NLP Wellness Empowerment

Queen of the Sun - E. J. Michael (spiritual)

2008-09-28T03:35:00.000-07:00

Title: Queen of the Sun.
Author: Michael EJ.
Topics: new age, spirituality, energy.
Year: 1995.
Rating: 7.5.

After The Celestial bar, The Prophet and The Celestine Prophecy, here is another novel of teaching, which unfolds in the form of narration, but it is in the reality a kind of spiritual and ideological manifesto.
Queen of the Sun was published in 1995 by Michael E.J. and obtained a great success worldwide.

It is, in my opinion, a text almost with a magical aura of mysticism but it has at the same time real sacredness that manages to evoke and maintain throughout its length.
As in The Celestine Prophecy, the journey of the main character begins by finding a particular artefact: in the book of James Redfield it was a manuscript containing nine lighting, while in Queen of the Sun is an ancient medallion.

Jason, the hero of the romance - a part is a personal experience and a part is literary invention of the author – owned a medallion and he is pursued by a powerful Masonic group willing to do everything to get the artefact.

Jason will travel so far to the Yucatán, in contact with the places once inhabited by the Maya.
The journey is not so much a physical, as a mental and spiritual process, which it can be done even if by the reader.

As always, there will be people ready to consider books such as The Prophet and The Celestine Prophecy as spiritual nonsense, but from my point of view I have found in these books, and in this same Queen of the Sun, many ideas and many teachings.

Fosco Del Nero

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (spirituality)

2008-09-24T04:09:00.000-07:00

Title: The Celestine Prophecy.
Author: James Redfield.
Topics: Spirituality, energy, communication.
Year: 1993.
Rating: 7.5.

It was only a matter of time before I read the Celestine Prophecy, an international best seller, which was originally a publication, but that it has become very popular thanks to the huge positive comments from readers throughout the world.

Technically, the Celestine Prophecy is a novel, an adventure novel to be precise, but the reasons for its success are certainly not in the story itself.

In fact, the book is a spiritual parable, which James Redfield has the opportunity to explain the nine illuminations that compose the Manuscript, and to elucidate them in concepts and way of life examples.

What emerges is a complex conceptual corpus (certainly very complex for those who have never tried any visualization techniques, who does not know what is manifesting, who does not believe that the universe is composed of energy, etc ... but also for others could be a difficult text), which describes the past, but especially the present and the development of an human being.

The evolution involves major changes, this is obvious, but also some surprising points of view.

It is probably unnecessary to be here to summarize the text and describe the vicissitudes of the many personalities involved in this sort of spiritual journey, from Charlene to Marjorie, from father Carl to father Sanchez, from Karla to Wil.

Mainly because the convictions of the individual reader (from pure scientific-materialist loyal to the new age there is always a difference) will be decisive for the interpretation of the Celestine Prophecy in one direction (description of the humanity evolution) or another (a heap of nonsense).

I suggest you to read the book so you can have an idea of it.
I think the book is very deep and full of important ideas, and therefore I recommend it.

Fosco Del Nero

The technique of Einstein: relaxation and insight (mind)

2008-09-16T04:10:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard or read something about Einstein and his methods of thought and research?
Even if not, you will probably know the reputation of one of the greatest geniuses of humanity.

Contrary of the common serious scientific researcher, sad and boring, Albert Einstein was a multifaceted and original character.
And original were the methods of thought that he practiced (that's what concerns us). Probably we will not become like him, but would be a great success if we could get a little closer!

For example, did you know that the theory of relativity, which he developed as a mathematical formulation, was born in the form of an image by observing a beam of light?

Einstein, was not only a great scientist and physicist, but also an intuitive. One of his favourite techniques was the “technique of stone”.
At first he reflected for a while to a certain issue, from which he wanted to have an answer or an intuition.

Then he relaxed, by entering to a natural state of drowsiness. But he did it by holding a stone in his hand... which would inevitably falls once his muscles had relaxed ...
Result?
The answer to the question on which he was thinking came as an intuition during his dream.
And if we think that the theory of relativity, with all the scientific and conceptual derivations, came after a similar status of relaxation, it is spontaneous to say that maybe this technique is not something so trivial and childish...

Maybe we should cultivate our intuitiveness, as understanding of the signs around us, and as a creative thinking.

A great way to stimulate the intuitiveness is the relaxation, which is drowsiness or relaxation status where the alpha waves are more active (a type of waves that our brain emanates).

The regular physical and mental practice relaxation leads to a steady increase of intuition (and this is just one of several benefits).

There are several books and courses that propose relaxation techniques such as "High Performance Mind by Anna Wise; or always from the same author: “Awakening the Mind: A Guide of Mastering the Power of Your Brain Waves”.

Stopping smoking - No smoking (health)

2008-09-13T05:31:00.000-07:00

Today I want to dedicate a post to a topic that is close to me: smoking.
I want to be clear that I do not smoke; I never smoked and I will not smoke ever!

