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To transmute your physical form, it is best that you release your attachment to human individuality and think of yourself as a Planetary Being. For humans to ascend via their physical bodies transmuting into the fifth dimension rather than “dying” as was normal before this great era, you will need the assistance of Earth. At the same time, in order for Earth to ascend without the extinction of Her physical form, She needs human assistance.

Hence dear humans and Galactics/Celestials in human form, you will need to expand your personal consciousness into planetary consciousness. In this manner, there is no sense of personal sacrifice or fear. There is only the great unity of person and planet ascending as ONE Being. Furthermore, we request that those of you who have awakened to your Multidimensional SELF no longer hold back your process. Others have chosen the Mission of working with the beginners.

Those of you who are merged with your Multidimensional SELF are more ready than you may think. Additionally, the higher Light is allowing you to expand your consciousness into higher and higher expression of SELF. At the same time, your consciousness is expanding deeper and deeper into your atomic, subatomic and quantum levels of consciousness. In other words, you are not just raising your consciousness. You are expanding your consciousness far beyond physical Earth, as well as deep into the matrix of Earth.

As your consciousness expands, so do your perceptions. Also, when you expand your perceptions, you can change your gene activity. When you choose to believe that your higher perceptions are “real” you increase your perceptual field to the frequencies the fourth and fifth dimensions. This extended perceptual field activates the neural activity of your 97% multidimensional DNA. This multidimensional DNA is linked to your higher expressions of SELF, as well as to each cell of your body.

Your Earth vessel is an intelligent biological Earth ship, just as our Starships are biological. The current container for your consciousness is just one of myriad containers on myriad dimensions and parallel and/or alternate realities. You have decided to take command of your current personal Earth ship, which becomes a fourth-dimensional etheric ship when you are “sleeping” and can expand into the higher dimensions during meditation.

Your “dominant state of consciousness” is the state of consciousness that directs your daily life and constant perceptions. This state of consciousness is usually somewhere between your highest frequency consciousness achievable during deepest meditation and the frequency of consciousness that is responsible for directing you to react, rather than interact. In other words, it is midway between your highest and lowest states of consciousness.

Once you realize that the act of reaction determines the point of perception that identifies your dominant state of consciousness, you will become conscious of that to which you choose to react. In other words, the perception to which you choose to react creates your dominant point of perception within that NOW. You have many different dominant states of consciousness throughout your day, depending upon the perceptions to which you react, respond, interact, or ignore.

Just as your chakras are aligned to different frequencies, every state of consciousness has a frequency of perception. These perceptions are the sum-total of the frequency of reality you have chosen by your placing your attention on, reacting, responding or interacting with that specific version/frequency of reality. Every reality has many versions, and each version is different because it resonates to a higher or lower frequency.

There are myriad channels on your “TV of 3D Life.” The channel on which you choose to place your attention determines your state of consciousness within that NOW. We say “that NOW” as to us all reality exists within the HERE of the NOW. There is no coming or going in the HERE NOW. We ARE. We resonate, we fluctuate, and most wonderfully we create.
We Arcturians are here to assist you in our co-creation of the Arcturian Corridor. We have spoken often of this Corridor. However, since you, our Ascending Ones, are now moving into a higher state of consciousness you can perceive higher frequency components of our message that were once beyond your power of perception. Hence, our (human and Arcturian) Corridor is expanding along with your perceptions: http://www.multidimensions.com/TheVision/books.html (Journey Through the Arcturian Corridor 1 through 4)

To further assist Gaia we Arcturians are in direct communication with many multidimensional beings presently wearing an Earth vessel. When we communicate we speak in Light Language. Light Language resonates beyond time, polarity, limitation, separation or fear. Since you must be free of fear in order to receive our messages, some are unable to perceive us. However, the higher Light is continually expanding your perceptions and filling you with Unconditional Love (the antidote for fear). Hence, more and more of those wearing Earth vessels are able to receive Light Language messages from the higher dimensions.

You can receive these messages through your fourth dimensional night body, or more consciously via meditations, channeling, or other creative endeavors. You are able to receive these higher dimensional messages because your consciousness is expanding into the consciousness of your higher expressions of SELF, as well as into your cellular consciousness. Through your cellular consciousness you will begin to consciously experience the cellular, atomic and sub-atomic level of your grounded Earth vessel.

At this point, you will begin to commune with your molecular Self by exploring and healing old issues and situations from your past that tell you that you are NOT the Captain of your Earth vessel. These limiting messages are at the core of third dimensional thinking. When you enter your unconscious to allow your past to heal your present, you confuse your third dimensional thinking.

Third dimensional thinking is also based on the present that appears to be outside of you. Therefore, whenever you go inside to ponder that past, which is hidden deep inside your subconscious, it further confuses your third dimensional thinking. Then, as you give credence to the lessons to be found within your past, a door opens to your past lives. These past lives are introductions to your perceiving yourself from beyond the barrier of time. Hence, your attachment to third dimensional thinking is further loosened.

The first “past lives” you choose to ponder will likely be those with unfinished business that you brought into this incarnation to finish. Hence, even your human history is beyond time, as it is stored in your unconscious mind. Once you release time to heal and complete unfinished lives, you gain the courage and wisdom to remember the past lives in which you completed you’re chosen mission and gained great insight and enlightenment.

The acknowledgement of these lives activates the memory of your Multidimensional SELF. Very often your unconscious mind is the archive for old memories that you could not resolve when they occurred in that timeline. However, with the wisdom, power and love of your Multidimensional SELF you have the ability to bring that experience into its conclusion. We refer to your unconscious mind as the archive for experiences from your past that you are too immature to process.

On the other hand, we refer to your subconscious mind as a composite of everything you have ever perceived, as well as any information your mind collects that cannot be consciously processed or acknowledged. Your conscious mind cannot always absorb all available information, as it would create an information overload. Therefore, the subconscious mind stores this information where it can be retrieved by the conscious mind when it needs to defend itself for survival or for higher cognitive purposes.

However, hidden deep inside your unconscious and subconscious is your Divine Child who carries the “instruction manual” for your current embodiment. These instructions are in Light Language sent only to you. Hence, the process of deciphering this Light Language requires that you first connect with higher expressions of your SELF before you look deep into your unconscious and subconscious to find your Divine Child who remembers everything!

When you look HIGH UP into your higher SELF while you simultaneously look DEEP DOWN into your unconscious and subconscious mind you can experience Unconditional Love and human emotion within the NOW. When you can close these polarities of spirit and matter with the power of your multidimensional perception, you enter the NOW of the ONE as you merge your Divine Child with your Higher Expression of SELF.

Experiencing your Alpha – Divine Child, and Omega – Higher SELF, confuses your 3D consciousness enough that you can jump out of time. Then the past of your unconscious and subconscious can no longer interfere with your present on 3D Earth. When you are fully merged with your NOW, you are able to perceive any third-dimensional thought-forms from your past as lessons that have guided you into your present. From this point of perception, you can easily liberate these injuries from your past with the power of Unconditional Love and by perceiving them as cherished teachers.

