The Year of the Black Water Dragon starts on Sunday January 22,2012, with New Year’s Eve and begins on 2/23 with Chinese New Year’s Day.
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
As quoted in ’ The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes ‘
“A year to throw caution to the four winds and roll up your sleeves for all sorts of grandiose, exhilarating, colossal, over ambitious and daring projects!
The indomitable spirit of the Dragon will inflate everything to larger than life size. Somehow we will find ourselves bubbling with excess energy. However, it will be wise not to overestimate ourselves or our potentials in this combustible year.
Things appear better than they actually are – sometimes. On the brighter side, business will be good and money can be generated or obtained easily. Orientals consider this to be an auspicious year to get married, have children, or start a new business, as the benevolent Dragon brings good fortune and happiness. ”
May you and your loved ones experience all the best this Dragon Year has to offer!
I came across a most interesting website this week expanding on the ancient Hawaiian Huna method of personal empowerment and overal understanding of the world we live in. The links below reveal techniques about how to achieve everything you want and more.
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Seven principles of Huna
The world is what you think it is… BE AWARE.
There are no limits… BE FREE.
Energy flows where your attention goes…BE FOCUSED.
Now is the moment of power…BE HERE.
To love is to be happy with…BE HAPPY.
All power comes from within…BE CONFIDENT.
Effectiveness is the measure of truth…BE POSITIVE.
How to set yourself free from many troubles, past regrets, problems with people in your life, sorrows you carry around and negativity you maintain with yourself.
There is a special formula to ho’oponopono that allows healing. It is actually the underlying formula used in many ancient as well as modern healing practices. It engages the subconscious, conscious and Higher Self all at once, your Whole Self. If you leave any one of these out, healing can’t take place.
Here is the formula: BALANCE = IDENTITY + LOVE + FORGIVENESS + GRATITUDE
How to achieve health, prosperity, happiness and success.
Sometimes the simplest techniques are the most powerful and most profound. This is an article that describes a technique of blessing. Blessing is simply giving positive recognition to something or someone. You can do this through:
Appreciation: “Thank you for your help.” “I give thanks for the warmth of the sun!” “I am grateful for my improving health.”
Affirmation: “I bless the abundance in my life.” I bless the goodness of my grandmother.” “I bless the generosity of people giving to this cause.”
Admiration: “What a beautiful tree!” “I love your hair!” “I really like the summer breeze.” “I love swimming. It feels so good!”
Anticipation: “We’re going to have a great time on our trip!” “I wish you a Happy Birthday.” “Tonight is going to be amazing!”
What can you do when all your efforts are in vain, yet you still don’t want to give up on what you want? This article is about a system called “effortless focus.”
Stop thinking, stop doing, stop trying. Just be aware and breathe in the present moment.
Look at the situation from a different point of view.
Ask the Universe for a solution and listen.
Do something, anything, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, toward changing the circumstances.
Be okay with whatever happens.
Believe that there is a way to solve your problem or get what you want, even if you don’t know what that is yet.
I came upon videos of Michael Brown while travelling overseas this summer, and found them most interesting.
He talks about the importance of present moment awareness, the higher frequency of love, and so much more.
Here is the essence of his teaching:
NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.
We are each endowed with the capacity to be responsible for the quality of our experience. However, until consciously impacted with our compassionate awareness, our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief continues to function as the unconscious causal point of our outer disharmony, discomfort, disease, and delusion. By continuing to suppress and sedate our unintegrated emotional condition – and instead allowing ourselves to be emotionally carried and provoked by anyone or anything – we remain a species that is inauthentic, out of integrity, and lacking in the emotional capacity to intimately contain an awareness of what we are or what God is for us. Only by consciously developing our capacity to feel are we delivered beyond this predicament.
BLAMING OTHERS FOR THE QUALITY OF OUR LIFE EXPERIENCE IS FUTILE.
Victim and victor mentality is denial and delusion. Mounting earthly chaos and increasing outer human drama is a deliberately initiated and unfolding planetary cleanse intended to address our inauthentic, unconscious, and programmed approach to living. All outer conflict triggering us emotionally in an uncomfortable way reflects our states of unintegrated inner turmoil. Our only choice now is between engaging reactively in outer drama, or allowing the play of outer drama to facilitate us into a responsive and compassionate awakening to, and integration of, our inner turmoil.
THE PRESENT MOMENT IS VALID – ENTERING IT CONSCIOUSLY IS A PORTAL INTO AUTHENTICITY, INTEGRITY, AND INTIMACY.
