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MARIANA's SITE http://formica8990.multiply.com/ <A href="http://www.comment365.com/"><IMG alt="www.comment365.com graphics for your thoughts" src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee293/mcsecoach/Welcome2/00fe4962cdd2a9f0ad01a96.gif" border=0></A> <A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 800; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BACKGROUND: #ffffff; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://formica8990.multiply.com/"></A> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:19:58 -0000 Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:15:54 -0000 MARIANA's SITE http://images.formica8990.multiply.com/logo http://formica8990.multiply.com 100 100 Take action The Laboratory Of Life Take Action There is a popular misconception that we might be able to just wish our dreams into being. Maybe on some other level of consciousness this is the case, but here on earth what we need to do is take action in our lives. Vision is an important companion to our efforts, but it can’t accomplish anything all by itself. When we focus on what we want and ask for what we want, we are initiating a conversation with the universe. Our desires, passionately defined and expressed, bring about valuable and relevant opportunities, which we then respond to by either taking or leaving them. Many of us are afraid to step out into the world and make things happen, and so we hang back, dreaming and waiting and watching. There are times in life when this is the right thing to do, but this phase of inaction must eventually give way to its opposite if we are to build our dreams into a reality.  This can be really scary, and we may fail and struggle, but that’s okay becaus... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/15/Take_action Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:15:54 -0000 8-8-8 http://formica8990.multiply.com/video/item/9/8-8-8 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:43:13 -0000 Kundalini Chant and Mudras for Yoga Meditation Plurbis.com <a href="http://www.meditation-mantra.org/yoga" target="_blank" title="http://www.meditation-mantra.org/yoga" rel="nofollow">http://www.meditation-mantra.org/yoga</a>Kundalini Chant and Mudras for Yoga Meditation Plurbis.com http://formica8990.multiply.com/video/item/8/Kundalini_Chant_and_Mudras_for_Yoga_Meditation_Plurbis.com Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:00:46 -0000 Burdens At The Feet Of The Divine Laying Our Burdens Down We all know the feeling of walking through life as if we are carrying the huge burden of our worries and stresses on our backs and shoulders, struggling to keep moving forward. There is no real way to move freely and fluidly in such a situation, and we are all longing to lay our burdens down. Just imagining that it would be possible to do such a thing can be enough to elicit a sigh of relief and a feeling of lightness. The human imagination is a powerful tool, and we can use it to take journeys to faraway places without ever leaving our home. Because of this, we too can lay our burdens down at the feet of a divine being such as the great Mother, Buddha or a mountain. Releasing ourselves from that which we can’t handle on our own. No matter how smart we are, how capable we are, or how hard we work, no one can single-handedly cope with all the worries that we tend to take on in the course of our lives. And, we aren't designed to do so. ... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/14/Burdens Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:32:10 -0000 ♥ Zen ♥ Relax from time to time..Music: Guy Sweens http://formica8990.multiply.com/video/item/7/7 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:01:35 -0000 Guilty Guilty Pleasures Feeling Guilty about Being Happy Happiness is an experience we all long for and deserve in our lives. We may wish for the happiness that comes with a much-needed vacation or an exciting new love affair, yet when the actual experience of happiness emerges, we may be too overcome with guilt to enjoy it. If guilt is interfering with your ability to feel joy, you may find relief in looking at the beliefs you hold about yourself and what it means for you to be happy. Guilt about feeling happy can arise for different reasons. Deep down you may believe that you don’t deserve to be happy because you hurt someone in the past, had more than others growing up, or maybe you received a mean comment from someone you admired. Perhaps it once seemed that painful experiences always followed happy ones; now whenever you begin to feel happy, you find yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop. Happiness may even just feel uncomfortable because you’ve gotten so used to feeling down. The tr... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/13/Guilty Sat, 17 May 2008 17:16:55 -0000 MILAREPA Milarepa's Initial Realizations I have understood this body of mine to be the product of ignorance, composed of flesh and blood and lit up by the perceptive power of consciousness. To those fortunate ones who long for emancipation it may be the great vessel by which they may procure Freedom. But to the unfortunates who only sin, it may be the guide to lower and miserable states of existence. This our life is the boundary mark whence one may take an upward or downward path. Our present time is a most precious time, wherein each of us must decide, in one way or other, for lasting good or lasting ill. One who aims only at his own individual peace and happiness adopts the lower path (Hinayana), but he who devotes the merits of his love and compassion to the cause of others belongs to the higher path (Mahayana). In meditating on the Final Goal, one has to discover the non-existence of the personal Ego, and therefore the fallacy that it exists (i.e. because everything in the univers... