 Every day the sun rises and with this magical occurrence brings about predictable and unpredictable manifestations that affect us on both a macrocosmic and microcosmic level. We are guaranteed that somewhere on this planet a new flower is budding, a leaf is changing its colours, the tides of the oceans are rising and falling, and birds are singing their morning songs. In contrast, somewhere Mother Earth will impulsively decide to rise up and cleanse the darkness that threatens to seep deeper under her skin?causing temporary pain, heartache and displacement for those who are in need of change in order to grow to new levels of existence. During this moment in time we are being presented with the dawn of a new day. This era has been prophesized about for centuries by respected ancient cultures and now we must ask ourselves how we will greet the rising sun that awaits us. Will we embrace the challenges it brings and welcome the inner growth we have the opportunity to experience or will we be overcome with fear and succumb to the drama that pervades our senses and causes us to dive deeper into anxiety and despair? Will we continue to view the world from the old paradigm ‘us versus them’ attitude or will we come together in PEACE and UNITY understanding and helping one another?as one people across this great planet? Understanding that it is a natural course of our soul’s growth to experience periods of challenge can help us BE in the discomfort, pain or even depression that may arise. It is sometimes necessary to surrender to the shadows of our sub-conscious mind and explore our deep-seated fears in order to discover the courage to rise up from the ashes?like the Phoenix?reborn; stronger, wiser, and more beautiful. My inner guidance was telling me that something deep was at work here. It was a sense of knowing I could not ignore and so rather than succumbing to the exhaustion I made a commitment to myself to explore the feelings of depression and disappointment that had settled into my life. In those moments I could not remember the many wonderful things that I had experienced during the year walking with God. Rather, I could only see how I had failed to achieve the success I had longed to manifest. I felt directionless, critical, and unmotivated. Nothing I was or did seemed enough. I wondered?how could I claim to be a spiritual teacher inspiring others when I seemed to have failed myself? However, experienced with getting control of my thoughts I grabbed onto the opportunity to make change. It began by creating a vision for my life’s work (check it out on the top right corner of my blog). Spirit was inspiring me?and as these words appeared on the paper I felt a surge of excitement mixed with fear. I didn’t know how I would make it happen. I only knew that it felt right and that I had to commit to seeing it through for it is my life’s work. BUT discomfort quickly appeared. While I kept reminding myself that for now the ‘how’ I would make it happen didn’t matter because Spirit would guide me my heart began to palpitate anyway. I couldn’t breathe. For days on end I couldn’t breathe. Everything seemed to close in on me and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time of year with demands on my time and energy increasing. Relentless, I got up every day determined to get to the root of my anxiety. I prioritized my time and did only the barest minimum for others. Slowly I was rewarded with insight and clarity exposing the self-imposed obstacles on my path to living-on-purpose and in so doing I was granted the KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING MY LIFE LESSONS and WHO and HOW I can help others to break through their shackles to EXPERIENCE FREEDOM IN ALL AREAS OF THEIR LIFE. Not being or having enough of anything is a VERY common theme in people’s lives. Can you see it in yours? Can you identify the underlying belief that creates this illusion? Hmmm… A lesson, for another day… Today I am filled with passion, purpose, gratitude, and abundance for these miraculous gifts. I am excited to announce that over the next few months and throughout this year I will be stepping out to create community and provide enhanced products and services that will change lives. Does this commitment frighten me? YOU BET IT DOES! But I’m going to do it anyway. I invite you to join me in walking in the Light. I invite you to celebrate the dawning of this new day and the MAGNIFICENCE that makes you SPECIAL and BRILLIANT. A GLIMPSE OF WHAT’S AHEAD & A GIFT FOR YOU A Divine Blessing is a dispensation of God Source Energy that is intended to help you access your own spiritual connection to God or Life-Force energy. You may experience it in the form of increased feelings of love, deepening awareness and connection to nature, insight into your life purpose, ability to take action on a dream, or a physical, mental, emotional or even spiritual healing. It is similar in nature to a Divine Blueprint Activation but shorter, more focused and laser like. YOUR BLESSING will be UNIQUE and SPECIFIC for what is in YOUR HIGHEST PURPOSE. I encourage you to pass along this invitation to your friends, family, and loved ones so they too can receive this heavenly offering. Together let us find the GIFTS that are being presented to us during this time of CHANGE. May the Light Shine Within Your Heart Throughout Eternity. Kiernan Antares
