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Ten Ways to Awaken and Be Free!

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Ten Ways to Awaken and Be Free!
By Pamela Turner

How beautiful to be free! Free from illusions and the endless demands of ego. We are in a magnificent age in the world right now, one where humanity is awakening, remembering our wholeness, our goodness, and our unlimited potential. Here are ten ways to enhance your own awakening process and live in freedom, love and joy!

1. Awareness: As you become more aware, you are able to see how the conditioned mind traps you and keeps you unfulfilled, always chasing after endless conditions to make you ‘happy’. You start to identify with the observer who is aware instead of the mind with its endless judgments and demands of the ego. When you realize you are not your thoughts, you can begin to change them or rise above them. You are the vast awareness that was there before you were born and will be there after you die. Practice meditation, mindfulness, the Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz.

2. Let Go: Energy follows thought. Whatever you focus on you are feeding. When you let go of a thought, desire or emotional charge, you disengage and enter the flow of life. Things come and things go, but you don’t have to be jerked around by them and controlled by them. You are the stillness in the center that is living it all. You are the sky, not the clouds.

3. Forgive: When you cling to feelings of resentment and revenge, you carry them around in you. They affect your mood, your thoughts and your vibration. They don’t affect the other person at all. Learning to forgive forgive others is granting you your own freedom. It doesn’t mean you condone that behavior, it means you want to be free from carrying the bad energy around. Forgiving yourself is loving yourself and having compassion yourself. This gives you room to blossom.

4. Gratitude: Gratitude comes in many forms: appreciating, blessing, expecting the best. When you are being grateful you are vibrating at a high level and you are attracting to you more of what you are blessing. When you are in gratitude you are in the present moment, receiving instead of in the past or future grasping or pushing away. Remembering your “Thank you, God’s” the first and last thing of every day opens you to life’s highest energies and increases everything good in your life.

5. Being Authentic: Running around endlessly trying to please others, pretending to be who you are not to gain their acceptance and avoiding life and situations because of fear separate you from Who you are and close you off from the Goodness of life. You are responding to life instead of reacting. When you are authentic, you love yourself and express your own unique beingness without holding back.

6. Raise your Energy: Many things in life lower our vibration. The more dense you are, the less clarity, love and vitality you have and the less you are able to choose your path instead of just following the rut. Your inner and outer environment affects your energy: who you are with, what you focus on, what you eat, how you breathe. Energy follows thought. Whatever you are focusing on in life you are attracting. Raise yourself by focusing on what you want, not what you don’t want.

7. Breathe: Breath is inspiration. You are not only giving yourself life-enhancing oxygen but also increasing your vital energy, your chi or mana. It takes energy to grow and evolve. While giving yourself this necessary fuel, deep breathing also centers you, releases endorphins, relaxes you, allows you to enter the healing, intuitive state and centers you in your Being. You can do it anywhere, anytime. It brings you Home.

8. Being not Doing: All the running around, grasping and pulling in the world is just your mind trying to make your mind happy. Awakening is not something you have to try to do. It is something you remember. Your heart remembers – being present, being aware, being loving, being authentic, being allowing, being life itself without judgment. Your heart knows the path. When it is happy, you are on the right path.

9. Allowing: Allowing exists when judgment stops. Judgment separates. It is a mind game that isolates you from the rest of the world, from the rest of your Self and nourishes your limiting beliefs. Allowing the present moment to be just what it is, allowing others to be who they are and allowing yourself to be who you are is a gateway to personal freedom and joy. When you are allowing, you are not blaming. You are in your power, not giving it away.

10. Laughing: You laugh in the present moment, letting go everything else just for that moment, free, joyous, raising your vibration, raising your energy, releasing endorphins, connecting to the world and your authenticity, just being n the flow of life just the way it is! Laugh alot. Laugh deeply. Just laugh!

http://www.BeginWithin.org founder Pamela Turner has spent her life studying personal and spiritual growth and healing. Pamela has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming, a Certified Hypnotherapist, Licensed EmoTrance Practitioner, Advanced Reiki Practitioner, Certified Energy Healer for Animals and a Huna Shaman. She has also studied extensively in the fields of quantum physics, mind/body healing, Toltec Spirituality and astrology, to list just a few of Pamela’s many areas of study. As she got older, and after quite a bit of healing and clearing of her personal path, Pamela realized the time had come for her to apply her years of dedicated study, work and learning to the greater good. Pamela now devotes her time and energy to the creation of products that promote and enhance healing and growth, performing Energy Healing for Animals and providing Counseling and Healing for people fortunate to cross her path.

