31 January 2013

Beneficiosas consecuencias del enamoramiento

Remedio natural para males sin necesidad de prescripción médica

Tener una pareja estable reduce la producción de cortisol,
la “hormona del estrés”. (Thinkstock)
Aunque también tiene sus efectos secundarios adversos como desengaños, infidelidades, dependencias o celos, el amor puede considerare como un eficaz remedio, antídoto y vacuna para infinidad de males y dolores, del cuerpo y el alma.

No requiere prescripción médica ni tiene contraindicaciones y sus beneficios suelen superar largamente a sus perjuicios, por lo que siempre es aconsejable tenerlo a mano y degustarlo.

En general no hace falta convencer a nadie de las virtudes de este sentimiento que nos une y hace felices y que para la mayoría de personas es la sal y pimienta de la vida, pero por si a alguien le quedan dudas, las últimas investigaciones científicas confirman las múltiples virtudes de las relaciones amorosas.
El amor influye directamente en la salud de nuestro corazón, ya que reduce los riesgos de padecer enfermedades cardiovasculares y contribuye, de esta forma, a alargar la esperanza de vida, según la Fundación Española del Corazón (FEC).

Según un informe de la FEC, “los vínculos con la pareja, amigos y familiares mejoran la presión arterial, lo que ayuda a reducir los niveles de ansiedad, estrés y depresión, conocidos como "factores psicológicos de riesgo" cardiovascular.

Según un estudio de la Federación World Heart (WHF, por sus siglas en inglés) las personas que siguen algún tratamiento para abordar cardiopatías y tienen un entorno feliz, mejoran entre dos y cuatro veces su capacidad para reponerse de la enfermedad.

Por contrario, otra investigación del Instituto Karolinska de Estocolmo (Suecia) ha demostrado que las mujeres con matrimonios estresantes tienen el triple de riesgo de sufrir un infarto que aquellas con una buena relación con su pareja.

En cambio, estar casado o tener una pareja estable reduce la producción de cortisol, la “hormona del estrés”, según otro estudio dirigido por Dario Maestripieri, de la Universidad de Chicago (EE.UU.), quien cree que "el matrimonio parece hacer más fácil enfrentarse a las situaciones estresantes de la vida diaria".

"Hay una clara relación entre nuestro estado de ánimo y la salud de nuestro corazón. Para prevenir dolencias cardiovasculares, además de controlar la tensión, los niveles de colesterol, realizar ejercicio y seguir una dieta saludable, hemos de favorecer los sentimientos positivos reforzando nuestros lazos afectivos con nuestro entorno", señala el doctor Miguel Ángel García Fernández, de la Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC).

Un equipo de investigadores de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Stanford, en California (Estados Unidos), ha comprobado que los sentimientos de amor apasionado pueden aliviar el dolor leve con la misma eficacia que los analgésicos.

Un remedio llamado 'nos amamos'

Este fenómeno es posible porque el amor intenso activa las mismas regiones del cerebro donde actúan los medicamentos destinados a calmar el dolor: el sistema de recompensa cerebral, que es el encargado de generar recompensas bioquímicas ante determinados estímulos que recibe la persona.

“En estos sistemas de recompensa se genera dopamina, una hormona, y a la vez un neurotransmisor -mensajero químico que intercomunica las células nerviosas- que influye en nuestro estado de ánimo, en nuestra gratificación y en nuestra motivación”, explica el investigador médico Sean Mackey, que ha dirigido el estudio de Stanford.

"Cuando las personas se encuentran en la fase del amor más apasionada existen alteraciones significativas en su estado de ánimo que impactan sobre su experiencia del dolor", ha explicado el doctor Mackey.

Según el investigador Arthur Aron, coautor del trabajo "cuando alguien piensa en la persona que ama se produce una intensa activación en el área de recompensa del cerebro, la misma que se activa cuando se consumen sustancias dopantes o cuando se gana mucho dinero”.

En sus experimentos participaron quince estudiantes universitarios (ocho mujeres y siete hombres) “perdidamente enamorados”, que estaban en las primeras etapas de sus respectivas relaciones de pareja. En esta fase de enamoramiento, la gente se siente eufórica, con mucha energía, piensa continuamente en el ser amado y anhela estar con ella o él.

Los participantes observaron, de forma intermitente, las imágenes que ellos mismos habían traído, al mismo tiempo que eran expuestos a una sensación de dolor suave, provocada mediante un estimulador térmico que se les había colocado en la mano y era controlado mediante un ordenador.

Su actividad cerebral fue registrada mediante una resonancia magnética funcional y los investigadores comprobaron que, al observar fotos de su respectivo ser amado, los participantes del estudio reducían la sensación del dolor físico, un fenómeno al que Mackey y Aron han denominado “analgesia inducida por amor”.

