July 17, 2010 - Emerson said in his essay on Compensation: The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth. 
July 15, 2010 – It’s never surprising but always an event when a Smooth Jazz superstar reaches the number one position on our TOP 30 Countdown. Case in point David Benoit’s new album ‘Earthglow’ has just produced our new number one tune with ‘Will’s Chill.’ 
July 17, 2010 - I believe in being the best you can be. It isn’t always easy, sometimes we end up on a slippery slope no matter what, sometimes, one too many glasses of wine can blur the line between smart and not so smart, sometimes our deep-seated crap just gets in the way. But I try anyway. 
July 15, 2010 – Smooth Jazz Now is pleased to announce the addition of ‘The Digital Guy’ a very popular radio show by veteran musician and broadcaster Bruce Nazarian. The two hour program will debut on Wednesday July 21st from 3-5PM, it’s regular time slot, and will be repeated the following Saturday at 10AM. 
July 17, 2010 - When you hear people say meditation, there is a great chance that you will often think of Buddhist monks humming with their hands on their large beads. You will also imagine bald people in yellow robes reaching enlightenment. 
July 17, 2010 - Many would say yes, meditation takes up too much time!
July 17, 2010 - Spiritual awakening refers to soul awakening, self-development, and self-transformation, leading to a balanced and integrated life, internal joy and a more fulfilling spiritual life purpose. 
July 15, 2010 - “It's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.” This anonymous line from an e-mail packed with insightful gems sums up exactly what I’ve been feeling lately. 
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Every Day Provides an Opportunity to Start Over If you feel any or all of these things and you would like to change then you will find that it is far easier than you thought. In fact this type of change only takes a split second to come into effect because all of these feelings are just that - feelings. They are YOUR feelings based upon YOUR perception of your world. You do not HAVE to perceive your circumstances in this way. In fact it is your perceptions which are keeping you trapped in this negative emotional spiral. I'm not trying to be hard or tough on anyone here. In fact my intention is to help you to find a way in which you can feel better right now. No matter what is going on around you, it is only you who chooses your reactions and feelings about it. Nobody else can do that for you. There are people who are in the most horrendous circumstances who feel optimistic and happy and enjoy their life; there are others who live in what you would think are the most beautiful surroundings who are dissatisfied and unhappy. It is all a matter of each person's chosen perspective; and you have the ability to choose your perspective, which means that you can choose to change your sensory experiences at any time. That is wonderful news is it not? More
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Living Consciously with Carol Carnes
Our linear view of things tends to fix us in time and space and make us into objects that are acted upon rather than beings who are acting upon the field of experience via the avenue of awareness. So, when we feel sick we feel attacked or that we have been invaded. We expect the sickness to run its course guided by its own intelligence and not receptive to ours. A relationship falls apart and we blame the other person for not loving us properly. We believe we have been robbed of our ability to love. We think we have been rejected. We expect to hurt and feel alone. It never occurs to us that we are the source of love whether it appears in an outer form or as a feeling in us. More
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Five Unexpected Steps to Breaking the Procrastination Habit Procrastination. It's a nasty habit. It takes your life, creativity, and self worth and trashes them. What are you supposed to do about it? Don't you just love the suggestion to Just Do It? Like you hadn't thought of that. From someone who slays this dragon daily here are five tips that may surprise you. Change your focus. Instead of struggling to resist distractions, try ignoring them instead. Ever decided you weren't going to have sweets for a week? You start craving donuts when you don't even like them! It is the same with distractions. It seems crazy, but focusing on the distraction makes it even harder to resist. Just relax and shift your focus to what you do want. Get over yourself. |
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Along Came a Spider by Mary Giuffre
“I am a mess of emotions,” she explained. “To know ahead of time that you are leaving and will not be with the people and everything you love so much is so cruel. To know ahead of time that someone you love so much is leaving you is so cruel. People say to me to make the best of the time we have left together but it is so difficult not to just cry all the time.” Feeling the sting of her unbearable sadness and knowing I was at a loss to console her with anything I might say, my day continued with mundane chores and seemingly endless reflection on the frailties of life, until down from the ceiling, dangling on a long silken thread, a delicate little spider lowered herself gracefully into my line of sight. More
