worship dedicated to the female partners of Vishnu and Shiva. Hindu’s venerate all forms of life, but the most sacred animal to Hindus is the cow.

Hindu worship revolves around a person’s and a family’s dedication to a particular ‘favourite’ god or group of gods. The act of worship is carried out at a shrine, which can be at home or communally in public. There are several places of pilgrimage including the Ganges in northern India.

The three main festivals are Dipavali – the ‘festival of lights’ – which sacred to Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity; Holi, a spring festival and Dashara, a harvest festival.

Hinduism is the oldest of the world’s prolific religions. It is most widespread in India, which has outlawed the ancient caste system of Hinduism. This caste system used to segregate society into five main classes: brahmins were leaders, philosophers and artists; kshatriyas were princes, soldiers and administrators; vaishyas were merchants and landowners; shudras were labourers and the remainder were outcasts or untouchables.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on many topics but is at present involved with Easter.If you would like to read more, please go over to our web site entitled Celebrating Easter

Buddhism And The Main Buddhist Sects

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

After Buddha’s death in 483 BC, his nearest followers (his disciple monks) took time off their preaching to write down his sermons (sutras) and his regulations (vinayas). In the old tradition of Buddha, monks originally walked the countryside preaching and teaching for nine months of the year and went to sit out the monsoon season in a retreat for three months.

These retreats became monasteries and temples. The retreat into monasteries was important in the development of different interpretations of Buddha’s teachings and in due course led to the formation of various sects which gained popularity in various regions of Asia.

There are three foremost Buddhist sects: Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana or Tantric Buddism.

Theravada Buddhism is the predominant sect in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand and is the sect that remains most loyal to Buddha’s original doctrines. Theravada Buddhism teaches that the road to the attainment of personal Nirvana is the goal of life. It is a very individualistic religion in that everybody is alone on their own path to enlightenment.

Mahayana Buddism became the largest sect and spread along the Silk Road from India through China to east Asia beginning in about 200 BC. Mahayana Buddhists worship Buddha and the Buddhist saints (bodhisattvas – meaning ‘wisdom beings’).

Bodhisattvas are beings that restrain themselves from attaining Nirvana (and therefore leaving the wheel of life or cycle of birth, death and reincarnation) so that they may help others achieve Nirvana, which is a major difference between it and Theravada Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism is more easily absorbed by different cultures than the other forms which accounts for it having spread so far. The Buddhist emperor Ashoka (272-232 BC) gave Mahayana a colossal boost in popularity by despatching missionaries to Sri Lanka, south-east Asia and China from where it was carried to Korea and Japan in the Sixth Century anno domini.

Zen Buddhism grew in popularity in Japan and China in the Seventh Century. Zen Buddhism is a variant of Mahayana Buddhism and teaches that Nirvana can be achieved through mental conditioning and meditation.

Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism arose in the Seventh Century as well and is most common in Tibet and Mongolia. Vajrayana Buddhism tries to identify the initiate with a visualized deity. Tantric cannon includes esoteric writings, teaching that meditation can engage the mind by the use of mantras (chants), mudras (hand gestures) and mandalas (visible icons). The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temporal head of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhists.

Buddhism reached its height of popularity in China during the T’ang dynasty in the Ninth Century, when it was partially suppressed by royal command. Similarly Zen attained its height of popularity in the Nineteen Century when the Japanese royal family switched to Shintoism taking numerous royal hangers-on with it. Buddhism declined in India too in the Eighth Century because lots of its principles were absorbed into Hinduism. Buddism was virtually extinct in India by the Thirteenth Century.

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on many subjects but is at present involved with Easter.If you would like to read more, please go over to our web site entitled Celebrating Easter

A Brief History Of Buddhism

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Buddhism was started by the adherents of Siddhartha Gautama (circa 563-483 BC). He was born into a Hindu family of the kshatriya caste in what is now known as Nepal. At the age of 29, he left his wife and young son and went in search of enlightenment.