Se nos alborota la creatividad

Otro informe elaborado por los psicólogos Jens Förster, Kai Epstude y Amina Özelsel, de la Universidad de Amsterdan (Holanda), ha desvelado que el amor cambia nuestra forma de pensar y potencia la creatividad.

Los experimentos de Förster y su grupo muestran que el sentimiento amoroso favorece el procesamiento global de la información, que se realiza sobre todo en el hemisferio derecho del cerebro, potenciando el pensamiento creativo a la vez que inhibe el pensamiento analítico.

Según los investigadores, este efecto cerebral es opuesto al que provoca el deseo sexual, que incrementa el pensamiento analítico y reduce la creatividad.

Los investigadores atribuyen estas diferencias a que el amor romántico requiere tener una perspectiva a largo plazo, mientras que el sexo prepara al cerebro para una perspectiva a corto plazo, en el “aquí y ahora” y para centrarse en detalles concretos.

Según Förster, especializado en Psicología Social, "estos estilos de pensamiento se activan automáticamente en la mente de las personas, cuando se ven expuestas a situaciones relacionadas con el amor o el sexo, tanto de forma explícita, como sutil e incluso inconsciente".

Las personas que viven solas tienen el doble de riesgo de sufrir demencia y enfermedad de Alzheimer al envejecer, comparadas con aquellas que están casadas o viven en pareja, mientras que enviudar o divorciarse alrededor de los cincuenta años de edad triplica las posibilidades de desarrollar demencia, de acuerdo a una investigación de científicos suecos y finlandeses.

Según Miia Kivipelto, investigadora del Instituto Karolinska (Estocolmo, Suecia) y coautora del estudio, los resultados tienen un importante valor para a la atención médica primaria, y sugieren que un tratamiento preventivo en adultos que han perdido a su pareja podría reducir la incidencia de las enfermedades degenerativas analizadas en este estudio.

Para el trabajo, publicado en la revista ‘British Medical Journal’, se entrevistó a una serie de mujeres y hombres, de un grupo de 2,000 adultos.

Tanto en la primera fase del enamoramiento, como en las parejas estables de larga duración, "el amor tiene notables efectos para la salud", algunos tan sorprendentes como "el embellecimiento de la piel, el cabello y las uñas, gracias al aumento de estrógenos", ha expuesto la psicóloga Anna Gil, del Hospital USP-San Jaime de Torrevieja (Alicante, sur de España).

Además, previene el envejecimiento prematuro y aumenta la sensación de vitalidad, ya que se libera melatonina. "Por eso, cuando estamos enamorados no sólo nos vemos mejor, sino que nos ven mejor, nuestra autoestima crece", ha asegurado Gil.

Otra de las "beneficiosas consecuencias" del enamoramiento es que fortalece el sistema inmunológico, "previniéndonos de enfermedades y ayudándonos a una mejor y pronta recuperación".

Según la psicóloga del USP, esto es así gracias a las endorfinas, que aumentan la sensación de bienestar en nuestro cuerpo y nos ayudan a soportar mejor el dolor, ya sea físico o psicológico.

Todos estos efectos y las conductas que desarrollan los enamorados son iguales en todas las partes del mundo, según Gil.

GRACIAS!!

EL NUEVODIA

17 January 2013

¿Qué son los alimentos enriquecidos?

En los tiempos que vivimos, el tiempo es algo que simplemente no tenemos. 

Entre el trabajo, familia, amigos y demás responsabilidades, tener tiempo para cuidar la alimentación, por ejemplo, ya no es prioridad. 
Entre comprar comida lista congelada en el supermercado a ponerte hacer un plato elaborado y nutritivo, la primera opción es la que nos parecemás práctica.
Mejor o peor, pero nos quita el hambre.


Pensando en esto, la industria alimenticia decidió “enriquecer” sus productos con  nutrientes (sobre todo las que están de moda) que nuestro organismo necesita, así, en vez de consumir una fruta que contenga vitamina C, es más fácil comprar un zumo artificial enriquecido con esta vitamina y todos contentos.

Encontramos en las estanterías del supermercado unainfinidad de alimentos como leche, galletas, yogures y demás enriquecidos con alguna vitamina. Estos alimentos, para que puedan ser calificados realmente como “enriquecido” debe fornecer por lo menos 60% de la cantidad recomendada diaria para un adulto de dicho nutriente.

La promesa de suplir nuestras necesidades diarias de forma fácil y sabrosa es realmente tentadora, sin embargo, muchas veces el marketing nos influencia; entre un leche normal y uno enriquecido, seguramente optarás por el segundo, sin siquiera saber lo que estás llevando o que tu cuerpo realmente necesita.Las carencias y también los excesos son muy malos.

