Sometimes I feel like a marshmallow on a stick at the edge of the flame. I am cooked faster by some people and events than by others, depending on how close to the situation I want to get, and how much I allow it to touch me.
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Melatonin 101
Melatonin is a hormone that is produced and secreted at night, and only at night, by the pineal gland. Exposure to light at night completely suppresses the production of melatonin. It doesn’t require very bright lights to stop the production of melatonin—bright indoor white light at 300 lux) as well as very dim light at 0.25 lux, were both sufficient to prevent all melatonin production in laboratory animals. Moonlight is about one lux. Research conducted by the National Institutes of Health showed that even a very brief light exposure suppresses melatonin production in lab animals: a one minute exposure to white light every two hours during the night suppressed melatonin production by 65 percent. The only type of light that does not affect melatonin production is red light. Continue reading
All the particles of the world are in love and looking for lovers — Rumi
Have you ever felt so filled with love that it didn’t matter if you squeezed it out onto one person alone or everyone everywhere? Yeah, me too.
You can serve the world Now, from where you are
Meditation and creative visualization is the ethical manipulation of energy for the benefit of mankind.
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Neurotheology: How God Changes Your Brain
Regulate your body chemistry: meditation as anti-aging medicine
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A Creative Visualization to Attract Dollars
The Creative Visualization Process
Creative Visualization the 51% rule
Listen to free samples: Out of Body Experience
Connecting with your Angels, Guides, Teachers
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson
The key to everything is patience
You get the chicken by hatching the egg and not by smashing it.
The patient dog eats the fattest bone. No rush.
How to make text larger on your screen
Can’t read the small text at a website?
CTRL + will make the text larger
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Jesus in disguise
Is it not true that you might be Jesus in disguise?
I might be?
Only in treating each other this way now will we know for sure.
The Question by Rumi
One Dervish to another, What was your vision of God’s presence? I haven’t seen anything. But for the sake of conversation, I’ll tell you a story. God’s presence is there in front of me, a fire on the left, a lovely stream on the right. One group walks towards the fire, into the fire, another toward the sweet flowing water. No one knows which are blessed and which not. Whoever walks into the fire appears suddenly in the stream. A head goes under on the water surface, that head pokes out of the fire. Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it. Those who love the water of pleasure and make it their devotion are cheated with this reversal. The trickery goes further. The voice of the fire tells the truth saying, I am not fire. I am fountainhead. Come into me and don’t mind the sparks. Continue reading
Betsy Shanahan May 24, 1957 – December 9, 2011
The Light shines on
Betsy Shanahan
Betsy’s sister writes: Betsy’s pain and struggle to breath are over. She was transfered to Hospice care on December 8th and apparently she thought there was somewhere else she would rather be because less than 12 hours later at 1:50am she peacefully took her last breath, holding the hand of a hospice nurse early Friday morning. It was such a shock to all of us. She has been freed from her pain and suffering brought on by the Pulmonary Fibrosis and is now at peace. She is now in a much better place where she breaths in only wonderful, sweet air and is now in the world she has always imagined. I want to thank all my family and friends who have lent me their ears, shoulders and arms to help me through these last couple months. I love you all! There are no words that can ever thank you for your kindness and friendship. To all of Betsy’s friends who have left such wonderful messages on her Facebook page, we will have a celebration of her life sometime after the first of the year. Please check her Facebook page in early January for details. Continue reading