I say spiritual technology; because there are proven steps that can greatly enhance your energy, strength, and effectiveness. With these techniques, not only can you create healing on a physical level, but also on emotional and psychological levels. And from this, you can greatly impact the world around you. That’s what I believe this video shows.

This is why we offer the free gift of a meditation series, which a lot of you may have already seen. It is a very powerful way to shift your energy, feel more in control, and have a happier life.

I hope you enjoy this video, and share it with others. Hopefully it opens the door for more seekers.

Video of Gregg Braden

The literal translation for Daimyo is “great name.” This speaks not only to an individual, though it is often refered to an individual, but also to a family or ancestry that was dedicated to accomplishing great things. The greater their accomplishments, the greater their reputations grew.

So what does this have to do with you?

When you were young, a child, before you knew the complications of this world, in your imagination, did you imagine yourself as a great person, accomplishing great deeds? I did. And many people I have spoken with have said so as well. When you are young, you are fully tapped into all of your abilities and potentials, because you have not blocked them with your fears and doubts, and unfortunately the fears and doubts of others.

Those dreams and beliefs still exist, and the potential for greatness is alive in every one of us. Every one of us aspires to do something better. No matter how much life beats you down, you still want your life to be better. No matter how great your life is, you still want it to be better. So this well spring of greatness flows continuously in all of us. The key to a great name, is great deeds. It is thinking big, believing big, and finding a way to fulfill your desires. The biggest part of this, and probably the most difficult, is to live by your word.

When I say live by your word, I mean fulfill your promises and your dreams you have made to yourself, and do not deny to yourself the things you deserve in your life. This world is ready, in fact it is crying out for great changes. The mass consciousness screams for it continuously.

The greater your reputation for integrity and fulfilling your commmitments, the easier it is to hold onto the wellspring of creation. Denying yourself the good things in life weakens your spiritual container. This spiritual container holds the energies of life and creation. The stronger your container, the stronger your personal will, the will to do good in your life, and the more joy and passion you have to live your dreams. The will to do good and joy in life, support each other to create a spiritual home/container that is so powerful that even on your darkest days, you will find some joy and happiness.

Then you will be the dooer of great deeds. The one who is known for not only great accomplishments, but great acts of kindness and goodwill. A true Daimyo.

Image by Jennifer Ellison

The question is, why does this matter?

I think there is a basic lack of awareness in our mass consciousness on this planet of what the true power of light is. Light exposes issues so they can be dealt with and also eliminates confusions. Light gives you strength; it feeds you life force energy. In the form of spiritual light, its where you tap into your internal strength, inspiration, and most importantly, your authority over darkness.

When the rain clouds are glooming, be it a light sprinkle or a looming thunder head, you seem to be under the shadows of your light, clouded or veiled. The best way I have found to break through those clouds, short of flying on a plane and soaring above them, is to get busy. Not to just take any action, but to have action driven by goals and purpose.
There was a study done, and I don’t remember it, so I can’t quote it (and perhaps its made up, but it makes my point so I’m going to use it), that the number one killer of retired people is lack of purpose. I do equate purpose with productivity. If you have a goal and purpose you can be dedicated to, that you can believe in, it can compel you to overcome even the greatest of odds. Without this goal or direction, you take life as a monotonous routine of insignificant/challenging experiences. So you fail to relish in the joys of life.

So, I encourage you, to not only have your daily goals, and weekly goals and long term five year goals, but also incorporate into your life, something that challenges you to excel beyond something which you believe to be acceptable or possible. Dare to break the chains of your doubt, and step into the rainbow that carries with it all possibilities.

A good exercise to help you do this: Besides your daily life and routines, give yourself a goal to eliminate clutter in life in the form of “busy work” or busy activity. Eliminate the time consuming activities that give you no reward or productivity, and replace them with something that gives you happiness and confidence. Go for a daily walk, exercise, join a club that you’ve been wanting to join (be it the rotary club, a meditation group, or a photography club). The more time consuming busy work you eliminate the freer you will feel. The more you incorporate joy and empowering activities into your life, the more your monsoon season feels like a little sprinkle. And a little rain is not so bad; it helps you to appreciate the flowers.
Give your life purpose and you will always have hope. A life with purpose is a life worth living.

Why not do the same in your life?

So, what things do you desire to create that you have yet to create? What have you put off in your life that you really want to bring in? Mercury retrograde is about to end. Mars retrograde is about to close…And we’re in Spring. With the light of the sun coming back to the Earth at a greater angle, it brings in a greater sense of hope and inspiration.

By the way, have you done your spring cleaning? The whole purpose of spring cleaning is to get rid of the clutter, to clean out the stale energy. And in so doing, you create a new space for stuff to come in. But perhaps the best place to do spring cleaning is in your own mind, eliminating the fears and doubts of things past, and of things that you may not believe you can do.

