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M i r a c l e s I n L i f e

We should always be reminded who we really are: We are luminous beings. Primordial miracles. Resplendent avatar. Every day and in every way, we are getting better at playing the mysterious master game we all dreamed up together before the Big Bang bloomed...

Let me put it another way. We are rebel creators longing to make the whole universe our home and sanctuary. We are dissident bodhisattvas joyfully struggling to germinate the seeds of divine love that are packed inside every moment... It's time to remember. We are a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs that has temporarily taken on the form of a human being, agreeing to endure amnesia about our true origins...

And why did we do that? Because it was the best way to forge the exquisitely unique and robust identity that would make us such an elemental force in our 14-billion-year campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth...You and I are freedom fighters scrambling and finagling and conspiring to relieve all of our fellow messiahs from their suffering and shower them with more blessings than they know what to do with...

Lately, I must admit, our work has seemed almost comically impossible... Many people believe that everything is upside-down and inside-out. Is war really peace? Is slavery really freedom? Is ignorance strength? How did it all get so insane?

Even many of the smartest among us seem to have lost their vision. Cynicism has become a supreme sign of intelligence. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truths are popular...

At this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-billion-year-old master game, it ain't easy to carry out our mission. We've got to be all wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life. We've got to cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we resist the temptation to swallow thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively packaged by those among us who bravely volunteered to play the role of deceivers...

We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we overthrow the cockeyed mass hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-mindedly dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love even as we keep our imaginations wild and hungry and free. We have to be all disciplined and rowdy.

That's especially thorny because of the fact that a "genocide" of the imagination is raging world-wide. It threatens to render our imaginations numb and inert and passive and tame.

I know you know what I mean.

Aren't you psychically assaulted by dangerous images every day? Don't the media relentlessly blast you with their trendy doom and gloom fixation, barraging you with messages about how bad life is? Doesn't the entertainment industry force-feed you insipidly paranoid scenarios in the same way a French foie gras farmer crams eight pounds of corn down the gullet of his prize goose every day?

Aren't your eyes and ears constantly scalded by blistering harangues to buy stuff you don't really need? Isn't the sacred temple of your imagination pounded ruthlessly by smart bombs whipped up by evil advertising geniuses in their Madison Avenue laboratories? Hasn't your ability to envision the astounding intricacy and richness of the web of life gotten hijacked and hooked on decadent fantasies about new possessions that would allegedly make you happier?

Your imagination is supposed to be the engine of your destiny...

It is the wizard's wand you can use to design your future. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Every human creation on this earth has begun as a vision in someone's imagination...

Your imagination is also your very own all-purpose joy stick, your snakeskin bag of magic tricks. It's your remote-control channel-changer, and the only reliable rearranger of anything anywhere anytime. It's your X-Factor, your wild card, your wicked funny instigator, your Goddess-sanctioned trouble-maker , your swarming, terraforming, always-morning brainstormer.

Love desperately needs your imagination...

A psychologist once said "For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom. Intimacy fails not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining."

Your imagination is the single most important tool you have in your daily fight to be free. It is the source of every act of liberation you will ever need to pull off.

But how can your imagination flourish ?how can it dream up scenarios that energize you to create your own version of heaven on earth, if you are forever deluged by dazzling psychic toxins that sting and sap and wound your lust for life?

Too many of us have fallen victims...

Their swarming terraforming always-morning brainstormers have been cruelly fooled into acting as if their deepest desires are impossible lies. As a result they live incoherent lives corroded by chronic anxiety...

There are true believers everywhere. And they don't like to hear that there are at least three sides to every story. They don't like to hear that everyone has a piece of the truth...

And here's the really bad news: Many of us here, including me, are infected with the fundamentalist virus. Each of us is fanatical, rigid, and intolerant about products of the imagination that we don't like...

