5 Ways to Heal Yourself Spiritually

Wise people often say that this world leaves no one untouched. Right from the moment you are born to the moment you die, you go through countless experiences in life. Some of these are good, some of these are neutral, and some of these are heart-breaking.

Naturally, we all get hurt and experience a lot of pain in our journeys. And we try to heal from all of this in a myriad of ways. One of these ways that most people are beginning to turn to these days is spiritual healing. This type of healing happens when you experience something greater than yourself and understand what life is all about. As such, it paves the way for greater peace, happiness, and fulfillment in our lives.

But how do you heal yourself spiritually? Well, there are many ways you can do so. Below, we are going to look at five of the most popular ones.

1) Meditation

Meditation is one of the most ancient spiritual practices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most powerful ones. When you meditate regularly, you naturally learn to connect with your inner self. This gives you great insights into your thoughts, emotions, values, and feelings. It also helps you understand what is bothering you and why. You’re able to get to the root of things and address them once and for all. Meditation also trains you to anchor your attention in the present moment. Suffice it to say, this practice is a great way to heal yourself spiritually.

2) Tarot Reading

Tarot reading is another spiritual tool that can help you gain insights into your thoughts and emotions. It can also help you better understand the situation you are in right now and ways you can get out of it. Not only that, tarot reading can make a murky future a lot clearer and provide a sense of direction in your life. It can even help you understand who you are as an individual. This helps you release any negative energy or past trauma that may be holding you back.

3) Gratitude

A lot of spiritual practitioners will tell you that the best way to live is with an attitude of gratitude. This is because gratitude is a great way to shift your attention from what you don’t have to what you have. This might seem like a trivial thing but it is one of the best ways to live a happier and more content life. It takes away the immense pressure you might feel in the modern world with all of its complexities. And it naturally gives you a more positive outlook on life and helps you enjoy the little things that life has to offer.

4) Yoga

Yoga is perhaps as old as meditation. And contrary to what many may believe, it is not only about physical movement. In the spiritual world, yoga means union. It is the profound experience of feeling a sense of oneness with something greater than yourself. When you experience this oneness, you are bound to move away from all the pain in your life and into a state of bliss and happiness.

5) Service

Spiritual gurus often say that human beings are at their best in a state of giving. There is immense wisdom in these words if you think about it. When you serve others selflessly, you feel a warm and fuzzy sensation in your heart. That is because it helps you connect with other people on a higher level. This connection transcends the physical and ventures into the realm of the spiritual. It gives you a taste of what the true nature of reality is. It also helps you realize that you are not alone in this journey. There are countless other beings all playing out their story. This brings in a sense of comfort and peace.

If you want to learn more about these spiritual practices and more, be sure to check out our website. It has tons of resources to help you along your spiritual journey and find healing.

The Future of Online Independent Businesses

From the Independent Business Org’s reviews and surveys for 2015 it looks like the future is very promising yet as any small independent business lies the challenges.

With the recent numbers of low unemployment paving the way for hiring comes still the lack of funding to sustain operations. Coupled with that is the tough competition online specifically on online book selling where the big online giants eats you up alive by selling lower than what publishers or distributors sell new books for example.

Sometimes, one may wonder how can they do that but the word “BIG” comes with the saying meaning they have the promotional expense funding to utilize so who cares. What’s really funny is with the so called giants comes the big consignors also dropping down prices favoring the atmosphere and if they can sell even new books for $0.01 they will.

I recently had a town hall discussion on our small shop and I raised the question as any independent bookseller would. “If your shopping online e.g. books and your browsing on description and price what do you normally look for and what’s important?”

The brave souls then responded, “We’ve even consider buying acceptable book conditions as long as they are the cheapest price in there” So as gracious as I want to feel, what can I say as for all these years our “Affordable” wasn’t cheap as cheap but “quality” comes with it.

So my take on this as we prepare for Book Expo America through the American Booksellers Association initiatives on May 2016 at McCormick Place in Chicago is it’s time to re-express what book selling and book lovers is about. Quality, experience, joy and great service should still be jointly capitulated on our initiatives and expressions and continue to educate the retail and online consumer what it’s all about.

After all 3 out of 10 online cheapest price sales comes with either the return or negative feedback and guess what? Today even feedback are no longer are deterrent as the culprits invade the cheapest price market on book selling.

