I see this kind of social sharing, or being ‘more social’ and doubling every year, as the first signs of the growing recognition of ‘personal uniqueness’ ‘self value’. But not in a selfish way, as to be able to express yourself you need to be equally excepting the value of others. Now both the ability to express yourself and the willingness to except others, world wide, is nothing short of ‘spiritual awakening’.

Are you being social? or are you resisting it in the name of privacy, who cares what you did this morning…I know that I was?

Inner growth and social growth in Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Picture and Video Sharing

Mark was giving an example: if we could fold over a plain paper fifty times, how high would it reach? Well, it can take us to the moon and back one hundred and fifty times!

Our physical growth, rejuvenation of cells works on this doubling formula, we call it division of cells.

Here we can recognized that the more natural something may be the more it would likely to resemble a ‘compound growth’ than a ‘linear growth’.

But all is initiated by energy. Einstein proved that Energy can not be created nor destroyed and it has a direct relation to physical mass, so this quantum change must be related to compounding.

Then the question of momentum came to mind…it must have the power of the same compound growth…inner growth.

Just like the cells are doubling in the power of the second chakra every chakra must contribute to this exponential growth. What we control is when it may happen in us.

But Compounding seems to be extremely difficult for the human mind to grasp.

There must be very little logic in compound exponential growth…maybe even some magic.

So what are you doing to support your social sharing abilities from within?

I meditate.

Q:
One thing which I have noticed is that for many years I have been placing a lot of of attention on other peoples needs, and not mine, its has if I have neglected myself! I am ready to put myself first. How?

A:
Your challenge of ‘other people needs’ vs ‘your needs’ is now on your mind and priority because you may not feel accomplished and meeting your potential.

In the past you may have felt that if you just able to satisfy others you would feel complete. You now realized it just does not work. Nor will they value what you do enough. You may recognize that the only way to get their love and approval

The moment you will feel that you are getting your share of growth…you will first experience the changes of energy, which you may be able to notice in your attitude and outlook, you will just be much easier to make decisions, feel less offended by others and more content with yourself, stages of that will be showing themselves, you will still be having ups and downs but you will be more able to let go.

That will express in your actions, choice and results, in that order. Results is what others will have easier time to notice first, those who are closer to you and care more about you, will also notice your patience and attitude change as well. Once you feel that return of positive attention from those around you, it will no longer feel wrong to attend to their needs.

Bottom line attending to your needs actually answers directly to what others really need from you in the first place. They what to be around someone who is growing.

Now you can feel comfortable placing yourself first, knowing that it has a great benefit to others.

We have been forced out from the safe green ages of tribal mental slavery to the unpredictable golden ages of responsibility through inner driven artistic expression of individuality. Now what?

look at a flower or at a tree
they are just as perfect in the winter
and the spring as they are in the summer

just like you are always perfect

each step of your journey
completes a new beauty
a new purpose

just like every one around you

they too are perfect
they too have their winter
their spring and their summer
they too have their steps and their journey

forget that and be in fear
embrace that and be free
in your journey

Happy New Year 2011 By: Stan Ciszek Copyright ©2011

House of Rising Sun By: Stan Ciszek Copyright ©2010

But last night, the night of March 17, 2011, I could not fall asleep…

I was tossing and turning with my eyes wide open…feeling, thinking…images, endless fast moving images passing through…not a big surprise as a day earlier I’ve made a public commitment  to record transcribe and make public a Karma Secrets Meditation in the Japanese language…

A bright light came into my window
I looked at my iPhone, it was just after five in the morning…the sun, I  thought, wow…I may not get any sleep before our morning meditation…

I looked out of my bedroom window…it was not the sun…but may as well have been…the full moon, in an absolutely perfect sphere, the biggest I’ve ever seen it…smiling at me, in bright orange and yellow colors, reflecting the sunlight…five minutes no more…and it was gone!

Now I remembered why I could not sleep…”the land of the rising sun”  what a coincidence…

This coming Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:00 pm eastern time
A group of our students and their friends will gather downtown Toronto Canada to share, and record a Special Meditation to later make available to all, in the Japanese language.

How can you help?

Your live energy presence and good intentions are golden!

1. Simply Participate Live – we need your loving energy!
2. Share your experience – your feedback may be very inspiring!
3. Ask questions – interactive questions and answers are the most interesting format of a learning experience
4. Spread the word – so more and more people can directly and indirectly benefit!

And finally, the more practical and hands on:

Do you speak Japanese?  
Do you you know someone who does?
Can you edit videos and sound?

You can help!

