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December 2004 Newsletter
OPENING COMMENTS
Tidings of Peace and Joy to you for the holiday season! We wish to express our gratitude for your support of OurBestIdea.Com and allowing us to assist you along your journey. We are grateful that so many of you have given us guidance and feedback during this year. We look forward to a blessed New Year and to sharing with many more of you. Best wishes for even more Peace, prosperity, health, harmony and awareness in 2005.
For those of you who enjoyed the snowflake greeting, here is your chance to make more! If you did not get to it, here is something to keep the kiddies busy while you are making ready for the holiday gift giving! http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays
--Blessings, Halley and Dale
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FEATURED ARTICLE
Counting Our Blessings at the Holidays and Year round.
The Holiday season is the time when most people take a moment during the hectic activity to review the past year, even if only to assist in the formulation of your New Year's resolutions. As many of you on your Path to enhancing your spirituality and personal growth know, the power of your intent is amplified when you first give gratitude for all that you have been blessed with. You can achieve this same amplification when you apply gratitude to your prayers and affirmations; this will assist you in manifesting the life you desire.
Your attitude of gratitude is key to manifesting your desires. Instead of saying "I want", say "I am SO grateful for all the blessings in my
life." And focus on them, the positive, not the negative. There is an excellent bit of information on using this skill in the prosperity section of OurBestIdea.com at: http://www.ourbestidea.com/Prosperity.html
Take a moment and go there to view it.
OurBestIdea.com was created from the combined amplification of two lifetimes of study; it is our pleasure to share information we have learned. We have gratitude for being fortunate enough to acquire wisdom, and to have shared it with a multitude of people over time. The power of the Internet has enabled us to amplify the message and to share it with many more people, in turn assisting you in pursuing your dreams and goals.
Today we encourage you to take a moment to write down and reflect on the things you are grateful for in your life, both large and small. As always, from your grateful heart, please take a moment and share with someone else less fortunate than you, even if it can only be with a smile. They cost nothing and you may make someone's day.
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NEW & EXCITING
Mysterious Insights-
A new question is up on Insights, take a moment and check out important information on how to select a spiritual consultant.
Check it out now, click here:
http://www.ourbestidea.com/mysterious-insights
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Halley Elise (aka Mysteries by Halley Elise) will be doing readings live and in person at the Florida Renaissance Festival at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach, FL each weekend from Mid February to Mid March, 2005. Come by and schedule your reading at the special festival rate. You can schedule a phone consultation at any time with her, via email at the OBI subscriber rate. Her insight will stun you with it's accuracy, so give her a call to get an answer to a specific question or an overview of 2005. Private readings are done at special rates for OBI subscribers, so tell her you saw it here!
We will also have the Chakra Jewelry for sale at the event, so if you have not seen it yet, go to the website and take a look. Chakra jewelry makes a dynamite gift for the holidays or a magickal gift for yourself.
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PROSPERITY
Gratitude: Be grateful for what you have and what will be coming to you! Visualize yourself having all you need and more. See yourself as having everything you want in life and enough to share. Feel it with the intention of your heart. Do whatever is necessary to help you in the visualization process. Cut out a photo of your dream car. Your dream house. Your dream body, garden, mate, child, whatever it is you wish to see prosper and put it where you can see it every day. (You can put it next to your affirmations!) See the article on the Prosperity page http://www.ourbestidea.com/Prosperity.html for more information on how to do this.
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PROSPEROUS AFFIRMATIONS
-- I absolutely believe that I can reach my biggest goals
-- I deserve success and its rewards
-- I control my actions and my destiny
-- Right decisions come easily to me now
-- Answers come to me easily now
-- I can handle any situation that comes my way
From the forthcoming OurBestIdea.Com journal. Pre Order yours today!--Great gift ideas in the webshop!
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Giving Back:
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated everyday to abused and neglected animals.
It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "feed an animal in need" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Click on this link, and when the site opens, click on the purple box that says Feed an Animal for free. That's it! Pass it along to people you know.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS TO TELL 10 TODAY!!
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HARMONY
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With God as our father
Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
In perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
With peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth,
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With god as our father
Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
In perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
In peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Words and music by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson
1955.
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HEALTH
Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity
Buddhist Meditation May Produce Lasting Changes in the Brain.
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 WebMD Medical News
Nov. 10, 2004 -- Meditation may not only produce a calming effect, but new research suggests that the practice of Buddhist meditation may produce lasting changes in the brain.
Researchers found that monks who spent many years in Buddhist meditation training show significantly greater brain activity in areas associated with learning and happiness than those who have never practiced meditation.
The results suggest that long-term mental training, such as Buddhist meditation, may prompt both short and long-term changes in brain activity and function.
Buddhist Meditation May Change the Brain
In the study, which appears in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers compared the brain activity of eight long-time Buddhist monks and 10 healthy students.
The average age of the monks was 49, and each had undergone mental training in meditation for 10,000 to 50,000 hours over the course of 15 to 40 years.
The students' average age was 21. They had no prior experience in meditation and received one week of meditative training before the start of the study.
Both groups were asked to practice compassionate meditation, which does not require concentration on specific things. Instead, the participants are instructed to generate a feeling of love and compassion without drawing attention to a particular object.
