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Steve Pavlina recently had the pleasure of interviewing James Ray of the Secret. James was most recently on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he discussed the Law of Attraction.

Here’s the Intro to Steve Pavlina’s Interview with James Ray

I’m delighted to present this exclusive interview with James Ray, President and CEO of the multi-million dollar corporation James Ray International and cast member of the increasingly popular movie The Secret.

Last week James shared his insights on the Law of Attraction on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and previously he appeared on Larry King Live with other cast members of The Secret.  Most remarkable is that he credits these appearances to the Law of Attraction itself, the manifestation of intentions he set in motion six years ago.

James has devoted over two decades to studying the thoughts, actions, and habits of those who possess true wealth in all areas of their lives. He has studied and been exposed to a wide diversity of teachings and teachers — from traditional college and the schools of the corporate world, to the ancient cultures of Peru and Egypt, and the jungles of the Amazon. As a coach and mentor, James has taught thousands of individuals and organizations to create harmonic wealth in all areas of their businesses and lives. Because of his comprehensive and integrated background, James considers himself a “practical mystic,” and he seeks to share this unique way of living with individuals around the world.

In this exclusive interview, James shares his insights into the Law of Attraction; the relationship between wealth and spirituality; and the power that comes from creating alignment between our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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By Randall Fitzgerald, Phenomena Magazine, Senior Editor

How to use precognition in everyday life? Does it even exist? And if it does indeed exist, is it’s accuracy strong enough to be of commercial use? This article from Phenomena Magazine provides some interesting insights on how some people are claiming to make money with precognition.

Have you ever had a dream about stock market investing that came true and earned you a significant sum of money?

If so, you may qualify to become a member of a prosperous and exclusive club of precognitive dreamers who intuit the movement of individual stocks and the market as a whole, then share their dreams with each other on a website.

Prospective members are first evaluated by a retired chemical engineer, Walt Stover of Arizona, who founded the stock precognition group in 1998. Its original members came from the Association for Research and Enlightenment based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the organization dedicated to a study of information from the Edgar Cayce readings.

After screening by Stover, prospects then must share at least three stock market dreams with the group, now numbering 21 persons. Their dream performance helps to determine whether they will be admitted to the group.

In a recent interview with me, Stover revealed some details about their individual and group success in tracking the market. During 2002, for instance, the group had nearly a dozen dreams that were interpreted to be bullish about the market’s overall performance in 2003. In response, Stover invested heavily in stocks that he selected from his own dreams and held onto them throughout that year.

Stover’s stock portfolio performance in 2003 turned out, in his words, “to be staggeringly profitable.” The stocks he selected for his IRA increased in value by 52 percent. Other members of the group also reaped huge profits, though they are normally reticent about touting their successes to each other.

In early 2004, five members of the group had memorable dreams in which they saw oil prices rising sharply and suddenly. Most group members promptly bought oil futures, and when oil prices surged a few weeks later, they saw the value of their futures increase by 400 percent.

As a group these dreamers are somewhat diverse, though only three of the 21 are women. Most live in the U.S., two in Australia, four in Canada, and range in age from 30 to their late 70’s. Four have Ph.D.’s, one is a nurse, one a massage therapist, a construction superintendent, and a chiropractor, while most of the rest are retired from corporate or military professions.

Their techniques for ‘incubating’ precognitive stock and commodity market dreams may vary, but their interpretation of dream imagery closely tracks the ‘theme’ approach used by Edgar Cayce when he was alive. This involves taking the entire dream and condensing it down to a central theme that can be summarized in one sentence.

The distinction of being the most successful dreamer among group members, at least in terms of achieving millionaire status from a single dream, belongs to Dr. Arthur Bernard, a psychologist who teaches dreamwork to mental health professionals at seminars across the nation.

Dr. Bernard had a recurring dream about an obscure Biotech stock called ICOS, in which he saw the stock selling at $4 a share until it suddenly exploded in value. He trusted that this dream was precognitive because of how vivid and haunting it felt, and because he had encountered precognitive dreams before among his patients when he had worked as a therapist.

Eventually he bought about 40,000 shares of ICOS, using his entire life savings, at a time when the stock was priced in the $4 range. It soon became a gold mine. When he sold the shares in 1998, they were worth $28 each, which works out to about $1.6 million in profits.

