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Simplifying Your Life
Author: Lorraine Curry
The simple life is a life lived with a single focus. The more responsibilities a person has, the more complicated life becomes. For generations the focus for women was their families. I have often longed for the past, thinking how wonderful if we could turn back the clock to a simpler time. But, here we are, in a 21st-century world, and now most of us have at least two major responsibilities in our lives: 1) homes-families and 2) homeschooling. Some of us have added the responsibility of a home business. Others are involved in a ministry or a church that takes a good portion of their time. You may even be attending college, working at a job or doing something else that divides your focus.

If you feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities, here is a unique schedule that you might like to try. Since more can be accomplished when you concentrate on one thing at a time, do just that. Each week will have a different focus. That week most of your activities will be related to that major area, although there will be some things that will have to be done each day, whether or not they are part of that week's focus. These daily activities will be few, and will include meals, dishes, Bible and devotions.

Week 1 Homeschooling Week.

This week, morning to evening you will focus on your children's education. You will read homeschooling books privately, plan homeschooling, set goals, monitor progress, give tests, read aloud, hear narrations, do projects, research, give your children assignments and tasks for the week(s) you will not be homeschooling. Having "Homeschooling Week" every other week for a year would give you sufficient hours "at task" but if your children can work independently, you could have this formal homeschooling week less often.

Week 2 Cleaning Week.

Yes you can clean for a week! I spent a whole month on our house one time! This is when you do the major jobs— appliances, walls, scrubbing and perhaps even painting and sewing for the home. See http://www.easyhomeschooling.com/frtechniques.html Easy Homeschooling Techniques for details on cleaning and organizing your home.

Week 3 Cooking and Baking Week

Cook one day a month for meals to have on hand for your other weeks. (See Once-A-Month Cooking by Lagerborg and Wilson, Dinner's in the Freezer! or Mega Cooking by Jill Bond for the how-tos of freezer cooking.) This can be a great timesaving activity. Although you and your family will work very hard on cooking day, this system saves a lot of time on all the other days. Another day bake several loaves of whole wheat bread, along with other breads such as muffins and bagels to accompany your freezer meals. This is the week to make some extra-special meals and invite friends to dinner.

Week 4: Business Week (or other major focus area)

This is the week you focus on your business if you have one. Read related books, work on marketing and those important extra projects you can't usually fit in. Your children will be doing independent study, helping with the business or just enjoying their free time.

Week 5: Repeat the cycle or go into another of your focus areas.

You may choose to alternate your weeks like this.

Week 1: Homeschooling
Week 2: Cleaning and Cooking
Week 3: Homeschooling
Week 4: Extra Curricular for Mom (or business activities)

Many are already dividing their days into:

Morning: Homeschooling
Afternoon: Business
Evening: Cooking, Laundry, Cleanup

Or you could divide your week:

Monday: Homeschool
Tuesday: Cleaning
Wednesday: Homeschool
Thursday: Shopping/Cooking
Friday: Homeschool

No matter what the focus of each week, never neglect responding to your children and their needs. With many responsibilities, it is even more important that we includes more prayer, Bible reading and meditation on the Scriptures. I've found that when I do this my productivity goes way up. It can't be explained. It is a supernatural law.

About the Author

Lorraine Curry is the author of 5 Star books, Easy Homeschooling Techniques and Easy Homeschooling Companion. See more ideas for writing and other subjects at http://www.easyhomeschooling.com/homeschooling.html Easy Homeschooling. See FREE articles, checklists, copywork, subscriptions, ebooks and more at http://www.easyhomeschooling.com

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Intuitive Thinking
Author: Dale Power
When I say Intuitive thinking, I am not talking about using the occasional hunch or even having full blown psychic premonitions. Intuitive thought is a complete process that allows for psychic input as well as learned information, to form complete ideas that can be used in everyday life. It is a true altered state of consciousness.

With this one technique you can learn about, understand and invent processes that otherwise would never occur to you. It allows a person to approach true understanding of a subject matter, if given enough time.

It can also allow you to understand the current course of events in a specific subject area, and by application of thought, let you to alter or influence events in another direction. This is perhaps the true, greatest use of precognition, to see what is coming and avoiding it skillfully to your benefit.

I have used this type of thinking to make great personal strides in many areas of my own life, martial arts, psychic phenomenon and business in particular!

First I am going to make a few assumptions here. My working premise is that anyone trying this will already be familiar with some form of meditation or bio-feedback, as well as some type of psychic functioning.

Second, if you are interested in intuitive thinking skills, that you are a person with enough discipline to handle the potential problems that may arise from thinking in a new fashion. Quite frankly, when you begin to think in a markedly different fashion, it is possible to encounter situations in which your actions seem so different that to some they seem insane. Until your actions bring about the desired results, of course.

