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			<description><![CDATA[<p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/maat_left.jpg" alt="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/maat_left.jpg" /></span></p><br /><p><strong><span style="color: blue">THE VORTEX PEACE PRAYER</span></strong> </p><p>From:</p><p><a href="http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3389">http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3389</a></p><p><a href="http://www.starfiretor.com/2toc.htm">http://www.starfiretor.com/2toc.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.starfiretor.com/911AT/AT_History.htm">http://www.starfiretor.com/911AT/AT_History.htm</a></p><p>And Emphasis:</p><div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>Those who even dare to try and disrupt or corrupt the Vortex Peace Prayer will meet with absolute defeat, as well as being Astral Tagged as negative energy disrupters and terrorists for all to see in all dimensions and in all time lines.</p></blockquote></div><p>Also Noted Here:</p><p><a href="http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3367">http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3367</a></p><br /><br /><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/maat_right.jpg" alt="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/maat_right.jpg" /></span></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Stalk Your Mind&quot;.&nbsp; Learn to recognise what is yours and what is not.&nbsp; Don&#039;t be shy to tell the stuff you don&#039;t want hanging around in there to kindly bugger off if you are not happy with their input.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I do.&nbsp; Works a Treat.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52135#p52135</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thought I&#039;d chime in with one technique I&#039;ve found very helpful in dealing with random out-of-nowhere negative thoughtforms/visualizations that occur during the day, to prevent them from actually manifesting and shifting us towards a more negative timeline...</p><p>If you find yourself having a negative visualization (not just a mindless negative word-thought, which is mental lingual chatter with little weight on its own; these aren&#039;t a big deal, but when a visual or other experiential thoughtform comes up along with it, that&#039;s when you need to pay attention), as soon as you&#039;re done conjuring up that negative form, don&#039;t just shift back to a positive mode and immediately willingly &quot;forget&quot; what just happened.&nbsp; Instead, take a moment to clean up the trash:</p><p>Picture yourself in your light body (be it all white or shielded with colored barriers or whatever state you happen to be be consciously in at the time).&nbsp; Then, see the negative thoughtform you just had as a ball of dark energy travelling out from you, attached to you by a thin energetic cord.&nbsp; If this thoughtform were allowed to just &quot;walk away&quot;, it could very well end up affecting your own energy and timeline in profound ways the further and longer it&#039;s allowed to go (as all the darkness it resonates with will be sent back along that cord back into you).&nbsp; To prevent this, visualize yourself pulling on that energetic cord, reeling it back in like you were reeling in a kite that was pulling away from you.&nbsp; Apply as much energy as is necessary to get the energy ball back into your proximity (but NOT your energetic interior; just within reach is fine) in a smooth manner; different thoughtforms (dwelled on for different levels of time and with different levels of emotional intensity) will require varying levels of effort.</p><p>Once it&#039;s back within reach, visualize a thick light cord connecting you with the One/God/Creator/Source.&nbsp; Keep this cord pictured, to reaffirm your own connection to the One as remaining intact and unaffected.&nbsp; Now while doing this, use the resonance of this connection to bring down a second thinner light cord from Source, and get your light body to hold onto it in a different hand from the one holding on to the negative thoughtform.</p><p>Then, with as much love and pure intention as you can muster, tie the cord to the negative thoughtform to the cord going to Source, with the intention that when you release your hands afterwards, the thin cord to Source will retract, taking the negative thoughtform with it, at which point you trust and are thankful that Source will provide for it in the most positive way possible.