If you decide to seek membership in this exclusive dream club, prepare to have your precognitive and intuitive abilities quickly tested. For the rest of you who are just curious, you can still access the group’s website at: http://www.stockdreams.org/ .

by Rick Reilly for Sports Illustrated Issue date: June 20, 2005, p. 88

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I’m lousy.

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars — all in the same day.

Dick’s also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much — except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

“He’ll be a vegetable the rest of his life,” Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. “Put him in an institution.”

But the Hoyts weren’t buying it. They noticed the way Rick’s eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. “No way,” Dick says he was told. “There’s nothing going on in his brain.”

“Tell him a joke,” Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.

Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? “Go Bruins!” And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, “Dad, I want to do that.”

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described “porker” who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. “Then it was me who was handicapped,” Dick says. “I was sore for two weeks.”

That day changed Rick’s life. “Dad,” he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!”

And that sentence changed Dick’s life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

“No way,” Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren’t quite a single runner, and they weren’t quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, “Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?”

How’s a guy who never learned to swim and hadn’t ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.

Now they’ve done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don’t you think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you’d do on your own? “No way,” he says. Dick does it purely for “the awesome feeling” he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 — only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don’t keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.

“No question about it,” Rick types. “My dad is the Father of the Century.”

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. “If you hadn’t been in such great shape,” one doctor told him, “you probably would’ve died 15 years ago.”

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other’s life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father’s Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

“The thing I’d most like,” Rick types, “is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.”

To see the inspiring website of Team Hoyt, go to: http://www.teamhoyt.com

For More Info - Watch a Video about Team Hoyt below:

About the Video:

A glimpse of the remarkable father-son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt, and their inspirational journey together in a triathlon and life itself. The goal of Team Hoyt is to integrate the physically challenged into everyday life. One way to accomplish this is to educate the able-bodied, making them more aware of the issues that the disabled face every day. Another is by actively helping the disabled to participate in activities that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Team Hoyt targets both of these areas. Song: “I Can Only Imagine” by Mercy Me

Thanks to Healthbot.net for bringing this to our attention

Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you’re living an unhappy life and you probably think this is ‘normal’. It’s a shame, because life can and should be wonderful. You can transcend the circumstances that are pulling you down … you need only to learn how.

- Brenda Anderson

You’re having another bad day. Your Internet is down. You discover a past-due credit card bill. The salesclerk rings up your order wrong. A traffic jam makes you late.

Oh, nothing catastrophic occurs, just a series of frustrating delays, minor mishaps, and dropped details that, cumulatively, make you crazy. All at once you realize you’re in a terrible mood, again. In fact, it’s hard to remember the last time you were in a really good mood.

At times, you feel awesome. At other times, you want the world to just be quiet. The bad news is that bad moods can be easy to acquire. The good news is, they can be just as easy to break.

The catch is that you have to want to break the mood. So, before a bad mood gets the best of you or your family, friends or coworkers, read these helpful tips to get over it and get on with it:

1. Divert your focus

Sometimes you find yourself in a bad mood for no good reason. It could be because you aren’t doing anything productive. Find a project to focus on. The task doesn’t have to be a long or complicated one. It could be as easy as washing your car or finishing painting the backyard fence.

The point is to find something where you get tangible results. In turn, you will feel gratified, and feeling gratified is a great way to lift a bad mood.

2. Change your body posture

Happy and energetic individuals take big steps, walk faster and stand taller. They seem to exude an endless supply of energy. In sharp contrast, pessimistic, unhappy and lifeless people shuffle their feet, take tiny steps, walk slowly and slouch. They appear lifeless and have burned–out their batteries.

Watch how you carry your body. Use the body-posture of happy, optimistic people, such as take big steps, walk faster and stand taller. Using these techniques will help you become happy and energetic. They are easy to carry out, and will create a positive domino effect with people in your life.

3. Take a break and have a cup of tea

Sit quietly for 15 minutes. And keep your mind blank. Be one with yourself.

Often the silence is enough to change your mood. Sitting quietly keeping your mind off everything brings you back.

You can try doing this while having a cup of hot tea.

