Category: Spirituality/General

How many things do we believe that aren't true? How many things do we not believe that are? We're living in an era where we need to get it right- all of it.

Okay, who hasn't seen Mel Gibson's movie entitled Signs? Does anyone really believe in crop circles? And just what is a crop circle you ask? Crop circle is a term used to describe patterns created by the flattening of crops such as wheat, barley, canola, rye, corn, linseed and soy. Examples can be found world wide. Various hypotheses have been offered to explain their formation, ranging from the naturalistic to the paranormal.

Allison DuBois is the real-life person behind the popular TV series "The Medium." Her story is at least as interesting as the show!

Allison DuBois is the real woman who inspired the television show, Medium. She was born on January 24, 1972, in Phoenix, Arizona, and even as a child, Allison knew that she was different from the other kids. She had one of her first life-after-death encounters with her great-grandfather after his funeral. She says she always identified with characters like Tabitha on the television show Bewitched because she knew they were "different" in the same way she was. Allison was careful about sharing any of these feelings with adults, though.

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Allison DuBois - the real-life Medium

"The Secret" DVD and the Law of Attraction are currently popular topics on which people have polarized opinions - is the Law of Attraction fact or fiction?

Have you been one of those people who has been swept up in the huge publicity that has been part of recent coverage on the Law of Attraction? Or are you one of its critics?

Think that changing your life takes large effort? Think again. There are simple little "games" you can play that will ablolutely change your life.

You know what's really crazy-fun? Watching your life unfold as you hold true to the things you believe in. Watching as you let go of all those limiting beliefs, replacing them as you go, with wonderful new beliefs that change your Life, moment by moment. To see, better yet, to experience the changes each day and sit in wonderment at the ease of it all. These are the things that keep me writing, keep me reaching, keep me offering more of my Self each and every day. It's a joyous experience, to be sure, but still...

In this article, Giten seems to be saying that love is the essence of healing. He also implies that you must heal much more than merely the body.

What is healing? The words holy, healing and wholeness originally comes from the same word. Healing is about returning to the original healing impulse that made us begin our inner journey towards spiritual maturity: the impulse to heal and to be healed.

Paul Coutinho reminds us that it's usually best for us to pause to question how we'll respond to situations, rather than to mindlessly react. He calls this the PQR formula.

Stephen Covey, in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, shares an experience that he once had while traveling on the New York subway. Imagine you are riding the subway early one morning, and everybody appears to be comfortable -- people are drinking their coffee, reading their newspapers and magazines, working on their laptops, talking on their cell phones. Everything is normal and peaceful. At each station, a few people get off, a few people get on, everything is calm and sedate, until the train stops at a particular station and a man walks onto your train car with his little children. He finds seats for them and then sits down in a reflective mood. While he is in deep meditation, the children begin to run up and down the aisle, screaming and shouting, running all over the train car.

Waiting rooms across the country are turning into "meditating" rooms as part of the "Don't Wait--Meditate" campaign of the "Meditation Challenge."

Waiting rooms across the country are turning into meditating rooms as part of the Don't Wait--Meditate campaign of the Meditation Challenge.

by Michael - LightLounge Guy

Why are Buddha and Jesus mentioned in the title, but not the leaders of other world religions? Because Buddha and Jesus had claimed to be incarnations of God, while the others did not. This fact underlines this article's theme of humanity's spiritual evolution.

Author Tracy Toqliatti offers some skillful means - a week's worth of exercises to help you to get outside your mind and rediscover yourself.

I would like for you to go on an excursion with me, away from your mind. In our journey, you will be able to re-discover the world with childlike wonder and curiosity. Your stress level is going to drop significantly and you are going to become more effective with your mind than what you may now think is possible. This might seem like a totally unrealistic goal to you, maybe even completely far fetched. Please bear with me though, with an open mind and heart. We could very well be taking the first step towards changing your life!

We always move towards what we picture most strongly in our minds regardless of whether it's in our best interest or not. This is really important to understand when we want to make some positive change for ourselves and this article will help you understand why.

How we 'talk' to ourselves in our head is called our self-talk and all too often it can become self-depreciating or negative, eventually leaving us lacking in confidence and feeling low.