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And Finally the 24th Reason Why Boys Really Really Really Need Parents: (actually I think this boy needs his mother instead…hee hee hee)

So, if you are a parent…aren’t you glad you’re there for them????

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Astral projection is an ability that everyone has, whether they know it or not. Many people actually do it while sleeping, they are just not aware of it. If you want to learn to astral project, what you are actually learning is how to consciously do this so you can control where you go and what you do.

Assuming you already know what your astral body is and what the astral plane is, let’s learn a few different techniques that will help you astral project. When you astral project, you experience something extremely personal. Because of this, it is very important that you learn which techniques work best for you.

The first technique is one that you can do when you are in bed and getting ready to go to sleep. This is a simple five step process.

1 – *Relax your body completely. In order to reach this deep level of relaxation, lie down comfortably, and begin with your toes. Tense them for a moment, and then consciously relax every muscle. Work your way through your body all the way up to your head. This may seem unfamiliar or uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it. Alternatively, you may find your body feels very heavy. Either way, it is perfectly normal. Your body just isn’t used to relaxing in this manner.

2. – *Next, take deeper, slower breaths. Using a common meditation technique works for some people. Breathe in deeply, paying close attention to how it feels for the air to come into your lungs and push against your diaphragm. Exhale slowly, completely emptying your lungs. Feel how the air leaves your body as you relax. Try to stay awake through all this. What may help is to focus on the center of your forehead, in the region of the third eye.

3. – *For step three, evaluate how your body feels. Is it heavy? Imagine your body is a lump of clay that does not move easily. Now, think of your astral body it feels so light. It is weightless floating free. Close your eyes and envision your astral self. It feels so light it could float easily like bubbles or feathers carried by a breeze. The contrast is the physical body feels very heavy, while the astral body feels light as a feather.

4. – *At this stage, many people using this method say that they can see their darkened room even with their eyes closed. It may appear to be filled with purple light. If you get to this stage, start focusing your attention on the light fixture on the ceiling.

5. – *For the fifth step of this method, imagine that you are pulling the light on the ceiling toward you. This action may make you feel like you’re floating. Remember to stay conscious! The floating feeling should continue, and if you look down, you may see your physical body asleep on the bed below.

Congratulations, you have successfully astral projected yourself. You are now able to begin your astral travels. If this technique did not work for you, here is a second technique on how to astral project.

This technique is known as the gazing method. You can do this technique when you are going to bed as well. All you need is something to focus on, this can be a picture in your room, the moon outside the window, a crystal, whatever you prefer.

Once you’ve chosen your object, lie down and get comfortable. Turn your attention to the object. As you keep staring at it, your eyelids should begin to feel heavy. No matter what, keep staring at the object. While your eyes will tend to close eventually, you should still be able to see the object. While you continue to stare, you may feel the urge to sit or stand up. When you do get up, don’t be surprised if you see your physical form peacefully asleep.

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t succeed the first few times you try them. Frustration will increase your anxiety levels, which will prevent you from relaxing and being able to project astrally. If you find that neither of these two techniques work for you, don’t worry there are others that you can try.

In fact it is vital you understand that whatever tools and techniques you try, the main stumbling block to successful astral projection is actually your own subconscious mind. You need to reassure your subconscious mind that it is perfectly okay for your spiritual body to leave your physical body. One way you can do this is by using affirmations. Once your subconscious mind understands this, then you will find astral projection easy!

There are also a few other short cuts to help you astral project very rapidly. Without them it can take a long time to get into the right state of mind but if you use them it can happen very fast after your first attempt!

Hypnosis may help you achieve a relaxed state much more quickly. If you use a quality guided hypnosis session, it can also help explain how to astral project so you don’t have to worry about remembering what to do next. This lets you just follow the session and relax, increasing your chances of having a successful astral projection.

There is also a sound technology that is being developed called “binaural beats.” In this technology, different sound frequencies are played in each ear. This sends signals to your brain that quickly relaxes you into a deep meditative state, increasing the likelihood of a successful astral projection.

