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ARTArticleCreating Change: Step 2C- Who Do You Want to Be?Being Trumps Doingr Usually when we think about what we want, we focus on an activity or experience we desire. Another way to discover your true desire is to ask yourself not what you want to be doing, but who you want to be. What are the roles in your life that you no longer want, that you’ve outwo ? And what identity is now calling you? What new you would you like to be in the world? For clues, you may ask yourself who you have been in the past. What roles and activities have you tended to fall into that are not really you anymore?ARTArticleCreating Change: Step 3 - Identify your inner obstacles to changeI’m sure you aware of some things you want to change in your life, that your heart longs for. It is likely that these longings have been with you for quite a while, but you have not been able to achieve them – yet. Now is the time to find out what has been stopping you, so that you can finally dissolve those blocks. Although objective real-life obstacles may sometimes exist, what usually holds us back are our inner obstacles - our fears and negative beliefs. Some of them we hear in our self-talk, the things we tell ourselves.ARTArticleCreating Change: Step 4A - Work through your blocks to changeIf you’ve used some of the tools I’ve been teaching, you have probably identified fears and beliefs about yourself, the world, life, and “the way things are” that are consciously or unconsciously keeping you from realizing your dreams. It’s only when you identify these limiting beliefs that you can work to dissolve them, which you must, if you don’t want them to continue to sabotage you. An effective way of working with beliefs involves challenging them cognitively.ARTArticleCreating Change: Step 5A – Give Your Vision a FormIn order to create positive change in your life, you must first identify your vision. Make sure it is something that excites and inspires you, that really lights you up. It should be something you can get behind 100% because only then will it be sufficiently motivating to sustain you as you stretch beyond your comfort zone – and that will be required. Unless it meets these criteria, it will be too easy for you to give up at the first moments of discouragement.ARTArticleCreating Change: Step 5B – Three Techniques For Giving Your Vision FormCongratulations - You know you want to create positive change in your life and you’ve come up with a compelling, inspiring vision, powerful enough to motivate you to take action past your comfort zone. Not only that, you’ve also explored your limiting beliefs and dissolved the ones that were holding you back – bravo! Now you have to ground that vision and turn it into a concrete goal. Unless you give it a name and an address, it will stay a dream.ARTArticleCreating The Change You Want - Step 1 - Clarify what you want by pinpointing what you don’t wantThe first step in creating any positive change in your life is to find out what you want – that may seem obvious. And you may know exactly what you want right now. There may be a dream you've held for years but never acted on, or a project that's bursting to express itself through you. But many people are aware of wanting change, yet are not sure what kind of change or where to start. If this is you - or even if you're one of the sure ones – it can be useful to begin by exploring what you don't like in your life.ARTArticleCreative Thinking Using MeditationThere are a lot of specific techniques for more creative thinking. You can combine concepts, tear ideas apart to find new ones, and do group brainstorming sessions. Those all work, but to have a naturally more creative mind you might also want to try meditation. Because meditation can clear your mind of some of the usual negative thoughts, it can open the way for more creative thinking.ARTArticleCreative Ways To Make MoneyI collect examples of creative ways to make money for my websites, and I recently found a fun one in a great little story I read. It was written by a man who had certain survival talents and decided to demonstrate them by being dumped in the middle of a large city with no money. By that evening he had a nice hotel room and some money in his pocket.ARTArticleCultural Translation of the Gospel: Why Bother?My friends in Spain have yet to hear the Gospel. Here I am in what is supposedly a Catholic country – and my friends really have never heard the truth about Jesus. Maybe they got bits and pieces of information about Jesus from a Catholic education. Maybe they’ve heard about evangelicals who passionately yell things about God in public settings.ARTArticleDecember 21, 2012: The Time Of Rebirth and Remebrance Is HereDecember 21st, 2012 is upon us! We have heard quite an assortment of predictions, ideas, fears, hopes, and wishes throughout the year about the end of the Mayan calendar—from doomsday to collective enlightenment and everything in between. The diversity of opinions about this