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Hi guys,


May I request on Amanda's behalf any healing or prayers people feel that they can please?

I'm not 100% sure where to post this so I'm going to post here to request anyone who is moved to email the CEO mentioned or otherwise contact if possible please? I emailed though I don't personally know Tom and Amanda, just their story did touch me and maybe what happens also may effect others in not too disimilar circumstances in the future.

http://www.saveamanda.com/


Regards
Richard

Hi guys,

I'm not 100% sure where to post this so I'm going to post here to request anyone who is moved to email the CEO mentioned or otherwise contact if possible please? I emailed though I don't personally know Tom and Amanda, just their story did touch me and maybe what happens also may effect others in not too disimilar circumstances in the future.

http://www.saveamanda.com/

Also would anyone who is of a mind to consider sending healing for her also? If you have a daily routine where you add people to send to would anyone include Amanda also.

Regards
Richard

I didn't quite know where to site this particular question so I'm hoping here is fine.  

Whilst I don't have a fixed belief in anything much beyond the fact that healing is possible as it's something I practice, I have experienced stuff to convince me more exists.

So my question is this, for the first time in my life I've come across something that materially I want that much that I even considered praying for help in getting it. Now I don't pray . However the concept led me down thinking about manifestation-this is something I personally don't see the reality of-but I know others do.  Basically the bargain I kinda floated in my mind this morning-as if I was asking "God" was this.  I originally asked once if my healing could be allowed to grow as strong as was needed to heal anyone who would ask.

Today I asked if perhaps if I dedicated all of my real working time to healing of others, without any fee (which is what I normally do), could I be allowed to ask for the increased possibility of acquiring this thing that I want?

Now the question is slightly convoluted as by nature I can't go and work on someone with the intention of the reward in my mind. I don't work like that and couldn't. Basically I'm after a Broom 35' European boat, a particular one-because of her energy/spirit and I just like her a LOT.  My partner does also, but for us to afford her would be possible but incredibly difficult.  He's not persuaded to take the leap and I haven't tried to fight for her the way I would normally-because it wouldn't be fair now. The stakes are too high.

All I need is an increase in potential luck of clients coming my way-IT clients that is for a time, and I could afford to choose her myself. However I'm zero good at creating business.  

Anyway I've rambled on loads with this question-that's the sherry I had on an empty stomach. Basically do folks feel that asking "God" etc to aid with this, clearly a materialistic aim to be within the bounds of reason or am I just stupid . Thank you for reading, I'll post something more sensible later on

Has anyone ever experienced anything that could indicate that this might be possible? It's far fetched to me however I am currently reading one of the SERRAted Edge novels-Spiritride. There was a line in there that I really loved the idea of. This character's motorbike got carried over into the spirit world with him, because he loved "her" and he was told because he loved his motorcycle he'd created a soul.  Ok so now I have to live in the real world, but I've always had a close connection to cars that I've loved. The latest one in particular.
So in people's opinion-is it just wishful thinking on a stronger scale (likely answer) or is there something more? I've attempted to use my ability to manipulate energy to strengthen this connection before now..as I really mean it when I try.  Yes I'm talking about cars, motorbikes, boats..I guess other folks would think of other things.

As I sit here now, I've just drank a pint of water. I need another. I've had some fruit mixed with some amino acid and multivits along with mixed cereal and a small cup of tea for breakfast. Also some probiotic drink I use. Nothing different actually, I used this for weeks and months. So salt isn't an issue here etc.

Yet last week I started a kundalini yoga class. Next day had incredible need of water. This week I did a second class and again a large need for water. 6 pints yesterday at least.  I'm not retaining it unduly though.

I am used to doing 2hrs of energy training a day btw and have done energy training of one kind or other since I was about 10 or so, even though in the beginning i was  a kid playing with a new toy-tingle rushes .

I have little difficulty getting a crown chakra strobe now (no visuals, plenty of emotional/tactiles though) and can get a strong spine sensation-heat, squirming tingling rush spike sensation-pleasent but powerful.

Anyway given that-anyone any clue what the water thing is about. Before this I'd drink mainly water and some tea occasionally. 2 pints a day generally.

I'm interested myself because I'd like to find out more of the biology behind experiences I've had and may well have more of.  Though the article mentions that just because an experience leaves a trace on the brain doesn't mean it's from the brain.

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuronewswk.htm

It's a worthwhile browse.

A neuroscientist with too much time on his hands could  undoubtedly produce a PET scan of "your brain on apple pie." But that does not negate the reality of the pie. "The  fact that spiritual experiences can be associated with distinct neural activity does not necessarily mean that  such experiences are mere neurological illusions,"

a snippet

Ok I don't really know how to go about writing this down, but I need to and I'd like to share it. So please forgive all labelling mistakes that I'll make as certain terms do make me uncomfortable and I try not to use them normally .

