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Hollywood stars confess that fame and wealth are not what really makes them happy. Movie icons who have had gone through Near-Death Experiences (NDE) declare that fame and awards were not important at the moment of “death”. 

They confess that love and family were the only thing that matter to them at what they thought was the end of their days.  These experiences made many of the “bad boys” of Hollywood come back looking for a more spiritual and fulfilling life. 

George Lucas is the creator of the blockbuster movie, Star Wars. Lucas is not conscious of having a near-death experience, yet he behaves as if he’d had one. As a youngster, Lucas was considered a punk-a non-achiever, romantic, unathletic, unassertive, and not studious.

According to his father, he was good at only two things: cruising and hanging out. Wanting to race cars seemed to be his only ambition. Then, three days before he was to graduate from high school, without warning or advance-behavior cues, Lucas was involved in a spectacular car crash. For three days he hung between life and death and was hospitalized for two weeks more. About the crash, Lucas stated,

“You can’t have that kind of experience and not feel that there must be a reason why you’re here. I realized I should be spending my time trying to figure out what that reason is and trying to fulfill it.”

 

 Gary Busey, once Hollywood’s bad boy, was nominated for an Oscar for the movie, The Buddy Holly Story. Busey, who fought addiction with drugs and alcohol for several years, was nicknamed Gary Abusey by his wife. Busey has had supernatural encounters in which he nearly died three or more times in his life …a drug overdose, cancer, and an accident west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

But the most tragic experience, and one that changed his life, was a motorcycle accident in 1988. Gary was going about 40-50 miles per hour riding on 750 pounds of cold steel. He was not wearing a helmet when he crashed. He was flung over the top of his cycle, head first into the curb and he cracked his skull. Busey had a NDE while he was dying on the operating table after having brain surgery.

During his NDE, he was surrounded by angels. Busey stated that they didn’t appear in the form that people see on Christmas cards. The angels he saw were big balls of light that floated and carried nothing but love and warmth – and this love is unconditional.

As a result of his NDE, he recently dedicated his life to Jesus and has been a prominent speaker at many Christian Promise Keeper rallies. He is no longer the “bad boy” of Hollywood.

Jane Seymour is an actress most noted for the cult classic movie, Somewhere in Time, with actor Christopher Reeves, and the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

When Jane Seymour was 36 years of age, she had a severe case of the flu and was given an injection of penicillin. She suffered an allergic reaction which led to a near-death experience.

“I literally left my body. I had this feeling that I could see myself on the bed, with people grouped around me. I remember them all trying to resuscitate me. I was above them, in the corner of the room looking down. I saw people putting needles in me, trying to hold me down, doing things.

I remember my whole life flashing before my eyes, but I wasn’t thinking about winning Emmys or anything like that. The only thing I cared about was that I wanted to live because I did not want anyone else looking after my children.

I was floating up there thinking, “No, I don’t want to die. I’m not ready to leave my kids.” And that was when I said to God, “If you’re there, God, if you really exist and I survive, I will never take your name in vain again.”

Although I believe that I “died” for about thirty seconds, I can remember pleading with the doctor to bring me back. I was determined I wasn’t going to die.”

Then Jane suddenly found herself back in her body.

British actress Elizabeth Taylor spoke about her experience of having died on the operating table while undergoing surgery, and of passing through a tunnel towards a brilliant white light.

Interviewed by Larry King on CNN’s Larry King Live, the legendary Hollywood star related how she had died for five minutes on the operating table. Ms. Taylor said that while she was clinically dead, she had encountered the spirit of Michael Todd, one of her former husbands, whom she referred to as her great love.

She had wanted to stay with Todd, she said, but he had told her that she had work and life ahead of her, and he “pushed me back to my life.” Following her resuscitation, the eleven-person medical team – including doctors, nurses, etc. – witnessed Taylor’s testimonial of this event.

“I was pronounced dead once and actually saw the light. I find it very hard to talk about, actually, because it sounds so corny. It happened in the late ’50s, and I saw Mike (Todd, Taylor’s third husband, who was killed in a plane crash in 1958).

When I came to, there were about 11 people in the room. I’d been gone for about five minutes – they had given me up for dead and put my death notice on the wall.

I shared this with the people that were in the room next to me. Then after that I told another group of friends, and I thought, “Wow, this sounds really screwy. I think I’d better keep quiet about this.”