La grande cuestión de los alimentos enriquecidos es querealmente preserve la materia prima de la cual está hecho, por ejemplo, un queso debe contener queso, no solamente el aroma de queso. Los alimentos enriquecidos tienen conservantes que se convierten en toxinas en nuestro organismo, que pueden interferir otras vías metabólicas.

Los alimentos enriquecidos solos tampoco pueden garantizar la dosis diaria de calcio o vitamina D o el nutriente que sea. Debe ser acompañado de una dieta equilibrada, un buen funcionamiento intestinal y practica de ejercicios. Solamente comprar productos que contengan una u otra vitamina no es garantía de que estas dando a tu cuerpo todo lo que realmente necesita. No puedes tener la falsa impresión de que estas consumiendo una dieta saludable por ingerir alimentos enriquecidos.

Lo mejor es optar por productos naturales o al menos alternar el consumo de productos industrializados con ellos. Para alcanzar la dosis diaria de calcio, por ejemplo, es necesario comer 4 tazas grandes de brócolis o 3 vasos de leche+ 1 ración de queso. Mucho mejor que comer un paquete de galletas enriquecidas.

Si necesitas Omega 3, puedes encontrarle naturalmente en los pescados. Y punto.

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14 January 2013

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

As sentient beings we experience the world through our senses. Evolution has perfected each of our organs of perception not only for survival, but also for the experience of pleasure. Seeking pleasure, or, in Aristotle's words, 'the pursuit of happiness' is one of the most primary motivations of human psychology.

However, the paradigms that define what exactly constitutes happiness have changed quite dramatically over time. Aristotle saw virtue as the path to achieving happiness, which to him meant total fulfilment.

But others have interpreted the pursuit of happiness as the quest for ever more refined sensory pleasures: seductive scents, exotic epicurean delights, erotic thrills...anything to titillate the senses.

Happiness
Over the centuries wo/mankind has shown considerable inventiveness and imagination with regard to developing novel methods and strategies to that end. Plants, more than anything have played a significant role in that quest. Flowers beautify our world. Their scents often arouse deep feelings, too primordial to put into words, while herbs and spices can transform an ordinary meal into an explosion of flavours that enthral the palate - and more.

Plants are complex beings with a highly diverse biochemistry that interacts with our own in innumerable and intricate ways. The division between plants that nourish and plants that heal, stimulate or intoxicate is quite arbitrary - nature does not often comply with the compartmentalizing conceptions we project on it for the sake of our own convenience.

Essential oils, for example, present in numerous culinary and healing herbs, may exert a powerful effect on the digestive system by stimulating the appetite and the production of gastric juices. They may also kill potential pathogens. But most importantly from a gourmand's point of view is their alluring power of seduction and enchantment. The old adage, 'love goes through the stomach' holds true to some degree, but before the enticing morsel is allowed passage down the hatch, it has to pass the olfactory gateway.

Essential oils also affect the nervous system and in turn just about every part of the body. They can relax, arouse, or invigorate, relieve tension and anxiety, or 'energize the chakras', and thus enhance the capacity for emotional experiences, not only with regard to the food in front of us, but also of that which may follow after dinner. A skilled chef knows how to make the most of the nutritional and sensory qualities of their ingredients to create a veritable 'feast for the senses'.
The perfume industry also knows the powerful potential of essential oils and makes ample use of them in their alluring potions.
Bacchus
However, more than just picking the sweetest and delightful scents they mix in subliminal amounts of quite unpalatable substances such as musk and civet that affect human physiology through subtle signal substances called pheromones. Human beings as well as animals produce such substances in their sweat glands. They constitute an invisible, but powerful signal that bypasses the rational mind. Some plants also produce such substances and these have long been used as ingredients in seductive love philtres and perfumes.

While chemical signals can go a long way to arouse hitherto sleeping desires, they are not fail-safe. Every nose is unique and responds differently to different stimuli. And just as well. As a very clever evolutionary adaptation nature has bestowed on us a certain degree of individual response when it comes to taste and the effect of biochemical messengers. Although it is sometimes hard to believe, human beings did actually evolve as a cooperative, social species, and the best means to ensure peace and harmony was to personalize tastes and responses to said pheromones.

However, virility and allure are not the only components in the volatile mix of passion. 

Another, equally important ingredient is MOOD
Mood is a highly subjective and individual emotional response and a myriad of external and internal factors can influence this elusive 'vibe'. Mood is a crucial factor in the enjoyment of just about anything in life. 

