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			<title>20 Secrets of Happiness</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<b>Some thoughts about happiness:</b><br /><br />&#8226;	Happiness is a state of mind, it doesn't reside in objects.<br />&#8226;	Nobody can make you happy, except yourself!<br />&#8226;	The foun...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Some thoughts about happiness:</b><br /><br />&#8226;	Happiness is a state of mind, it doesn't reside in objects.<br />&#8226;	Nobody can make you happy, except yourself!<br />&#8226;	The fountain of happiness is inside of you. Don't try to find it outside. This search is in vain.<br />&#8226;	The origin of stress is in your mind. Without the understanding and control of your mind, it's impossible to eliminate the stress.<br />&#8226;	Nobody can make you unhappy, unless you allow them to.<br />&#8226;	Happiness is measured by the spirit in which you face life's challenges.<br />&#8226;	Happiness doesn't come when you do what you like, but when you like what you do.<br />&#8226;	Happiness is like perfume: you can't pulverize it on others without being touched by few drops.<br />&#8226;	The best way to stay happy is to make sure that others are happy as well.<br />&#8226;	The tension and unhappiness are not objects, things or situations. They are our reactions generated by things and situations.	<br /><br /><b>20 Secrets of Happiness</b><br /><br /><b>1. Mental concentration</b><br />A powerful mind is not easily affected by the challenges of life. Mental concentration means to learn how to live in the present moment, which is the best way to reach happiness and success in life. <br /><br /><b>2. Detachment and the ability to let go</b><br />Some people can concentrate and be absorbed completely during one activity, but it's hard for them to forget that activity when they start another one. We must remember that the only reason for various things, actions and events in our life is to give us the lessons and training necessary for our evolution. We must use them for our progress without attaching to them too much. It is said that" Although it's useful to remember sometimes, it's often wise to forget."<br /><br /><b>3. Planned thinking</b><br />Make sure that from time to time your thinking is planned and structured and not chaotic.Chaotic thinking and dreaming with open eyes it's a sign of a weak mind. It shows that instead of controlling your subconscious mind, you are controlled by it. Your conscious mind should always stay active and alert, being in control over your subconscious mind. Make sure you keep only the thoughts you want to have in that moment.<br /><br /><b>4. Positive thinking</b><br />The way we think is the most important factor in building your personality and character. Make a habit in seeing the positive aspects of things and events, even in the most unhappy situations. Negative thinking weakens the mind, makes it agitated and impure. Having a positive thinking, you will attract always favorable conditions, through the law of resonance. Staying always positive, you will create an aura of good vibrations around you which is beneficent not only for you, but for people around you as well.<br /><br /><b>5. Take it easy</b>We use to take things too seriously. We should rather realize that there are no permanent difficulties or problems. All will pass some time sooner or later. Everything is changing. Nothing is static or permanent, including your problems.<br /><br /><b>6. There is a reason for everything, nothing is random</b><br />The Universe has a certain order and everything is linked through the law of cause and effect. For every effect there is a cause. Everything which happens today is there because you saw some seeds there in the past. Change your attitude towards the confrontation with various problems in life. Don't look at them like a burden which comes from nowhere. Look at them as modalities for progress and growth and stay focused in success/failure, gain/loss so that you stop another karmic link to create. The events in our life are not as important as our attitude towards them. <br />"The world is not good, not bad. It all depends by the way we react to it."<br /><br /><b>7. Silence, solitude and introspection</b><br />Try to make time every day for a silent, peaceful time and dedicate some time just for you. Through silence you preserve your mental energy. Talk only as much as it is necessary. Avoid gossip, arguments and useless conversations. There must be a reason and a sense in everything you say. A lot of mental energy is lost in useless discussions.<br /><br /><b>8. Conquer your fears</b><br />Fears are great consumers of mental energy and they are also major blockages for our progress. According to the Law of Attraction or The Law of Resonance, we attract in our life the things and situations which we are mostly afraid of. Keep in mind that there is nothing in this world you should be afraid of . No situation is ever as frightening and painful as our imagination makes out of it.<br />Confront every life challenge with a positive attitude and trust in yourself and God. <br /><br /><b>9. Don't maintain inferiority complexes. What others can do, so can you!</b><br />Many people have inferiority complexes, considering that they can't do what others do. They don't trust themselves. You must understand that the ultimate potential is the same for all of us. <br />Don't compare yourself with others and don't feel inferior or superior to others. In fact we are all One in essence!<br /><br /><b>10. When you are provoked, don't respond immediately</b><br />Every time when you feel troubled because of some unexpected problems or some bad remarks of others, avoid reacting immediately or respond to them. Wait a little, refrain to say or do something as long as the trouble still persists in your mind. It's better to leave that place and stay alone for few minutes, silently. Calm down and try to see the problem from all perspectives. If you need to respond, be polite and respectful. <br /><br /><b>11. Don't charge your subconscious with negative thoughts</b><br />Your subconscious mind is a huge deposit for your conscious mind. Everything you see, hear, think, feel and experiment is deposited here, as permanent memory. Together with the feelings and impressions we deposit negative emotions and feelings like hatred, jealousy, anger and others. The remedy is to send to your subconscious mind only positive emotions and thoughts. This will destroy the negative thoughts and emotions. The positive is always more powerful than the negative.<br />Remember that the source of troubles are not our actions but our reactions.<br /><br /><b>12. Be always optimistic </b><br />It doesn't matter how many times you failed in reaching a goal. It's important to stay positive and trustful in your success. There is no force which can stop you from reaching success, if you are dedicated to a noble cause. <br />Remember that no effort is in vane. Even if the situation seem to be a disaster, don't give up. Keep trying. You never know how close you are to success.<br /><br /><b>13. Learn to say NO</b><br />Your courage to say NO can save you from some unpleasant situations. You have an independent personality which can stand up like a rock if truth is on your side. Some people are afraid that if they say NO to a person, they will feel offended. But if that person has a negative attitude generally, she will see everything as negative, no matter what you would say. Instead of concentrating on others, it's better to concentrate upon what you are doing, seeing if that action is good or bad from the point of view of your spiritual evolution.<br /><br />Read more on my blog Open Your Heart Project:<br /><br /><a href="http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/20-secrets-of-happiness.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/20-secrets-of-happiness.html</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Delia</dc:creator>
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			<title>IF YOU ARE SOMEBODY</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/RanoKhare/blog/if-you-are-somebody-2/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>IF YOU ARE SOMEBODY <br />    By Ranu Khare<br /><br /><br />If you are somebody<br />What you speak and do<br />Is weighed appropriately<br /><br />Every action in jest<br />Words spoken in vain<br />Trigger a</b>...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>IF YOU ARE SOMEBODY <br />    By Ranu Khare<br /><br /><br />If you are somebody<br />What you speak and do<br />Is weighed appropriately<br /><br />Every action in jest<br />Words spoken in vain<br />Trigger a reaction <br />Unknown, untamed<br />Sometimes a twitter <br />Sometimes a flame<br /><br />What is sown <br />is what is reaped<br />Life is the outcome <br />of one&#8217;s words and deeds<br /><br />Where pride controls <br />Wisdom is lost <br />Where wealth is priority <br />Compassion is lost <br /><br />Envy and Anger <br />Destroy trust and friendship<br />If Love is lost - All is lost.</b>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Rano Khare</dc:creator>
