Thoughts obsessive? Stop them!

Thoughts obsessive? Stop them!
You might have reached a point in your life where you want to be rid of the continuous torture of the “thought generating” mind…

Obsessive or negative thoughts can make living miserable when you are plagued by them, but this very situation can become the invitation to transcend mind and be free of suffering forever.

Question: Can you stop obsessive thoughts?  If you could it would be great, but the truth is that it’s slightly more complicated than just suppressing your thoughts which at-most you can do for a few seconds. Plus suppressing thoughts is even worse than enduring thoughts. It builds up a lot of negative energy inside. So how to stop thinking horrible thoughts? The secret to stopping obsessive or negative thoughts is to detach from the mind. You cannot fight mind with the mind. That’s what this article is about. Let’s look at this in more detail.

What Causes Obsessive Thoughts?
If you generated thoughts, you could’ve controlled them too. The truth is that you don’t generate thoughts, the mind does. It’s on auto mode most of the time. You can see this for yourself, can you predict what you will think 30 seconds from now? If you can’t how can you assume that you are generating the thoughts? If you believe that you are your mind, that’s a false notion again. If you are your mind then how can you observe the thoughts? So you must be separate from the mind to see what the mind is doing. So the mind generates thoughts, which are mostly just energy forms. These thoughts pass through like clouds. We identify with some of these thoughts and obsess about them. So in truth all thoughts are just neutral energy forms, it’s “your” interest or association with the thoughts that makes them obsessive. If you can understand this truth, you have taken the first step towards getting rid of obsessive thoughts.

How to Stop Obsessive Negative Thoughts?
If you are asking this question, ask yourself another question – “is this question not another thought? It’s a thought about killing thoughts”. All your attempts at suppressing and stopping thoughts will fail because you will be using the mind to stop the mind. The police man and thief are both the mind, so how can the police man catch the thief? So you cannot kill the mind by force. The mind dies its own death by the poison of disassociation.

What gives power to a thought? – Your interest. If you have no interest in a particular thought then it loses its hold over you. You can try this out now. Let the thoughts flow through your mind but don’t take interest in them. Just stay as a bystander or a watcher and let the thoughts float. Initially you might have a hard time watching thoughts because of your inherent habit of associating with each thought that arises. It helps to know that you are not your thoughts, that thoughts are just energy forms created in the mind. Why does the mind create thoughts? No one knows – it’s just something it does, why bother. Do you ever ask why does the heart beat? With a little practice you will get really good at watching thoughts and not involving yourself with them. You will stop giving power to thoughts by not giving them your interest. Thoughts die immediately when they are deprived of this fuel of interest. If you don’t associate with the thought or give power to the thought, it will wither away quickly.

What Are Thoughts?
Past events get stored as memories. Your mind conditioning and beliefs are also stored as memories. All this is unconscious storage; the mind does all this in auto mode. Perceptions and interpretations are created in the mind based on its past “external” conditioning and also its natural conditioning (genetics). These interpretations, perceptions and judgments come up as thoughts in the mind, and they can positive or negative depending on the mind’s conditioning. Thoughts are generated based on the past incidents/memories, future projections and interpretations on the present life situation. It’s like a computer trying to predict or conjure up projection based on the data it has collected so far. When thoughts are negative in nature (thoughts of worry, anxiety, stress, lack, resentment, guilt etc) they produce resistance to the movement of your life, and this resistance is felt as suffering. Negative thoughts will always stand in resistance to the movement of your life, like blocks of stone in the midst of a swift current of water. Life is a stream of pure positive energy and hence any negative thought will stand in opposition to it, causing friction which is felt as suffering in the body. The thoughts in your mind gain power from your attention and interest. Your attention is the fuel for your mind. So when you give attention to negative thoughts in the mind, you are unconsciously fueling it and thus attracting more momentum for these negative thoughts. The momentum of negative thoughts in your mind will slow down, and ebb away, automatically when you stop feeding your attention to it. Stay as an open space of awareness without contracting your attention on the negative thoughts of the mind, and soon they will lose their momentum.

You can focus on the positive thoughts generated in the mind, and thus develop a positive momentum in your mind. Every time your mind produces some positive thoughts, e.g thoughts of love, joy, excitement, abundance, beauty, appreciation, passion, peace etc, focus on it, milk it, and give attention to it. This will cause your mind to attract more positive thoughts and thus build a positive momentum. Whenever it thinks negatively, don’t give it attention or interest, this will cause the ebbing away of the momentum of negative thinking. It’s really that simple. Once you understand the mechanics of how thoughts gain momentum in the mind, you will be in total control of your state of being.

