Smile
Sadly, most of us live a fast paced life where the demands, expectations, and delusions of the modern world can leave us stressed, miserable and confused. Even something
so innocent as a smile can be measured and analysed until its value and benefit can be drained dry. We wear the dried husk of these scientific smiles like an I.D badge and
gradually lose sight of a real smile.
We are told how false smiles hide our intentions or feelings, nervous smiles hide fear or embarressment. Fake smiles are used to show derision and distain, the list goes on
and yet our inner connection with smiles and smiling begins almost from birth. Although babies may smile in the womb, most babies smile within 2 months of birth, an instinctive
behaviour rather than learnt as blind babies do smile. We can recognize a smile from 100 yards and seeing one can make biological changes, smiling is truly contagious.
This competitive world can make smiling seem dangerous as some may consider it threatening or concealing some hidden motive especially from someone not known to smile a lot.
Asking someone why they are smiling can seem challenging and arguementative, many feel a smile suggest that we are the butt of some hidden joke. For those that pursue smiling
as a facial "neutral gear" or status quo, for those who smile readily, the serenity of an innocent smile hides no secrets.
Rarely mentioned in fitness journals, it also has great physcological and phyical benefits, the action whether natural or contrived releases endorphins, the happy drug released
by chocolate. It relaxes us and lowers stress and tension, which helps stabilize our blood pressure and heart rate, which contributes to good health and a stronger immune system.
It also stimulates our memory centers and improves cognitive function, we can smile ourselves smarter.
The power of the smile are available with natural smiles, fakes created by just moving facial muscles, or those smiles made when we think of a happier moment. The power is
greatest when our smile is true and innocent but there is definitely no harm in seeking the benefits with the less natural kind. Smiling during meditation and prayer can heighten
the experience and give a deeper understanding and connection with the universe.
A happy demeanour is the cheapest way to "pay it forward", a smiling "Good Morning" can have a domino effect of spreading joy which loves to return to the maker, an innocent smile
is truly a direct line to the soul.
Begin Your Connection
We are made up of mind, body and soul and while we may sweat in the gym to tone our bodies, and challenge our
brains with crosswords and study, rarely do we give our souls five sets of ten, an ethereal jog or a spiritual bench press.
We may eat well and healthy, avoid mind numbing television and consider ourselves fit and well and yet for all our good intentions
we generally ignore one third of ourselves.
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Divination - Is the future set
Tarot cards, runes, astrology, the list of ways we have tried to see into the future goes on, some dating hundreds or even thousands of years. The first question
that should be asked before we even consider if they work should be 'is the future set?'.
If the future is set it would make our actions meaningless as the outcome would be the same regardless of what we did. If the future is not set then how ...
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Melancholy - Thoughts on being sad
If someone had told me at the beginning of March 2020 that my two week stay in America would end up lasting ten weeks I would have probably laughed. Here I
am though and now just a few days to go until I return to the UK.
I have had an awesome time and experienced so many things here, and although I intend to return later in the year I am still sad to be leaving. In fact I
woke up this morning feeling downright melancholy.
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Faith allows things to happen
This morning I decided I had prayed and waited for a sign long enough, I dialed the number for Aer Lingus to discuss my upcoming flight. I was nervous and unsure
about what to do, I had so many thoughts running through my head.
Will my flight be canceled? Should I even go to England during a pandemic? If I don’t go now I might not be able to afford to go later with
the airline prices going up. But if Dave is here for school in the fall this may be my last chance.
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Troubles?
Overwhelmed is often used when we describe how we feel about our problems, an interesting word when you consider it can mean 'to be defeated by someone or something by
using a lot of force', 'to cause someone to feel strong emotion', and 'to be too much to deal with'. So what do we actually mean, in all honesty I believe it is the emotive
qalitities that we refer to.
It is how we feel about the situation that drives us to consider it a trouble or problem, rather than the situation itself.
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Prayer - Untapped Power
Is prayer a spiritual parachute, a mystic genie, or a comfort in your life?
You may be missing out. Most of us have at some
time or other asked for help from our personal divinity, help in money, love, carreer, home-life, the list goes on and maybe
on some ocassions that prayer seems to have been answered but is that the purpose of prayer?
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Getting To Know My Stones
I love the picture here with all our crystals, you may look and consider it a collection or a display but to me it is more like a cross between a petting zoo
and a magic box. Each stone and statue has its own personality and purpose.
I don't feel that we own these stones, more like guardians or custodians to look after them until they move on to the next part of their
journey.
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Ten Steps To Zen
We often block our path to our true happiness, our Higher Power, and our unique connection to life, with mental chains of our own making. Perceived expectations that
are nothing but barriers to happiness.
We put together a list of those things that disturb our peace and our thoughts on dispelling them.
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Auras - The Star Within Us
We already use our auras on a regular basis in giving or receiving a massage, stroking a pet or a simple handshake connects our auras to
another living thing.
So how do we gain sensitivity, strength, and defense with auras? We gain physical strength by exercise, mental acuity by using our brains, and we strengthen our auras by
feeling them and using them.
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Unity by Dave
As the numbers on this page grew to reach five hundred likes I took to consider the importance we hold to being part of something and what was to be gained on an
individual level and also a group level.
When we all feel connected with a common cause or goal there is a definite energy that courses through us and charges the atmosphere.
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The Connected Journey
Living the spiritual life and connecting with the Earth Energies may sound like a dreamer's paradise. In the 21st Century, with our busy lives, hectic schedules and
exhausting commitments is it easy to become a connected soul?
We cannot control what effects us but we can choose how we let ourselves be changed by it, and we can use the resources found here to help us.
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