Whole Living Today

A guest post by Anna Miller

We buy gadgets and enjoy technology for a variety of reasons – utility, status, knowledge and fashion feature at the top of the list. But technology can help boost your personal growth and help you develop spiritually as well, as these 20 iPhone apps prove:

1. Meditator: When you’re stressed out, just open this app, set the timer, and listen to the soothing sounds and voices to help you relax.
2. Buddha Box: Ever been to a Buddhist monastery and felt at peace there? That’s because the sounds of the chants and music are soothing to your disturbed soul. This app allows you to enjoy the essence of the Buddhist ambience through the iPhone.
3. Live Happy: Discover your potential and worth and boost your confidence and the quality of your life with the activities and social networks on this app.
4. Self Help Classics: A treat for book lovers, this app offers access to a set of self help books that boost your self-confidence and help improve the quality of your life.
5. Be Happy Now: This app is designed to help you realize all the good things that are in your life at present and to feel compassionate and grateful in order to be happy and content.
6. Holy Bible: If you’re looking for spirituality and Jesus, this app provides verses from the Bible in various languages.
7. White Noise: This app allows you to meditate in peace by providing white noise that blocks out all other forms of distraction.
8. IQ Test: Download this app to check your IQ and give your brain a workout to keep it sharp, quick and alert.
9. Positive Thought Cards: This deck of cards does not have a joker, but it does make you think about life and its meaning with the pictures and affirmations on each of the cards. Give your positive energy a boost with this one.
10. Harvest Time and Expense Tracker: Time is the most precious commodity we have, and this app allows you to keep track of how you spend your time and money so that you can see what you’re wasting and what you’re using productively.
11. Talking Phrasebooks: If you’re at a loss for words in a foreign country, turn to this app for some quick and nifty translations.
12. Livestrong Calorie Tracker: Enter what you eat throughout the day to keep track of your calories and avoid unnecessary weight gain.
13. Gratitude Stream: Links to a Twitter stream where you can post your reasons for being happy and expressing your gratitude for all the gifts you have received from God.
14. Ambiance: Another app that allows you to set the mood for sleep, meditation and relaxation with different soothing sounds.
15. Fact of the Day: Learn something new every day with this app which brings the facts straight to your phone.
16. Massage Me: If you’re stressed out and need a massage, this app lets you download relaxing vibrations to your iPhone.
17. ToodleDo: This app allows you to create a list of things you need to do and reminds you of the time and place where they need to be done so you don’t fall behind schedule or decrease your productivity.
18. Weight Tracker: This app allows you to keep track of your weight, your diet and your exercise plan with a diary-like interface. Monitor your progress and see how far you have to go to reach your goal.
19. Verse Lookup: This app lets you look up Bible verses and read them every day for your spiritual growth and peace of mind.
20. iBlue Sky: Use this app to jot down your thoughts as they cross your mind and read them later to understand your psyche and improve yourself.

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This guest post is contributed by Anna Miller, who writes on the topic of online degree . She welcomes your comments at her email id: anna.miller009@gmail.com

When we are at peace within our own hearts, we shall be at peace with everyone and with our Mother, the Earth.

When we recognize that our planet itself is a living organism co-evolving with humankind, we shall become worthy of stewardship.

When we see ourselves as stewards of our planet and not as owners and masters of it, there shall be lasting satisfaction from our labors.

When we accept the concept of Right Livelihood as the basic right of all, we shall have respect for one another.

When we respect the sacredness of all life, we shall be truly free.

When we free ourselves from our attachment to our ego-personalities, we shall be able to experience our Oneness.

When we experience our Oneness – our total connectedness with all beings, we shall be at peace within our own hearts.

From The Earthsteward’s Handbook By Danaan Parry & Lila Forest

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and talk alms of those who work for joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half our hunger.

~Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

by Jack Canfield

The law of attraction states that you will attract into your life–whether wanted or unwanted–whatever you give your energy, focus, and attention to.