The crème de la crème of no-matter-what can be experienced as mediocre or boring if one is not in the mood. Thus, 'more' or 'bigger' is not necessarily better. Instead of relying on direct sensory stimulation, cleansing the doors of perception and nourishing the very organs of sense perception is a much more vital task for those who wish to enhance their sensory experiences. 

This is the rationale behind the practice of sensory deprivation. 
The 21st century has brought an unprecedented flood of sensory stimulation in all shapes, smells, colours and sizes and yet, people are bored, a phenomenon especially pronounced among the young. The problem is not a lack of stimulation, but over stimulation and a corresponding inability to respond. The senses have become numb. 
Anyone who has been on a fast or experienced seclusion and sensory deprivation can attest that upon re-introducing foods or other sensory experiences the flood of impressions induced by the simplest things can be quite overwhelming.

Sensory perception is governed by the nervous system. 
Stress, with its direct and devastating effect on the nervous system is a major killer - even if it does not kill outright (though it often does), it has the potential to destroy the joy of life by numbing the senses, destroying libido, depressing virility and making the body and heart tighten up to such an extend that subtle sensory pleasures simply no longer register. 
Plants can go a long way to enhance mood and to intensify sensual experiences, but they are best used as part of a holistic approach to alleviate symptoms of stress, align body, mind and soul and open the heart to ecstatic bliss.

"Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, 
all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals."

Doreen Valiente



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22 December 2012

What Will A Renaissance of Love Mean for All of Us?

by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
www.eraofpeace.org 


Precious Hearts, YouTube videos (click)that will greatly assist in manifesting the patterns of perfection 
as we prepare to birth a Renaissance of Divine Love.


The Company of Heaven has confirmed that at long last Humanity has reached a tipping point in our shift into Unity Consciousness. This is enabling us to utilize the celestial alignments and the influx of Light that is taking place this momentous year to cocreate A Renaissance of Divine Love on Planet Earth. 

I would like to share some information with you that is being given to Humanity by the Beings of Light. This information reveals what this unprecedented opportunity will mean for all of us, and how the cocreation of a New Renaissance of Love will catapult Humanity and Mother Earth forward in the Light. Please go within to the Divinity of your heart, and ask your I AM Presence to reveal to you the Truth of this message and ask what your part is in this amazing facet of the Divine Plan.

2012 has transcended the expectations of dedicated Lightworkers who have been working toward this Cosmic Moment for the past 25 years. With the unprecedented influx of Light that has taken place so far this year Humanity, in unison with the Company of Heaven, is on the path to God Victoriously birthing a Renaissance of Divine Love.

This will not occur by chance, it will happen through the conscious and deliberate efforts of you and me and dedicated people all over the world. Remember, we are cocreating this Earthly experience. In order for us to birth a Renaissance of Divine Love that will bless all Life on this precious planet, the Company of Heaven is calling each of us to a higher service. Please, listen to your inner guidance and respond to this vital Heart Call from your I AM Presence.

In order to fully understand the magnitude of what birthing a New Renaissance of Love will mean for Humanity and all Life on Earth, the Company of Heaven wants us to remember how the first Renaissance transformed this planet. The first Renaissance originated a little over 500 years ago in Florence, Italy. It was part of a master plan to accelerate the return of the Love Nature of our Mother God, the Divine Feminine, which we have always known as the Holy Spirit. The Divine Intent of the first Renaissance was to awaken Humanity’s creative right-brain hemispheres which had been almost dormant since our fall from Grace aeons ago.

In the middle of the 14th century we were living in the Dark Ages and our affinity for culture and the arts was practically nonexistent. In order to stimulate our creative right brains, the Company of Heaven projected the wisdom of the arts into the mental and emotional stratum of Earth. As this sacred knowledge filtered into Humanity’s hearts and conscious minds, the Renaissance was birthed in Florence, Italy. Art, music, dance, literature, and every other creative facet of the Renaissance elevated Humanity into a level of culture and civility that we had not experienced since our fall from Grace.

The movement in Italy spread throughout Europe, signaling the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of modern history. The Renaissance inspired civil liberty and a new internal order of culture and political development. It was the beginning of Humanity’s awakening and a crucial stage in the process of liberating the human mind from our fear-based, fragmented
human ego’s paralyzing grip of fear and misinformation. In the midst of unrivaled, barbaric darkness, the Renaissance birthed a civilization of a higher order.

As our right-brain hemispheres were stimulated with new levels of creativity, more of the Love of our Mother God was able to flow into our lives. Much of the art painted by the great masters focused on some of the main players in the Piscean Age. Joseph, Mother Mary, and Jesus, who symbolically represented the Holy Trinity, were depicted in many of the Renaissance paintings. This focus of Humanity’s attention on the Holy Trinity helped to expand the Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame in our hearts.