We wish that certain people would not imagine the things they do, and we allow ourselves to beam hateful, war-like thoughts in their direction.We even wage war against our own imaginations, commanding ourselves, sometimes half-consciously, to ignore possibilities that don't fit into our neatly constructed theories. Each of us sets aside certain precious beliefs and symbols that we give ourselves permission to take very seriously and personally and literally...

Our fundamentalism, yours and mine, may not be as dangerous to the collective welfare as, say, the fundamentalism of Islamic terrorists and right-wing Christian politicians. It may not be as destructive as the CEOs who worship financial profit as the supreme measure of value and the scientists who ignore and deny every mystery that can't be measured.

But still....We are all infected, you and I. We are fueling the war against the imagination.

We must be and stay rebel creators. We are wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life dedicated to navigating our way through this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-billion-year-old master game. It is our sacred duty to keep our imaginations wild and hungry and free, and to make sure that all of us, even those who volunteered to play the roles of ignorant deceivers, have the chance to keep their imaginations wild and hungry and free...

How might we start curing ourselves of the virus and move in the direction of becoming more festive, relentless champions of the "liberated imagination"?

For starters, we can take everything less seriously and less personally and less literally....

We can laugh at ourselves at least as much as we laugh at other people. We can mock our own hipocrisy and satirize our own fads and fixations. We can enjoy the pleasures of healing mischief, friendly shocks, compassionate tricks, irreverent devotion, holy pranks, playful experiments, and crazy wisdom. ..We can inspire each other to perpetrate healing mischief, friendly shocks, compassionate tricks, blasphemous reverence, holy pranks, and crazy wisdom...

And at last, we can ty to be humble enough to understand that it's a crime against life to act like a know-it-all who has everything all figured out…

" FEAR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING POOR... "

WE ALL FEAR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING POOR...

Myths

Most poor are lazy and don't want to work.Most of the poor get welfare, so the aren't really suffering.Most of the poor are better off than the rest of us because the government pays them to lie around and have more babies. But we ordinary tax payers can't afford to have more kids because the government won't subsidize us like they do the "welfare queens."Families on welfare eat better than those of us who work for a living.

If they didn't buy all the junk food and steaks they do and managed their money better, they wouldn't be poor.FactsIn 1990, 60% of the poor in the U.S. were not able to work due to their age (too young or too old), disability, or the lack of jobs. All of these are circumstances clearly beyond the control of the individual.

Most poor citizens do not receive aid from the government, either because they are not eligible, not willing to apply, or do not know that they are eligible.In Alabama, only a minority of welfare recipients receive ANY cash aid at all. Among those who do receive AFDC payments, an average of $29 per child each month or $348 a year was paid (1990). Compared to the income tax deduction of $2,450 per child, it is clear that the middle class families have more government- supplied incentive to have kids than the poor do.

In fact, the fertility rate of women on welfare is less than the fertility rate of all U.S. women of child bearing age.The average Food Stamp allotment in 1990 was 79 cents a meal per person. For a poor person, no amount of "good management" can result in sufficient nutritious meals throughout the month while on Food Stamps. We imagine what we see someone buy on food stamps is what they buy every week, but most food stamp recipients do one big shopping trip a month and try to make it last through the month.Why do myths persist?

The media perpetuate mythic images of "welfare queens" by running the same tired stories, and presenting as the norm a black family with four kids, all conceived by different fathers and all of them born while the mother was on welfare.

The next time you see a welfare story in the newspaper or on TV, look critically at the images they are presenting to you. Absent are the laid-off workers, the sick and disabled, and the unemployed workers who are poor and need help.

We want to believe myths.

We are not mean-spirited people, but we all fear the possibility of being poor. By demonizing the poor, it allows us to believe that "We will never be poor, because we are NOT like THOSE people."

But in fact, we are. In a 25-year study of the American families done by the University of Michigan, at some moment in those years fully one-quarter of all families studied experienced poverty.Politicians profit from encouraging myths. When is the last time a politician got elected for telling a truth we did not want to hear?

In the case of welfare myths, politicians can balance the budget on the backs of the poor, and we will support this.

