April A 2018
Cover Story
Metaphysics
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96 The Magic Use of Candles 100 Sound Secrets of the Ultimate Wealth Mantra Shreem Brzee 104 Why Intuition Fails You and What to Do About It 108 5 Steps to Raise your Frequency Signature Right Now
Lynne McTaggart - The Power of Eight
Health & Wellness 40
Start Battling Toxins and Building Immunity
Spirituality 46 50 54 58
You Light Up My Life The Holiest Spot on Earth Overcoming Tense Nights Practicing Voluntary Simplicity
OM Living 66 70 72
Shungite, Ancient Stone for Vital Modern Uses Spotlight - Shreem Brzee How to Host a Seed Swap
Relationships 84 88
Having a Strategy for Dealing With Difficult CoWorkers How to End a Romantic Relationship
Personal Growth 116 Manifesting a New Vision for Your Life 120 How I Saved My Life & 5 Lessons That Can Change Yours Today
World Vision 128 Hildegard von Bingen
Books 136 This Is How I Save My Life
THE POWER OF EIGHT
Lynne McTaggart INTERVIEW BY SANDRA SEDGBEER
The International best-selling author Lynne McTaggart has spent many years exploring the nature of human thought and intention and their relationship to health and wellness. Her best-selling books include The Field, The Bond, The Intention Experiment. Lynne McTaggart shares some of the extraordinary stories that emerged from The Intention Experiment, which then led to the experiments and discoveries chronicled in her latest book, The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World. Sandie Sedgbeer: Lynne, in your bestselling book The Intention Experiment, you invited people all over the globe to join you in an experiment to see if harnessing the power of intention could affect change in the world. The scientific study of ongoing results revealed that 31 experiments run to date, 28 have evidenced measurable change. And specifically, all three of the global peace intention
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experiments had positive outcomes in lowering violence in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Washington. But, that wasn't all you learned from those experiments, as your latest book The Power of Eight reveals. So, tell us what happened next. Lynne McTaggart: Well, what happened was, around 2008 when I'd just finished the Sri Lanka experiment, I decided to survey my participants. I just wanted to find out what kind of experience they'd had and whether
Start Battling Toxins and Building Immunity by Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD
Determined to live long and healthy lives, we go to war against germs and viruses that can jeopardize our health and well-being. But how often do we consider creating a balance between battling toxins and
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building immunity? To destroy biological invaders in your body, you might take antibiotics or other medications that can have strong side effects. Uncomfortable though you may be with the gastrointestinal disturbances, headaches, or other symptoms of a war being waged within you, you might be so focused on getting well again that you forget to consider how those toxins and bacteria entered your system in the first place. How did they come to find sanctuary within you? You can’t eradicate every germ, virus, or bacteria toxin that enters your body. However, you might be able to stop them from moving in and putting their feet up on the coffee table, so to speak. You might build our immunity so that your system can kill them off quickly. Eating large quantities of sugar, whether as sweets or processed flour in breads and cereals, can weaken your ability to maintain strong immunity. Indulging in these
carbohydrates can cause you to lay out a banquet for yeast and bacteria to feed upon. Then you battle infections or struggle with your weight. But much of that fighting would not be necessary if you were willing to avoid these foods and do a better job building and maintaining a strong immune system. Building immunity requires taking in fewer foods that your system has trouble processing and getting rid of while favoring foods that support a healthy system. Green, leafy vegetables, healthy sources of proteins such as nuts and seeds, and fermented foods are all known to support strong immunity. Adding these foods to your diets can help you to be prepared for the inevitable invasion of toxins and battles necessary for your health. If you lie to yourself about what you are consuming, you get stuck having to wage unnecessary wars and wishing your immune systems were stronger. Illness and even disease can result. Your bodies has cancer cells, viruses, bacteria, and even Omtimes.com
“You Light Up My Life� By John Holland
Every evening for many years I continue to have a ritual that I would like to share. Although quite simple, I find it to be quite powerful to have an intended thought powered by light. The simple Omtimes.com