“For a long time I didn’t talk about it, and it’s still hard for me to talk about. But I have shared it with people with AIDS because if the moment occurs and you’re really sharing, it’s real. I am not afraid of death, because I have been there.”

In an interview with America’s AIDS magazine, Liz described her NDE again:

“I went to that tunnel, saw the white light, and Mike [Todd]. I said, Oh Mike, you’re where I want to be. And he said, ‘No, Baby. You have to turn around and go back because there is something very important for you to do. You cannot give up now.’ It was Mike’s strength and love that brought me back.”

Eric Estrada became famous for his starring role in the television series, Chips. While filming an episode of Chips, he had a terrible motorcycle accident that led to a near-death experience.

“Suddenly I was in a long corridor with bright lights, beautiful music, and a feeling of great peace. But something seemed to be blocking my progress. A voice told me, “You’ve got to go back. You’ve a lot still to do. You’ve achieved success and stardom but you haven’t achieved personal happiness and peace of mind.”

After hearing this voice, Estrada returned to his body.

By the late 1970s, Tony Bennett and his career were ailing. He had no record label, no manager, and he was performing almost exclusively in Vegas. Living in Los Angeles, he had a drug habit, a disintegrating marriage, and mounting debts.

When the IRS started proceedings to take away his home, he nearly overdosed, and had a near-death experience.

“A golden light enveloped me in a warm glow,” he wrote in his autobiography. “I had the sense that I was about to embark on a very compelling journey. But suddenly I was jolted out of the vision … I knew I had to make major changes in my life.”

After this experience, Tony Bennett did make the changes he needed to make and his life and career turned around. With the help of his manager/son Danny, he decided to attempt to appeal to younger audiences with his music.

Beginning with scheduled concerts at colleges and small theaters, he eventually got re-signed to Columbia Records in the mid-1980s although he hadn’t recorded an album in 11 years. Bennett also appeared on hip shows like The Simpsons and MTV’s Unplugged. His Unplugged disk won Tony Bennett a Grammy.

Who is the guardian of your gate?

People having near-death experiences are greeted by someone – usually someone they deeply love or the so-called Being of Light.

When Elvis Presley died, it seemed like the whole world mourned. He was truly loved by many people the world over. Since then, many people have reported having Elvis sightings where the spirit of Elvis appears as an apparition to people much in the same way that Jesus appeared to people after his death.

Not only this, many near-death experiencers find themselves greeted, not by a Being of Light, but by Elvis Presley. According to Dr. Melvin Morse in his book on near-death experiences entitled Transformed by the Light, a 45-year old Mid-western teacher saw Elvis Presley in an intense light during her near-death experience. The woman had met Elvis when she was a child.

The following is her near-death account:

“I entered into a dark tunnel and suddenly I was in a place filled up with love and a beautiful, bright light. The place seemed holy. My father, who had died two years earlier, was there, as were my grandparents. Everyone was happy to see me, but my father told me it was not my time and I would be going back.

Just as I turned to go, I caught sight of Elvis! He was standing in this place of intense bright light. He just came over to me, took my hand and said, “Hi, Bev, do you remember me?” (Mauro,1992)

Check the whole article to see more stars finding the true meaning of life >>

I was quite annoyed to see that Esther Hicks was edited out of the movie The Secret. TheSecretNotes.com has the full story.

 It is my belief that The Secret is NOT based on the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles. It simply could not have been!

The Science of Getting Rich is a book from 1910 – brilliant for its time – but obsolete, poorly written and long-winded by today’s standards. I wrote a one page summary of it – judge for yourself.

Instead, I believe Rhonda developed the Secret and was influenced not by the Science of Getting Rich but by the books by Esther Hicks. After all, Esther Hicks was originally supposed to get 10% of revenues from the Secret. (see this post).

Instead I believe that due to the Secret’s amazing popularity, contractual business dealings got in the way. The Secret was re-edited to exclude Esther Hicks and the idea that the film was based on the Science of Getting Rich was substituted in.

Why the Science of Getting Rich?  Purely a business decision.

Well it was written in 1910 – the book is now in the public domain, which means that ANYONE can publish or edit the book without paying royalties. This of course, made it an excellent choice.

Pic Below: Esther and husband Jerry Hicks

Now I am not suggesting that the producers of the Secret dumped Esther and picked The Science of Getting Rich so they could keep a larger chunk of their profits. It could have been a reasonable business decision because Esther’s book sometimes deals with the supernatural, particular her conversations with the entity Abraham. Something like that is not going to be consumed by a wide market (although I see nothing wrong with it).