You are constantly giving off vibrations of energy when you think and feel. These vibrations can be picked up and received by other people. That’s why people say, “he has good vibes,” or “he gives off bad vibes.” You are constantly giving off vibrations — literally!

If you’re feeling excited, enthusiastic, passionate, happy, joyful, loving, appreciative, abundant, prosperous, relaxed and peaceful, you are giving off positive vibrations.

On the other hand, if you’re feeling bored, anxious, worried, confused, sad, lonely, hurt, angry, resentful, guilty, disappointed, frustrated, overwhelmed, stressed out, or depressed, then you are giving off negative vibrations.

The law of attraction states that the universe responds to whatever you are offering — by giving you more of whatever you are vibrating. It doesn’t care whether it is good for you or not; it simply responds to your vibration.

If you saw the film The Secret, you saw this explained in great detail.

The problem is that most of the time, you are not aware of what vibration you are offering. You are simply responding to things outside of you–current events, the news, how people treat you, the stock market, how much money you are making, how your children are doing in school, whether or not your favorite sports team wins–and then having a feeling that is either positive or negative.

When you are simply responding unconsciously to what happens around you, you tend to stay “stuck” in your current condition. This is why most people’s lives never seem to change very much. They get stuck in a repeating cycle of recreating the same reality over and over by the vibration they are sending out.

It works like this… First you observe what you currently have and are currently receiving in your life. You call this your “reality.” You respond to what you observe with a feeling, positive or negative, which then gives off that vibration to the universe. The law of attraction then responds to this vibration and brings you more of what you were vibrating. This keeps the cycle going over and over, until you choose to change it through the exertion of your will. You are a victim of your lack of awareness of the law of attraction.

The Process of Intentional Creation

It is possible to get out of this vicious cycle and create what you want instead of continually recreating what you already have. It is a simple, three-step process that you can begin immediately.

If you’ve been implementing the action steps I coach you through in The KEY to Living the Law of Attraction, you have already begun this process.

Step 1: Identify what you truly desire & eliminate the negative

It is important to focus on what you want rather than what you don’t want. You must state it in the positive and filter out the words don’t, not and no. Remember, your mind works in pictures and if you say I don’t want to be mad, you are creating the picture and thus the vibration of being mad. You must create the opposite of what you don’t want.

Step 2: Raise your vibration level

Your job in stage two is to create a vibrational match for that which you say you want to have. How would you be feeling if you already had those things–the perfect job, the perfect relationship, the amount of money that you want to have?

Your job is to identify what makes you feel good and do more of it, then learn not to tolerate your negative feelings.

Affirmations are an important component in raising your vibrational level to what it is you want. Remember, the law of attraction does not respond to the words you use or the thoughts you think. It simply responds to how you feel about what you say and how you feel about what you think.

For information on how to create even more effective affirmations, review chapter 10 in The Key to Living the Law of Attraction, where you’ll find my guidelines for creating effective visualizations.

Step 3. Release it and allow it.

In this third step, you simply release your affirmation, your vibration, and your feelings to the universe to take care of your “request” or “order” as I call it. But you have to abstain from any doubts. If you doubt you can have it in any way, then you are not allowing it. You are pushing it away and you end up with contradictory messages to the universe.

It is only when the contradictory thoughts, talk, and images are removed that your desired results will manifest. The faster you remove your resistance, the faster your dreams can be realized.

© 2009 Jack Canfield

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I am what I am.
In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.
In softness I have strength.
In silence I walk with the gods.
In peace I understand myself and the world.
In conflict I walk away.
In detachment I am free.
In respecting all living things, I respect myself.
In dedication I honour the courage within me.
In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.
In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.
In freedom I have power.
In my individuality, I express the God-Force within me.
In service I give of what I have become.

I am what I am:

Eternal, immortal, universal, and infinite.
And so be it.

By Stuart Wilde