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CARMEN HARRA The Karma Queen by OMTIMES
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Face Yoga: Energizing Exercises
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The Day I Became a” Spirit Whisperer"
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Practice the Seven Keystones of Rock Balancing
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Danielle Collins
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By John Holland
Travis Ruskus
Shamanic Yoga- How to Pave the Way to a More Empowered You
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How I Flunked the Science Fair but Saved the World
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Erase Fearful Feelings from Your Life
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Dharmic Ubuntu: You are Your Ancestor’s Dream
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When Conflicts Are Giving You a Headache?
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The Human Ladder
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Blast Those Limiting Beliefs In Four Steps
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Letting Anger Fuel Positive Change in Our Lives
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Sustainability, Deep Ecology, & the Sacred
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Carmen Harra The Karma Queen
A town with no electricity and no running water seems like the least likely place to birth to a star. But Carmen Harra started dreaming of the world outside her small village of Transylvania, Romania at a young age. As fate would have it, an otherworldly Omtimes.com
accident endowed Carmen with a gift that would carry her far beyond her modest birthplace… even far beyond this world. For over 25 years, “The Karma Queen” Dr. Carmen Harra has helped people from all walks of life as a renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, relationship expert, and radio show host. Today she reveals her fascinating story, shares the secrets to better relationships, and explains how we can resolve our karma to experience greater joy. Dr. Carmen Harra is a world-renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, radio show host, and relationship expert. In the past 25 years, Carmen has helped over 40,000 people rediscover peace of mind, reclaim personal power, and regain joy. Her clients include people from all walks of life, from the lady next door to Hollywood celebrities and eminent politicians. Carmen uniquely combines the normal with the paranormal to deliver
powerful positive change: tried and tested cognitive therapy coupled with the ancient arts of numerology, mediumship, and incredible intuition. Carmen has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News, and on shows like Good Morning America, The View, Good Day New York, the Today show, and many more. She’s the author of international best-sellers like Everyday Karma, Decoding Your Destiny, The Eleven Eternal Principles, and Wholeliness, among others. Her seventh book, The Karma Queens’ Guide to Relationships, was released by Penguin Books, and she’s now working on her eighth book all about commitment! Carmen has also hosted call-in shows on Hay House Radio, WOR Radio, and WABC Radio. She currently hosts a popular weekly show called Miracle Guidance for Everyday Life every Tuesday on OMTimes Radio. Omtimes.com
Face Yoga Energizing Exercises
Throw out the creams, get rid of the face masks and delete that surgeon’s number – try Face Yoga – the new way to keep you looking younger, firmer, and healthier.
2. Place the palm of your hand on the right side of your forehead. Press, or “dab,” your forehead gently, moving gradually across to the left, then back toward
THE FOREHEAD DAB – For Preventing and Reducing Forehead Lines
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1. Start with your eyes either open or closed – whichever feels more comfortable. Omtimes.com
4. Start with one dab per second, then gradually slow it down to one dab every 10 seconds. Do this exercise for 1 minute in total.
BENEFITS Relaxing the frontalis muscle of your forehead means less tension. This exercise also improves circulation, keeping the skin refreshed and glowing. TOP TIP Use this exercise to practice keeping your forehead still while widening the eyes –a great way to avoid expression lines.
THE EYEBROW LIFT – For reducing and preventing hooded eyes 1. Place your two index fingers under the eyebrows. Very slowly close your eyes and hold for 10 seconds. Repeat twice more. You should feel a shaking in the upper part of your eyelids. 2. Lift your hands away from the eyebrows and place all your fingertips in the middle of the forehead. Very gently smooth the fingers away from each other toward your temples and then lift off. Keep the eyes wide and don’t raise the eyebrows. Repeat for 30 seconds. BENEFITS The muscles in your forehead
work against the resistance of the finger, which helps to build strength and tone. TOP TIP Because this exercise asks you to raise your eyebrows, it should be followed by a forehead massage to ensure that the forehead muscle is relaxed following the exercise
THE BUTTERFLY- For reducing and Preventing Lines between the Eyebrows 1. Using your index finger, middle finger, and ring finger on both hands, smooth the area between the eyebrows. Move your hands away from each other, and when they reach the hairline, look down and hold for 10 seconds. 2. Bring the fingers back to your starting position and repeat twice more. 3. Now do the same exercise (3 sets of 10 seconds) but with your eyes wide open, ensuring you don’t raise the eyebrows. BENEFITS The massaging action helps to relieve tension in your procerus Omtimes.com
The Day I Became a ”Spirit Whisperer” By John Holland
Back in the 1990s, I was in a serious automobile accident that I’m convinced put me on my path as a Spirit Whisperer. After the accident, the psychic abilities I’d experienced as a child were now back, but this time, they were a hundred times stronger. I remember the first time I did a reading with these newfound abilities.