Present moment awareness is “being fully present within each unfolding moment just as it is – without interference – without binding it with the resonance of fear, anger, and grief arising from our unintegrated past”. Only when we are present are we vulnerable to receiving, and therefore able to contain, each unfolding encounter as a divinely ordained opportunity to intimately explore the profound possibilities of our humanity. Entering the moment fully requires a behavioral transformation – a shift from unconscious reactivity into deliberate responsibility. This transformation is only authentically accomplished through integrating the underlying imprinted emotional signatures that consistently distract us from being present. No one can accomplish this on our behalf.
THIS UNFOLDING MOMENT IN OUR HUMAN EVOLUTION IS NOT “THE END TIMES” – IT IS THE INVITATION TO “END LIVING IN A TIME-BASED PARADIGM” SO WE MAY REAL EYES PEACE.
Our task is not to “make peace on earth”. Such an intent is born of perceptual delusion. Our evolutionary task is to accomplish the capacity “to real eyes peace that is already given” while we are here. When we develop the capacity to authentically real eyes peace – we radiate this resonance throughout our experience. Authentic peace is felt. We are only at peace when we truly feel at peace. Peace is only realized through responsively awakening to, and hence fully entering, the felt-resonance of this unfolding moment. If we cannot feel the peace that is already given, it is because our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief is distorting our felt-perception. Only by consciously integrating our imprinted fear, anger, and grief do we reawaken our felt-perception and open ourselves to the naturally peaceful resonance of the heart.
These are tough times in the United States. With unemployment at nine percent and a double-dip recession hanging in the balance, we are looking for solutions. But it is important to remember that solving some of our serious problems might require more than just serious fixes.
Fun is often thought of as superfluous, extra, something to get to when you have time and a tool not to be used in serious situations. In fact, we have sayings to reinforce this notion: “this is no laughing matter” or “serious times call for serious solutions.” But fun can be, and has been, a powerful tool for transformation when tapped appropriately, as our past and recent Nobel-Prize-winning women demonstrate.
Read the following article “The Nobel Peace Prize: A Laughing Matter?” from the Huffington Post. It most excellently explains the power and importance of fun as a valid solutions to address difficult problems.
Choosing to have fun, play or laugh in the face of adversity is not about being naive. Quite to the contrary, it is a sign of emotional maturity. If you are in the worst position you could possibly be in, you are there and can’t change that. What you can change though is your attitude about it. This is most critical because you need to take action, fast, and laughter will help you get a better perspective of what’s happening to you.
The wisdom that Laughter Yoga teaches can be summarized in not even a statement, it’s a question to constantly ask yourself: what can I do now with a positive attitude to address my current challenges. Me, not you, him, her or they. Do with the whole of me, not simply “try”. Now, not tomorrow.
I see it as one of the most powerful training that exist on how to get the best out of your own life that you can possibly get. At the end of the day, what happens to you is nowhere near as important as the meaning you assign to it. Nerve impulses are just that: they have no meaning of their own. Change your perception and you will change your experience of life.
What can I say: this is simple and brillant; simply said: brillant.
Iowa pastor and master Laughter Yoga Teacher Laura Gentry was recently a part of the famous national NPR show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” She happens to be a fan and decided to call in one day.
This was not about her. All she did was say what she does: teach Laughter Yoga.
Listen to what follows. I’d call that guerrilla marketing at its best. Very smooth! Well done Laura.
The 2010 All America Laughter Yoga Conference took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 2010. Here are several of its videos from the 2010 All America Laughter Yoga Conference DVD Pack, including Dr Kagtaria’s closing keynote. This DVD pack is currently on sale for $99.
This is just too cute. Watch the two following videos in order (they are only a few seconds each).
In the first one an infant sees people do a movement that intrigues him and he tries to duplicate.
In the second one he practices the sound.
Am currently wrapping up a month-long Laughter Yoga training tour in France. Some experiences in life are too powerful to be shared in words. There was a vortex of energy around me, something so beautiful and powerful that I am still hesitant to talk about it. Participants started to transform and blossom, changing me with them, each time a little more.
If you would like to have some music as you watch this slideshow, simply play the following video at the same time:
The following is a very personal opinion. I am a great fan of www.ted.com. It has opened up my mind to ways of thinking I would never have had otherwise. Lately however, I have developed an even greater liking for RSA Animates (see some examples below). Watching all these videos does take time, and I learn so much from them that personally I see it as a personal investment. Keep learning, whatever field it is you are into. There is always room for you to grow. .
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