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Most people will tell you they don't look forward to Sunday evenings.
In fact, a whopping 76% of American workers say they get the Sunday-night blues, according to a 2015 Monster survey. Even if you love your job and typically look forward to getting back into the swing of things, "it's easy to feel a bit of trepidation on Sundays about the stresses waiting for you on Monday morning," writes Laura Vanderkam in her book "What The Most Successful People Do On The Weekend." Experts say there are certain things successful people do at the end of the weekend to combat those Sunday-night blues and prepare for the week ahead. Read on for twelve of them. http://goo.gl/Mz38QX Consciousness does not just cease to exist after death; it is a fundamental energy that is not limited to the physical. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have had first hand experience of vivid past life memories.
Many people experience them through visions or dreams, or actually dying and returning to life. A continually-added to document of over 2400 reincarnation cases are being studied at The University of Virginia. More and more children are being born ‘awakened’ and have access to past life memories and deeper insights other children cannot seem to comprehend. These children have vivid details that could not simply be obtained from tv shows or books. They have names, dates and details of specific events that could only be known through intense research or personal experience. Understanding the mechanics of reality allows us to see that energy exists beyond linear time, physicality and our constructs of normal. James Leininger The first experience comes from a 6 year old boy named James. From an early age, he took a keen interest in planes and aviation; he’d only play with toy planes until the age of 2. His admiration for planes shifted as he grew, he started to have nightmares of being in crashing planes, saying “Airplane crash on fire, little man can’t get out.”12416470_f520 His mom Andrea, like many parents, was at first very doubtful. It was actually her mother who first suggested it. Many parents dismiss past life experiences because their children’s imaginations are so vivid and other worldly. Yet, she says there is no way he would have known about some of these details. One time they had bought James a toy plane and she pointed out what she thought were bombs on the bottom. James corrected her, saying they were called drop tanks. “I’d never heard of a drop tank,” she said. “I didn’t know what a drop tank was.” They watched children’s shows, never anything about or referencing World War II documentaries or military history. Most of this experiences would come out as he was falling asleep or drowsy. So fascinating! James had told his parents his plane had been hit by the Japanese and crashed. He also started signing his crayon drawings as James 3. This soon started his father, Bruce to start researching and finding out that the only pilot from the squadron killed at Iwo Jima was James M. Huston Jr. 12416475_f260He said he took off from Natoma and gave the name of someone he flew with, Jack Larson. After researching, Bruce had found out that the place and name were very much real. James also said he was shot down at Iwo Jima and took a direct hit on the engine. A man named Ralph Clarbour who was a rear gunner on an aircraft that also took off from Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945. Cameron Macaulay This young boy Cameron Macaulay is super interesting. I had found videos of him a few years ago and always loved watching the documentary. Cameron is a young boy growing up in Scotland, and ever since the age of two he has talked about a previous life on Barra, an island 200 miles away on the west coast of Scotland. No one has ever told him about Barra before, he hasn’t seen advertisements on screens or pictures in books. He is able to describe immense details of his previous life; he says he lived in a white house that over looked the beach and sea. He says planes would land on the beach and he that had many brothers and sisters. They owned a black and white dog as well.Screen Shot 2016-04-06 at 6.07.20 PM He would always say he missed his Barra mom, and that his current mom would have liked her as well. Cameron says his Barra dad was named Shane Robertson and had died after getting ‘knocked’ by a car. What’s so interesting about this story is that only half the facts are true, and the ones that are, are very strange. There was no Shane Robertson but there was a black and white dog. There was a white house over looking the beach that matched his description, but planes didn’t land on the beach. This case seems like a mixing of realities. Infinite versions of different timelines exist within our fractal universe. He might have been mixing different timelines, memories and experiences that just don’t line up on the 3D. Cameron is undeniably insightful. He had told one of his friends not to worry about dying, you just come back again. And when his mother asked him how he got here, he replied with “I fell through, and went into your tummy.” Edward Austrian Four-year-old Edward has also had similar experiences. Ever since he was born he had been afraid of gray, gloomy days. Over time, he had started to develop a problem with his throat. He would say his shot was hurting whenever he had a sore throat. He started telling his mother very detailed stories about his previous life in the muddy trenches of what seemed like World War I. He describes how he had been shot in the throat and that was what killed him. Screen Shot 2016-04-06 at 6.02.45 PMHis doctors were unable to find the root cause for his consistent sore throats, so they removed his tonsils as a precautionary measure, which then developed into a cyst. None of the doctors could figure out why it kept happening, but the more he would openly talk about his past life, the better his throat would get. Everything is so much more connected than we understand, our emotional and mental suppression can lead to physical disease. As he was able to emotionally open up to the people around him, his body physically healed itself. We are living in the age of disbelief, where we need scientists and people with PhD’s to tell us what is and isn’t real. It’s time to transcend the limiting concepts of what is normal in this reality. People all around the world are experiencing, not imagining the same events and memories. Scientifically, we shut out what we don’t understand and can’t immediately measure.