I think Rhonda Byrne and her crew are wonderfully good people and they have performed a great service to the world by packaging the Secret in such a way that the world was ready to wake up to it. Even Esther Hicks – on her website, mentions that there is no ill will.  Although Esther does say – she felt she and her husband were “drawn in, utilized and then discarded”.

But it is a shame to see the Secret cut out Esther – both from the film and from her share of the revenue pie.

The fact should not be hidden from the public. Ester Hicks’ book is clearly the motivator for Rhonda’s film. And you should go out and BUY that book.

I would give the book “The Secret” a rating of 3 out of 5.
But I would give Ester Hicks’s “Law of Attraction” a 5 out of 5.

Read both books and judge for yourself. One feels like spiritual truth – the other like modern-day pop-culture psychology.

Esther Hicks is truly one of the greatest teachers I have come across (along with Jose Silva, Neale Donald Walsch and Bob Proctor).

Thank You Esther!

Now About Oprah’s Interview with Esther Hicks

In the interview Ester discusses how she met Rhonda Byrne of the Secret, how she and her husband met Jane Roberts of the Seth Book, and how she later learned to channel Abraham and wrote Ask And It is Given and The Law of Attraction.

There are 2 parts and you can listen to them from the link below. (audios courtesy of  AttractionHacker.com)

Part 1: Oprah Interviews Esther on the Secret

Part 2: Oprah Interviews Esther on Why She Was Cut from the Secret + Esther Channels Abraham.

Read More:

Interesting Articles on Esther Hicks

Oprah on the Secret: Episode 1

Oprah on the Secret: Episode 2

PS – fellow bloggers. If you share by gratitude to Esther Hicks, please feel free to syndicate this post. It’s our way of thanking Esther by drawing attention to her book and her truly beautiful work which we feel needs to be brought to people’s attention.

Editor’s Note: one sciencist has revealed that belief in reincarnation has adverse effects on a person’s memory. On the flipside, believers generally have more creative minds.

 Recent tests have shown that there are big differences in memory between people who believe in reincarnation and people who don’t. The studies revealed that people who believe are more likely to have memory errors.

This article outlines the study and believes that the tests explain how people hang on to implausible reincarnation stories of past lives. It can also be argued that believers hang on to their stories for spiritual reasons. One plus point for believers that was revealed is that they are generally more creative than non-believers.

Belief in Reincarnation Tied to Memory Errors

Melinda Wenner

People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make certain types of memory errors, according to a new study.

The propensity to make these mistakes could, in part, explain why people cling to  implausible reincarnation claims in the first place.

Researchers recruited people who, after undergoing hypnotic therapy, had come to believe that they had past lives.

Subjects were asked to read aloud a list of 40 non-famous names, and then, after a two-hour wait, told that they were going to see a list consisting of three types of names: non-famous names they had already seen (from the earlier list), famous names, and names of non-famous people that they had not previously seen. Their task was to identify which names were famous.

The researchers found that, compared to control subjects who dismissed the idea of reincarnation, past-life believers were almost twice as likely to misidentify names. In particular, their tendency was to wrongly identify as famous the non-famous names they had seen in the first task. This kind of error, called a source-monitoring error, indicates that a person has difficulty recognizing where a memory came from.

Power of suggestion

People who are likely to make these kinds of errors might end up convincing themselves of things that aren’t true, said lead researcher Maarten Peters of Maastricht University in The Netherlands. When people who are prone to making these mistakes undergo hypnosis and are repeatedly asked to talk about a potential idea—like a past life—they might, as they grow more familiar with it, eventually convert the idea into a full-blown false memory.

This is because they can’t distinguish between things that have really happened and things that have been suggested to them, Peters told LiveScience.

Past life memories are not the only type of implausible memories that have been studied in this manner. Richard McNally, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, has found that self-proclaimed alien abductees are also twice as likely to commit source monitoring errors.

Creative minds

As for what might make people more prone to committing such errors to begin with, McNally says that it could be the byproduct of especially vivid imagery skills. He has found that people who commonly make source-monitoring errors respond to and imagine experiences more strongly than the average person, and they also tend to be more creative.

“It might be harder to discriminate between a vivid image that you’d generated yourself and the memory of a perception of something you actually saw,” McNally in a telephone interview.

