The New Earth exists within you right now. In order to experience a New Earth you must align with its “high” vibrational frequency.

Here are 10 easy techniques to help you accomplish this:

1. Trust that you will always be looked after. Act as if there is an infinite non-physical world that is there to protect and guide you.

It has been proven to me that this world actually does exist. I have come to this understanding because of many of my personally learned lessons and experiences. Also, many other people have had experiences that suggest that this spiritual world exists. It is the world through which this physical world that you now experience was born.

This is a very empowering belief to hold. Even if it is not true, this belief will keep you going, and will allow you to rise above yourself. Thus effectively raising your vibrations…

2. Tell the Truth.

I have found that in most cases, lying tends to lower a person’s personal vibrational level. Next time you are on the verge of telling a lie, ask yourself: “What is the worst thing that could happen if I told the truth? Is it really worth sacrificing my spiritual vibrations and joyous experiences for?”

Remember lying is not “bad”, since there is really no such thing as good or bad. It is all a perception. In most cases it is just more beneficial. Also, as we move into a New Earth, many people are becoming more and more intuitive. This results in more people being able to sense lies. So, telling the truth will help you on many levels.

3. Accept Responsibility.

You should take complete responsibility for your life and the events in it. This one thing will allow you to take back all of your energy and power. This surge of energy/power will instantly raise your vibrations. The moment you take absolute responsibility, you will feel amazingly empowered. You will be healed, and you will be healing the entire planet.

4. See Yourself As A Master.

The following is an excerpt from “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East” by Baird Spalding in Book 4, on page 159:

“To advance, you must come to see yourself as a Master. You must conduct yourself as a Master. There is no one who can teach you mastery, nor is there anyone who can give you mastership, for they are already yours. Practice is required. You must live as a Master lives, think as a Master thinks, act like a Master acts before you would know a Master if you were to meet one.”

5. Come from the Heart and rid yourself of all Fears.

As you release your fears, your vibrations must rise to a level beyond fear. Fear constricts the wellness of life. You must learn to open your heart in spite of fear and allow wellness into your life. If you truly come from the heart, you cannot have any fears.

6. Sweet Dreams…

You have the ability to create your night. The importance of this is that many people believe you create your reality when you sleep. As you lay in your bed, before you fall asleep, suggest to yourself that you will have pleasant dreams that will raise your vibrations, thus completely restoring your good spirits and vitality. If this is the last idea/imagery remaining in your head as you fall asleep, this technique will work wonders for you.

7. Avoid multitasking, live completely in the now…

If you are eating dinner, completely focus on eating and enjoying your dinner. Do not watch TV or read while you will eat. Do your best to completely focus on what you are doing in that particular moment and nothing else. This will maximize the activity’s effectiveness and its joyfulness.

8. Don’t wear a watch.

Try to avoid using a watch or looking at the clock regularly. If you can give little or no attention to time, you will be able to let your inner self/heart/intuition guide you. This inner guidance will let you know when the best time to go somewhere is, or, the best time to do your homework, or fall asleep, and even wake up. This will really help you get closer to yourself and help you get use to the idea of no time.

9. See the Truth.

Make it a HABIT of seeing beauty in everything.

10. Be your own teacher.

Stop looking for some teacher/guide to “show you the way” or give you some message. There is no message that anyone can give you that you don’t already have. It is a lot easier to simply give the message to yourself, thus skipping the middleman. When you are ready you will give that message to yourself, every time!

But, many people take a less rewarding path to the message/information they seek. They give the message to themselves by going out and finding someone else who knows it. It would be much more rewarding for you to give the message to yourself. This one idea is really the only idea you need. This technique should be very liberating.

When you understand this, you will tear down the boundaries you have put up around your knowledge/lessons. Everyone has access to Infinite Intelligence…if they believe they do. So get rid of the formality of getting advice/information from others, when it is a lot closer, within you!

About the Author:

Jason Randhawa, author of this article, is one of the many uprising New Children. He has put together a Book on the New Earth called “The Future of the New Earth: A New Vision for Your Reality”. As a free bonus with the book, he is giving away a report containing 25 more practical techniques. Learn more about this special opportunity to take part in the New Earth transformation: http://www.FutureoftheNewEarth.com

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Author: Cindy Heller

Setting up backyard gardens is the surest way to invite butterflies into your home. If you happen to have a big space at the back of your home, it would be a good idea for you and your family to start planning for your backyard gardens. Buy some books and magazines about backyard gardens to help you and your family to design your gardens in such a way that it will look inviting to different species of butterflies.