Why the impact of the bail-outs has not been yet felt by mainstream

The biggest advantage that the average joe and mainstreet struggling individuals have today is that they are actually on the streets.   In simple laymen terms, these people have the ability to interact with the right occurences in the society and state of the economy.

It’s just like isolation can be futile to the pyschological make up of an individual.  What’s the sense here is that since people are so desperate that they do not have any cash resources to get by, they stay at home and sometimes get isolated.   So regardless of what maybe people’s desire to spend and really help the economy, they are constraint. 

Believe it or not there are so many struggling people who are very much compassionate and passionate of how to realistically be optimistic.  Unfortunately, while the toxic assets are said to be bought from the banks, the collectors have been very progreassively haunting every hour of the day to collect from consumers.   Encouraging people to start spending is indeed very important to stimulate the economy.  But convincing people to buy cars and houses is another thing as there should be a fine print in advertising stating “subject to credit approval”.  After all, it will be interesting to know the difference on the numbers that are really qualified without a down payment or lenders approving just because someone has  a job.  Did the crisis not start because someone was employed and with such criterias instead of the real credit and spending behaviors?

Perhaps, understanding the real individual circumstances may help in order to find out if the average joe is the real culprit due to miss, late or non-payments.  Just maybe it would help to see some history of the consumer if indeed in the last few months regardless did they tried their best to earn a living and pay their bills?  I honestly believe that some modest living individuals are really trying their best efforts to survive on their own. What about for small business owners which simply bootstrap their way to have operating cash because no one will give them loans?

The unfortunate art of the scenario is that even extremely chronically ill and disabled individuals have even made their efforts to risk their own health.  This is a problem for everyone and it’s just a little too late and off track to figure what really happen in the immediate ncessary term.  What we desperately need to do immediately is inject the cash to direct benficiaries.  Who knows if the only way is to open bank accounts for individuals or reactivate banking accounts which were closed because of the toxic overdraft fees imposed to consumers why not?  The financial educati0n then comes together by making these depositors pay interest charges and make them aware that their assets will be on the line if they do not start at this point in  becoming financially responsible.

In the last few months or even a year since this recession started, there have been a big literacy amongst consumers to be financially responsible.  Hence, this why spending started to halt and cut.  And yet since there were un-responsible people who were taking home mortages and car loans when they cannot afford it, what happens to the people who did in  every way try to live modestly within their means?    Yet, these are the people that are now haunted by these collectors and the financial system because they don’t have the voice being low income.   Meanwhile,  they have tried every single means to survive to the point that some are now homeless or on the streets.   Why not give these individuals the chance and some of them are even doing home based enterprises just to make it day by day.    The best part of this lesson learned is that this people are socially responsible.  When they see the sociological impact that is being done  to alleviate their hardships, they will be the very key of mainstreet prophets that will advocate that we need to stay focus, optimistic and compassionate as change is indeed possible in mainstreet.

The role of small business entrepreneurs is to emphasize reconciliation

It’s about time for reconciliation. The small business owner has been heard by the politicians and faith has prevailed in all angles and extremes.  In the old days, it was telephone banking then came the town hall meets and now there is a new age of technology using the internet as the model of communication.

From letter writing to emails then now to blogging and social networking through the years, our role now is promote “reconciliation”.  Gone are the days that we only had to express freedom on expression and write about complaints and sentiments, it is now about supporting the cause.  Just as any struggling no income, disabled individual today, all we have is the magic world of the internet and it’s vast technologies.    So it is very important to pat our officials on the back, thank our president of change for the message and our legislators for taking the steps to improve our lives.

For in the world of blogging for example, it is not merely driven by self-interest as we write and express our thoughts, our minds and with what is on our spirit.  Christian or not, the action between faith and love must prevail in helping heal the wounds that the global world needs.  And by engaging with this message, we are creating the bottom line of the hard times so we can move on now towards global prosperity.

Yes, there is a dileanation between church and the system but as small entrepreneurs we can still make that connection.  Yes, we can, we will prevail and then a miracle towards the healing of the markets will begin.  As a small nobody affected by this crisis, I call on the investing community that the battle is over.  Now is the time to heal, be together and inspire each other for the change we need.

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The Damage has been done but now it makes sense

Over the past few months and almost a year of all this negativities that sorround, at least perhaps through this blog the world would know that ADLE International has nothing to do with the Adult Entertainment Industry. I registered the ADLE International on Jan. 21, 1999 even before a certain ADLE evolve in the adult entertainment industry.