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			<title>About a clerk - I learned to love you today by  Bob Perks</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/bhagouauty/blog/about-a-clerk-i-learned-to-love-you-today-by-bob-perks/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>About a clerk - I learned to love you today by  Bob Perks</b><br /><br />Today's story is about a clerk...<br /><br />I learned to love you today.<br /><br />You're miserable and proba...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>About a clerk - I learned to love you today by  Bob Perks</b><br /><br />Today's story is about a clerk...<br /><br />I learned to love you today.<br /><br />You're miserable and probably one of the rudest people I've ever come across.<br /><br />When I approach you, you turn away and pretend that I am not there, until you're ready.<br /><br />I have tried a thousand times to make you smile and you have tried a thousand times not to.<br /><br />I have dreaded even having to deal with you. I even tried coming at another time only to find you there at all hours.<br /><br />The hard, staid, look on your face remains unchanged no matter what day it is, what time it is or even what season.<br /><br />A "Beautiful day!" gets a moan.<br /><br />"Hello, how are you today?" always returns "The same."<br /><br />I have given up on you, I have been angered by you, I have even thought about complaining to the manager, but didn't.<br /><br />Then one day I caught myself acting just like you and realized that I must stop.<br /><br />I finally resolved myself to the fact that you are who you are and I cannot change that.<br /><br />You are a fact of my life and I must learn to deal with it.<br /><br />You made me.<br /><br />The one day that I permitted myself to return the emptiness, rude behavior, terrible attitude and silent treatment, you chose to say something.<br /><br />I approached the checkout and you said, "Are you Okay?" I was stunned. I could actually feel my brow, my entire face scrunch up apparently angry that you would ask.<br /><br />"Am I okay?" I said in disbelief.<br /><br />"Yes." you replied. "You are usually so upbeat and chipper."<br /><br />I stood in this dream-like state confused by what was going on.<br /><br />You looked at me and said, "I depend on you to lift my spirits every time you come in. I work three jobs, my bills are piling up, my kids need clothes for school, my husband left me and three weeks later I found out I have cancer."<br /><br />I was speechless.<br /><br />"Now you come in with this attitude today," she said.<br /><br />I actually apologized.<br /><br />I never considered that you were much more than a clerk. I never tried to understand that behind that face was personal pain, life challenges and loss.<br /><br />Sure you should learn to separate work and life, but sometimes life digs in, hurts, and you end up wearing it like an ugly dress. Fits, but no one wants to see it.<br /><br />Knowing now how difficult your life is I will see you through the eyes of love.<br /><br />Love is more than romantic. Love is compassionate. Love is kind.Love is forgiving. Love is seeing beyond the pain.<br /><br />"I learned to love you today."<br /><br />Bob Perks<br /><br />Bob Perks is an inspirational author and speaker. Bob's new book I Wish You Enough has been published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. A collection of stories based on his Eight Wishes expressed below. Available through your favorite bookstore or online. Visit www.BobPerks.com<br /><br />"I Wish You Enough!"<br />(c) 2001 Bob Perks<br />I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.<br />I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.<br />I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.<br />I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.<br />I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.<br />I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.<br />I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."<br /><br /><b>With thanks from the source: www.InsightoftheDay.com</b><br /><br />Copyright &#169; 2011<br />InsightoftheDay.com<br />All rights reserved]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Dr. Harmander Singh</dc:creator>
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			<title>What is Love? Message from Archangel Raguel</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/Love4Yoga/blog/what-is-love-message-from-archangel-raguel/</link>
			<description>Preparing my radio show about love, I asked Archangel Raguel - the Archangel of Divine Justice and Harmony-  to tell me what is love and this is His m...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Preparing my radio show about love, I asked Archangel Raguel - the Archangel of Divine Justice and Harmony-  to tell me what is love and this is His message received on May 24th, 2011.<br />I hope this message will inspire you as much as it inspired me!<br /><br />&#8220;Love is the most beautiful of all human feelings. It comes directly from God.  The beings who love are gifted by God with wonderful qualities of the soul. Even those who don&#8217;t know how to love yet, are able to learn how to love, because they were born with the same potential qualities as all other beings on Planet Earth. <br /><br />A soul, who loves, instantaneously arises into God&#8217;s Kingdom and ennobles everything around. <br /><br />The hunger for love is something which is characteristic to the people nowadays. All their desires which they seek to fulfill in the external world come from their lack of love. This can be fulfilled through the simple act of loving at least one human being, a flower, a plant, a pet or a scenery from nature. The more human beings you love, the more ideas, aspirations, plants, and animals you love, the closer you are to God the Father. To love only one human being during your lifetime is a grace, but to love more human beings is Divine, is a grace bestowed upon those who ASK for it. Don&#8217;t put a limit to your love. Be free to love as much as possible, let love flow through you, open your heart to love and many miracles will appear for each of you in this Divine state. <br /><br />Love is an endless stream which flows through and in your heart, it&#8217;s inside and outside your being and it does not belong to you. Then why should you limit it to only one human being? While there are so many other beings looking for love even without knowing what they are looking for? When you will love with a pure and detached love as many human beings as possible, this planet will become the Planet of Love, chosen by God to flourish the Divine Love in it. What can be more beautiful than living on a planet of love? These times are close, but it waits for you to take the first step towards the Divine Love.<br /><br />Ask and you shall be given. Knock and it will be open to you. All the treasures from the Kingdom of God and from Heavens will bestow upon those who love with a Divine Love, which is beyond limitations and expectations. It&#8217;s pure like the purest water of a mountain lake and it doesn&#8217;t ask for anything in return. It doesn&#8217;t expect anything. It doesn&#8217;t look for anything else than the happiness of the being it bestows upon. Imagine a river which flows and overcomes all the stones in its way. In the same way the Divine Love overcomes all the obstacles put in its way, which are: egotism, selfishness, the desire to receive instead of giving, jealousy and expectations of all kinds.<br /><br />Let the river of love flow through your bodies and they will be healed from all illnesses. The healing power of love is unlimited. Love can heal the person you are in love with even from a chronic disease which they might have had for years. Send to your beloved this love directly from your heart, every day, at the same time. Close your eyes and let this love bestow upon them and you will see miracles happening in their life. But never think that you healed them. Love and only love which comes from God heals everything, forgives everything, purifies everything.<br /><br />Love is also light, the inner Light you see sometimes it&#8217;s the love of God for you. Let yourself be caressed by it, bathed in this love-light and your body will never know illness and death. You will become immortal and you will melt in Light for eternity. In fact, the state of enlightenment is to melt in the Divine Light. Then you will reach perfection. <br /><br />Pray to God the Father to love with His love for people, not with your love for them. Your love is limited now. You see a beautiful being and say: I want to be with her for the rest of my life! But you fall in love with her appearance not with her soul. When you will fall in love with her soul, only then you love with a Divine Love. A person is beautiful for the one who loves her, but if you look carefully around you, ALL human beings are beautiful in their own, unique way.<br /><br />Love the Divine Essence within each human being and you will see your soul being enriched with the light from their soul and in this way you will become light. When you talk to someone, look into their eyes and you will see the light from their soul will filling the space between the two of you. The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Look people in the eyes, don&#8217;t avoid their eyes, and don&#8217;t avoid their soul. Every being you meet in your life, was sent to deliver a message for you and you will have to find that message.<br /><br /><br />How can we love with a Divine Love?<br /><br />Open your heart immediately and it will lead your steps in the direction you need to follow to evolve spiritually. Give up hatred, jealousy and envy and in this way, purifying your heart, you will discover the most precious treasure from your heart: the Divine Love."<br /><br /><br />I honor the Divinity within you! Namaste!<br /><br /><br />With love,<br /><br /><br />Delia <br /><br />Read the article on my blog "Open Your Heart Project"<br /><br />http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-is-love-message-from-archangel.html]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Delia</dc:creator>