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Pat Benatar is still rocking the battlefield of music even after all these years, and it is all the more evident that she still holds enormous weight within the music industry, as she was just inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. The event took place last month, and Benatar was included among a list of other musical greats like LL Cool J, Marvin Hamlisch, Blue A-yster Cult, The Ramones and The Tokens. Benatar reportedly said in her acceptance letter that evening that she will “never forget that a small town girl from Lindenhurst LI actually got the chance to live her dreams. Long Island girls ROCK!” Indeed they do, and Pat Benatar is living proof. For more information on Pat Benatar, check out http://www.stubhub.com/pat-benatar-tickets/. Benatar is often considered one of the leading female rock vocalists of the 1980s, and it is amazing that she still has the gift of singing. She is most recognized for several of her favorite songs that include “Love is a Battlefield” and “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” Benatar also has several Grammy Awards under her belt and has sold millions of records worldwide. Keep tabs on where Benatar and her husband will be playing so that you can be sure to get a pair of Pat Benatar tickets and enjoy the show. Benatar was born in Brooklyn, New York, and she initially studied voice and opera in school, following in the footsteps of her mother. It was only later that she really began taking singing seriously, and she started performing at many different clubs and bars throughout New York City. Her first single, “Heartbreaker,” was released in late 1979, and immediately it was a hit, reaching the number 23 mark on the U.S. charts. Following that success, her debut LP, In the Heat of the Night, generated even more attention from both the critics and the fans. In 1981, she was awarded the Grammy for “Best Female Rock Vocal Performance,” and people really started catching on to her wild and crazy tunes that were quickly becoming favorites around the world. Of course this was just start of her well-known career. Benatar went on to record many other successful and well-received albums including Crimes of Passion, Precious Time, Get Nervous and Live From Earth. She’s hardly ever received bad reviews, and she continues to record music even well into the 2000s. Many people today are intent on purchasing plenty of Pat Benatar tickets so that they can see her many shows. She has been considered the most successful female rock vocalist of all time and has won many awards throughout her lifetime for her amazing music. And of course it’s a sure bet that all of us at one point ended up in a karaoke bar pretending to sing “Love is a Battlefield” in a night that probably ended in embarrassment. She will sing every song and will most likely give it “her best shot.” Gather up your friends and make plans to sing along to some of Benatar’s most popular hits. Alexa Evans
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Do not complain of boredom. Please don’t bother moaning about life having no meaning. Nobody wants to hear about how you can’t figure out how to pick up some dollars. You say that nobody ever wants to hear what you have to say? Maybe it’s because you’re boring, or maybe you just say things in a boring way. Sorry, but neither I nor other people can waste time listening to the above complaints, especially when such a simple solution applies to all of them: Learn how to play the guitar. Of course picking the guitar will not solve every problem in your life, but it will help make any of the above less severe. If you are bored, nothing fills all those extra hours like running your fingers up and down the scales and chords. If life lacks meaning, write a funny song about it! If you need money, sing a song and pass a hat around sometime. (It’s quite exciting.) If you feel like everyone ignores you, realize that people will be much more likely to listen to you if you sing to them rather than shout at them. You may have convinced yourself that you can’t learn to play guitar, that it’s impossible for you because you lack talent. Well, nobody is born with that talent. It’s a matter of a little bit of knowledge and a lot of practice. If you would rather idly complain about your problems, go right ahead. Nobody will want listen to you. Pick up a guitar and they will, though. It is as simple as that. You have the power to do something about this. That’s all I’m saying. Chances are, you probably haven’t even read this far. If I were singing it to you, you would have heard every word. Chuck Lin
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No matter what sort of horse racing fan you are, you probably have a list of horse races that you consider to be the best out there. We agree with that and our favorite top three horseraces in the United States have to be the Belmont State, Preakness, and the Kentucky Derby. We wait weeks and months for these races and follow betting odds, jockey careers, and can’t wait for the visit to the track or the television show to entice us even more. Why did we pick these three when there are so many? Because it is our list, not yours and we want to talk about them, where they are, the smell of the track, and the history behind these three events. First off, these three events make up the Triple Crown series and are run in this order: Why do we enjoy the Triple Crown so much when we could, as horse wagers, make more money on perhaps other races? Because they’re cool, celebrities attend them—heck, even Queen Elizabeth II came to the Kentucky Derby—those are races we like to talk