All posts by Kirsten Cowart

Kirsten is a writer who loves to practice vipassana meditation, yoga, travel, and learning about nature, consciousness, and how to make the world a better place. Her current interests involve studying and practicing flow, staying In Flow, and recognizing the natural flow of the universe. Kirsten loves to learn about the holistic healing arts. She is also interested in ancient cultures and practices such as Druidism. Kirsten is honored to be apart of such an incredible movement of love and heart centered living in this world.

How to Identify Children With A Highly Active Third Eye

The ability to see perceptions beyond ordinary sight is a power held by the few. While it can be learned, this mystical and esoteric concept, known as the “Third Eye”, requires a strong investment in fostering a relationship between all of your senses.

This inner eye is often referred to as the gate that leads to inner realms and spaces of higher, seemingly unattainable consciousness. Despite the Third Eye being highly associated with religious visions, supernatural or paranormal practices, these only skim the surface of this all-inclusive term.

The Third Eye

The Third Eye, put simply, is our ability to see what might be, to see potential. Often thought of as a “meta” organ, the Third Eye consists of your mind and all of your senses working together, as a more powerful sensory organ.shutterstock_247742929

The ability to sense and visually interpret energy around us is the capacity to project potential. In fact, by seeing energy as a mental overlay as opposed to an abstract concept, it can become a tangible property of life that we can learn how to sense and interact with in a deeper manner.

Your Third Eye processes information and then overlays that information out over other senses, so we can interpret, interact, and understand what energy is and gain the ability to ‘see’ it.

In other words, the mind has figured out something it wants to tell us, and the easiest way for it to do so is through what it already has access to: our five senses. Continue reading

How Constantly Complaining Will Rewire Your Brain To Stay Negative

I’m pretty sure we can all pick out that one person who is a consistent negative ninny. The one person who we think sees the glass half empty, but who insists that they are just a hard-edged realist. For me, it is one of my long time childhood friends Sam.

Things are never good enough for Sam and she is always the victim of something. After knowing her for about 15 years now, I’m pretty used to her negativity and I can just let it roll right off my back.

But, this is only after a lot of practice. It really used to take a lot of my energy to be around her because it was so incredibly draining. There are a couple different types of draining energies but all of them stream from one core value: Negativity.

Drain Types:

Now, I am not completely innocent of negativity. I too complain from time to time without even realizing I’m doing it. It’s pretty much a part of our culture nowadays. Dr. Robin Kowalski professor of psychology at Clemson University explains that everyone complains, at some point, at least a little.shutterstock_276015062

There are a few varieties when it comes to complainers. I’m sure you can stick a face to each different category.

  • Venters:  This is a very displeased person who doesn’t want to hear solutions, no matter how helpful they may be. Continue reading

The Native American Story of Two Wolves Will Change Your Perspective on Life

How you experience the world is in the privacy of your own mind. You reign supreme power in your own inner kingdom, so pay close attention to what kind of mental environment you’re creating for yourself.

Our thoughts can be our worst enemy, if we let them. Creating greater peace and confidence is dependent on your ability to manage your thoughts, after all, this battle can be won because we have the power of choice.

The Story of Two Wolves

shutterstock_168501863This Native American Indian Legend has stood the test of time – and with good reason. Celebrated for its potent simplicity and widespread applicability, the story of Two Wolves resonates with everyone who reads it.

In its essence, it teaches us that negative thinking is perfectly normal. But, we should never underestimate the dangerous power of fostering a negative inner dialogue.

At a minimum, negative thinking can overwhelm our positive thoughts, destructing any and every good thought in its path.

The legend goes:

An old Indian Cherokee chief used a fable of two wolves to teach his grandson about life.

shutterstock_210050137He began, “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” Continue reading

10 Natural Painkillers That Work As Good As Pharmaceuticals

Painkillers are one of the biggest and most expensive over-the-counter commodities. You need them for everything, from your little brother’s earache to your grandmother’s rheumatoid arthritis.

And while these medications are effective, they can leave your pockets feeling a little emptier and your health feeling a little strung out. What I mean by this, is that conventional painkillers can be destructive to other parts of the body while healing or soothing the ill part.

So what’s the solution to this? Dr. James A. Duke, author of the Green Pharmacy Guide to Healing Foods says that we can almost always find a plant that has the same healing effects as a pharmaceutical without any of the risk.

Take a look at these ten all-natural pain-relieving substances.

1. Birch Leaf: The leaves from the Birch tree act much like a prescription drug called cortisone. Cortisone is used to treat endocrine disorders, arthritis, lupus, skin disease, autoimmune disorders, and more.

One of the main compounds found in Birch leaves is methyl salicylate, similar to salicylic acid used in aspirin. It is anti-spasmodic, analgesic, astringent, antifungal, diuretic, detoxifier, and it reduces damage to skin as well as enhances circulation. It is truly one of the first powerful pain relievers ever used.

2. Cherries: The presence of compounds called anthocyanins (same nutrients that give cherries their rich red color) gives cherries their pain fighting power. Continue reading

Scientific Breakthrough: Octopus DNA Is Not From This World

According to a new breakthrough study, the Octopuses DNA is not of this world! That is right, their genome is far more complex than a human and contains around 33,000 protein-coding genes! This never before seen Alien DNA is nothing like anything else we have studied here on earth.

The Oceans are full of mysteries that we are still unlocking every year as marine biologists are able to go deeper and study with better technologies. Recently a group of researchers decided to look into the DNA codes around the cephalopods in order to better understand them.shutterstock_246512482

This classification covers various mollusks such as the squid, cuttlefish and of course the octopus. Scientists believe that their evolution goes back at least 500 million years which means they would even predate land plant species! The Octopus species are so versatile that they are at every depth and in every corner of the ocean.

They have some incredibly advanced biotechnology on them especially when you think about their sophisticated chameleonic skin color changing response, camera-like eyes, and extremely flexible bodies. Considering these are all invertebrates, they have a very large nervous systems as well. Continue reading

How The Ancient Egyptians Knew How to Unleash the Power of the Pineal Gland

Ancient Egyptians dedicated so much of their lives to understanding death, enlightenment, and higher levels of consciousness. Is it possible that they also uncovered the secrets to how we can not only open but unleash the power of our pineal glad?

shutterstock_84994249In the two videos below Schwaller de Lubicz moves to Egypt in 1935 where he, his wife Isha, and Daughter Lucy Lamy mapped and measured the Temple of Luxor.

They studied the exact proportions of the walls, floors, columns, and ceilings in order to uncover vast amounts of sacred geometry and divine proportion.

Sacred Geometry holds the patterns of creation and if the Ancient Egyptians knew about it thousands of years ago then they were much more advanced of a  society than once previously thought.

“In order for the indefinite volume of a sphere to become form, at least three directions must be defined, the polar axis and the four directions of the equatorial cross. This is the reason for the whole of the celestial mechanics, ordered by numbers that form a marvelous system and for which they are key.” –Ancient-Astronaut Arguments

This french speaking family spent 15 years studying the different Temples of Egypt in addition to The Luxor and documented their findings for the world.

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Unfortunately, much of their work was never translated into English making this discovery mostly unknown to this side of the world. Continue reading