The first Renaissance was a time of enlightenment and played a critical part in liberating the human mind. Individualism and self-empowerment rose up in the hearts of Humanity, and people pulled away from the oppressive control of the Church. The Renaissance person did not abandon his or her beliefs, but rather adopted new attitudes. Rigidly dogmatic concepts were challenged and cast aside. This marked a momentous turning point in history. There was a resurgence of the Human Spirit that made possible all of the great achievements of modern Humanity. It initiated an atmosphere that was favorable to new ideas, innovative accomplishments, and creative enterprises in every human endeavor. The most amazing part of all of that is the fact that this transformation was accomplished in the middle of the Dark Ages during a time when our human egos were totally manipulating our hearts and minds, a time when Humanity was truly asleep.

Now everything has changed. Even though there are still people on this planet acting as though they live in the Dark Ages, the vast majority of Humanity does not. 
During the past 25 years, miraculous Activities of Light have been successfully accomplished by Lightworkers around the world and unprecedented Divine Intervention has taken place. As a result, Humanity is in the midst of the greatest shift of consciousness that has ever occurred in any system of worlds.


Every man, woman, and child and every particle of Life on Earth have begun the initial ascent onto the 5th-Dimensional Spiral of Evolution. Millions of people on this planet are fully Awake. These precious souls are deliberately participating in the process of cocreating the patterns of perfection for the New Earth in the tangible world of form. Imagine what miracles we will cocreate by birthing a Renaissance of Divine Love in the awakened state of consciousness Humanity is now experiencing.
The Beings of Light have said it is impossible for Humanity to fathom what will be accomplished with the birth of a New Renaissance of Divine Love, but they said it will be GLORIOUS beyond our wildest dreams!

With our Thanks to
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
www.eraofpeace.org 

Love & Light to ALL
Dave & Eugen


20 December 2012

Sexuality and Spirituality: Sex as an act Generous and Creative.

True Love, a Blessing from the Universe. DE

Sex is a basic symbol.
As is well known, a symbol is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual reality. 
What is this inner reality? 
It is above all the reality of the relationship, the relationship between basic pairs of opposites Father-Mother, spirit-matter, positive-negative, life-form and among the great dualities that-when bound to produce the cosmic sense manifested son of God, the cosmic Christ, the universe aware and sensitive.

The sex symbol expresses the reality of love. 
In true love means relationship, but the word love (like the word sex) are used thoughtlessly and without worrying about its true meaning. Love and sex are basically the same thing, because both express the meaning of the Law of Attraction. Sex is sex and love is love, because both words are equally represented the relationship, interaction and unity between God and His universe, man and God, man and his own soul, and between man and woman. This highlights the motivaciónl and relationship. But the result of that relationship is driving the creation and manifestation of a form through which divinity can express themselves and become.

Also in humans occurs drama of sex, then twice in his body, his personality, takes place and fusion bonding process.

First, the relationship between the upper and lower body. The gonads, body of work expresses the instinctive life and physical reproduction. The throat, body of the Word, expresses life and manifest the glory and underlying reality. By linking him with the creator procreative reaches a developmental stage in which children have the ability and mentality inherited from their parents. As he develops a sense of purity in man and encourages the development of a sense of responsibility, and as it increases the love of beauty, color and ideas, it accelerates the process of raising the lower up attach it to the top, then accelerates the beautification of the "Temple of the Lord."

Second, in the head of every man is a wonderful organ, the brain which represents the drama whereby the purely human being merges with divinity, the great drama end of the mystical union between God and man, between intelligence and personality. 
A negative mix and merge the five dimensions of personality that are learned from the preschool. The positive pole becomes active through prayer, service and aspiration, and through his intelligence contacts personality. 

This positive spirit is the symbol of masculine or positive and the negative pole is the symbol of matter, the feminine aspect. These poles are the pituitary gland (pituitary gland) and pineal (epiphysis). The first is negative and the second positive. These two glands are higher correspondences of male and female organs of physical reproduction.
Love is for Eternity DE
As intelligence is becoming more powerful in the mental and emotional life of individuals, penetrates more power in the pineal (like "Holy Spirit") and the human being is purifying his personality and putting the service of the will spiritual, automatically raising emotions of passion into feelings of love. This is again the great drama of sex, repeated in humans. 

So called three times in personal life the meaning of marriage, sex:
Physically, sex or man's relationship with his polar opposite, women, results instinctive desire: The reproduction of the species.

The union of the lower and higher aspiration results in: 
Creativity.
The union of personality with intelligence,
desire resulting in mental inspiration.