He achieved enlightenment some time later while sitting under a bodhi tree near Patna. After 49 days of rapture and resisting temptations (Mara), He, now known as Buddha, formed an order of monks and went forth to teach the word. After 45 years of teaching their philosophy of enlightenment Buddha died and reached Nirvana, the state in which ‘ideas and consciousness cease to exist’.

One of the most central concepts to Buddhists is the Tipitaka (the ‘Three Baskets’), which is a record of the Buddha’s doctrines as set down by His early followers after his death. The texts in these ‘three baskets’ tell the story of Buddha’s life (Buddha); record his laws (Dharma); and his guidelines for establishing and running a monastic order (Sangha).

Buddhists believe in reincarnation and the wheel of life in a comparable fashion to Hindus. They also believe that this cycle of life, death and rebirth can be broken by attaining enlightenment. Enlightenment can be achieved by adherence to the Four Noble Truths.

Life is impermanent despite the cycle of life, death and rebirth and can only create suffering (dukka) because of the pursuit of mortal desires. Suffering and desire can just be conquered by achieving Nirvana, which can be achieved by following the Eightfold Path, otherwise known as the ‘Middle Way’.

The Middle Way consists of: correct belief, thought, speech, action, livelihood, work, mindfulness and concentration. These make up the nucleus of Buddhist ethics.

A hallmark of Buddhism is the monastic order. Men can become monks for a few years or for life. There is also a female monastic order. In some sects, boys enter a monastery for a period of between a few weeks and a few months as part of their passage into adulthood. Boys in Thailand are expected to become monks for a number of weeks before they eventually get married.

Monks live an ascetic life in monasteries or temples. Every village has a temple in much the same manner as western villages have a church, but every temple tries to maintain a population of at least nine monks, which is considered the ideal number for some of their duties like blessing a house or carrying out a wedding ceremony.

Buddhist monks live on alms given by the local villagers. In Thailand the young monks walk the streets in the early morning collecting donations of food, which has to be consumed before midday, after which they may not eat. Monks are not permitted any contact with women at all. They may not even sit next to them on a bus or give the fare to a female bus conductress.

Buddhist temples are primarily for personal contemplation and meditation. They are open to anyone twenty-four hours a day and people use them to gain respite from the hustle and bustle of every day life. Group prayer meetings are far less common a trait of Buddhism than they are in Judaism, Christianity, Islam or even Hinduism.

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on many topics but is currently concerned with Easter.If you would like to read more, please go over to our website entitled Celebrating Easter

Release Your Back Pain Today With Alternative Methods

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

I was like many of you who are faced with back pain issues on a constant day-to-day basis. One my back pain started, I thought I had to resort to the traditional surgery methods for releasing my pinched nerve and dealing with my spinal misalignment that I had. Even with my background of complementary and alternative therapies in my life, this was still one of the areas that I didn’t think I could use to manipulate the bones in my back.

When I first begin with my own back pain issues I really didn’t understand how to work with and alternative therapy because I think Reiki healing or crystal healing can actually move some of the bones to release the nerve in my back. This is where a big misconception comes into play, because Reiki energy healing and crystal healing can actually do a lot of different positive work for any issues that you’re facing with these back pain needs. You can work with them today to be free of your back pain.

There are many different types of back pain problems that you can be facing at any given moment in your life, as I’m not even going to try to get into them in this article because there are so many of them. But when you understand what they are focused on, you can work on releasing and easing them through different types of energy healing and crystal healing techniques. This is high work on releasing and changing all the issues that I have with my own personal back pain with a pinched nerve, spinal misalignment, and a rotated hip due to this.

I personally started working with crystal healing and Reiki healing for my own back pain issues to be eased. For crystal healing concepts you can work with hematite and smoky quartz crystals to get the most benefit from this type of work. Make sure they are aligned along your spinal column, make sure they’re cleanse thoroughly and programmed before your session, and rest and relax during this healing process. You can also incorporate a self-healing for your Reiki energy healing for this as well. You can even charge your crystals for the session.

You now have two new techniques that you can get started for your own healing process of your back pain issues. Enjoy them, work with them daily, and notice all the back pain being eliminated out of your life.