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			<title>Techniques for Forgiveness Part 1</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/Love4Yoga/blog/techniques-for-forgiveness-part-1/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many times I asked myself this question: "Why is it so important to forgive those who hurt us and even to forgive ourselves?" The answer is because ho...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many times I asked myself this question: "Why is it so important to forgive those who hurt us and even to forgive ourselves?" The answer is because holding resentments towards a person, hurts not only the other person, but mostly ourselves and can lead to pain, sufferance and illness, due to the resonance with inferior energies. But many times forgiveness is a beautiful idea, until we have to put it in practice in our own life. In this article I will try to put together some ideas and techniques for forgiveness which proved to be successful.<br /><br />Many times memories from the past seem to emerge from our deepest levels of the subconscious mind and although our present life situations have nothing to do with the past and are completely harmless, we judge them and the people we interact with, based on our memories. <br /><br />Let's see what is the structure of the mind and how these memories emerge from our subconscious mind?<br />Our mind has 3 basic levels: the sub conscious mind, which is the deepest level, the conscious mind which is active during our daily activities, or it should be active if we would be completely awakened and the super conscious mind, which is beyond the former two, more like a witness which lives completely present in the moment of now. Above all and ultimately the source of all is the Divine Intelligence. <br /><br />According to the Ho'oponopono teachings, the ancient Hawaiian system of healing, problem solving and transformation, brought to the world by Morrnah Simeona, who was the original founder of the Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono courses, continued by Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len from Hawaii,<br />"The subconscious mind experiences mimicking, echoing, replaying. It behaves, feels, sees and decides exactly as memories dictates. The conscious mind, too, operates, without its awareness, by memories replaying. The subconscious mind and conscious mind, comprising the Soul, do not generate their own ideas, thoughts, feelings and actions. The Soul does not generate experiences of its own. It sees as memories see. It feels as memories feel. It behaves as memories behave and decides as memories decide. Or, rarely, it sees, it feels, it behaves and decides as Inspiration sees, feels, behaves and decides. <br />It is crucial in problem solving to realize that the body and the world are not the problems in and of themselves, but the consequences, the effects of memories replaying in the subconscious mind! <br /><br />Who's in charge?<br /><br />The Void is the foundation of Self I-Dentity, of Mind, of the Cosmos. It is the precursor state to the infusion of Inspirations from Divine Intelligence into the Subconscious Mind.<br /><br />Memories replaying displace the Void of Self I-Dentity, precluding the manifestation of Inspirations. <br />To remedy this displacement, to reestablish Self I-Dentity, memories need to be transformed to Void through transmutation by Divine Intelligence. <br /><br />Ho'oponopono involves the full participation of the four members of Self I-Dentity: Divine Intelligence, Super Conscious Mind, Conscious Mind and Sub Conscious Mind - working together as a unit of one. The Super Conscious Mind is memory-free , unaffected by memories re-playing by the Sub Conscious Mind. It is always one with the Divine Intelligence.The only requirement for Inspiration, Divine Creativity, is for Self I-Dentity to be Self I-Dentity. To be Self I-Dentity requires incessant cleansing of memories.<br /><br />So who's in charge? Inspiration or memories re-playing? The choice is in the hands of the Conscious Mind."<br /><br />The basis of this system is the following prayer:<br />"I am sorry.<br />Please, forgive me.<br />Thank you.<br />And, I love you!"<br /><br />Here forgiveness plays an important role in the process of healing and transformation.<br />&#8220;The repentance is feeling sorry for the data or memory in me that is the problem. The next step is forgiveness from the Divinity; to forgive whatever this data is that causes me to perceive a patient to be sick. The final step is called &#8220;transmutation&#8221; which only the Divinity can do. The Divinity will take whatever memories are in me, that I perceive the patient as being sick, convert it to zero; transmute it from a thought-form to pure energy; release the energy from my mind, and now I&#8217;m back at zero which means no judgment. The next step is insight. The insight moves in and the Divinity tells you what you can do next" <br /><br />I would add here that practicing awareness, being conscious all the time, being connected to the Super Conscious Mind, attunes us with the flow of Divine Inspiration. And here, living completely and fully in the present moment is the fundamental key.<br /><br />Eckhart Tolle speaks about living in the present moment in his book "The Power of Now" and he gives many keys for awakening and becoming conscious of who we really are: Divine beings. <br />He says that "Forgiveness means to stop being discontent and in this way, we renounce sufferance. <br />Forgiveness means to stop opposing or resisting our life's events - means to allow life to live through us. The alternatives are pain and sufferance, the diminishing of the vital energy and in many cases, physical illness. <br />When you truly forgive, you withdraw your power from the domination of mind. Your mind cannot forgive. Only you can. Become present in your own body, feel the peace and the vibrant silence overflowed by the Being. That's why Jesus said:<br />"Before you enter the temple, forgive!"<br /><br />In her book about the metaphysical causes of illnesses, "Your Body is Telling You: Love Yourself", Lise Bourbeau says that:<br />"The only path to complete and permanent healing is through self-forgiveness and the forgiveness of others."<br /><br /><br />She also gives the steps of forgiveness:<br /><br />"1. Identify your emotions.<br />2. Take responsibility<br />Simply means acknowledging that you are choosing to react out of fear. Accept that something inside you is attracting this person or situation in your life to help you get over the hurt that has been present since childhood.<br /><br />3. Accept the other person and let go<br />Put yourself in their shoes and begin to see things from their perspective and better understand their intentions.<br /><br />4. Forgive yourself<br />This is the most important step in forgiveness. It helps you make peace with yourself. Forgive yourself for having judged, criticized or accused the other person<br /><br />5. Have the desire to express forgiveness<br />Imagine yourself face to face with the person concerned, telling them that because you were hurting, you have judged, criticized or condemned them.<br />6. See the person involved<br />Express your thoughts and feelings to that person, saying you regret your accusation, judgement or resentment<br /><br />7. Make the connection to the past<br />Look back at the events of your life and find a similar circumstance that relates to an authority figure: a father, mother, grandparent, teacher. This person is usually of the same sex as the person you were accusing. Then, to liberate yourself, go over this 6 steps with the person from the past.<br /><br />Take as much time as you need to go over these steps. It may take a day, a month, a year, but what is important is that you do this with sincerity.<br />Letting go through forgiveness doesn't mean that you agree with the offense. Rather, you see beyond the offense. You are able to look into the other person with the eyes of love, compassion and understanding."<br /><br />Read more about other techniques for forgiveness in the next article.<br /><br />I honor the divinity within you! Namaste!<br /><br />With love,<br /><br />Delia <br /><br />Read the article on my blog "Open Your Heart Project"<br />       <br /><br /><a href="http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/08/techniques-for-forgivenes.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/08/techniques-for-forgivenes.html</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Delia</dc:creator>