The Practice of Watching the Mind
All you need to do to get rid of obsessive thoughts is to watch the mind without getting involved. You will get really good at this with just a little practice. This practice, or “sadhana” as called in Hindu scriptures, is the root of awakening from the illusion of mind. Without trying to understand this practice just implement it. The more you try to understand the more mind gets involved. Just watch the mind and you will soon see that you are not the mind at all. That the mind is like a machine in your head that generates thoughts based on your attention/interest. Be free of your mind by depriving it of your interest. This is the only direct path of becoming free of the mind.

Livia

Pandora Jewelry in Romania

Pandora Jewelry in Romania

Pandora, accesorii Pandora, bratara Pandora… Cred ca multe femei adora bijuteriile Pandora. Dar ce este Pandora? Toate accesoriile  Pandora reprezinta o achizitie unica si deosebit de frumoasa in crearea oricarei bijuterii. Datorita unei game atat de vaste de modele Pandora, design-ul bijuteriei tale (in cazul meu, eu) va fi absolut unicat. Accesoriile Pandora pot fi din metale pretioase, sticla Murano sau chiar materiale naturale, fapt ce ii permite oricarui designer de bijuterii o mare libertate de creatie.

Pandora, cu afaceri de aproape 900 de milioane de euro la nivel mondial şi cu magazine în 55 de state, a deschis in septembrie la Bucureşti primul magazin de pe piaţa locală.
Situat în centrul comercial AFI Palace, magazinul are o suprafaţă de 64 de metri pătraţi şi a necesitat o investiţie de circa 300.000 de euro. “Este o intrare directă. S-a luat această decizie datorită potenţialului pe care piaţa din România îl are”, spun reprezentanţii Pandora.

Compania daneză comercializează bijuterii din aur şi argint, ce au montate pietre preţioase şi semipreţioase. “Clienţii pot personaliza orice detaliu al bijuteriilor”.
Preţurile produselor variază între 14 şi 4.500 de euro, iar reprezentanţii companiei spun că fiecare client va lasa în medie 400 de lei (circa 100 de euro) în magazinul Pandora.

“Cele mai deschise provocărilor în materie de stiluri şi culori ale bijuteriilor pe care le poartă sunt bucureştencele. Orice produs îşi găseşte cumpărător în Capitală. Clienţii Pandora sunt de regulă femei peste 20 de ani, cu venituri peste medie şi educaţie superioară”.

Vezi galeria foto: Pandora Jewelry

Livia

Angels, Soul, Spirit, Time & Evolution

The Soul

The Soul is the closest dense vehicle that the spirit has, this is composed by different energies, that’s why it’s dense, because it’s not only pure light. Its body is the well known Chakras: Base, Sacral, Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye and Crown. These are the energetic glands that allow the spirit to connect with the maximum density: Matter. Each chakra corresponds with each gland of the physical body. The Soul is created in the cells of what we know as God, and they are etheric accumulations which are capable of vibrating with the level of matter. This allows the pure light to go into the matter and to evolve.

All this evolution process makes the individual spirit, no matter how much it belongs to the totality, evolve and understand all the existence in the Being which we call God to be able to be another God. And this is possible through experience, the experience of living what exists in the Universe in all its aspects, in each of its dimensions. In this moment we are going through the third dimension, so we are integrating the experience of living in third dimension. We have this experience thanks to the organization that has been created in the Universe which is through matter and the decomposition of matter. The deterioration of the matter is what allows the experience in the Universe. And we call this deterioration TIME. TIME is an essence that exists to deteriorate the matter, so it only exists in the physical world. This experience can last for years or millenniums, depending on what each soul and spirit needs to learn as a whole. 