Designing Your Backyard Gardens
There are many things that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden. First, you need to take into consideration the present condition of your backyard. If you backyard already have existing plants, you need to take an inventory of the plants and decide which ones you are going to keep and which ones have to go.

The second thing that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden is your budget. You need to ask yourself how you can afford to spend on your backyard garden. To know how much money you can spare for your garden, check your monthly income and savings against your usual monthly expenses. Make sure that you do not drain your finances just to make your backyard garden look beautiful. Yes, a beautiful backyard garden is important but you don’t really have to go broke just to create a lovely picture at the back of your home.

The third thing that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden is the type of plant that you need. If you want to invite butterflies into your garden, you need to use plants that are attractive to butterflies. Some plants that are attractive to butterflies are milkweed, aspen, chokecherry, dill, parsley, marigold, aster, lilac, cottonwood, pansy, clover and others. To attract a variety of butterflies into your backyard, try planning different types of plants. Add native plants into your list of planting materials. Native plants are good at attracting species of butterflies that are endemic in your area.

“Butterfly gardens can be any size - a window box, part of your landscaped yard, or even a wild untended area on your property. When planning your butterfly garden, the following pointers will help. Learn the common butterfly species in your vicinity and include both their adult nectar plants and caterpillar food plants in the garden. Adult butterflies will visit for a longer period if they find plants to lay their eggs on.” Butterfly–garden.com

Nothing signals the coming of spring more than butterflies flitting through your yard. Watching them waltz from flower to flower can bring endless pleasure. If you want to entice more of these colorful guests to your yard, consider planting a butterfly garden. A butterfly garden that is planned and planted correctly will bring a wide variety of butterflies to your yard year after year.

Butterfly Gardens Are Diverse
There are many types of butterflies in the world and each type prefers specific flowers to gain nutrients, lay their eggs, and feed their young. If you want your butterfly garden to attract many different kinds of butterflies, make sure that you plant many different kinds of flowers. Scientists aren’t sure why, but they have found that certain color butterflies prefer certain kinds of plants. Perhaps they are drawn to like colors for their camouflaging abilities or perhaps certain colored plants taste better to them than others. Whatever the reason, you will see many different butterflies in you butterfly garden, if you plant many different plants.

Some wonderful plants to include in butterfly gardens are coneflower, blackeyed susan, marigolds, butterfly bush, lantana, hibiscus, verbena, lilacs, lavender, and rosemary.

Butterfly Gardens Provide Shelter
There are butterfly predators in your neighborhood and as a result, butterfly gardens should contain suitable shelters for your winged friends. A butterfly hutch is the perfect safe resting place for the butterflies in your garden. You can purchase one at a local nursery or even make one yourself. You can leave it plain or decorate it in a whimsical fashion. The main things to look for in a good butterfly hutch are slits that are big enough to let the butterflies in but too small for nasty predators to gain access and an interior that contains pieces of bark for the butterfly to nest on.

Butterfly Gardens Give Nourishment

If you want a butterfly garden that will attract many butterflies and nourish your soul make sure you provide food and water for the many butterflies that will descend on your yard. Many of the flowers you plant will provide nectar for your butterflies, but you can also help nature along by providing feeders full of sugar water. You can even leave out little bits of sugar water in saucers scattered around your plants or place a piece of over ripe fruit in your garden to attract many butterflies. Butterflies also need water, so placing a small birdbath in your garden is a great idea.

“Butterfly gardens are a great source for your own enjoyment, photo opportunities, or an outlet for artistic talent. These gardens can also be extended to interest youth in nature, by providing a small window of native inhabitants of the local environment. On a final note, it’s important to conserve butterflies when possible since their habitat is constantly diminishing due to the increasing needs and consequent development of roads and housing.” How to Make Butterfly Gardens

About the author:
Cindy Heller is a professional writer. Visit one stop gardens to learn more about flowers and gardens for preschool children and other gardens with flowers

Our hectic schedules are crammed with crises, to-do lists, issues marked urgent and overflowing in trays… Far away from everyday events, at your core, lies a place of quiet, calm, serenity, and stillness… Feeling connected to life and your core can be an everyday and effortless activity.