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			<title>Techniques for Forgiveness Part 2</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/Love4Yoga/blog/techniques-for-forgiveness-part-2/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Here are 2 techniques for forgiveness which I practiced and I still practice in my daily life and they proved to be very efficient.  <br /><br />Every time I ha...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are 2 techniques for forgiveness which I practiced and I still practice in my daily life and they proved to be very efficient.  <br /><br />Every time I have to deal with health problems, for example, I know that my body wants to send me the message that I had a wrong attitude towards people, situations or events in my life. I become more and more conscious that everything happens for a reason and I attract the people and situations which I deserve and make me grow, helping me to learn my lessons in this lifetime.<br /><br />Recently I embrace every person and situation in my life as being a gift from God and although some of them might seem to be difficult at the first glance, I understand that there is a hidden message they want to tell me and a hidden lesson they help me to learn. In this way, I accept everything as an opportunity to learn, grow and evolve spiritually and  I am grateful for everything which happens in my life.<br /><br />Then I immediately undergo a process of introspection or reflexion, in which I review my attitudes and I recognize and accept full responsibly for my mistakes. Applying the techniques for forgiveness I harmonize my relationships with other people and also make changes within myself. <br /><br />I also realized over the years that although sometimes I have the feeling that I overcame some obstacles and I removed some mind patterns, if they were not completely accepted and transformed into something better, they tend to come back and create the same problems over and over again. That's why, I applied these techniques for forgiveness for longer periods of time, until I attained a state of detachment towards the people or situations involved in this process. <br /><br />The first step I take is making a list with all the people and situations in which I felt hurt or mistreated and then another list with the people I hurt or mistreated myself. Then I apply this technique for forgiveness with every person from my lists, sending the healing energy of forgiveness to those persons and myself. I also wrote messages to all the people in my lists asking for forgiveness or telling them that I sincerely forgave them. Some of the people answered to my messages, some not, but either way, I know that I did the best I could in order to restore the balance and harmony in my past or present relationships. <br />When I feel a state of detachment and acceptance of a person or situation in my life, that is the sign that the process of forgiveness was successful. It feels like a burden is taken away from my shoulders and I become very light, happy and free.<br /><br />What I think is very important also, is to assume full responsibility for all my actions or reactions to the events and situations. Being responsible means to stop blaming others for what's going on in my life. It means to look with lucidity and sincerity inside my own being and see what can I make to improve myself. We are the creators of our life in every moment. When we become fully responsible for everything we think, feel or say and for all our actions, we no longer blame others for anything. <br />Responsibility is a sign of maturity and is the first step in the journey towards self-awareness, together with sincerity. From this moment on we can say that we become more and more conscious and present and we will see that our entire life will change in better every day, regaining its harmony and even healing at all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.<br /><br /><br /> These techniques for forgiveness were given by my spiritual mentor and teacher, Yoga Professor Gregorian Bivolaru, and you can find them in his exceptional book: "The Secret Tantric Path of Love to Happiness and Fulfillment in a Couple Relationship" which can be found on Amazon.com:<br /><br /><b>Technique for forgiveness #1:</b><br />"To forgive, you must attract in your inner universe, through invocation, the subtle energy of forgiveness. This can be done through sincere, humble, and loving imploring for help from God the Father. After you have consecrated the fruits of this action to God, ask Him to pour into your being the divine energy of forgiveness. <br /><br />Standing up, facing towards East, say the following prayer:<br /><br />"God Almighty, Heavenly Father, I beg you with all my humility to pour into my being your divine energy of forgiveness. I implore you to help me forgive totally and unconditionally all that has caused me grief, intentionally or not. Thank you for listening to my prayer and for helping me. Amen."<br /><br />Say this simple prayer at least seven times, and every time, in the end, feel in your being how the divine energy of forgiveness flows, through the top of the head downwards, flooding your entire being. When you feel that this flow of energy stops, start the second repetition of the prayer and continue in the same way with each repetition.<br /><br />At the end of these prayers think clearly of the person you wish to forgive and the actions or situations for which you forgive them. Then feel how the divine energy of forgiveness operates in an ineffable way. At the end feel a state of relief and purification which shows that the energy of forgiveness has accomplished the annihilation of suffering with success. <br /><br />In the end, you will have the opportunity to validate the efficiency of forgiveness through the appearance in your being of a state of complete detachment towards the aspects, situations, actions that have caused you to suffer as well as the person who provoked them."<br /><br /><b>Technique for forgiveness #2:</b><br /><br />As before, start by saying the above prayer at least 7 times. After you have charged your being with the divine energy of forgiveness, go on to the next stage.<br /><br />Think about the person who hurted you or who made you suffer. Putting yourself in their position, aim to think with lucidity and detachment about what you would have done if you had been in their place, under the exact same circumstances. Ask yourself honestly and with maximum lucidity and detachment, how would you have reacted?<br /><br /><br />Immediately after that, examine the person who created that suffering or pain, outside the context in which she/he has offended us, imagining that person in a completely different context or setting. For example, imagine how the person you are trying to forgive looked in childhood, or even better, remember, as exactly as possible, a specific situation when the two of you got along really well. At the end of this visualisation exercise, remain with the eyes closed, in a state of recollection, and then aspire to open your heart fully, invoking the help of God the Father and asking Him to fill your heart and being with the subtle energy of His infinite compassion. At the end of this action, the state of complete detachment should appear. <br />When forgiveness is taken to completion with the help of the divine subtle energy attracted in our being from the Macrocosm, it represents a twofold grace: for the person who is forgiving, this is a liberating feeling that also eliminates sadness, suffering, tension, and anxiety that often flow uninterrupted in the absence of forgiveness. <br /><br />The state of detachment that is settling in shortly after the forgiveness is completed, shows that you have succeeded to forgive completely. If the state of detachment is not settling in, redo the process until you are successful.<br /><br />When we don't forgive the person who has hurt us, the state of suffering and pain remains continuously in our inner universe. Judgment contracts the soul and exposes it to endless suffering, but forgiveness frees immediately form these wounds and pains, and by calming it, forgiveness enables the soul to blossom."<br /><br />The energy of forgiveness can be attracted continuously in our being through invocation and sincere aspiration. We only have to take one step towards it and we will see even miracles happening in our life: miraculous healings, a divine state of happiness and love without limits, the disappearance of prejudices and mental patterns and a state of purity of the mind and soul which takes us to the next step in our evolution. When we have pure thoughts, our life will be pure as well. Aim to always attract the divine energy of forgiveness in yourself and you will become a radiant source of love and purity!<br /><br /><br />I honor the divinity within you! Namaste!<br /><br /><br />With love,<br /><br /><br />Delia<br /><br />Read the article on my blog "Open Your Heart Project"<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The Essence of Happiness</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/Love4Yoga/blog/the-essence-of-happiness/</link>