Peters also found in his study, detailed in the March issue of Consciousness and Cognition, that people with implausible memories are also more likely to be depressed and to experience sleep problems, and this could also make them more prone to memory mistakes.

And once people make this kind of mistake, they might be inclined to stick to their guns for spiritual reasons, McNally said.

 ”It may be a variant expression of certain religious impulses. . . We suspect that this might be kind of a psychological buffering mechanism against the fear of death.”

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The debate rages on between conventional medical practices with scientific models and alternative forms of medicine. Let’s be honest it’s never going to die down. While exploring this topic a wonderful article came along my path.

This article shows how spirituality and enlightenment can be achieved alongside conventional medical practices. It has numerous stories of remarkable people who have overcome illness through alternative methods such as visualization in the case of Morris Goodman aka ‘Miracle Man’.

Delve into the article:

The Source Of All Illnesses

By Lorenzo @ RealitySeeds.com

For thousands of years humans have been trying to cure illnesses afflicting body and mind. Endless types and strands of disorders seem to be ever changing and constantly mutating into more complex forms.

Modern Day Science

We try hard to study and understand them with a scientific methodology, but we often have hard time making progress because our scientific models fail to describe much detail of how the human body works. While the science of health is making great steps forward, there is still a lot of guess work involved in applied medicine that often is more like a form of art based on the experience and gut feelings of the doctors, than a science with clear rules.

When we study illness, we notice the symptoms and we explore them; this research gives us clues on how to fix the symptoms, and often we discover possible causes and we attempt to attack these as well. This approach is similar to the approach we take when a car breaks, except that it is much more difficult given how complex the physical body is.

Treat The Symptoms But No Cure

 It often works, but often doesn’t fix the cause, and the illness comes back to hunt us again. Many times things just resolve themselves and we have no idea what the problem was, and why it is gone.

The First Of Many Real Life Alternative Thinking Cases

I remember when I was a teenager I started having troubles breathing at night. I was a young and healthy, much into all kinds of sports and always active. Nevertheless, this night breathing problem was bothering me a great deal.

 I went to my doctor. He asked me if I had that problem only at night, which I did. He also asked me if I had that problem while in vacation somewhere else, or if I had any known allergies. I answered “no” to both questions. In fact, I could sleep just fine while in vacation, and I had no known allergies.

He asked me if I spent much time in my room, which I did. That’s all he needed to hear. His prescription was “Change your room around! Move the furniture, take whatever is on the walls and change it with something new, paint the room with a different color. In short, make it feel new”. I thought it was an odd cure for my problem, but he is a very experienced doctor and I trusted him.

Well, believe it or not, that “cure” fixed my problem, which never came back again. Later he explained that I had problems breathing because I was associating my room with something bad that happened in my life, putting me in a negative state of mind and stress. Changing the room around was a way to deactivate these negative memories.

He didn’t really understand all the details of why that negative state of mind was causing the problems with the breathing; he just knew that it worked that way.

What is the real cause of illness? Most important, why is the body sometimes unable to fix itself?

Read More Here>>

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Karol Zelazny, a Silva UltraMind Instructor in Canada recently published his first book, Walk on Water.

Karol introduces the book in this way:

Life is not a journey in time; it is a journey in consciousness. There is a solid reason
for us to be born as humans and live on this planet. I call this reason our purpose in
life. This is a relatively short publication. It will make your journey to your life’s
purpose clear and simple. The goal of this book is far reaching. Here we seek to
reprogram the reader’s conscious and subconscious levels of mind in order to
achieve full healing, see dreams realised and ultimately change the prevailing mindset
of the entire planet.

The book is being shipped to me and I’ll write a full review when I’m done.  For now, I wanted to point to some interesting affirmations that Karol shares on his website.

Here’s Karols affirmations. Hope the help you in your daily meditation.

More on Walk on Water Here >>

Many people argue that medicine is misrepresenting disease care as healthcare. Traditional medical practices throughout history have tended to focus on the physical external state of the body concentrating on the use drugs and technology. I’ve been looking into healing techniques that recognize what it means to be a spiritual human being, and to deliver healthcare.

Spirituality is a major issue that we are trying to develop in this community and from time to time we get sent high caliber articles that have to be shared.

I recently received a great email that introduced the healing technique of Neural Depolarization that Kathy Oddenino has been practicing for way over 20 yrs.

Neural Depolarization n.

“A unique spiritual energy technique used to balance the nervous system, stop pain, balance our energy flow, and prevent disease.”

