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Have you ever sought medical help for depression only to be given a costly prescription for antidepressant medication? Perhaps you have been prescribed a combination of drugs in an attempt to find the right formula for you. Or have you found the side effects from drug therapy worse than the depression itself. The most common antidepressants have adverse effects ranging from irritability to stomach upset to loss of libido. Even if your depression has lifted, are you satisfied with the cost and side effects of prescription drugs?
For many people, natural remedies offer the best solution. Herbal remedies and simple changes in diet are often at least as effective in lifting a depressed person’s mood as some of the more common prescription drugs, at a fraction of the cost and without unpleasant side effects. Continue reading The Natural Way to Beat Depression »
Depression is a scourge of modern living, affecting millions from all backgrounds. This free ebook describes a range of strategies that you can put in place to start fighting back at this debilitating condition.
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The sad passing of Steve Jobs has dominated the news of the past week. Jobs, the founder of Apple, has been phenomenally successful and a true game-changer in the field of technology, but one might question why someone engaged in such a materialistic industry is being mentioned on a Spiritual Web site.
Apart from being a Buddhist for most of his adult life, Steve Jobs’ philosophy actually stands as an excellent example of Spiritual living.
Internet entrepreneur John Chow presents a superb summary of Jobs’ teachings at Lessons I Learned From Steve Jobs, and although presented from a business perspective we can all take something from the key lessons of:
First published in 1999, Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now has become an international bestseller. Written as a series of questions and answers, it presents a radical analysis of humanity’s current state and offers a revolutionary route back from unhappiness to enlightenment, which this article attempts to give the merest flavor of. If you read just one Spiritual book in your life, The Power of Now is a very strong contender to be that book. Continue reading Understanding The Power of Now »
The pursuit of happiness only fuels unhappiness. In trying to be happy many people strive for a better job, bigger house, faster car and all kinds of various other crap. If they don’t get all they want it makes them unhappy. If they do get it they find it makes them less happy than they thought and/or the novelty soon wears off and so they chase after yet more materialist crap. But, unlike how we get conditioned from birth, doesn’t real happiness come when we stop struggling – against the world and our circumstances – and simply accept things as they are. Then we start to appreciate all the small stuff that’s really satisfying, apply our efforts to things that really matter, and stop trying for crap that can never satisfy.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
Purpose and Goals
Life can be likened to a journey, with its purpose corresponding to the destination. The sense of purpose is so essential that without it we’d struggle to climb out of bed in the morning, for without purpose there’d be no reason. But our purpose is way more complex than getting to New York Grand Central. Continue reading Goal Setting and Purpose »
Being a parent is probably the greatest privilege, and responsibility, we can have during our earth life. A new born baby is a paradox. The Spirit within that helpless bundle is ancient, but its earthly incarnation is a blank page waiting to be written upon by its experiences, with the earliest experiences carrying the greatest influence throughout its life.
Before birth our Spirit decides, along with our guides, what circumstances we will be born into and what lessons we will seek during this particular lifetime. And then we find ourselves upon earth, the knowledge of our true Spiritual nature temporarily obscured so that we might best fulfill our chosen purpose. Life is the ultimate experience of learning by discovery. Continue reading Spiritual Parenting »
As imperfect beings living in an imperfect universe we inevitably, at times, find life a frustrating experience. Here’s how to not only cope with life’s inescapable imperfection, but to recognize the genuine beauty of its experience.
Imperfection is part of the great design and an inherent part of nature. Physicists believe the physical universe exists only due to the big bang‘s imperfection in producing unequal quantities of matter and anti-matter (known as baryon asymmetry). Put another way, if the universe had begun with perfect symmetry, we wouldn’t be here.
The heights of human achievement and the incredibly rich diversity of life evolved only because living things reproduce imperfectly. They introduce random mutations along the way, some of which improve the status quo and allow things to get better.
A great wonder of the human experience is our uniqueness. We are each born into different (enormously varied) circumstances, with different characters, aptitudes, and weaknesses. But unhappiness arises from two distinct kinds of imperfection – the inner and the outer. Continue reading Living With Imperfection »
By: LT Col R.K Langar
What is Attitude
Attitude is the way we think about ourselves, others and life in general. Attitude can also be defined as outlook and tendencies which a man comes to acquire as a result of his past actions. The way we think is exhibited through our speech and actions. As our life is shaped by our thoughts, positive thinking would make our attitude positive while negative thinking would make life miserable. Positive attitude evolves us and brings newness in life. Continue reading Attitude is more than something »
By Lisa Whatley
Energy stealers are everywhere! They are your family members, your friends and they are your co-workers and YOU may even be one yourself. A more common name is a Psychic Vampire and we all know what vampires do! In this case the vampire is sucking our vital energy, depleting us and causing us to become unhealthy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Spiritual purification and cord cutting are some tools that can keep the vampires away! Continue reading Psychic Attack: Spiritual Purification and Cord Cutting »
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Spiritual Lessons from Steve Jobs
The sad passing of Steve Jobs has dominated the news of the past week. Jobs, the founder of Apple, has been phenomenally successful and a true game-changer in the field of technology, but one might question why someone engaged in such a materialistic industry is being mentioned on a Spiritual Web site.
Apart from being a Buddhist for most of his adult life, Steve Jobs’ philosophy actually stands as an excellent example of Spiritual living.
Internet entrepreneur John Chow presents a superb summary of Jobs’ teachings at Lessons I Learned From Steve Jobs, and although presented from a business perspective we can all take something from the key lessons of: