Meditation Religion and Lifestyle

My good friend Martin recently told me of a new meditation for my “Ways to Alter Consciousness” blog. I tried it, and like it, so I will share it.

We all know that out of all of the ways to alter consciousness, meditation is one of the most powerful. It can put you into an altered and peaceful state. In this walking/staring meditation, designed to bring forth your creative juices toward a task, you begin by walking near the water or in nature. As you walk, you consciously feel yourself at one with the water, a leaf, a blade of grass, etc. etc.

If you come across a soda can or half eaten apple, just feel yourself at one with that. Avoid labels such as that’s good, that’s bad. That’s clean, that’s dirty. Just let those thoughts slip away and be at one with all of it.

After that you want to sit in a quiet place, preferably near the water. You want to feel every sensation, the sounds, the smells and the sights. Be in the moment and in the now and practice mindfulness. Let your peace come and reside in you.

When you feel a deep peace and oneness you can get up and make your way back to a place where there is a blank wall. It may be outside your house or inside- as long as it is peaceful and quiet. You will now need a recorder, sketch pad, or notebook and you will simply stare at the wall, not trying to do or be anything, and be ‘at one’ with it. Just as you were outside.

Soon the universe will begin to work through you. Write, record, or sketch. Don’t let your brain take over. If you feel your oneness slipping away, go back to staring and being at one with the wall.

I can tell you that this meditation is one of my powerful ways to alter consciousness in my work environment. If it does for you what it did for me, it will bring a new depth to your work, and a new sense of joy in the creation.

I hope you will too.

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by Dick Ingersoll

How can you alter what you believe when the experiences you have had has convinced you otherwise? The simple answer to that is to design a new experience. The best way for you to achieve that new experience is to meditate about how you can fix the way you respond to what happens. The new reaction will make new benefits, which you will then experience as a new reality.

To reach your goal of happiness, you have to behave as though the following statement is true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me. Meditating to help turn a bad situation into something good can be as simple as: 1+ 1 = 2. Acting as though what happens to you is the best thing that can happen to you plus the new benefits just equal happiness in your life.

When you are convinced of the truth that everything that happens is the best thing that can happen, life will Begin to be much more fun. It is like opening a new channel to happiness. All you need to know when meditating is happiness is there, waiting just for you. All you need to […] Continue Reading…

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by Dick Ingersoll

Relaxation techniques are a great way to help your pursuit to reduce stress. Relaxation isn’t just about peace of mind or enjoying a hobby. Relaxation is a process that decreases the wear and tear of life’s challenges on your mind and body. Whether you have a lot of stress in your life or you’ve got it under control, you can profit from learning relaxation techniques. Learning basic meditation relaxation techniques isn’t hard.

Play around with these fundamental relaxation techniques to get you started on removing the stress from your life and improving your health. There are lots of sources of anxiety in the world now days. As the old saying goes, “there’s no need to look for problems, because problems will find you all on their own”. All of us have troubles and worries, along with all these difficulties, few of us even have time to kick back and relax. Do you endure a lot of anxiety and hope to ease the anxious moods you have and feel relaxed for a while?

There are a number of relaxations techniques you have that take very little time and are highly effective which you can do anywhere even at work. If […] Continue Reading…

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by Brian T. Willie

The paranoia and suspicion of a person with Alzheimer’s can be one of the most difficult behaviors for their caregiver to handle. As the Alzheimer’s develops and targets your loved ones memory, they’ll gradually become more confused and perceive things they would have once though normal, in new ways.

This is not only due to their inability to remember certain people, but also places and things, and the fact that they can’t remember themselves as well.

People with Alzheimer’s will often confront their loved ones, accusing them of theft, improper behavior or even infidelity. Many times they’re getting their feelings from ones they’ve had in the past from different people or different times.

An Alzheimer’s patient confuses people, events and times and can associate an event with the wrong person. For example, maybe their ex-husband had an affair so now they believe their current spouse is doing the same.

So what’s the best way to deal with all of this? The key is to meet their paranoid behavior head on with pure patience and understanding. Just know that this is going to occur, and take a deep breath. You may be offended by their paranoia, but it’s not personal.

They are […] Continue Reading…

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by Jen Hopkins

It’s a little-recognized fact; about three quarters of the human race is vain in some way, shape, or form. I am often a little vain myself; though there is a difference between being disgustingly vain and trying to take care of your body properly. One constant war humans fight is against wrinkles. In this article, we’ll contemplate what products whether natural or factory-based can actually help reduce one’s wrinkles and products that are just talk, while attempting to answer an everyday question from everywhere across Earth… do wrinkle creams actually work?

Before diving into the networks of reputed ‘miracle’ wrinkle products and such, it could be seen as useful to list a few avoidable factors that lead toward even more recognizable wrinkles later on in life. Major factors include lots of sun exposure, dehydration, smoking, and drugs, the main problem being dehydration. I recommend using skin-moisturizing creams and such in place of alcohol-based aftershaves or lotions, which result in the mentioned above and cause skin damage… which will result in you-know-what.

This prevention is always the best cure; if nothing else, it will help one to age gracefully. By wearing strong sunblock, not smoking, and using moisturizing […] Continue Reading…

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