Here’s Kathy explaining her technique:

What is Neural Depolarization, (NDPâ„¢)?

By Kathy Oddenino, R.N.

NDPâ„¢ Explained

NDP (Neural Depolarization) is a form of internal energy therapy that I use (and trademarked) to treat all diseases, from all forms of cancer, eye diseases such as glaucoma, dyslexia, all forms of pain, including fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel syndrome, to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and many more.

To truly understand how NDP works, we must understand the design of our physical body as four major nervous systems that function from and through the energy of our internal chemical design. What we think, eat, drink, and breathe supports our internal chemical design when we eat, drink, and breathe from the purity of Nature.

We can stay healthy and we should live for hundreds of years when we recognize the relationship of our human design to the design of Earth and the Universe. When we eat “junk food” and depend upon drugs, surgery, and medicine to keep us healthy, we cannot restore the energy within our physical body to stay healthy and happy because we will not have the necessary chemicals within our human body to maintain our health and happiness.

Kathy’s Background

I worked with the medical world as a nurse for 40 years. I knew I wanted to be a nurse when I was 2 years old, and I love the compassion and healing care nurses can provide. In 1984 I began teaching people how to heal themselves because I saw medicine focusing more and more on drugs and technology and away from the patient and the proven Hippocratic focus of healing.

Modern Medicine going against the Hippocratic Oath

Our scientific knowledge can help us much more efficiently when we understand our human design. Without a firm commitment to the Hippocratic oath of “do no harm,” technology, research, and medication do more harm than good, to our bank accounts as well as our bodies. Evidence of this is everywhere when we are willing to see it and are open to change.

Why did Hippocrates understand health better than modern-day physicians do? The design and function of the nervous system, and the importance of eating pure food and drinking water, are still key focuses that are usually last on the list of medical attention and advice if they come up at all.

Neural Depolarization works with all forms of disease by working with the four major nervous systems that allow our human body to function appropriately and to heal itself.

Understanding Nature

 Before we can understand the internal workings of NDP as an energy therapy, we must understand that we live and stay healthy from the air, water, and foods of Nature. We get “sick” when we attempt to live on air, water, and foods that are not from a “clean Nature.”

Once man interferes with what Nature produces, we find ourselves creating chronic and terminal diseases, and not realizing what we are doing to make ourselves sick to death. For example, most municipal water plants add fluoride to our water.

Many bottled waters come from municipal water plants. Fluoride is a poison, so why would we choose to drink fluoride in our water for a whole lifetime? Foods that are grown with poisons in the soil and poisons that are sprayed onto the plants destroy our nervous system and our internal cellular environment.

Energy within the Physical Body

 As human beings, we are energy and we are matter. Einstein opened a door for us to think about ourselves differently when he presented the equation E=MC². The chemical matter that we create in our body is responsible for supporting the energy within our physical body. Neural Depolarization can balance out the energy of the cells, organs, and nerves that make up our human body.

But if we continuously destroy ourselves by giving our body food, water, air, and other chemicals that cannot support the chemical design of our cells, then we simultaneously destroy the chemical energy of our body, which allows us to become sick with multiple diseases and die. When we stop poisoning our food, water, and air, we will begin to live for hundreds of years in each lifetime.

When we are willing to eat only organic foods, drink pure water, and breathe pure air, we can heal ourselves more quickly with Neural Depolarization, which helps to release the foreign chemicals from our cells and to balance the energy within the cell which allows our body to heal itself. This is the best Health Care Plan we can find, and this plan offers us the Insurance that we are giving our body what we need to stay healthy, happy, and active.

Many diseases are not true disease, but they are caused by energy blockages. “Diseases” such as glaucoma, dyslexia, autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and cancer are examples of diseases that are created from nerve and cellular chemical blockages. It is time for us to look at our diseases differently and to learn how to protect ourselves from food, water, and air that does not support us in health.

The more intense a disease is, such as cancer and MS, the longer it takes the disease to respond to Neural Depolarization, but the body will respond if the individual is conscientious about their food, air, and water replacements. As my clients say, “The proof is in the pudding!”

Kathy Oddenino, R.N. teaches Spiritual Philosophy, Neural Depolarizationâ„¢, and is the author of 8 books.

check out the official Kathy Oddenino website>>

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New Realities (www.newrealities.tv) interviews Deepak Chopra about his book “The Love Poems of Rumi”. There are some beautiful moments here.

Deepak is a best-selling author of numerous books dealing with meditation, healing and new age consciousness.