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An artist named Maury heard about me from a friend and came to see me. She had several career options and asked if I could give her some guidance. One minute we were talking about her design business, and the next I felt as if something had shifted in the room. These days I refer to this shift as “the quickening.” It felt like everything was going a little bit faster, as though someone had turned up the switch. It also meant that Maury and I weren’t alone anymore. As I looked at Maury again, I noticed that sitting right beside her was an elderly woman. I saw her there as clear as day. “Maury, an older woman, is sitting next to you, and there’s something strange about her clothes—nothing matches.” Maury let out a scream. I screamed, then she hugged me, and I hugged her! I calmed down a bit, and then I could hear this old woman’s voice in my head. She was relentless, saying the same thing over and over again, “She’ll know who I am. Mention
the diamond. Mention the diamond!” I did exactly as she asked. I found myself talking so fast, I didn’t even stop to check in with Maury to see how she was reacting. All of a sudden Maury let out a loud gasp for air and just burst into tears. It took me by surprise, and I got up to console her. “So, who is this woman?” “John, it’s my Great Aunt Ada who raised me. She was color blind, yet she insisted on choosing her own clothes. Our family never knew what she’d show up wearing, and this diamond ring I am wearing right now was hers!” Maury told me how she and Ada had a very strong bond, right up to her death 10 years earlier. “She loved me and was always so kind to me. I could always count on her. Even though she’s gone, I have something to remind me of her. She left me her diamond ring.” As she composed herself, Maury whispered, “Is she still here?” “She’s smiling,” I said, “and Omtimes.com
Practice the Seven Keystones of Rock Balancing The Rock Balancer’s Guide By Travis Ruskus
If I could teach you one thing, it’s to remember to breathe during moments of peace. Then, remember to breathe during moments of chaos. Focus calmly on the air, entering and leaving the body. Be careful, as this moment will only happen once. Rock balancing reminds you to use this moment wisely. Like most meditation practices, rock
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balancing is about the power of the breath. We experience a state of physical and mental clarity whenever we stop to simply breathe for a few moments. This state of being is mindfulness, reached by quieting the booming voice of the ego to listen to the true voice of our soul as it interacts with the wisdom of the Earth. Rock balancing is a form of the soul’s interaction with nature. It requires patience and focus, which makes it a powerful form of moving meditation and mindfulness. Since this practice cannot be rushed; it invites you to connect with the present moment. After all, everything that ever happened in the history of time has led you to this moment. Practice the Seven Keystones of Rock Balancing Through countless hours of balancing, I have found that all rock balances embody a set of principles. By following these seven keystones of
rock balancing, you can tap into the flow of energy that surrounds us all in every moment: 1. Breathe: First, you must experience how the breath connects you with the energy of each moment. Discover your true power, one breath at a time. Throughout this process, be sure to bring your attention back on the breath. 2. Opportunity: As you select rocks and start to balance them, discover what your internal fears are and how to overcome them to unlock your abundant potential. Failure is a discovery process. 3. Believe: In my experience of teaching others how to balance rocks, 95 percent of people say “I can’t” before they even pick up a rock and try. By switching your internal mindset to “I can” before receiving external validation, our positive actions begin to manifest what was previously labeled “impossible.” 4. Balance: As you engage in the physical movements of
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Shamanic Yoga How to Pave the Way to a More Empowered You By Selene Calloni Williams
You’ve got a lot on your plate, you are busy getting results, you strive to become more productive and faster every day, you are racing and won’t give up. Well, now imagine a dragon suddenly appearing before you; not an evil monster, but an aspect of your animal spirit, coming to guide you on your path. At this point you have no choice: you have to stop. To Omtimes.com