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The Dream and The Separation

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The Dream and The Separation
By Gary Greenbank

The Dream

You have probably heard the saying ‘we are all one’. You may feel this to be true and have even had experiences in your life where you felt this connected energy. Why then do we all feel so separate from each other most of the time? What causes this separation and fear between people which results in everything from simple arguments and road rage through to racism, murder and even war?

What would you say if I shared with you that your life was actually a Dream, a complex illusion. At this stage your response may be that you’ve always felt this to be true. Or you may feel that I’m crazy. Some of you will be at a stage of life where you are open to this idea as a possibility and are prepared to withhold judgement. How about if I added that this Dream was taking place in the mind of a Supreme Being. Let me now go further. This Supreme Being, who is having the Dream, is actually YOU. In reality it is also me and everyone you see around you. In other words we are all this Supreme Being that is having this Dream and in this life we are simply a character in our own Dream. This Supreme Being is perfect and complete and this Dream is a way of feeling the feelings of NOT being perfect.

You, at your Higher Self level, are perfect and complete. YOU, as your HIGHER SELF are the SUPREME BEING, CONSCIOUSNESS, the CREATOR. If it suits your beliefs you could say that you, at the level of your Higher Self, are GOD. You are experiencing your life entirely in the mind of your Higher Self. So you and everything thing around you has been created by you at the level of your Higher Self in a Dream.

At the beginning of your life, in what I call The Separation, you are given judgement which is the mechanism that helps to keep you separate from others. At ‘birth’ you forget who you really are and begin having experiences that make you feel limited and incomplete. All this is designed to let you experience life, and everything you experience is designed to support you in living your life purpose. Your role, as a character in this Dream, is to experience feelings for yourself as the Supreme Being which is who you truly are. At some stage, when you are ready, you can begin to question reality and this feeling of being lacking and incomplete. This is the beginning of your journey back; where you begin to slowly understand the reality of the Dream.

When you see the Dream for the illusion that it is it ceases to have the same effects on you. People and things that have been affecting your life begin to lose their power. You begin to understand that we are all one. This is the beginning of reclaiming power in your life and thereby changing your Dream. This will then bring more happiness, joy and unconditional love into your life each day. Seeing life for what it actually is causes a feeling of lightness and even laughter and is no longer a cause of fear. If you are reading this you are more than likely ready for the journey back.

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How to Come Home to Your Self


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By Jafree Ozwald

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God has created you; you cannot be improved.” ~ Osho

Deep inside each of us is a place we can call our true “home”. It’s a resting ground, where the world has no power to sway you in any direction. You are rooted and relaxed in a sweet sacred connection with the Divine. When you deeply relax into your body, letting go of all the cares and worries of this world, you discover this awesome experience of coming home to your Self. You are no longer split, unable to make decisions, living in fear, or worried about anything anymore. There is a feeling and understanding that you are connecting with the God Source, each and every moment of your day.

When you let go of all your efforting to change yourself, and surrender deeply to what you might call the “light inside your heart”, you soon discover a feeling of Oneness with everything. You stop fighting reality and begin merging with it. All your inner conflicts become resolved, which means there is no outer conflict anymore. It’s good to know that the inner turmoil inside you is just the ego believing you are not 100% perfect just the way you are. It only sees what is wrong, what needs to be improved, and is relentless about its path of being right. It thinks that everything needs to change in order so that you can be happy.

The greater truth is that happiness is available no matter what your outer world looks like. It is a choice to come home to yourself. There is a Divine Intelligence behind everything and when you relax and come home to it, a state of perpetual joy finds you. This intelligence knows exactly what challenges you need in this lifetime so that you go beyond the perpetually unhappy ego. The God Source is doing everything to push you to dive deeper within yourself so that you transcend this ego and discover the infinite aspect of your being. Whatever physical, emotional, or mental problems that you’re facing, they are all springboards to enlightenment. Each one contains the right amount of fuel to propel you into the core of your being, where you discover the most sacred source of existence.