Internal Spring Cleaning

Here’s a thought, think of something that’s been bothering you, something you have been holding onto for awhile, and find a way to release it.

A lot of people like to write things down and burn it. While I find this effective, I don’t usually get a permanent change. Something I have found to be even more effective, is to think about the issue and determine where in your body it is impacting you. And take long slow breaths, until the energy in that area of your body is neutralized. Do not focus on the memory, just focus on the area in your body, whatever is in resistance to your breath. When the resistance is gone, your issue is gone too.  I’ve used this technique many times. In the beginning it may take awhile. As you begin to learn how to neutralize the energy with your breath, it becomes faster, and the results are extremely rewarding.

External Spring Cleaning

Cleaning the house

As feng shui experts often explain, the energy of your space directly impacts the energy of your life. So, when cleaning your house, please consider any old, unused or unusable items that are no longer necessary in your life. Eliminating this will help eliminate attachments to the past. Remove or recycle all broken objects and replace them with objects that are functional and that you would actually use. This promotes productivity. Reorganize the space for efficiency to also promote productivity and greater success. And of course, cleaning and washing the house removes old and stale emotional energy.

One final note, make things as beautiful or attractive as possible. Bring in flowers or plants. This stimulates creativity and inner peace, which will sustain you in difficult times. If you don’t have a green thumb, silk is fine. If you use art, make sure it is appropriate for the space, for example I would not have a romantic image in a work space or skyscrapers and joggers in the bedroom.

What’s really important is that when you are done with the space, it is a location that you would feel good about bringing anyone to visit.

Also, here are some more tips from a previous blog article about cleansing your house for a deep energetic clean. Clearing Your Home’s Energy

From my own personal experience, every time I have a little stagnation in my life, the first thing I do is take a look at what in my life is cluttered. I start with cleaning my house, my office, my work/healing space; and I move on to my emotions and my thoughts. Spring Cleaning is not just in spring. It’s for whenever you need greater flow, prosperity, and clarity in your life. Whip out those rubber gloves, and the mop and broom, and clean your way to happiness.  Just kidding… not really, it works! Once your space is clean, take a moment to clearly define your goals, and visualize yourself accomplishing your goals, so that you can plant the seeds in your subconscious mind. Then, go take action!

Share your spring cleaning experiences below!

1. Exercise or Dance
All forms of movement, release stale and stagnant energy and reduce stress

2. Meditate
This helps clear the mind and gain perspective. It also helps gain awareness and intelligence

3. Change your food.
Move away from processed food and foods with high sugars. Nutrition is the key to a healthy body. Processed foods and sugars build up toxins in the body, which increases internal stress and weight. Also, drink lots of water. Reduces stress load of the body. It flushes out toxins, and hydrates.

4. Monitor your breathing; reduce your breathing to about ten breathes a minute.
Slower, deeper breathes circulate oxygen to the lungs, which helps to release toxins within the lungs. This enhances vitality and regeneration and slows the aging process.

5. Play and Laugh
This increases your light and provides you with inspiration in life to resolve challenges.

6. Use essential oils: lavendar or jasmine
Essential oils trigger neuropathways in the brain which change your body chemistry. Lavender and jasmine promote inner peace and joy… And they smell good too. (The higher quality, the better the results)

7. Organize your space; clutter creates feelings of chaos
Order helps to enhance your flow in life.

8. Bring plants into your home or office and take care of them.
Plants increase the amount of oxygen in your environment. Plus, the living vibration of the plant, helps to soothe and calm one’syour psyche. We are naturally more calm in a forest than we are in the city once we adapt to the environment. Succulents are great for people who are natural born plant killers (they still need water, but not much)

9. Get a fountain
The sound of running water is very soothing on a subconscious level. In addition, the movement of water helps you to move past your emotional issues.

10. Take a bath
Relax and nurture yourself. You deserve a break. For a deeper relaxation, add salts and essential oils to your bath.

So, if you want to have luck, you must learn to play.

And I don’t mean by having Irish whisking and shooting darts. I do mean, laugh. Laugh with your belly, not with your throat and mind. Laugh with your heart and smile with your eyes. You may think this is silly, but the more that you laugh and the more that you play, the more natural joy and energy that your body has.

And as you move this joy and energy, it moves through your body and aura, and radiates, not only in your eyes and skin, but actually vibrates the air around you, which others notice subconsciously. They will simply want to be around you.

      Now here is the secret, the truth to be told…It is the secret to the Leprechaun’s gold.
     While all of the above is true to the Light, it lacks the power if you don’t have sight.
     So hold in your thoughts and see clearly in your mind, that which you desire, until it is time.