Humans Evolution and Angels

There are various steps to become what we are today.
There are different types of incarnations, we know the human one best. But actually the different incarnations begin in the energetic levels. First a spirit has to practice the energy and incarnate in what’s known as a Soul. First adapting itself to the features of a soul, and to learn and manipulate what a Soul Being is. After that it starts to practice the incarnations in the molecule and gas level.
As spirits we ust first practice the least dense to incarnate, and this is the adaption to a soul. The densification of things allows us to understand the fluidity of the physical things inside the dense worlds. The maximum density allows us to know how to matter feels and to recognize our limits in the physical world. Plants allow us to understand the channeling of divine light and anchorage into the earth. Being animals allows us to learn the movement and control of our body, decision making, instinct, interaction with the rest of beings and communication. Being rational animals allows us to practice spirituality, meditation through recreational actions, culture and the sense of family.
For a human being it’s th moment to learn, through approximately 70 lives, the unification between Earth and Sky. Taking into consideration all of what we have learned before.
This is the last physical level, together with the extraterrestrial.
In this level the evolution changes, here they work in service of the physical worlds. Using their experience to guide who is going through physical density.
After the 7th dimension starts another evolution which is more etherical, this means that the Beings who already went through the physical levels start to incarnate in etheric levels because they were able to illuminate their matter and ascend through matter. When one ascends through matter, a new evolution process begins because his body has already become light, now their process is to help who is lower down, to say it somehow, and to make them understand the process of illumination of matter like the ones we know as Jesus, Buda, Mahoma and many others that were born and are not so well known in our society. But their evolution continues going up, until they reach the 15th dimension where they incorporate all that essence in the different dimensions to understand the integration of that essence.

Livia

Guerilla Marketing und dessen Kommunikationsstrategie

Argument

 Man sollte die Welt so nehmen wie sie ist, aber nicht so lassen!

Ganz nach diesem alten Sprichwort, sollte man auch die Werbung so nehmen wie sie ist, aber nicht so lassen. Die Erkenntnis, dass in der Werbung durch eine geschickte Interaktion der Medien nicht nur Kosten gespart werden, sondern sich dadurch auch die Wirkung einzelner Aktionen steigern lässt, ist längst nicht mehr neu. Schon seit geraumer Zeit gehen Unternehmen verstärkt dazu über, unterschiedlichste Medien für eine Kampagne zu nutzen. Das heißt allerdings keinesfalls mehr nur Motive und Slogans auf andere Medien zu übertragen oder beispielsweise die URL des Internetauftritts auch in der Print- und TV-Werbung zu erwähnen. Viel eher ist das gekonnte Zusammenspiel der einzelnen Kommunikationskanäle gefragt, wie beispielsweise eine Print-Anzeige mit Coupons für den Online Shop. Das Konzept des Guerilla Marketings fordert die Suche nach neuen, innovativen Marketing Formen auf Grund, dass immer wenigere Rezipienten bereit sind, die kommerziellen Botschaften zu absorbieren, so dass ihre Aufmerksamkeit dafür schwindet.

Guerilla Marketing ist viel mehr ein innovatives Marketing konzept, welches von Unkonventionalität charakterisiert ist, obwohl es sehr oft als reines Instrument der Kommunikation angesehen wird. Guerilla Marketing kann anhand praktischer Beispiele detailliert klassifiziert und analysiert werden. Es ist das Hauptziel des vorliegenden Beitrags, die Erarbeitung einer Klassifizierung dieser ungewöhnlichen und komplexen Marketing Strategie sowie einer Einordnung dieser im Kommunikations-Mix.

1. Einführung
Seit es Evolution und Selektion gibt, existiert auch die Werbung. In jedem Wettbewerbsmarkt gibt es Werbung. Die Adressaten von Werbung sind von den herkömmlichen Werbemaßnahmen gelangweilt. Wie oft erwischen wir uns selbst beim fluchtartigen Zappen in der Werbepause im Fernsehen? Ganz nach dem Motto “Hilfe, Werbung!” wird versucht dieser Phase der penetranten Informationsflut zu entfliehen.
Wer nicht durch irgendwelche Umstände der Werbung ausgesetzt und zwangsinvolviert ist, versucht sich diesem unkreativen “Werbeeinheitsbrei” zu entziehen. Heutige Werbung ist eher Störer und Belästiger als eine kommerzielle Informationsquelle. Die Mission für die Werbetreibenden ist somit klar definiert: Die Aufmerksamkeit der Rezipienten auf sich ziehen, ohne dabei aufdringlich zu sein. Der “War for Eyeballs” ist somit für die Werbe- und Marketingtreibenden eröffnet. Guerilla Marketing bietet als alternative Form des Marketings neue, ungewöhnliche Methodiken, um der Werbeaversion der Rezipienten entgegenzutreten In der Vergangenheit haben viele neuartige, klingende Begriffe die Marketinglandschaft besiedelt. Vom medizinisch anmutenden “Viral Marketing” bis hin zum halsbrecherischen Begriff “Ambient Stunt” ist alles vertreten. Die Präsenz dieser Begriffsinflation für alternative Werbeformen, lässt sich wohl als Hilflosigkeit der Werbenden deuten, die verschiedenen unkonventionellen Werbeformen sinnvoll zu systematisieren und zu klassifizieren. Die Herausforderung für die Werbung besteht demnach darin, in dieser Informationsflut zu überleben und sich speziell unter diesen Bedingungen bei den Kommunikationsempfängern „Gehör“ zu verschaffen. Werbeformen wie etwa Ambient Media, Viral- oder Buzz Marketing und vergleichbare „alternative“ Werbeformen, die vom Autor unter dem Sammelbegriff Guerilla Marketing subsumiert werden, eröffnen diesbezüglich neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikationspolitik, sich diesen geänderten Rahmenbedingungen zu stellen.