			<description>Many times I wondered where love and happiness come from and how can we love with a pure, detached, selfless, unconditional love? I even started an ex...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many times I wondered where love and happiness come from and how can we love with a pure, detached, selfless, unconditional love? I even started an experiment with two friends, a few weeks ago, to experience the detached, unconditional love, without expecting anything in return for 49 days in a row. Believe me, this is not easy. Because many times we expect from our lover the same kind of love we offer. We have expectations and we worry that we are not loved the way we would like to be loved. We have desires which transform into sufferance if they are not immediately fulfilled. We expect from our lover to make us happy, and we put our happiness in their hands. Is this real love or is just a mixture of desires, expectations and love? Is our happiness completely dependent on others or is entirely dependent on us? Is receiving love more fulfilling than giving love?<br /><br /><br />I started to look for answers to these questions and I found that my true nature is pure happiness and pure love; that my happiness doesn&#8217;t depend on the actions and reactions of anybody else, but me. I went deeper in this search, seeking for the essence of love and happiness and really wanting to experience them in their purest form.<br /><br /><br />So I did some research, reading the book &#8220;The mastery of Love&#8221; by Don Miguel Ruiz, in which I found a beautiful story about &#8220;The man who didn&#8217;t believe in love&#8221;. <br /><br />In this story, there is this man who didn&#8217;t believe that love exists. He had his own experiences about love and he concluded that love is just an invention of the poets and of the religions who want to have control over people and make them believe. He even thought that love is addictive. When you get your daily dose of love, you feel happy. But what happens when you don&#8217;t? Then the fear that you won&#8217;t receive love anymore makes you controlling and even manipulative. So he told everyone he met that what humans call love is nothing but a fear relationship based on control. <br /><br /><br />Then one day, he met a woman who too believed that love doesn&#8217;t exist. She had her own experiences in her relationships and she also concluded that we look for love, we open our hearts and we become vulnerable, just to find selfishness. That hurts, so this will repeat no matter how many relationships we have, the same thing happens again, so what&#8217;s the point of looking for love anymore? So love doesn&#8217;t really exist.<br /><br /><br />So they realized that they are so much alike and they became the best friends ever! They respected each other and they never put each other down. They were happy exactly the way they were. There was no envy, or jealousy, no control or possessiveness. They loved being together, because they had a lot of fun and they were very happy! <br /><br /><br />But one day, the man had the weirdest idea: Maybe what I feel for her is love!<br /><br /><br />And he told her about his idea. She said that she had the same idea, but she didn&#8217;t want to tell him about it because she knew that he didn&#8217;t believe in love.<br /><br /><br />So they concluded that maybe love does exist, but it isn&#8217;t what everybody thought it was. So they started to live together and they became lovers and it was amazing that their relationship didn&#8217;t change.<br /><br />Until one night, when the man&#8217;s heart was so full with love that a miracle happened: he was looking at the stars and he saw the most beautiful one, and his love was so big that the star started to come down right into his hand and his soul merged with the star. He was intensely happy and he couldn&#8217;t wait to go to the woman and put the star in her hands to prove his love for her. As soon as he put the star in her hands, she had a moment of doubt, and the star fell from her hands and broke into millions of pieces. <br /><br />Now there is an old man walking around the world saying that love doesn&#8217;t exist and there is a beautiful old woman waiting for a man, shedding a tear for the paradise that once she had in her hands, but for one moment of doubt it was lost forever.<br /><br />Don Miguel Ruiz concludes in his book:<br /><br /><br />&#8220;Who made the mistake? Do you want to guess what went wrong? <br />The mistake was on the man&#8217;s part in thinking he could give the woman his happiness. The star was his happiness and his mistake was to put his happiness in her hands. Happiness never comes from outside of us. He was happy because of the love coming out of him. She was happy because of the love coming out of her. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness.<br /><br />If you take your happiness and put it in someone&#8217;s hands, sooner or later she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. <br /><br />Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness. We can never make anyone responsible for our own happiness.&#8221;<br /><br /><br />So here was the answer I was looking for! Happiness comes from inside of us, not from outside! As Eckhart Tolle also says, pure happiness is our true nature. We kind of look for reasons to be unhappy, many times in our life, but what we miss seeing and understanding is that we are truly happy right here and now, in the present moment! Really, if you take a moment and you stop everything you are doing right in this moment, you close your eyes and you merge deeply inside of your heart, what do you think you will discover there? That you are perfectly happy right in this moment! And the love you are always looking for outside of you, seeking and seeking and waiting for it to come in your life, is again inside of you! And you know what will happen next, after you realize these two important things? That when you give this love to someone and when you share this love and happiness with someone you love, just sharing, giving, without expecting anything in return, this love and happiness will double and even triple! Because now there is not only one happiness and love, there is more and even more, each day! And as long as you don&#8217;t put any restrictions to your love or happiness, it will flow uninterrupted forever and it will grow every day! So from this moment on, you are no longer dependent on the actions and reactions of somebody else, you are entirely responsible for your own happiness and you are in the flow of life, not beside it. <br /><br /><br />I honor the divinity within you! Namaste!<br /><br /><br />With love,<br /><br /><br />Delia <br /><br />Read the article on my blog: "Open Your Heart Project"<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/essence-of-happiness.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://openyourheartproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/essence-of-happiness.html</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Delia</dc:creator>
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			<title>Fibromyalgia Syndrome facts: food combination can help!</title>
