I used to be afraid of the dark. Maybe I still am. Every night when I flick off my light, I tear across the room and dive into my bed. For some reason, if there was some diabolical being present, it can’t touch me if I’m under the covers. Go figure.

Nyctophobia is fairly common, yet I’ve met people with more diverse fears. One is terrified of raccoons. Another’s is of masks. We know that our phobias are irrational, yet I still won’t walk slowly to my bed, and my friend doesn’t leave the house on Halloween. Here is the best way to overcome fears that are stunting us from enjoying life.

Fright Then Flight

This is our usual response. That has got to change.

First of all, know that anxiety disorders are very common. The National Institute of Mental Health found 18% of the adult population fall under this category. Approximately 9% of adults have a phobia of some kind. So we are not alone.

If your anxiety is on the minor side, there is a very good chance you can cure yourself without professional help. Just follow this guideline.

Systematic Exposure

That’s right. To overcome your fear, you have to face it. For example, my brother had a fear of heights. He was determined to conquer it, so he went to an amusement park and rode on the roller coasters. This method is not recommended for everyone since such an experience can cause shock and possibly worsen your anxiety. Continue reading →

When one learns to harness their intuition, they may find themselves on the path to the life they truly wish to be living.

Our subconscious mind forms early learned patterns, whereas out intuition is more of a tool we need to tap in to. It encourages discovery, the desire to seek happiness, success and fulfillment. Our intuition can be considered our spiritual DNA, helping us to move through space and time, sending telepathic messages and allowing us to better navigate our relationships. You could consider it the “data” we receive to process before actual events take place.

Tapping into your intuition may fuel a more fulfilling and abundant life, simply because we are allowing ourselves the opportunity to analyze before acting. Below are five tips to assist you in understanding your intuition better, especially when it comes to career moves and choices.

1. Know the difference between instinct and intuition – they are very different.

Our instincts are there to keep us safe, they urge us to duck bullets and keep our hands out of boiling water.

Our intuition, on the other hand is more of a motivator.

We are pushed forward, moving out of our comfort zone to seek the undiscovered, to cross borders we have subconsciously set.

Instinct will tell you to remain in your current job as it’s safe, where intuition will tell you that you deserve more. You can differentiate between the two by using your feelings associated with the sense you are picking up.

2. Document all your experiences.

Try to keep a journal documenting all your life experiences which made a major impact on you, be it career wise, relationship wise or any other factor. Write down your feelings, insights and senses which were evident at those times. You will have something to refer back to when faced with life changing decisions. Continue reading →

What is energy, what is an aura, and do you have a field of energy around and within your body?

We feel that it exists, that it’s there, but what is the proof that tells us unequivocally that we are right – and not just imagining it?

Luckily, over the years, a number of key scientific experiments have been conducted to answer the question of “Does energy exist?”.

Kinesiology

Kinesiology is a muscle testing process that was discovered around the late 60s/early70s.

Today it forms the basis for healing modalities like Sports Science Medicine, Resonance Repatterning and BodyTalk, among others.

Basically kinesiology enables you test whether or not someone energetically resonates with an object or statement.

The word resonate or resonance in energy, basically means that your body and system (mind, thoughts, feeling, soul, energy) are aligned or agree with that item, person or statement.

So, a simple example would be identifying a tissue salt that someone needs. They could hold various salts while pressure is applied to a muscle in their body – usually the arm.

If resistance is encountered when the pressure is applied, then the tissue salt is indicated. If no muscle resistance is encountered, then the person’s system does not need that particular salt. Continue reading →

We are all born with an internal compass that can help guide us throughout life.

That compass is your intuition.

I  am almost certain that all of you have heard of the saying “trust your intuition” or “follow your intuition.”

But before you can follow your intuition, you need to know what intuition means?

The definition of intuition:

Intuition is having the insight about a given situation without the need for conscious or analytic reasoning.

Also, being intuitive means having a certain understanding of something or someone without the need for prior knowledge.

I know it sounds like magic, but it’s simply just your intuition.

Highly intuitive people are so in tune with their inner wisdom and inner compass that they rely on it on pretty much every day of their lives!

Ok, now that you are more familiar with what Intuition means, now let’s explore ways to connect with your inner compass.

When we were kids, we were functioning from our subconscious mind, but as we grew older and life started to teach us lessons we started to function more from our conscious mind.

The conscious mind serves a vital purpose as a safety gate that filters all events, things, and circumstances and helps us differentiate between good and bad, nice and ugly, safe and danger, etc.

The more we depend on the conscious mind, the more we lose our touch with our subconscious mind or our inner compass.

But don’t you worry!

Today, I am going to share with you 6 ways to get you back in touch with your inner guide and re-ignite your sense of intuition.

1. Connect with mother nature

The best way to re-ignite your sense of intuition is to go back to nature.

Mother earth and all the plants and animals out in nature are so in tune and in harmony with their intuitions.

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 In the age of the internet, it is always easy to find someone who is willing to agree with you. No matter how obscure and baseless your belief may be, it is always possible to connect with like-minded individuals on a forum or chat group in some far-off corner of the web.

The spiritual community is no exception to this rule. But unlike a religious or political group, there is no list of things that you are supposed to believe as a spiritual person. Maybe you are a part of the growing numbers of vegans in North America, but you can’t understand why they are the point of so many jokes. Is veganism a more enlightened lifestyle, or is it just a fad? Where do we draw the line?

This question becomes even harder when both sides of an argument seem plausible. Take the title of this article, for instance. Is eating meat bad for your soul? Maybe eating the meat of animals that have suffered greatly during their lives somehow taints your body and lowers your vibration? Or maybe all animals and plants are indivisible, and are part of our natural world?

Here are two different perspectives on whether or not it is wrong to eat meat as a spiritually minded person. Try not to look through the lens of “right” and “wrong”. Instead, seek to understand each position, and see which one is best for you.

Eating Meat is Bad

Eating meat is definitely detrimental to your spiritual efforts. Non-vegetarian food can seriously dampen your spiritual intellect since it intoxicates your spiritual awareness. Humans are naturally psychic beings, but eating meat drastically lowers your spiritual potential, and leaves you in a low vibration state. Continue reading →

This rather odd yet adorable creature may look like a snake with silly little arms, but it is actually the yellow-bellied three-toed skink (saiphos equalis), a species of reptile native to eastern Australia.

For many generations now, Scientists have been watching this species give birth by laying eggs, but recently scientists have noticed something very unusual.