Remember that being able to astral project is not as difficult as most people believe it is. It is a natural ability that you were born with, and all of these tools and techniques just help you to fine tune an ability which is already there!

John B Keaple is a writer for the popular astralprojectiontravel.com site. Discover the incredible experience of astral projection and you can try it yourself when you get 29 Free how to astral project Binaural and hypnosis mp3 audios when you visit here.

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]]> http://www.180news.com/life/astral-projection-how-to-astral-project-your-body/feed 0 http://www.180news.com/environment/moving-day-in-costa-rica http://www.180news.com/environment/moving-day-in-costa-rica#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:31:02 +0000 admin http://www.180news.com/?p=912 By Frank Scott

I am a professional photographer in Costa Rica. The experiences on my tours are many since I never know what my group and I will happen upon. Let me tell you about one of these surprising events.

One of the pleasures of living in Costa Rica is that I can conduct Costa Rica Photo Tours for folks who want to visit and photograph exotic locations. Indeed, one of the destinations on the tour is the beautiful Osa Peninsula, the “most biologically intense place” on earth according to the National Geographic Society. We drive to this location through the little village of Ojochal, which is very close to my home.

Let me tell you about a unique way to move that some rural Costa Ricans still use. One day, when my photography group was passing through the village, we noticed a most unusual way of moving. But, to help you better appreciate what we saw, let me provide you with some background on the man who was moving.

Our only neighbours when we moved to Costa Rica were Ticos (that is what the Costa Ricans call themselves) and one of them by the very Spanish name of Wilson came calling with a house warming gift of some flowering plants. It was very comical to see him standing at our driveway waiting to be invited in onto the property so that he could give us this gift. He was too polite to come to our door without an invitation.

We were not sure what he wanted and after a “conversation” with him speaking Spanish and us speaking mostly English, I realized that he wanted to give us the flowering plants. I guess it was a sort of a house-warming gift from “the neighbours.” You need to appreciate that the fellow did not own a car. He lived at least a hour away up the mountain and had carried the plants the whole way.

With the passage of time, Senor Wilson has given me flowering plants many times. Often he stands there waiting to see where I will plant it. I would probably do the same thing if I lugged it down a mountain for an hour. However, there are so many things to do that planting this gift is never one of my priorities. Certainly, I never thought that I would be tested on my ability to choose a location and plant something when I moved to Costa Rica from Canada.

One day Wilson arrived at the house with another plant, accompanied by his two sons who were going swimming in the river beside our house. He gave me the new plant and then asked where I had planted the others that he had brought.

Well, they were still in the pots (these pots are not the plastic pots that we are familiar with but old aluminum kettles with drainage holes made by stabbing the bottom with a machete), would you believe it? Wilson saw this and decided that he not only would bring the plants but he would plant them in our little garden. That tells you all you need to know about this good man.

Back to moving day. As my photography tour group and I were driving a dusty Ojochal road, we saw a man walking his horse. It was Wilson. We stopped the van and I saw that the horse was carrying two huge white bags filled with what seemed to be clothes and household items. There was also a broom wedged between one of the bags with its blue bristle extending between the horse’s ears. For the life of me, it looked as if the horse had a bristle blue tiara on! Poor horse, not very macho!

And there was Wilson standing by the horse with a bridle in one hand and a birdcage in the other. A horse, a crown, a man, and a birdcage. What a sight! Moving day.

Wilson and I start to chat as the group hurriedly grabbed their cameras. I greeted him with “Hola, que tal?” (how are you?) and jokingly asked he was moving. Well, to my surprise, that was exactly correct. The horse was his moving van or, as my group called it, Wilson’s 4 X 4.

He explained that he, his wife (a tiny lady who looks 14), and the 3 kids would be taking care of a B&B while the owner returned to Germany during Costa Rica’s rainy season. They were very pleased about this arrangement because living in the pueblo brought the kids closer to the school, saving them from walking two miles down and back from their mountain home.

I thought that it was rather interesting that he was carrying the birdcage. I would have thought that on one of the previous trips down to their new digs one of the children would have wanted to carry the cage.