Initially we plan to translate, narrate, and transcribe English to Japanese.
Created audio and videos with narrations and subtitles.
Later we will require some ongoing support to update and  answer the questions we will be receiving…

Is there anything we missed?
Do you have any great ideas in who can help and how?

Let us know at TheRisingSun@KarmaSecrets.com

P.s. We are setting up a special page for the Wednesday The Rising Sun Event!

Please stay tuned!

How can you deal with this stress?

Can Meditation really help?

Do Children even need meditation to be Happy?

Many studies prove meditation to be a valuable tool…

and did you know…

You have been meditating almost half of your life and did not even know it!

Did you know that sleep is a form of meditation?
Your body has an instinctive need to go into an eight hour “self regulation” mode, during which we best recover from the day, rejuvenate our body, mind and even grow. During sleep you often have involuntary movements, visualization even sounding, all as part of a natural instinctive survival mechanism.

As you sleep (forced daily meditation) your body uses available energy, from your day to rejuvenate.

(This Energy coming from proper diet, water, fresh air and exercise. Generally, the better your lifestyle the better your sleep.)

But, regardless of your lifestyle, if you are stressed, worried, your energy is low, than even your sleep is not as productive (you may wake up tired and often you can’t sleep at all).

Modern science does not know much about sleep, but we do know that children sleep much deeper and better quality than adults. (As I often run the parallel between available energy and aging !)

You also know that when you are emotionally stressed, worry, which are indicators of low energy, you often can’t sleep at all.

You can easily observe, that when we are physically ill our body forces us into sleep until we recover. Meditation just as sleep is a form of whole body rejuvenation.

When used properly, meditation does not simply substitute sleep, but enhances the awakened state potential.

The benefits of Meditation have been known for thousands of years, recently modern science has also begun recognizing the benefits of meditation for relief of stress and anxiety, raised physical and mental potential.

As science begins recognizing the power of the mind, and that awakening the bodies own ability, from within, can never be replaced by any external intervention, meditation is now rapidly becoming a big part in many hospitals, work places and now schools as a tool for emotional stability, physical recovery and personal growth.

As we know, Children are very sensitive, this sensitivity makes children vulnerable to all they hear and see at home, at school and in the media. The evidence of high stress and anxiety levels, obesity, allergies, other sensitivity to food and early aging are evident across all schools and communities.

Stress being one of the first responses leads to hyper activity, ADD, diminished creativity, and all academic scores. Stress often causes child depression, which may be expressed in being a bully or even a victim.

When stressed the body’s immune system weakens. Naturally, when losing sleep and emotionally down both adults and children become many times more vulnerable to all viruses and infections.

Children are very bright, and Introducing meditation to the children early, may prove extremely beneficial.
They will naturally be less vulnerable to their external environment and at times when the child may feel the stress and overwhelm they can use what they have learned as a tool for instant relief.
By introducing Meditative Story Telling, even once a week we will give them these tools and hope to be able to also see measurable results, in the over all social behavior and direct benefit in academic scores.

you enter winter garden
you have been here before
like shadows of a thunder
like rust on trays of coal

reflecting of your sorrow
your hands rise up in cry
what will you do tomorrow
where will your future lie

remembering the gardens
in summer sun and heat
awakening the scenes
to step to drummers beet

here you can feel your freedom
our conscious efforts pay
you know that truth delivers
keeping the pain at bay

recovering lost moments
you look ahead with pride
by listening and walking
you never have to fight

Erik Valdman, October 2009

[Daily Karma]

turn on your kindness switch
and brighten someone’s day
send a ripple of light
and be the source of joy today

notice how different life feels
with judgment free kindness which spreads
empower your freedom to be
the light ON to another man’s way

Erik Valdman
July 23 2010

Tagore hosts Gandhi and wife Kasturba at Santiniketan in 1940

“Creation is an endless activity of God’s freedom; it is an end in itself.”

Rabindranath Tagore, (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) sobriquet Gurudev,
was an Indian Bengali polymath. He was a popular poet, novelist, musician, and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, and as the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Tagore was perhaps the most widely regarded Indian literary figure of all time. He was a mesmerizing representative of the Indian culture whose influence and popularity internationally perhaps could only be compared to that of Gandhi, whom Tagore named ‘Mahatma’ out of his deep admiration for him. (quote taken from Wikipedia)

We are a society of end results, goals, fast and instant gratification…could it be that the Freedom of the Journey, is the greatest of joys and the ultimate purpose?
Could we rewrite Rabindranath’s words and say:

“ The Creation in our ‘Journey of Life’ is the endless act, an expression of Human Freedom; it is the source of greatest wealth, the evidence of greatest health and happiness; it is an end in itself.”?