Should you meditate? The short answer is “Yes!” So if that’s all you wanted to find out, you can stop reading right now. But I hope you don’t because next I’m going to give you my take on the what?, why?, when?, where?, and how? of meditation.

First I’ll warn you that I’m not a purist when it comes to meditation, so if you’re looking for a lecture on Buddhist spiritual principles regarding meditation, you’ve come to the wrong place. I’m a busy, working parent who uses meditation to calm myself, to bring peace and happiness into my heart, and to bring awareness and clarity into my life. If you’re looking for an approach less wrapped in spirituality and more tailored to a modern, hectic life, then I hope this article helps you.

What
There are lots of formal definitions out there for what meditation is, but what it comes down to is a basic focusing of attention and quieting of the superficial thoughts of the mind. It’s becoming conscious of what’s going on in your head rather than being on auto-pilot as usual. Meditation is a chance to:

* get in contact with the inner stillness that exists beneath the level of your thoughts

* bring your calm attention to an issue or feeling you want to resolve

* stay calm at anytime under any situation

* relax your mind and body

* connect, on the spiritual side, with the creative energy of life.

And guess what - you already do a form of meditation all the time. You focus attention on replaying the argument you had with your spouse, or on how fat you are, or on how little money you have. These are the types of negative things that your mind turns to when you’re asleep at the switch, when you’re not consciously paying attention to what you’re thinking.

When you decide to meditate, you choose to be consciously aware of where your attention goes and you can choose to let go of thoughts that don’t support you in a positive way. When you decide to meditate, you can also choose to become quiet inside - something your thinking mind rarely lets you do.

Why
Here’s a short list of the benefits of meditation, although there are many more:

1. Reduces stress

2. Can help with depression, fears and conflicted emotions

3. Improves self-confidence

4. Helps cultivate peace and happiness

5. Slows aging, improves memory, helps with healing the body, strengthens the immune system, and relieves headaches

6. Allows you to bring calmness to any situation

7. On the spiritual side, many who promote meditation state that it is a way to consciously connect to the creative force of the Universe or God

8. Allows you to focus your creative energy to attract the things you desire into your life.

When and Where
Anytime! Anywhere! Yes, you can set aside a specific time for meditation and sit in quiet contemplation for an hour or more in a room that you designed using feng shui, but you don’t have to. I know that method certainly isn’t an option in my life right now, but I still benefit greatly from meditation.

You can meditate in the shower in the morning, when you’re in line at the grocery store, for 20 minutes during lunch, for a few minutes before bed, whenever - the options are endless.

Many meditation proponents suggest setting aside 10-20 minutes right when you wake up in the morning and right before bed. Those are good choices if they fit your schedule. Those times do not fit my schedule so I take 15 minutes during my day at work to meditate and I slip in “mini-meditations” throughout my day when I’m standing in a line or waiting at a traffic light or anytime I feel tension building in my body.

How
There are as many ways to meditate as there are gurus and experts to tell you about them. If you’re new to meditation, one of the most important things I want to tell you is that there are no rules except relax! Meditation is not a job or a competition. It’s a path to calmness, gentleness, kindness, and relaxation.

Years ago when I first considered meditation, one of the biggest obstacles I thought I had was the relentless voice chattering away in my head, the endless thoughts. I could rarely stop them so I thought I was a failure at meditation most of the time. I remember going to a two-day silent meditation retreat where a teacher guided us in meditations. By the end of the second day, I finally experienced a quieting of my mind. I went home feeling incredibly joyous and peaceful. But by the next day my doubts returned. If it took me two days in silent meditation to get to a point where my mind was quiet, how was I ever going to fit meditation into my life?

I’ve since learned that you don’t have to silence your thoughts to meditate. You can simply become aware of the fact that you are thinking and then let the thoughts float away. You don’t have to beat yourself up over the fact that you can’t stop the thoughts. In fact, it’s better if you accept the fact that your mind can be a busy place and just turn your attention to what you want to focus on over and over again when your mind starts to stray. With practice, you’ll find it easier to let go of the inner distractions and bring your mind to where you want it to be whether that’s to inner silence or to focus on a specific issue.

There is no specific way you have to sit or stand to meditate. Sit, stand, walk, lay on your stomach at the beach and watch the waves - whatever works for you is fine. Don’t limit yourself because you think you have to be sitting a certain way - that’s just an excuse for not meditating.