13 December 2012

Be Inspired~Tantric Intimacy Exercise for Couples


Tantric Intimacy Exercise for Couples

1. When you awake, set a clear intent for the day that you are open to seeing things from different perspectives.

2. As you go about your daily business, become aware of those situations that stand out for you.

3. Observe the situations from a different perspective; i.e, someone else's point of view. Imagine yourself as being the Creative Director of a scene as it unfolds. Now, create different angles from which the scene can be shot. Play around and have fun with it.

4. Write down the different things that stood out for you, then reflect upon what you saw and its meaning.
What we think determines what we see, hear and feel, in spite of what is actually transpiring around us.
In a nutshell, there's what happens and what we think happens.
The bulk of our decisions, feelings and actions are based upon our thoughts, rather than objective facts, so this is crucial.

5. Set aside a weekly discussion time with your partner where you can both discuss what you saw and what you felt. By listening to your partner's interpretation of the world around them, you stay closely attuned to how they interpret life. This knowledge keeps you intimately connected in spirit, which will also serve you well in the boudoir.

The world is what you think it is. 
Spend some time this next week just noticing how you perceive the world around you. 
Take time to share your observations with your partner.
Intimacy thrives on shared experiences, both in and out the boudoir.

With our appreciation for this article to:
Devi Bliss

12 December 2012

Activating the Solar Codes 12/12/12

Connection Begins a New Cycle
of Evolution on the Planet


by Ana Maria Frallicciardi
Unity and Love 12.12.12 
What we can do 12.12?

The task is simple for 12.12: alignment from our heart with the heart of the earth and the heart of the galaxy. That is, do a meditation where you visualize yourself inside a tube that goes from infinite light above your head and below your feet and enter into the center of the earth. Call RECEIVE Light codes that are descending, then activate within your center channel and your energy centers. Allow this energy to permeate your whole being, open to the experience available to you.

The focus of thought and emotions of each of us is fundamental. We are remembering that we are Intergalactic Navigators . With the focus of our thoughts in unity and love, we are entering new lines of time which we want for our beloved planet Earth, for all humanity and for ourselves.

What is happening now, in you and in your environment, at this time, beyond your consciousness, is a resonance with the heartbeat of the universe, a return home after so long away from home. There is a call from another location that is not answered in logic but in the deeper sense of our being. Is there, in-house, where we are getting that beat that brings the remembrance of Dawn, as expected for thousands of years.

The alignment is an alignment living inside, not outside both planets and stars. Planetary alignments and harmonic convergences have been many times in all, we could also interpret numerological coincidences. But would remain external events, mental reflections. This event will happen in 12.12 with our physical, emotional and spiritual. Wherever you are, you are an important part of change.
The start of a 26,000 year galactic cycle does not happen in one Earth day. This synchronization has already begun and will continue for several months during 2013.

Are we all prepared for the new? 

When we celebrate the new year we put-on best clothes and do the best party. To celebrate the New Year we are clearing rapidly  our old unfinished Galactic business, so we are showing old things buried or forgotten, everything emerges to be compensated and balanced before accessing the new energy. 

You will hear an urgent collective end old conflicts, to politicians to talk about cycle! 
Planetary Consciousness Network is alive and active. 
Beings of Light in service continually send their vibrations loving and compassionate toward the crystal lattice.

3 December 2012

Gross National Happiness in Bhutan


The big idea from a tiny state that could change the world

Bhutan measures prosperity 
by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the GDP. 
Now its ideas are attracting interest
at the UN climate change conference in Doha

· Annie Kelly Thimphu, Bhutan
· The Observer, Saturday 1 December 2012 14.30 GMT

The principles of Bhutan’s gross national happiness system 
are spelled out for pupils at a secondary school in Paro, 
a largely agricultural region.  Photograph: Jean-Baptiste Lopez

A series of hand-painted signs dot the side of the winding mountain road that runs between the airport and the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu. Instead of commands to cut speed or check mirrors, they offer the traveller a series of life-affirming mantras. "Life is a journey! Complete it!" says one, while another urges drivers to, "Let nature be your guide". Another, standing on the edge of a perilous curve, simply says: "Inconvenience regretted."

Prayer flags at Taktsang Monastery, Paro

It's a suitably uplifting welcome to visitors to this remote kingdom, a place of ancient monasteries, fluttering prayer flags and staggering natural beauty. Less than 40 years ago, Bhutan opened its borders for the first time. Since then, it has gained an almost mythical status as a real-life Shangri-La, largely for its determined and methodical pursuit of the most elusive of concepts – national happiness.

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Since 1971, the country has rejected GDP as the only way to measure progress. In its place, it has championed a new approach to development, which measures prosperity through formal principles of gross national happiness (GNH) and the spiritual, physical, social and environmental health of its citizens and natural environment.