</p><p>This way, you don&#039;t have to use up vital energy in transmuting the negative thoughtform yourself, if infact the thoughtform was weak and effectively benign; likewise if the thoughtform ended up being an extremely powerful creation (made in a highly emotional moment) you don&#039;t want to have to fight it alone.&nbsp; Ideally you&#039;d be able to simply release the thoughtform back to Source, but a very powerful thoughtform might still be able to escape in transit, so by attaching it to Source directly you prevent this from occurring.</p><p>From that point, it is Source&#039;s determination how the thoughtform&#039;s path should proceed so that Universal Law is not violated while still allowing you to remain on a positive path.&nbsp; If the thoughtform is actually required for your spiritual growth, Source will release it.&nbsp; If not, Source will transmute it.&nbsp; The decision is left up to the One, who is aware of your path and your intentions and will work with the thoughtform to fulfill both.</p><p>As you get in the habit of doing this for the various negative moments that occur in your mind, you will gradually recognize them so well that the effort involved in dealing with them gets less and less, and gradually you find that you have fewer and fewer of these thoughtform problems in the first place, increasing your overall vibration as result.</p><p>There are plenty of variations you can try for the logistics of the &quot;catching the thought before it gets away and then giving it back to source&quot; process, so if you find another approach that resonates with you, that&#039;s the one to use.&nbsp; The key thing is preventing idle negativity from getting away from you and causing repercussions in your life (or others) as a result.&nbsp; The quicker you catch the thoughtform after it comes out of your head, the easier it is to deal with.</p><p>Cheers <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>A few more things I&#039;ve found useful:</p><p>Everyone I&#039;ve known who&#039;s been on a spiritual journey has run into a serious downside. Ignatius of Loyola called it the &quot;slough of despond&quot;; nobody understands you, everything is difficult and you don&#039;t seem to be getting anywhere. _Don&#039;t_slack_off_. Don&#039;t give up. Keep an open mind but trust your judgement. Be alert for unexpected help. From personal experience I know you&#039;ll get through it if you keep trying. I think Winston Churchill said it best, &quot;When you&#039;re going through hell... keep going!&quot;.</p><p>Helping others (and yourself): at <a href="http://www.quantumtouch.com">www.quantumtouch.com</a> is a healing technique that I&#039;ve been using for almost a year. It&#039;s simple enough to learn from the book (I did, though the basic class answered some questions) and it&#039;s effective.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, things that have helped.&nbsp; Can&#039;t say they are new or will help others, but they have helped me.</p><p>1.&nbsp; Stop thinking about what others &#039;might&#039; be thinking about you.</p><p>2.&nbsp; Stop comparing self to others (or visa versa) in a judgemental fashion.&nbsp; Only identify that which you wish to make better for yourself.&nbsp; Accept where you currently are the same way you will accept where you will be as you strive towards your goal.</p><p>3.&nbsp; All the people of this earth are trully One.&nbsp; Understand that level and feel it.&nbsp; Memorize the feeling.&nbsp; Recall the feeling often.</p><p>4.&nbsp; Practice non-thinking awareness (while recalling the feeling of Oneness).</p><p>5.&nbsp; Accept your Eternal-ality.&nbsp; There was an old AA (alcoholics anonymous) saying that stated &quot;I can put up with something for 12 hours that would appall me if I knew I had to keep it up for a life time&quot;.&nbsp; I changed that quote to read &quot;I can put up with something for a lifetime that would appall me if I knew I had to keep it up for an eternity&quot;.</p><p>6.&nbsp; Memorize the feelings that make you unhappy.&nbsp; Set a mental alarm to go off whenever these feelings arise.&nbsp; Become fully aware and open when the alarm goes off.&nbsp; Then simply transduce the negative energy.&nbsp; Transducing can be done by using number 4 and 5.</p><p>7.&nbsp; Divine Nonchalance.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>zenden:&nbsp; I know what you mean about having a wandering mind.&nbsp; I also feel the same about trying to focus on one thing at once, I can&#039;t and don&#039;t really want to.&nbsp; However I think that that learning to focus for me may open an enormous potential for thinking and acheiving.