Even with the potential hardships involved, as we are moving into times so troubled that they cannot be understood in our common way, we need to have as many as individuals possible capable of alternative thought and action.

Start with an idea of the topic or subject you are going to address. You will need this idea as a starting point.

Drop into a theta brainwave state. You will recognize it either by the meditative feel of the state, the clarity and lack of verbalized thought, or you may notice clear photo like images in your mind. Both show you have reached the appropriate mental level.

Once you are in a deep clear space, introduce the idea you are going to work on. Hold it in your thoughts, getting a sense of the psychic reality of each portion of thought.

You will begin to feel as if you are thinking from the middle of your head. This is a sign that you are entering the correct mental space.

From this place of abstract thought, you will be able to focus on each critical part of an idea and allow the intuition to direct you from one part of the idea to the next. What is of interest here is that you will often move from information you already know, to information that is true, but you had no awareness of before.

The next step is to use this form of thought in daily life. This takes great practice and control, but will allow you to live as an intuitive being, rather than simply as a psychic. This is also a learning process. It will take time for your mind to learn how to react to the world while in this state.

It is important to understand that this is an integrated state. You are not just in a meditative state, but a logical one, that uses intuition and psychic information as part of its base. You will find yourself understanding not only what will happen, but often why and how to change it to a different, hopefully better, outcome, if needed.

About the Author

Dale Power is a psychic healer, researcher and educator that has been focusing on ways to improve psychic functioning in humans for the last twenty years.
Go to: http://healing.worldispnetwork.com to find out more about the work being done.

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The Magnetic, Attractive Power of the Mind
Author: Remez Sasson
The power of mind draws certain events, circumstances and people into our lives and repels others. In this respect it resembles a magnet. Just look at the people around you. Some pass through certain events and circumstances, while others pass through different experiences. Some accomplish certain things easily, and others accomplish them with great difficulty or not at all.

Your mind is composed of the thoughts you think. These thoughts are like magnetic currents. If you think positively about some event or action, it turns out to be as you thought about it. If you harbor negative thoughts, this negativity is drawn into your life.

You attract into your life what you think about frequently. It does not mean that every thought gets materialized. Most of the thoughts are weak and are not repeated long enough to gain sufficient strength. Weak thoughts, like a weak magnet, hardly have any attractive power.

You have seen how a magnet draws metal objects. A strong and big magnet draws bigger objects than a small and weak one. Magnets have another peculiar characteristic. One side of the magnet draws, and the other side repels.

The power of attraction is a neutral power. The magnet draws to itself everything made of iron, no matter whether it is a useful object or junk. The mind acts in the same way. It attracts into your life positive and negative situations and events, according to the thoughts that you think.

Like the magnet the mind not only attracts, but also repels. If you do not believe you can get or accomplish something, then you repel it. Thoughts of incompetence, weakness, fear and inferiority create a repellent force. It is as if you are creating a wind that blows away and prevents certain things to reach you.

There are several ways to charge your mind and thoughts with magnetic power. Strong desire, concentration and faith are some of the important ingredients for infusing power into thoughts.

Many activate the magnetic power of their mind unconsciously, without knowing what they are doing. When you know the rules, you become able to activate the magnetic power of your mind consciously, positively and effectively.

Visualizing and thinking with concentration, desire and faith, and repeating these thoughts often, unleashes powerful energy. Your thoughts get radiated and broadcasted, influencing the minds of other people, and attracting to you people who think along the same lines as you do and who can help you with your plans. This process also heightens your awareness and perceptiveness of any opportunity connected with your thoughts that comes your way, and fills you with the inner power and initiative to utilize it.

Why not become conscious of your thoughts, choose to think the ones that are beneficial for you, and consciously and advantageously utilize the power of attraction? You can attract people, circumstances, events, possessions or a life style with the magnetic power of attraction of your mind.

Remember, what you think about intently, with attention and feeling is attracted to you. It can be material and it can be spiritual. The power of attraction is a universal power and manifests everywhere and in everything. It is the power that holds the Universe together. Without it there would not be any world.

About the Author

Remez Sasson writes and teaches about spiritual growth, meditation, positive thinking, creative visualization and mind power, and issues a biweekly ezine, "Consciousness and Success". He is the author of two books, "Will power and Self-Discipline" and "Visualize and Achieve".

Website: http://www.SuccessConsciousness.com
Contact: info@successconsciousness.com
Subscribe to his ezine : http://www.SuccessConsciousness.com/index_000026.htm

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Daily Rituals as a Doorway to the Higher
Author: Stephanie Yeh
Description: Article from the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic on using daily ritual to connect with a higher self or higher power.

