The Cost of Sensory Gratification The modern world offers many avenues to draw our attention, and hence our energy. There are millions of ways we can get busy and distract ourselves, drag our attention away from our inner higher awareness and down into the bodily senses, emotional stimulation, and a perpetual bouncing around in a […]
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What Is Mindfulness? The most common version of Mindfulness Practice is Stillness Mindfulness, which is sitting still and releasing awareness of all that is going on in one’s life, surroundings, thoughts, emotions, and body. To sit still and hold one’s attention on a singular point of focus like a candle flame or the breath moving
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Be Wary of Mental Noise When you encounter topics, information, or ideas that lie far outside the shared human experience, those that may be labelled as Out-There, and you find you have a desire to dive into them, to know, explore, or live them, a great response is to pause and ask yourself these questions:
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“It must be borne in mind that the reason glamour predominates and illusion functions in the three worlds is due to the fact that men identify themselves with the dense physical brain, and interpret life in terms of experience in the three worlds.” ~ Alice A. Bailey, 1880-1949, Theosophist and Author on Esoteric Spirituality
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Political Figure, Diplomat, and Activist Please see my Gem Post: Focus Determines Vibration and Energy – for a dive into what these different levels of focus do to our vibrations!
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Our Focus Determines the Quality of Our Awareness Our Focus will determine not just the size of our Minds, but also the quality of our Awareness and Level of Vibration and Energy! We have all heard the expression: “Small minds speak about People, Average minds speak about Events, Great minds speak about Ideas.” But did
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How do we achieve well physically, without sacrificing Higher Awareness? Questions:How do we give our all in life, with genuine focus, without losing our spiritual awareness?How do we achieve and maintain deep spiritual awareness, without becoming dysfunctional in daily life?How do we achieve both foci simultaneously? There is only so much a person can do
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Your Focus truly does reveal your reality! Materialism is the exaltation of matter. Spiritualism is the exaltation of spirit. To be spiritual, is to seek spirit, or the consciousness of the Spirit – the highest point of the Spiritual Triad. The materialist however, is anyone who exalts Matter, who identifies with it, or who desires
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Are you Living or Existing? “The unexamined life is not worth living.”¹In fact, the unexamined life is not living. Without conscious engagement you are merely existing. Your life is nothing more than the product of your cycles of reaction to the world around you, based on the unconscious programs and patterns within you.One must consciously
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To understand Manifestation, you need to comprehend Vibrational Time! Thoughts are fleeting, and change at lightning speed – most of the time. Emotions, emotional feelings, are a stepdown in vibrational level, and so are slower and more lingering. Physical plane reality is slower still, and has a sense of persistence to it. Things therefore “slow
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