We see that all of you, our Multidimensional Masters, are preparing to expand your consciousness into the next frequency of reality. Before this NOW, you did not have that option, as the frequency of your reality was too low and infiltrated with fear. Because of the darkness of that reality and the restrictions that it placed on your consciousness, you could not believe that your higher perceptions were “real”.

Furthermore, you could not perceive your highest and lowest resonance of your Multidimensional SELF, as this process can only occur within the safety of Unconditional Love, which was rarely present on your reality within the last 2000 years. Thus, Unconditional Love was forgotten and re-written into a 3D format of conditional love. In this manner, the concept of love lost its true meaning.

However, now with your 97% DNA coming on line you are able to preview you highest Self and your super-subconscious at the same time. This expansion of perception is possible because of your expansion of consciousness. Simultaneously, your expansion of consciousness is possible because of your expanded perception. Also, the activation of your multidimensional DNA allows you to believe it is possible to perceive higher dimensions of reality.

It may appear that many humans are still asleep. However, they are beginning to consistently awaken due to the activation of the 97%DNA. This DNA expands your perceptions beyond the confines of time, space, separation and limitation. Simultaneously, as you expand your consciousness beyond the 3D matrix of time, space, polarity, separation and limitation this DNA is activated.

Once your multidimensional DNA is fully activated the process of transmutation of matter advances exponentially. The feedback loop of the higher Light having a frequency of matter that can contain it, while multidimensional DNA goes about the process of creating a vessel that can contain even higher frequencies of Light, begins a process of transmutations of third dimensional matter into multidimensional matter.

Of course, the multidimensional DNA was always within your Earth vessel as a latent reminder of your potential to return to your true multidimensional nature. However, this potential needed to be activated by the higher frequencies such as photons charged with particles of infrared, ultraviolet and gamma rays. These frequencies of Light, as well as frequencies still unknown or named to your world, make up the higher Light that is streaming into your world.

Humans have been doing some important research about the role of DNA on the evolution of the human species. Below is a short summary of this research:
In 1990, a group of Russian physicists, molecular biologists, biophysicists, geneticists, embryologists and linguists began a study of this “junk” DNA. Dr. Peter Gariaev PhD, who is a Biophysicist and Molecular Biologist, directed this research project. These scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen, a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained.

Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called the phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed.

They determined that this DNA is also a complex, biological, micro-computer chip that communicates with its environment. Dr. Gariaev found that the basic structure of these DNA alkaline pairs is the same as that of human language. Thus, they can be influenced and reprogrammed solely by the thought waves in our environment. Dr. Gariaev and Dr. Poponin also discovered that there is a multidimensional field structure which surrounds our DNA chain.

Other studies were done by Dr. Bruce Lipton PhD who is an internationally recognized Cellular Biologist and a pioneer in a new field called Epigenics. In his book titled The Biology of Belief Dr. Lipton writes about his discovery that evolution is, in fact, driven by consciousness. The caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the exact same organism. But they are responding to a different frequency.

Dr. Lipton has discovered that it is not genes that control life at the cellular level. It is the mind’s perception of its environment. He coined the term “Spontaneous Evolution” because he has discovered that our DNA scans our environment for frequencies that are relevant to our existence, changes its structure, and then sends messages to reshape itself accordingly.
As we stated earlier in our message, many of you are ready to be co-creators of “our” Arcturian Corridor. The Corridor is not a place – it is an inter-dimensional corridor in which beings, as they are not all human, on the verge of Ascension can gather to connect, learn and remember the process of transmutation.

All of you who are on the cusp of this Ascension wave have had at least one experience of Ascension. However, in most of these experiences you released your consciousness from your third-dimensional form and soared into higher dimensions. These Ascensions were transmutations of consciousness. In this Ascension, you are not only transmuting your consciousness, but your physical AND your planetary body as well.

Thus, it is vital that you merge with your planetary consciousness so that you and Gaia can act as a team. Many of you have already gathered within the Arcturian Corridor to learn about inter-dimensional travel. Now, you will be learning about transmutation of your personal and planetary body. As you awaken your cellular consciousness, you will be able to deeply merge with Gaia, as well as assist us to implant our Corridor into the body of ascending Earth.

Your great, Multidimensional SELF is about to make a full appearance in your daily life. As you begin to perceive life from a higher perspective, you will send signals to your DNA that it is “time to enter your cocoon” and begin your transmutation. However, you, the Ascending Ones on Earth, will not be able to ONLY focus totally on your process of transmutation.

In fact, you will, and are now, called upon to perform your daily tasks while you are in the process of totally restructuring your thoughts, emotions, consciousness, DNA and Earth vessel. Fortunately, you will be able to call upon us, as well as your own higher expressions of SELF.

We shall return with more information,

The Arcturians

 

 

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Timelapse Video Shows Changing Face Of Planet
Sky News – Fri, May 10, 2013

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New timelapse video from space has been released showing how much places like Dubai, Shanghai and the Brazilian rainforest have changed over the last 30 years.


Satellites have captured how Dubai has risen from the sand, with its skyscrapers, vast hotel complexes, and shopping centres, and even extended into the sea with the world-famous Palm resort.

The 'Sin City' of Las Vegas has also expanded, as a bigger population moves further out into the desert, shrinking the nearby Lake Mead.


The rainforest in Brazil's Rondonia is pictured shrinking as trees are cut down by loggers and in China's Shanghai there are skyscrapers where there were once farming villages.


The video has been created from million of images taken by eight satellites dating all the way back to 1984.


It has been put together by Nasa and the US Geological Survey with help from Google.

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The growing trend for cheese wedding cakes

Fruit cakes at weddings are being replaced with cheese variations, according to expert food blogger Jo Romero

The many-tiered, lavishly decorated fruit cake has been a feature of wedding celebrations for years. But suppliers are now reporting a trend for a different kind of wedding cake, made entirely out of cheese...

Want something classic? Opt for the Simply Traditional cheese cake [Yorkshire Dales Cheese Company]It’s an image that graces many a wedding album: the happy couple, poised and smiling, cutting into the first slice of a richly-iced, towering wedding cake.

But more couples are opting for cheese wedding cakes - whole cheeses piled on top of one another - for their ‘cake’.

Cheese wedding cakes are fairly new: the first ones sold in 2004. But the British Cheese Board says there’s been a steady growth in demand for the cheesy centerpiece, as many couples now choose it over the traditional sweet cake.

Cheese wedding cakes: what’s the attraction?

Cheese experts aren’t surprised. They say that there are many bonuses to having a cheese wedding cake.

Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board told us, ‘Cheese wedding cakes offer a delicious, novel and cost effective alternative to the traditional fruit or sponge based cake which is not everyone’s cup of tea.’

And although a cheese centerpiece will set you back about the same amount as a traditional cake, they’re still frugal: ‘If the cutting of the cake comes straight after the wedding breakfast’, Nigel explains, ‘you can then serve it up as the cheese course – that’s two ticks on your wedding planner for the price of one’.