&nbsp; Think that if all the thinking you did could be focused towards a single concept or point of interest how much could be achieved rather then spreading that thought out so thin.&nbsp; </p><p>Lono:&nbsp; I have discovered in the last year or two the importance of being satisfied with baby steps.&nbsp; Most of my life I wanted to do something and achieve a result.&nbsp; When I couldn&#039;t get my result I would give up right away.&nbsp; Thus it has been very hard to be satisfied with making small incremental progress in my quest to find my life purpose and who I need to be to have my desired impact on the future of Earth.&nbsp; It has been slow, and remains slow and dealing with the frustration of not achieving my desired result, it has been tough to stay positive, but I am learning to do that too.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I try to watch my mind like I would watch a small child playing. &quot;No Johnny, you can&#039;t drive the car today, you&#039;re too little&quot;, reminds me that I&#039;m not in charge of the universe. Otherwise I could easily get lost in a world of negative thoughtforms, always with &quot;me&quot; at the center.<br />&nbsp; I got a great massage last week. It must have released a lot of endorphins or something because I was in the most pleasant altered state for several hours after. Then I felt a little unstable and tired the next day, then got into a really horrible mood for a day, then started feeling even better than ever. I wonder if some kind of stuck negative energy got released in my body and had to work it&#039;s way out.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Well, since my earlier post this morning, I&#039;ve been pondering how and when I&nbsp; began to change.&nbsp; One reason it&#039;s been so hard to see is because it&#039;s happened in many steps;&nbsp; sometimes leaps and bounds, sometimes tiny little Geisha steps.</p><p>Reading has played a huge role; dreaming and paying attention to those dreams; listening for little clues in what friends, family, and even strangers say.&nbsp; It&#039;s all like little pieces of a gigantic puzzle, and it takes time to put them together.&nbsp; </p><p>Much of what I&#039;ve learned has been intuitive, and I&#039;ve only used hard information to create structure around it.&nbsp; Maybe that&#039;s why I find it hard to pinpoint exactly, or to make a blueprint for someone else to follow.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>i read alot, and i MEAN--ALOT.&nbsp; think alot, particularly driving.&nbsp; always have.&nbsp; now read mainly on the net.&nbsp; tidbits of this, tidbits of that.&nbsp; i file stuff in my head, in a filing system, that is pictographical, sort of holographic, memory driven.&nbsp; used to take tests alot thru the years in formal education, and answers for tests would have to come by just remembering what was on the page i studied, even if i didnt have time to research or get to know the real concept.&nbsp; had to use photographic memory.&nbsp; its faster.&nbsp; (and if the material sucked, which it usually did, it freed me from being involved with it, i just filed it in miscellaneous for the day.&nbsp; as most shit had to be regurgitated, stuff that u would never need later--wastes of time and energy, unfortunately).&nbsp; haha--just like the advanced research courses i took, couldnt tell ya much, but even took 400 post grad level.&nbsp; pitiful, aint it?&nbsp; even tho i couldnt rattle off alot if i had to, that stuff got IN me somehow and was assimilated.&nbsp; my mind did some stuff with it, and it then analagously used it, to make its own system, that i depend on.&nbsp; i can trust it to shuffle its files, and its like actually seeing/watching cards in a library card file drawer, pile rapidly like a person would shuffle cards in las vegas.&nbsp; i guess it evolved itself.&nbsp; &nbsp;it branches out like a tree.&nbsp; and builds on itself.&nbsp; then it connects with stuff i saw on a cereal box, or driving, or what somebody might have said.&nbsp; or wrote about.&nbsp; and the file builds.&nbsp; cards get stacked in between other cards.&nbsp; branches grow off that tree.&nbsp; like tributaries, rivers of thot, go into little streams, get bigger and smaller and keep branching out.&nbsp; all is related and interconnected.&nbsp; my brother calls it &quot;windshield time.&quot; esp on the freeways in CA.&nbsp; or any roads, in CA.&nbsp; i &quot;process&quot; stuff then.</p><p>if im at a party or something, it really gets going REALLY FAST and more detailed, if im loaded, and i cant get it out fast enuf.