This interview revolves around one of Chopra’s latest works – the Love Poems of a Rumi. In the interview Chopra discusses his views on “Love” and “God”.

For those of you interested in learning more, here’s a description of the book from Amazon.

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.

This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi’s love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago.

Link to the Book Here >>

We dug up an old video of Burt Goldman, the famous Silva Method instructor and master of multiple healing arts. In this 4 minute video, Burt explains the Chinese art of Qi Gong and demonstrates how he uses it to heal a lady of a persistent pain in the knee.

Burt explains that all healing comes from within – he is not the healer – he simply lets the lady’s own mind do the trick.

He explains that the best healings occur fast – within seconds.

What I found remarkable about the clip is how fast it took Burt to actually apply the Qi Gong healing to his subject.

Watch it and learn from a master.

Some Hot New Info on Burt

By the way, Burt Goldman just turned 80 years old!

And a new site is being launched where Burt is going to start sharing his years of teachings and wisdom with the world.

Visit TheAmericanMonk.com to learn more and to sign up the notification list >>

PS – Burt’s main site is www.GoldmanMethod.com. I highly recommend his Goldman Reality Field Kit.

by Dikki Jo Mullen

Editors Note: I found the following article on seeding the prosperity bank thanks to a link in the Silva UltraMind online community. It’s wonderfully written and helps remind us of a few important universal truths.

While reading through the stack of magazines at the neighborhood coin laundry recently, I came across an especially provocative and interesting list. It was a study of each of the world’s nations in terms of desirability and standard of living. Of course, the United States was number one, with Canada and Australia as two and three respectively. Way down at the bottom were the poor, miserable African nations of Afghanistan and Chad, while the USSR and other Eastern European nations hovered near the middle of the list. The study included a sort of graph, showing how just owning a pair of shoes can make one a wealthy man or woman in some countries, while the wealth we take for granted, such as hot and cold water, plenty of food, and 24 hour TV and radio entertainment are perhaps not fully appreciated by many of us.

It is important to remember spiritual teachings regarding the prosperity bank. What we focus on we make real, and it is very dangerous to fear not having enough or to repeatedly state that we’re “broke.” What we imagine we can make real, and the sophistication of our minds can make our thoughts more powerful and more energized than we might consciously realize. Thinking and speaking in a positive way about our lifestyles, jobs, etc… is an essential step in metaphysical wisdom. As the Bible says, “What I have feared, hath come upon me.”

To develop prosperity consciousness, first remember that prosperity adores a prosperous attitude. Instead of complaining about writing checks for monthly bills, start by giving thanks that you have the funds to cover them. Arrange the bills in your wallet with the highest denomination on top, ones at the bottom, then fold them toward you saying this simple but effective blessing: “Divine Love through me blesses and increases all that I receive.” Dollar bills are rich in metaphysical symbolism; they represent energy and effort. It can be surprisingly effective to try this little blessing technique. Experiment and see!

Meanwhile, stop thinking of yourself as broke.

Even kings and queens a few generations back lacked the comforts that we have in even a modest home in the United States and Canada. Try soaking in a scented bubble bath and playing soft soothing music in the background at the end of a challenging day. Revel in the luxury and richness of this inexpensive pleasure. Upon enjoying fresh, hot coffee or tea in the morning before work, appreciate the ease and richness of this relatively inexpensive pleasure.

Overcome the poverty consciousness that imprisons so many of us by applying a few basic steps. These are common to a variety of spiritual schools of thought and self-help courses, and will really work if you give them a chance.

1. Decide what you really want, then write down your goals.

Make a simple and specific list. Defining what we want is essential to achieving it. Statistics quoted by the Silva Mind Control teachings tell us that among a group of Harvard University graduates, those with written and defined goals were far and away more successful financially than their counterparts who tended to drift.

2. Develop faith and confidence.

 A negative attitude is dangerous. Many people who experienced lack during the years of the Great Depression became misers, unable to enjoy the fruits of their labors in later years. Charles Dicken’s classic tale of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol illustrates how Scrooge changed his life and actually became richer after loosening his purse strings. Keep the money flowing outward, within reasonable bounds of course. Use it to bring pleasure to yourself and others. Prosperity adores a prosperous attitude. One economist recently suggested that the way to avoid a recession was for all of us to spend everything we have. For example, if you spend a few dollars for a meal out and leave a tip for the waitress, she might spend the money on a new pair of shoes at the store where your brother is a clerk. Then, earning commission on the sale, he’d have extra money to circulate. You get the idea.

