Mexican vacation at Karisma hotels.

Who in their right mind will have a vacation alone leaving behind the family? I am ashamed to say that my husband will do just that. His argument is he will plan a family vacation once in two years but he will go on vacation as many times as possible every year. What a weird idea!

Ever since I have heard about the Karisma hotels and their all inclusive family vacation at the most coveted Hidden Beach Resort, where a world of sensuality and seclusion beckons, I have been trying in vain to persuade my husband to plan for a trip to Mexico. He is yet to relent.

I have read that Karisma hotel employs exclusive family planners whose duties include facilitating your family’s specific travel needs. They coordinate every detail of your trip, from arranging room assignments to making reservations for family dinners. They will even organize a variety of activities such as family pictures, sporting events, treasure hunts, and tournaments. Planners will even take it one step further to design shirts and embellished gifts with information specific to your family event.

I intend to email him the latest web release of Karisma Hotels. If there is a traveler in him, he will fall for one of Karisma’s package.

The danger of comparison.

Comparing self with others, our children with other children is known to mankind when they first noticed the lack of something in them which others had.

It can be as silly as an extra candy to as big as President of a nation. We ponder on myriad things, simply wasting time without ever realizing the damage done to self.

People are uncomfortable when other had money to go to a fine restaurant when he ate in roadside diner; people curl themselves in with envy when they are aware that their friend or relative got a better job. The list is endless.

What are all the harmful effects of comparison:
Low self esteem
Unsociable attitude
Envy leading to serious physiological side effects
A feeling of inadequacy
Constant sense of remorse

As the focus is shifted on the lack of something, the law of attraction is set in motion and the lack magnifies.

Whatever we focus on, expands.
Let this important law of universe sink in. Remember to read this law as many times as possible in a day. I am 100% sure, you will change your focus on something you want instead of something you don't want.

Are you after money?

Who doesn't need money? We all do. We pray for money to buy new gadgets, a big car, more spacious house, pay of credit card debts, renovate the house and so on and on.

You need not feel guilty for wanting all these. In fact God wants us to live a life of joy. Let us ask ourself only one question. What will be the metal state once we buy a new car or once we move into a new house that is more spacious than the previous one?

A sense of happiness and joy. So what we are really after is only a mental state of happiness. A joyous mood. So why not we pray for that state of mind directly?

Do you get what I am driving at?

Don' ask money, ask life because by the time you get the money you asked for, the price of the car or the house might have gone up.

Regency Beauty Institute offers…

Being one of the very few woman executives in a transportation company, my relative in Austin, Texas is always complaining about the constant need to be on the move. Though she is physically fit, I suppose it takes a heavy mental toll.

Recently, she emailed me with a unique problem. The outer air is doing a lot of damages to her hair and she didn’t know whom to approach for help. I promised her that I will locate proper help in Austin itself.

Yes, I found about Regency Beauty Institute located in three places in Texas and Austin is one among them. It was founded more than 50 years ago in Minneapolis but now has grown to 30 campuses in 9 states in the U.S.

Since their students are given high tech training in all aspects of beautifying, they are in good demand in salons and cruise ships. Many students set up their own beauty salons and some even establish hair school in their area.

I told my relative to approach Regency located at East Ben White Boulevard, Austin. She could even get a discount. Yes, students provide high-quality, discounted salon services to the public under expert faculty supervision. In fact this is part of their training.

For more information, visit www.regencybeauty.com and contact Kim Radetzki-Brosdahl, Vice President, Marketing.

The best way to be cheerful always.

The best way to be cheerful always is by staying cheerful, thats all.

Hey, don't get mad at me! What I wrote above is what I practice. And let me assure you that it is paying off. Do you want to know what is meant by 'paying off'? People say that my face is glowing! And I too feel that even without looking at the mirror.

More glaring proofs:
I am sought after
My cheery mood becomes contagious and I could see the results immediately
I am working efficiently
My creativity is appreciated
I feel my spiritual guides are helping me in many ways
I do not feel any shortage
I sleep peacefully.

What more can I ask for?

Tips for staying cheerful:
* When a thought pops up, ask yourself if it concerns something of your past. Is it something you don't like to relive and relish? If so, affirm that "my past experience is no indicator to my today's living; today is another day and I see success only at the end of the day; thank you God".

* When a thought pops up, ask yourself if it concerns something about your future. If so, remind yourself that you will cope up with it when you actually face it.

Read this below and ask yourself if it makes sense to you.
* Whatever happened in the past has happened now.
*Whatever is going to happen in the future is going to happen now.

I am honestly sharing my experience with you in this blog post. I have tasted the bliss and cheer by remaining now; by being in the 'NOW'.

I thank Eckhart Tolle for this change in me that is brought about by his master piece "The Power of Now-a guide to spiritual enlightenment"

Give peace a chance.

One of earlier posts on Lucid Dreaming titled "Don't waste your dreams" has received a valuable feedback from Dr.Joseph Bernard, PhD. Read his comments at the end of the above mentioned blog post. He is the webmaster of Peace Together and he also authors a blog called http://www.explorelifeblog.com/

At his website, there are several products promoting peace and the first logo I saw there, bore these words, "Give Peace a Chance". I liked it very much and made it a title for this blog post.

What a coincidence! Only yesterday, I was reading about peace in a book written by Dr. Wayne Dyer. I quote:
"Thy peace is the essence of our universe. It is God at work. There is no anger, fear, greed, malice at peace. When you are an Instrument of peace, you are not seeking anything;you become a peace provider".