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			<description>There are a lot of diets out there that claim to help fibromyalgia syndrome sufferers.  Some of them are great and some are not so great.  In fact, a ...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There are a lot of diets out there that claim to help fibromyalgia syndrome sufferers.  Some of them are great and some are not so great.  In fact, a lot of them are pure fiction.  There are people out there that try to take advantage of the fact that we&#8217;re in pain and looking for something - anything, that will help. I am doing my best to weed through the bad to get to the good!  Food Combining has been shown to truly be effective for many FM sufferers!  I call it one of the &#8220;good&#8221; ones.<br /><br />If you eat your food in a systematic way, your digestive system will work more smoothly.  Your food will digest in less time and absorb more nutrients.  You can start with foods that digest quicker and easier and work your way up to foods that are more difficult and take longer to digest.  This helps you keep the foods that digest more easily flowing through your system and prevent your digestive system from stalling.  If you eat foods that take a lot of time to digest first, it slows the digestion of everything that follows.<br /><br />Starches can be divided into two groups:  slightly starchy (carrots, beets, parsnip, turnips, radishes) and high starches (potatoes  , bread, wheat, oats, flour, pasta, corn, barley, rye, bananas, ripe peas, sweet grapes, peanuts, beer, dried beans).<br /><br />Neutral and low-starch foods:  all vegetables (except potatoes), salads, herbs, cold-pressed oils , mushrooms, avocados, honey, maple syrup.<br /><br /><br />Everyone needs to be aware that stimulants (sugar , salt, caffeine, MSG), overcooked meats, highly processed foods, hydrogenated fats, saturated fats, food additives and preservatives, and bad food combinations fill the body with toxic substances that it has to process. Toxicity build-up can intensify fibromyalgia symptoms and even cause some of them.<br /><br />Food combining is a way of eating foods so that they do not work against each other.  There are three categories that food falls into when combining  : proteins, neutral foods and starchy foods. Fruits are treated separately.  Starchy foods and proteins cannot be eaten together, but both can be eaten with neutral foods, promoting more efficient digestion.<br /><br />Digestive Timing and Order:  Liquids like juice and water digest the fastest (about 20-30 minutes).  Soups and fruit take about 30-40 minutes to digest. Vegetables take approximately 30-45 minutes to digest.  Grains and other starches can take 2-3 HOURS to make their way through the digestive tract and beans, poultry, red meat, pork and fish can take 3 or MORE hours to digest.<br /><br />Papaya and pineapple have a plentiful amount of enzymes that aid digestion  , so they can be eaten with any food group.  They will especially help protein digestion. Depending on your digestive system, fruits may or may not be combined with seeds and nuts, grains or milk products.  You will have to test them and see.<br /> <br />Do not combine raw fruit or fruit juices with slightly starchy vegetables - lemon juice is the only exception, otherwise it is best to keep to a separate meal or allow at least half an hour before eating fruit after a meal. Also, avoid combining fruits with other foods, sugary deserts after meals, melons (ferment quickly and cause gas), and milk with other foods.<br /><br />If you just can&#8217;t take it, you can try a combination of a whole-grain like brown rice with light proteins, or whole-grain bread with eggs.<br /><br />Proteins can be divided into three groups:  heavy proteins (beef, pork, lamb), lighter proteins (poultry, fish, shellfish, game , tofu, eggs), and other proteins (cheese, peanuts, nuts, seeds, lentils, beans, peas).<br /><br />Remember, starchy fruta planta foods and protein should not be eaten together, but you can eat starchy foods with neutral and low-starch foods OR you can eat protein with neutral and low-starch foods.  I repeat this only to prevent confusion.<br /><br />Combining the wrong foods can cause gas  , bloating, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, and other problems. It can even lead to symptoms of  irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ulcers, arthritis, hypoglycemia, eczema, colon cancer and more.<br /><br />While you are deciding what combinations you will incorporate in  your meals, you must also eat your meals in the proper order for this method to be effective.  Let&#8217;s face it, this isn&#8217;t easy!  It requires planning and thinking through everything you eat and drink. If is was easy, everybody would be doing it already, but it&#8217;s worth it to give it a try if it means getting some pain relief, being healthier and happier!  Talk to your doctor about how this system might benefit you. What might be good for some, may not be for others, so it is always best to discuss your options with your healthcare provider.<br /><br /><br />Moderation is the key to proper digestion.  Don&#8217;t overeat. You cannot avoid all bad combinations, but if the good combinations are greater than the bad ones you will see results.]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Helping You gown the Flower Girl</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/andery/blog/helping-you-gown-the-flower-girl/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Helping You gown the Flower Girl<br />How cute individuals small flower girls are! whenever we see them walking the aisle it likes it adds up to the happine...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Helping You gown the Flower Girl<br />How cute individuals small flower girls are! whenever we see them walking the aisle it likes it adds up to the happiness of an previously glorious occasion. However, using the an awesome offer of schedules and responsibilities in the bride, she may possibly often disregard her responsibilities of acquiring a wonderful flower for her cute small flower girl.<br />There can be just one create a difference that you just need to also often remember even although you are dressing your flower woman and that will be to remember that she is not just a doll. although she may possibly glimpse like one, but do not fall to the trap of developing her good and never even pondering her individual recognition and comfort into account. When brides with one another using the mom of individuals small girls do this, this may possibly direct that their important small woman won&#8217;t be delighted as well as really feel unpleasant with what they are wearing. So, even although you are picking up their a whole lot better seek tips from using the mom as well as think concerning the types you also preferred even although you experienced been merely a little girl.<br />A whole large amount of brides want their flower girl&#8217;s to match up the wedding ceremony theme and colors, even although some brides choose to allow their flower girls arranged on the miniature gown of the individual as well as wedding ceremony jewelry. in circumstance you are going to go this way consider the child&#8217;s method into account. A ball gown design may possibly be alright, but letting her arranged on the grown up sheath may possibly glimpse even strange.<br />You need to also contemplate the price. Even once the family people is affluent, however the simple fact is, the will only be donned once. However, consulting the mom and father using the sort of gown their small woman is going to arranged on can be considered a necessity. They may possibly also provide you with strategies concerning the sort of material their daughter feels cozy with.<br />Since the that you just are searching for is for just about any child, you need to generally contemplate the fabric. contemplate a material that is gentle versus the skin, doesn&#8217;t wrinkle, tear as well as stain easily, but could nonetheless glimpse classy. The design need to be also effortless to think about away with safe fasteners and practically nothing to trip over. in conditions of more mature flower girls, you can choose a as well as a flower woman jeweler current that is even a whole lot more complex, but you need to also found out a thing that could stand as a whole lot as merely a little abuse because they are able to genuinely be active.<br />Do not neglect the shoes with one another with other components which include the flower woman jeweler with one another with other curly hair accessories. Flat shoes are cozy to stroll in along using the unbelievably most effective assortment for kids. in conditions of accessories, it is a whole lot better to not go as well much and just contemplate simplicity as your guide. retain in ideas that you just are preparing a as well as accessory that will cater a child&#8217;s preference so cautious concern need to generally be in mind. ljj]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>andery</dc:creator>
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			<title>The Woodsman and the Leprechaun - A Story that can Really Make a Great Difference in Life</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/bhagouauty/blog/the-woodsman-and-the-leprechaun-a-story-that-can-really-make-a-great-differ/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>The Woodsman and the Leprechaun</b><br /><br />Long ago, a woodsman saved the life of a leprechaun and was given one wish. The woodsman thought for a long time and ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>The Woodsman and the Leprechaun</b><br /><br />Long ago, a woodsman saved the life of a leprechaun and was given one wish. The woodsman thought for a long time and finally wished that each of his three daughters find a good husband.<br /><br />But the leprechaun was full of games. "How am I to know what's good in your mind? I'll give them husbands, but you can name only one quality and it's got to be the same for all. What'll you have? I can make them clever, strong, beautiful, rich - you name it."<br /><br />The woodsman said, "Then give me men of good character."<br /><br />The leprechaun wasn't done playing. "And how am I to know what good character is?"<br /><br />"Do you have children?" asked the woodsman.<br /><br />"I do," said the leprechaun.<br /><br />"And do you love them?"<br /><br />"More than life itself."<br /><br />"Then give my girls the kind of men you want for your children."<br /><br />"Ah," the leprechaun said, "then you shall have honorable men with kind and loving hearts. And I'll throw in a strong conscience too."<br /><br />The woodsman was a shrewd man and a good father. He knew the well-being and happiness of his children depends on the quality of their relationships. The quality of their relationships depends on the quality of the people they are with.<br /><br />But what if the woodsman was asked what one quality he wants in his own daughters? As a wise father he would again ask for good character. Whether it's in one's spouse or oneself, cleverness, good looks, and money are nice, but in the end the most essential quality of a good life is good character.<br /><br />This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.<br /><br /><b>Michael Josephson<br />www.charactercounts.org <br /><br />With thanks from the source: www.InsightoftheDay.com <br /></b><br />Copyright &#169; 2011<br />All rights reserved]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Dr. Harmander Singh</dc:creator>