Translation:
While you are having fun, keep clearly in your thoughts that which you want to create. Yes have fun and play, but by holding these thoughts and images in your consciousness, your desires and goals get energized by the light you create, moving this into your aura for the world to see unconsciously. This in effect polarizes and magnetizes your aura, to attract what you want as if by magick or luck.

The pot of gold at the end of every rainbow is actually a metaphor.

The rainbow carries seven colors and you have seven layers to who you are. You can call them the chakras, you can call them the bodies, it does not matter, the pot of gold exists when they are balanced and alive. If one area has too much, then you lose your way to the gold.

So how do you balance your life? Play while you focus on work. Make your work feel like play. Eat a balanced diet. In the end, it is balancing the chakras, which is most important. So that you will always flow ALL of the energies into your life.

Do this, and you will be simply brilliant.

How do you create luck? Please share with us below.

But this was not my real difficulty. My difficulty was in social skills. Not speaking English, I had difficulty making friends. The result of all of this for me was low self esteem. This low self esteem resulted in numerous conflicts, feelings of rejection and eventually repressed anger.

At the age of 27 I realized I had to make a radical change in my life, because I knew life had more to offer. I started to smile more. Consciously forcing myself to smile. After 6 months, I started to giggle. And then I started to find spiritual training.

These are things I learned and used from my spiritual training.
Exercises you can do to build your awareness of your own greatness.

1. What do you admire most in other people?…make a list.
You cannot see anything in anyone else that does not exist in you. If you doubt this, then ask your friends “what can you rely on me the most for? And what are my most admirable qualities?”

2. Spend time in nature. Physically in nature.
We get caught up in our lives and we forget to connect to the Source of all things, the 4 elements, the land the nature. Because of this we feel disconnected to the flowing consciousness of nature. And getting back in touch with this will help you reconnect to your own soul. If you are bored with nature, go camping. If you are bored with that, go on a walk about. Seriously though, just get outside and connect. (zoos do not count)
Mountains and being near water, oceans, rivers, lakes are the best place to connect.

3. Look into the mirror and reflect in your past. Reawaken your memories of good experiences while staring at your eyes. Stare into your eyes until you can see the true beauty of your own soul.

4. Reward yourself, for the good things you have done. And forgive all things of the past, for they are but a memory, and have no place in the present.
Food is a great reward. However, dietary concerns should be taken into consideration. Socializing works. Treat yourself to something that you have always wanted to do or have. Have you ever given a gift to somebody that you also wanted for yourself? Maybe its time to give it to yourself.

In the end, we feel best about ourselves, when we can give without fear or need. And the greatest gift is the gift of a smile and sincere appreciation to another. The more you do this for others, the more you will naturally do this for yourself. And the more you do this for yourself, the healthier and more confident you become.

Start to see yourself for who you truly are, in your own unique and magnificent glory. That part of you that is so individuated, that no one could possibly duplicate it no matter how hard they try.

And in that recognition, smile, even laugh and celebrate. Because without you, all would not exist.

 This beautiful photograph was taken by our wonderful friend Mira Zaki.

So. let’s explore this just a little bit.

The routines of daily life, the stress and pressure of deadlines, and the complexities of relationships can create a myriad of stress and discomfort. While relationships can be stressful, I firmly believe they can be the source of your greatest joy. It is a spiritual law, that as we do one thing, so do we do all things. That everything has its reflection into everything else. If you want to improve your life and relationships, why not start at the source? While the ultimate source is God, the creator of the universe, and thus your relationship with God is a factor in all things, the best way to see the quality of your relationship with God is to see the quality of your  relationship with your most intimate partner, and also your relationship with yourself.

So, take an inventory. What would you like to improve in your life and relationships? Is your communication positive and uplifting, with complete honesty and transparency? Are you being authentically you in your dialogues, without the need to hide or protect emotions? Are you appreciative and considerate? Are you respectful and nurturing? What is your level of gratitude? And, are you consciously creating together (in regards to self, you are consciously creating with yourself when the outcomes are positive and according to your desires, otherwise you are creating with the pains of your negative ego)? Are you consciously taking action that brings greater strength and unity and wholeness, a sense of fulfillment and purpose?

Because this is what is necessary in all relationships in order for them to be healthy. And the most important relationship is the one with yourself. What do you value about yourself that you also value in others?

Make a list…..

Write a few things down, at least ten (stretch a little). Be objective.

It’s important that you recognize you value these things in others, because when you acknowledge the value in others, then you override your negative ego’s desire to either feel arrogance or guilt for patting yourself on the back.

So this Valentines’ Day while you are appreciating the ones that have shared their love and brought you joy in life, please remember to love and appreciate yourself.