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/12/MILAREPA Sun, 4 May 2008 15:06:06 -0000 ENNIO MORRICONE (Chi mai) pe Netlog http://formica8990.multiply.com/links/item/6/ENNIO_MORRICONE_Chi_mai_pe_Netlog Sun, 4 May 2008 14:29:41 -0000 - You can heal your life ~The Movie~ | Lightworkers.org model of http://formica8990.multiply.com/links/item/5/-_You_can_heal_your_life_The_Movie_Lightworkers.org Sun, 4 May 2008 13:41:13 -0000 Karma test http://formica8990.multiply.com/links/item/4/Karma_test Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:21:50 -0000 New Music 28 http://formica8990.multiply.com/music/item/91/New_Music_28 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:43:05 -0000 new music http://formica8990.multiply.com/music/item/87/new_music Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:19:11 -0000 Enya - Watermark http://formica8990.multiply.com/video/item/6/Enya_-_Watermark Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:08:11 -0000 learning Permission To Forgive Ourselves Releasing Guilt Learning to accept the things that we perceive as wrong can be a difficult task for many of us. Often we have been brought up to accept that it is normal to feel guilty about our actions and that by doing so we will make everything seem alright within ourselves. Even though we might feel that we have a reason to make up for the choices we have made, it is much more important for us to learn how to deal with them in a healthy and positive way, such as through forgiveness and understanding. When we can look back at our past and really assess what has happened, we begin to realize that there are many dimensions to our actions. While feeling guilty might assuage our feelings at first, it is really only a short-term solution. It is all too ironic that being hard on ourselves is the easy way out. If we truly are able to gaze upon our lives through the lens of compassion, however, we will be able to see that there is much more to what we do and ha... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/11/learning Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:42:25 -0000 Remember Gift Of This Journey Why We Don’t Remember Many of us wonder why we do not remember who we were before we were born. We wonder what it was like to be a soul without a body and what it will be like to be one again. Many of us have a strange sense that we do remember, as if we did experience a bodiless existence, but we can’t quite recall the details. We may remember feeling as if we were flying, or as if we were just incredibly light and unrestricted in our movements. Still, most of us do not recall anything in detail about the time before we incarnated into a human body. There are many possible reasons for this deep forgetting, one of which is that remembering would probably impinge upon our ability to fully commit to this life. Experiencing life on earth without any memory of an alternative existence allows us to be here completely, and that is what is required in order for us to learn much of what we must learn here. Most of us are not meant to spend our time here preoccupied with conc... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/10/Remember Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:45:23 -0000 Friends Sharing The Full Story Calling On Friends When we are going through a difficult time, we may hesitate to call even our best friends because we don’t want to burden them with our troubles. This can be especially true if we’ve been going through a series of challenges, and we’re starting to feel as if we sound like a broken record. It is important to remember that at times like these our friends sincerely want to be there for us whenever they can. We can always check with them to make sure it’s a good time for them before we start talking, and if it’s not a good time, we can call back at another time, or call another friend. We know for ourselves that when we have a good friend, we don’t want them to suffer alone when we are just a phone call away. We want them to call us and share their sorrows with us, as well as their joys, because this is what sharing a life through friendship is about. It is at our lowest points that we really need to rely on our friends without worrying that we are... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/9/Friends Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:12:28 -0000 formica8990 | Project Playlist | Music Playlist || Facebook Playlist, Tagworld, Stickam, Hi5, Gaia, Friendster, Xanga, Myspace Music Player, Facebook Music Playlist, Myspace Music Playlists http://formica8990.multiply.com/links/item/3/formica8990_Project_Playlist_Music_Playlist_Facebook_Playlist_Tagworld_Stickam_Hi5_Gaia_Friendster_Xanga_Myspace_Music_Player_Facebook_Music_Playlist_Myspace_Music_Playlists Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:33:41 -0000 love poem <BLOCKQUOTE> THE AWAKENING In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would wake up to this moment of love I tried to remember in my heart what I’d dreamt about during the night before I became aware of this moving of life I found my dreams but the moon took me away It lifted me up to the firmament and suspended me there I saw how my heart had fallen on your path singing a song Between my love and my heart things were happening which slowly slowly made me recall everything You amuse me with your touch although I can’t see your hands. You have kissed me with tenderness although I haven’t seen your lips You are hidden from me. But it is you who keeps