&nbsp; off the tongue.&nbsp; if i have to write it, like on here, i lose TONS of info and additional stacked hypotheses, but ive had to let that go and accept it.&nbsp; and i never get loaded much anymore, but i used to alot, and it really wailed then.&nbsp; that&#039;s one way of getting it out and is reportable then, but if the crowd ur with is dense, its just listening to urself talk.&nbsp; thats one way though, for real.&nbsp; use of chemicals.&nbsp; pick ur favorite.</p><p>i do what druid does, i read, and then let it roll around, compare notes, anecdotals.&nbsp; make alot of anecdotal notes.&nbsp; thats the way real research formulates.&nbsp; make hypotheses from anecdotals.&nbsp; see the same things, or correlated outcome=ideas/perspectives from notes==become real working hypotheses.&nbsp; then i find historical facts oftentimes, (stumble upon mostly) which often add more details, factoids, and oftentimes prove out the wildest hypotheses, backs them up.&nbsp; i go totally crazy on that.&nbsp; they originally start out just as &#039;notions.&#039;&nbsp; from interesting anecdotals. yet the notions feel grounded somehow, they &quot;come&quot; and theyre expanded upon.&nbsp; the cross correlations really please the hell outta me.&nbsp; thats where testing for validity comes in.&nbsp; cross-referencing from assimilating and taking in additional info.&nbsp; with the advent of the net, i first used to go to all links, and thats when it got really perfected. looking at links. and then linking &quot;links&quot;&nbsp; ah yes.&nbsp; </p><p>have had to take real university classes in research (how to do it) and in critical thinking.&nbsp; if &quot;X&quot; is so, and then thus, and &quot;Y&quot; is not so, then if &quot;X&quot; is, then &quot;Y&quot; is not, what is one to make of &quot;XYX?&quot;&nbsp; and there are &#039;tests&#039; for validity, etc.&nbsp; tools one can actually use.&nbsp; my point is that none of THAT really works that well, but is the known &#039;scientific rational method.&#039;&nbsp; &nbsp;here&#039;s what i do--that works for me the best&nbsp; --&nbsp; I CLEAN.&nbsp; i hose, i wash dishes, i vacuum.&nbsp; i can spend hours at that sink, in the kitchen, with the water running. or do laundry, and fold, and then its in a rhythm.&nbsp; that REALLY does it.&nbsp; its a rhythm then, and it gets real good and fervent with that.</p><p>i dont meditate formally.&nbsp; never have.&nbsp; never could.&nbsp; my mind is way way too busy, &quot;analogging&quot;&nbsp; hehe.&nbsp; in classes where required, i just screwed around, and opened my eyes and sneaked, watching what others were doing.&nbsp; guessing their pastlives, wondering about what they theyre really thinking.&nbsp; i never participate with a group.&nbsp; cant help deviating, all the time.&nbsp; this is about the only &quot;group&quot; i care about and feel &#039;involved with.&#039;&nbsp; whats that say about me?!</p><p>i abhor formal meditation, and developed other workable methods. i could never do it, dont try to, but somehow i do it with cleaning, and will stare at stuff and that is meditation to me.&nbsp; focus on something with eyes open, and detach myself from the real current surroundings, and go &quot;within&#039; and thusly really travel all over.&nbsp; in a mental body.&nbsp; ??&nbsp; ive been able to go to nepal in the middle of a nutrition class.&nbsp; know what i mean?&nbsp; i became highly skilled at it.&nbsp; i &quot;left&quot; almost every classroom i was ever in.&nbsp; like bi-location in real time.&nbsp; prob due to all the crap-shit i had to listen to and deal with, and take all those yrs of formal education.&nbsp; i was there, but i wasnt.&nbsp; talk about efficiency.&nbsp; &nbsp;CLEANING, sweeping, mopping.&nbsp; works for me.&nbsp; and stuff gets done at the same time!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve developed a very powerful &#039;prayer&#039; for want of a better word that I&#039;ve found is hugely uplifting and healing during meditation sessions. It is along the lines of...</p><p>&#039;By the power of Jesus The Christ, the Highest Angelic Realms of Christed Light and Lord God of Love and Light, I demand, as a Sovereign being of the Light, </p><p>that any negative energy attachments, streamers or negative entities who are not 100% of the light, in, on, around or near my person leave now and never </p><p>ever return at any point in time or space.