Firstly this morning I did my energy training combined with physical training, then sped through energy raising into my chakras. That went fine. This just sets the scene for later on.

I'd eaten a protein rich meal-fish etc 1/2 hr before hand which makes the following more puzzling.  I had to drive to a client, which takes about 45 minutes.  I was listening to some music, that I listen to a lot. Not especially "spiritual" but stuff I like. I began playing with my chakras and spine somewhat on the motorway (I do this a lot on longer journeys). After a while I then tried to "feel" imagine the physical sensation of kundalini-you know the snake through the guts deal etc.  That made a little rush go through me nothing major.

I then started doing something I call spellcasting on my car in time to the music (singing in tongues whilst binding intention and energy together).

Basically I was sort of trying to "quicken" him-only word for it, give him awareness . This idea came because my brother can see "spirits" or something in cars that are loved etc..LOL. I digress...

Well I eventually began doing awareness actions throughout the car, being aware of him as an extention of me..This went further and further and parts of me started to become more aware of my heart chakra and other stuff started to happen a little.  The upshot of this was tears of joy again...just like on the RB course a while back...I was proud to be crying almost..hard to explain.

Anyway got to the client, and had a great time sorting something out that usually has me cursing a lot. Came away after an hour. Drove back and started to play a little again, trying to recapture those feelings..  Halfway along the M42 I succeeded...too well...

I could tactilely feel a expanding and contracting effect, like I was a giant egg thingy or something (I dislike new agey etheric descriptions normally!!).  This really started to create new tears...I nearly crashed sort of. I became aware of something greater...I'm not going to do the "God" thing etc because I can't. I just "know" something now... I got some insights on the way. I have a VERY VERY unusual personal lifestyle and judgement is something that would have bothered me if I'd kinda "found" "God" (Notice I'm still not happy with that word).

I suddenly realised several things. One, there is no judgement, except our own. Every single doomsayer and religion talking about external judgement is sooo badly wrong. I don't care WHO this offends . There is only your own judgement. The Creator/Spirit/God, gah, I don't know..that being won't judge...how to explain....? Anyway the real biggy is that I know why I'm and everyone is soo different...
We are meant to be....
We are all expressions of somethings that wishes to express, be expressed and experience...and overall exchange.."love"? man... sorry folks this is more emotional  and etheric than I like to write. Anyway I have to rush..I will come back on and add more if I think I should as really this is soooo rushed and skipped...so big rough edges..

Hi folks, I hope some of you could help me a little please? I've chosen to put this here as many of you are far more experienced in your areas than myself.
I am writing for my 15 yr old brother a booklet on effective study based on numerous books I have read and used. There is a specific reason I'm doing it this way, partly because I need to coach him here at my place for a week and partly because he won't read "recommended" books to help himself when he's alone. Long story but he's really bright but right now emotionally flat, bored and tired a lot. I live a fair distance away and he has 3 other brothers who have all left home now. He's alone a LOT, way too much. Anyway I've been considering putting together a booklet containing a combination of the best techniques and principles I've ever used or come across and I realised a short meditation could be used in a structured study/review strategy. So would anyone care to comment on the following and perhaps suggest improvements? I'm trying to focus on brevity, clarity and effectiveness. Nothing more mystical than using this to temporarily rest the brain is the game. I will be writing the other sections over the next few days.

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The short meditation technique.

Introduction

I've included this technique because it is helpful to know a simple conscious step you can take to give your mind a few moments to really rest-even in the middle of an exam!  Needless to say it is a practiced skill and to start with you may find it a little hard.  After the following description I will explain for those who are interested a little more as to why this can help with studying, exam taking and work.

Technique

   Posture
   If you are used to any kind of meditation involving the lotus position, then sitting on a chair straight backed should be easy enough. If you've never tried this before it is well worth practicing on a dining chair or similar. Especially if this is for a school or college exam. I do not suggest that the exam itself is the time to practice this as a new skill, but once you are familiar with doing it for short periods then it can be applied at need.
               One final posture note. It is possible to balance the head so that you can enter a trance or relaxed state even though you do not have full support of the head in a lounge chair or similar. This is something you will have to experiment with to find the perfect position. Revision sessions are the time to practice this when you do mini breaks every 25-30 minutes.

If there is sufficient time and you have got used to performing it, go through the muscle relaxation described earlier, alternatively use one of your own. The more frequently you practice both skills the easier and faster you will do them at need.