Researchers measured brain activity before, during, and after meditation using electroencephalograms. They found striking differences between the two groups in a type of brain activity called gamma wave activity, which is involved in mental processes including attention, working memory, learning, and conscious perception.
The Buddhist monks had a higher level of this sort of gamma wave activity before they began meditation, and this difference increased dramatically during meditation. In fact, researchers say the extremely high levels of gamma wave activity are the highest ever reported. The monks also had more activity in areas associated with positive emotions, such as happiness.
Researchers say the fact that the monks had higher levels of this type of brain activity before meditation began suggests that long-term practice of Buddhist or other forms of meditation may alter the brain.
Although age differences may also account for some of the differences found by this study, researchers say that the hours of meditation practice, rather than age, significantly predicted gamma wave activity.
Researchers say more studies are needed to look at whether differences in brain activity are caused by long-term meditation training itself or by individual differences before training.
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SOURCE: Lutz, A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, online early edition, Nov. 8, 2004.
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Chuckle for the day:
The Christmas Parrot
A guy walks into a store for some last-minute Christmas shopping, and sees a parrot for sale.
He asks the clerk what the parrot's name is and the clerk tells him it's Chet. He also tells the man that this is one amazing parrot. If you put a match under his left foot, it sings Jingle Bells, and if you put a match under its right foot, it sings Deck the Halls.
The man thinks that is the coolest thing he's ever seen, so he decides to buy it for his wife. So he gets home, and puts it away.
Then he wonders what will happen if he puts it a match between its legs, so he tries it and the parrot starts singing Chet's nuts roasting over an open fire...
If you have a joke that makes you roll off your chair laughing, please share it with us. Send email submissions to: jokes@ourbestidea.com.
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AWARENESS
Medicine and science have documented the fact that the most efficient way to access the subconscious, and correct our programming is through HYPNOSIS.
Uh... OH... I said the H word!
Before I lose you, let me explain what hypnosis IS... and what it ISN'T...
For starters, the word hypnosis and daydreaming are almost interchangeable. But there are two important differences:
1. How the state is reached.
Daydreaming occurs randomly. Hypnosis is achieved intentionally.
2. Why the state is reached.
Daydreaming has no specific focus. Hypnosis is induced in order to 'reprogram' specific scripts.
What hypnosis is NOT...
Hypnosis is not about losing control over your decision-making processes. Nor does it have anything to do with Hollywood’s' version of being made to quack like a duck. During hypnosis, you never lose consciousness and you're always in control.
Hypnosis Often Occurs NATURALLY...
Have you ever caught yourself so involved mentally with a daydream that the noises and activity going on around you seemed to recede into the distance? Or have you ever been so caught up in a hobby, or a good book that you suddenly realize you've lost track of time... and several hours have disappeared? You have hypnotized yourself!
Hypnosis is not magic... though the results can seem so...
Because the subconscious is SO open to suggestion, IF you relax and accept the suggestions made while hypnotized... you can experience almost miraculous benefits.
Halley is a long term veteran hypnotist. She can induce the appropriate hypnotic state and help you with internal reprogramming. Contact her about creating a personalized tape or for an individual session with her.
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PRODUCTS FOR SALE
The Chakra Jewelry is going fast. Our initial stock is dwindling quickly. Take advantage of the limited quantities left to get your gift for your loved one or for yourself. Be the first to get your necklace, earrings or the set!
I have never had so many people comment on a piece of jewelry I have worn before.--DAM, Boca Raton, FL
Look at what's available, click here:
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Our products are available to you for your health, wellness, prosperity, harmony, inspiration, wisdom and success. More coming soon!
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QUOTES TO HELP YOU FLOURISH
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other’s lives.
Hugh Elliott,
Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby,
O Magazine, September 2002
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A STORY FOR INSPIRATION
Smiles and Smashed Potatoes ©2004
-Halley Elise
Andrea sniffed the breeze, got a smile from ear to ear and announced; I smell salt water and smashed potatoes! John laughed, salt water maybe, since we’re just a hop, skip and a jump from the ocean, but potatoes…. and smashed at that?!
Later they entered the quaint café at Twain Waters Inn; there it was, on the marquee--smashed potatoes! Gleefully Andrea rubbed it in, See! Andrea said she’d be able to identify that aroma anywhere. John perplexed, conceded with a smile.
Normally the palette pleasing food and pleasant conversation would satisfy John. But, he was preoccupied with how she could have smelled the smashed potatoes and why it made her so happy?
As if to read his thoughts, Andrea said, Ok I’ll explain. Mom and I would ponder dad’s truck route and whereabouts. We’d guess at where daddy might be just now?! Without realizing we had begun a tradition, spending many a night with smashed potatoes.
Chatting while peeling the potatoes kept our minds occupied while the smashing converted pent up energy into something constructive. Blending the butter, salt and cream completely shifted our mood; we’d inhale the aroma with a focus on savoring the smashed delight.
Each time we were about to dig into those delicious smashed potatoes, there would be a call. It would be dad, saying he arrived safely, loved us both and would be home soon.
Remember to have gratitude for the moments that are special in your life and share them with others!
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CLOSING NOTE
Thank you for inviting us into your home to share with you a force for good. Please contact us with any questions you may have concerning our services, products or information.
Permission is granted to reproduce copy or distribute this newsletter if done in its entirety, please!
Blessings,
Dale Masker & Halley Elise
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