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How To Understand and Enhance Your Meditation Practice

tlc — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:28:04 -0600

How To Understand Computer-Age Religion (CAR)

united_opinions — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:41:42 -0600

How To Stop Worrying

tlc — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:37:04 -0600

How To Stay in the Present Moment

tlc — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:35:26 -0500

How To Do Tarot

Deirdre — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:22:35 -0500

Tarot cards and games have been around for more than five-hundred years. The deck includes seventy-eight cards, divided into four suits or the minor arcana and twenty-two trump cards or the major arcana. In the modern incarnation, tarot cards are used to divine truth and tell fortunes. You, too, can learn to use tarot cards by following these steps.

How To Cast Spells

gin rummy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:26:26 -0500

Casting a spell can be easy! There are many generic spells that can help you in every area of your life. Spells for love, protection, and good fortune are just a few of the spells you can cast.

While those more experienced in casting spells can write their own, if you are new to casting spells you should stick to ones that are already written.The best way to begin is by using an instructive guide, which is I'm sure why you're reading this! The fact is, there's too much to cover in one article. We'll cover the basics and give you an introduction, but to truly learn ot cast spells, I recommend Old Witchcraft.

The exact directions for casting the spell depend on the particular spell, but all of them require the same six steps:

How To Stop Fearing

tlc — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:16:44 -0500

How To Reprogram your Brain

tlc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:09:36 -0500

How To Understand Life Signs

sidthekid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:14:04 -0500

How To Read Tarot Cards

sidthekid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:33:11 -0500

How To Read Tea Leaves

Deirdre — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:40 -0500

Reading tea leaves is an old tradition. Fortune tellers on several continents have practiced this art of divination. With a few simple steps, you, too, can interpret the images left in your cup after a soothing cup of tea.

Materials:
White cup and saucer
Loose tea
Hot water
Napkin

How To Do a Self-Directed Retreat

aesta — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:25:40 -0500

How To Learn More About the Mormon Faith

mattski360 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:01:42 -0500

'Learn' is the key word when exploring any faith that may be of interest. With the vast sea of information that we have in the Internet, more often than not, it is easy to get lost in gray lines of FACT of FICTION of any subject. In this article, I will explore ways to LEARN true facts about the LDS Church.

How To Write a Book of Shadows

angeleyez320 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:35 -0500

Witchcraft is a religion built and founded in secrecy. In the centuries before us, a witch's knowledge was committed to memory for fear of being found out and persecuted. Not until the modern era has a witch been able to practice freely and pass her knowledge and love onto others.

A Book of Shadows is a handmade book. It is filled with spells, divinations and other related materials for the practicing Wiccan. Now since Wicca varies so greatly, so does the making of a Book of Shadows. Here are some things to keep in mind when putting together your personal tome.

How To Enjoy Life's Adventure

aesta — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:55:12 -0600

Life is a fantastic voyage: adventure, excitement, love, learning, travel, surprise. WOW! This trip has everything. Everything! Hey...and we know the destination... right! So we don't want the fastest means of travel...we want a long slow trip with time to savor, rest a bit, take time in the good places and move on quickly when another stop disappoints a bit. So this is all about the trip. Of course, some in your office call life a struggle! They live by the famous bumper stickers, "Life is hard and then you die". "The best thing about each day is that it ends". It's up to you: Misery or adventure? What will your voyage be?

How To Practice Three Simple Meditations

sunnyray — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:41:54 -0600

Practicing meditation is easy. Regardless of whether you have already selected your meditation system or not, there is a set of simple meditation techniques that everybody can follow and find useful. Here I describe three simple meditation techniques, equally suited for beginners in meditation and experienced meditators alike.

Silence - the shortest way to enlightenment.

How To Make Dreadlocks

Marilisa560 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:14:16 -0600

Dreadlocks are a hairstyle developed and worn in the warmer Caribbean climates, generally in Jamaica. Followers of Ras Tafari, or Rastafarians, generally wear dread locks. Bob Marley, the late lamented reggae singer and songwriter sported dreadlocks. And while it may be easier to create dreadlocks on African Americans who have the desired hair texture, curlyness and thickness, dreadlocks can be created on most any type of hair. Of course, you can pay to have your hair styled into dreadlocks, but that would go against the purpose, concept and tradition of Ras Tafari, whose message was simplicity and self-expression.

Here is a list of steps to follow to create dreadlocks in your hair. You must be aware that dreadlocks do require some time to create, and that once in, you will need to leave them in for awhile. Also, if you do a very thorough job, you may not be able to get all the dreadlocks ouyt without cutting them out.

How To Understand God

Mysticrevtoni — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:53:34 -0600

To understand God, one must have, first of all, an open mind. Then you must read and understand scripture. And last but not least, use your common sense. God is to each individual what he or she perceives God to be. So make your perception a good one. Remember that God is good. God is not spiteful and does not seek vengeance. God does not punish us for our screw-ups. God forgives. So if you can follow the 4 main ideas that follow to develop your perception of God, you will be well on your way to a happy and healthy relationship with your God and yourself.