Now, start to focus on your breath, the mechanical actions and sensations of breathing in and breathing out.  Follow, if you can the leading edge of the air entering your nose and flowing into your lungs.  If you wish you can add the ideas of white light, heat etc but it is unnecessary.

Try to put all of your thought onto the act of breathing, attempt to stop all other thought whilst you do this.  It will appear to be impossible but the very attempt will yield some benefits mentally.

After about a dozen breaths start to imagine a loud "om" or humming sound, if possible make it sound like it's echoing through your mind and being sung by many Buddhist monks perhaps. Make the sound fill your mind drowning out all other thought.

Attempt to hold this sound and the concentration on your breathing for several minutes. The longer the better of course, but even a few minutes will rest your brain for a short time.

You may find it helpful to have an alarm, vibration alarm on a mobile or something similar to remind you to wake up if this is used in an exam situation and you are genuinely tired.




Explanation

This particular technique has been taken from several sources, one of which is Robert Bruce's work "Astral Dynamics" (The leading edge of breath idea), and the other is a more common mantra type idea used in various practices and traditions.  
My aim in teaching the idea as a short technique is simpler that long term meditation training. When you are concentrating hard parts of your brain are producing what you could call beta waves.

The prefrontal cortex is working fairly hard during study as are other areas of the brain, producing mainly beta waves (these definitions are clear cut alone, you produce most frequencies at differing amplitudes or strengths all the time).

By dropping into slower frequencies you get a small respite or rest effect. During some kinds of sleep memories are being sorted and cleaned up. If you succeed in dropping into a useful state quickly within a few minutes you can find your attention span and concentration on coming back out of the meditation state is better.

Also if you have scanned ahead in an exam at all at the questions using previously described techniques, this priming will be more effective and you may find previous amber questions becoming green and so on.

I'm finding now that I "sense" too much when I do full chakra work in the evening. I become paranoid and "feel" things, unpleasantish tingles and a sense that maybe there is things/people around me like spirits.

In other posts I've complained somewhat that I am psychically blind etc no matter what I've tried so far. Now I find I'm still pretty blindish-I don't get super dreams and experiences etc, in fact I can only do the energy work but I do feel the chakras strongly when I work on them. Last session however I found I was getting almost imposed random images that started to bug me, and I had to quit the session. Normally I'm fairly practical, as in I grab something and do it. I don't go in for anything "ethereal" because it's not real to me, but this is a new sensation.
Am I creating these sensations or is this something real? If it is, is the road to becoming psychically aware one fraught with paranoid type experiences etc before getting to the "cool" stuff? If so whilst alone I don't think I can be doing it! (It's different when my partner is here however!)

2 Weeks ago Internet Explorer would not find these pages. Firefox would. Only this site caused the problem. So ok I used my firefox, I prefer it anyway.
Now Firefox is getting
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Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Request header field is missing colon separator.

05186637%3B%7D

Apache/1.3.33 Server at sls-eb9p5 Port 80[/quote]
But Internet Explorer is now working fine.
Again it ONLY this forum, no other webpages or forums are doing this? Is there any explanation? I am virus scanning as I type here. But for just this site to do it seems a bit specific. And hugely annoying.

Ever since I was little demotivation and depression was a regular feature of my life. Now I'm beginning to feel that it's like the sea, I keep building walls and castles to keep it out, but it eventually comes back. Why?
I don't accept that it's now a lesson to be learnt. I've tried biofeedback, nutrition, exercise, altered diets and practiced energy work and a certain amount of meditation over the years.
What I've found is I can get shot of the worst effects mostly and it's not as bad as years ago. I still spend too much time at home because business is slow, and I don't know how to get out of the rut. When my business partner has new business for us (he's got many contacts and has been running companies for years) then motivation goes up whilst I'm working and concentrating. Then we get dead zones, where he's got some work but it's not for us both. For a while my motivation and mental health is level, I'm able to study and train etc. However I've no idea without spending money how to get new business - cold calling doesn't work. Anyway this is digressing. Basically if I get too many weeks of no work coming in, then it gets harder and harder to have good motivated days. I can't stay up during dead time. This is NOT recovery and rest at all.
I don't do enough for that for one.
I understood years ago that depression had it's place in that it causes longer term mental rest at times if everything's in balance. In me and my family it is not. It is an unnecessary mental discomfort that now serves no purpose other than to hurt progress on anything I might wish to study otherwise.
The steps I do take to alleviate it for myself include trying to exercise, eat better, take amino acid and multivits, drink plenty of water, make sure I've slept enough, meditate some, complete my secondary and primary centre work and try to do enough.<- however this last is hard, because I have to fill up a week and trying to find reasons to go out is nearly impossible at the moment. I do need reasons to be out and about.
Anyway with all the energy training I do now, isn't it about time this silliness got put to bed? I've had it since I was a kid, and I've been fighting it OR giving in to it etc etc for way too long. I don't believe it has anything new to teach me now.  It's just a flaming hindrance to things I do want to do.
One friend tries to tell me to go along with it and accept it. No. It does not help to do that. It becomes a real problem if I do that.
I accept that what I've just written is quite rambling indeed because of my mental state of mind. But I'd rather write it hear, and get some other insights and experiences than moan to my partner again. He can't help this, and I'm fed up of bringing him down with it.
If it's a "neg" then I want it gone.
Anyway if you've read this far thank you. LOL.