That's obviously important at a time when many wedding budgets are squeezed.

He also mentions that any leftover cheese can be taken home and frozen, presenting a ‘zero waste option’ for the big day.

Cheeses can also be chosen to represent important regions to the couple - for example where they met or were born, giving a personal touch.


Not just a lump of cheese


Why not try a Hearts Desire cheese wedding cake? [Yorkshire Dales Cheese Company]But if you’re imagining an unattractive pile of cheeses then you’d be wrong. Cheeses can be decorated with figs, grapes, ribbons, flowers, leaves and even feathers. And there are a huge number of colour combinations to choose from as well.

Josette Hill, founder of HRH Big Cheese Cake Company told Yahoo! that part of its success comes from couples wanting something ‘unique’ for their big day.

‘With a cheese wedding cake,’ she says, ‘you can create this by decorating the cake to their personal colour scheme - adding to the décor of the room while being a scrumptious delight.’ And cheeses are naturally colourful.

Take a nutty and vibrantly-coloured Red Leicester, or a bloomy green and white nettle-wrapped Cornish Yarg.

A speckled Blacksticks Blue would also add colour - and you could top the cake with a small white goat’s cheese or - perfect for the day - a heart-shaped, red-waxed Godminster Cheddar.
[Related: Top tips to save money on your weekly shop]

Could it ever fully replace the traditional sweet wedding cake?

Purely Wensleydale cheese wedding cake [Yorkshire Dales Cheese Company]But is all this excitement over cheese cakes here to stay? It would seem that it is.

In an age where newlyweds cut gothic, Halloween-inspired cakes, bite into a pile of doughnuts or even take a slicer into a pizza to mark their big day, tradition isn’t so widely observed as it once was.

Thanks to the human inclination for a sweet tooth, there will always be a place at weddings for the traditional fruit or sponge cake, but if people want to celebrate the start of their marriage with some fine, thoughtfully-chosen cheeses, then why not?

And why stop at weddings? Birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, housewarmings... you heard it here first.

Would you, or did you, choose a cheese wedding cake for your big day? Or do you prefer to stick with tradition and go for the sweet option? Let us know over on Twitter now.

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What your sleeping style says about your relationship


Are you and your partner in sync? Just look at the way you sleep.......How do you tend to lie when you fall asleep?
Tonight, pay attention to the position you naturally adopt as you drift off - and take a look at your partner, too. According to a new study, your sleeping positions offer insights into your true personalities.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service at the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, analysed six common sleeping positions and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.

Of course, we don't stay in one sleeping position all night. We move around two to four times an hour while we sleep. However, the researchers found that people generally spent the most time in the position they fell asleep in.
So the position that matters (your "preferred sleep position") is the one that you adopt spontaneously for comfort when falling asleep.

It seems that even when you're unconscious, your body language is busy sending out signals that may surprise you.
"The profile behind the posture is often very different from what we would expect," said Professor Idzikowski.

1. The Foetus (preferred sleeping position for 41% of the 1,000 people surveyed)
This is the characteristic womb position, where you lie curled on your side with your knees bent. Sleep researchers reckon that more than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position, and it is thought to be the optimal posture for a good night's sleep.


But what about those personality traits? Foetal sleepers tended to be tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. In dating, they're likely to be far more shy than their confident exterior suggests (sound familiar?), but they soon relax when they're in a relationship.

2. The Log (15%)
These are the sleepers who lie on their side without curling up into the fetal position. Personality links between this sleeping position, tend to be of an easy-going, sociable nature. Log sleepers enjoy being part of the in-crowd, and they mingle easily with new people.


They can make great partners because they don't bottle up their feelings and they get on well with your family and friends. However, their ability to socialise with anyone and everyone could leave you feeling a bit insecure at times.

3. The Yearner (13%)
Sleepers who lie on their side with their arms out in front are apparently most likely to have thoughtful, committed personalities. Yearners may seem noncommittal at first, which can make them infuriating to date.

But they're not sending mixed signals - they're simply wary of rushing into anything. They make excellent long-term partners, because once they've made a commitment they stick to it. It just takes them a while to get there!

4. The Soldier (8%)
Lying on your back with your arms by your side is a far less common sleeping position than you might expect. Good thing too."Those who lie on their back may end up snoring and breathing less well during the night," he said.


"It may not necessarily awaken the sleeper, but could cause a less refreshing night's sleep." And if it doesn't wake up the sleeper, it may well wake up whoever has to sleep next to them. When they're awake, however, people who sleep on their backs tend to be quiet and reserved, according to the researchers. It was also found that they set high standards for themselves and others. So if you sleep with a soldier and they snore, take some comfort from knowing that they're likely to be conscientious partners who treat you and the relationship with respect.

5. Freefall (7%)
These sleepers lie on their front with their head turned to the side and their hands round the pillow. The researchers found a link with a gregarious and even brash personality - at least outwardly.


Scratch the surface and you'll find someone who's nervy and thin-skinned, and who doesn't take well to criticism. Writer Janet Kinosian, author of The Well-Rested Woman (www.wellrestedwoman.com ), claims that Madonna sleeps in this position, and that it indicates "strong compulsive tendencies and stubbornness".


All of which points to someone who's charismatic, a bit of a handful and possibly the dominant partner in your relationship. Life with a freefall sleeper is unlikely to be boring.

6. Starfish (5%)
People who sleep on their backs with their arms up around the pillow were found to be unselfish and good at listening, though, as with soldier-sleepers, they were more likely to snore (well, nobody's perfect). Snoring aside, their supposed traits mark them out as excellent partners: attentive, intuitive and always ready to offer help when needed. If you sleep with a starfish, count your blessings and buy some earplugs.

* For advice and more information on your sleeping patterns, take the online sleep assessment at the Edinburgh Sleep Centre's wesbite: http://www.edinburghsleepcentre.com/sleep_disorders/online_questionnaire.html


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Dear Friends ~

Lately I have been trusting my guidance when I open a book to share something that may be of use to anyone here. I open at any page, and tonight I have opened Wayne Dyer's book - THERE'S A SPIRITUAL SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM - on page 112 - Decontaminating Your Mind Fields of Energy. This excerpt is a few pages into the chapter ~

Dr. Valerie Hunt further describes it in her book, Infinite Mind: " Thoughts are events in the mind field that are available not only to the consciousness of the creator, but also to other minds. " She explains that our thoughts are not private but rather "field-public." This means that you do not think in a vacuum, but that your thoughts are created from transactions with other fields. Thoughts can be passed on from generation to generation not just by photographs, print, or the spoken word, but also by the strength of thoughts remaining in your mind fields.

The more dynamic your field of energy, the more capable you are of communicating and impacting your thoughts to others, and in being impacted yourself. How do you go about making your thoughts so dynamic and creative? I quote Dr. Valerie Hunt again. "One does not dwell upon the process nor does one struggle to get answers. One trusts the process of higher creative thought ... Such is the capacity of great healers, lecturers, clairvoyants, physicians and spiritual leaders when they enter expanded consciousness states." You can do this. You have the potential to keep your field of energy uncontaminated, and the potential to radiate a dynamic spiritual energy. Simply by your presence alone, vibrating in this mind field of creativity and peace, you can impact others.