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			<title>The Promise of Love</title>
			<link>http://wingsforall.com/Bodhi/blog/the-promise-of-love/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In my silence there is only you<br />When voices no longer mattered only you remain<br />In the darkness only your image rings true<br />You are my final refuge from...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In my silence there is only you<br />When voices no longer mattered only you remain<br />In the darkness only your image rings true<br />You are my final refuge from all the pain.<br /><br />The wind whispers only your name<br />The sun the trees all shout and claim<br />The beauty of a soul, the life, the mystery<br />The dreams, the possibilities of what we can be.]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Bodhi</dc:creator>
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			<title>Sunflower Vows</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sunflower sunflower where are you now?<br />Thy golden petals i wish to see<br />Sunflower sunflower  I have made a solemn vow<br />In honesty and innocence of all I...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sunflower sunflower where are you now?<br />Thy golden petals i wish to see<br />Sunflower sunflower  I have made a solemn vow<br />In honesty and innocence of all I am and will be.<br /><br />Sunflower sunflower do you have the glimpse of the sun?<br />The sun in me is fading and light i have none<br />The night is coming leaving me with dread and loneliness<br />For she has departed my life my happiness.<br /><br />Sunflower sunflower like you I am alone in the wilderness<br />To grow wild and strong in all my aloneness<br />To scour the skies and empty the clouds in my short time<br />To fulfil my vows despite the fading rhyme.]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA["We all fall down" Part 2]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<b>"We all fall down" Part 2<br /><br />by Bob Perks</b><br /><br />I wrote the following prayer and framed it as a gift<br />to Marianne on Valentine's Day this year:<br /> <br />"A Prayer an...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>"We all fall down" Part 2<br /><br />by Bob Perks</b><br /><br />I wrote the following prayer and framed it as a gift<br />to Marianne on Valentine's Day this year:<br /> <br />"A Prayer and a Promise"<br />God...Thank you for my beautiful, loving, wife Marianne.<br />Give her strength to get through this day. Hold her hand<br />for me as she has used that hand to pull me up time and time<br />again.  Whisper in her ear, "Bob Loves You"...if ever<br />she should tire and remind her that this is a new journey<br />we all will share, "ever more."<br /> <br /> <br />This is the follow up to the story I sent yesterday.<br />If you missed it visit my archives<br />here:<br />http://archive.aweber.com/iwishyouenough<br /> <br />Thanks to my sister-in-law, Elaine for the inspiration for<br />the title.  She took the time to speak with me after my<br />wife told her what happened.  Her first words to me were,<br />"Bob, we all fall down."<br /> <br />I have since spoken to everyone in my family about it.<br />I am loved.<br /> <br /> <br />"We all fall down" Part 2<br />By Bob Perks<br />I arrived at the facility in the early evening.<br /> <br />I had since calmed down and was adjusting<br />to the reality that there was no way out.  I<br />simply had to follow through on the process<br />so I could get on with my life.<br /> <br />What I wasn't acknowledging was I needed<br />help to do it.<br /> <br />Upon arrival I told the nurses that I wanted<br />no visitors.  Not even my wife.  Perceived<br />shame and arrogance still prevailed.<br /> <br />I was introduced to my room and room mate<br />and settled in with what little I had.<br /> <br />The unit was a fully locked facility for obvious<br />security reasons.<br /> <br />As I was checking in, I observed a group of<br />people in what was called the community room.<br />All eyes on the new guy made me feel a bit<br />uncomfortable at first.<br /> <br />I have never had a problem with meeting new<br />people so, I made my rounds introducing myself<br />to the others.<br /> <br />I began a journey defiantly and would come to<br />discover it was all in God's plan.<br /> <br />Since I arrived late on a Friday the next few days<br />would be pretty much uneventful.  There were no<br />therapy sessions, classes or in depth conversations<br />with anyone other than my new friends.<br /> <br />I was in Adult 4.  This section worked with people<br />who were struggling with life issues.  Cutters, people<br />who hurt themselves, people there for a brief mental<br />interlude because life was smothering them and a few<br />who had suicidal thoughts.<br /> <br />I am guessing that some of you might refer to this<br />as the "nut house", the "loony bin," and other<br />sadly misunderstood and hurtful labels.<br /> <br />It couldn't be further from the truth.<br /> <br />In one discussion I had with a fellow patient, we<br />came to the conclusion that if you took<br />anyone off the street, perhaps even you, and placed<br />them in this unit, you'd fit right in.  You'd most<br />likely discover unaddressed issues and realities<br />you may be hiding for years.  You might also have<br />a difficult time convincing the staff that you were<br />"just fine" and could go home.<br /> <br />The fact is, we all have life challenges.  Some handle<br />them, some don't...some hide them and slowly self<br />destruct from the inside out.<br /> <br />This place can change all of that.<br /> <br />I believed that as soon as Monday arrived they would<br />come to see that I didn't belong there and release me.<br />Throughout the weekend, in fact, a number of people<br />asked me, "What ARE you doing here?  You're too happy."<br />It became apparent on Monday that in order to get<br />home I'd have to prove my ability to deal with my<br />over sensitivity to family concerns and put things<br />in perspective.<br /> <br />I didn't want to become numb to my sensitive ways, I just<br />wanted to put them in their proper place.<br /> <br />I would later determine that I had not in any way attempted<br />to take my life.  All my pills were intact, accept for the<br />scrambled message sent to my friend asking for prayer,<br />there were no suicide goodbyes or notes left for loved ones.<br />I simply crashed under self imposed pressure.<br /> <br />That first evening I called my wife and apologized for what<br />had happened.  I asked for her to visit the next day.<br /> <br />It was super bowl weekend and I knew I had to do something<br />about it.  A few were taking up a small collection to try<br />to get a pizza.<br /> <br />Since I had no money, wallet or cell phone, I had to wait my<br />turn at the pay phone to place a request with Marianne.<br /> <br />"I heard they wanted to order pizza for the group.  I offered<br />to pay for everything.  So, I need $100," I told Marianne.<br />"Okay?" she replied with a slight bit of confusion.<br /> <br />This little party became the focus of everyone there.  We were<br />about to place an order for $100 worth of pizza, wings and<br />soda.  It was a big deal because most of the hospital food<br />was tasteless.  Pizza and wings were a bit of the reality of<br />outside the walls of this place and a taste of the future we<br />all longed for.<br /> <br />It was remarkable how excited everyone was.  Those who had<br />cares and concerns, depression and anxiety came together<br />to celebrate life.<br /> <br />When Marianne arrived I also had her bring several copies of<br />my two books to leave for others and to give to people I felt<br />God wanted me to personally touch.<br /> <br />Over the next few days I came to know each and every one of<br />these people like we were long time friends, even family.<br /> <br />I truly believe that I was meant to be there.  There was<br />a greater purpose than my own issues for having to spend<br />time with friends I've never met...before now.