Through her unique abilities, Nicole Lanning helps with a variety of modalities such as Reiki healing, holistic healing, and Reiki healing training. She is the founder of Healing Art Forms and Holistic Healing Minute.

Reiki Healing Helps With Your Emotional Needs Today

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

When you think about needing something in life, what really comes into mind? Well, I guess it all depends on the topic that you are referring to. For this specific article we are talking about emotional needs.

I would like to share with you today a visualization type of healing session for your emotional needs that you are facing. For this you have to take a few moments and see how this plays out in your own mind for and imagery-based healing.

When you’re working with in our soul work for your own visualization skills for your emotional needs, you have to really understand it is about that spiritual connection that resides from within for this work to be accomplished. Each person session is going to be a little bit different because we are all unique in our own vibrational frequencies.

By working with symbolism techniques through your own visualization skills, this is how you’re going to understand how things are wrapped together for healing session of this type. You have to be able to see things in your mind’s eye for this work.

When you’re working with symbolism and your own visualization methods, you have to understand that each person symbols are going to be different. See have to understand that believing one simple means exact same thing for every single person is a very big myth.

By working through all of the different symbols in your life for your emotional needs with these visualization techniques, you have to understand that we all are a little bit different based on the life experiences that led us to this point in our spiritual pathway.

By incorporating crystal healing into this type of work, you can enhance your own emotional needs on a day-to-day basis. For a crystal healing session to be successful, make sure to find the ones that resonate within you. For this type of specific need, make sure to have a rose quartz readily available that is thoroughly cleansed and programmed for this healing session to be successful.

By working with different types of meditation techniques, you can also enhance your emotional needs by combining the meditation and visualization techniques together into one session. Meditation is not all about how long you’re meditating, but about how successful you are during this meditation time.

But I’d like to go back to the basics again for this article so that you do not forget them.

It is all about you when you’re working on your emotional needs in your life. Remember we are all different and unique energy vibrational beings living in this physical world. Each of us got this point through different process our life.

So needless to say if we all have a different path to get here, all of our paths are still going to be a little bit different from this moment on no matter what we are working on for our emotional needs to be healed successfully.

Enhance your life today, work through your emotional needs, and see where your life takes you with these new complementary and alternative therapies.

Nicole Lanning, founder of Holistic Healing Minute & Healing Art Forms, has a passion for helping others with her expert Reiki healing certified abilities. Check out all of her services in Reiki healing, holistic healing, and natural health today!

Holistic Therapy Helps With Your Parenting Skills

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

When you’re working on developing an ability in your life, whether the typical things that you resort to? Generally they are the ones that you have used in the past such as typical education, other main resources that you have available, but do you ever tap into the power of complementary or alternative therapy for developing any type of ability?

When I’m talking about abilities, at this particular moment for this specific article, I am referring to your own parenting ability in your life. We all have this ability at any given moment, but some people are more tuned in than others are for this at any given time.

The wonderful part about being a vibrational energetic being on this planet is that we can understand and develop things in a much different manner. How do you see this relating to your own life?

I will get into shared with you some of the wonderful tools and techniques that you can use to enhance your own parenting ability today, but I really need to cover the very first step of this process for you to begin. When you’re working with developing any kind of ability you have to make a firm decision of what you want to do.

This is probably one of the biggest areas that most people forget to do for their own work whenever developing their parenting ability, or any other ability in their life. If you do not make a decision to get started on this new pathway, how are you even going to take the first step?

That is really the very first step in a whole process that can lead you into a new journeying life path that many people forget even make. You would think it’s very simple, but it is actually probably one of the most overlooked steps that people have today in your life.

So want to make the very first step? Do you want to know what is next for developing your parenting ability?

Many different tools are available for you to use right here and now for working on pretty much almost anything in your entire life. You can tap into the power of these alternative methods and some very simple and easy standpoints for you to enhance your life.

For the use of crystal healing for improving your parenting ability, you want to make sure to use a rose quartz and aquamarine crystal for this type of work. Make sure to pick the ones that resonate within your own vibrational frequencies and that you feel magnetized to. Also make sure to cleanse thoroughly programmed before you begin this type of work.