By Eric Maisel, PhD | Updated 2/14/16 In order for you to live an authentic, meaningful life, which is the principal remedy for the depression creative people experience, you must feel that 1) the plan of your life is meaningful, 2) the work you do is meaningful, and 3) the way your spend your time is meaningful. These are three separate but related tasks, each with its own logic, demands, and obstacles. The Van Gogh Blues by Eric MaiselExcerpted from the book The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression ©2008 by Eric Maisel. Printed with permission of www.newworldlibrary.com. Because these three tasks are truly separate, it is entirely possible to construct a simple life plan that makes meaning sense to you — say, that you will write truthfully and love deeply — as you embark on a difficult writing project that consumes you but that you can't bring to fruition and find that your days feel meaningless because your creative efforts are failing and your intimate life is on hold. In this scenario, your life plan feels meaningful but your actual work and your actual days do not. Conversely, an earthquake may strike your city and cause a great catastrophe that forces you to let go of your life plan and dive into rescue efforts. Oddly, these days are likely to feel more meaningful than your days struggling with your writing did, as helping others carries with it built-in meaning. In this scenario, your days feel meaningful, but at night you will be struck by the feeling that you are "merely" living since you are not doing your chosen work or living according to your life plan. All sorts of permutations and combinations of these three tasks are possible. The ideal combination, of course, is that your life plan feels meaningful to you and you actually live it; that the work you've chosen to do feels meaningful to you and you actually do it; and that your days, spent primarily doing your work and living your life plan, feel filled with meaning. To reach this goal, you must consciously hold the following four intentions: To articulate a life plan that feels meaningful and to strive to live by that plan. To articulate what constitutes worthy work and to accomplish that worthy work. To articulate how the seconds, hours, weeks, and years that make up your life will be made to feel meaningful and to strive to actually make them feel meaningful. To put the first three intentions into practice in a coordinated way. The First Intention: Articulating a Life Plan The more abstract our life plan, the easier it will be to feel good about it but the harder it will be to know concretely what we are affirming. The more concrete our life plan, the easier it will be to know what our tasks are but the more likely we are to overwhelm ourselves with tasks and narrow our possibilities. If my life plan is "to love and to create," I have a strong, affirmative guiding principle that I can easily remember. But I still must flesh it out if it is to have any real meaning. If, conversely, my life plan is "to write an excellent novel every year, selling and promoting each one after it is written, marry and have three children, have lots of friends and make music with them, investigate every subject that piques my interest, and stand up for truth, beauty, and goodness while convincing others that truth, beauty, and goodness are the highest ideals," then I have set out with considerable clarity what I intend to do with my life, but I have also boxed myself into a corner. Now I need not only children, but three children and not only many novels written and published, but one a year and each a success. This specific life plan, with its many hard-to-achieve goals, practically guarantees a regular and maybe even constant upsetness with the facts of existence. Given that both approaches entail difficulties, which is better to put into place, a short, abstract life plan sentence or a long, detailed one? If you were holding just one intention, to live your life plan, then a detailed life plan would prove necessary. But because you must hold four intentions — to live your life plan, to do worthy work, to make your time feel meaningful, and to coordinate these three tasks — you should create a brief life plan sentence that allows for maximum flexibility and that provides a memorable reminder of your goals on Earth. Then add details and necessary complexity when you flesh out your other intentions. You want to articulate your life plan in a single sentence that includes a statement about your personal ethics, a statement about realizing your potential, and a statement about relationships. The life plan sentence you craft might sound like one of the following: "I intend to be a decent person who makes use of his native gifts and who lives a life full of creative accomplishments and loving relationships." "I intend to stand up for basic principles of fairness and justice while manifesting my creative potential and relating to others in a human way." "I intend to write