More Facts on Poverty

Most recipients of welfare are NOT black, contrary to our myths. While people of color are disproportionately poor in the U.S., they are not the majority of the poor, nor are they the majority of welfare recipients.

"Lessons in Life"

Something i have learned in life....

NOT ALL THINGS THAT YOU WANTED, THOUGH YOU WORKED HARD JUST TO HAVE IT,IS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE YOURS..SOMEHOW YOU ALSO LOSE...........BUT WHEN YOU LOST SOMEONE OR SOMETHING,THERE WILL COME A BETTER ONE THAT SURELY YOU DESERVE MORE THAN ANYTHING...

PATIENCE IS VIRTUE...BEST LESSON IVE LEARNED....."NEVER LET SOMEONE BE YOUR PRIORITY WHILE ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BE JUST THEIR OPTION....SOMETIMES THE BEST WAY TO BE STRONG IS TO ADMIT THAT YOU ARE WEAK...THAT YOU CAN'T

DO EVERYTHING ON YOUR OWN....WHEN YOU ARE EXPERIENCING PAIN...DON'T IGNORE YOUR FEELINGS...FEEL THE PAIN UNTIL IT HURTS YOU NO MORE...REMIND YOURSELF THAT IT'S OKAY TO CRY BECAUSE WHEN THE STORM HAS PASSED YOU WILL NATURALLY EMERGE AS A STRONGER AND BETTER PERSON.......WHEN YOUVE FOUND A REASON TO WALK AWAY NEVER LOOK BACK JUST KEEP WALKIN.......IT'S BETTER GET LOST MOVING ON THAN TO GET STRUCK AND STRANDED BROKEN....

TRUST SHOULD BE LIKE THE FEELING OF A ONE YEAR OLD BABY...WHEN YOU THROW HIM IN THE AIR HE KNOWS YOU WILL NEVER LET HIM FALL.....SLEEPING IS A RELIEF....AN ESCAPE FROM THE TRUE WORLD....COZ WHO WOULD EVER WANT A DAY AWAKE WHEN REALITY IS FAR FROM WHAT THE HEART WANTS....SINCERITY IS A FRANKNESS OF HEART..WE FIND IT IN VERY FEW PEOPLE,AND WHAT WE USUALLY SEE IS ONLY A DELICATE DISSIMULATION TO GAIN THE CONFIDENCE OF OTHERS...

"OUR SPECIAL SOMEONE ARE THE SPICES OF OUR LIVES, WITH OUT THEM LIFE WOULD BE SO BLUNT!!!TOO BAD THEY HAPPEN TO BE TOO SPICY THAT OFTEN GET US TEARY-EYED.........SOMETIMES,LIFE HAS A CRUEL WAY OF PUTTING THINGS TOGETHER...MAYBE IT'S BETTER IF PEOPLE JUST GIVE UP WHEN THERE'S NO POINT IN FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING ANYMORE...

WHEN THE SHIP HAS FINALLY SAILED, ONLY A FOOL WOULD GO AFTER IT WHEN IT'S ALREADY MILES AWAY...BUT SOMETIMES, IT'S A LOT BETTER TO BE A FOOL TO GO AFTER WHAT WE WANT AND NEED RATHER THAN TO REGRET EVERYTHING IN THE END BECAUSE WE NEVER EVEN TRIED....-CAPT JACK SPARROW.....STAYING W/ SOMEONE YOU REALLY LIKE EVEN IF IT'S BETTER LETTING GO IS LIKE STANDING UNDER THE RAIN...IT'S FEELS GOOD BUT YOU KNOW IT WILL MAKE YOU SICK......

TWO OF THE HARDEST TESTS IN LIFE:

1) THE PATIENCE TO WAIT FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT....&

2) THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT THAT YOU'VE WAITED FOR NOTHING.......THE RAIN FALLS BECAUSE THE SKY CAN NO LONGER HANDLE IT'S HEAVINESS...JUST LIKE TEARS ....IT FALLS....BECAUSE THE HEART CAN NO LONGER HANDLE THE PAIN....

