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		<title>Being Touched by Tantra</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we attended the wedding of Wayne and Colette, a beautiful couple who have taken several of our seminars. For us, a wedding ritual is always an uplifting and joyous occasion, but what we experienced at this particular wedding was simply amazing, and it deeply touched our hearts.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently we attended the wedding of Wayne and Colette, a beautiful couple who have taken several of our seminars. For us, a wedding ritual is always an uplifting and joyous occasion, but what we experienced at this particular wedding was simply amazing, and it deeply touched our hearts.</p>
<p>When the bride entered the hall, we were already moved - in her gorgeous lilac gown, she was even more beautiful than when we had last seen her a few weeks before. Her betrothed was awaiting her eagerly at the sacred altar they had prepared. Their ritual began with what they called their &#8220;communion ritual&#8221; - their version of entering into sacred space and sacred time as they had learned in our seminar and practiced many times. The beauty of the ritual that unfolded was such a profound moment for us both, we cried and cried. In this simple, powerful and beautiful ritual lay the incredible gift of validation for our work and our contribution to so many lives. The community of friends and family that had gathered to bear witness to Colette and Wayne&#8217;s union was just as touched, and Kleenex boxes made their rounds.</p>
<p>When we first arrived, we had felt a little out of place, knowing no-one - but the couples&#8217; best friends who had also taken our seminar - and after the ceremony, we were suddenly part of the community. Colette and Wayne felt comfortable about us sharing where we had met them—in our Tantra seminar—and many interesting conversations were had and hearts were opened.</p>
<p>On their wedding day, Colette and Wayne became a reminder for us of how profound and simple Tantra is and how it can be integrated into our lives in so many ways. And we thank them from the bottoms of our hearts for this gift!</p>
<p>Since that day we have been reflecting on our lives as Tantra teachers. Seeing our work - our passion - incorporated so beautifully and simply by Wayne and Colette in their marriage ritual, has great meaning to us. We realized once again that Tantra includes everything. It is not &#8220;just about sex&#8221; as the mass media would like us to believe. Tantra is a lifestyle, a way of life that begins with acceptance of who we are. Once we truly accept and love ourselves, we can accept and love each other and eventually accept and love everything… good things and bad things alike.</p>
<p>We teach in a way that is fun and profound at the same time. Our seminars include laughter, tears, dance, intimate moments, personal challenges and playful resolutions, overflowing hearts and deep connection with ourselves and others. Our participants take home tools that they can play with immediately after the seminar to stay on the tantric path that they stepped on in our seminar.</p>
<p>To us, the spiritual, ecstatic life is not something that we need to strive towards - it is already here. All we need to do is awakening to that fact and celebrate!</p>
<p>And this is our definition of Tantra - awaken to the fact that you are a spiritual, ecstatic human being every moment of your life. That&#8217;s why we chose the term “Ecstatic Living” to describe what we do - in our work and in our life.</p>
<p>The Institute for Ecstatic Living was founded in 1999 by Steve and Lokita Carter, pioneers in Ecstatic Living and Tantra teachers who have taught thousands of people art of ecstatic living and loving. Based just north of the Napa Valley Wine Country in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit <a href="http://www.ecstaticliving.com/">http://www.ecstaticliving.com</a> to learn more about  <a href="http://www.ecstaticliving.com/">Tantra Store, Kama Sutra, Tantra Retreats, Ecstatic Living.</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Current  Michael Vick Charges Can Be a Thing of the Past In Professional Sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the current verdict against Michael Vick, many are wondering what should be done in the future to prevent the seemingly continual misbehaviors of these professional sports players.  Professional sports is such an integral part of our culture today that it is not going to go away.  It is also a profession where many young [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the current verdict against Michael Vick, many are wondering what should be done in the future to prevent the seemingly continual misbehaviors of these professional sports players.  Professional sports is such an integral part of our culture today that it is not going to go away.  It is also a profession where many young people today take their role models from.  What can be done to &#8216;clean up&#8217; the image of these professional teams?</p>