act of lighting a candle every night for me reminds me that all thought has power, and keeping a candle lit safely for a while helps me to send and keep a positive thought on the desired intention. Candles have been used since the dawn of time for meditations, blessings, religious beliefs, healings, prayers, celebrations, abundance, psychic development, to feel comforted and protected, a memory of a loved one, spiritual understanding, and yes, even romance. The uses are endless. Many people choose candles by scent, some choose by color, while others are simply fine with a plain candle, or even a tea light in a votive purchased from a dollar store. You don’t have to spend a lot of money – no matter what you choose, it’s the positive use of the candle that makes it special! I have even rubbed certain oils on a candle while sending a specific thought and have even inscribed the candle with a message about what I am
seeking. It’s a way of making my prayers and intentions even stronger for me. Every day people are positively using candles without even knowing it! How many times have you blown out a candle on a birthday cake? What you’re actually doing is that when you close your eyes and make a wish (holding that special thought), and then you blow out the candle, you’re actually sending off the wish while bringing your desires to light. Candles can even be used for balancing your aura and chakras, so try (safely) burning a candle connected to the same color chakra. For example, use an orange candle for the sacral chakra, a blue candle for the throat chakra or a red one to strengthen the base chakra. White candles represent all of the colors, and when lit, protects and gives peace and comfort and enhances spirituality. When my mom was ill, every night I would light a white candle and would take a moment to focus on my mom Omtimes.com
Alan Cohen | From the Heart | April 2018
The Holiest Spot on Earth
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being fulfilled, and psychics confirmed this would be the turning point. Hordes of people were rushing to safety at spiritual power places around the globe. Others had gone on shopping sprees and ran up huge credit card bills after being advised the world economic system was going to crash. Others said goodbye to non-believer loved ones. This was it. I was flying over Europe with a group that had just completed a spiritual pilgrimage. A little girl in the group, age 8, was fearful because she had heard the prophecies. She went to the leader of the group and asked her if, upon landing, we would be taken to a power place where the earthquakes or flood waters could not reach us. The leader took the girl’s hands, looked her in the eyes, and told her, “Don’t you worry, darling. You are the power place. When you dwell in your spiritual strength, you are safe wherever you are.”
Truer words have never been spoken. In my many travels I have been blessed to visit some of the most sacred sites in the world: the Pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu, the vortices of Sedona, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Fuji, Jerusalem, and more. I have immensely enjoyed all of these pilgrimages and felt blessed to connect with the energies there. They are all truly wondrous. Then I came across a quote from A Course in Miracles that made me rethink the definition of a sacred site: “The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.” Hmmm. The Course is telling us that because we are spiritual beings at our core, it is the state of our spirit, not geography, that empowers us and makes us safe. Any place where we recognize the
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Overcoming Tense Nights
by Kaya & Christiane Muller
Our three Angel Guardians, on the physical, emotional, and intellectual levels that we find according to the date and time of our birth, are very helpful when beginning Angel Work. By reciting an Angel Mantra, in other words, by repeating the Name of an Angel over and Omtimes.com
over again with a deep sense of sacredness and intensity, it will open our conscious and unconscious. We can gradually integrate qualities and virtues and cleanse the negative memories that our inner computer may have accumulated during the course of this life and our other lives. It is very powerful work that modifies our behavior and reprograms our soul. We see its effects in thousands of people all over the world, who now work with the Angels and consequently develop their spiritual autonomy. Walking a spiritual path is generally quite vague for most people. But whenever we live with an angelic conscience, we learn to speak symbolic language, and this leads us to consider our life as though we were in a dream in order to help us become aware that everything is a Teaching for us – little things as well as big things. The following testimonial comes from one of the beautiful families who apply symbolic language in their daily lives. It shows us that certain behavior may sometimes hide and bear witness to the deep evolutive truth.