How to meditate will probably depend on your purpose. I vary how I meditate depending on what I want to gain from the meditation. If I’m stressed, I choose to focus on my breathing or on consciously relaxing different parts of my body. If I have a goal I’m trying to achieve, I focus on sending energy to that goal. If I want to connect with the inner peace that I know is somewhere inside of me, I focus on the silence in my mind and try to let all thought float away.

Here are a few different meditation techniques that I use depending on the situation and what I hope will be the result:

* Breathing meditation:
I like to put my attention on my breath as it comes in and out of my nose. I gently follow my breath and notice how it moves naturally into and out of my body. I find this technique instantly calming. Others suggest noticing your breath as it passes from your chest down into your diaphragm or belly and then back up. When my attention drifts, I gently bring it back. If I have some thoughts, I simply note that I’m “thinking” and shift attention back to the breath while allowing the thoughts to drift away. I use breathing meditation to calm myself, relieve stress, feel happier and more at peace, to clear my mind, and to connect with the stillness of the Universe. This can be done in a longer meditation session or in mini-meditations anytime during your day. If you find yourself getting upset at something, focus for a second on your breath and you’ll find it gives you some space in your emotional turmoil.

* Visualization meditation:
If you have an issue that you feel needs your mental and emotional attention, visualization meditation might help. Breathe slowly and use your imagination. If you have a goal, focus on the goal as if it were already complete - imagine how you will feel when it’s complete and feel this positive feeling inside of you. If you have a person who you’re angry with, imagine a positive energy inside yourself as a bright white light of kindness, and then surround an image of that person with the light while consciously saying “I forgive you for any pain you’ve caused me.” (When you forgive people and release your anger, it helps you release negative energy stored inside of you, it allows you to react more calmly to that person, and it allows you to find better solutions to any additional problems with them.) I use visualization meditations for goals, improving relationships, and energizing myself. If I feel I have low energy, I imagine that white light of positive energy flowing through my body.

* Awareness meditation:
This is simply the process of becoming consciously aware of your actions, your body, or your surroundings. This is an easy way to reduce stress, bring stillness to your mind, and bring calm understanding to almost any situation. It can also be done anywhere, anytime for a few seconds or for much longer periods. The technique is to simply notice what is happening. I like to use this when I need to relax or slow down, or when I start feeling worried or uptight about something. The point is to calm the mind and allow you to consciously decide where to put your attention rather than allowing your untamed thoughts to keep running the show.

1. If you choose action awareness, focus attention on exactly what you’re doing and how you experience it. If you’re walking, become aware of how the sidewalk looks and how it feels when you put your foot down to take a step. Become aware of the temperature of the air and the sounds in your environment. If you are washing dishes, become aware of how you hold the sponge and what the water feels like running across your hands.

2. If you choose body awareness, try to feel the energy flowing in your body. Can you feel the energy in your hands? There is life pulsing through your hands so there is definitely energy there! How about feeling energy in your legs or your shoulders? Can you locate any tension in your body and bring awareness to it? Notice how it feels.

3. If you choose awareness of your surroundings, notice where you are, what you see, what it sounds like, what the temperature is, and whether there is silence that you can find between the sounds.

Common Meditation Pitfalls

“I can’t stop thinking!” This is really common. You don’t have to stop thinking. Allow the thoughts to be there, return your attention to where you want it, and let the thoughts float away.

“My to-do list is running through my head and I’m coming up with things I don’t want to forget.” Keep a note pad next to you. Write down the item and then let it go from your mind. It will be on the pad when you’re done.

“I don’t have time for this.” Surely you have 2 minutes while waiting at the traffic light or in line at the store. In fact, if you do a mini breathing meditation while waiting in line at the store, you’re much less likely to get annoyed when the person in front of you is paying in pennies.

“I keep falling asleep.” Try changing the time that you meditate, your position (sitting or standing rather than reclining), or accept that maybe you need more sleep and go ahead and take a nap.

Adding meditation to your life can be truly rewarding and there is always space for it. It can help you become more peaceful, healthy, self-confident, kind, relaxed and creative. It can help you come to know yourself better and become more powerfully connected to your life. Take a few minutes, breathe slowly, and give it a chance!

About the Author:
Judy Braley is a personal development author, an attorney, and a parent. Her blog with free articles, resources, and information on inspiration for your life can be found at http://www.GrowFromWithin.com. Copyright © 2007 Wherett Inc.This article may be freely distributed if this resource box is attached.

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