<p>September (2007) Denver, CO  - A powerful new training manual &#8220;The Choice Is Mine&#8221; is now being offered through a special program to help with the crisis faced by many professional sports teams today.  This unique and pioneering course provides a detailed, step by step path for assisting the professional athletes and the support staff into building empowering, supportive and open relationships, with teammates coaches and the public.  Its use has been highly successful in showing and assisting players who are struggling in different ways because they are making unaware/poor choices, or are still operating from old beliefs developed in childhood. The Choice is Mine immediately strengthens and fine-tunes core values, thereby changing destructive patterns by building constructive ones… from the inside out.</p>
<p>This powerful empowering process was developed by Veronique, a Life Consultant and founder of the Veronique Inc. and the Enlightened Heart Foundation, who created the first HOW to the WHAT that most personal transformation books talk about.  &#8220;Because this process works at both the conscious and subconscious levels, it is really only a matter of following the step-by-step guidance in the training manual.  Most people will see and experience results that have come so easily, they won&#8217;t realize it was from the work they had done with the manual.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conditions, such as low performance, anger, low self worth, and disruptive habits are more easily overcome because it becomes instinctive, as it is a natural outcome of studying this material.  We begin at the beginning, by teaching athletes to work FOR, and not AGAINST anything. This course builds honoring and strengthening the character of each athlete, while creating a supportive guidance system as a way to extend leadership and integrity.</p>
<p>The Choice Is Mine provides comprehensible explanations, touching, clarifying, and illustrating through a clear-cut understanding that anyone is able to absorb, &#8220;This course is fits within middle school reading levels through pre and postgraduate levels&#8221;, said Veronique. &#8220;The goal of our training is for each athlete to discover their unlimited capacity for achievement both on and off the field, build respect, and honor for one another, and all living things as they create the greatness of the next generation of professional sport players.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barry Spilchuk, author of &#8216;A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul&#8217; says &#8221; Wow!  Inspirational  and Triumphant for Generations.  With grace, The choice is Mine reminds us that there is something more important than our fears&#8230; Love.  Better yet, Veronique&#8217;s writings have a clear intent that will support, nurture , as well as provide you tools to recognize and overcome challenges you have set in your life.  If anyone has ever said to you, &#8216;Look inside yourself for the answers,&#8217; and you said silently, &#8216;How do I do that?&#8217; Veronique&#8217;s book, her empowering process, will allow you to go deep inside and give a voice of truth to your fears, and a reality to your hopes and dreams.  It is a treasure to pass onto everyone you know.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;With these manuals used in player development programs with professional sports teams, we will be able to really see substantial differences in how children interrelate with each other.  Athletes who have high self worth aren&#8217;t affected by belief systems which cause them to make choices that aren&#8217;t empowering and lack in strength of character, or be in so much anger that they feel the need to take that anger out in destructive, and/or career ending ways,&#8221; said Veronique.</p>
<p>To find out more about The Choice Is Mine now, go to http://thechoiceismine.com . To find out more about the Professional Player Development Program of Veronique Inc., go to http://veroniqueinc.com/teams.php</p>
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		<title>How To Release Negativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaches you how to release negativity, step by step. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4">by </font><font size="4">Michelle Beaudry </font></p>
<p><em>The past cannot be undone. </em></p>
<p><em>What you change is how you feel about it.</em></p>
<p>How Are You Going To Do It?</p>
<p>You&#8217;re tired of being negative. You&#8217;re ready to change. You need a plan. Read on, my friend, for this is the process of releasing negativity and restoring your spirit. Change is good.</p>
<p>Fear and Anger Are Killers</p>
<p>Ask any doctor. The stress of feeling badly all the time can easily lead to medical disorders. Your body and mind are a continuum. In other words, although they are not exactly the same, a great overlap exists between your mind and body, uniting them. Relieve your mental stress and your body will be happier, too. It&#8217;s time to unburden yourself of everything that has been blocking progress in your life by keeping you attached to an unhappy past.</p>