This warm cozy nest I call your “inner home” is found inside your heart. This sacred place can only be found through total surrender to existence. When the ego lets go, there is no room for suffering and the divine is instantly experienced. As long as you are following your thoughts, believing them to be real, you cannot find Reality. While the mind/ego is running the show, the door to the divine remains closed. There is always a crack open, and you can find it when you put 100% of your energy into trust. When you know the Universe never makes mistakes, and that everything is exactly as it should be, your body relaxes and this sacred home within you is found. I believe there is an old saying that says, “home is where the heart is”. I think we could rephrase it by saying, “the heart is where the home is”.

Just for this week, I invite you to do a little experiment. Whenever you’re not busy, whether you’re waiting in line at the store, or perhaps in stuck in traffic, let your attention rest on your heart center. Say to yourself, “This heart is my home” and relax into it. Don’t try to relax, just let go of everything in your head and let yourself be taken in by the heart. It is welcoming you with open arms, ready to receive all of you. Even those parts you don’t approve of about yourself, these are also welcome. Simply spend as much time as you can each day relaxing deeper and deeper into your heart. Don’t make it a project or a big “have to” out of it, just do it whenever you can remember to. The secret here is being open to a new experience of yourself, that is gentle, loving and filled with peace in the most intimate ways.

When the heart is fully relaxed, the lights turn on in this divine home within your being. There is no greater refuge to be found. If you wanted to find heaven on Earth, this would be it. By living from this space, there is nothing you cannot accomplish or manifest. There is no task too big for you to handle. Yet, the feeling of peace within you is soooo amazing that most of your ego’s yearnings simply fade away. You discover a source of unfathomable bliss within you that cannot be taken away by any situation or circumstances. You end up falling in love with your Self, this world and everybody in it. You feel like you are at home wherever you are.

“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move on to higher levels.” ~Albert Einstein

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Jafree Ozwald has been a personal life coach since 1997 and has created success for tens of thousands of people from all over the world.

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The 3 Steps to Knowing Yourself As God

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By Jafree Ozwald

One of highest experiences you can have in your lifetime is to know yourself as the Divine. When you let go of all fear, drop every judgment you have, release all those opinions about yourself and others, you stop believing you are separate from God. You can discover a place of sacred refuge within that is like no other. It’s only your mind that makes you think you’re separate, when in reality you’re one with the ocean of existence. It’s not until you realize that you are not this mind, nor your ego, that this false identity ceases to run the show. You’ve created this idea about who you are, yet its just a conglomerate of thoughts and is not who you truly are. Once you drop all separation, only then can you let go and find true permanent peace within.

Some people may say its blasphemous to see yourself as God, yet I say it’s totally ridiculous not to. The cause of all suffering in life stems from the one tiny little idea that you are separate from the God Source. When this belief is truly challenged and you relieve its grip on you, there is such a tremendous freedom and love found that you’ll never ever be the same again. I invite you to sit with this challenge this week, if you truly want to be free from all the suffering in your life.

Below are the 3 essential steps we all must take to step out of suffering and find total unification with the God Source.

1. Deeply accept that there is a highly intelligent conscious creative source of energy that runs through everything. God actually exists. It is like one thread weaving through the entire tapestry of life. There is nothing that is not touched by this divine intelligence.

2. Know that I am connected to the God Source from which all manifestation happens. In an infinite field of space (the Universe) each point in that field is the actual “center” of the entire field. You are one of these points from which the entire Universe revolves around. Every thought you think radiates outward, creating your experience of Reality in this infinite space time continuum.

3. Realize that everyone and everything is the God Source. There is nobody who is not connected to God. How can the finger ever work separately from the hand? All beings have this divine thread of intelligence running through their consciousness. No matter how unconscious they are, it still exists within each living cell. Once you realize that the God Self that you are, is also the same God Self in everyone else, you stop perceiving yourself as separate and see them as an aspect of the Real You!

So the really big question here is what can you do to drop your ego? Well, this is a tricky one because there is nothing you can “do”. Its more of an un-doing and a releasing of everything when the ego is finally freed. It is only through total surrender to Source that the Divine finds you. The ego is simply an over-identification with the “I” thoughts. Those thoughts that say, “I am this” or “I am not that” create the entire ego trip. When you get hooked into believing “I am this or not that”, you are creating attachment to limiting ideas and instigating the entire ego and your suffering. The truth is that you are nothing and everything, because you are God and that which is beyond God. It’s really that profound and that simple.