Here is what an initiate mother shared: “Every night, when necessary, we accompany our children in their nocturnal difficulties caused either by fears or nightmares. And as parents who wish to accompany our children in the evolution of their conscience toward the Light, it was during one of these nights that we made an important discovery. Our 5-year-old daughter Annabelle had been grinding her teeth. We had already noticed that her teeth had taken on an unusual shape, but we had no idea why. And then, one night, we received the reason why and all of its symbolic dimension. Annabelle is a child who could be described as the perfect child, and she’s also hyper-sensitive. She obeys instantly and always tries to do things well. Her father, Simon, is absolutely right when he says it isn’t normal. We discovered that she grinds her teeth at night, which shows that, unconsciously, Annabelle blocks and locks up all of her negativity. She retains all of her negative soul-states and represses her primary needs (symbolized by
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How to Host a Seed Swap By Cat Johnson
Seed swaps are great ways to learn about local seeds, build a community around seed sharing, and show support for the Save Seed Sharing movement. Designed for gardening newbies and master
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gardeners alike, they provide people an opportunity to get seeds from other local growers and share seeds from their own harvest. As Rebecca Newburn, founder and co-coordinator of the Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library explains, seed swaps are fun ways to collect seeds that are more climate resilient and adapted to local soils than commercial seeds, they’re great community events, they provide an opportunity to exchange gardening tips and meet other gardeners. To host a seed swap, you’ll need space, tables, volunteers, seeds to share, a few supplies, signage, flyers and other communication materials, and a group of enthusiastic seed sharers. The following tips are taken from a seed swap guide created by the Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library. Seed swap tables should be clearly noted which seeds are present and their difficulty level
Before the Event Gather Volunteers: For a successful seed swap, you’ll need a team of volunteers to help with creating and distributing flyers and information about the event, reaching out to media contacts, connecting with partners and aligned organizations. They will be making signs for use at the event, setting up tables and signage at the event, staffing tables and directing people at the swap, and helping with cleanup after the event. You’ll want a few experts on-hand, however, to teach people about saving seeds and offer gardening tips. Collect Seeds to Share: If your swap is affiliated with a seed library, you may have enough seeds to get started. If not, reach out to gardening associations, master gardeners, local seed savers, horticulture departments or botanical gardens to request seed donations.
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Having a Strategy for Dealing With Difficult Co-Workers By Marcia Sirota, MD. Anyone who works with other people -- and that’s the vast majority of us -- has had to deal with a problematic co-worker at some point in their career.
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Whether it’s the office brownnoser; the office gossip; the person who steals your ideas and claims them as their own; or the jealous and competitive colleague who tries to sabotage your success, eventually everyone is going to encounter a co-worker who’s problematic.
We all need to love and accept ourselves no matter what our boss or co-workers feel, and we shouldn’t look to them to boost our self-esteem.
The most important thing to realize when dealing with people like this is that it’s not about you. These are complicated, even troubled individuals who can’t help but act out their issues in the workplace.
Although we spend most of our waking hours at work and our jobs can provide us with a great deal of satisfaction, pride, meaning, and fulfillment, we must be careful not to have our entire selfworth bound up in our job.
While the work environment might seem like a big family in that the dynamics can often be similar to parent-child and sibling interactions, it’s essential to remember that the people at work are not your family or loved ones.
When we take responsibility for our sense of self and have other things in our life that bring us fulfillment and self-worth, we’re less affected by how others see us or interact with us and it becomes that much easier to contend with the challenging people at work.
Your supervisors are not your parents, and your co-workers aren’t your siblings or your friends. While some managers and co-workers might be incredibly supportive, helpful
and even fun to work with, it’s not their responsibility to love you or to make you feel good about yourself.
While it’s up to each one of us to develop our own sense of self and to combat any personal feelings of insecurity or inadequacy, we also must
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How to End a Romantic Relationship
Ending a loving relationship will be a decision that we will always remember, whether it was a right decision or not, whether it is
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good or bad for us, it will be something we do not forget. We may seek support, and the advice from others, but in the end, it is our decision, our life, and we must listen to our intuition. First of all, think about how it will be if you continue for another year onto this relationship, now think about being in it for 5 more years; maybe this perspective will give you an idea of what you want to do, what makes you feel good or bad. We believe that Sincerity is always very important posture in a relationship, and especially when ending one. If you are not happy, tell your partner. Explain everything that is happening to you, what goes through your head. Avoid leaving doubts. If something goes wrong, the chances of you still suffering from the end of this relationship will be enormous. To make such a decision, the ending of a romantic
relationship, it is necessary to be very realistic and make the internal resolution not to deceive ourselves, for this self-deception can harm us and hurt the other person. To know if it’s time to end our love relationship, maybe it’s time to ask ourselves some questions; don’t look for who to blame, because a relationship consists of two people, not one. Throwing all the blame on the other person is a big mistake. The same can be observed on taking upon the responsibility of all the relationship problems too! Get the idea off your head that making yourself to feel responsible will be a way to get rid of the problem. That is not a good strategy in the long run. We should seek to understand what has happened to our relationship and why it is failing, and how we can learn from this “romantic experience” with wisdom and patience.