<p>Feeling Better Is a Process</p>
<p>Negativity accumulates in our lives, in our souls, over time. The process of removing it optimally happens in layers. It&#8217;s best to release as much of each stored negative emotion as you can during each sucessive attempt. And of course, you want a safe, private means of release that is as quiet and effective as possible. You can jettison all that old negativity easily and thoroughly by following simple instructions.</p>
<p>Visualization</p>
<p>Sports teams have used visualization to improve their level of excellence for decades, visualizing themselves winning trophies, for example. This same technique that so wonderfully installs positive expectation can also be used to eliminate negativity. This means that you can literally let go of old stored feelings of anger, fear, abandonment, embarrassment, and so on, that have been accumulating inside of you all of your life.</p>
<p>Let a Higher Power Help You</p>
<p>Do you prefer the word God, Source, Universe, Goddess, Higher Self, or do you have yet another name for that which is all that is? Let your choice reflect your tastes, and let your Higher Power help you. For once you release negative energy, your Higher Power can then transform it into something positive elsewhere in the Universe.</p>
<p>Humans Store Emotions Physically</p>
<p>Your body is made of cells, the cells are made of molecules, the molecules are made of atoms, and those are made up of whirling bits of energy; ergo, your body is pure energy. We humans store old memories and emotions in our bodies. That&#8217;s why the releasing of negativity is a physical, visceral feeling of expelling energy, because energy is what it is, what it all is, what we all are. Ask Einstein.</p>
<p>Examples of What To Release</p>
<p>Fear, anger, rage, abandonment, rejection, guilt, shame, worry, blame, numbness, hurt, hatred, jealousy, and disgust are good places to begin. Your unique soul will know which feelings most need releasing, and in which order to do them. You may need to release some of the deepest ones several times to remove ever deeper layers.</p>
<p>What Does It Feel Like?</p>
<p>Expelling negativity is not a negative experience, it is a relief. For example, when you let go of a deep layer of fear, you do not feel afraid, you feel relieved of fear. Letting go of rage does not mean that you&#8217;ll be shouting and thrashing about. Rather, your feelings of rage simply pass out of you, and it is a relief. The old negative feelings are fully released and expelled outwards. Releasing negative emotions needn&#8217;t involve experiencing the pain inherent in any individual emotion. You&#8217;ve already experienced way too much of that. Getting rid of them feels like what it is: a release. It&#8217;s like taking a gorilla off of your back. It&#8217;s removing old baggage that does not serve you anymore. It actually feels good. And you will feel progressively better afterwards each time.</p>
<p>Follow Instructions Through the Steps</p>
<p>Get quiet and close your eyes. Be in a quiet, comfortable place without distractions. Vizualize that you are standing in a beautiful place with your arms up, way up, looking up at your Higher Power. Select the negative emotion you first wish to release, and make that happen. Feel it physically leaving your body, sailing up your arms, and then being jettisoned out into space, gone for good, released permanently. Repeat with all the rest of the stored emotions you wish to release. Another approach is to phrase it like this: &#8220;I release whatever is obstructing me from my goals,&#8221; and let the stored emotions let you know what they are as they leave.</p>
<p>Then Restore Your Spirit</p>
<p>Once the bad layers are released, it&#8217;s best to fill up the spaces they left with something wonderfully positive. May I suggest that you begin the restoration of your spirit with Personal Power, Love, Acceptance, and Inner Peace. Personal Power restores your boundaries to normal settings, Love returns you to harmony with all that is, Acceptance assures you that you are wanted and welcomed in the world, and Inner Peace encloses you in a wonderful blanket of secure and peaceful feelings. Simply visualize each of these in turn, whatever they look like to you, and bring each inside of you, merging and bonding with it, soaking in its individual positive energy, then radiating its clarity and serenity everywhere throughout your person. Think of these as permanent upgrades to your soul.</p>
<p>Is There An Easier Way?</p>
<p>Yes, there is an easier way. &#8220;Release Negativity and Restore Your Spirit&#8221; CD takes you through all the steps in under an hour. Using emotive visualization, you&#8217;ll be able to have both the release and restoration experiences privately, in your own time, in your own home. You are unique, and may require repeated listenings for full relief. And full relief is what you want. Emotive visualization combines music, narration, and detailed instructions in order to open the hard drive of your subconscious mind and upgrade your files by forming new neural connections.</p>
