During my Divine Flow Retreat in July, I spent a fair amount of time emphasizing the value of a daily practice of meditation.  I feel that the time has come to repeat my thoughts on this important subject.  Similar to my series on Freedom and The Divine Flow, this message will also be delivered in three parts.  I trust that you will find this series to be of value.

In my experience, just becoming aware of the ways that I receive divine guidance, and becoming aware of the ways that I block or limit my experience of that guidance, has been enough to greatly enhance my ability to live life in the divine flow . . . and fulfill my heart's desires effortlessly.
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As a followup to my article, Solar Activity and its Global and Spiritual Implications, it's been noted the sun continues to lack in any significant activity. There were a few sunspots earlier this month, but has since quieted down to no activity once again.

This is likely to mean that previous predictions of a calmer overall solar cycle will likely pan out, with the maximum solar cycle peaking on May 2013 being on a much smaller scale in comparison to average cycles. If this is the case, then it will be the weakest solar maximum since 1928. On average, a solar maximum produces 120 sunspots, and this current cycle is predicted to have a maximum of 90.
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This week's message concludes a three-part series on the relationship between freedom and the divine flow.

Two weeks ago I wrote about the freedom that you have as a child of the divine to choose what you want to have, do, or be in life . . . and the freedom that you have to pursue those goals in any way that you see fit.

Last week I wrote about the freedom you experience when you let go of your attachment to a specific outcome, and when you realize that your happiness does not rely on reaching any destination at all.

This week I want to remind you that you are still not truly free as long as you are subject to the tyrannical rule of ego— Read the rest of this entry »

Today is my father's birthday. Except he is not here in the physical…perhaps in spirit. He passed away almost two years ago from an aggressive and rare form of cancer that, once the symptoms appeared, took hold of him swiftly and painfully. During his final stage he developed pneumonia and was gone within five days. His pain is now gone but not the pain I still feel from his loss.

The cancer grew steadily but silently over a period of months. Even if we had caught it early on, we realized that there was little hope of survival, but by the time it was correctly diagnosed it was far too late for any kind of treatment.
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Most types of cancer screening have not been proved to reduce the number of deaths due to cancer, according to Dr. Barnett S. Kramer, the associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health, and tend to drive up health care costs with unnecessary and expensive followup treatments, and increase the risk for health complications in the future.

The federal Centers for Disease Control also agrees no medical proof exists that regular screening for lung, prostate, ovarian, and skin cancers actually saves lives.

Only three regular cancer screenings have been shown to reduce the related mortality rate — mammograms for 40+ women, pap smears for cervical cancer over the age of 21, and colon cancer for those 50+, with cervical and colon screenings being of greater consequence.
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The concern over the declining honeybee population may be exaggerated, according to a controversial new study that shows their numbers are actually increasing globally. Alarm over a world pollination crisis is thus unfounded, say the researchers who analyzed Food and Agriculture Organization data and found that commercial domesticated bee hives have increased 45 percent in the past 50 years, to match growing demand for honey among a growing human population [AFP].

The study, published in Current Biology, says, "the declines in the U.S.A., some European countries and the former U.S.S.R. are more than offset by large increases elsewhere, including Canada, Argentina, Spain and especially China." The study could help disprove a connection between regional declines, which have been attributed partly to parasitic mites and the general mystery known as colony collapse disorder, and a worldwide trend. But even if global bee populations continue to climb, researchers claim that there won't be enough of them to go around. The real issue is not the honeybee numbers but the increasing work expected of them [CBC], the researchers argue.
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Last week I wrote about the freedom you have as a child of the divine to choose what you want to have in life, to choose what you want to do in life, and to choose what you want to be in life. And I wrote about the freedom you have to pursue those goals in any way that you see fit.

This week I want to expand on that message. I want to point out that you are never truly free as long as you remain overly attached to one specific outcome. Nor are you truly free if you believe that you must achieve that outcome in order to be happy.

Always keep in mind that no matter what it is you "think" you want, the divine flow may be guiding you to something even better—something that may be greater and grander than you anything you ever imagined possible, and something that will always fulfill your desire in a truly deep, lasting, and meaningful way. True freedom comes from letting go and allowing the divine flow to lead you to that destination—to a destination that may be quite different from the one you planned on or expected.
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My young daughter has just joined the Real World…she now has one of those jobs from hell. And it's really too bad. She was uber-excited when she found out she was hired for the job. How can a "Dream-job Come True" turn into "Night From the Living Dead" so quickly?

And my husband jokes that the two best days on the job are the first day and the last day. It's unfortunate he lives with this belief about having a career, but there are countless other people who most likely feel the same way because this is the reality they live with.

Those who are pretty far along on their soul's journeys have come to the understanding that with certain challenges come great (and sometimes painful) learning lessons, and with these lessons come spiritual growth. The amount of time we spend immersed in these lessons depends on the everyday choices we make about who we are, who we wish to become, and our awareness about our own areas of needed growth.
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Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new Brandeis University research in the June 2009 Journal of Religion shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer — the prayer of strangers at a distance — actually say more about the scientists conducting the studies than about the power of prayer to heal.

Intercessory prayer has been the subject of scientific study since at least the nineteenth century, when an English scientist, assuming that kings were prayed for more often than others, sought to find out whether those prayers were answered. He concluded that they were not, but that prayer might be a comfort to the people praying anyway.
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July 4th is Independence Day, the day that we in the United States celebrate our right as a people to create our own futures and pursue our own dreams . . . free from oppressive and dictatorial rule.

But let us remember, too, that when it comes to our relationship with that Divine Intelligence that is commonly called God, every day is Independence Day . . . and should be recognized and celebrated as such.

Each and every day, you have the freedom to choose what you want to have in life, what you want to do in life, and what you want to be in life. And you have the freedom to pursue those goals in any way that you see fit.
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