QUESTION...WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO TELL SOMEONE YOU LOVE HIM/HER.....

ANSWER:....BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES....SMILE AT INSULTS...LAUGH AWAY ANGER & YOUR SOUL WILLFOREVER BE AT PEACE...REMEMBER THE LINE ON PRINCESS DIARIES?NO ONE CAN EVER HURT YOU W/O YOUR CONSENT....A NICE THOUGHT....

THOSE NIGHTS WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP...IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE YOU'RE AWAKE IN SOME ONE ELSE'S DREAMS...TAKE TIME TO LISTEN TO YOUR HEART SOMETIMES YOU NEED NOT TO ASK YOURSELF WHO YOU REALLY LOVE MOST BUT ASK YOURSELF WHO REALLY MAKES YOU HAPPY AND WHO MAKES YOU FEEL LOVED....

"Married to a Jerk?I'm Lucky,I'm Not"

Do you Love and Dislike Your Spouse at the Same Time?

It happens to a lot to people. You fall in love. The romantic phase blinds you to your partner's imperfections. Your spouse is a jerk.

You think your mate will change. You hope that in time the difficult aspects of your spouse's jerky personality will go away. But it doesn't happen.

You find yourself in love with a person you can't stand and don't like. Comments from others like "You should have known better..." or "Didn't you see it while dating..." won't help when living with a jerk. Should you throw in the towel when the handsome prince turns into a toad? Or is there hope for such a marriage?

There is hope for this type of situation. However, it does take honest and caring communication.

Types of Difficult Spouses
The Know-it-All
The Negative Thinker
The Criticizer
The Wishy-Washy Type
The Silent Clam
The Bully
The Sickening Sweet Personality
The Procrastinator
The Self-centered and Selfish Person
The Demanding Type
The Joker
The Embarrassing Spouse

Personality compatibility is an important characteristic of happy couples. Irritating habits and activities of a jerk can drive you up the wall just like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. If ignored, it only gets worse.

Coping Strategies if You've Married a Jerk

Recognize you can't change your spouse. You can only change your reactions and responses.
Reinforce positive behavior. When you spouse does something right, say so!

Maintain eye contact when stating your own opinions and feelings. Be prepared so you know what you want to say before you say it.

Be straight forward and clear in your communications with your spouse.
Make time to be alone together such as taking walks.

Don't place blame. It only creates defensiveness. Use "I" statements.
Try and focus on the positive. Looking only at the negative behaviors in your spouse can be self-fulfilling.

Be honest about yourself. If you make a mistake, admit it.
Listen with both your heart and your mind.

"Acceptance Of True Self"

We are who we are

It's not important what people think of us, what is important is what we think of ourselves, be proud of who you are, don't let peoples malicious comments affect you, be stronger than they are and say, I am proud of who I am, what I do and what i stand for & it`s not for you to bring me down, you generally find that people who critisize, have something to hide themselves, remember, a wrongly placed comment can ruin many a life, physical wounds almost always heal, psychological wounds sometimes never do.

"Change is all we need,Acceptance & Realization"

Start Improving your Life without you realizing it your helping to

Change the World.

"Small deeds counts if it comes from your heart,
big deeds are meaningless if it comes from your intentions."

What do I believe? I believe in the perfection of the universe and that we all have the power to choose our own realities. I believe that children need good parents, that parents need each other, that everyone needs friends, that siblings are different on purpose, that smart people can become stupid and that everyone can learn something, that life can be cruel if we believe in cruelty, that life can be kind if we believe in kindness, that mean people suck but deserve to be loved, educated, and given a chance to heal if we expect them to change, that serial victims are mean people too, that the devil doesn't need anymore advocates, but abused and neglected children do, that words & actions have limitations and intimacy is most often found in soft silences, that God doesn't make bad children.... and that... Miracles are everywhere just waiting to be discovered.

