A Compass for Success: Your Personal Development Plan | Silva Method Life Do you know where you’re going with your life? Do you have a picture of your life as you want it to unfold? If you don’t know where your life is headed, or you only have a vague idea, you will benefit from creating a Personal Development Plan or PDP. A personal development plan helps you give structure to your dreams; to organize your thoughts and visions into an action plan that encompasses personal development as well as the achievement of important goals. Having this guidance will result in a life of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. Why is a Personal Development Plan Important? Personal development plan is your compass of success. Winston Churchill said, “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” The creating of a “life plan” is a work in progress, always evolving, always changing. And let’s face it. What are my goals, dreams and ambitions? As you formulate the answers to those questions, you’ll notice a pattern beginning to emerge. Creating a Personal Development Plan
Peace and Loveism - Experience the Consciousness Shift This summer the Peace and Loveism staff (sister organization of SHIFT>) will be immersing itself and documenting the wonderful Lucent Temple of Consciousness at Lightning in a Bottle! We are incredibly excited to share our experiences of this transcendental and transformational element of Lightning in a Bottle. We’ll be highlighting some amazing speakers, workshops, and meditations so stay tuned for our coverage next month! The LIB Lucent Temple of Consciousness is a place to expand your mind and explore science, playfulness, and the inner and outer reaches of spirituality. Come bend and twist your body and hear the sounds of sweet harmonizing instruments calling us to rise up. So what’s in store July 11-15 in Temecula, CA? Speakers David Wilcock: Divine Cosmos – The Synchronicity Key: Hidden Intelligence Guiding Us Alex Grey w/ Allyson Grey: Entheogeneration – History of Visionary Culture Ocean and John Robbins: Why We Need A Food Revolution Jamie Janover - Unified Field Theory Yoga Dr.
Benefits Of Having A Good Posture (And 13 Tips To Getting One) by Celes on Apr 11, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post Do you have a good or bad posture? When I was a small kid, I was very conscientious of keeping my back straight the whole time, because my parents and teachers were constantly reminding everyone to do so. However, things changed when I was 15, where I had my own computer and started spending copious amount of time in front of it. Initially I didn’t care too much about improving my posture, because I figure I could just switch back to a good posture whenever needed. Why Have A Good Posture? There are 5 key benefits from maintaining a good posture. Facilitates breathing: A good posture naturally enables you to breathe properly. So, What Is A Good Posture? Contrary to popular belief, a good posture does not mean keeping your spine totally straight. When you are in the right posture, it should feel almost effortless to maintain the position. How To Improve Your Posture Here are 13 tips which can improve your posture and keep it that way.
Addiction and Zen A handbook for addicts and those in recovery, and their families. Foreword I warmly recommend Mary Heath's article on The Benefits of Zen Meditation in Addiction and Recovery. It shows a sensitive awareness and understanding of the difficulties that people face when they decide to come off drugs and gives a range of strategies for helping this process, ranging from traditional Zen work with the breath and mindfulness and walking meditation, to her own discoveries. Taken together these provide a kit from which people in recovery can choose. .......... About Zen Zen practice is about having time for yourself in a special way. One method of training comes down to us from Sakyamuni Buddha, who lived in the sixth century B.C. in Northern India. Despite its development in very different cultures, the essence of Zen practice remains vital and immediate, since it relies on personal encounter not on scriptures or dogma. Where and when to practice Zen Sitting meditation 1) Breath Counting Naming
30 Day Drawing Challenge! Hey everyone! I don't know if you've seen this going around but a lot of people are doing it: It's the 30 Day Drawing Challenge, in which there is this list and each day you have a different topic and you try to reach 30 drawings in 30 days without skipping a day. From what I could find out researching on google it started with the initiative of Sylvia Tran and it turned viral on tumblr and other social networks. I found out through people reblogging this version of the challenge by Allison Lehman . Here's the list of topics by day: Here's some of what I've done (click to go to the Tumblr tag filter):
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down | Raptitude.com Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that — in the opening chapter of The Power of Now — I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience. If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’s doing the observing? 2. Of course! 3. 4. 5.