me alive Perhaps the time will come when you will tire of kisses I shall be happy even for insults from you I only ask that you keep some attention on me. <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609602438/greecethracemi0e/">The Love Poems of Rumi</A> by Deepak Chopra (Editor) </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>   I found this poem and i can't resit of sharing it with you </BLOCKQUOTE>   <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/8/love_poem Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:34:11 -0000 Meditation   Achieving Balance Through Meditation by Mary Mageau Posted by: <A href="http://www.dailyom.com/users/000/191/000191285.html">Mary Mageau</A> The subject of meditation and the great benefits it offers has now moved into the main stream. If your interest in meditation is growing you may also be wondering how to begin its practice. This article will include brief lessons, explanations, tips and techniques on how to take the first steps into your meditation practice to make its blessings your own. One of meditation’s great gifts results in re-balancing the two hemispheres of our brain, each of which has distinctly different functions. Our left brain hemisphere holds the seat of discursive thinking, planning, organizing, judging and analysing. This busy (masculine) active state is called ‘beta’ and in it our electromagnetic brain waves fire at 14 to 30 cps. - cycles per second. Our right brain hemisphere (feminine) is more intuitive, reflective, creative and is concerned with being rather than doing. These ‘alpha’ brain wave patterns fire more s... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/7/Meditation Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:45:34 -0000 Buddha The legends surrounding the life of the Buddha have been the principal sources of inspiration for the creators of Buddhist art. A knowledge of these are needed for a meaningful insight into the nuances of Buddhist art, since each stage of the Buddha's many existences plays a part in the development of this art. The young prince Gautama Siddhartha was born into the ancient Sakya clan, whose symbol was the lion; hence he is often known as "Sakyamuni" (the Sage of the Sakya), or as "Sakyasimha" (the Lion of the Sakya). His father belonged to the warrior caste. Soon after the young prince's birth, a wise sage named Asita predicted that the child would grow up to be a holy man, rather than following his father as ruler. Suddhodana, father of Gautama, tried to prevent this from happening by making sure that the prince lived a sequestered life of ease and luxury in the royal palace, ignorant of the world outside. Even to this day Buddha is represented with extended earlobes, now empty o... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/6/Buddha Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:27:06 -0000 Sharing   When we are going through a difficult time, we may hesitate to call even our best friends because we don’t want to burden them with our troubles. This can be especially true if we’ve been going through a series of challenges, and we’re starting to feel as if we sound like a broken record. It is important to remember that at times like these our friends sincerely want to be there for us whenever they can. We can always check with them to make sure it’s a good time for them before we start talking, and if it’s not a good time, we can call back at another time, or call another friend. We know for ourselves that when we have a good friend, we don’t want them to suffer alone when we are just a phone call away. We want them to call us and share their sorrows with us, as well as their joys, because this is what sharing a life through friendship is about. It is at our lowest points that we really need to rely on our friends without worrying that we are a burden. If you are feeling s... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/5/Sharing Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:02:56 -0000 Jai Ma James "om mani padme hum" http://formica8990.multiply.com/video/item/4/Jai_Ma_James_om_mani_padme_hum Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:33:25 -0000 GOD IS SO GOOD, A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were in and out of the cold. The little boy was so cold that he wasn't trying to sell many papers. He walked up to a policeman and said, 'Mister, you wouldn't happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you? You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner there and down the alley and it's awful cold in there for tonight. Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay.' The policeman looked down at the little boy and said, 'You go down the street to that big white house and you knock on the door. When they come out the door you just say John 3:16, and they will let you in.' So he did. He walked up the steps and knocked on the door, and a lady answered. He looked up and said, 'John 3:16.' The lady said, 'Come on in, Son.' She took him in and she sat him down in a split bottom rocker in front of a great big old fireplace, and she went off. The boy sat there for a while and thought to himself: ... http://formica8990.multiply.com/journal/item/4/GOD_IS_SO_GOOD_ Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:07:45 -0000 New Music 11 http://formica8990.multiply.com/music/item/28/New_Music_11 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:28:47 -0000 Govindam http://formica8990.multiply.com/music/item/24/Govindam Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:36:01 -0000 New Music 8 http://formica8990.multiply.com/music/item/17/New_Music_8 Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:49:03 -0000