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. "

I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn't guarantee that others will be good people, too. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away.

Life is a path, a series of moments strung together. Money, beauty and power have little importance; everyone loses their way. And what matters most - who is there beside you to lead you home.

What we miss in life is not what we will never have but what we have never felt.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Give out your heart with no expectations
Live out your life with no explanations
Give it your all with full determination
You deserve the skies with no limitations

Don't expect to get, what you don't give.

If you always do what you have always done then you will always get what you have always gotten.

"Reflections"

"REALIZATION"

A girl asked a boy if she was pretty.
He said no.
She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever.
He said no.
She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away.
He again said no.
She had heard too much.
She needed to leave.
As she walked away, he grabbed her arm and told her to stay, he said,
"You're not pretty, you're beautiful. I don't want to be with you forever, I need to be with you forever. I wouldn't cry if you walked away, I would die."



If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your
heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips

"Acceptance"

Acceptance means that you
can find the serenity within
to let go of the past
with its mistakes and regrets,
and move into the future
with a new perspective,
appreciating the opportunity
to take a second chance.

Acceptance means you'll find
security again
when difficult times come
into your life,
and comfort to relieve any pain.
You'll find new dreams, fresh hopes,
and forgiveness of the heart.

Acceptance does not mean
that you will always be perfect.
It simply means that
you'll always overcome imperfection.

Acceptance is the road to peace -
letting go of the worst,
holding on to the best,
and finding the hope inside
that continues throughout life.

Acceptance
is the heart's best defense,
love's greatest asset,
and the easiest way
to keep on believing
in yourself and others.

Angels really do exist & they will guide us if we seek for it

You are safe! You are being cradled in this Angel's arms in this moment and no power is greater than the power of love that surrounds you right now!

This Angel comes to you know to bring you a deep inner sense of security and protection. No matter where you are or what you are doing, this Angel serves to remind you that you are being sheltered and looked after by the love of Heaven. It can be so easy for us humans to believe that there are powers of evil that are stronger than the power of the Love of the Universe and all the Angels. We seem to see so much evil in our world day after day and many of us have wondered why a Loving Spirit or God would allow such pain and suffering to exist. Yet we must also remember that we live in a world of Free Will, this is one of the most precious gifts we have been given, and because of this, we all have the choice to live and experience what ever we choose without interference from the Higher Realms. Some people do choose to see only the negativity in the world and their focus upon that attracts more negativity to them. Others choose to look for the seed of good that exists in each and every individual on the planet. This too attracts to them what they expect to experience. For most of us, it is a blend of seeing both the good and bad, or in higher terms, the Alpha and the Omega. We live in a world of polarities and this Angel has come to remind you that both good and evil are really the same side of the same coin. For in all good is the seed of its opposite just as in all that is bad, there is the seed of good. Yet this Angel has also appeared to bring you a message; focus on what is good in your life and more good shall follow!

This Angel also comes to remind you that no matter what is happening in your life or where you go, Divine Protection exists in you as you and all around you if you will but call upon it. Not only are you protected anytime you call upon this Angel or any aspect of the Universe for help, but you too may be a source of protection for another. You may never know what good you have spread in the world simply by going about your day to day life but consider this; perhaps because you choose to walk down a certain street one day, it kept another from becoming the victim of a mugging because your presence was enough to scare the potential mugger off. Because you choose to show kindness one day to someone who was in a bad mood, they did not go home and take it out on their spouse or child. Because you allowed an irate driver into your lane as you were driving to work, another driver did not have to experience road rage several miles down the road. Your very presence in this world can help tip the balance towards greater light and positive energy on the planet. It is your free will choices that make this possible and this Angel serves to remind you and all others that it is our own choices that determine whether all of humanity experiences love and safety in the world or hatred and negativity.