The smoke is one of those activities that you can not explain why it is the favourite of such a large slice of humanity, although it has any advantage but only several negative aspects!

Among those:
- The cost (how much does a smoker spend each year? And how much money does he spend throughout the entire lives? Maybe it would have been better to invest that money in other successful investment!
- The higher probability to get a cancer (do you want to die young?)
- The related health problems (also infinite)
- The breathing difficulties
- The deterioration of every physical performance

And again:
- Bad breath (disgusting)
- The bad smell (too bad)
- Dependence on cigarettes (with consequent corollaries of nervous-type personality)

And certainly, since I am a profane in the field, there are for sure others negative sides...

Those positive instead?
Uhm… mah ... I can’t see for the moment... but maybe because I am always an profane :)
Probably the only positive side is the fact to give to the smoker a sense of security, as those who start smoking (or continue to do so) were frequently in a difficult moment of their life.

Needless to say, it’s almost always during the adolescence period (a difficult moment by definition), that young people start to smoke, trying to imitate different models and trying to look older, stronger, safer, etc.

But this concern the past and we are interested in improving the present and future.

So, how is possible to quit smoking?

Perhaps there is not an absolute method valid for everybody: there are those who have stopped all at once with the only strength of the will, some who reduce the load of cigarettes per day, others who use gums or nicotine patches, some who read books (see for example “The Easy Way to Stop smoking" from Allen Call) and use mental techniques (for example, the Neuro Linguistic Programming) or physical techniques (for example, EFT).

In short, the methods are different.
Stop to pollute your body!

Astral Projection and Psychic Empowerment: Techniques for Mastering

2008-09-04T04:53:00.000-07:00

Title: Astral Projection and Psychic Empowerment: Techniques for Mastering
Topics: Astral projection, aura, paranormal
Author: Joe H. State
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Year: 1998
Rating: 6

Here is a book with a very interesting topic that attracts always more people, in relation with the path of the spiritual evolution, which is investing the entire human race and the entire planet; I am talking about the astral projection or astral travel.

Now, for those who have no idea of what it is, the astral projection would be a sort astral travel outside the body that appends during the sleep or immediately before it.
Of course, the astral projection is done by the spirit, who lives temporarily in the body but that does not correspond with it.

The interest that has aroused and raises the matter is the fact that an increasing number of people said to have taken astral projections in other places or times.
It seems that the astral journey promises to reach remote destinations on Earth, or distant destinations in time… and even places outside of our planet… and even non-human entities.

This trip is a part of a path to spiritual evolution, which involved not only the higher astral entity, but also the expansion of our own awareness.
Moreover, there will be beneficial effects in the physical-energetic as well as in the mental-emotional level.
This is a basic concept: if the human being is a unique body, mind and spirit, it is obvious that what is producing effects in an area, could have consequences in the other two as well.
What is not easy is to be able to manage the technique for astral travel, which could also help everyone to access their own past lives.

This book has the purpose to teach consciously how to go out from the body, and teaches it in detail!
In fact, the manual is filled with descriptions and practical exercises.

The only problem, or at least I have found such, is the complexity of the book that makes difficult to practice the technique.
For that reason the rating is not very high, despite the great interest of the matter.
But perhaps you can find it easier, and you can try it anyway.

The memory (improving)

2008-08-30T06:06:00.000-07:00

Today I’d like to talk about a topic dear to me, and that is also close to many other people: the memory.
To tell the truth it concerns each of us, since this is an essential component of our life.
The memory topic, however, it more closely to certain categories of people: I am referring in particular to students, from primary to university, and to all those who have to memorize so many things at work, and need to remember the right things when it’s necessary!
However, to have an infallible memory would be fantastic for everybody.
The quality of our life, in fact, would increase, taking into consideration the advantages in the professional and personal field.

Having a prodigious memory is a vain illusion?
No, if we think of two basics things:
1) Memory has its own way to work
2) Memory is an ability that, like many others, need to be strengthened.

To explain the things in a very simple way, memories are formed in this way: for every event of our life, our brain forms a neuronal pathway, called synapses, which combines two different neurons. If this path is made many times (i.e. if the event is repeated continuously) the memory of the event strengthens, and at the end it will become permanent.

That’s why, for example, we remember all life long, a text of a song we've heard and sung many times.

But it’s everything here?
Absolutely not: besides the repetition of actions comes into play even the emotional part.
Indeed, when the thing is associated with a strong emotion, even just a few repetitions, or even only one can make an event fixed in our mind!
The day of your marriage probably or the victory of your last football team player!
Why? Because there was a strong emotion associated to these events.

That is why, for example, it is better to study in an imaginative way, making vivid and engaging the study: it would be helpful for remembering much more!

If these are the two basic mechanisms of memory, the ways to exploit are different.
The experts teach different memory techniques that can be used for a generic or specific sector such as foreign languages, science, places, numbers, and so on.

It’s important to say that the application of these techniques could greatly improve your memory and your life.
We have to remember that the brain is a muscle, and it needs to be trained.