For the past three decades, this belief that wellbeing should take preference over material growth has remained a global oddity. Now, in a world beset by collapsing financial systems, gross inequity and wide-scale environmental destruction, this tiny Buddhist state's approach is attracting a lot of interest.

Nine out of ten Bhutanese are farmers like Sonam Yudron, 
who lives near Lumitsawa, 
and most harvests are bright with chilies drying on rooftops

As world leaders prepare to meet in Doha on Monday for the second week of the UN climate change conference, Bhutan's stark warning that the rest of the world is on an environmental and economical suicide path is starting to gain traction. Last year the UN adopted Bhutan's call for a holistic approach to development, a move endorsed by 68 countries. A UN panel is now considering ways that Bhutan's GNH model can be replicated across the globe.

Taktsang (which mean 'tigers nest') Monastery, Paro, Bhutan

As representatives in Doha struggle to find ways of reaching a consensus on global emissions, Bhutan is also being held up as an example of a developing country that has put environmental conservation and sustainability at the heart of its political agenda. In the last 20 years Bhutan has doubled life expectancy, enrolled almost 100% of its children in primary school and overhauled its infrastructure.

At the same time, placing the natural world at the heart of public policy has led to environmental protection being enshrined in the constitution. The country has pledged to remain carbon neutral and to ensure that at least 60% of its landmass will remain under forest cover in perpetuity. It has banned export logging and has even instigated a monthly pedestrian day that bans all private vehicles from its roads.

Farmer Tshering Cham from Paro, Bhutan, laughs while threshing

"It's easy to mine the land and fish the seas and get rich," says Thakur Singh Powdyel, Bhutan's minister of education, who has become one of the most eloquent spokespeople for GNH. "Yet we believe you cannot have a prosperous nation in the long run that does not conserve its natural environment or take care of the wellbeing of its people, which is being borne out by what is happening to the outside world."

Powdyel believes the world has misinterpreted Bhutan's quest. "People always ask how can you possibly have a nation of happy people? But this is missing the point," he says. "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society. We believe the world needs to do the same before it is too late."

Bhutan's principles have been set in policy through the gross national happiness index, based on equitable social development, cultural preservation, conservation of the environment and promotion of good governance.

Principal of Losel Primary School in front of one of the buildings of the school, 
Thimpu, Bhutan

At a primary school in Thimphu, the headteacher, Choki Dukpa, watches her students make their way to class. She says that she has seen huge changes to the children's emotional wellbeing since GNH principles were integrated into the education system four years ago. She admits that at first she had no idea what the government's policy to change all education facilities into "green schools" meant.

"It sounded good but I wasn't sure how it would work," she says. But after Unicef funded a "green schools" teacher training programme, things improved. "The idea of being green does not just mean the environment, it is a philosophy for life," says Dukpa.

Alongside maths and science, children are taught basic agricultural techniques and environmental protection. A new national waste management programme ensures that every piece of material used at the school is recycled.

The infusion of GNH into education has also meant daily meditation sessions and soothing traditional music replacing the clang of the school bell.

Students pray at the morning assembly, 
Jigme Losel primary school, Thimphu, Bhutan

"An education doesn't just mean getting good grades, it means preparing them to be good people," says Dukpa. "This next generation is going to face a very scary world as their environment changes and social pressures increase. We need to prepare them for this."

Despite its focus on national wellbeing, Bhutan faces huge challenges. It remains one of the poorest nations on the planet. A quarter of its 800,000 people survive on less than $1.25 a day, and 70% live without electricity. It is struggling with a rise in violent crime, a growing gang culture and the pressures of rises in both population and global food prices.

Young boy Kinley Tenzin is threshing paddy in a traditional way

It also faces an increasingly uncertain future. Bhutan's representatives at the Doha climate talks are warning that its gross national happiness model could crumble in the face of increasing environmental and social pressures and climatic change.

"The aim of staying below a global two-degree temperature increase being discussed here this week is not sufficient for us. We are a small nation, we have big challenges and we are trying our best, but we can't save our environment on our own," says Thinley Namgyel, who heads Bhutan's climate change division. "Bhutan is a mountainous country, highly vulnerable to extreme weather conditions. We have a population that is highly dependent on the agricultural sector. We are banking on hydropower as the engine that will finance our development."

In Paro, an agricultural region one hour out of the capital, Dawa Tshering explains how the weather is already causing him problems. The 53-year-old farmer grew up in Paro, surrounded by mountains and streams, but has found it increasingly difficult to work his two acres of rice paddy.

"The weather has changed a lot: there is no snow in winter, the rains come at the wrong times and our plants get ruined. There are violent storms," he says. Around 70% of Bhutan's people are smallholder farmers like Tshering.