Working with positive affirmations and I’ve can also help you to work on your parenting ability today. For working with positive affirmations, make sure to use them in the present tense and make sure that every part of affirmation statement is in a positive format.

You can also work with sound vibrational healing techniques to help develop your parenting ability in your life. It is a matter of tapping into a specific tool that resonates within your own vibrational frequencies for the sound healing to take place. Many other popular tools are working with Tibetan bowls, Tibetan bells, and drumming techniques. Try some out today and see which ones resonate within you.

Work on developing your parenting ability today and see how much further you can go tomorrow in your new journeying pathway in life.

Nicole Lanning, founder of Healing Art Forms and Holistic Healing Minute, is now available at your fingertips for holistic therapy training energy healing, spiritual healing, holistic therapy sessions today!

Alternative Ways To Work With Your Cooking Skills

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Many people out there want to be a better cook for many different reasons and I life. It really doesn’t matter what your reasoning is for wanting to enhance this area of your life, as we all have different aspects that we want to work on for our own specific life path.

Did you know that you can work with different types of complementary and alternative therapies to help enhance this area of your life? Many people do not even know that this was possible. Did you know about this?

When you think about different types of complementary and alternative therapies in your life to help you be a better cook, how does this resonate within your own energy fields? What you think about for this type of work? How does that make you feel?

Alternative therapies are not just for a healing aspect for your health in today’s society. You can use these in many different areas of your life, such as this one in particular, so that you can have the best life possible.

When you’re talking about this type of work and how it can relate to your life so that you can be a better cook, you have to understand everything is about balance. When you talk about balance, you have to understand it is working with the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels for this type of work to be successful.

I know it may sound confusing, but I can show you how to do it with some simple steps today.

For your own specific area of your life on wanting to be a better cook, we have to work with how this resonates within your own energy fields first.

So how does this make you feel on a mental level? What about on a physical level for your body issues? How about on a spiritual level connection from within? Did you even know that you have to balance all of these out?

Each person is going to have different answers to all of these questions, as we all have different pathways that lead up to the specific point in our life for us to develop and enhance our lives to be a better cook. As well as our goals will be different, and our future pathway that unfolds will be different as well.

But let me reiterate that probably one of the biggest keys for this type of work is to find that balance from within for all of these different areas.

Some of the techniques that went to share with you today are ones that you can get started with right here and now. They are not the only ones that you can work with, so keep your options open.

One of my favorite techniques to work with this energy healing. You can be trained in a Reiki energy healing format to work on being a better cook in your life. For this it is all about self-healing for different types of areas in your life. If you have emotional issues for this, you want to work on self-healing for the emotional concerns. If you need to develop a stronger mental attitude, work with your self-healing for this area as well.

You can also work with mental concepts such as positive affirmations. You want to make sure that they are stated in the present tense, are in a positive format, and use repetition with them to help train your subconscious mind.

Remember that every person as going to respond a little bit differently for each type of work that I suggest. You have to find the ones that you feel attracted to in your own life to be successful in advance your abilities to be a better cook.

Enjoy the new techniques that I shared with you above in this article, work on some other ones that you come across in your day-to-day life, and be the best cook that you can in your life!

Certified Healer, Nicole Lanning offers energy healing, holistic healing and energy healing customized services to clients around the world. Find out more information about Healing Art Forms and her natural healing services today!

Reiki Healing Helps Develop Your Psychic Side

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

When you’re working on developing an ability in your life, whether the typical things that you resort to? Generally they are the ones that you have used in the past such as typical education, other main resources that you have available, but do you ever tap into the power of complementary or alternative therapy for developing any type of ability?

For this specific article though I am talking about working on enhancing your own psychic ability right here and now. There are many different ways to tap into these abilities, as we all have some form of ability that we want to enhance in our life for this type of work or you wouldn’t be reading this article right now.

We are all our own unique energetic vibrational beings, so when you think about this what type of images are played out in your mind? How do you see yourself with this ability? How does it relate to your life?

