
What happens when we meditate? Everyone has their own unique experience based on a number of factors, including level of consciousness, amount of practice and ability to shift consciousness states.

There is no denying the power of a clear and focused mind. Many meditation techniques, TM for example, are based upon focusing upon a single mantra to clear the mind and enter a new state of consciousness. This often results in profound effects on people easily and quickly. I am not promoting TM or suggesting you go and pay large amounts of money for a mantra, my point is that your mind, if used to become focused on one thing, one eternal point, can bring enormous power into your life.

So, what is the 'ego'? How does it operate in our lives? How can we transcend the ego? These are all very important questions that deserve in-depth consideration because, as most on the spiritual path know, the whole game is the game of the ego.
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This may sound very obvious, but have you ever noticed that most of your problems seem to be about other people doing things you don't like (or not doing things you want)?
Just think about it for a moment. How many of your problems and emotional turbulence are related to any of these things?
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I just got back from the beach where I was watching the sunset and gentle waves, and thought to write to you what is deep in my heart right now. If you are an old soul, you will know what I am feeling here, I’m sure.
Today was one of those strange days of feeling a bit weird about everything. As usual, I was looking for deeper answers to what I was feeling, what is REALLY going on inside, and how to make sense of it all. I know I am not alone in feeling weird at times, especially as things keep heating up and heating up, and shifting at tremendous speed – we are all living in extra-ordinary times are we not?

Making relationships magical is really about making yourself magical and sharing that magic with another magical human being.
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Having worked with thousands of people when teaching meditation and stress-free living, I know how crippling stress can be, especially when the stress is not helping the situation at all. You know stress and all of its annoying side effects, especially from negatively charged stress. You’re probably aware that most of our emotions are the results of our thoughts and directly affect our hearts and physical sensations to sometimes make us feel trapped and disempowered.
Before we go into this powerful 8-Step ‘Benefit & Action’ system, I just want to show you the type of stress that IS useful. It's important, of course, to discern between the ‘beneficial’ stress that DOES serve you and the ‘detrimental’ stress that DOES NOT serve you in your life.
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On the island of Kauai, we are deliciously blessed to have such wonderfully succulent fruits like lychees and longons growing in such abundance. My thumb still hurts from cracking shells and peeling rinds of about forty of those sweet juicy treats.
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We live in a strange time – where few of us ever seem to have any time.
Do you ever find yourself:
If you answered Yes to any of these questions, you’re not alone. We tend to spend most of our life in a rush to get all things done -- while actually getting nothing done -- and never really enjoying life enough to make the important things happen!

The spiritual path is beautiful, ugly, profound and ordinary all at once. It comes full of elusive aspirations, emotional dramas, transcendent bliss and everything else in between – and frankly, it can sometimes feel like living in a terrifying hell, or in a pristine heaven, or at other times just simply boring and pointless.
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