"The temperature has got hotter so there are more insects in the fruit and grain. I don't understand it, but if it continues we're going to have many problems in growing food and feeding ourselves."

Bhutan is taking action to try to protect itself. Ground-breaking work is being done to try to reduce the flooding potential in its remote glacial lakes. Yet it cannot do it alone. Last week in Doha, campaigners pushed for more support to countries such as Bhutan that are acutely vulnerable to climate change.

This Himalayan mountain is Jhomolhari, at 23,996 feet [7,314 meters] 
Bhutan's second highest peak.

"While the world is now starting to look to Bhutan as an alternative model of sustainable economics, all of its efforts could be undone if the world doesn't take action in Doha," says Stephen Pattison from Unicef UK.

"Small and developing countries like Bhutan must get more support, and the UK and other governments must start actually taking action, like pledging their share of money to the green climate fund and get it up and running as soon as possible."

Paro Dzong

In Paro, teenagers in school uniform heading home from lessons are well aware of the hard times ahead for Bhutan as it tries to navigate a path between preserving its sustainable agenda and the global realities it faces. All say they are proud to be Bhutanese. They want to be forest rangers, environmental scientists and doctors. At the same time they want to travel the world, listen to Korean pop music and watch Rambo.

"I want to be able to go out and see the world but then I want to come home to Bhutan and for it to be the same," says Kunzang Jamso, a 15-year-old whose traditional dress is offset with a hint of a boyband haircut. "I think we must keep the outside from coming here too much because we might lose our culture, and if you don't have that then how do you know who you are?"

Bank of Bhutan. Paro, Bhutan
Paro, Bhutan.

THE GUARDIAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/01/bhutan-wealth-happiness-counts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/happiness-indices

PHOTOS:
Jean-Baptiste Lopez

1 November 2012

The 7 Spiritual Laws of Love

Within every love story
hides the wooing of the gods and goddesses.
This is one area of life where the practical meets the mythical.
For many people the experience of romantic love
is their first experience of spirituality,
although they may not know it.

True Love is a Blessing from the Universe : DE ONE Forever
The First Stage of Love: Attraction
The Law of Attraction states, “To be attractive, you have to be authentic.” What makes a person attractive? The wisdom traditions tell us that attraction first and foremost comes from naturalness. Nothing is more beautiful than naturalness.

The Second Stage of Love: Infatuation
This law states that infatuation exists to open the door to a deeper, transcendent reality. Infatuation happens when the attraction between two people is so intense that it transports them beyond ordinary perception and the ordinary world becomes enchanted.

The Third Stage of Love: Communion
The Law of Communion says that communion is contact of soul with soul. Communion is the sharing of spirit. Therefore, communion is the basis of trust. In this stage, lovers move into territory of the unknown, taking from each other what they did not possess alone.

The Fourth Stage of Love: Intimacy
The law of Intimacy states that in true intimacy flesh merges with flesh, and spirit with spirit. In intimacy, sexual energy and spiritual energy are recognized as one. Sexual energy is seen as the creative energy of the universe.

The Fifth Stage of Love: Surrender and Non-Attachment
The Law of Surrender says that losing yourself in another person is the best way to find your true self. Surrender is the result of relinquishing the ego’s last claims to separation. Surrender and non-attachment open the door to the miraculous, because miracles exist outside the realm of I, me, and mine.

The Sixth Stage of Love: Passion
The Law of Passion says that higher reality is experienced in the merging of the masculine and the feminine in one’s own being. Passion for life and passion in love are the same thing. This is because life, in its essence, is love.

The Seventh Stage of Love: Ecstasy
The Law of Ecstasy says that ecstasy is our original state. This is where we come from, the Garden of Eden, the state of grace to which we shall one day return. Ecstasy is the final stage of intimacy with spirit that flows through love.

The 7 Spiritual Laws of Love
Love & Happines between two Souls
With our THANKS to the Author Deepak Chopra
&
Care2 Make a Difference

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28 October 2012

Tantric Exercise for Honouring and Charging Heart Chakra – (Video Blog)

Namaste hands mudra position 
for honouring Shakti and Partner

This Video Blog Shows Basic Exercise
for opening the heart chakra, 
charging Your hands with Bio-Magnetic energy (Prana) 
and Honouring your Partner.

SEE VIDEO
(CLICK HERE)


It can be used for creating a sacred space and forming deep connection with your lover before Sacred sexuality practice or Tantric Massage ritual (Lingam massage, Yoni massage…etc)

It can be done for centering and generating a positive mood of giving and generosity.

It is very useful when it comes together with transfiguration meditation of our partner.

It can become then a practice for honoring the divine in Your partner and attracting grace and guidance to your actions.

With thanks to LOVERS SECRETS (Link)