Carting flowering plants and birdcages is all in Wilson’s job description. He told me and the group that the little bird was very young (parrot or parakeet, I don’t know), that it just loved to talk and knew many words. As though he understood, the bird started showing off, chattering away while we are talking about it. I would tell you what it said but my command of bird Spanish remains very poor to this day. Sorry.

You can imagine that my group was very excited about taking pictures of a crowned horse, chattering bird, and Costa Rica family walking down a mountain, worldly possessions carried by their trusty steed. Moving day in Costa Rica. One never knows what one will see or experience on my photo tour of Costa Rica.

Frank Scott writes from sunny Costa Rica where he is a professional Costa Rica Photographer offering unique photography tours. Some of his work can be seen in Costa Rica Vacations, a very popular travel guide to this unique country.

For those who love to play guitar and even for those who don’t, Les Paul has died last night, Thurdsday August 12, 2009. Les Paul passed away due to problems he had with pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains New York in the United States. He was 94 years old.

Considered the “father of the electric guitar”, Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar that used amplification in 1941. The solid body version of the electric guitar was his answer to earlier hollow-bodied guitars which suffered from distortion and feedback. Les was a great influence on other guitar legends such as Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.

Les Paul kept working on the solid body guitar until Gibson Guitar Corporation came out the Les Paul model, the corporations best selling electric guitar. The Les Paul model electric guitar is still held to a high esteem.

Just last year in 2008 Les Paul was still playing in front of audiences at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. He was a huge idol to many people in the world of jazz and rock n’ roll. Other legends of our past that had Les Paul play for them include greats such as Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby. Current greats in the guitar world that followed Les Paul were names like Eddie Van Halen, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck and, my favorite, Eric Clapton.

Below is one of my favorite YouTube videos of Les Paul playing with another one of my favorite guitars, Chet Atkins. I love the way these two play together and I hope you do to.

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Now, I may not know how to play the guitar as well as Les Paul, but I am learning and I am enjoying it. I do know that my fingers are still killing me but it is still gratifying when you actually can play a chord that sounds good. Because of this I started a new site that I will be growing which you can reach at www.LearnGuitarGuide.net. Pretty soon I will add my blog and get a few guitar playing friends to contribute to the site.

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Even after forty years, Charles Manson is still very well known for all the death he caused in August of 1969. It was through Charles Manson that his “Manson Family” killed seven people. Although Manson had a small stature, being only 5 foot 2 inches tall, he commanded the will of others through a race war he called “Helter Skelter”, which was the title of a song done by The Beatles.

It wasn’t so much that the murders occured, but rather how they were killed. The seven people killed were done in such a bizarre and gruesome fashion, that Charles Manson went down in history with the likes of “Jack The Ripper”. But it is this fascination with the bizarre and the strange that Charles Manson is so remembered.

Charles Manson has been described as one of the most evil people on the planet and it’s easy to see why. The killers, under Charles’s orders stabbed the seven people with 169 stab wounds as well as seven bullet wounds. They then used their blood to write “anti-establishment” messages on the walls.

Of the seven people that were murdered, Sharon Tate was probably the most famous. Sharon was married to movie director Roman Polanski. Two other famous people murdered through Charles Manson included Jay Sebring and Abigail Folger. Jay Sebring was a famous hairstylist and Abigail was an heiress to a fortune built in the coffee empire.

The murders took place over two days in August 1969 and on the second night, a grocer and his wife were butchered in their homes in the Los Angeles California neighborhood of Los Feliz. Rosemary Labianca was found with 41 stab wounds and her husband Leno had a fork sticking out of his abdomen with the word “WAR” carved on it.

Even after all this time, you can still find t-shirts and posters of Charles Manson as well as twisted cartoon shows like “South Park” using Manson in one of their special shows. Many books and magazine articles have been written all in the name of Charles Manson. Even musical artists like Guns N’ Roses and Marilyn Manson used the evil of Charles Manson in their songs.