It may be that right now in this moment you yourself are feeling afraid of a current challenge in your life or perhaps you are afraid of something that may happen in the future. Take a deep breath, sit back in your chair and close your eyes. Call upon the Angel of Protection right now and begin to feel its loving energy filling you, mind, body and soul. Open your heart and allow its radiance to move into your heart chakra and then feel that energy radiating back out into the world. By doing this, you are lifting your energy up into a much higher level of vibration and thus anything that could be harmful to you is being dissolved right now for on the higher planes, it cannot exist! At the same time, you too are being an Angel of Protection for all others who are wanting to tune into the love that you are now radiating forth. Each time that you begin to worry or feel afraid, tune again into this Angel's energy and feel the sense of peace and love that it brings moving through you. There is a wonderful quotation that this Angel wants us all to hear. "Fear knocked at the door. Love answered it, and there was no one there".

This Angel also works strongly through intuition. You may have made the decision to eat at a certain cafe one day only to find yourself feeling the need to eat lunch at your desk or eat somewhere else. Later on, you hear that several people became ill from tainted food from the cafe you originally had in mind. Or on your way to work one morning you decide to take a different route, thus missing being involved in a terrible accident that occurred on your normal route. I find this Angel to be quite active when driving/riding in cars. Very often I have felt this Angel directing my attention to another driver who is distracted or had obviously been drinking. Each time I was able to warn the person driving or take defensive action while I was behind the wheel that prevented an accident. Protection comes through intuition in other ways as well! More than once has this Angel alerted me not to purchase something because I could find it at a lower price elsewhere or it wasn't really what I needed at the time and something better was just ahead. This Angel will look after any aspect of our lives that may need protection, including our finances! Or perhaps you are struggling to find the right words to say to a dear friend or your spouse or child and you are afraid that by saying the wrong thing, that it will damage your relationship with this person. This Angel has come to let you know that this too falls under its guidance and protection, that it will guide you with the right words to say when the time is right. So many problems in life could be avoided all together if we would all learn to heed and act upon our intuitive guidance! Could this really be the message this Angel has for you today?

Each of us on the planet today has access to this Angel's love and guidance. Each of us has the choice to focus on what we desire to see in the world today. Each of us can choose to tune into this Angel's energy at any moment and thus dissolve that much more of fear, negativity, pain and suffering. We have the choice right now to choose Divine Protection no matter what we may be facing in our lives! We have the choice right now to believe with all of our heart's and soul's that no matter what, we are safe, we are divinely guided and we are so very loved! There is no Universal Law that states that any of us must suffer for any reason. We came to this planet to love, to experience joy, to be free to choose what ever we may desire in order to grow and become more fully awakened souls on planet earth. It is only our beliefs that evil and suffering must exist that make it so. Yet even in what appears to be the greatest of evils that humankind has ever known, there is also the Divine seed of love and hope. When we choose to look for that seed, we can protect it, nurture it, water it and watch it grow. When we look for that Divine seed we alter the course of events for all of life. All of us move that much closer to experiencing and recognizing that we are all the Divine in human form we begin to attract more of that which is positive and joyful in life thus making it easier for all others to do the same. Do you understand now why this Angel is praying with all its might that you will hear the messages it has for you today? For it is not just for you alone that you are seeking protection at this time. It is for all of life that exists on this planet. When you can accept that this Angel's protection is always with you, when you really allow it in, when you feel it down to the very core of your being, then you have become this Angel.

What to watch for with this Angel's presence:

Even when you are feeling fear, you may suddenly feel a strong sense of peace and upliftment. This is this Angel coming to you in response to your need.

You may find that other people begin coming to you for support and protection. It is important that even as you are extending what support you can, that you also affirm to these people that they too have this power within them and that this Angel is always with them as it is with you.

Potentially negative situations dissolve before they even manifest around you. An individual that you feel may bear you ill will as you are walking to your car suddenly turns and walks the other way. A car accident in the making suddenly and inexplicably doesn't happen. Or you feel a strong urge to take another route to your intended destination, only to find later that this guidance kept you from being harmed in some way.

Your intuition becomes much stronger and you find yourself tuning in more often to ask for guidance on what activities would serve you and others best each day rather than automatically forging ahead with a set routine.