&#039;</p><p>I normally say this 3-5 times with great conviction, inwardly rather than to the universe in general, visualising an energy cord linking me directly with the highest realms. I always remember to say a huge &#039;thank you&#039; to the lighted energies at the end. </p><p>I know its a bit long winded but it really has helped me out on many occasions and I sincerely hope it helps someone else too. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>This thread should be a resource for folks looking for ideas and techniques that have worked for you. Don&#039;t consider anything too silly or trivial; if you&#039;ve tried something and it works please share it.</p><p>Here&#039;s a repost of the &quot;happiness&quot; article in case some new members haven&#039;t seen it. It works for me.<br />=============<br />Do you have what it takes to lead a happier life?<br />Researchers challenge the notion that it&#039;s a futile quest<br />Updated: 7:08 a.m. ET Nov 27, 2006<br />NEW YORK - As a motivational speaker and executive coach, Caroline Adams Miller knows a few things about using mental exercises to achieve goals. But last year, one exercise she was asked to try took her by surprise.</p><p>Every night, she was to think of three good things that happened that day and analyze why they occurred. That was supposed to increase her overall happiness.</p><p>&quot;I thought it was too simple to be effective,&quot; said Miller, 44, of Bethesda. Md. &quot;I went to Harvard. I&#039;m used to things being complicated.&quot;</p><p>Miller was assigned the task as homework in a master&#039;s degree program. But as a chronic worrier, she knew she could use the kind of boost the exercise was supposed to deliver.</p><p>She got it.</p><p>&quot;The quality of my dreams has changed, I never have trouble falling asleep and I do feel happier,&quot; she said.</p><br /><p>Desk rage: Job stress fuels tirades and even assault</p><p>Results may vary, as they say in the weight-loss ads. But that exercise is one of several that have shown preliminary promise in recent research into how people can make themselves happier – not just for a day or two, but long-term. It&#039;s part of a larger body of work that challenges a long-standing skepticism about whether that&#039;s even possible.</p><p>There&#039;s no shortage of advice in how to become a happier person, as a visit to any bookstore will demonstrate. In fact, Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues have collected more than 100 specific recommendations, ranging from those of the Buddha through the self-improvement industry of the 1990s.</p><p>Futile quest?<br />The problem is, most of the books on store shelves aren&#039;t backed up by rigorous research, says Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, who&#039;s conducting such studies now. (She&#039;s also writing her own book).</p><p>In fact, she says, there has been very little research in how people become happier.</p><p>Why? The big reason, she said, is that many researchers have considered that quest to be futile.</p><p>For decades, a widely accepted view has been that people are stuck with a basic setting on their happiness thermostat. It says the effects of good or bad life events like marriage, a raise, divorce, or disability will simply fade with time.</p><p>We adapt to them just like we stop noticing a bad odor from behind the living room couch after a while, this theory says. So this adaptation would seem to doom any deliberate attempt to raise a person&#039;s basic happiness setting.</p><p>As two researchers put it in 1996, &quot;It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller.&quot;</p><p>But recent long-term studies have revealed that the happiness thermostat is more malleable than the popular theory maintained, at least in its extreme form. &quot;Set-point is not destiny,&quot; says psychologist Ed Diener of the University of Illinois. </p><p>One new study showing change in happiness levels followed thousands of Germans for 17 years. It found that about a quarter changed significantly over that time in their basic level of satisfaction with life. (That&#039;s a popular happiness measure; some studies sample how one feels through the day instead.) Nearly a tenth of the German participants changed by three points or more on a 10-point scale.</p><p>Other studies show an effect of specific life events, though of course the results are averages and can&#039;t predict what will happen to particular individuals. Results show long-lasting shadows associated with events like serious disability, divorce, widowhood, and getting laid off.</p><p>The boost from getting married, on the other hand, seems to dissipate after about two years, says psychologist Richard E. Lucas of Michigan State University.