3. Persistence is important in building prosperity.

Focus on how this trait can enhance respect and power.

4. Use your imagination and think of ways to enhance prosperity.

Try to turn a hobby into a second income or use your insight at the office to make significant improvements. Creativity is a gift that can be either positive or negative, depending on its slant. A little research uncovers incredible success stories through the use of a creative inspiration. Maybe you can be another Colonel Sanders or Coca Cola entrepreneur.

5. Organize for prosperity.

Do some career research and planning, prepare some long term goals. Form a “master mind” group and meet to help each other imagine and envision the goals. Do this together over a period of several months and you’ll be delighted at the results. The group’s focused good will and energy is a powerful healing tool in overcoming the bonds of poverty. A few months back six friends and I began using a basic metaphysical formula for master minding with a group. We’ve all enjoyed a renewed richness and success in our lives. We sat in a circle, then each took a turn describing to the group what we wanted, while everyone expressed positive thoughts and visions of the desired result. I remember one man talking about replacing his old blue Oldsmobile with a new silver LTD. Last week he drove over in the new auto, just as we’d visualized it. The power for good in this simple technique is chilling and provocative. Experiment and see!

Poverty is not a virtue, it is a sin! Divine intelligence put the riches of the world near us to be appreciated and enjoyed. The true words of the axiom “money is the root of all evil” were really “lack of money is the root of all evil!” So use metaphysical techniques to be merry and enjoy. Carpe Diem!

Internationally noted astrologer and spiritual counselor, Dikki Jo Mullen, has authored numerous nationally published articles. See her features and forecasts in the 2002 and 2003 Dell Purse Books, the 2003 Dell Horoscope Yearbook and The Witches’ Almanac and on arielinstitute.com.

What is Reiki Therapy?

Reiki is a gentle Japanese technique of laying on of hands to bring energy into the body for deep relaxation and a sense of well-being. Reiki is performed through a technique similar to the laying on of hands.

Developed in the early 1900’s by Mikao Usui in Japan. It is an art that is passed from Master to student. The word Reiki comes from two Japanese words – Rei and Ki, meaning Universal Life Force Energy. The term “Reiki” is used to describe both the energy and the Usui system of using it. The original system by Usui was called Usui Reiki Ryoho. There are many variant’s of Reiki being practiced these days.

Mikao Usui claimed to have discovered Reiki after long meditation, fasting, and prayer. Usui wrote that by mystical revelation he had gained the knowledge and spiritual power to apply and attune others to what he called Reiki. Mikao Usui said that he had the ability to enable people to enhance their access to the energy through certain initiations.

Although Reiki started in Japan - it died out as an art in Japan in the mid-20th century. Fortunetly, practioners had brough it to Hawaii by that time.

From a small community in Hawaii, the art spread worldwide. Reiki is now one of the fastest growing and most popular healing arts practices worldwide.

My Experience

I took a Reiki course in New York in 2000. I can’t remember by teachers name but the course was wonderful. In 15 hours, spread over 2 days, you learn the art of channeling “life force” through your hands and onto the body of someone requesting healing.

The person experiencing the healing usually reports a feeling of a tingling sensation or warmtn emanating from the healer’s hand.

According to Reiki-Therapy.net

A Reiki treatment is one-hour long and is useful for specific healing or general relaxation. This is the perfect way to spoil yourself! The treatments are individually tailored to the client’s needs and condition. The practitioner rests hands for a few minutes on specific areas of the body (head, torso, legs and back) allowing energy to pass through into the client The client remains fully clothed at all times and may experience different bodily sensations. Some feel the “electricity” passing through various limbs or tingling or warm sensations, some smell scents, see visions, some feel as if they have reverted to the safety of the womb and some just fall asleep. Whatever you might feel these are merely side effects of the healing process and it is best to enter a treatment with no expectations.

The healer feels the same tingling sensation (at least I did). But I kept asking myself – Is this real or am I just imagining things?

One things for sure – a lot of people swear by Reiki Therapy.

If you’re looking for a form of complementary healing therapy, I strongly recommmend it.

I combine Reiki Therapy with Silva Techniques for maximum results. It’s helped me overcome lots of minor health issues.

Here are some interesting articles on Reiki Therapy:

• 9 Distant Healing Tips
• Using Reiki to Stay Grounded