Some people ask me, “What’s the difference between my mind and my ego?” Not much, its just that your ego is a personification of your mind. The mind gets attached to ideas and makes you identified with them. This creates the ego. When you are thinking that you are this body, and you have these problems, these feeling, and these thoughts you start becoming identified. The only way to know yourself as God is to become unidentified with everything and also know you are ONE with everything at the same time. This realization cannot be forced yet happens instantaneously when you drop deep enough into the exploration of the Truth of who/what you are.

“God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender gives you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.” ~Osho

We all grow up as kids starting off with an ego so that later in life we can transcend it. That is the goal. When you believe you are separate and disconnected from a divine all loving infinite Source and think there is no connection at all, you are only seeing one side of the coin. Try all three sides of the coin (the edge is a side) and you’ll see suffering instantly evaporates. We are each supposed to believe in limitation, lack and struggle just so that we can one day drop it all. This is the purpose of believing in any lie. When you create the illusion that you are stuck, separate, challenged and disconnected from the infinitely conscious loving God Source, the day you return back to it you receive the greatest spiritual experience of your life! Divine unification on the deepest levels wouldn’t be possible without the illusion and experience of having an ego.

There is really nothing to worry about. The Universe gives you an infinite number of lifetimes to wake up and realize you are already a powerful divine exquisite being who is the creative God Source at the core. The Universe is infinitely patient with the speed of your realization progress. You don’t need to “push” yourself to get there. All you want to do relax, be still, and show up fully in this moment. Be 100% open to whatever is here now. The key is to practice looking within the quietest aspects of your being, there you will find God. This is the only place where a real permanent state of happiness resides. It is where all success and enlightenment is found. Finding this real uncompromised unconditional happiness 24 hours a day is the main goal of your life and why you are truly here.

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” ~Osho

It’s good to know that life will always throw a curve ball at you to keep you alert and awake. The mind is a slippery trickster, in that it can hide from the truth and create all sorts of fabricated illusions about what Truth is, without really surrendering to what is here now. It’s this untamed mind that creates all the extra difficulty you’re experiencing in life. It can make you think that if you are not the master, that you are a slave to its ideas. It may also think if you sat down to relax for a moment, you would miss your one and only golden opportunity to freedom that will never come your way again. Don’t listen to the mind. Don’t believe in anything that it thinks, for it lives in duality and will one day believe the opposite is true. Everything is subject to change. Only when you can tame the mind, and make it believe you are its master, then amazing and miraculous things will happen! You’ll find that the only true foundation in life is your simple soft loving sweet presence that arises from consciousness itself. This pure consciousness never changes, everything else changes. By simply bathing in pure consciousness, each moment becomes your golden ticket to return home.

Remember, whenever your ego behaves in a destructive way it is really trying to relieve you of its burden. Deep down the ego knows that it is not real, and that one day it will die and you’ll realize what a great sham was pulled over your eyes. When you leave the body and God Source takes you back home, this ego will be gone. Yet, you don’t have to wait…you can transcend the ego now with love. If anything is going to help you move forward on your soul’s journey, it’s bringing more presence, love and awareness to whatever you’re doing. When you become conscious of your ego-identity and can bring a loving awareness into it, you immediately dissolve it. You’ll feel the reconnection with the perfect Divine Being you already are and the ego has not chance against that.

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Unleash As It’s Time!

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Unleash As It’s Time!

By Yogesh Arjun

As a lotus finds its fulfillment in the full bloom, and the sky in the full moon night, you must also reach the zenith of your potential while you are alive and experience the full expression of your selves and die only, after having tasted the elixir of life.

A seed has the potential to become a tree and bear flowers and fruits but its potential is hidden and no one sees the hidden tree in it, one who understands this prepares the soil, sows the seed and waters it everyday but thereafter he waits, he doesn’t look for fruits because the nature works with its pace and test the patience and consistency of the desire and effort. Then there is a sapling coming out which eventually turns into a tree with many fruits and seeds, no one knows how many million trees were hidden in this one seed!

When the effort is consistent and the desire definite then the nature opens up its giving power to manifest the will of the human desire.