<p>Michelle Beaudry, board certified hypnotist, works out of Central Florida, and takes clients by phone from all over the world. She wrote and narrated the &#8220;Release Negativity and Restore Your Spirit&#8221; CD. Contact her at info@beaudryhypnosis.com</p>
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		<title>How To Forgive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaches you how to forgive, step by step. Forgiveness allows you to upgrade how you feel about your past, and get on happily with your life. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4">by Michelle Beaudry</font></p>
<p><em>The past cannot be undone. What you change is how you feel about it.</em></p>
<p>Make The Change Happen</p>
<p>How are you going to do it, my friend? You&#8217;re all done feeling wretched all the time, you know forgive does not mean forget, you are soooo ready, but you need a plan. Read on, my friend, and find out how to get the benefits of forgiveness for yourself. Right now.</p>
<p>Guilt and Hatred Are Killers</p>
<p>Ask any doctor. Stress is a killer. This is because your body and mind are a continuum. In other words, although they are not entirely the same, a great overlap exists that unites them. Relieve your mental stress and your body will be happier too. Nothing relieves mental stress like forgiveness. Guilt and hatred resolve nothing; they just sustain the negativity that continues to obstruct you from your goals. Forgiveness, on the other hand, undoes the stickiness that binds you to an unhappy past.</p>
<p>Does It Work?</p>
<p>Absolutely - for you. Since the forgiveness experience will happen only for you, only you will receive its benefits. Your forgiveness may not influence a change in the behavior of others one bit. But it&#8217;s not about them. It&#8217;s about you. Forgiveness is about generating your own healing. You are the only player in your life over whom you have all the power. It&#8217;s time to exercise your personal power, your right to choose to feel better about who you are, your right to process your past and move on with your life.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a Private Thing</p>
<p>Since forgiving is all about you getting your own heart clear, it&#8217;s best done in the privacy of your own mind. Afterwards you&#8217;ll have the choice of telling others, if you like, but initially the process works best in solitude. Tell no one, just do the work. And watch how easy it is to feel better all day every day. Contrast this to the fact that all the pity parties in the world with your friends and relatives never made you feel better one bit. Those tactics don&#8217;t work because they don&#8217;t process emotions, they merely create a feedback loop that deepens the groove of the pain. Since you know that what you used to do didn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s time to do what does.</p>
<p>Forgive in Steps</p>
<p>Like a pyramid, forgiveness may seem overwhelming at first, but it&#8217;s easily accomplished step by step. So begin by recognizing that there are three sections:</p>
<p>.forgiveness of others</p>
<p>.self-forgiveness</p>
<p>.receiving forgiveness from others</p>
<p>And these can be further broken down into nicely manageable chunks.</p>
<p>Forgiveness of Others</p>
<p>When you forgive others in categories, it proceeds more easily. For example, you could choose to use the categories of Strangers, Friends, Family, The People who Hurt You The Most, and Anybody Else. You may include additional categories like Exlovers, Neighbors, Coworkers, Employees, etc., and some forgivers need to add the category of Humanity Itself. And you can start with the categories you find easiest. Once you notice how good it feels to forgive, this will inspire you to forgive everyone as much as possible, as fully as you can.</p>
<p>Self Forgiveness</p>
<p>In this step, start with your earliest years and ascend: Newborn, three year old, five year old, ten year old, teenager, 20s, etc., and on up to your current age, forgiving yourself thoroughly for absolutely everything as you go. Once you get to your current age, forgive yourself for your whole life. Remember, all humans are flawed. No one is a perfect son or daughter, man or woman, husband or wife, student or teacher, worker or boss. You are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them. Forgiveness is an optimal method to process your learnings.</p>
<p>Receiving Forgiveness from Others</p>
<p>In the privacy of your own mind, visualize then apologize to folks you&#8217;ve wronged, and let them accept your apology. It may surprise you to learn that others really want to forgive you. They do. So let them forgive you and receive the cleansing of that forgiveness. Afterwards, with some people, you may elect to actually apologize to them in person, but proceed carefully. There are a few folks in the world who can not accept apologies in real life, and this is why you process all of your apologies in your mind&#8217;s eye thoroughly first, so that you get the emotional benefit of having apologized whether those apologies get accepted in real life or not.</p>