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The Magic Use of Candles By Shakti World
Since time Immemorial we find candles being used in Temples, representing the holy element of fire during Sacred rituals. Candles are always portrayed to be involved with mysteries and myths, they are also symbols of illumination, activation, canalization, and connection with the divinity. Fire is a creative element, especially regarding the power of rebirth and regeneration properties. Candles are connector element esoterically related to the salamanders, nature elementals that are energy transformers. The candle magic is ever present in our daily lives, the act of lightening a candle for a birthday Omtimes.com
celebration represented the potential to activate that light and channel the energy of manifestation of our intentions to our daily lives. When we sing and clap around a birthday person, before they blow the candle, we are just generating enough energy to move the intention through space, channeled by the fire towards the ethers of the astral plane. A distinctive feature of Candle Magic is its flexibility. Most of the rituals that surround it can be adapted for any purpose. Candle ritual can target material prosperity, conflict resolution, career advancement, finding a life partner and revealing creative potential, developing extrasensory abilities, gaining
insight into future events, and so on. The ritual practice of magic candles is very diverse and ranges from simple rituals using one candle to elaborate ceremonies using many of them. Also, they are divided into one-day rituals and rituals of several more days. The candle ritual goes beyond the simple use of a candle since the focus is the correlation of qualities and properties of a candle, their colors with the purpose of a ritual, as well as the corresponding preparation of the candle itself. We use the candles just to symbolize our magic through their flames. Fire is the symbol of the mental plane and activity. The act of lighting the candle for the Guardian Angel is how to activate your request and bring it to the etheric plane. In the biblical texts, God manifested Himself to Moses in the form of fire. Hence the reason we use the candles in magic. The Candle practice intentions to activate, keep alive, symbolize the link of
our thoughts and desires with the angelic world through the manifestation of our Higher Self. Through the flame of a candle, all the forces of nature are activated. The lit candle symbolizes the individualization of the ascending life and the light of the soul. Why use colored candles to anchor the energy of your guardian angels? Because our aura is colored and when we visualize a specific color, our aura starts to reflect it. It is through this alchemical process that the angel will grasp and understand our requests. This is the first link to the angels. When lighting a candle, it is possible to identify some messages that they transmit to us. Candle Messages and Angels CANDLE DOES NOT TURN ON RIGHT AWAY. The Angel may be having difficulty anchoring. The astral environment around you may be polluted. BURNING CANDLE WITH OVERLAY BLUE LIGHT Indicates the presence of Angels and Fairies. It is a good sign. Omtimes.com
Why Intuition Fails You— and What to Do About It By Robyn M Fritz Intuition may fail us because we don’t know how to access it or we think it’s “divine” or just for “special” people. However, intuition is a practical skill we all have. It answers specific questions in nonlinear and
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non-empirical ways. Once we learn how intuition gives us information, simple tips can help us begin to tap its power in our lives, from determining what intuitive abilities are to tracking practical, intuitive experiments. What Is Intuition? Guess what? Intuition isn’t divine, isn’t limited to “special” people, and isn’t always right. What is intuition? It’s our innate ability to gather information that answers a specific question in nonlinear and non-empirical ways. When we use our intuition, we are not following Steps A to B to C in the scientific method because the objective measurement is not intuitive. Why Doesn’t Intuition Work? Our firm belief in an empirical scientific method is precisely why most of us fail to tap our intuition. Intuitive information often doesn’t make sense to us the way we’ve been told to access the world, so we give up trying. Or we’re taught that it is somehow divine, just because sometimes we use our intuition to connect with spiritual teams, angels, or soul purpose, and the
“divine” isn’t the first thing we turn to for practical decisionmaking. If we get past those blocks, we’re stymied because it looks like intuition is limited to “special” people, the psychics who tune in and get guidance for us. But we are all born intuitive, because intuition is a real sense just like our ability to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. It doesn’t work because we talk ourselves out of it by insisting we can’t do it or “that isn’t how things are done” (i.e., the “rational” scientific method). Once we’re past our blocks and actually accessing our intuition we have another problem: intuition isn’t always right. Nothing is, but it’s usually because we aren’t accessing it correctly. We mistake a gutache for an intuitive hit, or we get information that isn’t relevant to the question we’re asking (because we’ve tapped into somebody else’s answers, or don’t know how to analyze what we get). We’ve been brainwashed to think it’s too hard or esoteric, so we’ve lost Omtimes.com
5 Steps to Raise Your Frequency Signature Right Now By OMTimes
We are vibrational beings, every day we are in a constant state of change because the outside energy never stays the same. In your daily life, every moment, every action, interaction, and reactions
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impact our overall energy level and state of well-being. Every choice we make will help us increase or decrease our vibrational signature.