Edit: Just writing this out in this way did help some today!

ZaadzBrian
http://www.zaadz.com/community/showthread.php?t=36
Is the writer of this piece. I liked it enough to think perhaps a few people here would like it too.


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Here's a little piece I wrote last year. Hope you enjoy:

thinkarete.themanifesto.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

OK...

So...uh...what exactly are you waiting for?

This isn't a dress rehearsal...

Wake up!

Here's the deal: What we can be, we MUST be.

Period.

There's no getting around that one.

So, turn off your TV. Put down your drink. Get off the medication.

Quit numbing yourself. The pain's not going away.

Not until you thinkarete.

"thinkarete"?

Yep.

Gandhi got it. Einstein got it. Mother Theresa got it.

Tiger gets it. Gates gets it. Oprah gets it.

The Greeks got it.

Get this: Guys like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle said that if you want happiness you better live with areté--a word that literally means virtue or excellence but has a deeper meaning...something closer to "constantly striving to reach your highest potential."

areté.

How beautiful is that? It was one of the highest ideals of Greek culture.

It should be one of ours.

Tragically, it's not.

We seem to be more interested in resumes, accolades and 401k's.

Speaking of retirement...

Who came up with that? Work like crazy doing something we're not passionate about so we can accumulate enough money to pay the bills from our stress-caused illnesses while we complain about what we should have done when we were still young.

Hmmm...We can't quite figure that one out. Seems like it makes a bit more sense to go ahead and dare to live now...

Why not thinkarete?

Live to your highest potential--moment to moment to moment.

Not in the mood?

Fine. Then live with regret, anxiety, and disillusionment.

Your call.

Think about it. When do we feel most alive?

Exactly. When we're being ourselves--our highest selves.

You want happiness?

thinkarete.

Dream. Grow. Stretch yourself.

Rip off the tie. Jump out of the cubicle.

Dream. Think. Dare to be crazy.

What are you waiting for?

thinkarete.

Are you crazy enough to think you can change the world?

Good.

Now go out and do it.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create.

Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe.

Be you. Be different. Get paid to do what you love. Dance in your underwear on your way to work...

Why not?

Ditch the tie. Escape the cube. Leave the 8-5. Trash the resume.

Ignore the critics. And the cynics. Burn the corporate ladders. Laugh at the ceilings.

Quit the bitching. Open your mind. End the laziness. Overcome the fear. Transcend the conditioning...

Why not?

Move the world.

Change the world.

Push the human race forward.

Whatever you call it, go out and do it.

When?

Now.

Not when you have enough money or once you do this or do that. That's nonsense.

It's not gonna be easy, but go out and live your dream. Now.

You deserve it.

And, if that doesn't move you: The world deserves it.

thinkarete.

http://www.thinkarete.com
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Hi everyone, newbie here. I'm due to go on Robert Bruce's course in Wales tomorrow but thought I'd post this question here as it's not all that relevant to the work tomorrow.

I have had a language "trick" for as long as I can remember. I think I developed it perhaps because remembering words to songs I find difficult and I do like to sing sometimes (badly!). However over the last few years as I've attempted to learn to do more with energy work, I've also noticed that it's unusual in that I can make it sound like a language easily-and vary the style. Often in the middle of a normal conversation without stopping to think if I want to.  I was told by one lady that it was Aramaic-however this is not something I believe as I can vary the style a little consciously.
More interestingly for me was for a while I was playing around with shaping energy-whilst singing in this "glossalia". I was moving more energy more easily than normal and my intentions sort of came off.  Hence spell casting as several of these attempts apparently paid off for a couple of people.
Now as they were with me at the time it could be psychological and I'm not prepared to jump in and claim I could definitly spell cast as such . I did have dreams over the next year from time to time that involved fighting with these same techniques for some reason. Since the majority of my experience has been using energy work for healing or self training I found that strange.
Has anyone had any experience with this, is there any basis for such a technique or is it simply psychological with a bit of linguistics thrown in for good measure?  I'd happily demonstrate applying this to healing with a willing volunteer or two, to see if they feel anything themselves .