What are you stuck with? Where are you busy?Don’t you want to raise yourself and grab what you want!

Call all the forces to awaken the immense potentialities lying dormant in you. Unleash yourself! Reach your crescendo! Expand in every dimension be it skills, education, health, values and align with the power and principles of nature. At least you must know how far you can stretch, for once and how fast you can run, how beautiful you can look to yourselves, how bright your eyes can shine or how quick you can actualized your thoughts. You must tell me how would you know the point your voice can reach to, until and unless you scream!

So Speak aloud to your limbs and you will discover that they have been throbbing, expectantly for your one command, to swell to their limits. Your each cell is waiting to resonate to its highest frequency and energize you for great things to be achieved by you, you are not weak because you can’t be!

Do not Wait now to finally do what you always wished to, Say aloud to your desires, wants and all your dreams! The mind has the power to achieve anything it focuses on, but it has to be trained, you train a mind as if its an emergency, train your feet that can keep pace with your aspirations. Let your face exude the contentment unchallenged in any circumstances, and your breaths testify your harmony that binds your body and mind. Do not regret the time you may have lost, its your start, as and when you have realized but now when you have known then decide and never retract, have faith my friend you still you have an eternity to dream, and a greater eternity waits patiently for your dreams to come true.

The only thing that you have to keep distanced with, STRESS, it is the most dangerous and devastating thing. Its the most prevalent and common state of mind it blocks the expression of life and fulfillment and leads to chronic problems like coronary, brain and lifestyle challenges.

I want to share an activity as well, for all of you to relax and unwind so that you can think more correctly and be focused!

we know that love takes away our stress we must try these methods also if we are irritated, unhappy with our life / partner / job or can’t get the time to do what we want!This is not a cure however but an add-on help to continue to our balanced state of productivity and thought.

Activity: Relaxation, hydration and chanting/humming.

TOTAL TIME: 25 min

THINGS TO KEEP READY:

  • a quiet place or room with a mat on the floor
  • water with lime and honey
  • juice or coconut water
  • relaxation music of your liking preferred sitar, flute or tarang!
  • aroma candle or earthen lamp.

first step:

  1. light the aroma candle,
  2. place the mat and sit with crossed legs
  3. close your eyes
  4. see what the mind plays and slows down
  5. then relax and start listening to your own breath!

SECOND STEP:

  1. taking the most comfortable posture
  2. either lie down on the bed or sit in cross legged
  3. straighten and stretch the spine while slow and deep inhaling &
  4. even slower exhaling!

THIRD STEP:

  1. try to feel your heart beating
  2. and gradually beating smoother with more oxygen getting into the blood
  3. when you feel your beats to be falling smooth, then think
  4. of your most loving person, place or thing and feel his /her warmth, closeness
  5. be happy and continue to be in that state!

FOURTH STEP:

  1. touch your palms and rub them gently, take hands to your
  2. face and transfer the warmth!

FIFTH STEP:

  1. now exhale forcefully and
  2. drink 1-2 glasses of water with lemon and honey in it
  3. either relax say any mantra, song of your choice
  4. or play some good music and jive with your heart mind and spirit in sync

SIXTH STEP:

  1. relax for five to seven minutes
  2. stretch your self a little then bend
  3. forward and backward, side ways to left or right

SEVENTH STEP:

  1. now take a quick shower!
  2. after the shower
  3. drink another glass of water or lemon or any vegetable or sweet lime juice or
  4. blackamazon grapes or beetroot juice or any coloured
  5. fruit juice which contains antioxidants and
  6. beta- carotenoids!

EIGHTH STEP:

  1. take the name of the person you love or
  2. like a humming bird say ummm… Or ommm…
  3. At least 20 times for 15 min (approx. )
  4. repeat this at the same place for a week!

NINTH STEP:

  1. get away from any place, person or thought making you stressed and practice these steps regularly
  2. for at least 2 times in a week
  3. it doesn’t mean you escape but rethink, be composed and take on
  4. you will forget about stress
  5. remember you are the power that runs this universe you cant be stressed
  6. awaken yourself!

Energized, activated mind becomes a dynamo and creates your destiny, with right thoughts! Believe me it works! What comes to your mind works for you, if and only if, you start believing, in faith so have faith!

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