How To Excel in Your Studies

Learner — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:19:40 -0600

This 'How To' article would help different people in different ways as its content will be subjective to how you interpret excellence. If the reader wants to know the secret to scoring A's in his or her exam, it might lie here; if the reader intends to improve his or her studying technique, it might lie here as well. And if the reader wants to know the many ways to practice the virtue of excellence, it might lie here. Therefore, I invite you to read on.

How To Meditate for Enlightenment

Mysticrevtoni — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:43:52 -0600

What is meditation? Meditation is man listening to God. How do we meditate? Follow these simple steps and you will be on your way to a deep peaceful meditation. Enlightenment is what comes with a good meditation. You see, prayer is man talking to God and meditation is man listening to God. You are "enlightened" when you hear that still small voice of God during meditation, or shortly thereafter, giving you insight into what is best in your life. Don't worry about it. Don't even search for it. It will come naturally with a successful meditation.

How To Achieve Peace, Happiness and Freedom

premansu_chand — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:33:32 -0600

The nature of every man is to achieve peace, happiness and freedom because it is the true nature of self/soul. However, worldly man seldom finds it within society. The concept of happiness varies from childhood to old age in a man and it also varies from man to man. Let us see how peace and happiness varies within a man and whether a man finally arrives at a peaceful and blissful state.

How To Access Your Intuition

artist444 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:11:18 -0600

As a contemporary artist and spiritual book author, I have discovered ways to receive very clear information from my Higher Self. It is an invaluable asset to have the ability to access your intuition--that is to hear the still, small voice from your Higher Self. Often in life we believe that other people know more than we do. While many friendships are healthy and add color to our lives, it is worth remembering a quote by Edward Gibbons: "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."

Here are six ways to increase your ability to hear your inner guidance with more clarity:

How To Explain Santa Claus to Your Kids

ronkhare — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:46 -0600

Tradition is something of a double-edged sword. While some of our earliest childhood memories involve the happy mystery of the jolly old elf, learning the shocking truth can be one of the earliest scars.

Now the “Happiest Time of Year” has come 'round again, and you're faced with a difficult choice: Just how do you inspire holiday cheer without actively lying to your kids? Here are some suggestions to help you walk that narrow road:

How To Relate God, Kings and Wealth

premansu_chand — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:50:21 -0600

Early men were nomadic hunters and food gatherers. They were free, strong and had no concept of wealth. Gradually, they came to know cultivation and kept domestic animals in large numbers. With this, the concept of property or wealth came into existence. People lived in settlements and tried to protect their wealth from attackers. They lived in constant fear in order to protect themselves. Out of this fear, the concept of God and King came into existence.

How To Be at Peace with Dying

budmorris — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:16:06 -0600

Death is something that people from the beginning of time have feared, mostly because of the possibility of hell that might be in their future. Christ’s death on the cross was his message to us that there is no death; in fact, there is eternal life. There is no hell; God in His Love for His Child could never permit such a horrible place to exist.

How To Choose the Right Crystal

sunnyray — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:26:01 -0500

Precious and semi-precious stones - crystals - belong to the mineral kingdom. Crystals have always been fascinating to people, primarily due to their visual attraction, exquisite purity, interplay of colors and transparency. Crystals and stones in general have always been around us. Long before our appearance on planet Earth, crystals have had a presence here, helping Earth’s development. Not only have crystals been absorbing the omnipresent cosmic love, but also they have been amplifying that love, and spreading their vibrations all around them – thus, outpouring their love and spirituality into the world.

Amid the great number of crystals that are available, it might be difficult for you to choose the right crystal. Here are some important points that should be considered before making up your mind.

How To Be the Master of Your Life

budmorris — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:22:43 -0500

What if you lived your life as the master of all you survey? You can change your thinking and change your life--in an instant! Think of it. It's your choice; be a master of the world or be a victim to its horrors. You have to cleanse your thinking because your life begins with your thoughts. You can choose to be in heaven or in hell right now as you form attachments to the world and react to the things of this world. Let go of your attachments to the things that are temporal, for they will always disappoint you. Let go of your reactions to people and events of all kinds, no matter how tragic they may appear because you get sucked in inevitably to pain, fear and further disappointment.

How To Destroy Most of Your Problems

ronkhare — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:58:04 -0500

Problems: The disliked and often-used spice in the spice rack of life. Before I can show you how to eliminate most, if not all of the problems in your life, I first have to define what I mean by “problem.”

A problem is something that causes you distress, or regular stress. It is usually associated with choices to situations and puzzles that naturally crop up in life. To explain the difference, here is an example: Your boss hands you a problem that needs to be figured out, and you're playing Free Cell. Both your work problem and the card game are situations that need resolution. Both may require the same amount of effort. However, one you solve and it causes you stress, the other you solve for fun.