powerfully and truthfully and share my life with at least one other person." "I intend to devote my life to music while remembering that I'm a human being before I'm a musician, with other needs and obligations in addition to music." "I intend to make discoveries in science while honoring the value of teaching and intimate relationships." "I intend to create powerful sculptures that move people, get my sculptures into the marketplace, and live an ethical life that makes me proud." Creating a sentence of this sort and using it as the actual blueprint of your life are profoundly important tasks. They help keep you on track so that when a particular sculpture fails, you can say, "I made a mess. But I know what I have to do next, which is simply to try again. I can start now or I can resume tomorrow and do some other worthy thing for the rest of today, like love or be of service." The ruination of one sculpture counts for very little in the context of your firmly held life plan. Your life plan provides an internal yardstick against which your current behaviors can be measured. Instead of not knowing in a given situation whether, say, to speak up or keep silent — whether to tell off a particular literary agent or hold your peace, whether to march against a government action or merely shake your head ironically, whether to withdraw your support from a project or shut one eye and accept the moral imperfection of the situation — you remind yourself of your life plan sentence, test the moment against your plan's intent, and intuitively recognize what path to take. The very existence of your life plan has a deeply calming effect. Just as a believer is calmed by his belief in a supernatural being who is on his side or, if not on his side, at least not indifferent to his existence, a creator is calmed by having something to believe in that he himself has affirmed. His life plan sentence is his announcement that he intends to mean, and while it does not spell out specific meaning intentions, it provides an outline that is no more vague or less momentous than a believer's belief in gods. The Second Intention: Articulating What Constitutes Worthy Work When a person creates, he has many goals in mind. To focus on just two, he wants to do masterful work, and he also wants to do meaningful work. These are not only different goals, but they often stand in opposition. It is possible to master a small corner of a particular intellectual discipline but not find it meaningful to restrict oneself to that corner. It is possible to master a certain painting style but not find it meaningful to endlessly repeat oneself in that style. It is possible to perfect a literary formula and at the same time hate your lack of writing depth. It is possible to create a technology business that makes money and runs beautifully and simultaneously find your product pointless. The painter Robert Farber, confronted by the reality of his HIV disease, reported in Andrea Vaucher's Muses from Chaos and Ash: Three years ago I was doing only large abstract work, color fields. It was very impersonal and influenced by landscape. Then I got tired of all of that; I wanted to change everything around artistically. In therapy I was exploring the dysfunctionalism of my family. I decided that I wanted to explore nightmares that were always part of my experience, a horror I was always drawn to. At the same time, I wanted to tell the story of what it was like to use drugs in the seventies and eighties. So I started doing completely different work, figurative work. I tried to capture not only the horror of that kind of voracious pleasure seeking but the craziness of it. But intermingled with that were also personal demons that I was exorcising. This culminated with a major piece that I felt said it all: what it was like to be on drugs, the downtown scene, the pleasure and the sex and all the craziness of it. There is no good way for a creator to answer the question of whether he should move from abstraction to realism or from realism to abstraction, from poetry to prose or from prose to poetry, from collage to film or from film to collage, except by understanding his meaning intentions and by fathoming what he considers worthy work. It isn't that he must be able to articulate what constitutes worthy work, since it is difficult to put our thoughts into words as clearly and eloquently as Farber does in the preceding passage. But he needs to cultivate an intuitive sense of what he means by worthy work and to learn how to measure whether the creative work he means to tackle meets his own standards. Is his budding idea for a novel worthy in his own eyes? Are his scientific pursuits worthy in his own eyes? Is his software product worthy in his own eyes? First, he must want to know. That is, he must hold the intention to investigate whether the creative work he undertakes is worthy in his own eyes. Second, he needs to actually know, to be able to distinguish in his own mind, quite imperfectly but