Manson did receive a death sentence for his crimes but it was automatically reduced to life in prison a few years after the murders took place.

According to one source one of Charles Manson’s “family” members, Lynette Fromme will be released on August 16, 2009. Another member by the name of Susan Atkins is set to be on parole on September 2nd, 2009.

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Living in the country we have come to expect seeing different species of animals. Deer occasionally grace our presence. Of course, once we are seen by them they quickly disappear. One day as I was looking out a back window there were 7 or so wild turkey. After flying away, they have not returned.

Many different birds come to our three feeders. Sunflower seed is spread on the ground for the doves and squirrels. Cardinals and smaller birds also search for food on the ground but the smaller ones mostly enjoy the feeders with their perches. We started throwing it on the ground to keep squirrels from eating the plastic off our original bird feeders. Now we have “squirrel proof” feeders that do a good job of keeping them from the food contained within.

Living in the country, there is plenty of land for all God’s creatures. A wooded area begins within thirty feet of the rear of our house providing food and protection for wildlife living there.

What we didn’t expect happened early one morning during summer time. With me being a sound sleeper, I could not imagine what my wife was saying at 2:00 in the morning. My glasses with thick lenses were on a table beside the bed, where I had left them before I laid down to sleep. A ceiling fan was on chasing the heat away.

Barely awake I could see something attached to the fan, circling with the fan blades. Once, the object made oblong path around the fan. Soon, by wife had turned on the light, my glasses were on and we saw a bird following the path of the fan blades. I quickly closed the bedroom door to keep the critter from the rest of the house.

With the light on we realized it was a bat! Why didn’t our cats alert us? The first task was to get rid of the bat. It was indeed following the path of the fan blades. Taking the screen off the windows we tried, lamely I might add, to divert its course with pillows and out the window. This was not working. I had folded the curtains over the top. Once, when the bat landed on the top of the curtains, he “walked” up the inside of the folds of the curtain. A fascinating site this would have been under different circumstances.

Obviously, this method was not working. A towel might work. My wife opened the door with the bat still following the flight of the fan blades. Returning with old towels, my wife and I started making attempts to again divert the bat outside the window, his freedom and ours. I didn’t realize how high our ceiling was, although they are only 8 feet or so.

The bat was evading our feeble attempts. I jumped, with the length of the towel spread out, and missed. Another attempt, nothing! Finally, my wife said, “you caught him”. Now what do I do? Do I take him, still wrapped up, to the outside? Do I open the towel and hope he flies away? I opted for throwing the towel out the window and hoping he flew away.

With the windows now closed we opened the bedroom door to our two cats’ right there wondering why we had locked them out! Lying back down, it was difficult to return to slumber land.

The next morning I went outside to retrieve the towel, wondering what I would do if the bat was still wrapped inside. Fortunately, he was gone. We are still wondering how he came into the house and chose our bedroom.

Here’s some really stupid news. I didn’t even want to post this video, but then I guess that’s what 180news.com is all about – alternate news. Anyway according to CBS News, a New York doctor is filing for divorce and wants his wife to return the kidney he gave to her in exchange for the broken heart she gave him. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

I can understand if it was an expensive ring or a condo on the beach or maybe even something really valuable like a picture of…me, but a kidney (or for that matter any body part) – give me a break. As far as I’m concerned, once it’s in you, it’s in you PERIOD! Watch this four minute video where a legal expert explains the details of the case and let me know your opinion…

As it says in the video, this gives a whole new meaning to the term “messy divorce”. This dude is a vascular surgeon and obviously in mid-life crisis and he either wants the kidney back that he “donated” to her or she has to pay him for it, which in this case is $1.5 million.

Ok, fine, he devoted his life to her and had three children with his wife, but as he said in his vows – “…to love her in sickness and in health…” He gave his kidney to save her life, and now he wants it back to “take” her life????? At the same time the doctor’s wife started having an affair about two years after the transplant.

But then I gather from the video that the marriage wasn’t so great anyways and the husband thought that by giving his kidney to his wife he would save his marriage. NOT !!!!

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