How To Pray

budmorris — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:47:58 -0500

Prayer is personal to everyone. Prayer should be a constant thing; you are connected with the Holy Spirit throughout the day. He is there to help you and guide you in all situations. A Course in Miracles in its booklet, "Song of Prayer", says it very well:

"Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God, and rising up as God created you, dispense with idols and remember Him. Prayer will sustain you now, and bless you as you lift your heart to Him in rising song that reaches higher and then higher still, until both high and low have disappeared. Faith in your goal will grow and hold you up as you ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace. For this is prayer, and here salvation is. This is the way. It is God's gift to you."

How To Find Your Perfect Relationship

budmorris — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:47:08 -0500

For many people today, single people especially, the perfect relationship seems to be their most impotent goal. The marriage relationship for many has sadly ended in divorce. With all this seeking, yearning and striving, some sanity must be brought to bear. Your greatest learning will occur within a relationship: You are not going to learn very much about yourself sitting in a cave on a mountain.

How To Be Spiritual, Free and Happy

premansu_chand — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:17:24 -0500

Most men in society belong to one religion or another. These men keep faith in God, religious texts, scriptures and customs and practices of their religions. So most people are religious. However all religious men may not be spiritual.

Spiritualism is related to spirit or soul. Spirit/soul is the inner self or true self of an individual. True self is the true identity of a man. It is nothing but a source of life and consciousness., so spiritualism is related to the true identity of a man. A man who knows or tries to know his true identity is spiritual. He tries to realize God in himself. In many religions, it is said that God resides in the hearts of man or that the body is the temple of God. So in order to be spiritual, free and happy, one should understand and follow the points below.

How To Meditate for Beginners

sunnyray — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:54:32 -0500

You have decided it was right about the time to improve your life and start learning meditation. You have probably heard about the numerous benefits of meditation and, indeed, meditation can open up new and exciting worlds to you. But what is more important, it can enable exploring the depths and richness of Divine love and help you form a new focus of your personality.

Here are some tips for beginners in meditation.

How To Energize and Open Your Chakras

BrianB — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:39:28 -0500

Quantum Physics is showing us that everything is made from the same energy. The energy vibrates in different wavelengths to give us all the things we see and experience in our universe. We, too, are made from this energy and have 'energy bodies' in addition to our physical bodies. Within our energy bodies are the seven chakras or energy centers that regulate certain of our physical organs and areas of our lives. If you have health problems or difficulties in your life, the source is often negative energy that has been lodged in your energy fields as the result of some past trauma or exposure to negativity from your environment.

Here are some techniques to help you release that negative energy quickly.

How To Create Your Own Religion

ronkhare — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:35:05 -0500

A personal, intimate relationship with God is the aim of every religion. However, every individual person believes in and practices different things, even if they believe they belong to the same religion. Such is the inescapable fact of life: No two people read the same book, and no two people belong to the exact same religion.

Sometimes, however, a person might feel the need to distance themselves from the norm and embrace a truly unique relationship with and view of God or the Gods. Or, perhaps you wish to use your religion not as a basis of relationship, but rather of self-development. In that case, it seems to be an even better idea to make your own... after all, you're the only one who knows exactly where you are.

How To Understand Reiki

Vanessa264 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:19:00 -0600

Reiki is an alternative form of healing based on the premise that life force flows through all people and can be channeled by one person into another. This life force or energy is spiritual in origin. It is channeled via the laying on of hands, although the hands do not necessarily need to touch the physical body to do so. Here are a few tips to help you better understand Reiki:

Reiki can be used to treat imbalances on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. When any one of these areas is out of balance, the other areas are also affected. Thus a physical affliction is believed to be a manifestation of an energetic imbalance rather than a symptom to be eradicated. Reiki works by removing blockages to the flow of life force both within the physical body and the energy fields that immediately surround it. When one's life force is in balance, a person can sustain wellness on all levels.

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How To Understand the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism

Malcolm161 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:11:00 -0500

When first encountering Unitarian Universalism, people often ask the question "What do Unitarian Universalists believe?" The answer that Unitarian Universalists (or UUs as many prefer) are not united under a specific creed or statement of faith often seems mystifying. Why, people ask, if you do not have some sort of doctrine or creed, do you even exist? What is the point of gathering together if you are not uniting to affirm a uniform set of beliefs?

The answer is really a simple one. Unitarian Universalists are a people united in covenant rather than by common doctrine. While UUs may espouse a wide range of theological and ideological understandings, the faith does provide a foundation of how we are to interact with one another and the wider community.

How To Learn about Wicca

Sheryl209 — Sat, 06 May 2006 14:52:00 -0500

With the advent of an apparent schism in modern society between the fundamentalists and the secularists, many people are drawn to nontraditional, non-organized religious systems in search of a connection to spirituality and the creative source of life they believe exists. Some may be deterred by formal church services with pulpit-pounding guilt trips ("you must behave as I do"), doctrinal exhortations ("you must believe as I do"), and even political orders ("you must vote as I do"). Others may simply wish for a system that allows them to worship in their own time and in their own way.