Your intellect might protest and attempt to convince you that mind fields and silent communication of energy are nonsense. But once you see this at work you'll know. The intellect itself is too disconnected from etheric energy forces to readily accept such possibilities, but I have seen it work over and over in my own life. When I am able to consciously project love, understanding, and compassion to those in my immediate life space, I feel the shift in energy. I surrender my judgment or my desire to make my point and the mind field energy changes. Gradually I watch that difference in energy affect the other and enjoy the change within myself. My wife, Marceline, is a master at this.

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                                                        *~*      Enjoy Your Day   ~   Tara      *~*

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DO NO HARM

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c.c.keiser & clyde grossman
http://www.donoharm.us/

DO NO HARM!

We seem to be living in a world that is getting less hospitable every day. Look closely at any endeavor our species has engaged in and it appears we are unaware of the harm we do, we ignore the harm we do, we intentionally do harm for our own gain, or sadly in some cases we do harm for our own pleasure and enjoyment.

Has no one taught us to do no harm?

If we haven't been taught to do no harm, we see no harm in doing harm. We cause harm and shrug it off. We cause harm and laugh about it. We cause harm and brag about it.

Sadder still, our children bear witness to our actions and never learn to do no harm themselves. Above all else we must teach our children, by example and instruction, this basic moral principle of life.

We must begin to make better choices and treat each other, the other creatures who share this planet with us, and this planet we call home with greater respect and compassion.

We believe that the first and most basic moral law is, "Do no harm." Because we can feel pain and suffering, we can imagine the pain and suffering of others, and we can act accordingly to minimize the harm we cause.

What does "do no harm" mean? Ultimately it means to give thoughtful consideration to our actions. “Do no harm” simply means to consider how our actions may affect the world we all share, to be compassionate in our dealings with all creatures, and not to thoughtlessly despoil our planet.

Doctors are asked to “first do no harm,” why not lawyers, businessmen, religious leaders and politicians? Why not us? Why not now?

It sounds like a simple idea because it is a simple idea, but it may be effective over the long run. Will “do no harm” solve all the problems in our world? Perhaps not, but this is an effort to decrease the suffering in the world and to increase the kindness.

We hope that “do no harm” becomes that little voice that guides our actions.

And we hope you will join us and spread the message "Do no harm."

Show everyone you care and use “Do no harm” to sign-off in your correspondence in place of "Best Wishes", "Yours" or "Regards."

If you have a web site, be proud of your support and add the words “Do No Harm” to the top of your home page where everyone will see it.

Be bold and creative in thinking of ways to expose as many as possible to the “Do No Harm” message, but please, do no harm in doing so.

It is not necessary to mention the source of the message. This is certainly a case where the message is far more important than the messengers. All we ask is that you practice do no harm and take every opportunity to share the words "do no harm" with others.

If you wish to include this essay or link to the “Do No Harm” web page, please do; or if you wish to change the wording or write your own, that's equally OK with us. If we are to change our world for the better, we simply must share the “Do No Harm” message with family and friends, with neighbors and our community.

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                                                 Sometimes, all you really need to do is ask:
                                                               Please . . . do no harm!

                                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** o O o ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Dear Members, 

I wish my cerebral concussion healed. 

I've had a concussion for 45 years ago. Right after that accident, I came to awake after 1 hour. 

Now I am almost 50  years old.  I do not know what I had done 

during my past life. In this life, I had many accident including 2 time travel accident, hit by the truck causing my 

body raised in the air for a few seconds,  When 22 years old, some guy mistakenly hit  right side of the brain with his 

badminton racket while while I walked on the street. After that, I could not hear the sound clearly and concentrate on 

listening, especially cognition loss. 

I had a lot of accident or hit on my head. I do not know why it happens to me. 

Please pray for me,

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How to find free Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK

Finding free Wi-Fi hotspots can save you money on your monthly phone bills - as well as providing a useful way to get online on a laptop if you need to work on the go.

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Finding free Wi-Fi hotspots can save you money on your monthly phone bills - as well as providing a useful way to get online on a laptop if you need to work on the go.

There are lots of ways to get your hands on free Wi-Fi - ranging from using an Apple Store's free network, to sitting at a bus stop and hooking up to a BT Wi-Fi hotspot.

There are over 4.5 million public Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland, all waiting for you to get connected. Here’s how to do it.

Use an app

The quickest way to find yourself a hotspot is to use an app. For iOS, a safe bet is Wifi@, which we particularly like due to the fact it has an offline database, so you don’t need to be connected to the web to find Wi-Fi.

Android users should fire up Wi-Fi Finder , a clever app that can use a phone call, rather than data, to show you nearby Wi-Fi hotspot locations. Both are iOS and Android versions are free.

Alternatively you can search for hotspots via your phone’s browser at myhotspots.co.uk. This website lists hotspots via town and city, making searching even easier.

Find free Wi-Fi on the High Street

Pretty much any major high street franchise has free Wi-Fi on offer. Right now, McDonalds, Starbucks, Pret a Manger, Costs and plenty of others, all will give you free internet while you eat.

If you don’t fancy eating, then hotel chains like Premier Inn offer 30 mins of free Wi-Fi to guests. Or if you are really in the mood for saving cash, you can always use any Apple store’s Wi-Fi connection.

Use your phone contract’s Wi-Fi allowance

O2 includes unlimited BT Wi-Fi access with most of monthly contracts. This means you can take advantage of its 4 million plus network of Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK for free. Vodafone also uses BT’s network and includes 2GB of usage with most pay monthly contracts.

BT Wi-Fi is particularly good for those living outside major cities, as a lot of its hotspots are based at bus stops, where you might not have any 3G reception on your phone.

Virgin is offering free internet access on London underground to Virgin Mobile, Virgin Media, EE and Vodafone customers, but will also let non subscribers join for a small fee. The Cloud is another favourite, which will give you 30 minutes of free connectivity in most restaurants and public places. O2 customers get unlimited Cloud usage.

Sign up for a Wi-Fi subscription service

Even subscription services such as Boingo offer freebies - if you sign up to a Boingo hotspot in airports such as Gatwick, Heathrow, Edinburgh and Glasgow, you get 15 minutes free.

Failing that, you can, of course, cough up - it's far cheaper going with a large worldwide service such as Boingo, than paying a lot of smaller companies. Boingo offers up Wi-Fi worldwide from over 600,000 hotspots. Pricing starts at around £1.50 for Pay as You Go internet minutes and go up to around £40 monthly for unlimited global access. It even includes a Wi-Fi finder app to help you locate Boingo hotspots.

BT Wi-Fi also allows non O2 and Vodafone customers to use its hotspots. Handy if you are in the UK as its network is extensive. 90 minutes is £5.99 or you can pay 18p per minute.

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How to get your money back after a scam

How to get your money back after a scam

If you have been scammed, you haven't received goods you ordered, or a product isn't as it was described to you, you could easily get your money back.