about! First, what’s up with the Kentucky Derby? Well, beyond those taste bud tempting Mint Juleps we all sip or perhaps consume too many of, this Grade One race is for our favorite three year-old thoroughbreds and held each year in Louisville, Kentucky after the fun and exciting two week event of the Derby Festival. This event-filled race is one and a quarter miles at the spectacular Churchill Downs and has the old nickname, “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports!” If you haven’t heard that term, what about “The Run For The Roses?” Sure, we know you’ve heard one of those terms. The thoroughbreds that run this race aim to beat the 1973 record of 1:59 2/5 set by Secretariat in 1973. Or, maybe as fans, they want to see which jockey will beat out the most winning jockeys—Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack—both won this race six times. Anyway, we love this race and dream of sitting with the wealthy ladies with hats, have a few Mint Julep’s, and maybe sop up some great Burgoo Stew—a heck of a time. We also love the Preakness—even the name is cool. The last three years have brought us horse names like Big Brown, Curlin, and Bernardini; all of these super horses won this race. Also a Grade One race for three-year old thoroughbreds held in Baltimore, Maryland at the Pimlico Race Course, this race has been called “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans.” We cheer here watching those horses run this 1-3/16 mile race and can’t wait for that old black-eyed Susan to be hung around the winner’s neck. Mostly, we like betting on this race and being forced to sing Maryland, My Maryland, even if we’re not from there. The Belmont Stakes, another amazing betting opportunity, oops, we mean horse race, is also a Grade One race and is held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York and is the final leg of the Triple Crown—not to be confused with Crown Royal. This 1.5-mile race is also for those thoroughbreds we crave watching and what about all those Carnations? Well, they do call this race “The Run For The Carnations,” so maybe those horses do like those flowers draped all over them, probably much more than the thorny roses at the Kentucky Derby. Here we all get to sing the theme from “New York, New York,” even if we don’t know the words. Most of us remember that Billy Shoemaker won this race five times and still love him, even if Eddie Arcaro has won it six times. We like it even more that Secretariat’s time of 2:24 has never been beat as of yet, but there’s always 2009. Well, those are our favorite three and even if we can’t get seats (we can’t afford them), we sing, we laugh, eat, and all bet who will win, what will be the best time, and if we are holding the winning ticket. Check them all out next time—especially if you know the words to the traditional songs of each. This free horse racing article is brought to you by www.betamerica.com Simon Skinner
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when i sing its usually very quite to myself
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and is 18 to late to start voice lessons, i play guitar and now want to began writing a singing my own songs.
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I wish you the best of luck
There’s an upcoming talent show at my school, and I want to sing All You Need Is Love with my guitar. The problem is that I have MAJOR stage fright, and I have no self-confidence what-so-ever. Please help!!!! To be honest I can totally fell your situation. I was in the same one a lot of times. I was stuttering losing my nerves, feeling awkward on the stage, my voice vas cracking, people were giving me this strange looks like "what is wrong with you?" …But not anymore! Today I come on the stage totally confident, with a charismatic smile, and I feel confident like a rock on the stage. How comes? Many would say practice. And they are partly right. But let me tell you a secret. It is actually quit deep psychological stuff…the thing is you are frighten is because you associate a lot of pain too playing on the stage, like: what will other people say about you, because you have no experience you voice will sound weird and you will lose it on the guitar… but see what I just did. You are picturing yourself messing up and you feel the fear even if didn’t play yet! Wow! How is that possible? Are you still with me. The thing is you brain doesn’t know what is real and what is imaginary. All it wants is for you to be safe and because it senses pain with your playing on the stage it elimination "fear" hormones. Ok this was now some background so that you understand this. Trick your brain! Yes! Trick your brain that you playing on the stage is the most fantastic experience ever! So the second step now. I hope it doesn’t sound to complicated, but this is the most powerful tool against any fear or phobias. It’s called Neuro Linguistic Programming. You should do this exercise a couple of times. Take at lest10-15 minutes. Well there could also be another reason why you’re scared. Maybe you’re not confident enough about your singing. I can also help you with that. I can give you some great tips to make your voice sound goddess. Check them out on my site: Anyway control what you’re thinking about (ask yourself: why does anyone love me? why do I sing so fantastic?… It Really Helps!) and how you move. Stand strong as a rock and think that everyone in the audience is a little worm Good Luck! Sam Dean
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