</p><p>What about the joys of having children? Parents recall those years with fondness, but studies show childrearing takes a toll on marital satisfaction, Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert notes in his recent book, &quot;Stumbling on Happiness.&quot; Parents gain in satisfaction as their kids leave home, he said.</p><p>&quot;Despite what we read in the popular press,&quot; he writes, &quot;the only known symptom of &#039;empty nest syndrome&#039; is increased smiling.&quot;</p><p>Gilbert says people are awful at predicting what will make them happy. Yet, Lucas says, &quot;most people are happy most of the time.&quot; That is, in a group of people who have reasonably good health and income, most will probably rate a 7.5 or so on a happiness scale of zero to 10, he says.</p><p>CONTINUED: How can we be happier?<br />Still, many people want to be happier. What can they do? That&#039;s where research by Lyubomirsky, Seligman and others comes in.</p><p>The think-of-three-good-things exercise that Miller, the motivational speaker, found so simplistic at first is among those being tested by Seligman&#039;s group at the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p>People keep doing it on their own because it&#039;s immediately rewarding, said Seligman colleague Acacia Parks. It makes people focus more on good things that happen, which might otherwise be forgotten because of daily disappointments, she said.</p><p>Miller said the exercise made her notice more good things in her day, and that now she routinely lists 10 or 20 of them rather than just three.</p><p>A second approach that has shown promise in Seligman&#039;s group has people discover their personal strengths through a specialized questionnaire and choose the five most prominent ones. Then, every day for a week, they are to apply one or more of their strengths in a new way.</p><p>Are you stressed out? </p><p>Strengths include things like the ability to find humor or summon enthusiasm, appreciation of beauty, curiosity and love of learning. The idea of the exercise is that using one&#039;s major &quot;signature&quot; strengths may be a good way to get engaged in satisfying activities.</p><p>These two exercises were among five tested on more than 500 people who&#039;d visited a Web site called &quot;Authentic Happiness.&quot; Seligman and colleagues reported last year that the two exercises increased happiness and reduced depressive symptoms for the six months that researchers tracked the participants. The effect was greater for people who kept doing the exercises frequently. A followup study has recently begun.</p><p>Another approach under study now is having people work on savoring the pleasing things in their lives like a warm shower or a good breakfast, Parks said. Yet another promising approach is having people write down what they want to be remembered for, to help them bring their daily activities in line with what&#039;s really important to them, she said.</p><p>Lyubomirsky, meanwhile, is testing some other simple strategies. &quot;This is not rocket science,&quot; she said.</p><p>For example, in one experiment, participants were asked to regularly practice random acts of kindness, things like holding a door open for a stranger or doing a roommate&#039;s dishes, for 10 weeks. The idea was to improve a person&#039;s self-image and promote good interactions with other people.</p><p>Participants who performed a variety of acts, rather than repeating the same ones, showed an increase in happiness even a month after the experiment was concluded. Those who kept on doing the acts on their own did better than those who didn&#039;t.</p><p>Other approaches she has found some preliminary promise for include thinking about the happiest day in your life over and over again, without analyzing it, and writing about how you&#039;ll be 10 years from now, assuming everything goes just right.</p><p>Some strategies appear to work better for some people than others, so it&#039;s important to get the right fit, she said.</p><p>But it&#039;ll take more work to see just how long the happiness boost from all these interventions actually lasts, with studies tracking people for many months or years, Lyubomirsky said.</p><p>Any long-term effect will probably depend on people continuing to work at it, just as folks who move to southern California can lose their appreciation of the ocean and weather unless they pursue activities that highlight those natural benefits, she said.</p><p>In fact, Diener says, happiness probably is really about work and striving.