By Neil Faulkner | lovemoney.com – Thu, May 10, 2012

Lost money to a scam? Getting it back could be easier than you think (Image © Fotolia)

The police and Financial Services Authority admit that they're usually powerless to get your money back after you've been scammed. However, there's a way to do so yourself in many cases, and with relative ease.

If you make any purchases of between £100 and £30,000 and pay for it, or even just part of it, using your credit card, your card provider should pay you back for the entire loss in the event of scam.

It isn't just obliged to do this for scams either. Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act ensures that the card provider must reimburse you if a retailer doesn't deliver the goods or service, or if the product is not as described.


How customers are getting their money back

Credit card companies don't always agree when a customer makes a section 75 request to be reimbursed. Often, customers then complain to the free Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). It's these borderline cases that give us the most insight into when and where this legal right can be used.

The Ombudsman has just published some recent examples of its decisions relating to section 75. Here are some of the customers who succeeded in getting their money back.

 

Broken promises
Mrs S paid £3,500 for a holiday club on her credit card on the assurance that she would get the whole membership fee back after five years. On receiving the paperwork, however, she realised she'd been tricked.

She complained to the FOS when her lender didn't believe her “recollection of events”. The FOS found public accounts of others taking legal action against the holiday club, so it considered there to be enough evidence and justification for the card provider to reimburse Mrs S, and ordered it to do so.

 

Ill-fitting suits
Mr C paid £800 for a tailor-made suit on his credit card. When the finished suit was delivered to him, it didn't fit properly. He asked the tailors to make alterations, but they didn't show up for the appointment and Mr C had no luck when he complained further.

The lender refused to reimburse Mr C, but the FOS saw evidence from both sides, including photos of Mr C wearing the badly fitting suit. It decided that Mr C had done everything he could to get the tailors to correct their mistakes, and so it ordered the lender to reimburse him.

 

Paying a deposit below the £100 limit
Miss N paid a £99 deposit on her credit card for a £1,000 sofa but, before delivery, the retailer went out of business. Her lender refused to compensate her under section 75, saying she had spent less than £100, so she complained to the FOS.

Although Miss N had only lost £99, the purchase price was £1,000, which means she is covered by section 75. The FOS ordered the card provider to reimburse Miss N.


Make sure you understand section 75

Not everyone is successful when they claim under section 75, even if they take a complaint to the FOS. Indeed, Phillipa Cook, spokeswoman for the Ombudsman, told me that probably a little under half of the section 75 complaints the Ombudsman hears are successful.

We can learn from other customers' mistakes.

 

Paying a deposit below the £30,000 limit
Mrs T used her credit card to pay a deposit of £3,000 to a building company for an overseas property that was going to cost £162,000. The property was never completed and the building company didn't return her calls. Her lender refused to reimburse her and she complained to the FOS.

Unfortunately, it's not the size of the deposit that counts for section 75, but the value of the entire purchase. Since that was over the £30,000 limit, the FOS rejected Mrs T's complaint.

 

Changing your mind
Mr W joined a holiday club, but later changed his mind when he realised he could pay less by shopping around for holidays by himself. He asked his card provider to reimburse him. When it refused, he complained to the FOS.

The FOS decided that the holiday club had not given false or misleading information to Mr W, nor had it breached the contract. Finding that there are better deals elsewhere is not grounds for section 75, so it rejected Mr W's complaint.

 

 

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This computer 'virus' scam will cost you big
lovemoney.com – Fri, Feb 8, 2013 15:52 GMT


My phone rings. It's a cheap internet call from India. But it's not a so-called “consumer survey”. Instead, it's “Alex Carter”. And he is serious – he works for an information technology support team.
He warns me my computer is full of harmful viruses and that the processor has “already almost stopped working.” Even worse, my “percentage error levels” have hit 85. And how does he know all this?
He's a “Microsoft Certified” engineer who has discovered these “facts” because he has scanned my machine via my wireless modem.
Knowing this to be a scam but pretending to be worried, I ask what to do. “I can provide free assistance. But I am a technician, not a magician so I don't know what my colleagues will offer.” As I had to catch a train, I told Alex to call back the next morning.
To my amazement, he did. He told me he worked for a firm called British IT Solutions which was the “only company in the UK helping Microsoft.” He was getting “very harmful internet reports” from my number. The computer was turned off.
“How do you know?” The reply came: “The computer is linked to the router, and the router is linked to the phone line.” This is, of course, a statement of fact and not an explanation.
“Some processors have already stopped working and the computer is sending signals to Microsoft Global Services of many errors,” he informed me.
I enquired how I could fix the problem as I knew “processor failures and viruses were very harmful”.
Assuring me that this was not a sales call, Alex told me to turn my computer on. I did not so I asked again about Microsoft. “The computer sends errors to Microsoft and it passes them on to us as we are part of a certified tech team. You don't need to pay a single penny and we'll show how to delete the errors, warnings, and other problems in my computer. It is my job to tell you about this.”


The lies get bigger


I then revealed that my computer does not run on Windows – it uses a variant of the Linux operating system called Ubuntu. He was confused for a second but not put off. Alex had been trained with a just about plausible, although false, line for those with Apple or other operating systems.


“Because you are running Linux, all internet companies are connected to the global server run by Microsoft which sends us error messages.”


Telling him my machine was working perfectly did not deter him either. “It may appear fine at the moment, but errors and warnings create a problem slowly, then come faster and when they multiply. After a few months your computer will crash and you will lose all your data.”


Scary stuff but a nasty cocktail of unmitigated rubbish and blatant lies.


I finally asked about the firm's website. He said it was part of RedHat.com.


Another outright and outrageous lie. Just as there is absolutely no link between this cold caller in India and Microsoft (whose website has a disclaimer), there is also no connection between the scam firm which phoned me and Red Hat, a US software support company which specialises in Linux applications. Red Hat, a US quoted company worth around $11billion, has told me that using its name in this way is not just confusing, it is criminal. There appears to be no trace of British IT Solutions.

What would have happened


Had I been a nervous person or a computer novice, it would have been all too easy to fall for this long running scam which has resurfaced after a quiet year or two. The perpetrators hope that the interval means we have forgotten the previous warnings.


And here's what would have happened. I would likely have been asked to download remote access software which would have allowed Alex's friends to control my machine from India. They would then have downloaded malware and then charged me up to £185 (plus £100 annual fee) to remove it.


Either way, it's big bucks for them and even if Alex only fooled one person a day, he will have earned his employers far more than he costs.


This call was simply computer garbage. The sooner these people are sent to prison the better – sadly vulnerable people fall for their nonsense every day.

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2013's top scams

2013's top scams
By Matthew Wall | Moneywise

Despite the rise of digital technology, the old-fashioned conman is still at large using simple psychology and plausibility to blag millions of pounds from victims.
The National Fraud Authority estimates fraud costs the UK more than £73 billion a year; but CIFAs, the UK's fraud prevention service, says: "the stark reality is that much fraud simply evades detection."Here are some of the most popular scams currently after your money.