day not only shows the variety of souls inca ated on the planet at this time, but also the array of voices inside each one of us.ARTArticleDesperately Seeking PerfectThis week I have been revisiting a book written by Pema Chodron, called “When Things Fall Apart”. I read this book a few years back when my Mom passed away. It helped me to realize that life isn’t about trying to reach a place of lasting pleasure, in order to avoid pain, but to accept that we will experience both pleasure and pain, throughout life. I have to be reminded of this often, otherwise I find myself in what Buddhism calls samsara; a hopeless cycle that goes round and round.ARTArticleDeveloping Churches NetworkIf you’re of the opinion that there are already enough churches in your area, Developing Churches Network would kindly disagree. “If every evangelical church in the country were filled to capacity each and every Sunday, it would still only provide enough seats to accommodate a small percentage of the overall population,” says DCN’s Todd McMichen. “We need more churches and different churches- not just more of the same.” McMichen’s church, The People’s Church, is a member of the network, and serves as a model of church at it’s simplest.ARTArticleDivine Parenting "101"“When the children’s needs are tended to, then the world will change.” First things first – the common misconception about the name, Divine Parenting, is that it is ‘religious’ and it is about children, and parenting them. The parenting of children is one aspect of the initiative, sure. When one looks at the whole Diving Parenting ‘plan,’ however, one will discover this aspect is just a small part of a much greater whole. Is it religious? Divine Parenting is probably considered to be spiritual, yes, but religious? No.ARTArticleDo You Know the Purpose of Your Relationships?Did you know that relationships are ete al? They reflect the energetic ties and karma to be played out inca ation after inca ation, as we carry them along on our soul journey. In truth, we’ve been meeting pretty much the same souls over and over, trying to heal our wounds and learning to relate with love and compassion for one another, or at least enough detachment to break any toxic or painful bonds.ARTArticleDo You Know What Makes You Happy?We all want to be happy. Yet my idea of happiness may be different from yours, and yours is probably unlike someone else’s. Although it is supposed to be the state of mind that we all desire, if you asked a politician, a scientist, a psychologist, a young kid, and an enlightened saint what happiness is, you’d get completely different perspectives on the subject.ARTArticleDrawing Closer To GodIf you are going through some difficult times and are asking God to please help, I have good news for you. I know it’s not fashionable to say this but there really is a God and He is waiting for you to reach the point of desperation where you will finally turn to Him. The purpose of this article is to reveal some of the surprising ways God works in our lives and how you can get closer to God.ARTArticleEconomic Depression Survival TipsThe following economic depression survival tips are all about preparation. With a bit of street smarts and a willingness to do what's needed you can survive losing everything. But it is better to prevent that from happening in the first place by being prepared for some worst case scenarios. Depression Survival Tips - Keep That Income Keep your job or other income and tough times aren't so tough. In fact, if you are still making the same money when prices are dropping, homes cost less and stocks are on sale, a depression can be an opportunity.ARTArticleFalling In Love With Love (or How I Met My Soul Mate)I didn’t believe in God as a kid. I grew up in a religious culture where God was supposed to be this omniscient authority figure who had a say in how you should behave, and who would punish you for all ete ity if you didn’t follow his rules. He resembled my father too much for me to accept that.ARTArticleFear or LoveThere are basically two main powerful emotions that humans can experience and those are fear and love. All the others emotions are just sub-groups based upon fear and love. However it is only love that is the basis for all creation. Everything we do is coming from these two emotions. We are at all times thinking, speaking and acting from one of these powerful emotions. Love and fear are the only emotions we are able to communicate and connect with. For example, on love's side there is harmony, understanding, compassion, joy, peace, happiness, forgiveness etc.ARTArticleFeeling NakedI feel naked. As I am writing this I am actually wearing clothes. It’s thirty degrees outside. I just published my first novel—Human Adulthood: A Spiritual Romance. I have written and published four non-fiction books. There certainly is a level of vulnerability with those, especially since I disclose quite a bit about myself. Fiction is different.ARTArticleFinancial Freedom?When talking about financial