you, it looks as if others are overtaking you as fast as bullets. In your involuntary stillness, you are called into the depths of your being. As you sink deeper and deeper, you feel something waking in your body: wild power, instinctive energy reconnecting you to the earth. And as others keep on rushing by you, you expand in your stillness. And you realize that the stiller you are, the more you expand, you take on the trees,
the sky, the wind, the mountains, the sea, wolves, eagles, marmots, gryphons, bears, wild horses. Once you’ve become so vast as to have lost the boundaries of your Self, the dragon grabs you gently with its claws and carries you upwards. From up there, you finally see where all the paths along which everybody is running, lead to, and you start weeping with joy and gratitude. Then, having overcome the initial wonder, you start realizing that from that high point, you can see the full picture of your life. You can’t comprehend it with your mind, for it is far too vast to be contained in thoughts, but you can certainly grasp it with your heart. Finally, the dragon takes you back down to earth, back to where you came from, and turning into a ball of fire, it enters within you. That is the truly breath-taking moment because it feels like you are dying, but you don’t – you become enthusiastic. Now you are alone, still; you have seen that all paths lead to nowhere and you are wondering why everybody keeps on running. You know
that what matters is the place where you are at that very moment, and you begin to listen. You focus on your breath, on your beating heart, on your organs, on all that comes your way: a gust of wind, a sound, a smell, an idea, an intention, a vision… you cultivate all this, you intensify it, exalt it, magnify it. As you are doing this, you realize all the others, the runners, have changed their direction and are coming towards you. First, they come sporadically, one at a time, but soon it’s a crowd – they bring opportunities, riches, reputation, respect, even love. You have remained what you’ve always been, you’ve simply stopped running and have seen life’s whole picture from above. The dragon is the symbol of shamanic yoga, an ancient, wild, animistic type of yoga. Shamanic yoga is based on psychophysical exercises and spiritual practices, and that is done in a so-called “imaginal forest”: a magical place reached through ecstasy. Ecstasy is an amplified, non-dual state of consciousness, a condition of self-transcendence reached by Omtimes.com
How I Flunked the Science Fair but Saved the World
In the ninth grade, I did a project for the city science fair. It was about photosynthesis. I set up a little lab in my bedroom with colored lights on African Violets. I had no idea what
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I was doing, and I learned nothing. I would rather have been playing baseball. When the big event came, I displayed my experiment in the sprawling exhibition hall, next to kids who knew what they were doing. Science teachers milled around the hall, inspecting the projects, and quizzing the students. A teacher approached me, and the conversation came around to genetics. “If you cut the tail off of a rat, will its children have short tails or long ones?” The answer was obviously “long ones.” But since my mind was with the Yankees more than hypothetical mice, I answered, “short.” The teacher nodded briefly, said nothing, and moved on. I didn’t win the science fair. Fast forward many decades. I’ve moved on from the Yankees to A Course in Miracles and other spiritual studies. The Course Workbook
repeats one lesson more than any other: I am as God created me. One morning I wake up, and a stunning realization gobsmacks me like a hundred-mile-anhour fastball: The baby mice have long tails because the external changes to their parents cannot alter the genetic blueprint passed along to them. The parents’ innate wholeness is their legacy to their children. What is embedded deep within the parent is not affected by external manipulation. Our spiritual nature ensures that we are whole and perfect. We are created in the image and likeness of God. What goes on in the external world cannot change who we are or affect our true nature. No matter what happens to our body, personality, relationships, career, finances, or worldly politics, external events cannot affect who we are at our core. Our divinity remains intact. I learned about a healing
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Any seemingly scary condition in your life, whatever it may be, is not the real problem. It’s your reaction to it that has you shaking. Which is why, if you become truly conscious of a fearful condition instead of afraid of it, you’ll change forever your relationship with fear.