Courier Fraud

This has claimed a reported 2,229 victims in two years, most of them elderly, and is the latest financial scam to be targeted by the Metropolitan police. One victim, it reports, lost £155,000.
Courier fraud involves fraudsters telephoning victims and claiming to be from an authority, such as the police, bank or serious Fraud Office. they say the victim's bank account has been compromised and their card must be collected by courier.
As most people would be suspicious and refuse to co-operate, the fraudster then instructs the victim to hang up and call the authority, supposedly to verify that the caller is genuine.
But when the victim dials the number, the fraudster does not disconnect. the victim thinks they are speaking to someone genuine, when in fact they are still speaking to the fraudster or a co-conspirator. Now the victim is hooked, believing the call to be genuine.
The fraudster then asks the victim to reveal their card's PIN, usually by typing it in on their keypad, and sends a courier to collect the card. Once the card and PIN are in the fraudster's hands, they can use them to raid the victim's bank account.
Commander Steve Rodhouse, the Metropolitan police's lead on organised crime, says: "We want people to question even truly genuine-sounding calls and, most importantly, remember police and banks will never ask for your PIN or bank card, so you should never give these away."The latest financial scams tend to be novel variations on old themes.

For example, 'boiler room' scams, involving high-pressure salesmen cold-calling investors, offering them lucrative-sounding investment opportunities, have been around for decades. What has changed is the nature of the investment schemes on offer.
Toby Parker, spokesperson for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), formerly the Financial Services Authority, says: "A lot of the firms that were involved in bogus share sales or land banking have moved on to other investment schemes and are now selling carbon credits or rare earth metals. It's the same con; different product."

 

Carbon Credits

Carbon credits are certificates that allow energy-intensive businesses to emit carbon dioxide. Legitimately bought and sold on the secondary market, they were intended to provide financial incentives for companies to reduce their overall carbon emissions. But the sharks have moved into these unregulated waters.
Fraudsters cold-call potential investors claiming this is a 'once in a lifetime investment opportunity' – but often the certificates are not worth the paper they're printed on. "People are literally buying thin air," says Parker. "We're not aware of anyone making any money from carbon credits yet."

 

Rare Earth Metals

Similarly, investors are being approached by conmen flogging investments in rare earth metals – elements used in the manufacture of mobile phones and computers.
'Brokers' offer to buy and store the commodities on your behalf, promising returns of up to 60% a year. The sales pitch is that such 'rare' elements are bound to go up in price. But these elements are not that rare and there's no guarantee you could sell them back in this private, unregulated market.
The FCA warns: "We are yet to see any convincing evidence that there is a viable market for retail investors to make money from investments in rare earth metals."

 

Pension Fraud

'Pension liberation fraud' involves fraudsters claiming to be companies from which you can earn cashback, raise loans or invest money by releasing the value of your occupational pension scheme if you transfer the accrued pension benefits to them first, usually abroad.
Some victims are left with as little as a third of their original pension, if they are lucky enough to get anything back at all, says The Pensions Regulator.


Card Scams

Losses due to credit and debit card fraud totalled £388 million in 2012, with crude scams such as 'shoulder surfing' at cashpoints contributing to the increase. Losses from online banking fraud alone rose 12% to £39.6 million in 2012, according to Financial Fraud Action UK, including 256,000 reported phishing attacks.
Phishing is a way fraudsters glean personal data through the distribution of mass emails pretending to come from legitimate institutions and containing links to fake websites. If users click on these links and enter their security details into the fake website, scammers have all they need to raid users' bank accounts.
Some good advice is to hover over suspicious links – don't click on them – and the real weblink will pop up. If it doesn't match, you know not to trust it. And watch out for spelling and grammar – scammers aren't known for their command of English. Whether low- or high-tech, fraudsters are always trying to steal your cash. Make sure you don't become the next victim.


How to protect yourself against financial fraud

• Always be suspicious of cold-callers offering investment opportunities, particularly if they say you have to act quickly.
• If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
• No financial institution will ever ask for your PIN, either over the phone or via email.
• Never click on links within emails purporting to originate from legitimate financial institutions – you will never be asked to update your security details this way.
• Always keep your firewall and antivirus software up to date. Set it to download updates automatically.
• Never pay money upfront.
• If you don't understand it, don't invest in it.

 

Useful Contacts

If you are in any doubt about any financial scheme or firm, seek advice from any or all of the following organisations:Action Fraud: 0300 123 2040 Financial Conduct Authority: 0845 606 1234 Money Advice Service: 0300 500 5000

Watch this Video
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/video/money-works-protects-money-152815447.html

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Sony World Photography Awards: Open - Enhanced


Computer enhanced images including a man riding a polar bear and a couple caught in rough seas make up this Open category for amateur photographers

Winner: 'Storm' by Hoang Hiep Nguyen, Vietnam (Sony World Photography Awards/ Hoang Hiep Nguyen)

'Polar Bear' by Danny Cohen, Australia (Sony World Photography Awards/ Danny Cohen)

'Workers' by Michal Giedrojc, Poland (Sony World Photography Awards/ Michal Giedrojc)

'104298-414398' by Gerhard Burger, Germany (Sony World Photography Awards/ Gerhard Burger)

'Belarus' by Nina Piatrouskaya, Belarus (Sony World Photography Awards/ Nina Piatrouskaya)

'Daily Dream' by Samad Ghorbanzadeh, Iran (Sony World Photography Awards/ Samad Ghorbanzedeh)

'114661-458205' by Viktoriya Panasenko, Ukraine (Sony World Photography Awards/ Viktoriya Panasenko)

'138441-477892' by Chan Hoi Kim, Korea (Sony World Photography Awards/ Chan Hoi Kim)

'Les Baigneurs' by Michel Lagarde, France (Sony World Photography Awards/ Michel Lagarde)

'104739-383406' by Christine Simpson, Ireland (Sony World Photography Awards/ Christine Simpson)

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Unbelievable Floating Architectural Structures

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Human habitations have changed form and style in congruence with the evolution of mankind. Our immediate challenge in terms of physical space due to rising shortage of land has led us once again to the threshold of redefining our dwelling. Here are some of the most interesting floating structures, a possible abode for our future generations

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Photo of the Day: Bryce Canyon National Park Under the Night Sky

Pamela Nguyen March 20, 2013 0

Colorado-based photographer Jason J. Hatfield captured a lone hiker as he viewed the path before him, right as the Milky Way rose in the night sky. This photo was taken in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah last May.

According to the Smithsonian:

A hiker looks onto the path before him in Bryce Canyon National Park in the middle of the night as the Milky Way stretches upward above. The photographer, who used a Sony A900, had been shooting the day’s solar eclipse.

This photo was selected as a finalist for the Smithsonian’s 10th annual Photo Contest in the “Travel” category. You have the opportunity to select the Reader’s Choice Award until March 29, 2013! Go here to cast your vote.

Go to our Photo of the Day archive to view more notable images.

Have you ever seen something like this at Bryce Canyon National Park?