freedom, different people can mean entirely different things. For some it means getting to do what they want because they have enough money. For others it means having enough income from investments that they are free of any financial conce s. Of course, few people are actually unconce ed about financial matters regardless of how much income they have. Some even get more worried about their finances as they get wealthier. And few people get to do everything they would like to do no matter how much money they make.ARTArticleFinding One’s True Work After FiftyOn Being a Late Bloomer I’m a late bloomer. It sometimes seems I’ve lived my life backwards. I like to say I took an early retirement (minimal employment and lots of leisure), and now that I’m of retirement age, I’m fired up and cracking to start working. I mean really working, working at my true work, the work I was meant to do. What took me so long? Well, for one thing, any original work that blends multiple gifts, life experience, and acquired wisdom, must take time to ripen. It’s not available to young sprouts or saplings, but only comes to fruit on a mature tree.ARTArticleFinding the Creative Spark To Rise Above SufferingI recently watched Girl Rising, which is a movie about nine girls from nine different developing countries sharing personal stories of poverty, discrimination, and suffering, while trying to find a way through education to rise above the constraints imposed by their culture and environment. Although somewhat intense, the film is really beautifully made.ARTArticleFinding Your Life's PurposeThe Tyranny of Time In his book, The Power of Purpose, author Richard J. Leider offers readers an insightful story for finding one’s purpose through action: “A young man who was searching for his life’s purpose wrote to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He said he had discussed the purpose question with every wise person he had come across, had read every book on purpose he could find and had travelled to faraway places to seek the guidance of some of the greatest spiritual teachers. However, no one had ever been able to tell him what his purpose was.ARTArticleForgiveness is LogicalForgiveness is logical. It isn't something that you should do. It is a practice that makes sense. When you forgive you improve your well-being and influence others to improve theirs. When you forgive you empower yourself. Forgiveness is a gift that you give to yourself and to the world.ARTArticleGrowing Your DreamAchieving your dream has never been more accessible and reasonable than it is today. The motivation for achievement is ever-present on the minds of entrepreneurs, but a new and growing population of displaced workers is now entering the market. Cottage industry, an industry where the creation of products and services is home-based, rather than factory-based, is rapidly growing across the United States.ARTArticleHarness Your Visionary Powers To Accomplish Your GoalsOne of my mottos is, Hold fast to your vision, regardless of what is going on around you, because you need the power of your vision to transform your perception and your current reality. When you truly stop believing (and living) in the past (i.e., past experiences, beliefs, thoughts, traumas, etc.), and instead you appreciate the things and thoughts that bring you joy in the present moment, you begin to pave the way toward a brighter and more fulfilling future.ARTArticleHe dropped dead“He dropped dead,” said the stranger beside me at the local Japanese diner. He sat as if in prayer, leaning forward over the counter toward a woman who appeared to be the owner and clearly recognized him. In my peripheral visio I took in the blur of his physical attributes: African American with gray-flocked hair, probably in his late sixties. A little overweight, eyes saucer-like at the tale of his friend’s sudden demise. He clung to the Japanese woman’s fingers as she listened.ARTArticleHealing from the inside outAn elderly lady I know recently had a fall and cut her leg quite badly. The wound went deep into the tissue. Because of her age, the treatment and healing process involved keeping the injured area dry and having the wound dressed on a weekly basis. The medical staff wanted the wound to heal from the deepest part first out to the outer layers of the skin. If the skin just sealed over, the wound could fester below the surface and create more problems down the road.ARTArticleHow Ignoring Your Intuition Can Make You Sick, Hurt and HeartbrokenThere’s that saying that goes "We teach what we need to learn.” I’ve always felt that was my relationship with intuition. It was and is, a central part of me. I couldn’t shut it off. I had to learn to live with it and hopefully live well. I was overwhelmed at a young age by my clairsentience, or empathy (receiving intuition through feelings) that it drove me to read, research and explore how to handle this ability that at times…seemed like a curse.

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