I have seen people’s personalities change after they became meditators.

Many years ago I was a high school English teacher in an inner city school. Two of my most difficult students, who acted wild and hostile, began to change before my eyes. They became mellow, they smiled with glowing friendliness towards me. I felt a completely different vibration coming from them—a loving inclusion that stunned me.

Soon after this personality change they came to me and told me about Transcendental Meditation. I went with them and was initiated. After that, my bond with these two young men was completely of the heart and of the Soul. It was such a drastic change and showed me how important it is for us to be still and get into contact with our deepest Selves. Not the mind-stream that never stops its fearful antics, but our deepest, eternal Souls.
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If I had not seen the complete personality change, I could not attest to the fact that meditation changed both of these students. Interestingly, it also changed me and my attitude towards the students in general. Whereas before, I had been hostile in my own way, I was able to soften up and still maintain a quiet learning environment. Though many years separated me from these two students, they brought me to a humble understanding of how much I learned from them.

​Pranic and Reiki are both forms of energy healing. We have long recognized the relationship between our minds’ reactivity and our bodies’s ailments. Sometimes people need an energy adjustment. They need to release blockages that manifest as knots and tension in the muscles and organs. Energy healing is one of the time- tested ways of dealing with our daily aches and pains.

Pranic healing originated in India, where the whole person is treated in Ayurvedic medicine. Mind, body, and soul are all taken into account. Energy healing makes sense in this setting. “Prana” is the powerful yet unseen breath of life. It is like the “winds” in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and close to the concept of “Chi.”
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If the prana is out of whack, lots of things can go wrong in the body. In general, a person can feel depleted and constantly tired. The pranic healer assesses peoples’ energy through reading their auras, chakras (energy centers), and energy fields. They then prescribe protocols for cleansing and healing.
Reiki originated in Japan. It is different from pranic healing in that It is administered through placing the healer’s hands on the patient to cleanse and balance the chakras, meridians, and other energy centers. The healer’s hands channel and transmit energy, which flows into the areas that need to be healed. In this way the unseen energy of the life force is renewed.
Like the pranic healer, the reiki healer finds blocked and congested areas and clears them through time-tested techniques and getting in touch with their own inner wisdom.

Many humans would like to think that life makes sense. That there is a beginning, middle, and end. They believe if they just follow all the rules they will be rewarded at the end of their lives and everything will be revealed to them: The meaning of their struggles, losses, and heartache.

Then many people look at their lives and think they blew it. They missed their chance to have a great or perfect life because of their faulty decisions and character traits. Or they didn’t grab the golden ring when it was dangling right before their noses. They blame themselves and everyone else because they did not construct the ideal life. They did not create the final draft that would be approved by: God, cherished institutions, and belief systems.

“There is no final draft,” means we cannot get it wrong and our Souls are eternal. Each life is on a path that unfolds at it own rate, has its own lessons and revelations. And if we feel we blew it this time around, we have the opportunity during our next birth to continue with the growth of our Souls.
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Our lives are in a constant state of change. Our Souls remain constant yet ever changing at the same time. This paradox is difficult to grasp yet it is at the root of why there is no final draft. We are not here to earn good grades and pass the exam for, fundamentally, we are eternal and constantly flowing energy fields.

One of the best ways to lead a harmonious life is to avoid people who do not love and support you. This one step, staying away from toxic people who want to drag you down into their whirlpool of negative energy, would solve so many problems that lead to disharmony.

Sometimes we don’t have a choice because work and home situations are complicated. We can’t just walk out because someone is behaving hatefully towards us, for a number of reasons. We have financial commitments, we have children to consider, etc. This is when we need to build our inner sanctuary.

When we are around people who are behaving badly or events that are difficult, we can still deal with them in a calm manner. We can use Don Miguel Ruiz’s brilliant, “Four Agreements.” They are Ancient Toltec words of wisdom that simply and clearly lead to inner peace and harmony. If you follow them, you will not fail in living a harmonious life.
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One of the most powerful of the Four Agreements is, “Don’t take anything personally.” The haters are behaving according to their own conditioning, their moods, what they ate or didn’t eat that day, etc., and it has nothing to do with you at all. You just happen to be there. They would be like that with someone else. Think of that next time someone tries to spread their toxic vibes to you.

When it comes to healing energy, as the healer Mary Baker Eddy once said, “What blesses one, blesses all.” This means that when we send out healing energy to others, it is also a blessing to us too. It is like love. The more love we give, the more we receive. It is one of the Laws of the Universe. We don’t have to be stingy with healing energy. Being in the flow of it feels as wonderful as love itself.
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I have often healed myself and am in the process of doing so now. I remember how I used to heal myself when I was a child. I would send loving energy to to spot that was hurt and the cells of my body responded. Once, when I was 11, I was kicked by a horse that tossed me off its saddle. I consciously healed the pain and was able to dance in a play that night.

When we get ourselves into the state of peace with an underlying passion to find a way to channel the healing energy of the Universe, it works. I didn’t know how it worked, exactly, when I was a child. But I knew it worked because I got results.
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Today someone texted me that he was feeling horrible with the flu. I immediately told him I was sending healing vibrations his way. He felt the comfort right away. In the process, I felt such joy and uplift, my own inner body was singing with happiness and health.