And if you haven’t given yourself a nice big hug recently, then maybe you are overdue.

 If you would like to make a public expression of appreciation, please share some of the things you appreciate about yourself and others in the comment section. 

Mars, the planet of war, is also Mars, the masculine energy for taking action. With Mars moving into retrograde, which started January 23rd (and goes direct in mid April, with its full release in the latter part of June), it concentrates the energies and increases its influences in our lives. For some, you may think this will give you more energy to be active. And while this may be true for some people, many times a concentration of energy is something with which your are unfamiliar. And because of this, you are unable to harness it and use it in its full effectiveness.

Mars goes retrograde in Virgo. In a perfect world, this would bring clarity and perfection in your work, and indeed you may experience some of this in the next couple of months. However, for most people, Virgo is about perfection in your own eyes and heart. This is a nice way of saying… “I want it my way!!!!”  With the extra energy to make it happen. The problem is, when you have it your way, with extra energy, it usually means someone else is not getting it their way. And guess what, they want it their way, and have extra energy too. And this is why Mars is often called the planet of war.

Early on, Venus, opposes Mars. And Venus in the watery sign of PIsces simply wants to be appreciated and nurtured. But this opposition, will often lead to conflict in a relationship, where you blame the other person in the relationship for not supporting you in the way you want it. Venus and Mars in opposition can actually create a scale of balance in a relationship when both parties can recognize the gifts and talents and honor those with true appreciation.

When Mars goes retrograde, the additional unfamiliar energy is often directed internally into your unresolved attachments and frustrations, which is why you may feel slow and sluggish. Nothing will slow you down or stop you like your emotions.The more you focus on your personal pain or “rightness,” the more the energy of Mars is internalized, depleting the fire of Mars with the watery emotions, and reducing the amount of energy you have to accomplish the things you want to have in life.

So, couple all of this with the fact that its 2012 (212: kinda reminds me of a scale), bringing energies that have not been brought to the planet for 1800 years. Compelling you to bring balance and order to your life, and in essence, clear up karmic debt. AND, this is the auspicious year of the dragon, which has the raw power and compels you to get things done. Oh by the way, the year of the dragon is also a sign to eliminate karmic debt in Chinese astrology.

When you combine these few influences, you are provided with an amazing opportunity to really clean up old patterns in your life and relationships. The best way do so is to base your actions on your spiritual purpose, which helps you align yourself with perfection according to the will of goodness. Let go of your personal pet peeves and your proclamations of “this is how its supposed to be.” Connect to the higher nature of Virgo, and recognize that “he who is greatest amongst us is yet but a servant”*(the mantra for Virgo, meaning in service to your Higher Purpose). In this way, we can come together and truly plant the seeds for Shamballah.

*from “The Mystery of the Christos”

It’s an interesting thing, the new year. Every year brings a change. 2011 was a year which helped to bring together all the plans and actions of the previous 3 years, helping you to reach a plateau, because it was a 4 year, and 4 is about restoring balance in your life, utilizing the energies of the previous 3 years. There’s another note to 2011. The 2 goes through the zero to create 11 or 1, 1. While for many people this is a four year, because of the 2 becoming 11, it puts in place the energy of personal mastery. So you may have been heavily motivated to work on your own personal growth and that which makes you feel better about yourself.

2012 is a totally different year. It brings in the fifth element. Where 2011 brought balance to the four elements of earth, water, air, fire, 2012 brings in the element of spirit. For many people this will be a year where they redirect their lives more in alignment with their spiritual purpose. For those that have difficulty aligning with their spiritual purpose, they may feel pressure, exposing where they need greater growth. Thus, 2012 can be a year of great success and triumph or one of great difficulty and ruin. All simply based on your willingness to follow your higher purpose. Simply put, do what you know is good for yourself and for everyone else.

This is also the year of the great prophecies. The end of great cycles. And as with all cycles, when we reach the conclusion, we must reap what we sow. So, this will also be a year to finish off karmic cycles of the past. Globally this could be very challenging for this year. The more of us who listen to our Higher Selves, the easier we make it for everyone else. Whatever your spiritual tradition or religious beliefs, one thing is sure, we are all in this together. The more of us who simply let go of our pain and suffering and embrace our strengths and joy, the easier it will be for everyone else in the world.

At the core of your spirit is the Light of Life. This light brings forth, not only joy, but also inspiration. Oh yes, and authority. The authority to do good. So I encourage each and every one of us to laugh every day, share a smile, and embrace the strength and freedom that comes when we do so.

On a side note, 2013 is around the corner. The energy of that year will be when we are compelled to overcome our shadows and fears and truly embrace hope and love.

By John Evans

Image by Kittisak