There are many different things that we can use to work with on enhancing our psychic ability, but most people forget the very first step for this type of work. That very first step is that you have to make a commitment to yourself.

This is probably one of the biggest areas that most people forget to do for their own work whenever developing their psychic ability, or any other ability in their life. If you do not make a decision to get started on this new pathway, how are you even going to take the first step?

That is really the very first step in a whole process that can lead you into a new journeying life path that many people forget even make. You would think it’s very simple, but it is actually probably one of the most overlooked steps that people have today in your life.

So want to make the very first step? Do you want to know what is next for developing your psychic ability?

Many different tools are available for you to use right here and now for working on pretty much almost anything in your entire life. You can tap into the power of these alternative methods and some very simple and easy standpoints for you to enhance your life.

For working on your own psychic ability, you can tap into the power of Reiki healing for this type. When you’re working with energy healing format, you have to be properly trained to use this for self-healing purposes. Once you have been through this training, make sure to send energy healing for any blockages are stagnant issues that may reside in your pathway.

Working with positive affirmations and I’ve can also help you to work on your psychic ability today. For working with positive affirmations, make sure to use them in the present tense and make sure that every part of affirmation statement is in a positive format.

You can also work with sound vibrational healing techniques to help develop your psychic ability in your life. It is a matter of tapping into a specific tool that resonates within your own vibrational frequencies for the sound healing to take place. Many other popular tools are working with Tibetan bowls, Tibetan bells, and drumming techniques. Try some out today and see which ones resonate within you.

Enjoy all of the new methods that I have shared with you in this article and start working on your psychic ability today so that you can see in your progress unfold in front of you tomorrow.

Nicole Lanning has a unique ability to use her Reiki healing, holistic healing and distant Reiki healing techniques to others around the world. Find out more about Healing Art Forms and how she can help you today.

Holistic Medicine Helps You To Be More Balanced

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Do you know how to be holistically balanced? If you did, you will probably one of the reading this article right now. We all need a little bit of help from time to time when we’re working on this issue on our life. You can tap into the power of holistic medicine techniques person different ways to increase this in your life.

Did you know that many people have a hard time even believing that they can succeed and be holistically balanced in their life? There are many people face this obstacle on a day-to-day basis.

So let’s talk about you. How does all of this resonate within your own life? Where do you see yourself going with this? Do you know how to take the first step? How do you see all of this visually on your new pathway in life?

When you’re talking about understanding how to be holistically balanced, you have to see how this relates to your own personal life. We are all different unique energetic beings living on this planet in a human format. We all have different experiences that led us to this point, and we all will have a different type of healing to go through for this.

Because of all of these variables, you have to understand them first before you can go anywhere.

You can work with holistic medicine methods today so that you can learn how to be holistically balanced and your life with some of these simple methods. I can show you how.

You can work on learning how to be holistically balanced, as well as every other area that you are faced with the problem, through many different holistic medicine formats that you can work with right here and now.

There are also many different other methods that you can tap into for this type of work. It is about finding the things that resonate within your own energy fields to get this jump started in your life.

How do you go about doing this? How do you know what resonates within your own energy? I can help you with that.

You have to understand what different types of methods you are going to feel drawn to. What does this mean? Let me give you a visual concept. Imagine two polar opposites that are being thrown together. This is what attraction, resignation, or being drawn to something feels like.

Now that you understand what this feeling is all about, you have to work on finding the one that resonates within your own energy fields that’s going to give you the most benefit for this type of healing session.

Holistic medicine methods are many different ways you can work with complementary alternative therapies in your life. There are a variety of ones to choose from.

Some of these are working with crystal healing, positive affirmations, releasing and purging techniques, music therapy, drumming techniques, and many others.

You can incorporate all of these different tips into a day-to-day routine for your life and to work on your issues of how to be holistically balanced right here and now.

I know change is hard, but I have faith in you and know that you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to. Make that decision and change your life for the better!

Nicole Lanning, founder of Healing Art Forms and Holistic Healing Minute, is now available at your fingertips for holistic medicine training energy healing, spiritual healing, holistic medicine sessions today!