Gurus don’t transmit their power. But many people seek them out because they feel better in their presence. In India, when people sit in the presence of gurus to feel the peace of their vibrational fields, it is called “darshana.” It is a common practice and has been beneficial for thousands of years. Some gurus don’t even say a word, yet their emanations are healing, calming, and lead to that inner place of eternal peace.

But the “chela,” or student, must be ready to receive the blessing and grace of the guru. Many people are not ready for it and therefore will not feel it. It will be part of their spiritual entertainment and they will go from guru to guru looking for what they must first discover in themselves. They shop around and want to have special magical powers, as if the miracle of life on earth was not enough.

If you are ready, you will definitely feel the Soul-presence and even see the bright aura of your guru. This has nothing to do with amassing supernatural powers for yourself. It has to do with finding the ground of your being and the answer to your deepest questions.
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You will know when your guru appears. Your guru might not even be a person. It could be a horse, a dog, or any animal that can teach you something about the nature of life, love, and peace.

I understand Tesla’s quote to mean that, fundamentally, when you reduce it down to the subatomic level, everything that exists is is based on vibrational frequencies. The stuff that we think is real and solid is not really. The atom, the basis of our physical, solid reality, is an energy entity that can either be a particle or a wave, depending on how you look at it, what instrument you are using, and a number of other variables.

Matter appears to our senses to be solid but underneath it all, it is energy vibrating and various frequencies to form patterns. These patterns reflect the underlying order of the Universe. This is what really happens when we bang our toe on a rock. Our physical energy patterns interact with the energy patterns of the rock. This produces a pain frequency of vibration, interpreted by the brain, which is operating at its own vibrational frequency of particles and waves.

Tesla is saying the the secrets—and they are secrets that can never be fully encompassed by our minds our our instruments—will always remain secrets. You can think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. But are you capable of fully grasping these terms? If you are, does that mean you will finally have the key to all of life and are now able to manifest all the goodies you want? Some people interpret his statement to mean just that. “If I vibrate at a certain frequency, I will get all the stuff I want and my life will be solved.”
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Tesla had something deeper in mind that making our earthly existence easier. He was aiming at what Einstein once said, “I want to know the mind of God. The rest is details.” And, like Einstein, Tesla dealt in energy. They were delving deeper into the mysteries that will never be fully understood. And thus, they are secrets.

We can describe three basic levels of conscious as levels of self-awareness:

• Waking —We feel pain and pleasure, pursue goals, suffer and enjoy
• Deep Sleep—We are minimally aware, pain goes away but we know enough to get up and go to the bathroom if needed
• Dreaming—We see mental pictures and pursue fantasies, and may lose our sense of who we are.
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But more levels of consciousness exist when we look at ourselves as spiritual beings who happen to inhabit bodies. Then we have the:

• Physical—We are constantly aware of our bodies, discomfort, illness, pleasure, and relaxation. This level, along with the Mental and Emotional can cause extreme distress.
• Mental—A problematic level of consciousness in which our thoughts create endless chatter, mostly based on fear. But it is also the level of consciousness through which we communicate through language.
• Emotional—A problematic level of consciousness that responds our Mental level and reacts in up and down rollercoasters of feelings. Some are happy, others devastating.
• Etheric—Now we are out of the “problem” area and into a level of consciousness where we integrate how the Mental and Emotional levels effect the Physical. We see, in this level, how the chakras are impacted and what they say about our overall health.
• Astral—This is also a problem-free area of consciousness in which many secrets of our past lives are revealed.
• Causal—A problem free zone of consciousness in which we tap into the creative forces of the Universe and become aligned with them.
• Spiritual—The unproblematic area of consciousness in which we see that all beings are united in one immense unified Soul, expressing itself in many unique ways.
• Cosmic—The glorious level of consciousness in which we are one with the Universe itself. It is in us. We are united with it and understand its eternity.

ometimes we look for love outside of ourselves, thinking that someone is going to bring it to us and therefore save us from our fears of loneliness and boredom. If we approach love from this point of view, it has a tinge of desperation and lack about it. And when we come from a viewpoint of lack and desperation, we cannot attract anything beneficial into our lives.
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We may attract people to us, but they are the people who can feel these desperate vibes and zero in on our insecurities. This has nothing to do with love and everything to do with exploitation. We may feel this kind of attention is love, but true love is much deeper than than. This kind of “love” is using each other for some purpose.

Instead of thinking about love a lot, thinking that someone is going to bring it to you, think instead about what you love about your life. Think about what you love about yourself. If there is something you don’t cherish about yourself, work on yourself to change it. Then you will attract love naturally.
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You won’t be worried so much about someone bringing love to you to complete you. You will be too busy loving your life and the fun of it all to be obsessed with whether it happens or not. This is the vantage point from which we attract love that is meaningful and lasting: Mature, based on the heart, based on deeply caring about the other person, based on earned self-respect.

To become a “proficient” astrologer, you don’t need to be spiritually advanced. But that is just proficiency. It means you are good and can do your job ably. You can study the charts and all their permutations and interpretations, memorize the signs and their ascendants, and have all kinds of book knowledge.
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But to be an inspired and excellent astrologer, you must be spiritually advanced. Astrology is only one component of a complex system. It includes past lives (where Saturn was on your natal chart in this lifetime), your aura, your energy fields, and so much more. Therefore, to be a truly gifted astrologer, you need to have a psychic gift that turns it into an art, even more than a science.