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Livia

Moments of Contemplation

Moments of Contemplation…
That place where we allow ourselves to become emptied of distractions, and turn our awareness inward, to the Indwelling Source of Love…
A longing rises to the surface from deep within me as I stand watching the waves caressing the sand… In those still, quiet moments of contemplation, when we open our hearts to the awareness of the Indwelling Spirit and Universal Mind, we allow that Divine Intelligence which created us to keep recreating us…

The complex notion of love comes to me in various forms that the dreamer within me conjures up…
I AM drawn to a spirit… lost in thoughts, full of a beautiful longing. Longing for love. I marvel at the love my heart seems to experience as I watch the tender interactions of two lovers, us! I observe moments of contemplation, a heart full of love, longing, longing… longing for you…

Claudiu&Livia

MSG Systems – centrul de development SAP Business Intelligence in Cluj (via QA Testing)

 msg systems România – filiala concernului german msg systems AG, una dintre primele companii din domeniul IT din Germania – este prezent de aproape 3 ani pe piaţa locală de IT Software. Astăzi, msg systems România se poate mândri cu cea mai extinsă echipă de specialişti în domeniul dezvoltării software SAP din Transilvania – o echipă care se află în creştere permanentă. La ora actuală, echipa din Cluj, împreună cu colegii de echipă din Germania, … Read More

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Coincidence or psychic moments?

Coincidence or psychic moments?

A forceful feeling in the pit of your stomach. The musing thought of a friend right before the telephone rings. A race of fear, when there would seem to be nothing outwardly present to elicit such a response. A swell of infatuation at the first sight of a future lover. We all have psychic moments that seem to knock us off our feet and provide exciting fodder for storytelling, but how can you tell the difference between the supernatural, and a mundane coincidence? Coincidences are overrated. As a wise elder who teaches me often says, in her gentle Southern drawl, “there ain’t no coincidences.” She means that the coincidence is a moot point. It is a construct of the left-brained, logical mind to try to explain away something to which attention should be paid. In fact, some forms of divination and omen interpretations rely entirely on the occurrence of “coincidences” to be understood.

A phenomenon commonly called “angel numbers” is when repeated numbers are noticed incidentally by an individual throughout the day. For example, if you woke up on a Saturday at 13:13 a.m., went to the store, and made a purchase that came out to exactly RON 13.13, and then later on that evening happened to glance at the clock again when it read 13:13 p.m. that number -11, 13… – would be considered an “angel number.” Some believe that the coincidence of it is the angels’ way of attempting to get your attention.

The interpretation of the number might then be done with traditional Pythagorean numerology by adding together the digits until producing an integer between 1 and 9 and seeking meaning for that day within that number.
Adding to the importance of not discounting coincidences is the fact that the true psychic flash is almost always the very first impression of a person, event, or situation. The mind moves so quickly that the psychic flash is immediately attacked by various thoughts discounting its probability or distracting from its pure message. The more unusual or unlikely the psychic flash, the more quickly it is dismissed – even if it is astoundingly accurate. Sometimes, the logical mind accepts but augments the psychic flash so that it is no longer precise enough to be right. You can talk yourself out of any psychic flash!

The best way to stop unraveling your psychic thoughts is to immediately journal about them whenever possible without any analysis or judgment. Keep this journal private so that you won’t be tempted to edit yourself as you go. Whenever you wake up from a dream, write it down. Keep a small notebook with you if possible so that any sudden moments of revelation, no matter how unlikely, can be recorded. Make sure that the dates are very carefully recorded as well, as you may notice a pattern of when you have a vision and when the vision seems to come to pass! Give yourself enough time to fill up the entire notebook if you don’t immediately notice that you are psychic. After the notebook is full, read through it with an open mind.