1. Focus and stay in the present moment
When we are blessed with good days, our vibrational energy is more inclined to stabilize on the positive side, but there are days when nothing seems to be going in the right direction.
If you are continually living in a state of anxiety about the future or reliving the past, then you are wasting the energy available to you in the present moment. In doing so, you are directing all your energetic circuits to feed unreachable goals.
Through our own research and study on vibrational frequencies, we have learned that lower vibrational frequencies are most likely associated with negative emotions, such as fear, stagnation, anger, lethargy, health problems, and even depression. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think regarding energy, frequency, and vibration.� - Nikola Tesla
So here are 5 ways to increase your energy signature
Living in the present moment is the source of your power and energy!
Practice the forgiving yourself and others, letting go of the past, and cutting cords and bonds with those lowvibrating energies. In doing so, you open yourself to experience the magic and beauty of living in the now. 2. Concentrate on your breathing To experience an immediate energetic improvement, just close your eyes and focus your mind on your breath. Bring all
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Manifesting a New Vision for Your Life
Here we are in a new year that is desperately “calling us� to live from our purpose so we can create new possibilities for our life and the planet.
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Many of us are making a critical change on the planet by using our talents and gifts to serve the world. However, too many of us are still living our lives in ways that do not support who we really are. One of the most powerful ways I know to make change is to design a vision plan which will help you to raise your vibration, so you can shift your thinking. A vision plan can help you align deeply within your soul to manifest clarity, creative ideas, and powerful healing tools. Let’s begin with three big questions. First, what is a vision plan? A vision plan is a tool to help us manifest what we want in life. We develop our plan through a process we use to clearly identify and then focus on what we want to experience: physically, mentally and spiritually. Our vision process could be expressed through any medium we choose, such as words, pictures, music, or art. This visioning exploration process will become our vision plan.
I have observed many times that I do not “hold” the vision, the vision holds me. The manifestation of our desires requires faith, trust, and the willingness to surrender to a power higher than one’s self. “We do not create a vision, we simply link into a piece of the Universal Vision that already exists as it filters through our own perception.” Second, why create a vision plan? Creating your personal vision for your life is one of the most vital, life-affirming activities in which you can engage. It is one of the most important keys to finding and living your life purpose so you can enjoy a life you love! Dr. Michael Beckwith says, “People who have no vision for their life are sleepwalking without a hint as to why they are here or what their purpose is. They are drifting along on the currents of the culture’s beliefs of the day, whether those beliefs are good or bad. People who don’t have a vision, who are not open to their purpose in life, are living on the edge of life, usually controlled by fear.” Omtimes.com
In a medieval world dominated by insecurity, clergy, and feudal lords, Hildegard von Bingen did not allow herself to be overlooked. With great skill and hard work, she built and Omtimes.com
managed two convents, wrote books on theology, medicine, and natural sciences, composed sacred music and excel being a woman beyond her time. Her most significant battle, however, was not to be silenced.
because of her exceptional abilities and her vision, she was never canonized as a saint, in fact, her canonization process was archived during the 13th century. She was too telluric to be holy.
Hildegard von Bingen or the Sibyl of the Rhine was an abbess, a writer, poet, a polymath, scientist, doctor, composer, philosopher, visionary. She was also considered a precursor of Opera, of Ecological studies and perspectives and she even invented her own language, that may as well be the first artificial language in History of Mankind. Hildegard is also a founder of natural history in Germany, a nun and a Christian mystic. Her life, as could have expected, was controversial and complicated; She was a multidimensional woman. In fact, she was the only woman of her days who not only dared to talk about the role of female pleasure but also to make a series of medical recommendations in favor of women’s sexual health. Maybe,
She spoke fearlessly about her ideas, beliefs, and predictions, while the twelfth-century court learned to listen to it. Hildegard came from a noble family in the Alzey region of southern Germany. By the age of three, the future abbess had visionary abilities. But it was only at the age of fifteen, as an inmate of the convent next to the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg, that she realized how unique her skills really were. Hildegard von Bingen was born in the year 1098, and she became a “human� tithe. As the tenth daughter of her family, her parents gave her to the Church as their contribution. They left her in the monastery of monks of Disivodemberg, which housed
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