<p>Forgive by Percentages in Repeated Attempts</p>
<p>Can you forgive the people who hurt you the most 10%? 20%? 80%? 99.9%? It&#8217;s not all or nothing. Ease on up to higher and higher percentages, always aiming for 100% forgiveness, but being real with yourself. If the people who hurt you the most are not 100% forgiveable on your first attempt, continue forgiving them bit by bit till you get as close to full forgiveness as possible. Start with a realistic percentage, then increase your forgiveness on subsequent attempts, always aiming for 100%. Just do your best.</p>
<p>Forgiving People Versus Events</p>
<p>It can be one thing to forgive individual people, and can yet be quite another thing to forgive the things those people did. What to do? Forgive the events and actions as they come to mind. As you think of instance after instance, forgive everyone involved as best you can for everything that happened.</p>
<p>Is There An Easier Way?</p>
<p>Yes, there is an easier way. &#8220;The Forgiveness Pyramid&#8221; CD takes you through all the steps in under an hour. Using emotive visualization, you&#8217;ll be able to have the full forgiveness experience privately, in your own time, in your own home. You are unique, and may find that some steps in the &#8220;Forgiveness Pyramid&#8221; require repeated listenings for full relief. And full relief is what you want.</p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michelle Beaudry, board certified hypnotist, lives in Central Florida, and takes clients by phone from all over the world. She wrote and narrated &#8220;The Forgiveness Pyramid&#8221; CD. Contact her at info@beaudryhypnosis.com.</font></p>
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		<title>The Dark Secret about Healing and Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qlcoach</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this book to show a flip side to &#8220;The Secret,&#8221; by Rhonda Byrne. Her material is wonderful, but she misses an important point: there is a dark secret that prevents us from experiencing all the good we so rightfully deserve.              [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Times New Roman">I wrote this book to show a flip side to &#8220;The Secret,&#8221; by Rhonda Byrne. Her material is wonderful, but she misses an important point: there is a dark secret that prevents us from experiencing all the good we so rightfully deserve.</font><font face="Times New Roman">                        </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">My book is partly a self-help guide and partly an inspirational tool. Most importantly, it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the profession of Social Work and to the new field of Life Coaching.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">We can have a healthier, happier life if we are willing to control our negative side. However, this process poses significant challenges for us. Our social environment presents many obstacles and barriers to staying positive.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><br />
For example, America stands before us transfixed by the rhythm of automobile engines, entangled by a war of liberation and retaliation, surrounded by a haze of unnatural vapor and murky waters, mesmerized by the soothing images on color television sets and personal computers.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">See the flashing lights; hear the wailing sirens of ambulances racing through our city streets to remove the bodies of children playing drug war games. Look at the women unsafe from attack while jogging in city parks or strolling through neighborhood parks or even office corridors. Youngsters are assaulted by gunman in schools, airport terminals, and McDonald Restaurants. Robbers steal and prey on the unsuspecting in subway stations, private homes or parking lots.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, numerous high school graduates can’t read or write, and many college graduates can’t find decent jobs. More of the clergy break their vows and end up in court or prison. Half of all eligible voters in our country rarely vote.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Millions of Americans who work, struggle to meet their basic needs for food, shelter, clothing and medical care. Forty-four million Americans don’t have healthcare insurance. More than half of our bankruptcy claims are due to overwhelming healthcare costs; yet our political system passes laws to make filing Chapter 7 even more difficult.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">In the last year alone, a million people have joined the ranks of the poor. The mentally ill and our homeless continue to overwhelm local social service networks. Medicaid and prison costs threaten the solvency of state governments. Furthermore, mass media floods us with the uneasy images of emaciated third-world children, assassinations, terrorist bombings, casualties of war, looming pandemics, natural disasters, and fear.