The Explore Life Blog contains links to some free e-books. I downloaded one called 'Guide to Inner Peace". I am yet to read it.

My favorite outlet to buy gold.

“Who are you to disagree with World Gold Council?”-asked a novice but veteran investor when I said that I didn’t agree with the World Gold Council’s report that the gold industry’s contribution to the society in under developed countries is less understood and often misrepresented.

Why not, can’t an individual have any liberty to voice her opinion without hurting anyone? After all, it is an economic issue!

The reason for my outburst was a dispute between me and the veteran investor over the advantages of gold production to the nation over all and to the upliftment of the specific region of gold production.

Oh well, let me not bore you with international gold policies; let me stick to the advantage of investing in gold at present.

To buy gold, I believe there need not be any special occasion; one can buy gold at any time of the year irrespective of market conditions.

There are several ways to buy gold and also there are several outlets to buy gold from. My all time favorite is Monex, the number one dealer of precious metals in the U.S.

Through Monex Deposit Company (MDC) you can purchase silver, gold or other precious metals and coins for immediate personal delivery or arrange for convenient and safe storage at an independent bank or depository.

Don't waste your dreams!

Dream-man's fascination since the day he started dreaming and remembered a bit of his dream when he woke up, is still burning.

Lucid dreaming is about recognizing that you are only dreaming during the act of dreaming itself.

What is the advantage of lucid dreaming?
We can control the dream itself since we clearly realize that we are dreaming. Wouldn't be a fascinating experience?

But what exactly can one gain from learning the art of lucid dreaming?
How do we learn the skill? Is there any book that teaches lucid dreaming?

Yes, there is one called a Lucid Dreaming kit. Its author Bradley Thompson says we all have that skill already; we only need a little guidance. He says one can even chat with Einstein once you learn the technique of lucid dreaming.

Limitations-just what are they?

"I can go up to $275 for a new cordless telephone but anything beyond it is just not in my limitations".

"To my limited knowledge, I know it can't be true"

I said it. You said it. Who has not? Everybody in this world is capable of measuring their limitations-rather, we all presume that we know our limitations. Do we really?

Definitely not if we care to understand who we really are. Wait, let me quote here a sentence from my best spiritual friend Laurie Benner.
"Do you want to be a Master of Limitations or do you want to master your limitations?"

Isn't it thought provoking? Does it not stop you for a moment and ponder on it before giving your answer?

This is Laurie's answer: "I know am a child of the Universe and as such am not living out my existence in a cardboard box of my own making".

This is a superlative article that I want you to read. If you have something to say, please tell her directly. Her article is titled, "You can Master Your Limitations".

Exploring the laws of universe.

It has been a long time since I indulged on thinking aloud on the laws of universe in this blog though, I have been very sincerely trying to follow them. I must confess that it has not been easy always to follow that I vowed to practice. After all, 50 years of non-practice of these universal laws has accumulated a lot of residue in my system that I have been trying to dissolve.

The very first law that is the most perfect match to the vibration of our creator is the law of appreciation aka law of gratitude.

Even for every small things that happen in our day to day life, there are reasons to appreciate and thus feel gratitude for. The more we appreciate it means saying to the universe 'More of it please'.
I liked this explanation written in the book "Ask and it is given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks.

Actually, this explanation is straight from the mouth of Abraham, an ascended master, who spoke through Esther.

The power of appreciation or the power of gratitude makes you feel good. And when you feel good, you have no resistance. The negative feelings like anger, depression, worry and fear do not find a place in you when you are appreciating something.

As you keep your vibration at this higher level, the law of attraction as one of the laws of universe will bring you face to face with more of the things for you to appreciate thus keeping your mood in good feelings.

The law of attraction will conspire for you to move people in your directions that will bring cheer to you; will produce events in your life that will make you happy.

So, by simply practicing the law of appreciation, the universe will ensure that you are always in joyful mood.

You can't get it all.

Somewhere in early forties, we all tend to measure our remaining days and seriously start preparing to accumulate wealth and relationship for the rest of our lives. Till that time, we have been enjoying our life happily and care free. Ironically, when we start preparing for the rainy days after 40, we also stop living -rather stop enjoying the moment.

"Ok, do you mean to say that the actions or preparation that we do after 40-should not be carried out?"

It is a question I ask myself and am still trying to find the correct answers. But one thing I am sure of and I guess many will agree on this that we definitely start preparing to leave this body. "After I die, what will happen to my family"-is the main reason for our contemplation of life after 40.

To some extent, I have an answer; rather, God gave me an answer. He pivoted me 360 degrees towards religion and made me undertake a religious ritual by which I surrendered everything at the feet of God.

Now I am at peace knowing that God will take care of my family and in fact, he has been doing exactly that all these years. Only I was under the wrong notion that I have been taking care of my family.

Do ghosts exist?

There was a discussion in YuWie about the existence of ghosts and your belief in it. I immediately started reading it and gave my reply. It is my favorite subject mainly because, I wanted to clear several misconceptions about ghosts.

As we all know, ghosts are spirits of the deceased persons. These spirits will stay back and hover around its immediate family for a few days. The number of days will vary as per different religious beliefs but they all concur on the existence of ghosts.

The reason for the ghosts to stay behind is their non-refusal that they have just shed their human body. It takes time for them to assimilate this fact before they move on the world of spirits.

There are not at all harmful to human beings. They are all extension of God, the creator of life.