The Time is NowWritten by Eric Plantenberg
The Time is Now As we enter holiday season and end of year approaches, many people find themselves in a time of both reflection and anticipation. They look back at year gone by; evaluating successes and failures and beginning process of determining their focus and goals for upcoming year. While I am a strong proponent of both learning from past experiences and of setting effective goals for future, I encourage people to be cautious of losing power of moment they are in. Many of our students frequently ask “How can I become more effective?” or “How can I improve how I feel throughout day?” or “How do I remove stress from situations that I am facing?” I believe answers to those questions and most challenges people face can be found by focusing on present moment. All mental fears, whether that is stress, fear of failure, anxiety, worry, doubt, regret or others, result from focusing on events that have already happened (which you no longer have any control to change) or future events that you image to be unpleasant (which are not real, but simply part of your imagination). The only reality that we face lives in present moment.
| | Talking to Animals: Encountering The Soul of NatureWritten by Kavit M Haria
Having a communication session with your companion animal is a bit like having a psychic reading or healing, only for your "pet!" Thoughts, feelings, impressions, opinions: all come through communicator as s/he tunes in to animal's energy-many finding their way into words, sentences, phrases-conversation, from animal's point of view.Communicating with animals is sweet. It is also very rich, deep, and intense, and sometimes melancholy or even heartbreaking. An animal communicator may feel as though they have been given a key to a secret world, one richer than their own, which can be entered and resided in whenever chosen. It's a world of conscious presence, a world of deep feeling, a technicolor world of multi-sensory experience. It's everyday world of animals' experience. Everything that is alive has consciousness. Consciousness, because it is shared by all creation, communicates. To communicate with any creature, or any aspect of creation, one need only to learn to listen. It isn't a matter of "doing" anything. It is rather, a learning to allow natural flow of information - images, thoughts, feelings, perceptions - to enter and reside in our consciousness. This appears difficult because we have created many distractions. In fact, we've become so adapted to creating distractions that we've mostly forgotten how to listen, and how to trust, identify and interpret what we receive.
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