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">The good news is that life doesn’t have to be an experience of constant pain and unhappiness. Unfortunately too many people, after initially trying to make some healthy changes, simply give up and return to their old ways of living. And life does appear to be very negative for so many of us.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">By profession, I am a social worker who has learned to believe in our right to heal and find peace. This book will try to convince you of these facts: we can learn how to make changes or improvements in ourselves as well as our culture.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">For the last 30 years of my adult life, I have reached out a loving hand to countless many that suffer and hurt. In spite of all the pain, sorrow, human misery, and hardships that I have witnessed, I am awe-struck by the incredible spiritual growth I see, including miracles that have appeared in my life’s journey.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Do you need a miracle? Are you facing a challenge of sickness, loneliness, pain, loss, excessive habits or lack? Surely you will agree that living in today’s world is exciting, but you also know there is so much that is wrong, destructive, and harmful.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Spend some time with me and we will talk about healings, happiness, miracles, and social reforms. My recovery experiences can be the start of your miracles; our miracles can begin to transform social ills; our culture dedicated to social healing can take its rightful place in the service to the needs of the world.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">This is a book about emotional recovery, social work treatment, and the need for social healings; but above all else, it is a message of hope. Yet, my approach requires that ultimately each person find their own inner pathway to healing. Along these lines I am reminded of a story from the Talmud: (4):</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">“A young Rabbi talked to his master: ‘During the time when I am studying I feel filled with light and life, but as soon as I cease to study this mood disappears. What should I do?’ So the Rabbi replied: ‘It is like a man who walks through a forest on a dark night, and part of the way is accompanied by a companion who carries a lantern. Soon they come to the point where their paths divide, and they must go on alone. If each carries his own lantern, one need fear no darkness.’”</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">What I will share with you is not new but old and it is a lantern. If we are to survive in this world, I believe it is time to wake up and look around. Let us choose to see the Light. Let us sing the song of Light, and search for our emotional connection to the Light that flows inside and through us all. With this knowledge of spirituality firmly in place, we can claim our in-born right to healing, happiness, and freedom.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Like the ancient Greek philosophers emphasized; “Knowledge is not what a man has been told, shown, or taught; it can be only what he has found out for himself by long and rigorous search.” (5). Absolute Knowledge—the Light, is subject to many different styles and modes of interpretations, just like music can be expressed in an infinite number of modes.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">The more I share with others, the more I discover that spirituality is everything I know and feel plus more than I know and feel—the mystical element. Follow that which is positive, wholesome, and good.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">I have divided my book into two parts. Part I will focus on: face stressful feelings and think positive thoughts. Part II will conclude with: take positive action and turn to Positive Power. This is a emotional recovery formula. One can use it to facilitate personal healing, to help others, and to make improvements in our country. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">My book illustrates that when find the power to unlock our dark secret, we can all become more effective change agents, which will help our nation heal too. And then one can super-size &#8220;The Secret,&#8221; to get the results we all want and need.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">More information is available at </font><a href="http://www.challengedarksecret.com/"><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">www.challengedarksecret.com</font></a></p>
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		<title>Why You Don&#8217;t Have the Relationship You Deserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people have the relationships of their dreams, but most people don&#8217;t. Most people are secretly suffering and settling &#8212; stuck wishing things were better without much chance of change.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the difference? What keeps people trapped in dead end situations?</p>
<p>There are three main reasons why people don&#8217;t have the relationships of their dreams.</p>
<p>Reason #1:  Blaming their partner for the problems. &#8220;It&#8217;s all their fault!&#8221;</p>