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DIY Thursday: 10 Creative Upcycled Planters for Earth Day
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We’d like to think we have a healthy obsession for planters. Whether you have space for an outdoor garden or have to settle to liven up your indoors, planters provide the necessary versatility. And you can use anything, really, as planters. That’s the best part! Upcycled planters not only bring an eclectic (and colorful) appeal to your garden but also cleverly reuse random household objects you’d otherwise throw away!


We scoured the web for creative and unique ways people have made their own planters. Check out our 10 favorite DIY planters below:

Hanging Rainboot Planters (via Rosy Posy)


You can still use your kids’ rainboots to make these adorable hanging planters once they’ve outgrown them!

Outdoor Cinderblock Planters (via Apartment Therapy)


This simple project hardly needs any instructions, and the supplies are easy to find! These modern planters are great for a small patio and use 12″ cinder blocks.

Colanders as Pots (via Bonnie Plants)


In many ways, colanders were built to be planters – they already have their draining holes built in!

Low Budget Container Gardens (via HGTV)


If your desk is damaged and you’re thinking about throwing it out, consider re-purposing it to make your own garden instead.

DIY Floppy Disk Planters (via Brit + Co)


These floppy disk planters are ideal for any tech geek, us included!

Succulent Book Planter (via HGTV Gardens)


Add new life to your old book by planting a succulent in between pages.

Modern Upcycled Planters (via Somewhere Splendid)


We already found several cool ways people have upcycled their soda cans, but this planter idea seem to have eluded us!

Switch Plate Covers as Desktop Planters (via Apartment Therapy)


It isn’t often that we have to replace our switch plate covers, but this hack could come to good use if you ever think about changing out your current ones.

Tire Planters (via Lemon, Bean and Things)


These stacking tire planters were all assembled and potted for under $80.

Altoids Tin Pocket Garden (via Elizabeth Abernathy)


For a little zen in your life, you can make your own pocket-sized zen garden with an empty Altoids tin.
For more fun DIY crafts and projects, visit our DIY Thursday archive!

Which upcycled planters are you ready to make?

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Peacock Symbolism

Peacock Symbolism

The peacock is a possessor of some of the most admired human characteristics, and is a symbol of integrity and the beauty we can achieve when we endeavor to show our true colors.

Contemplate the powers of the Peacock when you need more vibrancy and vitality in your experience.

The Peacock can also help you on your spiritual Path, and breath new life into your walk of faith.


The Peacock can rejuvenate self-esteem levels too. If you're feeling "blah" and blue, imagine the glorious, techno-color display the Peacock provides.

This puts us in a proper mood to embrace your own nobility. In no time, you'll be walking tall and proud as a Peacock too!


Here is a keyword quick-list of peacock symbolism...


Symbolic Peacock Meanings


• Glory
• Vision
• Royalty
• Spirituality
• Awakening
• Immortality
• Refinement
• Incorruptibility


In Greco-Roman mythology the Peacock is identified with Hera (Juno) who created the Peacock from Argus whose hundred eyes (seen on the tail feathers of the Peacock) symbolize the vault of heaven and the "eyes" of the stars.

In Hinduism the Peacock is associated with Lakshmi who is a deity representing benevolence, patience, kindness, compassion and good luck.


Similar to Lakshmi, the Peacock is associated with Kwan-yin in Asian spirituality. Kwan-yin (or Quan Yin) is also an emblem of love, compassionate watchfulness, good-will, nurturing, and kind-heartedness.

Legend tells us she chose to remain a mortal even though she could be immortal because she wished to stay behind and aid humanity in their spiritual evolution.

In Babylonia and Persia the Peacock is seen as a guardian to royalty, and is often seen in engravings upon the thrones of royalty.

In Christianity the Peacock symbolism represents the "all-seeing" church, along with the holiness and sanctity associated with it. Additionally, the Peacock represents resurrection, renewal and immortality within the spiritual teachings of Christianity.

Themes of renewal are also linked to alchemical traditions to, as many schools of thought compare the resurrecting phoenix to the modern-day Peacock.

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Replenish Your Feminine Energy

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By Carole Fogarty
on Jan 11, 2013

Many of us draw on excessive masculine energy to move through our day. Over time, an internal imbalance occurs between the feminine and masculine aspects of ourselves. Perhaps this is true for you.

Our feminine energy begins to weaken, leaving us feeling empty, hollow and disconnected on the inside. A faint sense lingers in the back of the mind – something is missing.

Somehow along the way we’ve decided to place excessive amounts of focus and importance on the outside world. The house, job, cars, money, gadgets, power, winning, trinkets, consumption, the story. A sad energy split occurs between our mind and physical body. Over time, our feminine self slowly dissolves.

We lose the ability to rest and digest life, receive prana and nourish our deserving body.

More imbalances occur.

Pausing, reflecting and nurturing become lost parts of ourselves – distant memories. If only we had the time.

Vital feminine (shakti) energy channels flowing through our body become slowly weakened, blocked or starved.

We forget about our connection to the Mother Earth and all her balancing and healing rhythms and cycles. Nature exists for a reason. We are intimately connected to her.

Intuition becomes a stranger. The thinking mind dominates. We ignore our inner gaze.

We forget to lead life from our bellies. The home of our shakti. Our feminine, passionate, creative, nurturing self. We no longer love our bellies. We clench our bellies. Holding it all in. Blocking a feminine energy channel. We often send bad thoughts to our belly. Our belly then carries that hurt.

Exhaustion, emptiness, fatigue and stress are now daily visitors. There is imbalance in our chakra’s.

It has now become screamingly clear to me there is a timely need for us all (particularly women) to restore balance back to our feminine energy channels and back into our lives.

So, if you get a sense you are in need of reclaiming health and flow back to your feminine energy channels, I’m sharing a few of my favourite rituals to help you get started. They are simple, not time consuming and are offered to your wise feminine self as a sign of good faith that your new journey can begin today with one small breath and one small step.

I’m trusting one or more will resonate with you. Trigger a whisper of truth. Perhaps even awaken a distance memory from the ancients to you.

This is a year where we can start receiving vital energy/prana/chi on a whole new level.

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  Practices for Restoring Feminine Balance:

Know there’s the perfect time for doing and an equally perfect time for receiving within the same 24 hours.

Know there’s also a subtle difference between doing a restorative yoga pose and actually receiving its goodness.

      1. Shakti Belly Breathing

 

If you do nothing else, do this pose. I can’t begin to tell you how incredibly nourishing and nurturing it is. It helps me connect to the energy and wisdom swirling around in my belly. My ‘gut’ feelings. I always get a sense of being refueled as I breathe intentionally into my belly. That’s what receiving feels like.

Before you begin give your belly permission to receive. Relaxing your belly is the first, must-do step.

Now bring the soles of your feet together. Gently let your legs flop out to the side (resting on cushions, blankets or bolsters if you need to). Rest hands wherever it feels right for the day. Above your head or down by your side, palms facing up.

Place your awareness and breath on your base chakra (the perineum area) and belly.