Alex Esguerra
Founder: ADLE International
http://www.adleinternational.com

ADLE International - no adult entertainment relation
ADLE International - no adult entertainment relation

The Future of the internet towards human nature

 

The future has began with the digital technology age today.  From video-cams, landlines, instant messaging and reading, the internet has transformed a new way of life.

With online virtual communities and social networking, one does not need to travel thousands of miles to meet and learn about society and culture.

Expressing emotions and ideas are ways to create  a real sense of healing especially when humans go through difficult times in their lives.  Understanding human ordeals is hard especially if we have never experienced the same hardships and situations.

It is no longer assumptions towards realities and analyzing trends but listening to people.  On the other end, the listener has to have the compassion and sentiment to elicit a more positibe attitude.

This is not just about the business aspects of creating niche but also sharing personal experiences over life.  The key is simply accepting what is present and then move on towards a new beginning. This is the real message depicted on the ideology behind why we have constantly promoted the online virtual community.

Looking for a job can be very stressful

Persistence, patience and vigilance comes together in getting towards the path we want to our lives.

Part of the social aspects of our mission at http://www.affordable-booksonline is also to advocate for limited income earners.

Through the power of information dessimination, we are able to show our sincerity towards the people who needs support.

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The Economics of being an emerging online business model

It started back in 1999’s stock market collapse, the rise of the dot.com empire’s and yet we were nobodies.

Came 2001 right after 9/11 then 2004 when two major online business empires almost ruled the world online to include advertising.

Enter 2006, good riddance to more pro-small business models like Google,  Yahoo, Windows, Live.com,  My-space and Facebook including our book notables like Abebooks, Alibris.com, Biblion.co.uk, Choosebooks, Valorebooks, A1 books, Tom Folio.com  and the ABA (American Booksellers Association) when venture capitalists in Silicon Valley where the king of the jungles influenced by the big shot major online players.

Yet, 2007 came start of the great recession after 1931 and a gradual change in the socio-political climate of the world in terms of technology and business.  Fall of 2008 made history having the 1st online high tech 44th President of the United States, a darling of the poor, a new robin hood in technological times and realization that even micro enterprise start-ups have the potential to someday experience the lives the king’s and emperors of silicon valley.

Today, 2009 brings a new generation of emerging online business models ala the dot.com period where emerging start-ups which was snob by venture capitalists before came to rule the world.

As we had continously emphasize our mission of affordability to the limited income earners, our social networks, and the people who have the kind generous hearts of supporting us at http://www.affordable-booksonline.com all we can say is a big hug of thank you’s.  Be it in terms of search engine rankings with Google’s book partner programs, yahoo’s small business team or Amazon’s virtual generosities, to you all we say thank you so much for being there during this phase as we shall forever remember all this good gestures.

As http://www.adleinternational.com and http://www.alex-esguerra.com emerges truly as a new social network for affordability in terms of fighting for low income earners,  be it in terms of advertising or seed capital now is the time to invest when the door opens as it will closed being a privately held company.

Affordable Books with Affordable Shirts

The popularity of Affordable Books had gone wild lately expanding to Affordable Shirts. In today’s economic disgust affordability seems to be the name of the game.

Is this economic reality really happening in America?

Sometimes,  people are still asking me if the sign of the times are real or are they just experiencing a sudden dream or

nightmare.   Unfortunately, all I can say is yes this is what is the reality is going on.     Even in major cities, businesses

are closing their doors from left to right.      Either it be a gasoline station, car washing, boutique, even food chains and

discount store chains that a month ago was still bustling with people and customers.   Suddenly, they seemed to be  closed,

abandoned, and some at least have signs saying they are closed for business.    This is why people seem to be on a deep

paranoia if this was real.    At least, there are good signs though when the businesses with loyal customers based and those

online brick and stores brands and independents are able to hang on. This means persistence, stability and survival of

the fittest.      Only days after the new hardworking 44th President of the United States which is the first high tech pres. has

been working almost night and day.     As he said it will get worst then better which is the best way to face the reality of

 what has happen with the US Economy and now that the UK has finally admitted to be on the bandwagon of recession.    This 

is the time that we have to be solid and compassionate towards each other.  And when hope for the best of the outcome as

a nation yes we can.