The Egocentric Mind Syndrome
I guess I could deny this side of me, this sinful side but denying this “Egocentric Mind Syndrome” only makes matters worse.
Being OneGreat thinkers of the past and the present have known that everything in this universe is made of energy.
It takes time to prepare a tasty meal, set the table, and sit with your children as you all share your lives with one another, but this is time well spent. We did not use meal times to bring up issues that required discipline; instead, we did a lot of laughing. Acts 2:28 says, “You have made known to me the ways of life, You will make me full of joy in Your presence.” Inviting the presence of the Lord into your home and to your table is essential.
Reframing MatrikLooking at problems with a different perspective. A blind man sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read – “I am blind, please help”. A man was walking by him and stopped to observe he only had a few coins in his hat. He dropped a few more coins into his hat and without saying anything, took the sign, turned it around, and wrote on it. He placed the sign by the blind man’s feet and left.
A Conversation on Living in the PresentLiving in the present means that you direct your attention to what is happening now, enjoying it and making the most of it. By focusing your mind on the present, you don’t have time or opportunity to wallow in useless and negative thoughts and emotions relating to the past or the future.
Spiritual Martial ArtsI had a friend who loved to play basketball. Unfortunately, he started playing later in life so didn’t have that many skills. He encountered someone who had been playing ball for more than 20 years on various basketball teams from High School to college, and even at the semi-pro level before getting an injury. He hadn’t been a coach, but he had tons of experience and he shared them freely, every day, with my friend. When I tell you this story you are probably thinking how lucky my friend was. He met this guy who knew all about basketball and learned from him. You probably think about how this guy really helped him. If I told you the same story about martial arts though, and a guy who had been practicing a Tai Chi form or a certain style of karate ten or twenty years, you might say the same thing, until you talked with one of the martial arts gate keepers.
The “Inauguration” of an important event and its “Commencement” always signified a memorial occasion in virtually every society throughout history. “Inauguration” derived from the Latin word inaugurare, that is, “the study of the flight, singing and movement of birds.” At one time people studied the nature of time and predicted the quality and nature of a situation simply through the flight of birds. Via the passage of time, people lost the wisdom of this practice, and at present this art is near obsolete due to zealous fanaticism.
When Standing Gets You Farther Than RunningWhen I say life can be a rat race, most everyone will agree. We are programmed into running around for the most part. Running is often equated with winning, and gaining and finishing first. Sometimes we just automatically run to something or often times away from something. As long as we run in any direction, we feel we are going to get somewhere. The only problem with running is that sometimes we will miss the mark altogether. Running often times will not get us to the desired goal and it is wasted energy. Standing on the other hand, can be harder to do, but the end result will not be a waste of enegy. Sometimes, it’s just standing that will get us across the finish line.
It Just Makes Life A Little BrighterJust eight letters can mean so much. What eight letters am I talking about? U I O E V Y O L…
Welcome The ChallengesWelcome the challenges. How odd! Through all that we’ve gone through and continue to go through how can we possibly welcome the challenges? What if we don’t? And we resent every unwanted situation that we attract to ourselves. Then what? Are we aligned with the possibilities to create a new way of thinking, transformation and healing for ourselves?
New Age Parapsychology and Spiritual Books – Different Titles, Same Song!Many people believe that new age books are different from spiritual books, even though there are so many books available that are described as new age spiritual books. If we look at the terms new age and spiritual, we find similarities, where spiritual refers to soul or spirit and new age has been described as ‘of or relating to spiritual and consciousness raising movements’. New age books encompass health, medicine, philosophy, religion and the occult. And yet, the term “new age” was only coined in recent decades, mainly from the 1970’s. So that begs the question – is there such a thing as a New Age?
Psychic Intuition – Psychic AbilityPsychic Intuition means an instinctive awareness of an impending event. You feel something is going to occur, though you cannot explain the reasons of its occurrence.