Breath in through your base chakra drawing the breath up and into your belly. Simply follow your breath as it enters and leaves your body from the base chakra. Feel the gentle movement of energy between your belly and the base chakra.

I usually practice for around 5 minutes each morning.

   2. Squat

 

Nature certainly didn’t intend for us to sit in chairs all day long.

Squatting helps bring our awareness and breath to our base chakra, legs and feet. It’s very grounding. Anchoring us into the earth’s energy.

A simple practice while relaxing in a squat is to inhale vital life force energy – up from the ground – through your feet and legs, gently nourishing the base chakra as it flows through up into your belly. Feel your belly swell and fill like a balloon with each inhale.

A beautiful nature exchange of energy takes places when we firmly root our feet into the earth’s replenishing energies. It may feel familiar and comforting.

A simple squatting pose will help lengthen your spine, strengthen and improve flexibility in your hips, thighs, knees and ankles.

  3. Full Moon Breathing Ritual:

  

The energy of the full moon is infused with a very cooling, calming and feminine energy. It helps us re-connect to the natural rhythms of nature so we in turn can be more in-tune with our own internal bodily rhythms. It will help us pause and receive more often.

* Inhale the full moon in through your left shoulder and down into the left side of your body. Continue until you get a feeling that your feminine, receiving side is a little more spacious and flowing. Then shift your awareness to the right side of your body.

* Inhale the cooling rays of the full moon in through your right shoulder and down into the whole right side of your body. Each inhale has a cooling and calming effect on any excess masculine, pushing or forceful energies. Continue alternating between the left and right side of your body until you feel an evenness of energy flowing between the left and right sides of your body.

                            

 

                                                        

This article is reprinted from Carole’s wonderful blog thehealthylivinglounge.com and appears on midlifexpress with her kind permission.
http://midlifexpress.com/replenish-feminine-energy/

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Gemini ~ The Festival of Humanity

The first three full moons of the astrological year are considered to be three linked festivals by many meditation groups. Aries is the first which brings a fresh impetus of energy and ideas to those who tune into it. Taurus enlarges the energy with new light. And Gemini is called the Festival of Humanity as it brings the energy closer to the hearts and minds of  Humanity.

Exact Time of the Full Moon with the Sun in Gemini

The influence of the full moon spreads over a three day period. The dates and exact times for the full moon when the energy is at its peak are as follows:

Please Note: The first time given below is Pacific Standard Time. The second time is GMT time.  Where Day Light time is in effect please add one hour to the times shown.

 

May 24, 2013 @  8:26 PM PST, 

April 24, 2013 @  4:26 AM  GMT

If you are living in another part of the world, please use the world time clock to find your time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Gemini:

Ray II

Exoteric Ruler, Mercury (Ray IV)

Esoteric Ruler, Venus (Ray V)

Hierarchical Ruler, Earth (Ray III)

A question for the day, 

How can World Invocation Day Affect Planetary Consciousness?

Namaste'

Carol

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WESAK FULL MOON – LUNAR ECLIPSE

May 24th – May 25th

May's Full Moon, known as the Wesak Moon, is considered the most auspicious day in the Buddhist calendar. It is the celebration of the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. 

Spiritual energies are at their strongest during full moons, and in the Buddhist tradition the Wesak Moon is the most potent amongst these. Wesak is a celebration of the infinite intelligence that exists in all-living beings. A time to pray that mankind awaken to the remembrance of the alliance between the world of human and that of the unseen with focus on global healing and enlightenment for all beings.

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Each year on the May Full Moon, Masters of the spiritual hierarchy from all faiths gather in the valley of the Himalayas. The meeting place is called the Wesak Valley, in Tibet, and the reunion happens on both a spiritual and physical level. This is a night of global celebration belonging to everyone. It is the night when the Buddha returns to bless the world with a special water blessing. 
 Wesak offers us the gift of oneness as we can all come together to pray for global unity and peace. We have a long way to go but we are making a change with each and every prayer that is said.

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On this particular night we experience the final eclipse in the triology. Eclipses illuminate areas in our life that need to be changed. For us individually it is an opportune time to open to ancient knowledge and wisdom as the memory stored within our own consciousness is illuminated. The step toward regaining our ancient memory means we must move through a dark passage and continue to clear old emotional imprints and karmic patterns. Remember Saturn the planet of Karma is still in retrograde until July.

On this night we need to ask ourselves, have we honored the life force that sustains us by walking a path of truth and living our full potential? Are we living in harmony with the Earth? Can we take full responsibility for our actions and step beyond judgment and blame? Only when we step through the dark passage where our fears and uncertainty lie can we come into our enlightened awareness of how to be an expression of light and a vessel of unconditional love.

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I ask that you join with us as we anchor the energy of the andara crystal and the obsidian stone being to pray to heal Tibet and the world. We will be in Lhassa (which means Holy Land) and it is my guidance to be in nature beneath this powerful celestial full moon, to honor those of the unseen world. To give something back to the world of the ancient ones and the nature spirits as we celebrate this magickal night in such a powerful place and send the song of unconditional love from the crystal singing bowls to honor those in the mythical realms.

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As we anchor the light it will be woven like a million golden threads to each of you and will illuminate the dragon lines and cosmic spider web with prayer and healing. By joining together we can make a difference. We can each be the change we hope to see take place.

On this night prepare and altar with a bowl of water and place a clear quartz crystal in the bowl. For those of you who have the andara crystal place this in the water. Surround the bowl of water with white flowers and place some white petals in the bowl of water. Find the stillness to connect with yourself. Play some beautiful music and see an image of the andara crystal, the cube octahedron before you filled with golden light. Begin to breathe in the aloha spirit, the spirit of love. Slowly breathe in the spirit 30 times, with each breath feel yourself becoming pure light. Feel your connection to the andara crystal until you completely merge into the light of the crystal of unconditional love. Feel that the andara transports you to the Wesak Valley where you join the Masters to receive the high healing energy. At this time you can receive great clarity for your spiritual journey. Reconfirm your commitment to be an expression of light and feel yourself praying for the healing of all beings to end suffering and to awaken those still sleeping. See the cosmic spider web illuminated with light and your connection to the andara crystal. Make a prayer that the world come together as one light, one world. Hold that vision and feel your spirit gently returning into your physical body temple. Feel your heart open and make the following prayer.

Dear God/Goddess

Show me where you want me to be.

Help me to say the words that will empower, encourage, heal and bring hope to others.

Help me to know when to stay out of my own way.

Show me... Guide Me... I AM ready to move forward.

Offer the celestial water back to the earth mother and know you have made a difference.

We are each joined together by a golden thread. I send you love to guide your journey, strength to be all that you were born to be and the courage to continue to step through your times of challenge. Never give up, never stop believing how important your light is and how you can truly make a difference. There will be days when you are strong and supporting another and there will be days when you feel lost and need the support of someone else. We are all on this magickal journey together, all joined through love.

Happy Wesak Full Moon.

Love, rainbows, and dragon magick from Tibet, Robbyne

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