</p><p>&quot;Happiness is the process, not the place,&quot; he said via e-mail. &quot;So many of us think that when we get everything just right, and obtain certain goals and circumstances, everything will be in place and we will be happy.... But once we get everything in place, we still need new goals and activities. The Princess could not just stop when she got the Prince.&quot;<br />===============</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Since this topic was inspired by one of my anxious, grumpy posts, I feel I should contribute some things that have helped me. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /> I too feel very much like I&#039;ve pulled myself up by the bootstraps over a looooong period of time, so its hard to say &quot;oh THIS worked, that really helped...&quot; It has all been a very slow unfolding process.</p><p>The hardest thing for me has been to be patient and not get flipped out about my perceptions of &quot;things taking too long&quot; to develop/clear. Sometimes having negative thoughts can feel like a personal failure, like &quot;oh I&#039;ve left my guard down and the negs are messing with me again&quot;, and its not good to get paranoid like that.</p><p>I think reading has helped the most, its like a meditation for me, reading books particularly (I prefer to print stuff out that sit in front of the screen to read) on both the physical-level of conspiracies (Fritz Springmeier, Brice Taylor, Franklin Cover-Up, John Coleman&#039;s Committee of 300, Antony Sutton, lots more) and getting to the more metaphysical control paradigms such as entities from other densities/planets/wherever, reincarnation and secret societies. David Icke and Fritz Springmeier were my transition from the physical conspiracy to the spiritual levels. After that I got really into channeling, and maybe a little too distracted by some New Age thoughtforms that didn&#039;t work out for me. Its hard to recommend any specific channeled stuff in hindsight, although I found a lot of the Pleiadian material insightful in many ways. After the channeled stuff, I found Amitakh Stanford&#039;s <a href="http://xeeatwelve.com">xeeatwelve.com</a> which helped clear up even more things for me in many ways, although it also unnerved me. At this point, the jury is out because I&#039;ve read so many divergent viewpoints coming from totally different angles, and I think now I need to focus on just looking within and trusting my own impulses rather than looking for someone&#039;s writing to explain things to me better.</p><p>On the physical side of things, I went vegan three years ago. In highschool I was about 230lbs, and now I&#039;m 150lbs about ten years later, so I&#039;ve &quot;let go&quot; of a lot of weight I was holding, especially after I found out I was lactose intollerant and stopped with the dairy. I used to excercise and work out a lot, but when I wasn&#039;t eating right, it hardly did anything for me, didn&#039;t lose any weight and didn&#039;t get much energy from it. Now I&#039;ve started going to the gym again for the past couple months and I&#039;ve been going four times a week at least, I&#039;m surprised at myself! Its much easier than I remember. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /> I have always had a very hard time feeling &quot;grounded&quot; in my physical body, and I am still working on that definitely. I think physical activity helps with that a lot.</p><p>I also recently read about an energy releasing excercise that struck me as very simple. Just go outside, put your hands/bare feet on the Earth, and say/intend &quot;I release all excessive energies from my body, mind and spirit&quot; and let them flow into the Earth to be transmuted in a way that is of the highest good for all beings. I got that from <a href="http://www.godumentary.com">http://www.godumentary.com</a></p><p>I&#039;ve been dealing a lot with anxiety and sad feelings lately, and decided to get started on some St. John&#039;s Wort and some flower essences. Fig, Lotus and California Poppy flower essences all seem to be very good, I don&#039;t know a whole lot about them but read a great book from the &#039;70s called Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing by Gurudas, which is channeled but seems very &quot;on the level&quot; and valid. I have been feeling better for the last few days, wasn&#039;t going to post about it yet, but so far so good I suppose. Probably a few weeks before the Wort really starts working, apparently.