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Being conscious of your fear empowers you to interact with it in an entirely new way. This new inner relationship gives you the power to be awake to fear’s scary influences, instead of being their unconscious slave. And as each day you discover something new about the shaky nature of your own fearful reactions, they lose their power over you. Why? You see them for what they have always been: unintelligent, mechanical forces. To be consciously afraid means that you know you are frightened. You feel it, but at the same time, you know that these very fears, as real as they may seem, are not you. Fear is really nothing other than a self-limiting reaction that we’ve always mistaken for a shield of self-protection. It’s time to let it go, which you can do anytime you want. Here’s how: Dare to proceed, even while being afraid. Employing this simple but higher instruction to proceed
even while being afraid will not only show you the strange faces of all those habitual reactions that have had you on the run, but it will also empower you to start seeing through them. And, as you’ll gratefully discover, each of your new insights into their actual nature removes some of their power over you. Better yet, their loss is your gain! The following step will help you face those fearful feelings and erase them from your life once and for all. Do you know someone whom you would rather run from than run into? Most of us do! Nevertheless, starting right now, resolve never again to avoid any person who scares you. In fact, whether at home or work, go ahead and walk right up to that critical or aggressive person. If you have something to say, say exactly what you want, instead of letting the fear tell you to do what it wants. Have no ideas at all about the way things should or shouldn’t go. Of course, this exercise is not an excuse to be cruel or rude.
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Dharmic Ubuntu
You are Your Ancestors’ Dream By Humanity Healing
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. –Maya Angelou You are a final creation of many dreams and also of many fears. Through you, all the life intentions of your ancestors are renewed and continue to exist, weaving itself in the fabric of our reality, as a constant flow. Omtimes.com
You may not be aware, but when you heal yourself, you help heal all your dharmic ancestry line. Acknowledging and Honoring their lives bring them closer to us as silent guardians of our Destiny. Because of their intentions, dreams, and projects, you can exist today. They channeled you into existence. Once you transcend the inherited fears and perceived limitations, the tapestry of energies weaved into your DNA will release light. Your Father’s line gives you the way to live. This power will move you, and once you accept this energy, you will be able to conquer the world and open your own path. The energy of the maternal ancestry is fruitful, it will bring you prosperity. It will also influence your personal success in our choices and relationships. Being in alignment with the mother’s line by accepting her in its entirety allows us to enjoy all the blessings that life has in store for us. For those that have problems with a particular parent, we
say, please look beyond their human forms, after all, they are just humans, with limitation and difficulties. But instead, consider them as archetypical characters that may not have had the clarity to transcend the challenges and dramatic demands of their own bloodlines. The acceptance is nothing but a genuine act of forgiveness and release. We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we’re willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don’t want, then we are ready to do something really interesting and beautiful which is to claim a connection with the wisdom of the kinds of ancestors we do want to be in contact with. But we can’t do this until we’ve cleaned out the lower stuff that is hindering us. –Robert Moss Honoring our ancestry is ultimately a way to honor our own lives. And as we follow our destiny, we open the windows to all our ancestors, offering a new horizon for future generations.
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THE HUMAN LADDER by Judy Carroll
In June 2001 a teaching was given to my friend and coauthor with me of The Zeta Message, Helen Kaye, by a tall Grey Elder whom we know as Oris. He explained that the Human Ladder is a path of evolution followed by all members of the human kingdom. It expands Omtimes.com
through what he called “ten galactic levels,” which are not physical places, but rather ascending levels of expanding conscious awareness. Earth is on the very first, the lowest level, with the average Earth human able to consciously access approximately 10% of the potential 100% conscious awareness that can be accessed as we ascend/evolve to higher rungs of the Ladder. The Human Ladder is not a physical hierarchy. It involves energy vibrating at everhigher frequencies. The separation between the levels is purely energetic and has nothing to do with “good” or “bad.” The levels are simply different frequency bands, most of which are beyond the third dimension because they are multidimensional, as is the universe. These frequencies also represent the evolutionary journey of each being as well as planetary cultures. Because we all are multidimensional, every one of us has a part of our being
manifesting on each of the ten levels of the Human Ladder. Our soul spans all levels on the entire Ladder. Self-realization involves coming to a conscious realization of this. The average Earth-human conscious-mind focus (note this is mind, not brain) is on the very first rung of the Human Ladder. There are about another 1,000 other planetary cultures focused at this level, all operating at more or less the same conscious awareness. The amount of DNA that is activated is intrinsically linked to the level of consciousness that we’re able to access. DNA is multidimensional. When the human mind awakens to Level Two of the Ladder, awareness expands to 20%, which enables fully conscious “knowing” that we are not just a physical body, but rather a spiritual entity. This soul essence has chosen to inhabit a physical body to undergo certain learning experiences. Omtimes.com
BLAST THOSE LIMITING BELIEFS IN 4 STEPS by Michelle Alberigi McKenzie
I’m not good enough. I’ll never earn as much money as I need to. No one will ever like the real me. I’m afraid of dying poor. I’m afraid of looking stupid. There aren’t enough good jobs to go around. I have to please people so that they’ll love me. Omtimes.com
Sound familiar? These are limiting beliefs, and we all have them. They are those nasty little stories we tell ourselves, and we learned some when we were kids from our family, friends, our culture, and our society. Even now, we continue to add these to our beliefs, even though we’re unaware of doing it. But before we can blast them, we have to identify them. So how do we know what our limiting beliefs are?