<br /> <br />Although we sat through chat sessions of therapy, art classes<br />where scissors were not permitted and all too many games of<br />Pictionary, I discovered that the real therapy evolved right there<br />in the community room and in the hallways one on one among<br />the people themselves.<br /> <br />It took 14 full laps to walk the hallway to equal one mile.  I did<br />a lot of walking.<br /> <br />We did a lot of talking.<br /> <br />I cannot go into personal details of the lives and reasons<br />my new found friends were there, but I will tell you that for<br />some like myself, it would be a one time visit.  For some it<br />was like a homecoming because they still have not found<br />the answers they were seeking and have been there<br />before.<br /> <br />No, it wasn't because they lacked faith.  The Bible was<br />prominent in many conversations.  It wasn't because they<br />were "druggies and alcoholics" who some consider should<br />be locked up for good.<br /> <br />They were human beings with families, children, lovers,<br />friends and professionals who permitted life to get out of<br />focus and fear rule over their every decision.  Yes, some<br />had drinking problems, drug addictions but all were just<br />like you and I.  God's children.<br /> <br />It would end up being six days in that facility for me.<br /> <br />I remember clearly the moment my wife walked through<br />the door that first day and saw me standing there with<br />my sneakers unlaced, my belt missing, unshaven and<br />ashamed.<br /> <br />I can see myself standing in the window of my room<br />each night watching her drive away into the real world,<br />the big world I could not touch, smell or even inhale.<br /> <br />The day I was released I walked into the community<br />room where all my friends were meeting.  Interrupting the<br />class I stood in the doorway afraid that I would burst into<br />tears because you know I hate goodbyes.<br /> <br />Suddenly these words came to mind:<br />"Every time you hear a car horn beep, a patient gets<br />their wings.  Listen in a few moments you'll hear it." <br /> <br />I hugged two friends, Momma and Big T, as tears poured out.<br /> <br />I ran as fast as I could with the nurse to meet my wife downstairs.<br />I didn't even lace my shoes nor put a belt on.<br /> <br />As we pulled out of the lot I said, "Turn right and stop<br />when I tell you."<br /> <br />She did.  I laid my hand on the horn and beeped a dozen<br />or more times.<br /> <br />Reminiscent of "It's a Wonderful Life" I found myself<br />yelling, "Hello, car!" "Hello, house"  "Hello, pond!" <br />"Hello, froggy on top of the television!"<br /> <br />And then I fell on the floor and let my dogs lick<br />the "hello" out of me!<br /> <br />On a Valentine's Day I will remember the rest of my well<br />lived and greatly appreciated life, I had my first appointment<br />with my psychiatrist.  A tough old guy who during my stay there<br />personally challenged me by knowing what buttons to push.<br /> <br /> I had promised him when we made the appointment on my<br />last visit with him that I would call if I needed him. <br /> <br />"You know that's Valentine's day.  Do<br />I need to bring you chocolates?"<br /> <br />"Yes," he replied without looking at me.<br /> <br />"Milk or dark?" I asked.<br /> <br />"Mix."<br /> <br />"Okay, but I refuse to bring you flowers!" I told him.<br /> <br />"You can't eat flowers," he said with a tiny curled up smile<br />on his face.<br /> <br />It turned out to be the sweetest day of my life.<br /> <br />So, there you are.  I had to be committed to a mental facility. <br />Just writing that still shakes me a bit.<br /> <br />It was worth it. <br /> <br />Imagine too, what my wife felt like.  Imagine the pain and<br />anguish she held in her heart as she left me there and<br />drove home to an empty house.<br /> <br />She would later tell that she "felt my presence."<br /> <br />Now listen...you there right now reading this.  There is<br />no shame in any of this.  If you had any other disease or<br />physical ailment you would deal with it.  You would fight<br />for your life.<br /> <br />If you are struggling with life and at times feel overwhelmed<br />and think you can't handle it talk to your family, your doctor,<br />your minister, rabbi or priest.  Talk to God.  He's a great<br />listener and already knows your heart.<br /> <br />If you have had thoughts of suicide...don't wait, get help<br />right now!  No your family or the world won't be better off<br />without you.  They will suffer greatly and there will be a void<br />left in their lives that only you can fill.  You can lose your job,<br />your house, your best friend, spouse or all your valuables and<br />your being gone won't change any of that.<br /> <br />You are loved.  Even if you think you aren't.<br />You are needed desperately in this world.  Even when you<br />believe you have no purpose.<br /> <br />God didn't create you without purpose.  He created you with<br />love and hope for the world.<br /> <br />I love you,<br />I need you. <br /> <br />Here are four things that I learned:<br />1. I will stop and think before I react and ask myself "Is it worth it?"<br />2.  I will do what is in my best interest.<br />3. I will NEVER consider suicide.  There are always other options.<br />4.  I will remember the past to learn from it so I don't repeat the<br />same mistakes or "Beat Myself up."<br /> <br />Oh, wait.  There are five...<br />My wife did this because she loved me that much.  Yes, That much!<br /> <br />I want you to learn to love yourself that much, too.  To love yourself<br />is to love God who created you. <br /> <br />There is nothing that you and God can't handle together.<br />I know.  Believe me, I know because...<br />"We all fall down!"<br />Love always and all ways,<br />Bob<br />"I wish you enough!"<br />J<br />Bob<br /> <br /><br />I encourage you to share my stories but<br />I do ask that you keep my name and contact<br />information with my work.<br /> <br />If you would like to receive Bob's Inspirational<br />stories, please visit http://www.IWishYouEnough.com<br />and submit your email address.<br /> <br />Links You'll Like...<br /> <br />If this was shared with you by<br />a friend, you can sign up to receive these messages or to learn more... <br />Visit my website to read more of my stories:<br />http://bobperks.com<br /> <b><br />How to Help Bob in his Mission<br />http://bobperks.com/donations.htm<br /> <br />Inspiration...Power Minutes...Prayer Requests and more!<br />http://www.mountainwings.com</b>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>time and love</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We have time, time is all we have<br />For loving, for living, for hearing the birds singing<br />We have time to celebrate each breath each beginning<br />We have t...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We have time, time is all we have<br />For loving, for living, for hearing the birds singing<br />We have time to celebrate each breath each beginning<br />We have time to catch eternity every moment springing.<br /><br />We have time to see all that is there to see<br />To feel a melange of pain, joy, and mystery<br />To life's lessons, make true our dreams and visions<br />To touch the sky, reach the stars of our souls' direction.<br /><br />Come and stay with me while time is at my side<br />Join our hearts as one through life's evening tide<br />As the night comes to claim the golden memories of our time <br />Our love will break the illusion of time march on our victorious rhyme.]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Open letter to God -- Ranu Khare</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<b>One lifetime is not enough...<br />So many things to do...<br />So many people to fall in love with.<br />Oh God, could you do me a favor...<br />let me be born again... </b>...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>One lifetime is not enough...<br />So many things to do...<br />So many people to fall in love with.<br />Oh God, could you do me a favor...<br />let me be born again...  <br />and all the people I am with...<br />or known in my lifetime...<br />or thought they should have been <br />part of my unimportant life...<br />although they never seemed to know me --<br />like Paulo Coelho, like Neale Donald Walsch...<br />who gave their best books and a spiritual awakening --<br />like Vladimir Putin, like Obama<br />One ruling like in a Judo ring and the other<br />with the knowledge that he belongs to two of everything.<br />Oh God, how will i know the End of  <br />so many global reality screenplays going on...<br />if i do not live on... <br />I would not know when the aliens arrive...<br />or when they reach us on our satellites.<br />Oh God, I am falling in love everyday...<br />What is Spirit without the Senses...<br />Please do not let anyone die at all!<br /></b><b></b>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Rano Khare</dc:creator>
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