Sometimes psychic visions can be highly symbolic and rich with information. Perhaps a dream about a broken toy car resulted in seeing a real life accident later on. Notate which information appears to be extraneous and coincidental, but make a point to review it again later on to remove all doubt. Some of the greatest loves have begun with nothing more than a feeling, and some of the worst tragedies have been avoided through listening to gut fears and intuition. Even if you do acknowledge the existence of coincidences, sometimes there is a reason behind why such coincidences began in the first place, and a purpose behind your understanding of them.

Livia

ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD – Official Movie

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical “life ground” attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a “Resource-Based Economy”.

Public Statement From The Creator of the “Zeitgeist Film Series”, Peter Joseph:
RE: The Mainstream Media Association Created Between “Zeitgeist” and the Tuscon Murders.

Fluid social change can only materialize if two circumstances are met. One, the human value system, which consists of our understandings and beliefs, must be updated and changed through education and thoughtful introspection. Two, the environment surrounding that value system must change to support the new world view. The interaction between a person’s value system and their environment is what influences human behavior.

For example, in our culture, “ethics” is really a matter of degree, for our social system promotes and rewards competition and self-interest. This perspective doesn’t just “lead” to aberrant behavior… it creates it directly. Corruption is the norm in our society and most people do not see this, for since the society supports this behavior, it is considered right and normal… or as a matter of degree.
Given this understanding, there is a fallacy that has emerged where certain groups are deemed “corrupt” and everyone else is “good”. This is the age old “us and them” world view which has no basis empirically, for it is, again, all a matter of degree.
For example, there is a large movement of people who constantly talk about “The New World Order” and this notion that there is an elite group of people who have been trying to take over the world for a long time and have manipulated society in various ways to further their goals.
This, of course, is true to a certain extent.
BUT, the failure of awareness is that this “group” is not a group at all. It is a tendency.

If you took out all the people at the top who are engaged in global hegemonic rule, it would simply be a matter of time before another group stepped in to seek the same ambition. Therefore, it isn’t the individual people or groups that are the problem. It is actually the conditions upon which those people have been accustomed and indoctrinated by. Of course, many argue against this view with the escapist notion that it is “human nature” that causes this competition and need for dominance. This is unsupported by the facts. In reality, we are nearly clean slates when we are born and it is our environment that shapes who we are and how we behave.

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Livia

The Venus Project in Munich, Germany

Germany was a rewarding stop. Early in our visit we went to a Geo Thermal plant. While this plant was not hot enough to produce steam to convert into power, it did use the heat of the earth to deliver hot water to about 4000 homes. A company drilling for oil was disappointed when, at over 2,000 meters down, water came gushing out. Now it is put to good use and converted to Germany’s two most advanced geothermal projects, which are highly automated, and only require three people to manage.

We spent a lot of time with many of the Zeitgeist members doing interviews in homes, parks, and our hotel room, and of course there were a lot of meals taken together. One of the members suggested printing a portion of a 10 Euro bill and folding it in such a way that you can only see the ends. The bill would look authentic, but when opened it would show information in the middle about The Zeitgeist Movement. When left on the ground, it doesn’t take long before someone picks them up and reads them. They certainly attract people’s attention.

Often the question comes up, as it did in Germany as well, how are we going to “get rid” of the monetary system? We are not trying to get rid of it but to eventually surpass it. It has to go through its evolutionary stages and die of its own accord as it is doing now. Trying to superimpose a system before it’s time will not work. Those upholding this system have been at it a long time and they are good at squelching those who oppose it. We are not advocating revolutionary tactics of burning banks or physically destroying large corporations. This would not bring about social change. If the existing system does not provide human needs such as healthcare, housing, education, etc. people will seek another direction. People have to be informed of another possible alternative and work at introducing it to others to help bring that about.

For people without the luxury of being able to analyze social conditions and their causes and the factors that shape behavior, or who are unable to ask correct questions concerning our predicaments, it will take a direct hit to their standard of living to interest them in better alternatives. This may take the form of the loss of their jobs or homes, but this doesn’t mean they will recognize a more beneficial direction either.

No one is pointing out the real culprit of our decaying social conditions in the mainstream media so most people have very few tools to evaluate with relevant information. Questioning the system itself is never done on such shows and has always been taboo. What we have in managed news.

The job is to introduce another direction to work towards. People who have new inventions have to explain to the public the advantages of that invention. This is true for new social ideas as well. As this system becomes inoperable, the job is to explain to others the advantage of this new social direction in a way that makes it seem feasible to them.

As in all of our other stops, our German presentation was very well received.

Roxanne Meadows
www.thevenusproject.com