Living Life as a Question

Many of the questions and concerns in the satsangs or spiritual gatherings I lead come in a similar form: How do I get or keep a particular experience? How do I get or keep a sense of awakeness or expansion or openness or freedom or loving kindness or Presence? Or if worldly concerns are the issue, the question is the same: How do I get or keep more health, more wealth, more comfort, more security, more romance? Another form these questions take is: How do I avoid falling asleep or feeling stuck or being contracted or being sick or losing love? They’re good questions. There’s nothing wrong with them. They’re real for the person who’s asking them.

Within each of these questions is the assumption that you need to do something-you need to get or keep or avoid something. Right there, in that assumption, is our suffering. The effort to get or keep or avoid any experience is what makes life miserable, difficult, dis-easeful.

Making Money through Sharing of Spiritual Gifts

One of the greatest fallacies in this world about spirituality is the negative idea towards making money from it. There are people who think that those who provide spiritual value or service to others should do so for free. They associate money as a thing of the world, and shouldn’t be mixed by the higher things.

This kind of mentality is exactly what causes the topsy-turvy state of the world and humanity’s progress. Even those who claim enlightenment from materialism are actually unenlightened about the truth. If people weren’t allowed to receive money for spiritual healings and teachings then this would mean that they would need to get work doing something non-spiritual. This would mean that they spent a lot less time doing spiritual work and practice, which would mean that they may well know less about spiritual
matters and would probably have less time to teach also. This would end up meaning that their overall spiritual contribution to the world could well be a whole lot less! How could this be a good thing?

Easy Breathing Practices

While a part of meditation is getting in touch with your awareness, another part has to do with relaxing and clearing your mind. Breathing is an important tool to get to both those places. Breathing may seem as simple as breathing in and out; however, this is not entirely the case.

For mediation to be successful, you will need to read up a little, listen to some CDs, and most of all practice a bit of breathing properly. Here are a few easy breathing practices to make your beginning mediation experience an enlightened one.

Proper Sitting for Proper Breathing

First and foremost, make sure that you are comfortable. Sitting upright with a straight spine will help the energy flow and prepare you for proper breathing exercises. Do not sit too rigidly, or you will be uncomfortable and unresponsive to the proper breathing format.

Letting go Technique

My favourite practice that will help you feel calmer and happier is the ‘Letting Go’ technique.

This is based on mindfulness and whenever you begin to feel stress or anxiety about anything, then immediately respond with this simple and very powerful one minute practice.

1. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

2. Inhale to a count of five, hold to a count of five and exhale to a count of five

3. When you exhale, imagine exhaling your stress or anxious thought. Just feel and visualize it leaving your body.

4. Repeat aloud or silently “Let it go”.

5. Just feel the stress disappear.

Never hold onto negative thoughts. Just let them go. When you take a minute to do this you will be amazed at how calm and relaxed you will feel. If you are a visual person, it may help to picture yourself at your favourite place. It could be a beach, a mountain or your garden.

I know that this practice works really well from extensive studies from meditation, mindfulness and yoga. Whenever you pay attention to your breathing, you begin to feel better. This is the antidote to all that thinking and all that activity that traps us in a ‘doing’ mode. Spend more time just ‘being’. There is nothing more powerful to raise your mood and get you back on track. This is truly a marvelous minute!

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Weight Loss Advice To Get You Slim And Trim

I recently got many emails asking for some advises for weight loss, or if I have a background in this field...

Yes I have a huge background because I'm so healthy person, and in my an experience of this field for about five years, as I was working in a health and wellness company which was their products all natural, such as juice, herbs, and all are green products.

However in this post, I have provided some advice and Tips for your loss weight program.

Losing weight is something that many people try to do everyday. There are a number of different ways to slim down, from diet pills to crash diets and the options can be overwhelming. Here are a few simple ways to lose weight that are healthy and will keep the weight off for years to come.

If you live alone, then weight loss should be quite easy to obtain, as it is just up to you. If, on the other hand, you live with a spouse, parents, or children, hence it will help you to ask them to assist you by dieting as well or at least, eating fatty foods out of your sight.

On the days that you are feeling less than motivated remind yourself of all of the benefits of losing weight. You don't have to just use the boring ones like a longer life but there are many immediate benefits to a healthier lifestyle such as a greatly improved sex life.

While avoiding carbs and sugars completely is generally not a very healthy or good idea for most people, decreasing these two items can really help you in your weight loss attempt. If you increase the protein you eat and decrease the other types it will make your progress move along much faster.

Always put the food that you are planning to eat on a separate plate than the packaging that it comes in. Even if you are eating a small bag of chips by placing them on a platter you will be more in control of what quantity you are actually eating.

Experiments have shown time and time again that most humans are very bad at estimating the portions that they are eating. This is why a kitchen scale is very important in understanding exactly how much of a specific food that you should be eating on a daily and even weekly basis.

While it is true that calorie counting may seem like a huge and annoying undertaking the benefits of doing it greatly outnumber any inconvenience. If you can start tracking your calories either in a notebook, a spreadsheet or even an application or website you will be able to see where you are having problems.

When going to a restaurant that is known for having huge portion sizes, you can ask the waiter to box up half of the food for you right away. This has two benefits, first you cut your calories in half immediately, but even more importantly you already have a meal prepared for tomorrow.

If you find that you never have enough time during the week to prepare some tasty and healthy food then you can do some extra work on the weekends and leave it prepared in reusable storage containers. Some things will need to be frozen but many of the options can be left in the fridge.

As you can see, there are plenty of ways to lose weight in a healthy way. Try one or all of these tips when you want to drop a couple pounds, and see which methods work best for you. Remember to believe in yourself and to keep going, you'll see results.

Apply These Tips To Your Weight Loss Plans

The challenge with weight loss is that it is as much of a physical challenge, as it is a mental challenge. If you ignore the portion size, you will fail. Similarly, if you neglect the mental portion, you will fail. It requires your complete physical and mental attention, in order for you to see any type of benefits, for all of your efforts.

Don't be fooled that all chicken has less fat than other meat. It's not the animal that matters, it's where the meat comes from on that animal. Every animal has areas where it stores more fat - even chicken. Dark chicken meat contains more fat than beef rump roast or top round, and twice the fat of pork tenderloin. The best part of the chicken to eat is the breast meat with the skin removed. Even better, eat turkey breast, as it has fewer calories.