Prayer & Meditation Articles

Opening the Third Eye chakra bestows the great powers of intuition and wisdom. This article provides 3 potent meditation techniques to accomplish this important goal.

It is said that only through the understanding of history can one fully achieve success in the present. Understanding the history of meditation will help you to better achieve enlightenment in your own life.

The joy of meditation is a natural byproduct of watching the mind in action. This joy plays an important role in helping you establish a long term meditation practice.

This article is about lint-free living. L I N T - free living. It's about moving beyond bothersome lint. Sometimes you need to pick it off or flick it off. Some people use a lint-free roller that has sticky paper which gets rid of the unwanted lint. Other people use Scotch Tape to lift lint off clothing. We have even seen people use clear packaging tape to eliminate lint.

Meditation is a form of relaxation where one sits (or stands and sits) quietly with their thoughts focused on one object or thought. It has been used for thousands of years as a means of relaxation and gaining inner peace and tranquility. What started as a religious ritual for Buddhist and other religions has turned into an everyday part of many people's lives.

So - what fiery furnace are you experiencing in your life? What "outward appearance" is challenging your belief system? The good news is each of us has within us the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego qualities that, when developed, give us the power to stand firm in Truth in the midst of the fiery furnace, and not merely survive, but thrive!

Lots of individuals are dealing with the problem on how to stop smoking. This is one of the hard tasks to do and in some cases it takes a little more will power than what some have inside them.

Praying with clasped or folded hands is quite common among Christians. Is there a meaning to this prayer gesture? Yes there is. Apparently, such a prayer posture is a symbol of obedience, sincerity, submission and repentance. Some raise their folded hands when they make a plea to God to answer their prayers.

We all experience pain for a reason but on many occasions it is a warning for us to discontinue something we are doing. Pain can come from any type of injury, illness or condition but it is then our job to locate where the pain is originating from to stop it. Sometimes, however, pain isn't dealt with so easily and it remains with us despite all efforts to banish it.

Also another way of meditation is to visualize a clock on the wall in your mind's eye, and watch it tick second by second or minute by minute. This can help you focus your mind.

We all have the same life purpose: We are here to fully demonstrate the Christ within.

I can count the times I joined my dad on a fishing expedition on one hand, actually on three fingers. But those three fishing adventures were unforgettable indeed! I was an inquisitive seven-year-old and was ecstatic about going fishing with my father.

You pray day and night with deep faith, but God does not seem to hear you. You remain jobless, your friend remains seriously ill and the man of your dreams is nowhere in sight. What should you do?

When you talk about how to increase mental power, you can get a vision of your mind, working fast and furious at warp speed- solving issues and problems left and right.

How many times have you felt overwhelmed, panicky, or chased through your day by obligations, deadlines, work demands, children, relationships, bills, illness, you name it. Meditation used correctly changes your focus and soothes the physiological response, which can help drastically reduce the effects of stress on your body. This article focus on the application of meditation for stress relief.

Although there are many options to obtain relaxation, people sometimes don't understand how the mind actually creates a state of relaxation. You must be able to let your mind do its work by what amounts to significant visual stimulation.

Alternative health therapy is often used instead of conventional treatment. Integrated therapies use a combination of either alternative or complementary therapies with normal medical treatment, for the practice of which a high level of expertise is required. Alternative therapies make available services which are not offered in conventional medicine. Some of the alternative therapies include: herbal medicine, folk medicine, and homeopathy, diet fads, new age healing, faith healing, naturopathy, chiropractic, and music therapy even though this isn't an exhaustive list. Alternative therapies very often promise cure or help in areas where conventional treatment might not wish to do so.

We orchestrate our experiences by the power of our thinking. Everything in the manifest realm has its beginning in thought.

There is a wonderful story that illustrates the advice Jesus gave the disciples when He sent them out to tell people the good news - the news that the Kingdom of God is within. It's about a conflict between the Wind and the Sun, about which was the most powerful. The Wind thought he was stronger because of his destructive might in tornadoes, hurricanes, sand storms, and electric storms. He pointed out his ability to turn a simple cigarette or lightning strike into a raging forest fire which could level hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland.

A poem about a nurse praying for her patients which are injured soldiers. A poem taken from Drea Horton's novel "her stars and stripes, a nurses' diary"