#1 Discovering your limiting beliefs Fear is a big part of our limiting beliefs. Start with this statement and fill in the blank. “I’m afraid that______.” Example: I’m afraid that I’ll never get my dream job. Continue this exercise until you have discovered 10 of your most painful beliefs. Consider all the areas of your life, such as finances, romance, social, career, etc.
Now that you have your ten beliefs written out write out three to five reasons you believe these. Why do you fear each one? Dig deep here. Examples: I’m afraid I will never get my dream job. I believe this is true because no one in my family had a real career, and they don’t think I will either. I’m sure I didn’t take the right courses in college, and that will make it impossible to get the job I want. I will never be wealthy. I don’t believe I know enough about anything to make money. I believe rich people are dishonest. I believe people would treat me differently if I had money. Can you see how believing these can affect how you take action on your life? These become not just real fears, but self-fulfilling prophecies. These beliefs stimulate
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Sustainability, Deep Ecology, & the Sacred by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
As our world stumbles to the brink of ecological collapse, the “tipping point” of irreversible climate change, sustainability has become a vital issue. But in order to consider the question of sustainability, it is important, to begin with the question: who or what is being sustained? Does sustainability refer to “sustained economic growth,” and an environment that is able to sustain our present human civilization with its energyintensive, consumer-driven needs and image of material progress? Or does sustainability refer to the whole ecosystem, an interconnected web of life with its vast and rich diversity of species? Which world are we trying to sustain? Omtimes.com
The first image of sustainability has economic models of growth and energy efficiency, often with accompanying “green” ideas such as green technologies or green energy to help our civilization develop. It is orientated almost solely towards our human wellbeing, which the environment is seen as supporting. This is sometimes referred to as “surface ecology.” The second image of sustainability is often referred to as “deep ecology,” and it considers the ecosystem as a living whole of which humanity is only one part. In this complex web of interrelationships, all species are dependent upon each other, and it is this dynamic pattern of inter-relationship that needs to be sustained. No one part can be considered as separate from the whole, and the idea that the environment is just here to support our human civilization is a travesty of real environmental consciousness. Deep ecology moves beyond the Newtonian idea of humanity being separate from the world in which we live—the image of humanity and its “environment.” It does not see humanity as a
“superior” species, which the rest of the ecosystem should support in a subservient manner, or that nature is for humanity to master and control. Rather than embracing a Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest, deep ecology sees life from the perspective of cooperation and inter-dependence. It brings into question whether our present civilization, with its model of continued economic and material growth, is ethically or environmentally sustainable. Is it right that our human needs and desires take precedence over the whole of creation, to the point of unprecedented species depletion, pollution, and destruction of natural habitat—as well as constellating a climate change that is bringing our whole ecosystem into a dangerous state of imbalance? And if creation is an interdependent whole, how long can we all endure this present ecocide? An interdependent ecosystem is closer to the dynamics of particle physics, which we begin to understand as underlying our physical world. Here not only is no one part separate from another, but Omtimes.com
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