</p><p>I also like meditating and visualizing vibrational light around me, cleaning out my energetic blockages. It is a New Age-y idea that is mentioned in lots of books like the Pleiadians, but it seems a very straight-forward, safe thing to do. I have heard many folks say &quot;don&#039;t use WHITE light, it is like a beacon for negative entities! Use gold! (or electric violet!)&quot; I&#039;ve been using gold light, but the way I think of it is like the sun... its like beyond color, its all the colors, with a golden tint sure, but its BEYOND white in the center. I think of a red cord connecting me to the energy of the earth, to ground and release excessive energy, a bright inner golden sun in my heart which is my connection to source, and a beam of light flowing into my heart from... beyond this universe, my source, &quot;wherever&quot; that is. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>There&#039;s more, but I have to run now...<br />Tim</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t spend any time meditating. I keep reading and challenging my own opinions by comparing what I think I know with what other written sources say. Then keep silent for inspiration or intuition to come. then make up imaginations of what I feel truth is. </p><p>I spend my time mostly in investigation, but not on the strictly journalistic level. I intent to learn astrology soon, I am studying it with an astrosoftware. </p><br /><p>Trying to seen the good in everything is already a great spiritual advance in itself. It is not the same thing as believing that everything is good, but to look at the tiny bit of beauty or good in everything. We can learn from that. then we can see things objectively. It enlightens what is wrong in the whole picture to see the small good details. </p><p>One day, Jesus and the Apostles passed by a dead dog&#039;s corpse. Everybody were disgusted, yet Jesus said: &quot;It has beautiful rows of teeth!&quot;</p><p>Even if I find only garbage on my way, I try to keep alert and vigilant, to overcome spiritual sleepiness, and watch myself if&nbsp; am not giving too much importance to negative things and overseeing the small bit of good in something. </p><p>It does NOT make you blind to uglyness, untruth and evil. You still can see it and every small error is seen as a great mistake.</p><p>Yet, one can become more capable to love when he sees even the smalled bit of good in everything. This love is needed if one is to cross safely the threshold of the spiritual worlds. Love make things of the spiritual worlds understandable. Other methods open the spiritual eyes, yet we do not see clearly the spiritual if no love is felt for the world. Vision is distorted by lack of love.</p><br /><p>I contemplate very often the polarization between mystics and practical peoples. This division is one of the the worst thing to happen to humanity. In fact, we should and we must be able to live in practical life according to what spiritual knowledge tells us. We must not let humanity become splitted between practical people, egoist or socialist materialistists Versus mystics disconneted from life, cut off from the ground, isolate like an ermit in deep inner contemplation. Both are dead ends. Because of that, the world is governed by psychopaths, these psychopaths aer fought by practical people who do not really have spiritual insight, and peolpe who have spiritual insights do not go in politics nor do they really participate in wordly affairs.&nbsp; </p><p>The alternative media and culture is made of networks which are uniting this polarity mystic-practical in making spiritual knowledge highly practical, that is to act and live for love of action according to spiritual knowledge gained in freedom. </p><p>If the trail we are following leads really to truth, we shall meet at the one and only top of the mountain.&nbsp; There is only one truth, yet the trails leading to it are many.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I find visualization helps. I mean seeing earth and her inhabitants healed and finally free. It&#039;s very simple but it&#039;s something I can actually do on a daily basis.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>That&#039;s a really good topic.&nbsp; A REALLY good topic!&nbsp; I know I do something on an energetic level with both myself and others (if and only when they want to be uplifted), but I don&#039;t know what it is.&nbsp; I know I slowly pulled myself out of the muck over a period of years, with successive levels of awakening.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t know how that happened exactly.&nbsp; </p><p>It would be helpful if I could get a handle on that.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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