4. Find something that is guaranteed to make you smile

It might be looking through old photo albums or popping in your all-time favorite movie. Engaging your senses or reliving fond memory is the perfect ticket out of Bad Moodville.

5. Pick some music and listen to it

Almost everyone is familiar with the saying that music soothes the savage beast, and it’s certainly true when the beast is a bad mood.

Music is one of the most effective fast fixes for a bad mood. The next time you’re in a bad mood, try blasting it away with a favorite song. Something that makes you smile and dance will get rid of your blues in a flash, but there are plenty of options beyond a upbeat and cheery tune. To shake off a bad mood, try turning on some seriously angry music like punk rock or heavy metal, and turning it way up.

Misery loves company, and so long as you do it right, a blast of negativity can actually help lift your bad mood! Just take a deep breath when the song is over, and you’ll feel refreshed as your bad mood flies away.

6. Stay in the present

Appreciate the mundane by focusing on the activities you do without thinking like eating, bathing, walking. Take notice of how good the water feels in the shower, how soft or hard the ground feels on your feet as you walk or just silently eat your meal and really taste it.

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Editor’s Note: The following slide presentation was sent to us by a friend as an email forward. The author remains anonymous.

We normally don’t think much of email forwards - but this one was special. Watch it - you’ll like it.

Studies suggest it can be effective

ESSEX, Conn.— In search of a method to treat her clients’ depression, Elizabeth Hale-Rose has reached back some 2,500 years.
Sitting in a circle with five of her clients, the licensed clinical social worker takes a page from the teachings of the Buddha.

“Close your eyes,” she says softly. “Place your hands in your lap or on your legs … make sure your head, neck and back are aligned … that your posture embodies dignity, stability, wakefulness and willingness.”

She tells her clients to begin by attending to the sounds they hear. “You don’t have to do anything,” she says. “We are simply here and receptive to it.”

In 2000, Segal and two other researchers published a study of 145 patients showing that those who took an eight-week course to learn how to practice mindfulness were half as likely to suffer a relapse into depression over the next 12 months as those who received only the usual treatment.

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What’s odd about Fairfield, Ohio? According to this article from the Washington Post, it’s residents are seriously nuts about practising meditation.

Om on the Grange

They’re Seriously Meditating In Fairfield, Iowa

By Gary Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 12, 2006

It was late afternoon in Fairfield, Iowa, and townsfolk were preparing for the daily ritual.

 Marie-Helene Tourenne, who serves up sublime French fare at the Petit Paris restaurant, removed her apron, left the coq au vin to simmer and exited the kitchen. Lonica Halley, co-owner of Natural Selections, a shop offering organic goods, left the store in the care of her assistant. Even Ed Malloy, the amiable silver-haired mayor, ended a meeting and strode out of his conference room.

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Editor: Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert is known for doing ‘impossible’ things. In this post on his blog he shares his story of how he’s been able to achieve remarkable success in many areas of his life through his positive mindset….

In Over My Head

I was about 9-years old when I told my mother I planned to win an art contest that was advertised on the back of a cereal box. If my drawing of the famous geyser Old Faithful were judged one of the best, I’d win a prize. Mom tried to explain just how many people would enter a contest like that, presumably so I wouldn’t be disappointed when I didn’t win. I understood the odds, but I was sure I was going to win anyway, so I sketched my picture and sent it in.

I won a camera.

When I was 11 years old, I was certain I would find the Golden Egg at the annual Easter Egg Hunt in my town. Imagine a field full of hidden eggs, the area is covered with kids looking for those eggs, and only one egg is the golden one. Against all odds, I was sure I would be the one to find it.

Later that week, my picture was on the front page of our local paper. “Scott Adams Finds Golden Egg.”

It was about that same time when I first heard the word valedictorian. I was surprised to learn that there was an actual name for the best student in the graduating class. I decided to become one of those. How hard could it be?

In 1975 I graduated as valedictorian.

I recall one day in eighth grade science class when the teacher was giving the answers to some standardized tests we were taking for practice. I raised my hand and pointed out that his answer was wrong. I argued that he was misinterpreting the question. This didn’t seem likely to him, given that he was a professional science teacher and I was 14. But to humor me, he agreed to go back to the source and check.

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