Key Words: daily ritual, spiritual ritual, spiritual doorway, higher power, walking ritual, Stephanie Yeh

DAILY Rituals as a Doorway to the Higher
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If you have a longing to connect with something higher, whether it be your higher self or higher powers and beings, one of the simplest ways to connect is by creating a daily ritual for yourself. Whether you meditate, do yoga, read inspirational books, or just take a walk, doing a daily ritual creates a doorway through which the higher can enter your life.

Most of us are so busy during the day that we have a hard time hearing that quiet, dry voice of higher guidance. Whether we know it or not, our guides, totems, angels, and higher selves are speaking to us all the time-most of the time we just can't hear them over all the noise of cell phones, radio, teleconferences, and gossip. So, we need to set aside some sacred time to connect, and daily rituals are perfect for that.

If you've already got a daily ritual that you use, you're one step ahead. Just make sure and do that ritual with as much consistency as possible. In spiritual circles, people have discovered that the consistency of doing a ritual at the same time every time increases the level and quality of the connection with the higher. If you don't already have a ritual, you can try meditation (see the Resources section for more details), or you can try this simple walking ritual:

1) Decide what amount of time or what distance you want to walk each day (you can adjust this later).

2) The first half of the walk, you get to talk. Talk to your guides, your totems, your angels or the Universe in general. Talk about what's on your mind, or what's going on in your life, or what you want or need. Talk about anything that's important to you or that you need help with.

3) The second half of the walk, you get to listen. Take in everything your guides or the Universe is trying to express to you. Feel your feelings, feel the sensations in your body, hear the sounds around you, smell the smells, and take in the sights. Become an instrument of listening and absorbing.

If you take this walk daily at about the same time every day, you will have established a consistent connection with the higher. In other words, it's a scheduled appointment between you and your higher helpers. It's a time when you can truly connect, listen and be heard. Your life will increase in richness, depth, and understanding. This and other daily rituals will become like a maypole around which your life revolves with steadiness and strength. Enjoy!

About the Author

Stephanie Yeh, co-founder of the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic (http://www.shamanschool.com ), helps clients learn magical and shamanic techniques. Her current project, a free teleconference series on a variety of magickal and shamanic topics with guest speakers, is designed to share information and promote interaction between people of varying spiritual practices.

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Stress: Guilty As Charged
Author: Steve Gillman

How To Defend Yourself

Do you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed? Do you
sometimes feel like you just have too much to think about?
Does it make you tired, irritable, or even depressed? What
can you do about it?

People rarely go to the doctor to say "I think I have
stress," and yet the National Institutes of Health say that
80% of illnesses are caused by stress, directly or
indirectly. Hormones, such as adrenalin, are released into
your blood when you're stressed. This causes a rise in blood
pressure, a faster heart and breathing rate, and faster
conversion of glycogen into glucose. These are good things
if you need to escape a charging grizzly bear, but when
these effects are prolonged, the immune system is depressed,
and your body suffers other negative changes.

Common effects of prolonged stress include fatigue, pain in
the muscles and joints, headache, mental confusion,
depression, anxiety, and irritability. Stress reactions
cause your body to use too much energy, which can result in
physical and mental weakness.

Managing Stress With Meditation

Years ago at Stanford University, an analysis of 146
meditation studies was done. The conclusion was that
meditation not only was beneficial at the time of practice,
but that it significantly reduced anxiety as a character
trait. The studies focused on transcendental meditation, but
it's probable most methods have similar results. (Reported
in the Journal of Clinical Psychology 45: 957­974, 1989.)

The bottom line is that stress is a killer, and that
meditation really can help you defend yourself. Traditional
meditation may have the most beneficial effects, but maybe
you're short on time, or uncertain about learning to
meditate. In that case, there are two simple techniques you
can learn in a few minutes, and start using today.

The first is a breathing meditation. Close your eyes, let
the tension drain from your muscles, let go of your thoughts
(to the extent possible), and breath deeply through your
nose, paying attention to your breath. As thoughts or
sensations arise, just acknowledge them and return your
attention to your breath as it goes in and out. Do this for
five or ten minutes.

To use the second technique, stop whatever you're doing when
you feel stressed, and take three deep breaths. Watch
yourself until you identify what is bothering you. Are you
worried about something? Is there a letter you need to
write? Maybe your neck is sore. Note everything you find.

Now deal with these stressors. Write the letter that's on
your mind, take an aspirin, put things on tomorrow's list.
If the best you can do is recognise there's nothing you can
do right now - then do that. With practice, you'll get
better at finding what's just below the surface of
consciousness, irritating you. After you address these
things, close your eyes, take three deep breaths, and you'll
feel more relaxed and able to think clearly. Try it now.

About the Author

Steve Gillman has meditated and studied meditation for over
twenty years. You can visit his website, and subscribe to
The Meditation Newsletter at:
http://www.TheMeditationSite.com/newsletter.html http://www.TheMeditationSite.com/newsletter.html

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