<p>The first and most obvious reason is blaming their partner for everything.  They think, &#8220;If my partner would only change, things would<br />
be perfect.&#8221;  This is such an easy trap to fall into, but if you think about it, it&#8217;s very dis-empowering.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because it implies that your future and happiness depends on somebody else changing.  And when you think about how hard it is to change your own behavior (as in dieting, quitting smoking, working out, etc.) you start to realize that this strategy is not going to be very successful.</p>
<p>Reason #2:  &#8220;People know what to do, but they&#8217;re not doing what they know.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some people don&#8217;t have the relationship of their dreams because they are not willing to do the things that they know would help transform the relationship.</p>
<p>This is often a spin-off of reason #1.  After-all, &#8220;It&#8217;s their fault, why should I change?&#8221;  It also may be because of past programming, conditioning and baggage. But whatever is stopping you, you may be unwilling to lead the transformation in your relationship.</p>
<p>Reason #3, &#8220;You are willing to change, you just don&#8217;t know what to change.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last reason you might not have the relationship of your dreams, is that you don&#8217;t know what to do.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have the tools, skills and training to deal with the emotional, impactful and important issues that come up in relationships without taking it personally or making it personal &#8212; without attacking or defending.</p>
<p>Doctors learn the language of medicine.  Attorneys learn the language of law.  Plumbers learn the language of pluming.  And couples need to learn the language of compassion and understanding for relationships.</p>
<p>You may not have the specialized skills you need to listen effectively so your partner really wants to talk openly and vulnerably with you.(Most people don&#8217;t. not even doctors and lawyers.  Look at their divorce rates!)</p>
<p>Or, you may not have the skills that will allow you to talk in a way that your partner will really want to listen and understand you.</p>
<p>When issues come up in a relationship here are some of the strategies people try:</p>
<p>First and foremost is the &#8220;Ignore It and Hope It Goes Away&#8221; strategy. This is by far the easiest strategy, and at the same time, the least effective.</p>
<p>Occasionally it does work because the level of drama and emotions is reduced.  But usually it ends up in only suppressing the drama for the moment, but never resolving it.</p>
<p>The second strategy is asking friends and family for advice.  Warning. be very careful about seeking advice from friends and family.  Before you do, look at their relationships and see whether or not those relationships are ones you are envious of.</p>
<p>Do they walk their talk?  If you followed their advice would you have the relationship of your dreams?</p>
<p>The third strategy is reading articles and books, listening to tapes and watching Dr. Phil or Oprah. I am all for this, as there are some amazing books out there by some great relationship experts.  The drawback is that often times what you really need is much more of a hands-on approach.</p>
<p>You wouldn&#8217;t want to learn how to parachute from a book &#8220;The Idiots Guide To Jumping Out Of a Plane&#8221;. but once you know how to skydive,  you can use a book for some fine tuning tips.</p>
<p>The fourth strategy is counseling and therapy.  I will give you a mixed review on these.  There are definitely people out there who can help you totally transform your relationship&#8230; but there are also people out there who are charging an awful lot of money and can&#8217;t even maintain a relationship of their own.</p>
<p>Most therapy is set up around solving a specific problem, rather than giving you the tools and training to be able to communicate about any issue with compassion, intimacy and understanding.</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s the fifth and often most effective strategy:  get yourself a relationship coach.</p>
<p>If you were going to lose weight or get in shape. there are three things you need, first a commitment, next a system you can stick to and lastly a good trainer or coach.</p>
<p>You need someone who will teach you, inspire you and if needed, kick you in the butt to keep on the path.</p>
<p>Getting your relationship in shape is not a quick fix. You don&#8217;t go to the gym once a year and actually expect any lasting results. Do you?</p>
<p>Seek a coach who is knowledgeable about HOW to improve your relationship - somebody who can give you the tools to dig out what&#8217;s bugging you from your past, and the skill to move through those issues in the present.</p>
<p>Seek a coach who will work with you compassionately.  Dr. Phil is funny with his no-nonsense style of coaching (&#8221;Get over it!&#8221;).  But there&#8217;s nothing like some compassion and empathy for where you&#8217;re at now - for your beautiful desire to improve things - even if your current strategies aren&#8217;t working.</p>