nevertheless in a real way, between worthy and unworthy projects. The subject of worthy creative work will occupy a later chapter. The point to remember for now is that it is vitally important that creative people put on the table the fact that they are intending to create worthy work. They can still compose musical comedies, investigate abstract mathematical ideas, paint all-red paintings, or write romances — but only if they consider these activities worthy and approach these activities righteously. By consciously announcing to themselves that they have set the bar high and intend to take their creative lives seriously, endeavoring to do work that is both masterful and meaningful, they take a giant step in the direction of forcing life to mean. • Speaking of jobs, I want to give you a quick update on my writing. I just finished the sequel to my first novel Shop Side, which is being edited as we speak. I hope to see my publisher publish it by the end of this year. Wish me luck. Thanks for all of your support, I am quite pleased with the sales of my two novels, and even my poetry books. Thanks again.--Keith
1. YOU DREAD GOING INTO WORK. This may seem obvious, but it’s an important one. If your Sunday Sads start on Saturday or you feel the Monday morning blues every day of the week, something isn’t right. While work will always be work, it shouldn’t be torture. Waking up with a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach every morning is a clear indication that your current job is no longer a good fit. 2. YOU’RE ALWAYS STRESSED. It’s normal for workloads to ebb and flow, causing periods of long hours at the office, sleepless nights, and weekends used to “catch up” on your projects. But if this is the norm, something may be amiss. Stress has officially been declared a hazard of the workplace, and some reports estimate that 75 to 90 percent of all doctor’s visits annually are related to stress-related complaints. Stress can manifest itself physically (via headaches, backaches, or digestive issues, to name a few) as well as mentally (feelings of anxiety, depression, or helplessness), and over time can contribute to such serious health problems as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and more. 3. YOU’RE ALWAYS BORED. Do you feel like you’re just coasting? Have you fallen into a comfortable routine, to the point where you can mindlessly check boxes off your to-do list each day? If you no longer feel challenged and excited by your work, you’ve got to go. Boredom can also lead to carelessness, and your quality of work can suffer as a result (which, in some industries, could have dangerous consequences). 4. THERE’S NO ROOM FOR GROWTH. A reason you might feel yourself stagnating is that there are no opportunities for upward mobility. According to a recent survey, 49 percent of young adults in the workforce believe that they’re being overlooked for potential leadership opportunities and 63 percent believe their leadership skills are not being fully developed. If you share these feelings—and your current employer isn’t interested in making changes—then (you guessed it), it’s time to move on. 5. YOU’RE NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY. If your responsibilities have increased while your salary and title have stayed the same, a talk with your employer about a raise and promotion is in order—you should be compensated appropriately for the job you’re doing. But if those negotiations prove less than fruitful, you’ll need to consider Plan B. Sometimes, the only way to make a large jump in salary is by changing employers. If you’re making below market rate or below your peers at the same company (things you can find out through a salary comparison website or a candid chat with a trusted colleague, if your company policy allows such conversations), you may need to jump ship—or at least land a new offer—in order to get ahead. 6. THE TOXIC ENVIRONMENT IS GETTING YOU DOWN. Constantly complaining about your boss, your coworkers, or your position can put a major strain on your relationships. Within the office, grumblings of dissatisfaction can spread like wildfire, bringing down group morale and productivity. And when your workplace negativity starts to trickle into your non-working hours, you’ve got a problem—it’s all too easy to take your frustration with your manager out on your family or friends. Negativity can affect you physically as well: Similar to stress, negative emotions have been proven to suppress the immune system. 7. YOUR COMPANY IS FAILING. Another seeming no-brainer, but it’s an all-too-common scenario: Employees miss the warning signs and end up going down with the ship when their company sinks. If layoffs seem imminent (or have already begun), your company is tightening its belt, or your employer is making news for all the wrong reasons, the writing may be on the wall. Line up your next job before the one you currently have suddenly disappears. |
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