Events that seem negative or difficult on the surface somehow resolve themselves in your favour and for the good of all others as well.

Other ways to work with the energy of this Angel is to reflect upon the ways in which you radiate your own Divine energy and presence into the world more fully at this time. Are you spending more of your time smiling at others, helping them to feel good about themselves and thus safer in the world because of your loving acceptance of them or are you frowning and complaining all the while? Do you stop for a moment to appreciate the beauty and splendour of this world and thus help others appreciate and desire to protect Mother Earth even more strongly? Are you yourself recycling, driving less or driving a more fuel efficient vehicle, or purchasing products from companies that are ethical and humane? There are so many ways that each of us can be Angels of Protection for others! And as we do unto others, so too shall it be done unto us.

What Really Makes You Tick? 10 questions you should ask to yourself: a preparation to self-improvement

"What Really Makes You Tick?" 10 questions you should ask to yourself: a preparation to self-improvement.

Be all you can be, but it's not always in the Army. I often see myself as somewhat contented with my life the way things are, but of course it's hard to think of anything else when where are real issues to be discussed.

Still I aspire for something deeper and more meaningful.

So we're all pelted with problems. Honestly it shouldn't even bother or even hinder us to becoming all we ought to be. Aspirations as kids should continue to live within us, even though it would be short-lived or as long as we could hold on to the dream. They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks… or can they?

1. What do I really want?The question of the ages. So many things you want to do with your life and so little time to even go about during the day.Find something that you are good at can help realize that small step towards improvement. Diligence is the key to know that it is worth it.

2. Should I really change?Today's generation has taken another level of redefining 'self', or at least that's what the kids are saying. Having an army of teenage nieces and nephews has taught me that there are far worse things that they could have had than acne or maybe even promiscuity. So how does that fit into your lifestyle?If history has taught us one thing, it's the life that we have gone through. Try to see if partying Seventies style wouldn't appeal to the younger generation, but dancing is part of partying. Watch them applaud after showing them how to really dance than break their bones in break-dancing.

3. What's the bright side in all of this?With so much is happening around us there seem to be no room for even considering that light at the end of the tunnel. We can still see it as something positive without undergoing so much scrutiny. And if it's a train at the end of the tunnel, take it for a ride and see what makes the world go round!

4. Am I comfortable with what I'm doing?There's always the easy way and the right way when it comes to deciding what goes with which shoes, or purse, shirt and whatnot. It doesn't take a genius to see yourself as someone unique, or else we'll all be equally the same in everything we do. Variety brings in very interesting and exciting questions to be experimented.

5. Have I done enough for myself?Have you, or is there something more you want to do? Discontentment in every aspect can be dangerous in large doses, but in small amounts you'll be able to see and do stuff you could never imagine doing.

6. Am I happy at where I am today?It's an unfair question so let it be an answer! You love being a good and loving mom or dad to your kids, then take it up a notch! Your kids will love you forever. The same goes with everyday life!

7. Am I appealing to the opposite sex?So maybe I don't have an answer to that, but that doesn't mean I can't try it, though. Whether you shape-up, change the way you wear your clothes or hair, or even your attitude towards people, you should always remember it will always be for your own benefit.

8. How much could I have?I suppose in this case there is no such things on having things too much or too little, but it's more on how badly you really need it. I'd like to have lots of money, no denying that, but the question is that how much are you willing to work for it?

9. What motivates me?What motivates you? It's an answer you have to find out for yourself. There are so many things that can make everyone happy, but to choose one of the may be the hardest part. It's not like you can't have one serving of your favorite food in a buffet and that's it. Just try it piece by piece.

10. What Really Makes You Tick?So? What really makes you tick? You can be just about anything you always wanted to be, but to realize that attaining something that may seem very difficult is already giving up before you even start that journey. Always remember, that self-improvement is not just about the physical or philosophical change you have to undergo, but it's something that you really want.