<p>Empathy goes a long way toward healing those old wounds. Start today.</p>
<p>Paul Sterling &amp; Kristin Denton are Relationship Coaches at http://www.magicrelationship.com  Get a complimentary copy of their special report  &#8220;Discover The 5 Roadblocks To Trust, Honesty, Intimacy and Open Communication You Crave&#8230;  Are They Wrecking Your Relationship? &#8221;  http://www.magicrelationship.com/report</p>
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		<title>Personal Development Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The personal development industry generates billions every year. Seekers are always eager to try the latest technique, course or recording in order that they may learn the secrets of life and create a meaningful, joyous existence for themselves. There are personal development books, potions, tapes/CDs, techniques, courses, seminars and gurus that all promise to change [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The personal development industry generates billions every year. Seekers are always eager to try the latest technique, course or recording in order that they may learn the secrets of life and create a meaningful, joyous existence for themselves. There are personal development books, potions, tapes/CDs, techniques, courses, seminars and gurus that all promise to change your life - sometimes in an instant! However, the self improvement &amp; personal development industry just gets bigger every year, which means people are remaining dissatisfied, unhappy and unfulfilled. Buying countless personal development items can have the reverse effect and leave you worse off than you were before you bought them!</p>
<p>Are you addicted to personal development? Do you buy the latest products but see little or no results? Are you constantly &#8220;working on yourself&#8221;?</p>
<p>This is a common problem with the self improvement student seeking growth in their own personal development. I must admit that I have fallen pray to this trap myself - spending years trying out product after product, listening to tape after tape and trying technique after technique until I found the answer!</p>
<p>If this sounds like you then let me tell you there is hope and a solution. Firstly, don&#8217;t regard your past self improvement &amp; &lt;b&gt;personal development&lt;/b&gt; efforts as a waste of time or money. Each new insight into yourself helps you grow and each new approach gives you more tools, even if you haven’t been able to reap the maximum benefit from those tools before now.</p>
<p>Secondly, and most importantly, you must take action! Many personal development approaches fail simply because they are not given a chance! Take the steps that are outlined in the self improvement program you are following. Apply the new insight you’ve gained and take a little action each day.  This will greatly increase your success rate!</p>
<p>However, there is another and vitally important reason for your failure or only mediocre results. The problem is you have become what you are trying to fix!</p>
<p>Let me explain. If you really are addicted to personal development then you will already know that in order to see the results you want in your life you must first become what you are seeking. For example to become more confident you must first see yourself as being more confident, acting more confident and projecting confidence. You must alter your self-image to reflect the belief that you are self-confident. This is the aim of the personal development product or technique you are using - to alter your belief system, self-image and habitual thinking, regardless of what it is you are trying to change in yourself.</p>
<p>You must convince yourself subconsciously that what you want has already taken place or is in the process of becoming. In order to see change in the outside world you must first change yourself from within. So, in order to become more confident you must first ‘be’ more confident. To see wealth come into your life you must first ‘become’ wealthy. To become more attractive to others you must first feel more attractive within yourself. You see, you must ’be’ first before you can ’have’.</p>
<p>So how does this affect your personal development and the fact that you are addicted to self improvement gaining little or no results? Well the answer is simple! You have become a personal development seeker instead of a personal development achiever!  This should be the first thing you work on!</p>
<p>Take any of your self improvement courses/tapes/books and start with that. You don’t need any more!! Devote a half hour a day to altering your self-image so that it reflects a person who gets results from personal development instead of a self-improvement seeker who is constantly ‘working on themselves‘. Be consistent until you see results. Get that right and you will find that every personal development plan you followed before actually does work!<br />
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