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Is Your Life Off-Balance? According to a study by the Families and Work Institute, a third of U.S. employees are chronically overworked and about half have been overworked at some point in the past month. Couple that statistic with the ever increasing number of Americans who are out of work, and it becomes clear that more and more of us are unmistakably off-kilter and out of sorts. Juggling all aspects of life has always been a balancing act, but author and speaker Dan Thurmon believes that an off balance life should not be fixed, but rather, embraced. "Every day, we are inundated with messages about the importance of finding ‘balance' in our lives," said Thurmon, author of Off Balance On Purpose - Embrace Uncertainty and Create a Life You Love, from Greenleaf Book Group Press (www.offbalanceonpurpose.com). "How does this make us feel? Overwhelmed, out of touch, and unfulfilled. The problem isn't us—it's the message. Perfect balance is unachievable and undesirable. The perpetual quest for balance ends up limiting growth, progress, and the quality of life." More |
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Living Consciously with Carol Carnes
It may be that science will at last reveal to us the true nature of Being, yet our own senses are attuned to this higher awareness. We know that we exist; we think; we feel; we imagine; we invent and discover what was already there in the invisible realm, like electricity and gravity. We make art and music out of nothing more than our intention. Our religions were met to prepare us to awaken to the living presence of the Infinite in everyday life. The problem was that religions became trapped in the mechanistic view of reality and therefore humans were seen as nothing but particles occupying space attempting to find their way back to some place in the universe where the Source lives. The Source itself was described as stern and judgmental, allowing only some into its presence. More
What Is The True Nature of God? On the surface, the recent statistics that show more than 70 percent of all people in America are affiliated with some level of religious belief. It would appear that we're a nation of believers, but a deeper look at the numbers demonstrates that people of faith in the United States don't strictly adhere to the dogma of their religions. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 69 percent of people who consider themselves people of faith also believe that there is more than one way to interpret the teachings of their religion. Alan Richards, author of the new novel The Second Cycle from Emerald Book Company, believes that this phenomenon is directly related to our continuing search for the true nature of God. More
Altitude is Everything
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June 22, 2010 - Do you wake up some days and just wish that you had a different life? Or perhaps wish that you had been born into different circumstances? Do you feel trapped or that your wings have been clipped and that you just cannot fly? Do you feel that your life just happens around you whilst you barely exist? Or perhaps you are stuck upon a treadmill that you just cannot get off?
June 22, 2010 - The answers to the deepest questions in our hearts are often diametrically opposed to the conclusions we draw from our observations of experience. We mistakenly think that birth and death are demarcations for life, when really, life is forever and the so-called beginnings and endings are merely the rising and fading of a particular expression. Just as the toddler we once were is living inside us, so the human being is living in the Spiritual Body of universal consciousness at all times; in the seen and unseen realm of being. To think otherwise is to live with pain and sorrow as we watch our loved ones move into that otherworld.
June 22, 2010 - I almost didn't write this article. There were so many interesting things to do, like check email and watch funny videos on YouTube. After all, there is always tomorrow for work.
June 22, 2010 - Death has been on my mind lately. It’s not that I’m concerned about my own inevitable passing, but because I recently received a heart wrenching e-mail, from a wonderful woman who, while caring for her husband as best she can, is watching helplessly as his body, shrunken from the ravages of chemotherapy is slipping away from her. 
June 20, 2010 - Millions of Americans live their life off balance, lurching from one event to the next, but it may not be as bad as it seems.
June 20, 2010 - Human Beings are not things inhabiting space, separated from the universe itself. That is an old, out of date, mechanistic view of reality. Today we see that life is a web of relationships, that this universe is a dynamic, organic, living experience in awareness. Well, that last word may be the next realization, but to some of us it seems apparent that life itself is conscious. Each one of us is a point of individualized awareness in the Whole. This is not unlike ancient scripture which said that we are part of the body of God.
June 20, 2010 - Being religious doesn't necessarily equate to being inflexible.