30GO30 - 30 days. 30 minutes. Go change your life. free buddhist audio : free mp3s and texts on buddhism, meditation and the arts 30 Unintentionally Inappropriate Domain Names In theory, choosing a domain name is a simple task. It has to be short, clever, memorable, easily spelled and communicate your business message. Let’s say you’ve done an awesome job and now you are ready to register it. Wait! Are you sure there are no dirty words hiding in the letters of longer words and their combinations? So forget your company name and the words you’ve used in your domain name for a while. Still nothing? 1. IT Scrap 2. Who Represents? 3. Pen Island 4. Experts Exchange 5. Speed Of Art 6. North Of Boston Jewish Singles 7. Go Tahoe North 8. Les Bocages 9. American Scrap Metal 10. Master Bait Online 11. Therapist In a Box 12. Analemma Society 13. Therapist Finder 14. Winters Express 15. Swiss Bit 16. Dickson Web (now redirected to dicksondata.com) 17. Therapist 18. Budget Cook Island 19. MP3s Hits 20. Kids Exchange 21. Choose Spain 22. Ben Dover 23. Bitef Art Cafe 24. Powergen Italia (accessible only via the Wayback Machine) 25. Cumbria Storage Systems (accessible only via the Wayback Machine)
reasoned spirituality a logical exploration of life 14 Unusual Websites To Kill Time With When Bored How is the world on the other side you bored go-getters? I know that a time can come when you just don’t know what else to do? There comes a time in life when you just don’t want to go offline because you are addicted to the internet but you don’t know what to do because you seem to have surfed almost all of it. If you are still reading this then I am assuming that you are someone who will give up on their youth if not shown a way..err..to kill their precious time. Worry not. I will introduce you to some of the most amazing websites that provide a quick cure to boredom. Neave Paul Neave seems to have worked hard to come up with his share of amazing flash websites which is a collection of unique flash games to keep you engrossed. Papervision3D Tickle the fishes and they run away. Bio-Bak One of the most bizarre ideas that could have hit a web designer. Donnie Darko You must have seen plenty of movie websites but none would have been planned the way this one was. Google Gravity Ball Droppings
The Simple Tao (Simple Taoism) Wait, this isn't a site about Philodendron xanadu or Cyanobacteria? You are correct indeed, friend. The Blueboard.com domain was previously owned by a super-smart and gifted scientist, who wrote many articles and research papers on plant and insect life, getting published by major universities as well as esteemed sites like National Geographic and Wikipedia. Unfortunately, we no longer offer content on those topics, but hope you might stay for awhile in case the new Blueboard.com piques your professional interests. Okay fine, what exactly does the "new" Blueboard offer? Blueboard is a recognition and rewards platform HQed in San Diego, CA. We help awesome companies like Google, GoPro, Iron Mountain and Otis Elevators say "thank you" to their top employees with something more meaningful than cash or gift card incentives, with a personalized experiential reward. What do you mean, an "experience"? Let me go out on a limb and assume you're a nature buff. Wow, okay now I'm listening.
How to Kill Boredom We all get bored and expect the Internet to somehow cure us. The truth is that you can spend hours on the Internet only worsening your boredom disease because you don’t know where to go. Luckily, I’m cutting out all that extra boredom for you with my list of the top Boredom Killing sites. Video We all know about Youtube, but blinkx searches all the videos on the web. How about just uninterrupted TV shows? Don’t know what you want to watch? Learn how to do anything, with Videojug Music Want to listen to free music with a program that knows what you like? Feeling Positive/Dark, Energetic/calm? Reading Everybody loves comics, now you don’t even have to go out and buy them.Go to Explosm and cu.nniling.us for two very funny sites with comics that could be about anything. And here’s one only about and for gamers. maddox.xmission is one of the funniest sites with article about everything. Be Creative Some sites encourage you to produce your own content. Other Very Fun Sites
Deism Deism ( i/ˈdiː.ɪzəm/[1][2] or /ˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/) is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a Creator, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge.[3][4][5][6][7] Deism gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment—especially in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States—among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one god, but found fault with organized religion and did not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.[8] Deism is derived from deus, the Latin word for god. Overview[edit] Deism is a theological position concerning the relationship between "the Creator" and the natural world. The words deism and theism are both derived from words for god: the former from Latin deus, the latter from Greek theós (θεός). Features of deism[edit] Critical elements of deist thought included: