"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

 

The New Year arrives as a parcel of luminous anticipation. Delicately, we hold all its promising potential, as we would hold our breath. The New Year appears like the fragility of a dream, awaiting fulfillment, an elusive bud before it blossoms. 

 

We pencil our resolutions, for the New Year, staining papers with inscriptions of both ambition and doubt. Those who fear failing, make no resolutions at all. 

 

On the eve of two-thousand and nine, I compose a singular resolution: to live passionately, and thoughtfully. If we live with all we have,

Prayers

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity, an object of worship, or a spiritual entity through deliberate communication. Prayer can be a form of religious practice, may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words or song. When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person. There are different forms of prayer such as

7 ways to eliminate stress

Live a happy life , build self esteem with these 7 ways to eliminate stress.

1. Make a To-Do list once a day and after you complete it check off the items. This is one of the best ways to eliminate stress. You will avoid feeling that you are not enough and that you don't have enough time.


2. Set aside a specific time to go through your messages, return calls and emails to be more relaxed and clear.


3. Balance your life making sure that you spend time with your family, finances, health and fitness and personal growth. Take care of yourself as a whole. Please read my past newsletters on how to take care of your

6 Signs of Empowerment

How do we know when we have made a leap forward in consciousness? We become aware of an emergent spiritual property showing up in our lives that we’ve never experienced before. The Empowered Team shares Deepak Chopra’s six emergent spiritual properties from his book The Book of Secrets.

Levels of Consciousness

The Empowered Team presents two authors’ models of levels of consciousness we can use to improve our lives. Richard Barrett’s stages include survival, self-esteem, and service. David Hawkins offers several more psychologically driven stages ranging from shame and neutrality to enlightenment.

Reference Drive

Survival [Level 1] Feel protected or unprotected

Relationship [2] Feel in or out of a group

Self-esteem [3]